Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Fair and warmer; lowest temperature 38 degrees tonight; tomorrow cloudy and warmer; probably rain and colder to- morrow night. Temperatures: Highest, 49, at 4:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 33, at 7 am. today. Full Closing New York report on page 9. Markets, 3:30 P.M. Che No. 30,990. post office, Entered as second class matter Washington, DC WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1929—-FORTY PAGES. HOOVER SUPPORTED BY 3 ORY BODES N ENFORCENENT: TALKS WITH BORM Organization of President’s Commission to Find Solu- tion of Prohibition Problem Completed, Senator Says.: NATION'S DRYS PROMISE T0 RALLY FOR CRUSADE| Tilson Recommends Extra Session Between April 10 and 15 to Con- sider Farm Legislation and Re- vision of Tariff Laws—First Lady Poses for Picture. Prohibition and law enforcement | held the center of the stage at| the White House today. | President Hoover received a pledge of support in his campaign for law enforcement from 31 lead- ing dry organizations, and he con- ferred at some length with Senator‘ Borah of Idaho, fiery champion of prohibition. After his conference with the| President, Senator Borah stated | his belief that organization of the | President’s law enforcement com- mission is about completed. This Federal body, proposed by Mr. Hoover in pursuance of his determina- | tion to find a solution of the prohibition | problem, will conduct a sweeping in- vestigation of the Government's law en- forcement system, with special atten-| tion to the dry law. Senator Borah said he talked of law enforcement with the President “only in a general way.” He expressed con- fidence that Mr. Hoover is going right ahead with his prohibition program in mordmc:m"lth his pledge in the in- augural address. u%‘m promise of the Nation's drys. to rally behind the administration’s en- forcement crusade was contained in a| leather-bound volume-presented to Pres- ident Hoover early this afternoon by a delegation headed by Dr. Daniel A. Poling of New York, chairman of the national conference for dry planks and dry candidates. Text of Messdye. “We felicitate you upon your election to the dency of the United States, the message contained in the book said. “We congratulate the American people. We plet to you our co-operation and | suj the dl;c e of the obliga- tions of your office. “The xnlty of the temperance forces in the campaign for your election was, without precedent in 12form history. To achieve prohibition, those we repre- s acsomplhment of the great | complete accomp! ent of objective represented in the eighteenth amendment, we stand pledged. “We believe that the great majority of the American people agree with you that prohibition is an ‘experiment, noble in purpose, and that it was ‘enacted for the protection of tfe American home.” We believe that they, with you, wish prohibition ‘to succeed.” In their name and on behalf of our whole con- stituéncy, we bear this greeting and present this expression of confidence and esteem.” The message was signed by 57 promi- nent leaders in the dry movement, in- cluding Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, Bishop James Cannon, jr.. J. C. Penney, Bishop William F. McDowell, Dr. Edwin C. Dinwiddie, Dr. F. Scott McBride, Dr. Clarence True Wilson, Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington, Mrs. Ella A. Boole and Dr. Arthur J. Barton. Organizations Represented. Among the organizations represented are: The Anti-Saloon League, Associa- tion of Catholics Favoring Prohibition, the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church; the Alcohol Informa- tion Committee, the Association in Sup- port of National Prohibition, the Cath- olic Clergy Prohibition League, the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association, the International Reform Federation, the National Reform Association, the National _Temperance Society, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the Prohibition National Committee, the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement, the National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League | and numerous prohibition and law en- | forcement organizations connected with various churches. Extra Session Urged. Representative Tilson of Connecticut, | Republican leader of the House, today recommended to the President that the | extra session of Congress, which is to | consider farm legislation and tariffl re- vision, be called between April 10 and 15. President Hoover has before him the name of John B. Buchanan, Pittsburgh lawyer, as a candidate for the post of solicitor _general, just vacated by Wil- liam D. Mitchell, new Attorney General. Buchanan's name was presented at the White House today by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania. | Senator Bratton of New Mexico, urged | the appointment of Judge O. L. Phillips | of Albuguerque, N. Mex., as Federal | judge of the tenth circuit. Other callers at the White House to- day included the Wilbur brothers, Cur- b] tis D. and Ray Lyman, and the Dis- | trict’s Republican national committee- men, E. F. Colladay and W. T. Galli- her. None of these callers would dis- close the subject of their conferences with the President. ‘The siege of the White House by delegations of inaugural visitors co%- tinued in slightly abated form today. A picturesque group was composed of girls from the Evangeline country in Touisiana, dressed in costumes of early Acadian days. The girls presented to Mrs. Hoover an embroidered bedspread made of cotton grown in Southern Louisiana, a blanket of the same ma- ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Bank Statements Washington clearing house, $5,972,- 042.72. Treasury balance. $63,595,713.74. New York clearing house exchange, $1.785,000,000. New York clearing house balance, $177,000,000, { ter Miss Caroline, opened the sixteenth | natural habitat in South America. | IN PRIVATE B the Associated Press. | a private citizen long enough to tell how practiced law before he went into the | of governmental cares. The former President submitted to office in the Masonic Building and smok He was frankly happy that he could first time in 30 years. attention as possible. For the present, at least, he will re- | main in Northampton, although he has | not decided whether he will make his permanent home here. He does not | plan to re-engage in the practice of law. As long as he does live here he will continue to occupy the modest house in Massasoit street. He is greatly attached to that house. because it was there that | his sons were born. One of the greatest reliefs Mr. Cool- idge has looked forward to on becoming | a plain’ citizen is to get away from | speechmaking. Another allurement that private life has for him is that he no longer will find it necessary to get up early in the morning to begin dictation. No Desire for Travel. Travel holds no attraction for the former Pres:dent at present, not even to the extent of a visit to his birthplace, at Plymouth. Vt.. although he would not mind being there with the maple | sugar season at hand. If he does travel, | however, he will see America first, and does not contemplate a trip to Europe. Although Mr. Coolidge at present has no shoes requiring repairs, he expects | that he will drop in for a visit before long at the shop of James Lucey, cob- | bler and philosopher, who has long been | his friend. After a sound sleep last night, pos- sibly under similar bed covers, Mr. Coolidge got up this morning shortly before 8 o'clock. He omitted his cus- tomary morning walk and after break- fasting drove in a hired automobile mi his office. He planned to pass part of the day in dictating and in going over manuscripts. | ‘Given Enthusiastic Reception. Yesterday was a day of homecoming. of an enthusiastic reception from his fellow townsmen, and of poking about his half of the frame double house on Massasoit street, to see that everything | was as it should be. But today there was time for throwing himself thorough- ly into the role to which, even while sitting in the highest office the Nation could offer, he frequently looked for- ward—that of a plain, private citizen. For Mrs. Cool there were house- wifery duties w] required attention. ‘When a home has not been lived in for eight years things are bound to go awry—little things which others may overlook, but which the mistress of the house notices at once and proceeds as quickly as possible to set straight. Old Friendships Renewed. Then, too, there were old friendships to be renewed, a visit to be made to her mother, who is seriously ill at the Cooley Dickinson Hospital. ~ Mrs. Coolidge hoped for a let-up in the continual drizzle that followed her from Wash- ington, in the hope that she might be able to indulge in her favorite recrea- tion of walking. Odd jobs to be done about the house appealed to Mr. Coolidge. Getting out a few tools and attending to the little repairs that constantly are necessary in one’s own home has always been a great source of pleasure to him. Only at infrequent intervals was he able, as Chief Executive, to indulge in this sort of thing. In an executive mansion there are too many servants. Mr. Coolidge, as always, anxious about his health, joined Mrs. Coolidge in look- ing for an opportunity for a brisk walk, which he, has termed the most beneficial form of exercise. Moreover, his desk in the law office that throughout his years in high office still bore his name re- | mained to be visited. { g SECRETARY HYDE OPENS PLANT SHOW Wife and Daughter Accompany Agriculture Head to Amaryllis Exhibition. Secretary Arthur M. Hyde of the Department of Agriculture, accom- panied by Mrs. Hyde and their davgh- | annual amaryllis show of the Depart- ment of Agriculture today, when sev- eral hundred persons had their first op- portunity to see the new cabinet mem- ber. Dr. Wililam A. Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry; J. Wise Byrnes, superintendent of the green- houses, and other officials of the de- | partment escorted the new Secretary about the exhibition and other green- houses and grounds. Mrs. Hyde remarked upon the gor- geous display of vivid-colored blooms | on the 1,200 plants in the show, which is the largest collection of amaryllis | looms ever shown outside of their | The amaryllis show will be open to the public daily from 9 am. until 9 pm.,, up to and including March 14. Special place has been reserved in the department grounds for the park- ing of automobiles of the show visitors. | COOLIDGE IS CONTENTED CITIZEN ROLE {Indicates, in Interview, That He Is Happy After 30 Years of Public Service. Plans Are Not Revealed. NORTHAMPTON, Mass.. March 6.—In the first interview he has given since he left the White House, Calvin Coolidge today. indicated that he had not been it seemed. Surrounded by a dozen newspaper men and women in the office where he public service, he was plied with ques- tions about his future plans and his feelings now that he is free from the burden | the interview only with the understand- ing that it would be governed by the same conditions which prevailed at his meetings with the correspondents at the White House—that he was not to be quoted. During the interview Mr. Coolidge was seated at his old desk in his ed a cigar held in an ivory holder. Happy to Settle Down. settie down as a private citizen for the He intends to keep himself as far removed from public He has no definite plans for the future except for the writing of a series of magazine articles for which h e is now under contract. ROOT WORLD COURT FORMULA PRAISED Geneva Spokesman Fore- casts Little Doubt of Reaching Accord. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, March 6.—The spokesman | of one of the great powers represented on the committee for revision of the World Court statutes said today that the formula of Elihu Root, veteran | Ameriean statesman, for adhesion of the United States to the World Court was a practical proposal as a basis of discussion, and he believed there was | little doubt that an agreemeng could be reached. He added that discussion before the Council of the League of Nations was also a probability. Dines With British Officials. Mr. Root dines tonight with Sir Aus- ten Chamberlain, English foreign secre- tary, and Sir Cecil Hurst, legal adviser to the. British foreign office. Neither Aristide Briand, French foreign minis- | ter, nor Sir Austen, can decide the issue | alone. There must be a general con- sultation, and even, perhaps, a new in-l ternational, conference of the court sig- natories. One apprehension is that acceptance of the American idea—which is, simply, a provision for consideration of speific cases where the United States has really an interest, as mentioned in the Ameri- can fifth reservation, having to do with advisory opinions—might result in greatly retarding the machinery for the obtaining of the advisory opinion. Cause of Apprehension. This fear is based upon the proba- bility of delays in such cases as America is called upon for her opinion before granting an advisory opinion, and be- cause additional delays might ensue through other powers, not members to the League of Nations, claiming the same privilege. However, it is believed in practice this would be found to be not an insur- mountable obstacle, and that ways could be found to speed up action. CIVIL WAR AGAIN THREATENS CHINA! Tense Situation Arises as National- ist Government and Kwangsi Forces Mobilize. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, China, March 6.—Chi- nese officialdom here considers that a tense situation has arisen between the Nationalist government and the so-called Kwangsi clique of military leaders and that the shadow of war again hangs over the country, with both sides rapidly mobilizing. President Chiang Kai-Shek is mass- ing 150,000 men in the province of Kiangsi, presumably to meet a threat- ened advance of Kwangsi troops from Hankow. The Kwangsi strength is esti- mated at 100,000. Nanking troops, including the famous Cantonese Communist Ironsides, 5,000 strong, now are being transferred from | Shantung, where the revolt of troops; under Chang Tsung-Chang aparently is at a standstill, to Kiangsi, Meanwhil the Shanghai-Nanking Railway has suspended traffic tempo- rarily because of troop movements, the Nanking authorities have commandeered seven Chinese steamers for troop trans- port and have prohibited Chinese craft from passing Kiuking up the Yangtze River. In turn the Kwangsi leaders, who have thelr headquarters at Wuhan (Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang), are detaining Chinese steamers at Hankow, but neither party is interfering with foreign shipping. Minor conflicts already have been reported. Trains Freed From Snow. ; CONSTANTINOPLE, March 6 (4)— | The Simplon express from Europe and other trains held up by snowdrifts in Thrace have been dug out and their passengers arrived here last night. Rail- way communication with Western Eu- rope is restored. By the Associaled Press. SAN FRANCISCO. March 6—Far out on the Pacific, bound for the troj cal isles of Tahiti, Miss Haze! Cool San Francisco society girl, today was lending a hand in the galley and help- ing the stewards aboard the liner Tahiti because she is & stowaway. | Mrs. William J. Kiérferdorf, wife of & prominent San Francisco banker and | mother of Miss Cooke, yesterday receiv- | ed a radiogram from the skipper of the Tahiti saying the girl had turned up as a stowaway and asking for instruc- | her to work,” Mr. and Mrs. Kierferdor{ radioed back. In her 18 years of life Miss Cooke {Society Girl, Stowaway, Washes Dishes Aboard Liner to Pay Passage Over Pacific| has crossed the Pacific more than a dozen times, and knows the Orient al- | most as well as her native land. But the lure of travel has always held her. “Some day,” she recently told her friends here, “I'll stowaway aboard a p bound for some outlandish port.” Ancther radiogram from the captain | of the Tahiti last night to the Kierfer- | dorfs, said: “Following vour instructions to the letter. Miss Cooke is not much help in the galley, but by the end of the voy- age she should be pretty good at bed- making. Radio i?roéfémsj’age 32 { { o'clock, and th PALMIST WROTE LETTERS 10 -SELF, BURLINGAME SAYS Declares Mrs. Blalock Want- ed to Show “Other Man” Still Loved Her. EXPLAINS HIS SIGNATURE AS JOKE TO TEASE HER Precinct Detective Carroll, Raiding Partner of Police Captain, Sup- ports His Testimony. the trial of Capt. Guy E. Burlingame ;\\'h(‘n the veteran police officer on the witness stand in his own defense, fight- ing persistently the charges that he| wrote love letters to Mrs. Helen F. Bla- | | lock. turned on the palmist and ac- cused her of writing the sentimental notes to herself to convince her friends that another woman had not alienated the affections of an unidentified man with whom he said she was in love. Then when Capt. Burlingame had leit the stand, his story that Mrs. Bla- lock had written the cclebrated “‘heart- sore daddy” letter and that he had signed it as a joke was supported by Precinct Detective Raymond Carroll, who Burlingame said yesterday wit- nessed the occurrence. Capt. Burlingame pictured Mrs. Bla- lock as a jealous woman, who, after losing the man she loved, sat down and typed the sentimental letters to exhibit to her friends to show that the man she loved was still interested in her, The police officer said he know the name of this man been described to him by Mrs. Blalock as a civil engineer and a machinist and ‘a self-made man.” In fact, he ex- p]alned: he was not concerned with the palmist's love affairs, and never asked her the name. Says He Often Teased Her. Capt. Burlingame, however, admitt: he assisted Mrs. Blalock in wl‘ltlné“.sur:g of the letters, and said he often teased her about their contents. The phrases, Which drip with sentiment, he said, Mrs, Blalock told him were coined by “the man” and she used them in the manu- factured notes to make them appear more convincing. This explanation of the authorship of the letters was given by Capt. Burlin- game near the close of a hammering cross-examination conducted by Walter L. Fowler, assistant corporation counsel, Wwho is assisting Corporation Counsel Bride with the prosecution. The cross- examination was cnncgufllfl at 12:30 e accused officer was ex- cused from the witness stand, wh::ee}’:e been since 11 o'clock ~yesterday morning. Prosecutor Fowler drew from Capt. Burlingame. the story of the other man under a barrage of questions. It created :redn(;unhc: deurpr“"m;, as m:d previous ref- een m; the letters were written. R Declared Guarding Against Suit, Burlingame explained that Mrs. Bla- lock purposely avoided atf ching any signatures to the letter in order to avoid a possible suit. Some of the sentimental expressions used by her, he said, were taken from articles in magazines and newspapers. The prosecution spent nearly the en- tire morning questioning Capt. Burlin- game about the love letters. Paragraph after paragraph of the sentimental notes was read to the witness, and he was asked whether he had assisted Mrs. Blalock in writing them. Just before the luncheon recess Fowler directed his questions to the information Burlingame said Mrs. Blalock had given him. which had enabled him to round up a number of law violators. Cross-Examination Resumed. Burlingame returned to the witness stand for the resumption of cross-ex- amination when his trial was resumed at 10:10 o'clock this morning, He slouched back in his chair and his eyes wandered about the table, around which were seated members of the trial board and the defense and prosecution at- torneys. Prosecutor Fowler began by producing a bank passbook and asked Burlingame to look at a deposit of $5,366. Fowler asked him what that represented, and he replied that he thought it was money deposited by Mrs. Blalock. Fowler then quizzed Burlingame about how various deposits were made in the bank where Mrs. Blalock had an account. He said she would give him a check and he would cash it for her. | “The money was coming back and forth all the time,” the witness said. “That, i to the best of my recollection, is the story of all the financial transactions.” Denies Reading Affidavit. Asked if he had read Mrs. Blalock's affidavit, he answered in the negative. Prosecutor Fowler next inquired whether he had read the second paragraph of | the affidavit, in which Mrs. Blalock de- | clared she left Washington because she feared the officer, and that if she had failed to get former Representative Blanton of Texas to have second loans extended, she would have lost her prop- erty. “No,” he answered. “She was véry careful in some ways, and very careless in others” Burlin- game told Fowler, after he had ques- tioned him about the receipts she de- manded for small amounts of money she returned to him for bills paid by him. Fowler called dttention to the $8,700 and the $2,900 which have figured so prominently in the case, and asked whether the witness had given Mrs. Blalock a receipt for these large sums. He answered that he did nov recall. Says He Was Not Suspicious, After questioning Burlingame about “Bill” Young, and late headquarters detective Pat O'Brien, whom the palmist had said the accused officer had visited while they were in the hospital, he in- quired what precautions the officer had taken to protect himself when the woman mentioned Orville Staples, a former policeman, and former Repre- sentative Blanton. He answered, “None,” but explained that he had continued to handle her affairs . PFowler asked Burlingame: if he ever suspected Mrs, Blalock was attempting to “frame” him, in view of the fact that she came to the captain’s office often and wrote the famous “heartsore daddy” and other letters on his type- writer. He said he never had the slight- est_suspicion. 2 “You mean to say, in view of all this, that you, 2 man of 33 years' experience in the Police Department, had no sus- picions?” Fowler asked. Burlingame reiterated his answer. Capt. Burlingame told the board that “Miss Helen” wanted him to copy the love letters, which, he said, were in her possession because she was jealous of another woman, who was telling her ~ (Continued on"p:r 3, Column 35, A new sensation was sprung today at | LORD IS RETAINED l I 1 | | | { | i INPOSTBY HODVER i not | Degides to Stay’ After Place Offered Him Some Time Ago by President. Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord has been retained by President Hoover as Di- rector of the Bureau of the Budget, it was learned authoritatively today. Gen. Lord thus continues in the im- portant post which he has already filled under two Presidents. as the second di- rector of the bureau. i The appointment is a personal ap- pointment by the President, under the law, and does not require submission of nomination to the Senate and ratifica- tion by the Senate. Succeeded Dawes. i Gen. Lord succeeded Gen. Charles G. | Dawes, the first director of the budget, : July 1, 1922. about a year after estab- | lishment of the new financial set-up of the PFederal Government by authority of the budget and accounting act. The efficiency with which Gen. Lord managed the affairs of his office brought forth warm praise from Pres- ident Coolidge at the last meeting of the business organization of the Gov- ernment. It has been known for some time that Gen. Lord and President Hoover had worked well together through the many years they were as- sociated together, when Hoover was | Secretary of Commerce. The President offered the position to Gen. Lord some time ago, it was learned today, and the general has decided to stay with the Government, although it is known that he was made several of- éers to leave the Government and go into business. Conference Schedule Unset. President Coolidge and Gen. Lord as director of the budget conferred reg- ularly every Friday. Whether this will be continued by President Hoover was not known today, but it was expected there would be a formal conference at the White House between the two officials within a shost time, for mapping out the new Presi- dent's policies. President Hoover previously had stated that he intended to pursue the Coolidge principles of efficiency and economy. Both the new President and his di- rector of the budget were in Federal service before the present stretch of eight years of Republican administra- tion, when Hoover was food administra- tor under President Wilson and Gen. Lord was chief of finance of the War Department. |ED KENNA’S THUMB INJURED BY FOUL TIP First Major Casualty Strikes Sena-| tors at Training Camp as Catcher Is Hurt. Special Dispatch to The Star. TAMPA, Fla, March 6.—The first major casulty of the Washington Ball Club’s Spring training season occured here today when Catcher Ed Kenna had the thumb of his throwing hand injured. A foul tip from the bat of | Stuffy Stewart struck Kenna on the end of his right thumb and dislocated the bone. Kenna was conveyed to the hos- | pital, where Spencer Harris already is quartered, receiving treatment for ton- ' silitis. It probably will be a month before | Kenna can resume base ball. | SLAV BANDITS TAKEN. Notorious Brothers, Captured After Desperate Struggle. GETINJE, Jugoslavia, March 6 (#).— Two notorious brother bandits, Drago and Rado Vuletitch, upon whose heads the government had placed a reward of 50,000 dinars, have been captured after a desperate struggle. Police had been scouring the countryside for two years for the brothers, who are the last survivors of the traditional Montenegro robber bands. Their capture makes this section of Jugoslavia again safe for travelers. Maryland and Virginia News Pages 10 and 11. () Means Associated Press. as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 133,548 TWO CENTS. mrauyflg GRATEFULTO A =Y p. > e Former Senator Dead THOMAS TAGGART. TAGGART 1S DEAD AT INDIANA HOME Former U. S. Senator and Leader of Democrats Ex- pires at Age of 72. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, March 6.—Thomas Taggart, veteran Indiana Democratic leader, died at his home here this morn- ing following an filiness of several months. He was 72 years old. had been in a critical condition since late yesterday. Mr., and Mrs. Taggart returned from their Summer home at Hyannisport, Mass., last Fall and in October he un- derwent an operation for a stomach ail- ment. Since then his condition had gradually become weaker. Yesterday he took a turn for the worse. His illness had prevented him from attending the Democratic national con- vention last year, the first he had missed for years. A boom Taggart had started for the nomination of Evans Woollen, Indianapolis banker, for the presidency sent Woollen to the conven- tion with the support of the Indiana delegation. Last Political Move. Taggart’s influence in national Demo- cratic politics was last felt in the long- drawn-out New York convention of 1924, when he personally directed a move to nomipate the late United States . Senator Samuel Ralston of Indiana for the presidency. The convention was said to be on the verge of turning to | Ralston as a way out of the Smith- McAdoo deadlock when Ralston with- drew from the race because of ill health. Ralston died a short time later, | Mr. Taggart was confined to the hos- | pital for several weeks last Fall before { being removed to his home. When for- | mer Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York visited Indianapolis, October 20, on his presidential campaign tour, he paid his respects to the veteran political leader at the hospital. . Born in Ireland November 17, 1856, Mr. Taggart came to America to begin a career that carried him into the United States Senate, into State leader- ship and national prominence in poli- | tics and into ownership of a health re- | sort at French Lick, Ind., which he de- veloped into a mecca for leaders of both political parties. Mr. Taggart married Eva D. Bryant | of Garrett, Ind., in 1877. Surviving Mr. i Taggart are the widow, a son, Thomas D. Taggart of French Lick, and four daughters, Miss Lucy Taggart of New i York and Indianapolis; Mrs. D. Lau- | rence €hambers, Miss Trene Taggart and " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Mr. Taggaret died at 10:30 o'clock. He | MEXICAN FEDERALS ADVANCING TOWARD MONTEREY, NOW IN HANDS OF ESCOBAR Heavy Fighting in Prospect as Government and Revolu- tionists Start Military Ac- tions on Extended Scale. REBEL FORCES SCORE VICTORIES OVER NORTH PR e i B 4 LIPS WRECKE N AGHILE STORM Hundreds Struggle to Keep Navy Airships From Blowing Away. | The wreckage of two Navy airships, | | which suffered a terrible battering in the storm last night at the Anacostia field and which were deflated to prevent them blowing away, is being crated up loday for shipment by railroad to the naval air station, Lakehurst, N. J., from which they were flown March 4 to par- | ticipate in the aerial inaugural parade. The ships were deflated during the height of the storm after more than 250 men had struggled in mud, rain | and wind for many hours to save them. The rip cords were pulled only after the cars had been damaged badly by pound- ing on the ground, the bags had been | ripped in several places and it became apparent that even if they could be kept | from blowing away they could not be | flown again. | Two Army airships, which also were | stormbound at Bolling Field following' the parade Monday, succeeded in get- | ting away. The first, the TC-5, from Langley Field, commanded by Capt. | William J. Flood, limped away on one motor at 5 o’'clock yesterday afternoon and after one forced landing 10 miles | out continued to Aberdeen Proving | | Ground, where it was housed overnight. | Crews Work in Relays. The second Army blimp, commanded by Lieut. Michael W. McHugo, after being battered by the storm which de- stroyed the two Navy ships, was able to take-off for Langley Pleld this morning. | Nearly 700 men took part in the | struggle, which began at 7 o'clock last night when a 40-mile wind, accom- panied by heavy rain and snow, began sweeping the field. Since Monday after- noon the ships had been held down by ground crews working in relays. The Army blimp which remained here was equipped with a swivel mooring attach- ment in the nose and it was anchored to a concrete mooring block. which is thought to have been largely instru- mental in saving it. The Navy ships, however, depended entirely upon man power to hold them down. The Navy J-4 collapsed at 10:15 | o'clock last night and several members of the ground crew were knocked down, several of them suffering bruises and scratches as the big envelope and its | fittings dropped on them. The rip cord was pulled when the the envelope apart. The bag by this time partly was deflated and was be- ginning to sag. It would have been | the weather abated, it was said. | Republican National Committee Adjourns Subject to Call and Status Is Unchanged. ‘The executive committee of the Re- publican national committee today con- sidered the case of the Georgia vacancy in the national committee, but took no action. Dr. Work, chairman of the Republican national committee, said following the meeting of the executive committee that the situation so far as the Georgia committeemanship is con- the meeting. He added that the committee had adjourned subject to call and there was no_time fixed for continuing the matter. Ben Davis, the former Republican na- tional committeeman, a colored man, was not re-elected. He is reported to be backing J. F.'Flanders, a white man, who was elected at a convention held in Atlanta. Opposing him is Joseph Wat- son. New First Lady to | When the new First Lady goes out for !a shopping tour or a stroll she will be free from the protection of the Secret | Service. ! Mrs. Hoover has let it be known that i she would prefer to be unguarded when | she fares forth from the White House grounds for her unofficial excursions. Her wishes will be respected. ’ In dispensing with the services of & Sscret, GO on Strol]s i And Shopping Trips Without Guards verting to the policy in vogue before the Coolidge administration, it was learned. Mrs. Hoover was under the surveilance of a Secret Service man throughout the 1Sfluth American tour. | Three agents from the San Francisco office and one from the Capital accom- panied the Hoover party on the U. 8. S. Maryland, and two others were added when the mission reached the Atlantic Southern. eontinent. man, Mss. Hoover is re- |side of the mooring lines at the nose began to pull | impossible to fly the craft. even had| TO ACT ON GEORGIA| cerned was exactly the same as before | Battle Lines Drawn at Two Points on American Border as Loyal Army Starts on Way to Retake Nogales and Opponents Rumored En Route to Capture Juarez. By the Associated Press. American Consul Willys A. Myers at Vera Cruz reported to the State Department today that the third battalion of the revolutionary garrison at Vera Cruz had mutinied at dawn to- 1 day and was occupying half of ! the city. Military action on an extended scale marked the progress of the Mexican revolution today, both the government and rebels begin- ning troop movements in the north and south with heavy fight- ing in prospect. Disturbed by the capture of {Monterey; important strategic railway center, federal forces were | marching from five directions on the capital of Nuevo Leon to drive out Gen. Escobar, powerful rebel leader in control there. For the moment the govern- ment appeared to be concentrat- ing on Monterey, being content merely to bottle up the city of Vera Cruz, which been cut off from the rest of the country. In the north rebels appeared to have scored al successes, but battle lines . were drawn $ two points almost within gun range of the Ameri- can border. g on Roghicn. Saoees in marc] on rebel hands, g Rebels Claim Chihuahua City. Reports of fighting favorable to the rebels at Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Torreon, Coahulia and Canananea have been re- ceived, while the rebels also claimed Chihuahua City. Of the 60,000 men in the Mexican Army it was estimated at Mexico City that 10,000 have gone over to the rebels, while 50,000 have remained loyal to the government. { Gen. Borquez, revolutionary com- | mander of Northern Sonora, claiming nine states, declared that the revolu- tionary leaders were in a position to sweep down upon the capital from the north, east and west. He also asserted that the govern- ment would make no progress in Jalisco, because that state was full of Catholics who have been persecuted by former President Calles. Bishop Navarette of the Catholic dio- cese of Sonora was in the interior ar- ranging for the first general observance of mass since 1926, Gov. Topete having lealmzd suspension of the religious | The government has been using air- planes to drop propaganda leaflets ask- ing the troops for loyalty and is claim- | ing signal success with this method in some regions. American tourists in Mexico City are not much alarmed by the revolutionary ' situation, but talk is developing of ask- ing for a special train to take them to Tampico, whence o they will sail for MOLINAR REJOINS FEDERALS. {Porm Gil's Forces Recapture Orizaba in Vera Cruz State. MEXICO CITY, March 6 (#).—Fed- eral troops converged from five direc- tions this morning on Monterey, capital of Nuevo Leon. A counter attack which | would attempt recapture from Gen. | Gonzalo Escobar was imminent. Thus in the space of 24 hours ROV~ | ernment efforts to quash the rebellion shifted from Vera Cruz where opening the port as an outlet to the gulf was a | matter of some necessity, to the north where railroad communications with the United States had been broken by rebel ST e contingents movin Monterey will prove a lormk‘lglbl:‘l:’:lln‘;". but such are the natural fortifications 1 of the city, bitter fighting may take | place in an attempt to recapture it. Gen, Escobar has 2,000 troops at the | city of its defense.” It is believed he will face as many as 8.000 Federals. The government announcement tell- ing of the plans for the offensive ex- pressed the belief Monterey shortly would be retaken and Gen. Escobar de- | feated. Against reverses in the North, the | government had to its credit victories |in Vera Cruz, including recapture of Orizaba, and return to its fold of the unit commanded by Gen. Molinar. In an official statement, President Emilio Portes Gil said the troops com- manded by Gen. Molinar had been per- mitted to rejoin the government forces and instructed to go to Esperanza, Pue- bla, for incorporation into the advanc- ing Federal armies. Rebels Start Western Drive. | _ Another announcement said Gen. | Prancisco Manzo had started a rebel offensive down the West coast from Navajoa. Sonora. Gen. Jaime Carillo, chief of military operations in the State of Sinola, just South of Sonora, was opposing the ad- vance. ‘The situation in the north could be inferred from disruption of communi- cation between Mexico City and the Texas border. Passenger trains which left this city for Laredo returned after reaching a point between Queretaro and San Luis Potosi, although the line was said to be open to the latter eity. __The line to Juarez was closed also (Continued on Page 4, Columa &)