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2 1 TRACTION MERGER IS HELD SOLUTION Vandenberg Sees Unified| System as Best Method of Handling Problem. ™ (Continued From First Page.) tion Co. it was immaterial which bus the passengers rode on. Chairman Patrick called Mr. Merrill's attention to the words in an order com- ing the company to keep separate ! accounts as to their own passengers | south of Kennedy street and to_those transported as agents for the Capital Traction Co. north of Kennedy street. Mr. Merriil and his attorney, George | P. Hoover, contended that this order | had been modified by a later order. | The commission’s position on the mat- ter was not made clear. | Clayton to Quiz Merrill. H Cross-examination of Mr. Merrill by ‘William McK. Clayton, counsel for the Federation of Citizens' Associations, will begin at the afternoon session. Merrill Presents Letters. At the opening of the hearing this morning E. D. Merrill, president of the ‘Washington Rapid Transit Co., offered in evidence copies of orders of the commission, letters between the com- pany and the commission and between the bus company and the Capital Trac- tion Co. and the bus company's con- tract with the Capital Traction-€o,, all relating to the operation of busses within the District and in Interstate traffic across the Maryland line. Chairman Patrick asked Mr. Merrill where his company got authority to ! pick up local passengers in the Dis- trict in its interstate busses. “Prom the right which we have to operate interstate busses and intrastate | busses through the same territory,’ interposed George P. Hoover, counsel for the bus company. Chairman Patrick called attention to an order of the commission declaring that the interstate busses should not take up passengers in the District, but Mr. Merrill contended that that was modified by another order of the com- mission dated March 11, 1926, permit- ting the operation of local and inter- state busses over the same routes. Patrick and Hoover Clash. | | the canal in 1928, exclusive of Gov- | 400 Arz Ordered to Chart Route of Proposed 183- Mile Canal. Decision of U. S. on Building | Water Lane to Hinge Largely on Report. By the Associated Press. A picked engineering battalion num-, bering 400 officers and men. today was ordered by Sacretary Good to duty in | the Central American jungle to survey | the route of the proposed $1,000,000,- 000 Nicaraguan canal. Upon the repeit of these engineers | largely will depend the decision of the | American -Government as to whether it shall undertake the stupendous task of constructing a canal stretching 183 miles through tropical mountains and forests from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Government engineers esti- mate it would require 10 yea plete the project, which would United States, with the Panam two of the most important waterways in _the world. Selected from the best of the Army's edgineering forces, units that go to make up the battalion are being out- fitted to remain in the jungle region for two years, the estimated time need- ed for the work. Panama Nears Limit. The survey was approved by Congress last Spring when it was brought (o its attention that the Panama Canal with | its present facilities probably would be overburdened soon if the annual ton- | nage continued to increase. The com- | mercial tonnage that passed through | ernment vessels, amounted to 20,000,000 | tons, while the capacity is not greatly in_excess of 30,000,000. | The work will be supervised by the | Interocean canal board, consisting of five military and civilian_engineers ap- | pointed by President Hoover. _Tne board members are Lieut. Gen. Edgar | Jadwin, retired, former chlef of Army | Engineers; Sidney B. Williamson of New York, Dr. Anson Marston of Ames, Towa; Frank M. willlams of Albany | N. Y., and Maj. Ernest Graves, retired. | Ma). Dan I Sultan of the office of the | chief of engineers, has been placed in | G NTAK, WASHINGTONs. PICKED ENGINEERS TO BRAVE NICARAGUAN WILDS FOR SURVEY MAJ. DAN L SULTAN. MAJ. C. P. GROSS, IVETERAN EGAN2UP ON JESS SWEETSER Voigt Also Leading at Turn| at Pebble Beach—Jones Gets Ovation. By the Associated Press. | PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., September | 5.—Cyril Tolley, the British champion, and Dr. O. F.' Willing of Portland, Oreg., were all square at the ninth hole, dong_battle amateur golf champion- Willing, 2 down at the fifth, won three successive holes to take the lead, but Tolley squared matters at the ninth with a birdie 3. H. Chandler Egan of Medford, Oreg., champion 25 years ago, was l(ulne*n the the (fine form and led Jess Sweetses Ibig New York blonde, by 2 up turn, - ” George Voigt of New York, made the turn 1 up on Harrison R. (Jimmy) Johnston of St. Paul. Voigt squared |the match at the eighth and took the | | lead on the ninth. | | _ Bobby Jones, the dethroned champion, was given a cheer as he walked up to aerve as a gallery aide with the Voigt- | Johnston match. Halved First Hole. Tolley and Willing halved the first| hole in 4, the latter having provided | himself with a fine approach putt from | the green's edge. Tolley won the sec- | ond hole with & par 5 when Willing | j overran the cup 6 feet on his first putt | and missed coming back. The British ¥ is tee shot to the hole, but pitched ; foot putt for the birdie and they halved In 4s. { Sweetser and Egan were square at the third hole, each with one under par as a result of birdies on the third. Sweetser sank a 5-foot putt for his birdie 3, while Egan holed out from a 15-foot. lie. With Bobby Jones as the referee, the | Voigt-Johnston match drew twice as| |large a gallery as was anticipated. | Voigt and Johnston halved the first in r 4s, Voigt pitching from a trap to ay his third dead. They halved the second in 6s, each wasting a stroke to { B0 over par by 1. The third also was halved in par 4s, Johnston missing a 4-foot putt for & win. | The three-motored Transcontinental Air Transport liner, City of San Francisco, which is missing over the desert ' 2nd authenticate J. D. Stowe and A. E. Dietel, pilots, and William H. Beers, editor of Golf Illustrat wastes of Arizona. Left to right: ed, whe were aboard. | | i | - —Associated Press Photos, AL SMITH IS URGED FOR SENATE | JUDGE MAKES NEW CHALLENGE IN NOTE T A TARLINERS - FATE IS MYSTERY - Eight Were Reported Killed When Plane Crashed in New Mexico. (Continued From First Page.)_ Painted Desert is such, veteran flyers éaid, that a plane might be almost in- visible upon it. Aboard the City of San Prancisco when it left Albuquerque were: Mrs. Corina Raymond, wife of George B. Raymond, Glendale, Callf. Raymond is a clerk in the T. A. T. offices here. A. 8, McGaffey, 712 Cooper avenue, Albuquerque. . William Henry Beers, avenue, New York City. Harris Livermore, 21 Besnor place, ton. M. M. Campbell, 1183 Herschel avenue, Cincinnati. Members of the crew: 425 Pifth | J. B. Stowe, chief pilot: E. A. Dietel, co-pllot, and C. F. Canfield. courier. Reports that another plane carrying two men from Albuquerque to Angeles had crashed in the same gen- eral vicinity as that where the City of San Francisco was lost, complicated the situation. Whether Indians who had reported finding airplane wreckage in that area yesterday had referred to th air liner or the plane carrying thee two men could not be determined here. Statement Is Issued. Becks' announcement that no wreck- | age had been found followed an offictal !'T. A. T. statement made by him ear- ! lier in the night with authority frem | the 8t. Louis general offices which said: “The T. A. T. plane lost September | 3 between Albuquerque and Winslow | (destination of the liner), was just re- | ported found by a mail carrier 23 miles | south of Gallup in the Black Rock | wash country. The mail carrier's re-_ i port, delivered to a Santa Fe agen. d by the Santa Fe and Western Union, states that apparently the plane was struck by lightning, and all passengers killed. T. A. T. men from Winslow are proceeding immediately to the scene of the accident to make a thorough investigation. It is impossible to make a more detailed statement until their report is received.” TO HELP KEEP HIM IN LIMELIGHT ‘When Chairman Patrick still ques- tloned the authority of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. to use its interstate Col. Henderson's statement was one of IN GALLINGER CASE | regret over “the unfortunate accident | to one of our transcontinental ger tain range that forms the divide of the | Tolley carried a “cane seat” and eastern and western slopes. Throuxh | rested “while the celebrated dentist | this mountain range for 70 miles they | studied every shot. On the 325-yard | direct charge of the work by Presidert | | Hoover, and he has made preparations | for the establishment of an operating | busses for local passenger service in the District, Mr. Hoover said, “Does lhe}hlse commission contend that we must op- erate separate busses for interstate and local passengers?” “The commission is offering no opin- fon on that subject now, but asks for | all the evidence you have on it said the chairman, Attention was called by Chairman Patrick to a provision in one order of the commission requiring that the financial affairs of interstate and local be kept separate. 3 “Do you do that?” asked Chnlrmln‘ Patrick. » ;s “No, that order has been modified,” replied Mr. Merrill. | Correspondence between his company, the commission and the Capital Trac- | tion Co. was read into the record by | Mr. Merrill. This related to an altera- | tion in the agreement between the bus | company and the Capital Traction Co. 50 as not to require passengers to trans- fer from local to through busses at/ Fourteenth and Kennedy streets. and | i at Managua, the Nicaraguan capi- | tal. Maj. C. P. Gross of headquarters of the corps in Washington, D. C., will command the baitalion. 43 Miles of River “Fromt.” The Engineers will be compelled to combat for 43 miles the waters of the San Juan River, from Greytown, on the | Atlantic, to Lake Nicaragua. The route then will take them 70 miles across | Lake Nicaragua to the Cordilera Moun- must carry transit. rod and chain. Since 1902 the United States has held on to the right to develop'a Nicaraguan | canal, which was conceived as early as 1826. In 1916, a treaty was negotiates between Nicaragua and the United States, giving the latter a long-time option on the route for $3,000,000 Costa Rica, Salvador and Honduras stoutly objected to the treaty’s ratifica- tion, claiming It infringed upon their rights. connection with your Maryland opera- tion?" “That figure at | tedious to obtain. e is a llyo\'eri time at the end of all lines. Sometimes | it is greater and sometimes less than the layover time shown in the sched- ule “In making your allocation of ex- penses between the District and Mary: would be somewh: also to a request of the bus company to be relieved of the requirement | to keep separate accounts of the| operation of its busses north and south | of Kennedy street and a separate ac- | counting of its through bus service. Mr._Merrill contended that the cor- respondence sh&led that the commis- | sion heretofore*had approved of the | land, how do you treat layovers? “The actual time spent by busses in Maryland, including layover, is charged | to Maryland operations.” Transfers Are Brought Up. “Is there any reason why there | should not be an arrangement with the | Washington Railway & Electric Co. for | BALTIMORE PLANE GETS NEEDED FUEL - " | Hutchinson, on Endurance; Tour, Takes on 10 Gallons in Emergency Contact. bus company's request in these respects. | yran car between the busses of your | BY the Associated Press. Gives Company’s Peosition. ’ After his correspondence had been | read, Mr. Hoover sald that the com- ! pany's position was that since it hld' the right to operate both interstate and intrastate traffic along the routes in, question, that they undoubtedly had the | authority to use the same equipment for oth classes of traffic and pick up in- | trastate passengers in interstate busses. Gen. Patrick advised him to reserve his argument until the close of the case. | ““That is not argument,” M said, “that is & statement of fact.” Mr. Hoover then asked Mr. Merrill what authority the company had to operate express or limited stop busses from Thirteenth and K streets to Grant and Sherman Circles. Mr. Merrill read a letter from the company to the com- mission, dated September 15, 1927, seek- ing the permission in question and a letter from the commission to the com- | pany, dated September 23, 1927, grant- | ing the permission. The grant was/ conditioned on the company not pick- ing up any passengers on routes other than those previously authorized. Gen. Patrick then asked if the com- pany now followed precisely the routes outlined in the commission’s letter. Mr. Merrill replied that as far as he knew that was done, with the possible ex- ception of a few minor changes au- thorized in conference with the com- mission. Gen. Patrick asked him to check-up and discover if there were any differences at all in the routings | now used and those authorized in the nd Mr. Merrill said he ‘vould do later time. Contend Authority Unneeded. ‘Mr. Merrill and Mr. Hoover contend- ed that the company did not need any | specific authority from the commission | to run its busses “dead head” or with out passengers back to starting points over other than the regular routes. This practice, Mr. Merrill explained, saved money to the company and enabled it to get in extra trips in the rush hours | over the fegular passenger routes, thus | improving the service to the public. | Questions were asked by Chairman Patrick and Commissioner Hartman in- dicating an opinion that the running of busses without passengers back to starting points iz part of the regular carrier service of a company. “Busses operated without passengers | in this way are not operated as com- mon carriers.” declared Mr, Hoover. “Since these busses have regular auto- mobile licenses and are not common carriers, we contend that they can use any street they please in the District.” Hartman Opens Fire. Commissioner Hartman then entered uj a serles of complicated questions relating to the value of the bus com- pany’s pi y. Mr, Hoover at once objected, claiming that this is not a “valuation proceeding,” but Chairman Patrick overruled the objection. Answering several questions about the type of busses operated by the com- pany, Mr. Merrill said that the double- deck busses were used in the rush hours, also on days when the weather wa: “eomfortable for riding on the to{deck" and for special service to the Lincoln 1. If the double-deck busses become more popular, Mr. Merrill said. | the company will purchase more of them. He said that at present three of the double-deck type were being re-| modeled - into single-deck busses, bu: | explained that the company intended always to keep a fleet of double-deck “You have an item of $60,000 on the asset side of your balance sheet for 1938 for franchise,” said Mr. Hartman. “What does this represent?” Par Value of Reed Stock. “That is the par value of a certain number of shares of stock issued to William E. Reed at the time the eom- was formed,” replied Mr. Merrill. %I much do your books show as organization expenses?” | Hoover. I | facts,” Mr. Hartman replied. | r. Hoover | Mr. Hoover, “is th ‘ L company and the street cars of that | company, with an equitable division of expenses, at Georgla avenue and the | District line, Sixteenth street and Park |of gasoline in an emergency refueling road road and Sixteenth street and Columbia o “I object to that question,” sald M. | “It calls for a conclusion of aw from the witness.” “1 am asking the witness to state ““The best you can say of it," replied | it is & mixed ques- jon of law and fact.” “Objection overruled,” said Chairman Patrick, Mr. Merrill then explained that it would be difficult to provide transfers at the points named without being a great burden on his company. He said that it would mean the purchase of new equipment at a great expense. He made the same reply to & similar ques- tion with respect to transfers at 8ix- | teenth and U streets to Capital Trac- tion cars. Car Link Is Discussed. Mr. Hartman then asked why public convenience and necessity require opera- | tion of the company’s busses south of | U street. Mr. Merrill said that where- | ever possible, it was good business to give the ger a continuous ride from his residence to his office and there would be a storm of protest if all the passengers were compelled to get out at U street and transfer, Mr. Hart- man then asked why the wmpl? did not make an arrangement for trans- fer to street cars down town, 3 Mr. Merrill replied, would mean either less service or higher fares. Mr. Hartman asked why separate figures had not been kept and reported monthly ‘to_the Commission as to the operation of the Lincoln Memorial and Massachusetts avenue lines as required by the Commission’s orders authorizing the establishment of those lines. Mr. Merrill said that the operations of those | lines were included in the monthly re- ports of the operations of the system. but that to make separate reports prac- tically would be an impossibility. Hangar Club Is Formed. NEW YORK, September 5 (#).—The Hanger is the name of & new club, the membership of which is confined to men who have been interested in the finan- cing and developing of aviation. | New Senator | ! { ““There i3 an item of $35,000 for or-|- ization expenses. “2_'..“ part of that represents stock a7 i; ean’t tell without reference to the “What is the extent of layover time in ‘WILLIAM E. BROCK, ndy m; ed o the Senate seat left vacant of Tennessee, Olle—:l‘l‘mw | Suite . characteristic, .| Overture, “Tannhauser” WICHITA, Kans., September 5.—The cross-country endurance monoplane City of Baltimore received 10 gallons contact above Central Avenue Airport here today and headed at 11:30 am. for Las Vegas, New Mexico, where it was planned to take on additional fuel. A note signed by George R. Hutchin- son of Philadelphia, owner of the plane, dropped this morning, said: “We nave hit bad weather, Our gas supply dangerously low. Please send some up. In passing over Iola, Kans., at 7:45 a.m., Hutchison droj note asking the finder to wire Wichita for 100 gal- "ons of gasoline and 10 gallons of o.l “to_be sent up somehow.” The plane reached here, however, be- fore receipt of the message from Ioia. Hutchinson is making the flight with two companiohs. He hopes that if all goes well he can refuel in the air again on his return to Baltimore and make & second round trip. With Lieut. Willlam L. Snowden and A. G. Graham as co-pilots, each taking turns at the controls, The City of Bal- timore started its journey just after 7 o'clock last night, under sponsorship of the Association of Commerce, Unable to take off at Logan Field with a full gasoline load, Hutchinson went up with 300 gallons and took on nearly 300 gal- lons more in the air before his start. He had expected this to last until he reached Los Angeles. B_AND CdNCEBTS. By the United States Soldlers’ Home Military Band, bandstand, at 5:30 o'clock this evening, John 8. M. Zim- mermann, bandmaster; Anton Pomter, assistant leader, March, “Over Land and Se: Overture, “Solonelle” (1812), Tschaikowsky “Pour Cuban Dances” . o8 Gervantes (1) Moderato con expressivo, (2) Con tenerezza. (3) Moderato melancolico. (4) Moderato con passione. Scenes from the comic opera “La Pille de Madame Angot” Lecoq Oriental dance, “Maori V.. Tyers Waltz suite, “Espana” . Waldteufel Finale, “Bluebird Sing Me a Song,” s Davis Sylvan Theater, Monument grounds, at 7:30 this evening, by the United States Marine Band, Taylor Braason, leader; Arthur S. Witcomb, second leader, Program: ..Barton Wagner “@rand Valse Briliant”. Chopin Solo for cornet, “Bride of the Waves," Clarke Musician John P. White. “Salome’s Dance” ....Richard Strauss Solo for xylophone, “‘Grand Tarantelle,” | §06S% & Heller Musician Wilbur D Kieffer, ‘Lakme”. . . . Delibes g “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Army Band, Capt. Curtis D. Alway. Infantry, com- mand’ag: Willlam J. Stannard, leader; ‘Thomas F. Darcy, second leader; at the Army War College at 6:50 this evening. | fourth Willing pitched 5 feet from the | ! pin, but missed the putt and Tolley | got's half in 4. The Briton's tee shot on the 160-yard fith found a trap to | the right of the green, but Willing | hooked {wo _successive irons out of | | bounds, .changed clubs and put his third | |on the green. He missed his 30-foot | putt, conceding the hole to Tolley, who | exploded well out to chuck his fourth. Tolley 2 up. | Ouimet took the first hole in par, while Little required an extra stroke, but | Little evened the match at the third | after they had halved the second in | par 5. Ouimet was over one stroke on | third, while Little got his par 4. | sank Sinks 6-Foot Putt, Willing got a hole back yhen he a 6-foot putt for a birdie 4 on the 502- | yard sixth. Tolley's putt hung on the 1ip of the cup. On the short seventh, Willing's pitch | was 6 feet beyond the pin. He missed | the putt, but stymied Tolley and won | the hole to square the match. | Egan and Sweetser were square at! the sixth. Egan took the fourth with a birdie, while Sweetser was in trouble at the start with his drive into a trap and his second shot, taking 5. They halved the fifth in par 3 and Sweetser evened the match on the sixth with a par, while Egan went one over. Egan's | drive was out of beunds and his second hit a tree and bounced out. Egan con- ceded the hole when his pitch was far short of the pin. Willing put his second in a bunker at the eighth, but Tolley sliced over the bank toward the ocean and put his | third over the green into a trap. He came out well, but barely missed a six- footer and took six, losing to Willing's | five and the American went one up. | ‘Tolley put a fine iron ten feet from ! the pin on the 450-yard ninth, while Willing short-chipped all the way across | the green into a trap. His fourth just missed the cup, but Tolley got his birde | three and squared the match. | The card: i Tolley, out—4 5 4 4 45 4 6 3—39. | Willing, out—4 6 4 4 5 4 3 5 5—40. | i KING FAVORS INCOME TAX. Senator Says He Will Not Seek| Levy Here, However, | Although he is in favor of a munici- pal income tax in Washington, Senator | King, Democrat, of Utah, and & me) :er of the District Committee, said w-‘ a 't“lmh a bill in Congress at the present | ime. gl The Senator said he has always ad- | vocated the local income tax, but | pointed out he had met with opposi- tion in the past and that he preferred to let sentiment on the question develop rather than to push it at this time. Marshall Grows Worse. ZURICH, Switzerland, September 5 (#).—The condition of Louis Marshall, prominent New York lawyer and who has been ill here, today took a sudden turn for the worse and his conditioa is considered grave. | May Succeed Copeland, Who,l Political Circles Say, Will Get $25,000 Office. | lans Reported to Depend on Passage of New York Sani- tary Board Bill. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 5.—The New York World says today that a quiet movement has been started to place former Gov. Alfred E. Smith in the United States Senate and thus keep him n the national political limelight for eventualities. With this in view, says the news- paper, suggestions have been made to confidants of Mayor Walker that he ap- point United States Senator Rgyal 8. Copeland chairman of the spropesed city sanitation commission. * Gov. Roosevelt would then be called upon to appoint Smith to fill Copeland's un- expired term in the Senate. ‘Wants to Retain Seat, ‘The World says that Senator Cope- land, who is now in Europe, is anxious to retain his Senate seat, but that strong pressure would be brought to bear upon him to undertake the city sanitation commission work as a pub- ‘The chairman of the sanita- $25,000 & yea A Senator receives $10,000. id was a former city health commissioner, ‘The bill for creation of a city sani. tary commission has passed th Municipal Assembly and has been signed by Mayor Walker, It will be voted on at the next municipal elec- tion. ATTEND CONVENTION. Dr. Elliott to Pledge Conference to! International Expansion. ixoEzwoeD Rev. W. P. Elliot, president of the he does not intend to introduce | Potomac Conference of Seventh Day! Adventists of Takoma Park, will attend | an international convention of his de- nomination in Columbus, Ohio, from September to October 3, when apprc. priations and plans for the foreign ex- | pansion of the Seventh Day Adventists sect will be made. This church is now established in 27 countries. Dr. Elliot h: been delegated to pledge the financial support of his conference in this new program of international ex- pansion. \ Dr. Elliot will also be a delegate to a convention of local conference preci- dents on September 22, which will in- clude 65 conference presidents from the United States and Canada. MORE TH Congress of By the Associated Press. y be used to minimize some of the day's discontent by learning when to be on 'ulrd against undue frritation. Virtually-all the annoyances, | said Prof. . “are learned,” or acquired. A few, like the screech of a iece of chalk on a blackboard, are in- erited, sure to grate on nerves the world over. The average time of life to be most inst a state of frascibility on guard a is between the ages of 40 and 60. Sus- 507 PET PEEVES PREY ON WOMEN AN MEN. DOCTOR FINDS Annoyances Irk Most Between Agcs of 40 and 60, Rochester U. Professor Tells Psychology at Yale. to see or hear a child harshly treated by an older person, “a salesman trying to force me to buy,” liquor smell on another's breath, and to see an in- toxicated man or woman. ~Flies and cockroaches rate high, but mice not quite 50 bad. To see a bald-headed man is found to be an occasional and slight annoyance, almost zero. Conversation about sin, dirt, germs nd sex contains numerous sources of nnoyances. Prof. C classifies and announces under nine heads, unpleasant association, nterference with pleasant activity, opposing ego tendency, jentifi- cation, regression (a tendency to turn chl:lldlllk'e naoael of behlv:gr‘), undu(e '“r:fil miliarity, discards from the body as fall hair), inherited tendercies, | and, jered as one. customs, conven- | tions apd taboos. Falling in Dreams. A tilt in sleeping position explains familiar falling dreams, according to Dr. D. B. Klein of the University of Texas. He said he produced dresm in 39 in which a young girl subject, described her sensa- : “1 was i .ldl'_lhn‘l'. SENATOR COPELAND. USTICES ANSWER SINCLAIR'S PLEA Siddons’ and Gordon's Action on Magnate's Petition Is Withheld. Recommendations of Justice Freder- ick L. Siddons and Judge Peyton Gor- don, former United States attorney, on the application of Harry F. Sinclair and Henry Mason Day for a commuta- tion of their jail sentences were for- warded to the Department of Justice today by United States Attorney Leo S. Rover, but the department main- tained strict silence as to their nature. Although Attorney General Mitchell is out of the city on vacation, it was indicated that this will not delay action on the case, which is in the hands of the pardon attorney. At the present time, the Acting At- torney General is John Dord O’Brian. but it was indicated at the department that the case will go through formal and regular channels, and when it comes to the Acting Attorney General, Whoever he may be at the time, the case will be acted upon and forwarded to President_Hoover, No indication whatever was forth- coming &s to what the nature of the recommendation to the President may be, nor as to how long it will be before the case goes to the White House. to|‘THREE-FINGERED’ BROWN WINS COURT’S SYMPATHY By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 5—Magis- e Y e orge! e famous Mordecai ('phree- ) Brown was no_southpaw. g So when a Dr. Edward Brown, haled before him for failing to driver & $21.75 henl:uplunh-mshycw al pay a taxicab balance on a $100 bill { | (Continued From Pirst Page) that in view of the Thompson case and | others she would not assume the re- sponsibility of their treatment. In her letter to the board she again declined | to assume that burden, sayin, | “I have always regarded my responsi- | bility as a heavy one in regard to all ‘! my dealing with the unfortunate men | and women and children wno come be- | fore me at the court. 1 would be untrue to myself if I did not feel keenly , the result of this mother’s acquiescence to my overpersuasion. 1 state here | what I stated in The Evening Star, that 1 I can never again urge a man or woman | (o place themseives or their children in | | Gallinger Hospital. | " “As you know, the court has no au- | , thority to send a child under 17 to the ; hospital. Such children must be com- | mitted to the Board of Public Welfare, if in need of medical treatment, and it has been the custom of the court to| recommend that such children be sent to Gallinger Hospital by the board. No such recommendations will be made by | me in the future.” Cites Regina Perks. When Judge Sellers previously cited the case of Regina Perks, a .young girl under treatment at the hospital, who | gave blood for a transfusion despite her own condition, it was said that the child was “almost 21" and capable of | | giving her consent. Judge Sellers, how- | ever, denies that the child was more | than 16 and confirms her statement with the records of Juvenile Court. In her explanation of the Perk’s case, | the magistrate said: | “In tne case of Regina Purks, this child, being under 16 and required under | the compulsory education act to attend | school, was brought in by her parents, | charged with incorrigibility as persist- | ently truant and as leading her younger | sister into truancy. She was found in- corrigible and placed on probation, it being by opinion that her parents could not keep her in sciool. Upon physical | examination it was discovered that she | was in need of hospitalization and she | was committeed to the Board of Public Weltare temporarily with tke request that she be sent to Gallinger Hospital. | This was done and it was while there as a ward of the Board of Fublic Wel- ! fare, that she gave her blood for trans- fusion. You, Mr. Millan, being learncd | in the lJaw and fully conversant with the | policy of the Board of Children’s Guard- |lans and Board of Public Welfare, not ! to have an operation of any kind per- | formed on a temporary ward witnout the consent of the ward's parents, will readily see that this constituted a tech- | nical assault upon her person, the mere | matter of her consenting being without weight, as she was a minor. I have! reason to know that Dr. Bocock, when this was called to his attention, strong- | ly disapproved of the action that had | been taken. In this case, both the « sent of the Board of Public Welfare and the parents should have been sccured. It would be interesting to hear the result of transfusing Regina’s blocd into the veins of the other patients. In my opinion, this performance was objection- able and I not believe that it will be permitted again by Dr. Bocock. Holds Hospital Better. “In closing, T beg to say that I con- | sider the administration of the Hospital under Dr. Bocock as infinitely improve over the administration of the hospital | during the time I had the honor to| serve on the medical committee of the Board of Charities. ““My service on the medical committee of The Board of Charities makes me | fully conversant with the tremendous Tesponsibility of your committee and. knowing the high character of the members of the rd of Public Wel- fare, I am sure that the most thorough inquiry will be made and that more careful and strict subervision will be | given the hospital.” | Women to Practice Law. QUEBEC, September 5 (#)—By a vote of 9 to 8, women are to be per- mitted to practice law in' the province of Quebec. The vote was by the Gen- { eral Council of, the Provincial Bar. As a result enabling legisiation will be passed by the next Legislature, it is | expected. Alfonso Has Toothache. | MADRID, September 5 (».—A king i can have toothache. Alfonso has had 1 to interrupt his vacation for a trip to | the dentst. Fakir Dies Trying To Free Self From Coffin in Ground By the Associated Press. passen lanes, which caused the loss of eight ives in New Mexico.” “Although we have no definite in- formation,” he said, “early reports are that the accident was caused by a bolt of lightning striking the ship.” Two hundred searchers from Callup. N. Mex., combed the Black Rock Wash country, but did not find the plane. Complications Develop. While this search was under way complications developed to throw. in- vestigators again into a quandary with & denial by the postmaster at Gallup that any of his carriers had reported sighting the wreck and the receipt of report from an Indian runner on the Zuni reservation. This story. told to the reservation superintendent and re- layed to Albuquerque, was thought pos- sibly to have concerned a plane piloted by Earl Gordon, with Lindsay Gillis of Los Angeles, president of the Angelus Aero Corporation, as passenger. Gillis and Gordon left Albuquerque yesterday morning. failed to arrive in Los Al f:kl and were not reported as having * nded at any point en route. Stowe, chief pilot of the plane, was 29 years old, married, and a resident of Long Beach, Calif, but was reported to have lately moved to Clovis, N. Mex. He received: his aviation training at Brooks' Field 'and Kelly Field, Texas, and was a United S Army pilot from 1923 to 1925. In 1925 he took up commercial aviation, joining the T. A. T. this year. He had 4,000 hours fiying time to his credit. | _ Dietel, co-pilot. 25, was unmarried, | He came here from New Braunfels, | Tex. He also received his flying train- ing at Brooks' and Kelly Fields. He was i a graduate of the Electrical Engineering i College, Texas A. & M., and had a rec- 1 ord of 1,000 hours flying time. Little Known of Courier. Canfield, the courier, was transferred i here from the East three weeks ago and was little known by Western offi- cials of the line. Mrs. Raymond, only woman on the afr liner, was the wife of George D. Raymond, a clerk in the T. A. T. offices at the Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, Calif. She had been visiting her father, G. C. Horton, at Albu- querque, N.' Mex. McGaffey, 60 years old, was a wealthy Jumberman. He was on a pleasure trip to Los Angeles, where he had planned to visit relatives. Beers was editor of Golf Tllustrated, and was flying to the national amateur toursement now in progress at Pebble Beach, Calif. He had been editor of the golf magazine for three years. and for- merly was editor of the Zourth Estate, & newspaper trade journal. Livermore, wealthy bank director of Boston, was considered to be one of the best known shipping men in the United States. He was a member of the Boston Port Board, president of the Coastwise Transportation Co. and chairman of the Maritime Association of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. He was on a combined business and pleasure trip to the Pacific Coast. Campbell was sales manager of the Richardson Paper Co. at Cincinnati ahd was en route here on business. He left Cincinnati last week and, after several | stops in the Middle West, boarded the_ plane at Albuquerque. INDIANS' SEARCH FAILS. Ne Trace of Plane Wreck Found Near Zuni, N. Mex. ZUNI, N. Mex., September § (P).— After an all-night search, a number of Indians from the reservation here re- turned today with the t they could find no trace of the aifplane reported wrecked near Zuni. C. H. Kelsay, manager of the Zuni Indian Trading Co. said the Indians searched the territory in which the plane had been reported to have crashed and found no evidence of the Mr. Kelsey said that the report of In- dians seeing the wreckage was erroneous and that 'y had never told any one that runners from the Zuni Indian R and the bodies of eight persons. Other searching parties ‘were sent out from the reservation this morning in an effort to run down a rumor that a plane had been seen to fall north- west of the Zuni River. 500 HUNTING FOR WRECK. Indians Cover Area Near Gallup, N. Mex., and Planes Oircle Overhead. * GALLUP, N. Mex., September 5 (#). Five hundred Indians from the Zuni