Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER (U 8 Weather B District of Columbia—Partly with local thundershowers tonight or to- merrow; continued Temperature—Highest, 83, at 1:30 p.m yesterday; lowest, 67, New York Markets Closed Today. ¢ cloudy ureau For warm. . at’5 am. today. | l ' | ¢ Foening Sfar. ~—— WITK SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Associated service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news | | | Yesterday’s Circu lation, 107,908 ¢ oo sec W class matter WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, MAY * B B (#) Means Associated Pres: TWO CENTS. 0, 1929—FORTY PAGES. b —— PRESIDENT URGES FULL ACCEPTANCE OF KELLOGG PACT Plea for Peace and Ultimate Disarmament Keynote of Memorial Speech. SEES TREATY AS MEANS TO BIND FAITH WITH DEAD Vast Crowd Hears Hoover at Ar- lington—Veterans Present in Large Numbers. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. 1f the i to really peonle of the nations that pact, there must be at once an abandon- ment of the aggressive use of arms by every atory nation. as well as sin- cere declaration on their part that arm- ament hereafter shall be used only for defense, Such is the opinion expressed by President Hoover in his Memorial cay address at Arlington National Cem- etery today Making it clear that he does not share the views of those whom he described 23 pessimists and whom he said have geen fit to look upon the Kellogg peace treaty as a trick of statesmen. President Hoover emphatically declared that in view of the fact that fighting ships are:| still being built, he believes te time has come when the world must know wheth- er the Kellogg pact is real. Must Quit Preparations. | He contended that if this covenant ! be zenuine proof that the world has re- nounced war as an instrument of na- tional policy, it means at once an| sbandonment, of war-like preparations. | Mr. Hoover made it evident he thinks | that very little may be expected in the | aspirations of world peace until the| great powers stop bolstering their naval | armaments and effect a genuine reduc- | tion. He argued that fear and suspi- | cion, which he considers two of the, principal contributing causes of war, will never slacken or disappear unless the tide is turned definitely toward actual reduction. He doubted if any agreement can be reached by this Nation and other world powers in the matter of reducing naval armament until these nations find a rational vardstick with which to make reasonable comparisons of their naval units with the United States, and thus maintain an agreed relativity. He re- gretted that the world so far has failed | to find such a yardstick, but he ex-| pressed hope for the future, stating that | to say that such a measure cannot be found would be counseling despair. President Hoover contended that the | only interest the United States has in | disarmament is in the matter of a re- | duction in its naval forces. He men- tioned the efforts undertaken by his administration to approach the vital problem of naval disarmament with the to outlaw war Keilogg treaty fulfill its high purpose and represents the aspirations of the signed that Above: MERLA MATTHEW -—Harris & Ewing Below: WILLIAM LAVENDAR. HERDES ONORE N AN SERVEES Memorial Day Observance Featured by Patriotic Parade. America's gratitude to those who gave their lives in defense of its honor and existence was expressed over the Nation today. Giving voice to this sentiment, Presi- dent Hoover's Memorial day message, prepared for delivery at the patriotic pageant staged in the white ampithea- ter at Arlington National Cemetery was to be carried to countless millions [ovavaeain romac | TWO D, . TEACHERS DROWN AS CANOE UPSETS IN POTOMAC 4Bnth Were Strong Swimmers, ‘ Friends Say—Wet Clothing | Blamed for Deaths. | e |TWO OTHERS IN BOAT ‘; SAVED BY CAMPERS | C Exhausted Couple Cling to Sides of Drifting Craft Until Pulled Ashore. Dragged down by their water soaked | clothing when their canoe was over-| turned in the Potomac a mile ahove Key Bridge. a young professor at Lang- !ley Junior High School and his voung | woman companion, physical director at | the same school, were drowned shortly after midnight. Another couple in the !same boat were saved by clinging to | the craft | The dead are William Lavendar. 23 | vears old, of Rock Island, IlL. living {at 2115 F street, and Miss Merla Mat- | thews, 30 vears old, of Hampton Courts. Miss Matthews came here from Har- risonburg, Va. In the the boat with the time were Norman R. vears old, of the F street | | them at Hagen, 22 | address, employed at’ the Weather Bu- ireau. and Miss Della Wynn, 25 years old, of 1633 Sixteenth street. Thought to Have Sought Aid. | The drowned couple were said by | friends to have both been strong swim mers. It is thought that they were attempting to swim ashore to procure aid for Hagen and Miss Wynn when they were dragged under. The canoe finally drifted to the river bank a short distance below the Colonial Canoe Club, and the exhausted couple clinging fo if were pulled ashore by occupants of a riverside camp. Neither Hagen nor Miss Wynn could give an accurate description of the manner in which the mishap occurred, beyond saying that Lavender stood up | in"the canoe. Harbor police were notified and the police launch was dispatched to the place where the canoe finally reached shore. Dragging was commenced at once, but was greatly hampered by ig- norance of the exact spot where the | canoe overturned. Hagen's Cries Attract Campers. Occupants of camps about half a mile above Keyv Bridge they were first attracted by the cries of Hagen, calling, “Bill. where are you?" This is thought to have been some time after Lavender and Miss Matthews started for land. Cries for help sooner might have brought rescuers to the place in time to have saved the pair. The party started out from one of {the boathouses near Key Bridge in a jhired canoe. Four persons in one MEMORIAL DAY, 1929 | 'SPENCE KILLED IN AUTO RACE: 4 FORCED OUT: LITZ LEADING :De Paolo, Hepburn, Wood- Nine Flyers Start in Gardner bury and Moriceau in Accidents. Lou Moore Is Second, Meyer Third at End of First 100 Miles. By the Associated Press. SPEEDWAY., INDIANAPOLIS. May 30.—William Spence of Los Angeles was killed today racing in the 500-mile | international motor race at the Indian- apolis speedway. Spence, one of 33 crack drivers of the world competing in the event, turned | over on the southeast turn of the two- and-a-half-mile brick course, suffering | a fractured skull. He was rushed to the track hosvital, but died on the way. Spence was 24 years old and married. He was a relief driver for Willlam Ar- nold in the race last year and finished seventh. Spence was a newcomer in major race competition. He had driven about 40 miles over the perilously bumpy brick track when his car tipped over, pinning him beneath it. WOMEN HOLD KEY AT BRITISH POLLS Trophy Contest at | St. Louis. Feminine Voters in Majority as England Ballots on Commons Seats. Competing Over Course of 470 Miles—Stunts on Program. | | Br the Azcociated Pre: LONDON, May 30. — Great | voted today on members of its next . - | House of Commons, the seventh in the ! By the Associated Press | i ‘. . EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. May 30.—Nine | €% ciEcitlg fegiye Y 1“'“."“1”“ the pilots roared away from here. at 1. | clection desicnates the political com- minute intervals, beginning at 10:30 | plexion of the next cabinet, o'clock this morning. with a pylon at the Indianapolis Speedway as the ob- | jective before the return flight here, with the Gardner Trophy and $5,000 and closing at 8 p.m. is expected 1o | cash as the lure. in elimination | SMO¥ More than 20000000 electors of | C poyers. chosen In elimination | pngiand, Scotland, Wales and Northern T I e aues, Tuesday, were: w1, | Ifeland.’ Of a total of nearly 29.000,000 o IR, 2L | eligible to vote, women outnumbered Laird. Bz, No. 99—Earl Rowland, Wichita Kans,, | M¢™ 13:277628 to 13,665,938 Outcome Is Doubtful. Cessna. No. 13—Marvis T. O'Dell, Cincinnatl. | The pre-election campaign was marked with unusual apathy and, pend- | Cessna: | No. 4—John P. Wood, Wausau, Wis., ing returns from today's voting, the outcome was in doubt. Even money | Waco. | ,No. 5—Sydnor Hall. St. Louis. Trav- | was obtainable in London that the in- cumbent Conservative party would re- | elair, turn 268 members to the Commons, Complete count of those going to the | . No. 3—Arthur J. Davis, East Lansing, Britain | polls; opening in most cases at 8 am.| AVITION STRES INPASTTHO YEAR PONTFUTURE PATH [Great Progress Made Since | Lindy’s Epochal Flight Over Atlantic. RECORDS SHATTERED DURING SHORT SPAN Fahy Sets Solo Endurance Mark at 37 Hours in Latest Aerial Achievement. 1 the A ted Press Mavrtime and two airplanes with their noses headed toward the | Atlantic has recalled another May morning two vears ago when the Lone Zagle zet out the szame vast stretch of water and ushered in a new era of man's conquest of the air The airplanes. Green Flash and Yel- Bird, which now are waiting for favorable weather on the Maine coast to head into the air for Europe, are ready for an attempt. like the epoch- making flight of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. record new aerial achievement—a fransatlantic air race. May Race Over Atlantic. The Green Flash. manned by two Americans, is headed for Rome, and the Yellow Bird. piloted by French fiers. for Paris. If the hopes of their crews | are realized the two planes will race { over the ocean to Europe. And so in the span of 24 months the picture has changed from the flight of a lone pilot to a prospective race over | the uncharted air lanes, and this is but poised over o a made since that memorable feat of Lindbergh two vears ago. In the first half of this year a new field besides the spectacular feats of flights across oceans and into the ice- bound polar regions has been opened in aviation—the refueling of planes from the air. Two major tests of air | refueling, by which airplanes have stayed aloft for days. have been con- ducted and aviation authorities regarded interrupted flights over long distances and of far-reaching effect in the progress of flying. Civilian Fiyers Set Records. A few days ago two civilian_aviators in their single-motored monoplane, the Fort Worth, remained in the air nearly eight days—172 hours and 32 minutes— durance flying record. The Texas avia- tors broke a refueling endurance mark which had been established in the first month of this year by the Army tri motored monoplane, the Question Mark at Los Angeles. The Question Mark flew 150 hours and 40 minutes. Four other aviation regords have fall- a part of the advancement aviation has | | them as pointing the way toward un- | over that Texas city to set a new cn-| CREDITORS AGREE ON PERCENTAGES OF REPARATIONS Action Follows Acceptance of 27-Billion Figure by Germany. TWO MINOR QUESTIONS ARE YET TO BE SOLVED Belgian Demands and Reich Reser- vations Remain—Settlement Fa- vorable to French Cabinet. Br ‘he Ascocia‘rd Presc PARIS, Mav %0.—The allied creditor experts foday reached a fAinal agreement 2mong themselves on the repartition of the German reparations payments. Thiz followed the acceptance by the Germans last night of the new figures suggested by Owen D. Young, leaving nothing remaining for settlement but the questior of the repayment of Ger- man marks in Belgium and an agrae- ment concerning the German reserva- tions to their aeceptance of the young vlan It was understood that the Belgians agreed o take up the German marks question directly with Ambassador von Hoesch. The gencral impression at the Hotel George V was that matters would now “move along very fast." | Percentages Unknown. | Just what percentages entered the new repartition scheme remained un- known. There was no formal meeting or con- ference of the allied delegates this morning. but the creditor experts co ferred in a series of private conversa- tions and later Dr. Ludwig Kastl of the German delegation was closeted with them. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, head of the German delegation, returned to Paris from Versailles, where he had spent the last_day or two resting from the strain of the conference. | During the morning the experts con- | tinued private conversations in an ef- fort to iron out the remaining difficul- ties in the way of a full settlement of the reparations question. | The reparations total, over a period | ot 39 vears effective as of September 1. 1929, was estimated today to approxi- mate 113.000,000.000 gold marks er about $27.000.000,000. This amount, at 51, per cent interest, would represent a present or capital value of semething more than $8.800.000,000. The French cabinet was known to- day to have taken a favorable view of | the agreement. It was underst that if the reparations experts could agree | on various national reservations to set- i:lemenl the government would advise | Parliament to ratify it. | went over the work of the experts, both | | | The cabinet, at a morning session, other powers by offering a new program. | throughout the country to unite the|cange would have overcrowded it. po- |, BSfOTe the first 100 miles were fin-| Mich, Waco. against 400 holding office now; that | e by the wayside in _the past few Premier Poincare and Henri Cheron, Services Impressive. These significant utterances on the rt of the President were delivered from the rostrum of the amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery where | impressive services under_auspices of | the Grand Army of the Republic and | other veteran organizations were held | throughout the day. The amphitheater | was crowded with attentive listeners as | the President spoke, and the green | slopes beyond the enclosure were | thronged with persons. | The President's remarks were not | eonfined, however, to this audience. A Nationalwide radio hookup carried his ples for peace and disarmament to mil- ns of homes throughout the land. Mr. Hoover's address, while brief, had been prepared with the greatest pains and was delivered with much feeling. | It was plain to be seen he considered this occasion an ideal one for the ex- | pression of his candid opinions upon the subjects of peace and disarmament. In the vast audience before him he could look down upon the uniforms | of veterans of four wars, and on tne surrounding slopes and hills he could | see the thousands of reminders of tne | fruits of war in the form of markea graves of those who had fought for | the perpetuation of this Republic. | It was an impressive setting and a | most, fitting occasion, according fo his own views, for the voicing by the Presi- | dent of the United States of the aspirations of the American peopie The text of President Hoover's ad- Pellow countrymen: Over the years since the Civil War the Grand Army of the Republic has eonducted this sacred ceremony in me- moriam of those who died in service of | their country. The ranks of their liv-| ing comrades have been steadily thinned | with time. But other wars have reaped their harvest of sacrifice, and these dead, too, lie buried here. Their living| comrades now join in conduct of this memorial, that 1t may be carried for- ward when the noble men who today represent, the last of the Grand Army shall have joined those already in the great beyond. i Pledges Renewed Efforts. This sacred occasion has impelled our Presidents to express their aspirations in furtherance of peace. No more ap- propriate tribute can be paid to our heroic dead than to stand in the pres- ence of their resting places and pledge renewed effort that these sacrifices shall not be claimed again Today. as never before in peace, new life-cestroying _instrumentalities and new systems of warfare are being added to thase that even so recently spread and desolation_over the whole ent of Europe. Despite those les- very government, continues to increase and perfect its armament And while this process i= being made " (Continued on Page 2. Column 1. {Jnlimitc;d Auton;ob the Associated Pres 1.0S ANGELES week of itting their own judgment ins ing cpeed laws to g through th of Police i nounced that the result had bee far satizfactory The police chief drivers last Thursday with the nouncement that a speed of 30 mile an nour would be allowed in certain dis- wicts "1 believe we have moved more over our highwavs. but 1 have not ticed any tendency of motorists Lo trans- B a startled autom af | officials of the Government, | Soldier’s Tomb. widespread observances in one mighty unit. Surviving veterans of Gettysburg, San- tiago and the Argonne, the comrades of those whom the citizens of Washing- ton assemboled to honor, marched once more down historic Pennsylvania ave- nue to reassemble across the Potomac at the National burying ground. Other groups of feeble men in blue and young- er veterans in olive drab met elsewhere in the city and at various cemeteries to join in similar tributes to the heroic dead. The hush of the reverent tribute lay over the city and its historic cemeteries with governmental activities stilled and Congress_in adjournment for the oc- casion. Thousands of men, women and children, their arms bearing flowers, visited Arlington and the other ceme- teries where soldiers, sailors and ma- rines sleep, and not a grave was left without its mark of love. Many Officials Present. ‘The President chose this solemn oc- casion at Arlington to deliver his sec- ond address since he took office. .High members of the diplomatic corps in resplendent uniforms and ranking officers of the armed services mingled with the hoys of ‘61 and ‘18 in the throngs that gathered about the tomb of the Un- known Soldier of the World War and that, other tomb near Arlington House where rest the unknown Union soldiers of the Civil War, The annual parade of the Veterans of the Civil, Spanish-American, Indian and World Wars, with the representa- tives of patriotic societies, was arranged to_precede the President’s address. Early in the morning, sunshine broke through the cloudy sky and smiled en- couragingly upon the thousands of pil- grims. Before the exercises began in the Amphitheater, the President and Mrs. Hoover placed their gifts of memory upon the marble slab of the Unknown The President’s was |a wreath and Mrs. Hoover's a single | ros The United States Marine Band, its members_attractive in_dress uniform (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) Mrs. Hoover to Attend Ceremonies s. Hoover will leave Washington tonight fer Cambridge. M where to- morrow she will attend tie ceremonies commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Radcliffe College. She will spend Saturday and Sunday in Boston. where she will engage in Girl Scout activities, and on Monday will eive from Swarthmore College at Swartmore, Pa honorary degree he will return to W day night il Sl Thase | gress common- There has b ase in speed on ¢ which is the condition we have not been able to ¢ gerous condition h: egilation m2 <hington Mon- | lice declared, the usual capacity of such craft being three. Hagen Refuses fo Comment. Hagen arrived at the scene this morn- | ing with harbor police. He refused to | discuss the calamity other than to say, | “It, was one of those thifigs.” Witnesses alleged that Mise Wynn, after being rescued, told them that she and Hagen were paddling the canoe. She was seated in the bow and Hagen in the stern. Feeling the canoe rock, she looked around and saw Lavender standing up. The canoe instantly over- turned. Miss Wynn and Hagen, clinging to the canoe, did not call for help be- cause they thought their friends would reach the shore. A few rods from the scene they passed the cabin of Edward Gibson, who was_ returning from Washington. The girl last night said that until that time they had made no outery. They said that he told her that it was not necessary as he was sure Lavendar and Miss Matthews would reach the shore safely. Observing the light in Gibson's cabin, Miss Wynn called for help. Gibson Swims to Rescue. Gibson said that he observed the !overturned canoe before he heard the girl's cries. but it was dark and he suspected that they merely swim- ming. When Miss 'ynn screamed, Gibson pulled off his clothes and swam | to their rescue. When the overturned cance was reached. Hagen is said to have run up and down the shore calling to Ln\;?}dlt. Rescuers attempted to quiet Hagen, but for some time their efforts were futile. He would give no coherent i statement of the d!sfls}?‘r’r and seemed to be e PAINTINGS DAMAGED IN UNIVERSITY FIRE| | Original Rembrandt and Land- scapes by Keith and Constable Among Treasures. [ Br the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, May 30.—Several art treasures at the Armstrong Museum of the University of Southern California were reported destroyed or damaged be- { vond repair in a fire of undetermined | | origin_ which consumed a gymnasium | building and damaged other campus tructures here last night. | | Among art treacures of the museum | {reported destroved or damaged were an original Rembrandt painting, landscapes by Keith and Cons an Egyptian bust of Queen Isi: 1 be 3,000 years ol As the u P ked the roof of the | J. T. Armstrong, 83 brived smoke, dovnward 5 and streams from hose the help of members of ior clacs. carried much olicction into the street. ctio—"The Adora- s among valuable trong. % with Scuars 3 10y and art c Ciicvelier an option on! at a price o $1,000,000. | . glving Tintoretto State News, Pages 10 and 11 ished Ralph Hepburn, veteran driver,| No. and Peter de Paolo. winner of the 1925 | Kans., Cessna. race, and a favorite to repeat today,| No. D. C. Warren, San Prancisco, | had ‘been forced out of the race along | Travelair. 1 with Cliff Woodbury of Chicago, an-| No. 6—Dale Jackson. St. Louis, Robin. . 9— Stanley T. Stanton, Wichita, Labor would return 253 against a present membership of 160, and that the Liberals would jump to 101 from 46. There are 615 s in the Commons, members, | other favorite. Hepburn was forced out at 35 miles by a broken steering gear. De Paolo went out with the same diffi- culty on his sixty-second mile. Jules Moriceau of Paris. one of the " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) The course measures approximately | | 470 miles and the first planes were ex- | pected to return shortly after 1 o'clock. | The event ends the third annual aeronautics meeting here and while the (Continued on Page 14, Column 1.) PROMIBITION FIRST LAW GROUP ISSUE Problem Has Thrust Itself Into Fore in Deliberations of Commission. Prohibition will not be downed topic for discussion in connection with the crusade against lawlessness launch- ed by President Hoover's National Law Enforcement Commission. The question not only is uppermost in the minds of the general public now that the commission actually has begun to function, but has thrust itself into the fore at preliminary deliberations of the commission, it is understood. ‘What importance should be given to | prohibition phases of the commission’s projected sweeping inquiry into the breakdown of law observance is said to have agitated some of the members at initial sessions of the law group yesterday. Leaders “Broadminded.” ‘The fact that the two ranking mem- bers of the commission, Chairman | George W. Wickersham and former Secretary of War Newton Baker, are known to be ‘“broadminded” on the wet-and-dry question and have shown boldness in the past in considering the problem from a liberal viewpoint, has led to the belief that the commission will look to the two former cabinet officers for guidance. Chairman Wickersham already has evidenced “courageousness” of the type requested by the President in his send- off to the commission. Less then three weeks ago he ventured to express the opinion that the Jones act would “de- feat itself” in consequence of the com- plicated procedure entailed in its en- forcement. ess at Williamsburg, Va.. s of William and Mary e Mr. Wickersham was quoted as saying that “the policy of the Jones which seems to compe! observ- ance of the prohibition law by more rigorous penalties, probably wili defeat itself through the consequences it en- tails. He explained that the new law (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) The Evening Star Will Publish No Late Editions. . Today RICH HELIUM FIND - WADE INCOLORADO Discovery May Revolutionize Development of Dirigibles in America. Discovery of the richest natural de- posit of helium the world has ever known in quantities which may revo- lutionize’ the development of dirigibles in the United States was announced here today by representatives of the Helium Co. of Louisville, Ky.. the only | commercial producers of helium in the United States, which now holds con- | tracts for delivery of the precious gas | to the Army and Navy. The discovery of the new deposit was | made by Lieut. R. R. Bottoms, Naval Reserve officer and chief chemist of the | company, in the Sinbad helium area | near Government Helium Reserve No. 1, Colorado. The hellum-bearing gas is | present over an area of 15,000 acres, | Lieut. Bottoms has reported, and he be- lieves the quantity is sufficient to give | the United States an undisputed world | leadership in lighter-than-air develop- ment. | The Sinbad gas assays 7.07 per cent helium content, Lieut. Bottoms re- ported. The highest previous content ever known was 3.6 per cent, discovered | two months ago by the Helium Co. near | its present plant in the Utah moun-; Is{or d | tains. The Bureau of Mines, which producing helium for Government use at the Amarillo, Tex.. helium reserve, is working with gas containing only & 1.75 per cent content of helium. | Officials Are Elated. Government_aeronautics officials are !elated over the discovery. which they believe will be the greatest incentive in many years for lighter-than-air de- velopment. It is expected that the new upply of gas, which probably will re- duce the cost of helium by more than | 50 per cent. will make possible commer- cial dirigible development in this coun- |try on a scale never before dreamed | possible. Informal announcement of the dis- |covery was made here today by Col. Turney Gratz, chairman of the Aero- nautic Advisory Board of the Common- | wealth of Kentucky and counsel for the Helium Co. Col. Gratz is an officer in the Kentucky State air service, | “This discovery is of the greatest | importance to Government and com- | mercial airship _development,” | Comdr. Garland Fulton, chief of the | Navy dirigible section. “The presence of helium in_the quantity reported by the Helium Co. will mean a reduction {in the price of the gas to perhaps one- third of the present cost.” | Discovery of the Sinbad deposit by ILirul. Bottoms ~ (Contigued on Page 14, Columa 22 | of which 308 comprise a majority | therefore, should the even money bet ting figures be approximated in the re- sults, a coalition of two of the parties against. the third, or even another elec- tion probably wouild be necessary for the | formation of a new cabinet or govern- | ment. | Results of today's elections are expect- |ed to be in doubt for from 24 to 48 hours after the close of the polls. First_returns from some of the con- | stituencies are expected as early as 10:30 tonight (4:30 p.m. Eastern standard time), but most should be much later. Seven Candidates Unopposed. Results in possibly 206 constituencies mav be known by 5 am. tomorrow This first batch of results concerns ‘cm\smuencirs where the prospects were regarded as less favorable for the gov- ernment, than for the other parties. In | ing will not be begun until tomorrow. | Of the 615 seats in the Commons seven have been allotted already to can- didates unopposed on_nomination day. May 20. Warwickshire, polling has been post- poned until June 13, due to death of one of the candidates, leaving but 607 seats at stake today. there were more than 1.700 candidates, with three-cornered eclections in ap proximately 500 constituencies. The outstanding uncertainty in the polling was the voting of more than 5,000,000 women, many of them “flap- pers” between the ages of 21 and 25, recently enfranchised who have not voted before. While the Labor party y has made claim to most of the new vote many political observers have con- tended it will be expressed merely in | increased totals for each of the parties. Lioyd George Provides Issue. The single important issue appeared in the campaign was project to relieve vanced by David Lloyd George, who promised an increase of public works and road building to provide employ ment for those now out of jobs. Despite its being ridiculed by leaders of opposite political faiths, it proved one of the most discussed facvors in the cam- paign. 0 ‘one, not. even the most. sanguine he Conservative prognosticators, to- expected a landslide similar to which the 400 Conservative members to the Commons. Even then, however, the parliamentary majority was obtained Conservatives polling 7.854,523 popular votes, .Labor 5,487,620, and the Lil 2,925,142, Prime Minjster Stanley Baldwin, the iberals i j Forty-Eighth Labor leader. Ramsay MacDonald (Continued on Page 3. Column 3. = f MOREiBOMBS EXPLODED. and Forty-Ninth Blasts of Year Set Off in Chicago. CHICAGO, May 30 (#).—The forty- eighth and forty-ninth bomb of the year exploded during the night, one directed at the entrance of the Pioneer Whole- sale Grocery Co. and the other at the said | Fahey cigar store in the stockyards distriet. Damage of several hundred dollars was done at both places. Twenty-five families living in the building occupied by the cigar store were shaken, but es- caped injury. Radip Programs—Page 32 most of the other constituencies count- | In another. Rugby division of For those seats| unemployment ad- | that of 1924 which returned more than | with only a minority of votes cast, the | £ & And again: weeks. Lieut. Apollo Soucek of the Navy established a new world altitude record of 39,140 feet, while Miss Mar- { vel Crosson 'of San Diego reached a height of 24,000 feet for the unofficial women’s altitude mark last Tuesday. At East St. Louis another altitude record was established for light planes, Barney Zimmerly of Marshall, Mo.. reaching a height of 24,600.feet on the same Tuesday. Late yesterday at Los Angeles. Her- durance record. by keeping his airplane aloft, 36 hours 56 minutes and 36 sec- onds without refueling. 700 May Cross Ocean. A record number of persons—approxi- mately 700—will cross the Atlantic by air this Summer if contemplated flights are carried out. The Graf Zeppelin, the German dirigible, which carries 75 passengers, probably will engage in sev- recent failure to make that flight be- cause of engine trouble. The British dirigible R-100 with a crew and passenger list of 150, plans a round-trip to Canada. About 25 fiyers will occupy airplanes if flights planned (by German, Italian, Swedish and Polish aviators from Europe to this country are accomplished, besides the ‘trips of the Green Flash and the Yellow Bird. FAHY UP 37 HOURS. Fiver Lands With Fuel Tanks Empty and Motor Dead. LOS ANGELES, May 30 (£).—A new mark for solo endurance flying was made here late yesterday when Herbert J. Fahy. veteran test pilot for the Lockheed Aircraft Co., landed after | keeping his plane in the air 36 hours 56_minutes and 36 seconds. Fahy's time ecifpsed the 35 hours 33 minutes and 21 seconds made last Feb- ruary by Martin Jensen at Roosevelt Field, and the mark of 35 hours 24 minutes and 59 seconds established at Roosevelt. Field last May by the late Royal V. Thomas. All the records were characterized as unofficial. Light Failure Breaks Monotony. His plane loaded with 435 gallons of gasoline, Fahy took off Tuesday morn- | ing at 4:43:05 o'clock and circled above | Los Angeles and the area south of here, | hoping to remain up about 40 hours. | As he neared the marks established Thomas and Jensen the test pilot drop- ped messages indicating his glscllnr’ supply was running low and he |ardrd‘ (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) bert J. Fahy. broke the solo flight en- | |eral transoceanic crossings despite its | | minister of finance, putting themselves on record as favoring the financial sec- tion of the experts committee’s agree- ;ment as arranged last night through | Owen D. Young. Reach Acceptance Conditional. | A final action and public announce- | ment, however, must await completion | of the experts’ work, in accordance with |the premier's repeatedly announced policy. German acceptance of these figures, ‘\l'hlt'h are in effect those proposed as a compromise by Owen D. Young, was | given with reservations, all of which | the creditor nations have not been dis- posed to accept. Pending something ap- | proximating agreement on these reser- | vations few close to the conference were | willing today to predict unqualifiedly {its_successful termination. | The general impression, however, was that the greatest obstacle had been sur- mounted and that a path around the | few remaining impediments would be | discovered. Conclusion of negotiations, with agreement or non-agreement on | these Teservations written into a final |report to the governments, is expected |this week. Odds and ends could be cleared up next week and the confe jence finis written by June 8 at t latest. Lamont Explain Situation. The situation was explained by Thomas W. Lamont, American alter- nate delegate. as follows Both creditor and German experts have heretofore declared themselves willing to accept the annuity figures of | 2.050.000,000 marks as suggested by the | chairman, although a difference existed {on the question of interpretation. “This difference has now been re- |moved and a common basis for inter- | pretation acceptable to both the credi- |tors and to Germany has been found. | subject, however. to ‘agreement on the | outstanding conditions, which still re- | main for discussion and settlement.” The agreement on figures came after }rearrangemem of the figures contained in Mr. Young's compromise scheme tn | permit a quicker change over from the Dawes plan to the Young plan, the average annuity of which had been ac- cepted in principle by parties from the beginning. The creditor nations wished to_have the heavy payments under the Dawes plan of 2,500,000,000 marks (about $595,000.000) continue until the end of this year. but the Germans demanded that ‘the Young plan come into opera- tion as originally contemplated by its (Continued on Page 2, Column 6 New Hyattsvill By a Stafl Correspondent of The Star | HYATTSVILLE. Md. May 30.—Be-| cause it rains in Hyattaille so cnen; on Wednesdays. Judge J. Chew Sheriff | is looking for a mew building in which 10 hold the weekly sessions of the local branch of Prince Georges County Police Court. Rain, the judge has found, has to be classed in the category with freight trains, electric cars, steam stovels, trucks and busses as noise makers vhich completely drown out the sound of a witness' testimony and make it neces- sary often to adjourn court until 1t comes quiet enough to understand what a man is shouting at a distance of four feet. Yesterday's session, for example, went something like this: “Your honor. T know I shouldn't touch the stuff, but”—toooot, t00-0-0=t (the Baltimore and Ohio’s 10:35 express blows the crosing). b s Rain Tattoo on Roof Halts Testimony: e Courtroom Sought “And I says to him. don't’—dong. ding-dong (a shifting engine rings off the siding) “In this case the court is going to"— rat, ta. tat (raindrops from an ‘early Summer shower hit the tin roof like a tattoo) . And in every instance the court has to halt its proceedings, sometimes for a minute, sometimes for five minutes. The sessions are held on the second, and top. floor of a building right at the Hyattsville grade crossing. Sometimes there is so much noise from the trains, cars, automobiles and the building op- erations on the overhead bridge which will eliminate the crossing that half the windows in the room are ordered closed. But with hot weather coming on this practice, which, of course, does not help much, will not be practicable. and the court yesterday expressed the hope that new and less boiler-factorylike quarters can be secured soon. .