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Evening star., 1928-11-01

ElISG EuSC,J
Traffic Bureau yesterday and was put
ting some spare time toward finishing
one Of his speeches when Maj Hesse en-
tered the room. The upshot was the
majors recommendation for his dis
miSsal.
Fails to See HesSe.
Backed by John F. Costello, Demo-
cratic national committeeman for the
District of Columbia, Wittner said he
would demand that he be shown the
charges against him, If any have been
made He sought TO interview Maj.
Hesse this morning, but failed.
While political activity Is not the
official basis of action in his case, the
activities of the District clerk during
the past week undoubtedly, according
to his contention, forced a showdown.
Regardless of whatever course the
District Commissioners may see 1T ~
take, Wittner will continue his radio
talks in support of the Democratic
nominee.
Tonight over Station WRC, under the
auspices of the central Democratic COM
mittee of the District of Columbia, he
will talk on Senator Smoot's Spoils
System" Under the same auspices last
night he spoke oyer Station WRHF and
tomorrow night over that station he will
discuss Tolerance"
An avowed atheist, Wittner on more
than one occasion in the past has taken
similar drastic action to defend what he
regards his political rights" as a citi-
zen. He recently was transferred from
a Civil Service status in the Bureau of
Aeronautics, Navy Department, to a
clerkship under the Traffic Bureau.
Evening star., 1928-11-01
Lock of Hair Sent
AS Identification
To Wills Register

Enclosing lock of her hair, which
she describes as brown with a reddish
cast, Mrs. M J. LaMay in letter post
marked at Redlands. Calf, has
written Theodore Cogswell, register of
Wills of the District warning him of
a blonde woman" who, she says will
impersonate her in an effort to obtain
a legacy due her. Cogswell regards the
enclosure as novel method of identi-
fication.
That the register may not be misled
the writer proceeds with the following
description of her self: II am 5 feet
5 inches tall, small French features,
rather dark blue small eyes, or they
might be called medium sized and like
the French besides my eyes which look
the Scotch-Irish side of the house"
She says the blonde woman has found
out where her property is located and
If she has not already done so Will
claim to be me and will fool you II she
can"
The register is informed that her adj
dress will later be forwarded when she
has located where an answer may
reach h. No designation of The name
of the eAAd person from whom the
writer exlAets to get her legacy Is con-
tanned in the letter. -
Evening star., 1928-11-01

biting at each other in their efforts to
get some food. The horses were so
plainly starved that it made one sick
to see them"
"Mr. McDermot, the humane agent
was with me and he ordered the owner
of the horses to lead us to the place
where he kept the animals. We were
led down through a back yard piled
high with trash and debris, garbage and
tin cans. The odor of this yard was
indeScribable, due to the garbage and
other trash which stood around in un-
covered carts. We passed through
these mounds of filth to a tumble down
pile of boards which served as a stable
We peered within the dark receSses of
this place and saw Sloping dirt floor,
with an old bedspring standing in
the center as a partition between the
two horses. The place was filled with
every sort of combustible debris and
was an absolute firetrap. If a spark
should catch in that place it would
burn to the ground in minute and
no horse could ever escape. We told
the man that proper and decent
stable should be found for his horses
at once. He promised to do so and I
think he has probably done SO.
There are literally hundreds of these
back alley stables in various parts of
Washington, and think that their ex-
istence is menace to the health and
safety of the community, and that steps
should be taken by both the Health and
Fire Departments to their speedy elimi-
nation. 1t is strange thing that never
in the days of horses, when there we're
from twenty to thirty thousand horses
in the District, could there have been
found such conditions as are now re-
ported constantly, when there are prob
ably less than 1000 horses to be found
in Washington.
Owners of many of these horses
rent them out to others. They rent
them for 50 day to men who use
them to- haul trash to the dumps and
gather kindling from old boxes which
have been thrown away. This means
that the entire day long, these poor,
starved, ill-treated horses are travelling
through the streets. At least three
trips a day must be made to the dump
piles in order to make enough money
to pay for the rent of the horse as
well as to make some profit"
Evening star., 1928-11-01
TRIAL BOARD HEARS
ACCUSED OFFICERS
Charges in Cases of Eight
Policemen Presented-One
Fails to Appear.
Charges against eight policemen were

Charges against eight policemen were
heard before the Police Trial Board in
session at the sixth precinct today.
Paul E. Berger of the ninth precinct
was arraigned on charges of being
under the influence of liquor, unwar-
rantedly using his revolver and conduct
prejudicial to the good of the force,
growing out of a fight Berger is said
to have had with David Limerick.
Following the fight Berger is alleged
to have fired his pistol twice outside
the Limerick home, two bullets enter
ing the door of the house. Berger, a
married man, also is alleged to have
been seen in the company of woman
not his wife. who is named in the
charges as Beulah Limerick.
Pvt. L. F.. Lewis was arraigned on q
charge of reckless driving growing out
of an accident at Seventeenth and K
streets northwest, on June 26 with
the automobile of Mrs. Margaret PEN
dleton. 305 Stoneleigh Court. Mrs. Pen
dleton was injured.
Pvt. H. G. Freeman failed to appear
before the board to answer charges
of having been convicted before COM
petent court of quasi criminal charge
because he is now serving time in the
Arlington County jail on charge of
driving while drunk.
Evening star., 1928-11-01
ZEPPELIN STOOD TEST"
ECKENER SAYS OF TRIP
Possibility of Transocean Traffic
Proved, Commander Asserts on
Arrival in Germany.

BY the Associated Press.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN Germany, No
vember 1.-The Zeppelin has stood the
test" Dr. Hugo Eckener. commander of
the Graf Zeppelin, said this morning
before driving off to his home for a
rest. THE flight over the ocean and
back has proved the possibility of trans
ocean air traffic.
You should have seen the steamers
which we met rolling in heavy seas.
We had not the slightest trouble with
our engines"
During the last part of the flight the
airship had to pass through dense
fog, the commander said, which made
navigation difficult. The officers were
continually forced to ask by wireless
for the position, and this information
was obtained both from land stations
and from ships at sea.
Evening star., 1928-11-01
PAN TO ELECTR|Fy
325 MILES OF ROAD
Pennsylvania Lines An
nounce New York-to-WiI-
mington, DEL, Project.
BY the Associated Press.

BY Lne Associated ETeSS.
NEW YORK, November 1.-The
Pennsylvania Railroad is to electrify its
entire freight and passenger service be-
tween New York and Wilmington, Del,
at a cost of $100,O0O000 Gen. w. w.
Atterbury, president of the road, an
nounced.
The project will cover 325 miles of
line, comprising 1900 miles of track.
and will require seven or eight years to
complete. Gen. Atterbury said that If
conditions warrant it the electrification
of the roads entire IL 900 miles of
trackage would follow, section by sec
ton, upon completion of the present
plans. He said that the company ex-
pected to finance the project from
earnings.
AT present the Pennsylvania is elec-
trified between the Sunnyside yards at
Long Island City and Newark and from
Philadelphia to Wilmington. The next
step will be electrification of the road
between Philadelphia and Trenton.
planned to be completed by 1880.
The electrification will wipe out
Manhattan transfer, where ali trains
stop to change from electric to steam.
or vice versa.
Another electrification development
he added, will be in and around pitts
burgh, and this later will gradually be
connected with the Eastern lines. AS
business and service warrants, the en-
tire system will be electrified he said
but probably not for several years.
Electrification is expected to accel-
crate freight shipments 25 to 30 per
cent. No reduction in time of the linn
tied trains is contemplated now, but
President Atterbury explained the
pennsylvania would be in a position to
give faster service as needed.
The Philadelphia Electric Co. and the
New Jersey Public Service Corporation
will supply power.
Mr.. Atterbury also pictured a vast
committing population in northern New
Jersey, which will require quick trans
portation into metropolitan New York.
estimating New York and vicinity would
have population of 100000 by 1880
The railroads also will save $4,000 600
In the construction of stations, as two
electric tracks can handle as much
trattic as four steam tracks. The entire
work Is to be contracted out.
Evening star., 1928-11-01
MAN BELIEVED SUICIDE
ON POTOMAC BOAT TRIP
Naval Hospital Patient, Robbed of
Compensation, May Have
Leaped Into River. -sE lsa,.

sam P. Shumate, former member
OF the crew of the Mayfiower and pa-
tlent at the Naval Hospital. is believed
70 have ended his life by a leap from
the steamer District of Columbia of the
washington & Norfolk Steamship Line
last night
suicide note found in Shunate's
stateroom was turned over to the Nor
Iolk police when the steamer arrived
there this morning. ~
Shumate reported to the police sew
eral days ago that he had been robbed
OF S190 at his home. 48O7 Georgia ave-
nue.. The. $3.50 was compensation paid
him by the Veterans Bureau It was
learned today that he telephoned his
wlfeS mother shortly before his de-
parture from Norfolk late night tell
ing ner That he would be gone within
an hour" She did not believe he was
in earnest.
With the money which he told the
ponce mad been stolen he had intender'
70 make trip to the home of his
parents in the South.
Evening star., 1928-11-01
Log of Graf Zeppelin
BY the Associated Press.
eastern Standard Time.)
Monday, October 20.

MONDAY, OCTOBER ~.
54a.m.-Left Lakehurst, N j.
3:15 a.m-Passed over New York
City.
am.-Passed over Block Island off
Rhode Island coast
6:15 am.-Passed Chatham, Mass,
and headed out to sea.
7:15 a.m.-Sighted by trawler Wild
geon rs miles northeast of Chatham.
1915 a.m.-Sighted by steamship
Laconia 80 miles southwest of Cape
Sable, Nova Scotia.
2 p.m.-Gave position as latitude 43
north, longitude So west $500 to 900
miles at sea from Chatham).
p.m.-Gave position as 1890 north
$3.50 west (about $50 miles east of
Chatham).
Midnight-Gave position as $50 miles
northeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland.
Tuesday, October 80.
7 a.m.-Steamship Mauretania, about
500 miles east of Cape Race, in COM
munication with airship, which ap-
peared to be somewhat to north.
10 am.-Steamship Capulin sighted
airship about 730 miles northeast of
Cape Race.
12:40 p.m-Steamship Blairesk re-
800 miles northeast of Cape Race.
2:15 pm.-Passed over cableship
Dominia about $50 miles northeast of
Cape Race.
pm.-Gave position about 730 miles
west of Fastnet Light. Cork, Ireland.
tbs p.m.-Sighted by steamship
WeSterdijk about $50 miles west of
Lizard Head, Cornwall, England.
Midnight-Gave position about 430
miles west of Lizard Head.
Wednesday, October 81.
$50 Sighted by steamship Boul-
der Pool about $50 miles west of Bor-
deauX, France.
6:21 a.m.-Reported over Bay of
Biscay.
1890 a.m.-Reported 40 miles west
of the Gironde Estuary, on the central
French coast.
1896 pm.-Gave position as 47:20
north, west (about rs miles west If
Nantes, France)
1:43 p.m.-,Passed over Nantes.
800 p.m.-PaSsed over Tours, France.
S pm-Eeported so miles east
southeast of Paris.
7:3O p.m-Passed over Dion, France.
1855 pm-Passed Basel. Switzerland.
1926 pm,-Sighted near Friedrichs-
hafen.
1880 pm.-Cruising over Fried
richshafen.
Thursday, November l.
1:06 am.-Landed at Friedrichshafen.
Evening star., 1928-11-01
IS HERO
OF GERMAN CROWD
Terhune Carried on ShouI-
ders of Throng Through
Friedrichshafen Streets.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, No
vember Clarence Terhune, the ire
pressible 19-year-old American stow
away on the air liner Graf Zeppelin,
was given triumphant reception by a
cheering crowd in Friedrichshafen to-
day
Clarence was smuggled out of one of
the rear gondolas of the Zeppelin into
the custody of police soon after the
dirigible had landed and was taken to
the hotel apartment of John F. Kehl,
American CONSUL where long private
away emerged from the hotel, cheering
crowds raised him on their shoulders
and paraded with him down the street
Asked what he intended to do he re-
piled that he must first look through his
mail and then decide what to do next
I'm not worrying about the future" he
said, adding that he did not intend to
remain in Europe for any length of time.
He expressed the hope that he would
find an offer among the stack of mail
and kilograms awaiting him which Will
enable him to return to the United
States as soon as possible.
Terhune said that he had always had
a place to eat and plenty of food during
the transatlantic passage, but that he
had no place to sleep and had to lie
down wherever he could find spot
that wasn't being used He was maid
of all work" aboard and was well treated
by the crew and passengers alike.
The correspondents who interviewed
Terhune wanted to know how DR.. Eek
ener had taken the discovery of a stow
away aboard his ship. To this question
Terhune, who had been talking freely.
merely answered, He smiled" and then
suddenly became less communicative,
saying with show of mystery that he
had "an arrangement" with DR.. Eek
ener which did not permit him to talk.
Evening star., 1928-11-01
AMERICAN PASSENGERS PRAISE
RETURN JOURNEY OF ZEPPELIN
Voyage Thrilling, They Say-One at Least
Thinks He's Cured of Smoking
cigarettes.

cigarette at that-the first one did not
taste at all. Even the second one failed
to please me. Maybe it means that
am through with smoking"
William Ullman of New York was
asked why he left America without O
passport.
II didn't know until Is minutes be-
fore the Zeppelin was to start that I
was to CO." he replied. II was merely
standing with friends, remarking, Gee
whiz, I'd love to 60 Then more in the
way of joke / said I'd pay $4,000 for
seat when 1 was taken up on it and
found myself jumping aboard.
Ullman must 60 to Berlin as soon as
possible, where a temporary passport
awaits him. Then he will take an air.
plane for Paris and catch steamer for
the United States.
The American paying passengers on
emerging from the hangar found that
no facilities had been provided to bring
them to hotel Their baggage was
merely dumped on the ground and they
were compelled to wait while American
correspondents hurried to the hotel ano
had taxieab sent to them.
Evening star., 1928-11-01
TREASURY WORKER
GETS PURSE OF GOLD
J. S. Mills Honored by Associates
on Retirement After Working
for SO Years.

John S. Mills. editor and chief OF
printing and binding for the Treasury
Department, was honored yesterday
upon his retirement on account OF III
health. when his associates presented
him with a purse of gold.
F. H. Berger of the Treasury De-
partment succeeds to the post made
vacant by Mr. Mills retirement.
Upon his leaving the service after
So years working for his Government,
Mr.. Mills was rendered letter of trib-
ute by Secretary Of the Treasury Mel
lon, who praised him for "eminently
superior public service"
Mr. Mills started in the Government
Printing Office in 1876 as compositor
and during his service for the Govern
ment was at various times foreman at
the printing Office and in charge OF
confidential printing for former Secre-
tary of the Treasury Lyman j. Gage.
Evening star., 1928-11-01
BARTLETT ATTACKS
CHARGES OF SMITH.
Denies Sites for 100 Post Offic.
Are Lying Idle-Quotes
Actual Figures.
BY the Associated Press.

BOSTON, November John h.
BartiuGt, First Assistant Postmaster
General declared today that Gov.
Smith was in error when he said in his
speech at Newark last night that the
Government owned 100 post Office sites
on which no brick had been laid.
Gov. Smith charged the Coolidge
administration with having 100 post
office sites In the country not built
upon l4r. Bartlett said, Implying that
II was waste and saying that not a
thing has been done about it.
The truth is, we have already acted
completing 20 Of these post offices
Right here in Massachusetts we have
completed l in Winchester. l at New
ouryport and l at Southbridge. In
Gov. Smiths own State we have COM
pleted at cost of S1,000,O0O in
Yonkers, l at cost of $4,000 600 i'm
Syracuse and have others under way.
Gov. Smiths party is to be blamed for
these sites in 1918, 1914 and 1915 and
neglecting to do anything about them. :"
Evening star., 1928-11-01
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN Germany, No
vember 1.-The American passengers
aboard the Graf Zeppelin today paid
eloquent tribute to the voyage of the
airship and said they would not have
missed it for anything.
Hans Nolde of Reading, Pa; Donald
Casio of Columbus, Ohio; Paul Marko
of Brooklyn and Joseph Jessel OF New
York said that they were SO excited
last night that they sat up and played
cards. Champagne was served.
One of the thrills of the journey,
the men said, was flying over Dion,
France, the lights nj the city being
visible despite the elevation at which
the airship was then flying.
1.-The view from the Zeppelin as we
hovered above Friedrichshafen and
Lake Constance was one of overwhelm-
| ing beauty" Mr.. Nolde said.
He remarked that the voyage had
possibly cured hom of smoking, fol
like the other passengers he had to
abstain from it during the trip.
when on landing" he continued, Is,
Was handed a cigarette-an American
Evening star., 1928-11-01
$343,OOO Earned by Graf Zeppelin
On Its Round Trip to United States

several of the passengers who travelled
in more or less official capacities did not
pay the full rate.
Taking the figure of 38 passengers,
at $4,000 each, the total fare would be
$114,000. Mail and express brought
from Germany added $4,000 more.
Freight carried on the return voyage
paid $1,705. The revenue from 81 sacks
of mail was $75,7l3.50. A large part of
the revenue came from the sale of ex-
elusive rights for publication of stories
from the ship. an American syndicate
paying $67,400 for this privilege and
two German newspapers $15,60O.
The mail carried on the return voyage
included 49,745 letters and 81 1888 post
cards, the most valuable mail cargo in
point Of postage ever handled by air.
Evening star., 1928-11-01
GAS DEPRECIATION
BEING CONSIDERED
Utilities Commission Engi-
neerS and Companies Give
Estimates.

The question of depreciation of the
properties of the Washington and
Georgetown Gas Light Companies came
up for consideration for the first time
today in the public valuation hearing
being held before the Public Utilities
Commission.
The commissions engineers are con-
tending that the companies plants are
deprecated to the extent of $4,000 900,
while the company engineers claim that
the depreciation is but 100000.
The figure for depreciation must be
subtracted from the total cost to repro
duce the plant new in determining the
final valuation, and it is considered one
of the most important elements i'll the
case.
r. o. Luqueer, engineer for the COM
panieS, stated that his definition of de-
probation was the cost of restoration
of the plant to its condition new. In
determining what this cost would be, he
said, he inspected the whole plant and
found that it had been we'll maintained
by the expenditure of large sums of
money annually in maintenance costs.
To inspect the street mains which carry
gas to the consumers houses, Luqueer
said he made an opening for every 10
miles of main to examine the present
condition of the pipe. There are 660
miles of main, requiring 66 separate
excavations, he said.
In the case of many elements,
Luqueer testified that he had allowed
nothing at all for depreciation. He
gave as an example several pumps in
which repairs were made and new parts
substitute for old ones so constantly
that the condition was as good as new.
The same was true in the case of a
relief holder for gas on which, Luqueer
said, he could find no way of spending
money to make it any better
The days first witness was Arthur
Carr of the Washington Real Estate
Boards appraisal committee. He gave
testimony corroborating that offered
previously in the hearing by other
members of the committee on the value
of the land owned by the companies,
which was estimated at S3,11l, 900.
Evening star., 1928-11-01
Zeppelin Covers
Over 1000 Miles in
II Hours II Minutes
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November l.
Following northern course, Graf
Zeppelin, the largest aircraft In
the world, today completed the
longest eastward flight over the
Atlantic. When the airship land
ed at Friedrichshafen she had
been in the air II hours and
IL minutes and had covered more
than 1000 miles. Clarence
Chamberlin and Charles A. Le-
vine had previously held the
record, having flown in the
monoplane Columbia from Roose-
velt Field, New York, in 1927 to
Cottbus, Germany, a distance
slightly above 5000 miles, in
about AZ hours.
The eastward fight of Graf
Zeppelin was along a course
about 1000 miles shorter than
her westward crossing.
Evening star., 1928-11-01

BY the Associated Press,
NEW YORK, November 1.-The
revenue earned by the Graf Zeppelin
ON her round trip from Germany was
estimated today at $343,000.
what part of this is profit Is uncer-
tain. DR.. Hugo Eckener estimated the
expenses for the round trip would be
Sl0O 900, but repairs to the damaged
i'm undoubtedly raised this considerably.
THE estimate of revenue is based OH
the assumption that 18 of the pas
sengers on the trip to the United States
and 90 of the "a passengers on the
return voyage paid the full fare of
"a 000. Since DR.. Eckener estimated
fhe revenue before the start at ap-
proximately 100000. it is assumed that
Evening star., 1928-11-01
COLLEGE HEADS CITED.
Expelled Student Takes Fight for
Reinstatement to Court.

Suit for mandamus has been filed in
the District Supreme Court by Clar-
ence Smith of Cincinnati, Ohio, against
DR.. Mordecai johnson, president, and
the members of the executive commit
tee of the board of trustees of Howard
University, whom he seeks to compel
to restore him to the rolls of member
ship in the freshman class at the Med
ical School.
Smith tells the court, through Attor-
neyS Lambert g. Yeatman, that Octo-
ber 8 last he enrolled in the Medical
School and was accepted as a qualified
student. October II he was asked by
the dean to withdraw from the school,
which he refused, he says. Later, he
declares, the executive committee or
dered his name stricken from the rolls.
Such action, he asserts, was illegal be-
cause done in the absence of a quorum
of the board
Evening star., 1928-11-01

Continued From First Page.)
the Office of President permitted politi-
cal activity. Moreover, that the Presi-
dent feels that the accomplishments
Of the Republican party, particularly
during his own administration, are so
well founded and so widely known, and
that the prevailing prosperity speaks
so loudly for itself, there is no
reason to add anything in the way of
a speech.
Although Mr.. Coolidge has done no
talking in public, those with whom he
has talked in a confidential manner
regarding the campaign within the past
few days have gone away feeling that
the President is absolutely confident of
Republican victory. He is represented
in this respect as not entertaining the
slightest doubt about the outcome. One
of his recent callers was inclined to
think that the President entertained
no doubt even regarding his own State,
Massachusetts, which is so generally
being classed as either very doubtful or
else conceded to Gov. Smith.