Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1929, Page 6

6 = THE EVENING REED FEARS LOSS: INARMY EFFICIENCY Officials Study Hoover’s Plan; to Curtail U. S. Military Expenditures. By the Associated Preas i High Arms officials were started m-; day on a clese study of the program of President Hoover for curtailment of | expenditures of the United States for | military purposes with the intricate | task ahead of them of deciding what | branches of the service offer the b"“l opportuniti=s for reductions. } etary Good announced an effort | wonid e made 1o expedite the study of | expenditures in anieffort to apply any | reduction which might be effected to the budget to he transmitted to Con- s early in December. B he War Department head said the | eommission of general staff officers pro- | posed by President Hoover to conduet | the survey would be appointed wnhm; ew Aavs | & !Nu sirvey. he added. would be car-| ried nut with the view of cutting costs | swherever possible without injuring the efciency of the Army and national dr-] fense planz, ‘ New Activities Cited. v Good declared that the survey | vx\ld have ag one of its major phases fthe determination of whether certain activities of the Army which have arisen | since the World war have not displaced in usefulmess and importance other | branches of the service. He cited as) the mew activities the National Guard. | the Reserve Officers Corps. the Citizens Militarv Training camps, the Afr Corps end motorization nf Army unifs. The survey by army officers solely, vather than with the inclusion of civil- ian members on the commission. was declared bv the Secretary to be a logi cal step, as the army officers were ca- pable and squipped to study the compli- cated organization of the service. A program for reducing the expendi- tures, he added. had been under consid- tion for some time "‘3" :n!nnmmt‘rrm‘n' nf the President | eame s a surprise tn the few members | of Congress remaining in the Capital| recess, especially _on the | A number of members who | were in the ecity, however, expresse Thelr views And some were in conflict | with Mr. Hoover's plan. dead, is shown in the inset, Reed Gives Opinions. tor pressing a compensation claim for a “anrking constantly to keep down it ensts” and further reduction of expendi- tures might injure its efficiency. He attributed the higher expenditures of the United States than other nations tp the higher pav and better rations of the American soldiers i Another World War veteran in the Benate. Bingham. Republican, Connec- fieut, who was an aviator, took an opposite stand and suggested the elim- ination of at leazt 50 of the 70 or 80 garrison posts nf the Army. He pro-| d that the Army pocts he limited | eran. sald the Army had heen | Marital Troubles Unsettled as “Dead” Husband Is Discovered. Mra. Alma Marle Gutzka of Detroit leavify Commissioner Turnage's office yesterday with eounsel, Harold F. Hawken, after heing cleared of a fraud charge in the flesn and brought about her arrest. 50 ARE ARRESTED 5; the three large divisions. such a=; New vork, Washington and Texas and | to Army Schools. Many of the pfists. | he added, were establithed during the Mrs. Alma Marie Gutzka nf Detrait. | whose belief in a clairvovant's report of the death of her first husband. Lioyd Osborne. led her into a second marriage and subsequently to Washington to seek Indian wars. Government compensatior or - Connally Wants Naval Parity. pe! n Os: borne’s demise. was confronted vester- | Senator Connally. Democrat, of Texas. | day with Osborne In the flesh, with a declared *hat reduction of expenditures | warrant, charging her with seeking to in the Armv could be made, but he enter a false claim against the Gov- tavored an Ameriran Navy as large as ernment, and with the realization that that of any other nation | she had’twoe husbands living. On the House side, Chairman Brit- | Although United States Commissioner ten of the naval committee said he re- | Turnage dismissed the warrant, follow. fneed to “think of national defense in|ing A lengthy hearing vesterdav aft- terms of dollars and cents.” He held ernoon. Mrs. Gutzka's marital tronbles that while tax reduction was important. | were atill somewhat involved as she national defenze was more so and said Drepared to leave for home. he would nppose anv reduction in naval | Believing Osborne dead. the middle- ! expenditures tnless England agreed to aged woman explained, she did not pres | scrap her ships under the 1921 Wash- | divorce proceedings she had begun ington naval treatv. A Democratic | Azainst him and indicated that the final member of the naval eommittee, Repre- | decree had not. been handed down when sentative McClintic of Oklahoma as- | she married Walter J, Gutzka last Au- serted the President's survey would not | gust. | Mise Tda Anderson. prove succeszful unless the commission | included civilian members. THE WEATHER | ct of Columbia, Marviand. Vir- | et West Virginia—Generallv fair | and continued warm tonight and to- morrow; little change in temperature; gentle westerly winds becoming varfable, Record for 24 Hours. ‘Thermometer—4 p.m.. 86: 8 p.m., 81; 12 midnight, 76; 4 am,, 72 8 am,, 76; noon, 87 Barometer—4 pm. 3008; 8 pm. 30.08; 12 midnight, 30.10; 4 a.m,, 30.11; | 8 e.m, 30.14, noon, 30.13 Higheet temperature, 87, accurred at noon today; lowest temperature, 69, oc- curred at 6 a.m. today. ‘Temperature same date last ye Highest, 87, lowest, 70, Tide Tahles. (Furnished bv United States Coast and | Geodetic Survev.) Today—Low tide, 4:10 a.m, and 4:41 o.m ; high tide, 9'43 am. and 1014 p.m, Tomorrow—Low tide, 4:48 am. and 8:15 pm.; high tide, 10:20 am, and 10:53 p.m. The Enn and Moon, Todav—Sun rose 5:01 am.; mun seta 7:21 pm ‘Temorrow—8un rises 5:02 am.; sun | sete 7:26 pm. ! Moon rises 2:29 a.m.; sets 7:29 p.m. Condition of the Water, Great Palls—Slightly muddy. Harpers Ferry—Pntomac clear and Shenandoah muddy. | | Wenthes i in Varions Cities, Clouds Pt cloudy Clear Clear Brclondy Clear Bt.cloudr u = 30.24 N D, 2098 29.96 Detroit. Mich Bl Paso, Tex Galveston. Tex. 30.08 Helena, Mont ' 29.94 Huron,' 8. Dak. 2996 Indianapolis.Ind 10.13 Jecksonville, Fla. 30. Citr. Mo, N ‘Yorl Ofilnhnml City. 30.08 eIphiaPa 3 10 eiphia Pa 7 Gy o Ba.. 30 Briouds jond bl sh. 20.90 88 .. 3008 A7 FORETGN. €1 a.m, Greenwich time, today.) Temperature, Weather. on, Englind Glear prance Part cloudy g e jenn riin,’ Ges itockholm, | in the Tank Corps. Tells of Clairvoyant's Stary. At the hearing vesterday Mre. Guf- 7ka testified that a clairvoyant had come to her, placed a hand on her shoulder and said: “Mre Osborne. T have good news for you; your husband is dead.” | The woman said she had wearied of what appeared to be an impenetrable | maze of red tape, and eame to Wash- ington to press Oshorne’s war service claim against the Government { Meanwhile, the Department. of Jus- | tice had brought Osborne here from Fort Meade. Md.. where he was enrolled He was taken into a department office, to which bhis former wife was directed during her round of the varieus bureaus | What happened when the couple met after six years of separation and un- | certainty, transpired behind closed doors, and Department of Justice | agents would not. dizeuss the reunion, Oshornes Married After the War. Mrs. Gutzka, however, was arrested on the strength of her husbands ap- pearance, and taken hefore the com- missioner on a warrant charging her with bringing a false claim against the | Government. | The Osbornes were rharried at a date| which Osborne identified as “after the war was over” and about the time that “Dempsev fomght Willard." He said they separated In 1923: that he later left Detroit and followed up hiz war service by reinlisting in the Army. | Mrs. Osborne said she became ‘con- | vineed of Osborne’s demise when her clairvoyant directed her attention two years ago fto newspaper accounts of the death of an unidentified man, killed by a Detroit bus In August of 1927, They showed me a picture of the man. and it Jooked s0 like Ployd 1 | | be well groomed greater part of it ing protection from color . and wear easy to apply . reasonably. the best. iear Part cloudy Qear & Gibreltar, ' 8pain (Noon, Greenwic! Heorta (P Bermuda Part cloudy Forto Ri h time, todsy) 1. Ageres . 14 P zamilton B . GanelLont.. Current 6b|ervné|fium.' e Part cloudy Clea) X ly il Il M Porch time is painting time .. . .. not alone hecause you want your porch to = Murco” Great for Porches Great because it iz beautiful in every . .« great because it will wear, . .« great because it is so Get “Murco” and you get EJ Murphy @ INCORPORATED - 0., WONANKILLED OINMARYLANDROAD ‘Motor Trip Ends in Tragedy, When Machine Hits Gutter. Just A few hours after leaving here jon'a trip Fast this morning, Mrs. Jac- | queline Edes Knight, 19 years old, of | 3218 Thirtesnth street, was killed into a gutter on the Frederick-Gettys- instantly when her automoblile skidded | | burg road near Harmony Grove, sped | o STAR,, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY., JULY {uncontrolled for some distance, and Miss Lee Chiswell, 20 years old, of | Rockville, Md., only other mmglm of the car, was injured in the crash. | attempted to pass a truck while de- fthe gutter and went out of control. Mrs, Knight was thrown clear of the ma- chine. 8he was pronounced dead at the Frederick Hospital. State's Attorney W. M. Storm issued | the following statement upon learning |of the erash: able road In that point and I with the | assistance of police will begin an im- | mediate investigation.” | __The State Road CommisSion recently requested that shoulders be construeted been delayed. | scending a hill. The ear swerved into | “The accident wax due to the dnmor-‘ crashed into a light pole. i | According to county police the car RS. JACQUELINF. EDES KNIGHT. ) -F;OISDNili'bUND. FBaltimore Chemists Find Traces in Body of Edward Stone. BELLAIR, M | more chemists today reported to W. Worthington Hopkins, State's attorney along the road, but so far, action hl.si“{ Harford County, that traces of pol- | grecked pi {son had been found in the viscera of 24, 1929, HOYT HOLDS NOME HOP PROVED AIM Wreck, but Says Flight Purpose Reached. atch to The Bty | July 14 (#).—Baltl- VALEMOUNT, Canada, July 24— | Triumphant even in defeat, Capt. Ross | G. Hoyt, wrecked en route homeward |on his New York fo Nome, Alaska, |round trip flight through water getting |into his gasoline supply, is busy crating | his wrecked Curtise pursuit plane at the | almost inaccessible little mountain town of Valemount, 74 miles wesf, of Jasper on the Canadian National Railwa) Hoyt. on the second leg of the return journey, left White Horse. Yukon terri- tory, on Sunday morning for Edmonton. and he was within 275 miles of Edmon- ton when forced down. Machine Hits in Soft Gronnd. The machine landed in soft ground and after ploughing up the earth, fina {1y tilted completely over. A twisted pro- peller blade, broken wing strut, smashed | rudder and smashed fin resulted. None the worse for his forced land- |ing. but rather thankful that he was able to find a clear Janding space in the heart of so rugged and mountain- ous & country, Hoyt it shipping the ane direct to the Curtise fac- Itory at ng Island before taking the The voung women left Mre. Knight's.' Edward Stone, husband of Mrs. Hattie | train Fast home at about o'clock to drive to ‘Binzhnm'fin, N. Y. where they were | going to visit several members of the { Theta Sigma Sorority, a high school | organization. Reports from Prederick stated the IMIF< Chiswell was not zerfously injured although her injuries are painful, She | 18 In the hospital at Prederick. | Mrs. Knight is a native of this eitv and was graduated from Central High | School in 1828. In September of that | vear she was married to Albin T. Knight, a local patent attorney. Her father i James Edes of this city. con- nected with Wondward and Lothrop's | Department Store. | Besides her husband and father. Mrs. | Knight leaves a sister, Mrs, Wallace Alves, of Kansas, Beggars Get Big Sum. NEW YORK. July 24 (®).—City charity authorities sav that 6,000 or more professional beggars garner $125,- 000 dafly in New York. dead” farmer husband. who appeared Lioyd Osborne, whom she thought —Star Staff Photo, AFFIC DRIVE Police ContinueE;mnaign for | Safety on District of Columbia Streets. = | Don't forget the Budget Boys and “me". WMAL tonight, 7:30. Continuing to maintain their average of arrests in the traffic drive, police ap- | prehended approximatelr 230 persons ast night. Appearances in court were listed at 80 defendants, while 146 for- feited. In addition 13 persons unable to post_collateral were forced to remain in confinement until today. | Arrested by Policeman F. J. Seoville on Sixteenth strest vesterdav when driving an Army truck at 8 speed of 35 miles an hour and for failing to give & signal when turning a corner. Pt | William E. Penley, a soldier atationed at the Army War College, was fined 825 | in_Traffic Gourt. | Policeman Reoville also apprehended | 700 bloek of Un- | derwnod street. on 8 charge of speeding. as he said her automohile was traveling | at 30 miles an hour | John N Harris, eolored, 2200 block | of Twelfth streef, wes fined $25 for! second-offsnze speeding. He was ar- rested by Policeman A. G. Mihill He claimed the charge was false, ae | hiz automobile possessed a flat tire, but | failed to eonvince the court Atiempting to get some fresh air after being ill. Albert L. Thompeon drave hix taxicab at an exeessive rate of speed and was halted by Policeman A. F.| Brown. “You honld be mors careful since | you are sick.” Judge Mattingly ald and | fined him $25. HERE'S GREAT 500 $35-$40-$45 ADVANCE FALL SUITS $2 4.75 —some with pants, some with two pants. Buy 'em now and if you don't want ‘em September first rn buy back and give you 327.50. How‘s that? was convinced,” Mrs, Guizka said. She | then took her claim for Oshorne's com- | pensation pav to a vetera gency in | Detroit, and a death certificate was issued. According to Osborne, had Mrs Gutzka realized her claim against the Government, she would have recefved but 2128 of adijusted compenzation for his war time service The woman was represented here hyv Attorney Harold F. Hawken. After the case was dismissed,” Department of Justice agents declined fo sav if thev would reopen the case in the Detroit | jurisdiction Commissioner Turnage dismissed the charge when the woman's reference to her clairvoyant and the morgue photo- graph convineed him she really believed Oeborne dead. and had not embarked on her undertaking with intent to de- fraud _the Government. GINGER GE ALE! NONE BETTER A. G. 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Vale- mount offered the onlv possible land- ing. and Hovt headed for § | Swinging hit ship arannd aftar fiving {Army Flyer Is Disappointed by | 8 few miles to the south of the A Hoyt nosed down for a .mm‘ cloce to the rallway tracks to the west | of the village. | Backed by a landing speed of 70| miles an hour, the forward momentum of the biplane brought the nose of 'ha' machine free again, but the left wheel continued to sink into the earth. Pinal- | ly the plane careened at such an angle that the tip of the lower left wing dug into the earth and the machine turned over, coming to a stop with its wheels pointing skyward. [ To the stanchness of his rugged biplane Capt. Hoyt probably owes hh\ life, or at least escape from serious injury. Had the upper wing buckled the pilot would have been pinned be- neath the wreckage. The wing, how- ever. held firm and the pilot, suspended | head downward by his buckled belt, escaped without, even a scratch, Hovt Describes Exveriences. Hoyt. described hiz experience while he was dismantling his machine. | “How did the crash happen?” he was ssked. “Crach nothing.” he retorted, “it was a perfect landing. Tt was that soft spot over there,” and he waved a hand in the direction of a saucer-shaped hole in the ound near the wrecked ma- chin that was the cause of the grief. i “After leaving White Horse, Yukon | Territory. earlv Sunday afternoon.” he | continued, “1 flew along at a 160-mile clip and with lots of fuel in the tanks. 1 figured T would reach Edmonton about 10 pm. and while it was twilight in the mountains by this time, there wasn't & hint of trouble. . | “T was probably 10 miles north of Valemount and had just cleared the ! Canoe Mountain range when the motor commenced to spit and sputter in a most _disconcerting manner. Hoping ihat the engine would pick up again. I | kept her nose pointed in the direction of Jasper, where I knew there was a good landing field. “It was of no avail, however. T kept on losing altitude at'an alarming rate and when about 5§ miles from Valemount 1 decided to come down. Rock-Strewn Mountains, “Nothing but rock-strewn mountain sides or thick forests of pine and fir is encountered for miles and milez on a | strateh. and anv one familiar with fiv- ing nver thece reginns realizes fust what | paid his respects today | this means when the motor taus er any- thing else goes wrong with the machine. Had I run into a grief while nego- tiating the distance between White Horse and Hazelton, I guess there would be a job open for a new pilot in Uncle Sam’s flying department. That eountry is absolutely the wildest and wooliest that I ever have had the displeasure to ?,oph’cmu.d i “Nothing underneath but a wilderness of rock and pl:\v {or hundreds of miles while the wi p te: ead winds th slowed up the speed of the ship times to the extent of 30 or 40 miles an_hour, Questioned as tn whether the ht had served the purpose for whlg)!\‘ 1t was intended. the airman replied. Of. course T am disappointed in not having accomplished to the fullest ex- tent that which I set out to do. M; intention was to make a rapid fligh from New York City to Nome and return. The fiight, however, served it< primary purpese, w o prove that small. fast pursult plane; of the type of the wreeked craft eapabie of making long non-stop Aights of from 800 to 1.200 miles a time. “The feasibility of the other object of the flight, that of linking up the farthest West United Btates territory on the North American contingnt with the farthest East. also was establithed. 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