Evening star., 1925-09-06

in mid-air of the American n-built
derigible, the Shena ndoah. and the
other the failure of an attempted non
stop fight to Hawaii from San Fran
cisco and the resulting loss, so far,
of the flagship OF the flight, the
PN-9, No. l.
The Shenandoah, proceeding from
Lakehurst early Thursday morning on
visit to Midwestern cities, ran into
squall over Ohio and the giant ship
broke into three pieces. Fourteen
men and officers, including Comdr.
Zachary Lansdowne, were killed.
Thirteen of the dead were in the con
troll car of the ship. which, breaking
loose from the gas bag, crashed sew
eral feet to earth. One other man
lost his life when a rope to which
he held broke, and he fell alone to
earth, Those who survived the wreck
brought the gas bag to which they
hung safely down to earth.
The Pms, No. /, containing the
flight comma nder of the Hawaiian eX-
pertinent, apparently gave out of fuel
200 miles from her destination, and
was forced to the water. A tropical
storm interfered with efforts to locate
the plane, although the search is
being continued.
One of the most interesting after
maths of these two tragedies came
Yesterday, when Col William Mitchell
Of the Army Air Service issued q
statement fixing responsibility for
both accidents upon IA policy which
he declares is fixed by non-hying Off
GERS of both the Navy and Army air
services. His strong statement, which
was issued in defiance of orders for
bidding him TO talk on controversial
subjects without consulting his superb
Rret fc I'D To In,
strong disciplinary measures against
the colonel.
President Coolidge has asked Bert
f. Haney. a commissioner of the
United States Shipping Board, to re-
sign, but Mr.. Haney has declined
to do so, giving as his reason that the
Presidents request seemed to charge
him with breach of faith Mr.. Ha-
ney has made efforts to have the
Shipping Board displace Admiral
Leigh FImer as president OF the
Fleet Corporation, which brought
about Hfs break with the President.
Mr.. HAhey has indicated that he is
willing 10 resign when the President
allows MIN to do so with clean bill
of health. He is a Democrat. and
was appointed by President Harding
in 1928. Under the law a Shipping
Board commissioner may be removed
only for cause, such as malfeasance,
neglect or incompetence.
Uncle Sam opened his taxpayers
private accounts with him last Tues
day and the juicy morsels for gossip
over the neXt-door neighbor's financial
state OF health were eagerly grabbed
up by waiting newspaper men who
sent them in for publication in end
less columns. The fact that the United
States Supreme Court held that news
apers could legally print the lists
this year led to even wider publication
of the tax returns than marked their
publicity last year President Cool
idge and other officials of the Gov
ernment have indicated that an effort
will be made a the next Congress
either to have the law repealed or re-
vised TO prohibit promiscuous publ
cation of the figures.
The largest individual taxpayer
was John ID. Rockefeller, jT., who paid
S6.277 ,669. The Ford Motor Company
led the list of industrial establish
ments with a tax payment totaling
SIC, ,493 100.
The brother-in-law of the King of
Egypt. confined in Il private sani
tarium for 25 years by the British
government, escaped last week, and
efforts by scotland Yard detectives to
find him have been unaYailinS. In
1898 Prince Ahmed Seifeddin fired
upon his brother-in-law, the present
King of Egypt, and wounded him. He
was tried and brought to England,
where he was placed in a Sanitarium.
Relatives recently have been petition
ing the British government TO release
III, ID hal har
was made with their assistance.
Speaking before the Association of
States Attorneys General, meeting in
Detroit last week, W. J. Donovan, as
sistant to the Attorney General, de-
clared that the Government is pre-
pared to move swiftly and effect
ually" against trade associations which
violate the antitrust laws. Decisions
of the Supreme Court. he said, have
so clearly laid down the rights to or
ganize that there can no longer be
feasible pleas of uncertainty"
A political dispute in Nicaras ia
where political disputes are the usual
thing, resulted last week in the proc
lamatfon of a state of siege and a re-
quest by the president for the resig-
nation of the command of the fort
ress and garrison in Managua. The
dispute is over the fact that TiNe~al le
have been included in the cabinet of
President SolorZano, ConservativeRe Re
publican.
The council of the League of Ma
tions met at Geneva last week under
the presidency of Aristide BRAND,
French foreign minister. The most
important subject before the league Is
the dispute between Great Britain and
Turkey over the Mosul oil region. This
territory, formerly Turkish, now
comes within the borders of Mesopo-
tamia, over which Great Britain
holds a mandate, according to British
claims. The Turks, however, deny
this. Other reports of interest which
are to come before the league include
one on an International plan for dis
aSter relief and a proposal to subSti-
tute in Persia some crop which will
take the place of the opium poppy and
thus eliminate the present overpro-
duction of the drug.
T. f. Stettinius, a. partner in the
banking firm Of ]. P. Morgan & Co.,
and who. as purchasing agent for the
British and French governments for
munitions in the United States prior
to this country's entrance into the
World War, attained the unique dis
tinction of having performed the
largest transaction in all business,
died in New York last week. 1t was
said by his associates that one of the
guiding principles in his business life
was that a transaction which did not
benefit both parties was a bad one.
Problems presented by the multi
plicity of laws, encroachments on lib
erty of learning, inadequate payment
of judges and the necessity for proper