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VOTERS CONSIDER DEADLOCK RESULT Discussion Centers Around Combinations if Candidates Fail of Majority. BY DAVID LAWRKXfK. Judging- by reports received from al. parts of the country the voters are discussing among themselves exactly what would happen if none of the three presidential candidates. — Coolldgc, Davis or La Follette —re- ceived a majority of the electoral votes. This discussion is in part natural because the race is three-cornered, but. it is to a certain extent being stimulated by the strategy of both the Coolldgo and Davis supporters. The .Republicans are already us||,g it as a means of getting votes and the Democrats arc even more zealous in their adaptation of it to their ad vantage. The Republicans are saying that If the ciecf bn is thrown into the House of Representatives for de cision, as is provided if no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, then in case of a deadlock in 'he House the Senate may choose a Vice President by the name of Charles W. Bryan, through a coali tion of l*a Follette Republicans and Democrats, and a radical would be come President of the United States. This thought is most unwelcome in th. conservative areas of the coun try. especially the Hast, where Bry anism for a generation has been re pudiated at the polls. How to eliminate Bryan. But the Democrats are contending the exact opposite in talking with conservatives, namely, that the way to prevent the selection of Bryan is to support Davis either at the polls or in the House of Representatives. I'or example, if no candidate has re ceived a majority of the electoral votes on November 4, Congress will bo convened in regular session in De cember or can be culled into special session even earlier. The House has until March 4 to pick a President. During the throe months of discus sion the conservatives of the country who would be opposed to the selec tion of Bryan as a vice presidential i andidate will be urging the selec tion of President Coolidge. If the Democrats remain obdurate there will i be a deadlock In the House, because f the State delegations arc about even ly divided as between the Democrats and Republicans, and there could be no majority of the States cast for any candidate, as is necessary under the Constitution, unless some of the l.a Follette Republicans assist President Coolidge <>r vote for John \V. Davis, t onaervative Coalition. The ( onservative Republicans could. . 01 course, unite with the Demoerats too. and select Davis and thus prevent tin elevation of t’harlcs \V, Bryan to the presidency. The country and Con gress will have three months in which to think about the kind of President to be selected. But the sequel of an election thrown into the Mouse of Represent at i ves is not necessarily Bryan. It may he Davis and it may be t’oolidge. The conservative Demo crats and conservative Republicans in I combination in the Senate' could pick Charles <!. Dawes as Vico President if th*y didn't want Bryan and If the House were deadlocked as between Coolidge. Davis and La Follette. All this may sound remote, but it is becoming concretely near at hand every day as the possibility of a deadlock is visualized. The theory that a radical will be President is based only upon the idea that the con servatives of the country. Repub licans and Democrats, would be so hostile to an agreement on Coolidge or Davis that they would deliberately permit the Senate to make a choice of Vice President. it is also based on the thought that the Democrats in such a contingency would hold their strength in the Senate to Bryan and , would win the l.a Follette Rcpub ’ licans to their side. If the conservative Republicans really considered John W. Davis pref erable to a radical they could agree to support him in the House on the Tdedge that Charles G. Dawes w-ould be given Democratic support in the Senate for Vie. President. Were there really a conservative combina tion in both parties the ticket of Davis and Dawes would not be im possible of selection at all. But is \ John At. Davis going to be aligned » with the conservatives when the y-ampaign is over? His advocacy of certain principles close to the La Col lette platform may be designed at the moment to corral radical votes in the general electorate, but it may also operate to make him closer to the La Follette Republicans in the House than is President Coolidge. The La Follette group will hold the balance of power. If they were assur ed of a voice in the next administra tion and of a working coalition with the Democrats as occurred in the last session of Congress, in both houses, they may prefer Davis to Coolidge. If such overtures arc in effectual they will naturally help keep the situation deadlocked in the House in the hope of having Charles AV. Bryan selected as Vice President and that means the presidency on March 4 if the House has failed to i choose a President before that date. 1 Those three months after November 4 would mean a breakdown in party i lines and a consideration by the con servatives of whether they should combine cither for Coolidge or for Davis and checkmate the radical as cendancy in the Senate. As It stands today, both the Cool idge and Davis spokesmen can make out a plausible argument to get votes so as to prevent the election from i being thrown into the House of Rep resentatives. (Copyright. 1924.) 2 KILLED, 3 HURT IN AUTO. Car Skids and Overturns Near Hot Springs, Ark. HOT SPRINGS. Ark., September 3. T*o girls were killed and three other Jjersons were seriously injured when the automobile in which they were rid ing skidded and overturned on the highway 4 miles from this city late yesterday. The dead: Minnie Riley, 16; Bessie Neil, 9. The injured; Floyd Ivy, 20: Louis Sayres. 23, and the latter's wife, Mrs.? Mildred Sayres, were brought to a local hospital for treatment. Hospital authorities said they probably would recover. Lutherans Elect Dr. Hein. ► PITTSBURGH, Pa.. September 3. The Rev. Dr. C. C. Hein of Colum bus, Ohio, was elected president of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Ohio yesterday by delegates attend ing the annual session here. He suc ceeded the Rev. C. H. L. Schuette of Columbus, for 32 years president of the synod. The latter was named honorary president. Other officers elected included the Rev. E. M. Pop pen. Grove City, Ohio, and the Rev. M. P. F. Doerman, Blue Island. Ills., vice-presidents; AV. D. AhJ. St. Paul. Minn., German secretary; C. Acker man, Columbus, English secretary, 1 and C. L. Conrad, Columbus. Ohio, treasurer. The annual appropriation to the Caoltol University, Columbus, wai FLYERS EN ROUTE TO NOVA SCOTIA IN HOP OF 375 MILES (Continued from First Page.) member of parliament, representing the federal government, and the minister of defense, Maj. Gen. 11. C. Thacker, commanding the military district of Nova Scotia. At the request of the aviators only a simple welcoming ceremony was planned on the part of the municipal officials. Early in the day the town was tilled with visitors from every part of the province of Nova Scotia and from as far to the AVest as Mon treal and Ottawa. AA'hen word that the planes had taken off from Hatvkes Bay was re ceived whistles were blown and bells were rung throughout Plctou. Every road leading to the town was soon crowded with motor cars hastening to the harbor. LEAVE IN RAIN AND WIND. Flyers Not Wearied at Newfound land by Yesterday’s Hop. By the Associated Press,. HAAVKES BAY, Newfoundland, Sep tember 3.—The American Army air planes on their world flight left here for Plctou, Nova Scotia, at 12:40 p.m., Newfoundland dayllght-savu»g time. It was raining and a southwest wind was blowing 30 miles an hour when the flyers hopped off. The clouds were less than 1,000 feet from the surface and the machines kept at a low alti tude. flying just over the tips of the waves. The'airmen Were feeling none the worse for their arduous experience yesterday, when they had to light their way through fog, rain squalls and a severe head wind on the latter part of their hop from Ice Tickle, Labrador. 276 miles across the Lab rador peninsula to this Newfoundland town. They were feeling well and were in fine spirits in anticipation of their return later this week to the soil of the United States. Th(4r Hardest Flying. Both Lieut. lajwell H. Smith and Lieut. Erik H. Nelson declared that their long flight across the North Atlantic from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Frederiksdal, Greenland, had been not only the longest but-, the most diflicult of the entire journey around the world. The flyers arrived at Hawkes Bay at 3:46 o’clock standard time yester day from Labrador. Starting from Ice Tickle in good flying weather, the American airmen drove their planes steadily forward under fine conditions until over Belle isle Straits and along the coast of Newfoundland, where thev were beset by rain and fog and a 30-mile head wind. AVith the populace awaiting them, the planes brok<- through the fog yesterday afternoon, having made the voyage from Labrador in 3 hours and 45 minutes. Shortly after coming down Smith and Nelson taxied their craft to the yellow buoys which, owing to the heavy sea that was running, had been .’aid on the windward side of Hawkes Bay. and within 2 minutes had tied up to them. BOSTON PLANS WELCOME. Mayor Asks City to Give Flyers Great Reception. BOSTON. September 3. A royal welcome awaits the Army world fly ers when they return to home soil here in the next day or two, and Mayor Curley yesterday made it a mailer of formal proclamation. "I ask that the citizens of Boston fly national (lags from their homes and houses: t direct that similar decora tions be made on all schools and public buildings, and 1 trust that our people will assemble in great num bers on Boston Common, that these heroic men may learn the place they have made for themselves in Amer ican hearts.” Boston's wish to make the flyers' stay here a round of greetings and gifts was modified to meet the air men’s request for rest, but the mayor's proclamation outlined a pub lic reception to be tendered them at the Boston Common, where the na tional colors will be tendered and they I . . ...... ' ' " f 7nw\.Me AVENUE at. NINTIT iilj ALIGHT, crushable hat to be worn right now. Almost as light as your Summer straw and just as stylish as the heaviest felt you will wear later on. In the new shades of grav and tan. Silk lined or unlined. DKIE ?W $ 5 The Avenue at Ninth < I THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C„ WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1921 Milk Man’s Yacht Once Rum Runner Auctioned at S9OO By tlie Associated Pres*. NEW LONDON, Conn., September 3. —The steam yacht Verelgn, former ly owned by Gale Borden, but more recently alleged rum runner, was sold at public auction here yesterday for S9OO, the purchaser being Attor ney George Curtis Morgan of this city. The yacht is eaid to have cost Mr. Borden $200,000. The A’erelgn was captured on June 4. with a SIOO,OOO liquor cargo, after Uie Coast Guard cutter Seminole had riddled her superstructure and in jured three of the crew with shell tire. The A’ereign at one time, was de clared to be the fastest yacht in existence. During the war it was taken over by the Government for submarine patrol. will be presented with the keys to the city. They will be given aJso a reproduction of Paul Revere’a bowl in silver, swords of gold and steel as gifts from military organizations and other markers of their epoch making trip. At the East Boston air port at which the planes will light, an ar tillery battery will give the airmen the 21-gun salute reserved for Presidents. DUE IN NEW YORK SUNDAY. Gov. Smith May Welcome Flyers at Mitchel Field. NF.AV YORK, September 3.—Mitchel Field Is prepared for the reception of the American around-the-worid flyers, who are expected to arrive, there at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon, according to a schedule arranged by Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the Army Air Service. The flyers are expected to arrive in Boston Friday or Saturday, where a change in landing gear will be made, when they will proceed directly to Mitchel Field. There they will be met by Army officers and a citizens’ reception committee headed by F. T. Davison. Gov. Smith is expected to be present to deliver the official ad dress of welcome. Won't Conflict With Game. Arrangements have been made for the entire uroccedings incident to the welcome to be broadcast by radio, and loud speakers, erected on the field, .will transmit the ceremonies to all on the field. The program includes an official reception ar.d later an informal buffet supper in honor of the flyers to be served at the Officers’ Club at Mitchel Field. Among the guests will be Maj. Gen. Robert I,ee Bullard. Hear Admiral William A. Moffett, Mr and Mrs. Vincent Astor. Mrs. August Belmont, Commander and Mrs. Zack ary Lansdowne. commanding the Navy dirigible Shenandoah, and E. 11. Gary. The time of the arrival was fixed so as not to conflict with the playing of the international polo matches at Meadow Brook on Saturday after noon. HOP TO BOSTON TOMORROW. Flyers Hope to Speed Up Trip to United States. By the Associated Press. ON BOARD THE U. S. S. RICHMOND. September 3.-—Lieut. Smith and Lieut. Nelson announced yesterday prior to their departure from Ice Tickle for Hawkes Bay. Newfoundland, that they hoped to speed up their flight toward Boston by jumping off from Hawkes Bay for Pictou. N. S., today and from Pictou for Boston on Thursday, if they should have good flying weather. An extra landing is to be made at St. John. N. 8., for refueling on the day of the Pictou-Boston flight. After the flyers passed the Rich mond yesterday the cruiser took aboard a supply of fuel from the tanker Brazos and left afterward to take up her station early Wednesday morning six miles west of Henry Island Light, off Cape George, for the flight to Pictou. • If you need work, read the want columns of The Star. World Flight Costs Kept Within $50,000 Appropriated by Congress Expense for Private Enterprise 9 However , Would Have Run Into Hundreds of Thousands—Oil and Fuel Was Large Item . The prestige it has acquired by sending a group of aviators on a trail-blazing flight around the world to say nothing of the valuable les sons learned concerning/ all-weather flying—has cost the United States Government the relative pittance of approximately 130,000. Fifty thousand was the sum Con gress appropriated for the flight, and while the final footing up to costs cannot be completed until the flyers arc home again with their expense accounts, the indications are that a small part of the original appropria tion will remain untouched when the world-girdling planes are trundled into their hangars at the end of the trip. That does not mean, however, that a private organization could duplicate the flight for any such small sum. Actual expenditures of the Army Air Service In connection with the flight are one thing. What it would have coat a private organization to duplicate the necessary conditions under which the flight was made and what foreign governments expended on entertaining the flyers constitute quite another story. The bill for a private concern undoubtedly would have run well up into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Plane* Already Available. In the first place, the Government spent nothing purchasing planes or extra motors for the flight. The four planes, including the Seattle, in which Maj. Frederick 1,. Martin started on the journey, and the 12 motors used, had been bought during the war days to be used for fighting purposes. They had been in storage, suffering certain deterioration. When the flight was projected they were simply turned over to the aviation department to be used for the world flight, Instead of some other venture. Moreover, these planes and motors —save for the one lost when Maj. Martin crashed on an Alaskan moun tain and the one lost when Lieut. Wade fell into the sea—arc still the valuable property of the Government. 1005 Penna. Ave. Only! EVERY FALL SUIT i (with Single Pants) —Blue Serge Suits —Black Suits —Fancy Suits Starting tomorrow ONE PRICE | *29 75 Suits that Sold from *3o to *55 We - re making room for that new stock of 2-Trousers Suits —and it's your good luck. Here's the sizes, and every suit's a pick-up \ 3334353637383940424448 Regulars: 3 22 lg ig U 5 25 18 9 2 333435 36 3738394042 Shorts: 1 jq 15 15 11 8 8 10 2 37 38 39 40 42 46 48 Stouts: 3 5 16 10 3 5 5 35 36 37 38 39 40 Longs: 3 8 14 7 9 4 40 42 46 Long stouts: 5 1 3 / Just 342 Suits And They Won t Last Long On Sale 1005 Pa. Avenue Only Money’s Worth or Money Back D. J. KAUFMAN, Inc. 1005 Penna. Avenue 1724 ) The other 10 motors need only a little , overhauling to put them in perfect 1 condition. The Navy cruisers. Coast Guard ves sels and other ships which assisted i and accompanied the flyers on danger ' ous parts of the Journey, were in actual service anyhow, and would have had to be maintain at the same I expense had they been on duty else i where. i Assisting in making the flight a ■ success were several British, Danish and Japanese ships, whose running expense would have to be figured Intc* the cost had private enterprise at . tempted the flight. But neither this expense, nor the money expended by foreign governments for entertain ment. will figure in the United States i Government’s bill for the trip. Fuel and Oil Coat 915,000. On the other hand, there were many uses for the 150,000 in hard cash which Congress appropriated. Gaso i line was no small item. It has been figured that traveling the circuit of the globe required some 10,000 gallons for each motor. At an average cost of 30 cents a gallon, the gas must have cost some $9,000 for the three i planes which practically completed the circle. Adding in the cost of oil and the cost of the gas consumed by Maj. Martin in getting to Alaska, the fuel and oil bill was about $15,000. Other items which came out of the appropriation included sums spent for transportation of supplies, for prepa ration of landing places, for trans portation and expenses of the ad i vancc officers, Lieuts. Clayton Blssell, Clarence Crumrine, Clifford Nutt and R. Schultz: for transportation of Gov ; eminent officers who studied the pos -1 sibilities of the flight and worked out i data to make It a success and for hotel expenses of the flyers. Whether or not the full $50,000 was i expended, Army officials feel, the flight was ’’dirt cheap” in view of the value of the contributions to the . science of flying and the demonstra ■ tions of the fact that airplanes can fly around the world. INDICTMENTS SCANNED. Return In Florida Against 15 D. C. Residents Questioned. United States Commissioner Need ham C. Turnage today took under consideration the question of the validity of the indictment returned in Tampa, Fla., against 15 Washing tonians, on a charge of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. The concluding argument against the removal of the men was made by At torney James A. O'Shea, who vigor ously attacked the Indictment and also paid his respects to the chief witness for the Government. He an swered the contentions of Assistant United States Attorney Burnetc and claimed the men should not be re quire.; to go to a distant State where they are unknown to answer an in BnngalowJjQg Where^hurDoUarrCountUlast Costume J£sza BEHMMPS ““ - - good quality per' colors, satine cale, neatly trim- 24 7"IH wfi., N.WC slips, full cut and . 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Womens High-Grade Shoes Remnants of Last Week*s Big Sale and Our Own Stocks Actually Worth X? w $3,95, S4#9B, Ssi * 9B Q Q L | n Final Close-Out Price Patcots Black I ® i Satins White I Kids • Gray Combinations Airedale dictment which he declared was so carelessly framed. Commissioner Turnage expects to render his decision Friday on the question of the removal of the ac cused men to Florida. SEEKS ABSOLUTE DIVORCE. Mrs. Lillian Zink today filed suit for an absolute divorce from Charles H. Zink, whom she charges with cruelty and misconduct. They were married at Hoboken, N. J., March 20, 1911, and have no children. The wife says her husband was “true” and "good” until March 17, 1923, when he took a motor trip, she declares, with some women, which he tried to keep a secret from. her. From that time his conduct became unbearable, she slates. Attorneys W. Gwynn Gardi ner and J. W. Tomlinson appear for the wife. ' BEAUTY SHOW AT HEIGHT ► _______________ • I Crowds Storm Hall in Atlanti City to Obtain View. n ATLANTIC CITY, N, J., Septembei "•—The Atlantic City beauty pageam swung into its second day with over , cast skies and cool breezes ofterini marked relief from the torrid weathe: of the last two days. Crowds stormeh City Hall as the intercity beauties ar rived at Mayor leader's office todaj for a reception. The mayor presente' the young women with a key to th. city. This formality over, the contestant! for “Miss America” honors wen whizzed away in private limousines The arrival of King Neptune and tin staging of the picturesque water car nival is scheduled for this afternoon 5