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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-26
.COOL|DCEFAvORS
US. AID IN AIRPORT
President Believes Govern
ment Should Assist in FL
nancing Local Project.
By a STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.


STATE GAME LODGE, BLACK
HILLS, S. Oak. July 26.-President
Coolidge was represented as saying
today that he thinks it highly deSir-
able that the Federal Government
contribute its share OF expense to-
ward the establishment of a per
manert and adequate municipal air
port for Washington.
Because of the peculiar fiscal re-
lationship between the Federal and
District Governments. Mr.. Coolidge
was said to favor a policy whereby
the cost of such an airport at
Gravelly Point OF elsewhere should
be borne by both Governments. Ike
Gently the President was represented
as being willing TO leave the matter
of financing the airport to the l)lS.
rrict Commissioners, and it was said
that he would be willing to give ms
approval to anything within reason
they recommended in this connection.
During his discussion of the airport
subject today he indicated plainly
that his attitude is virtually the same.
President Approves Airports.
It is the hope of the President that
municipal alrportS will be eStablShed
not only in the Capital, but also in
all the larger cities of the country
that have not as yet provided one.
He contends that it is important that
Washington should have such port
and that it should be one of the relay
stops for the Atlantic coastal air line.
In this connection. the President let
1t be known that he stands ready to
cooperate in any way possible to bring
about tho naturalization of such a
project.
Just what he intends to do in the
way of using the influence of his office
in behalf of establishing Washington's
airport the President did not indicate.
while discussing the subject today.
1t was made very plain by him,
however, that he had hoped Boiling
Field could be made available for this
purpose. At least for a period long
enough for the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia to give the mat
ter of a permanent location thorough
study. 1t was evident that he has
been in communication with authori-
ties back in Washington regarding
the use of a part of Boiling Field as
an airport for the District. And he
indicated that he was glad to know
that the War Department has agreed
to let the District use his air field
even for a limited period.
Has Received Advices.
Although the President has re-
ceived some advices from Washington
on the airport subject, it is doubtful
if he is very well posted as to the t'X-
act availability of the various perra-
nent sites which have been posed.
In fact he was represented as admit
ting that he did not know enough
about the sites being suggested Tor a
permanent airport to pass mature
judgment on them. He knows where
Gravelly Point is located, as well as
the old Benning race track and
Hoover Field, but he did not know
enough about these places in connec-
ton with their availability for air.
port purposes to discuss them. More
over, the President gave the impress
SION today that he is in favor Of the
Federal Government sharing the cost
of such a project for the Capital.
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avenue; Thirty-first street, from the
Chesapeake e Ohio Canal to M street;
Thirty fourth street, from M street to
Q street, and / street, from Seven
teenth to Eighteenth street.
The streets to be graded follow:
Potomac avenue. from Cathedral ave
nue. to Manning street; the alley be-
tween Twenty ninth, Thirtieth, Able
marie and Brandywine streets; Ninth
stree. northeast, from Kearney to
Lawrence street, and Kearney street
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France to Honor Doughboys.

BREST.-The landing of 100000
American soldiers here during the wal
is to be cUmmemorated by n monument
overlooking the port where the trans
ports brought IN the doughboys. The
Brest City Council has approved the
plans of the American Battle Monu
ment Commission and selected thu
site 4 shaft nearly 100 feet high will!
be erected.
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GOVERNORS HEAR
FLOOD-HELP PLEA
Martineau Insists Problem Is
NationaI-Purity of Bal
lot Discussed.

BY the Associated Press.
MACKINAC ISLAND. Mich. July
26.-Two national problems came In
for consideration today by the nine.
| teenth annual governors conference
the recurring floods in the Mississippi
River Valley and purity of the ballot.
Gov. John T.. Martineau of Ar
kansas, one of the States hardest hit
| by the recent flood, gave his fellow
executives the benefit of his long. In.
| tensive study of the river situation,
and Gov. Sam Baker of Missouri
talked on purity o. the ballot and
campaign and election expenses"
Il want to impress upon you that
| Mississippi floods can and should be
controlled and that this is a national
responsibility, expense of which should
| be borne entirely by the Federal Gov
ernment," said Gov. Martineau.
Live Savings Gone.
Local committees have done their
best. They have impoverished them
selves in an effort to save their homes
and have failed. Secretary Hoover.
who is thoroughly familiar with every
phase of the present flood as one OF
the country's most eminent engineers.
tells us the Mississippi can be con.
trolled by adoption Of a bold and
proper engineering plan. Engineers
! estimate that this plan when put into
operation will not cost more than the
| Panama Canal.
"The surplus revenue for the pres
ent year would probably take care OF
all means necessary to bring about
flood prevention. Who would object
to making use Of this surplus in this
way?
IF a foreign foe should enter our
country and kill single American,
the whole Nation would be aroused.
! Yet 5000 of our own citizens have
/ actually been driven from their homes
and their savings of a lifetime taken
from them by this common enemy,
the Mississippi flood"
Indifference Held Enemy.
| The Arkansas Governor recon-
mended that the Federal Government
either pay outright or refund over a
long period levee taxes needed to care
for the outstanding bonds used for
levee construction, placing the amount
at approximately $50, 900 900.
Gov. Baker asserted there is no polit-
ical panacea whereby purity of the
ballot may be preserved, but said
laws for the protection of honesty and
integrity should be enacted to punish
selling.
Punish the seller as we'll as the
buyer" he said.
Gov. Baker declared his belief that
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moral education in the home Is more
important for clean politics than legis
lation.
Indifference of people" he said. lis
the deadliest and most insidious foe
Of free elections"
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from Ninth to Tenth street: Clarke
place, on both sides of Elliott place
Thirty-first place southeast, from Ala
bama avenue to w street, and the
west side of River road from Daven'
port to FeSSenden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-26

At Summer School fthe Union
of University Liberal Societies, North.
ampton, England. graduates from
many universities were welcomed by
prominent local Liberals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-26

Marion Talbot. dean of women OF
University of Chicago, has been elected
president of Constantinople Women S
COLLEGE,
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Divorce Suit Dropped.

The suit for limited divorce filed
by Esther d. Anderson against Will
liam l. Anderson yesterday was dis
missed by Justice Bailey in Equity
Court on motion of the parties. the
court being informed that the couple
had reconciled their differences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-26

There is a special class for mothers
less than * years old in the Part
Time High School of San Diego. Calf.
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DISTRICT TO BUY LOT
TO ADD TO PLAYGROUND

Resurfacing Of Five Streets and
Grading of Six Others Also
Is Ordered.
Purchase of an unimproved lot In
the vicinity of the Wormley School for
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-09
NJ CARL ALLOTS
PENSION CASH

A surprise ruling by Comptroller
General J. r. McCarl today will
permit the pay of pensions to 100
retired school teachers and 500 re.
tired policemen and firemen.
1t had been announced by Brig.
Gen. Herbert NJ. Lord, director of
the budget, yesterday that no
method had been found for the pay.
ment of the pensions.
The Comptroller General an
nounced. however, that he had been
unable TO find any legal means for
payment for the support of wards
of the board of public welfare, in
Guiding 100 dependent motheas and
a number OF children.
A separate ruling will be made
on request OF the District Commits
sioners for authority to incur an
obligation Of $250.000 for support
of District patients at st. Eliza
beth's Hospital.
Today's ruling will permit the
Commissioners to incur deficiency
of $64, 1000. OF this amount, SIS, 900
will be charged against the police.
mems and ftremens relief fund,
the other $25.O00 against the teach.
ers' pension fund. and $4,000
against the fund for compensation
of injured employees.
Funds now available cover pay.
ment of pensions to the middle of
April. and the ruling provides funds
to cover April, May and June.
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BUREAU PROBE
IS ORDERED
CONTINUED from Page ~

Continued from Page IL
Miss Gertrude Mentally, formerly
head of the women's union of the
bureau and now secretary of the
national organization, conferred
with Undersecretary Dewey.
While Director Hall declared
that the "entire matter is now in
Mr.. Dewey's hands," and that he
had nothing to say" the follow
ing facts were learned from other
sources:
What Brought Trouble
That six weeks ago. J. F. Cum
Their. supposed to be an efficiency
expert from the Bureau of Eff.
cheney. inaugurated changes in the
numbering division of the engraving
bureau, which have caused the
trouble. This il the division which
stamps the currency, gives 1t a
final count, and puts it in packages
ready for the hanks. 1t IL among
the most important divisions of the
bureau, and has about 400 expert
women workers.
Gunther raised the standard out.
put from 10 packages day TO 1870
Before doing this he is said to
have stood, watch in hand, behind
the most proficient girls in the
division. timing them. Timed and
watched and checked, the women
labored in embarrassment and grew
nervous.
To speed up the output, union
officials say, the. final counting OF
the money has been done away
with, although each girl must pay
out Of her salary any shortage later
discovered.
The women in this division have
had but one increase in pay since
the reclassification act Of 1923
and that was 4 cents a day.
Although Director Hall has prom
Used, according TO union officials
an increase OF 5000, 900 a year tc
certain groups Of the women, 1t has
not been paid. He IL said to have
written Representative GaIlivan fo
Massachusetts. that he had thu
| funds with which to make the in
crease when Gallivan asked why
the item did not appear in budget
| estimates.
Gunther stands at the luncheon
entrance. 1t is said, timing the min
lutes taken to eat the midday meal
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GREAT SERVICE
FOR EASTER
.VANZETTI1

President and Mrs. Coolidge will
attend one of the greatest religious
services in the history of the Ma.
tional Capital on Easter morning
Arrangements have been made
whereby the First Congregational
Church, OF which President Coolidge
IL d member. will hold It's Easter
services in the Washington Audi
forum, instead of in the Metropoli-
tan Theater.
More than 5000 persons are ex.
pected to attend, including large
number of tourists in Washington
over the season. The sermon is to
be delivered, by the Rev. Jason
Noble Pierce.
In past years double Easter serv-
ices have been held in the Presi-
dents church in order to accommo-
date the throngs. The President
was strongly in favor Of the Audi
torium plan r
Evening Easter services Of the
First Congregational Church also
viii be held in the Auditorium.
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MAY FIL[
ELDR|IGE POST

Formal request for permission to
appoint q retired army officer as
director Of traffic in place Of M. o.
Eldridse win be made late today
to Comptroller General J. r. Nc
Carl.
Acting Engineer Commissioners
covell and District Auditor d. ].
Donovan have informally requested
that the ruling be made. 1t was an
nounced today at the general &C.
counting office. They were told to
make written request and 1t is
now being prepared.
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opper from the shop last Tuesday
night a. 1ar a. Key Bridge to see
whether his employer was too in.
ecxicated to drive safely.
Rowley, formerly q Virginia State
noIioeman, who has been an en-.
ploye of the machine shop for about
two years, could not be reached
today. not having shown up for
work, although yesterday he as
sisted investigators in looking for
the missing man.
A rumor received at the offices Of
hte machine shop today, that Kop-
per was driving q newly-p urchased
ear st the same make az that abana
dOned Tuesday night, and had been
seen by u. M. .GawleF, OF wheaton,
Ma, who Ii said to have told officers
he had seen Hopper, on onneeticut
Avenue Thursday night, could not
be verified today. IS
Fail to Trace Sale
Investigators were making a check
Of several automobile dealers han
ding that make Of car, but up to
noon had not been able to trace a
direct sale since the time of Captain
Kopper's disappearance.
Another investigation will be
made today on orders of Col. Will
liam Mitchell, head of the Costello
Post. who has issued instructions
TO William r. Franklin, adjutant in
charge of the probe, to go the
limit" in. solving the mystery.
A large party Of legionnaires and
Mewspapermen left Washington
shortly before / o'clock this after
noon for the spot near Great Falls
where Captain Kopper's car and his
hat were found.
Otis, who is also missing left his
boarding house, SOC Ninth st. s. w,
Tuesday morning. No trace of him
has been found since.
It was stated by ". T. Holhrook
enolder, at the iron work and friend
Of Otis, that Otis and Hopper did
not know each other as far as he
knew.
Complaining of feeling i'll, Otis
left work Monday morning. Tues
day he left his room to get break
fast. Shortly after he returned, his
aandlady said, he left again, this be.
Ing the last time she saw him
Otis disappearance has not been re
ported to police. 1t is understood
that he has brother, Randolph Otis
living at S05. G. st. n. W. He. had
not been informed of his brothers
fiisappearance until today.
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SACCO- VANZETT|
SENTENCED
Continued from Page II

my life since / began to reason to
eliminate crime.
Handcuffed to three guards and
surrounded by Is uniformed police
men armed with shot guns. Sacco
and Vanzetti arrived at the Norfolk
county superior court house.
After being photogra pied on the
steps of the court house by news.
paper cameramen, the prisoners
passed through a sprinkling OF
State police in plain clothes. who
were distinguished by pink flowers
in the buottonholes of their coats.
Judge Webster Thayer, presiding
justice in the seven.year court bat.
tie in the Saeco.Vanzetti case. was
waiting in the court room. having
arrived by motor from his Wor-
cester home, accompanied by a
State detective.
Vanzetti dwelt at length on the
prosecution OF the case. He con-
demned the alleged tactics of the
then District Attorney Kaufman.
charging that Kaufman withheld
evidence and witnesses"
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ESTATE FLOOD
BROWNS Is
Photo by international
SACCO
b Intsrnatlonal Nsw. ssrvIe.


KANSAS CITY. Mo-, April a.
Floods-the worst since 1so3-were
sweeping widespread areas in Kan
sas and Oklahoma today leaving q
heavy toll of loss Of life and prop
erty destruction.
At least twenty-five persons are
dead today in the two States &C.
cording to reports here.
Torrential rains, at some places
reaching waterspout proportions,
have swollen streams in southern
Kansas and Oklahoma and dikes
are breaking In lowland areas and
inundating business and residence
sections.
The heaviest death toll occurred
at ROCKFORD, Okla, where IA Mexi.
cans were drowned when the Wa.
shita River overflowed and sent a
wall Of water four to six feet deep
through the lowlands. Two Mixican
families at Rockyford were also
drowned.
TorrentiaI rains are still falling.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-09
U. s. to Rush Marines

The situation in China fs regarded
by washington officialdom az
steadily growing more critical
The $500 marines, comprising the
hastily recruited Third Regiment.
now being modified and moved
across the continent to San Diego,
will sail for China aboard the Dol.
lar liner President Grant, which
the United States has chartered in.
definitely, within 10 days.
Adnairals WiiIianas and p1 Houkh. f0 q
well as from Minister MacMurray
at Picking, emphasizes the growing
seriousness Of conditions in China,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-09
Baby Bandit Appeals
ST. Quentin Sentence

SACRAMENTO, Cal, April -
Notice. Of appeal to a higher court
on behalf of Joseph Tassey, is.
yeaf-old Youngstown. Ohio baby
bandit" was on file here today
following action OF Superior Judge
Pullen in again sentencing Tassey
TO San Quentin prison for stealing
an oyercoat. The sentence was
from five years to life.
The first district court of San
Francisco recently effected Tassey's
release from San Quentin, holding
that his case should have been
heard in Juvenile court.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-09
HELD ON THEFT PLEA

Pleading guilty of stealing $50 be.
longing to Martha Akers, 1888 Dun
San st. n. E., Philip H. Akefs, col
cred, was held under $500 bond for
the grand jury, by Judge Macdon-
old, in Police Court today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-09
American Prisoners Freed

PEKING, April 9.--Mrs. Mildred
Mitchell. formerly Of San Francisco,
and Wilbur Burton, formerly OF
Columbus, Ohio. who were arrested
by the Chinese police here early
this week. we're today turned over
to Consul Berger and Immediately
released.
The Chinese police were unable
to produce sufficient evidence to
warrant a consular trial of the two
Americans.
Mrs, Mitchell IL leaving for Tient.
sin and Shanghai and Burton will
leave tomorrow.
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Here's Complete Dope on
Prince Georges Handicap

The feature at Bowie today win be the Prince Handicap
$4,000 added for theeyearod
miles Here's the dope:
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Enjoy the pleasure ~ horne owner
shlp through the purchase Of . home
IN The Times and Herald ClassifieJ
AS.
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BRITISH SHE'LL
CHINA FORT

Continued from Page IL
Chinese within the fort, according
to a Shanghai dispatch.
The Veteran was struck while
silencing the Chinese guns, but no
casualties were reported.
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Made Waterman Report

After loading their loot in bags,
the bandit crew drove away in
four automobiles. 1t is believed
they headed for Chicago. The
robbery was reported half hour
later by guard who freed him.
self.
A fourth Waterman was taken
prisoner, but he was not trussed
up. One Of the bandits kept him
covered with a revolver and forced
him to make the usual call-box
rounds, reporting call is we'll"
This Waterman was taken along in
one of the bandit machines when
the gang drove away.
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100000 COLD,
GANG'S LOOT
Continued from Page ~

night. After binding and
gagging the three custodians,
the bandits rugged up acetylene
torches and burned their way
into the company's vaults.
They worked leisurely for
three hours, without Interrupt
ton.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-09
Workouts at Bowie

Weather. rainy: track. muddy.
THREE EIGHTs
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Weather. raining: track. sloppy.
FIRST RAcE-six and one-haIt fur
SECOND RACE
Four Furlongs
THIRD RACE

a04-O 4uEA--ENu ANpl . i. {. . lVS
Scratched-Prate. Sleepy Time, Harry
Beal. High Hope, Brockaway. Joanna,
Little Kid Carroll Mics Prim.
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that the unmarried Roen had lost.
Convincing difference.
Jackie's letters troubled her as
much as Marks. They showed the
world more doomingly upon her.
Months ago she wrote this to
Jackie: Gregg Morse has sent me
to st. Louis. I'm in charge of the
branch here, and on the way to
becoming a big business woman.
/ doubt If dare leave 1t for a
European sojourn. | get a bonus
from all the business / do. / fig
ure that ought to work hard for
the next six or seven years. Then
/ can retire. You know I've al.
ways fancied myself q fat, Jolly
plutocrat like fish Carberry. With
advancing age the prospect grows
delightful. Jackie, YOU can see
what mean and the wisdom of
taking my chance while I have 1t.
/ don't like to think Of lean, de.
pendent years. So I'm not cesning
to visit you, but in few years
hence we can all 20 abroad to-
gether. I'll be young enough to
rejoice in belated adventures"
Jackie did not see i1er view. IN
every letter he coaxed and pleaded.
Ron" said the one that came in
the mornings mail, its mot like
you to get proyident all of a sud.
den. It's against you whole phi.
losophy to be storing up for barren
years. How many thousands OF
times have you said. When I'm
old, all I want is chair al a fire;
when I'm old the vitality to enjoy
will have vanished. Why fling
away the full years the years
when the mere breathing OF the
spring air is a thrill why fling.
these away for years that will be
ghostly in their sweetness at the
best?'
So what are you giving me,
Ron? Do you think jimmy and /
enjoy ourselves more alone? You.
CAN'T think this! So, what Ii it?
Haven't you enough money? You
should have that two thousand OF
Dearie's life. You're not afraid to
sQuander 1t, Ron. You that would
not be guilty of saving a penny.
II the expense worries you
think of the fun for the three of
us worrying and pinchlng along to.
gether. God knows we've had q
long acquaintance with Want.
We know how to meet him. Ron
please come. 1t will be lasting
and really disastrous disappoint.
ment IL YOU don't"
Whenever she thought OF Jackie
another solution of the future pre-.
scented itself.
She could not eliminate Jackie.
On his return he would search her
out, let her be buried In the re-
hottest wilderness,