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WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) 2. Fair, not quite so warm tonight, » tomorrow fair. Temperatures—Highest, 96, at 4 p.m. vesterday: lowest. 76, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 31,138, No. Entered as second class me vost - ofice. ' Waxhington. V\'ASHIN(il;ON. D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1929—FIFTY PAGES. CRAF SEENSOMILES ROBIN CREW TELLS PERILS CyRCH MENBERS | OFF BARCELONA QN > AN ORLONG FLIEH oy ey LAKERURST FLIGHT WOAN ARRESTED | ance Hop of 171/, Days to Co-operation SPEED |NGREKS|NG Police Charge V;tims Were in Tasks Confronted in Air. RN : Sent to Europe on “Free” Picks Up to Rate of 70 Miles Excursions. an Hour After Leaving| Nimes, Point Where Last Sighted Over Land. ttor Commission Then Agrees to End Efforts to “Break Down” These Accounts. HARTMAN AND TRACTION STATISTICIAN TO CONFER The story of the refueling endurance flight of the St. July 13 and ended Tuesday might with a mark of 420 hours, seconds, breaking the previous record by more than seven pilots of the plane in the following account. BY DALE JACKSON AND FOREST O'BRINE, Holders of the World's Air Endurance Record. ST. LOUIS, August 1.—We felt like the Robin had landed on another planet | after fiying around 171, days up there. We had been away from earth so long everything was strange to us. We had several surprises and a few dangerous moments while we were trav- eling around the world over St. Louis, but our greatest surprise was the size of the crowd awaiting us in the rain, and the friendliness of its welcome. Contrary to our expectations, we felt even better when we landed than when we took off. | The complete story of our flicht is recorded in | our log book | We flipped a coin to see who would take the ship ! off &nd Oble won. After the taxiing out on the | field for the take-ofl, we ran into a soft spot ot By " ground. On account’ of the heavy load the ship bY the viclims were fleeced of their en- came to a stop. | tire financial resources and then sent 4 Fm:;nu:t (v;e ':md md get started somehow, Iito Europe on & “free” excursion paid umped out the door and told Obie to give her the ; el e p: s " [ gun again and I gave a good push on the struts, at | ‘% PY alleged worthless checks was un- mong 18 Passengcl‘s—Reports; which the ship started. Running along for aboul["“"""d in Washington this afternoon 100 yards or so, she finally took hold and I jumped | by headquarters detectives. of Stowaway Aboard Unconfirmed : 5 l\’f;«.fffor,?y in time to be part of the flight.—Red | They arrested Elzina Howells, 48 | After the ship began to roll she gained speed | YE4TS 0ld. of the 2500 block of Thirteenth casily and the take-off was smoother than we ex- |Street and held her for investigation {at the House of Detention. Six of the | victims, mostly women, were fleeced of Louis Robin began minutes and 30 is told by the & 5 LIFE SAVINGS LOST, DETECTIVES ARE TOLD 48-Year-0ld Woman Taken Into Custedy After Check for Passage Comes Back. |W. R & E. Officials Invited in | Order to Prepare to Give Similar Data. WINDS REDUCED PACE T0 50 MILES AT START | _An important point was won by the | Public Utilities Commission in the chr- | fare hearing this afternoon when John H. Hanna, president of the Capital Traction Co., agreed to furnish the commission a new and detailed analysis of the various general expense and | equipment accounts of the comp®ny for the year 1928. The commission on it | part agreed to suspend further ques- tioning in an effort to “break down” these accounts. | _The questions which Commissioner Harleigh H. Hartman has been asking { since the hearing opened with regard to these accounts have given rise to a | sharp controversy between the commis- | sion and the officials of the Encountered Evesywhere Soon An alleged confidence scheme where- | After Departure From Fried- richshafen—7 Americans Are By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 1.—The trans- atlantic dirigible Graf Zeppelin | late today was over the Mediter- gected with this load.—Obie (O'Brine). ~ Went Up t0 2,500 Feet at First. 1$20,000 here "since the first of thel We climbed the ship slowly to 2.500 feet altitude | month, according to information in the : 4 ki d egan the long grind of circling about the air- | hands of police. rancan headed tor_Cubl altar, and | port. The first few hours the noise of the motor | The alleged plot was laid before po- well on her long journey to the hurt our ears, but we readily became accustomed | lice Tuesday by two English women, i i isit | to it and we were surprised to find how little vibration there really was. We had | residents of Washingtop for the past United States for her seend Visit. | snyicipated that vibration would be one of our WOrst encmics And. certayy we | 10 two days affer their return News Note: Mosquito-breeding Places Discovered Near White House. baild \INE DAY RECORD 1K HELD IN DEATH Dale Jackson. ;Engineors to Build [Roadway to Hoover Tlxe huge ship, which left| were glad to find out that the new motor mount had taken care of all cxcess | from one of the “pleasure” excursions | The company, through i w;fr?pc';fi. Friedrichshafen, Germany, at 3:29 | Vibration. | to Havre, France. They identified tended that Commissioner Hartman's Right &t the start of the trip. I decided to keep in the best possible condition. Obie, who took off, was still at the controls for the first four hours. Having been on the field from 4:30 in the morning ntil the time of our take-off at 7:17, I stretched | themselves as Lillian Gerard and Irene | Bigg | _The two young women claim Mrs. | Howells defrauded them of $8,000 on ng it. lan | questions could not possibly be answered without a study of its records and alsa that the information which Mr. Hart- man sought did not have an importan/ | bearing on the rate case. / : am. (9:20 pm. E. S. T. Wedncs. | Retreat on Rapic day night), with 18 passengers, | | _ inciuding 7 Americans, was re i Fort Humphreys Sold OF DEPUTY IN RAID SET BY WEATHER rs | & pretense of inv ported by the French steampship | myself out on the mattress which covered the big i Warrant Sworn Out. | | But Mr. Hartman insisted that the Dalny over the Mediterranean, | fecns hk 1o the fuselage for our frt nap 12 { One of the young women swore out | Clyde L. Hauver, 35, Shot in. Will Do Work to Be- | Temperature of More Thanaccounts submitied by the company I found it rather difficult to get the swing of sleeping in our little old flying hotel.—Red. Spain, a \ " | At 11 o'clock a m. Red relieved me d too¥ the pain, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, | c,nirols,” T had found that the ship. was easy on Greenwich time (10 am. E. S. T.). | the controls and almost nc care at all to fly. We The dirigible at this time ap- | Were started with everything in our favor and it Sk “omciq. | Was only a question in our minds how long the old peared to have picked up ‘consid- | motor would run. We were out to break the record erable speed from her earlier | for endurance flying and everything seemed O.K.— | should be closely questioned by the {comm!sflon. since they were the basit 90 Degrees Registered | for the commision's application foi ‘ | increased fare. In a ruling this morne. Consecutively. about 50 miles off Barcelona,| a warrant for Mrs. Howells, charging { her with false pretenses, although the | prisoner is being held for investigation, booked by Detectives Ira Keck and B, W. Thompson of the check and fraud | squad. The middle-aged woman was arrested his afternoon after detectives had Head as Party Ap{)roaches come Permanent. Site of Camp. | ing, Chairman Patrick, on behalf of the commission, overruled the car co | pany’s objections to Mr. Hartman’ | questions. In accordance with the termu | of the truce reached this afternoon ‘ Company A of the 13th Engineers | went out from Engineers' School at Fort | Humphrey's early today under orders | Special Dispatch to The Star. sightings in France, as she slowly pushed her way down the Rhone Valley. She was last reported cn | land at Nimes, in Southern France, and two and a half hours later was reported by the Dalny.| She had covered this stretch at| approximately 70 miles an hour, ' whereas her previous average had been somewhat under 50. Graf’s Probable Course. From the course being followed by Comdr. Hugo Eckener, it appeared that the Graf Zeppelin would skirt the Span- ish coast, passing between Cape Nao | and the Balearic nd, would swing | down past Cartagena and Cape de G nd would then swing westware, passing through Gibraltar, and thus ou 10 sea It was while on ‘this stage of her voy- age last May that the Graf Zeppelin developed motor trouble and was forced | to turn back and beat her way up the Rhone Valley again in an effort to | reach Friedrichshafen. She was un- | successful in this, and eventually wi driven back into South France and landed at Cuers. When the Graf Zeppelin took off this morning there were reports that a stow- away was aboard, but no confirmation of this was recetved at Friedrichshal from the ship, while a special corre sponden no mention of this in dispatches from the dirigible. | Leaving Friedrichshafen at 3:29 a (9:29 p.m., Wednesday, E. S. T.) toda, the Graf Zeppelin everywhere met head | winds and was making an average speed | of less than 50 miles an hour. | The sky was generally cloudy and| the visibility only medium as she flew | at an altitude of 3,000 feet from Va- lence, France, where she was sighted at 11:35 am. (5:35 am. E. 8. T.), to| Montelimar. Two Women Making Trip. { Henry J. Pierce of New York, was the only woman passenger aboard the Graf on her voyage in May, was not aboard with her husband today to watch the air liner, with motors| throbbing smoothly, pass over the 35| miles from Valance to Montelimar, over which her crippled motors fought and falled to carry her in May. MF. and Mrs. Plerce were prevented by Mrs. Pierce’s illness in Russia from reaching Friedrichshafen in time for the start. The women, Mrs. George E. Crouse | of Syracuse, N. Y., and Mme. Goure- | vitch, wife of a Russian pianist from | Paris, made the trip today. Two others | failed to get aboard. By heading far to the south on the longer Gibraltar run, Dr. Eckener | hoped to skirt a low-pressure area | moving from Ireland toward the coast | of Northern and Western France, A run of about 3,000 odd miles faced Dr. Eckener from Gibraltar across the Atlantic to the mooring mast in Lake- hurst, N. J. goal of the dirigible's flight. A stowaway was reported to have been seen climbing aboard the air liner at _the start from Friedrichshafen, but | (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) Obe. . Here we were for better or worse in our little | Curtiss Challenger Robin, the first light ship ever | to attempt an endurance flight. Previously, all such endurance tests had been made in larger ships, with plenty of room and plenty of power. Ours was a small ship, and one of the questions at stake was whether two men could do thetr work and exist in good health within such cramped quarters long enough to better the Forest O'Brine. sen the stories of the nurses, which they detailed as follows: Some months ago we were ap- | proached by Mrs. Howells, who said she would invest our money profitably for us, and we turned over about $8,000, representing the entire amount of our | savings since we have been in Wash- ington. | | Had a Surprise. | ble. old mark of approximately 247 hours. o ‘The Curtiss Robin is built to hold a pilot and two passengers. in a comfortable seat forward behind two side-by-side seat " (Continued on Page 2, Column The pilot sits . The latter, of course, 2 ! | Deadlock Reached Over Nam- ing Ambassadors for Two Countries Immediately. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, August 1.—Russia and in their London conference for the re- sumption of trade and commercial rela- tions and diplomatic services. Great Britain refused to accede to the Russian desire for immediate appointment of ambassadors before controveried ques- tions were taken up. Russian Ambassador Valerian Dov- calevsky of Paris, who has conducted the negotiations for Russia with, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, to- day returned to his post in France. The negotiations began shortly after the Russian Ambassador arrived in London at the end of last week. Henderson's Stand. Foreign Secretary Henderson cate- | gerically declared that immediate re- sumption of diplomatic services between Great Britain and Russia was impossi- ‘The British government proposed that negotlations first be opened not later than August 14 on the subject of all controverted questions between the two countries, For this purpose, Mr. Henderson in- vited a Russian delegation to come to London. Delivers Reply. Ambassador Dovcalevsky yesterday handed Mr. Henderson the Russian re- ply to the British proposal, in which Russia said Mr. Henderson’s reply showed | ]a: that the British government was un- willing or unable to agree to the res- toration of normal relations between Great Britian and Russia. ‘Therefore, special new consideration of the question on the Russian side was necessitated, PRISONER, 71, INCARCERATED AT 17, MOVED OUTSI DE AGAINST WILL Jesse Harding Pomeroy, Murderer, Transferred From Charlestown to Bridgewater. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 1.—Jesse Harding Pomeroy, 7l-year-old murderer of small children, whose crimes horrified the country more than half a century ago, had opportunity today to glimpse | for the first time the marvel of modern | life. He was forced to take an auto- | mobile trip of 40 miles from the Charles- town State prison to the State farm at Bridgewater. ‘The East Boston newspaper boy en- tered the grim prison in 1876 at the age of 17, and had been there since. Never had he seen an automobile prior today’s trip. wsenu%ced gm hang for .the murder of "Horace Milan, whose tortured body was that of the newsboy’s third victim, Pomeroy obtained a commutation to life imprisonment. For 41 years there- after he suffereq solitary confinement. Then he was allowed to take his place with other life prjsoners. 1y this month his counsel, John F. Daly, opened a fight to have Pome- roy transferred to Bridgewater and an- nounced he would seek to mandamus Dr. A. Warren Stearns, State com- missioner of correction, to take such action. There were no legal proceed- ings, but Dr. Stearns made the exam- ination and reported the recommenda- tion to Gov. Frank G. Allen. In the meantime Pomeroy had been apprised of the situation and announc- ed he wanted to stay at Charlestown, unless he could be pardoned. Daly then declared he would oppose the move since his client objected. Yes- terday at a hearing before the governor and council he vainly sought to forestall action on Dr. Stearns’ rec- ommendation and to obtain a rehearing of the entire case. Daly characterized Pomeroy as a “victim of circumstances by first get- ting into trouble in an era when in- | Sibe: sanity was not considered to the de- unds gree it now is in the trial of murder cases.” ‘The council, however, approved the transfer and it -was ordered ‘*done forthwith.” / ’ BRITISH AND SOVIET CHINA TO DEMAND PARLEY IS BLOCKED RAILROAD CONTROL Will Agree to Joint Ownership, but Insists on Keeping Administration. By the Associated Press. | | | | | PEIPING, China, August 1.—Sun Fo, t for the Associated Press madc | Great Britain have reached a deadlock | minister of raflways in the Nanking government, told the press today China intended to conduct negotiations with the Soviet government on a basis that while all rights and interests in the | Chinese Eastern Railway would be placed under a Sino-Russian joint ownership, the administrative power | over the railways would be taken over by China. Dispatches to the native press from | Manchuria today said, B. N. Melnikov, former Soviet consul general at Harbin, |and Tsai Yun-Sheng. commissioner of | foreign affai’s at Harbin, met on a train_on Russian territory opposite Manchuli early yesterday. Notify Governments. on the situation with regard to the Chinese-Eastern Raflway, M. Melnikov returned to Dauria and Tsai to Man- chuli. ments for instructions. There have been no further reports messages yesterday from Vladivostok which said red and white Russians had fought at Iman with 100 casualties. paper, was put under the censorship ban yesterday and Le Journal De Pekin, a French publication, was denied use of the mails. It was understood the Nationalist administration at Nanking eonsidered both g:pers had, within the st few months, published articles which were altogether too critical of the government. Must submit Proofs. The order provided that the proofs of the Leader must be submitted each day to the censor for his approval. The paper, however, was permitted to con- tinue use of the mails. ‘The editor and publisher of the leade: is Grover Ciark. He was born in Japan of American parentage and took degrees the University of Chicago in 1918. He has been connected with a number of business enterprises in Tokyo and at one time was a teacher in Japanese commercial schools. REPORT SOVIET REVOLT. 1 Dispatch From Manchuria Tells London Deserters Seize Train. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 1.—A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Chang Chun, Manchuria, today said that two Soviet regiments had revolted north of Vladi- vostok, near Iman, and seized an armored train, cutting the railroad. The correspondent cited the statement of two alleged red army deserters that the Soviet army was somewhat dis- organized and the government there- fore afraid to concentrate large num- bers of troops without supervision. KHAVAROVSK, Siberia, August 1 (#)—Because of continued unrest on the Manchurian frontier, aggravhted by the threatening presence of bands Of “white Russians,” the government her: yesterday called to the colors all -the crian reserves of the age ot 27 and er, The order also.applies to all reserve officers in Siberia, pective of "fi ‘The rescrves will be assembled at the army_headqraiters here, in Viadivostol and Chits After a lengthy discussion, bearing | Both telepraphed their govern- | received here of the clash related in | The Daily Leader, an American news- | from Oberlin College in 1914 and from | “After all our money had passed into irs. Howells' hands, she said she had a surprise for us and described a pleas- | jure trip to Europe, which she offered | to finance personally. About the first: of June we understand Mrs. Howells | made reservations for us on the steam- ship De Grass, paying a small cash de- | posit at that time. On July 4, our | sailing date. Mrs. Howells gave the | French Line passenger office a $500 | check for our passage and we sailed for Havre, France, on that day. “In midatlantic, however, the captain | of the D2 Grass received a radio from | | his New York office to the effect that a worthless check had been tendered | for payment of our passage, whersupon | our passports and baggage were seized {and when we landed at Havre we were | detained by authorities there for four for five days. Fortunately one of us | had an account of several hundred dol- lars in a Paris bank and after several days' delay we were able to withdfaw this amount and book a return passage | as well as pay for the first one.” Associated With Church Members. The two young wolen arrived in | Washington ‘from New York Sunday and laid the case before police two days | later, after they had been informed that | the money they had given Mrs. Howells | would not be forthcoming. Policewere informed that Mrs. How- | ells associated with church members in Washington, gaining the confidence of various_women by offering to advise them financially and receiving their savings. Detectives say they have knowledge of two girls who are now in Germany after a similar experience, while a fifth alleged victim here, an Italian, iden- tified as Massino, was sent abroad in the same way. Still_another woman victim, whose | name police have been asked to with- hold, charges that Mrs. Howell's victim- ized her to the extent of $3,000, repre- senting herself as an investment ad- viser, and that she offered to send her to Europe, which was declined. | | | CHECK FRAUD SUSPECT FOUND AFTER 7 YEARS | California Prisoner Denies Secret| Service Charge He Is Joseph Beck, in Veterans’' Bureau Case. By the Associated Press. After a seven-year search through many States, secret service authorities announced today they had located Jos- éph C. Beck, charged with raising a ;l:t{"roans' Bureau check from $47.50 to The man, however, who is in the military prison at Alcatraz Island, Calif., is just as positive that he is not the man wanted, insisting he is Joseph Davies. The authorities said as soon as his term. for desertion and fraudulent en- listment expires in November, 1930, he would be returned to Spartanburg, S.C., where he is said to have cashed the check. Beck was traced by secret service men from Spartanburg fo Petersburg, -, where he married. He deserted his wife and went West, the trail leading through z‘!exas, New Mexico, Arizona and Mon- na. MAJ. PAUL BOCK KILLED IN PANAMA PLANE CRASH By the Assoclated Press. ICE FIELD, Panama, August 1. —Maj. Paul T. Bock of Illinois, com- mander of the 24th Pursuit Squadron of the Army Air Corps, was killed this morning while at bombing practice over France Field. Maj. Bock was flying alone when his airplane took a nose dive, being wrecked when it smashed to the ground. ‘Washington clear house, $4,798,- P ing $ Treasury balance, $152,635,500.38. New York clearing house exchange, 1$2,070,000.000. | New York clearing house balance, $255,000,000. - HAGERSTOWN, Md., Six men, son Miller, dent, are under arrest, county and local police August wealthy Hagerstofn re today { running down every possible clue as a result of the killing yesterday of Deputy | Sheriff Clyde L. Hauver, 35, ;Pudeflck‘ who, with three other | deputies, were fired upon by moon- shiners in the mountains near here. The others being held are: Waverly Clarke, Paul and Floyd Williams, all' of Hagerstown, and {Charles and Claude Lewis, who live | 13th Engineers. near the scene of the gun battle. | Claude Lewis was arrested after he had | been traced to a Smithsburg physician’s office. where he had been treated for gunshot wounds in his hands and wrist. Lewis Is Released. Charles Lewis was later freed. al: though no explanation for the release could be obtained from the sherif's office this morning. Arrangements were made to raid the still at 5 o'clock last night, and, beside Hauver, the party consisted of Deputy Sheriffs William Speiner, Benton Red- mond and Willlam Wertoncheker. When almost to a camp site, a volley of shots rang out, and Hauver fell, with a bullet wound in his head. He died a short time later in the Frederick Hospital. Ambush Was in Lonely Spot. The other officers returned the fire and traced a blood trail to Smithsburg, where they arrested Claude Lewis. The others were arrested in Frederick, where feeling is running high this morning. The shooting occurred in a lonely spot in the mountains. The officers found a large still and a quantity of mash and liquor which was confiscated. Hauver was married and had three children. He was well know as a star | amateur base ball player. 'POINCARE RESTING AFTER OPERATION Best Conditions Prevail as French Leader Goes Under Knife. By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 1.—Raymond Poin- care underwent successfully today a preliminary operation for the treat- ment of a pelvic affection, which forced his retirement as premier last week. A bulletin issued at 9 a.m. read: “M. Raymond Poincare has 'been operated upon this morning under the best possible conditions by Dr. Marion. ‘There were present at the operation Prof. Gosset. and Dr. Boidin. “Everything passed off in the simplest manner.” (Signed) “DR. MARION, PROF. GOSSET, The former premier left the operat- ing room within a half hour of his entering it at 8 a.m. and shortly after- ward recovered consciousness, He sald he felt no pain and his doctors said there was no fever and they were con- fident everything would go well. ‘The premier’s operation was for an affection of the prostate gland, of a nature common to old men. He will be 69 years old August 29. Prof. Gosset smiled radiantly as he left the Clinic Velpeau and said: “Everything is for best,” adding “we have the greatest confidence the second and more important operation will prove equally successful.” ‘The former premier was ordered not to talk and not to think and to go to sleep, 50 he closed his eyes and soon off. M. Poincare's room overlooks a garden at the front of the ital. He prob- ably will rem!: two or three days and then be taken home to await the major operation. Illinois’ Gas Tax in Effect. CHICAGO, August 1 (#).—Illinois’ 3-cent gasoline tax law went into effect last midnight. This State was the last in the United States to adopt a line tax. A former law was declared unconstitutional after being in effect several weeks, te officials anticipate $52,000,000 revenue from the tax within the next two and one-half years. including William McPher- __ | to proceed to' President Hoover's camp. or. | in the Shenandoah National Park of the vt | Blue Ridge Mountains, to rebuild ap- and State, | Proaches to the camp so as to make | them safe for the President and his | guests. The approach, eventually, will | be one of the’ main entrances to the are ¥ | park for tourist travel, it was learned { today at the White House, the office of Chief of Engincers and from officers at Fort, Humphreys. ! The road building program has been | worked out by Col. Edward M. Mark- ham, commandant of the Engineers | School at Port Humphreys, with Lieut, Col. De Witt C. Jones, commanding the Conferences also were held in the office of the chief of engi neers. Col. Jones proceeded with Com- {pany A to the vicinity of the Hoover | camp today to personally lay out the [ work, but is expected to return to For: | Humphreys tomorrow night. ~Several | officers were espectally assigned for this road-building job, and Lieut. Elvin R. | Heiberg will go out Saturday to join the construction gang. Company A proceeded today under command of Capt. Harley Latson, with Lieuts. Ralph | B. Ezekiel and Vincent J. Esposito, and | with 90 men. Nine Miles Up Mountains. The Hoover camp is about 8 miles up the mountains by a tortuous and unsafe road northwest from Criglers- ville. It lies between the Robinson River, which is a tributary of the Rapidan and the Rapidan itself. It is near Fork Mountain, east of Doubie | Top Mountain, which towers 3,000 fect, and south of Ragged Mountain, whic reaches 3,300 feet, north of Carrs Mountain. From Criglersville the road is a rugged mountain trail with serpentine wind- ings, and considerable clay which in wet weather makes the road dangerous. There has been little or no traffic in this region. Roads thereabout are pass- able in dry weather, but are difficult to negotiate during or after rains. When ~ (Continu 'MAN RUNNING WILD | HACKS 2 TO DEATH Two Others Seriously Hurt by Spar- tanburg Rail Shipping Clerk, Apparently Insane. of | By the Associated Press. SPARTANBURG, S. C.. August 1.— ‘Two men were hacked to death and two others seriously wounded when Earl Robinson, railway shipping clerk, ap- parently insane, ran amuck at the freight warehouse. e dead are R. H. Day, who died while en route to & hospital in an am- bulance, and J. L. Bussey, both railroad employes. MRS. BRITTEN UNDERGOES OPERATION ON LEVIATHAN Representative's Wife Stricken While En Route to Europe for Vacation. Mrs, Alma Britten, wife of Repre- sentative Fred Britten of Illinois, was operated upon at noon yesterday aboard the steamship Leviathan at sea for acute appendicitis, according to a radic- gram received at Mr. Britten’s office here today. The operation, although said to have been a serious one, wus successful and advices stated the patient was well on the road to recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Britten sailed from New York last Saturday to spend their annual vacation aboard. They expect to spend most of their time between London and Paris and make a short it to Southern France. i - . Britten's secretary, Mrs, Britten displayed no symptoms of appendicitis before sailing and was ap- parently in good health. The operation. an emergency one, Was performed by the ship’s surgeon. Seven Bandits Executed. MEXICO CITY, At t 1 (P).—Dis- patch to the Excelsior Guadalajara today said that en_bandits, headed by a man called Tizon,” had been captured and executed by a firing squad near Quila. The band had been active along the Guadalajara-Quila road dur- ing the last few months. . 'Radio Programs—Page 46 3 / With the official thermometer regi: | afternoon, Washington chalked up its | temperature of 90 degrees or more, and a record of eight years standing was equaled, while indications were that by | tomorrow that record will be passed. It | was the first time since June, 1921, that |the Capital has experienced a 90-or- | more degree temperature for nine days running. That's not all, either. because al though a thundershower “might” reach ‘here some time this afternoon or early | this evening, it will not be a heat-wave | breaker in any sense of the word. The | weather man insists that any rainfall today will be “only a very brief respite,” and tomorrow the temperature will be right back where it has been the last eight day: And that's not all. The forecasters See no prospects anywhere for a real break in the present siege. Their re- ports coming in from all quarters over the horizon fail to bring even a ray of hope that the Capital may ever again hope to pull up its sheets for a good night's sleep. The heat, it seems at the o::fifrvawry, is here to stay for awhile~ still. | | Gomparing the current heat wave with _anything like it last year, Weather Bureau announced today that the longest “spell” recorded last year | ran from August 1 to August 6, when |on each of those six days, the mercury | climbed to 90 degrees or more. 'BANDIT IS CAUGHT SEEKING BLACKMAIL New Orleans Police Shoot Accom- plice Asking $10,000 of Gambler. Second Believed Trapped. | | | | 3y the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, August 1.—One of | two blackmail bandits waiting to col- Icct $10,000 from Joe Berlin, well known New Orleans gambler, was shot down and captured today by police accom- panying Berlin to the spot. The other hood. John Gallico, 28, was shot three times in the whizzing of bullets when Berlin handed the bandits a fake pack- age at Prytania street and Jackson ave- nue. Berlin said “he was taken for a ride” two weeks ago by two hooded men who forced him to deliver to them $1,000 under threat of death. ITALY 0. K.’S YOUNG PLAN Mussolini Announces Acceptance After Meeting With Advisers. ROME. August 1 (#).—Italy accepts the Young plan for reparations in the hope of advancing the economic and political _reconstructicn of Europe, Benito Mussolini, Fascist leader, de- clared today following a meeting of his advisers in the Chigi palace to examine the plan. The group of government leaders scrutinized the new reparations scheme in detail. They also studied the line {of conduct taken by the Italian gov- i ernment is regard to reparations in past years as shown by many diplomatic documents. i |tering 93 degrees at 2 o'clock this | ninth consecutive day with a maximum | the | was believed trapped in the neighbor- | | Mr. Hartman will confer with J. E | Heberle, chief statistician for the Cap ital Traction Co. with regard to th details desired by the commission. Of | ficials of the Washington Railway-& | Electric Co., which is a party to the present rate case, were invited to be present at this conference, in order | that they may be prepared to furnish a similar analysis of their accounts. | The disputes today centered around the detailed nature of the questions asked by Commissioner Hartman of witnesses for the company relating to | exhibits filed in support of the com- pany’s petition for a fare of 10 cents cash ‘or four tokens for 30 cents on all Washington street car lines. The company’'s representatives com- | plained that time was being wasted be- cause the commission had not straight- ened out these matters of detail before | the hearing opened. The commission, | however, overruled all objections and Mr. Hartman pursued his inquiries. | The morning session also witnessed | the second failure of the companies to | separate consideration of the petition | for higher fares from a consideration of the probable reduction in operating | expense, if possible, through rerouting |and joint use of tracks. S. R. Bowen, representing the Wash- ington Railway & Electric Co.. filed a | statement on his company’s objections to this, substantially similar to_that which was used by the Capital Trac- | tion Co. at the start of the case. { Bowen Says Authority Lacki | _In explaining his document, Mr. |Bowen said that it was his position | that the commission had the power to { authorize joint use of small stretches |of track where the companies were in | agreement that such joint use would be beneficial to both, but to order a | complete rerouting and joint operation would be the same as ordering a merger |and the commission has no authority to do this without the specific approval | of Congress. | s. R. Bowen, counsel for the Wash- ington Railway & Electric Co., at the opening of the hearing this morning, presented in written form an elabora- tion of the reasons of that company for objecting to the commission’s order directing an investigation to determine | economiesthat would result from uni- | fied control of car lines in the District | and making such inquiry a part of the present rate case. This objection was raised verbally by Mr. Bowen on the | opening day of the hearing. It was overruled by the commiss.on. Chairman Patrick, after reading over | the written statement submitted by Mr. | Bowen today, said that the reasons ad- | vanced were ‘similar to those offered by | the Capital Traction Co., except in one | instance. He referred to one paragraph in Mr. Bowen's statement which de- clared that it would be “unjust, un- reasonable, discriminatory and confis- catory of the property of the companies and violative of their rights under the Constitution of the United States to’ delay granting of the relief to which they are entitled under the law at this time” until the commission completes the proposed inquiry. § “Phe. commission has not_indicated any intention of delaying its decision upon _the request of the Capital Trac- tion Co. for an Ancreased fare,” declared Chairman Patrick. Mr. Bowen explained that he merely wished to point out that any saving from unified control of car lines which might be brought about in the future was entirely problematical and had no part in the present case. “The commission will accept the ob- jections as made,” said Chairman Pat- rick, “but I repeat that there has been no indication of delaying our decision in the rate case.” “There is no power in the commis- (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.y CROWDS FOLLOW } iCritical Situation Arises in | By the Assoctated Press. SANTIAGO, Cuba, August 1—A critical situation has arisen here in the past three ‘weeks as a result of an acute water shortage. The shortage was ac- centuated yesterday when one of the electrical transformers at the water works burned out. An order was issued immediately that districts heretofore supplied by water every seven days would receive water for a few hours only every 20 days. AS SHORTAGE PERILS CUBAN CITY and Supply Guarded. WATER WAGONS Santiago, With Use Curbed Santiago itself was placed under the control of a water administration two weeks ago. Private homes having wells are be- siéged night and day by less fortunate neighbors. ‘The municipal authorities have placed guards about the reservoir, and the city | water carts are accompanied by police on their daily rounds. Crowds run be- -hind them in an endeavor to procure a little water in every imaginable re- ceptacle. ‘There have been several cases of ty- phoid feyer.