Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1928, Page 2

THE SYNDAY STAR, WASHINGION, D. €, SEPIEMBER 3V, WX¥—PARL %' RED CROSS NEEDS * MORE FOR RELIEF 183,357,520 Colected, but| Task in Porto Rico Be- | comes More Difficult. - - 1.5, WAVAL REPLY LAUDED INLONDON American Note on Anglo- French Pact Awaits Re- action of Cabinet. THE MEMORIAL OVER A FOREST OF STEEL- ‘ : ’ 1 CTIEN ELECTON MAY BE HOT FIGHT Federation Meeting to Be Held Saturday Expected to Open Campaign. | | | | | | 4 " e ’ | | i | | | S L | still lacking more than $1,643,000 of | the $5,000,000 fund estimated as the minimum needed for the relief of vic- tims of the West Indies hurricane, the American Red Cross reported ~last | The first Fall meeting of the Federa- | tion of Citizens’ Associations next Sat- | urday night is expected to signalize the opening of the pfe-election campaign of | candidates seeking the office of presi- By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 29.—While pro- nouncement of the official reaction toward the American reply to the' Anglo-French naval agreement waits a full cabinet meeting, the British press in its Sunday morning editions con- tinues to praise the American note. while criticizing in varying degree the British government. Under the heading “Get Out of Eu- | rope!” the Sunday Express declares “the moral to be drawn from the Amer- jean note is that Britain should dis- entangle herself from all of her Eu- ropean commitments and set herself free to pursue a purely British policy besed on the interests of the sccurit_v’ of the empire as a whole.” “War between the British people and | the American people is ridiculously in- conceivable,” the Sunday Express as- serts. “We are not rivals on the seas. The Americans nced one sort of navy, we another. If we could get out of Europe there would be no vestige of misunderstanding between us and our American friends.” Criticizes Diplomacy. The Sunday Dispatch says: “Our in- effective diplomacy has exposed us to sharp rebuke. The ‘blunder must now be repaired. The people of this coun- try are profoundly anxious not only for good will but for co-operation with the United Etates. Fortunately, that feel- ing is og so solid a basis that even the most fatuous statesmanship cannot really undermine it.” The Sunday Observer declares: “The substance of the American note answers up to expectations. Its tone is moderate and, while it applies the logic of the Washington conference in unanswerable terms, its concluding paragraph opens a new avenue of negotiations. The document is thus fully welcome to all friends of peace at sea.” Pablicity Assailed. A column on the editorial page of the | Sunday Times is devoted to the sub- | Ject. “One of the most important causes | of the failure of the Anglo-French' agreement,” says the Times, “is the dis- tressing mismanagement of ~publicity. There is something to be said for com- plete secrecy until definite results have been reached, provided that these are then published without delay. There is even more to be said for complete open- | ness and candor, for in these demo- cratic days diplomacy is not a game | of courts or secret conclaves in back parlors of chancelleries, but derives all its power from smypathy and under- standing of peoples. AR VL SHOW B CONSTHIRSDAY Unparallefed Demonstration| to Be Given at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Noise, smoke and shock to a degree unparalled in this part of the world is promised at the Army proving ground at Aberdeen, Md. Tbursday, when the Army cuts loose with guns of all caliber to show the progress in ordnance and munitions since the World War, as a feature of the tenth annual meeting of the Army Ordnance Association. A migthy blast from a 16-inch Coast Artillery piece, the largest type of gun ever constructed in this country, will launch the show Thursday morning, and from then until night, over the 556 square miles that comprise the proving grounds, will sound the roar of the heavier cannon and the clack- | ing of machine guns, while on land and ! | | | D. C. WOMAN GIVES HURRICANE PICTURE Wife of Capt. P. L. Baldwin Tells of Heroism Among Porto Rico People. One of the most gripping accounts of the great hurricane that cut a wide swath of death and destruction in its sweep through Porto Rico is contained in letters received here from Mrs. Merle Baldwin, wife of Capt. Perry L. Bald- win, stationed with their family of four small children at Henry Barracks in the leveled Cayey district. Unconsciously 'revealing a tale of heroism and fortitude in the face of the stunning disaster that befell them the night of October 13, Mrs. Baldwin wrote five days later to assure her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gilbert of 3717 South Dakota avenue, of their safety and plight. “Let's all offer up a prayer of . thanksgiving that we are alive,” she prefaced her first message. Capt. Baldwin, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Baldwin of 1336 Po- tomac avenue, has been stationed two years and two months at Cayey, in the interior of Porto Rico with the 65th Infantry. Their four chiidren, who passed unscathed through the nights | of terror, are Perry, jr., 14; Mary Lee, 12; Betty Ann, 4, and Rita Merle, | nearly 3 years old. Crawled to Station. ‘With other women @nd. children of | the stricken post, Mrs. Baldwin and her little ones, aided by soldiers tied to them by ropes, crawled on the| ground to the safety of the Naval Radio Station, sheltered at the foot of | a hill, in the teeth of a 162-mile hur- | ricane that showered roofs and debris | in every direction. At tge Naval Station, Mr$. Baldwin wrote, “they gave us black coffee and dry bread, and it tasted so good. That night, each one in the Navy tock one or two Army families, and we slept three and four in a bed and six in a room. | The children were angels, all of them, | and not one became panicky.” “Our whole post of Cayey tend,” she wrote, “like pit houses piled on. top of “beds. etc, have saved practically nothing. But Mrs. Baldwin was writing of ma- terial destruction for, in another, letter, | she told how she bent over-tie teds of her youngest babies to comfort them while roofs and flying missles were | slamming against their house, and said | to them, “Well, babies, I have you at | least.” i A night of torrential rain preceded the breaking of the hurricane. | “On_Wednesday, September 12, at about 11 pam.” she wrote, “the rain| storm was growing in intensity, but | we went to bed oblivious of what the next day held in store for us. With | daylight of the 13th, the hurri- ! cane set in, and for 24 hours a wind | at a velocity of 162 miles per hour (and greater, ah the machine gauge broke | then) and a deluge of rain swept the | vas flat- | cures of | We | island. Roofs Are Destroyed. 1 «All that morning we worked putting clothing and all loose articles in draw- ers, thinking to save them, but at noon Perry (her husband) came in to say the company roof was giving way. We looked out only to see it caving in, and | out in the Chespeake Bay huge bombs, dropped from planes, will add to lhe} D, din, Searchlights will be brought into | play after dark, and an exhibition of night fiying and aerial fighting will top ! off the exhibit of the Air Corps. Tanks | and tractors also will do their share. | According to Maj. Gen. C. C. Wil-| liams, chief of ordnance, United States | Army, who'is in charge of the arrange- ments, 6,000 civil engineers and indus- trial executives are expected to attend, as well as cabinet members, ranking officers of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps and representatives of many for- cign armies. Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis, Assistant Secretary Charles B. Robbins, Assistant Secretary Davi- son and Benedict Crowell, wartime as- sistant Secretary of War under Presi- | dent Wilson, and now president of the ! Army Ordnance Association, “will be present. Notification that Maj. Georges Sca- | pini, blind war hero and member of the ¥rench Chamber of Deputies, had ac- c:pted the association’s invitation was rcceived from Maj. Gen. Hanson E. Ely | . Governers Island, Gen. Williams said. “OLORED MAN HELD IN FATAL SHOOTING: T iice Capture Willie Adams After Eston Is Killed by | Bullet. Willie Adams, colored, 25 years old, of 332 Armory court southwest is being heid at the fourth precinct station in connection with the fatal shooting last night of Willie Eston, also colored, 32 years old, of the same address. Eston was pronounced dead upon the arrival of the Emergency Hospital ambulance. The bullet passed through Eston’s heart, killing him instantly. Several other colored men witnessed the shooting. Adams was arrested at 44 Hanover street, where he had fled, by Headquar- ters Detectives John Fowler and Law- rence O'Dea and a detail of police from the fourth precinct. ASKS RUM PROSECUTION. Democrat in Kansas Calls on Mrs. ‘Willebrandt to Tak: Official Action EMPORIA, Kans., Septomber 29 (). —Chauncey B. Little, Democratic nominee for Governor of Kansas, last night called upon Mabel Walker Wille- brandt, Assistant United States At- torney General, to prosecute the “guilty” parties who took the liquor stored ‘at Fort Scott, Kans., in connection with the alleged disappearance of a “quantity of liquor from the Federal Building ‘h'rv several years ago.” «In an address here last night, Little h> hed been refused permission by the roof of tie post exchange being | torn off, too. | “By that time our quarters were no longer safe, and we just looked as last | good-bye to our accumulation of 14| years and soldiers helped us to the set | of quarters, next door, which seemed | to be holding up better. There were six children and cight grown-ups hud- | dled in one room, while all about us tin roofs were being hurled against the | building. By that time our own quar- | ters had gone, all in a heap. The ones | in which we were huddled were about to go, and our next move had to be made at once—a dash for our lives, as the roof above us was just about to| fall.” Capt. Baldwin had rushed into the frail house a few minites before. “Have each child ready to dash when our quarters go,” he had shouted above the noise of the hurricane. “The company quarters had been swept away, and the soldiers, waiting | to carry the women and children to | safety, were roped together on the porch of Mrs, Baldwin's temporary shelter. H “Soon the bedroom tore away,” she wrote, “and we dashed out into the | blowing mass of tin, wood and iron, fairly crawling, a soldier for each, wom an and child. After what s2emed hours, | we made our way to the INaval Radio Station which is sheltered at the foot | ot the hiil.” | Complete Destruction. ‘While San Juan itself apparently had been little damaged, the burricane swept the Army post at Cayey. One man saw a woman cut right in two, in his back yard, by a piece of flying roof,” she continued. “Many such cases were reported, but he actually saw this. “All along the plaza, bodies are piled | up, waiting to be buried,” she wrote In | an’ earlier letter. “On other parts of the plaza, families are cooking rice or | what little they have. The churches| are filled with refugees. The hospital is gone. San Juan, while badly hit, has only a few homeless, but the rest of us | trom Cayey are completely wiped out.” Mrs. Baldwin described the hurricane as being “like a boomerang. always in | two parts and the second part was | worst than the first.” For two days during the worse part of the storm, every one was powerless | to do anything but look on at the de- struction about them. As soon as the storm cleared a bit, they rushed to their quarters to see what could be salvaged irom the wreckage. Feared Pestilence. Next to the siorm itself, Mrs. Bald- win wrote, the sufferers feared 6 pesti- le most. ‘We were afraid of our lives to stay |in Cayey any longer,” she added, “ac {the water we drank had washed over | dead animals and Lord knows what. Flies and mosguitoes just feasted off of us. So, you see, there is no wonder that ase is spreading over the | islan | Mrs. Baldwin could get no reliable report of the ll'.;lmhi‘r of dead in tae isiand, though ghe described watching coffins pass-day Wdter day. When she wrote last, she said, | | it Wiilebrandt whil> he was a Repre- lve in Congress to see the report By the Associated Press. | Hawk airplane | ing had | 138 | Three of the four children of Capt. and Mrs. Perry L. ington, who. with their parents and an older sister, had a close call in the hurricane in Porto Rico, where Capt. Baldwin is with the 65th Infantry. They are, upper: Perry Baldwin, jr. and Betty Ann Baldwin, and lower, Rita Merle Baldwin. CHANGES LANGLEY AFRODROME LABEL Smithsonian Again Invites Orville Wright to Bring Original Plane. The Smithsonian Institution has | changed the label. on the Langley acrodrome and again invited Orville Wright to deposit the original Kitty in the institution's museum. Charles G. Abbott, secretary of the institution, in a statement made public today, reviewed the long controversy be- tween the Wrights and the institution over the labels on the Langley plane flnfl" said that as a “gesture of good- .lll he had directed :that' the label "be so modified as to tell nothing but the facts without additions of opinion as to the accomplishments of Langley.” The label now reads: Langley Aergdrome.- : \ “The original Samuel Pierpont Lang- ley flying machine of 1903, restored. Deposited by the Smithsonian Insti- tution.” _ The label to which the Wrights ob- jected said: <Langley Flylng Machine. “The original Langley flying machine of 1903, resiored. In the opinion of many com= | petent- to judge, this machine was the | first heavier-tnan-air craft in the his- tory of the world capable of sustained free flight under its own power, carry- man " Wright, whose objection to was so pesitive that he sent ihe al Kitty Hawk machine to the m: m, maintained that pldge Orville the label he Langley was not flown until 1914, and then“only after alterations were made. Declaring that since.his election as secretary in January 1928, he had sought to end the controversy, Dr. Abbott reviewed the history of the institution’s relations with the Wright brothers. He listed seven points to illustrate the recognition by the Smithsonian of the Wrights' achievement in being the first to make sustained human flights in a power-propelled, heavier-than-air machine. This recognition, he said, in. cluded the publication of articles by the Wright brothers in the Smithsonian annual reports for 1902 and 1914, and of other articles descriptive of their ‘achievements; the award to the Wrighs brothers of the first Langley gold medal for aeronautics, the request made in 1910 for Wright planes, including the Kitty Hawk plane, to be exhibited in the National Muscum; and the public ibition in the Museum of the :- ight plane of 1908 (deposited by the cuizinable on the Wright achievements. WRIGHT MAKES STATEMENT. DAYTON, Ohio, Séptember 29 (#).— Orville Wright, pioneer of the air, to- night reiterated his suggestion to sub- mit_ his_controversy with the Smith- sonian Institution to “disinterested per- sons,” after reading the statement of Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the in- stitution, announcing that the label on the Langley aerodrome had been changed. Wright issued ment: “In the friendly conference with me to which Dr. Abbot refers, a desire to have the Smithsonian-Wright controversy settled without the intervention of outside parties. Later he said that ‘there is nothing which hinders me from going very far to satisfy Mr. Wright and Close this unfortunate episode except the insistence that we confess our- elves to be insincere knaves'. “I then told him that all I insisted upon was a correction of the false im- pressions created by the Smithsonian Institution in the public mind. His present paper does not make those cor= rections and I infer that he found it impossible to make them without ex- posing the past discreditable conduct of his institution, which the present paper attempts to justify. ‘At times it becomes amusing. It offers an explanation of why, when we suggested the Kitty Hawk plans for the National Museum in 1910, the offi- clals preferred one of our machines of five years' later date. “At the time we assumed that it was because the National Museum then would have an 1896 Langley flying model, a 1903 Langley aeroplane and only a 1908 Wright aeroplane. This to us seemed significant, but it is now explained that the Smithsonian offictals preferred the 1908 Wright plane be- cause that plane scemed to them more interesting than the first plane that ever flew Is it not time that our National Museum is put into the hands of some one with a better knowledge of and appreciation of the relative im- portance of historical objects?” the following state- of conditions on the island. #fhey are now among the refugees in Sah Juan Capt. and Mrs. Baldwin were rearcd World in the was sending her oldest boy, Perry back to Washingfpn, Washingten. During possibly with | War Capt. Baldwin was overseas in & | members declined | a total of $42,40457 had been received. Baldwin of Wash- | Department), and of all material| night in the first official resume of | its relief operations that more than a| half million persons yet are in a help- | less state, dependent upon the Red Cross for daily sustenance. | The Red Cross is facing a far greater | task of relief and rehabilitation in | Porto Rico alone than it confronted at ‘any one period during the flood saster in the Mississippi Valley in the | Spring and Summer of 1927, according |to a report received at headquarters here yesterday from Henry M. Baker, | national director of disaster relief, now |in Porto Rico. | Money Still Comes In. The stream of contributions con- tinues to come in from all sections of the country, however, and the last ! tabulation of funds showed the total| had reached $3,357,590. The District of Columbia, while still below its quota of $50,000, is making | a good showing and is climbing Steadily toward the needed total, according to a report last night by Victor B. Dey-| | ber, chairman of the District relief fund committee. At the last tabulation Additional funds for the relief work amounting to $175 were deposited with the cashier of The Star yesll:rday,] | bringing thsi total to $6,987.12. | Since the appeal for funds was made 10 days ago, reports of the devasta- tion, ruin and poverty of the vietims have become increasingly serious, the | Red Cross states. In Porto Rico the number of fami- lies under Red Cross care—that is, be- ing fed, sheltered and clothed—is 56, | 777 families, or between 500,000 and | 600,000 persons, Mr. Baker reported to | Red Cross headquarters. In Florida, 15,232 persons are under Red Cross care in refugee camps or in temporary | homes where they are being fed and clothed, it is reported to A. L. Schafer, disaster relief director in that area. Epidemics Threatened. i‘ The resume of Red Cross relief opera- | tions states that the organization has sent 163 of its staff workers, including doctors, rurses and executives, into | the field to direct relief work. The greatest danger now threatening victims of the disastrous storm is said to be the possible spread of epidemics, | and already 20,000 Porto Ricans have | been reported as suffering from influ- enza, malaria or typhoid. To meet this situation, the Red Cross has dis- patched five doctors, twelve nurses and a sanitary engineer to the island. In Florida the health problem is said to be chiefly one of inoculating refugees | against typhoid, small pox and other contagions which might break out. During the emergency period in the Mississippi Valley the Red Cross fed and otherwise cared for more than 607,000 persons: ; Today in Porte Rico, according to Director Baker, between 500,000 and 600,000 individuals are | entirely dependent upon the gcncmsny-‘ of American people. | “A greater proportion of the popu-: lation has been affected in this hurri-! cane disaster in Porto ‘Rico than in/| any other disaster in which we have | been called upon to serve,” Mr. Baker reported. “A similar disaster within| the United States, proportionate to this | one, .would have affected not less than | 30,000,000° of our people. i “The relief task here fs made vastly more difficult by the lack of such trans- poriation facilities as we had at our command - in the Mississippi Valley. Here we have no fast trains, no air-| planes.. Trucks and passenger auto-| mobiles are our main dependence for transportation, with travel on horse- Pack and on foot necessary in many re- mote mountain sections. Sufferers - Helpless. “It is a significant fact that a large | majority of the sufferers here are ab- solutely helpless without real or poten- | tial assets or resources, which means | that if the Red Cross relief machinery | should break down for 24 hours the sufferers would be without food. “T belleve it will be necessmg; to con- | tinue rhass feeding of the refugees for at least 30 days.” The Red Cross now is using from 1,000 to 1,500 tons of food a week to feed homeless refugees. Food supplies received from the United States were practically exhausted Friday and fur- | ther distribution is proceeding from | Jocal purchases. President Emillo del Toro of the In- | ar - Executive Committee of Super- | ision and Relief, co-operating with the Red Cross, yesterday issued a call to all cities and towns in the island, declaring that Porto Rico must do all that it can to aid its own people. Director Baker reported that Health Commissioner Ortez ‘stated that relief agencies are getting control of - the health situation and that the people of Porto Rico express deep apprecia- tion for the assistance which is com- ing to them from the United States. “Statistics “Given. A statistical resume made public by the Red Cross shows the following: Known dead in Florida, from 1,500 to 3,000, with no -possibility of an accu- rate check ever. being. made. In Porto Rico, 310 reported -dead. In St. Croix,. Virgin Islands; six re- ported B : Homeless, in Florida, “15,000; in Porto Rico, 400,000, ", : ) . Injured, inf Fiotida, 12; in Porto Rico, 771, g% . Sick, in'Florida, 191; in Porto Rico, 0,000. | | | In the seven counties of Florida | where the storm caused great damage, | 17,500 persons have registered with the | Red Cross as desiring assistance in some form in order to'rehabilitate themselves. Several boxes of clothing donated py | members of the headquarters staff of the National Education Association here were sent to Miss Maria Machin of the ‘University of Porto:Rica for. distribu- tion to the homeless in the -island. The relief fund being collected through the cashier, The Evening Star, last night stood as follows: Acknowl- edged, $6,812.12; Dorothy Clapp, $1; Anna C. Reinhardt, $1.50; a friend, $5; Busy Bee Club, $5; T. R. R., $2; Police- men’s Association Widows' Mite, $50; Miss M. Violet Lyles, $2; J. V. S., $5; A. A, $1; Richard J. Harden Camp, No. 2. United Spanish War Veterans, $50; Mary E. Gude, $35; Gertrude M. Stevens, $5; Mrs. J. D, $2; Miss H. I. D, $1; “Porto Rica,” $5; E. A, $2; D. A. Brown, $2.50. Total, $6,987.12. GEOGRAPHIC BOARD T0 PASS ON NAMES | Tackling a mass of work that has accumulated during the Summer re- cess, the United “States Geographic Board will meet Wednesday in Rcom 5323 of the Interior Department to continue its task of adopting uniform names of places to be used throughout t e Government service, & tee, consisting of Samuel W. Boggs, chairman; J. N. B, Hewitt, R. S. Patton and the chairman of the board, Frank Bond, and Will C. Barnes, the board’s secretary, as ex-official members, will be held Tuesday to prepare for the main meeting. A ncmenclature of 250 names for one THIEF'S GUN FALS '|Smith’s Statement A meeting, of the executive commit- |- Part of the mass of stcel rods which are to Be inclosed in the Arlington Memorial Bridge across the Potomac, to! About 7,000,000 pounds of steel will be required for | | zens’ Association are, according to gos- reinforce that stately structure which is the concrete arches and piefs, In the background, the Lincoln Memorial. Figure in Shooting TODAUNTWOAN Storekeeper’s Wife Hurls| Scale Weight to Rout Would-Be Bandit. The courage of Mrs. Irving Fanaroff, | 3147 Stanton road southeast, saved her | husband from losing the contents of the cash register in his store last night when she braved a pistol in the hands of a colored hold-up man and threw a | scale weight at his head. He fired one | shot, which went wild, and then was pushed out of the door by Fanaroff. | About 10 o'clock last night, Fanaroff | told police, a colored man with a white handkerchief tied over the lower half | of his face, entered the store and commanded him and his wife ta throw | up their hands. Instead of obeying Mrs. Fanaroff seized a- 2-pound weight, lying on the counter, and threw it at the hold-up man. He dodged and then fired one shot. By that time Fanaroff was able | to reach him and shoved him from the | store. When he reached the street he fled. Police were unable to find the bullet said to have been fired by the would-be robber, and they think that his gun was loaded with blank shells. According to Fanaroff the cash register contained about $20. MAIL PLANE OVERDUE. Greensboro Awaits Flyer Coming From Atlanta. GREENSBORO, N. C., September 29 | (#).—The Northbound air mail plane of the Atlanta-New York route, due here about 11 o'clock tonight, had not been heard from at midnight. The plane is piloted by Johnny Kytle and left Spartanburg at 9:40 tonight. Kytle was pilot of a plane that was forced down near Old’ Fort, N. C. | several weeks ago after he had lost his | course. CHINESE PIRATES SEIZE SHIP WITH CRUELTY OF SPANISH MAIN| __(Continued from First Page) | Cole and the others, who had been wounded. . Second Officer’ Bennett was then forced to navigate the ship under a guard of pirates who held revolvers at his back. Bennett was compelled to stay on the bridge for 54 hours with| but short intervals of rest until the Anking cast anchor in Honghai Bay, which is north of Bias Bay, the noe torious lair of Chinese pirates. All fhé passengers were mustered on the décks and systematically searched, luggage and cargo cases were ransacked and the ship's offices were robbed. For 10 hours this went on until a great pile ‘of loot was heaped on the decks rcady to be taken ashore. : 'The pirates disembarked in three life- ‘boats faking loot valued at $80,000, Mexican. Seven Chinese passengers also were taken along to be Feid fm'l ransom. The desperadoes were in gay humor at the success of their rai¢ and ‘when not guarding their victims nade merry and feasted heavily in {ue| saloons an | d officers’ mess | Bias Bay Avoided. | As the ship passed Hongkong last | night en route for Honghai Bay the pirates became very alert. All ligh's | were extinguished and the surviving | officers were threatened with instant death if the Anking were challenged. | Several vessels were sighted but the | pirates dotiged any challenge. Bias Bay itself was given a wide berth since Warships are constantly patrolling the waters off that pirate rendezvous. The Anking was steered into Honghai Bay | and anchored off Ross Head at 1 o'clock | this morning. After the Chinese crew and Third |it Officer Bird had rowed the pirates ashore, they were permitted to return to the ship, which immediataly steamed for Hongkong, arriving late today. The Anking piracy is one of the most daring and successful outrages of re- cent years and has caused great con- cern in sea-faring and merchantile cireles. About D. C. Police Deemed Erroneous A statement by Gov. Smith in his speech last night that one-third of the Washington Police Force had been charged with intoxication in one year apparently was a misinter- pretation of figures announced by the Police Department on September 1, which showed that 454 cases were brought before the Trial Board within the past year. On September 1, the department had a personuel of 1,348 persons. At that time the Police Department announced that only 39 of these de- fendants were charged with intoxi- cation. One hundred and eighteen were accused ~ofi, failure to patrol of the national parks has been pre- pared and the board will consider its adoption at the meeting, but 0 ind their beats, 59 failure to pay their fi:;m. 84 for oon?uct prejudicial to d e of the force, and th now under construction, | dent, which James G."Yaden will re- | linquish November 3. | Although the election is more than a month off, two delegates alrcady have announced their candidacies and. two ! others are understood to be walting a more propitious time for entering the | race. The avowed candidates are George C. | Havenner of the Anacostia Citizens' | —Underwood & Underwood. Mrs. Esther E. Wurst (above), shot by her husband, Eustis Wurst (below), who then killed himself. MAN SHOOTS WIFE AND COUSIN; THEN COMMITS SUICIDE __(Continued from First Page.) Baltimore. Dr. Nevitt gave instructions for the release of the body, but Schench refused to claim it. In Wurst's pockets, detectives found a return ticket to Baltimore, a small sum of money and a half pint of what was believed to be liquor. Wurst, his father-in-law said ‘last night, had not been employed for the past eight years following an attack of jnfluenza, which, Mr. Schench said, left him physically unfit. During. that period and until last February, Wurst and his wife had lived with Mrs. Wurst's parents and jointly owned the house at 512 Irving street. His daughter has worked to support herself at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Wurst at one time was employed as a baker, his trade, at the Soldiers’ Home, and when his health failed he re- mained in less strenuous labor at the Home's dairy. Schench told police last night, that Wurst berated his wife con- stantly when finally his abuse took the form of threats against her life. The 11-year-old Wurst boy, who has always lived with his mother, was in fear of his father, the police were told last night, and when Wurst came to his wife’s house late yesterday, the boy was afraid to 30 to the door, the grand- father said. London Chews Gum With U. S. Chewing gum has become such a craze in London that cleaners 4n trains, busses, theaters and. motion picture houses are complaining of the extra work of removing the “parked” wads from under the seats. Dealers say the demand for gum grew greatly during the Summer and they believe touring Americans are responsible for much’ of habit from the visitors. .- The Problem of Preventing Tuberculosi maintaining and ‘increasing your general resistance and Tuberculosis germs do not. thrive in a healthy body. To Maintain Health . Avoid house dust and impure or close air, day or night. . Get all the light and sunshine . ‘Avoid ‘raw milk, raw cream and butter made of unpasteurized cream. . Eat plain, nourishing food, more vegetables, less meat. . Get enough sleep by retiring early enough. . Try to avoid worry. Be cheerful. on your body. And Get Yourself Examined on every birthday by a competent physician. way you can have imperfections corrected before they undermine your health, Assaciaticn for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Telephone Main 6883 The Londoners then took up the AMERICAN NATIONS - LINKED BY PLANES Air Mail Into Canada and| Mexico Will Cement Relations. | By Consolidated Press. CHICAGO, September 29.—Aviation is | | o bring three nations of the North| i American continent into a more closely | knit community this coming week. | Time and distance—two elements often | entering into misunderstanding and \lack of neighborliness—then will be | further annihilated. | From the principal cities of ‘the United States into the heart of Mexico ¢ | an air mail line, opening Monday, will | serve to facilitate commerce and social | intercourse. At the same time, another | line from New York, conneeting with points west and south, will open to | Montreal, Canada. These, moves. are but early steps to- ward a 'general system that shortly will | tie up into closer union all of the prin- cipal countries of -the Americas— | North, Central and South, according to a statement today of the American Air Transport Association. This organiza- tion represents the commercial air lines | of the United States. | Shortly, according to this announce- | ment, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil | and. other' South American republics will be on the airways connecting with the United States. Already a contract has been awarded for mail by air from | Key West, Fla., to the Panama Canal | Zone, with stops in Mexico, Honduras, | Niearagua, Costa Rico and Cristobal. { “Establishment of the service to Mexico on Monday,” says the air trans- | port association, “will provide direct air mail between Mexico City, Quere- | taro, San Luis Potosi, Saltillo and Mon- | terey, in Mexico, and New York, Bos- ton, Chicago and other cities on the in the United | 25,000-mile network | States. | First ‘Day Courtesies. “As a courtesy extended by both countries, arrangements have been made | for each nation to fly the other's mail on the first day. The American mail will leave Neuvo Laredo for Mexico City on Monday morning with Tom Hardin, chief pilot of the Texas Air Transport, flying the ship. On Tuesday the plane and pilot of the Mexican service will fly frem Laredo to San Antonio, where Associatioo, now serving as vice presi- dent of the federation, and Waher I Swanton, delegate from the Columbia Heights Citizens' Association, former n_\fmbvr of the Citizens' Advisory Coun- cil. Havenner’s name, in fact, has been hovering before the delegates ever since last Fall, when he announced, updn his election as vice president, that-he wculd seek the federation's highest office thi year. ’ . Potential Opponents. Charles 1. Stengle of the Petwortn Citizens’ Association and Edgar B. Henderson of the Piney Branch Citi- sip in federation circles, the two poten- tial opponents of Havenner and Swan- ton. Stengle is a former member of Congress from New York and is Presi- dent Yaden'’s co-delegate to the federa- tion. Henderson has been active in the affairs of the federation for years. There also had been rumors: that Edwin S. Hege and William A. Roberts might* appear as last-minute candi- dates, but these were dag:wly ehecked last week with announ ent by each of them that he had no intention of running. The race, therefore, is like- ly to be a four-cornered affair, with Havenner and Swanton heading the two factions in the federatian. Both Havenner and Swanton already have pledges of some support, and the latter's friends are looking to Kenneth P. Armstrong of the Rhode Island Ave- nue Citizens’ Association to lead his campaign fight. Statement Issued. Armstrong, who now is serving as a member ,of the Citizens' Advisory Council, yesterday made known in no uncertain terms-that he will support Swanton. The following = statement bearing his name was issued: “I note with a great deal of interest that Walter 1. Swanton of the Colum- bia Heights Citizens’ Association and delegate to the federation from the ‘Washington Chapter of Engineers is an- nounced as a candidate for .~ pre: dency of the Federation of Citiz_as’ As: sociations. “T have known Mr. Swanton for many years, and have worked with him on committees of both the federation and the engineering society. I know him | to be an industrous and indefatigable worker in the public interest, and a man whose training and experience have given him a solid background for such activities. “The fact that his name has been put formard by some of the more radi- cal of the so-called ‘anti-merger crowd" does not, in my opinion, detract from his desirability as a candidate. I do not consider that the question of merger is, or should be, made an issue in the election of a president of the federa- tion. I am in accord with Mr. Yaden on the merger issue, but I know that whatever stand Mr. Swanton takes upon any matter is arrived at from honest conviction, and not from political ex- pediency. He does not try to e water on both shoulders for the pur- pose of securing votes. “I will therefore be very glad to give Mr. Swanton my hearty support in the coming election.” Mr. Swanton's candidacy was an- nounced last week by Roberts, who, with William McK. Clayton, vigorously op- posed the federation's action on the street car merger pact, and it is be- lieved by some of the delegates that Swanton will have thie support of the “anti-merger crowd” as well as liberal elements in the federation. Locks to Eastern Section. Havenner is counting on support chiefly from delegates from the associa~ tions in the eastern section of the city, a group which he represented while serving as a member of the Advisory | | connection is made with the air mail network of this country.” This step is seen by post office offi- cials as another means of cementias | they, frlendly. relations between this | countty and Mexico and later with | other countries to the South. They say that these international planes give meaning to the inscription found | on the post office at Washington, “Car- | riers of news and knowledge, instru- ments of trade and imdustries, pro- moter of mutual acquaintance of peo- p‘le and good will among men and na- tions.™ Saves Three Days. ' _ Under the schedule of air mail serv- ice to Mexico there will be spproxi- mately a three-day saving in time from points in the East and Far West to Mexico City. A letter leaving New York Monday noon will be delivere¢ in Mexico City on Wednesday after- noon. The air mail rate will be 20 cents an ounce or fraction of an ounce on all matter going by air mail from this country and from Mexico it wi'l be 75 centavos for each 20 grams or fraction thereof. Th> new service to Cenada is also tegarded auspiciously. Planes will leave New York. touching at Albany and reaching Montreal in 4 hours and 15 minutes. At the same time this service opems, .the Canadian govern- ment will inaugurate air mail serviec between Montreal and Toronto. Commencing Monday, it will be pos- sible to send mall by air from Montreal across the United States, down to Mexi- co City. It is but a step, which already is being prepared. to carry on this service through Central America to South America. Then an American transportation svstem by ‘air will have the nations of the Western Hemisphere much:nearer one another . (Copyright. 1928.) Consists in the vitality born in you. possible into your home. . Think kindly. Your mind acts In that kilt while visiting Scotland are Council. Swanton, however, is expected w get the support of a large number of delegates from the northwest asso- ciations, which nominally are the strongest element in the federation. Despite efforts to keep the merger out of the election campaign, it is like- 1y to be the dominant issue. This sub- Ject alone has caused - more factional strife in the federation during the last year than any other controversial pub- lic question. ‘The opponents of Havenner also are endeavoring to make his connection with the Federal Bureau of Efficiency an important issue. This opposition group is spreading propaganda to the effect that his ascendency to the pres- idency of the federation might em- batrass him as well as the organization. In other words, one of Havenner’s lead- ing opponents said that the most im- portant question the federation will be called upon to decide in the coming election is whether it wants as its pres- ident a man who holds an important position in “a super-District govern- ment"—the Bureau of Efficiency. FOWLER IS URGED FOR POLICE JUDGE Anacostia Citizens Recommend Him to Succeed George H. MacDonald. Walter L. Fowler, assistant corpora- tion counsel, received the unanimous indorsement of the Anacostia Citizen's Associations last night to succeed to the vacancy caused by the death of Police Court Judge George H. Mac- Donald. The secretary, at a meeting in the Masonic Temple, Fourteenth and U streets southeast, was instructed to write a letter to the President urging Mr. Fowler's appointment. Other resolutions adopted urged the erection of a stop sign at Thirteenth and S streets southeast and the elim- ination of parking on the north side of M street southeast from Eleventh to Second street. Answering a letter from the Board of Trade requesting the support of the association for the proposed Roosevelt Memorial Stadium, the secretary was instructed to promise the support of the association and to urge that the memorial be in the form of a stadium to be located in Anacostia Park. The association also voted to ap- point a committee to confer with repre- sentatives of the South Washington Citizens’ Association on the proper steps to be ‘taken to oust the House of Detention from its new location at 908 B street southwest. Kilted Americans Common. Americans who insist on wearing the 3022 11th " Steget N.W. common Scotch pay little attention to it. the past some of the costufnes of the visitors have been so loud tha Caledonians shuddered, becom: sight that the In ing such a