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ENFORGEMENT ILLS Director ~ Attributes Abuses to Lack of Trained Officials. By the Assoclated Press. SILVER BAY. N. Y, August 12— Col. Amos W. W. Woodcock, director of prohibition enforcement, last night declared that the weaknesses of all the Nation’s law enforcement agencies lay in the lack of trainéd officers. Addressing_the Silver Bay Vacation Conference, he described his policy of prohibition enforcement and emphasized that he had particularly directed his attention to the training of his men on the basis that crime detection is prop- erly & highly trained profession. Before his address Col. Woodcock commented on an incident in Buffalo, where, it was reported, 8 woman was used as a_decoy by prohibition officers, Col. Woollcock said he knew little of the case except what he had read in the papers, but that he was sure the Buffalo officers had acted without the orders of the higher Federal officers. He said one of the men had been sus- and that another was under vestigation. Promises Fairness. " aesl‘nltely will not stand for this kind prohibition _enforcement,” ‘Woodcock said. “When I took this job ;“Emiud to prosscute the laws law- , and I shall do so.” In his speech, which was exwmgo; a raneous, Col. Woodcock amplified t! idea. He recalled an officer who had shot a mmm the back and killed him, The ‘was brought to trial and was released because the defense | held he was not properly trained; that higher authorities shoul have seen to ;.tfithlt the officer's zeal did not displace judgment. - "!':gg‘t want any killings by my men. agents cannot takesthe law in their own hands. Th:’y :rou'lnde:ot ddn ;o it they were properly trained, an am doing my Wm train them,” Col. ‘Woodcock said. Enforcements Compared. The enforcement director said that, expected statistical IEDUCATOR DOES * ~ FEAT OF TRISE Duquesne~ President Solves| Geometric Probler Thought | Insolvable. New Theories Will Alter Text Books—Scholars Baffled for Centuries. | Spectal Dispatch to The Star. CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, August 12| (N.AAN.A.) . —Working at the problem in his spare mom-nts, to satisfy his own curiosity and to prove the supposedly unprovable, & modern scholar has ac- | complished what the ancient thinkers | were unable to do. | He has trisected an angle by plane | geometry. This, on the face of it, may not sound impressive. To those who have more than a passing interest in mathematics it will be of more than average im- portance. ‘To the general public it will not sound .nearly as interesting as a | new airplane record or the invention of some new form of engine. It means, however, that one of the thres so-called insolvable problems of mathematics has been solved. It means, moreover, that schoolboys will in the future find their geometry just & bit more complicated. Introcuces New Figure. It means, also, that the public in ,enenl will, in time, have a new idea for arrangement. There will be a new | lane figure in addition to the welli own circle, square, rectangle, paral: lelogram, trapezoid, and so on. The modern scholar responkible ‘for | this is Rev. Father J. J. Callahan, pres- | idént of Duquesne University at Pitts- | burgh, Pa., who is spending a we=k here | to participate in the seventy-fifth anni- | versary celebration of the Notre Dame | ;;.rlah which he served as pastor some | ize or draw an angle. The letter “V" will do as an example. The problem now is to divide the letter “V” into | three equal angular parts. Or, if you | want to draw a hoop connecting the top points of the “V"” to divide the sub- tending arc into three equal parts. | Then prove your diuision correct by | propositions of plane geometry. of law enforcement, prohibition was as effectively taken care of as any enforce- ment. “The last figures,” he said, “show of the cases brought in conviction. This is than for interstate lation of national Mann act. Nar- a similar per- understood, of { | more, modern science found ways and | DIAMOND IS GIVEN 4-YEAR SENTENCE AND $11,000 FINES (Continued From First 3 Accepted as Insolvable. To date, plane geometry has been | able to divide an e into two equal | angilar parts, but into three. Sev- eral thousand years ago, Hippias of | Ellias, an ancient scholar, set himself | to the task of trisecting an angle. He | finally gave up. Others tried and fafled. At last the problem was handed down to posterity as being insolvable and was accepted as such. Further- means of trisecting an angle by me- chanical methods. Plane geometry, which once had an immense practical lue, l;eume more and more a purely ‘Today an can, mechanically, in laying out a“field, for example, tri- | sect an angle through the use of in- | struments and proven measurements. lew hundred years ago it would have been impossible, since plane was lacking on that point. ‘The two other al ly insolvable ‘mathematical prcblems are the dupli- cation of a cube, or doubling the - ume of a cube, and the squaring of circle, which means getting the exact area of a given circle into a square. Has Little Practical Value. Al three problems have worked out 13 higher mathematics, h the use eg-tlom and higher curves, but Father Callahan is the first to solve | 't | *he first one thtough piane geometry. |53 years old, slightly gray about the an | TAY8 been accepted as insolvable. led who ing Diamon: : “Oh, I'm all right ‘What's the use of being anything else?” ‘The court fixed bail at $25.000 for Diamond and at $7,500 for Quattrocchi. | The bonds were posted. Am:g:fh defendants convicted and septenced for felonies in Federal Court may apply for release on parole after the expiration of one-third of sentence there is scant likelihood that nd would be released bex:greilhe expiration of three years ai our menths. Acting United States Attorney ‘Thomas E. Dewey said no parole move in Diamond'’s behalf would receive the Wpproval of his office. As to the fines, any defendant under a fine in a Fed-ral may make a pauper’s oath and leatmd after one month’s imprison- . in tleu of the fine. Juége Hopkins called attention to the fart Diamond already had $10.000 ted ¢ an old narcotic charge, mak- g his total bail in court $25,000. After imposing sentence, the judge directed the district attorney to place evidence, adduced at the trial showing violations of the Jones law, before the ?eenl grand jury T would be remiss in my duty if I not suggest that evidence showing lon, transhortation and sale in” violation of the Jones act be laid be fore the grand jOry.” the ju said. “The defendants, if convicted of crimes brought to light through the evidence in this case. would be liable to far more severe punishment that that possible on the conspiracy count. They might be sentenced to 30 or 40 years’ VAN SWERINGEN ROAD TO DEFAULT INTEREST Iaternational Great Northern's Net * for Six Months Drops to Only $59,310. By the Associated Pre \CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 12 —The International Great Northern Railroad. which operates in the Southwest, will very fast. ] It was all he discovery has little if any prac- | s lue. Tts chief interest is in the; formulation of & ¥ew ides andin prov- | ing that the ancient thinkers were | wrong in their conclusions concerning the trisection of an angle. How it all came about was explained last night by Father Callahan, who is temples, with dark eyes that are alert and humorous, and & mind that works | | by sccident, he said, that | to solve a problem that | has been puzsling mathematicians for | thousand . In fact, the several by plane geometry begins | when a man who had read somewhere | that the angle could not be so divided wrote to Father Callahan for information. Father Callahan, who has gained a reputation for his attacks on the validity of the Einstein theory, wrote_back that the problem had al- Decided to Try Problem. The man who desired information, | however, could not be put off so easily. He came to Pittsburgh to discuss the matter in person. The lem was | thus mented very definltely to Pather | Callal 3 “There is no reason why an angle be trisected,” he said to himself | one night just before retiring. ““Then, half awake,” Father Callahan explained today, “I thought of a method of proof that wouid require that certain angles and lines be proved equal. I had a theorem, but there were no pProposi- | tions in Euclidian geometry that would prove that the necessary angles and lines were equal. 1 was given a faint jdea of the new plane figure I needed, and that was all. “I kept thinking about this. In my spare time I worked out a geometrical proof of the figure. When I got this proof the rest was easy. Answer Is Simple. “By using this figure I can now work out a geometrical proof of trisection of an angle as easily as you would prove any of the more familiar propositions of plane geometry “My new figure has regularity and a definite Jaw. It contains a definite geometrical proposition. By proving it you have proof and construction of the | trisection of an angle By the same procedure, Father Cal lahan claims, it is now possible to divide an angle into six equal angular parts or_any multiples of three The exact nature of the new figure, or the metrical proof of tl ire and of the trisection of an angle, Pather Callahan declines to reveal for the time being. He intends to copyright his proof first and to include it in a new text book on plane geometry, which he is DOW preparing. (Copyright. 1981) |C. ). HASKELL KILLS SELF IN TEXAS HOTEL Son of Fipst Oklahoma Governor Commits Suicide With Gun in San Antonio Suite. By the Associated Press. be: I, the board of di- announced here today. C. ‘:’ Sweringen of Cleveland is chas d. to the Van CSAN ANTONIO, Tex., first Governor, C. August 12— J. Haskell, 35, son of Oklahoma’s N. Haskell, shot and | | casts. He charged that there was “an | Collazo, Rafeal Icurraldez, Aurelio Al- | varez and Luis Hernandes Rodriguez. | charges of overstaying their leave in, !“Gtxul‘ll" Who Led Unemployed THE EVENING 'STAR IMPOSSIBLE™” | CTING AN ANGLE REV. J. J. CALLAHAN. —A. P. Photo. FATHER COUGHLIN OFF RADIO CHAIN Columbia System Says Chnng; Is Due to New Policy on Religious Talks. v the Associated Press. DETROIT, August 12.—Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower and conductor of a weekly radio program, sald today that he had been “barred” from the Columbia Broadcasting Co’s chain and that he would resume his weekly sermons Octo- er 4 over an independent hook-up. Until this Spring Rev. Father Cough- lin spoke every Sunday evening over the Columbia network. The broadcasts were suspended for the Summer months. He said that the Columbia officials kad told him - there had been a change of policy, which left out his broad- ulterior motive” behind the change. Rev. Father Coughlin said that offi- clals of radio station WJR, at Detroit, v nging an independent hook- which thus far included WOR, New: N. J.; WGAR, Cleveland; WGR, Buf- lo; WLW, Cincinnati; KSTP, St. Paul; WTIC, Hartford; WEEI, Boston: WPAG. Worcester; WOSH, Portland, and WJAK, Providence. DENIES “BARRING” PASTOR. New Radio Policy Allots Churches One Hour Free Each Week. NEW YORK, Al 12 (A)—The Columbia Brmdnlm:' System today denied that Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit has been ‘“‘barred” from talks over its chain of radio stations. this allegation, quoted from its announcement publish- ed last Sunday, in which & new policy regarding broadcasts on religious sub- Jects was e 5 One hour each Sunday will be placed at the disposal of the churches with- out charge, the religious bodies them- selves making the allotment of time, speakers and subjects. No time will be sold in future for religious talks, although individuals are at liberty to buy broadcasting time from local sta- tions where this will not interrupt chain schedules. BOTH SIDES SCORE VICTORIES IN CUBA; 68 DEAD REPORTED (Continued From Pirst Page.) guard cutters mounting light guns. Col. Alberto Herrera is the head of the army, holding the rank of brigadier general. MENOCAL REPORTED IN CUBA. SANTIAGO, Cuba, August 12 () — Only rumors of rebels operating in Oriente Province disturbed the quiet of this city today. Communication with Havana was uninterrupted and trains were running on schedule. The whereabouts of former President Mario G. Menocal remained unknown, but there are reports that he was headed for Chaparra. U. S. HOLDS FIVE CUBANS. / NEW YORK, August 12 () —Five Cubans and one American were being detained by Department of Justice operatives last night pending an inves- tigation of the seizure of their fishing sloop, the Minerva, off New York Har- bor by the Coast Guard destroyer Wood yesterday According to their attorney, Charles Martin Ansorge, no charge had been lodged sgainst the six men. They spent the night aboard the destroyer ‘Wood. Ansorge sald he was unable to reach Assistant United States Attorney Lum- bard, who presumably will handle the case, and for'that reason did not inter- view the six men tonight. He sald he was not in a position to confirm or| deny reports from Washington that the Minerva was attempting to make con- tact with a rum-runner. Ansorge said he understood the Cu- bans to be Rosendo Collazo, Aurelio The Ameérican’s name was not known. CUBAN PLOT IN U. 8. CHARGED. PHILADELPHIA. August 12 (#) -—! The Evening Public Ledger said today | it was informed by Prudencio F. Trueba, | Cubwn architect, detained at the Gloucester immigration station, that revolutionary “juntas” have been hold- ing meetings in the United States, plan- ning the overthrow of the Cuban gov- ernment. ‘Trueba i one of several Cubans ar- rested at Atlantic City last week, Twi othiers are being held with him on] this country “Revolutionary “puntas’ have been holding meetings all over the United| States,” Trueba is quoted as saying. | They are in constant touch with the oppositionists in Cuba, headed by Col Carolos Mendieta, leader of the Nation- | alist party.” | Trueba intimated, the Ledger said.! country and are awaiting instructions.| COXEY ASSURED VICTORY AS MASSILLON MAYOR Army Years Ago, in Front of Five Rivals in Vote. W EXPERTS DEPLORE 193 Fleet Prepares for Annual Sports Carnival DEBT REPAYMENT Report Says Amortization of | Suspended Amount Not Best Plan. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, August 12 —President Hoover's proposals fcr a year's war debt and reparations holiday were fitted to the Young plan for reparations pay- ments yesterday after three weeks' work by financial experts of the interested | nations. | B Protocols signed by the expers last | evening in the cabinet room of the for- | eign office provide that the suspended | payments shall be repaid in 10 equal annuities spread over the period from | July 1, 1933, to July 1, 1943—in other words, there shall be a year's interim between the expiration of the debt hol- | iday and the beginning of repaymenis. } Montauk Point, Long Island, August 10. sports carnival. Photograph ‘shows a general view of part of the fleet at anchor. Members of the crews of NORTH ATLANTIC SHIPS ASSEMBLE AT MONTAUK POINT, LONG ISLAN‘D. the vessels will engage in the annual Twsm-nvx of the 46 ships of the United States Navy'’s great North Atlantic Fleet dropped anchor off Payments could mave. - been .mly*." ABMNSLP—ANGBURN The suspended payments shall bear interest at the rate of 3 per cent, the |~ postponement.” | The report of the experts states that | it would have been much better if the procedure of repayment of suspend postponement until 1932 of payments due in 1931, until 1933 of e in 1932, and so on. oo SATISFACTION EXPRESSED. ey Patriots Demand Punishment of U. S. Flyers for Taking Photographs. ATHENS, August 12 (/°)—The press expressed satisfaction today that the London experts’ decision had solved Greece's problems in such a manner the Hoover n would not alter her finan- cial position. CHARGE THAT EATON JUGGLED MILLIONS TO BE INVESTIGATED inued From Pirst Page) By the Associated Press. | TOKOYO, August 12.—Patriotic so- | cleties and reactionary individuals clam- | | ored today for the punishment of Clyde | | Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr.{ American_aviators, for taking photo- | graphs while flying over Japanese ter- | | ritory. | The two men appeared before the public procurator for further question- | ing, smiling but tense. Examiners ques- tioned Pangborn about his flying ex- perience, particularly that during his service in the American Army. Departments Riffer. | directors and Advisory Committee mem- | bers of Continental, on which $328,- 649.17 was issued from 1929 to 1930. He also charged that Eaton merged International Shares with Continental Shares and caused Continental to as- sume the expense of the fight he waged and won against a merger of | | Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and| Foreign officials were reported to have | Bethiehem Steel Corporation. In ad-| taken a hand in the investigation by dition, Gugle said Continental Shares | suggesting the judiciary show leniency, | bought 62,796 shares of Sheet & Tube | but the war department \was said to stock to prevent the merger, with a | have adopted a different view. consequent loss of $3,629,605.21. | Reactionaries sent & dcles::l‘on to the procurator's office urging tic pun- e chmspat e e . B, | S bact U M S rge T. Bishop, | Party, eades ¥ uru ‘oyama, new president of fonl_tlt:;r‘;mbr-nd wil- | Widely known patriot, sent delegations | Arthur House and Corlis Sullivas, new | ii‘.,,.‘.”’.n'fi"’r‘ifif}n"‘.n':"' i el directors, are antagonistic to the inter- | army general staff demanding no len- | eats :!]dCcmi!;:enul Shares and its | jency be shown. # olders by reason of their own| The Black Dragon Soclety, composed :gziruul and the banks which they of Patriots, called meetings avowedly to l',n:medmmm” SRR | start a nation-wide movement urging posed of e Sppointed was com- | the law be allowed to take its course. | George L. Gugle, Columbus attorney. | Charge Internstional Plan. 0 made the charges against Eaton | Several vernacular newspapers said | am“ug:fim':dl.{ ;, meeting. Paul J.|the procurator had established to his g e T mfl';q and Tholas | satisfaction the photographs of a forti- | BB oungstown, & Iarge | fied zone by the fiyers was preconceived In a report to the stockholders, Gugle | Baaghars ana. Herndon. © e *Y asked that some action be taken to seek | ~The fiyers took the pictures with & ;:s::[nfl:}r:n to thfe treasury of Conti- | movie camera while flying from Khaba- e 'me; ho wme than $140.- | rovsk, Sfberia, to Tokio, after they had %0 owhich he claimed was wrongly | abandoned their projected world speed o of Eaton and vari- | flight in favor of beginning here an Principal ‘among. the Eaton companies | Pacth . ) o 2cross the | Pacific. ;m:hc g;xe'uumrrnemm by the| Japan has a drastic law against the Ansa( ere is & Co., Foreign | photographing of its fortified areas and Utilities, Ltd., and Goodyear shares | the government has impounded the | Gugle suggested the appointment of | Pangborn-Herndon plane pending dis- | 8 protective committee in a recent let- | position of the case. The procurator ter to stockholders, but those voting at | will decide whether court act today's meeting declined to go that far. taken against the aviators. Text of Hoover Protocol German External Loans of 1924 and 1930 Not i Affected by Provision—Suspended Amount i Amortized at 3 Per Cent Interest. | | By the Associated Press. |, CArticle 1V. The arrangements in | LONDON, August 12—The following | regard to deliveries in kind during the | is the text of the protocol with Germany | period from July 1, 1931, to June 30, | signed by the Hoover moratorium pian | 1932, will be experts of several countries at London | contained in T Turdis, on June 30, 1981, the Prest- | Fhdeaures 1 | o reas, on June 20, , the - | “Measures for the application of these | dent of the United States of America | principles will be drawn up e made proposals for the suspension of |for deliveries in kind meeting as pro- intergovernmental debts falling _due | vided in Article XIX of the regulations during the year extending from July 1, | for deliveries in mind. 1931, to June 30, 1932; “Article V. Immediately on the sig- “And whereas, the governments signa- | nature of tne present protocol and be- torles of the present protocol have ac- | fore its entry into force in accordannce | cepted said proposal and have agreed | with Article’ VII, its provisions will be to apply them in particular to the obli- | applied provisionally, with the retroac- gations of the German government un- | tive efect to July 1, 1931, by each of | annex two to the present | | der the agreement signed at The Hague the signatory governments. | January 20, 1930 |, “Article VI Any dispute, whether | “And whereas, the French government between governments parties to the and the Government of the United |present protocol or between one or | States of America concluded an ar-| more of these governments and the | Tangement on this subject at Paris on World Bank for International Settle- July 6, 1931; | ments, as to the interpretation or ap- “And whereas, it is accordingly neces- | plication of the said protocol, shall be | sary to provide for the application of settled in accordance with the provi- the new plan in the conditions thus | sions of Article XV of the agreement e | with Germany signed at The Hague on “And in view of the report dated Au- January 20, 1930. gust 11, 1931, drawn up by the experts | “Article 7—The present protocol, of | who met in London for this purpose; which the English and French texts “The undersigned, duly anthorized to |are both authentic, shall be ratified, that effect, have agreed as follows: | and ratifications shall be deposited at ris as soon as possible. 1924 Loan Not Affected. | “Governments ‘whose seat is outside | “Article I. Nothing in the present of Europe will be entitied merely to . protocal shall in any way alter or affect | notify the French government through | existing provisions for the service of the | their diplomatic representatives in Paris German external loan of 1024, in par- |that their ratification has been given; ticular the provisions of article XII |in that case they must transmit instru- and annex XI of The Hague agreement | ments of ratification as soon as possi- of January 20, 1930, concerning that | ble. loan. The service of the German gov- ernment international 5= per cent loan In Force on Ratification. of 1930 shall continue to be effects “As soon as the present protocol S vtaally and auls, in conformity with |heen Tetifed. by the e ooy ok | the provisions of the general bond and | Belgium, France, Germany, Great Bri- | other agreements securing said loan. |tain and North Ireland, Italy and | Article 1. The payment of the un- | Japan, it shall come into force between | conditional part of the annuity from | those 'governments whose ratifications | uly 1, 1930, to June 30, 1932, and of | have been 1ted-or notifed Gt that the reparation tax due by the German | date. It come into force in re- Raflway Co. from August 1. 1931, 10 |spect of every other signatory govern- July 1, 1932, will be governed by Pro- iment on the date of notification or de- | Yisions of annex I to the present Pro- | posit of ratifications. “The French government will trans- mit to all signatory governments and to the World Bank for Internatfonal Settlement a certified copy of the proc tocol. | Article III The payment of the| conditional pert of the annuity falling | due from July 15, 1931, to July 15, 1982, | th inclusive, shall be suspended. The | s ‘Smpendod shall, VB | G o, ST Sepasst o€ ench ruiifics e O tae agrecd, be Tepald as. from | Goand 8 ceriified copy of esch noti- . 1933, together with interest at | | | Mother, 47, of 27 Children Out for Big Family Prize By the A;‘-gu-uc ";nm GUAYAQUIL, ', August 12.—Claiming to_be the mother of 27 children, Senora Macabea Perez, 47, today entered a mu- nicipal contest which will award a large prize for the largest fam- 1, yshl still is known for her comeliness and is in splendid* health. Eighteen of her children, 11 girls and 7 boys, are living. Her husband, a fisherman, s 48 “We are young, healthy and strong,” he sald. “We have en- Joyed seeing sll these children grow and we have attended the weddings of several. Some of the grandchildren play with our young ones.” SANITARIUM PATIENT ENDS LIFE BY NOOSE Miss Emma Jones Is Found Dead Hanging From Door Jamb. Inquest Waived. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. TAKOMA PARK, Md., August 12.— Leaving a note saying she .was de- spondent due to ilipess, Miss Emma Jones, 69, committed suicide here to- day by hanging herself at the Wash- ington Sanitarium. Miss Jones' lifeless body was found by attendants of the sanitarium. She had fastened a rope to the top of the | door jamb and placed the other end | around her neck while standing on & chair and then kicked the chair out from unpder her. State's Attorney Stedman Prescott stated that no inquest was necessary. The woman's only known relative is a | niece, a Mrs. Dodge, living at 2204 Kalorama road, Washington. Miss Jones had been a patient at the sani- tarfum since last November. CHARGE AGAINST PASTOR REDUCED ness Stand at Dan- ville, Va. 3pecial Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., A it 12.—The State failed today to in & charge against Rev. J. Arthur Winn, pastor of Memorial Methodist Church, when Bertha Mabes, principal witness against the minister, offered testimony only of an alleged attempted act. The charge was changed to read “assault” instead of “adultery,” and the case continued until next Wednesday. The Mabes girl was the first witness. She testified that she joined the Moseley ted returned last November. under questioning that she only from Bon Air Reform School She testified that she by lnn(.s;vllfl!d the church several times each | week. She wept when asked about her first visit to the l:huéeh. Rual{flnl her com- posure, she described ‘the incidents which formed the basis of complaint. The defense requested a continuance in order to JBtomare to meet the new charge and State agreed. A number of other charges of a less sericus nature are pending against the pastor, who has not ogcupied his pulpit for several weeks. CAPT. W. F. NORMA KILLED BY BELLHOP IN HOTEL QUARREL e ___(Continued From self since the quarrel two days ago. Diggs also told Lieut. Lohman that he bhad been struck by Norman this morning. But few guests at the hotel were aware of the tragedy which had taken place. One said he heard the shots, it was an automobile firing. Daugherty said Diggs had never made trouble at the hotel before and that he was under consideration for promotion to doorman because of his general ef- ficiency. Capt. Norman had bullt up a large practice here hant ‘Government claims. He was r as one of the wealthiest guests at the hotel. He came here from on April 9, 1920, and accepted a position as special assistant to General, remaining msn, who has been visiting his brother here for some timie, today was on his Pacquette, missing ds | }op from' the She ADMITS BRITTEN'S REQUEST FOR FLEET /Adams Says Montauk Visit Good—Officers and Men Criticize. | | Secretary of the Navy Adams today | admitted that the Scouting Fleet was | sent to Montauk Point, Long Island, for | Summer maneuvers this year at the suggestion of Representative Fred Brit- ten cf Illinois, reported to be a stock- holder in the Montauk Beach Develop- ment Corporation, as charged in a story in the New York Times. He said, how- | ever, that it was a good thing for the fleet' to move from place to place and | that Montauk was a perfectly proper | location. He disclaimed any knowledge of Mr, Britten's connection with the d~telopment corporation. | _The request by Representative Britten that the fleet be sent to Long Island | from its usual Summer headquarters at | Newport, R. I, was a perfectly natural |one to make, Mr. Adams added, and he saw no reason why it should not be carried out. The force will be there all this week, returning to Newport Au- gust 16. The decision to gend the scouting fleet to Montauk came after adequate investigation, Mr. Adams said, and the details were attended to by Admiral Willlam V. Pratt, chief of Naval Operations, who is now on vaca- tion in Maine. ‘The Times s chay that there ion among | was widespread officers and men of the Scouting Fleet because of their preference for a base at Newpart, which is equi d more suitably for housing families of the officers on the ships than is Montauk Point, where there is but one hotel, There are about 5,000 attached to the 30 ships of the Scout- | ing Fleet. The Times quotes Mr. Britten, who is chairman of the House Committee on | Naval Affairs, as saying that he owned | stock in the development c: g three or Tour acres. of Tand. on He denied, however, that his interest in the corporation led to his making the request that the fleet be sent there. | |LINDBERG HS POISED lon will be Giy]'s Accusation Modified on Wit-1 FOR PERILOUS HOP ACROSS BERING SEA (Continued From First Page.) | outside, the two retired to take baths | and prepare for an Alaskan “supper.” Rested and refreshed, they reappeared later and dined with the Reception | Committee. | On leaving Safety Bay tomorrow & | full load of 400 gallons of gas will be taken abroad the plane. In crossi the Bering Sea the Lindberghs wil backtrack a part of the route followed by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty on t‘i’l‘erl& recent record-breaking world ight. The Lindberghs, however, will make governed by the principles | Memorial Church Aprfl 26, and' admit- | ¢neir hop only about half as long as that of Post and Gatty, who flew 2,100 miles from Khabarovsk, Siberia, to Solomon, near Nome. The fiyers painted an optimistic ple- ture of the future of aviation in the | Nortn. | The Flying Colonel said the far | northern territory was one of the placly where “airplane traffic is not only prac- tical, but a beneficial factor in the ives of the residents.” Sees Northern Air Lines. “We are especially interested in this country,” sald Lin rgh, “and see no | reason why, in the near future, perhaps, air lines on regular schedules should not be established. “We were somewhat surprised as we flew through Canada and Alaska to find that flying in these countries proved to be not only simpler, but | effective than it was reported {in the }]nltfid‘:nwl A5 . “We found the coun! ne service and after mlklnlnm sflht through to Nome we are even more convinced than before we left the | States. It did not prove to be as \if- | ficult as we at first imagined.” { The fight down the northwestern coast of Alaska from Barrow to Nome was made with absolute confidence and lp;fln‘ef: performance, the colonel de- c “Ae we gained altitude after leaving Barrow, the ice pack could be seen stretching for more than 75 miles, packed solidly. “Due to fog banks and bad weather in different regions, we were forced to detour to keep out of the mwml About 11 p.m. (Nome time, y), we found the weather getting thicker and darkness coming on so we decided, | when we sighted a good place, to land | and wait for dawn and good weather. ‘We landed opposite Shismaref and re- ‘mal 9 am, when we ‘more to be left for Nome.” ‘The flying vacationists sald they were in communication with radio stations most of the time from Point Barrow. CRAMER GIVEN UP. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, August 12 (#—The American fiyer, Parker Cramer, and his radio operator, Oliver since Sunday on a tland Islands to - ctically given search will con! nhagen, were l?::s today, but days. nish —A. P. Photo. | FERTILIZER - MEN HIT RAIL BOOSTS | Tell 1. c._c. Proposed Rate Raise Would Add $5,700,000 Yearly Cost. (Continued From First Page.) of v(};lmr plants. ittemore said his company wi able to sell fertilizer ehenp:pr. a’ fl: farmer in Japan than to the farmer in Ohio because of the difference in | transporta costs. Other Hearings Platned, | The Interstate Commerce Commission !1s expediting hearings and argument jon the railroads’ appleation by holding hearings in various sections of the days of argument are to the full commission study looking to & taken, thority to mct under pleading. The e rate raise under the fair return of the interstate commerce act. Railroad Commissions of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Nebraska asserted a financial emergency was not sufficient ground for action by the commission. They asked that instead the commission raise such tariffs as were necessary, through altering rates prescribed in the general investigation made under the Hoch-Smith resolution, which provided that the commission should in ite all rates of the country and revise them where necessary, with reference asked for the section Representatives of Virginia farmers and industry and the Export Coal As+ sociation yesterday, in hearings added more wfiu llr;‘flc to trucks. not \eari opened at Portland, today, with Commissioners Lewis :;1): Lee hearing Northwestern opposi- E. R. Clark of New York, the Metal & Thermit mflflffle.n ek ane Soud ot Rand s e an n freight rates. e company already was large quantities of its product by and water with a truck rate now 25 per cent under the rail rate, he said. He predicted an increase in trucking and asserted much of the scrap mate- rial would be left in storage. of being shipped at the higher rate. H. F. Masman of New York, fepre- senting the National - Association of Waste Material Dealers, the PURSE AND BULLET: GIVE CLUE TO FOUR SLAYINGS IN AUTO (Continued From Pirst Page) suffered a fractured rib and a punctured lung. The plug on the bottom of the gaso- line tank of the burned auf had in working shoes, the officers believed. icers who arrested the Keene said they were in- . Culéhan, a Wayne i brothers yesterday | toxicated. Hflu‘u | Count ‘wheels in which they live ai became intoxica They told him, Culehan said, did not see the on the clubs and on nts found In the shack were ol examined. A preliminary report siid there was blood on one of the clubs, but it wr: not determined whether it was hum: . blood. Both brothers denied connet- tion with the crime. Until recent weeks there had been numerous reports of * commit! DETROIT, August 12 (#).—Rewards totaling $3,000 were offered todsy for the capture and conviction of the slay- ers of two young men and two women on & road near Willis, i i 3 = H it H g i 3 ! 8 i