Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1928, Page 2

1928. : THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, OCTOBER 29. NOTED HORSEMAN HOOVER PREPARING GH.Q EVACUATION ROBBED OF §12.000 F. H. Smith Seized and Beat- en-by Masked Bandits Hour Speeches to Be Deliv- Near Laurel, Md. ered En Route West. Herbert Hoover today entered upon the last week in his campaign head- quarters on Massachusetts avenue, de- voting himself to the task of clearing | | his desk preparatory to final evacua- i tion of his “G. H. Q" next Thursday. Coolidge Receives Eckener Message, Radioed From Sea President Coolidge this morning recelved a radio message from Comdr. Eckener expressing his appreciation of the reception ac- col him and his crew in America. The message read: “The President, Washington, C. INEW AIR MAIL LINE . FROMD. . URGED | lieved to Be Justified. “On leaving your great country we beg permission to express our feelings of sincere gratitude for | the gracious reception which has been accorded to us by yourself and by the American people. | Washington may be given direct air mail connection with the West if the | Post Office Department approves re- | quests which it has received for estab- |lishment of a Piftsburgh-Baltimore- Washington air mail line The requests have been turned over to the contract air mail division, but Dazed from blows on his head, F. H.| Smith, 67-year-old race horse owner ! and trainer of Covington, Ky., stag-| gered into Laurel, Md., at dawn yester- | day to tell friends he had been beaten | and robbed of $12,000 by two masked | (Signed). “ECKENER.” highwaymen, who wavlaid him while he | was on his way to his stables near the Laurel race track. | The Laurel police, investigating the case, said the highwaymen left no trail behind them as they dashed off in their | automobile, from which they are said | to have thrown their victim at a lonely spot on the road between Laurel and Bowie, after having beaten him over | the head with a blunt instrument. Baltimore police are joining in the search, but as the Laurel station was | not notified of the robbery until late in the afternoon. no trace of the ban- dits was reported. - { The men who robbed Smith evidently were familiar with his regular habits during the running at the Laurel meet of leaving the home of E. M. Fisher, on the Washington Boulevard, with whom he rooms, ebout 6 o'clock in the | morning to go to the Dayton stables, | where he keeps his string of horses. | The meet closed Saturday, and Mr., Fisher and Smith left about the same | hour yesterday morning to arrange for the shipping of his horses to an- other track. Bandit Displays Pistol. | As he approached Montgomery street | near the railroad tracks on the out- exirts of Laurel two masked men came aoreast of him. One covered him with @ o and the other man jumped be- | hind Smith, hitting him over the head several times wih a blunt instrument. Smith later told friends the men seemed to “spring up from nowhere.” He saw no one until the highwaymen Jjumped from their hiding place, one of | them commanding him to “keep still.” | Before he had a chance to raise his ‘hands he was struck over the head. . Collapsing under the blows, Smith ‘was caught in the arms of the assailant behind him and thrust into a_nearby machine. The bandits carried him off in the direction of Bowie and ransacked his clothing. When they found his wal- let containing $12.000 they tossed him off on the side of the road. Smith lay on the road in a dazed con- dition until he was able to make his way toward Laurel, where he told friends of the attack. He was taken to the office of Dr. N. B. Steward in Laurel, who treated him for cuts on his head. His condition, however, is not serious. . Laurel Police Informed. Friends evidently thought the police been informed about the assault robbery, ‘but the Laurel station had no intimation of it until late in the mm oon, when friends of Smith sent a report. Bmith is in the habit of carrying large sums of money with him at all times, it was said, and Saturday, while of bills from his pocket to lend some money to a friend. Police believe the robbers saw him with the “roll” and ted until a favorable chance, know- ‘habit of leaving his house early morning. explained his failure to notify by saying he thought it use- | could give no information in identification. The EE 2 uding Persian, Sun Flower and Fair Rowena, ‘which are stabled at the Dayton Farm. He is said also to have two horses at the Kentucky tracks. GROUP OF CHEMISTS | IN SESSION IN CITY Annual Convention of Agriculture ! Body Meets to Discuss Problems Disclosed in Researches. “The annual convention of the Associa- tion of Official Agricultural Chemists opened today at the Raleigh with reports of .commissions have been en- i Department of Agriculture labora- and at State experiment stations. problems are for the most part coneerned with methods of analysis of ties in foods and fertilizers. Re- were presented at.the morning | by C. H. Badger, 1. D. Clarke, | J. 3. T. Graham, C. M. Smith, Edgar T 1Ty, W. F. Sterling, R. T. Balch, J. F. Brewster and R. F. Jackson of ‘Washington; G. A. Shuey and W. Melntyre of Knoxville, Tenn.; P. S. Burgess of Tucson, Ariz.; J. S. Me-: Hargue of Lexington, Ky.; H. F. Gensler of Harrisburg, Pa.; H. A. Halvorson of | St. Paul, Minn.; H. A. Schuette of Mad- ison, Wis.; G. E. Gratton and H. M. | Lancaster of Ottawa, Canada, and F. W. Zerban of New York. Dr. Oswald Schreiner of the Depart- ment of Agriculture is president of the n. Tomorrow afternoon there | an address by Secretary of Agri- ?—Mm ture Jardine. KEITH’S EMPLOYES TO LOSE POSITIONS Manager McDonald Refuses to| State Whether Theater Will Be Closed When Jobs End. Employes of Keith's Theater have been notified that thelr services will not be required after November 10. A notice to this effect was posted in the theater Saturday by Charles B. Me- Donald, manager. Mr. McDonald today refused to state whether this notice portends closing of the theater on that date, stating that any plans of the B. F. Keith circuit with regard to its Washington theater ‘will be announced in a statement later, probably next week. i The theater closed last May for the! first time in 15 years while a new organ and improved projection booth were installed. The house was reopened as a combination vaudeville and motion picture theater, and then again was closed for the Summer. | _Recently Roland Robbins, manager since the theater opened in Washing- ton, - resigned, and was succeeded by Mr. McDonald, former supervising manager of the Keith circuit. AIR MAIL IS IMPROVING. U. 8.-Mexico City Service Making Quick Delivery. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., October 29 (#)—Steady improvement has been shown in the air mail service between Mexico City and the United States since its rration October 1. A Jetter to the Associated Press mailed in the Mexican capital at 8 am. October 26 was turned over to the United States post office at Laredo at 11 p.m. the same day, and delivered at the San Antonio office at 6:30 a.m. Sat- ‘urday, less than 24 hours from the time dling receipts. H. | farmer, in July, 1927, appeared before [ his appearance. at the November term | The safe in the Earle Theater whi manager and assistant manager to open and hand over $1,000. Wayne Birdsell, assistant manager, pointing to the safe. | ich a bandit this morning forced the | Photo shows —Star Staff Photo. | LONE BANDIT GETS { $4,000 IN DAYLIGHT HOLD-UP OF THEATER (Continu~d From First Page) immediately notified police,” Payette declared. Payette said that the hold-up loss i covered by insurance. He explained that since the hold-up of the Ambassador Theater, Eighteenth street. and Columbia road. about a vear and a half ago, extra precautions have been taken by treater munagers of the local - Stanley-Crandall chain in han- | | He said that a special officer was kept guarding all employes when they are moving or counting receipts. The hold-up and arrival of police; went on while the theater box office was opened and the show was started. Early movie-goers entered the theater and took their seats without knowing the place had been robbed. Lohmeyer Tells of Hold-up. Lohmeyer returned from the hos- pital after receiving first-aid treatment and went back to his desk at the theater. He said the hold-up man walked into his office this morning and gave him 2 pleasant “Good morning” greeting. “When I asked him what he wanted, his countenance lost its smile, and he sna) out ‘Open that safe and keep quiet” I thought he was fooling and esked him again. Then, with his hand in his coat pocket, he nudged me with his _pistol. “I started to comply, but my hand was shaking and I couldn't work the combination. Then Birdsell came in 2nd I told him we were being held up. He lined Birdsell up against the wall and told me to go on working on the safe. When I couldn't get it open fast enough for him he made me stop and gll‘gerzd Birdsell to open it. Birdsell ROBERTSON BAILED ON ASSAULT CHARGE Contractor; Freed of Mills Murder, to Be Tried in November for Alleged Attack on Trout. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., October 29.— Samuel T. Robertson, Bethesda contrac~ tor asquitted Saturday at Frederick of the murder of Edward L. Mills, a dairy | the clerk of the Circuit Court here this morning and provided $1,000 bond for of court to answer a charge of assault with intent to murder Wilson Trout. According to the charge by Trout Robertson called at his home near Glenn, Montgomery County, one Sunday last April and attempted to shoot him. In a struggle over possession of the revolver Trout was beaten over the head. The November term of court begins November 12. WESTINGHOUSE DENIED RADIO FEED-BACK TITLE By the Associated Press. The Westinghouse Electric & Man- ufacturing Co. today was denied title to the “regenerative” or “feed-back” circuit, a basic feature in radio amplifi- cation, used in many receiving sets. ‘The Supreme Court announced with- out opinion that the decision of the ]o‘wedr court was affirmed on authority cited. The Westinghouse claim was based on patents granted Edward H. Arm- strong, and won in the Federal courts in New York City. The company lost, however, in the Federal courts at Phila-~ delphia, in Delaware and in the Dis- trict of Columbfa. The DeForest Radio Telephone & Telegraph Co. claimed the circuit under patents granted Lee DeForest; the United States under patents to Alex- ander Meissner, and the General Elec- m'ic1 Co., under patents to Irving Lang- muir. PHYSICANS TEST | THROATS OF PUPLS Cultures of 300 Being Taken in Preventive Work After Diphtheria Cases. Two physicians from the District Health Department are busy at the Kingsman and Webb Schools today tak- ing cultures from the throats of about 300 puplls to determins if they are diphtheria carriers. These tests will complete examinations of all pupils en- rolled at the Blair, Hayes, Kingsman and Webb Schools, all in the northeast section of the city, where the Health Department is working to prevent the possibility of a diphtheria epidemie. Dr. J. A. Murphy, head of the school‘ health inspection service, and Dr. J. G.| Cumming, in charge of contagious dis- case work for the Health Department, | assistant superintendent in charge of are the physicians making the tests. The cultures will be allowed to incu- bate overnight and then be examined in the bacteriological laboratory to- morrow. All cases reported as positive will be quarantined. Carriers Are Found. Already the examinations have de- tected 71 carriers, not themselves suf- fering from the disease. Sixteen clinical cases of the disease, resulting in four deaths, have been reported. ‘The Health Department physicians are also distributing to all pupils at the four schools cards inquiring if the chil- dren's parents will allow a Schick blood test to be made and immuniza- tion treatment to be gziven should the test be positive. All children whose par- ents consent will be given the test and, if necessary, the treatment. The latter consists of a series of three injections of toxin anti-tozin, space one week apart. Health Officer William C. Fowler said today that he had given orders to Dr. Murphy that no child absent from school when the throat tests were made last Tuesday or today shall be re- admitted until the throai test has been made. Allowing one of these children to get back into the school system would undo all the work already done, Fowler said. PAY OF GUARDSMEN LIMITED BY RULING McCarl Says Rifle Matches Out of Town Cennot Be Permitted. With Salary. Controller General McCarl today ruled that permanent civilian em- ployes of the Government may not be allowed pay for military leave while participating in target practice matches held outside of the District of Co- lumbia. The decision affects National Guards- men working for the Government and was rendered to the Secretary of the Navy. McCarl held that a provision in the 1929 appropriation act for the Dis- trict of Columbia carrying expenses of $2,500 for such matches “merely makes the money appropriated under the item quoted available for target practice,” and, he added, “does not purport to amend and does not amend the acts under the authority of which military leave is granted to employes of the United States and the District of Co- lumbia who are members of the Dis- trict of Columbia National Guard.” Fifteen days' regular military leave is granted Guardsmen to attend camp during the year, but under the con- troller's latest interpretation these 15 days cannot be used for the target practice matches outside of the District. o A A tablet marks the site of Jeremy Addams Tavern in Hartford, Conn., in which a Colonfal Court sat for 50 years. | i it was mailed. e The California Pish and Game Com- sission is urging legal protection for the horned owl, only one of 21 species found in the State not so protected. - tunities, Grasping Opportunities An opportunity is of no value unless you grasp it. Opportunities are being offered daily in the Classified Section of The Star —opportunities to buy, to sell, to rent; to secure positions, to secure help, If you do not read Star Classified Adver- tisements you are failing to grasp oppor- ‘SCHOOL ESTIMATES | fore the Bureau of the Budget, prob- estimates for the school appropriations | | Congress to be led to believe that sup- WILL BE DEFENDED Officials of System to Go Be- fore Budget Bureau To- morrow Probably. District of Columbia public school authorities were making their final| plans today for their appearance be- | ably tomorrow, when they will defend for the year 1930. | Particular interest centers about the | Budget Bureau's session with the school | officials this year because of the atti-| tude of the Board of Education which | led it recently to return its original estimates unchanged to the District Commissioners and the subsequent com- pilation of a supplemental estimate by Maj. Daniel Donovan, District auditor. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, declared that so far as he knew no special program which would | make their conduct in any sense “unusual” is contemplated by the school officlals in connection with their ap- pearance before the Budget Bureau. Will Defend Estimates. Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president of the Board of Education, said today that the school authorities plan simply “to defend our estimates and all our esti- mates as submitted.” Asked whether th2 recent controversy between the Commissioners and School Board would have any bearing on the hearings, Dr. Carusi said he did not think it would. “We simply did not want the Bureau of the Budget or the committees of plemental estimates submitted were our estimates, and so far as that goes our purpose in the controversy has been fully accomplished now. Because of the publicity given the affair, the Bureau of the Budget knows whose estimates Nave been made and the people of the District know about them,” Dr. Carusi said. Others to Attend. Besides Dr. Ballou and Dr. Carusi, the school system will be represented at the Budget Bureau hearings by Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant su- perintendent in charge of white schools; Robert L. Haycock, assistant superin- tendent in charge. of elementary in- struction; Garnet C. Wilkinson, first the colored schools, and Maj. R. O. Wilmarth, assistant superintendent in charge of business affairs. Members of the school board's finance committee also will be in attendance, as well as all other board members who wish to attend the hearings, which will be closed. GOVERNMENT UPHELD ON WAR-TIME DEAL Supreme Court Decides Interest Need Not Be Paid on Money ‘Wrongfully Held Up. The Government is not bound to pay interest on money wrongfuily withheld by it under a cost plus contract, though the amounts withheld represent invest- ed capital, and, under the contract, the Government obligated iiself to pay interest on moneys invested by the con- tractor in performing the contract. ‘This was the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Remington Arms- Union Metallic Cartridge Co., Inc., against the United States, aftirming the decision of the Court of Claims. In 1917 the Govrenment entered into a cost-plus-10-per-cent-profit contract with the Remington Co. for the manu- facture of ball cartridges. At the time of the contract the company had a con- tract with the American Brass Co. The Government contended that it was en- titled to the benefits of this contract and that in computing its costs the Remington Co. could not charge the United States for this material more than it was obliged to pay the brass company. Upon this contention the Government withheld $400,000 owing to the Remington Co. and recaptured some $247,000 as alleged overpayment. The Court of Claims held the Govern- ment was not entitled to the benefits of the contract and awarded judgment to the Remington Co., but allowed no interest on the amounts. DS BY FOR OVERSEAS FLIGHT Levine's Plane to Bo; Off Tomor- row or Wednesday for Rome or Russia. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 29 —The trans- atlantic monoplane Columbia, in condi- tion again for another European ven- ture, was poised today for an overseas hop with Rome or Russia as its ob- Jective. Roger Q. Williams and Peter Bonelli, who cracked up in the famous ship when they attempted to take off for Rome two weeks ago, will be in the cabin on her new attempt. Willlams said he would start tomorrow or Wed- nesday, weather permitting. Charles A. Levine, the Columbia owner, is not expected to make the flight. Youth, 17, Stowaway, Found On Zeppelin Soon After Leaving By the Associated Press. BERLIN, October 29.—The rep- The immediate work before him was | the drafting of several eleventh-hour speeches, to be delivered as he journeys | across the country to his voting pre- | cinct at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. | An overnight change in his speaking olans resulted In the addition of another | informal address to the schedule map- | ped out for him and a consequent switching so as to take him to Pueblo, | Colo., the place selected for the speech. | It was announced this morning that | the Republican nominee will leave his special train at Peublo on the evening of November 3 and make an address to the Coloradoans in the town square. The stop at Pueblo will be of only 30 minutes’ duration. Seen as Work Compliment. # Pueblo is the home of Chairman | Work of the Republican national com- | mitte and the visit there is regarded; in the light of a compliment to him" and his fellow citizens. Hoover is said to entertain no fears about the political outlook in the mountain section. ‘The nominee will make similar short | talks in Cumberland, Md. Louisville, Ky.. and probably two or three other places along the route. The principal address of the trip will be the formal | farm relief speech at the Coliseum at | St. Louis on the evening of November | 2. Just before entering St. Louis the Hoover train will make a five-minute stop at Salem, IIl. home of the late William Jennings Bryan. In the midst of his letter answer- ing and speech writing this morning, Hoover received the biggest post card ever to go through the mails as first class matter. It was 8 feet long, 4| feet wide and weighed 50 pounds. | Receives Largest Post Card. The “card,” a single panel cut from a fir tree, bore the greetings of the Hoover-Curtis Volunteer Club of the University of Washington at Seattle. More than 2,000 names were signed to the card, which was insured for $10,000. The address side was printed in regula- tion form, but with Hoover's picture in the stamp space. Albert S. Balch, | president of the club, headed the list of signers. Mrs. Hoover paid a personal visit to the headquarters of the Republican na- tional committee in the Barr Building today to pay her respects to the rank and file of workers who have given of their time and energy faithfully in the cause of her husband. She shook hands with woman officials and em- ployes. The Barr Building offices will close November 3. | Explains Visit. “It is not a formal visit,” she said to the members of the hostess commit- tee who happened to be on hand to greet her. “I happened to see a friend who urged me to come up and I was so glad of the opportunity because I wanted to thank you all and I had never been to the offices before.” Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, national vice chairman, has returned to Kentucky for the election, but Mrs. Hoover was welcomed by Mrs. Sydney A. Cloman, chairman of the hostess committee, and several cabinet wives who have served at headquarters during the campaign. A small reception developed for the candidate’s wife as Mrs. Davis, wife of the Secretary of Labor; Mrs. Mac- Cracken, wife of the Assistant Secre- tary of Commerce for Aviation, and Mrs. Bartlett, wife of the Assistant Postmaster Geenral, were joined by Mrs. Jene Henry Large, Mrs. Hoover’s sister from Palo Alto; Mrs. Wilbur, wife of the Secre- tary of the Navy, and Mrs. Speel, Re- publican national committeewoman for the District of Columbia. Chairman Work, with Ambassadors Schurman and Herrick, home from their respective posts in Berlin and Paris, also joined the informal reception, both Ambassa- dors complimenting Mrs. Hoover on her husband’s experience in international affairs. Followed by the group, Mrs. Hoover visited every office of both the men's and women's divisions at headquarters. She shook hands cordially with divi- sion heads and stenographic force and with the members of the.colored divi- sion on the ground floor. Accompanied by Chairman Work, she then visited the radio, moving picture and foreign language sections in a nearby office building. THREE NUNS LOSE LIVES IN BLAZE AT CONVENT By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ontario, October 29.— ‘Three nuns were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a convent at Gati- neau Point, Quebec, today. Another was injured. The dead are Sister Supe- rior Ste. Cyrille, 64, formerly Miss Ade- line Demers of St. Nicholas, Quebec: Sister Annette, 34, formerly Miss An- nette Gervals of Montebello, Quebec, and Sister Margaret Marie, 20, formerly Miss Juliet Muneault of Hull, Quebec. Sister Rose de la Croix, whose arm was broken, was taken to a hospital. An overheated furnace is belleved to have caused the fire. COURSE TAKEN BY GRAF ZEPPELIN AS SHE LEAVES U. S. { resentative of the Lokal Anzeiger, aboard the Graf Zeppelin today wirelessed his newspaper that a 17-year-old American youth was liscovered on the airliner as a stowaway at 6 o'clock this morn- ing. Rolf Brandt, the corerspond- ent, sent the news of the stowa- way in the following message: “Stowaway discovered at 6 o'clock this morning, a 17-year- old blond American boy employed in a lawyer's office. Passed Pol- lock lightship at 6:30 am. Very cold despite a beautiful sunrise.” Upper, left to right: C Pierce, one of the Navy's lighter-than-air craft, and Lieut. T. G. | W. Settle, pilot of one of ihe Navy's| bailoons. | Lower: Lieut. C. E. Bauch, command- ing officer of the Navy balloon team. —Assoclated Press Pho ZEPPELIN BIDS U. S. GOODBY AND HEADS | NORTH TO GERMANY | | | Dettman, Rolf Brandt, Walter | Theodore Matejko, Rudolph Hartmann, inned From First Page.) mained in doubt. Zero hour for the ground crew of sailors who have been in constant attendance on the great | ship since its arrival from Europe two weeks ago today was first set for 5 o'clock in the afternoon and then ad- vanced to midnight. But even then no one seemed really to believe that the ship would leave. Rush Passengers Aboard. But midnight came, and action fol- lowed with breathless swiftness. The passengers were bundled aboard, chat- ting feverishly and grinning with some- thing of desperation in their smiles. The ground crew, more than 300 sallors trained to such events by fre- quent handling of the Los Angeles, marched to their posts and grasped the air monster as unceremoniously as a mother pushes a baby carriage. The | great east doors of the hangar ground open on their track, and the night wafted into the hangar with its invita- tion of limitless space to be traversed by those who dare. An officer barked a terse command. The great ship stirred through its whole length of 778 feet, its 111 tons of weight seemed to heave and rise. ‘It was like a glant sighing at the thought of activity expected of him, activity that cannot be postponed. Goes Out With Ease. Out of the hangar the sailors walked the Graf Zeppelin as though it were a little blimp such as the two that have hudcdled under the tail of the Navy dirigible Los Angeles since the Graf Zeppelin came to crowd them into one corner of the hangar. At 1:30 the Gral Zeppelin was clear of the hangar, and so had passed one of the most perilous moments of any flight. ¥or one of the greatest dangers is the possibility of some errant gust of wind pushing the ship against the hangar walls and ripping its silver flanks against the steel bulkheads. Out ir the night the Zeppelin was a great black monster with a fin of silver down its back where the moon struck. It twisted toward the north and moved ponderously, under the sailors’ expert guidance, to a hollow far enough from the hangar so that there would be no danger of being blown against the tow- ering steel structure. And then: “Weigh ship,” an officer bellowed. Engines Roar in Night. | The ground crew released its many | handed hold. The Graf Zeppelin, a giant waking from a deep sleep, lifted | its head slowly as though sniffiing the | relish of the morning air, and then a | roar of five great engines split the| night. Propelled by those engines, tife Graf Zeppelin shot upward toward the moon, and circled majestically overhead. Once | in the air, all its sluggishness seemed to have vanished. From an ungainly brute such as burrowed in mud and wallowed across the wastes in time before man was known, it had sudden- | ly oecome a fairy thing, light and graceful and utterly scornful of the| human help which had been so need- ful to it on the ground. In a large circle it swung about the air station that had been its tem- porary home since its arrival from Ger- many and then headed eastward toward the ocean it must cross to return to its home station. It started into the air at 1:54 this morning and at 2 it was nothing more than a gray blot against the moon. And then it was nothing at all. The Graf Zeppelin, come to America from across the seas, had gone back whence it came. During the first hour of the flight Capt. Hugo Eckener, pilot of the Graf | Zeppelin, dispatched three messages of thanks for the reception given the dir- igible crew while in America, One was | addressed to the commanding officer here, one to the Secretary of the Navy | | and one to President Coolidge. Three United States Navy officers are | aboard the Zeppelin as guest observers on her homeward flight. They are | Comdr. M. R. Plerce, executive officer of the Lakehurst Naval Air ‘Station; | Lieut. G. W. Settle, engineer officer |of the Los Angeles, and Lieut. C. E. | | Bauch, watch officer of the Los Angeles | the South Atlantic States provides and flight officer of the station. In | addition to these, the passengers are: | Mrs. Clara Adams, Tannersville, Pa., | wife of George L. Adams, retired busi ness man; Donald M. Casto of Colum- | bus, Ohic; Joseph D. Jessel of New | York City, Col. Allen Miller, New York | and London financier: Paul M. Marko of Brooklyn and Richard J. Burke of | Big Bear Lake, Calif. | Also the following who were passen- | gers on the flight from Germany: Lady Drummond Hay Remains. Ernest Brandenburg, German minis- | ter of transportation; Dr. Benkendorf | of the German Aeronautical Institute, | Dr. Krueger, Aeronautical Testing In- stitute; Karl von Tyszka, Engineer | Bock, Engineer Schirlitz, Dr. Ludwig | Keffler, | | | a news reel cameraman, and L. Meter, | a German movie cameraman. Lady Grace Drummond Hay, who | made the trip from Germany. remained in the United States. So did Karl von ‘Wiegand, newspaper man. The big ship carries a crew of 40 offi- | cers and men. | One unexpected passenger was a 6- | week-old chow dog presented to Capt. von Schiller, one of the officers, a few | hours before the dirigible sailed. 1 Thirty-two bags of mail were loaded | aboard. The letters and post cards | had been collected in New York, the ! letters prepaid at the rate of $1.05 and the cards at 53 cents each. They were | brought to Lakehurst on the regular trains and transferred at the station. Although regular freight service is not to be inaugurated until the Zep-! pelin’s next American visit, four special consignments were accepted for this voyage at $5 a pound. Among the ship- ments were a bale of cotton, two port-| able typewriters, a case of engraved copper plates and a case of silk cloth. Their total weight was 341 pounds. ‘The Zeppelin weighed off just 14 days after her arrival. It was on October 15 that she sailed out of the South and cruised along the seaboard, making her bow to New York before turning about and landing at this airport. Dr. Eckener said soon after he ar- rived that he planned to remain in America not more than 14 days because he feared that a longer stay would re- sult in bad weather for a landing on the other side at the end of his return flight. He expected the return would take 50 hours. The ship left on a north Atlantic course via New York and Long Island. The trip from Germany took 11117 hours because storms forced the ship to a circuitous southern course. NEW YORK SEES AIRSHIP. Sirens Give Farewell to Zeppelin in Early Hours Today. NEW YORK, October 29 (#).—The | Graf Zeppelin swung over Lower Man- hattan at 3:15 a.m. today, the drone of her engines distinctly audible as she | sailed over the Statue of Liberty at an | altitude of a few hundred feet. Nosing inland she tilted upward as | though to rise high enough to clear the Woolworth Tower, then headed | eastward over Long Island. Harbor craft cut loose with sirens |and whistles as the dark bulk soared above them, her riding lights and cabin | lights plainly visible. A powerful searchlight atop a Brook- | lyn hotel picked out the dirigible and followed her course toward the east. A short time after she disappeared | in the dark observers at the Long ! Island flying flelds sighted the airship | heading east, nosing upward and seiling | into a moderately stiff head wind. | 1S CONFIDENT. { . | Expects Return Trip to Be Easier Than | Western Voyage. | BERLIN, October 20 (#)—The start | of the Graf Zeppelin on her return | flight from the United States this| GERMANY | no action will be taken until after the | figures on Octbber air mail operations, | showing the growth of the air mail | business in this section of the country, | have been received and studied, it was stated today. Present Business Heavy. That the opening of the proposed line may be justified. however, is shown in the experience of the contract air mail route through this city from New York to Atlanta, which has led the Nation in the amount of new air mail business. Prior to the opening of this route, the officials of the line say, they made a careful study of the air mail poten- tialitles in this section of the country | which convinced them that the rapid acceleration of the industrial growth of a fertile field for the operators of a serv- ice to supply air communication to tr Northeast and Middle West. The N. York route serves the Northeast Si and the proposed Pittsburgh route regarded as necessary to tie in with the Western air mail routes directly. Volume Surprises Officials. The growth of air mail business or the New York-Washington-Atlanta line has exceeded all expectations of the officials. This line was responsible for 28 per cent of the entire national air mail increase for the month of Sep! ber, and the October total is expec to far exceed any past figures. The daily average for one week this month shows more than 850 pounds of air mail carried in the Pitcairn Mail- wing planes. the daily load eomprising more than 38,000 letters. Should this daily average continue for the entire month the New York-Washington-At- lanta line will stand fifth among all the routes of the country, being exceeded only by Chicago-Dallas, Salt Lake-Los Angeles, New York-Chicago and Ch cago-San Francisco lines. \BOMB DAMAGES n LR HOME OF EDITO Ohio Family, Sleeping, Unhurt. Mystery Shrouds Motive for Attack. ] the Assoclated Press. MANSFIELD, Ohio, October 29.— p home of R. C. Hoyles, Mansfleld pub- lisher, was bombed early today. The front porch was torn away, the front windows blown out and the interior of the house badly damaged, but no on~ was injured. Besides the Mansfield News, Hoyles i« publisher of the Lorain Times-Herald and the Defiance Telegraph. Mr. Hoyles, his wife, their. two sma'l children and a maid servant were sleep - ing when the explosion occurred, but escaped harm. No motive was advanced for the at tack. Police began an immediate- iii- vestigation. Although police said the bomb evi- dently was a small one, it ruined th front of the beautiful Hoyles home. It had been placed in the doorway and made a hole almost 5 feet deep. Furni- ture in the front rooms of the house was smashed. Hoyles and his family escaped injury because they were in the rear of thc house. The publisher said he believed the bomb had not been planted with inte; to injure him, but rather in an e to frighten him. He assigned na re: son for the affair. The only clue poli had was a report of a neighbor tix she saw an automibile driving awa from the Hoyles home about the (ir of the blast. EDUCATIONAL FILM MERGER CONSIDERE? Representatives of 10 Firms Stud- Plan Calling for $1,000,000 Capitalization. A proposal for the merger of 10 firu preducing and showing industrial and educational motion pictures is being considered by representatives of thes morning came as & surprise to the Ger- man public. who had been led to as- | sume: that Dr. Hugo Eckener, the com- | mander, had decided to postpone the | voyege until Tuesday. | The government broadcasting station | was the first to announce the departure | from Lakehurst. It was generally as sumed that favorable weather reports | had induced Dr. Eckener to take off at once. | Confidence prevailed everywhere to- day that the airship would negotiate the return trip in a markedly easier manner than the western voyage. | By THE WIDGEON 745 AM. 75 Miles NE. ! A CuATHAM 6:35 A M. firms. meeting today in the Mayflower Hotel. If the merger plan is pu through, it was announced, the com- bination will be incorporated and cap italized at a figure “between $500,00° and $1,000,000.” No stock will be place on the open market. Representatives of firms located | Worcester, Mass.; Long Island City, N Y.: New . Philadelphia, Detroit Chicago, St. Paul and St. Louis werc present at the meeting this morning Word has been received from two other firms in New Orleans and in Dallas Tex., that they are also sending rep- resentatievs. The purpose of the merger, as an- nounced, is to bring together the scat- iered. firms engaged in this particular business to facilitate the production, distribution and field servicing of films to teach office and factory workers, train salesmen, help dealers and theis clerks; and demonstrate to the public It is also proposed to furnish films fe | use in schools and colleges. Rail Wage Report Made. James R. Garfleld, chairman of the emergency board appointed by Presi- dent Coolidge to investigate and re- port concerning the wage dispute in certain Western railroads, presented his report to the Chief Executive today He would not discuss its contents. Log of Graf Zeppelin By the Associated Press. iven is Eastern standard) 1:54 a.m —Left Lakehurst, N. J bound for Friederichshafen, Ger- many, 3:15 a.m.—Passes over New York City. 3:40 am~—Is sighted over Curtss Fileld, bucking a strong headwind. 5 a.m.—Sighted over Block Island, off Rhode Island coast. 5:30 am.—Passes over Coast Guard station on Cuttyhunk Is- land in Vineyard Sound. 6:05 a.m.—Passed over Chatam, Mass., headed out to sea. 7:15 a.m.—Reported 75 miles north- east of Chatam, Mass., by trawler Widgeon. 10:15 a.m.—Reported about 90 miles southwest of Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, by steamer Laconia.