Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1928, Page 10

PRESIDENT ANYIOUS 10 SEE 0LD HOME This Week’s Visit to Vermont Will Recall Bygone Activities. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. vin Coolidge is going to visit Plymouth Notch, that picturesque, remote ham- Jet in the Green Mountains of Vermont. where he was born and where he lived until he left home to embark on his , career as a lawyer, {event for some time, and while dis- cussing his plans with friends yesterday he spoke with much feeling of his anticipations, and said he regretted that the business of his office makes it im- possible for him to remain for a longer time than two days. The President will be accompanied | by Mrs. Coolidge on this trip, and be- sides visiting the old Coolidge home- stead and seeing his relatives and old friends he will fulfill a_promise given . sometime ago to Gov. Weeks of Ver- mont to inspect the reconstruction work * that has been done since the floods that beset the northern and western part of the State a year ago. Cherishes Home Town. | President Coolidge has a warm spot | " in his heart for Plymouth Notch. His life there was simple and marked by the # usual hardships of farm life in a coun- try where the Winters are long and se- i’ yere, and where there is more rock than * fertile earih. The people of the Notcn | enjoyed few luxuries, and their pleas- | ures and amusements were of the sim- | plest sort. His rearing was stern. But | it was a happy, wholesome life that was | his before he left his father’s roof to | strike out for himself, and his recollec- " tions of those days are most pleasing. | He never fails to derive enjoyment from | talking about Vermont. ji | The President knows that he will find | Plymouth looking just the same as it ] . did when he visited there two years| amgo. In fact, that cross-roads hamlet, has not changed much since his boy- +hood. It was never destined to grow, “gituated as it is in a little cup formed | by several high hills that form a part “of the range known as the Green Mountains. Its population is no greater | today than it was when he was born 56 years ago. Most of the less than | 25 souls that comprise the population of the notch are related to the Presi- dent. 1 For the first time in two years, Cal- ! He has been looking forward to this | During their visit he and Mrs. Cool- fdge will stay at the Coolidge home,| which has been cared for by an old| friend of the family since Col. Coolidge, { the President’s father died nearly three vears ago. The house is of the one-| story-and-a-half type familiar through | the rural sections of New England. It boasts no modern improvements. There | are only two sleeping rooms in the lit- tle home and these are cut up and somewhat cramped in their style be- cause of the slanting rcof and dormer | windows. It was in the larger of these two rooms that Mr. Coolidge was sound- | 1y sleeping that memorable night in| August 5 years ago when he was| awakened to be informed that he was; the President of the United States. The room in which he had the oath of office administered by his father, who was a notary public, is on the first | ficor. | Recalls Sad Memories. { Despite the pleasure the President is looking forward to by revisiting the | scene of his birth and boyhood, h\s‘ visit cannot help but be associated with a genuine sadness. About a quarter of | a mile from the Notch is the community | cemetery in which are buried the Presi- | dent’s father and mother, his son, Cal- vin, who died in Washington four years ago, and other close relatives. He and Mrs. Coolidge never fail to visit this little burial ground on the side of a | slope of Salt Ash Mountain, and they Fogularly send floral picces from the | White House to be placed upon the | ves. During his stay at Plymouth the' President expects to visit his farm, | which is not far from the Notch, and which comprises more than 200 acres. | It is the intention of the President to stop off at Northampton, Mass., on his | way to Plymouth so that hs and Mrs. | Coolidge may visit her mother, who has | been ill since last December. It is likely that they will remain only a few hours. According to his present plans, the President will leave the middle of the week and return to Washington either ';ltxl Saturday night or Sunday morn- ing. HEFLIN GIVES TALK AT FAIRFAX FAIR| Praises R. Walton Moore, Who! Refused to Introduce Him at Exercises. Bpecial Dispaich to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., September 15 —Sena- | tor Thomas Heflin of Alabama tonight addressnig a gathering of approximately | 3,000 persens at the Kian day exercises | of the Fairfax County fair. A large | {:n of the audience consisted of mem- ers of the Ku Klux Klan in uniform. Senator Heflin was introduced by | Walter U. Varney, of Potomac, Va., who referred to the Alabaman as the | “greatest American of his day.” In| the course of his address, Senator Hef- lin found opportunity to praise Repre- sentative R. Walton Moore, who refused this week to introduce Senator Heflin. | “His heart is in the right place,” the | speaker said. | Senator Heflin’s speech was largely | confined to attacks on the Roman Catholic church and to a review of his | record in the House and Senate in efforts to combat that religion. The Senator _mentioned Gov. Alfred E.| Smith of New York only incidentally | and made but few references to the present presidential campaign. He declared that through the operations | of the Catholic church the free press was practically unknown in this coun- try at the present time. | Music for the program was furnished by the Ballston Ku Klux Klan band and a uniformed women's choir. The | exercizes were broadcast by station | WTFF. : MEXICO CITY. September 15 (#) — | Eight rebels, including the Chieftain Jesus Zapeda, were killed in a recent engagement with Fereral troops near | ganized a company capitalized at $50, |a knoll juttin Mexican Rebels Slain. | treasure-seeke; &)iltlla&atn ARy W FIRM SEEKS BURIED TREASURE IN SANDS OF SUWANEE RIVER Syndicate Organized to Dig for Gold Which “Uncle Bol)_‘s“ Divining Rod Says Lies Under Ground. | treasure \after it has been reclaimed is_being vaults in 2y Consolicated Presa JACKSONVILLE, Fla., September 15.|from the river bottom and —Down in the quicksands of the Svl-‘lranspnrwd by trucks to wanee River rests a million dollars in | Jacksonville. gold or jewels, according to the prog-| W. W. Fineren, former attache of nostications of Uncle Bob Mahon’s di-|! United States district engineer’s Vining rod. And such is the faith|office, is in charge of operations and Uncle Bob inspires in this quecr con-| re _V'nj. aide .nn“('vm Martin, is a!‘- Iraption’ of steel springs ‘and a glass | tomey for the $50,000 eyndicate grgani Sato *Alled with mysterious chemicals, | 2ed_under the nome of the Hoover : Lease Development, Inc. Some of the that practical business men have or-|Lease Development, Int S0me o od he says he would not swap it for Gov- ernment, bonds because he knows the divining rod is never mistaken. “She cays the stuff is there, boys.” 000 to hunt for the treasure. Right now equipped with $7.000 worth of machinery varying from der- ricks to shovels, these treasure hunters | po “declared with a fond look at the are digzing into the treacherous sands | gold-finding dingus, “and of the Suwance at a_point about 200 | jieg miles north of St. Petersbuig. Any day now they expect to haul up a five: ton chest filled with wealth of one sort | or another and thereby vindicate the | prophetic wig-waggings of the divining | rod. e Some contend that the chest is filled | with jewelry and other loot collccted by pira Others think that it is crammed with gold from the United | ycqr pere carly Thursday, were said to BaL st | be “doing very well” ul the Decatur There have been rumors for years jjgspital this evening. Col. Thaw was of the existence of this chest and it is | suid 1o be slightly improved. said that at one time it was even hoisted | 2 to the surface but fell back into the water because the tackling broke. Cer- tain records and maps also indicate its_presence. | CHICAGO, September 15 (#)—F. T. The scene of the treasure hunt is | Williamson, executive vice president of reached by motoring to Bronson, Fia. | the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail- then going 20 miles farther aleng tiv | road, came to Chicago foday to assume excellent Cedar Keys highway. and | his new duties with the Burlingion. He after that battling one's way through | Was formerly vice president of the 10 miles of swamp and wilderness. On | Northern Pacific at 5t. Paul. in charge out of the swamp, the | of operations. Previous to thai he was have set up tents and | general manager of the New York 8 mess hall, and scattered about ar» | Central | engines. bolers, miscellaneous pieces of | | machinery and’ 30-foot, sections of steel | z | for the coffer dam to be used in m"li Chamberlain Due in Cuba Today. effort to raise the chest. | HAVANA, Cuba, September 15 (). (Copyrizht, 1928.) Col. Thaw Improving. DECATUR, Ind., September 15 (P).— condition of Col. William T. Thaw, t. John P. Morris, injured rplane, an entry in the anscontinental non-stop ra ashed New Official In. she never | Above: These young ladies essayed a {rip to the clouds yesterday which w: intended for a tea party. The tea failed to arrive, but the trip was a success. Below: A few of the participants snapped just before the plane went aloft. Left to right: Dorothy Dial, Patsy Douglas, Dotty Abadie, Mary Bradley and Alice Abadi _Star Staff Photos. \ = i MEANS OF CONTROLING CHICKS’ SEX CLAIMED ARPLANE QUTPUT ports Successful Use of X-Ray in Experiment. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 15.—The New York World tomorrow will say that predetermination of the sex of a chick in the egg and the production of an “all-hen” hatch has been accom- | plished by means of X-Ray treatment | by Paul R. Hadley, World War veteran, on his chicken ranch at Fanwood, N. J. The World will say several scientists, |in letters to Hadley, have declared their conviction that he has accomplished a acronautical industry is starting thc\starl‘})h'!xc! |n0\'}§tlnn with fnr-roacl?inn s 7 | possibilities. From an economic_view- 1ast Iap of 1928 with a rush | Do, these experts said. the Hadley Two weeks ago it was estimated there | discovery would revolutionize the poul- would be 8,000 commercial planes in | try industry. use in the United States at the end of the year. The figure now has been | revised "to 9,000 with the virtual cer- tainty that the total will reach 11,000 | | within the first few months of the next | year. | The announcement Friday that the | Curtiss Flying Service had authorized | the building of 150 new commercial | planes is typical of the piling up of orders which is keeping things hum- | ming in acroplane factories east and | west. This year will show an increase | of about 400 per cent over last year in the number of planes in u: Cutside of Government work, the | Cur order is the largest construc- tion assignment in the history of the | industry in America. The planes will | be used in the newly organized nation- | al “air taxi” service, which not only | will feed rail and air rail lines, but wili, as its name implies, make available | aeroplanes for short jumps between cities. The company also will estab- lish 25 training schools for aviators and 3 “air universities” where problems | of technique, fuel and operation may be intensively studied by advanced students. | | Failure Ts Discounted. | It happened that this news was made | public on the day of the final failure of the air derby racers to- reach Los | Angeles in a non-stop flight. Informed | observers of the industry agree, how- | ever, that the occasional failure of the | acroplane to live up to the pressing de- | mands of stunt exploitation is not in the least checking progress, or dampen- ing the newly aroused enthusiasm_of | capital, looking toward acronautics. For reasonable distance and lift need: within the limits of sound engincering | design, the aeroplane has risen above | the “useful load” level and has an as- | sured earning power well the | margin of sound finance. 1t is predicted that from now on the greatest technical advance will be made | in the buflding and operation of planes designed to carry a profitable load of | passengers or express up to perhaps 200 | or 300 miles, and that trans-continental | and trans-oceanic flying will await | slower, but inevitable development re- | sulting from concentrated engineering and experimental studies. Safety Conference Here. To the end that the contemplated air universities may confer post-graduate and not post-mortem degrees, there is a | new and intense concern for safety in aeronautics. The first conference on safety will be held here October 4 and 5 at the annual meeting of the National Safety Congress. This meeting. spon- sored by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the promotion of safety in acronau- tics, will attempt to line up technicans pilots, operators, manufacturers, engi neers and educators to make the flying machine fool-proof and jinx-proof. Fog is still the ghost in the attic, and | much of the work of the conference will be directed toward banishing this specter. The new pink moon beam, now in use at Mitchel Field, provides a splendid beacon to homing flyers, but it is the vast stretch of fog hanging low over dangerous mountains which still is formidable. Laboratories throughout the country are at work on sound de- vices, comparable to the depth finder used on ships, which will disclose the nearness of land to a fog-bound aviator. (Copyright. 1928.) PUPILS ARE—Z SHIFTED. Somerset Children Arranged For| Temporarily at Bethesda. Pending completion of its new build ing, the Somerset Public School will or anize tomorrow t 9 am. al the Bethesda, Md.. school. Other public schools in the county opened last Wednesday, but it will be some time yet before the Somerset pupils can occupy their school building In the meantime, they will attend class- cs at Bethesda, it is understood. . Lodges to Lay Corner Stone. FAIRMONT HEIGHTS ber 15.—W. Bruce Evar and Love Temple Lodge, No. P. 0. E. of W., will hold dedicatory ex: cises for their new home here th beginning tomorrow. The corner s will be laid September 23. J. Finley | Estimates of 8,000 Craft at| End of Year Increased to 11,000. Cansolidated Pross. NEW YORK, September 15.—The many is rapidly increasing. Coat Sketched, $24.45 within | \ Md., Septem- Lodge, No. 3 380, | 1. B | | was held 3,000 feet above the city late 5 GVEN FOR BRLS Debutantes, Thrilled by First | Airplane Fete, Omit Refreshments. Washington’s first aerial “tea party” | tantes in the big trimotored mono- !ice at Hoover Field. | fair was planned as a tea party, the | | a circuit of the District, the fight last- | Bradley. Dorothy Lane, | Alice_Abadie, Carroll Smith, Dorothy yesterday afternon by a group of debu- plane piloted by N. C. Brown, which is engaged in a two-week sightseeing serv- Though the af- “debbics” were far too engrossed in the flight to even consider tea. They took off at 5 o'clock, after pos- | ing for photographers under the 74- | foot wings of the plane, and were flown over Mount Vernon, Fort Myer and on ing about 25 minutes. In the party were Misses ‘Tottie Mary | and and Fannie Dial, daughters of former Senator Dial of South Carolina; Mar- ian Jardine, daughter of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine: Elizabeth Dunlop, | Patsie Douglas, Katherine Fechet, daughter of Gen. J. E. Fechet, chief of the Army Air Corps; Florence Beale and Ruth Nebeker. The flight was the first made here for sightseeing purposes by the big Ford plane, which was flown here Friday | from Teterboro Ajrport, Hasbrouk Heights, N. J., by Mr. Browne. The| plane 1s the first of its kind ever to bz used in commercial flying here and attracted considerable attention because of its size and unique construction. Yesterday's flight was made under a cloudy sky and with a heavy wind, but the take-off and landing were with- out incident. Browne made a second flight later in the afterncon with a sec- ond group of passengers and will make | regular flights during the coming two | weeks. Youth Dies in Plane Crash. CHICAGO, September 15 (). —Georse | Teller, 20, son of Gerge I. Teller, presi- dent of the Columbus Laboratories, was fatally injured today when an airplane he was flying crashed in Melrose Park, a suburb. He died shortly afterward in a hospital. Teller was learning to fly his own plane: . A" pastenger with him was not urt. Special heaters to speed up the the soil of farms in Sweden. CLIFFORD ELVINS, 'ROYAL DUTCH SHELL BUYS ROOFING STOCK Control of Flintkote Manufactur- ing Co. Is Purchased for $7,000,000. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 15.—Com- pletion of negotiations for the pur- chase at a cost of about $7,000.000, or a majority interest by the Royal Dutch Shell group, is dis- closed in notices calling upon Flintkote stockholders for redemption of the company’s outstanding 7 per cent pre- ferred stock. The notices said that Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ltd., a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary, will purchase sufficient common stock to assure control of the company after the preferred stock has been redeemed. Redemption date is fixed as October 15, and the purchase price of the common at approximately book value. Stockholders of the com- pany were told that association with the Royal Dutch Shell interests would mean much in the way of expanded business. Farmer Arrested in Raid. MANASSAS. Va., September Joseph Kernes, 54 years old, was rested in a raid on his farm today when Sheriff J. P. Kerlin and two accom- Long feature film production in Ger- | growth of crops are being installed in| panying officers seized an alleged still and a quantity of liquid evidence. in the FiintKote | | Manufacturing Co.. makers of roofing, RISK MEN T0 MEET HERE IN OCTOBER 200 Advertising Men of Crart Expected for Three- Day Convention. About 200 Insurance advertising men are expected in Washington, October 1, 2 and 3, for the insurance advertising convention at the Washintgon Hotel. Leaders in the insurance advertising | world will speak, and there will be & | series of social events. The convention will conclude Wed- nesday morning with the annual busi- ness meeting including reports of offi- cers and election of new officers. The Tuesday noon luncheon will he held at the National Press Club and will be sponsored by the Washinzton | Advertising Club, at which representa= tives of the National Press Club, the Women's National Press Club, the | Washington Advertising Club, the Life Underwriters Association of Washington, the Insurance Club of Washington and Fire Underwriters Club of Washington will join. Among the speakers on the three- day program are: George E. Crosby of the Aetna Fire group, who is general chairman of the program committee; Judge O. B. Bryon of Streator, Il con= sulting counsel of the laws committee of the National Board of Underwriters; Roger B. Hull. managing director and general counsel of the National Asso- clation of Life Underwriters; Merle Thorpe, editor of the Nation's Busi- ness; James E. Kavanagh. second vice president_of the Metropolitan Life In- | surance Co.; J. A. Wright of the Out= |door ~ Advertising Co.: Edward I | Taylor, vice president of the Century Indemnity Co.; David Lawrence, editor of the United States Daily, and many |others. ~ Arthur Brisbane, editorial | writer, has_contributed a paper. Clifford Elvins is president of the conference and will preside at the first general session Monday morning. A. F. of L. to Hear Textile Dispute NEW YORK. September 15 (#).— The executive board of the United | Textile Workers of America decided to- | day to bring wage disputes in New Bedford, Mass., and Kenosha, Wis., be- fore the October convention of the American Federation of Labor in New Orleans. Following his custom of naming race- horses after successful plays he pro- duces, Sir Alfred Butt of England has just named a filly Mary Dugan. SIGMUNDS —Seventh Street—Corner of H Starting Tomorrow—We Offer to the Women of Washington Another Sensational Savings Opportunity dvance Sale of WINTER COATS Regular $30to $39 Values 24 45 Small Deposit Holds Any Selection Right Now Is Your Opportunity to Benefit by the Most Fortunate Pur- chase We’ve Ever Been Able to Make FINE FABRICS GENEROUSLY FURRED In the great coat sale you will find coats cf unusually fine quality at this ridiculously low price—dur- al:!le broadcloths are well tailored and trimmed generously with warm furs such as Plain and Striped Squir- relette (dyed coney), Caracul, Mountain Vicuna and others. B simply Y WAY. You make your selec- tion, pay a small deposit and then we hcld your selection while you It Wilson, grand exalted ruler, will preside. Officer Gets Back pay for it easily out of your income. makes buying so easy and, too, it’s a mighty fine Hacienda Tangudillas in the State of | So convinced are the treasure hunters | The steamship Orcoma, on which For- Jalisco. the war department announced ,of the ultimate success of their efforts | eign Secretary Chamberlain of Great tonight. Three other Federal victories | that they have contracted with Sheriff | Britain and his family are cruising for in that State were also announced, but details were not given. R Favor Swing-Johnson Bill. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., September 15 () —The Swing-Johnson bill, pro- widing for public construction and own- srship of the Boulder Dam power and Jrigation project in Arizona, was ap- proved by the Operative Plasterers’ and Cement Finishers’ International Asso- clation in convention late yesterday, it was announced. G. A. R. Leaves for Denver. Scventeen members of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Ladies' Cahoon of Duval County and the Jack- | sonville police force to supply an armed guard of 20 picked men to protect the ' his health, notified line agents here to- day that it would reach Havana on schedule at 6 am. tomorrow morning. “Marian,” a fuzzy little polar bear cub, recently captured by the Coast Guard iceberg expedition in ington Zoo, and will arrive here next week. The little bear, which was taken cap- ‘Auxiliary left yesterday afternoon for the G. A. R. encampment to be held at Denver. The party was headed by Willizcon M. Bobb, departnent com- mander. Ry tive at the same time that two adult bears were killed for food by the expedi- tion, is now on board the ship Marian, due to arrive at New London, Conn. Tuesday or Thurs {Coast Guard Brings Arctic | waters, has been donated to the Wash- | € Bl Do ik " From Iceberg Field for District Zoo | Confined in a stout crate on board | the ship, the cub has been carefully cared for by the Coast Guardsmen and is understood to be in good condition. Immediately upon arrival at New Lon- don, it will be rushed to Washington by_express. 4 Marian, as she has been officially named after the ship which captured her, will be the third polar hear at the 4 local Zoa. Tag Lost in War Zone 10 Year By the Associatea Pross. When Lieut. Walter E. Baker, of the 108th Field Artillery, lost his “dog tag” in France 10 years ago he probably didn't dream that the State Department would get it back for him. The little metal identification disc with which Baker, as well as all other American soldiers, was equip- ped, was found in a load of old metal in the war zone; turned over to the American consul at Lille, forwarded to the Stat~ Deyzstment here, turn- ed over to #: Wg# Department, and sent to Baker al Bridgeville, Pa. his last known address. way to SA VE. Get the Cash Saving Habit at Sigmunds