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The producers news., 1927-06-24

When Senator James A. Reed was
telling a Tennessee audience of the
'leprosy Of corruption" in the capital
city, did he have in mind, among 9TH
er matters, the scrapping Of the gov
ernment's air mail service and the
sale of planes to favored individuals
at ridiculously low prices?
Paul Henderson, manager of the
National Air Transport Co., is the
center of the latest scandal which is
sure to raise a storm of protest in
the coming Congress. Henderson is
the sOn-in-law of Martin Madden Of
Chicago, chairman of the all-mpOrt-
ant house appropriations committee
-Four years ago he was appointed sec
Ond assistant postmaster general in
charge of the air mail service. IN
der his regime the government spent
S16,000,000 in establishing air mail
routes, including 90 emergency land
ing fields and an elaborate system Of
lighting.
A year ago Henderson resigned as
chief of the government air mail SER
vice to become manager of the Ma
tional Air Transport Co., biggest Of
the private corporations in the field
This switch of allegiance aroused lit
tie comment as it is customary for
high officials under the Harding
Coolidge administrations to cash in
on knowledge and prestige gained
while in public service.
But soon after Henderson quit
Postmaster General Harry New an
nounced that the government was 60
ing to get out of the air mail carry
ing business. He called for bids Oh
the various routes. Charles Levine
airplant promoter who recently flew
with Chamberlin to Berlin, was the
lowest bidder on the ChicagO-Dala
route, said to be the most profitable
Of all. Henderson was second New
threw out the bids and called for ne"
estimates, with the same result. Le-
vines bid was again thrown out with
the excuse that his company was nov
reliable. Henderson was 0iven the
fat contract.
/ After Postmaster General New haa
decided to dispose of the air lines, hs
bought 29 Douglas planes, the yer!
latest word in air mail transport lIs
other day these were auctiOned OIL
and Henderson's National Air Trans
port Co. bought II of them for les
than $1,000 each, a fraction OF tnsa
cost.
No wonder Senator Reed, in his nu
for the Democratic presidential nom nom
inatiOn, waxed so eloquent In ms leI
nessee speech. "The manufactured
he said, care willing to buy any ~.
enment so long as the purchase Pii's
Tin campaign funds) represents
small portion of the profits they a.
to receive"
The Furriers convention meeting =
Washington this week was the ~ ~
gest piece of trade union news Lo, aIlo
from American Federation OF Law s.r
pronouncements, that has issued .Sr. l.UD
the capital city in years. Inc Vulor oTs
lent labor issues of New YORK va. va
suddenly tumbled into quiet consenm Nv.
tive Washington and reporters or y.
zled their readers with contuslns ofb.
conts of left and ring wings ana ,obor J~
er familiar accompaniments Of 90" .or.
conventions. High lights OF the me
vention were the determination q ;.sts 5
seated delegates to excomnuiIi''t he
communists from the union anu ,irg
emphatic assertions of the lel1 II d
forces that the convention was NV ~, d
all representative of the maJoii"
the union membership.
The producers news., 1927-06-24

export of cotton cloth from the
United Kingdom to principal mar
kets in 1913 and 1926 are:
The producers news., 1927-06-24

conference which will assemble q,
4 in Washington. Secretary w nOct
has barred, by refusal of ;Atenogg
Soviet Russia and Ecuador iL.auons
they are not recognized bv tbo boeGTsuse Eau
ed States. e Unit,
In this conference the AM.
delegation will lead the battle Ia,eaFicaa "a
vate versus public ownersbin 80 u PM,
communication. 1t will speaI e :. radio
Radio Corporation of AmerioanO aOr The
central organ Of the Americar' the
trust, owned by the General Flds.dlo RADIO
Co.'s wire trust, and the Wn'1c.'fc
house electrical equipment n0S.ing-
turing combine The America,n, ,''ul &C. &c
giant is allied with British NJ M.dlO radio
in the foreign field. It has also l'lcIconi oICl
lished what it calls a radio Monao MIS'so'
doctrine for Latin America 70 t,'NIOe
clude all competitors from t5o 1'
public south of the United State 's-
In the recent inter-Americon
ference on aircraft, the Latin 1r' eOl'
can governments refused to ,,,sll, aooau'
dictations from Washington ToJ T@oSept
Argentina and Columbia, thew 10y "
down every proposal which was ICY o5
vanced by Hoover's delegates on ~ Iu'
half of American private mononoi- Oe-
air transport in Latin America Al
The American radio trust is ao.
mined to invade foreign fields IrIsI, TS5
the European, Latin American 'tlle
some Asiatic governments are dotl tllf
mined that government ownersIi. essi'
and operation of radio conmnn;atp
tion shall be maintained as = fnDSa ,-lia'
mental public policy. N'ua'
The conference will get nowbo.
Some rule for avoiding interfaronoe.,
in sending messages will be adonto5
and the question of establisbing -
international code based on govarn 81
ment ownership will be poStnono5
until the next conference which w;i
be held in Europe in or 5 wears Al
After the white house had informed
press correspondents that Chairman
Smoot of the senate finance commit
tee was to discuss with Coolidge tbo
advisability of calling congress IN
special session next fall, in order tbat
the legislative program might be
cleared up next year, Smoot did con.
fer with Coolidge. When he left tbs
white house, Smoot announced that .
session in October had been found
acceptable. An hour later. the White
house sent out denial that anv spe.
cial session promise had been given
or that any was yet considered neceg.
sary.
Smoot is one of a very small orouD
of regular Republican senators wbo
have stood by Coolidge. This repudi.
alton has nettled him.
Ambassador Houghton has been
called home from London, very quiet
ly, and has seen secretary Kellogg
His sudden return follows the break
ing off Of British relations with the
Soviet Union. Kellogg has specializ-
ed on red scares. 1t is assumed in
Washington that the only excuse for
HOughton's return at this season is
the desire on Kellogg's part to hear
the worst about Arcos House and the
red peril in London.
The producers news., 1927-06-24

The following first page Editorial appearing in
last weeks Boulder Monitor in reference to the
recent reversal of the State Railroad Commission,
by the Interstate Commerce Commission, in their
order, so peculiarly issued, finding for the aban-
donment of the ElkhOrn branch, tells the story of
this act Of the servile Railroad Commission and
so nearly reflects sentiments, that we publish
the same herewith for the perusal of our readers:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, April 15.-Resolutions
impeaching the Cantonese government
at Hankow were adopted at today s
meeting of the Kuomintang the Can
tonese political party) at Nanking,
Quo Tai-Chi, Cantonese commissioner
for foreign affairs here, was advised
tonight.
In consequence Gen. Chang Kai
Shek, the Cantonese generalissimC
and foe of the extremists in the Can
tonese ranks, is expected to establish
a new government at Marking.
The resolutions demanded that nu
merous leaders be taken into custody
as "disturbers of the public order in
China" including Michael Borodin
the Russian, who has been acting as
adviser to the Hankow government
George Hsu Chen, minister of jus
tice; Chen TuHsiu, leader of the Chi
nese communist party; Tung Ping
Shan, minister of agriculture; Teng
Yen-Ta, notorious agitator, and is
others less well known.
Chen Held Tool of Reds.
Eugene Chen, the foreign minister,
was not named in the resolutions,
speakers declaring he was not actual
ly communistic, but was the tool or
Borodin and the others. How the
men named are to be taken into Gus
tody was not explained.
The meeting is said to have been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
CHINESE NATIONALISTS SPLIT;
CHANG PLANSNEW GOVERNMENT
Nationalist Meeting Denounces Hankow
Officials and Demands Arrest
of Communists.

, attended by a majority of the central
control committee Of the Kuomintang,
and the action means definite splt
in the Kuomintang ranks.
News Of the development was un-
expectedly sudden, following upon re-
ports of plans to delay the meeting
to await the arrival of more delegates
from Hankow.
Meanwhile the Communists are
lining up their forces. A mass meet
ing at Hankow today again denounced
Chang Kai-Shek and his followers as
ter-revolutionists, and invited
Feng Yu-Hsiang, once known as the
Christian general" and reputedly a
radical. to join forces with the
Hankow radicals to fight Chang.
Commanders Oppose Communism.
Dispatches from Chungking, Szech-
wan province, say seven commanders
of Cantonese troops have issued a
Joint circular declaring their opposi-
tion to Communism and their support
of Chang. They announced that they
would act under the principles laid
down by the late Sun Vat Sen,
founder of the Cantonese government.
Reports from elsewhere south Of the
Yangtze indicate a similar lining up
either in behalf of the Communists or
of Chang.
While this is going on, the Can
tonese are menaced from two direc-
tions by northern Chinese troops.
Fengtien (Manchurianl forces are
1Confinued on Page 4, Column S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
More Than 100 Die, Scores
Injured and Hundreds
Left Homeless.
TEXAS TOWNS HARDEST
HIT, WITH IS T0RNADOES
Billiards Cripple Middle West as
Cloudbursts Swell Mississippi
River Valley Floods.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Tornadoes, blizzards, cloudbursts
and floods have brought death lists in
a dozen States to upward of 100 In
five days, sent scores to hospitals,
many with slight chance to recover,
and left hundreds homeless.
The storm area extended from the
Central Rocky Mountain States to the
Mississippi Valley, where tributaries
Of the Nations greatest river drained
n vast section to wash out or menace
levees.
Texas headed the casualty lists with
more than so dead and scores in hos
pitfalls. Rock Springs, in southeastern
Texas, where Al perished in a tornado,
was hardest hit.
The Lone Star State toll was swelled
by at least Is tornadoes or freak
storms that struck widely separated
points.
Many Levees Give Way.
T,evees crumbled in lower Missis'
sinni Valley States to threaten many
communities. A private dixie gave
way at Columbus, KY, leaving 0oO
n
Upward of 900 persons were forced
from their homes at Fort Smith and
Van Buren,, Ark, where the Arkansas
River concentrated torrents from
Kansas and oklahoma.
Little immediate relief for inundated
Oklahoma points was forecast with
Kansas watersheds feeding four large
streams for the race southwark.
Freezing temperatures in the Noun
tain states changed rain to snow, leav-
ing traffic crippled in Colorado, Wyo-
ming and Nebraska.
Scores of motorists were stranded
in huge drifts in central Colorado,
while snow plows attempted to clear
railroad cuts where transcontinental
trains were delayed.
StocIxmen and Farmers Hit.
wyoming and Nebraska stoclSmen
feared heavy losses to live stock be-
cause of drifts from to 10 feet In
(COntinued on Page s, Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
TRACTION LINES
URGE IMAM CARS
Heads of Companies Say
Small Type Must Be Used
or Fare Increased.

The Districts two traction COM
panies served notice on the Public
Utilities Commission at public hear
ing today that curtailment Of the use
of one-man street cars would undoubt-
edly force a higher rate of fare.
John Fl. Hanna, president of the
Capital Traction Co., and William
F. Ham, head of the Washington
Railway & Electric Co., both insisted
that the one-man cars are more eco
nomical to operate and their more
general use appears to be the only
alternative to forestall an increase in
street car fares. Although the Capital
Traction Co. has never sought author
ity to operate the one-man type OF
cars on it's lines, Mr. Hanna intimated
strongly that such step is in con-
temptation as result of the com
pany's steady decrease In earnings.
New Cars Sought.
The statements of the traction COM
pany officials were made during con-
sideration by the Commissioners of a
request of the Anacostia Citizens AS
sociation for the replacement of the
10 older type one-man cars on the
Anacostia line with those of the latest
type as now in operation on the Wis
consin avenue line. incidentally, it
was the first public hearing of the
new commission, and it is expected to
result in the setting up of new policy
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
FARM POOL PLAN PROPOSED.
Admiration of Canadian System Sought
by Administration.
nv DAVID LAWRENCE.

Further details Of the adminlstra-
ton plan to solve the agricultural
surplus problem have become avail
able. They reveal that the scheme IS
not untried for it combines some OF
the best features of the Canadian
wheat pool system, which has peen
successfully operated in the last rev
wears. Adaptation to American meth
DDS will require many changes ana
the American Government viii De
able to do things for the FARMER
which private bankers are not always
able to do in Canada.
In short, the Federal Government,
while applying banking principles can
render a supply of credit which prl-
yate bankers could hardly undertake,
though ultimately when the banking
world sees how little risk is attached
to the plan it would not be surprising
to see private banking operations take
over the credit system proposed to be
set up by the new plan.
Gets Cash at Elevator.
At present the Canadian farmer can
take his wheat to the pool and get
81 down at the elevator. When wheat
is selling around $1.18 a bushel this
is a large enough proportion for him
to finance his overhead expenses un-
til the wheat is finally sold. 1t is
estimated that American farmers un-
der the present system have rarely
been able to get more than rs cents,
as compared to the dollar obtained by
Continued on Page s, Column -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
PRESIDENT PLANS
FARM AID PARLEY
Conferences to Be Held This
Summer to Draft Bill,
FesS Says.
By the Associated Press.


After a conference with President
Coolidge today at the White House,
Senator Fess, Republican, Ohio, de-
clared negotiations would be conduct
ed during the Summer between rep
resentatives Of agricultural interests
from all parts of the country in the
hone of drafting a farm reileI Dill
which the administration could sup
port.
The President would never approve
a measure containing the equallzatloii
fee to be levied on basic crops 10 nan
die the surplus, Mr.. Fess sald: Sucli
a fee was provided in the McNary,
Haugen bill which Mr.. Coolidge vetoed
during the last session of Congress.
Senator Fess predicted that the So
luton of the farm problem would be q
bin based on low rate Government
loans to cooperative organizations
which would be empowered TO puy
the surplus crops and hold them Aor
profitable prices to the producers
He expressed the hope that Chalr-
man McNary of the Senate agrlcul-
ture committee would continue to take
the leadership in farm legislation ana
that he would agree to manage
measure that called for neither an
equalization fee nor a subsidy. Mr.. NC,
Nary recently announced he woulo
draft Il bill which he hoped Mr.. COOL
idge could support. -,
The main obstacle to farm DILL
Mr.. Fess said, was the sentiment from
the Western farm belt, which hereto.
fore has insisted on the principe OF
the equalization fee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
ITALIAN-JUGOSLA
CRISIS IS RENEWED
Renewed Feverish Military Prep
arations" by Belgrade Charged
in Rome Journal.

BY Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1927.
ROME, April 15.-Apparently the
Italian-Jugoslav crisis simply refuses
to stay dead. despite the manifold en-
deavors Of every chancellery in Eu-
rope in the last fortnight to kill 1t.
Once again the Giornale d'Italia-
the disclosures of which precipitated
the last incident--publishes an inflam-
matory article alleging renewed
feverish military preparations in
Jugoslavia."
This is all the more remarkable, fol-
lowing as it does SO closely on the
official statement Thursday that any
negotiations between Rome and Bel
grade will not deal with the Albanian
difficulty. but will be confined purely
and simply" to general affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
CHAMPION FLYERS
PLAN OCEAN HOP
ACoSta and ChamberIin Will
Try to Wing Way From
Paris to New York.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 15.-Paris is
the next goal of Bert Acosta and
Clarence D. Chamberlin, newly
crowned world champions for en-
durance flying.
The two American civilian flyers
who stayed in the air 81 hours, IL
minutes and 25 seconds to break
the world record for duration flight
today appeared none the worse for
their experience and were enthusias-
tic over plans for flight from Paris
to New York in their Wright-Bellanca
monoplane in competition for the
$4,000 Orteig prize.
win Try In May.
Giuseppe VI. BeIlanca, designer OF
the craft, said an attempt TO fly the
same plane to Paris would be made
early in May. :.
I'VE could have made it this time, /"
confidently asserted the airmen.
Just to see how 1t felt to be head
ing toward Paris. we flew about 20
miles in that direction the first day."
said Chamberlin. Both of us re-
GREETED that we didn't have the navi-
eating equipment to go to 1t right
then. The wind was just right and
we made 10 miles an hour With
the throttle wide open We could
make 130 miles an hour"
Prefers Same Plane.
Chamberlin declared he was ready
to use the same plane in trans
oceanic flight and Acosta said he
would prefer that plane and motor
to any other he had flown.
Although both Acosta and Cham
berlin are candidates for the job OF
plotting the Wright -Bellanca plane
across the Atlantic, only one will be
permitted to go. The ship can take
only two and one must be navi-
gator. Neither Acosta nor Chamber
lin is a navigator.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
Hotel Where de Pinedo Is Guest Ponders
Problem of Flying Two Flags on One Pole

ward and gasped. They gently pro-
tested. At sea such an arrangement
Of flags would indicate the Americans
had captured an italian ship. Would
Signor Manager please correct the sit
uation?
The Signor Manager would. He
caused the American colors to be
taken down and the Italian flag run
up to the very top of the mast.
Immediately the hotel was besieged
by citizens inquiring whether it had
expatriated itself.
The bewildered. management Is con-
sulting authorities on international
courtesy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
AVIATOR ESCAPES
AS PLANE BREAKS
S. A. Mcclellan Leaps 1000
Feet When Wings Are
Torn Loose.

Stephen A. Mcclellan Of S22 Eight
eenth street, a Marine Corps reserve
aviator, escaped with his life shortly
before noon today by jumping with
a parachute from civilian plane,
when the wings came off at an alti-
tude of about 1000 feet and the fuse
lage plunged with tightening speed
into the water near Hams Point.
Lieut.. Mcclellan, in the status of a
civilian aviator, was demonstrating
the "Comanche" for the Eberheit t
Airplane & Motor Co. of Buffalo, the
manufacturers, before naval airmen,
prior to its being turned over to the
test board Of the Naval Air Station for
entrance in the competition now being
held there for ship board fighter.
Lieut.. Mcclellan took the plane up
to an altitude estimated at between
six and eight thousand feet and sud
denly put the nose downward in an
almost vertical dive. At a speed re-
corded on his instruments of 210 miles
per hour, he plunged downward for
a couple of thousand feet, when, to the
horror of observers on the ground,
part of the tail surfaces appeared to
carry away. Before they realized the
plane was breaking up in the air, the
wings tore loose, and the fuselage,
resembling a huge bomb. with the
engine wide open and roaring, sped
toward the earth.
Pilot Leaps With Parachute.
Scarcely had the wings parted from
the ship and started to float earth
K.1 InCinI1aya t~oiGnn
himself in the cockpit and, fighting
against an obstruction which gave
him the only scare of the experience
because. it appeared he would not be
able to free himself in time, he jump
ed into space. The white silk of the
parachute opened a second later and
he f1oated gracefully down, landing in
the water near Hains Point.
AS Lieut.. McClellan's descent was
checked. the fuseIage, void of wings
and part of the tail and with the 400
horsepower air-cooled engine wide
open, shot into the water with light
ming speed like a projectile, sending
up shower Of water.
Rescued From River.
Freeing himself from the entangle-
ment of ropes and straps and the mass
of silk, Mcclellan struck out for shore
and was rescued by Naval Air Sta
tion boat few moments later.
Mcclellan told Rear Admiral William
A. Moffett, chief of the Bureau of
Aeronautics, who witnessed the acci-
dent, that the airspeed meter showed
210 miles an hour when he last OBJ
served it and that when he saw the
wings give way he did not have time
to close the throttle Of the engine. but
instead devoted all his time to free
ing himself from temporary en-
tanglement between the straps Of the
parachute and the airplane.
Witnesses on the ground marve1ed
at the ability of Mcclellan to get clear
of the plane plunging at such a ter
CONTINUED on Page 10, Column %
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
Gate Removal Bids Asked.

Bids have been asked for the re-
moval of the historic iron gates at
West Executive avenue and Pennsyl
vania avenue, between the White
House and State, War and Navy
Building grounds. The bids will be
opened at 2 o'clock on April rs at
the offices Of the general supply COM
mittee, Seventh and b streets. The
proposal does not call for the removal
Of the piers to which the gates are
hinged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
World Population
OF 6O,8OO,OOO,OOO
Seen in Century
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 15.-One
hundred years from now, the popu-
Iation of the world will be 60.800,-
100000, provided birth and death
rates remain as they are, said Prof.
A. z. Ross of the University of
Wisconsin, addressing students at
the University of Chicago. This is
80 times the present estimated pop
ulation of the globe.
Today, the world death rate is
Is per 900 and the birth rate as
per 1000, Prof. Ross said. In the
last 80 years. the population has
doubled. The colored races are 20
per cent of the total.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
SEARCH FOR KIDNAPER
OF BOY, AGED 7, FAILS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., April 10
An all-night search for the man in
an automobile who kidnapped 7-year-
old Ernest Mitchell Of LInwood, on
Wednesday afternoon ana left him
lying unconscious by the roadside
near Pleasantville. brought no results.
Many automobiles resembling the
description given by the boy We're
stopped and their drivers questioned
In addition practically every garage
in the county was visited in search
Of the car, but nothing tending TO
reveal the mans identity was DIS
covered
The boy still is in a hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-15
MRS. DODGE TO EVADE
HUSBAND, SAYS REPORT
Estranged Wife of Millionaire Re-
puted to Be Sailing for Cali
fornia Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.

BY the AssoclaG6u FTtss.
HONOLULU, April 15.--Reports
persisted here today that Mrs.
Horace Dodge, jr, estranged wife of
the Detroit millionaire, has taken a
reservation on the Dollar liner Pres
ident Madison with a view of evad-
ing her husband, who arrived here
Wednesday incognito for the alleged
purpose of seeking a reconciliation.
Dollar line officials were noncom-
initial, and have refused to permit
inspection of the reservation lists.
The President Madison sails tonor-
row for San Francisco.
Mrs. Dodge has been spending the
last few days on the Island of Hilo
and is now returning from there.