Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1929, Page 2

A THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTO N, D €, TUEEDAY, JUNE 18, ASKS DECORATIONS FOR FRENCH FLYERS Air Minister Would Make Assolant and Lefevre Members of Legion. By the Assoclated Press PARIS, June 18—M. Laurent Eynac, French air minister, will recommend to President Doumergue that Jean Assolant and Rene Le Fevre, pilot and navigator of the transatiantic plane Yellow Bird warded the decoration of Chevalier | e Legion of Honor. action will be the most marked | tion of a change in the attitude | of the French government toward lhe} Yellow Prd trio. The government | hitherto has frowned sternly upon transatiantic attempts in general and upon its former “baby sergeants,” ;Glitterx‘ng Towers BY RUSSELL OWE Wircless to Star apd New York Times LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, June 18.—The unnaturally warm weather of the last few dAys was followed yves- | terday by so much moisture that’ ice and frost crystals formed on eve | outdoor rd_expedi- | tion’s_cam s became glittering ke ropes in the light of a and even the radio towers and is standing in the snow were rim- med with delicate frost flowers Some of these things were ful that they were photogrs fashlight, were made to show what pranks the frost giants can play down here when they are in an impish mood 1t too good an opportunity for the moving picture men to overlook, beauti- phed by Assolant and Le Fevre, in particular. Guests of Club. \ The two, with their financial backer, Armeno Lotti, were guests of the Aero Club of France, yesterday, Pierre | Etienne Flandin, former minister of | aviation greeting them. He remarked | that at a time when “many people were despuiring of French aviation and | criticizing both its material and its men, three French boys had accom- plished the great feat, which has been equaled and surpassed only by Lind- | bergh.” Although _the stowaway, Arthur Schreiber of Portland. Me.. accompanied the aviators to the Aero Club welcome | and later to the reception given b; Norman Armour at the American em- | bassy, he was not mentioned in any of | the speeches and seemed much out of the picture. When Assolant. Le Fevre and Lotti | finally went to Le Bourget to trundle | their plane into the open, Schreiber did | not accompany them. Lotti was asked about a report he intended shipping the | stowaway back to the United States in the care of the American embassy. He replied: “The young man is our guest. He is free to enjoy the sights of Paris for a few days.” Awarded Medals. Assolant will receive the gold medal of the French Aero Club, and the siiver medal of the club is to be bestowed upon Le Fevre. Schreiber, who was treated more than leniently in'the French press vesterday. came in for some criticism this evening. The newspapers passed him off as a joke in the enthusiasm of the welcome to the French aviators, but the word “imbecile” was the epithet most fre- quently applied to Schreiber tonight. The three aviators will be officially reccived at the Paris Hotel de Ville on June 20 by Georges Lemarchand, presi- dent of the Paris Municipal Council, ( and the entire city government. PLAN VOYAGE TO FRANCE. PORTLAND, Me., June 18 (#)—Mr.| and Mrs. Morris R. Schreiber of Port- land, parents of Arthur Schreiber, stow- away on the Yellow Bird on its trans- | atlantic flight, announced last night| they would leave for Paris soon to join | their son. | The elder Schreiber asserted the ob- ject of the trip was to “shake hands with the three brave fiyers who took my son safely across the ocean.” He said he would attempt to get in touch with Mrs. Jean Assolant, wife of the Yellow Bird’s pilot, who now is in New York, and suggest that the three make the voyage together. NEW YORK, June 18 (#).—Mrs. Jean | ‘Assolant announced yesterday she would | leave tomorrow aboard the Ile de France for Paris to join her husband, pilot of thed transatlantic monoplane Yellow Bird. Mrs. Assolant, who became the bride of the airman a few days before the plane’s departure from Old Orchard, Me., for Europe, said she had received a cablegram from her husband urging her to sail Wednesday. SCHREIPER COMING HOME. PARIS, June 18 (#).—Arthur Schrei- ber of Portland, Me., who stowed away on_the French transatlantic airplane Yellow Bird last Thursday and made the flight to Spain, will be sent home on Thursday, aboard either the liner Le- viathan or the President Harding. Armeno Lotti, jr., backer of the Yel- low Bird’s flight, who has treated Schreiber with every consideration, to- day followed the suggestion of Amer- ican friends that it was time for the airplane’s burdensome and unwelcome passenger to go back whence he came. SEES DRUG BACKGROUND IN SLAYING OF MISS HIX; U. S. INVESTIGATES (Continued From Page. today that drugs played any part in the slaying. Intent upon their hunt for evidence! . in the hammer slaying of the 23-year- old co-ed, authorities today predicted “sensational developments” in their in- vestigation as they centered their in- quiry about Marion T. Meyers, who was taken from a cell at midnight and questioned before the girl's mutilated body early today. Meyers, a former suitor and a friend of Dr. Snook, also held for investigation in the slaying, made the trip to the morgue complaining of lack of rest, but he touched the body and answered questions without wavering in his denial that he knows how the quiet, retiring girl came to her death. Both Meyers, a_research worker in| the horticulture department of Ohio State University, and Snook, until yes- terday a professor in the university school of veterinary, have been held since a few hours after the girl's body was found on a rifie range Friday. She had becn beaien and cut to death Thursday night and thrown from an | automobile, Snook has admitted posing | as her husband and maintaining a room | for their meeting place, but denies knowledge of the slaying County Prosecutor John J. Chester vesterday afternoon subjected Meyers to protracted questioning and then permitted him to rest. At mid- | night, however, he was aroused and | taken to the morgue. A psychiatrist | end two detectives accompanied them. Promises Developments. ir After they entered the room the cov- ering was removed from the girl's bat- | tered head. Meyers was commanded to touch her body. Shuddering, he ex- tended his hand, and then the ques-! tioning began. Chester said his answers were short, byt went to his home afterward, annouricing that “sen- vational developments” were expected as a result of today's inquiry. He refused to_amplify the remark s. Snook was summoned for ques- tioning today in the hope that she may furnish information on the life which _authorities consi I As evidence in the in: tion they aiready have Snook’s automobile and a suit of clothes, which are being analyzed for blood, a statement that his car was washed a few hours after the slaying, and bits of a woman’s attire, found in the ashes of the Snook furnace after a fire had been built there last Friday, & hot day. Dr. Snogk has remained undisturbed | ing after man; and they brought out flares which lighted up the entire camp and the radio towers and antenna and made a record of these shinning lines against he dark background of the Antarc- tic night. One long antenna, just above the ground, looked like a 4- inch silver cable, so long were the crystals I. was 11 degrees above zero yester- day when this phenomenon took place, but today it is 8 below again and clear, for which we are all thankful. It is good once more to see the stars and the faint northern twilight in the morn- days of gloom and com- plete darkness. Bay ice Scenes. Now moving pictures are being made of other outdoor scenes and soon there will be flares shining down on the ba ice, as if witch fires were glowing there, throwing grotesque shadows among the uplifted_cakes. Joe Rucker and Willard Van Veer, the Paramount men, have their troubles with their moving pic- ture cameras, for film snaps and cameras jam in periods of intense cold, and frequently they have to come in | and thaw themselves out before mak- !nn another atlempt to get a picture. But they are slowly obtaining a night | record of life and scenes in the Ant- arctic. ©One who attempts to operate a camera or theodolite or other instrument in the Antarctic must be prepared for many vexations. Moving parts bend, due to contraction from the cold; mois- ture condenses between the lenses and fingers are burned until the tips appear to "have been repeatedly seared by fiames. The first breath of the Antarctic in the ice pack gave an intimation of what was coming. The moving picture cameras began to get Stiff and were taken apart and the ofl washed out with gasoline. | As the ship got farther south, the | der had { photographers lugged their cameras be- low and with many imprecations d assembled them and refitted the moving | parts. This binding was due to the un- | equal expansion of steel shafts working against brass bearings, or some steel or | brass part which came in contact with aluminum, Keeping Cameras Free. ‘When there was room in the wardroom to work, the table top was frequently cov- ered with parts of cameras, while Ruck- | er and Van der Veer loosened bearings with crocus cloth, fitting and refitting until the crank could be turned. Even the tripod had to be taken apart and refitted. Whenever a camera was brought be- low it began to sweat and had to be carefully wiped and dried so that no moisture remained in it to frecze when it was again taken outside. Here at the base cameras are baked in the oven or hung above the stove to dry when it is necessary to bring them indoors. If the slightest moisture is left in them they will freeze and bind in a few minutes. ‘The still cameras froze and had to be thawed. Frost gathered between the lenses no matter how careful one might be and was only removed by baking. Some cameras have quit altogether be- cause the shutters were not designed for low temperatures, but others hav with care been persuaded to continue working satisfactorily, although frost will gather on the lenses of them all. A little camera which may be carried in the pocket and kept warm until needed has proved to be the most val- uable both for withstanding cold and for ease of operating with blistered fin- gers, i Breath Congeals on Works. The motion picture film began to snap at 25 degrees below zero. It would break and have to be rethreaded, an operation done with bare hands because of the small space in which to work. Fingers stuck to metal parts, after such a job Van or Joe could be seen hopping about and holding their hands under their armpits in pain. Care had to be taken not to breathe in the cameras during this operation, as the breath immediately formed frost all over the working parts. The thing that will make a cameraman madder than the proverbial hatter is to walk up to him while he is rethreading and to say, sn't that interesting?” and breathe into his camera. The condensation due to difference nghts and Shadows Provide Grotesque and Fascinating Scenes. and some wonderful pictures | and | \CAMERAS CATCH FROST SHROUD OF BYRD'S ANTARCTIC CAMP and Antenna Amid { | | i | i | | {of the tunnels to guard it from quick | cl of temperature and sweatir | e widely differing light condition | have been one of the greatest obstacles | to good photography, and only by con- tant tests have the proper shutter openings, speeds and filters been de- termined on Jen 1 at noon a t filler and stcp-20 were used, and light had so changed by April 1 in the same location it was neces step-8 without filter Er the [ tican, Risks to Get Movies. The movie men have not made their pic.ures without some personal r |as they have had to on soft ice. over pres al times near ercvasses over 200 pounds, and with & 100-pound | camera and tripod on his shoulder he offers a lot of weight to be held up | even by a big shoe. | When the bark City of New York was bucking the ice one day he went | out ahead of it to get pictures and had to cross a soft spot. He sank in a foot at a time and walked like a cat on a wet pavement, but he got ,across all right. Rucker fell into a crack where the ice dock alongside the Barrier gave way and only the legs of his tripod | across the crevasse saved him from | going down. Luckily, he Fad the tripod under arm, but he had to wriggle | hard to lift himself out | The same difficulties in operation | have been encountered in the use of theodolites and selentific instruments operated by clockwork : The theodolite lenses frost over and | arc baked out and the turnscrews are covered with chamois to protect the fingers | The clocks used in the magnetic re- | cording instruments froze and were hed out with gasoline, and then | gradually cooled to prevent condensa- | tion. They are now operating well both | in the magnetic observatory and the | meteorological instrument shelter—in- | deed, the thermograph has withstood | 58 below zero without stopping. (Copyright. 1929, by the New York Times Co. and ‘the ‘St. Louis Po: Rights for Publication Res out the World BOSTONIA Il TAKES MODEL YACHT PRIZE Craft Sails Under Colors of Rhode Island Club to 8- Peoint Victory. | Taking advantage of | breeze, the Bostonia ITI, owned by John | Black of Medford, Mass., and sailir & varying | under the colors of the Rhode Island Model Yacht Club, won the title of the | speediest model yacht in America in |the finals of the annual elimination races on the large reflecting pool at | the Lincoln Memorial, under the aus- | pices of the National Model Yacht As- | sociation of America, late yestcrday. | With its silvery safls filling with what- lever breeze there was, the Bostonia, ith a total of elght points, nosed ouf {its two competitors in the finals, and | thus gained the privilege of represen ing the United States in internation | model yacht competition at Gosport, | England, in August | Little Rhody, owned and sailed by | Amos Ardoene’ of the Rhode Island | Model Yacht Club, was second with a {total of five points, while Yankee Doodle, II, owned by §. H. Cox of | Cleveland, ‘was third. | The winner of first place also won | first place in national competition sev- | eral years ago and missed winning the | cup in England by only one point while | | salling_Bostonia, II, after which Bos | tonia, ITI, is patterned, with a few al- | terations. The three boats won out in semi- | finals conducted earlier in the day. JAPANESE COUNCIL GROUP 0. K.'S PACT | By the Associated Press. | TOKIO, June 18—The committee of | | the Privy Council which has been con- | | sidering the Kellogg anti-war pact | | voted today to report it favorably to | the council June 26. { | " The debated phrase, “in the names of | their respective peoples,” will be re | ported favorably also, according to its | interpretation by the cabinet | | The action was considered a victory | | | | | | which would_give | ing | amount | different vie in’temperature down here can hardly | for Baron Tanaka, Japanese premier, | be imagined by one who has not experi- | since the expected censure of the cabi- enced it. The warmth of the body com- | net by the Privy Council body failed to ing in contact with something cold condenses moisture from the body. Even a book which has been lying near a cold wall will steam like a teakettle when it is opened in a slightly warmer atmos- phere. This gives a faint idea of the quality of condensation outdoors, which at very low temperatures makes the breath crackle audibly as it leaves the mouth and turns into clouds of vapor. A man standing inside the entrance to one of the house tunnels forms s much vapor by breathing that the hou appears to be on fire. And what one breath will do to a camera is best sug- gested by a row of asterisks. Warming a Camera. ‘The automatic cameras quit at about 20 below zero, because contraction from cold causes the springs to bind. It has been found, however, that an automatic may be warmed over A primus stove and if it is then carried under.the parka next to the body except when in use it will work for about an hour. This is the way moving pictures were made in the Rockefeller Mountain One of the hardest things to ove come is the snow which collects on the lens during a blizzard. If the camera is turned away from the wind an eddy lens, and if it is held partly facing the wind, the snow gathers even more rapidly. | "It has to be moved frequently and | with great care so as not to melt it and prevent frost forming. It cannot be blown cut, and there is difficulty in ge ting it out, as the mere approach of the hand is sufficient to cause conde: tion and freezing. But some blizzard pictures have been made despite the: difficulties. Now that the cameras have been ad- justed so that they will withstand the cold they are left outdoors as much as | possible to prevent sweating. But it was | found difficult to keep the snow out | when it was drifting. Hoods and Light Filters. cameras are made to keep out light and are nearly watertight, but after a blow | two or. three spoonfuls of snow would be found inside the cases. Various types while a long file of witnesses proceeded through the prosecutor's office. He has made but one statement eince his a rest, the admission of his relations with | the ‘girl and his plea of an alibi. Meyers, who shared the girl's affections with iSnook. likewise advauces an Albl,- of hcods were tried until one was ‘found { which offered fair protection. The dogs also took a liking to the iripods and the legs were chewed until they resemble old-fashioned hitching posts. The film is kept outside in one forms which sucks the snow into the | materialize. | “There has been much opposition in | | Japan to ratification of the Kellogg | anti-war treaty on the ground that the | | clause “the high contracting parties | solemnly declare in the names of their | respective peoples, etc.” in Article 1 | infringes upon the position of the Em- | | peror, who may sign in his own name | | and not of his people. | The cabinet interpretation of the dis- puted clause was a contrivance to make it meaningless in the sense to which the Japanese opposition objected. |INGALLS TO MEET OHIO | AIR DELEGATION TODAY Cleveland Mayor and 19 Others Due at 4—Hoover to Be Asked to National Races. Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Acronautics David S. Ingalls will meet | an air delegation fxom Cleveland, Ohio, | at the Naval Air Station at Anacostia this afternoon. Mayor John J. Marshall and 19 other prominent citizens of | Cleveland are due to arrive at Anacostia at 4 o'clock this afternoon. An invitation to President Hoover to attend the national air races to be held at Cleveland September 24-27 is being brought to Washington in an air mail letter signed by 2,000 school children of Cleveland. The letter will be pre- sented to President Hoover at 12:15 tomorrow. | Final arrangements for the repre- sentation of Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Department of Commerce and commer- | cial aviation at the air meet will be i made during the stay of Mr. Marshall { in Washington. | Officer Cited fo; VGall;ntry‘ A silver star citation has been award- ed by the War Department to Second | Reserve, of New York City for gallantry | {in action during the attack and cap- | | ture of Grand Pre, France, October 16, {1918, while serving as a’ sergeant in Company C, 307th Infantry, 77th Di- ision, The citation shows that affer his commanding ofiicer had been killed Sergt. Quevedo, assumed command of his piatoon and captured 2 enemy ma- chine guns and 80 prisoners. | would be a mo DEBENTURE ISSUE EOBS UP AGAIN Norris Tariff Provision May Cause Second Fight by Fall. The Summer and early g to Congress a t debes f which is exp warm late ond cor plan of f to be even The the introduction of Norris, Repub- put the debenture plan in bill, and unle signs fail a lively time will be had be- fore it is disposed of The Worris proposal s practically the me the one finally torn out of th farm relief bill by the insistence of President Hoover and the Hous of Rep- resentatives, and the indications are that it may carry mueh weight in sha t neral make-up of the tar 1ture advor ures against som tariff act by Senator tes have reprisal of the schdules ously in mind if n obj ed to. some leaders ex- cc to be affected to « msiderable extent by the use of which the Feceral Farm Board now being formed by the President makes of the $151,000,000 appropria yesterday obtained from Congress for its initial effort looking to the relief and stabiliza tion of agriculture. Of the total $150,000.- 000 is available for that work and much of this sum probably b> expended in an effort to solve the wheat surplus situation. The satisfaction or dissa faction with which members of Congre: view the results of that project is e pected to have considerable influence on their conduct during the new deber ture contest Fight Long Foreshadowed. Renewal of the contest was clearly foreshadowed at the time the debenture plan was first voted upon favorably by the Senate, 47 to 44. The administra- tion Senators who led the opposition told then by some members that they would vote against the plan in the farm bill, but not as a part of the tariff bill. If the debenture group can hold its ranks firm, which most lead ers seem to think it can, it would ar pear as if the vote in the Senate am new cont n | debentures in the tariff bill might be somewhat increased. Senator Brookhart meanwhile is working make the debenture Republican, Towa, out a plan to provision some of the objections raised by Pr dent Hoover through an amendment the proceeds of de- benture certificates to the Federal Farm Board rather than direct to exporters ultural commodities, n this way,” he says. “the board wounld be justified in immediately rais-| the price of, say wheat, the full of the debenture certificat or 21 cents per bushel The Iowa Scnator intends to confer with Senator Norris and Senator Rob- inson of Arkansas, the Democratic teader, in the hope of winning the sup- port of these two debenture leaders for his proposal. Whether the House, which voted over- | whelmingly to climinate the plan from the farm bil later is a matter of spec- ulation, Debenture leaders are of the opinion that the forthcoming recess will see a change of sentiment, but admin- istration leaders say the first House vote doomed the plan for the entire session. Heover Likely to Sign. The President recommended the farm | appropriation early yesterday, the House approved it with little debate, and the Senate adopted the House resolution with no debate. Mr. Hoover doubtiess will sign it soon, thus creating the first portion of the $500,000,000 revolving fund authorized by the farm relief law. The list of potential nominees to the farm board grows daily, one addition made yesterday being Shérman Houston of Malta Bend, Mo. Senator Patterson and Representative Palmer of that State described him to President Hoover as “a real dirt farmer.” They said Mr. Hoover gave no indication of his inten- tions concerning the board’s make-up. Developments saw no lessening of the speculation on James C. Stone of Ken tucky, and Carl Williams of Oklahoma. as board members. They are being backed by various farm organizations. No Dissenting Voice. There was not a dissenting volce in the House after Chairman Wood of the appropriations committee asked that the rules be suspended to make the ap- propriaticn. Several Democrats, includ- ing Representative Garner of Texas, the leader, said_they favored giving the board the full $500,000.000. Wood called attention to the letter of the President, in which he said that the additional amounts which will be needed by the board cannot be deter- | mined except by the board itself, but as Congress might shortly recess I have thought it desirable that a preliminary sum should be provided.” “If the board finds it necessary to have further funds it should be possible to make provision for them in ample | time, as Congress will no doubt be i | session by the time they are require the letter added. Under the farm relief act the money would be used by the board in making loans to co-operative marketing agen- | cies and for setting up stabilization cor- porations to take from the market price-depressing surpluses. Several of the Middle Western House members have the first actions of the board probably toward the stabilization of the wheat market. PRIZE-WINN ‘This drift snow is incredibly fine. The | Lieut. Luis B. Quevedo, U. S. Infantry, more | attractive to the House and also meet | will be ready to take a | suggested that among | | ROANOKE KEYNOTER FLAYS SMITH MEN | | | Williams Assails Virginia Democratic Leaders and Praises Hoover. (Continued Prom First Page.) nominated Gov. Smith, Smith had an- nounced he would try to have the dry v modified or changed “just as soon he could persuade the people him do it.” The speaker charg: Smith, while Governor of New | ad “bludgeoned a lone Demo- egislator into casting the de- which caused a repeal of rcement act. He charged, t0o, that the Democratic national com- miitee, under the lcedership of John. J. Raskob, *conducted a _two-faced campaign. ‘a_militant campaign in the | Nerth and East and an evasive, soft- pedaling campaign upon the question of | liquor in the South under the smoke- | sereen of intolerance and religious | prejudice.” Mr. Williams declared that | the Democrats in Virginia who had supported Smith had not recanted.” | “They are as arrogant and dogmatic as | ever.” he co “Already some of them are thither and yon | ut the corral the people undcr the lash of party loyalty end | regularity. It is an insult to our in- | telligence for them to think we s contintie o follow bliudly where ead. as Tunnin State to Tammany Is Assailed. “We are here for the purpose of repudiating that leadership until our | influences, individually and collective bring their minds back to a re tion of the essential foundations uj ich our Nation was builded. We not tolerate the leadership in this S which not only has refused {o renounce the national Raskob-Smith-Tammany leadership, but many of whom are in active sympathy with that national leadership. They have not renounced it because they believe in it and prac. tice many of the reprehensible methods of Tammany, so unthinkable to many, Southern people.” Mr. Willlams de- | clared the leaders even sought to in-| timidate school teacher: | Mr. Williams said that the regular | Democrats after they have nominated | their candidate by Tammany methods” at the primary on August 6, will then denounce Tammany. “We may look for the nominees of that primary to | outherod Herod in their protests against | Tammany,” he said | “When 'they come with their de- | pon | n- | | nunciation of Tammany at what they believe to be a prudent time for office s usual, and not for principle, we will | understand: Al the people of Virginia will understand. If they so despised Tammany. why, in the hour of our peril, were they not only willing that | Virginia would surrender to Tammany, | bui begged the people to surrender | merely for party regularity.” Denies Issues Are Dead. The speaker denied that the issues of e last campaign were dead. Let me call your attention,” he said, | that at a dinner recently in honor of Jouett Shouse, new chairman of the Democratic executive committee, John J. Raskob announced he had no inten- tion of resigning the national chair- manship and we understand that thun- derous applause greeted every mention of Al Smith's name. Raskob is being retained because he is a wet and he and his friends are possessed of an abundance of wherewithal to under- write or liquidate the party's deficit. He himself points out that Smith re- ceived more votes in the_last election than any man in the White House except the man who defeated him. “The intent and purpose of the Smith-Raskob conglomeration is writ- ten in characters so large and visible that every one who is not stone blind an see and read a determination to | lower the party to the inexorable level of the sidewalks of New York.” A significant thing is that only four | Southern Democratic leaders have | openly expressed disapproval of the continuance of Smith and Raskob as | party leaders, the speaker continued. They are Representative Box of Texas, Senators Blease of South Carolina, | Heflin of Alabama and Simmons of | North Carolina. Gov. Byrd, he said, is | still vice chairman of the Democratic national committee. When the convention met today soon | after 10 o'clock about 800 delegates and spectators were in the hall. The crowd was growing constantly. A band played “Dixie” amid loud cheers and every one rose to the strains of “The Star Spangled Banner.” Lyon Loudly Cheered. Frank Lyon of McLean, Va. opened the convention with a statement of reasons for the convention. He said the | independent Democrats, who opposed | Smith last year, had determined at a! confercnce February 5 in Lynchburg to | | meet here in convention to outline their future cause. | 'Mr. Lyon was loudly cheered when he attacked Smith and Raskob. He de- | clared that if the Democrats who fol- |lowed Smith last year were left in charge, they would lead the Democrats |of Virginia' “into the Tammany wig- | wam.” “We are here to proclaim the free- ( | dom of this commonwealth as our fore- fathers did,” said Mr. Lyon. He said| | that the Protestant leaders of Virginia | had practically all opposed Smith and | had bren “vilified” by the Democratic He predicted that | these Democratic leaders in the ocn- | gressional elections and in the 1932/ | presidential election would stand for just what they supported in 1928. “Will you continue these leaders in | power?” he demanded. “No, No!” shout- ed the convention. | Mr. Lyon referred to the dinner re- cently given to Mr. Shouse, chairman of the Democratic_executive committee in Washington. He said: “It was & dinner given by a local Washington or- | ganization that had a few wecks after | leaders “as bigots.” YACHT The Bostonia IIT, which won the title of the speediest model yacht in America, at the meet completed yesterday on the Reflecting Pool of the Lincoln Memorial, ~—Star Staft Photo. to! Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow (left), wife and whose daughter Anne was recently and Mirs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge, wife of former President Ca pictured at the ffty-first commencement at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., where they were awarded honorary degrees. June 17, the November election suggested the renomination of Gov. Smith as the leader of Democracy in 1932. Invita- tions were spread broadcast throughout the United States and there was hope »f many that the occasion would be used |0 eliminate Mr. Raskob from the Demo- party. He had been grofted from Republican_camp onto the Demo- cratic tree for the purpose of destroying prohibition. ‘While Senators Glass and Swanson did not attend the dinner, humiliating letters of apology were written by them | conveying their regrets they could not | attend and tully approving its purpose. No declination by a Virginia leader was | read at the dinner. There is no Vir- | ginla Senator and no Virginia member of the House of Representatives who | used this occasion to express his disap- proval of the Smith-Raskob-Tammany conception of Democracy. For all the Virginia public knows the meeting was in entire harmony with the present Virginia_leadership. No candidate for | governor in this State has entered his disapproval.” | Flock to Roanoke. | Yesterday and today delegates to the ! | convention from many parts of the State crowded into Roanoke. Many of them came in automobiles and busses bearing_signs, ‘On to Roanoke Anti- | Smith Democratic Convention—Smash | | ter the previous women's record by the Machine.” “Smash the machine” is likely to be | the slogan of the anti-Smith Demo- | crats in the coming campaign. Having | brought defeat to the party’s presiden- tial ncminee in Virginia, they now pro- | pose to defeat the regular organization, which supported Smith in the campaign | last vear. It's a big job they are un- | dertaking, one which they can accom- | plish probably only with the support of the Republicans of the Old Dominion, and even under such conditions may be | impossible. Already some of the anti- Smith Democrats have slid back into | the old party fold, among them men | who were prominent in the movement against Smith last year, like George | Conrad of Harrisonburg, Dr. R. H. Pitt | of Richmond and J. D. Eggleston, presi- | dent of Hampden-Sydney College. From_influential Republican sources | in the State comes the information to- day that the Republican State conven- tion, which is to be held in Richmond June 26, is to indorse the nominee of the anti-Smith convention, especially if it be Dr. Brown, but probably any nomi- nee that anti-Smithites see fit to pro- pose. ‘The Republicans take the atti- tude that this is a fair and clubby thing for them to do. The anti-Smith Demo- crats voted for their presidential can- didate last year and helped to carry the State for him, not to mention aiding them in electing three members of Con- gress, from the second, seventh and ninth congressional districts. The con- gressional elections are to come off next year. Senator Carter Glass, t0o, is up for re-election. Next year the Repub- licans are likely to urge the anti-Smith Democrats to come to their assistance again for the purpose of re-electing Re- publicans from the congressional dis~ tricts and of placing a Republican in the Senate instead of Senator Glass. Already there has been talk of possible Republican candidates for the Senate against Senator Glass, among them Henry Anderson of Richmond, long prominent in the Virginia G. O. P., and Bascom Slemp, former member of Con- gress and former secretary to the Presi- dent and now national committeeman. There was one possible blow-up in sight as the anti-Smith Democratic convention got under way today. In some quarters it had been urged that ihe convention take official notice of the entertainment of Mrs. Oscar De Priest, wife of the colored Representa- tive from Illinois at the White House. 1. C. Trotman, member of the executive committee, several days ago declared that if the convention took no action on this matter he would take himself out of the new party alignmen ‘There is no doubt that this incident of the entertainment of Mrs. De Priest at tea by Mrs. Hoover has aroused feeling in Virginia. Mr. Trotman, in his state- ment declared that it had cost the Re- publicans in Virginia 25,000 votes. That is merely an estimate impossible to| verify. At a caucus of delegates from the second district last night, the ques- | tion of bringing in a resolution dealing | with the social relations of the white | and ‘“non-Caucasian races” was dis- | cussed. It was said after the meeting | that it had been determined not to bring | in such a resolution. | CAVALRY OFFICER DEAD. Col. George L. Byram Won Medal | at Las Guasimas, Cuba. Col. George L. Byram, a retired | Cavalry officer, who was awarded the | Distinguished Service Cross for extraor- | dinary heroism in action at Las Guasi- mas, Cuba, June 24, 1898, died at Hollywood, Calif., Sunday, according to | War Department advices. He was a native of Mississippl and was graduated from the Military Acad: emy in June, 1885. His entire service was in the Calvary arm, in which he reached the grade of colonel in July, 1916, when he was retired on account | of disability in the line of duty. Sub-| sequently he was restored to active duty during the World War. His widow, Mrs. Jane L. Byram, is a resident of Hollywood. Dr. Taitt Made BiThop. PHILADELPHIA, June 18 (#).—Rev. Dr. Francis M. Taitt, dean of the con- vocation, Chester, Pa., was today elect- TUGS HUNT BODIES | | | | | 1 1 OF CRASH VICTIMS Three Women Still Missing After Plunge of Plane Into Channel, FOLKESTONE, England, June 18.— Boats and tugs searched a wide area of the English Channel today for the bodies of three women stiil missing in N\ crash of the giant air liner City of | Ottawa off Dungeness yesterday with the loss of seven lives, including at least one American. Adolph E. Meister, 73, vice president of the Garfield Manufacturing Co. of New Jersey, was the known American victim, while a “Miss Roberts of Lon- don,” whose body still is missing, was believed to be of American parents, American Refuses Information. Of the six persons rescued, including two women, H. W. Tatham, an Amer- ican, rested well during the night and ~ was 8o far recovered from the shock of yesterday's tragedy that he probably will proceed to London tomight. Tat- ham refused to give his American ad- dress, fearing to alarm his relatives, it is believed that he was formerly a resident of Minneapolis and that his parents now reside in Sacramento, Calif. After a consultation between police | officers and the coroner, it was decided | | of the American Ambassador to Mexico | married to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, in Coolidge, —Associated Press Photo. | i WOMEN'S RECORD SET AT COLUMBIA Mrs. Dorothy Nicolson’s 79 Is Three Under Previous Low Scere. Mrs. Dorothy Nicolson of the Wash- | ington Golf and Country Club set a| new women’s course record of 79 over | the Columbla Country Club course to- | day in the first round of match play | in defense of the women's District| champlonship Mrs. Nicolson has won | for the last three years. The young | Washington matron, who was married | to Hugh Nicolson a few months ago, | was out in 40 and back in 39 to shat- three strokes. Three weeks ago Mrs. B. P. Meckley of Beaver Dam nego- tiated the Columbia course in 82. Mrs. Nicolson’s record-breaking round was the high spot in the first round of the, women's District championship. An unexpected upset occurred in the first round, when Mrs. L. B. Chapman of Congressional defeated Mrs. L. O. Cameron of Chevy Chase, who last week set a record of 78 for the Chevy Chase course. Mrs. Chapman was not | pressed to gain the victory, winning by 7 and 6. Mrs. Nicolson's record-breaking round follows 1 55535553440 556253446—39—791 Mrs. Nicolson missed a 12-inch putt | on the sixteenth green and took three putts on the eighteenth green. The regular tees were in use on most of the holes. Results in the championship flight follow: Mrs. J. M. Haynes, Columbia, de- feated Mrs. Perry B. Hoover, Indian| Spring, 8 and 7; Mrs. S. F. Collady, | Columbia, defeated Mrs. Warren L. Hea», Manor, 5 and 4; Mrs. J. M. Hodges, Army, Navy and Marine, de- feated Mrs. Y. E. Booker, Washington, 2 and 1; Mrs. B. P. Meckley, Beaver| Dam, defeated Mrs. Norman B. Frost, Columbia, 5 and 4; Mrs. L. B. Chap- man, Congressional, defeated Mrs. L. O. Cameron, Chevy Chase, 7 and Mrs. Aima Von Steinner, Beaver Dam, de- feated Mrs. H. A. Knox, Congressional, 2 and 1; Miss Florence Scott, Indian Spring, defeated Miss Susan Hacker, Chevy Chase, 2 and 1; Mrs. Dorothy ghlleEngolsL’)R.u Washington, defeated rs. E. R. ey, Indian Spri el pring, 7 Second flight results: Mrs. M. E. Miller, Congressional, de- feated Mrs. Herman Stabler, Columbia, 4 and 3; Mrs, J. W. Beller, Columbia, defeated Mrs. H. R. Quinter, Colum- bia, 2 and 1: Mrs. William §. Corby, defeated Miss Elizabeth | | | Columbia, Browner, 1 up. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Military Band at the bandstand. afternoon at 5:30 o'clock; John §. M Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Point- ner, assistant leader. March, “The Aristocrat”..........Cline Overture, “Czar and Zimmermann AR Lortzing (a) “Evening Moon' (b) “Columbine” . Selection from vatore” Fox trot, * Popular Laugh'’ rwonky Il Tro- Verdi Silver Clown, . .Fiorito Preiss By the United States Marine Band, 6:30 this afternoon, at Walter Reed Hospital; Taylor Branson, leader; Ar- thur S. Witcomb, second leader: March, “Medical Regiment, First Division” ....Watfield and Natafalusi Overture, “The King’s Lieutenant”. Titl Valse caprice, “Spring Zephyrs” Vessella Intermezzo Espagnol, “Alhambra” . Ceron | Cornet solo, “My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice,” from “Samson and Delilah" t- (Musician Winfred Kesl':ll;.l i Excerpts from “The Vagabond King" Friml La Glo- .Ponchielli “Grand Military i ..Rogan “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Navy Band, the Sylvan Theater, 7:15 o'clocl Charles Benter, leader; Charles Wise, assistant leader. Program March, “Waltersonfa” . Overture, “Figaro’s Wedding”. Solo for cornet seae . Selected (Musicia; iph m.) Humoresque on “The Wearing of the Tearin' o' the ..Douglas .Sousa “Dance of the Hou " from “ conda” £ . Yassel Mozart 2, “Under the American Flag." 3. “Under the Cuban Flag. Valse, “Girls of Vienna”. Ziehrer to hold one inguest on all the victims at Lydd Town Hall. The four bodies recovered have now been taken to Lydd, near Dungeness, and the inquest likely will be held tomorrow. The bodies re- covered are those of Mr. Meister, Leon T. Malcolm, vice president of the Mal colm & Southern Furniture Co. of Ham ilton, Ontario; Alfred Smith of Mel- beurne, Australia, and a Mrs. Ickerson, whose address has not been determined Sea Calm, Aiding Hunt. The sea was calm today and facili- tated search for the bodies of the three missing passengers, boats covering a wide area between Dungeness and Folkestore, where it was thought the bodies perhaps might be floating. { Those still missing were a Mme. Bo- singer of London, Miss Roberts of Lon- don'and Mrs. Koracki, believed to be the stage name of a Mrs. Gerzon of Amsterdam. All baggage had been removed from the plane today and the rising tide slowly covered the wreckage, which was a mere mass of metal, one of the en- gine wheels and the undercarriage alone being visible. Another search was made of the plane’s cabin today for the three miss- ing_women, but without result. Those rescued and suffering from shock were Mr. and Mrs. Fleming, rela- tives of Mrs. Ickerson: Miss M. Smith, Geughter of Alfred Smith; Mrs. Tat- ham, Capt. R. J. Brailli pilof, and M. Barnett, flight engineer. Plane on Thousandth Trip. It was revealed today that the City of Ottawa had been in scrvice since March, 1926, and had flown 260,000 miles. The trip, if it had been com- pleted, would have been her thousandth Channel_crossing. One theory advanced in connection with the accident was that the door of the air liner salon may have been opened after the plane fell in the water and water pouring through it drowned those at the back. Some passengers | scrambled through emergency exits to safety. g There were 13 aboard the ship, in- cluding the pilot and mechanic. They had left Croydon for Paris. A short way from shore the plane was seen to waver and turn back and then it struck the surface of the water. The pilot had exerted every resource to bring his plane as near as possible to a Bel- gian trawler, the crew of which was able to rescue four passengers, the pilot and mechanic. One of the most tragic figures was Pilot J. Brailli, who remained on board the trawler. The pilot was unable to tear himself away from his plane. When he stepped ashore his nerves were at the breaking point and he re- fused to make any statement. Trawler Man Describes Crash Charles Albrecht, & member of the crew of the trawler, described the dis- aster as he had witnessed it. “We were steaming along when we saw the airplane coming toward us. | Suddenly she started to come dowre. She was quite near when the plane dived toward the sea. It seemed to us as if the pilot tried to right her at the last moment but could not. “She dived with a great crash into the water only a little distance from us. The plane went right into the water and then the tail and wings re- appeared above. “As quickly as we could, we got to her and found about five persons had scrambled onto the wings. Two of them were women, another was the pilot and all were hurt. We took them on to our boat and then started to do what we could to rescue people inside. Salon Full of Water. “The salon was full of water. We hacked and made every effort to get in there. It was very difficult. Then we lashed the wrecked machine to our starboard side. A packet came along side and took off the injured. Still we tried to get out those who were inside the plane. She was terribly damaged and we could not imagine that any one inside could be alive. “She had come down like a shooting star as you'd call it.” ENGINE SHAFT IS BLAMED. LONDON, June 18 (#).—The Evening Star says that the. cause of the wreck of the City of Ottawa in the channel yesterday was the breaking of the en- gine shaft, the shaft smashing two holes below the engine. The paper said that the plane turned upside down in striking the water so that the emergency exit in the roof was submerged, this accounting in some measure for the heavy loss of life. SEEKS ACCOUNTING AGAINST SINCLAIR From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star. H. Leslie Parker of Casper, Wyo., to« day filed suit in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for an ac- counting against Harry F. Sinclair, mil- lionaire ol magnate, now serving a term of imprisonment in the District Jail for contempt of the United States Senate. Parker claims that Sinclair obtained a lease from the United States to the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve on the representation that he had the entire title to all the outstanding leases on oil claims in and adjacent to the reserve, when, as a matter of fact, the plaintiff was entitled to a one-eighth interest therein. Sinclair, the court is told, received stock of the Mamouth Oil Co. amount- ing to nearly 2,000,000 shares, which sold on the market for $58 per share, and of which the plaintiff says the oil mag- nate should be declared to have been his trustee to the extent of a one-eighth interest. Parker asserts that Sinclair misrepresented to_Albert B. Fall, then Secretary of the Interior, that he had obtained possession of all the claims. ‘The court is asked to require Sinclatr to account for all profits for a one- eighth share of the stock which Parker claims he is entitled. The statement Excerpts from “The Show Boat”..Kern ed bishop coadjutor of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. He is the sixth candidate to be elected to the place, the five previous success- ful candidates having refused the elec- Two excerpts from “The Pathetic | Symphony, No. 6".. ... Tschaikowsky t ‘movement. from thir.. ovement. “Anchors. Zwewgh.” "Ene Star fi_fiflfi“!l-fllfl" 1 was made in the bill of complaints that Sinclair bought out John Leo Stack and F. G. Bonfils, Denver operators, who held interest in the reserve, by paying them $1,000,000. Attorneys Long, Chamberlaip and Nyce appeared. for-the plaintif,