Evening star., 1925-09-20

| pIele ana positive answer 10 CTillCs
of the United States air service. While
naval board of inquiry will get under
way at Lakehurst, n. j., tomorrow tc
determine the causes leading to col
lapse of the dirigible Shenandoah, the
| Presidents special board of inquiry
will open public hearings at the Capi
tai here. Assembling at the White
House last Thursday, this board went
over the general subject of the in
I quiry with President Coolidge, and
chose as It's chairman Dwight w. Nor
row, financier of New York. Col. VIII
liam Mitchell, whose sensational
charges stirred up the whole aircraf,
controversy. will probably be star
witness before both investigating com
mittees. Naval officers may object to
! his testimony before the Lakehurst
| board, however, claiming that he
knows little Of lighter-than-air craft
and that what he had to say would
| not be the opinion of an expert.
| The routine machinery which will
prepare for his courts-martial is oper.
ating now, and the War Department
expects to have it's case against him
completed soon. The trial probably
VIII await the completion of the in
| vestigation by the Presidents board
however.
Shapurji Saklatvala. a Communist
| member of the British House of Com.
| mons, cannot come to the United
states as delegate to the Interparlia.
mentary Union. which opens it's ses.
sions here at the Capital, September
80. Secretary of State Kellogg so de-
clded last week, when he ordered SAX.
latVala's passport Cancelled, on the al.
legatlon that the Communist had
threatened to spread his propaganda
here. Members of the British delega.
| tion who had declared they would not
come to the union because Saklatyala
was coming, have since declared thew
would come. as the Objectionable mem.
| Der has been removed. Secretary keI
| logg reached his decision against the
| advice of Chairman Borah of the Sen.
| ate foreign relations committee. who
| thought 1t would be best to let the man
| come and then expel him from the
country If he violated our laws.
A case Of much interest to organ
| lzed labor was decided in the Police
| Court of the District last week when
woman. charged with picketing a
non-unlon store, was fined $40 for
| violating section of the District code
Whlch prohibits interfering with in.
! tended customers of a store. The de
! 1endant, 1t Is charged, displayed a
| banner and walked up and down in
| front of the store, advising passers
| ny tnat the store was a non-unfon
establishment. The Police Court over.
ruled contentious of the defense coun
sci that picketing was permitted under
| the Clayton act. and decided the case
solely on the ground that 1t violated
| a SPECIFIC police regulation. Labor
| may appeal the case to higher courts
| A report of an impartial investiga
| ton of how prohibition works in the
United States. released in sections to
! the newspapers last week by the Fed
eral Council Of Churches, which made
/ the investigation, aroused the ire OF
| dry leaders and failed to show any
| tnlng specinc as concerns the prob
| able fate Of prohibition in the coun
| try. Reaching general conclusions
! winch showed some benefits and about
| as many disadvantages of prohibition
the report was answered by Clarence
! true wilson, general secretary of the
| poard or temperance, prohibition and
public morals of the Methodist Church
VINO declared, in effect. that whoever
| wrote the report of the investigation
| could claim compensation from the
| vets
Brig. Gen. Smedley Butler. who
| t"o years dS director oil
| public safety of Philadelphia in De
| cember, said last week that his work
| has made him believe that "in the
! long run bootleggers and crooks are
| going to be defeated in this country
| That will be only when the people
| avoid petty law breaking themselves.
/ Gen. Butler has admitted that his
much advertised efforts to clean ur
| Philadelphia have been unsuccessful
1 fDiI
cooperation from the citizens.
| Prince Ahmed Self Ell Dine. brother
in-law of the King of Egypt, who
escaped some weeks ago from a pri.
| vate sanitarium in England, where he
had been confined for % years, has
been located at the home of a rela.
tive near Constantinople. He will be
examined by alienists of the Turkish
government. it is stated. and IL found
sane will lay claim to fortune OF
| more than SIS, 900, which is be Ing
held in trust for him in England.
Although President Mustapha he
| NAL of Turkey has divorced his wife
from whom he is credited with hav
| ing received his rather advanced ideas
! concerning the modern woma n his di
vorce has failed to change his ideas
and last week addressing a large audi
| ence he urged the women of Turkey
to "show their faces to the world
| and throw aside the veil which years
| of tradition and custom have forced
upon them.
Every hour Of the day meant the
death Of two persons from automobile
| accidents last year, a report of the
I National Safety Council, prepared fol-
it's consideration at the coming ma
tional congress reveals. America &
! death rate from automobiles leads the
world with 14.8 fatalities for every
| 100000 of population. This figure is
compared with the casualty rate of Sc
| in England, 4.3 in Scotland. 4.6 in
New Zealand and 3.6 in Canada.
Lieut.. Alvord J. Williams. nava
aviation pilot and picked by the Navy
| to fly in the Pulitzer airplane races
| next month, set an unofficial world
record for speed last week when he
! flew a specially constructed Curtiss
! racer at the rate of five miles min
| ute or 305 miles an hour. The rec
| ord, which is not counted as such
was made while testing out the plane
| which he is to fly.
Politics.
Politicians and the plain. everyday
voters were digesting the results of
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