Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1929, Page 2

2 #xk GRAF IS PREPARING 10 HOP TOMORROW Los Angeles Flight to Start in Afternoon if Weather Is Favorable. By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, August 20.—The Graf Zep- pelin, conqueror of one ocean and two continents, was preened today for the conquest of another ocean and another continent and completion of its round- the-world trip. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, . INTERPRETATION OF LAW HELD ESSENTIAL TO EFFECTIVENESS Mrs. Willebrandt Relates How Cburt Decisions Finally Settled Some Rights of Dry Officers. (In this article, the sixteenth of her series, Mrs. Willebrandt begins the subfect of “making the punishment fit ¢ he crime,” the clarifying and interpreting the statules am;lth to prohibition offenses which preceded amous the passage of the f Mpua;l"thvmbuquently.) lones law. This picce of legislation she will BY MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT. Before there can be any kind of effective law enforcement there has to be law, very definite and very certain, to of the anti-prohibitionists has been that the thin, hibition enforcement have been beyond enforce. One of the done in e of that is right. t&‘" complaints name of pro- the law. With Lodged safely within the giant Ger- | any new statute it is of the utmost importance early to clarify its interpre- man-constructed hangar at Kasima- gaura, the giant dirigible was gone over carefully by workmen, who again tested every inch of its fabric, restrated mo- tors and listened to thelr hum and sought possible weaknesses which may have developed on its fiight across Eu- rasia. ‘Thursd: it dawn (Wednesday mid- afternoon, Eastern standard time), bar- ring adverse weather or other contin- gencies, the Zeppelin will be taken from the hangar and started on the third lap of its globe-encircling cruize, from ‘Tokio to Los Angeles, across the Pacific north of the Hawaiian group, down the American coast from Seattle, a dis- tance of about 5470 miles. Brief Stop at Los Angeles. From Los Angeles, after a brief stop, it will fly the 2,500 miles across the continent to Lakehurst, N. J., complet- ing the trip begun Wednesday night, August 7, with the start from Lake- hurst for Friedrichshafen, Germany. ]t“should have flown then about 19,000 miles. ‘The same crew of 40 that made the start at Friedrichshafen will be aboard, but 4 of the passengers brought here from the dirigible's Lake Constance home will quit the craft, leaving but 16 of the original passengers. The sailing list may be filled at this port. Dinner Given Eckener. Passengers and crew, freshened by a long sleep last night at Tokio hotels, spent today sightseeing and accepting the entertainment of Japanese hosts, who outdid themselves for their guests from America and Western Europe. Despite reluctance of Dr. Hugo Eck- ener, master of the dirigible, to delay. his own sleep and that of his men for entertainment, he could not refuse the invitation to dinner shortly after arri- val, a ceremonial meal expressing the tribute of Dai Nippon to those who had 80 _conquered space. The ceremonial dinner menu listed dried chestnuts, dried cuttlefish and saki, the national drink fermented from rice. A geisha dinner, at which geisha girls danced and sang modern and classic songs of the country, followed, with the officers and crew of the diri- gible as guests. GLOBE FLIGHT MADE AS TEST. Taken to Prove Practicability of Regular Dirigible Service. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Au- gust 20 (#).—The present world flight of the Graf Zeppelin, it was learned last night from Treliable sources, was technical demonstration to prove the practicability of regular international dirigible service in which American capitalists, the Zeppelin Works and the Hamburg-American Steamship Line would co-operate. ‘The veil hiding the hopes and plans of Dr. Hugo Eckener, veteran com- mander of the lighter-than-air craft, was partly lifted, when the largest air- ship of the day completed the second and most difficult lap of its world Jjourney. Schmidt to Sail for U. S. Dr. Schmidt, secretary of the Zep- pelin Works, sailing shortly for America to pave the way for negotia- tions in New York with an American financial group. for establishing inter- national _dirigible service between Europe, South America and North America, possible beyond the east coasts. It was intimated that the present flight was the outcome of preparatory discussions that Dr. Eckener had, months ago, with the Hamburg-Ameri- can Line and the American group of financiers. The latter was said to have demanded such a flight as proof that the modern airship, technically, is suf- ficiently perfected to maintain a regu- lar service. The declared success of these negoti- ations will have an important bearing on the future of tiie Zeppelin Works, ‘which will then be concerned exclusively with _construction of airships, either at Friedrichshafen or some other South German point. Headquarters of the air service would be transferred either to North Germany or to the United States. It was learned that Dr. Eckener, in previous discussions in America, had proposed for the creation of this service a German-American company. The Zeppelin Works would contribute their technical equipment and an experience unsurpassed in length eisewhere in the world; the Hamburg-American Line, its present world organization, and the American group, the financial backing. 1t was hinted that a number of Ameri- can transportation companies were in- cluded in the group which had been interested in the project. GARAGE SERVICE MAN HELD UP BY TWO BANDITS Paul Espina, & 44-year-old Filipino, night service man at the Irving T. Donohoe garage, 1625 L street, was held up at the garage by two colored men and st the point of a revolver robbed of $51 at 5 o'clock this morning. Espina, who came on duty at 8 o'clock last night, was for a few moments in one of the cars near the entrance to the garage when he was awakened by the men. They threatened him with revolvers to insure silence and then forced him to accompany them to the back of the garage, where he was robbed of $468 of his own money and $5 more belonging to his employers. ‘Warning him not to follow, the men then disappeared out of the back door mzo émsm'uey' ? the . E. , manager o garage, was upstairs during the robbery and tation and unify its application. points to the highest courts for settlement. eight years has been in that direction. This can only be done by carryin g disput Much of my effort in the past 1 have watched vigilantly for about eight years the decisions of courts on difficult interpretations of lel‘m‘ laws in the 92 districts of the United States. When a variety of opini arose between judges I have worked to get the question before higher courts. When harmony of interpretation could not be obtained in the various Circuit Courts of Appeal the question has been brought to the Supreme Court of the United States. Just winning the case is much less important than clarifying the law. ‘With the able assistance of Mahlon D. Kiefer, who has headed the appeals section in my office, and Sewall Key, who, though primarily on tax work, has rendered yeoman service on many briefs, I have submitted 278 cases on certiorari briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States, and have helped to settle finally disputed interpretations in nearly two scores of cases argued and briefed on the merits. Every one of these decisions brought certainty where legal confusion had been before. Have you not often been in doubt whether prohibition agents have a right to stop cars on the road? So had we until the law was settled about three years 2go. The case of United States vs. Carroll, 267 U. S, 132, was briefed and argued twice in an effort to decide whether a car can be stopped on the ents first getting a t. 'he Supreme Court itself deliberated over the matter for ‘many months. The Chief Justice final- 1y handed down an opinion in 20 pages, which reviewed the law from ancient times and decided that although agents cannot stop just any car they please, they may, without a search warrant, stop one the movements of which they have observed enough to be reasonably certain of its violation of law. A Blow at Rum Runners. This decision has proved to be a bul- wark of strength in dealing with rum runners along the border. The court made it plain that every case must rest on its own. facts. But the facts which they held sufficient to stop and search the Carroll car were, first, the agents’ Lknowledge that it had previously been used to carry liquor; second, the fact that it was proceeding from the Cana- dian border, and, third, that its springs were very heavily weighted down with an unusual load. liable to break into criticism without waiting to know the facts when prohibi- tion agents stop cars. It is well to re- member that the Supreme Court of the United States has spoken affirmatively in upholding their right to do so under some circumstances. Another recent victory in preting and strengthening the prohibl- tion law is the case of Unl States inter- vs. Marron, 275 U. S., 192. Bootleggers keep their books just like business men. They record the amount of liquor 2| handled and the payments of graft to the police officers and others on whose protection they depend. Because of the constitutional “guarantee to protect a defendant from having to testify against himself and to protect his books and papers from selzure without a search warrant, most courts at first refused to allow bootleggers' and other law- breakers’ books,. which are kept to record their illegal business, to be used against them. Government agents in the Marron case went into a “blind pig” in San Francisco. They the proprietors and seized the books. There was much difference of opinion between Government lawyers as to whether such evidence could be used. With deep conviction I briefed and argued the view that the Constitution never intended to throw a mantle of protection around records of crime found incident to the arrest of a law- breaker. The Supreme Court upheld this view. Learns Respect for the Law. Settling the law in this respect has proved of great value in the offensive against big liquor violators. y recognize it, too. Recently I listened to testimony in McNeil Island Peni- tentiary of a bootlegger, who described how, after the Marron case, the ring of which he was a member constructed a room under their garage. It opened by a trap door in the garage which responed to an, electric switch. In this vault all books and papers were kept and all records of graft payments and accountings between the partners in crime. He said: “We weren't going to argue with the Supreme Court after that Marron case and run the risk of our books reveal- ing all the inner workings of dur busi- ness. I am here taking my jolt, but there are a lot of our crowd still out because you didn’t get our books when you arrested me.” I have always felt that the worst prohibition offender is the agent, or ofi- cial who shuts his eyes to some “fa- vored” violator's acts. It used to be generally believed, however, that there was no way to punish such an agent other than by reprimanding or firing him. This gave him, merely because he wore a badge, a kind of santimonious immunity that always rankled me. A case entitled United States vs. Donnelly, 2176 U. 8., 505, arose involving the very question. The prohibition director of a Western State was convicted of re- fusing to prosecute a rum runner when he had plain evidence of his violation of law. The prohibition director de- fended himself on the ground that the prohibition act punished only commis- sions o‘r crl.m:’. nn; o}nlfil:n:o on t.h‘: part of agents who fal Tepo! crime. It was a nice legal point. Law- yers here were split over it and the Bupreme Court itself was even finally divided. But I insisted that Congress intended to catch defaulting agents just as much as bootleggers. Mr. Mitchell, Attorney General (then Solicitor Gen- eral), turned down my first brief and wrote one himself on the other side of the question. When the case was set down for argument again I persisted in my view, and Attorney Gent Mitchell, like the fair minded lawyer sald: “Go ahead. File the heard the sound of voices, but so quietly | Bri ‘was it committed that he had merely imagined the visitors to be urg morn- ing tourists, until Espina up- stairs and reported the occurrence. i TEST FLYING BOAT. ‘TRAVEMUNDE, Germany, August 20 »—A bg Rohrbach-Romar figum boat recently taken over by the thansa Air Lines for a proposed trans- atlantic se: from Germany America started a 15-hour test fiight early today. The flying boat will touch England, Norway, Denmark and Finland on her present test, which will be followed by a 25-hour flight to either Iceland or the Cape Verde Islands. 'BODY IS CREMATED. Butler, Attorney General mer law partner and close friend! He said (page 572): “Diligence and good faith on the part of enforcement officers are essen- tlal. infliction of g .‘u&nu and United States attorneys e. When Foreign Nations Object. Not only has it been necessary .Wmu:l“% securing final interpretation of sections of it, but it has been essential to deal with ether knotty problems involving international law to the country from being flooded or from foreign shores. a_ bootleg establish- The public is very | with intoxicating liquor intended for thirsty American throats, may produce very serious consequences if the seizure has not been in accordance with inter- national law. One consequence may be the payment of heavy damages by the United States Government, and another and even more serious consequence is the building up of bad feeling between nations. 'The extent of the rum-running busi- ness between foreign shores and the United States may be nu{:d By the fact that within two years after we had made a treaty with England extending the distance within which we might make captures 56 British rum-runnin, vessels were seized. There were, Ol course. many other English rum ships, as well as ships of other nations loaded with liquor for America, that either were nat detected or were not captured. The Grace and Ruby. In 1921 the hovering operations of foreign vessels, mostly flying the Brit- ish flag. amounted to a national scan- dal. As a practical matter, most of “rum row” hovered from 12 to 20 miles off shore, but sent their cargoes in close :o.‘hlrig byt:r;le‘ms of .In;mll dorfes, It e catching mosquitoes to appre- hend these dories. If the parent mpfl were seized outside of the 3-mile limit, into which they seldom ventured, Eng- land and other foreign countries under whose flags they were registered would protest and usually the State Depart- ment would turn the ship loose. One day the assistant United States attorney at Boston reported to me a :rel:t olt IICL‘S that I flelt sure would ad- of a vigorous policy on the part of the United States Governmen‘:. and perhaps make some new law on the sub- Ject. The Grace and Ruby was hover- ing about 10 miles off Gloucester, ass. Men came out from the shore in a motor boat, the Wilkin II. A part of the Grace and Ruby's crew helped to load liquor into the Wilkin II and then climbed into a dory, which be- longed to the parent schooner, tied it to the Wilkin II and went ashore. Not only was the Wilkin II seized, but also ;}:: u;;;u-em. ship. Great Britain made I became so interested in seeing the law crystallized by carrying the case to court that I went over to the State Department and literally took off my hat and coat and rolled up my sleeves to argue with solicitors of that depart- ment and representatives of the British government. I could not bear to see the United States miss the chance of turning one of Great Britain's own de- cisions against her. That was one where the B schooner Araunah had been hovering off seal banks, but sent her crew and small boats within a foreign government’s territorial waters to kill . The British gov- ernment had ed that that con- stituted. an off@ase. by ‘the parent ship. In other wor the parent ship had made a constructive entry into foreign territorial wa by means of her own small boats, w .and tackle! That was the argumerit we put up in the Grace and Ruby case. The court sus- tained it, and the United States Gov- ernment held this rum ship. This theory of constructive, entry seriously ham- pered “rum Tow” Copyright 1929 BY Current News Peatures, (In her next article Mrs. Willebrandt will record some of the legal adven- tures affecting fsalt and yeast, and ex- plain her posiflon in .regard to the famous Jones law.) YOUNG CLEK CAPTURES ALLEGED THIEF AFTER CHASE FROM STORE on two robbery counts, police took Rob- erts to Emergency Hospital in the pa- trol wagon, where he was given first- aid treatment and returned to the pre- cinct. Williams told police that Roberts was the same man who held up his store about two weeks ago, obtaining $55 by intimidating the manager, S. H. Keen. In both instances, Roberts is alleged to have menaced his victims with a hand in his pocket as if he held a Eun Police say they found a short stick in Roberts’' pockét, which he apparently had used to frighten the grocers. ‘When Williams started after Roberts he met an acquaintance, Willie Fouch, a youth living i the neighborhood, who trailed dox_gl and stood ready to assist Williams. The two youths brought Rob- erts to the police station. At first Rob- erts was thought to have a fractured skull, but it later developed he had suf- fered only a scalp wound. ‘The intruder entered the store while ‘Williams and Keen were alone in the store and demanded the money in the cash register, which the clerk handed to him. Policeman L. C, Haskins of the third precinct arrived on the scene shortly after Williams had gone in pur- suit of the alleged robber and when he followed them learned that the youth already had made his capture. PR ‘Woman Operates Bus Line. HAVANA, eral fluelm Lesines is attracting atten- as the ublic's first tra; port lon and only ‘woman ite. She operates one of the bus lines. INIRS. WILLEBRANDT SUED FOR MILLIO Former St. Louis Prohibition Chief Charges Libel in News Articles. By the Assoclated Press. ST. LOUIS, August 20.—Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, former Assistant United States Attorney General and the Current News Features Co. were named deféndants in a $1,000,000 libel suit filed here yesterday by Gus O. Natlons, former chief of St. Louis Federal ited | prohibition unit. Under garnishment proceedings, Na- tlons has tied up funds due the Feature Service and Mrs. Willebrandt from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which has published her articles on prohibi- tion and enforcement. Nations charges the articles were in- tended to make the public understand that*he, while in office, had been guilty of official misconduct. Nations quotes from two of Mrs. Willebrandt's articles to_substantiate his claim. It also was learned that the suit would be filed in m, D. C. The article to which Nations’ specific objection was made was not published Natlons telegraphed other pepers. nat atlons telegra) other papers it if they retracted the statement Ofll‘ll; alleged conspiracy Griesedieck Brewery case gn ‘would not file libel suits against them. Gus Nations is a brother of Heber Nations, former Missourl labor com- missioner, who. was twice convicted of conspiracy to violate the Federal prohi- bition law. Each time the Court of Ap- peals set aside the verdicts and his case is pending. Gus Nations sent the petition for & sult by air mail today to be filed at Washington, against Mrs. Wil- lebrandt and the newspaper syndicate. Suits also have been prepared against several of the newspapers which pub- lished her articles, and a lengthy te- ment by Gus Nations giving his ver- sion of the incident dealt with in the article complained of has been sent to them for publication. The suits may or may not be filed against the news- papers which publish Gus Nations' statement. MARVEL CROSSON CRASHES TO DEATH IN ARIZONA HILLS (Continued From First Page.) | motor trouble, declared tfe center sec- tion wires of her plane snapped as she swooped down toward the lfl'pon there. Her husband, Herbert Fahy, Los Angeles test pilot, who flew to her assistance, de- el-ur’ed the wires had been weakened by acld. forced down at Holtville, Calif., east of Calexico. Blaming her misfortune on “dirty gasoline,” Miss Rasche showed newspaper men a telegram from a friend warning her to “beware of sabotage.” She sald she would repair the landing gear of her plane which was smashed, and continue on to Cleveland as a non- contestant. May Halzlip to Continue. May Haizlip, Kansas City entrant, who left San Bernardino a day late with the consent of the other women because her plane did not arrive in time, landed last night at the lighted airport at Mexi- calo, across the international border from Calexico, Calif. She planned to overtake the other contestants today, and announced she would continue in the race. Mary Elizabeth von Mack of Detroit, who landed Sunday at Montebello, Calif,, on the first leg of the flight when she became confused, caught up with the parade last night. Her plane was in the starting line-up from Phoenix today. A fifth, Bobbie Trout of Los Angeles, smashed her landing gear in a forced descent at Algodones, Mexico, south of Huma. Whether she wouid continue was uncertain. Other comparatively minor misfor- tunes overtook various memoers of the flight. Opal Kunz, New York, blown off her cour: nded at Prescott, Ariz., but ascended again and reached Phoenix two hours behind the leaders. Amelia Earhart of Boston was lead- ing the fleld at the Yuma Control Sta- tion, but damaged her propeller in landing and lost 30 minutes in repai The delay did not affect her elapsed time standing, however. Elapsed Time Standings. ‘The official elapsed time standings at Phoenix were announced as follow! o Pl San Marino, Calif., 3:21:10. m;:u;_luggheman ‘Thaden, Pitts- ‘Donnell, Long Beach, Calif., Blanche Noye Ruth Elder, Hollywood, 4 5 Neva Paris, Great Neck, N. Y, :01:51, ;I;rn Dawn Walker, Los Angeles, LH Margaret Perry, Los Angeles, 5:08:54. Opal Kunz, New York, 7 41. ry Elizabeth Von Mack, Detroit, official check delayed because of stop at_Calexico. Small-motored planes— Phoebe Omlle, Memphis, Tenn., :14:15. Edith Foltz, Portland, Oreg., 5:10:52. Mrs. Keith Miller, Australia, 5:28:14. T. LINCOLN TOWNSEND, DISTRICT REPUBLICAN LEADER, DIES AT 63 (Continued From First Page.) and Government officials looked on in astonishment when the instruments worked successfully. try-outs defi- as Mr. Towns another representative of the National Electrical !lwgly . had been met with smiles when they first informed Government officials that could be sent and received su from ships at sea. * Mr. Townsend also rendered valusble ce during the World wukln co- | extensl th the Army and Navy, in nt and manufacture of wireless apparatus, in connec- position with the National ipply Co. He was & member of the Washington Soclety of Engineers and the Electrical League of Wi . He also was wldethly known here as & speedboat en usiast. Mr. Townsend lad been active here in financial circles and was dgoo:mr Security 5 iy J“nmdw- ¥ son, Lieut, George L. Townsend, U. 8. A,, and & daughter. Mrs. Roderic u arrangements have not been Interment is to be in Rock announced. Lieutenant Commissioned. John P. 617 this city, h.l..yuh. been Thea Rasche, German aviatrix, was =L irs. | to strip off our shirts. Today is cool The transcontinental non-stop plane Spokane Sun God, piloted by Nick Mamer (right) and Art Walker, beln‘| refueled over Mills Field, San Francisco. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1929. —Associated Press Phot. TRIP PROVES SERVICE AVAILABLE ANYWHERE IN U. S.. MAMER SAYS Endurance Plane Pilot Describes Ba(:l:lef With Storm Over Pennsylvania and Sensations Above Chicago. BY LIEUT. NICK MAMER. (Wiitten Exclusively for The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance ) OVER CHICAGO, August 19 (Filed with refueling pilot at Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn).—This is the first real restful moment we have had since our trip began—the calm that follows the storm of last night, the most critical pericd in our adventure. 1 described that fully in my previous dispatch, which I gave to the refueling pilot when we reached Cleveland early | this morning. (The previous dispatch Lieut. Mamer refers to here follows this article.) Here we are now before noon over cago. We were met over Cleveland by Dan Robertson, refueling pilot, and his as- sistant, Dave Buchanan. We made two perfect contacts in short order, taking on over 200 gallons. We also made one food contact. Snappy Piece of Work. 1t was t®e snapplest plece of work on the trip. It was the second refueling these boys have made with our ship, | so it shows that a little practice makes a whole lot of difference. While the air was a bit rough, it did not bother us. 1t is a marvelous day for flying. Chi- cago and Lake Michigan are below and glistening in the sunlight. We are 'nearing 100 hours. I believe the first 100 are the hardest—so we may expect easier going from now on. I am sure our ship is proving some- thing. It is proving the abllity of & stock model commercial plane and en- gine to fly and remain flying not only near an airport, but in any part of the country. And it proves another very important thing—that service facilities for air- gll-nu are available almost anywhere | this country. Hot Enough Over Gotham. Imagine being supplied with fuel while passing at 100 miles an hour over an airport—without stopping. I think it is important to emphasize these points, as many ploneer efforts have certain angles which are lost for lack of emphasizing them at the mo- ment of their occurrence, and later have to_be rediscovered. It was so hot around New York and Cleveland yesterday, Art and I had and ulmmnf. We certainly have been geiting by with & minimum amount of sleep and at no time have we been as famished as to actually desire food badl: All we need is a change of clothes and a bath to put us in tip-top lhlxpe. Art has been doing most of the fy- today. Handling that refueling hose is no child'’s pl It about uses s man up each time. So long—until we reach the twin cities of Minnesota. Herewith follows the dispatch “Lieut. Mamer wrote after passing throug the storm last night to which he refers in his article above. It was filed at Cleveland just before he left for Chl-i cago: Tough Break in Storm. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aufusl 19.—We | t the toughest break of the trip so ’:r last night when we Tan into a ter- rific electrieal storm about 30 miles west of Bellefonte, Pa. When we said “au_revoir but mot good-by” to our friends in New York at 6:45 p.m. Sunday, everything was in fine shape for our quick return to leveland. We picked up the beacon lights as darkness fell and ran along smoothly as far as Bellefonte, Pa. Thirty miles west of that town we encountered one of the severest electrical storms I hi eve‘l;e seen and it was difficult et our bearings. % At such moments up in the sky you have to think quick and act aulpker. We returned to Bellefonte and dropped 2 message to the aviation fleld request- ing signals to indicate the air road to Cleveland. ‘We don't know for certain whether but a little while note there was a ing on and off of hts. We hung around Bellefonte for 30 minutes and then the storm became s0_violent we had to.move along. From then on we dodged, detoured uall after another. Repeatedly we tri they got our mus:ge. atser we dropped the deal of flashi to break thi h, but the storm was too tough and tensive. ‘We spent the night cru!nni here and there over Pennsylvania. ice we thought the severity of the storm would break d in spite of all our ef- forts, but we kept hanging on and found our reward an hour or so later, when the storm began to subside. Neither Sleeps a Wink. Of course, neither of us slept & wink all night. We were pretty well used up when motning finally broke, but we were it Cleveland now, and that with a good sized dose of ham and eggs for ourselves and & good drink of gasoline for our machine we would be all O. K. for the trip back to Spokane. as I finish this to |in the air over Felts Field in an effort plane that we expect the boss to blow" us up for it when he sees it. However, it will be a good long time before he gels a look at the mess. Maybe some of it will wear off by then. | Needed Altimeter and Compass. | We were glad to get a new altimeter | and earth inductor compass and they | ;:flllrndy installed. We needed them Well, there is so much to write about | I must admit that I can't tell half of it | now. But I must thank the refueling crews both at Cleveland and New York. They are 100 per cent in effciency. Oh, boy, it is good to see the hose man smile when I shift the stabilizer to balance the load we are getting. In conclusion, I want to say that I never have seen so many planes in the air at once as I saw over Roosevelt Pield—big ones, little ones, of all kinds, came to look us over. One was radioing music—not a bad stunt, eh? ‘Well, here we are back over Cleveland. (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- paper Alliance.) SUN GOD DODGES FOREST FIRE SMOKE ON TRIP’S LAST LAP (Continued From First Page.) the pilots soared over the city until Just before 3 p.m. In addition to 250 gallons: of gasoline, 10 gallons of oil and | two chicken dinners were taken aboard | at St. Paul. 1 After the first refueling contact, | Mamer dropped a note saying “Th: everybody in St. Paul for us. We will | not have time to write enough notes. | After this contact, you land and take | all the gas you can and follow me | toward Aberdeen. We hi enough oil. Get weather reports.” Mamer Pictures Advance. A slight delay was occasioned when | the refueling plane, Apple Blossom, | broke its brake cable in landing after| the first contact. In another note, addressed to T. Glenn Harrison, a St. Paul newspaper | man and a friend of Mamer's, the lat- | ter recalled how he and Harrison had | commented, 10 years ago, on flights of 100 _and 200 miles duration. “Imagine the change,” wrote Mamer. “Now we are making 10,000 miles witl out even thinking of ianding. I re-| member well the difficulty of getting | just & small amount of gas at _some| places where our barnstorming flights | took us. “Now we are getting service almost everywhere. Over the Golden Gate, over the Wyoming prairies, over Grant’s, tomb, over St. Paul; at midnight, dawn | or dusk. I wonder what 10 years more will bring.” FUTURE IS UP TO PILOTS. Sun God May Stay in Air Over| Spokane Until Record Is Broken. SPOKANE, Wash., August 20 (#).—| ‘Whether the Spokane Sun God will land here tomorrow or be kept in the air in an attempt to set additional records for airplanes will be decided by Pilot Nick Mamer, presumably on arrival. If Mamer and Art Walker, co-pilot, arrive as scheduled, they will have completed the object of the flight—i nonstop n(ue){ns trip from Spokane to New York and back. They will be the first to have accomplished a round- trip nonstop flight from ceast to coast. g’he plane may be brought down and the flight concluded. It may be kept to exceed the endurance record of the St. Louis Robin; it may be headed East again in an attempt to fly the transcontinental route a second time, or it may be taken to Cleveland for the national air races. If Mamer decides to attend the air races, he either may land and rest be- fore p! g to Cleveland, or fly back without landing. ARMY CHANGES LISTED. Two Officers Slated for Retirement. Transfers Ordered. Maj. Jerome' Clark, Finance Depart- ment, at Fort Sheridan, Ill, has beel ordered to his home to await_ retire- ment; . Rees S. Lloyd, Medical Corps, at Manila, P. I, has been placed on the retired list in the grade of major on account of disability incident to the service; Capt. Newton G. Bush, 11th In- fantry, has been transferred from Fo! Benjamin Harrison, Ind, to Camp Knox, Ky.; Chaplain John W. Wester- man, from Fort Leavenworth, Kans., to Vancouver Barracks, Wash.; Capt. mf: M, Palmer, Air Corps, from Langley Fieldy Va., to Minnea) lis for Guard, and Maj. 3 , _from ;ndumpolu to Brooks Fiel Tex. ‘The President has acce) the resig- nation of Second Lieut. us A. Barr, Army Air Corps, recently stationed at ank | out by their mission. EXPECT 2 REPORTS ON DEBT DEMANDS Experts Still Busy Checking| Sum Conceded Great Britain in Compromise Offer. THE HAGUE, August 20 (#).— | Foreign Minister Stresemann of Ger- many has written Premier Jaspar of Belgium, asking him to call the six big powers together to consider what shall be done regarding repara- tions payments if the Young plan is not adopted before September 1. Br the Associated Press. ! THE HAGUE, August 20.—The repa- rations experts, who worked until after | midnight in an effort to reconcile the ! conflicting estimates of the yleld in money of the four-power offer to Great Britain, were hard at work on their | labors again today. - | What has developed thus far indi- | cates that there will be two reports on this problem. The experts of the ! four powers will support the contention | of France, Italy, Belgium and Japan | that they offered 60 per cent at least | of the amount demanded by Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the ex- | chequer. | The British treasury men, on the; other hand, will uphold the chancel- | lor’s claim that the offer amounted w]‘ no more than from 20 to 30 per cent of what he demanded. Delegates Worn Out. | All of the experts are frankly worn | Premier Briand | of France has made all arrangements to go home Saturday before leaving, for the League of Nations assembly, while Arthur Henderson, the British | foreign secretary, and Gustav Strese- | mann, German foreign minister, must leave soon in order to prepare for the League meeting. It is now accepted as practically cer- | tain that whatever happens to the rep- ! arations conference, the number of | troops occupying the Rhineland will be ! reduced before Christmas irom about 62,000 to 566,800 through the withdraw- al of the British contingent. The sirength of the different occupying | forces is now given as: French, 54,000; British, 6,000, and Belgians, 2,800. Premier Briand and Chancellor | Snowden had a confidential talk on the conflicting reparations viewpoints of | their delegations at 4 o'clock this after- | noon. They met for tea at the head- ' quarters of the Japanese delegation, the | tea being arranged to give them an | opportunity for their talk. H ‘Wait for Excuse. with the excuse of important engag ments elsewhere. Great Britain with what might have been interpreted as a conciliatory mea: ure has drawn the lines bestween the national groups more clearly than ever. By the sannouncement that British troops would begin leaving the Rhine- land by September 1, some observers contend the effect has been to make France appear as the party delay!ng an agreement. M. Briand, of course, cannot agree to evacuation the Rhineland before the Young reparations plan is accepte and the objections of Chancellor Sno den, to what he claims is Great Britain’s small share in the German reparations payments has held up agreement on that score. It was understood Great Britain's evacuation of British troops from the Rhineland was conditioned on neither acceptance of the Young plan by other governments concerned or withdraw. of any other allled troops there. Great Britain simply is tired of supporting an army of, occupation there and is taking the shortest route to ending the expense and drain. EVACUATION CONFIRMED. Dispatch Says French Troops Will Leave Rhineland by Year’s End. PARIS, August 20 (#)—The Havas Agency today quoted a special dispatch to the newspaper Echo de Paris from | The Hague, which affirmed that Pre- mier Briand had accepted evacuation of the second occupied zone on the Rhine by the end of December. In conversa- | tions with Forelgn Minister Gustav Stresemann of Germany the French Tt g:eml!r discussed also evacuation of the ird occupied zone. According to the Echo de Paris, which is usually well informed on French for- eign office ngws, Premier Briand re- quested a ratfer long delay on evacua- tion of the third zone. ‘The premier informed Dr. Stresemann that France was not greplred to broach the questiol of the Saar region, whose bitants are to choose French or nationality by a plebiscite in 1934. French troops “were withdrawn Selfriage Fleld, Mich. _+ Youth Is Fatally Shot. from the Saar in wg:;ym ;n railroad police force recruf T com- mission. plic e g Grants Horse Show Entry. 6th | 477, | CLASHES INCREASE ONCHINESE BORDER Russia Warns Nanking as Both Strengthen Forces on Manchurian Line. ! By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 20.—Both Chinese and Russian sources today reported i warlike activities and preparations along . | the Manchurian border, with increasing number of border clashes and incur- sions by the opposing armies. Dispatches from Mukden, Manchuria, said-Chinese defenders and 3,000 Soviet: cavalry invaders from Nikolsk yesterday: engaged in a fierce struggle for the village of Tungninsien, south of Pog- ranichnaya, in which the settlement changed hands several times, but finall; was retained by the Chinese. : A dispatch from Blagoveschensk, Siberia, sald Chinese troops supported by White Guard detachments fired on a Soviet monitor on the Amur River about 95 miles northwest of here. Sis multaneously Chinese fired upon Soviet troops and civilians in the vicinity of Lake Hanka, near the villages of Gro«. denko and Poltavsk. The Reds resisted energetically. Moscow Warns. The Moscow government, through the German diplomatic force there, dis- patched & note to both the Mukden provincial and Nanking central Chinese governments, warning against bands of White Russians and demanding that these bands bé disarmed and Chinese troops prevented from making further encroachments on Soviet territory. The note enumerated a series of raids said to have been carried on by White Russians and Chinese in which Soviet soldiers and civilians were killed and concluded with the statement that unless the demands are complied with “otherwise further complications caused by new attacks on Soviet territory will fall entirely on the Nanking and Muk- den governments.” ‘Wang Says More Troops Ready. Mukden dispatches reported tanks, | airplanes and searchlights on the way to the “front,” and Tass, the official Russian news agency, citing the same reports from Harbin, added that Chi- nese authorities had permitted the for- mation of new White Guard detach- ments on the frontier. C. T. Wang, Chi- nese foreign minister, said at Nanking that if 60,000 troops already ordered to Manchuria were insufficient, other thousands would be sent. Chinese general staff officers were said by Tass to have arrived at Pogranich- naya, at the eastern terminus of the | Chinese Eastern Railway. Tass charged mistreatment of Soviet prisoners in Manchuria, and said the German con- suls visiting the camps had found them half naked, eating half rotten food, and being treated in a brutal and abusive manner. Despite these threatening aspects of the international situation growing out of the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway they were not believed to lead inevitably to war, but on the contrary to represent attempts by each government to disclaim the onus of any conflict, and make it seem the other is at fault. Authoritative British quarters reported today there was no material develop= ment in the Russo-Chinese frontier sit~ uation. Japanese residents who had gone to Harbin for safety have returned. to Manchuli. INVASION REPORTS ARE DENIED. . Americans at Harbin Say Only Russian Raiding Parties Crossed Border. PEIPING, August 20 (#).—Sensational reports of the alleged invasion of Chi- nese territory by 10,000 Russians last Saturday are unfounded, according to reports today from reliable American | sources in Harbin. Small Russian raiding parties crossed the Manchurian frontier and clashed with Chinese troops, resulting, it is es- timated, in 200 Chinese killed and ‘wounded. Reports from foreign observers in Mukden say the main object of the Russian raids was to seize foodstuffs. Other messages from foreign sources in Harbin charge Chinese military au- thorities with cruelty in the treatment of Soviet citzens in jails and interment camps. Minor cases of sabotage along the Chinese Eastern Railway, presumably by Russians, continue daily. | SOVIET WARNING TO CHINESE. Moscow Note Demands That “White” Russian Bands Be Disarmed. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., August 20 (#). —The Soviet government in a note sent. through the German embassy here last night warned the Chinese governments | at Nanking and Mukden that they must disarm bands of “white” Russians and prevent Chinese troops from making further alleged attacks on Soviet terri- tory. The note enumerated a series of raids said to have been made by the “white” Russians and Chineese. accompanied by killing and wounding of Soviet soldiers and civilians, carried on since July 18. The officlal Tass News Agency re- ported that Soviet sources in Harbin quoted Gen. Chang Hsueh Liang as de- claring that Chinese authorities had decided to resort to more energetic and drastic methods than imprisonment and deportation of Soviet citizens. CHINESE TROOPS CONCENTRATE. Strong Force Is Moved Inside Great Wa'l for Use in Manchuria. MUKDEN, Manchuria, August 20. (). 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