Evening Star Newspaper, October 7, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER, (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy. slightly cooler tonight: tomorrow fair, cooler. ‘Temperatures: Highest, 75, today: lowest, 56. at 7:30 Full report on page 9. at noon . today. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Th WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION e Foening The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Prets news service. s Sunday’s Circulation, 112849 Star. Entered as second class mat( post office, Washington, D. No. 31,205, er C v ¥y WASHING'TON, D, MONDAY, - OCTOBER 7, GARDENER'S STORY HE SAW WOMAN ON DEATH NIGHT GIVEN 0 PROBING AGENTS| Ardmore, Md., Man Declares1 Mrs. Virginia McPherson Was at His Home Near, Midnight September 12. | VICTOR GAUTHEY. ~—Star.Staff Photo. SHELBY AND KELLY FACING NEW PROBE sz OF JORY CHARGES teered by a witness who declares: Police Trial Board to Get that he saw Mrs. Virginia McPher- . son alive and in his home near Case After Special Hear- ing Falls Down. Ardmore, Md., as late as midnight ! STATEMENT ONCE BEFORE Department of Justice Takes Over Assertion After It Reaches Star Reporters—Testi- mony Conflicts With Other Evi- dence in Mysterious Case. Worker The Star today turned over to the Department of Justice, wi of September 12, the night she was strangled to death in her apart- ment at the Park Lane. | With the investigation of the grand [ iury's eharges of inefficiency against ! JURORS ARE NAMED FOR TRIAL OF FALL ON BRIBERY CHARGE "Four Women and Eight Men for Panel in Case of For- mer Cabinet Member. {MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT DENIED! { Justice Hitz Overrules Plen of Dual | Jeopardy Under True Bill. - — | Four women and eight men were | finally selected as a jury this after- noon to sit during the third criminsl | trial of former Secrefary of the Interfor | Albert B. Fall, under indictment o1 | ‘oribery. growing out of bis alleged ac- | ceptance of $100,000 in the ieasing of | | naval ofl lands by Edward L. Doheny. |, The jury in Criminal Division Uppe |2 of the District Supreme Court, where | ! the bribery case 1s being fried before | Justice William Hitz, was selected at | 2:30 o'clock today from a list of 35 men and women, comprising (he panels of the various divisions of fhe court. The case opened *his morning. It required approximately: two and | - one-half hours for Government and de- fense attorneys to exhaust their chal- lenges. Will Guard Jury. { the g ! | Immediately upon jury bein; | sworn, Justice Hitz ordered the four | women and eight men locked up during | the duration of the trial. which, he was !informed by counsel; wonld last three weeks. | | i | | | | PREMIER This is a preeaution taken in the | SENATORS NAMED Herd of Donkeys Annihilated by Antelope Hunters By the Associated Press. ROCK SPRINGS. October 7. —Donkeys may be “Rocky 1929 FORTY (@) Means Associated Pras TWO- CE PAGES, 7NAVY PARITY PLEDGED FREELY BY MACDONALD IN SPEAKING TO SENATE Cheer as He Says “Take 'Senators It, Without Reserve, Heaped Up and Flowing Over.” BRITAIN TO ASK FRANCE, ITALY AND JAPAN TO JOIN IN PARLEY {Call Tor Five-Power Disarmament Con- ference Is Issued by England as Hoover and Premier Agree. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | Parity in naval strength between Great Britain and the United States was promised freely by Ramsay Macdonald. prime minister of Great Britain, speaking in the Senate of the United States. today. Declaring that “we have met together and we have said ‘What 1is all this bother about parity? ” Mr. Macdonald centinued: “Parity? Take it, without reserve, heaped up and flowing over. | That was the only condition under which competitive armaments _icould be stopped, and we could create a public psychelogy which -:loulq pursue the fruitful and successful avenues of peaceful co-opera- on.” “We Have Come to Understanding.” Mr. Macdonald declared that that was one of the results of hiz . visit. Another, he said, “Is that we have come to understand each ! other.” z | Mr. Macdonald pledged his government and his people to the cause of international peace. He declared that war between his | country and this Nation was “unthinkable.” COSTE SHATTERS LONG FLCHT AR i ‘The prime minister praised in highest terms the Kellogg mnlti- Frenchman Says He Covered !ateral treaty renouncing war. He asserted emphatically that. there ‘vms no lgmrposu\z 31 histisiL to this country of bringine about an il H » alliance between Great Britain and the United States. 6.158 Miles in Non Ston “You would reject it and I would reject it,” said Mr. Macdonald Trip to Manchuria. SUrE M eEnerton; ihesimimees 1 tor William S. Shelb; d Lieut.| oil trials since th2 j illance in % # 3 nspector jam S. Shelby and Lieut. 3 the jury survefllance declares, was accompanied bY 2 gy 45 "key for their handiing of the Harry F. Sinclair trial lact vecr in hiond man who, he is certain, was| 3 | the Teapot Dome case. Shadowing cf v the McPherson case on the verge of col- ' the jury in that ease resulted in a mis- not Robert A, McPherson. now Un- | jance hacanse of the refusal of witnesses | tria der indictment and in the District {tn testify. the Distriet government's! Court recessed when the selection af Jail awaiting trial on the grand,two-man board of inquiry today made ‘he jury was completed until 10 o'clock L | tomorrow morning. At that time coun- | jury's charge that he murdered hi Monntain canaries” and comedy materfal to the rest of the cou try, but in Eden Vallev they're game animals Chris Juel, owner of a ranch in the valley. 30 miles north of here. owned a dozen burros Finding little use for them since the end of the Summer season. he turned them out on the range. Caraway Heads Group, With Walsh, Borah. Robinson and Blaine Members. The ocecasion of the address by the prime minister in the Senate | was one of great impressiveness, surrounded as it was with all for- mality. It was the address of the head of a great government to the preparations to shift the responsibility | se] for the Government, followed by ife | of determining the guilt or innocense counsel for the defepse, will make rheir | The witness of the two veteran police officers to vhej i police trial board. | The important statement which the is Vietor P. Gauthey landseape gardener, of Ardmore, Md. whn was previously brought into the case by Policeman Robert A. was questioned at. police headquarters. hut whose story was discarded in the face of what now appears to have been | a misunderstanding regarding his facts. Goes to Ardmore. Today Department of Justice agents were sent to Ardmore to interview inoon today failed to materialize but | Corporation Counsel Wiliam W. Bride. its chalrman, indicated | forthcoming early this afternoon. Its issuance, it is understood is dependent | ion the result of a conference between opening statements to the jury. The jury s as follows: No. 1. Miss Virginia _Cooper, 23 years old. 816 ‘Twenty-first. street, a_secretary in her Allen. who | board announced it would issue before | father's real estate office. No. 2, Mrs. Helen M. Jarboe, 36, 2207 No. 3. Thomas C. Adkins. 45. 1228 it would be | Franklin street northeast, B. & O. en- | gineer. No. 4, Daniel Weisbach, 31, 219 Bates street, clerk Western Union. No. 5. George E. Parker, colored, 44, Ganthey and to obtain from him the | the board and Merritt O. Chance. fore-| 623 Sixth street northeast, dining car same information that he turned over to twn Star reporters vesterday. Two operatives, with a reporter from “The Star, located Gauthey shortly aft- ernoon today and he told them substar- tially the same story -he related to The Star, with some additional information. Tater they will ask Gauthey to come to the Department of Justice and tell his_story there. The Star fepoftert went to ATamOreT vesterday in response to a telephone call from Gauthey at 2 a'clock on Sun- day morning. At that time he said that he had been thinking about the caze for so long that he had tfo tell what he knew, His story was substantially as fol- Jows: “I’ found myself thinking about it constantly and decided that I would have to tell what T know of the case. I am positive that the woman who sat in my home from 10 to 12 o'clock on ' pave developed into a fiasco, be discon- | convened. the night of September 12 was Mrs. Mc- Therson. She had been in my home on many previous oceasions since June 14— always with the blond man. I did not know his name. but he called her ‘Gin.’ and when she first came to my hom Pherson.’ " H of the grand jury. which bitterly ! eriticized Shelby and Kelly and return- | jed an indictment for murder against | Robert A. McPherson. * | | Thus far Bride has information from | |a majority of the five members of the | grand Jury who prepared the report at- | | tacking Shelby_and Kellv. _One of these was one of the two witnesses who tes-| tified before the municipal board of in- | uiry. ’quhur Bride and_Maf. Donald A. | D 1 1 avison, Assistant Engineer Commis- | | sioner, and the second member of the investigating board, refused to discuss |or even intimate what the statement would contain, it was learned 1mml | other sources that it would recommend | that the Commissioners order Shelby | !and Kelly before the trial board and | that the present proceedings. which | tinued immediately. i i Demanded by Attorneys. | The two officers, through their at- ! torneys, demanded such a procedu e | Friday just before the board of In-| he was introduced to me as “Miss Mc- | quiry convened for lis now farcical in-| jands. | Vestigation with a view to having the waiter, Atlantic Coast line. No. 6. Festus F. Bowman. 29. athwest, clerk, Capital 0. 636 F streef son Trac- tion Co. No. 7. Mrs. Hazel A. Fuller, 35, street northeast. housewif No. 8, Mrs. Ollie O. Walker, 59. 1617 Olive street northeast, a housewife. No 9. Thomas E, Norris. Pairmont_street, paving teils Vernoni Savings Bank. No. 10, Charles Roger Nichol: 1436 Ogden street, service clerk, R Hotel. No. 11, Harvey L. Tavior, 27. 439 Tenth street southwest, interior deco- rator. 219 T 8. 31, aleigh No. 12, Barney O. Weitz, 23 4830 Kansas avenue, coal merchant. Attended by Doctor. Atiended by his physician and a nurse, Mr. Fall arrived at the court- house avout 15 minutes before court | He was assisted with diffi- culty from his outomebile and shortly ager his arrival went into tre court- room, the scene of his former acquittal | with Edward L. Doheny in 1926, when tried on the conspiracy charge grow- ing out of the same lease of naval oi! By the Associated Press. i A subcommittee of five head-d by | Senator Caragay, Democrat, Arkansas. | was named todav by Chairman Norris 'of the Senate judiclary committee to I Minnesota avenue southeast. bookkeeper. ' conduct the lobby investigation. The ators Borah, four other members are Sen- Walsh, Democrat. Montana; Idaho; Robinson, Indiana, and | Blaine, Wisconsin, Republicans. Four of the five commitiee members { belong to the Democrats and Republi- can indepsndent groups opposed to the pending tariff bill. Tariff Lobby First on List. Reported lobbying activities in con- | nection with this measure are expected to receive first attention. Inquiry into these reporis undoubt- | edly_would include the work of the | Senate finance committee, which drafted the tariff bill. A number of independent | Republicans recently have _expressed | dissatisfaction over the ~Republican | membership of the committee, contend- 1ing it has been made up of regular Re- publicans. Caraway will call the committes ! together at once to organize it. Norris recommended it to employ counsel and he promised to obtain authority for this from the Senate. The Arkansas Senator said he favored | going first inta the activities of those | who have been seeking to influence the { tariff legislation. He has singled out | the Southern Tariff League-and Joseph R. Grundy, Washington representative lof the American Tariff League, as | among those to be called. Then the antelope season opened. Short-sighted nimrods cleaned out the entire herd in a single day. MACKMEN SPECIAL HITS HAPPY TRAIL 19 Years Since Athietics Took Same Route to World Series Battle. By the Associated Press. ABOARD THE ATHLETICS SPE- CIAL, CHICAGO BOUND, October 7.— A tall serene man from Philadelphia is on his way to the world series war again after a wait of 15 yéars. He is follow- g the very same trail he hit just 19 Autumns ago in an even earlier battle, and following 1t in much the same frame of mind he had at that time— when the Cubs of Tinker and Evers and Chance. passing down from the crest of their greatness, were at his mercy after two straight defeats at Shibe Park. | He stated he had been informed the Mr. Fall got out of a sick bed to at- | jndustries of Pennsylvania had been as- | Then Gauthey. who came to the|charges aired in the open instead of | tend the opening of the tiial, having |sessed from $75 up to pay the expenses | United States in 1921, proudly pointed to a framed certificate of naturalira- tion. which bore a date of September | Davison are expected to recommend to! counsel to plead for delay. 13, and continued: Has Celebration Party. “I know that she was here on the night of the 12th, for I had invited my friends 1o a party in celebration of my naturalization. The papers were to be dated Saturday, the 14th, and I did not want, to have a party on Fridav. the 13th, so I asked them out on Thurs- day. the 12th. “Resides Mrs. McPherson and her friend there were three others. One was the taxicab driver who was ques- tioned at police headquarters in Wash- ington the day that Allen was sus- pended. one a woman who was also brought, to headquarters for question- ing and the third a man who accom- panied her and the taxicab driver to my home. All were my friends and had been there on previous occasions, but T do not think they paid any at- tention to Mrs, McPherson and her friend. “Mrs. McPherson appeared to be ner- vous. She and_ her friend apparently had quarreled, I judged from some of the vemarks I overheard. shortly after 12 o'clock.” The taxicab driver referred to by Gauthey, when questioned at police headquarters, disclosed the name of the man and woman he had taken to Gauthey's home, and when they had been identified, evidence in connection with the case was entirely dropped. Gauthey _was_not_summoned to the e o ~ (Continued on Page 2, BILL MAKES RUM PURCHASER LIABLE A move to make the purchaser of liquor liable under the Volstead law waz launched in Congress today when Senator Sheppard., Democrat, of Texas introduced In the Senate a bill to add cortain amendments. to the national prohibition act. The Sheppard bill, if enacted. would insert the words “purchase” in the same | section of the prohibition law. whicn makes it unlawful to manufacture or sell intoxicating beverages. In introducing the measure, Senator Sheppard said that in an address which he delivered recently in the Senate on the History of prohibition he stated that a court had decided that the pur- chase of intoxicating liquor for bever- age purposes was punishable under the Volstead law if made in connection witn an act of transportation. “Since that time,” Senator Sheppard continued, "a higher court has reversed this holding. and progress in the direc- tion of prohibiting purchase has been halted, at least to the extent of this last deeision. This fact and the fact of the continued advance of prohibition sentiment and achicvement make it ad- vizable, in my opinion, definitely to pro- Bibit mvrhase They left behind closed doors. | " Corporation €ounsel Bride and Maj. the Commissioners that an extraordi- nary trial board be created to pass {upon the charges against Shelby and | Kelly, one similar in its make-up to the special trial board which exoneiated | Capt. Guy E. Burlingame, retired com- | mander of the second precinct, of the | sensational accusations of Mrs. Helen F. | Blalock. | Bride and Davison were in conference | most of the morning with Chance and | J. H. Batt, another member of the {grand jury. The purpose was closed, but Bride attached considerable importance on the return of Chance, | who left, the District Building about, 11 o'clock and was scheduled to come back for a second meeting after lunch. Position of Bride. Since Bride previously announced ,that it would be impossible to send Shelby and Kelly before a police trial board as demanded by them on con- clusions in the grand jury report, it is I belleved that he proceeded in his con- | ference with Chance and Batt to pro- cure facts from them on which to base charges. | "“Bride has taken the position ever since Shelby ‘and Kelly made their de- mands for a speedy trial before a police | trial board that he would have to have facts and not conclusions in order to | prepare char, The board's conference with Chance | and Batt was followed by another with | Commissioner _ Sidney F. Taliaferro. Bride-took_with him in the Commis- | stoner’s office a collection of papers. ! some typewritten and others in long- hand, all of which are believed to have | vital bearing on the board’s future | conrse of action. | While these conferences were under | | way, Policeman Raymond Aggleson of | | the first precinct, who was dignified | [ with the title of bailiff during the in- | | vestigation and stationed outside_the | corporation counsel's suite of offices, | continued to call the names of wit- | | nesses and got no response, Four had been called to testify this morning, .nd all of them failed to appear. - These | | 1 | ney, all members of ! grand jury. Adjournment Expected. Three more witnesses are scheduled to testify this afternoon, but the mu- nicipal investigation is expected to come to a close before the time set for their arrival. These witnesses are Charles E. Nichols, George M. Hall and Charles L. Hosch, For the first time since the grond jury’s attack on the poll for the alleged inefficient investigation of the McPherson case, Inspector 3helby and Chance met in the corridors of the Dis- trict Building. The meeting occurred after Chance had left Bride's office. Sophie E. Brandon and John L. Kear- the discharged not dis- | were John L. Alcorn, Charles W. Young. | | suMiciently recovered from a bronchial |of a tariff lobby. attack to make it unnecessary for To Trace Dollar. When court convened a righ-backed | “I am infinitely more concerned, ! upholstered armehair was brought into | added, “in where the dollar finally rest: the courtroom. than where it came from. That's what Mr. Fall sank into it. only his white | we will try to find out.” hair being visible to spectators from the | The Arkansan said he would not be rear. On one side sat his nurse, Miss | disposed to call any members of the Laura Smith: on the other his physician, | Senate before the committee. Dr. H. T. Safford of New Mexico. Norrls made it clear that he {think any suspicion should_atf Divey AN rial. [ those wha are called. "Like Caraw Mrs. Fall accompanied her- husband | pelieves individuals and groups have a| and sat among the spectators at the right to be represented at Washington | j rear of the room, As during his previous | jn’ the interest of particular legislation. | | trial, she will remain constantly by his | However. he thinks that all of these side. His old friend, Edward L. Doheny. | should give an accounting showing their | unchanged with the passing of two'financial backers and how they spend rs, sat at one end of the eounul;melr money here. !ible. within a few feet of the defendant. Owen J. Roberts and’former Senator 3 » o FOUR KILLED IN PLANE CRASH NEAR TEXAS TOWN he | did not | tache to | | | | | | Atlee S. Pomerene and United States | Attorney Leo A. Rover, who are con- | 1 ducting the prosecution of the bribery | charge for the Government, sat in the front row at the counsel table. Behind |'them sat Frank J. Hogan, chief of defense counsel; J. Wilson Lambert and William "E. Leahy, with Mark B Thompson of New Mexico, attorney and long-time friend of Mr. Fall. At the outset Justice Hitz announced that the court had sustained the | demurrer flled by Government counsel last Wednesday to the four pleas made | in person by Mr. Fall, when seeking to have the bribery charges dismissed on the grounds of dual jeopardy. Without further preliminaries the jury panel of 26 men and women was called and Mr. Roberts identified the | case and introduced counsel on both sides. It was apparent from the start that no time would be lost in selecting a | jury. The first 12 men and women on || the panet were called to the jury box ||| and interrogations were put to them as a whole. Hogan Quizzes Veniremen. As during the earlier conspiracy trial, Mr. Hogan diligently inquired of venire- men if they had read anything of the long pending oil cases, were acquainted with the radio speech delivered by Sena- tor Thomas J. Walsh of Montana just before the other trial or were acquainted with any one of the counsel, the mem- bers of the senatorial investigation com- mittee or with former Senator Irvine L. Lenroot, now a Federal judge. By the Associated Press.s | LEONA, Tex., October 7.—A crumpled wing at an altitude of 1,500 feet yes-| terday plunged to their deaths Lieut.| Jack Brooks, 28, a Dallas contractor, and three passengers in his plane. | Leon Lynch and Allen Powell of Centerville and Marvin Botter of Teague | were killed with Brooks. | Lieut. Brooks was considered one of the best pilots at Love Field, Dallas, | having spent more than 5000 hours| aloft. -Apparently the braeing of the left wing of the plane gave way. the wing folding back over the cockpit. | | Chicago Game Starts 2 produced, play by street side of The Star Building. audience through 10 large horns of WE WILL STILL ALOFT. Chicago Endurance Plane Passes 168th Hour Early Today. CHICAGO, October 7 (#).—With the | naliway mark only two days away, the ||| ‘Chicago—We Wil continued to cruise in lasy sircles abgve Skyharbor airport today In its fourth attempt to surpass the ~ 421-hour refiuel endurance analytical discussions and colorful significant points i.. the day's play. Inspector Shelby greeted him and walk- ! ed through the basement floor corridor with him and both appeared to be deep- Iy ingrossed in conversation, PO E——— Radio Progr,amt;’age 12 record of the St. Louls Robin. At 6:52 am. the Chicago—We Will | his new brood of Athletics, | delphians, The Star’s World Series Service With the last “out” of each game, an edition of The Star will go to press with a full account of each inning of play. Later, the 5:30 and Sports Final editions of The Star will contain Cornelius McGillicuddy will resume that rivalry of 1910 at Wrigley Field in Chicago tomorrow. but to him and to the blue ribbon meeting with the Cubs is just another string of ball games. That mental attitude doubtless played its part in the world series successes achieved by the Athletics of the past: carried on to the field in 1929, it could prove a dangerous weapon to the young men of Joseph MecCarthy, Batting Race Interest, On the train last night and today the | Athletics' were far more concerned over the failure of Al Simmons to overhaul Lew Fonseca of Cleveland in the race for the batting championship than they were over the games with the Cubs. Simmons himself gave his undivided time and attention to an earnest con- ference with Ty Cobb, who for years, has taken a marked interest in the batting young Milwaukee star. The master manager's only worry was in shepherding seven carloads of | ers, reporters, friends and fans into special train, with 1,000 Phila- young and old, large and small, at his heels or underfoot. That job finished, Mr. with the announcement that his pitcher Bie” for the opening game would be chosen | at about noon. 1:15 o'clock tomorrow after- Patriarch Néver Ruffled. ‘This patriarch of world series’ war- fare, in his 67 years, never was ruffied in 40 base ball campaigns, but even his great self-control could not hold back the wisp of a smile last night as fellow townsmen sent his special train out of :30, Washington T{me Beginning tomorrow afternoon the world series games will be re- play, on The Star's electric scoreboard, Eleventh The scoreboard’s operation will be synchronized with the radio broadeast, and the broadcast, in turn, will be nm:"fled for The Star's the Public Address System. descriptions of the highlights and Mack retired early ‘Rv the Associated Prese PEIPING, China, Octoher 7.—A tele- gram received by the French consul at Harbin, Manchuria. from Capt. Dieu- donne Coste, French aviator, savs he and Jacques Bellonte, in their plane, the Question Mark, covered 9.10 kilo- meters (about 6,158 miles) cn their long trip from Le Bourget to Manchuria last week, This estimate is 1.800 miles in excess of the previous long-distance fiving rec- ord. established by the Italian aviators Ferrarin and Del Prete in 192 miles. g | Tands in Deseri Section, Capt. Coste’s telegram was sent from Tsitsthar, Manchur:a, and said they had landed safely in a desert section of Heilungkiang Province Sunday, Sep- tember 29, and had been able to reach Tsitsihar only yesterday. The left Le Bourget Friday, September 27, Their fligh’ established the first non- stop alr communication between France and China. The French consul at Har- bin. M. Reynard. left immediately for Tsitsihar to assist them to obtain fuel and make necessary minor repairs. so they could continue their flight, Their g\glnnl destination was Vladivostok, Si- Tia. FLYERS ARE HELD PRISONERS. Chinese Troops Mistake Coste Bellonte for Soviet Aviators. TOKIO, October 7 (#).—"ieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte” who had been missing a week, today were safe in Manchuria after establishing a snew world non-stop flight record and after a series of hazardous adventures, in- cluding ‘heir arrests at the hands of Chinese soldlery, who thought they were Russians. Advices in Tokio today placed the French flyers near Tsitsihar, northwest of Harbin, Manchuria, where they had landed ‘Sunday. September 29. They had flown for 52 hours and had covered between 5,500 and 6.000 miles from Le Bourget, France, considerably better than the former record of 4,358 heid by the Italian fiyers, Ferrarin and Delprete. Placed Under Arrest. Fragmentary accounts received by the Rengo news agency from Harbin stated that the men had landed. because of a shortage of fuel. in a village of Tsitsihar. They were mistaken for Russian military aviators and were held in custody while Gen. Wan Fu-Lin. head of the Heilungkiang provincial government, telegraphed to Mukden an- | nouncing that his troops had captured an enemy plane and asking for instruc- tions. These circumstances apparently ex- plain why it was a week before as- surance of their safety reached the out- side world. The dispatches said that the aviators were living at Wan Fu- | Lin's mansion at Tsitsihar as guests, | but that they had not yet been per- | mitted o proceed. The French consul | consequently has gone from Harbin to clear up the official obstacles. | Coste further telegraphed the French | consul at Harbin that his_ plane, the | Question Mark, crossed the Manchurian | border at 1 o'clock on the afternoon of | September 29 and that he saw the | Chinese and Russian position below. | The scene of his crossing was near | Manchuli, which has been the center |of several encounters between Russian and Chinese troops growing out of the |} controversy over the South Manchurian | Raflway. In Air 52 Hours, On the afternoon of the twenty-ninth the French flyers negotiated the some- |wnn dangerous crossing of the Khingan | Mountains and were compelled to land |at the village of Kanchingtze about 7 !o'clock in the evening after approxi- | mately 52 hours’ flying. Coste ex- pressed disappointment that a shortage of fuel had prevented his reaching Japan. ||| "Later advices said that the Frenca | consul arrived at Tsitsihar this morning and conferred with Coste, after which ||| he met Wan Fu-Lin in order to dissi- || pate the misunderstanding. _Appasently e was successful as he telegraphed the /|| Harbin consulate Coste hoped to start Supplementing the reports of Denman Thompson and John B. Keller of The Star sports staff will be the Associated Press corps of base ball writers and experts, Manager McCarthy and Outfielder Cuyler of the Cubs, Manager Connie Mack and Outfielder Simmons of the Athletics, George Moriarty, American League umpire; Grantland- Rice, Bill McGeehan, Walter Trumbull, John B. Foster and others . whose names have long been identified with America’s leading sports pages. i [I]! Coasting Steame See a_mezar the Games at The Star Score- board—Read About Them in The Star passed the 168th houy, exactly seven days. ! !i 'l"'m flight promotors and fleld at- I} taches still declined to disclose the ” 1#ant’ " = of the plane’s two pllots. |'for Japan tomorrow or Wednesday. i} | Fuel is now en- route from Heilar. r Sinks; 17 Lost. BERGEN, Norway, October 7 (#).— Seventeen persons are believed to have ||| been drowned in the sinking of the || coasting steamer Haakon VII. which foundered near Flore last night after colliding with another vessel. It was estimated that 9 or 10 of the 17 lost, were members of the crew and Mn, the rest of 4,338 | | Senate of the United States, which has so much to do with the | foreign relations of the United States. | Standing on the rostrom beside Vice President Curtis. Mr. Mac- donald spoke with great earnestness and with eloquence. His words frequently were interrupted with applause in which all members iof the Senate joined. 3 | The galleries of the Senate were filled to capacity and nearl: | every member of the Senate was in his place on the floor when Mr Macdonald was escorted into the chamber by a committee appointed lby the Vice President composed of Senator Watson of Indiana. ;Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Republican and Democratic ‘lenders: Senator Borah of Idaho, chairman of the foreign relations | committee. and Sgnator Swanson of Virginia, the ranking Democratic member of that committee. There was loud applause when the : British prime minister entered. In the galleries, among the dis- tinguished visitors were Miss Ishbel Macdonald, the prime ministers {daughter, and Lady Isabella Howard, wife of the British Ambassador. {many members of the diplomatic corps, and high officials' of the i Government, Reaches Accord With Hoover. Mr. Macdonald came from the seclusion of the President’s mountain camp where he and Mr. Hoover had reached an accord on . important questions of foreign relations, almost directly to the | Capitol. | His first visit was to the House of Representatives. where he |was cordially welcomed although few members of the House are {now in Washington. He was introduced to the House by Representa- itive John Q. Tilson, the majority floor leader. After a few remarks in which Mr. Macdonald expressed his gratitude for the reception he has had in this country, and after he had shaken hands with | the members of the House, the Prime Minister was escorted to the | Senate wing. | i Impresses Members of Senate. ! The speech of the prime minister apparently made a profound |impression upon members of the Senate. Senator Reed of Pennsyl- !vania, chairman of the military affairs committee. said of the prime minister’s address: “I think that to have the prime minister reiterate in this country that Great Britain wishes to grant parity to us makes possible a limitation of armaments which may serve to relieve the peoples of the two countries of a burden which is growing intolerable. and thus lead to a general world-wide self restraint, which will be a blessing |to all humanity.” i Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, had this {comment to make: | “Premier Macdonald impressed the Senate with his earnest de- i sire for an arrangement between the United States and Great Britain with respect to naval parity. No other arrangement is practicable jor possible. His remarks indicate readiness to recognize in confer- | ence the equality of the United States with Greata Britain in sea- | power, which is all that our people ask or desire | President Hoover and Mr. Macdonald in a joint statement issued i today on their return to Washington from the President's camp in | the Blue Ridge Mountains, said: “We have frankly reviewed all the questions that might give rise to friction between our peoples. Gratifying progress has been made. The conversafions are continuing.” | Terse and to the point, the statement is indicative of the good feeling between the governments of the United States and Great | Britain, a feeling that extends to the peoples of both nations. Mr. Macdonald’s government today is sending out formal |invitation to a five-power naval limitation conference. The announcement that the invita-, The invitations go to | tions to the naval conference would 80 France, Italy and Japan. out today from London was made yes- | terday afternoon from the camp of the 'he invitations will be made public | President after hours of intimate talk Wednesday, it was said, after ail the | between the President and Mr. Mac- governments have had an opportunity donald. It was relaved by way of the R g & to read and digest the invitation. The (Continued on Page 3. Column 2) | | this country, The text of | White House to the world. which had waited with keenest interest the first { word from the conferences between the | two executive heads of the American | and British governments. The Presi- | dent himself gave the word over the | tetephone to his secretary, George Aker- | son. The text of Premier Macdon- ald's speech will be found on Page 4. Arms Cut Parley Hailed in London As Greatest Event Since Armistice By Cable to The Star. prime minister’s present visit to the LONDON, October 7.—Invitations to| United ‘States It will he made clear = | also, that the conference is to con- attend five-power conference {0r W~ | ider the whole naval position, includ- { tation of naval armaments in London |, firs.class battleships, and will not will be issued today to the governments be devoted exclusively io cruisers or io of the United States, France, Italy and | any restricted type of naval armament Japan, and the texts will be published | _While the actiial form of the invita Simultaneously at London and Washing- ~ 'Continued on Page 3, Column 3) ton on Wednesday. The event is hatled here as “one of the greatest since the ' armistice. | The invitations will ssk that the representatives of the powers meet in | AT NEW HAVEN DESK London the third week of Januaxy: . While little authentic information is ' By the Associated Press available as to the form of the in- |. NEW HAVEN, Conn. October 7 vitatione, it is known that they will give | Maj. John Coolidge, back from his hon- as a basis for calling the conference ' .ymoon at Moosehead Lake, took up the fact that the new and important | the prosaic duties of a railroad clerk in greement reached between Great Brit- | the operating offices of the New York, ain and the United States has opened New Haven & Hartford Railroad today. the way for revision of the task which 'His wife remained at the home of her was begun at the Washington confer-| parents, ov. and Mrs. John H. Trum- ence of 1921. It is understood that it | bull, at Plainville, where the couple spent is the wish of both Prime Minister | last night on their return from their Macdonald and President Hoover that | honeymoon trip to the Summer camp the January conference should be Te- | of the governor in Maine. garded as the complement to the other | The apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Cool- conference, which ordinarily would not | idge in Fountain street had been made have come until the conference of 1931. Accompanying the invitations will be explanation of the agreement ched by Mr, Macdapald and Am- ented by the in Al h!sldor Dawes and ready for their occupancy, but it will be necessary for the bride to arrange the furniture and fittings, a= most of the | former was not delivered until last | Wednesday.