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A2 CONTROL OF HOUSE it YEAR'S BIG STAKE Changes in Administrations in Last Generation Preceded by Congress Shift. By the Associated Press. Controi of the House is the goal of ®ational varty leaders, who are as- &=mboung here this week to launch the < sn i0c the November election. In the election of Huuse members the party pilots see the real test of semti- ment in the country and the gauge of the presidential campaign two years hence. An overturn of administ last quarter-century alw Ppreceded by an upset of the p power in the House in the ofi-year elec- tion. In 1910 the Democrats won the House and in 1912 elected a President. In 1918 the Republicans overthrew the Democrats in the House and in 1920 gained the presidency and Congress. 35 Senate Seats at Stake. Thus it is that around the campaigns for the House seats in the 48 States the Republican and Democratic leaders are focusing their attention as they line up forces this week for opeming the election drive early next month. In the contests for the 35 StelmlsI ats at stake this vear more nationa fhterest, centers because of the better known figures involved in the 1 i control of the Scnate in the mext Con- gress is something about which either party scems anxious. e As matts stand the Republicans are charged with responsibility for the Sen- ate although the coalition of Demo- crats and Republican independents has been in a majority on such contro- versies as tariff and farm relief. The few remaining primaries to se- Ject the party nomuees for the No- vember race will be completed within the next few weeks and then the Re- publican-Democratic battle will be on in_earnest. Representatives Wood, Republican, Indiana, and Byrns, Democrat, Tennes- see, the chairmen of the Con!glressic‘r!:; Campaign Committees, get here “uk.p.usennwr Tydings of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commitiee, already has opened headquarters here and Senator Moses of New Hampshire, the chairman of the Republican Senatorial Commit- tee, reaches the city in a few days for conferences with the new leaders of the party—Senator Fess, national chairman, snd Robert Lucas, executive director. Two Primaries Tomorrow. Tomorrow primaries will be held in ‘Wyoming and - Mississippl. - Senator Pat Harxison is without opposition in Mississippi, but in Wyoming the Repub- licans are in a free-for-all fight for the senatorial nomination. The death of Senator Warren left the opening in and Senator Pat Sullivan, Re- ublican, who was named to succeed Elm. declined to run again. On September 2 Michigan Repub- licans will choose between Senator Couzens and Chase Osborne. On Sep- tember 10 Senator Harris and former Gov. John M. Slaten will settle their race for the Democratic senatorial nom- ination in Georgia. Next week in South Carolina Democrats yill choose between Senator Blease and James Byrnes, for- mer Representative, for the senatorial nomination. The primaries will be concluded on September 16 with the Massachusetts election for party nomi- nees, where both parties are involved in strife. Tariff, farm relief, the Hoover ad- ministration and unemployment are the issues which have been Brought to the fore in the early days of the campaign snd upon which both parties have declared a willingness to fight. Prohibition is an issue in many districts and in several States, but neither of the national parties is in- :fig:d on either side of this propo- P SR R-100 FLIGHT SPURS BRITAIN TO BUILD SISTER AIR LINER (Continued From First Page.) the cracks are only the thinning of the dope with which the fabric is painted and air ministry tests show that man can take a running jump at the weakest part and not go through. The catwalk runs in a curve along the bottom of the ship. It goes above and between the engine gondolas to ‘which manways lead. From the ground they look like small stovepipes, but they are big enough for men to pass. Get- ting to them by a light ladder through & dark cave of winds is literally a hair- Taiser. Roar of Engines Is Deafening. Each gondola has a pair of engines, one driving the pulling propellor, the other driving the pusher. Between the engines is room for two men. The roar of 1,300-horsepower engines in the gon- dola or along the catwalk is deafening, | but it dwindles to a steady purr in the | passenger’s part of the ship. Pearched on he caiwalk, volunteers would plunge back and forth on the long lever arms for half-hour stretches, pumping up the 200 gallons required for the next watch. Everybody did it from Sir Dennistoun Burney down. It kept us fit and it was great fun to watch the ocean under foct through the V-shaped ventilator flaps. THE EVENIN FIVE MOVIE THEATERS IN CITY DISCARD ORCHESTRAS ON SEPT. 1 (Continued From First Page) tion of Music. The association here- tofore has made blanket contracts which provide that a certain number | of musicians of the union would be employed in_each theater. The Fox qunql was 35 men, the Palace 20, Keith's 12, Columbia 15. Metropolitan 15 and Earle 18. the orches- tras of the Earle and Metropolitan | ‘Theaters were consolidated and played only at the former house. | | The spread of the talking picture has been taking its effect all over the United States, and in spite of vigorous campaigning on the, part of the Amer- ican Federation of Music, the theaters continue to adopt “robot” music. It| had been predicted that Washington | was .in line for the move to release thester musicians, Just what the reaction of the local union of musicians to the decision of | the theater managers will be is not | kmown, although A, C. Hayden, x:m» dent of the t a | meeting of the the organization had been called for | tomorrow morning. Mr. Brylawski, in stating the posi~ tion of the organization of which he is president, declared the mu were willing to meet with the union on some satisfactory agreement. He said, how- | eever, that his association saw no reason | | why the musicians should not be em- | ployed on the same basis and under | the same type of contracts as other | organized union employes. The musi- | cians are the only branch of the | | theatrical business in Washington em- | ployed in blanket form with a guaran- | | tee that a certain number will be given | regular employment, he said. | | Theaters’ Viewpoint Given. | Hardie Meakin, managing director of | the Fox Theater, in anmouncing that notice had been served on all of the members of the Fox Orchestra, also made it clear that the theaters wished to get together with the musicians. ‘The basic salary paid musicians in local theaters is $75 per week. Many receive higher pay, however, and indi- | vidual musicians are paid sums rang- | ing from $2 to $20 per week for va- rious types of work in the theater. For instance, if the orchestra is required to play on the stage in connection with a vaudeville presentation m to rendering overture, each member is paid $20 per week extra. If the mem- bers of the orchestra are required to change into any suit other than their regular clothes, they receive $3 per weels extra. For solo renditions, each man featured in such an act receives $10 per week more. I s musician { i i i JULIAN BRYLAWSKI. “doubles,” that is, i#f he plays more than one instrurent during the show, he gets $10 per week more for each additional instrument he plays At the Fox Theater, the weekly salary pay roll amounts on an average to $4,500, Mr. Meakin said 3 PROBES BEGUN IN PLANE CRASH Federal, State and County Authorities Investigating Fall at Lipins Corners. A triple investigation was under way | today into the airplane crash near Lipins Corner, on the Annapolis Boule- vard, yesterday, in which two passen- gers were killed and the pilot injured. The State Aviation Commission, cre- ated by the last Legislature; Anne Arundel County authorities and the | Aeronautics Bureau of the Department | of Commerce are secking to learn tnc | facts surrounding the crash and fire which destroyed the plane. Inquest August 28. An inquest into the death of the two pessengers—Francis Beale of Dorsey | Station and James T. Ruppert of Jes- sups—will be held the night of A 28 at the office of Justice of the Peace 8. J. Evard, acting coroner, on the Mountain road at Green Haven. The jury was summoned shortly after the crash. ‘The 21-year-old pilot of the plane— Marshall Tarbett—was reported as do- ing “very well” at the South Baltimore General Hospital, where he was taken after he had been removed from the burn; wreck of the machine. He is suffer] from a possible fracture of the right ankle and burns on the left leg and contusions of the body. ‘While the investigation was being | made the charred remains of the plane were guarded by Anne Arundel County Officer George Harrison at the peint | where the machine fell. This was on the farm of C. B. Pumphrey, about half a mile from the airport at Lipins Cor- ner and approximately 1,000 feet east | of the Annapolis-Baltimore Boulevard. Mr. Evard said that he intended to | discuss certain phases of the crash with State’s Attorney A. Theodore Brady of | | Anne Arundel County. The magistrate ! 15 being assisted in the investigation by |Deput!y Shumst:.:.;yt D. Stone of the | county an rolman Theodgre Klapproth. ‘Witnesses to Be Summoned. Gustav Lutz of Pasadens, wha took the injured pllot to the hospital; Louts | Pumphrey, a witness of the crash, and | t | { Creeping up to the crow’s nest, which | Robert P. McLeod, who, the te shows like a pimple on the nose of the ‘ said, was the owner of the plane, will R-100, was another pastime sometimes ! be summoned to the inquest. su te tiny cowl would | Y - admit only two, but it gave a splendid | termining whether the plane was fit view ahead and on all sides. The wind 0 take passengers in the air, and | Pressure there was so great that the I‘;p:r:;l: s hmd'ml:.id"{a'clu% a"-,-hun wi . » f Strapped to a man ments had to be, yjucd"ih the 600 block of Nerth Welling. | Another windy spot was outside the | !on road, stated in his presence that | fabric aft, leaning your back against|!! WAS not necessary to have a license | the fin. Ii, too, gave a great view. | when passengers do not pay. Tarbett's CIRL NAMES TWO MEN N ATTACK Miss Rétha Smith of Unity Accuses Outlaws in Alleged Kidnaping. Specia] Dispaich to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 18.—Pell- ing a tale of being kidnaped and kept in a tent and unoccupied farm house in a secluded section of Howard County, where she was forced, at the point of & pistol in the hands of a notorious chas acter, well known to the police and wanted by peace officers in Montgomery and Fairfax Counties on various pend- ing warrants, to submit to repeated criminal attacks, Miss Retha Smith, 16 years old, appeared at the Rockville Court House today to unfold her gtory to State's Attohney Robert Peter, jr. ‘Three warrants were issued today by State’s Attorney Peter, following the disclosure to him by the girl of the details of the alleged crime. One: of the men is charged both with abdu¢tion and criminal assault and the other with abduction. Both the police and the State’s attorney withheld the names of the men contained in the warrants, pointing out that it might hamper jus- tice by disclosing them at this time. In the meantime the police have renew- ed their search for the two men, who are reputed jackers of stills, live on abandoned farms and are credited with general outlawry. They are represented as being dangerous characters, always carrying pistols, but they have always succeeded in evading numerous police traps which have been set for them. Taken From Spring. Miss Smith, who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Smith, who live near Unity, and who was the vic- tim recently of an alleged fake mar- riage ceremony in Howard County, in connection with which two men were arrested and mow await trial, told a correspondent of The Star here, while walting & conference with the atate’s attorney, that last Sunday week she vent to a spring near her home, and while there two men approached, one of whom had a revolver in his hand. Pointing it at her, she alleges, she was told that if she made an outery she would be killed, but if she kept quies she would be unharmed. ‘While one of the men held his hand over her mouth, she said, she was forced to accompany them ale an unused road to the main highway where a car was waiting. She was placed in the automobile and was driven what she described as a great distance to the home of one of the men, who is sald to be a brother-in-law of the | other. out, ‘There and the brother-in-law got the car was driven by the other into a road in the woods, where,{ she ascerts, she was kept a couple of hours, during which she was criminally attacked. During this period, the girl said, a threat of death was made. @ STAR, HURLEY REFUSES 0L PER ERMIT War Secretary Qverrides Recommendation of Chief of Army Engineers. Overriding a recommendation of the chiet of Army Engineers, Secretary of War Hurley has disapproved the appli- cation of the Sun Oil Co. of Philadel- phia to construct a pier for the loading and unloading of ofl on the Virginia side of the Potomac River 400 feet above the Key Bridge. 3 In disapproving the recommendation of Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, it was under- stood that Secretary Hurley was actuated | by a belief that the construction of a pier | extending 250 feet into the river, with the subs t oil seepage and industry #t would edtail, would be detrimental to the development of the George ‘Washington Memorial Parkway. Officials of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, which has charge of the memorial project recently authorized by Congress, were elated today over the decision of the War Department head, as were civic groups both in Arlington County and the Dis- trict of Columbia which had led in the fight against the proposed wharf. May Give Up Fight. While it was impossible to get into touch with officers of the Sun Ol Co., the opinion was expressed by Govern- ment officials that the company would not undertake to carry their fight to the courts in an effort to carry out its original intention of maintaining an oil center adjacent to the proposed George Washington Memorial Parkway. Despite the recommendation of the Chief of Army Engineers that the per- mit be granted on the ground that it entailed no interference with navigation in the Potomac, it was said that Gen. Brown, a member of the Park and Planning Commission, was personally in sympathy with the aims of Federal agencies and civic bodies to bar in- dustries from the Virginia side of the river above Georgetown. Based on Navigation. The recommendation of the Corps of Army Engineers, it was explained, was based solely on the questions affecting navigation, over which it has exclusive jurisdiction. Since it was the opinion of the Army engineers that the pier would not interfere with navigation in the Potomac, there was nothing else for Gen. Brown to do, it was explained, except to make such a report. Secretary Hurley, who promptly noti- fied the Sun Oil Co. of his decision, sup~ ported the claim of the Park and Planning Commission that it has juris- diction over the property on the Virginia side of the river which the Sun Co. had acquired and on which it had contemplated the construction of a pier and storage tanks. The Park and Planning Commission had disapproved the application for the permit because, under the Cramton act and enabling act, it is authorized to acquire all lands along the Potomae River or so much as needed, from the city limits of Alexandria up to and including Great Falls, for the develop- ment of the George Washin, Me- merial Parkway. velopment of the parkway, Capt. E. N. Chisolm, engineer of the commission explained, it was necessary for the parkway plans to run f-hl'mg}l the property on which the Sun Oil Co. con- templated building. Not Anxious About Appeal. Government officials today expressed little anxiety over the possibility of the Sun Oil Co. appealing from the deision of the Secretary of War in contesting | the right of the Park and Planain Commission to jurisdiction over iand on the Virginia side of the river. \ ' “Capt. -hisolm pointed out that the [decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Morris and Battery Cove cases upholds its jurisdiction. In both cases, it was said, the Supreme Court ruled that the District of Columbia line extends to the high water line on the Virginia shore, Therefore, that strip between low weter and high vater line on the Virginia shore, it was held, is United States p operty. “Being United States property.” Capt. Chisolm said, “it is believed the Sun Co. tract in question is under the jurisdiction of the director of public bulldings and public parks.” ' Aside from this ruling of the Supreme Court, Capt. Chisolm pointed out that the United States also claims the land under the Potomac River. In that event, he explained, if piles are driven into the bottom of the river for the erection of a wharf, they would be driven on Government property. Many Protests Filed. The controversy involving the per- mit was submitted to Secretary Hur- ley over a week l{o, Against the rec- ommendatiod of the Army engineers, the War Department head had protests from the Park and Planning Commis- sion, the Commission of Pine Arts, the Federation of Citizens’ Associations and many other groups in the city inter- ested in the beautification of Washing- | ton's water front. When it appeared the permit might be issued in the face of these protests, a plea was taken be- fore President Hoover. While the White effect, it is understood in efficial cir- cles that the President sided with the agencies that were fighting to bar the oil wharf. The question has been hanging fire ever since the Virginia Legislature, about a year ago, provided for the cre- ation of a Zoning Commission for Ar- lington County. After a thorough sur- sion zoned the section sought by the Sun Co. for its tanks as residential Under the Virginia law the County Board of Supervisors has to approve the decisions of the zoning body. By vote of two to one, it was said. the zoning was changed from residential to WASHINGTON, House had made no statement to the | vey of conditions the Zoning Commis- " The passenger routine was as smooth got up when we pleased permitted, had a peep at the sun through the wide rows of observation windows on the promenade deck, then gathered our tollet things and adjourned to the wash room, where was running water, basins, mirrors and all standard equipment save showers, Shaving over, we went back to our | rooms and dressed. Then came break- fast of bread, butter, bacon, eggs, mar- malade and tea or coffee while the stove lasted. After that, lime juice for me. Lunch, on the same terms, o soup, pot reast, k:ans, carrots, pota- toes, teaches, custard, bisculgs and cheese. When the stove went out we had cold cuts. Dinner was like lunch- eon, only more so. All utensils were exceedingly light. The cutlery was made of duralumin and the crockery of some unbreakable ma- terial composition as light as celluloid. Saving an ounce of weight counts for righteousness in an airship and Sir Dennistoun Burney took out 15 tons by simple economies in utensils and packing, Curtains replace doors and Tabric forms the w ‘Within, the ‘whole structure looked much like stage scerery. The dining saloon was brilllantly lighted at all times and the cabins, =creened in gay chintz, opening off it on three sides in a doubls tier, made a gaiery on the fourth side. A spotless white” galley closed the space which connected the room by two wide but- ler's hatches. ‘The day over, we turned into our cabins, in each of which were upper and lower berths. These berths were formed by canvas siretched on pipe frames and most ingeniously covered with a but- . toned-up combination of sheet and coverlet, like a sleeping bag. ‘These were most comfortable you eould not kick off the clothes. (Cot@ésht, 1930, by North Ameriggn News- paner Alliance.) Tan | mattress, because | meet with & mother is quoted as stating that her son had a limited commeretal license. Discussing the accident, an official lof “the State Aviation Commission pointed out that every person who | flies a_plane in Mnryhndpe and every | plane flown in this State is required to be licensed under the State law passed by the last Legislature. The planes and airmen, it was sald, must either have a Federal Department of Commerce license, which the State Aviation Com- mission recognizes, cr a State license. 'HOOVER AND MACNIDER T0_DISCUSS WATERWAY New Minister to Oanada Will Call at White House Before Going to Ottawa. Handford MacNider, former Assistant Secretary of War, the newly appointed United States Minister to Clnla was expected at the White House late teday or tomorrow for a conference with President Hoover and State Depart- ment officials before going to Ottawa to take up his new duties. ‘The most important subject to be discussed during Mr. MacNider's visit |will be the St Laws:ncs waterway. | Tt is recognized that in view of the recent formation of a new government | in Canada, Mr. MacNider's principal | task will be to execute preliminary | negotiations looking to the culmination of a treaty between the Canadian gov- ernment and the United States on this waterway project. ‘The project was given new life recently when the War Department industrial. This gave the Sun Oil Co. or any other commercial zone the right to build industrial plants on the prop- erty in question. The County Board of sugervtsors consequently granted a per- mit for the ofl facilitles on a six-acre tract between the Potomac and the Lee Highway. When it became known that the oil company proposed to extend its pler 250 feet onto the Potomac, strong opposition arose from adjoining prop- erty owners that eventually was carried to high places under the Federal Gov- ernment. University Officlals Join. Dr. J. N. Roberts of Mackeys Hill, whose property adjoins the land on Kept in Tent. Following this, she continued, the man returned and picked up his brother-in-law and the three drove to Howard County near Daisy, where she was placed in an unoccupied tenement house on the farm of the father of the man who attacked her. Later, she added, she was taken to a tent near the house and repeatedly criminally as- saulted. She remained in the tent until last Thursday, Miss Smith said, and then was taken in an automobile to some “big town" the name of which she did not kpow, and was placed lAn":ha'gome of erldgw for bolrdln}f. r the men left, she reported, she 1a her story to thie man oo g an | which the tanks were to be erected, in the house, whereupon the former|Was a leader in the early fight. Of- took the girl fo the latter’s sister, Flor- | clals of Georgetown University, located ence Wilhoit, in Howard County, and | directly across the river, also joined in left her at the gate. However, the|the citizens’ fight and supported the sister was not home at the time and | stand taken by the Park and Planning the girl walked to the home of another | Commission that the ofl pier and tanks sister, Mrs. Cleo Marshall, in the vicin- | would interfere not only with the ity, and there told her story. Her memorial parkway but would also be mnnu then came after her, after being | ruinous to the beautification of the formed of her plight. Potomac at that point. Chief of Police Alvie A. Moxley of| Capt. Chisolm said today that the the Montgoraery County Police Depart- | danger of oil pollution also was mani- ment said that the police had been |fest if the plan had been put into ef- looking for the men for some time and | fect.. With barges pumping oil to tanks, that they are known to the police he said, it was inevitable that much oil officials. would spill on the surface of the water, D. C., MONDAY, PLANE DROPS ‘When a plane piloted forced 1o go over the si Eaton, 3602 Nichols avenue southeast. BILLINGS’ HEARING ENTERS 4TH WEEK Conusel Prepares Final Attack on State's Witnesses to Gain Bomb Pardon. SAN FRANCISCO, August 18.—The State Supreme Court's hearing on War- ren K. Billings’ application for parden entered its fourth week today, with his him. Charles M. Pickert, former district mony to support the State’s theory that both Billings and Tom Mooney were guilty of the 1916 Preparedness day bombing here. He indicated hls testi- mony would pivot on interviews with Billings at Folsom Prison. KALLIPOLIS GROTTO WILL GO ON OUTING THURSDAY ‘The annual outing of the Kallipolis Grotto Brotherhood will be held Thurs- day at Seaside Park, Chesapeake Beach, Md. Trains will leave peake Junction at 9 and 10:30 a.m. and 2:30, 5:40, 7 and 10:15 p.m. ‘The program includes athletic con- tests for men, women and children and a number of novel features. Monarch Henry C. Stein is in charge of ar- rangements, assisted by Prophet Lioyd Abbott, who is supervising the athletic events, and Prophet Arthur C. Shaw, who has charge of tickets and trans- portation. Members and their families and friends will attend. CHARGE 3 PLOTTED GOVERNOR’S DEATH (Continued From First Page.) the clos! “reformers." “I am not in the least worried about the charge,” the publisher said. “Because of the activity of my news- | paper, I have been harrassed for the past year. Law suits have been filed against me repeatedly in an effort to embarrass me. This is just a part of the political plot. “I was not told of the charge by of- | ficers that arrested me. I did not know what I was arres for until yester- day when some one other than an of- ficer told me. Nobody has seen me I engaged a lawyer, Ion L. Farris, by sending a note out of the jail.” Eberhardt said he knew nothing of any plot to kill the Governor. “The ,first T knew of it was when I was told of it here,” he sald. “The thing fis absurd.” He said he was at his hotel Saturday night when three deputies arrived from the sheriff's office. him the sheriff wished to see him, but did not tell him he was under arrest. Eberhardt said he had had dinner ] with Vincent Giblin of Miami, an at- | torney for “Scarface” Al Capone, and | Ralls. “They were waiting for me on the hotel porch. When the officers ar- | rested me 1 went back to them and told | them to wait. The deputies asked me who the men were. I told them and they went back and got them.” Giblin, it was disclosed, was released y_the officers without going to jail. Halsema made no statement. Ralls said today that he had no state- ment, advising that newspaper men see his lawyers. “I think this thing is almed at Eber- hardt,” he declared. ‘The bonds were made returnable next Monday, on which date Justice Madison said a preliminary hearing would be given if attorneys are ready. ‘The warrants read: “C. E. Hooks has this day made oath before me that on or about the 16th i day of August, 1930, in the county aforesaid, one Fred O. Eberhardt, Frank Ralls and Henry Halsema did then and there with each other and divers other persons, whose names are to the de- ponent unknown, agree, conspire and confederate to commit an offense against | the laws of the State of Florida, to wit, murder in the first degree, by then and there agreeing with each' other to | ‘money and other things of valuye to unlawfully shoot and kill one Doyle E. | Cariton, the Governor of the State of Florida.” ‘They were signed by Justice of the Peace Madison. AUGUST counsel prepared to make a final at- | tack on State witnesses and the State | anxious to add to its testimony against ' Chese- | ing was due to the activities of | He said they told | hire a man for a consideration of [ VAL contaminating the water all ajong the JAPAN TAKES UP TREATY shore. ‘The importance of the War Depart- ment ruling is seen in the effect it will have in preserving the banks of the | Privy Council Committee Believed [ DoV & STTEI IR Falization. and also Bhaping A . in supporting the claim of the Park g Ausds and Planning Commission to_jurisdie- TOKIO, August 18 (). —The Exami-|tion over property to the high-water nation Committee of th Privy Council |mark of the Virginia shore. While of- began fofmal consideration of the Lon~ |ficials of the Sun Ofl Co., it was pointed | named a group of Army enj b“y, neers similar group named Canada, to study the varions and to reach an accord on the engineer- ing features of the project. don naval treaty in a session at the imperial palace this morning. It was understood the session was devoted ly to ll"in‘ of the agendm - out, may go to the courts to contest the Federal jurisdiction, Government offi- clals were confident, however, that the ofl company would lose out in the courts. The uu-nhh’l: ml crew, 18, 1930. j'EAKER JOINS CATERPILLAR! | CLUB AS PLANE FALLS | IN ANACOSTIA ORCHARD| (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) the jump, the greatest sensation being one of relief at getting clear.” Capt. Eaker never has been forced to take to his parachute before in many years of military flying, which often has been of a most hazardous type. By his jump today he joins the ranks of the mythical ‘Caterpillar Club,” composed | of aviators who owe their lives to jumps from disabled or uncontrollable aircraft. | Lands Close By. “I remember everything very dis-i tinetly,” Capt. Eaker said. “I permit- | | ted the plane to make three turns in'| the spin, as is usual, before attempting | I looked back at the rudder and ele- | vator to see what was wrong, but could | see nothing unusual. I was then get- ! ting pretiy low and decided that there was only one thing to do—to get out) while I could.” | The parachute opened quickly and | Capt. Eaker remained above the plane as it spun on into the ground, land close beside it after it crashed. “I must have been quite close to the ground when the parachute opened,” Capt. Eaker said. “I seemed to hit the ground just as I pulled the rip-cord.” Because of the low altitude at which the parachute opened, Capt. Eaker landed heavily. He was able to walk to a telephone and upon being taken back to the field went to his quarters. He do:s not think the ankle is badly hurt, but expected to have an X-ray examination made this afternoon at the field medical station. Flew Question Mark. Capt. Eaker had been in the air 10 or 15 minutes before the jump, which was witnessed by officers and enlisted men | | ot the field. The field ambulance and | | several cars were sent out immediatsly | to locate the jumper and his plane, his ;fi}ephofle call coming in after they had t. Capt. Eaker has had a brilliant | career in the Army Air Corps. He first | gained Nation-wide fame as chief pilot | of the Army plane Question Mark dur- | ing the refueling endurance flight which established the first recognized record of this character, alr 150 hours as a military test of the possibility of refueling in flight for long- distance missio) The flight started a wave of endurance flights which have continued ever since. | Capt. Eaker also was selected for the | first attempt to fly from the United ! States to Panama between dusk and dawn, making the flight in a plans of the type he was testing today. The southbound flight failed because of bad weather though he established a new | speed record on the return trip. | Capt. Eaker for many months has| been acting as pilot for Maj. Gen.| James E. Fechet, chief of the Army Air Corps, and for F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aero- nautics. He has taken these officials on & number of inspection trips to all parts of the United States and had just returned a few days ago from an in- spection trip with Mr. Davison. At present Capt. Eaker is on duty | as operations officer at Bolling Field and lives in quarters at the field. THREE BURN TO DEATH AFTER CAR HITS TREE Fourth Member of Party Hurt in Fatal Accident on Highway in Indiana. { | By the Assoclated Press. VEEDERSBURG, Ind, August 18.— | Two young women and a young man | were burned to death when an automo- I bile caught fire after coliding with a | tree along a highway 4 miles south of ! here early today. ‘The dead are Julla May Eckart, 19, of Buck Oreek; Opal Heinlach, 19, of Frankfort, and Blazee Metzger of La- | fayette. | Truman Cline of Camden, a fourth passenger in the car, was severely burn- ed and is in a critical condition. The accident occurred while the party was returning home from a trip to| Nashville, Tenn. Bebe Daniels’ Father Dies. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., August 18 (P).—Melville E. Daniels, 65, father of Bebe Daniels, motion picture actress, died today at his Summer home, Camp Lake, north of here. He was stricken with pneumonia last Winter and had | | never fully regained his health. | Tahitl, which went d been safely transfeyred to ships plying the Pacific, foundered tn hea IN ANACOSTIA BACK YARD by Capt. Ira Eaker became unmanageable over Bolling Field this morning, Capt. Eaker was | side in a parachute and the plane fell into the orchard in the rear of the home of Mrs. E. -——Star Staff Photo. FAIR AT ROCKVILLE OPENS TOMORROW | Officials and Employes Busy Today Preparing for Four-Day Event. Special Dispateh to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 18.—After MRS. YOST RESIGNS ASW.C.T.U.LEADER New G. 0. P. Women’s Di- rector Reveals Plans to Start Party Work at Once, By the Assoriated Pr Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost revealed today j that her first act in preparing to assume active leadership in Republican wom- en's activities was to resign as Wash- ington representative of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Returning to the Capital to complete the only preliminary left—getting set- tled in an apartment—the new director of women's activities of the Republican National Committee said she would be deeply immersed in her new work by midweek. “‘Of course, I resigned from the other,” she said. “I got in touch with our president, Ella Alexander Boole, by long- distance telephone the evening 1 agreed to take this.” Beyond this she refrained from com- menting on prohibition. She viewed without enthusiasm reports that her selection amounted to a bid for dry sup- part. “How could I know what was in Dr. Fess' mind?"” she asked. Only when she touched the subject of women in poli- tics and public life did the new leader give a hint of ardor. Then she said: “It has been 10 years now that women | have had the ballot. Those who ex- ( pected a millennium naturally have not jseen it. But I have always felt that women should take citizenship seriously. Before, it was working for measures; afterward, my first admonition to them was to go into the party of their choice and make their influence felt.” Mrs. Yost is eager to get in touch with all the other women on the committee, she said. She had wanted to make the race for Congress from her district and had appeared a likely choice for her {m‘ty‘; nomination for an unexpired erm. She thought nothing of passing it up when her erstwhile teacher, Chairman Fess, telephoned from Ohio last week to inform her he had selected her for the dlrectorship. Mrs. Yost went to Ohio Northern University when she was 16 bec: she wished to study art under a fessor in that department. In addition to Dr. Fess, the late Senator Willis then several weeks of hard work on the Part| was'cn' the' faculty. of the officials and others, everything | Lo - | to pull it out. Fhen I pushed the stick |1s sald to be in shape for the Seventy- ! e e surther test!” | forward, but the plane didn't respond. | seventh Annual Fair of the Montgomery | which continue | Society, County _Agricultural o begins here tomorrow through Friday. President Gqsfln, Secretary Trundlk heads of the dii e, exhibits and attending to the lnnumer-: ‘able details in connection with getting ihe exhibition off to a good start, and | prediction was made that when the! gates are thrown open tomorrow morn- ing, it will be to admit visitors to what is sure to be regarded as a high-class | show in every particular. H The program calls for virtually all of the ol atures and a number of in- | novations, including horse and pony rac- ing, a baby show, a dog show, a flower show, music, {ree open-air acts and ar- rays of exhibits of variuos kinds, among them about everything produced on the | farms and in the homes of the county. | The fair will be open Tuesday, Wed- | nesday and Thursday nights, when there will be displays of fireworks, free acts, music and other attractions. S ey 100 FALL INTO WATER Winner of Endurance Swim Aids Rescue When Plank Plunges. TAKOMA, Wash,, August 18 (#).— | More than 100 persons were plunged ' into the icy waters, of Puget Sound yesterday when a gangplank connect. g a pavilion with a float gave wa All were rescued. | The crowd had gathered to watch the | finish of an endurance swim from | Vashon Island to Point Defiance pa- vilion by Miss Helen Duell. The swim- mer added to her endurance fame the rescuing of two of the spectators, i CONTINUING RAINS HELP MATERIALLY | i i IN DROUGHT AREAS (Continued From First Page.) | realizes that the Governors have hard- lym uut.lme to effect respective State ory ions. . Mr. Hoover conferred again today with John Barton Payne, chairman of | the American Red Cross, relative to the latest information the latter had received regarding the immediate needs of familles reported to be in actual distress. That part of the general re- lief program which was designed to give assistance to persons in want as | a result of losing their livelihood and being in want of the necessities of life has been assigned to the Red Cross, which will operate through its local chapters. Mr. Payne said after his call on the President that he assured the latter from reports he has received recently that the actual distress throughout the drought section is not as serious as was anticipated. At least, that is the in- formation the Red Oross has received. He told the President that only 50 inquiries have been received since it was first announced that the Red Cross stood ready to render assistance, and only a third of these were requests from persons who were actually hungry. The other inquiries, he explained, were mostly in the nature of questions and requests for information and advice. It was very evident from Mr. Payne’s account that his information was reas- suring to the President. Mr. Payne sald further that to date the Red Cross has not been called uj to spend any of the $5,000,000 it has available, but he feels confident that considerable assistance will be needed before the Winter is over. Lindberghs Leave by Plane. The President and Mrs. Hoover and their week end guests returned to Washington at 10 o'clock this morning. | Col. and Mis. Charles A. Lindbergh re- mained at the White House for lunch- eon, and later in the afteruoon hopped off in theis airplane for New Yark City. Allen Hoover, the younger of the Hoover boys, also returned to New York today to resume his wark there. ALL ABOARD RESCUED FROM SINKING LINER erent departments and not & few employes spent much of today on the grounds receiving and placing Because of this association, she said, she was doubly enthusiastic over her new work—eager, because she felt highly honored and was vitally interested and because she felt the work would go for= ward well. She will set the office in readiness for speclal activities before 4| the general elections in November—"“if | that,” said guardedly, “should be decided upon.” HEAT WAVE” BURGLAR SUSPECT ON TRIAL TODAY Grant Lumpkin, colored, 18 years old, was to face a Police Court judge today on three charges of housebreaking grow- ing out of a series of t wave" burglaries in which apartment dwellers were victimized when they left thefr doors open to get a breath of air. The boy, who lives in the first block of Myrtle street northeast, is alls to have stolen $47 from three tenants 0]( :n apartment building while they slept. The tenants were Martha Hayl g Mrs. Alice Schroen and Grace Co?;:r‘ln“ ‘The victims of the thefts told police that they left their doors open in order to obtain relief from the intense heat | which gripped Washington at the time, and that some prowler had entered their rooms and took their money. Sergt. Dalglish went on a “plant” at the apartment when assigned to investigate the robberies, hoping that the burglar would return. He was re- warded when Lumpkin walked into the apartment house and tried the door of a suite of rooms on the third floor shortly after 1 o'clock in the morning. The boy surrendered without a struggle. OPTOMETRIST EXPIRES FROM HEART ATTACK Dr. Joseph' A. Thorn, member of & family long identified with this elty and a practicing optometrist here, died suddenly at his home, 716 Emerson street, yesterday morning as a result of ! a heart attack. | Dr. Thorn attended Maryland Agri- | cultural College, now the University of | Maryland, and Emerson Institute. He was 64 years of age. He is survived by his widow, Mrs, Kate B. Thorn; his mother, Sarah R. | Thorn, and his sister, Mrs. J. €. Me- | Laughlin, all residents of this city, and | by his brother, Charles D. Thorn, a member of the New York bar. | Funeral services will be held at his | late residence tomorrow morning. In- | terment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery, BAND CONCERT. United States Marine Barracks at 8 p.m. by United States Marine Band. | Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur 8. Wit~ | comb, second leader: March, “The Royal Welch Fusileers,” Sousa “In Bohemia,” Opus 38, Hadley | Overture, (b) “Pance of the Tumbiers,” from “Snow Maiden”. .Rimsky-Korsakow Trombone solo, “Blue Bells of Scotland,” Pryor ! Principal Musican Robert E. Clark. | Grand scenes from “Le Cid"”..Massenet Romance in F_Minor.. .. Tschaikowsky “Elsa’s Bridal Procession,” from “Lohengrin” .. .Wagner “Second Polonaise". . ceee Marines' Hymn, ! “The Halls of Montezum: “The Star Spangled Banner. By the United States Army Band, Anacostia Park at 7:30 o'clock tnis eve- | ning. ' William Stannard, leader; Thomas Darcy, second leader. March, “Admiral Farragut' “Military Overture" Trombone novelty, Fill Selection from “Un Ballo in Mas- chera” Waltz, * M omewhere in Old Wyoming,” Lesser & Havlin “Hawatian Selection”. .. Popular, “Song of the Daw) Cannon,” | March, “Amidst Thunder of 4 Meinecke “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Navy Band this | evening at the east front of the Oapitol at 7:30 o'clock. Charles Benter, leader; Charles Wise, second leader. March, “The Pilgrim”......M. L. Lake | Overture, “Herod,"” Kemy Hadly, o%.‘n | Solo for cornet, polka, “Maid of t! |oMist” .. Herbert L. Clarke | (Musician Birley Gardner) | Sulte, “Woodland Sketches,” | Edoard MaeDowell “From an Indian p “To a Water Lily " Sacred fantasia, “The Angelus,” Yellen-Ager Peter Buys Xylophone solo, “The Mocking Bird," Stobbe | (Musician Louis Goucher) | Excerpts from “Algeria,” Victor Herbert | Valse Intermezzo, “Springtime,” | George Drum 3 , Was Born “In Darkest Africa. March, “Step) ‘llnflfll." Goldm iwin Franko an “Anchor’s Aweigh.” including passen. Tahith ohe of L