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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
MACREADY MAY GET
ALTITUDE RECORD
World Plane Mark Would Re.
vert to U. S. if CaIIizo
Charges Are Upheld.

Should Jean Calico, famous French
airman, he deprived of all his world
altitude records as a result of charges
that his recent flight, on which he
claimed an even higher altitude. had
been faxed" by tampcring with the
Paragraph, former Lieut.. John A.
Macready of the Army Air Corps, vet
eran American altitude pilot, will sue
coed to the laurels.
Nacready. who resigned from the
Air Corps about year ago, is cred
tied with the American record OF
IS. 704 feet, made January %, 1926, at
NTcCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, in
specially built airplane. That mark
represented the last attempt OF the
veteran Army flyer to recover the
world altitude laurels, which had been
taken from him by Calico and which
were boosted even higher by the
French flyer August %, 1926, with
reading of 40, 500 feet.
Lieut.. Carleton G. Champion, u. =
n. holder of the worlds Seaplane anu
tude record of 1895 feet, made here
Julv a was unsuccessful in his at
tenpt to create q new world record
for land planes on July rs, according
to the findings of the Bureau of stand
ards. although the pilot declared after
a sensational landing that his att
meter in the cockpit read 41,QOO feet.
one of the two Paragraphs he carried
was destroyed by fire, as result OF
the engine blowing to pieces and the
ship catching fire four times IN the
spectacular descent. The other was
Celebrated by the bureau to height
of 1859 feet, or las feet below the
Macready record.
1t is understood here by Army and
Navy airmen that the entire matter
will be aired by the Federation Aero
nautoque Internationale, world gov
erning body for aircraft performances.
This organization of which the United
States is a member through the Ma
tional Aeronautic Association, exer.
cises meticulous care in passing upon
applications for new world records and
more than once has thrown out per-
formances for the slightest violation
of trivial regulations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
ARMY-NAyY UNION
MAY REMAIN HERE
Convention to Consider Hav-
ing Permanent Headquar-
tiers in Washington.

Revision of it's constitution to make
Washington the national headquarters
was the most important subject before
the Army and Navy Union Of the
United States, as it. opened its thirty
ninth annual encampment in the
auditorium of the Interior Department
Building here today. Veterans of three
wars and of peace times We're in at
tendance at the meeting.
The proposed change in the consti.
tuition would make Washington the
permanent headquarters in place of
the present system under which the
city in which the national commander
lives is headquarters. Washington has
had the honor during the incumbancy
of Comdr. G.. O. Howard, whose term
expires during the present encamp-
ment. Unless a local man again is
elected the headquarters will be moved.
Lively Fight Expected.
A lively fight is expected to develop
over the proposed change. The plan
probably will be reported favorably
out of the committe which has charge
of constitutional revision. Two of the
three members of the committee are
Neutrality-suspicious., Harlan Wood and
Maj. Charles w. Freeman.
Several other revisions are likely
to be recommended by the committee.
Comdr. Howard today expressed him
self strongly in favor Of changing the
present system of voting by proxy.
which, he declared, has resulted in
cutting down the attendance at the
and investing a great
deal of voting power in single dele
gates.
The meeting this morning was
given over to routine business, re-
ports of officers and committees and
appointment of new committees. A
committee of IL was appointed to
make nominations for all the officers.
Comdr. Howard was scheduled to de-
liver his address of welcome today.
Public Session Tomorrow.
Tomorrow mornings session will be
open to the public. A welcome to the
delegates will be given by Secretary
Work of the Interior,A for President
Coolidge, by Louis f. Norman for
Secretary Hoover, by Commissioner
Tigert Of Education, Chaplain John
T. Axton, u. S. A, and Mrs. G. e.
Wagner of the War Mothers Asso-
citation.
The woman's auxiliary of the union
sent a delegation to the meeting to-
day. The auxiliary is holding its an
nual convention at the Hotel Wash
ington. Mrs. Cora B. White Of Pitts
burgh Is lady commander.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
CHRISTIANITY UNITY
SEEN APPROACHING
World Conference on Faith and Or
der Is Held Aid to De-
nominational Oneness.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 5.-The re-
cent world conference on faith and
order in Lausanne proved the rapid
approach of denominational unity in
Christianity, according to- Or. George
Craig Stewart, rector Of st. Luke's
Episcopal Church. Evanston, a dele
gate.
1.-THE outstanding note of the con-
ference was that of Christian char
ity," said DR.. Stewart. 'Gonsiderate-
ness. forbearance. kindness, love were
manifest in every sessions If any
little Peterkin pipes up and asks
what good came from it, the answer
is clear: A great access in the will
to, visible unity of the body Of Christ,
the church. In addition, there has
come to all an increased respect for
each others points of view.f
"On the whole, so far as 4the faith
of the church is concernedf there is
one noble, solemn and unanimous ac-
ceptance of Jesus Christ as incarnate
God and Savior of the world"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
j. s. CONSULATE
SECRETARY SHOT
Emil Steger, at Dresden, in
Serious Condition-Be-
Iieved Sacco Case Result.

BY the Associated Press.
DRESDEN, Germany. September s.
Shot in the back by an unidentified
man, Emil Steger, a secretary in the
American consulate here, was in a
serious condition today. Physicians,
however, expressed belief that the
wound would not prove fatal.
Although the motive for the at
tack is not known, it is stated that
Mr.. Steger represented the consulate
on numerous occasions in which pro-
tests were presented regarding the
Sacco-Vanzetti case.
Mr.. Steger, who is about 40 years
old, was returning from a stroll with
his wife and friend 10 Raecknitz
Heights, near the city, when the as
sassin appeared from behind a monu-
ment of Bismarck and shot him in
the back. The bullet passed below
the heart.
Police dogs were put on the trail
of the assailant. and led the police
to a muddy ditch into which he had
fallen and out of which he scrambled
in his flight, but the trail was lost
at n street car line.
Mrs. Steger on hearing the shot
called loudly for help. so that both
Mr.. Steger and their friend thought
she had been hit. Both men tried
to offer her first aid, until it was
discovered that Steger himself was
bleeding.
The assailant is described as tall
man, wearing a blue coat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
TAKING" FLIGHT CHARGED.
Previous Records Also May Be Taken
From CalliZ0.

PARIS, September GP).-Jean Cal
lizo, French aviator, who specializes in
altitude flying, and who holds the pres
ent world record, was given an oppor-
tunity today to reply to the charges
that he falsified the Paragraph reading
on his latest attempt, that of week
ago, when he claimed to have ascend
ed 10 900 meters, or a. ,651 feet.
Louis HiEshauer. secretary of the
French Aero Club Commission, be-
fore which the flyer appears, issued a
statement last night saying Calico had
admitted "reprehensible acts" but the
latter refused to deny or admit the
charges, contenting himself with say
ing that he was ready to meet any
other aviator in the world in an alti-
tude contest.
The whole case seems to hinge on
the Paragraph readings. Some of the
newspapers charge that the curve of
the alleged flight had already been
plotted on the Paragraph sheet with
invisible ink before the aviator left the
ground and that once in the air he
made it visible by shooting steam
upon it.
They further allege that a Bleriot
engineer, suspicious of Callizos pre-
NlDuS HIGHLY sO4tkA4%A4ASE r1~ANR1~A e1 =
world record OF IL, a22 meters, had Sc
cretly inserted another Paragraph IN
the wing of the plane and that the
curve made by the needle of this in.
strument showed that the aviator
reached heightsof only 4,500 meters.
1t is recalled that, after landing,
Calico apparently went into a faint
and that upon recovering he explained
that his lungs had been affected by
the rarity of the atmosphere, In an
interview describing the flight he was
quoted as saying:
My climb was rather common
place at first, reaching 5000 meters
in is minutes, then 10000 meters after
d minutes.
1.-THE sensation of dependency and
isolation is terrible. The eye sees
nothing; the ear is paralyzed. That is
the altitude record.
N rNever again! ! don't want to fall
off the earth"
The possibility is presented of Cal
iixo's official record being taken from
him, if the charges against him in the
present case are sustained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05

pets that marked the firemen Of by
gone days.
The old Columbia apparatus was
made in Baltimore in 1910, and was
used to help safeguard the National
Capital from fire from 1911 to the
days of the Civil War. In those early
days it was stationed on Capitol Hill,
and made many a run through the
streets of that section when the cry
of fire rang out in day or night.
Although the presence of the Co
lumbia engine in the line of march
served TO emphasize the prowess of
the modern motor engine, it is doubt
full If any feature Of the parade proved
more interesting to the onlookers
than this relic of the early days of
fire fighting.
James F. Duhamel Of the Associa-
ton of Oldest Inhabitants of the Dis
trict of Columbia was in charge of ar
rangements for the turning out of
the apparatus.
Volunteer "Firemen" Listed.
Members of the Associa ton of Old
est Inhabitants who volunteered to
draw the Columbia apparatus in the
parade were Walter Ellwood Allen, j..
Eliot Wright, Brig. Gen. Charles Ou-
rand, a retired officer of the District
National Guard; James II. Houston,
Washington Topham, John Claggert
Proctor, Christian Hansen, f. w.
Bowling, Edward Kern, Alfred Cav
Ter, Max Kohner, Richard Gudgin,
Samuel Altman and c. V. Samuels.
Probably the oldest piece of fire
equipment in the parade was leather
fire bucket that belonged to Philip
Barton Key. father of Francis Scott
Key, and which was used in George
town in 1927. 1t was carried in the
parade today by MIR. Proctor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
QUEER NOISES HEARD
IN SARGENT STUDIO
Sounds Suggest Return" Of De-
creased American Painter
to London.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.
LONDON.-All of Chelsea, London's
Bohemian quarter, is trying to help
Alfred T.. Orr, artist, solve the sound
of footsteps and the mysterious turn
ing of doorknobs in the studio
where John Singer Sargent, American
painter, died two years ago.
Orr, a close friend of Sargent, now
occupies the studio which used to be
that of the American master. He is
neither spiritualist nor a skeptic. he
says, and he can neither affirm nor
deny belief that Sargent has returned
to haunt the studio where he rose TO
fame. #
Footsteps which resemble Sargent's
heavy tread are frequently heard. Orr
says, and one might be awoke to see
the knob of his bedroom door turned
all the way over and back again, but
when Orr and his butler searched the
house no evidence Of the visitor could
be found, The bedroom is the one in
which Sargent died. A..-.-...-.---.-.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
GOOD OYSTER CROP
IN MARYLAND SEEN
100000 Yield Expected by
Swepson Earle, Commissioner.
Potomac Beds to Be Opened.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, September BE
ports from inspectors at the principal
oyster beds indicate that Maryland
will have a bumper crop during the
1929 season.
The value of the Maryland oyster
crop Is $5,000,000, according to Swep-
son Earle, conservation commissioner,
and efforts will be made by his de-
partment to greatly increase the total
in the future, especially in the Poto-
mac River section, where new oyster
beds are being opened this season.
Figures in the commissioners office
show 1909 ,058 bushels of oysters were
dredged last year, an increase of about
$4,000 bushels over the 1925.26 sea-
son. Earle said there are $4,000
square miles of water in the State
controlled by the Maryland oyster
navy, fleet of 10 boats.
The largest of the Maryland crop
came from the bedding grounds of the
Tangier Sound area and the tribu-
taries of the Manokin River. The
best roasting oysters. Earle explained,
come from the Patuxent River.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
OLD "BLUEC0AT SCHOOL"
FOLLOWS TRADITIONS
Pupils Wear Garb Popular Among
Londoners of Eighteenth
Century.
Correspondence of the Associated Press

correspondence OF the Associated Press.
IONDON.-Pupils of the old BLUE
coat School, not only wear the old
time garb of the seventeenth century,
which consists Of a long blue coat and
yellow stockings. but also, Winter and
Summer. go without a head covering.
The original school, founded in 1909,
still stands in Caxton street, West
minister A British commission on
historical monuments has recently
singled it out as specially worthy of
preservation"
The most noticeable feature of the
exterior of this old building is a
carved figure of a "Bluecoat Boy"
which stands in a semicircular niche
above the main entrance Below the
niche Is inscribed "This Blewcoat
school was built in 1909" At the
back of the building is an exterior wall
painting of another "Bluecoat Boy
The lads dress is faithful copy of
the costume of the citizens of Lon
don at the period when the school was
built. The ordinary attire of appren-
tees and serving men was then a
long blue coat and breeches, with
which yellow stockings were gen.
orally worn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
OYSTER SHELLS USED
TO BEAUTIFUY BAY SHORE
Opening of Season in South Texas
Waters Welcomed at
Corpus Christi.
By the Associated Press.

6y tue AAeUctdtSu FTeSSs
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, Septem-
Der 5.-September, the first "r" month
and the beginning of the oyster har-
vesting season, finds hundreds of
oyster fleets in the bays of south
Texas, and with the opening of the
season the city of Corpus Christi
viii continue a Identification pro-
gram made possible by the use of
oyster shells.
Some years ago a gulf storm struck
this region. A 3-mile causeway was
swept into Nueces Bay, where some
of the natural oyster beds are located.
A new causeway was built, but the
wreckage of the old one lay along
side the approach to the city and
constituted an eyesore.
The oyster fleet, instead of drop
ping the shells back in the bay, be-
gan "husking" the oysters near the
old wreckage, throwing the shells
where the wreckage protruded from
the water. Thus minia ture islands
of oyster shell were built across the
bay.
Civic bodies eventually will sod the
islands and plant shrubbery on them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
Bobby Jones Leads Automobile Tour
Over Appalachian Highway to Canada

amateur golfing crowns. With Bobby
in his car were Mrs. Jones and Q. b..
Keller. sports writer, who has been
Bobbys companion on all his tri.
umphant journeys for new laurels OF
the links.
The tourists will spend tonight in
Asheville, n. G.
Among the distinguished additions
the party will have during the trip Is
Adolph s. Ochs. publisher Of the New
York Times, who will enter his car
when the motorcade reaches Bing-
hamton, N. Y.
Stops will be made during the trip
to view many of the country's noted
scenic wonders, such as Stone Noun
tain, Natural Bridge, Va; Endless
Saverns, Va; Ausable Chasm, n. Y,
and places of historical interest, In
Guiding Lexington, Va; Gettysburg
and Saratoga battlehelds.
The tourists plan to reach Montreal
In nine days and Quebec one day
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
BRITONS FIGHT PIRATES.
Another Punitive Expedition Car

HONGKONG, September s G4D.-An-
other British punitive experition has
been carried out against Chinese pi-
rates, this time in reply to the seizure
and footing of the Chinese steamer
Koocfiow, flying the British flag, last
Thursday in the West River.
The warships Cicala, Moth and
Moorhen were sent to Taipinghu.
where the koochow was taken to be
looted, and to Shekki. The inhabitants
of both places were warned to leave.
Sailors burned the houses on the wa
ter front of Taipinghu, while gunboats
dropped IS shells into the village of
Shekki. SO far as is known, there
ware ne Chinese casualties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
LABOR HEAD URGES
INDUSTRIAL PEACE
Hicks Invites Employers and
Workers to Conference
to Solve Problems.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, September
5.-Opening the annual Trade Union
Congress here today, President George
Hicks, leader of the Building Trade
Workers, made what his hearers in
terpreted as a significant move, IN in
viting employers and workers to get
together with q view to assisting
industry in solving it's problems along
peaceful lines.
"A much fuller use can be made of
machinery for joint consultation and
negotiation between employers and
employed" said Mr.. Hicks. 'Prac-
tically nothing as yet has been done to
establish effective machinery for in
dustry as a whole. There are many
problems upon which joint discussion
would prove valuable at the present
time.
Practical Views Exchange.
"Such a direct exchange of practical
views would be of far greater signifi-
canoe than the suggestion which has
been made in certain quarters for a
spectacular national congress-, under
government or other auspices, to dis
cuss a vague aspiration toward in
dustrial peace A discussion on these
lines would bring both sides face to
face with the hard realities Of the
present economic situation and might
yield useful results in showing how far
and upon what terms cooperation is
possible in a common endeavor to i'm
prove the efficiency and to raise the
workers standard of life"
Mr.. Hicks was uncompromising In
his attitude toward the trades union
oct which WAS recpntlV OaGSpd bv
Parliament.
Exercise Industrial Pressure.
The trades union act, among other
things, makes general strikes Illegal,
strengthens the law for the prevention
of intimidation in connection with
strikes and provides that no member
of a trade union need contribute to a
union political fund unless he SO
desires.
Those forces which produced the
trade union movement cannot be
shackled by legislation" declares Mr..
Hicks. Let any of our men be per-
secuted. Let any of our unions be
attacked, and just that element would
be provided that will sweep this meas
ure out of existence, along with its
authors. y y We have no alter
native but to make our trade unions
and the whole organized working class
movement--political, cooperative and
industrial--an instrument capable not
merely of winning electoral battles to
secure the return of our representa-
tives to Parliament and municipal
bodies, but able to exercise industrial
pressure and economic power, but to
secure the realization of the legitimate
demands of the common people"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
LABOR AS POWER
IN POLITICS URGED
Green and VOL Ask Support
for Candidates Who
Favor Cause.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
In a Labor day message to Ameri-
can workmen, President Green of the
American Federation of Labor yester-
day congratulated them on accom-.
plishments of the last year, and urged
that in coming political campaigns
their votes be cast for candidates who
favor the labor cause.
Similar statements were forthcom-
ing from Matthew VOL, vice presi-
dent of the organization, and Frank
Morrison, it's secretary. VOL warned
against revolutionary phraseS'' and
violent demonstrations" and asked
that American labor study national
forms of Government, with their divi-
sion and delegation of political power,
in order that its vote may be wisely
cast. Morrison called for intelligence
and organization" as "the only eff
fective weapons b. which labor may
achieve its ends.
Urges Campaign Be Continued.
Viewing the labor movement as
"graduallY increasing in membership
and in strength of purpose" President
Green urged continuation of the cam
paign of organization. He deplored
certain decisions of the courts in
labor cases during the past year,
mentioning in particular the Supreme
Courts disposal of the stone cutters
case, the decisions against the milk
men of Boston and the street car men
of Indianapolis.
Mr.. Green said he observed a
most amazing" change in the atti-
tude of employers as well as of
financial and commercial interests"
toward recognition of labor's conten-
ton that high wages make for
prosperity"
Opposes Wage Reductions.
Here and there, however," he
added, "can be heard demands that
the wages of all workers shah be re-
duced. Only those who fail to COM
prehend the true basis of our Nations
prosperity can favor or urge such a
proposal, 1t is the duty of the, organ
lied wage earners of America to OPP
pose with utmost vigor any attempts
to imposepspate general reduction in
wages
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
AMERICAN TO SING
FOR ROYAL COMPANY
Elena Danieli, Protege Of Melba,
Signs Contract In
Belgium.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 27.-EIena Dan.
ieli. 24-year-old America prima donna
and prctege of Nine. Melba. has
signed q contract for the six months
season Of the Royal Opera Co. of
Client, Belgium, beginning next
October.
She will be heard In leading roles
In "Manon," "Lakme," "Rigoletto,"
"Boheme." Madame Butterfly" and
other operas.
Mile. Daniel, whose name in private
life Is Helen Daniels, was born In
Mount Vernon, Ind. She is resting this
Summer in Chicago after a Winter
singing. and studying in Europe, DUR
Ing which time she was the guest Of
Nine, Media. Her teachers have
been Lapierre, from whose studio she
was engaged for Client, and Trevisan
Of Chicago. =,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
Relics Found by Sea,

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
TAGANROG, Ukraine.--An archeo-
logical expedition has discovered along
the shores of the Azov Sea remains of
what Is claimed to be trade settlements
built there by Romans In the first CEN
fury.
Several settlements supposed to
have been built by the Byzantium mer.
chants In the seventh century also
have been founda1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05

by Jnp AskOCldtcN lpSS'
ATLANTA, Ga, September o.
More than 100 persons, including
leaders in all phases of the South S
activity, left Atlanta today on the
first leg of the Atlanta MONTREAL
Quebec motorcade. over the Appa-
lachian scenic highway, sponsored
by the Atlanta Journal.
Thirty cars were in the procession
that moved out OF the city north
ward via Stone Mountain and by the
time Canada is reached the entour-
age will have grown to at least $50
persons in rs automobiles, according
to estimates managers of the tour
have made from advance registrations
of others who will join the procession
in Southern and Eastern cities.
Car No. In the gasoline caravan
was piloted by Bobby Jones, holder
of the British open and American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
MAN AND WIFE REPULSE
ATTACK ON THEIR HOME
Assailants Withdraw After Lively
Exchange of Shots in
Pitched Battle.
By the Associated Press.

AMORY, Miss, September 5.-A
pitched battle, in which Leonard
Montgomery and his wife repulsed
with rife fire a party of unidentified
armed men, was fought yesterday at
the well of the Armory Petroleum Co.,
where Montgomery is employed. The
motive for the attack has not been
ascertained.
Montgomery said that several days
ago he fired on a man lettering near
the well when the stranger refused
TO obey his command to leave. Yes.
terday a hail of bullets was sent with
out warning into the walls of his
home, Montgomery declared. One of
the leaden missiles pierced his hat and
another bullet lodged within two feet
of his child, who was playing in the
house. The attacking party fed when
the oil man and his wife returned
their fire