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THE EVENIN G _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1929. TROOPS LINING UP FOR BIG “BATTLE" Nearly 1,000,000, Theoreti- cally, to Meet in Mimic Fight Tomorrow. BY J. S. EDGERTON, Staff Correspondent of Tne Star. FIELD HEADQUARTERS 1ST BLUE ARMY, Fairfield Air Depot, Fairfield, Ohio, 'May 20.—Advance guards of the Combat Columns of the Blue Army | slept on their arms last night in biyouscs near the “international” | boundary between the Blue and Red | natlons, extending from Lake Erie to the Ohio River between Dayton and Columbus. H Patrols of the Blue advance brigades today are feeling their way toward the Red position, which, observation planes | have reported. have been established in light intrenchments hastily dug along the eastern bank of peaceful and slug- gish Big Darby Creek, across which nearly 1,000,000 men will meet, the- oretically. in battle tomorrow. Fairfield took on a distinctly martial appearance today as the commanding generals, staffs and ground troops of the two Army Corps and nine divisions which will be represented in the Blue battle line began to arrive in prepara- tion for the movement forward to field headquarters farther to the front. Tent | camps have been pitched here by com- panies of the 10th and 11th Infantry| Regiments, and there pre great parks | of khaki painted Army” motorized field transport cars and trucks. | | | | i !see hil Tennessee Strikers ;Claim Ample Food! For “Finish Fight” Mountaineers Prepared to Live on Berries and Fish if Necessary. THTON, Tenn.. May 20— ufficient food in the Tenn the striking employes of Bemberg & Glanzstofl Is indefinitely. and the work- ers are prepared to “fight to a finich That is the opinion of meuntainee! By the As ELIZAE! There i who make up a majority of the strik-| ing forces. Yesterday they ridiculed re- ports that some of the strikers were suffering from lack of food, pointing to | | the abundance of berries and fr: tha hills and the plentiful supply of fish in_the Doe and Watauga Rivers Many of the mou feed large groups of the striker: o odd jobs in return Stoney Creek farmer and strike sympa- thizer, feeds many of the idle men and women daily. President Andrew John- son died in a house on Engor's farm Scores of the strikers spend the nights in sympathizers' homes high in_ “the Little Alps” which shelter Happy Valley. “We had plenty before these plants came here,” Engor said today. A man can’t starve in these hills.” Most of the idle textile workers live many miles from the factories and are not wholly dependent on the industries for a livelihood. One sympathizer fed several score strikers yesterday after religlous serv- T. S. Engor, a/ |ices, ot which prayers were offered for | the ‘success of the strike. The men sat | around a long rough table, ate silently | and then retired to the shade of nearby |trees. The women then took their places Final Reports Submitted. Pinal reports submitted by the various squadron commanders to the Blue Army air headquarters here today on the eve of the battle showed 111 Army planes of all types ready for military duty. ‘These planes have been engaged with the Red air forces in the preliminary phase of the battle during the past week. Owing to the military situation. reports of the precise strength of the Red aerial units at Columbus, capital of the mythical red nation, are not available, though it is understood that approximately 100 pl are ready to take the air tomorrow against the Blue attackers. The strength reports submitted this morning to Col. Horace C. Pratt, com- mander of the Blue air forces, show the following planes available for duty: Second Bombardment Group, Langley Field, Va., Maj. Hugh J. Knerr com- 'manding, 15 planes; 85th Pursuit Squad- ron, Rockwell Field, Calif., Capt. H. M. Flmendorf, 15 plenes; Third Attack Group, Fort Crockett, Tex., Maj. John J. Jouett, 33 planes; 9th Observation Squadron, Mitchel Field, N. Y., Capt. Francis M. Brady, 19 planes; Instruc- tion and Students’ Air Corps Tactical School, Langley Field, 14 planes: Con- trol Staff, 5 planes, and Transport, 10 cargo planes. Luncheon for Correspondents. This afternoon _newspaper corre- spondents in the fleld with the Blue army will be guests of Brig. Gen. Wil- liam E. Gillmore, commander of the Air Corps material division, Wright Field, Dayton, at luncheon followed by an inspection tour through the great aeronautical laboratories under his com- mand. Tomorrow the correspondents will move forward to the corps and di- visional headquarters of the Blue army in the field. Real and imaginary troops represent- ing the two armies total 805,285 men. ‘The blue forces number three corps to- taling 432,543 men, commanded by Col. A. T. Ovenshine, while the red forces, commanded by Col. W. E. Waldron, number but 372,671 men. The Air Corps unit, which for the past week have borne the brunt of the sham fighting over the Ohio theater of action, will continue their operations during the coming week as units of the Capt. Lewis Vancey (left) and Roj | Bellanca monoplane | at the table. The Bible was read, and ger Q. Williams hope to succeed where others failed. They are planning to fly from Old Orchard, Me., to Rome in the s reen Flash, shown below. —Associated Press Photo. AERIAL REFUELING 0 BE SEEN HERE '3 [ Non-Stop Flight, Fairf2ld to New York, Routed Over Washington. i ‘The National Capital will witness the first aerfal refueling of a scrvice bomb- | | ing plane and a new system of radio | broadcasting of a description of the event from the air when a long-range bombardment plane en route from Fair- field to New York and return without landing, a refueling plane and a huge tri-motored radio plane rendezvous over Bolling Field at 5:15 p.m. tomorrow. Final refueling tests between the bomber, commanded by Lieut. Odas Moon of Rockwell Field, California, and the refueling plane which will be flown | by Capt. Ross G. Hoyt of the office of the chief of Air Corps, who refueled the Question Mark during its record flight last January, will bs made at Fairfield Ohio, tomorrow morning a few hour: before Capt. Hoyt leaves for Washing- ton in the Dauglass refueling plane, which bears on its side a quaint paint- ing of an infant’s nursing bottle, de- picting the planes mission in life. | To Describe Scene. | The bomber will be accompanied dur- | ms its_long-distance trip by the big radio plane, from which S. O. B. Han- | CHIANG 1S ACCUSED. OF IALFEASANCE | | Breach With Marshal Feng Widens as Central War Lord Hurls Charge. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, May 20 —The breach | between Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, so- called president of the Nanking central government, and Marshal Feng Yu- Hslang, “Christian general,” widened today, with open charges by Feng| that Chiang was guilty of malfea- | sance. | Feng's public statement, an an- swer to Chiang's telegrams in which the Nanking offi- clal said he was sure rumors of A Feng's _ disloyalty were false, de- clared Chiang to be guilty of abuse Hlof po of mis- appropriation of government funds d_detrauding the people to enrich £ Gen. Chiang. | an: | hi The majority of &larshal Feng Yu- Hslang's commanders announced their upport of the Central China war lord and asked him to take up arms against Chiang Kai-Shek, who now, thus, has | Reparations here was little discussion of the strike TLong rifies, always well oiled and pol- hed, rest above doors of most of the Many of the rifles have been e Marks- 1 folk. 1 unless said t houses. in the families for generations. manship is the pride of the hil “We don't plck up a squirre we knock his eve out,” Engor today. U. S. PLAN GRANTS BERLIN MORE TIME ON REPARATIONS (Continued From First Page.) amount the United States would be en- titled to under the payments would be limited to & maximum of 45,000,000 gold narks per vear. m('ndsg the Paris agreement of 1925 no reparation charges on Germany can take precedence over the American Army occupation charges except by the consent of the United States. The suggestion was made this morn- ing that the proposed revision of pav- ments might be transmitted by Mr. | Hoover to the special session of Con- grees for its consideration. DEBT EXPERTS' HOPES RAISED. Settlement Expected to Follow Hoover Note. PARIS, May 20 (/) —News that American Government has taken a hand in the reparation settlement tangle which became known here today has changed the aspect of things at the ex- perts’ headquarters. It is generaily felt that it may alter the whole course of the negotations and make possible a settlement of which nearly everyone had begun to despair. The American delegation to the con- ference was stated to have received “through the usual channels” a com- munication from Washington, but no member was willing to divulge its con- tents or make any statement concerning it. The embassy, through which the communication was received, also was silent. the an it was | | | ECKENER 70 DELAY LONG GRAF TRIP iAmerican Voyage Will Not Bej Attempted Until Cause of | Failure Is Known. | By the Associated Precs FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, M 20.—Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander o! tha transatlantic air liner Graf Zep- pelin, hopes to bring his ship back to Friedrichshafen from Cuers on Thurs- day or Friday of this week. At the same time he told the cor- respondent for the Associated Press that a transatlantic journey was out of the { question until it had been definit: determined what caused the failure of four of his five motors last weck when the ship was well on her way om a second voyage to the United States. “I arrived last night in order to con- fer with Ludwig Duerr, dircctor of the Maybach Co. (manufacturer of th motors) before bringing the Graf here from Cuers,” Dr. Eckener said. “It goes without saving we will not attempt any greater journey, especially not a transatlantic flight, until we have de- ermined beyond peradventure of doubt exactly what caused the motor mishap and until the necessary changes have been effected and tried out. “There is this much that I would like to say now: The breakdown and result- ing difficulties for the airship have nothing whatever to do with the dirigi- ble itself.” he declared. ‘“No objections to or criticism of its construction can in any way b derived therefrom. That the airship, despite the defective mo- tors, was nevertheless able so to maneu- ver that a safe landing was effected is in fitself another proof of its air- worthiness. It is also clear that an- other kind of multi-motored aircraft could not have been done better. I would like further to state emphatically that sabotage is out of the question. Dr. Eckener, according to his present plans, will remain at Friedrichshafen | until Wednesday and will then go to Cuers to bring the Graf back Thursday or Friday. FAILURE STILL IS MYSTERY. | | Officers and Crew at Cuers Decry Sa- botage Reports, | CUERS, France, May 20 (#).—Mo- | tors of the Graf Zeppelin were being re- | paired today to permit the dirigible's | return under its own power for Fried- richshafen. Two of its five motors when placed in commission yesterday emitted a tune- ful drone which delighted Capt. Leh- | mann. Two new motors arriving from Friedrichshafen will be {nstalied as quickly as possible, with the likelihood the trip home would be made with only four engines functioning. Investigation of the causes of the en- gine failures of Friday has not lessened the mystery attached to them. Three crank shafts were broken clean and sharp against the joint where they en- tered the bodies of the motor. There was no evidence of previous weakness. ‘Those in charge continued, however, to decry charges of sabotage. The very word was taboo at the hangar. Two new motors arrived today from Friedrichshafen and mechanics immedi- ately began work on installing them. FRENCH TO MAKE TRIP. Alr Ministry Accepts Invitation From Eckener. PARIS, May 20 (#).—The French air ministry today accepted an invitation from Dr. Hugo Eckener to take five French aviation officers as passengers AREA ENDANGERED ( Thousands of acres of land and property 2re endangered as the result of 2 break in the St. Francis River levee near Kennett, Mo. trates the territory affected. SEVEN DIE, 8 HURT ING PLANE CRASHES Homemade Monoplane Falls 1,500 Feet as Wing Is Torn Off in Dive. | | reached 40.9 feet, 5.9 feet above flood | {2 a passagew By the Acsoclated Press. Seven persons were killed and eight were injured, three sericusly, in six air-' plane crashes Sunday. One of the, planes involved in the accidents was an Army ship and another was a home- made monoplane. | Maj. Joseph Noyes, 40, of Oklahoma | City, United States Department of Com- | merce, inspector for Illinois, was killed, and Prank Graves, 25, Lowell, Ind., was injured sericusly at Kankakee, Ill., when | Graves' plane crashed from a height of 65 feet after a 2,000-foot attempted spiral landing. | Maj. Noyes, who was stationed in | Chicago, had gone to Kankakee to 1. spect & new airport and was examining Graves for a commercial pilot's ncense.' Plane Crashes at Take-off. ! Corpl. Archibald Bryent, 90th Squad- ron, 3rd Attack Group, U. 8. Air Corps, was Killed, and Lieut. Edward Hertz- berg, pilot, was injured slightly at Gal- veston, Tex., when in an attempt to| take off the machine nosed into the | ground. “ At Muskegon, Mich., George F. King, 28, and Morris R. Mellinger, 25, lost their lives in their homemade maono- plane. A wing was torn from the fuse- lage while King was pulling out of a | voluntary’ nose dive, and the ship | crashed 1,500 feet. | A Calgary Aero Club plane crashed | at Calgary, Alberta, killing N. E. Stevens and D. E. McCallum, A wing broke when the plane was making a loop and | the machine fell 2,500 feet. Strikes Wires in Landing. Louts Scott, 19, mechanic, was injured fatally, and O. G. Corben, pilot, was | slightly hurt in a crash near Pawhuska, Okla., in an attempt to land after en- gine trouble had developed. The plarz struck high-tension wires and fell intc a ditch. Four persons were injured, two ser ously, in a crash of & plane in an a tempted take-off at Roosevelt Field, N.| Y. The seriously hurt were Dorothy Gusnell, 25, Baltimore, Md, and Mrs. | BY DYKE CREVASSE TWO DIE IN CRUSH OFBASE BALL FANS | | 160 Injured in Stampede From 1 I Rainstorm at Game in New York. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, May 20 —Eighteen per- sons were in hospitals today recovering {rom injuries suffered in a stampede of | bleacher fans et the Yankee Stadium { In which a college girl and a teamster ss Eleanor Price, 17 years old, a t at Hunter College, and Joseph | Carter, 60 years old, were killed. More | than 60 were injured, he stampede occurred yesterday ‘hen 9.000 fans rushed from lyhe south hers to cscape a heavy rain, which ped the firs, game of a double- der beiween the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. Bleacher Fans in Mad Rush. The bleachers where the accident hap- pened are behind right fleld and have been named Ruthvilie by the fans be- | cause it is into that stand that Babe Ruth usually hits his home runs. It is — | a favorit= vantage point for boys. When downpours in the Southwestern section | & slight drizzle : icdenly turned into a of the State threatened to inundate | deluge in the Yankees' half of the fifth many thousands of acres along the Red | inning the fans ingthe right fleld River, which reached flood stage at|Dblcachers rose as one person and Fitiot wutt Tdse Tate yestesosy crushed toward the southernmost exit. The map above illus- | LEVEE GIVES WAY, MENACING 50,000 ACRES IN MISSOURI (Continued From First Page.) At Memphis, the Mississippi last night stage. ROAR HEARD FOR MILES. Farmers Near Kennett Are Awakened in Time to Escape Flood. KENNETT, Mo, May 20 (#).—An army of workmen lost a terrific fight with flood waters of the St. Francis River when the e crumbled about 7 miles northwest of Kennett at midnight. The break was expected to inundate 250,000 acres of farm land highways to a depth of several feet. No towns were endan- gered. Between 700 and 800 men had been working desperately during the day and night along a stretch of leves 14 miles long to prevent a crevasse. ‘While about 300 men were working at Millhouse Levee, weakest point, there was a rumbling sound and a roar as flood waters swept away the dirt barrier and poured into fertile farms, ruining all crops in its rushing waters was s and farmers were awakened in time to make preparations to leave their homes. The crevasse had widened to 200 feet thls morning. Nearly e duty yesterday or last night at some point along the lev Army engineers, who have been supervising the work, to- day concentrated their efforts farther south, although it was believed the break would relieve the situation. About 190 men were in_the vicinity | of Holcomb and Browns Ferry, where the levee seemed in danger, although the water was falling. Enginecrs als sent about 100 men to & point 4 mils south of Kennett. Possibly 50 families will be homeless by night as a result of the break. FLOOD WARNINGS ISSUED. Slight Danger Is Anticipated at Lower Mississippi Valley Points. ST. LOUIS, May 20 (®).—For the| first “time this year, Government flood | warnings were issued yesterday here | and at other points along the Lower Mississippt River. It was the fourth time this Spring, however, that the| considered _the | man in Kennett was on | This exit le: down 14 steep steps As the pressure of the crowding fans increased those first on the stairs were toppled down and those behind them fell on them. In a | few seconds the stairway was a mass of screaming, fighting panic-stricken humanity, while those in the rear, un- | aware of the crush on the stairway, pressed forward to push others onto the human heap. The crush was not stopped until po- lice rushed into the stand and drove back the hundreds shoving toward the top of the stairs. Scores Drop to Ground. ‘Wire netting inclosing either side of the stairway gave way under the pres- zure of bodies, and scores dropped from pile to the ground beneath the stand escaped injury. s Price and Carter were among z2 at the bottom of the mass. The 14-year-old brother was beside but escaped serious injury. > called reserves and ambulances gency first-aid stations | dressing rooms, where | ambulan: cons attended the scores | of injured. The injuries ranged from | fractured skulls, broken bones and in- ternal injuries to cuts and bruises. Hundreds of persons had their cloth- | ing torn off in the fam. Police Com- | missioner Whalen and D:strict Attorney { John E. McGeenhan visited the scene | and after an investigation said the ac- | cident was unavoidable. and set up emeri |in tae play TILDEN AND HUNTER EASILY BEAT DANES Latter and Miss Wills Win in Mixed Doubles on Paris Court. | | By the Associated Press. ROLAND GARROS STADIUM, Paris, May 20—Big Bill Tilden and Frank Hunter, the veteran American pair, got armies. son, chief of plant operations and re- | : The actual ground troops which will et ke Nimient o0 Sboard the Graf Zeppelin whan. the sirc | Lucianze de 1 Péulle, New Bork, | river had gone over flood stage at St. | B:ruciplu in the field maneuvers will 10th Infantry of Fort Thomas, Cov- ington, Ky., and the 11th Infantry, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis. Ind. These troops will be utilized for placing and moving the ground panels repre- senung the two armies. The broken ground along big Darby Creek, which will represent the battle line, is marked for nearly 17 miles today with the pan- els representing the opposing armies. Orders to Go Out Tomorrow. In the Blue Army the Army Corps and division posts of commands are organ- ized and will be operated es in the case of war, with the Ohio and Indiana National Guard and the organized Re- serves participating. Orders for the assault of the Blue forces on the Red 1ine of defense will be issued tomorrow to the Blue Corps commanders, Brig. Gen. H. Jamerson, 1st Corps, at ‘Mechanicsburg, Ohio, and Maj. Gen. Benson W. Hough, Ohio Natiol National Guard, 2d Corps, at London, Ohio. The 3d Corps will be imaginar: ‘The six divisional commanders, rep resenting the Regular Army, the Ohio and Indiana National Guards and the nized Reserve, will receive their or- ders for the attack soon after noon Tuesday at their headquarters at Re- saca, Chuckery. Unionville Center, La- fayette, Lilly, Chapel and Plumwood, all peaceful little Ohio farming conimuni- ties in the prosperous farming country ‘between Dayton and Big Darby Creek- The orders will be issued precisely as in actual warfare and the ground panels will be moved by the troop in accordance with these orders, while the umpires determine the results of the action. The air forces will operate on a war-time basis, locating the units represented by the panels and reporting their positions cr attacking them, de- pending upon circumstances. The air forces also will be called upon to raid strong points behind the enemy lines and aerial clashes between the opj ing air units will be fought over man’s land” along Darby Creek. In Shelter Tent Camps. On_both sides of the battle lines the Infantry companies which wil operate the panels v+1l live in shelter tent camps near the division command posts. Communicaiion between the headquarters will be by leased and field telephone, telegraph, radio and couriers. Ranking National Army officers, Ni tional Guard officers, members of Con- gress and foreign military attaches will observe the maneuvers, among them F. ‘Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War; Hans J. Adamson, his assistant; Maj. Gen. Preston Brown. command- ing the 1st Corps Area, Brooklyn, N. Y. Maj. Gen. Fred W. Sladen. command- ing the 3d Corps Area, Baltimore, and Mej. Gen. Frank Parker, commanding the 6th Corps Area, Chicago: Col. Ed- ward Groft, Lieut. Col Wright of the War Department, Repre- sentatives H. G. Hoffman of New Jersey and Melvin J. Maas of Minnesota, and groups of Pennsylvania and Connecti- cut National Guard officers. Yesterday, a lull having occurred in the mimic warfare, the air went on dress parade before 25000 visitors who flocked to Fairfield Air Depot from all ?Im of Southern Ohio and Indiana to ook over the great concentration of Army planes staked down along field in long orderly rows. no Co., will describe the process as seen | from the air over the National network | of stations, including Station WRC. The | radio pickup station will be set ‘:fi at Bolling Field. The broadcasting wi continue from 5:15 to 5:45 p.m. | Leaving Bolling Field after taking | aboard 200 gallons of fuel, the big| twin-motored bomber will head for| New York, accompanied by the radio | plane. During the flight Mr. Hanson will conduct an aerial Interview by radio with Lieut. Moon between the planes, broadcasting the unique inter view by radio through ground stations. To Circle New York. During the half hour the bomber will circle over New York before start- ing its return trip, another description of the spectacle will be broadcast from | the radio plane through a national | hook-up, with a short wave pick-up station in New York. The crew of the radio plane, in ad- dition to Mr, Hanson, will include Lieut. Leroy Wolfe, pilot; Charles Eaton, radio technician, and P. H. W.| Dixon, observer. Leaving New York the bomber and its radio consort will pass over Atlantic City, dropping a parachute flare there, and will continue to Wash- ington, where the second refueling will be made at 11 p.m. The planes are ex. pected to return herg Wednesday morn- ing. The crew of the bomber in addi- | tion to Lieut. Moon will include Lieu | Eugene L. Eubank, assistant pilot; | Bradley Jones, Wright Field navigator; | Lieut, Paul J. Richter, refueling officer, and Lieut. Charles T. Scow, radio offi- cer. Capt. Hoyt will have a crew in the | ret Robert A. Brewer and Wilbur J. | Simons, who will operate the refueling | controls. 'SPORTING A “SHINER,” | PRESIDENT SUBJECTED ' TO USUAL QUIZZING Soatch for the Nationsl Broadcasting | been brought face to face with the most ieling plane composed of Bergts. | formidzble opposition the infant Nan- king government has been called upon to_down. It was reported here Feng was con- tinuing to blow up railway bridges and had rendered the eastern hundred miles | of the Lunghai Railw impassable, | wrecking the road as far eastward as Kweiteh, While no word was available today from Nanking, it was known troop movements were going on on a large scale northward| from Nanking and Pukow along the Pukow - Tientsin Railw . The final mes- sage of President Chiang to Feng, which provoked the changeable GenrFons: Peng's outburst, was most concilla- tory in tone, and asked the Central China war lord to come to Nanking as evidence there was no breach with that government, time in two years—he was ready to re- sign his many offices for the ‘sake of | unification of China. His message then took cognizance of Feng's control of the lower two-thirds of the Peking-Hankow Railway and the’ entire Lunghai Railway, traversing Ho- | | nan Province, and asked for release of | these rallways that commercial traffic might be resumed. mented by Mr. Hoover. The meal with | the Marines yesterday morning consisted | of flapjacks, scrambied eggs and bacon. |~ The food which was to have been | | caten’ Saturday night served its pur- | pose yesterday afternoon when the | | President and his little company of | friends puiled up along the roadside in | the Shenandoah Vaiiey on their return to Washington, and enjoved a picnic. The spoy was near Fishers Hill, the scene of one of the bloody struggles | during_Sheridan’s fighting in the val- |ley. The President's purpose in return- { ing to Washington by this route was | (Continued From First Page.) to view the historic places and battle- { { flelds in that section. friends, who are inclined to be waggish, | The President and his friends retired Clement H. | the | over tt More than | ren:ote spot sclected for the presidential have greeted him with the ancient . “Who hit you?” | et Comae, Joel T. Boone, the pres- | idential physician, who was one of the | President’s fishing party, gave first aid 1 and has cince treated the injury. Cold water was applied at first until the swelling went down & little, then lotions were applied With the President on the fishing ex- pedition, besides Dr. Boone, were Sec- retary of Interior Wilbur, Lawrdpce Richey. one of the presidential secre- and E. G. Lowry, magazine te After the black eve incident, the next | piece of hard luck experienced by the { vacationists was the failure of the | White House truck. containing the fish- !ing tackle belonging to the party, to |arrive before dark, when it was too late to go in quest of trout. The truck is said to have lost its way, when it he main highway and started mountain trial leading to the | 5,000 automobiles were driven into the|camp. huge Fairfield Military Reservation dur- ing the afternoon, Hole That Cost Millions. ‘The miiroad tunnel under the Cas- cade Mountains cost about $14,000,000 and including electrification and other improvements, the total sxpenciture on | gelated truck the project has been approximately $25.000,000. ‘The new Cascade American record from tunnel the lifts the | however Moffatt | command of the Marines, and who has However, the party had a good time traniping about the grounds in the vi- cinity of the fishing preserve, inspect- ing the camp erected for the President, land the camp a few hundred yards away erected for Marines assigned to guard the preserve. Besides having the fishing tackle, the also had the baskets con- | taining what was to have been a picnie lunch. This difficulty was when Maj. Earl C. Long, in tunnel in Colorado, 6.11 miles long, and | personally superintended the laying out is exceeded by only four tunnels in th 1d; the Simplon, St. Gotherd, Lo wor echberg snd Mount Cenis tunnels in the Alps. of the camps, invited the party to eat ith the Marines. The Supper Wwas tasty, according to reports, #hd the Marine cook wrs personelly compli- overcome, | | early Saturday night before 9:30 o'clock and were up soon after 6 o'clock yester- day morning. They had enjoyed their sleep in the quiet and cool of the moun- tains, and soon after breakfast were on | their way. At Sperryville, the machines | drew up in front of the Sperryville Memorial Baptist Church, it being the | President’s purpose to attend religious | services, but upon entering the build- | ty discovered that there were | no religious services. Sunday | school was in progress and the Presi-| dent and his friends sat-in. They joined | in the singing of hymns. Word was soon spread that the President wes there and by the time he and his companions left the building for their cars, quite a good sized crowd for that parsely settled section was on hand to_cheer and stare. From that village the cars went over the mountains, reaching the main high- | way in the Shenandozh Valley at & point near Lur: were made at New Market and other places where battles were fought during_the Civil | War. After riding through Winchester | the party headed for Washington, ar- riving at the White House about § o'clock yesterday afternoon. At Aldie, Va.. the presidential party met with difficulty getting through a sectlon of wet dirt. It was necessary | t2 hitch two mules to the presidential car to get it through. The trip from there on to Washington was uneventful. The President had no difficulty shaking off the vacation spirit soon after reaching the White House. He summoned Stimson and includ- onal leaders, to dis- | mittee—which probably eventually wi learned that the document concerns a decision reached by President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson at a cabinet meeting. Causes Great Flurry. The news that President Hoover had communicated with Owen D. Young through the American embassy caused the greatest flurry in the lobbies of the Hotel George V since the presentation of the German reply to the allied memo- randum that almost broke up the con- ference three weeks ago. Speculation started at once and spread throughout the building as to just what President Hoover had proposed to the chief American delegate. The general assumption was that the message au- thorized a reduction in the American chare of annuities and the question that was on every one’s lips was: “How much?” The American experts refused at first to say whether or not they had received any message and referred all inquirers to the embassy. Finally Thomas W. Lamont admittd that a mssage had been received by Mr. Young from ‘Washington, byt sald that the con- tents could be divulged only by Norman Armour, American charge d'affairs. U. S. Sacrifice Assumed. The simple knowldege that President Hoover had taken a hand in the matter caused hopes to rise quickly, it being assumed that he would do so only to consent to some sacrifice on the part of the American Government. The creditors’ experts who were to meet this afternoon for a final decision concerning the German conditions at- tached to thelr acceptance of Mr. Young's proposed annuities and to dis- cuss again the repartition of annuities, left the experts'’ headquarters with broad smiles. The feeling was that if the United States had made a sub- stantial sacrifice the comparatively small sum requested to satisfy Belgium and Italy and make acceptance of Mr. Young's plan possible would be found. Delegates of the creditor nations last night finished their study of Dr. Schacht's_reservations to the proposals of Owen D. Young, the American presi- dent of the conference, and hoped that some time today or tomorrow a full re- port could be given a plenary session, or at least a set of allied counter pro- posals handed to Dr. Schacht, German spokesman, for him to study. Stamp Report Nearly Ready. The work of the allied delegates yes- terday largely was taken up with formu- lation of modifications to Dr. Schacht's reservations, and with suggestions for certain changes and eliminations. The report of Sir Josiah Stamp's suhcr)n;xfi become the report of the entire ex- perts’ committee—was practically com- plete, with the exception of the annui- ties figures to be inserted. The question of revision of the Spa percentages for allotment of the repa- | rations to the various governments has still not been settled, but some agree- ment, if none better than to defer ac- tion for the creditor governments them- | selves, seemed likely to be reached some time today. French opinion today seemed about equally divided as to the chances of definite solution of the problem, but in the main expressed the belief that their four months’ work would end in some sort of solution. Laborer Found Dead. William Forest, 50, colored, of the 600 block of Second street, was dis- covered dead early this morning in the storehouse of Max Shapiro, 829 Whole- sale row, where he had been employed s a laborer. Forest reported for work at 2 o'clock this morning and later disappeared to be found dead at 6 o'clock upon & pile of potatoes, in the rear of the store, b7 a fellow worker. Forest was pro- cuss the German debt, and spent the greater part of the evening conferrin| | regarding this subject. i " nounced dead by Dr. J. E. Lewis of the Emergency Hospital. The body was later .taken to the .moggua. ship returns to Friedrichshafen. The five officers will be chosen from the staff at the Cuers-Plerrefeu Flying Field. BRODKHART WARNS OF REALTY INTRIGUE Charges Proposed Probe Is Used to Effect Quick Sales of Securities. | The proposal for an investigation of real estate flnancing activities in Washington took a new turn today, when Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Iowa, charged in the Senate that the effort to bring about an inquiry is be- ing used by certain individuals to induce out-of-town investors to dispose of or trade their F. H. Smith Co. bonds| quickly. The Towa Senator sounded a warn- ing to investors throughout the coun- try who hold first mortgage securities not to let strangers frighten them and not to sacrifice or trade their present holdings without investigating. Quotes Letter From Chicago. Senator Brookhart asserted that a letter has been received here stating in one instance a Chicago doctor was urged to forward to a broker here his holdings in F. H. Smith Co. bonds in | order to get as much out of them as possible before an investigation of real estate activities here gets under way. It also was declared by Senator Brookhart that shortly after the pub- licity regarding an investigation began a circular letter was sent out by another concern offering to trade other securities for F. H. Smith stocks or bonds. Made Specific Charges. The resolution which Senator Brook- hart introduced in the Senate 10 days ago, asking for an investigation, con- tained specific allegations against the F. H. Smith Co., but was worded so as to provide for a general investigation of real estate and finance corporations, if the resolution should be adopted. | The proposal for an investigation is to be considered by a subcommittee of the Senate District committee tomorrow morning. Senator Blaine of Wisconsin, chair- man of the subcommittee, which is con- sidering the Brookhart resolution, also | brought discussion of the question into the Senate this afternoon, declaring | that his study of the situation thus far has convinced him that the District of Columbia does not have sufficient law to protect the honest business man or the innocent investor. Questions Senator Blaine. When Senator Brookhart had finished reading into the records his statement of the new developments which he sald had come to him, he inquired of Sena- tor Blaine how consideration of the proposed investigation was progressing. The Wisconsin Senator repiled that it was not his purpose “to go out and indict anybody, either to convict or find them not guilty.” He said that rested with the appropriate legal officers. He added, however, that he has ob- served that the District is in need of legislation along several lines. He re- ferred especially to the procedure 1&;!’ criti- | | sSix thousand Sunday visitors at the | Lambert-Fleld St. Louis Flying Field in | St. Louls saw a plane piloted by Oscar | Heintze, 21-year-old _transport pilot, | crash from 150 feet. The pilot and his passenger, Will Langedorf, 21, were in-| jured slightly. CHESAPEAKE HIDES FATE OF C. V. HODGSON | AND SON WILLIAM (Continued From First Page.) the difficulties encountered by searching parties. Friends of the missing man and boy still cling to the hope that they may have been picked up by a sea-going steamer, pointing out, tnat they dis- | appeared in the lane traveled by these vessels. If they were picked up by a steamer, it was said, they will not be | put ashore until the Virginia Capes | could be reached, a delay which ml!hti have been sufficient to prevent a mes- sage from reaching Bay Ridge as yet Capt. R. S. Patton, director of the survey, and Maj. Willlam Bowle, chief of the geodesy division, left Washing- ton for Bay Ridge this morning to take part in the search. The Hodgson family had been spend- ing the week end at Bay Ridge, where they own a Summer cottag With them were Comdr. chief of the survey's ch M Pagenhart. Shortly before noon, father and son donned bathing suits and started for a | canoe ride. They had paddled about a mile from the west shore when the storm struck. Several years ago, in the | course of his work, Hodgson charted the Bay waters and was familiar with all the currents, bays and inlets in the vicinity. It was at first hoped his knowledge of the waters might enable him to guide the canoe to shelter and outride the storm. As the hours passed, however, and no | word was received, Mrs. Hodgson &p- | . H. enhart, art division, and | City to St. Charles. Louis, and a stage of 36 feet was fore- cast for Wednesday, six feet above the flood mark. The river was more than 32 feet early today. Slight danger was anticipated in the lower valley, Government forecasters said, as streams below St. Louis were not as high as two vears ago, when the last disastrous flood waters of the Mississippi swept over the countryside. In Missouri, the Osage, on a rampage, was reported at a standstill, with bot- tomlands in the vicinity of Osceola, Warsaw and Linn Creek inundated. According to the Weather Bureau prediction, the Missouri River wil reach its highest stage since the 1927 flood by tomorrow, and warnings have been sent to all towns from Jefferson ‘The Missouri is expected to rise to 31.5 feet, while the high mark two years ago was 33 feet. GOVERNMENT PROBES REPORTED USE OF U. S. ARMS IN TEXTILE STRIKE (Continued From First Page.) with reports of disorders coming in from the outlying mill workers' communities. Guardsmen were taking extra precau- tion after being informed that strikers would engage in demonstrations today on picket duty. Demonstrations were held throughout yesterday. Many reports of dvnamiting, riots and minor pillage in the neighboring ]mmmunmes were found to be ground- ess. The disorders have followed the clos- ing on April 15 of the American Bem- berg and American Glanzstoff rayvon mills by the walkout of 5,000 workers and subsequent reopening of the plants two weeks ago with a limited force of | non-unicn workers. Quiet prevailed in the strike zone today, as the spinning room of the American Bemberg mill hummed with activity and workers who came down out of the hills under military escort, pealed to authorities at the United |but were not molested by strike pickets. States Naval Academy and a searching | Gen. Boyd sald many families were party was organized. | warned last night by strike sympathiz- Plane and Boat Search Waters. | S1%,0 “keep the women and children |at home tomorrow” and that some of | off to a fiying start tcday in the French hard court tennis championship, in their first doubles match. They easily disposed of the Danish team of Nielsen and Rasmussen, , 6—1, . The match was just a workout for | the Americans and Tilden spent most | of his time experimenting. He baffled | the Danes with an assortment of chops, | drives and cannon ball service shots. \Big Bill did most of the work, but Hunt- 1 er gave him good support whenever nec- essary. ‘The only game the Americans dropped | was the second game of the second set. Only five games went to deuce. Other results in the men's doubles were: Torralva brothers of Chile defeated Augustin_and Terrier of France, 3—8, 6—4, 75, 5. , T—t J. C. Gregory and I. C. Collins, Great Britain, defeated Glasser and Legeay, France, 6—1, 6—4, 6—2. Frank Hunter and Miss Helen Wills | came through the first round of the mixed doubles with ease, defeating Mile. Metaxa and G. Glasser, 6—3, 6—3. Mrs. May tton Bundy, veteran | Amenican, her youthful partner, Miss Marjorte Morrill of Boston, lost their opening gBgzagement in the wom- an's doubles, bowing to Miles. Amaury and Adamoff of France in straight sets. The scores were 9- 6—3. é“POWER TRUST” SET | TOBUY U.S. PRESS, NORRIS CHARGES (Continued From First E letter from Prof. J. Russell Smith, pro- fessor of economic geography at Colum- bia University, written on June 15, 1928, in which he recommended the Piedmont area of the South as a good newspaper field. They included letters from Har- well & Rockwell, New York newspaper brokers, and Bryant, Griffith & Brun- son, New York advertising representa- tives, written in the latter part of June and early July, regarding newspaper prospects in the South, both in connec- tion with prospective newspaper pur- chases and with advertising conditions. mortgage foreclosures and also cized the statute regarding Ty | Admiral Jellicoe has just received the freedom of Southampton, England, his -native citw ' A seaplane and a submarine chaser searched until dark without success. | Small fishing vessels took up the search when darkness fell and all night long searched through the hundreds of tiny bays and inland creeks along the west | shore. At dawn today Naval Academy offi- clals renewed their efforts. Two se planes, fiying low, cruised over the bay and along the shore, hoping that the two might still be clinging to the canoe. The subchaser, & 25-foot Academy | launch and a dozen pleasure craft plowed through the driving rain this | morning over the area where' the canoe | was last seen. | Fishermen familiar with the bay ex- pressed the belief that there was slight | chance of finding the two alive. They pointed out that the canoe, if it had hap- Pened to strike a bell buoy or any other | obstacle, would have sunk. Even had it remained efloat, they say, the chance | that the two could have clung to it for | 24 hours in the tossing water is remote. | Aside from his work in the" Federal’ service, Hodgson, who is 48 years old, contributed several writings, which | have aided in the advancement geodesy. In particular he is the author | of several books dealing with primary | triangulation. He was born at Wilmington, Ohlo, July 11, 1880. He obtained degrees of | Bachelor of Science from both Wil-| mington College and Haverford College, both in Ohio. In 19804, shortly after his graduation, he became associated with the Coast and Geodetic Survey. From 1911 until he became assistant chief of the division of geodesy, except for a period of military service, he wi engaged in fleld observation for the first order triangulations, astronomic the families had appealed to him for rotection. A few strikers gathering n town early this morning were in good spirits and declared “we have just begun to fight.” Trials of more than 50 strikers on charges of contempt of court toda: were set by Chancellor C. E. Miller for hearing Wednesday, when the defend- ants werg arraigned before him. The number increased with the identifica- tion of a number of pickets who were arrested last week and arraigned for contempt. latitudes and longitudes. One of his st tasks was the surveying of the waters in which he disappeared. Served as Captain in War. Hodgson and his wife, formerly Miss Edith Hockett, attended Wilmington College together and were married shortly after his graduation from Haverford. William is their only child. Mr. Hodgson is a fellow of the Ameri- can Association for the Advancement of Sclence and a member of the Amer- ican Soclety of Civil Engineers, Society of American Military Engineers, Wash- ington Academy of Science, the Amer- ican Geographical Society and the Cos- mos Club. He is the chairman of the committee on central surveys in the American Society of Civil Engineers and at one time was president of the Wash- ington Post of the Soclety of American Military Engineers. During the war he served as a cap- tain and later as major in the Corps of Engineers, attached while overseas with the 20th Division. Their home hers is in the Valley Vista Apartments, at Belmont road and Ashmead place. ' Submits Digest of Situation. Another was a memorandum which Lavarre said he had prepared in June, 1928, and which he later presented to Archibald R. Graustein, president of | the International Paper & Power Co., at their first meeting several months Ilater. Lavarre also transmitted a digest | on the situation concerning the various newspapers in which he was interested and which he said he had prepared at Mr. Graustein's request. Man Holds Job 80 Years. Joseph Zalesky, who recently celebr: ed his 103d birthday near Nancy France, has spent more than 80 years working on the same farm, and has been éngaged in farm work for 94 years. He is said to be the grandson of a noble- | man of the court of King Stanislaus of | Poland. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band at the Marine Barracks this evening at 8 o'clock. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur S. Witcomb, seczond leader. March, “Marine Corps nuuturg" i Overture, “Carneval” Glazounow Characteristic, “Rustle of Spring.” g Sindin, | Trombone solo, “Aero Polka, Zimmerman an Robert E. Clark. . Massenet | _Principal Musie Fantasie, “Le Cid’