Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 2

GRAF COMPLETES | ROUND WORLDHOP Craft Reaches Lakehurst at; 7:13 0’Clock—Trip Ends in 22 Days. From First Page) | Angeles' absence at the air races at Cleveland, but for two baby blimps fushsd over against the north wall of | he great arched structure. | The passengers were kept in the cabin of the ship until after it was taken into the hangar and were then | removed for customs and immigration inspection supplementary to that made at Los Angeles. A special train was waiting on a siding to iake them to | New York as soon as this formality had been completed. The Graf lefi Lakehurst on its great adventure at 11:40 p.m. August 7, mak- ing the 4.200 miles to PFricdrichshafen in 55 hours and 24 minutes. After a | four-day layover for refueling it flew to “Tokio. 6,880 miles. in 101 hours and 50 minutes, being held there five days by | the necessity of refueling and damage done to the rear motor gondola in tak- | ing the ship from the hangar. Time Over Pacific. The 5.800 miles from Tokio to Los Angeles was covered in 78 hours and 58 | minntes, and the last leg. which was| completed today, was begun with less than a full day spent in refueling. In getting away from Los Angeles the Graf had difficulty in gaining alti- tude, and even after dumping out can- ned goods to lighten its load it dragged | its tail over some high-tension wires, which luckily did not ignite the mil- lions of cubic feet of explosive hydro- gen gas in the great bag | After the ship was beithed today it i eonld be seen that the wires had crumpled the under edge of the rudder, but there were no signs of any burns. | It was this sort of same accident some Round-the-World Log Of the Graf Zeppelin By the Associated Press. (Eastern standard time.) - Wednesday, August 11:39 p.m.—Left Lakehurst, N. J., for Priedrichshafen. Saturday, August 10, 7:33 am—Landed at Fried- richshafen, completing the trip of 4200 miles in 55 hours and 24 minutes, Wednesday, August 14, 10:34 a.m.— Left, Friedrich- shafen for Tokio. Monday, August 19. 7 am—Landed at Kasumi- gaura Airpqrt, completing trip of 6,800 miles in 101 hours and 53 minutes, Friday, August 23. 1:18 am.—Left Kasumigaura for Los Angeles. Monday, August 26. 8:11 am.—Landed at Los Angeles, completing flight of about, 5.500 miles in 78 hours and 58 minutes. Tuesday, August 27, 3:14 a.m.—Left Los Angeles for Lakehurst, N. 7:13 p.m.—Passed El Paso, Tex. Wednesday, August 28. 10:39 a.m.—Kansas City, Mo. 5 p.m.—Chicago. 9:40 p.m.—Detroit. 11:13 p.m.—Cleveland. 11:57 p.m.—Akron, Ohio. Thursday, August 29. 12:56 a.m.—Newcastle, Pa. 3:06 a.m.—Bellefonte, Pa. 6:02 am.—Reached New York. 7:13 am.—Lands at Lakehurst. TOTAL OF 1.500 PATROLMEN ASKED IN PRATT REPORT vears ago that caused the explosion of the dirigible Roma Shortly after the ship was berthed Dr. Eckener went to the pressroom in | the hangar, where he was cheered by the more than 100 reporters assigned to the final act of the world flight. As he was talking to them rumors fl!v\" thick and fast about the hangar. H One was that the rudder was So' badly damaged that it would take two! weeke to repair. even though the nec-| essary duraluminum was at hand here | with which to do the work. Another was that two of the five engines had <hown signs of “tiring” and would have to be replaced. Still another had that the weather of the Siberian w stes | had so eaten away the silver coating on the dirigible that it would have to be recoated before beginning its jour- ney homeward. which will mark its crossing of the Atlantic. | Comdr. Eckener denied a report, said | to be current in Friedrichshafen. that | e it about to retire and that th eround- | the-world flight was his last trip in command of the Graf Zeppelin | “No, no.” he sald. "I have no inten- | tion to quit.” ‘Although the Graf Zeppelin came in | with the lower edge of her rudder crum- | pled, the stern old commander did not g0 into detalls about how it happened. “There were only two slight mis-) haps—very slight mishaps—on the en- tire trip.” he said. “In Tokio the dam- age was repaired in about eight hours #nd over Los Angeles I got loose from those high-tension wires without any trouble or serious damage.” MacCracken Meets Graf. Beside Dr. Eckener as he talked was Avilliam P. MacCracken, Assistant Sec- ! retary of Commerce for Aviation, who | fiew here to deliyer a message to the! dirigible commander from President | Hoover. ‘The plane in which the As- | sistant Secretary was coming here | crashed at Bridgeton, N. J., last night. | but MacCracken suffered only a cut of | the knee and way-able to proceed by | automobile. During his interview Dr. Eckener re- vealed that he would not go back to! Germany on the Graf. which he said | would take off Saturday night. but would stay in_this country about 12 days. visiting Washington and Akron, Ohlo. This will be the first flight of any extent the Graf will have made without the commander on board. Capt. | Ernst Lehmann, second in command. ! will take the dirigible back to its home | Tt. ! ‘The Hoover message to Eckener said: | “On my own behalf as well as my fel- | low countrymen it gives me great satis- faction to welcome you and the mem- bers of your party upon the completion of your memorable flight around the world. It has been a great adventure. which again stirs the spirit and interest of all men and women. Congratulates Germans. “It marks another step in the prog- Tess of aviation. are to be congratulated upon this evi- dence of their great contributions to the art. and you are to be congratulated upon your courage and skill. Mr. Hearst, who I understand has importantly aid- ed the trip financially, is also to be congratulated upon it Lieut, J. C. observer on the world flight, | Of these, 31 were removed. i fined and 28 escaped with a warning. The German people | Richardson, U. 8. Navy, Pation reverted to the nations actually | talked | maintaining troops tnere. ___ (Continued From_ First Page.) $1.800 for privates with a maximum of | $2.500 after five years of service is recommended. the salaries of sergeants and higher officers to be fixed accord- ingly. Other Recommendations. ‘The report contains a number of other recommendations, - virtually all of them having been made by Maj Pratt's pre- decessor, Edwin B. Hesse. These in- clude legislation conferring on all mem- bers of the force, the powers of pho- hibition enforcement officers. the estab- it | lishment of a special fund of $10.000 for | the employment of reputable agents to procure evidence against violators of the liquor, gambling and vice laws, and | legislation giving the police control of ; to first fifth | and freedom of entry into all clubs, | Lazzerl threw out Judge. whether incorporated or not. Other recommendations of the for. mer Maj. Hesse which are renewed are legislation permitting pawnbrokers to operate in the District under direct po- | lice supervision, & more stringent va- grancy law. an automobile certificate title law and legislation making drug addiction a felony. Maj. Pratt. however, makes one new recommendation—that the salaries of the street railway crossing officers be paid from public funds instead of by the traction companies. He points out that the installation of traffic light which will eventually result in the dis contiuance of the service of these of- ficers will develop an “embarrassing situation” since they will be attached o the force which will have no funds | to pay their salaries, unless provision is made now The major portion of Mai. Pratts report is devoted to statistical records showing the activities of the depart- ment in the last fiscal year, a_report on which was made public in July. An added feature, however, is a section showing that 337 officers appeared be- fore the Police Trial Board in the 12-month period for various offenses. 147 were In four of the cases the findings of the trial board were reversed by the Com- missioners. EUROPEAN POWERS TO EVACUATE THE RHINE TERRITORY NEXT JUNE ___(Continued From First Page.) | | tions wished to bargain with them fur- | | {what has been asked of them—that is, | their share of the surplus of the Dawes | | plan payments over those of the Young | {plan between April 1 and September | | 1—if the creditor nations would make | counter concessions. Mentioned particularly was n(ree-l { ment that cost of allied military occu- ! ! pation of the Rhineland should not de. | volve upon the Reich after Septem ber 1. The German d@elegation was un- derstood to be determined to hold to; this point, feeling that evacuation | | would ‘be hurried if once cost of occu-! to the reporters after Dr. Eckener. H-»| Since Great Britain already has sig- | sald that the damage to the rudder | nified its troops will be taken from the | was done in bumping the ground in Jeaving Los Angeles. ing wires there, he sald, quite hit them, thank God.” All pre- vious reports including a wireless from ' gian-Italian opposition Asked about strik- | Rhineland at once, the position which the conference of the govern- — | latter BARLOV THANKS STINSON FOR D Release From Jail Is Regard- ed as Alleviating Dispute Over $9,000,000. | | By the Associated Press. Joseph E. Barlow, American citizen, {who claims $9,000,000 against the { Cuban government for alleged seizure of lands and who has been in prison |on a charge in Havana, today cabled his thanks to Secretary Stimson for the State Department's efforts in securing his release. ! Barlow's cable to Mr, Stimson read: | “Out on baill. Thanks for your ef- | forts. BARLOW." | Secretary Stimson, who already has devoted more personal attention to the case than to that of any other Ameri- i”" investor abroad, has sent a speclai !envoy to Cuba to investigate the Bar- | low claims, which were pronounced just by a Senate foreign relations subcom- mittee last year after an investigation. Barlow's release from jail, where, it was announced in Havana, he was sent several days ago on a charge of grand larceny, was regarded here as alleviat- ing the immediate situation, but pres- | sure for a settlement of the case is ex- | pected to continue unabated. Before learning of his release, Chair- man Borah of the foreign relations com- partment that it intercede, and ‘the Secretary instructed Charles’ B. Curtis, charge d'affaires in Havana, to invest gate allegations that the arrest was made on false charges. Jose T. Baron, charge d'affaires at the Cuban embassy meanwhile, said Barlow had been ar- rested in connection with a private civil suit in which the Cuban govern- ment had no part The incident also was brought to Secretary Stimson’s attention in mes- sages from Barlow and his wife. The sald lunatics and appealed for protection as an_American woman.” She also cabled to Senator Borah asking him to aid in bringing about her husband's release. {GOSLIN’S HOMER BEATEN BY RUTH'S; | (continued From First Page.) throw. Hayes was hit on top of the | head and felled by Pennock’s first pitch. | He got to his feet. however, and walked Bases filled, Marberry fanned, ©One run. | NEW YORK—Ruth fouled out to | Spencer. Durst singled throweh the bex to center. Gehrig singled to center. scnding Durst to third. Lazzeri singled to right. scoring Durst with the tying run. while Gehrig stopped at second. | to Cronin to Judge. One run. i FIFTH INNING. | WASHINGTON—Rice grounded out |10 Gehrig. Goslin walked. Durst went | back for Myers' hoist. Goslin was caught stealing, Dickey to Lazzeri. No runs NEW YORK—Durocher struck ouf. Pennock popped to Cronin. Byrd was safe when his grounder was fumbled by runs. SIXTH INNING. WASHINGTON—Durocher threw out | Cronin. Lazzeri tossed out. West, Spencer fanned. No runs. 3 NEW YORK-—Cronin went into“short ‘left for Ruth’s high one. Durst struck out. Myer threw out Gehrig. No | rums, E SEVENTH INNING. Washington—Hayes hoisted to Byrd. in short center. Marberry lofted to Durst. Judge walked. Lazzeri threw | out Rice. No runs. | NEW YORK—Lazzeri went out, Mar- berry to Myer to Judge. Dickey went out,” Judge to Marberry covering -first Durocher lined to Goslin in short left. | No runs. FIGHTH INNING., | WASHINGTON—Goslin hit his sev- | | enteenth home run of the year, a drive { Into the right-field bleachers that barely | cleared the screen. tionals ahead. Durocher i\d:l,\'trv Cronin grounded a single to eft. stopping at second. Hayes singled to right, scoring West and sending Spencer to third Marberry forced Hayes, Duro- cher to Lazzerl. Two runs. NEW YORK—Koenig batted for Pen- nock and singled to short center. Byrd got a single on a slow one which Cronin could not pick up, Koenig stopping at gecond. Robertson batted for Lary and ied to West. Ruth hit his thirt;- seventh homer of the year. a drive into the bleachers in right center, scor- ing behind Koenig and Byrd and put- ting the Yanks ahead. Durst fanned. Meyer threw out Gehrig. Three runs. NINTH INNING. Washington—Zachary was the new | Yank pitcher and Robertson was at third base Lazzeri threw out Judge. mittee, sent a request to the State De- | he was imprisoned with ! I YANKS WIN, 5 TO 4, Dickey drove into a double play, Myer | Cronin, Lary flied deep to Goslin. No | ° This put the Na-| threw out | West_forced Cronin, Lazzeri to| ther they might consider conceding | Durocher. Spencer singled to left, West | Airplanes Patrol Skies to Trace M “we didn't K ments on the Young reparations plan has been thrust is one of French-Bel- to Germany. the ship had indicated that the tail|The British delegation, secure in the| dragged over the wires. it got back to Friedrichshafen, thus | disposing of the rumor that it would | Eckener’s announcement of the depar- | ture date blasted the report that two engines would have to be replaced. Leeds told reporters that the Graf |the —exchequer, uments of the past three} Rice, rf. o weeks necessarily begun all over again.| goepin, it lanned to make another visit to Amer- | ca in October, but this could not be | confirmed either from officers of the | Dirigible or from representatives of the | Goodyear-Zeppelin Co., American repre- | The Hague today, when the German | Cronin, ss.. West, ef.. Spencer, ¢. Hayes, 3b, in the Pacific the Graf skirted the edge | spective capitals, prior to leaving for | Marberry, sentatives of the German Afrship Co. Rough Over Rockies. Lieut. Richardson said that although | of a typhoon, the roughest going of the whole journey was crossing the ' American Rockies. | Dr. Eckener did not leave on the special train with the passengers, tak-| ing an automobile with several com- panions and only saying that he was . not going to New York. By the time the sp taken the passengers aw already at work connecting great fabric Elpes 10 the Graf Zeppelin 1o replenish er hydrogen and fuel supplies. Some time after Dr. Eckener was! belleved to have left the field he was | found to have secluded himself in the | hangar flight office. i fal train had | sailors were | MOVIE PROGRAM PLANNED Gallinger Mental Patients to See Collegiate Comedy. , A movie comedy, musical program and refreshments feature the enler-! tainment arranged for psychopathic pa- | tients at Gallinger Hospital this after- noon.’ The motion picture is a collegiate comedy, “Run, Girl, Run" while the musie is supplied by the patients them- selves, many of whom show a partic Iar aptitude in this line, The entertain- ment is given monthly in the hospital auditorium through the courtosy of the nncl?l service department at the hos- pital. Doctore at the institution say the en- tertainments have a definite value ' the treatment of mental ills. | concessions received from those three Lieut. Richardson said that the Graf | nations yesterday, hardly participated would be given a new “overcoat” when |in the controve Box . The outcome of the dickering was in doubt. Italians not the compromise | Philip Snowden, British chancellor of | Should the Germans persist in| have to be recoated here, just as Dr. | their refusal and the French-Belgians- accede commensurately, arrangement with | might be invalidated | Judge, 1b........ Robertson threw out Rice. 1ed. Myer fanned. Goslin walk- No runs. 7 Score FIRST GAME. WASHINGTON AB. R. H. 0 and the Almost all of the leaders of the na- tional delegations had arranged to leave | M: refusal was reiterated. Premier Aristide Briand of France and Foreign Secre- tary Arthur Henderson of Great Britain ' planned to return tonight to their re-| geneva for the meeting of the assembly | of the League of Nations. GERMANS INDIGNANT. Special Radio Dispatch to The Star and | p the Chicago Daily News. BERLIN, August 29.—Wednesday's lems growing ‘from the Young plan | R quickly turned into indignation when n it was learned that the agreement be- | o tween the doughty Philip Snowden and the somewhat slippery creditor bloc | Lazzeri. 2b was to be made largely at Germany's' D éxpense. [y The writer is informed that the Ger- mans feel this was, to say the least, a “dirty trick.” After three weeks' nego- tiation and endless palaver, the credi- tors suddenly decided to get together by the simple device of making Ger- many pay the bill or bear the odium for_breaking up the conference. K Germany is ready to make the de- | sired financial concessions. or part of them, on one condition—namely, that ! Lary, joy over the solution of financial prob- | Rebertson, yer, 21 CREmm .S NEW YORK AB. R. H. ef...ccoe 4 B 3b.. 30 yrd, uth, rf urst, If. ehrig, 1b, ickey, e urocher, ss CREBUVERDA - oenis batted for Pennock in elghth. SCORE BY INNINGS: 122 45617 8 -8 political questions, especially the evacu- i washington 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0— 4 ation of the Rhincland, immediately be | o arranged to their satisfaction. i This means that they won't longer tolerate talk about the many months ' g needed to withdraw 50,000 men, or sug- gestion that the Rhineland supervision . T commission be made permanent. Th opinon is her> that faflure of the con ference is impossible, but that the Ger man delegation will dig in on these po- sitions and if need be accept Th Hague financial arrangement cond! tional on & favorable settlement of th olitical negotiations which - may be carried to Geneva or Lausanne. (Copyright, 1920.) few York.. 1 00 1 00 0 3x~ 5 Summary: West. Ruth (1), Marberry, yes. 1. ut—R7 Marberrs. & by Fennock. Be Pennech (Haves). een, Nallin and Van- /| Moslems. FREEDOM CLAIMED - B ARABIAN TRIBE Flag of Turke& Is Raised by Moslems in Nablus, Palestine. ___ (Continued Fyom First Page.) neighborhood of Haifa, Ramleh, and ln' i the hills near Jerusalem. The British repressive efforts were not without casualties to the British themselves. Several soldiers were killed, the correspondent of the Jewish Tel graphic Agency reported. when a convoy | procecding towara the Jewish colony of | Kastinia was attacked. All members of the Jewish party under convoy were | said to have been wounded and the | Arab village near Kastinia was burned in reprisal. Maj. Keith Roach, district commis- | | Sloner here, ordered both Jews and British disarmed after a mass meeting | of Arabs at the Mosque of Omar, under | the auspices of the grand mufti, at which the Arab leaders declared the | tribesmen could not be pacified, despite ' counsels of moaeration, until all Jews were disarmed. Maj. Roach promised the Arabs the entire population, including the British. * ould be disarmed, and these orders to- | day were being carried out. Disarming of the Jewish defense corps. action which met with intense opposition from the members of the organization, had been begun previously. 1 Haifa Uprising Quelled. The most serious disorder reported y was at Haifa. where blucjack ip Barham and sh airplanes pu: down an Arab up- rising. The Arabs cntered Ardele Ya- hud. the Jewish quarter of the city, as- saulting the Jews and rioting. The sit- !uation looked serious until the land- | ing party appeared and opened firc. | Thirty Arabs were arrested and their | rifles confiscated ] Shortly afterward there was a recru- descence of the disorder, several Jewish homes being burned and looted and a | farm run by Jewish girls destroyed. Part | of the Rumanian Jewish settlement on | the Plain of Acre was destroyed by Arab ! incendlaries. Mizpah. near Tiberas, | was attacked twice. Dilb, a Jewish set- | tement, noted for its apiaries and their | honey, repelled an Arab attack. Fort Used as Sheliter, The old fort at Acre, scene of many historical battles, has been used by the Jews during the uprisings as a sheiter | from Arab toters. British troops were placed about Athlip, an important salt trade center, | The Jewish Telegraphic Agency re- | ported that British police killed a young | i Jew in front of the headquarters of the Jewish Communal Board here. They | were said to have order-i him in Eng- lish to give up his - ms. He did not understand th- ¢ ., refused, and was | shot. ! The 1. .i of & general Bedouin up- | rising_in_consequence of the disorders | in Palestine was held to continue and | zave rise to considerable fear in many | | sections. British airplanes continually | scouted the hill country and dispersed the Bedouin gatherings when they at- | talned too large proportions. Several thousand Bedouins of Trans- | jordania crossed the River Jordan, and encamped near Ramalah. The British police arrested their chief sheik in an flort to prevent further advance. Out of the chaos of the Palestine dis- orders there was revealed today herolsm of a little band of Jews from Hebron which stood out like a tale from the Old Testament. Sacred Serolis Rescued. Alter the massacre last Sabbath. in which 15 Americans were among nearly 70 Jews killed, a few survivors decided ! !to try to rescue the sacred scrolls. con- taining five books of Moses, written in ancient Hebrew, from the Hebron Syna- e. 'Og"}‘uy obtained the scrolis and started for Jerusalem. They almost reached the city when a band of Arabs Attacked | them. and in their attempt to keep the holy scrolls of Hebraic law from profa | nation, 13 more Hebron Jews were in- jured. Two young Jews, who were under- ~t00d to be theological students at the Hebron Talmudic. protected the scrolls with their bodies, receiving severe wounds. Their fiight was successful and the holy archives brought to safety. SITUATION MUCH IMPROVED. | ments of Bedouins. to The Star and the LONDON, August 20.—Reports from Palestine indicate that the situation is much improved. Gen. Dobbie has or- ganized mixed columns of infantry. | Cavalry and armored cars. which are patroliing the country, while airplanes are scouring the skies to keep headquar- ters informed of the movements of the Bedouins. As ll:\on as an important body of Arabs is noticed to assemble at certain points the nearest patrol is informed and the Arabs are dispersed. The dan- ger of a Bedouin invasion from ‘Trans- jordania seems to 'e been averted. Several groups which managed to cross the Jordan at night have been Severely punished and those who escaped the fire of machine guns from airplanes of “flying colum s" are either seeking shelter in the hills or have mangaed to recross the river. British detachments are now busy “cleaning up” the country. arresting Arab ringleaders and disarming natives. ., 1929. by the Chicago Daily Copyright. e HEBRON MASSACRE DESCRIBED. Inhabitants Slain and Mutilated—Chil- dien Fail to Escape in Attack CAIRO, August 20 (#).—Graphic counts of the massacre at Hebron S: urday, in which three score Jews, in- cluding 15 American students, were killed in the sudden and overpowering ! attack by maddened Arab mobs, was | given today by travelers arriving here from Palestine. Their narratives described horrifying scenes when the horde of natives, from outlying villages, descended upon the town, broke into large Jewish houses, slaughtered all the inhabitants and mutilated the bodies. ! ‘Not even children escaped the fury | of the assault. Before the authorities succeeded in restoring quiet, the attack- ing bands of Arabs had grown to abou! H 5.000, and had run its deadly pillaging | way throughout a large part of the, Jewish section. Nineteen Bodies in One House. It was not until Sunday merning that repressive measures were suffi- clently successful to admit a survey of the situation and to begin the gruesome task of collecting the dead. In one house alone 19 bodes were found. some cases bodles were h from windows, in others they been mercilessly thrown into the streets. In practically every instance death was caused by swords or knives. Even young children of 2 and 3 years, man: of them girls, did not escape the sav agery of the attack. The police are credited with yoeman work in collecting Jews from the ex- posed sections and conveying them to safer quarters, thus preventing even ‘more deadly work by the enfuriated Sesveral hundred Jews were taken from Hebron on the day of the outbreak. On Monday 300 more wer2 evacuated and on Tuesday, the re- mainder of the Jewish population was removed to Jerusalem. ~Tuesday aft- ernoon a platoon of British troops from the South Wales borderer's regiment, from Cairo, were garrisoned in the towa | were killed by the Jewish defense. | Jews from At top is the Slobodk College at Hebron, 20 miles from Jeru- salem, where 12 American students were reported killed in an Arab at- tack. Below is Jaffa Gate, the main gate in the old wall at Jerusalem. one of the scenes of rioting between Arabs and Jews. The mounted figure at right is a Bedouin ehieftain of the type who are leading their followers to attacks on the Jews in the more open country of Palestine. —P. & A. Phot Rabbinical thereby enabling the police to push out into surrounding regions and deal with wandering bands. 29 Americans Survive Attack. Wlile the death roll in Hebron is es- timated at nearly 60. only 10 Moslems The American-Jewish casualties in the town were In the rabbinical college where the youths were pursuing their religious studies. Twenty-nine American stu- dents survived the attack. Valuable work in removing wounded | cbron to- Jerusalem was done by the Zionist Executive Commit- tee in Jerusalem which dispatched mo- tor busses escorted by armored cars for this purpose The Arab attitude toward the Jeuws in Hebron is bv no means unanimous!v hostile, travelers report. There wers cases at Hebron and elsewhere. thes fay, where Arab neighbors saved Jew= from the fury of the mobs. Seven Jeus thus were protected in a village bhe- | tween Hebron and Jerusalem and sul sequently they were evacuated to Je- rusalem. In another case, two fel- Jow workers saved a Jewish driver of a steam roller. There was a singular speciacle witnessed of Arab road work- ers diligently continuing at their tasks while trouble was going on all around them. There was no direct hostility to Brit- | ish officials performing their duties, travelers declared. LEO LOUGHRAN, 45, DIES AT RESIDENCE Cigar Dealer Fatally Stricken at His Home Early This Morning. Leo D. Loughran, 45 years old, vice president of the wholesale cigar firm of Daniel Loughran Co., Inc. 1309 H street, dled at his residence, Sixteenth strect, today. Death was a tributed to cerebral hemorrhage. Mr. Loughran had been in failing health for about a year. He was at work at his office yesterday afternoon, however, and said he was feeling better. | He was discovered in an unconscious | condition this morning, when he failed | to answer a call to come to breakfast, | and died soon afterward. He had an! appointment with a physician during the morning and had requested the maid to call him later than usual to come to breakfast. Funeral arrangements are to be an- nounced later, pending the arrival of his sisters; Miss Margaret Loughran, Miss Katherine Loughran and Miss Regina Loughran, who are aboard the Lapland en route from Europe, having salled several days ago. They have death, the family having meet them in Iyo them upon theif arrival, about Sun- | da . Loughran also leaves another sister, Mrs. Mary E. Duke of this city. and five brothers, John, Joseph and Charles Loughran, with whom he wi spar_and landed on the forward of the cockpit | net_camaged serious! 1 ¢ Yor lage just wing was ‘The Shuttle, car and, Calif., ing mail from Oak- the accident occurred. CARFARE INREASE |Citizens’ Counsel Will Move to Suspend Hearings and Value Properties. * ; ____ {Continued From Firs! They represented charges for chan; | !br:‘;il'd\f lnt:luog hfhtrltks. rrnsi-m'!}*ln l‘:g ngs and the remova o doned tracks. I aoay Chairman Patrick. by a series of questions, sought to obtain Mr. Heberle's | opinion as to the effect of competitive busses on the business of the Capital | Traction Co. Assuming that the car company would carry ail the passengers |now riding_on competing bus lines, i Chairman Patrick asked whether a { 1computation could be made which wouid show the lass of passenger traffic as the result of such bus competition. I Thinks Answer Impossible. | “I do not think it would be possible | to given even an approximately accurate |answer to that gquesiion,” interposed John H. Hana, president of the Capi- | tal Traction Co., who was sitting at Mr. Heberle's elbow. Mr. Hanna said there was no way of telling how many bus passengers would walk and how many would ride on the cars if there were no bus lines, and, therefore. it practically was impossible to measure the extent or bus_competition “Well, can't vou mate figure?” rick. i Mr. Hanna said that he and Mr. Heberle would do the best they could, but they couldn't promise to answer the question, even after studying the records of the company and the bus Lines. Mr. Hanna said the dad bus line had “cost” Traction Co. a great many passengers, but it would be difficult to measure the number with any degree of accuracy. | He expressed the opinion that the Bur- leith-Trinidad bus line was “improper- ly permitted.” Promises Result Later. Replying to further questioning by Chairman_Patrick. Mr. Hanna sad it would be “mere guesswork” to sav how many passengers were lost to the car company by this bus line’s operation but_he would be glad to figure it out as best he could and let the commis- sion know the result later. Mr. Hanna then took the stand him- self and answered several more pending questions. They related to the arrange- ments in various eities for transfere between busses and street carz: faxes paid by street railway svstems in other i cities and the bases for accrual of de- preciation in those cities Mr. Hanna next introduced a state- ment showing the history of the com- pany's depreciation rescrve. He sald that the present depreciation res had its beginning in 1911. when $150.- 000 was set aside from the surplus ac- count for the depreciation of way and | structures. next year $55.000 was transterred to the same reserve from surplus, ‘Thercafter depreciation Was accrued from the company's transpor- tation revenue on a percentage basi In 1913 the statement showed “2'g per cent of revenue from transportation | for dereciation of way and structures.” Similar statements for each year were included In the first half of 1916 3 per cent of railway operating revenue was charged to depreciation of way and ctures, equipment and power plant buildings. In the last half of that year depreciation - was accured on a 5 per cent basis plus an additional $31,000. 3 Per Cent Sinking Fund. In the years 1817 and 1918. the de- reciation reserve was based on the es- timated lives of depreciable property, the rates being reduced to equivalent 3 per cent sinking fund rates and ap- Dlied to the various classes of property | according to the cstimated lives of each ! kind of property The 1917 sinking fund rates were in- ! creased 10 per cent-in 1919 to take care of the unusually heavy service required from the company's plant due to war conditions. In 1920 a revision ‘was made of the esiimated lives of various classes of property and depreciation figured on this new basis. The lives of the com- pany’s property were estimated as fol- Jows: Way, 20 vears: transmission and | distribution, 30 vears: general buildings Page.) give an approxi- insisted Chairman Pat- Burleith-Trini- the Capital . in| ing stock. 18 years, and miscellaneous INAIRPLANE CRASH Shuttle Is Forced Down a Cleveland As 0il Can Falls on Wing. | B: the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, August 29.—Lady Mar: | Heath, famous British aviatrix. was in jured critically here today in the crash a neuver when Lieut. A. W. Gorton of the ' of an airplane through the roof of factory. Rushed to Emergency Clinic Hospital Lady Heath was tound to have probably a fractured skull, a’long cut in her scalp, other cuts on many parts of her body, and_ probably numerous broken bones and internal injuries, doctors said. Irwin Kirk. Cleveland mechanic, rid- ing with Lady Heath, was injured, but | not seriously. His ankle was broken. He leaped from the plane into a fac- | tory room when the machine crashed. Lady Heath was one of the entrants in the 1929 National Air Races being held here. Plane Nose-Dives Into Plant. Lady Heath and Kirk had been rid- ing high above Cleveland, when for some unexplained reason, the plane nose-dived into the roof of the Mills Co.a two-story factory building on Cleveland's East Side. The plane burst through the roof d came to a stop inside the build a twisted plece of wreckage. Lad: Heath was dragged out by workers, an inert form. There were no workers in the room when the plane struck, as the accident occurred during the iunch hour. but assoclated in business; Daniel and Ed- MAany of them rushed in to aild in ward Loughrai Seattle, Wash. Mr. Loughran was a_member of the ‘Washington Lodge of Elks and a life member of the Congressional Country ‘The latter resides in | Club. 'GETS LICENSE TO WED MARIE WYONA STEVENS Charles R. Bolton to Marry Girl Accused of Auto Larceny After Return From Trip. A marriage license was issued today for the marriage of Marie Wyona Stevens of Brentwood, Md., and Charles R. Bolton of New York City. Miss Stevens was bound over to the grand jury yesterday, under $500 bond, on a charge of larceny in connection with the use of an automobile rented from the Glassman rent-a-car garage. She was arrested after her return home from a trip to North Carolina. The warrant was issued several days ago, after her parents had reported her missing. She was described as having left home dressed in men’s attire. At that time 1t was disclosed that she w: engaged to Bolton, ) | rescuing the two victims. Shuttle Is Forced Down. The transcontinental mail plane Shuttly was forced down when struck by a 5-gallon can of oil during a refuel- ing contact here late last night while ' on a return flight from New York in an attempt to establish a record for sustained and linear-distance flying. Capt. Ira K. Eaker, pilot, immediately made an effort to secure permission to reattempt the flight. he said today, and , expected to take off late today or to- morrow if the second flight is approved. The plane was undamaged in landing, and neither Eaker nor his co-pilot, Lieut ‘| Bernard Thompson, was injured. Eaker said early today that he brought the plane down under the impression that an oil line had broken when the can, rippea 1w the fall from the refueling plane, began spurting ofl into ! cockpits. Can Slips Through Fuselage. The Shuttle arrived over the Cleve- land_airport shortly before midnight, and Lieut. Newton Longfellow, refueling Fflol, first began lowering oil. Two of our cans had been placed aboard the Shuttle and the third was being lowered when the fourth can slipped througn the opening in the fuselage of the re- fueling plane. It struck the center sec- tion of the Shuttle’s top wing, broke a which the United States Post Office De- partment and Army officials co-oper- ated. was made to determine the fe: bi by the Boeing Afrcraft Co. t Plane Sticks to Dirigible. Moored overnight to a stub mast at Cleveland Airport. the Navy dirigible Los Angeles was pointed to a return cruise to join the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst. N. J., today after completing for the first time transfer of a pas- senger to an airplane while in fiight. The maneuver was performed before | v 100.000 spectators at the National Air Races vesterday. The two craft made the first public demonstration of a “landing” in_midair during the ma- Navy engaged a hawser stretched be- || tween two uprights on the top wing of - his plane to a hook attached to a lad- der of metal girders lowered from the keel of the Los Angeles. After_the contact had been estab- lished, Lieut. Calvin Bolster of the Los Angeles crew descended to the plane. Then the two craft turned into the wind, the airplane was disengaged and | was landed under its own power while the Los Angeles continued in flight | above the airport. | |of two 6.000,000 cubic foot dirigibles being built for the Navy, which have hangars in their hulls for five fighting airplanes, converting the dirigibles into airplane carriers of the air, with their lown fleet of fighting ships for protec- Ition and offensive combat. Both the Army and Navy have ex- rerimented with the engagements in the alr and several secret tests have been made along the Atlantic Coas The maneuver climaxed the greatest display of aerial activity yet seen at the races. During the day two cros: _country derbies arrived, ~there were demonstrations of mimic warfare by | |Army and Navy pursit planes and bombers, the largest glider contest ever staged in the United States was held and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh again ! stunted for the spectators. The expected arrival of the Graf Zep- pelin_held 50,000 at the airport until long after the last event. but the crowd dfd not see the ship until almost mid- night. 3 Derby Winners. Loren W. Mendell was thought to be the winner of the derby from Oakland, Calif., but official results will not be} made known until a new computation is made of elapsed time made by the three flyers who finished. Errett Williams of Greenville, 8. C., ! won the Philadelphia derby in the | heavy plane division and J. Wesley . Emith of Philadelphia led the light i plane class. | Revision today of the result of the Mi- i ami-Miami Beach-to-Cleveland derby, { which finished at Municipal Airport ! here yesterday, gave Earl Rowland of the | Wichita, Kans., first place in class C in- . stead of Leslic H. Bowman of Kenmore, 1+ N. Y., credited with victory at the time. ! The Navy dirigible Los Angeles took off from here at 1:05 p.m. today for !its return flight to Lakehurst, N. J.. ‘ after being an attraction at the natio.al air_races here since yesterday. | D. E. Lotnrop of Toronto was the first fiyer to arrive here today in the Toronto fo Cléveland non-stop derby. He crossed the finish line at 1:15 p.m. and was followad two minutes later by W. G. Johnson, le of Toronto. v of long-distance flights with mail ' The experiment had in view the use | equipment, 8 yea Revised in 1926. The lives and rates were revised in 1926 to correspond to the rates estab- lished by C. L. Pillsbury in his report to the Public Utilities Commission. the { Ives of various properties being slightly increased. A table was presented by Mr. Hanna showing the division of costs of the company’s property into general groups for depreciation purposes as of Decem- ber 31, 1928. as follow: transmission and distribution, $82 general build- ings, $1.452.333.21; power station buiid- ings, $462.858.17; power station equip- $1.257,072.65; rolling stock. $2.- 54.61, and miscellaneous equipmen’ 59. making a total of $11.503.- 515 4 for 146.5 407.57. To this is added $204.751 bus line cquipment. The sum ; 367.38 for non-depreciable property brings the total cost of the property up to $20,515.526.89. The table shows that the company’s depreciation reserve balance has gone from $150,000 to $3,446450.63 in 17 ars. President E. D. Merrill of the Wash- ington Rapid Transit Co. took the stand at the hearing vesterday after- noon over the objection of Attorney George P. Hoover and testified con cerning the operations of the company’s bus lines. Routing Authority Questioned. Mr. Merrill was questioned by Com- missioners Hartman and Patrick con- cerning the authority for ope: ation of several sections of the company's routes. Mr. Merrill answered most of the ques- tions by saying that the routings were authorized, but whether by formal order, or simply by a letter of the com- mission, he was unable to state. Mr. Merrill said the commission had authorized his company to pick up District passengers in interstate busses south of the District line and morth of Kennedy street by approving a con- tract between the company and the Capital Traction Co. b~ ~vhich the bus company took over operation of the car company's bus line from Fourteenth and Kennedy streets to Alaska avenue and Holly street. Mr. Merrill said that at the time this service was taken over the company began te pick up passengers also between Holly street and the District line. Explains Permit. Questioned about _several express routes established by the company after the purchase of new busses in 1927, Mr. Merrill said that the company had per- mission of the commission to operate these in a letter from the commission, but that he could not say whether there was a formal order authorizing the service or not. He said this was one of the company’'s most popular forms of service, as it saved long-haul pas- sengers a quarter to a third of the running time of the trip. Mr. Merrill said that the company had no express authority to return empty busses to their garage by routes | other than those used during the pas- senger-carrying trips, but that the empty busses were not engaged in car- rier busin and were not restricted 1o the reg routes. Most of the other questions asked by Commissioner Hartman had to do with details of expenditures and income re- ported by the bus company: in its an- reports, and the bases for dividing th among the Maryland and Dis- trict operations.