Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1928, Page 2

T o HUMILIATION DAY PLANS MATURING Local Legion Members Re- quested to Meet at Float = on Tuesday. Calls Legionnaires to Join Voteless Protest on Tuesday Department * Comdr. Harlan Wood, District of Columbia American_Legion, is issuing an urgent call to all Leglonnaires of the District to gather in front of the District Building on Pennsyl- vania avenue at 9:15 o'clock on Tuesday morning, election day. There will be a decorated float on the spot, which will be the- center of a group protest against the voteless condition of the Dis- trict, none of whose citizens can vote for President. News reels will be taken of the scene. Comdr. Wood asks the Victory Post, No. 4, Drum Corps, the Costello Post, No. 15, Drum Corps and the Eight and Forty Uni- formed Drill Team to meet at the same place at 9:15 on Tues- day next. ‘The ceremonies planned will take not more than 15 minutes. Plans are rapidly nearing comple- tion for the big public demonstration of Washington's “Day of Humiliation™ next Tuesday, while millions of en- franchised American citizens in every city and hamlet of the country except the District of Columbia will be cast- ing their ballot for President. American Legion posts will take a leading part in the ceremonies depicit- ing the voteless condition of Washing- ton on election day under auspices of the joint committe on national repre- sentation. Harlan Wood, department commander for the District of Co- lumbia, has issued a call to all local Legionnaires, urging them to gather in front of the District Building at 9:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. Film Will Be Made. These Legionnaires, with representa- tives of many other civic groups, will assemble about a spacially designed float portraying the demand of Dis- trict residents for the right to vote for President. Newsreel, pictures will be taken for Nation-wide distribution in presenting the unusual condition that exists at the seat of government. Meanwhile, arrangements are being completed for various other spectacular stunts during the day, all of which are tended to emphasize the disenfranchise- ment of the citizens of the District. The Voteless League of Women Voters, a group of prominent Washington women, will place locked ballot boxes. on principal street intersections of the city. At moon airplanes flying overhead will release a display of toy balloons bearing the significant slogan, “Give Washing- fon National Representation.” The radi and press of the city are co-operating' also in this demonstration. As the central feature of the all-day demon- stration, the float will be the most prominent. Radio Statiens WRC and WMAL will announse the calling out of the Legion- crack it last night, 18 FACE EVICTION FROMEAPARTMENT Ouster Proceedings Filed Against Purchasers in Co-operative Building. Eighteen tenants who purchased stock in The Parkway, a large five-story co- operative apartment building located at the corner of Connecticut avenue and Macomb street, are faced with eviction from their residences in the structure and loss of sums paid towards the pur- chase of tHe apartment suites, due to failure of the building as a co-operative project. and its subsequent foreclosure sale. \ Ouster proceedings were filed against tenants” in Municipal Court November 1, and trials of individual cases will be started November 13. The building, formerly owned and promoted by the Parkway ' Apartments of Washington, Inc, of which Arthur M. Suit was fioat, borne by a truck of The Evening Star, will proceed to the District Build- ing at 9:10 o'clock, remaining there for the demonstration until 10 o’clock. ‘Thence, until 1:30 o'clock, it will pro- ceed down Pensylvania avenue through the Capitol grounds, bearing its slogans to the Southeast and Northeast sections of the city, returning on H street north- east to the Northwest section. Reach- ing Pennsylvania avenue via Eleventh street from H and thence to Twelfth street, the float will wind up and down each street between the Avenue nad K street in succession. During the rest of the afternoon until 5:30 o'clock the float will stand at some designated place or will move slowly over the downtown section generally as efore. Comdr. Wood will hold a great placard idirecting attention to the voteless condi- tion of the District and the need of passing the proposed amendment to the Constitution providing for' mnational Tepresentation for the people of the District. “Taxed without representation.” the placard will state. “Citizens of Wash- ington pay more national taxes than do those of 15 States.¥ ‘The float, itself, will portray a graphic representation of each section of the country, while the central group, at the base of a raised platform showing a Iocked ballot box on a table, will signify the fact that voteless Washington is not only the center of the Nation's activities, but also its garden spot. One corner of the float will depict ¢he East, represented by a business man end an oak tree. The West, in another corner, will be represented by a fair farmerette standing midst stacks of wheat and pumpkins. For the North, a ‘woodsman and fir tree will be featured, while a Dixie girl in a setting of palm and orange groves will depict the voters of the South. At each corner there will be a ballot box, emphasizing the fact that the voters in these four sections of the United States are casting their ballots for President on election day. On each side of the locked ballot box for the District of Columbia a man and woman ‘will be in position, exemgmymg the dis- enfranchisement of 500,000 people in the seat of Government. Various signs that will be placed artis- tically about the float will point out pertinent facts about the District and demand the right of her citizens to take part in the election of a President. ‘The committee in charge of the float is composed of Mrs. Marie M. Forest, Gideon A. Lyon, Z. Blackistone and A. R. Condon. The personnel of those taking part in this educational demonstration had not been announced early today, but they are likely to be chosen from a group of young women of the city interested in its civic advancement and from stu- dents of Georgetown University. ‘There will be a meeting Monday morning of Washington debutantes, in- cluding daughters of cabinet officers. who are to fly over the city in airplanes ©n election day and bombard the popu- Jace with toy balloons calling attention 1o the fact that it is “election day” for everybody else but Washingtonians. Miss Queenie Smith, star of “Hit the Deck,". will take part in the demonstration. SOCIETY HOLDS FETE. Eastern Woman's Group Hears Musical Program, A harvest home gathering was held by the Woman's Missionary Society of the Eastern Presbyterian Church yes- terday. Mrs. Marshall McKibbon, chair- man, assisted by Mrs. Myers Hand, Mrs. B. B. Beall and Mrs. Walter L. Hagen, composed the committee in charge. Mrs. Cornelius Barber was in charge of refreshments. ‘The program consisted of music by Miss Wilhemina Richman, invocation by Dr. Barrows, greeting by the presi- dent, Mrs. Alfred E. Barrows; reading, Mrs. Mae E. Felka: piano solo, Miss Jeanette Emmett; reading, Miss Hazel Miller: piano solo, Colburn Beall; Presbyterian president, was sold at auction July 2 to satisfy holders of a second trust on the building. Roy L. Neuhauser and Sol. Lansburgh were holders of the second trust, according to a statement made at the office of the Real Estate Mortgage & Guarantee Corporation, holder of the first trust. 30 Apartments Sold. The Parkway contains 83 apartment suites, but 30 of which were sold. There was a second trust of $100,000 on the building, according to information placed in the hands of the tenants’ at- torney, Gerald M. Johnson. This trust, it was said, was given as collateral on a loan of about $49,000 advanced on the project, the loan being due March 2. On the first trust of $340,000, it was sald, there were to be curtaiiments at the rate of $10.000 annually. Tenants in the building held several meetings to lay plans for mobilizing their forces to protect their interests in the building. Their position, how- ever, was regarded as somewhat pre- carious inasmuch as they bought stock in the building subject to the first and second trusts, the holders of which, in law, have prior rights in the proj- ect. If the purchaser of the building under the second trust declined to credit them with payments thus far made, it was pointed out, they faced eviction proceedings, and the matter thus probably would be left to the court to determine. After the first auction sale was ad- vertised, tenants say, they were unable to get in touch with Mr. Suit, and dis- covered that their telephone service had been cut off for non-payment of a $300 telephone bill. There also arose bills for the janitor and elevator hoy and other services, which the tenants since have been paying voluntarily. $17,498,902 RED CROSS FUND USED IN FLOOD AID| By the Associated Press. ‘The American Red Cross in a final financial report on the Mississippi Val- ley flood of 1927 said that $17,498,902.16 was coilected and spent for relief opera- tions growing out of the flood. Of this amount 504,033.55 was em- ployed in related storms and tornados in Oklahoma, eastern Arkansas, Mis- souri and Kentucky. ‘The remainder was expended in relief operations in territory directly affected by the Mis- sissippi and its prnicipal tributaries. Louisiana and Mississippi each re- ceived more than $5.000,000 for relief, while Arkansas had close to $4,000,000. All other States affected received less than $500,000 each, with $1,163,953.53 not distributed by States. ke i BUS LINE IS SUED. As the result of a traffic accident November 4, 1925, in Wilmerding, Pa., the Red Star Line, Inc., was sued today in the District Supreme Court for a total of $60,000 damages. Peter Karan, a minor, residing in Wilmerding, wants $50,000 damages, and his father, Charles Karan, asks an additional $10,000 for the expense incident to the injuries of the boy and for the loss of his services. The court is told in the declaration filed by Attorneys Rabbitt, Cavanaugh & Lore that the boy was playing in the street in Wilmerding when a bus of THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. THIS SAFE THWARTED YEGGMEN' Mrs. H. H. Heflin, an employe of the Thomas Somerville & Sons, 312 Thir- | teenth street, pointing to the safe which withstood the efforts of yeggmen to —Star Staff Photo. THIEVES CRACK SAFE, FAIL TO GET MONEY Smash Combination on Thirteenth Street, but Are Unable to Force Strong Box. The combination of the huge safe in the office of the Thomas Somerville & Sons Plumbing Supply Co., 312 Thir- teenth street, was smashed with a 50- pound “pig” of lead early this morning, but the thieves were unable to open the inner doors of the strong box and get at the cash inside. G. W. Taylor said today that the safe contained the re- ceipts of yesterday, amounting to about $500. The attempted robbery was discovered a few minutes before 7 o'clock this morning by an employe, Arthur Mock, who was the first to arrive at the office. A rear window had been pried open, but the would-be thieves had apparently left by the side door, which was found ajar. The combination was completely smashed and lying in pieces on the floor. Beside the safe was the lead “pig.” The inner doors of the safe ex- hibited evidences of a severe battering. Mr. Taylor arrived about 7 o'clock and immediately telephoned the police. No clues to the identity of the safe- breakers were discovered. The lead “pig” had been appropriated from the stock of the store. DANIELS COMPARES SMITH WITH JACKSON Declares Candidate Is New Vita- lizer of Party, as Wilson ‘Was Its Definer. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., November 3.—Pic- turing Jefferson and Wilson as men who envisioned and definited Democracy and Jackson and Smith as its dynamic vitalizers, Joseph Daniels Secretary of the Navy in the Wilson administration, told a Richmond audience last night that the political tide had turned toward the Democratic party. “Wilson came to give new impetus to the principles of Jefferson a little more than 100 years after Jefferson retired from the presidency,” Mr. Daniels said. “And now 100 years after Jackson a new vitalizer has come to give, as Jack- son did, & new human impetus to the principles of Jefferson and Wilson.” Mr. Daniels said that there was a! very “penetrating discord” in the party after Houston from the attempt to har- monize “Dixie” and the “Sidewalks of New York” and that he with Senator Carter Glass of Virginia were pretty “weak on the chorus.” “The perfect swing of the old song” of Democracy was not attained, he said, until it “became known that Raskob had twice voted for Woodrow Wilson.” CANAL BREAKS RECORD. October Is Biggest Month of Year in Panama Passage. “PANAMA, November 3 (#).—Com- mercial traffic through the Panama Canal during October exceeded all the months of the present calendar year both in regard to the number of trans- its and the total tolls. Merchant ships to the number of 557 passed through the canal, paying a total of $2,274945. This was 70 ships more than passed through during September. The total canal traffic to date this year was 5,228 ships, paying $21,706,995. WOMAN FOUND IN JAIL. Californian, in France, Held in Al- leged Passport Alteration. BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France, No- vember 3 (#).—French police have lo- cated Mrs. Keta Geithner of Wilming- ton, Calif, for whom they had been searching in the fear that some acci- dent might have befallen her because of mental trouble from which she is said to have been suffering. She was found in the Rouen city jail, where she is held on charges of vagrancy and al- teration of her passport. the company struck him and knocked him down, causing injuries which re- sulted in his being a cripple. it was alleged that her maiden name, Agerbacher, had been erased and re- placed with the name Gittloog. Woman, 83, Decides By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, November 3.—After 39 years of waiting Mrs. Salome Jane Crawford has decided to seek a divorce. Mrs. Crawford is 85 years old. Mrs. Crawford was married to a contralto solo, Mrs. Alvin Miller; read- ing, Mrs. David Roberts; baritone solo, Mr. Shaver; reading, Miss Charlotte Prater, and vocal solo by Miss Dorothy Reddish, P Unlon Army soldier in 1865 and he died in 1883. Five years later she was mar- ried to Charles Crawford. He left her the next year, she said, and never came to Seek Divorce After 39-Year Wait for Mate's Return “I've waited 39 years,” she told the court, “So you want a divorce so you may remarry?” Judge Joseph Sabath asked. “Mercy, no,” the little old lady smiled back at him. “Not me, any more.” The divorce, she sald, was negessary to obtain a Government pension pro- vided in certain cases for remarried widows of Civil War veterans. ~ BRATIANU RESIGNS AFTER OPPOSITION Rumanian Premier’s Rule At- tended by Turmoil—Re- gency Meets Today. By the Assoclated Press, VIENNA, November 3.—Vintilla Bra- | tianu, premier of Rumania since the death of his brother Ton on November 24, 1927, resign® today. The three principal leaders of the opposition parties, Iulio Maniu of the National Peasant Party, Gen. Ffoza Averescu of the People's Party and Nicholas Jorga of the National Party, will be received by the regency this aftarnoon. It is probable that M. Maniu will be asked to form a cabinet, in which event, Nicholas Titulescu, who recently re- tired from the Bratianu cabinet, will become foreign minister, Reign of Turmoil. ‘The resignation of Vintilla Bratianu apparently brings to an end, at least for the time being, the long rule of the Bratianu family in Rumanian af- fairs. Vintilla was never the dominat- ing figure that his brother Ion had been, but he had always had a share in his late brother's confidence and acted as a trusted colleague and ad- viser. The death of Ton Bratianu a year ago left the political situation in Ru- mania in somewhat of a turmoil. Ion had been a dominant personality in Rumania for a quarter of a century and even the late King Ferdinand and Queen Marie never were in a position seriously to dispute his judgment. Ton was the arch foe of former Crown Prince Carol and his policy of refusing to permit Carol to return to Rumania or to have anything to do with the Rumanian government was followed by Vintilla. Carol Opposition Strong. Even with the Bratianus out, how- ever, it' is not likely that there will be much change in the attitude of the Rumanian government towards Carol, who is now in exile in Paris, while the Rumanian throne is being occupied by his 7-year-old son, Michael, under a regency consisting of Prince Nicholas, Patriarch Cristea and G. Buzdugan, president of the supreme court of justice. The National Peasant party in par- ticular has opposed the premiership of Vintilla Bratianu. It held a huge mass meeting at Alba Julia some time ago. A march on Bucharest was organized by some of the peasants, but this dis- sipated and never reached the capital, ALLEN IS SHIFTED IN POLIGE CHANGES Officer, Who Criticized De- partment, Does Not Regard New Beat Promotion. Pvt. Robert J. Allen of the ‘third pge- cinct, who recently complained that he had been the victim of petty annoy- ances because of his criticism of condi- tions he said existed in the Police De- rtment, has been relieved of his rov- ng assignment, and, effective tomor- row, ordered to a beat in the “gashouse district,” south of Pennsylvania avenue. ‘The change, one of several ordered in the Yrecinct, by the commander, Capt. William G. Stott, is a promotion, according to Stott, who says all of the shifts are being made in the interest of greater éMiciency, and that the new beat to which Allen goes is one re- quiring real police. - Pvyt. Allen does not consider the new assignment a promotion, it was stated today. Stott Explains Change. Building operations in the vicinity of the Speedway, Copt. Stott stated, made it necessary to rearrange the beats, more especially those south of Pennsylvania avenue, making a total of 15 instead of 14 beats. Property owners in the vicinity of the Speedway have not had proper police protection, Stott said, and under the new arrangement they will have the benefit of a better serivce. In- creasing the number and rearranging some of the beats, Capt. Stott added, required shifting of his command. Extras Are Designated. In connection with the shifts, he stated, Pvts. Otto Johnson and Ira E. Dalzell have been designated as extras for the purpose of the filling in that is. necessary because the police are given one day off in every seven. They were so designated because they are older men and familiar with the pre- cinct, it was declared. HEGE WITHDRAWS AS CANDIDATE FOR FEDERATION HEAD (Continued From First Page.) dered it in the rformance of the functions for which it was intended." “A local newspaper carried an appeal yesterday (Friday) purporting to have oeen made by Willlam McK. Clayton urging Mr. Swanton’s election and stat- ing, in part: *‘The Federation is unfortunate in that during the last four years this ideal of presidential service has been thrown into the discard. The power of the chair has been used to promote, rather than to compose, factional dif- ferences, and to defeat, rather than be guided by, the expressed will of major- itles of delegates.’ “This 1s the same Willlam McK. Clayton, who two years ago agreed to nominate Jesse C. Suter for president of the Federation but failed to do so. He did, "however, second Mr. Suter's nomination, and within & few minutes thereafter voted for me. If any one will point to one erroneous ruling by me from the chair that caused any delegate to lose any material right thereby, I will buy and present to such person a prize."” Although lost sight of owing to the battle over the presidency, the federa- tion also will elect a vice president, a secretary and a treasurer. David Babp has been the only candidate promi- nently mentioned for the post of secre- tary and A. H. Gregory for treasurer. Both are incumbents. B. A. Bowles of the Georgetown Citizens' Association, is thought to be the leader for the vice presidency. Dr. Havenner is the present vice president. TRAFFIC OFFICER SUED. Sidney Glaser, 4853 Wisconsin ave- nue, has filed suit in the District Su- preme Court to recover $10,000 damages from George W. Ward, a policeman, at- tached to the Traffic Bureau, for al- leged false arrest. Glaser says the policeman arrested him March 30 last on a charge of impersonating an of- ficer, which charge was later dropped. Attorne = ““'dor M. and Harold H. Le- vine ap; .. lor the plaintift, D. T. BATURDAY, Center of Uprising PREMIER BRATIA NIGARAGUA READY FOR BIG ELECTION Americans to Supervise Greatest Voting in History of Country. By the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, November 3.— Under the supervision of American Ma- rines and an American election board, Nicaraguans tomorrow will elect a Pres- ident in a general election for which the registration has been the largest ever known. ‘The country was described recently by Marine headquarters as peaceful, with Gen. Augustino Sandino, who a year ago was actively leading a rebel movement, stated to be no longer a fac- tor. Prohibition has been esatblished for the period of the election by presiden- tial decree. Manufacture of brandy is a government monopoly and large amounts of it have been handed out in previous elections by the government in exchange for votes. This year all gov- ernment liquor warehouses have been padlocked and possession or sale of ‘l’\‘l‘n;‘dx by private individuals was pro- bited. Telegraph Misuse Blocked. ‘The election board has taken over su- pervision of the government telegraph lines, which in previous elections had been used by the government’s political workers free of charge while the oppo- sition party was denied the right to send telegrams to members of its own organ- ization. In order to prevent repeating, every voter will be marked on the hand with a chemical stain as he casts his ballot. Detalls of the method to be used have been withheld by the election board since it was thought that both parties might try to mark opponents in advance of the election to prevent them from be- ing allowed to vote. ‘The candidates are: Conservative, Adolfo Benard of Granada, for Presi- dent, and Julio Cardenal, for vice presi- dent; Liberal, Gen. Jose Maria Monca- da of Managua, for President and Enoch Aguada, for Vice President. Benard Wealthy Man. Senor Benard is reputed to be one of the wealthiest citizens of Nicaragua. He has large sugar and coffee planta- tions in Western Nicaragua as well as large real estate holdings in Granada. A man of 62, he has never held public office. Senor Cardenal is a capitalist and merchant with establishments at Granada and Leon. He is a brother- in-law of Dr. UCarlos Cuadra Pasos, former minister of foreign affairs, and a member of an old Conservative family. Gen. Moncada was a leader of the Liberal revolution in 1926-27. He is 56 and for many years has conducted newspapers in Rivas, Granada and Senor Aguada is a lawyer gua. ‘The total registration was estimated at 150,525, which is about 30,000 greater than the registration for the election of 1924. Members of the American Electoral Mission believe that virtually every male citizen entitled to do so has placed his name on the election books, All male citizens more than 21 years old are eligible to vote and all females more than 18, if married, or if they can read and write, are also eligible. Americans will count the votes ang the Nicaraguan constabulary, under An;:rlca.n officers, will protect the voters, NEW JERSEY POLLS MAY BE GUARDED Deputy U. S. Marshals Available for Work—Justice Department Continues Surveillance. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, November 3.— United States Marshal Frederick C. Schneider and United States District Attorney Philip Forman announced to- day that deputy marshals would be avallable to guard pollsyin New Jersey on election day. Their statement added that "Afcnts of the Department of Jus- tice will continue strict surveillance.” Appeal for Federal aid was made by Republican leaders after unprecedented registrations were recorded in Hudson and Essex Countles. Authorities at ‘Washington announced at first that no agents would be sent here to guard the polls on election day, but later ordered the Department. of Justice to investi- gate the reports of wholesale fraud. Acting under recently passed legisla- tion the superintendents of elections of Hudson and Essex Counties struck off more than 30,000 names from their reg- istry lists as frauds and ordered dis- trict boards to challenge thousands of other voters. SLAYING OF GIRL ADMITTED BY YOUTH Confession “of Strangling After Quarrel Is Made to Police. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 3.—Vincent Rice, 17 years old, confessed today, police announced, that he killed Alice Josst, 15-year-old Staten Island school girl, in her home. yesterday. Rice, according to police, sald he strangled the girl to death with a cord from an electric iron after he had beat- en her unconscious at the end of a quarrel. ‘The youth, who had been attentive to the girl about a year, called at her home last night, knowing that she would be alone. The cause of the quar- rel was not disclosed. The girl lived with her widowed mother in Port Rich- | phenomenon that he insisted could be | Waltz, mond, Staten Island. Rice’s home Tompkinsville, Staten Island. it NOVEMBER 3, 1928 MICHELSON ETHER DRIFT TEST Repeated after 40 years under condi- tions insuring far greater accuracy of observation, the celebrated Michelson- Morley expetiment of 1887 again Lrings the same challenging results. This was antiounced yesterday after- | noon before the American Optical So- clety, meeting at the Bureau of Stand- ards, by Prof. Albert A. Michelson of | the University of Chicago, whose orig- inal effort to determine ether drift be- | came one of the outstanding events in | the history of science. 4 Nevertheless, Prof. Dayton C. Miller | of the Case School of Applied Science jat Cleveland, whose experiments show an apparent discrepancy with the Michelson results told the society that he was not satisfied that the end has been reached and will continue his own work. Physicists Honor Michelson, One of the great romances of mod- | ern science reached its culmination in the darkened lecture room of the Bu- reau of Standards yesterday afternoon where the Nation's foremost physicists gathered to do honor to the man whose name had been a by-word to many of them as college boys. The room was Jjammed to the doors with persons from all walks of life whose imaginations have been stirred at the results of Prof. Michelson’s work. Far removed as it was from the field of ordinary human interest, the announcement that the veteran physicist was about to make held tremendous consequences. 1f repe- tition of the experiment had brought different results it meant a new and extremely serious challenge to the pres- ent generally accepted scientific con- cepts of the fundamental nature of time, space and matter, the only things the human mind knows anything about. Back in 1881 Albert A. Michelson, a former Annapolis cadet, was a student in Berlin. There was brewing in his mind an idea replete with scientific im- agination—the concept of a method of measuring the movement of the world and of the solar system through space. ‘The world whirled around on its axis once every 24 hours and it moved in its orbit around the sun once every 365 days. These two rates of movement could be measured with a great deal of precision. But there was a third move- ment which nobody could measure. There were no landmarks to measure it by. The earth, sun and all the planets ware moving together somewhere to- ward some unknown destiny. « Ether Only Stationary Thing. Now in order to measure this move- ment it was necessary to find something outside the world that wasn’t moving. Everything visible presumably was mov- ing, even the remotest stars. The only concelvable stationary thing was the substance which, it was assumed, filled all space and through which the stars and the planets moved. Nobody knew what this thing was. It was a neces- sary invention of the human mind to account for the forces acting through interplanetary _ space—light, gravity, magnetism. These forces required something -to move through. Science assumed for them an infinitely tenuous, elastic jelly and called it “ether.” It rvaded all things and all things ex- ted inside of it. Both light and the world moved hrough ether. They moved independ- ently of each other, the former far faster than the latter. So Michelson proposed to measure the forward speed of the world in relation to the speed of light. If the experiment succeeded he would have solved the secret of the movement of the universe. It involved extremely delicate arrangements and measurements. The Berlin experiments were inconclusive. Michelson returned to the United States, his brain full of the idea. He needed more delicate ap- paratus and his mind conceived the idea of the interferometer, which would detect the interference of light waves. Interferometer Invented. This was the first great outcome of the experiment. If it had brought no further consequences it still would have been one of the outstanding events of modern science, since it brought about the invention of the interferom- eter, which not only has opned up new worlds of knowledge in the distant heavens to astronomers, but which has made ible measurements down to the millionth of an inch. With this implement Michelson re- peated the experiment in collaboration with Prof. Morley, since dead. This time extreme precautions were taken. The results were as accurate as was scientifically possible at the time. They were negative. The experiment indi- cated that the world was not moving in relation to the ether. It was a chal- len}e to common sense, Michelson him- self was baffled. He did not see the possibility of any further accuracy. Some weird explanations were offered. Reputable sclentists advanced the theory that the experiment showed that it was impossible ever to obtain an accurate measurement of anything, since it was obvious that the length of any measuring rod, whether a yard- stick or light, varied according fo its position in respect to the movement of the earth. Prof. Michelson smiled yesterday as he recalled this weird ex- RESULTS AGAIN CHALLENGED| Experiment for Measuring Time, Space| and Matter Described at Meeting of American Optical Society. World War. A British expedition was sent to Brazil to verify the wild notions of one whom the English newspapers referred to as a Swiss Jew, and the German - papers as a “distinguished German man of science.” “Had I been | a scoundrel.” Einstein said, “it would ! have been the other way around.” Both | descriptions, he pointed out, were true | —a splendid example of “relativity” lni everyday life. It all depended on the | point of view of the observer. The Brazil observations upheld Ein- stein. Since then he has been upheld in various other particulars. Prof. Michelson said yesterday that he was now willing to accept all the implica- tions of the Einstein theory, even that an effect may precede a cause, buf that he still insisted on the existence of ether. But even with the apparent verification from other sources, the out- come of the Michelson-Morley experi- ment still was fundamental in Ein- stein’s reasoning. If this were over- thrown the world might go back to INewum, with some modifications. Miller Tells of Tests. Then, about three years ago, Prof. Miller announced that he had repeated the experiment under improved condi- tions and found that there actually was a difference which Michelson apparent- ly had failed to find. Dr. Miller in- sisted yesterday that he had started out with the idea of obtaining a more per- fect negative result than that of Mich- eison and that he himself was as much surprised as any one else when the rate of return of his light impulses showed a velocity of the earth through space at the rate of about 10 kilometers a second. Even Michelson's early ex- periment had given an extremely slight positive result, far within the lmits of error. ‘The scientific world turned to Michel- son. He left a sick ‘bed and went to Pasadena to repeat his experiment, using every precaution which the ad- vances of science had made possible. Several hundred observations were taken. The results were described by Prof. Michelson yesterday as 10 times more accurate than those of 1887. The experiment was conducted at a high altitude on a table mounted in a mereury bath. The displacement of light wave fringes upon which a posi- tive result depended was less than .001 imost unobservable and almost cer- tainly due to unavoidable -error. Still, said Prof. Miller, it was posi- tive and any positive result demands an explanation. But Prof. Michelson in- sisted that it was so inconsequential that it could only be considered as completely negative. At a luncheon in Dr. Michelson's honor at the Cosmos Club last night Dr. Herbert E. Ives, inventor of tele- vision, presented the Optical Society the Ives medal in honor of his father, Frederick Ives, one of the prominent American workers in the field of optics. This will be awarded by the soclety to members making notable contribu- tions to the science. FIGHT ARE INIURED WHEN PLANE FALLS Portland-San Francisco Pas- senger Liner Crashes in Wooded Mountains. By the Associated Press. CHICO, Calif., November 3.—All six passengers and the two pilots of a West Coast air transport passenger plane were injured, two seriously, when the craft crashed in the heavily tim- bered mountainous country near De Sabla, 20 miles northeast of here, late last night. The plane was flying to San Francisco from Portland. H. H. Putnam of Portland and B. Silver of San Francisco, the most seri- ously injured passengers, were rushed to a hospital here. Miss Mildred Devitt of Seattle, C. R. Adams of Portland, passengers, and Lewis Goldsmith, pilot, and Noel B. Evans, assistant pilot, were less seriously injured. ‘The names of the two other passen- gers were not immediately available. The wrecked plane was discovered by a recluse of the mountain country, who brought four of the injured to a camp of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. early this morning. The plane left Portland yesterday at 10:10 am. and was due at San Fran- cisco late yesterday aftermoon. Gold- smith encountered heavy weather in crossing the mountains into California and at 7:15 pm. made an emergency landing at Corning, 150 miles from San Francisco, where he took on 200 gallons of gasoline to get him to his destina- tion. He sald the weather was bad, but he believed he could make it. Pplanation, yet at the time it seemed the most sensible way to account for the observed phenomenon. Einstein Advances Theory. The eventual explanation was stranger still. It came from a German profes- sor named Einstein, who had achieved some reputation in the scientific world as & mathematical physicist. At the time he advanced this explanation Ein- stein is credited with saying—although he probably didn’t—that there were only 10 men in_the wcivrld 'x;’ho could understand it. It remains ay com- grehemlble only to the few trained in igher mathematics. Briefly he laid down the assumption that the Michelson-Morley experiment was fundamentally .impossible; that there was no such thing as ether and no such thing as gravity; that space was curved in the neighborhood of mat- ter, and that time and space were weirdly mixed up in a fourth dimen-; slonal universe—a purely mathematical { conception beyond the range of human senses attuned to only three dimen- sions. Mathematics pays no heed to common sense.. The Einstein theory was a tremendous challenge to common sense. The theory carried the implication that an effect could precede a cause— that is, that one might see the flame of a match before it was scratched or fall dead with a bullet through the heart before the bullet was fired. Of course, the theory did not apply to such purely earthly things as matches and bullets, but only to events transpiring at tre- mendous speeds over tremendous dis- tances, like the movement of light. “Frankenstein Monster.” Tt was described by Prof. Michelson yesterday as a “Frankenstein monster.” Two hours later the plane was heard over Chico, barely 50 miles from Corning. Later it was sighted over Maxwell, which indicated that it was flying in circles, and the pilot either had lost his bearings or was endeavor- ing to find a safe place to land. It was not heard from again until the wreck had been found. ARTS GROUP TO MEET. Bridge Plans to Be Considered at New York. Progress plans for the Arlington Me- morial Bridge will be considered by the National Commission of Fine Arts at a meeting to be held in New York City on Thursday, November 8, at the office of the architects, McKim, Mead & White. Further consideration to the proposed statue of Henry Clay, authorized by Congress and which will be erected at Caracas, Venezuela, will be given by the commission. Mrs. Marion E. Bevins Buried. Special Dispatch to The Star. HERNDON, Va. November 3.—Mrs. Marion E. Bevins, 52 years old, who ! died Wednesday, was buried yesterday in Chestnut Hill Cemetery after serv- ices at the Baptist Church. She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Frank Harrison of Herndon and Mrs. Paul Mullen of Bal- timore, and three sons, Worth, Harry and Vaughn. BAND CONCERT. He himself could not accept it, especially the denial of the existence of ether, and was one of its foremost opponents. Einstein, although his reasoning prob- ably has put many persons in- insane asylums, was perfectly sane himself and knew it. He held his ground with su- reme confidence and pointed out that f his theory was true, certain things could be observed which hitherto had been unobserved and unpredicted. Among these was the bending of rays of starlight passing close to the sun, a seen during a solar eclipse. The '.C' came in midst of the By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, Stanley Hall, today at 5:30 o'clock. March, “The Gallant 26th". Fulton Overture, “Light Cavalry”. Suppe Suite characteristic, “In Holland,” Kriens “Morning on the Zulder Zee.” “Evening Sounds. “Wooden Shoe Dance.” Mellln"zg.‘ “Victor Herbert’s Fox tre Favor- RULES ANNOUNCED Special Regulations Made for. Tuesday Night—Police Details Ordered. A special detail of 107 policemen, un- der command of Capt. Thaddeus Bean, first precinct, has been organized to maintain order in the downtown dis- trict during the reception of returns from the national election Tuesday. In addition to the special detail, all policemen on the force will be on duty and leave will be granted only in case of extreme emergency. The policemen going off duty at 4 p.m. Tuesday will be required to report back to their precincts for further duty at 7 p.m. Those going off duty at midnight will be required to remain at their precincts on reserve duty unless excused by orders from Police Headguarte All policemen have been instructed to take “prompt and decisive action™ in case of disorder. They will be “courteous and patient, but firm,” ac- cording to the general order, in deal- ing with any situation which may arise. The order especially forbids policemen to entering into any political discussions while on duty. rraffic Regulations Ordered. The following special traffic regul tions have been ordered, effective a 6:30 p.m. Tuesday: Parking of vehicles will be prohibited at the following locations: (a) Both sides of Pennsylvania ave- nue from Tenth to Fourteenth streets northwest. (b) Both sides of Fourteenth street from Pennsylvania avenue to New York avenue northwest. (c) Both sides of Eleventh street from Pennsylvania avenue to E street northwest. (d) The north side of H street north- west from Thirteenth street, west to the alley adjoining George Washing- ton University Hospital and the south side of H street northwest from its in- tersection with New York avenue to a point directly opposite the alley adjoin- xrig f}eorue Washington University Hos- pital. (e). The north side of E street north- west, from Thirteenth street, west to its intersection with Pennsylvania avenue. (f). The south side of E street north- west, from its intersection with Pennsy vania avenue to a point approximately 50 feet east of a point directly opposite the east side of the entrance of the National Theater. Moving Traffic. Moving traffic will be Brohibited in the following areas: be prohibited on Pennsylvania avenue between Tenth and Fourteenth streets northwest. (b). North and south bound traffic will be prohibited on Eleventh street northwest, between C and E streets northwest. ' (¢) Westbound traffic on H street be- tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets will be prohibited. (d) Moving westbound trafic on E street west of Thirtenth street north- west will be restricted to vehicles carry- ing patrons to the Natlonal Theater. Such vehicles, upon discharging their passengers, will make the left-hand turn and exit through E street. North and south+b#ind traffic will be permitted to cross Pennsylvania ave- nue at Tenth, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets northwest. Street Car Traffic. ‘There will be no suspension of street car traffic. The street car loading plat- forms_situated on Pennsylvania ave- nue, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets northwest, will be moved to points on Pennsylvania avenue immed- itely west of Twelfth street northwest, and the loading platform on the north side of Pennsylvania avenue, immed- lately east of Fourteenth street north- west, will be moved to a point im- mediately west of Fourteenth street, and after 6:30 o'clock passengers will alight from and board street cars at such points. ‘The inspector commanding the Traf- fic Bureau will erect steel cables on both sides of the car tracks and ap- proximately 4 feet therefrom, on Pennsylvania avenue, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets northwest, and be- tween Thirteenth-and-a-Half and Fous- teenth streets northwest, and it will be [the duty of the officers in charge of the police details to see that the space between these cables is maintained ab- solutely clear of spectators, to the end that street car traffic will be maintain- ed without ‘interruption or interfer- ence. Bus Traffic. The resirictions as to moving in certain areas will apply to bus traffic, and the Public Utilities Commission has rérouted bus lines touching Penn- sy_lt\lr:nln avenue in accordance with. . Busses moving south on Thirteenth street will be permitted to make the left-hand turn at Thirteenth and E streets and proceed east to Twelfth street and north thereon. Virginia busses whose route under normal con- ditions would touch Pennsylvania ave- nue will loop south of said Avenue, using C and D streets. VERDICT IS REVERSED. George W. Hill Acquitted of Driv- ing While Intoxicated. Reversing the verdict of a former jury which over a month ago convicted George Watson Hill of driving while in- toxicated, a Police Court jury yesterday acquitted the man of the same charge. After his first conviction Hill was granted a new trial by Judge Robert E, Mattingly, on motion of his attorney, Cedric F. Johnson, who contended that a policeman had jumped on the run- ning board of the man's machine and slugged him over the head. The policeman admitted having hit the man, but said action was necessary to subdue his prisoner. WBAL POWER DOUBLED. Radio Commission Grants 10,000 Watts to Baltimore Station. Station WBAL of Baltimore today was given authority by the Federal Radio Commission to operate with 10,000 watts. of power, meaning that a 100 per cent improvement in receEuon of the stas tion wil! be made available to Washing- ton listeners. The station now has a power assignment of 5,000 watts and at times is heard fairly well locally. » R Y COOLIDGE INDORSES HOOVER CANDIDACY; BREAKS HIS SILENCE (Continued From First Page.) remained silent until after the election his attitude unquestionably would have been misconstrued regardless of his per- sonal opinion of Mr. Hoover and of the friendship and cordiality that exists be- tween lhelm. tel Mr. Coolidge’s telegram was the prin- cipal topie of discussion in Washington today. At an early hour telegrams and mesfinges o{e o}tlher sorts vl:‘l;lj. arriving at the White House congratulating President for his action. Lo ‘The President was at his desk earlier than is his usual custom. He arrived . Tyers . Santley Banner.” only & few minutes after 8 o'clock, after having taken a walk the ds of ‘White grount CLECTION TRAFFIC | (a). East and west bound traffic will’