Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1929, Page 2

RURAL EDUCATION PROBLEMS STUDIED Work of Church and Schools Discussed at Imstitute of Public Affairs. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Staft Correspondent of The Star. TUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, August 17.—Is America to have Christian cities and a pagan countryside? There is a serious drift in this direc- tion, according to speakers on the prob- lems of the rural church at the lInsti- tute of Public Affairs which closed here today. The great city with its bootleggers and thugs, its levity and its worldliness, its selfishness and its mad rush for money, morally may be degenerating— | but it was generally agreed that the re- verse picture hardly is to be found out among the green pastures and babbling brooks. Cities with their up-to-date schools and churches don’t breed much crime, said Rev. Dr. Henry W. McLaughlin, national director of the country church department of the Presbyterian Church. The cities with the highest homicide rates, Dr. McLaughlin pointed out, are those in the centers of great farming areas, which since the war have received great influxes of pulation from the country. The boys from poverty-stricken homes, inadequate rural schools and still more inadequate rural churches, he be- lieves, break morally under the tempta- tions of the city and the greater strain of living. Fact and Tradition. Once the farm was considered the source of strong character and strong bodies—a mixture of fact and tradition, speakers at the round table pointed out, which is much less true in these days of tenant farmers and mortgaged farms, where congregations can't pay for edu- cated ministers and good schoot teachers. The rich city churches must recog- nize this, declared the Rev. G. A. Wil- son, jr., of Marion, Va, at the round table today, “before we have a com- pletely paganized countryside to re- deem.” Insisting that much of the difficulty was due to a “mediocre, make- shift ministry,” Mr. Wilson continued that this dearth of competent ministers will continue with increasing intensity until some means is devised for dis- tributing to the country its equable share of the church’s resources of men. The problem must be worked out largely by the city church. With notable ex- ceptions, strong men are attracted to the city today and the country gets the leavings.” Much o% the old bucolic picture of the farm family no longer represents the facts, other speakers pointed out. There has been a great change in rural amusements. Husking bees, spelling bees, quiltings, neighborhood ~dances, etc.. are largely things of the past Until recently there has been a hiatus with no source of recreation in the country itself, so that the farm family was forced to depend on the nearest farm, Now such organizations as the Boy Scouts, the 4-H Clubs and similar societies are trying to remedy the situation. Children Neglected. The church in the past has neglected social facilities for young people, said Rey. Dr. J. M. Walker of Charlotte, N. C.. “The farmer,” Dr. Walker con- tinued, “in many cases has been so busy on the farm making a living that he has not given much time to the rearing of a Godly family and develop- ing the well-rounded life of his chil- dren. His special cares have been his corn, cotton, wheat, horses, cows and pigs. His children have been left ‘just to grow up.’ They were a sort of by- product of the farm anyway. Recrea- tion he often confounded with idleness. Better be pulling weeds, hoeing corn or vashing dishes. ‘.‘}Thisg was also true with his wife. he stead! ind and the monotony of Eer long yhg‘i’"s robbed her of much originality, so necessary to a proper play life, and left her at the close of the day with no desire to cultivate the play life of her children. She was too busy in the kitchen l'l(él ‘}rmrksuokms or about r washing and ironing.” he’l‘he caung!ry school also has its share of the blame, said Dr. Edgar W. Knight of the University of North Carolina. «Theusands of rural children are grossly discriminated against,” he de- clared. “Many of the rural schoolhouses are marked by nakedness and deformity. Numerous are the comfortless, old-fash- joned, boxlike buildings. Many are un- hygienic and dangerous. The tiny yards are often unclean, sometimes littered by paper and scraps of lunches, and the facilities for modesty, decency and pro- fection of health and morals are lack- ing altogether or inadequate. Multi- tudes of the rural schools in the United States are crimes against children. One-teacher Schools. “There are approximately 160,000 one-teacher schools in the United| States. Of the 230,000 rural and small town teachers approximately 23 per cent have had less than two years of study beyond the elementary school. More than 4,000,000 of the rural school children in the United States are in old-fashioned and primitive one-teacher schools. “Many of the teachers are doubtless doing the best they can. Chained in their own helplessness, they are allowed to warp the plastic minds of little chil- dren, many of whom seek and find es- cape from the dreary surroundings as wofn as they are able, probably to be- come stubborn opponents of any pro- posal for schools better than they them- selves have known.” The country is no place for the anemic minister, but demands & man who can “push his own lawnmower and hoe his own garden,” declared Dr. John C. Siler of Fisherville, Va. “Country people will not listen with any great respect,” he said, “to a man expound- ing the Scripture who doesn't know the difference between a jimson weed and a tomato vine. Theological seminaries should include a study of practical economics and sociology.” ‘The country pulpit is the speclaist, said Dr. P D. n, Episcopal rector of Warsaw, Va. “Young men and old men cannot meet the needs of the country church. He must be a trained social worker. He must make friends with all kinds of weather. He must be something of an expert with gasoline engines. We need no second-rate men.” Alr transportation in relation to Southern industrial development was discussed before the institute this morn- ing by J. Gordon Schannon of Peters- burg, - Va., president of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce. “With its cotton, lumber and other materials, its climate, labor and power, the South offers possibilities for the manufacture of airplanes which are of equal importance to its development as is air transportation itself,” Mr. Schennon said, “Wwith 329 airports and landing fields at the close of 1928 and 265 more con- templated for early establishment, the’| South is beginning to realize the grow- ing importance of this new method of transportation. It does not mow fully appreciate the industrial possibilities inyolved.” Henry G. Shirley, Virginia State highway commissioner, said destructive competition between the highway and railroad should end. “They are so closely allled that the development of one means the develop- ment of the other and they cannot separated,” he Savi; ‘Warships on Move. place for .~ Goodwi THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929. IFIRST OF STAR'S NEWS-REELS TO BE SHOWN AT EARLE TODAY Motion Picture Includes lCameraman's Leap of 15,000 Feet in Which Earth Was Photographed. Feats of great daring, exciting races and scenes of spectacular interest make up The Evening Star Universal News- reel which will be shown on the screens of the Earle Theater today and theaters in Maryland and Virginia. The Earle is the first of the Stanley-Crandall the- aters in Washington to show the news- reel and all other theaters of the great Chl}:‘l soon will display the film each week. One of the most daring stunts ever performed is the photographing of the whirling earth by & cameraman plung- ing through the air attached to a para- chute. Jack Cope, The Star-Universal news cameraman made the jump from an airplane in Chicago, to take the plctures. Drops 15,000 Feet. Cope went up 15,000 feet in the plane, strapped his motion camera to his body and stepped off into space. He did not open the parachute until he had fallen 10,000 feet or almost 2 miles. At a height of 5,000 feet, or a mile in the air, the parachute slackened his speed and he began to grind the crank of his camera, ‘The result is one of the wierdest pic- tures ever shown on the silver sheet. ‘The whole cock-eyed world seems to have gone berserk from bad bootleg liquor. It whirls and gyrates into all sorts of kaleidoscopic shapes. The ef- fect is that of “the nude descending the stairs” in one quick, dizzy plunge or of some cubist painting treated to dyna- mite and TNT. The cameraman was a bit dizzy him- self when he rcached the ground, but otherwise felt no ill effects from his plunge. In describing his experiences he said that he never seemed to be falling, but rather that the earth leaped up at him to strike him, A These pictures appear exclusively in ‘The Star Universal Newsreel. Wyoming Rodeo. ‘The greatest rodeo of all the Wild West will be revealed on the screen in a spectacular event at the Morgan ranch at Sheridan, Wyo., where 25,000 visitors gathered 10 watch the cowboys perform their stunts. Two thousand eight hundred and fifty cars brought the assemblage from 35 different States to witness the broncho-busting. More fancy riding is concentrated into this strip of film than is ordinarily seen in a lifetime. Wild bronchos are taken in hand by the cowboys, saddled and ridden for the first time. That is,| some of them are ridden. In the ma- jorily of cases it was only a question of how long the cowboy could stick to his saddle. Most of them were jarred loose from the backs of the ponies by quick twists and turns and double buck. Few were the riders who were able to hang on for any perceptible length of time when those viclous, untamed animals began to do their stuff. Bull-dogging and branding and fancy roping add to the interest of the scenes. River Boat Race. An exciting boat race of three old- time steamships that have for years carried pls.!enfers and freight along the Sacramento River in California will also be shown. The boats are old stern wheelers similar to the Ohio and Mis- sissippi River boats. Every ounce of steam was crowded into the boilers of the Dover, Red Bluff and San Joaquin and the pilots strained every beam in an effort to win while cheering throngs gathered on the river banks to see the boats pass. The San Joaquin won the laurels. In contrast to these old timers is shown the great German liner Bremen, as she pulls into her dock at Bremers- haven, Germany, after beating the world record for the eastern passage across the Atlantic with a time of 4 days 14 hours and 30 minutes. But England is not permitting the Bremen to run away with this record without a struggle, for in this newsreel you will see the launching of the Brittanic at Belfast, Ireland, on which Great Brit- ain pins its hope of regaining the crown so long held by the Mauretania. ‘The Britannic is said to be the fast- est ship afloat and it remains for her first crossing to show whether or not she can beat the Bremen'’s time. Many _interesting oddities appear among the news events, including a jazeical garden in which a musically inclined gardener grows all sorts of musical instruments. These novelties require time to grow, one piano not taking complete form for 10 years. When the piano pruner tunes up his hedge you can hear those thorny Praes, A delight for the kiddies is an old- time circus given to the children of Los Angeles by the City Playground Commission. There are elephants and peanuts and acrobats and ring stuff, ‘neverything. CAUSES OF NAVAL ARMS DISCUSSED Panama Canal and Monroe D\?ctrine Linked in Public Support of Defense. By the Assoclated Press. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass,, August 17. —Two American policies—defense of the Panama Canal and the Monroe Doctrine—will live as long ds- arma- ments continue, Rear Admiral C. L. Hussey, U. 8. N., retired, said today before the limitation of armaments round-table of the Institute of Politics. Armaments, in turn, he declared, are deeply rooted in the national conscious- ness and will be difficult to remove, “pecause national security rests and will continue to rest upon men’s will- ingness to sacrifice their lives in the defense of those things which they be- lieve are vital to themselves and their posterity.” “The support of national policies has always been in the hands of our states- men,” he continued, “and although armed forces have been simply their instruments when other means failed, it is pertinent to note that in times of peace armed forces have a potential value, of which responsible statesmen are duly sensible when it comes to dip- lomatic negotiations.” & Maintenance of an American mer- chant marine and the protection of our trade were two further defensive poli- cies which he said would long remain a part of the United States’ policies. Darwin J. Meserole, president of the National Unemployment League, told the institute that Congress and State Legislatures should enact laws provid- ing funds for the construction of roads, drainage and jrrigation of water lands and river and harbor improvements for the relief of unemployment. COLORED MAN GIVEN 60 DAYS ON THEFT CHARGE Earl S. Owen, colored, disagreed with Judge Ralph Given, who sentenced him to 90 days behind the bars for the alleged theft of a dollar from two news- boys. He said that he had been framed by the police and the boys and that if the judge would only let him out he would bring in witnesses to testify that he had been in another part of the city at the time the money was stolen. Judge Given said that he belleved that every man should have a square deal, sent a policeman out for Owens witnesses and ordered the man to the “bull pen,” with the mise that he would be released if men testified as he said. ‘After about 20 minutes had passed a note was handed to Judge Given from Owen which read as follows: “Give me then 90 days, judge, those guys won't come down here and testify for me.” Judge Given took the note as a confession and reduced the man’s sentence to 60 days. DEAT—; AGAIN PROBED. Navy Nurse Found Dead Near Manila, Believed Murder Victim. MANILA, August 17 (P).—A second investigation of the death of Esther Louis Klein, 36, Navy nurse, whose body was found in a roadhousse near Manila, August 5, was begun by the constabulary today after they had reached the conclusion that the woman had been slain. ‘The authorities announced that cir- cumstances relating to the case did not support the suicide theory which was first adopted. They also believed that Miss Klein was accompanied by a man on the night of her death, but no clues to his identity have been found. Miss Klein’s nearest relatives were said to be living in New York. PR e SRR BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band, at the bandstand this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock; John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Point- Entracte— “Lover Come Back to Me,” Romberg “Wedd! of the Painted Doll,” Brown rom the opera “Madame MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., August 17 (®).—The Baltic fleet cruisers Profintern and S. S. S. R. (formerly the Avrora) with four mine carriers, left Kronstadt today for foreign waters. Their exact destination was not Butterfly” Fox trot, “You Brown ‘Waltz suite, “Youthful Spirits,” Komzak Finale, “L’Alglon” ....Austin “The Star Spangled Banner.” to i | Representative Franklin Fort HOOVER PRAISES VIRGINIA HOSTS IN MADISON ADDRESS | ___(Continued From First Page) inse it is the excuse for return to the | woods and sireams with their retouch | of the simpler life of the frontier from which every American springs. More- over, I have learned that fishing has an important implication and even sounder foundation of such an excuse from the presidential point of view. I find that many Presidents have joined , the ranks of fishermen only after their | inauguration as President, although I | can claim over 45 years of apprentice- | ship—that is, in fishing, not in the presidency. Fishing Next to Prayer. “I have discovered the reason why Presidents take to fishing—the silent sport. Apparently the only opportunity for refreshing one’s soul and clarifica- tion of one’s thoughts by solitude to Presidents lles through fishing. As I have said in another place, it is gen- erally realized and accepted that prayer is the most personal of all human rela- tlonships. On such occasions as that | men and women are entitled to be alone | and undisturbed. Next to prayer fish- ing is the most personal relationship of man and of more importancee than the fact itself, everybody concedes that the fish will not bite in the presence of the public. Fishing seems to be the sole avenue left to Presidents through which they may escape to their own thoughts and may live in their own imaginings and find relief from the pneumatic | hammer of constant personal contacts, and refreshment of mind in the babble of rippling brooks, . “Moreover, it is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility and of human frailty—for all men are equal before fishes. And it is desirable that the President of the United States should be periodically reminded of this fundamental fact—that the forces of nature discriminate for no man. A “But to become more serious, I wish again to thank you on behalf of Mrs. Hoover and myself for your generous and cordial welcome to Madison County. We hope to be good neighbors and we know from experien: 1 Sl perience already that you Demonstration Dignified. This little town mestles cozily in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. With a population of not more then 300 souls, it staged a demonstration strictly in accordance with its concep- tions of the dignity of the Chief Execu- tive and in accordance with its own legends and traditions. The reception may be appropriately described as heing wholesome and cordial and typical of the hospitality for which Virginia is so renowned. For spokesman on this occasion the comrhunity selected the first citizen of the State—Gov. Harry Byrd. It was to him that those who have arranged the affair have left the responsibility of putting in words the genuine feelings of the President’s hosts. Representa- tive Garber, in whose congressional dis- trict Madison is located, was selected to introduce the governor. Dr. J. N. Clore, president of the Madison Cham- ber of Commerce, which organization has been in charge of the celebration, acted as master of ceremonies. Exercises at Fair Grounds. The exercises were held at the fair grounds on the outskirts of the village and following the speechmaking there were all sorts of fun and y::zi in- cluding field sports and music, ding up with an old-fashioned barbecue. The music on occasion was fur- nished by a 50-piece band from the Marine base at Quantico. As the Pres- ident reached the little stand erected at one end of the fair grounds for this pecial purpose. the band struck uj “Hail to the Chief.” This was _fol- lowed with “The Star Spangled Ban- ner.” On his arrival at the grounds the nt was greeted with the presidentfal salute. A .cannon from Fredericksburg was used for tbis for- mality. About the front of the stand was drawn up the ond Blues in the picturesque uniform made famous by historic military organization. They constituted the President’s honor rd. ";'he President, with Mrs. Hoover and their son Allan and the other mem- bers of the week end party at the camp, motored to Madison from the camp. This ride afforded a splendid oppor- tunity to view the beautiful pastorial scenes zlong the way, as well as the im- pressive panoramas, all rich in history. In the ‘were Henry P. Fletcher, to mtam; Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assis! Secretary of the Navy; wm{&m P. McCracken, A-lsm;z aeronautics, and Mrs. McCracken; Jersey, Lieut. James Comdr. Joel T. Boone, e physician, and Lawrence Rich taries House to the and George Akerson, secref Presidents | crop year ended July h d Radio Forum Speaker SENATOR CONNALLY. SENATOR CONNALLY IS FORUM SPEAKER Texan to Discuss Recent Farm-Aid Developments and Debenture Fight. Scnator Tom Connally of Texas will discuss the most recent developments in the efforts to aid agriculture in this country and the coming fight to in- sert in.the tariff bill the so-called de- benture plan over the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Evening Star and sponsored by the Columbia Broad- casting system, at 9 o'clock tonight. Senator Connally is one of those who has supported the debenture plan in the Senate. He will describe concretely just how the debenture would operate it applied. Coming from one of the great agri- cultural States of the country the Sena- tor from Texas has made a careful study of the needs of the farmer. It 15 a foregone conclusion that the efforts of supporters of the debenture plan will be strongly resisted when that plan is submitted as an amendment to the tariff bill. Senator Norris of Nebraska and Senator Brookhart of Iowa have already announced their intention of doing all they can to have the proposed amendment ~ perfected and adopted. ‘When debenture was before the Senate during the consideration of the farm relief bill, it was supported by a ma- jority of the body. The declination of the House to have anything to do with it, however, finally caused it to be eliminated from the farm bill. Senator Connally first came to Con- gress in 1917, having been elected to the House in November, 1916. A veteran of the Spanish-American War, Senator Connally volunteered his services for the World War after the United States had entered the conflict, and in 1918 he served as captain and adjutant, 22d Infantry Brigade, 11th Division. He was re-elected to Congress that year and was returned to the House at each election until he was nominated and elected a Senator of the United States last year. In the House he served with distinction and although he has been in the Senate only a few months, he is making his mark in the Upper House. SNOWDEN REJECTS DEBT COMPROMISE OFFERED BY ALLIES (Continued From First Page) a fair deal. They are standing by their guns, not, because they only want more money. It is maintained there is more involved in the issue than that. Chan- cellor Snowden holds that it would be just as fair to accuse the other creditors with blocking peace by their resistance to British demands. Snowden feels that if he makes con- cessions at this conference they will be used to exhort further concessions further on. The British delegation said it is very bad grace for other creditors to talk about pacification of Europe and the obstables placed in its way by Brit- ain, after all the concessions Britain has made in war settlements. Always Says No. Reports current at The Hague that Snowden has shown himself unap- proachable are contested by the Labor- ite chancellor. The feeling in other delegations is that whenever represent- atives of other powers approach the British representative to make proposals he always says no. He admits he is outspoken at_ times, but-Mr. Snowden declares he always is ready to consider any serious proposals. These have not been forthcoming thus far, according to hus view. ‘The chancellor’s reply is now general- 1y considered here as bringing active ne- gotiations almost to a conclusion. There probably will be another effort by the four powers to bring about a compro- mise, but Mr. Snowden’s reply is said to leave little hope for success, because Prance, Italy, Belgium and Japan have thus far been unable to find the sums for reparations payment insisted upon by Great Britain without sacrifices by themselves which none of them seems willing to make. e GEOFFREY SCOTT, 44, IS DEAD IN NEW YORK Noted Scholar and Writer Was Editing Collection of Boswell Papers. Geoffrey Scott, 44 years old, inter- nationally known scholar and writer, died in the Rockefeller Hospital, New York, Wednesday. Born in England of English and Scot- tish_parentage, Mr. Scott was educated at by and Oxford. He wonsall rizes for scholarship in the literary eld while at the latter institution. _Since graduation he has devoted his time largely to a study of the period of the eighteenth century, the time of in editing a remarkable collec- the private papers of James Boswell, found a few years ago at Malahide Castle, near Dublin, and since acquired by the well known Johnson and Boswell collector, Lieut. Col. Ralph H. Isham of Long Island. Under Mr. Scott’s editorship these wmm"“ in course of publication by Edwin Rudge of Mount Vernon, New York. Six volumes of the limited edition have ap- peared and are considered a notable achievement of printing. The question and English completing remaining 12 or 13 volumes. —_— WHEAT EXPORTS GAIN. 2 OZTAWA, ?.nm August 16 government report ished toda: showed Canadian -mf:keom in the 31 established a new record for Canada with wearly 354,500,000 bushels.- THREE FEARED LOST INBOAT COLLISION Syracuse Millionaire, Wife and Pilot Hurled High Into Air by Impact. By the Associated Press. ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y, August 17.—W. Charles Lipe, millionaire Syra- cuse manufacturer; his wife and Ford Dodge, his pilot, are believed to have drowned when their speed boat crashed into a pleasure boat in midchannel of the St. Lawrence River last night. The Lipe craft, the Giggle, smashed at full speed into the excursion boat Thousand Islander and sank almost im- mediately. The Thousand Islander, her hull damaged, raced with its 50 passen- gers shoreward and was bzached. The excursion boat, commanded by Capt. Devilla Rogers, was returning from a trip to beauty spots of the im- | mediate vicinity and was brightly light- | ed. Lipe's speeding craft rounded an | island point“and plowed into the bow of the pleasure boat. T didn’t see the other boat approach- ing,” sald Capt. Rogers. “The first thing I knew our bow was struck. Then 1 saw bodies from the other boat thrown high into the air.” Lipe and his party were bound for the Thousand Island Yacht Club from their Summer home on Nemahbin Island. They were identified from the name plate of his boat, which was found imbedded in the steamer. | Many boats were on the scene today seeking the bodies of the missing, and | Alexandfia Bay authorities sent to Og- densburg for divers. INHERITED LARGE FORTUNE. Father of Lipe Established Gear Business. | SYRACUSE, N. Y., August 17 (#).— | W. Charles Lipe, believed to have per- | ished with his wife and their pilot last | night in a collision of his speedboat | and an excursion boat in the St. Law- rence River, inherited a large portion of a fortune of more than $5,000,000 from his father, Willard C. Lipe, one of the leaders of the gear industries of Syra- cuse. The elder Lipc began the manufac- ture of bicycle gears in a little machine shop with Alexander T. Brown. With the development of the automobile they began manufacturing differentials. The Brown, Lipe, Chapin Co. was formed a few years later and became a leader in the fleld, being taken over by the Gen- era] Motors Corporation in 1922 W. Charles Lipe was president of W. C. Lipe, Inc., mechanical engineer- ing and machine specialties; president of the General Aviation Co. and presi- dent of Lipe & Walrath Co. Mrs. Lipe (nee Eloise Estelle Hoyt), a member of the Junior League, was the daughter of Dr. Gordon Hoyt of Syracuse. RELEASE GRANTED 10 MYSTERY MAN Head of Business Paying 52 Per Cent Interest Wins Freedom on Bond. | | By the Assoclated Press. OSHKOSH, Wis, August 17.—Elmer | S. Huckins, who is sald to pay from 26 | to 52 per cent interest on sums invested in his “mystery” business here, late yes- terday obtained his freedom from Fed- | eral custody under the same mysterious veil that had shrouded the movements that led to his surrender at the Federal Building in Milwaukee earlier in the jday. And the veil was not lifted one iota from the nature of his enterprise. Closeted behind the locked doors of a private hotel here with Federal offi- cials, he and his wife signed a property bond that insures his freedom until September 9. Actually, the case has been contipued until August 26, since a court commissioner may not grant a continuance of more than 10 days, but it is understood that another "continu- ance will be granted at that time with- out the presence of the principals. At that time Huckins is to be given a hearing on a charge of using the mails to defraud. He appeared at the Federal Building in Milwaukee yester- day with his attorney, Walter J. ‘Barn- grover of Cedar Rapids, Towa. Going before United States Commis- sioner H. L. Kellogg, an immediate hearing was demanded. The court de- mu to this and fixed bond at $25.- 000, the amount Assistant District At- torney E. J. Koelzer sald the Govern- ment would insist on. Barngrover decalred this excessive, but when the authorities remained adamant and Mr. Huckins could not produce that much cash, the attorney suggested that Huckins' Summer home at Hancock, Wis., valued at $100,000, be taken in lieu of cash. Mr. Kellogg agreed to this, provided Mrs. Huckins would also sign the bond in the pres- ence of a Federal court commissioner. That necessitated the trip to Osh- kosh Huckins signed the property bond at Milwaukee and then came here in the custod yof Deputy United States Marshal Warren Garret. Barngrover again denounced the “outlandishness” of the bond, insisting that the Gove had no case ernment against Huckins ::Ag that the “Federal | 80 authorities know it. He declared Huckins at no time at- tempted to avoid service in case. He further said that the business of his client was “as honorable and legitimate as any in Milwaukee” and that “friends of Mr. Huckins who have become dis- trustful because of newspaper publicity will have their confidence entirely re- stored.” Pressed as to the nature of the busi- ness, he became silent. — Blast Kills 16 Miners. KATTOWITZ, Polarid, August 17 (#). —Sixteen ‘miners were killed yesterday in a fire-damp explosion in the Wille- brand coal mines, it was reportsd here. Three bodies have been recovered. | a motor for tests. NEW AIRPLANE TESTING PLANT ‘The Bureau of Standard's recently completed airplane motor testing sta- | tion is one of the largest and newest of its kind. Arthur Chevrolet, Indianapolis racing motor designer and engineer, is shown at the right assisting in setting up approved. Around the World Log Of the Graf Zeppelin By the Assoclated Press. (All Times Eastern Standard.) Wednesday, August 7. 10:40 pm.—Left Lakehurst, N. J. Saturday, August 10. 7:03 —Landed at Fried- richshafen, completing first lap of round-the-world flight, 4,200 miles, in 55 hours 24 minutes. Wednesday, August 14. 10:3¢ pm—Left Friedrichs- hafen. Thursday, August 15. 4:30 am—Passed over Berlin. 11:05 a.m.—Quit German ter- ritory at Tilsit, East Prussia. 2:30 p.m.—Crossed the Soviet frontier near Dwinsk (Duena- burg, Latvia). 7:05 pm—Passed over Wis- chni-Wolotschok, U. S. R. R. Friday, August 16. 3:30 a.m.—Passed over Vyatka, 600 miles east of Moscow. 10:30 a.m.—Dropped post cards at Kizel, in the Urals. 6:00 p.m.—Gave position 62 N. 80 E., 2,940 miles east of Fried- richshafen. CHINESE REPORT SOVIET CAVALRY ATTACK REPULSED (Continued From First Page.) at Pogranithnaya has been reinforced strongly. Rengo dispatches from Khailar said a | band of guerillas believed to be mem- bers of & “young Monoglia” party, raided a village eight miles east of Khailar on August 15 and killed several civilians before Chinese troops drove off the marauders. Rengo dispa‘ches from Harbin said Chinese and Russian troops clashed at 5 pm. yesterday near Hsilinho, a station on the Chinese Eastern Rail- way 31 miles northwest of Pogranich- naya. After a brief exchange of firing the Russians retired. Rengo MuRden dispatches said that Chang Hsueh Liang, head of the Man- churian provincial government after a military council at Mukden ordered mobilization of four additional infan- try brigades, one cavalry brigade and alr units for border service. MINISTER INSTRUCTED. Nanking Says Pact Signatories Are to Be Notified of Invasion. LONDON, August 17 (#).—Reports from Nanking last night were that the Chinese Minister at Washington had been instructed to notify signatories of the Kellogg anti-war pact that Rus- sia had invaded Chinese territory in Manchi 5 ‘This action by Foreign Minister C. ‘T. Wang fdllowed repeated unofficial reports during the last few davs of actual conflicts with casualties between the opposing border patrois who nave been massed on the Manchurian- Siberian fronts for weeks since the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway by_the Chinese. The Russian demand that Soviet rail- way officials be reinstated as a condi- tion to opening peace negotiations, has been refused and each government has prociaimed a “firm stand” against the alleged aggressive attitude of the other. As a resuit the dispute, which recently seemed on the way to peaceful settle- ment with the encouragement of the powers, tonight was aproaching the status of an open quarrel with all ne- tiations suspended or brokom off. Additional Chinese soldiers were re- ported on the way to the frontier and Minister Wang was quoted as saying that the Nanking government and Chang Hsueh Liang, who inherited the mantle of “war lord” in Manchuria from his father, Chang Tso Lin, were in complete agreement. Maj. Somervell on Inspection Trip. Maj. Brehon B. Somervell, District engineer of the War Department for the Washington area, left today on a four-day ms})ectlcn trip covering activi- ties of his force en the Potomac and Rappahannock Rive:s. He will ct construction of the new 20-inch pipe line dredge now being built at Newport News, Va. i The motors are run for five hours at full speed before being « —Underwood Photo. FAVORABLE WINDS SPEEDING ZEPPELIN; 3 OF 5 MOTORS USED __(Continued From First Page.) that the ship was following closely the great circle course over Siberia, while the Moscow figures would indicate that she was swinging in a southernly direction toward the city of Yeneseisk and the Transsiberian Railroad. Aside from the discrepancy in position and time, it was clear that the Graf was past the half-way mark and was making good time toward the heavily mountain- ous region in the Eastern hali of Siberia. SPEED AVERAGES 68 MILES. | Grat May Arrive in Tokio 22 Hours Ahead of Schedule. MOSCOW, August 17 (#).—Facing the most difficult half of its 6,600-mile journey, the Graf Zeppelin, with 20 passengers and 40 crew aboard, Loday cruised just south of the Arctic Circle above a vast Siberian wasteland. Its position reported at 6 p.m. (East- ern standard time) Friday, was latitude 62 north, longitude 80 east, a spot about 100 miles north of Laryansk, on the Vakh River. Previous messages from the Zeppelin had said laconically, “All well aboard.” The position given was 2941 miles east and north of Friedrichshafen, which the dirigible left at 10:3¢ p.m. (Eastern standard time) Wednesday, n what was to be its most perilous and longest journey. ‘The elapsed time of 43 hours and 28 minutes represented an average specd of about 68 miles an hour, about 18 | miles per hour in excess of the cruising average Dr. Hugo Eckencr, the ship's master, had hoped to obtain. Speed in excess of 100 miles an hour was ot~ {ained at one stage of ihe fight yeste ay. Calculating the rethainder of the course from the 6 p.m. (Eastern stand- ard time) position at 3,760 miles and presuming the average speed of 68 mil>s an hour would be maivtained, around 55 hours would be needed to bring t ship to Tokio and end the second lap | P’ of the round-the-world flight. Thus. under continued favorable cir- cumstances, the Graf might reach Tokio at about 3 p.m. Monday, Japanese time, with an elapsed flying time of about 98 hours, & full 22 hours less than the time Dr. Eckener estimated he would need to complete the journey. These calculations, however, were based on most favorable weather condi- tions and did not take into account the difficult uncharted terrain, insufficient weather reports, and in general prob- ably extremely difficult fiying circura- stances. Heads into Mountainous Area. Presuming the Zeppelin crossed the Yenisei River within a few hours of the 6 pm. (Eastern standard time) position—which might be considered the half-way mark of the journey—it headed almost at once into a moun- tainous area with peaks ranging up to 3,000 and 4.000 feet. An _uncertain escape from passage entirely over mountains was available with & course along the lower Tunguki River Basin and the Vilui or Lena River Basins to Yakutsk (Jakutsk), where the turn _southeastward to Tokio probably will be made. It was a region from which might be expected almost no reports of sight- ings at all. It is peopled by wild, no- madic tribes most of whom have never seen anything remotely resembling an airplane or an airship. A forced de- scent might bring the Zeppelin down many miles and many days from habi- tations and succor. Constant Reports Received. ‘The Graf's progress yesterday was more or less consistently reported, both by sightings and radio messages from the ship itself. Veering northward from Wischni - Wolotschok, United States Soviet Republics, it passed to the north of Moscow and crossed the Urals in the neighborhood of Nadezh- dinsky, about the sixtieth parallel. At 10:30 am. (Eastern standard time) the Graf passed over Kitzel, largest pit-coal region of the Urals, and a package of six postcards, ad- dressed by Dr. Johann C. Karlin, Rus- sian meterologist, to Russian aviation leaders, relatives and friends. ‘The message on each said: “Owing to the wind Dr. Hugo Eckener refused to pass over Moscow which would have resulted in loss of 8 to 10 hours.” Once past the Urals the Graf fol- lowed with slight variations the sixtieth parallel, veering northward slightly as it approached Yenisel River and its half-way mark. SUN GOD'S GOUGH ALARMS AVIATORS. Endurance Plane’s Behavior Causes Mamer to Fear Forced Landing. Lieut. Nick Mamer, who took off from Spokane. Wash. Thirsdey msnt in one : Dt _ever made at & mom-stop, Toun, franscontinental endurance flight. fs writing @ daily account of hir experiences for The Star and the North American Newspaper ‘Alliance. He {3 toss- ing his stories to tie refueling pilots ot at each refueling point, BY LIEUT. NICK MAMER, First fiver to attempt non-stop round-‘rip transcontinental fight. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (first re~ fueling point), August 17.—Well, here we are the Spokane Sun God and Art Walker and I, many miles and hours now behind us in our attempt to fly from the Pacific Coast to New York and back without stopping, doing our refueling in the air. Once the engine did a little coughing, and that gave us an unpleasant thrill, We thought the flight might be all over. but the coughing soon ceased and we flew easily on. Everything has been so restful since the necessary hubbub and confusion of our take-off. We got away from Seattle promptly last evening at 6 o'clock, Seattle time. The ship rose easily after a 4,000-foot run, and our engine didn't appear to have had to exert itself unnecessarily. ‘We climbed quickly to 1,000 feet as we passed over Spokane. ‘The Sun God was perfectly balanced, and is now, as it rides the light Western air. Our speed has been around 100 miles an hour. The visibility has been poor at times because of the smoke haze from forest- fires. Have Trouble With Inductor. As darkness came on our first night out Walker lav on the bed aft trying to radio. Through a clearing in’ the haze we saw Mount Rainier and Mount Adams silhouetted against the sky. The friendly moon then shone bright snd clear. "Our earth inductor gave us a little trouble. Perhaps the radio has been affecting it. At 7:45 last night T changed con- trols with Art for the first time, to jot down some of the things I wanted to put into this story. At 8:15 I was back at the controls as we entered a gorge. It was dark, and we put on our parachutes, It was then our engine startled us with its coughs. We saw Portland, Oreg., flashing up on the horizon, brightly illuminated. We crossed the Siskyou Mountains. It was then so hazy we couldn’t see Mount Shasta. At 1:15 this morning we again changed controls. We got jammed in the narrow passageway between the side of the ship and the gas tank. Art flew the ship for an hour, and then I took her back. This time we took our 'chutes off to change places, and that made it easier. ‘Wait for Daylight to Refuel. At 3 this morning we sped in over San Francisco. We kept circling Mills Field, waiting for daylight to refuel our plane and to give this story to the refueling pilot. The time passed swift- ly. The San Francisco Bay district was a marvelous sight with its millions of lights. ‘The radio has gone out on us and I think we'll transfer it to the refuel- ing plane to cut down our weight a lit- tle. We each ate a few nuts and sip- ped a little coffee while we were play- ing around over Mills Field. I was wide awake, and I imagine Art was, 00 We have been busy familiarizing our- selves with our new home. I think we | are going to like it a lot. (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- per Allance ) |SPOKANE SUN GOD REACHES CHEYENNE ON REFUEL FLIGHT (Continued' From Pirst Page) would take on more latte. Eight gallons of oil were delivered to the Sun God on the first refueling here. Mamer's note to Bookwalter also gave instructions regarding the contacts and ordered the Ryan plane to pull in its hose and leave for the ground im- mediately after the gasoline was de- livered. DIFFICULTIES ARE MET. Refueling Hose Breaks Twice as 150 Gallons of Gas Are Transferred. ROCK SPRING, Wyo., August 17 (®). —The biplane Spokane Sun God, piloted by Nick Mamer and Art Walker, left for Cheyenne at 6 o'clock this morning after having circled the airport here all night. ‘The Spokane Sun God, attempting a new long distance and endurance re- fueling flight, soared on its w but only after facing difficulties here that might have ended the flight. The Sun God arrived over Rock Springs at 6:30 last night, some 24 hours after it had taken off at Spokane, gas at North and an emergency refueling plane, rushed from Cheyenne, made four trips into a rapidly darkening sky to refuel the plane, which apparently had nearly exhausted its gas supply. During the contacts the refueling hose broke twice and only 150 gallons of gagoline could be transferred. The Sun God's pilols had asked for 350 gallons. Believing they faced bad weather be- tween here and Cheyenne, Mamer and Walker elected to remain in this vi- cinity overnight, instead of continuing on to Cheyenne as scheduled, where preparations to make a night refueling contact had been completed. Advised that weather conditions had cleared, the pilots decided on another refueling contact here at 2 am. before continuing their flight to Cheyenne. After they leave Cheyenne the fiyers will head for Cleveland, the next re- fueling point on their journey. RUFUEL PLANE ORDERED UP. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 17 (#).— A refueling plane was ordered into the air here at 9:30 this morning to await arrival of the Spokane Sun God and prepared ‘for the refueling operation over the Cleveland airport. DISTRICT BUYS 30 AUTOS FOR GOVERNMENT USE ‘The District Commissioners yester~ day approved purchase of 30 automo- biles for use in various departments of local government. ‘The gross price to be paid is $16,713.02, but the city will receive an allowance of $1,835.10 on old cars and parts turned in, making the net cost $14,877.92. Eight of the cars are to be assigned to the Municipal Garage, six to the Highway Department, four to the Sewer Department, one to the Trees and Parkings Department, seven to the City Refuse ent, one to the Water Department and three to the Board of Public Welfare. ‘The Commissioners also appinted two new policemen as privates of the first class on one year probation. They are James S. McWhirter and Samuel H. g. Appointment of Miss Maude Knight to succeed Miss Clara E. Culpeper, re- signed, as head teacher of the District Training School, was also approved by the city heads. ' Miss Knight is to be- ~