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FRANCE TO FORTIFY
ALPS AND RHINE
4* • . ——
Five-Year Program Designed
by War Minister to Cost
About $100,000,000.
Bj the Associated Pres*.
PARIS, October 14. —France will j
spend 2.500.000.000 francs t' a bout SIOO.- j
000.000) during the next five years on ;
"defensive fortications of her post-war [
frontier*—north, east and the Alps.”
This was brought out during the !
course of a recent meeting of the bud- j
get finance committee of the Chamber at
that meeting. Incidentally, Paul Pain- '
leve, minister of war, was scored by
Nationalist members as a pacifist be
cause the work of fortifications along !
the frontiers, they claimed, was lag- I
ging.
It also developed that, for the first
time in Its history. Frsnce Is devoting
nearly as much time and money to
strengthening the Alps, where to the
south lies Italy, h-r former ally, as
the line of the Rhine, across which
thrives Germany, regarded here as
France's traditional enemy.
War Budget Increased.
The war budget of France for 1930 !
will amount to 4,305.992,000 francs j
• about $172,000,000 >, an increase of $9.- {
000.000 over the expenditures Tor 1929. 1
These figures cover the expenses in j
Prance only, and another appropriation |
of 1,762,954,070 francs (or, roughly,
$72,000,000) is provided for mainte
nance of troops In Algeria. Tunisia,
Syria and China, bringing the total ex
penditures for the French army In 1930
to $242,000,000.
Impatience with what they termed
thfc dilatoriness of the ministry of war
in. getting French frontiers secure
against aggression marked the inter
ruptions of the Nationalists.
"Parliament voted you 363,000.000
francs as the 1929 slice of expenditures ,
In fortifying the frontiers,” said Dep
uty Georges Mandel. former chief of
the cabinet of Georges Clemenceau.
"Why have you only spent 69,000.000?”
Encounters Labor Difficulties.
Painleve, somewhat taken aback, per
haps because of the unprecedented re
proach addressed to a French minister
of not spending enough money, ex
plained that 1929 had been employed
In drawing up the entire '.plans for the
five-year Job. They had also found
difficulties in obtaining labor—stone
masons. drillers, laborers. Now, how
ever. the plans had been completed and
the work from now on will proceed on
schedule.
"How about the frontier of the Alps?”
another deputy queried, adding that,
in his opinion, chat line of defense
needed just now as much attention as
the Rhine.
"We are looking after that,” replied
the minister of war. “When our plans
are completely finished the Alps will be 1
safe.” I
The deepest secrecy is maintained I
concerning this work, which is one of
national defense, but it was learned
from military engineers that the late
war has completely changed the old
time methods of erecting defensive for
tifications. As a matter of fact, “erect
ing” is the wrong word to describe the
present-day Torts. "Digging” would be
more appropriate.
Old Forts Found Obsolete.
It appears that the famous forts at
Waehlem defending Antwerp, Loncin
before Liege, Vaus and Douaumont,
the Strongholds of Verdun, have been
found to byobqifcte agd are being re
placed by Jobtefraneegt tranches, cov
ered. and aa far as possible made in
visible to airplanes. Ouns lifted by
mechanical apparatus can be made to
dlaappear under the ground when the
enemy has found the range or planes
are dropping 200 to 500 pound torpedoes.
Especial attention hi being paid to ma
chine gun defense.
Along the range of the Alps over
looking Piedmont, drillent and dyna
miters are -mostly needed. Cut into
the mountains frdm Modane to Vintl
mille. holes drilled in tbe solid rock wilt
command the various and not too nu
merous passes.
No work of any account is being done
along the northern frontier separating
Belgium from France. The feeling is j
now deeply engraved in the French'
military mind that should Germany j
ever attack again it will not be through j
Belgium.
Utmost Speed Urged.
There \r, a very strong party within
the finance committee urging the ut
most speed in the laying out of protec
tive lines of defense, both to the east
and southeast.
Meanwhile, Aristide Briand, premier!
of France, whose following may be said j
to outnumber the military-minded ad- j
vocates of security 2 to 1, is busy
working on the outline of a plan to j
present to the Assembly of the League
of Nations. September, 1930, and which j
he believes will prove a safer defensive 1
weapon against aggression than rows
of guns and bayonets: The Confedera
tion of the United States of Europe. j
SUPREME COURT REFUSES
TO DECIDE ON RENT CASE
’ i
Tenant Would Not Surrender His
Apartment Unless Given
30-Day Notice.
The Supreme Court today refused to
decide whether under the District code 1
a tenant who has failed to pay back ‘
rent can be ousted without receiving
30 days' notice in writing.
The controversy arose when Harold
M. Smith refused to surrender an apart
ment in the Portland Hotel unless given
30 days’ notice in writing.
Pauline V. Beyer brought suit in
January. 192 ft. .to oust Smith, explaining
that his lease had expired in Septem
ber. 1927, and claiming that Smith had
failed to pay rent since the expiration
of the lease and was four months In
arrears, owing $242. She Insisted that
as Smith had failed to pay rent, she
could recover possession of the apart
ment without giving him written notice
to vacate. The lower courts held, how
ever. that under the District code writ
ten notice was necessary.
REV. JOHN J. BRADY
DIES SUDDENLY AT 63
Priest Won Fame at Mt. Hope
Retreat at Baltimore by Work
With Insane.
By ths Associated Pres*.
NEW YORK. October Is, The Rev.
John J. Brady of Niagara Uni
versity, Niagara Falls, N. Y„ died sud
denly of heart disease at the uni
versity Saturday night, friends were in
formed today. He was 63 year* old.
Born in Milwaukee. Wls„ Father
Brady entered the Vincentian Order t
and was ordained a priest in 1695. Hr i
early work was in connection with*
social activities at the Mount Hope
Retreat for the Insane at Baltimore,
where he remained for seven years. He
was credited with having been the first
to introduce games, plays and enter
tainments, in which the patients them
selves participated, in institutions for
the insane.
He was widely known as a missionary
and for 20 years had conducted mis
sions in Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland
and other citiea.
The funeral will be held Wednes
day morning at 10 o'clock at Niagara
I ____________________ i
Dies From Gas
MB’ 9
!
C. K. HUGINS.
—
SCIENTIST KILLS
HIMSELF BY GAS;
HEALTH IS BLAMED
(Continued From F.rst Page.)
Though reluctant to discuss the matter,
; Mrs. Wells said Huglns had been her
! closest friend for several years. She ,
I said they never had been engaged.
Mrs. Wells stayed at the Huglns
j apartment until all hopes of reviving
\ him were abandoned, She was obvious
ilv distressed, but retained her com
posure.
Tells of His “Last” Words.
"It is all so terrible," Mrs. Wells said.
"Only last night 1 had a long talk with
Jimmy Howell, an engineer at the
Western Union, who was a close friend
of Mr. Hugins. We made plans at that
time to get a nurse for him today and
to send him to a hospital if necessary.
I was with him three hours last night.
He said at that time that there was
i nothing left for him to do but to com
i mit suicide.
‘T pleaded with him to give up all
thought of such a thing and finally
went home, when he promised me he
would go to bed and go to sleep. Be
fore leaving the building, I visited the
manager as a precaution and told her
of the state of Mr. Hugins’ mind. She
promised to do all she could and to
notify me if anything happened.”
Huglns left another note for Stull
Holt of 26 Jackson place, a close friend,
in which he directed that his property
be divided between Mrs. Wells and hts
mother, a patient in St. Elizabeth's
Hospital. He specified that his mother
be well provided with clothes and the
other necessities of life.
Despondent for a Week.
In a note addressed to Howell, Hugins
told cf his plans to take his life be
cause of his despondency over ill health.
He left his automobile to Howell and
i S2OO in cash.
I Hugins addressed another brief com
{ munlcatlon to a friend of his mother
requesting that she visit his mother.
Hugins had been particularly des
pondent for about a week. He had
been in good spirits until he suffered a
nervous breakdown last Spring. His
condition had been so aggravated since
early in September that he had visited
his office infrequently.
Bom in Ithica. N. ,Y.. Hugins was
graduated from CorneU University when
about 25 years old. He won a Phi
Beta Kappa key. He was an Instruc
tor in economics at Cornell for sev
eral years after hi* graduation. He
came‘ to Washington 'about 10 years
ago to supervise new method* of eco
nomics in the bureau or wMwfley. He
subseouently became the editor of the
publications of the institute of econom
ics and was a regular contributor to
the American Mercury.
FALL TRIAL ENTERS
SECOND WEEK; SHOUP
AND ATWELL QUIZZED
(Continued From First Page.)
_______j
Oil Co. and a director of the Associated
1 Oil Co., was called as the first witness
I today. He said his company had com
piled with the request of the depart
ment to shut down on production and
had entered into a non-drilling agree
ment with the Government subject to
a six months’ notice.
Mr. Roberta obtained an 'admission
from Shoup that he had learned nothing
of the Pan-American leases until some
time after its execution. Although he
said the Associated Co. would have been
interested in a lease of the Eik Hills
reserve, he testified he had no oppor
; tunity to bid.
J. M. Atwell, general manager of the
I Standard Oil Co. of California, another
! witness, also testified he had no knowl-
I edge of the negotiations conducted with
[ the Doheny Co. His company also
would have been interested in a lease,
; he added.
Hogan scored for defense when he
brought admissions from both oil men
I that their companies were not prepared
nor were they interested in constructing
‘ storage tanks and pipe lines for the
i Navy as provided for in the Doheny
. contract. Both witnesses testified ax to
! overproduction of oil in California fields
' in the Spring and Summer of 1922.
Hogan laid the foundation for one of
the principal arguments of the defense
when he questioned Bhoup about 29
offset wells which the Association Co.
had drilled along the border of the
naval reserve and a strip leased by the
; Standard Oil. It is the contention of
ithe defense that drilling was necessary
in the naval reserve to prevent complete
drainage of this oil by offset wells of
rival companies.
ZONE REGULATIONS
TO BE LINKED WITH
TAX ASSESSMENTS
(Continued From First Page.)
street, the Government itself should
recognize such restrictions when it
places a value on his property for taxa
tion purposes.
Co-ordination of assessment* with
zoning is to be in the hands of
Tax Assessor Richards, in whom the
| Commissioners have placed confidence.
The be sic value of zoning, it has been
pointed out. lies in its permanence,
despite the fact that change* in zoning
of individual parcels of land are chang
ed trom time to time, due to changing
condition* in the city’s growth.
One reason why assessors here and
in other cities have hesitated to give
weighty consideration to existing zon
ing aside from the possibility that
zoning restrictions might be changed,
! is that a developer may acquire a num
ber of residential properties, for ex
' ample, as the site for a large hotel or
! apartment site, which for such possible
I use, would have a greater market value
I oin as Individual home sites.
On the other hand, it is pointed out
i to The Star, the assessor then can
* revise upward his assessments on the
| assembled site for the tax levied dur
i ing the ensuing year,
i The situation, however, admittedly
presents a difficult problem to the as
| sessors Since sale prices in a section,
I the primary guide to the assessor, may
I definitely Indicate the pcsalbie future
use of a property in question, which,
they feel, should not be overlooked.
The possible serious conflict between
zoning restriction* and assessments is
strlktnglv llllfctrated in Washington in
the situs tioru on lower Sixteenth street.
It was revealed in the study made by
"rfli: 'Evmriim -stak, t>. r., ivitmpAT. octoker h. tecs.
BROOKHART MAKES
TARIFF CHARGES
Asserts Effort Is Being Made
to Reinsert Flexible
Provisions in Bill.
By the Ansoclsted Press.
Asserting an industrial lobby and the
press were striving to have the flexible
provisions reinserted in the bill. Senator
Brookhart. Republican, lowa, said in
the Senate today he would offer 100
amendments to the agriculture schedule
: and follow this up with a demand for j
I adoption of the export debenture plan J
i for handling farm crop surpluses.
Brookhart said some farm leaders
| either "thoughtlessly or designedly" |
Joined the Industrialists in a demand !
for the flexible tariff, which the Senate I
eliminated over the protest of President ]
Hoover.
“This they did,” he added, "in the
. face of the fact that in seven years
the Tariff Commission had given only
11 agricultural advances, and most of
these ineffective; also In spite of the
tact that the commission Is new and
will In the future be entirely con
trolled by the Industrial crowd and tbe
arch enemies of agricultural prosperity.”
Borah Off era Plan.
Senate leaders, gathering to work out
some means of ending the apparently
Interminable tariff debate, were con
fronted today with a ready-made solu-
I lion for their problem, which its author,
Borah of Idaho, claimed would bring
the measure to a final vote within (he
short space of 10 days.
His plan, however, was one to which
Chairman Smoot of the finance com
mittee and other Republican sponsor?
of the bill could hardly agree. For as
the method and price of auch an early
disposition of the much-argued legis
lation Borah called for unconditional
capitulation to the group of independ
ent Western Republicans and its firm
lntenton of rewriting the measure “in
accordance with the purpose for which
the special session was called.”
Regardless of the time that it takes,
he said, the independents, who in com
bination with the Democratic member
, ship have already shown their strength
In tariff matters, are determined to stick
doggedly to their task of producing a
tariff bill that they consider fair to the
agricultural industry.
Desire Speedy Agreement.
Contending that the House bill was a
serious violation of the purpose of the
special session and that the measure
now before the Senate is but “slightly
less so,” the Idahoan asserted that those
who are “seeking to change the bill are
not any more desirous of remaining in
prolonged session than those who
charge that we are employing delay
tactics.”
Amid gloomy predictions that the
tariff debate will encroach upon the
regular session beginning early in De
cember, Senator Smoot today called a
conference of Republican and Demo
cratic leaders in the hope of evolving
some scheme whereby m final vote may
be hastened. Those adked to join in the
discussion were Senator Watson of In
diana, the Republican leader; Robinson
of Arkansas, leader of the Democrats,
and Simmons of North Carolina, the
ranking minority metnbers of the
finance committee.
The fact that the democratic lead
ers were called into the conference was
regarded as an indication of the con
cern now felt by the sponsors of the
measure as to the outlook for its dis
position.
Forty Working Days Left.
As the situation now stands, the Sen
ate has less than 40 working days left
before the regular session is convened.
As yet, it has not acted upon a single
one of the multitude of rate changes
incorported in the b‘il, many of them
highly controversial. In addition, some
two dozen amendments to the adminis
trative provisions of the measure re
main to be acted upon before the spe
cific schedules can be reached.
In addition to Borah's pronounce
ment, which came last night, the week
end saw Its usual accumulation of tariff
statements.
One. by Senator Wheeler, Democrat,
Montana, issued through the Demo
cratic national committee, asserted that
Senator Watson could not have been in
earnest In predicting to President
Hoover that the tariff bill would fail.
The measure, he said, will not be writ
ten in the Senate or the House, but by
the conference committee representing
both branches of Congress. This will be
done regardless of the wishes of a ma
jority of the Senate, he continued, un
less the Democrats and independent
Republicans Insist upon naming the
Senate conferees.
“Menace to Producers.”
A statement from the American Tariff
League asserted that the leadership of
the Democratic independent Republican
coalition by Senator Harrison, Demo
crat, Mississippi, “constitutes the great
est menace to domestic producers—
labor, Industry and agrlculture-r-and
strikes at the welfare and well-being of
every American citizen.”
MRS. MCPHERSON'S
BODY IS EXHUMED;
PLANS KEPT SECRET
(Continued From First Page.)
nature of the trip or to aay to what
city he had been. It was believed, how
ever. that he probably had been at
Chester, S. C., to consult with A. Hurley,
Mrs. McPherson’s father.
Although the exhumation has aroused
the interest of the populace and resi
dents of the surrounding country are
anxiously awaiting the result of the
autopsy, few persons visited the grave
yesterday.
Local physicians apparently have not
been consulted in regard to aasisting in
the examination of the body. It is be
lieved that skilled medical assistance
will come from an outside source, pre
sumably Washington.
PROBE CONTINUER HERE.
/fume and New York Doctor Question
ed at Length.
The Department of Justice conttoued
today Its examination of witnesses con
nected with the preliminary investiga
tion of the McPherson case.
Among these was Miss Martha Berry,
nurse, who was a close friend of Mrs.
McPherson. Miss Berry previously had
been questioned by justice agents on
several occasions. She declined to dis
cuss with reporters the reason for her
latest visit to the department.
Miss Berry was one of the principal
witnesses before the grand Jury which
indicted Robert A. McPherson. Jr., for
the murder of his wife. She is said to
have given information concerning sev
eral alleged attempts of Mrs. McPher
son to end her life. The grand Jury
apparently was not Impressed by the
reports of Mrs. McPherson’s previous
suicidal tendencies, for It discarded the
suicide theory and held she had been
strangled to death by her husband.
Miss Berry and Dr. Thomas Ballard,
another former friend of tIK dead girl,
were questioned at length fMtiurday at
the Department of Justice, jit was un
derstood that Dr. Ballard was back hi
FOX URGES TALKIES
10 HELP WIN
| Plans to Put Sound Fi'ms in
All Schools, Churches and
Homes in 25 Years.
Bt th* Associated Preen.
NEW YORK. Octoby V 4 program j
! for the expenditure of $9,000,000 during 5
J the next 25 years to put talking pic- |
: turci into every schoolroom, church and
1 home In the country was announced to- !
day by William Fox, motion picture I
producer and theater owner.
The announcement was made by Mr. !
Pox in connection with the celebration
of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his
entrance into the motion picture
business.. 4“. «
Another feature of his plan Is the
recording on talking picture films of
major operations accompanied by a lec
ture by a specialist for the .use of medi
cal students, doctors and surgeons.
Mr. Pox said that a system of visual- ]
oral education made possible by films '
would cut the present six-hour school 1
day in half.
“We shall try to install a talking pic
ture projection machine in every class
room in the country. We shall get the
\ best available persons to record a series
of lectures on celluloid and distribute
them widespread. On the theory that
one picture is the equivalent of eight
words and that each word uttered by
a proved educator Is greater in effect
than that, it Is easily understandable
how valuable a lesson in geography or
arithmetic would be to the student.
This is easily appreciated when such
men as President Butler of Columbia.
I President Lowell of Harvard or Dr.
Hibben of Princeton or any other great
educator lectures on. a subject irt which
he is well versed.
“On the theory that every man,
women and child will be a finer citizen
if a Ood-fearing one, we shall make i
talking pictures of the great religious
leaders to be shown on screens in every j
church.”
Pox predicted that his plan would j
cause the 15.000,000 church seats in the ,
country to be filled each Sunday where
now 15 per cent of them are vacant, j
He said his plan for films in schools
would permit 15.000,000 to 20.000.000 !
school children to spend more time ,
out-of-doors when the sun was at Us ;
height.
HEFLIN DEMANDS
SCRIVENER PROBE
ON SENATE FLOOR
■ i
(Continued Prom First Page.)
and it is virtually certain that nothing
will be done until he arrives.
All Indications are that the immedite
work of th? subcommittee will be to get
the official information requested by
Senator Blease regarding the death of
Lee King, a Chinese, who was found
shot on the street several months ago.
Senator Blease also wants Immediate
action to find out how permits to carry
weapons in Washington are Issued.
These are the matters Senator Blease I
will take up'with Chairman. Sackett as!
soon as the latter returns. What the !
subcommittee will do with regard to the
proper time for beginning an investiga
tion into police handling of the Mc-
Pherson case is not likely to be de
cided until Senator Sackett has a meet
ing of the subcommittee.
"TerriMe Condition In Capital.•
After having expressed his views on
the management of the Fall case, Sen
ator Heflin said:
"My God, if these things continue at
the Capital, if criminals can go free as
they have been going and murder con
tinues rampant in the Capital, it will
not be a safe place in which to live,
very long. We hgve got a terrible con
dition in this Capital. The President
owes it to the Nation to have a house
cleaning; he ought to go through these
courts, ransack them and clean them
out. The Police Department needs in-;
vestigation.
"Now -ve are coming this morning ■
with a suggestion from an old man I
whose son, a bright, fine policeman !
Scrivener, was murdered in this city j
and this same bunch that covers up !
crime so rapidly, said he committed |
suicide. His old father comes and asks j
them to investigate the death of his
boy and he is told by the same group
as they told this fine Policeman Allen j
and the others who wanted to in
vestigate the McPherson murder, to '
forget it.”
When Senator Heflin told Senator i
Blease that he hoped the Scrivener case
would be gone into, Senator Blease
replied:
“I wish to say to the Senator from
j Alabama that I do not thing anybody
l doubts that Scrivener was murdered
1 except the man who murdered him.
] and I think there are certain people
| connected with the Police Department
! who know absolutely w-ho did murder
him.”
Walsh and Heflin Clash.
When Senator Heflin began talking
about the Fall trial now in progress, at
the opening of his speech. Senator
Walsh. Democrat, of Massachusetts,
asked Senator Heflin if he had con
sidered the possibility “of anything that
might be said upon the floor of the
Senate being a ground for the grant
ing of a new trial.”
Senator Heflin replied he did not
think so.
“If this case follows the course that
others have followed, it will not make
any difference what occurs here or any
where else,” Senator Heflin added.
Allen Calls on Senators.
Policeman Robert J. Allen, who con
ducted a single-handed investigation of
the death of Virginia McPherson and
charged that she was murdered, called
on Senators Blease and Copeland, mem
bers of the District committee, which
will investigate the Police Department,
this morning. He said he went there
to urge the committee to proceed with
the investigation so far as it concerns th*
McPherson case. Allen declared that
he did not think the investigation in
so far as his charges were concerned
would influence the trial of Robert A.
McPherson. Jr., on a charge of murder.
Scrivener's mother, confined to her
home in Winchester. Va„ by illness, de
clared today that she was approached
by two newspapermen from Washing
ton who suggested that she and her
husband seek to have the inquiry re
opened in view of the recent police de
velopments here. She said she con
-1 sented to the use of her name.
»
AIR PILOT DIES IN CRASH.
j Sport Model Plana Drops From Al
titude of Only 50 Feet.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va.. October 14
I <JP). —John H. “ike” Stewart, 38, Cin
-1 cinnati pilot, was killed yesterday when
■1 his plane crashed on the Huntington
1 Airfield at Chesapeake. Ohio.
Stewart’* small sport model plane
fell from an altitude of only approxi
mately 50 feet while he was endeavor
i ing to perform a barrel roll in connec
-1 ilon with a stunting program at the
' field.
Btewart, who wa* to have performed
the same stunt at Cincinnati tomorrow
, in connection with the arrival there of
, the national air tour, was married and
the father of four children.
He waa employed as a sales repre
-1 scutatlve and test pilot for the Mono
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These brothers, John Mulligan. 8, and James Mulligan. 7, on October 11
: confessed with blase unconcern to the killing of Albert Mikenas, 3, in a Connec
ticut marsh on July 27 last. “He fascinated us,” the younger brother explained
; simply. Photo shows the two Mulligan boys.
SOVIET FLYERS
REACH SEATTLE
Exhausted After Battling
i Headwinds From Waterfall,
Alaska, to Seattle.
By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE. Wash., October 14—Safe
in Seattle after a hazardous flight from
Moscow, four Russian aviators today
| disclosed that they were considering a
| transatlantic flight as a sequel to their
present undertaking, which will be com*
pleted when they reach New York.
Worn out by a 1,000-mlle flight from :
Waterfall, Alaska, during which their ,
plane, Land of the Soviets, battled a
35-mlle-an-hour head wind, the four ;
aviators reached here at dusk yesterday. !
As they rested from the trip, S. A.j
Shestakov, chief pilot of the plane, re-1
vealed that a hop across the Atlantic I
was under consideration.
Expect t« Fly ta Moscow.
If the Russians cross the Atlantic ‘
they expect to continue on to Moscow
irom the west by air, thus making a
i complete round-the-world flight.
The hop from Waterfall took 10 hours 1
and 7 minutes. Navigator Boris V. j
Sterlingov said the plane glided into
the air at Waterfall at 7:20 a.m.. Pacific
standard time, and reached here at
; 5:30 p.m. Most of the way the ship
I cleared the waves at an elevation of
only 15 feet because of the fog and
{ head winds. The maximum elevation
; was less than 1,000 feet. The plane
’ followed the Irregular shore line all the
| way, thereby flying almost twice the
\ airline distance , from Waterfall to
i Seattle.
Invitation From Ford.
' Work will begin immediately on the
removal of the pontoons and the sub
' stltutkm of land gear on the plane,
j Inspection of the motors will determine
! whether the stop here will be more
than three days before the flight to
San Francisco. From San Francisco
the flyers plan to fly to Cheyenne, Wyo.;
Chicago, Dearborn and New York.
The aviators have received a special
invitation to visit Henry Ford at
Dearborn, they disclosed.
Since their departure from Moscow
the fliers have been In the air about
100 hours for the 10,000-odd miles.
The Russians made known that they
were anxious to talk with President
Hoover and Mr. Ford.
“We hear a great deal in Russia
about two famous American engineers
—Ford and Hoover,” said one of the
four. “We hope to be fortunate enough I
to meet both.”
If the Atlantic flight is undertaken '
it will be a non-stop attempt from Nrw
York to Parts, Shestakov said. From
Paris the Russians would complete their
air Journey around th« world by the
regular European routes. The Atlantic
hop would be the most ambitious of
their flights, as the greatest distance
covered heretofore in a single hop was
about 1,700 miles from Moscow to Omsk,
which was negotiated in 13 hours.
Land of the Soviets Log.
August 23 —Left Moscow.
August 24—Arrived Kurgan, Siberia.
August 26—Arrived in Novo-Slbirsk,
Siberia.
August 27—Arrived in Irkutsk. Siberia.
September I—Arrived1 —Arrived in Chita, Si
beria.
September 2—Arrived in Blagove
schensk, Siberia.
September 3—Arrived in Khabarovsk,
Siberia (delayed nine days, while wheels
were replaced with pontoons).
September 12—Arrived in Nlkolayevsk,
Siberia.
September 18 —Arrived in Petropav
lovsk, Kamchatka, Siberia.
September 21 —Arrived at Attu, Aleu
tian Islands.
September 24—Arrived in Dutch Har
bor. Unalaska Island, Alaska.
September 27—Arrived in Seward,
first stop on Alaskan mainland.
September 29 —Arrived in Sitka,
capital of Alaska during Russian oc
cupation.
October 3—Arrived at Waterfall,
Alaska, being forced down by motor
I trouble. Delayed nine days while new
motor installed.
October 12 —Arrived at Seattle.
POLO TROPHY AS GIFT.
1 Argentinian Attache’s Donation
for U. 8. Army Competition.
B r the Aieoclsted Press.
Lieut. Col. Angel Maria Zuloga, mili
tary attache from Argentina to the
United States, has donated a polo
trophy to the Army to be known as the
“Argentine Army Trophy," to be con
tested for annually by milltaty polo
teams in the vicinity of Washington.
The trophy, which is a handsome stiver
eup, is the peVMfaal gift of Col. Zuloga.
It will be presetted to Gen. Charles P.
Summerall, chief of staff, Wednesday
GIRL STRANGLED
ON NIGHT PARTY
Man Companion Held on
Charges of Slain Wom
an's Friend.
By th* Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 14—The price
John Preston was paying today for a
Saturday night party with two young
woman companions was jail and a mur
der charge against him. One of the
young women, Miss Agnes Johnston, 26
years old, was dead: She had been at
tacked. then strangled. ' ,
Preston, who is married, denied
; knowledge of how Miss Johnston was
1 killed. Two men held them up, he said,
and drove away with her. v
* 'Miss Johnston’s body was found in si
I clump of bushes not far from the spot
: where Preston's rented automobile had
been abandoned. It was on a little-used
! roadway near West Chicago. The young \
woman had been severely beaten. There j
| were finger marks on her neck.
Consin Tells Events.
! Miss Mathilda Murphy, cousin of Miss j
Johnston and her companion on the
Saturday night party, told of events
preceding the slaying.
They had gone with Preston, she
said, only after much Insistence, and
they became alarmed at his behavior
after he had several drinks at a road
house.
Upon their demand that he take them
home, all three got into the car. Preston,
Miss Murphy said, continued his ob
jectionable manner, and both women
leaped from the machine and ran. Miss
Murphy escaped, although Preston
struck her in the face, she said.
Girl Carried to Car.
When she picked herself up Preston j
, was carrying the struggling Johnston :
girl to the car, and shortly afterward
he drove away.
Preston was arrested several hours
later, long before the body of Miss
Johnston was found, because of suspi
cion aroused by his bruised and
scratched face. Police were questioning
him when Miss Murphy reported the
Johnston girl missing. A search led to
the abandoned automobile and then
to the girl's body.
BOARD DESIGNATES
FARM COMMODITIES
Ten Products and Groups»Listed.
Data Awaited for
More.
j iy th* Associated Press.
Ten products and groups of prod
ucts have been designated as agricul
tural commodities by the Federal Farm
Board under the provisions of the ag
ricultural marketing act.
The designations were made to as
sist the board in dealing with co-oper
atives and other marketing organiza
tions handling the various crops. The
board later will designate additional
agricultural commodities when suf
ficient Information is available upon
which to act.
Those designated are:
Cotton, dairy products, including fluid
milk, cream, cheese, condensed milk,
butter, Ice cream, evaporated milk,
whole and skim milk powder; grains,
including wheat, rye. corn, oats, bar
ley, flax, grain sorghums and buck
wheat: rice, live stock, wood and mohair,
tobacco, poultry and eggs, seeds, includ
ing alfalfa, clover, timothy, red top and
grass and other field seeds, and potatoes.
DYNAMITE BLAST KILLS
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
Several of Hiking Party Injured I
by Explosion, Which, as Yet,
Is Unexplained.
By the Associated Press.
WASHBURN. Wis., October 14.
Tragedy marked the climax of a high
school hiking party yesterday afternoon (
when a stick of dynamite exploded, kill
ing one student and injuring three
other persons.
Walker McManus, 16, high school j
sophomore, who carried the dynamite,
was killed. Those Injured were Mrs.
Leora Watson, local high school teacher,
who had chaperoned the party; Dolly
Holman, 16, and Gertrude Peterson, 17,
Juniors.
What caused the dynamite to explode
has not been determined, but It Is be
lieved it was set off when McManus
M’DONALD STARTS I
ON WTO CANADA
British Premier Leaves New I
York for Conference With
Dominion Leader.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 14.—Premier j,
j J. Ramsay Macdonald of Great Britain !'
i bade New York adieu today and de- j i
i parted on a special train over the New ]
York Central Railroad, en route to ;
Canada, where he will confer personally
with Premier Mackenzie King.
Refreshed somewhat from his two ]
days of comparative rest, following his ,
arduous official visits in Washington
and New York, the British premier and <
his daughter, Miss Ishbel, were driven i
to the Grand Central Terminal from ;
j their hotel, to bl greeted by a large ;
j crowd. A squad of motor cycle police, :
i sirens screeching, formed an escort.
Pose for Cameramen.
They faced the inevitable battery
of cameramen and smilingly posed for
pictures while spectators applauded.
Soon afterward the premier and his
party boirded their train, which pulled
out of the terminal at 8:30 o’clock.
The train is due at Buffalo shortly ,
after 5 o'clock this afternoon. After
viewing Niagara Palls, tomorrow the
premier will cross the International
Bridge and then go by special train
to Toronto, where he will greet Can
ada’s premier.
A statement bearing on the recent
negotiations for a better understanding
between Great Britain and the United
States is expected later in the week,
but the nature of ft has been carefully
guarded.
When the premier and his daughter
arrived at the station they were greeted
by Sir Harry Armstrong. British con
; sul general, and Lady Armstrong, who
presented th members of the British
consulate and their Wives to the prime
minister and his daughter.
Mr. Macdonald wore a suit of brown
tweed, while Miss Ishbel was costumed
in a traveling suit of black kasha topped
by a red velvet hat.
leaves New York With Regrets.
Just before the train pulled out of
the station Sir Harry Armstrong led
the crowd in a vociferous demonstration
for the prime minister.
The train, which was decorated with
British and American flags and chry
santhemums. was made up chiefly of
private cars belonging to the railroad
officials.
A double file of 200 policemen formed
a line from the Vanderbilt avenue en
trance of the terminal to the train
through which the premier and his
party passed.
"I leave New York with regrets—
great regrets,” the premier told report
ers Just before boarding the train. He
said that he expected to give his fare
well message to America after his ar
rival in Buffalo.
Mr. Macdonald and Mr. King win
talk Thursday at Mr. Kings country
property at Kingsmore in a rustic j
atmosphere, reminiscent of that sur- I
rounding those with President Hoover i
in the Virginia mountains Just a weex
ago yesterday.
Mr. Macdonald regards it as fortu
nate that he will have the opportunity
of talking directly with Prime Minister
King, thus avoiding long-distance nego
tiations through the usual channels.
i The British statesman is a strong be
liever in personal contact and he em
phasized this in some of his New York
addresses after he had taken leave of
the President at Washington.
Dees Mere in Less Time.
The prime minister told one of his
audiences that he and Mr. Hoover had
accomplished as much in four days of
personal conversations as eould have
been accomplished in as many months
through the medium of'formal diplo
matic exchanges.
I Some of his friends think he might
! have gone even further and said that
| more was accomplished than could have
been attained through the usual chan- j
nels. because the personal meetings ad- i
mltted of a frankness of speech that
otherwise would have been well nigh
impossible.
Mr. Macdonald will spend most of
tomorrow in inspecting the American
side of the falls and visiting Goat Island
and other points of interest.
Four Brief Stops Planned.
Traveling northward on a special
train over the New York Central, the
prime minister arranged for brief stops
at Albany, Utica, Syracuse and Rocehs-
I ter before the train reaches Buffalo.
I The party will motor from Buffalo to
| Black Rock and then to Niagara Falls
j ar. guests of the State Reservation Com
-1 mission. "
Crossing the International Bridge
late tomorrow afternoon the prime
minister and his party will board a
special train over the Canadian Na
tional Railways at 3:30 p.m. for the
three-hour run to Toronto. The special
will leave that city Wednesday evening
and arrive at Ottawa the next morning
at 8:30 a.m., with Prime Minister King
to greet Mr. Macdonald at the train.
Besides Mr. Macdonald and Miss Ish
bel, those going to Canada are Lord >
Arnold, paymaster general of Great j
Britain and a personal friend of the .
prime minister: Sir Robert Vansittart,
principal secretary to the premier and;
undersecretary of state for foreign af
fairs; R. L. Craigie, counsellor of the;
foreign office; Thomas Jones, deputy i
secretary to the cabinet, and Miss
Rosenberg, secretary to the prime
minister.
CAMPBELL TRANSFERRED.
Quartermaster Corps Captain Is!
Sent to Fort Meade.
Capt. Stuart D. Campbell, Quarter
master Corps, a member of the Ameri
can Graves Registration Service in
Paris, who is accompanying the bodies
of American soldiers from Russia to the
United States for reburial at Detroit,
Mich., has been ordered to take station
at Fort George G. Meade, Md., on the
completion of that duty: Capt. Clarence |
U. Snider, Medical Corps, at Fort
George G. Meade, has been ordered |
to Fort Mclntosh, Tex.; Maj. Francis'
P. Hardaway, Coast Artillery Corps,
from New York City to St. Louis; Capt.
Ray S. Perrin, Field Artillery, from !
Boise, Idaho, to San Francisco: Capt.
Sumner H. Needham, Field Artillery,
from Fort Sam Houston, Tex., to Fort
Sill, Okla.
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PLANES IN MANEUVER
25,000 FEET IN Alfl
Using supercharged motors and oxygen
equipment, pilots of the 91st Pursuit
Squadron, Army Air Corps, at Rockwell
Field, Calif., have carried on military
pursuit maneuvers at an altitude of
25.000 feet, or nearly 5 miles above sea
level, according to a report received here
by Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, chief of
the Air Corps.
The planes were put through q&nbat
maneuvers by Lieut. Kirtley J. Gregg
and Lieut. Irving A. Woodring as a test
of the capabilities of the standard Army
pursuit planes at the extreme altitudes
! which would prevail in the case of an
j other war. Machine gun fire and fuel
consumption were tested under service
conditions.
. Twenty-five thousand feet la above
the normal range of the P-1 type of
pursuit plane used in the tests. Through
the use of supercharged motors the
pilots wergAble to push the service ceil
ing of ttvSlittle fighting planes from
21,000 feet to a point far above the nor
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ORDERS CHANGE
IN TRACTION BOOKS
Utilities Body’s Decision De
signed to Obtain Uni
formity in Accounting.
The Public Utilities Commission to
day ordered the Capital Traction and
Washington Railway St Electric Co.s to
make substantial changes In their
methods of accounting, principally with
reference to the capital account of each
concern. The changes are in matters
of substance and in matters of detail.
In the former the Washington Railway
St Electric Co. will be required to make
the more radical changes in its pres
ent methods, as the Capital Traction
Co.’s methods are close to the stand
ards set up by the commission. In the
latter both companies are equally af
fected. The order takes effect Janu
ary 1, 1929. The chief object sought
by the order is uniformity of account
ing among the two companies; and in
that respect the order is one of the
first fruits of the recent car fare hear
ings. at which it was next to impossible
adequately to compare figures submit
ted by the accountants of the respec
tive companies, owing to varying inter
pretations given by the companies to
accounts of the same name.
Most Substantial Changes.
The most substantial changes ordered
were; ‘
r. Expenditures for buying property
must be accounted for on the basis of
actual cost.
2. In the case of the retirement of
any piece of property other than land
and its replacement with a new piece
of property, the new property shall be
considered a betterment, and capital
account shall be charged with the en
tire cost of the new property.
3. The cost of the property replaced,
less salvage value, if any, but includ
ing cost of overheads, shall then be
retired from the account.
The commission ordered that any re-
I placement of all or substantially all of
> underground conduit single track 250
feet or more in length, or an overhead
trolley track 500 feet or more in length
shall constitute a renewal of property
as provided for above. Salvage re
maining in old property replaced is to
be considered either as the net amount
received by the company for selling it
as scrap, or its value to the company
based on a “fair market price.”
Allowed Extra Labor Charge.
The companies are allowed to charge
an extra amount for labor on track re
newal work done in daytime under
traffic, which is normally considerably
more costly than work done otherwise.
This amount is to be credited to the
cost of the Job and charged to the ap
propriate operating cost account.
The companies are allowed to set up
a uniform percentage to be added to
the cost of work under non-traffic con
i ditions to represent the cost under traf
| fle conditions, but if they elect to use
I this method, thej* must inform the
commission of the manner in which
they reached their percentage figure.
The companies are required to keep
separate the cost of retiring tt.e old
property and the cost of installing the 1
new. Where in the nature of the case
this cannot be done, they are required
to assign the costs by estimate under
certain restrictions.
The amount to be retired from capital
account for any retirement is the actual .
ledger value of the property to be re
tired. Where the property is so old that
it cannot be determined exactly from
the books, then the figure used shall
correspond with that in the inventory
of property made by the commissions
engineers when the companies were
valued. If this figure is not available, a
careful estimate must be made. In all
cases of retirements, the figure at which
the property is retired must include
overheads. The retirement of overheads
in retirement ccsts has not been prac
! ticed by the companies heretofore, and
according to Commissioner Harleigh H.
Hartman there are doubtless numerous
unidentifiable cases of amounts left ip
capital account that should have been
taken out in the way of overheads on
retired property.
Mr. Hartman explained that the chief
difference in accounting method be
tween the two companies was that the
Capital Traction Co. cleared practically
everything through capital account and
the Washington Railway St Electric Co.
through operating expenses. The new
system, he said, will lean more to the
Capital Traction's method. The require
ment that all additions must be made
through capital account at actual cost,
will also tend to make the campanies*
capital accounts more nearly approach
a reproduction estimate of the value of
their physical property.
AUSTRALIA LABOR
VICTORY CONFIRMED
! Party Apparently Has Won 44 of
I 75 Seats, Although Figures
Are Incomplete.
I By (he Associated Press.
MELBOURNE. Australia. October 14.
—Continued tabulations of returns from
the general elections of yesterday con
firmed the Labor victory, but the final
! figures still were unavailable late last
night.
It appeared that Labor had won 44
of the 75 seats in the new House. Na
tionalists 16. the Country party 10. In
dependent Nationalists 3, with two other
seats held by other Independents. Some
ministers of the late Nationalist gov
ernment were defeated, and it was not
even certain whether former Premier
S. M. Bruce would be elected.
Although It appeared that James
Henry Scullln. the Labor leader, who
I will be the next prime minister, would
have a workable majority in the House,
the Labor government is not likely to
be able to indulge in extremist legis
lation. because there still is a strong
I Nationalist majority Senate.
The chief issue of the election was
the attempt of the Nationalist goveri
ment to modify the present arbitration
system for labor disputes in away
which the Labor party contended re
vealed an aim to reduce wages.
Two former Labor state premiers
were elected, and probably will be con
sidered in the formation of the cabi
net. They are former Premier E. G.
Theodore of Queensland and former
Premier J. A. Lyons of Tasmania.
Observers today were speculating as
to the attitude in the coming session
of three former Nationalists who helped
to defeat the last government. These
were William M. Hughes, war-time
prime minister: Lieut. Walter Marks
and George A. Maxwell.
Three of the ministers in the last
cabinet were believed to have lost their
seats. They were Postmaster General
W. G. Gibson. Minister of Health Sir
Nevile Howse and Minister for Home
Territories C. W. Marr.
TOWBOAT STRIKE OFF.
NEW YORK, October 14 oP)._Union
towboat workers at a meeting last night
voted down a strike proposal and agreed
to accept a new agreement offered by
the New York Towboat Exchange, Inc.
The agreement provides for a $%
monthly increase for crews, *lO toW
officers, increased pay for overtime and
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