Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1928, Page 2

THE E"EXfVG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928 CONNICK REQUESTS CURB ON SPEEDING Husband ‘of Wom.an Injured | by Fire Vehicle Asks for Regulation. Edward Connick, husband of Mrs, | Margaret Connick, who was serfously injured when her companion, Miss Ce- ceifa King, was killed October 23 by the | automobile of Battalion Chief Wolter, today appealed to the District Commis- sioners to take steps to prevent the vehicles of the Police and Fire Depart- ments from running through the streets of Washington at a “dangerous” speed. Connick’s plea was made through his attorney, Austin F. Canfield, and will be given consideration by the Commis- sioners in connection with the recom- mendations of the coroner’s jury, which in-estigated the accident, that a dras- tic curb be applied to the speed of fire apparatus and police and emergency vehicles. The Commissioners are now giving serious and careful thought to the report of the coroner’s jury, but they announced today that definite ac- | tion would not be taken until views of Traffic Director Harland, Police Supt. Hesse and Fire Chief Watson are ob- tained. Commissioner Dougherty, who has supervision over the Police and Fire Departments, several days ago asked these three officials for a report on the recommendations of the coroner’s jury. Canfield pointed out in his letter that the Connick family is not vindictive over the accident and the only con- solation they expect to get out of their misfortune is that action will be taken to assure the people of Washington that their lives will not be “snuffed out” without warning. The text of Canfield's letter to the Commissioners follows: “On behalf of Mr. Edward Connick of this city. I am addressing this let- ter to you as an intended constructive criticism of the District of Columbia Fire Department, based upon the fol- lowing facts: “On the 23d of October, while re- sponding to an alarm of fire in one of the Government departments, the auto- mobile used by Battalion Chief Wolter and driven by Pvt. Joeger, both of the District of Columbia Fire Department, Tan into and collided with Mrs. Mar- garet Cohnick and Miss Cecilia King, probably fatally injuring the former and causing the death of the latter. “At the hearing before the coroner the testimony showed that the said automobile was driven cn the left-hand side of a standing street car at a great rate of speed. The coroner's jury has, as you know, exonerated the driver of the car and everybody else concerned on the ground that it was ®a_unavoidable accident. “My client desires to assure you that neither he nor the other members of Mrs. Connick’s family are vindicative against the unfortunate driver of that car. They feel that since no civil lia- bility appears to follow from the trag- edy and that they never will be com- pensated in any wise, the only thing that can be gained, so far as they are concerned, is the fact that this might and should serve as a corrective meas- ure or a deterrent against a recurrence of a similar tragedy. They feel that some measure should be taken by the authorities of the District of Columbia to prohibit fire, police and emergency automobiles from _traveling _through the streets of the District of Columbia at such dangerous and reckless speed 50 as to endanger the lives of the in- nocent persons in and about the thor- oughfares of the city. This is particu- larly necessary during the periods of the day when so many of the Govern- ment workers are hurrying to and from their respective office buildings. “It is not their desire to limit the speed of the fire and police apparatus to a minimum rate, for they, like every other citizen of this city, believe that public safety depends in a large meas- ure upon how soon these mun cipal agencies reach their point of destin.tion in response to an alarm or an emer- gency call. But they do feel that too often, without any necessity therefor, fire and police apparatus and ambu- lances are caused and permitted to race breakneck through the streets of this city, thereby imperiling a number of lives and making possible such an acci- dent as has occurred. “They therefore call upon you with the hope of getting some consolation out of their great misfortune to use this as a means of avoiding a repetition and to take such steps as to assure the peo- gie of this city that their lives will not snuffed out without a moment's warning to them.” g COOLIDGE UNLIKELY T0 BREAK SILENCE ON POLITICAL RACE (Continued From First Page.) the office of Président permitted politi- cal activity. Moreover, that the Presi- dent feels that the accomplishments of the Republican party, particularly during his own administration, are so ‘well founded and so widely known, and that the prevailing prosperity speaks s0 loudly for itself, there is no reason to add anything in the way of a speech. Although Mr. Coolidge has done no talking in public, those with whom he has talked in a confidential manner regarding the campaign within the past few days have gone away feeling that the President is absolutely confident of a Republican victory. He is represented in this respect as not entertaining the | slightest doubt about the outcome. One of his recent callers was inclined to think that the President entertained no doubt even regarding his own State, Massachusetts, which is so generally being classed as either very doubtful or else conceded to Gov. Smith. COLLEGE HEADS CITED. Expelled Student Takes Fight for Reinstatement to Court. Suit for mandamus has been filed in the District Supreme Court by Clar- ence Smith of Cincinnati, Ohio, against Dr. Mordecai Johnson, president, and the members of the executive commit- tee of the board of trustees of Howard University, whom he seeks to compel to restore him to the rolls of member- ship in the freshman class at the Med- ical School: Smith tells the court, through Attor- neys Lambert & Yeatman, that Octo- ber 9 last e enrolled in the Medical School and was accepted as a qualified student. October 17 he was asked by the dean to withdraw from the school, which he refused, he says. Later, he declares, the executive committee or- dered his name stricken from the rolls. Such action, he asserts, was illegal be- cause done in the absence of a quorum of the board. VRO FRENCH STOP SHIPS. Italian Fishing Fleet Fired on by Torpedo Boat. LEGHORN, Italy, November 1 (#)— A fleet of Italian fishing vessels refused to halt at the command of a French torpedo boat off Corsica and the French ship fired a warning shot and later conducted ‘the vessels to the port of Bastia. It was thought today that this incident might result in diplomatic ex- changes. The reports of the skippers of the motor boats Flutto, Chiesa, Fratelli and Marea say they believed that they were in Italian territorial waters and head- ing for the Sardinian coast. Therefore when eordered to stand to they con- Woued on their course. Ilor their meager meal. PROBE T0 BE MADE OF LLEY STABLES Filthy Places Declared to Be Menace to Health and Fire Traps. ‘The District Health Department promised today to make an investiga- tion of the sanitary conditions of “back alley stables” as the result of a report given out by Mrs. M. R. Blumenberg, head of the Animal Rescue League, who stated that there are hundreds of these stables in the District which are fire traps and a menace to health, and that the animals kept in these places are subjected to distressing cruelty and in- humane treatment. “It is impossible to believe that such places exist in the very shadow of the Capitol dome,” Mrs. Blumenberg said, “and I cannot conceive how they have escaped the notice of the Health and Fire Departments.” The great majority of these stables are owned by colored men and used to stable horses sold in the market for two or three dollars, said Mrs. Blumen- berg, adding that the animals were in such poor condition that if sent to the Rescue League instead of being bar- tered or sold, they would be put out of their misery. Describes Typical Cases. In describing the conditions which exist in the alley stables, Mrs. Blumen- berg cited several cases which had been reported to her by league: investigators. “Following my informant to the stalls in the back of the ‘animal quarters,’ which were filled with every variety of canine waifdom to be found on the streets of a big city, I was shown a great iron-gray skeieton, which might have been brought in from the Smith- sonian department of old bones and fossils. A pathetic whinny of greeting came from the poor beast, which years ago must have been intended to be a horse. “This case was reported to me last Saturday. The humane agent had at- tended a sale at a horse market. Feel- ing confident that an animal which had been purchased by an old man was too far gone to be of any more service in the world, the humane agent followed the man to the ‘stable’ where the horse was to be kept. I myself inspected the stable,” Mrs. Blumberg continued, “and never have I seen such a place. It was situated in an alley between Third and Fourth and East Capitol and A streets northeast. It was a brick building which served as a home of some colored people upstairs, and below was a dark, damp room piled high with debris of every description. An old wagon filled with trash, paper and wood stood in one corner. Great piles of newspapers lay everywhere. Tells of Insanitary Conditions. “The ‘stall’ or dark corner in which the horse was kept reeked with at least eight inches of manure, which the colored man admitted had not been cleaned out for two weeks. To add to the insanitary state existing, the one hydrant (required by the law to be in every stable) was broken and water dripped forth in a steady stream, soak-~ ing into the mess in the horse's corner, already made unlivable for even a beast by the filth of a prolonged period of umleil t the “Not the slightest vestige of beddin could be seen and what the man w-: to feed the animal. is a mystery to me to this day, said Mrs. Blumberg “I told the man I wanted to buy the animal and that he should deliver him imme- diately to the headquarters of the Ani- mal Rescue League. He gladly sold the beast for $3 and here he stands,” con- tinued Mrs. Blumberg. “We shall keep him for a few days in the hope that kind-hearted citizens of the District will visit him and be eyte-witnesses of the distressing spectacle of this poor beast and that the sigtt of him will en- list their future interest in other such cases. He is only one of many to be fo!}nd in various sections of the city. “As I was returning from this stable, I saw two horses hitched to a trash wagon. The horses were in such a piti- able physical condition that I stopped to investigate them. As I did so, the driver came out of a feed store nearby. In one hand he carried a scrawny bunch of hay; in the other was a paper sack which later proved to hold a small quantity of mixed feed. The man placed the feed in a burlap bag and standing before the two horses, the hay in one hand, the feed in the other, he per- mitted these two poor beasts to fight RESCUED FROM LIFE OF MISERY | properties ‘They whinnied, = AR __ —Star_Staff Photo. GAS DEPRECIATION BEING CONSIDERED Utilities Commission Engi- neers and Companies Give Estimates. The question of depreciation of the of the Washington and | Georgtown Gas Light Companies came | up for consideration for the first time today in the public valuation hearing being held before the Public Utilities | Commission. The commission’s engineers are con- tending that the companies’ plants are depreciated to the extent of $2,800,000, while the company engineers claim that | the depreciation is but $800,000. The figure for depreciation must be subtracted from the total cost to repro- duce the plant new in determining the final valuation, and it is considered one | of the most important elements in the case. R. O. Luqueer, engineer for the com- panies, stated that his definition of de-| preciation was the cost of restoration of the plant to its condition new. In | determining what this cost would be, he | said, he inspected the whole plant and found that it had been well maintained by the expenditure of large sums of money annually in maintenance costs. | To inspect the street mains which carry gas to the consumers’ houses, Luqueer sald he made an opening for every 10 miles of main to examine the present condition of the pipe. There are 660 miles of main, requiring 66 separate | excavations, he said. the case of many elements, Luqueer testified that he had allowed nothing at all for depreciation. He gave as an example several pumps in which repairs were made and new parts substitute for old ones so constantly that the condition was as good as new. The same was true in the case of a relief holder for gas on which, Luqueer sald, he could find no way of spending money to make it any better. The day's first witness was Arthur Carr of the Washington Real Estate Board’s appraisal committee. He gave testl;nonly ?om::on;mg ¥ that -offered previously in the hearin; er members of the committee guxe ! ue | of the land owned by the com es, which was estimated at $3,111,000. biting at each other in their efforts to| get some food. The horses were So | plainly starved that it made one sick to see them.” “Mr. McDermot, the humane agent, was with me and he ordered the owner of the horses to lead us to the pluce[ where he kept the animals. We were led down through a back yard piled high with trash and debris, garbage and tin cans. The odor of this yard was indescribable, due to the garbage and other trash which stood around in un- covered carts. We passed through | these mounds of filth to a tumble-down pile of boards which served as a stable, We peered within the dark recesses of | this place and saw a sloping dirt floor, with an old bedspring standing in the center as a partition between the two horses. The place was filled with every sort of combustible debris and was an absolute firetrap. If a spark should catch in that place it would burn to the ground in a minute and no horse could ever escape. We told the man that a proper and decent stable should be found for his horses at once. He promised to do so and I think he has probably done so. “There are literally hundreds of these back alley stables in various parts of ‘Washington, and I think that their ex- istence is a menace to the health and safety of the community, and that steps should be taken by both the Health and Fire Departments to their speedy elimi- natfon. It is a strange thing that nevér in the days of horses, when there were from twenty to thirty thousand horses in the District, could there have been found ‘such conditions as are now re- ported constantly, when there are prob- ably less than 4,000 horses to be found in Washington. “Owners of many of these horses rent them out to others. They rent them for $2 a day to men who use them to. haul trash to the dumps and gather kindling from old boxes which have been thrown away. This means that the entire day long, these poor, starved, ill-treated horses are traveling through the streets. At least three trips a day must be made to the dump piles in order to make enough money to pay for the rent of the horse as well as to make some profit.” By the Assoclated Press. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, No- vember 1.--The American passengers aboard the Graf Zeppelin today paid eloquent tribute to the voyage of the airship and said they would not have missed it for anything. Hans Nolde of Reading, Pa.; Donald Casto of Columbus, Ohio; Paul Marko of Brooklyn and Joseph Jessel of New York said that they were so excited last night that they sat up and played cards. Champagne was served. One of the thrills of the journey, the men said, was flying over Dijon, France, the lights nf the city being visible despite the elevation at which the airship was then flying. “The view from the Zeppelin as we hovered above Friedrichshafen and Lake Constance was one of overwhelm- ing beauty,” Mr. Nolde said. He remarked that the voyage had possibly cured hom of smoking, for like the other passengers he had to abstain from it during the trip. “When on landing,” he continued, “I was handed a cigarette—an American AMERICAN PASSENGERS PRAISE RETURN JOURNEY OF ZEPPELIN Voyage Thrilling, They Say—One at Least Thinks He’s Cured of Smoking Cigarettes. cigarette at that—the first one did not taste at all. Even the second one failed to please me. Maybe it means that I am through with smoking.” Willlam Ullman of New York was asked why he left America without a passport. “I didn't know until 15 minutes be- fore the Zeppelin was to start that I was to go,” he replied. “I was merecly standing with friends, remarking, “Gee whiz, I'd love to go.' Then more in the way of a joke I said I'd pay $4,000 for a seat when I was taken up on it and found myself jumping aboard. Ullman must go to Berlin as soon as possible, where a temporary passport awaits him. Then he will take an air- plane for Paris and catch a steamer for the United States. The American paying passengers on emerging from the hangar found that | prejudicial to the good of the force, {the Limerick home, two bullets enter- | uncharted TRIAL BOARD HEARS AGCUSED OFFICERS Charges in Cases of Eight Policemen Presented—One Fails to Appear. Charges against eight policemen were heard before the Police Trial Board in session at the sixth precinct today. Paul E. Berger of the ninth precinct was arraigned- on charges of being under the influence of liquor, unwar- rantedly using his revolver and conduct growing out of a fight Berger is said to_have had with David Limerick. Following the fight Berger is alleged | to have fired his pistol twice outside ing the door of the house. Berger, a married man, also is alleged to have been seen in the company of a woman not his wife, who is named in the charges as Beulah Limerick Pyt. L. F. Lewis was arraigned on a charge of reckless driving growing out of an accident at Seventcenth and K streets northwest, on June 26, with the automobile of Mrs. Margarei Pen- dleton, 305 Stoneleigh Court. Mrs. Pen- dleton’ was_injured. Pvt. H. G. Freeman failed to appear | before the board to .answer charges of having been convicted before a com- petent court of a quasi criminal charge because he is now serving time in the Arlington County fail on a charge of driving while drunk. SUGAR CANE PLANE AT BOLLING FIELD' Flying Machine Here After 10,000- | Mile Expedition Through New Guinea. The airplane, which carried the sugar cane expedition sponsored by the United States Department of Agri- culture under the leadership of Dr. E. W. Brandes through unexplored and regions of New Guinea, covering over 10,000 miles in doing so, arrived at Bolling Tield yesterday afternoon. The plane was piloted by Richard K. Peck, who had previously been pilot for the Sterling expedition into New Guinea in 1925. Peck left Victoria, British Columbia, about a week ago and arrived yesterday on a short hop from Cleveland, Ohio. The expedition collected 180 varicties of sugar cane. These included about 20 varieties of wild cane and one new species provisionally named saccharum robustum, the tallest and most vigorous specics yet described. Dr. Brandes stated that in their jour- ney inland, at a distance of about 500 miles from their base, they encountered many primitive tribes of natives who never before had seen a white man. In summarizing the story of the ex- pedition, Dr. Brandes said: “This is, s0 far as we are aware, the first scientific collecting expedition which has utilized an airplane as the main vehicle of transport in inadequately charted re- glons and our experience has shown that it is thoroughly practicable al- though it requires good judgment in planning and good co-operation in lay- ing down bases and, above all, skillful piloting.” HESSE RECOMMENDS WITTNER'S DISCHARGE FROM BUREAU POSITION (Continued From First Page.) Traffic Bureau yésterday and was put- ting some spare time toward finishing one of his speeches when Maj. Hesse en- terd the room. The upshot was the major's recommendation for his dis- missal. Fails to See Hesse. Backed by John F. Costello, Demo- cratic national committeeman for the District of Columbia, Wittner said he would. demand that he be shown the charges against him, if any have been made. He sought to interview Maj. Hesse this morning, but failed. While political activity is not the official basis of action in his case, the activities of the District clerk during the past week undoubtedly, according to his contention, forced a showdown. Regardless of whatever course the District Commissioners may see it to take, Wittner will continue his radio talks in support of the Democratic nominee. ‘Tonight over Station WRC, under the auspices of the central Democratig com- mittee of the District of Columbia, he will talk on “Senator Smoot's Spoils System.” Under the same auspices last night he spoke oyer Station WRHF and tomorrow night over that station he will discuss ““Tolerance.” An avowed atheist, Wittner on more than one occasion in the past has taken similar drastic action to defend what he regards his “political rights” as a citi- zen. He recently was transferred from a Civil Service status in the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, to a clerkship under the Traffic Bureau. MELLON LEAVES SUNDAY. Will Go tu—;;;tsburgh to Vote for ‘ Hoover on Tuesday. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon will leave Washington probably Sunday night for his home in Pittsburgh to cast his ballot Tuesday for Herbert Hoover. Secretary Mellon, who cast his first vote for Hayes, declared that all citizens qualified should vote on election day. Lock of Hair Sent As lIdentification To Wills Register Enclosing a lock of her hair, which she describes as brown with a reddish cast, Mrs. M. J. LaMay in a letter post- marked at Redlands, Calif, has written Theodore Cogswell, register of Wills of the District “warning him of a blonde woman” who, she says will impersonate her in an effort to obtain a legacy due her, Cogswell regards the enclosure as a novel method of identi- fication. That the register may not be misled the writer proceeds with the following description of her self; “I am 5 feet 5 inches tall, small French features, rather dark blue small eyes, or they might be called medium sized and like the French besides my eyes which look the Scotch-Irish side of the house.” She says the blonde woman has found out where her property is located and if she has not already done so will “claim to be me and will fool you if she can.” The register is informed that her ad- no facilities had been provided to bring them to a hotel. Their baggage was merely dumped on the ground and they were compelled to wait while American correspondents hurried to the hotel and had & taxiceb sent to them. dress will later be forwarded when she has located where an answer may reach b~ No designation of the name of the edad person from whom the < writer exj#ets to get her legacy is con- tained in the letter, CORRUPT CONDUCT LAID T0 ASA KEYES Grand Jury, Indicting Los An- geles District Attorney, De- mands His Removal. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, November 1—An indictment against Asa Keyes, district | attorney of Los Angeles County, charg- ing “willful and corrupt misconduct in | office” was returned here last night by the county grand jury, which also filed an “accusation” in Superior Court de- manding his removal from office. | The indictment charged that Keyes, | who gained widespread publicity in the | investigation of the Aimee Semple Mc- Pherson disappearance case and in the | b conviction of William Edward Hickman, who was recently executed, had accept- ed money from several persons in ex- change for dismissal of indictments | against them, or, failing in that, acquit- tal at the hands of juries. One of the counts alleged that K took $10,000 from Jacob Berman, alias Jack Bennett, in consummating an al- leged agreement by which Berman escaped conviction on charges growing out of the failure here last Fall of the Julian Petroleum Corporation for several million dollars. Secret indictments agalnst an un- disclosed number of other persons also were returned. Among the charges In the allegation seeking Keyes' removal from office was one that he unlawfully possessed and transported 12 quarts of whisky in his automobile. Among the other charges were that Keyes accepted a $630 plati- num wrist watch from E. H. Rosenberg before Rosenberg and nine other per- sons were acquitted in the State courts, and that the district attorney accepted an unknown sum from A. I. Lasker for dismissing a felony charge against the latter, Mr. Keyes recently announced that he would retire from office December 5, allowing his successor, Buron Fitts, who was elected last September, to take office then. Fitts gave up the lieuten- ant-governorship of California to run foo district attorney in Los Angeles County on an anti-vice platform. Keyes made the following statement last night concerning the charges: “I really don't know what this is about. I was never called before the grand jury, nor was there apparently any effort made to get anything but the state- ments of some outside parties. I un- derstood that the names of some of the witnesses appearing before the grand jury on which the indictments and ac- cusations are based are people who tried to blackmaii a man out of the money on the theory that they could do just.wiiat was Goae. “It is also significant that the chief party instrumental in producing these matters is a discharged employe. “I expect to investigate and find out what this is all about and make a com- plete statement.” Disclosures of the grand jury inves- tigation was closely followed by the dis- patching of a score of deputy sheriffs to all parts of the city seeking those ac- cused. Keyes himself was not mo- lested by ‘warrant servers. Bail for each of the others named in the in- dictments was <et at $50,000, and they were ordered held in outlying jails for arraignment today. It was intimated by authorities here that summary removal of Keyes pend- ing trial would be asked of Attorney General U. S. Webb. Keyes for a quarter of a century has been a figure in the district attorney’s office and for nearly six years has been its head. e TREASURY WORKER GETS PURSE OF GOLD| J. S. Mills Honored by Associates on Retirement After Working for 52 Years. John S. Mills, editor and chief of printing and binding for the Treasury Department, was honored . yesterday upon_his retirement on account of il health, when his associates presented him with a purse of gold. H. Berger of the Treasury De- partment succeeds to the post made vacant by Mr. Mills’ retirement. Upon his leaving the service after 52 years working for his Government, Mr. Mills was tendered a letter of trib- ute by Secretary of the Treasury Mel- lon, who praised him for “eminently superior public service.” ¢ Mr. Mills started in the Government | Printing Office in 1876 as a_compositor and during his service for the Govern- ment was at various times foreman at the printing office and in charge of confidential printing for former Secre- tary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage. DAVIS DENIES NAVY WILL TAKE BALLOONS Secretary of War Says Army Has Place for Lighter-Than-Air Ships. By the ‘Associated Press. WATERLOO, Iowa, November 1.— After denying rumors that Army lighter | than air aviation activities were to be taken over by the Navy Department at Scott Field, IIl, Secretary of War Dwight L. Davis last night declared the question was ‘“entirely up to the Sen- ate military committee.” | Secretary Davis declined to State what he thought should be done, but voiced the hope that some decision would be reached soon. Neither would he venture an opinion as to whether the Senate committee would see fit to continue the Belleville Field, increase it, or abandon it. | “No part of the activity at the field | Navy De-, will be transferred to the partment,” he said. “There is a place in the Army for lighter than air ships. ' Progress is being made in this division of aviation at Scott Field.” Audience Names Itrl’lnys. Berlin is taking to the novelty of im promptu plays introduced this season. The audience is requested to supply the title for an imaginary play, which is at | once produced, the actors and actresses improvising the plot and dialogue as it proceeds. Zeppelin Covers Over 4,000 Miles in 71 Hours 12 Minutes By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 1.— Following a northern course, Graf Zeppelin, the largest aircraft in the world, today completed the longest eastward flight over the Atlantic. When the airship land- ed at Friedrichshafen she had been in the air 71 hours and 12 minutes and had covered more than 4,000 miles. Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A. Le- vine had previously held the record, having flown in the monoplane Columbia from Roose-~ velt Field, New York, in 1927 to Cottbus, Germany, a distance slightly above 3,900 miles, in about 42 hours, The eastward flight of Graf Zeppelin was along a course about 2,000 miles shorter than her westward crossing. Misses Lenora Lockhart, Marjorie Sharp and Nancy Samuel, members of the British girls’ debating team, who won from the George Washington Uni- versity girls' team in a debate last night. —Star Staff Photo. Log of Graf Zeppelin By the Associated Press. (Eastern Standard Time.) Monday, October 29. 1:54 am—Left Lakehurst, N. J. 3:15a.m—Passed over New York City. 5 a.m.—Passed over Block Island off Riode Island coast. 6:15 am.—Passed Chatham, and headed out to sea. 7:15_a.m.—Sighted by trawler Wid- geon 75 miles northeast of Chatham. 10:15 a.m.—Sighted by steamship Laconia 90 miles southwest of Cape Sable, Nova Scotia. 2 p.m.—Gave position as latitude 43 north, longitude 58 west (500 to 600 miles at sea from Chatham). 5 p.m.—Gave position as 42:30 north, 54:50 west (about 750 miles east of Chatham). Midnight—Gave position as 250 miles northeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. Tuesday, October 30. T a.m.—Steamship Mauretania, about 500 miles east of Cape Race, in com- munication with airship, which ap- peared to be somewhat to north. 10 a.m.—Steamship Capulin sighted airship about 730 miles northeast of Cape Race. 12:40 p.m.—Steamship Blairesk re- ported Zeppelin while in position about 890 miles northeast of Cape Race. 2:15 pm—Passed over Dominia about 950 miles northeast of Cape Race. 5 p.m.—Gave position about 730 miles west of Fastnet Light, Cork, Ireland. 7:15 p.m.—Sighted by steamship Westerdijk about 550 miles west of Lizard Head, Cornwall, England. Midnight—Gave position about 430 miles west of Lizzard Head. Wednesday, October 31. 5:30 a.m.—Sighted by steamship Boul- der Pool about 550 miles west of Bor- deaux, France. 6:21 a.m.—Reported over Bay of Biscay. 10:30 a.m.—Reported 40 miles west of the Gironde Estuary, on the central French coast. 12:36 p.m.—Gave position as 47:20 north, 4 west (about 75 miles west o Nantes, France). 1:43 p.m.—Passed over Nantes. 3:20 p.m.—Passed over Tours, France. 5 pm—Reported 60 miles east- southeast of Paris. 7:30 p.m.—Passed over Dijon, France. 8:55 p.m.—Passed Basel, Switzerland. 10:35 p.m.—Sighted near Friedrichs- afen. 10:50 p.m.—Cruising over Fried- richshafen. Thursday, November 1. 1:06 a.m.—Landed at Friedrichshafen. ZEPPELIN SETS RECORD WITH FIRST COMMERCIAL TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT _(Continued From 3 a.m. the Graf Zeppelin was sta- tionary over the airdrome. Ground crews lined up as if to receive the air liner. The crowd was cheering madly. Ten minutes later, however, the mo- tors began to hum and the airship started to cruise again. Apparently Dr. Eckener was awaiting better landing conditions, as the illumination at the airdrome was/not bright enough to land the huge craft safely. Twenty minutes elapsed and then the airship again appeared over the air- drome. The motors were shut off and she was stationary. Dr. Eckener sent a radio message to officials asking that the crowd be forced back to facilitate berthing the craft. A landing crew of 200 stou { by. Representatives of the federal gov- ernment and various states were at the airdrome to welcome crew and pas- sengers. At 7:02 am. the Graf Zeppelin turned her blunt nose toward the hangar and began to descend slowly. Hawsers were thrown out and the landing crew rushed to grab them. Two minutes later they were pulling down the ship. At 7:08 the craft was brought to a halt a few yards above the ground. Then the ground crew began to walk her toward the hangar, while passengers crowded at the windows and the bands played. At 7:30 a.m. the huge air liner was berthed in her hangar and the first commercial transatlantic flight was his- tory. Mass., First Page.) London Listens In On Eckener Welcome Over Telephone Line By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 1.—The bands and cheering which greeted the arrival of the Graf Zeppelin at Friedrichshafen were heard to- day in the London bureau of the Associated Press. The telephone connection betwesn London and Berlin was unusually good and along with the prompt and clear news messages transmitted from the Berlin Bureau of the Asso- ciated Press came s an accom- paniment the sounds of the wel- come at Friedrichshafen from a loud speaker in the Berlin Bu- reau. cableship | STOWAWAY 1S HERD OF GERMAN CROWD Terhune Carried on Shoul- ders of Throng Through Friedrichshafen Streets. By the Associated Press. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, No- vember 1.—Clarence Terhune, the irre- | pressible 19-year-old American stow- away on the air liner Graf Zeppelin, was given a triumphant reception by a cheering crowd in Friedrichshafen to- day. Clarence was smuggled out of one of the rear gondolas of the Zeppelin into the custody of police soon after the dirigible had landed and was taken to the hotel apartment of John F. Kehl, American consul, where a long private talk was held. When the young stow- away emerged frem the hotel, cheericg crowds raised him on their shoulders and paraded with him down the street. Asked what he intended to do he re- plied that he must first look thréugh his mail and then decide what to do next. “I'm not worrying about the future,” he said, adding that he did not intend to remain in Europe for any length of time. He expressed the hope that he would find an offer among the stack ‘of mail and telegrams awaiting him which will enable him to return to the United States as soon as possible. Terhune said that he had always had a place to eat and plenty of food during the transatlantic passage, but that he had no place to sleep and had to lic down wherever he could find a spot that wasn't being used. He was a “maid | of all work” aboard and was well freated by the crew and passengers alike. ‘The correspondents who interviewed Terhune wanted to know how Dr. Eck- | ener had taken the discovery of a stow= away aboard his ship. To this quastion | Terhune, who had been talking freely, | merely answered, “He smiled” and then : suddenly became less communicative, saying with a show of mystery that he | had “an arrangement” with Dr. Eck- | ener which did not permit him to talk. “ZEPPELIN STOOD TEST,” | | Possibility of Transocean Traffic Proved, Commander Asserts on Arrival in Germany. By the Assoclated Press. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, No- vember 1.—“The Zeppelin has stood the test,” Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the Graf Zeppelin, said this morning before driving off to his home for a back has proved the possibility of trans- ocean air traffic. “You should have seen the steamers We had not the slightest trouble with our engines.” During the last part of the flight the airship had to pass through a dense navigation difficult. The officers were continually forced to ask by wireless for the position, and this information | was obtained both from land stations | and from ships at sea. | ZEPPELIN’S WOMAN =~ | PASSENGER EXHAUSTED Mrs. Clara Adams on Pgint of Fainting on Landing Despite Comfortable Trip. By the Asscciated Press. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, No- vember 1.—Mrs. Clara Adams of Tan-| nersville, Pa., the only woman aboard the Graf Zeppelin, was so exhausted when she disembarked from the airship that United States Consul John F. Kehl came to her aid. “You must have breakfast immediate- ly or you'll faint,” he insisted. Mrs. Adams had just remarked in reference to her unique experience, “It is nothing to be proud of for I traveled | as comfortably as was to be expected. But now I'm so exhausted.” | MARINES IN CHINA RETURN | Nearly 1,000 to Be Distributed to Ships and Stations. —Distribution of 851 enlisted men and 85 officers of the Marine Corps, who returned yesterday from China, the Philippines and Guam aboard the naval transport Henderson, will begin today. celving ship Rigel, 43 to the Naval Hospital and the remainder to various ships. $343.008 Earned by Graf Zeppelin On Its Round Trip to United States By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 1.—The revenue earned by the Graf Zeppelin on her round trip from Germany was timated today at $343,000. esvl?}l‘“ part of this is profit is uncer- tain. Dr. Hugo Eckener estimated the expenses for the round trip would be $100,000, but_repairs to the damaged fin undoubtedly raised this considerably. The estimate of revenue is based on the assumption that 18 of the pas- sengers on the trip to the United States and 20 of the 24 passengers on the return voyage paid the full fare of $3.000. Since Dr, Eckener estimated the revenue before the start at ap- proximately $100.000, it is assumed that several of the passengers who traveled in more or less official capacities did not pay the full rate. Taking the figure of 38 passengers, at $3,000 each, the total fare would be $114,000. Mail and express brought from Germany added $70,000 more. Freight carried on the return voyage paid $1,705. The revenue from 54 sacks of mail was $75,713.50. A large part of the revenue came from the sale of ex- clusive rights for publication of stories from the s! an American syndicate paying $67, two German newspapers $15,600. ‘The mail carried on the return voyage included 49,745 letters and 51,938 post . cards, the most valuable mail cargo in point of postage ever handled by air, rest. “The flight over the ocean and | which we met rolling in heavy seas. | fog, the commander said, which made | | Wreckage . | $Snobbish SAN DIEGO, Calif., November 1 (#). | P4 for this privilege and | Trie: PLAN TO ELECTRIFY 325 MILE OF ROAD Pennsylvania Lines An- nounce New York-to-Wil- mington, Del., Project. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 1.—The Pennsylvania Railroad is to electrify its entire freight and passenger service be- tween New York and Wilmington, Del., at a cost of $100,000,000, Gen. W, W. Atterbury, president of the road, an- nounced. The project will cover 325 miles of line, comprising 1,300 miles of track, and will require seven or eight years to complete. Gen. Atterbury said that if conditions warrant it the electrification of the roads entire 11,000 miles of trackage would follow, section by sec- tion, upon completion of the present plans. He said that the company ex- pected to finance the project from earnings. At present the Pennsylvania fs elec- trified between the Sunnyside vards at Long Island City and Newark and from Philadelphia to Wilmington. The next step will be electrification of the road between Philadelphia and Trenton, planned to be completed by 1930. The electrification will wipe out Manhattan transfer, where all trains stop to change from electric to steam, Ol‘AvicthErsfll. nother electrification development, he added, will be in and amundpPlIL\- burgh, and this later will gradually be connected with the Eastern lines. As business and service warrants, the en- tire system will be electrified, he said, but_probably not for several years. Electrification is expected to accel- erate freight shipments 25 to 30 per cent. No reduction in time of the lim- ited trains is contemplated now, but President Atterbury explained = the Pennsylvania would be in a position to glve faster service as needed. The Philadelphia Electric Co. and the New Jersey Public Service Corporation will supply power. Mr. Atterbury also pictured a vast commuting population in northern New Jersey, which will require quick trans- portation into metropolitan' New York, estimating New York and vicinity would have a population of 30,000,000 by 1950. The railroads also will save $2,000,000 in the construction of stations, as two electric tracks can handle as much traffic as four steam tracks. The entire work is to be contracted out. BARTLETT ATTACKS CHARGES OF SMITH Denies Sites for 100 Post Offic- Are Lying Idle—Quotes Actual Figures. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, November 1—John k. { Barticct, First Assistant - Postmastor General, declared today that Gov. Smith was in error when heé said in his speech at Newark last night that the Government owned 100 post office sites on‘v/hlch no brick had been laid. “Gov. Smith charged the Coolidge administration with having 100 post office sites in the country not built upon,” [r. Bartlett said, “implying that it was waste and saying that not a Ih‘l.ng hes been done about it. ‘The truth is, we have already acted, completing 20 of these post offices. Right here in Massachusetts we have completed 1 in Winchester, 1 at New- buryport and 1 at Southbridge. In Gov. Smith's own State we have com- pleted 1 at a cost of $1,000,000 in Yonkers, 1 at a cost of $3,000,000 in' Syracuse and have others under way. Gov. Smith's party is to be blamed for these sites in 1913, 1914 and 1915 and ECKENER SAYS OF TRIP|"°®ecti® ‘o do ansthing shout them." ' MAN BELIEVED SUICIDE ON POTOMAC BOAT TRIP Naval Hospital Patient, Robbed of Compensation, May Have Leaped Into River. rF | (¢ Sam P. Shumate, a former member of the crew of the Mayflower and pa- tient at the Naval Hospital, is belicyed to have ended his life by a leap from I w:sitxenr&er l‘)‘isgict of Columbia of the ! ngton orfolk B Steamship Line A suicide note found in Shumate’ ?t;?:roofi‘ washturned over to the N‘(:f police when the stes thgrle Py steamer arrived ! humate reported to the poli " I cral days ago ‘that he had been robbed of $190 at his home, 4807 Georgia ave- nue. The $190 was .compensation paid him by the Veterans' Bureau. It was Jenrr‘wd today that he telephoned his wife's mother shortly before his de< parture from Norfolk late night, tell- :r:‘g k{‘c?urrt"haéhhed“woum be gone within @ Tev i ol i id not belleve he was With the money which he told t! police had been stol he had h‘:'gnd:x'fl' to make a trip to the home of hit parents in the South. : PIMLICO ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. (Pirst Race, 1:15 P.M.) FIRST RACE—Purse, $1.300; claiming: 6 furlongs i Orlan ... *Hiawaiha Also_eligibie. he Doctor . Domineer . dilla . Brush About 5 Abington Pinafore . Fair Jimmie osky G “Jane Rinehart . Fair Beth “Onecora SECOND RACE - and up: claiming ‘Ring On Purse, $1.300; 3-vear-olds 1 mile and 70 yards. 108 *Banton 105 *Corporal 122 Bye and Bye THIRD RACE—The Stafford Handi purse, $1300; 3 yeur-olds and up: 1 Milcs Edisto . 115 Knapsack . 112 Stream Line . D112 Crosseo ... L 109 Marsh Violet FOURTH RACE--The Annapolis Handicap; purse. $1,500; all ages: 6 furlonss. Pygmalion Son of John The Marine base here will receive | C2 554 of the men, 244 will go to the re-|s Stephanus a Kenton-E. Morehouse entry. FIFTH RACE—The Pimlico Futurity: $40.- 900 added: -year-olds: entire colts and ‘mile. High Strung (L. McAtee) Fator) .. (L. Pichon) Neddie "(no boy) ..... The Nut (R. Workman) Justinian (G, Ellls) o BE58553533ERE n (E. 3, Bejshak) . Dr. Freeland (J. Maiben) a Greentree Stable entry. SIXTH RACE Roland $1.300; 3-year-ol I Park Purse, SEVENTH RACE -Purse. »1.300; olds und up: claiming: 1. miles. *Resourceful ... Chittagong Lo Lovera . Red Pate " *Wheatstick Also_elizible. *Wampee ... *Danger Sitnai . *Rosina *Drawine’ Board. e nda Fgiry Lore . *Warrior Bol *Leger % sApprentice allowance claimed. Weather clear: wacs idsm