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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

Robert de Bruce Council of Kadosh
will hold its statutory assembly at the
Scottish Rite Cathedral Third and E
streets northwest, Tuesday evening,
when also the twenty-second degree,
Knight of the Royal Axe, Prince of
Libanus," will be presented, with
Marx e. Kahn, X. C. c. H., as vener.
able chief, and Joseph Solomon. thirty.
second degree, as senior warden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

Bethlehem Chapter, No. Z, will cele-
brate it's birthday anniversary Tues
day evening with a special entertain
ment, under the direction Of Mrs. Lii
lie Hall. The honor guests will be
Grand Matron Lena D. Stephenson
and Grand Patron j. Ernest Dulin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

Naomi Chapter, No. s. will meet
next Wednesday. After the meeting
the chapter will be entertained and
refreshments will be served. The
chapter will visit Brightwood ChaI ter
IN a body January q.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

In lieu Of the regular January meet
ing of the Women's Eastern Star
Club, United States Treasury Depart.
ment. called of on account of the re-
cent Grand Chapter session a special
meeting will be. held Tuesday at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

The first dance of the new year OF
Brigbtwood Commandery drill team
will be given at Brightwood Masonic
Temple. Georgia and Colorado ave
nues, Thursday evening, WIN oahc!hs
from $40 to IL o'clock Durlng we
danca interuaissions special entertatn~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

Matron Celia M. Hines of Miriam
Chapter announces the degrees will
be conferred tomorrow evening by the
new officers. A card party will" be
held February 16 at pm. at the
Colonial Hotel, Fifteenth and NJ
streets,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

st. Johns Lodge, No. IL, will pre-
sent the degree Friday evening, with
Junior Warden Stanley ID. WINS IN
the asst. assisted by Junior Deacon
Theodore c, Lewis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

Hilliard c. Myers, master of Har-
mony Lodge, announces that Past
Grand Master Roe Fulkerson will
speak on Personality in the lodge
room Wednesday evening, previous to
the degree work, in which Senior
Warden George c. Ober, jr., will head
the official line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

Mizpah Chapter, No. s, met Tuesday
and conferred the degrees. Associate
Grand Matron Mrs. Sallye G. Bogley
and Associate Grand Patron Dow
were present. Refreshments were
served The auxiliary home board
will have a supper January 20 in the
hall at 7:30 pm. The chapter will
hold it's next meeting February 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
IS SET
FOR COURTNEY HOP
Final Test Flight Arranged to
Be Held Today-Radio
Is Adjusted.

BY Cable to The Star and the North Ameri
can Newspaper Alliance.
CALSHOT NAVAL BASE, England,
July est was announced here to-
day that Capt. Frank T. Courtney,
British air ace, would hop off for bis
fight to New York on Monday.
The captain himself had nothing to
say about this, but displayed to his
friends and to the correspondents
who were on the flying field several!
letters and post cards of an abusive
character. The letters likened him to
Jonah and said that if he tries to fly
he will be food for fishes
The captain will take the Whale on
it's sixth trial flight tomorrow MORN
ing. A great deal of time was de-
voted by the Marconi experts today
to the taking down Of the wireless
apparatus. This machinery is to be
remounted on three-ply wood to which
masses of rubber will be attached in
order to stop the vibration. 1t has
been found that duraluminum, of
which the Whale is constructed, Is
more responsive to vibration than
wood, the usual material used in the
construction of aeroplanes.
Copyright. 1927. in all countries but Great
Britain by North American Newspaper Al
lance. in Great Britain by Westminster
Gazette.
WEATHER is "ATROCIOCS."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
FRENCH AWATORS
MAY HOP Off SOON
Coste to Pilot Same Craft
Over Atlantic in Which He
Flew to Arabian Sea.

BY Cable to The Star and the New York World.
PARIS. July 23.-French pilots fly
ing a French airplane are scheduled
to start within the next week on a
flight from Paris to New York. Lieut..
Dieudonne Coste, a specialist on long
distance flying. has definitely decided
to make the hop in the same Breguet
biplane which. carried him and Capt.
Rignot, 3.415 miles last October from
Paris to Jask. on the Arabian sea.
This long distance record stood until
May, when Col Charles A. Lindbergh
broke it with his flight from New
York to Paris. Capt. Rignot again
will fly with him when the attempt
on New York is made.
will Have New Motor.
The French government air SER
vices have agreed to give Lieut..
Coste's adventure all possible aid. A
new 500-horsepower motor will re-
place the old one. Although the
present fuel tank capacity cannot be
increased. Lieut.. Coste expects to in
crease his cruising radius to 4,470
miles by using new fuel mixture,
which he and other experts have ap-
proved.
The American practice of inclosing
the flyers against wind and rain will
be adopted for the Breguet. Col.
Lindbergh was completely inclosed. as
were Clarence d. Chamberlain and
Charles A. Levine of the Columbia.
and Comdr. Richard E. Byrd's crew
in the America.
Lieut.. Coste intends to follow the
southern route over the Azores, in
stead of the Great Circle route fol.
lowed by the American flyers going
to Europe.
May Evade Winds.
By this device he expects to evade
the head winds, which he probably
would encounter over the great circle
line between Paris and New York.
A wireless set will be carried.
Taking tip from Comdr. Byrd's
landing in the sea at Ver-sur-Mer.
Lieut.. Coste will carry a pneumatic
rubber boat. However, he is not an.
ticipating alighting at sea. When
asked what precautions he was TAX
ing against a forced landing in the
water, he replied, "When you fly
across the Atlantic you don't stop on
the way"
The plane has been christened Nun.
gesser-Coli" in honor and remem-
brance of Capt. Charles Nungesser
and Maj Francois Coli, who were lost
on an attempted fight from Paris to
New York.
Copyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
NAVY ROW BLAMED ON BRITISH
FAILURE TO SOUND u. S. OPINION
Paid American Big-Navy Propagandist
Also Declared Responsible for Con-
Aict at Geneva Conference.

Wilmott Lewis, practically became
British Amba ssador in Washington.
His dispatches to London describing
the state of American opinion and the
position of the American Government
were as accurate and authoritative as
any kilograms which Sir Esme How
ard might have sent to the foreign
Office had he been in Washington.
Moreover, London treated them as
authoritative.
One day after Lewis dispatch de-
scribing the surprise of the United
States Government at Great Britain s
unwillinSness to grant naval parity,
and carrying a quotation from Lord
Balfour at the Washington conference
that 1--WE think the proportion between
the various countries flor both capital
ships and cruisers) is acceptable" the
foreign office woke up. 1t sent in
structions to Mr.. Bridgeman, chief
delegate at Geneva, to change his
tune. And Mr.. Bridgeman that mid
night issued a statement to the effect
that Great Britain had always recog-
nized the right of the United States
to naval parity.
British Ambassador Returns.
1t was not until the third week of
the conference that Sir Esme Howard
came down from Misunderstanding he-
Sea to confer with Secretary Kellogg.
Meanwhile the japanese Ambassador
Mr.. Matsudaira, had been facing the
heat of Washington all Summer.
Almost equally to blame for twist
ing the lions tail and making the
eagle scream" condition which un-
fortunately continued throughout the
conference, was an extremely able
American propaganda whose infiu-
ence with the representatives of two
influential American newspapers was
such that he even read their dis
patches before filing. Said to be in
the employ of large shipbuilding in.
terests, this gentleman has been camp
ing at Geneva ever since the meetings
of the preparatory commission on
disarmament.
His propaganda, the writer can
testify, was most violently and un-
reasonably anti-British. He appeared
to be doing everything possible to
prevent the success of the conference,
and while there is no proof that he
was encouraged by American naval
men, there was every indication from
the amount of time he spent in their
company that he was not discouraged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
GOVERNORS ON WAY
TO MACKlNAC ISLAND
Flood Control to Be One Important
Subject for Executives of
Seventeen States.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 23.-Chief eXecu-
tives of II States and a host of other
State officials were en- route tonight
to Mackinac Island on the steamer
Eastern States, for the annual gov
errors conference, which will open
tomorrow. The governors and their
aids attended Il noon luncheon here
today as the guests of Gov. Fred w.
Green of Michigan, and departed for
Mackinac Island Immediately after
ward.
The conference will embrace many
important subjects of national con-
Germ. There will be discussions Of
Mississippi Valley flood control and re-
lief, prevention of election frauds, ag-
ricultural relief and other subjects.
Secretary of Commerce Herbert
Hoover is scheduled to be present to
unfold for the executives the plan for
Mississippi control that he laid before
President Coolidge last week.
One purpose of the conference is to
provide a medium for an exchange of
thought on governmental problems
that will make possible uniform con-
sideration and development of them
in the several States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
lINDBERGH FORCED
TO ALIGHT By FOG
! ON NEW ENGLAND TRIP

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city. He will fly to Portland tomor-
row, weather permitting. He was
TO have visited Concord on Monday
and an elaborate program of welcome
had been arranged.
Lesson From Experiences.
When Lindbergh passed over Port.
land today, 1000 young men from the
citizens Military Training Camp at
Fort Mckinley. were waiting to
parade in his honor with units from
the 5th Infantry, the 240th National
Guard Regiment and the battle
cruiser Seattle. A crowd of 10000
persons was ready to greet him.
Col. Lindbergh, established comfort
ably at Col. Mason's home, typical
New Hampshire farmhouse a few
miles out of this city, used his expert
ences of the day to illustrate the need
Of modern flying field equipment.
1.-THE day will come when landing
In fog will present few difficulties to
the air pilot" he said. eff the Port
land field had been equipped with a
radio navigation beacon and we had
been equipped for receiving the sig.
mails. it would have been possible to
make a landing today even in the
fog. That will come some day from
one end of the country to the other,
solving one Of the toughest problems
the airmen now have to meet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
COMMONS MAY GET VIEWS.
Chamberlain Expected to Make State
ment After Council.

LONDON, July % (P).-Sir Austen
Chamberlain, secretary for foreign
affairs, will preside at the cabinet
council Monday morning for further
consideration of the naval question.
The secretary may make a statement
in the House of Commons Monday
evening on the governments policy at
Geneva, but this will be decided at
the cabinet meeting in the morning.
Should the cabinet decide to favor
the pronouncement of policy and a
debate on the subject in the House,
it will give w. G. Bridgeman and Lord
Cecil, the chief British delegates to
the tri-partite conference, who will
probably return to Geneva Tuesday,
at least the backing of the opinion
of Parliament.
misconceptions" Cause Anxiety.
A subject of anxiety to the ministers
is what they regard as the misconcep-
tons voiced In both the American and
Japanese press about the British
policy, and it is supposed that Sir
Austen's statement, if he makes one,
will be devoted largely to trying to
remove these misconceptions.
The Geneva difficulty is still the
theme of many speeches and news
paper articles, and Winston Churchill,
chancellor Of the eXchequer, speaking
at Bicton Park, Devonshire, today,
said that no effort should be spared
to bring the conference to success
full conclusion. He added, that how
ever much an agreement was desira-
BILE, an agreement to spend gigantic
sums on naval construction for many
years to come might be worse for all
concerned than moderate expenditure
following upon freedom from any
agreement.
Churchill Is Optimistic.
Mr.. Churchill expressed the belief
that he would not be required to pro
vide for an additional FAC, 100000 for
naval expenditures and that the con-
ference would be successful.
J. L. Garvin, editor of the Sunday
Observer, will have long article in
that paper tomorrow devoted to the
Geneva problems. He strongly advo-
Gates the suggestion recently made by
the American Ambassador, Alanson B.
Houghton, to Harvard University
"A peoples pact for hundred years"
Mr.. Garvin declares that this sug-
gestion is as practicable as it is re-
Elective, and that Great Britain is
ready.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
EBER[E SEES NEED
Of PLANE ADVANCE
Aviation Unable to Be Re-
lied on for National De-
tense Now, He Says.

Accomplishment of the flight from
San Francisco to Honolulu by Lieut..
Lester J. Maitland and Albert F..
Hegerberger is significant because it
has proved the possibility of moving
aircraft to the Pacific defense of the
but the development of aviation has
not vet reached the point where it
can be relied upon for national de-
Tense purposes in such case. accord
ing to Admiral +. w. Eberle, chief
OF naval operations.
From the standpoint of national de-
fenEe, Admiral Eberle declared yester-
day, the objective of aviation is to
develop planes of sufficient size and
capacity to carry adequate armament
. on long distance flight in addition
to its fuel and personnel. In other
words, the objective is development
of aircraft of long range able to carry
"a military load"
Radius and Reliability.
Cruising radius and reliability of
aircraft, according to Admiral Eberle,
are the things to be developed. He
declared that the engine, radius and
reliability of planes are being steadily
enhanced and that he sees no reason
why they should not be developed to
the stage where aircraft could be en-
ployed as long range defense. Con-
slant impetus to civil aviation, he
said, is an important factor, because
1t provides an aeronautical reserve in
time of war.
In connection with the statement
made by Mai. Gen. Charles p. Sum.
neral, chief of staff of the Army,
that the achievement of Lieuts. Matt
land and Hegenberger was the great
est accomplishment in national de.
Tense since the construction of the
Panama Canal, Admiral Eberle said
that he felt that the flight was a
definite advance in aeronautical navi-
cation. He added that all of the re-
cent transoceanic flights have added
greatly to the store of knowledge in
aerial navigation and their contingent
effect on national defense.
Adequate Ground Defenses.
If there ever should be warfare GEN.
tered around alien possessions in the
Pacific, Admiral Eberle said, the air.
plane probably will play an important
part. Just what the future holds
forth for aviation as a military nipple
ment, he added, remains to be seen,
but he expressed the view that the
constant development of planes as
carriers would mark this progress.
He pointed out that no matter how
efficient aircraft became it would be
necessary to maintain adequate ground
defenSes, such as those at present at
Hawaii, Guam and the Philippines.
Aircraft, he said, necessarily have to
land for refflling and to have these
landing places unprotected against an
enemy in time of war would mean
the ultimate capture or destruction of
the aircraft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
! ARMY FLYER FORCED DOWN.
Pilot Escapes Injury When He AIights
In Fog.

BIDDEFORD, Me-, July % R).-An
Army biplane from Portland was
forced down at Dayton, near here,
shortly after 5 o'clock today by the
fog and rain. The pilot landed in a
field. took his bearings and hoped off
to Portland.
The flyer, Capt. Rogers, had left
Portland when Col. Charles A. Lind.
bergh was nearly three hours over.
due there, planning to meet him and
guide him into that city. He lost
his way in the fog that baffled Lind
bergh and landed to ascertain his
whereabouts. His landing led to a
report that Lindbergh had come
down at Dayton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
WOMEN DODGE POLAR
FLIGHT, SAYS BRYD
Men Only Apply for Passage on
Proposed Trip to Antartic
Regions.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July 23.-Even the
possibility of getting furs at hunters
prices Is not enough to attract women
to the South Pole, mail received by
Comdr. Richard f. Byrd has revealed.
Thousands of applications for berths
on the Antarctic trip, which Comdr.
Byrd is planning, have been received
at his temporary headquarters here
Last night, before leaving for Boston,
the commander said that not one of
the letters was from q woman.
If he agreed to take all the men,
however, who have asked that priv
ilege. Comdr. Byrd would need for his
voyage to the great ice barrier not one
ship but fleet.
Most of those who accompanied
Byrd to Spitzbergen on his North Pole
expedition have re-enlisted, or will,
he said.
1T will be scientific expedition,
not a junket," Byrd said. Every
thing will run as if by clockwork, and
every man will have to do his duty,
no matter what that may be-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
BIG CARD FOR LINDBERGH.
Hammond, Ind, Mails Mammoth
Invitation by Air.

HAMMOND, Ind. July % CP).-An
air. mail plane today was carrying to
Col. Charles Lindbergh one of the
largest invitations the noted flyer
has probably ever received in the
shape of a postcard four feet long
and two feet wide, requesting him
to visit the Ford airport here.
The invitation was sent by the
Hammond American Legion and
Chamber of Commerce, and required
$3.50 in stamps for transportation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
Body Recovered in Creek.
pecial Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. July 23.-The
body of Harold A. McKinnie, so years
old. assistant postmaster at Green
castle, Pa, was found in Licking
Creek, near Pecktonville, last night.
A coroner held that death was due to
accidental drowning. McKinnie and
j. Bowman Metz, Waynesboro drug
gist, were fishing when the accident
occurred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24

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the United States today are second to
no other nation, American officials
point out. American industrial pros
perity is largely dependent upon for
eign trade, and America s foreign
trade is about equal to that of Great
Britain. In addition America has
coastwise commerce in value greater
than the foreign trade of Great
Britain. The United States lacks bases
to guard the long lines of overseas
routes on which the Americans must
depend for foodstuffs and raw ma
terials essential to industry.
With an inadequate merchant
marine and lacking naval bases
throughout the world, there is reason
to demand superiority in cruisers
rather than to accept inferiority. But
the United States is demanding at
Geneva not superiority, but merely
parity with the British, which the
British have declared themselves will
ing to accept. The claim is made
here that If the Geneva conference
fails, the responsibility must be placed
squarely at the door of the British
admiralty.
BRITISH DECISION AWAITED
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
BRITISH DECISION AWAITED.
Cabinet Conferences Dominant Sub
ject Of Geneva Discussion.

GENEVA, July 23 CP.-Reports
from London that the British cabi-
net fully approved the line adopted
by w. G. Bridgeman, first lord of the
admiralty. and Viscount Cecil at
Geneva was the dominant subject to-
day among the members of the
American and Japanese delegations.
Interest now centers on the ques-
ton whether. the British delegates
will return here with new sugges-
tons, with their attitude on the
problem of S-inch guns on secondary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
st. Louis Line Valued at So, $40, 1873

By the Associated Press.
A tentative valuation Of $3,549,273
Commission today upon the st. Louis
Merchants Bridge Terminal Railway
as of June, 1919. The company's
capitalization on the same date was
S7,977,21S and it's book investment was
S5441926
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
FLYER COnmutes
Between Capital and
New York Home
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GARDEN CITY, n. Y, July 90.
This city boasts now the first
full-time New York-to-Washington
air commuter. He is Lieut.. Afford
j. Williams, whose residence is in
Garden City, and whose office is
the Bureau Of Naval Aeronautics,
Washington.
Virtually every day Lieut.. Viii.
liams hops off from here at 9 am.
and before II o'clock reaches the
office in Washington. He starts
back at pm. and is in Garden
City before 6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24

cruisers modified or whether. as
the advices from London seem to in
dictate, the British will adhere to
their policy outlined last week of
more small cruisers and 6-inch guns.
The general impression is that the
next few days certainly will decide
whether the three delegations must
separate without an agreement or,
reaching q compromise on outstand-
ing questions, apply themselves to
the actual drafting of a treaty. This
undoubtedly would require about ten
days after any settlement Of the big
issues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
Al Fields Widow Dies.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July % R).-
Mrs. Matilda Warner Field, 70, widow
of AL G. Field, famous minstrel inn
persario and his back-stage assistant
for years, died today, after an illness
of a YEAR
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
Ordered to Fort Sill.

Warrant Officer Charles 8. Tyler
mas been relieved from duty at the
Army Music School, Washington Bar
racks, and ordered to Fort Sill, Okla.
for duty as leader of the First Artil.
lery Band
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24

Bagdad citizens put their savings in
times Of plenty into the purchase of
rugs and sell these possessions in hard
times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
WEATHER is "ATROCIOUS."
Courtney's Aide Says Gale Is Blowing
Off Ireland.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, July %
P.-"We are ready now to get of Al
the first sign of favorable weather"
Capt. Frank T. Courtney told the AS
ISOLATED Press late today after in
speeding the Whale, in which he is
planning to hop off Monday on his
transatlantic voyage.
The radio installation, which has
held up the fight thus far, was ad-
justed to the satisfaction of Mar
conf expert and worked successfully
in a land test this afternoon. Capt.
Courtney Is confident that only con-
tinuations of the bad weather reports
which he is now receiving will pre-
vent his hop off on Monday.
Fifty.Mile Gale.
r. F. Little, Capt. Courtney's me.
chanic, said that midatlantic wealth
err was atrocious at the present time.
There Is a 50-mile gale 1000 miles
off Ireland. This would hit us head
on, so you can see we don't want TO
take any unnecessary rlsk. SAID
good we'll go, and We'll get there"
(Advices from the Newfoundland
high commissioner in London. re-
ceived at st. Johns, Newfoundland,
today. said that Capt. Courtney, who
Is planning to make his departure
from Europe from Valentino, Ire
land, will make Trepassy. Newfound.
land. his objective on the American
side of the Atlantic. Trepassy was
the base chosen by Col. de Pinedo
for his recent flight back to Italy)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
U. S. READY TO QUIT
GENEVA IF BRITISH
INSIST ON DEMANDS

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