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WEATHER. (U. 5. Weather Bureau PForecast.) Fair, continued cool tonight; tomor- row increasing cloudiness. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 67, at noon today; lowest, 42, at 5:30 a.m, today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 Fy 410811 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION L 4 ar. ¢ ot The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Saturday’s Circulation, Sunday's Circulation, 110,379 17,127 — No. 31,569, ¥ntered as second class matter WASHINGTON, D, C.. MONDAY. 0€1 'OBER o 50— 6, . 19 THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. vost office, Washington, D. « Police Ordered MACKS AND CARDS "5 seemrs: cires | UNABLE T0 SCRE oo e e O SERIES BATTLE Cochrane and Adams Con- nect for Only Blows and Neither Team Threatens to Get Near Rubber. Articles Reported Com-| Policemen who guarded the ruins of the Hub Furniture Co. warehouse after the disastrous fire last weck and went heme with pieces of chinaware and bric-a-brac, were ordered today by Ma). Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of| police, to return the articles. Reports that the ruins of the ware- house had been picked over after the fire and pictures and other household furnishings taken led to an investiga- Mlae, s | tion which disclesed that police of the | second precinct who were on duty at the fire had some of the articles in their OVERCAST SKIES AID STAR:RIGHT-HANDERS | svticies nac becn siver them b Bet- nard Kaufman, manager of the Hub Furniture Co.. and another official of | the store as gifts cf gratitude for their | services in guarding the building. Maj. | Pratt said he didn’t want his policemen | to get in the habit of accepting gm.,i for_their services, and ordered Capt. O. " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) HOOVER LAUDS D VENBYAE0FL NECONDWIG RIS Redbirds Display Renewed Spirit in Practice, While Mackmen Are Confident Eainshaw- Can Stop Rivals and Send Champions Home in Lead. The Jine-up today: PHILADELPHIA, Bishop, 2h. Dykes, 3b. Cochrane, ¢ Simmons, 1. Foxx, 1b, Miller, rf, Hans. cf. : Boley, ss. Gelbert, ss. Earnshaw, p. Grimes, p. Umpires—George Morfarity (Ameri- can League) at plate; Charles Rigler (National) atfirst; Harry Geisel (Amer- | Homan st "iuondi Jack Reardon (Na- Team Play of Business Lead- | BY BRIAN BELL, s ers and Others Also Cred- ited in Speech. ST. LOUIS, Douthit, ef. Adams, 3b. Frisch, 2b, Bottoml Hafey, 1 Watkins Wilson, b. . Associated Press Sports Writer, SPORTSMAN'S PARK, St. Louls, Oc- tober 6.—With Georgs Earnshaw and Burleigh Grimes favored by a heavy haze, the first three innings of the fifth world series game between th» Card- inals and Athletics were scoreless here | this afternoon. Cochrane and Adams each connected for singles, but neither club threatened By a Staffl Correspondent of The Star. BOSTON, October 6.—The stability and wholesomeness of the industrial | e Thoehe: Sibker ;lnd social structure of this country, 7 3 | and the lessening of human hardships THREE OTHER FIRES _jored janitor of the apartment house at { fession to having set the fires with oil- | setting the fires, but, they say, admitted | JANITOR CONFESSES| HE SET DENVER AND John H. Wgliams Held for Blaze That Caused Death of Woman. SAYS HE SET FLAMES IN OIL-SOAKED RAGS Admits Charges After Grilling by Police, but Gives No Ex- planation for Acts. Confession that he started four fires, one the blaze which took a toll of one life in the Denver Apartments, 1419 Chapin street, early Friday morning. was obtained today, police say, from John Hickson Willlams, 27-year-old col- 1407 W strect. Other places fired by the man, police say, were: ! The Balfour Apartments, 2000 Six- | teenth street. Unoccupied house, street. House at 1840 Vernon street. 2204 Fourteenth Plan Homicide Charge. Williams this afternocn was in the hands of the homicide squad at police headquarters, following his alleged eon- soaked rags. The man gave police no cause for| firing the buildings under continued grilling by the detectives. In view of the fact that one person was burned to death in the Denver apartment house fire, police were pre- paring to hold Williams on a homicide | charge. | ‘The fires which have been occurring | in the elghth precinct have had police | puzzled for mearly a week, Williams' | arrest followed the latest biaze, alleged to have been started in the area the N TS A AR N N POLITICAL PLAY IN NEBRASKA, . — 27 =0 /) 'BRAZILIAN REBELS PLAN ' ATTACK ON COFFEE PORT {Da Cunha, Revolt Chief, W Officers Over—$8 By the Assoctaved Press. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, October 6. —News filtering through Braxilian bor- der points indicated today that 8 of to Unseat Luis. ins Regulars of 21 States Move | | thousands of civilians joining the re- volting forces, | Meanwhile the federal government has declared a state of siege in Rio Grand> do Sul and Minas Geraes and OF R-101 CATASTROPHE; 47 BODIES RECOVERED RIS SRS Possibility of Stowaways, Includ- ing Woman, on Dirigible Con- fuses Death List Check SURVIVOR INDICATES FIRE PRECEDED PLUNGE OF CRAFT -y Warslli'p Will Carry Charred Remaing Across Channel —Identification Found Extremely Difficult. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 6.—Air Comdr. A. V. Holt, chief British in- vestigator, is stated by the newspaper Le Temps tonight to have advised the British government that the cause of the disaster to the R-101 was a rupture of the metallic framework and not a des rangement of the engine. The British expert based his view on the finding of metal parts of the dirigible 5 miles from where she crashed. By the Associated Pres:. BEAUVAIS, France, October 6.—A Franco-British commlsam: STIMSON PRAISES ROAD CONGRESS IN OPENING ADDRESS Delegates of Nearly 60 Na- tions Hear State Secre- tary’s Greeting. of inquiry met secretely here today to investigate the crash an | destruction of the British air leviathan, R-101, south of here Suns !day morning in one of the greatest air catastrophes of all time. | Gendarmes guarded the doors of their meeting place and kepl§ their deliberations strictly private. | Meanwhile, controversy raged as to how many persons werq | aboard the ship at the time of the disaster and as to how many lives were lost. One Victim Believed to Be Woman. Beauvais police asserted they had accounted for 48 dead, of whonj one possibly was a woman, out of 55 aboard the craft. The air min« istry at London reiterated in reply that there were only 54 person! { aboard, of whom 47 died within the dirigible, one died afterwar and seven were saved. The air ministry denied that there was & ! woman aboard. There were 47 bodies removed from the wreckage. The presence of one stowaway and possibility of two aboard thq wrecked R-101 dirigible was admitted this-afternoon by John Holty air commander, and head of the British Investigating Committee. | the 21 states in Brazil are driving for- 1 has appropriated $10.000,000 to put | ward to unseat the federal government Skies Heavily Overcast. | during the present perfod of business down the rebellion. The government 2 i man is alleged to have chosen, the Skies were heavily overcast and a | depression, was attributed by President | blaze which Williams himself “dis- thick haze settled over the park for the benefit of the two fast right-handers, George Earnshaw of the A’s and Bur- | leigh Grimes, spit ball veteran of the | Cardinals. | The novelty of Monday base ball in | St. Louis, as well as the excitement aroused by the great comeback of the Cardinals, brought another big crowd, | but the stands did not fill as rapidly as yesterday, when a record throng of nearly 40,000 witnessed the victory by | Jess> Haines over Bob Grove. Estimates were that the crowd would exceed 35000 for the first Monday ame by the National League team at me in nearly two months. To boost ! busin Cards have been moving | up their scheduled Monday dates to | make Sunday double-headers, but no | arrangements could be made to have a world -series_double -bill. The Red Birds, with the bleacher | crowds and a band to lend them noisy encouragement, pranced through their carly workout with the attitude of | Herbert Hoover in an address hers today to Nation-wide co-operation and team- play, and to the absence of conflict. The President was addressing the delegates to the fiftieth annual conven- tion of the American Federation of Labor assembled in the ball room of | the Statler, Hotel. He selected this gathering of labor leaders for his dis- cussion of labor and economic problems growing out of the depression, and took opportunity personally to thank the men in leadership of labor and busi- | ness who aided In bringing about the| co-operative spirit. T Outlook Is Hopeful. Mr. Hoover spoke hopefully of solving the problem. He voiced confidence in the men of industry and labor who are | assisting. Yet he did not attempt to boys who intended to go_places and do things this afternoon ’IPhey attacked | the ‘offerings of a big right-handed | rookie, the nearest available approxi- mation to Earnshaw, in batting prac- tice and otherwise put on a very spirit- ed_exhibition. The A’s, on the other hand, declared the Cards couldn't expect to get an- other flock of breaks such as they benefitted by yvesterday. | They were confident Earnshaw would repeat his fine winning performance of the second game at Shibe Park and put the world ochampions out in front again before hopping the train East at 8 p.m. H FIRST INNING. ! ATHLETICS—Bishop _stryck out on a called third strike. Dykes rolled to Gelbert, and was thrown out to Bot- tomley. Cochrane singled to center. | Simmons lifted a fiy to Gelbert back of short. No runs, CARDINALS—Douthit bunted to Foxx and was out, unassisted. Adams singled to center on the first pitched ball. FPrisch lifted a flv to Boley in short left. Bottomley bounded to Foxx, who stepped on first for the putout. No runs SECOND INNING. ATHLETICS —Foxx lifted a fly to Hafey in deep left on the first pitched ball. " Miller flied to Douthit, who ran in a few cteps to make the catch. Hass also flied to Douthit. No runs. CARDINALS—Hafey flied to Sim- mons in short left. Watkins struck out, swinging at a curve ball for the third strike. Wiison lined to Simmons in deep left. No runs. THIRD INNING. ATHLETICS — Boley _ struck out. swinging at a fast ball. Earnshaw rolled to Prisch and was thrown out to Bottomley. Bishop struck out for the srcond time on a called third strike No runs CARDINALS—Gelbert was _enthusi- astically cheered when he came to bat Gelbert walked. Grimes bunted to Fa haw and was thrown out to Foxx. a sucrifice. Douthit rolled to Dykes, who caught Gelbert in a chase between third and second. Gelbert, however, scrambled back to second. It was a choice for Douthit. Adams a high fiy to Boley. He was out vay, under the infield fly rule Frisch bounded to Foxx and was out, unassisted. - No runs. WOMAN NURSING d SUFFERS NERVOUS BREAKDOWN Mrs. Burgess Under Care o Due Here for Final Visit With Aged Comrade. ‘The constant strain of caring for Mother Jones, 100-year-old labor leader, has caused Mrs. Walter E. Burgess, with whom the aged woman lives, to| suffer a nervous breakdown. Mrs, Burgess was confined to her bed vesterday and today under the care of & | physician at her home on Riggs road in Prince Georges “County, about 6 miles beyond the District line. Dr. H. H. Howlett, who is attending her, said that | a long rest would bring about her cure, | Mrs. Burgess' illness has caused | Mother Jones to worry, which, in her | weakened condition, has aggravated hzrl own iliness, Begond an occasional sip of milk, | Chicago Federation of Labor, arrived in * Molh’:?r Jones has been unable to take | nourishment for several days. She has | older industry because of labor-saving | any reason to suppose that this coun- | po% (it IGREE Bt | | Labor underestimate the burden of unem- ployment. He added, however, that un- employment is less than one-half in proportion to our workers than in either England or Germany, but he be- lieves no one can contemplate its effect in hardships and discouragement without new resolves to continued ex- ertion in solution of what he frankly | referred to as “our greatest economic | problem—stability in employment.” i In seeking to secure greater stability i in employment the President said many i problems arise. One of these is the ad- | justment of what nowadays is called technological unemployment. ‘The ra- pidity of mew inventions and discov- eries, he sajd, has only intensified the problems of adjustmenf. Regarding this, Mr. Hoover revealed that he is co-operating with President Green of | the American Federation of Labor and representatives of employers, in an ex- haustive inquiry into the various phases | of the technological unemployment | problem. Cites Labor Turnover. To emphasie the proportions of this | individual labor problem the resident | stated that it is estimated that in the period of the last 10 years over 2,000,- 000 workers have been displaced from devices. Yet someway, somehow, most | of these were re-esiablished in new industry and new services, he said. Nor does Mr. Hoover believe there is try cannot manage its economic system in such fashion that further new-dis- | coveries and inventions will further ! increase our standard of living and | thereby continue to absorb men who are displaced in the older industries. In a reminder that there is a period of readjustment in each case of new | discovery, and that industry has need | of a Jarger_understanding of the facts, | (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) | LANDS AT KANSAS CITY Laura Ingalls Seeking to Set Wom-‘ an’'s Transcontinental Record. KANSAS CITY, October 6 (&).— Laura Ingalls, aviatrix, seeking a new woman's transcontinental flight record, Janded at Fairfax Afrport at 12:52 pm., C. 8. T. today. She took off from St. Louis at 10:31 am MOTHER JONES f Physicians; Labor Leaders been ill for 10 months and during the last month has been unable to take solid food. Mr. Burgess summoned his sister, Mrs. Maude Fowler, to his home yesterday and she is caring for both Mrs. Burgess and Mother Jones. Edward Knockles, legislative repre- sentative of the Chicago Federation of . and John Walker, former presi- dent of the United Mine Workers, who were due to arrive in Washington from Chicago to see Mother Jones yesterday, | had not reached here this morning, but were expected some time during the day. John Fitzpatrick. president of the | Washington Eaturday e, expects to stay near Mother Jones | her death. covered” in the Balfour Apartments, | Sixteenth street, at 2:15 o'clock yester- | day morning. Says He Warned Tenants. At that time No. 9 engine company. | responding to an alarm, extinguished a blaze in the a; nt house. Po- Jice received information that Williams had been seen in the vicinity of the | fire, clapping his hands and shouting | “fir Airested and questioned, Williams is alleged to have told the police at first | that he discovered the fire and went | into the building and told several of the | occupants. there was. a fire. e ‘Williams was taken to the eighth pre. i cinet by Detective J. E. Kenny and) Policemen B. F. Howze and C. C. Wil- liams. After questioning at the precinct he was turned over to the homicide squad on the belief he might have had a hand in the Denver Apartments blaze. | According to police, Williams, after considerable grilling, ‘admitted setting | the Denver Apartments afire. Police | said he took oil-soaked rags, with which he had just started a blaze in the un- | occupled house at 2204 Fourteenth (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) HOLD-UP GETS JEWELS AND CASH OF WOMAN! Wife of Federal Attorney of New York Is Robbed on Road | Near Danville. 8pecial Dispatch to The 3tar. ! i DANVILLE, Va., October 6.—Mrs. | Irvin H. Spiegler of New York, wife of | the Federal assistant prosecuting attor- | | ney, last night was held up and robbed | about 5 miles north of Danville, the highwayman escaping with $97 in cur- | rency and two diamond rings valued at | $1,200. 1 Mrs. Splegler was en route on a visit | to her former home in Atlanta. She | felt conscious that one of her tires were | flat and had stopped and was examin- ing them when the robb:r appeared and took the valuables and disappeared into the darkness She hastened to Danville and re- ported the ma to the police who investigated. but no arrest had been made this morning. Mrs. Spiegler, who was traveling alone, resumed her jour- ney this morninc after notifying her | | i i { | Depression? £10,000,000 more in in Wash- ington now than at this time last year. The high cost of living has been definitely reduced. Yet some people talk of depres- sion here. Not 10% There are of Washing- tonians have been out of employnient their in- comes affected by specula- tion. or The other 9% are better off because they either have | more money or they are | buying more or better things for the same amount of money. Yesterday’s Advertising (Looa! Display) The Sunday Star Lines. 89,940 43,015 | 27,849 | SR L. 70,864 | | , 2d Newspaper 3d Newspaper Total The Star, daily and Sun- day, reaches 10,000 more homey in and around Wash- ington than it did two years ago. | announcement of | the of President Washington Luis and pre- vent the inauguration of the President- elect, Dr. Julio Prestes, November 15. The leader of the movement, which began in the southern-most State of | Rlo Grande do Sul, Francisco Flores da Cunha, asserted today that the states of Parana, Santa Catarina, Piahuy, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Parayhba and Minas Gerae§ wgre backing his campaign, with the federal troops and also is said to have offered to make peace, with the insurrectionists refusing | all such overtures. Da Cunha is underssiood to be plant | ning an attack on the great seaport of Sao Paulo. His Rio Grande do Sul | army, reinforced with conscripts be- { tween the ages of 21 and 35, is moving northward through Santa Catarina and intends to concentrate in the State of | Parana, which borders the State of Sao | | Paulo on the south. Then, it is said, | | with a railway line along their route | ™ (Continued on Page 2, Column 6. | { CONFERENCE SEEKS PEACE N BALKANS Most Troubled Area in Eu- rope Hopes to Achieve Greater Unity. BY JOHN GUNTHER. ! By Radio to The Star. VIENNA, Austria, October 6.—A Balkan conference opened at Athens to- day designed to carry out the efforts begun at Geneva to pacify Europe's i most troubled and troublesome penin- sula. The conference is unofficial. but Premier Eleutherios Venizelos of Greece Was present at the opening ceremony, also Robert Skinner, American Minis- ter to Greece and observer it Soviet { Russia. The ‘pacific items on the agenda were overwhelmed by repercussions of the to Princess Giovanna of Italy. The royal couple will be married twice, first in the Roman Catholic ceremony at Rome, and then by the orthodox rites in the old Bul- garian town of Preslav. Former King Ferdinand will be present at both ceremonies, Another Wedding Due. Princess Eudoxia, sister of King Boris, will, it is said, soon announce her engagement to Duke Charles ot Spoleto, who is a son of Duke Aosta, & cousin of the King of Italy, further cementing Bulgar-Italian ties. ‘The delegates assembled at Athens charged to work out economic co- operation between the Balkan state realize that the King Boris-Princess Giovanna match is a new milestone in history of Southeastern Europe. The flags of political alliance are cer- tain to follow the flower wreaths of the wedding. § Italy has been flirting with Hulgnnn‘(or years—and a mar- riage is the rPsult. . Work, however, may go forward on the following topics: Economic Parley Planned. 1. Creation of a general Balkan Chamber of Commerce for ironing out business affaits of mutual intersst to the six Balkan countries. 2. Efforts to regulate the production and sale of tobacco, grain, other foodstuffs, so as to eliminate wasteful intra-Balkan competition. 3. An annual meeting of forelgn ministers, either within Aristide Briand’s United States of Europe scheme or separately, 5o that a Balkan confer- ence will be a regular yearly event 4. Exchange of tcachers, reform of education and intellectual co-operation ln;ong the Balkan stales, laboration on railroads, road traffic, postoffices and other problems of com- mupication. « Copyrikht, 1930.) ONE SLAIN IN RIOT BILBOA, Spain, October 6 ().—One person was killed and several others ! wounded in street fighting Sunday be- The ocean tug U. S. S. Montcalm was tween police and striking workmen. ‘The workmen struck (o be free to pre- vent a meeting of the Union Monarquia, assocfation for defense of the monarchy, but so strongly guarded were arrivals for the meeting that the crowd made no attempt to attack them and the assembly was held without incident. Fighting broke out again last night and an unidentified man was killed. Extraordinary police protection was continued today. Radio Progr, on Page C-4 CHLD DROWNED the engagement of | | King Boris of Bulgaria thus | wine and | Balkan | ‘Technical work for Balkan col- | - SAILING HER BOAT 'Four-Year-0ld Girl Falls Off' Diving Board Into Swim- ming Pool. | Pour-year-old Gale Trundle, daugh- =l»r of Mr. and Mrs. Americus Trundle of Carroll Springs Sanitarfum, Forest Glen, Md., was drowned this morning in a swimming pool on the sanitarfum grounds while playing with toy boats. | ‘Through the efforts of The Star the child’s mother was located this after- | noon in the Fox Theater where she was advised of the tragedy by the manager. She had been watching the show. The child is thought to have slipped into the swimming pool from a diving | board. The water was scarcely over | her head, but the slippery bottom pre- | vented her climbing up the slanting | sides of the pool Her parents knew nothing of the | tragedy until nearly 2 o'clock this after- | noon. Mr. Washington and the little child’s mother had come to the city to shop. Mrs. Lucy True, who lives nearby, last to see the child. At about | she was playing with Mrs. | ear-old son, Billie, near the True home. | Half an hour later, Billie walked up | to Charles W. Hurley, a carpenter re- pairing a garage on the sanitarium | property, and sat down and talked to| him for approximately five minute: without mentioning the tragedy. { “I've got to go home to lunch now,” | the little boy remarked. “My little sister | fall in the pool.” The child seemed unable to appre- | ciate what had happened. | Hurley yushed to the pool and waded out to the little girl's body, which could be seen on the bottom. He brought her | to the sanitarium, where Dr. Rufus| Thompson and Dr. C. W. Mitchell tried | to revive her. A quantity of water was forced from little Gale’s lungs, but all | efforts to bring back life failed. | When questioned concerning the acci- dent, Billie said they had been playing with' boats and that Gale climbed up onto the diving board. He said she slipped and fell into the water, but| made no outery. ‘ ‘The pool is about 200 yards from the sanitarium and the child’s call for help, if she had made any, in all probability would not have been heard. STORM-BATTERED SHIP REACHES CHARLESTON U. S. S. Montcalm's Crew of 20 on Duty Almost Continuously for Five Days. 5 By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, S. C. October 6.— in port today, battered and streaked | from a buffeting at the hands of a hurricane. Her crew of 20 enlisted: men and 3 officers had been on duty al- {most continuously during the last five | days. | | The Montcalm, station vessel at Guantanamo, Cuba, sailed last Tuesday for Charleston, and encountered hurri- |cane winds early Thursday. She was in sommand of Chief Boatswain William J. Smith. During the worst of the storm. the Montcalm hove to nearly 28 hours, but rode out the heavy seas. Trundle was at work in e Facing a brilliant gathering of men and women who represent.more than three-fourths of the population of the world and an enormous area of the world’s surface, Henry L. Stimson, the Secretary of State, this afternoon for- mally opened the Sixth International Road Congress in Constitution Hall. Augmented by colorful groups ficta the embassies and legations and other groups from American official and pri- vate sife, the official delegates of about 60 nations, colonies and dependencies ! axseribled to study problems looking to establishment of modern highway sys- | tems throughout the world. The meeting was the first held out- side of Europe and afforded construc- tion experts within the congress an opportunity to exchange information and knowledge learned through experi- ence since the last convention in Milan, Italy, in 1926. Stimson Praises Purpose. In his address of welcome, Secretary Stimson attached in‘ernational sigfini. cance to the meet'n”. “It is to this unselfish spirit of international co- operation, so finely e.cmplified in this congress, that we must look for the | basic guarantees to the future peace and prosperity of the world,” He said. “The outstanding lesson of the pr ent world situation—a lesson which nations are t00 apt to forget—is that the prosperity of each is dependent on the prosperity of all and that in the long run no nation can develop its own national well-being at the expense of another.” “The_discussions that will held as they do, an interchange of the best experience of the world, will redound to the benefit of all the nations here represented. We of America to learn much from your experience: we hope that you may find something of value to you in ours.” Speech Is Applauded. “When you return to your respective countries,” said Secretary Stimson in conclusion, “I beg cf you to take with you a message of the most cordial good will from the people of the United States.” The evident sincerity of this expression brought forth a round of applause. About 650 foreign delegates heard the Secretary of State’s welccme, and the number ~ of American delegates and visitors swelled the attendance to near- y 2,000. Mr. Stimson was introduced to the congress by Roy D. Chapin, pres- ident of the American Organizing Com- mission, which President Hoover named to make the arrangements for the meet- ing. In response to Mr. Chapin’s ad- dress of welcome on behalf of his colleagues on the commission, M. Ed- mond Chaix of France delivered an address. M. Chaix is acting president of the Permanent International Asso- ciation and a member of the French delegation. ; Mr, Chapin, s resident of Detroit and “(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) here be RECREATION HEADS MEET ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, October 6 ().—Six hundred delegates to the Na- tional Recreation Congress gathered to- day for a five-day meeting which will | include discussion of measures “for the relief of unemployment.” It is the contention of the delegates that liberal opportunities for wholesome play will help tide over the period of depression for the man out of work. Among the speakers during the week will be Dwight W. Morrow. Learn Backgammon In 5 Minutes a Day. . A Series of Six Instructive Articles. Beginning in TODAY’S STAR O_nl’age B-11 | were 58 persons aboard, of whom only eight persons were saved, on | of these dying at dawn today of his wounds. Police said that 4 bodies had been recovered, to which had been added that of W. Gy | Radcliffe, rigger in the dirigible crew, who died today. i Typewriter Found in Airship Ruins. | Possibility of a woman having been aboard the airship was ad« | vanced by the police after a soldier of the 51st Infantry, gunrdn}gs Survivors of the disaster have insisted throughout that meri | the scene of the disaster, found a woman’s shoe with a buckle sti | attached. A typewriter was found also, and it was believed one | the officials who died aboard the ship may have taken a stenog< | rapher with him. The shoe and buckle will be handed over to Britishf experts for examination. S. Church, an engineer on the R-101, found enough energy this | afternoon to talk briefly despite his painful burns and indicated t the airship was afire before it nosed into the ground near here earl: yesterday morning. “thiab we: IAAIN “E “It was only at the last minute,” he said, the ship was doomed. I was on the bridge forward and observe then that the ship, forced adrift by the wind and almost turne end for end, was pointing toward the earth. “I suddenly pgrcelved that she was afire, and a violent explosiorf | which followed at once threw me to the ground.” ible crashed and burned, but later wa§ Mr. Stimson added, “lavolving, | At home, Great Britain planned s ceremonial 'befitting the rank of the | victims and greatness of the disaster which robbed the - ation of some of its | most brilliant minds, and of the cream | of its airship talent. Lord Thomson, | air minister, and Sir Sefton Brancker, director of civil aviation, were among | those who perished. Warship to Meet Bodies. A battleship will meet the bodies at | a channel port and escort them in state to their native land, which they left 50 | hopefully Saturday evening at the be- ginning of what they thought was to be an 8,000-mile trip to India and return. | A funeral service will be held for them | in Beauvais Cathedral tomorrow at | 10 am. At conclusion of ' the services the bodies will be placed cn caissons for the trip between files of French troops to the railroad station. A special train will be ‘waiting to take them to either Boulogne-sur-Mer or Calais for em- barkation home. Authorities averred that none of the bodies has been identified officially yet, but segregation of five led to the belief | that at least tentative identification had been established in some cases. Havas News Agency said that three | bodies had been identified, but that of- | ficials were withholding word pending notification of relatives. One man said of the bodies: “It is impossible to tell { which is which, they all look alike." Personnel of Commission. The British-French commission in- | quiring * into the disaster includes J.| Cooper, specialist in air .accidents, at- tached to the British government; Maj. | Booth, second in command of the R-100, and Capt. Neville, air attache | at the British embassy in Paris. | On behalf of France there was| Comdr. Renvoise, who for years was| direclor of the French airport at| Le Bourget. | One of the sad activities today was drawing up of the death certificates of victims in accordance with French law. H. Laurent Eynac, French air minisier, #ill be present, and Mgr. Lesenne, Bishop of Beauvais. will read the serv- ice at the funeral ceremony here. | H. G. Radcliffe, rigger in the crew | of the R-101, was the one who died today in Beauvals Hospital. Radcliffe was reported yesterday as having died from injuries received when the dirig-' | i | | | | when a street car collided with said to have been in coma. Radcliffe, despite a broken hip an very bad burns, found strength to dr: himself from the flaming airship an crawl a hundred feet to safety. Th conditions of others injured in th accident were reported satisfactory, wif the exception of Engineers Cook Shvory, whose burns are still grave. Police still clung today to the ide that more persons were aboard the shi than the London air ministry record in their official communique, Wwhic) listed 54 passengers, with 47 dead ani T survivors. Rescue squads found enough ar and legs in the debris of the dirigibi to make as many as two or three mo bodies than the 47 which lay in the chapel at Allonne, it was said. Lord Tyrrell, British Ambassador t France, was due here this afternoon Britain's official representative at thi funeral. The first act of British experts wi to examine the airship's rudder an general system of transmission from:tl position of the steering apparatus. was announced they would later mal a_declaration to_the press concerni | " (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) DRIVER OF TRUCK HURT IN STREET CAR CRASH Russéll B. Gotshall Treated af Emergency Hospital for Severe ® Laceration of Head Russell B. Gotshall, 22 years old, of 239 Fifteenth street southeast, an ema ploye of the Suburban Washingto Roofing Co., was injured this mornin U truck he was driving at Twenty-secon: and P streets. Running at high speed down & long grade on P street, according to wits nesses, the street car crashed inta Gotshall's machine at the middle of the street intersection, dragging it 60 feet down the tracks. Gotshall, unconsci and bleeding profusely, was. removed from the machine and rushed to Emer« gency Hospital. At _the hospital Dr. Tabb, who treated Gotshall for severe lacerations of the head, sald the injured man’s condition could not be determined until an X-ray was made. AMERICAN HELIU BACKED AFTER Legislation By the Associated Press. Chairman Britten of the House Naval Affairs Committee announced today he would sponsor legislation to ‘permit the exportation of helium for use in air- craft by foreign governments as a result | g( ll;lle explosion of the British dirigible _While official opinions differ as to the ultimate size of American helium re- sources, public records of the Bureau of Mines indicate the present producing capacity of Government pl greatly exceeds the demand by military estab- lishments of the Nation. The chief source of helium is in the _'natural gas deposits of the Southwest at present. The Government extract- ing establishment near Amarillo, Tex. M EXPORTATION R-101 TRAGEDY Chairman Britten of Naval Affairs Group Will Sponsom for Safety. has been called upon to work to cae pacity only infrequently since its come pletion, and has been :shut down number of times because the gas hand was adequate. ‘There are oiher sources of helium in private and corporation hands, and some interest was occasioned in Con= gress last Spring when it was deter- mined that the military services of the Government were purchasing the pri= vately produced supply at rates in ex- cess of those paid for the Bureau of Mines output Texas. The defease made before congressional committ 2: such outside