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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
WFLYER MAKES
4Q,ODO-FOOT CLIMB
Lieut.. Soucek Believed to
Have Broken World Alti-
, ,... tude Record.

What may prove to be world alti-
tude. record was made at the Anacostia
Naval Air Station today when Lieut..
Apollo Soucek of the Navy Bureau of
Aeronautics climbed to an indicated
altitude of more than 10000 feet The
present world altitude record (3s.41S)
was made in the same plane at the local
station less than two years ago by Lieut..
c.. c. Champion.
Lieut.. Soucek was in the air only l
hour and Il minutes and, except for
severe head winds encountered after
climbing more than five miles, reported
that he had suffered no great hardship
At the top of his climb his goggles froze
over and after vain efforts to clear
them he finally pulled them of, though
the temperature then was approximately
10 degrees below zero.
Two paragraphs, placed in the plane
by the Bureau of Standards and the
National Aeronautic Association, were
removed from the plane Immediately
after it landed at 1924 this afternoon,
and will be calibrated at the bureau to-
night. Whether he broke the present
world record probably will be known
sometime tomorrow.
II. r. Henricksen, Bureau of Stand
ards Paragraph expert, said that Sou
cek'S altimeter, which went just over
the 40,000-foot mark at the top of his
climb, had not been especially cali
brated for extreme attitudes and might
prove to have been in error as much as
per cent either way.
The plane used by Lieut. Soucek Is a
Wright Apache with Pratt and Whit
ney Wasp motor. 1t was built more than
two years ago, and was equipped for
altitude flying with motor super
charger. special Oil cooler. oxygen tanks
and number of special gauges and
instruments. The motor flew apart and
caught fire after Lieut.. Champion had
established world record in the plane,
and he made q forced landing near the
Naval Air Station after diving and side
slipping several times to blow out the
flames.
Lieut.. Soucek encountered no motor
trouble during the climb. and brought
the little ship down to perfect land
ing. Owing to the west wind he en-
countered. he was blown far to the
east of Washington during the climb,
and was flying west during most of the
period he was in the air.
He took off at 11:1O am. and pulled
the ship Immediately into a steep
climb. He was climbing at an esti-
mated speed of 1000 feet minute
when he disappeared from view into
the blue sky after about seven minutes
of flying.
After being in the air about half
hour, the plane began to leave a trail
of white smoke, which could be seen
from the ground, although the ship
itself had long since passed from view.
The smoke trail could be seen for
nearly 20 minutes, finally disappearing
at about IL O'Clock, when the flyer
throttled down and began to spiral
down to the field.
He was not sighted again until about
seven minutes before he landed.
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MIAMI CLUB GOLFER
LEADS TOURNAMENT
James Herman Newcomer Il
Ahead With 75-Shipley
Next With ~.

James Herman of the Miami Valley
Club of Dayton, Ohio, newcomer to
golf around Washington, took the lead
earl ythis afternoon in the qualifying
round of the Town and Country Club
Invitation Golf Tournament.
Herman. who is secretary to Repre-
sentative Roy Fitzgerald of Ohio, reg
istered rs for the double circuit of
the nine-hole course to go into the lead
by two strokes Just behind him at II
was M. A. Shipley of the Argyle Club
Frank K. Roesch of the Washington
Club had turned in rs yesterday to
lead the field over the first days play.
Herman had mines of 81 ard 38 for
his rs. Other scores today follow:
S. H. Buttz. Indian Spring, SO;
Thomas Pitt, Argyle, "a; George C. Gist
Indian Spring, So; Jack vessels,
Beaver Dam, 81; e. p. Hair, Washing
ton, 81; Don Dudley, Argyle, 81.
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RAIL CLERKS TO ASK
6-HOUR, 6-DAY WEEK
Relief Sought From Serious" La
Dor Situation Caused by Mer-.
gers, Says Grand President.

BY the Associated Press.
SPOKANE, Wash. May 8.-Estab-
lislrnent of a six-hour day and a six
day week will be sought by the Brother
hood of Railway Clerks to relieve the
serious" labor situation caused by rail-
road mergers, George M. Harrison,
grand president, said here yesterday
Harrison, in company with other off,
cials from headquarters of the union
In Cincinnati, came here to confer
with local members on the labor phase
of the proposed consolidation of rail-
way companies.
such consolidation undoubtedly will
result in many thousands of railway
employees being without Jobs" Harri-
son asserted. In the past seven years
the railroads of this country have re-
duced the number of their employees
by about 100000. To relieve this sit
uation.. we propose to establish a six
hour day with a six-day week. Also
we will urge our members to participate
actively in increasing our membership"
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STUDENT AT HARVARD
FOUND DEAD ON ROAD
Youth Killed by Bullet, Carried
to Highway-Motive Is
Yelled in Mystery.
NV the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WINDSOR, Conn, May S.-William
Treadway Huntington, a junior at Har-
ward University and the son of Mrs.
Mary Clark Huntington and the late
Henry A. Huntington, was slain some
time after midnight last night. His
body was found this morning with a
bullet wound in his head, in lot
about a quarter of a mile from the
standpipe of the Windsor water works
on a farm commonly known as the
Murphy farm, which was the boyhood
home of Gov. John H. Trumbull.
The body was found lying Is feet
from the highway and from the early
investigation 1t is believed that it was
placed there.
The body was lying fiat on the back
with hands folded.
No motive could be determined, as
diamond ring was on the young
mans hand when the body was found.
There was no weapon in the vicinity
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HEFLIN HITS RULE AT JAIL
BARRING NEWS OF SINCLAIR
Millionaires Should Not Be Protected,
Says Senator, Charging Author
tiles Truckle.


trucking mil
described this thief stole
be special privileges
his cell and write about
protection
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COURT: REFUSES
M|CHAE[SON PLEA
Representative a Loses Move
to Have Baggage Checks
Ruled Out as Evidence.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KEY WEST, Fla, May 8.-AttemptS
by defense counsel for Representative
Michaelson of Illinois to have ruled out
as evidence the testimony as to baggage
and customs checks and numbers on six
trunks seized at the Jacksonville ter
minal station, in which he was alleged
to have brought liquor into this country
failed in Federal Court here today.
Judge Halsted L. Ritter, before whom
the trial is being heard. ruled that the
testimony would be admitted as sec
ondary evidence because the defendant
could not be forced to produce primary
evidence against himself. He noted an
exception from the defense.
K. r. Bobbitt, deputy customs inspec-
tor, then took the stand to testify as to
his part in checking the customs rec
ords of the baggage.
Judge Ritter, however, halted the wit
ness, saying he had heard enough testi-
mony to identify the inventory SUBJ
mitted by the Government.
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Former Convict Takes Wide Lead in Race
For Mayor of Gary in Vindication Fight

johnson after he had served several
months Of his sentence.
The primary ends bitter race, filled
with personalities and villification. So
intense was the campaign that there
were 152 candidates out for Is alder
manic jobs. johnson sought election
on vindication platform.
At Hammond, with returns virtually
complete, the race for the Republican
nomination for mayor was extremely
close and a recount loomed as likely
Only IL votes separated Charles o.
Schonert from his opponent, Dan
Brown.
r. p. Hale, mayor of East Chicago,
had 1855 votes to 5,l93 for Frank CAL
'ahan, former mayor, virtually assuring
Hale of another term. ?,
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HOOVER RTOD|SCUSS
D|R|G|BLE AIR MAIL
Plans Call for Service to Eu-
rope, Hawaii and South
American Points.
By the Associated Press.

By ASSOClaLEd Press.
AKRON, Ohio, May 8.-President
Hoover and Paul w. Litchfield. presi-
dent of the Goodyear Zeppelin Corpo-
ration, will discuss plans for trans
oceanic dirigible air mail lines to
Hawaii and London, it was said here
today.
The possibility of such lines was gone
over by postal authorities and officials
of the airship company in Washing
ton last week, it was said. Original pro-
posals for dirigible line from Los An
geles to Honolulu have been expanded
to include similar service between New
York and London, according to infor-
nation here.
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EVANSTON. Ill, May SIT could be
written this way: Constable George
Harrison went for ride about town
yesterday in a tractor" But that isn't
the half of it, dearie.
The constable Specializes in replevins.
His job yesterday, 1t so happened, was
to replevin tractor.
He had never driven a tractor, but
he once pumped the pedals for the fam
lily sewing machine. So it ought to be
easy.
He got the tractor going. So smooth
was his progress to town that the con-
stable began to feel thoroughly satisfied
with himself. Glancing ahead, he saw
n traffic signal turn red. This was
contingency that had not occurred to
him. He pulled few levers and pushed
few dinguses, but the tractor moved
steadily on.
Two motor cycle policemen came
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formation to the press about the oil
magnate.
Saying he did not wish to "pass TIE
buck" George S. Wilson, director of
the board of public welfare, assumed
full responsibility today for the bat
on the press. He added that he issued
the order with the advice and approval
of the penal committee of the board
of public welfare"
This committee consists of Judge NJ.
M. Doyle, DR.. George NJ. Kober and
John Joy Edison.
Mr.. Wilson declared he acted after
M. M. Barnard. superintendent of all
District penal institutions, and Mai
Peake had advised him that the affairs
of the Jail were being seriously inter-
ferred with by the aggregation of news
paper men in the Jail Office. Mai
Peake. speaking for himself, said later
he had made no complaint about the
newspaper men, but that he thought
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MILLER IS RELEASED
FROM ATLANTA CELL
Former Alien Property Custodian
Declines to Talk Other Than
He Is "Going Home"
By the Associated Press.

ATLANTA, Ga. May 8-Thomas w.
Miller, former alien property custodian,
was released from the Federal peni-
tentiary here yesterday on parole. Mil
Ter. who had been in prison for over q
year, looked well upon his discharge.
He went by taxicab to the home of
a friend, where he declined to discuss
his sentence and merely said that he
was going home" He said he would
not discuss anything concerning his i'm
prisonment on the case for which he
was convicted at New York in 1927 and
sentenced to serve 15 months and pay
a fine of $4,000.
Not until his complete sentence time
has expired will he talk about the case,
Miller said. Under "good-time allow
ances" he would have been eligible for
discharge July 7.
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THREE DROWNED IN RIVER.
Men Were Workers on Dam Near
Pittsburgh.

PITTSBURGH, May 8 L0.-Three
men were drowned in the Ohio River
at Sewickley last night when small
boat capsized after striking a barge,
county authorities were informed today.
Eight other occupants of the craft
escaped.
The victims, workmen on a dam at
Dead Mans Island, were Robert Min
nick, %, Hyndman, Pa; Samuel Gray,
42, Negro, Mount Airy, w. Va, and
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GARY, Ind, May 8.-Roswell o.
johnson, recently released from Fed
eral prison, where he served time for
liquor law violation. had lead of more
than 2,000 votes today over Floyd Will
liams for the nomination of Mayor cf
Gary, on returns from 46 of the 81
precincts.
His lead was regarded as sufficient to
insure his victory, and nomination OH
the Republican ticket in Lake County
is equivalent to election.
The vote for johnson, who served a
term in the Atlanta Penitentiary, while
mayor here few years ago, was 1881.
That for Williams, present mayor. was
s,lse. President Coolidge pardoned
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CONSIDERATION DELAYED.
Study of Hoover's Oil Conservation
Policy Urged by King.

A meeting of the Senate judiciary
committee TO consider the resolution of
Senator King, Democrat of Utah, for a
Senate investigation of President Hoo
postponed indefinitely Chairman Nor
ris of the committee deferred the meet
ing until the Senate gets through its
work on the farm relief bill.
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FIGHTING CLOSES
RAIL LINE TO CANTON
City Defenders Said to Be Retreat.
ing Before Kwangsi Forces
in. South China.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONGKONG, May (P.-Heavy
fighting was in progress today along
the railway from Canton to Kowloon
between Kwangsi forces under Gen. Hsu
King-Tong and Cantonese generals.
Railway service from Kowloon to Cam
ton was suspended upon orders from
Canton.
The native newspapers here said the
Kwangsites had captured Shiuhing,
west of Canton, and were rapidly ad-
vancing on Canton, with the Canton
csc troops retreating before them.
Chinese firms at Hongkong are not
exporting cargoes to Canton for the
present.
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YUKON ICE BREAKS.

DAWSON, A. r, May 8 [P.-The
ice in the Yukon River in front of Daw-
son moved out at 2:33 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. heralding the advent of
Spring and Summer. First prize in the
guessing contest of the movement of the
ice was divided between Thomas Leach
of Dawson and Kennedy and Grace
Stewart of Anchorage. Alaska. The ap-
proximate amount of the prize was
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BIBLE GIVEN HOOVER.
Photostatic Copy of Jefferson Edi'
ton Is Handsomely Bound.

President Hoover today was presented
with a handsomely bound photostatic
copy of the Jefferson Bible. The pres
entation was formally made by Mrs.
Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, Mrs.
Rose Gouverneur Hoes and Miss Flora
Mason Nicholson, representing the COM
mittee for the preservation of Month
cello, Jefferson's Virginia home.
The Bible was bound in red morocco
and tied with red, white and blue
ribbons.
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Tiireless Tractor Tortures Constable Pilot;
'IKnew I'd Stop IT." He Shouts as Gas Fails

bearing down on the constable and his
untractable tractor. They told him to
pull over to the curb.
" Twould do no good" said Constable
Harrison, land 1t would be fatal to the
curb What l need is information on
how to stop this thing"
No one seemed to know. so the tractor
moved sedately along. now conveyed by
two motor cycle officers. Round and
round the city they went.
The constable finally had an idea.
"I'll run 'er into the lake" he shouted.
st can't make riding on this thing my
life work"
At the edge of the lake the tractor
ran out of gas and stopped. The con-
stable dismounted and pointed with
pride
'I knew I'd stop her." he bsamed.
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College Plans Aviation School.

RALEIGH, N. c.. May 8 CP).-Dr.
E. F. Brooks of North Carolina State
College left last night for New York to
confer with interested parties in re-
gard to plans for an aviation school or
department at the institution here. He
would not reveal the parties with whom
he Is to confer.
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Bank Statements

Washington clearing house, $5,2Sl,-
1886.
Treasury balance, 1901 ,962, ,349.57.
New York clearing house exchange,
$1.387 ,000, 900.
New York clearing house balance,
$l48, 100000. =
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PILOT DIES IN CRASH.
Mail Plane Wreckage Found Near
CHEYENNE,

CHEYENNE, Wyo.. May 8. GP).-Ivan
Houston, Denver pilot on the Denver
Cheyenne air mail route, was found
dead amidst the wreckage of his plane
10 miles south of here today. Houston
had been missing since 7 o'clock last
night, when he passed over the local
air field He was unable to make a
landing because of dense fog.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
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Continued on Page 2, Column ~
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Increasing cloudiness followed by
showers late tonight or tomorrow; not
much change In temperature.
Temperatures: Highest 68. at $40
pm. yesterday; lowest. Al. at 6 am. to-
day. Full report on page 8.
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MUSIC

Surely the members of a volunteer
orchestra who request an increase in
the number of their weekly rehearsals
s(the members are young people and the
rehearsals are held in the evenings)
must be interested in music and willing
to make music. And such a willingness
was clearly apparent in the work of the
American ization School Association
Orchestra, which gave concert last
night in conjunction with several solo,
lists at the Young Women's Christian
Association. 1t is the members of this
orchestra who have asked that their
hours of rehearsal be increased.
It seems doubtful if many orchestras
could show more conglomerate musi-
cal and national makeup than this one.
Its players are all foreign born, of many
different nationalities, though now
Americans or about to be Americanized.
The printed roster of their names shows
Italians, CZechs, Spanish, Germans.
English and Russians to be present, and
their instruments include a piano, one
clarinet, one oboe, one saxophone. one
horn. one cello. three trumpets, three
flutes. drums and IL violins.>
Yet, in the concert last evening there
was an admirable homogeneity in one
quality at least, and that was enthu-
oAocAAs AoAll uiiS EdSCA. oOiotCAOQS
ton of Herold's Tampa overture. the
opening number. on through Suppe's
we'll known Light Cavalry" overture,
which closed the program. the little
orchestra filled every Granny of the
place with sound, achieving at times a
surprising degree of harmony, as in the
Schubert "Marche Militaire" and Shar-
wenka's familiar Polish Dance"
One must credit the director Of the
group, Vladimir Vasa, for making up a
program which, while it may have been
sufficiently classical to enthuse his
young musicians and to keep them en-
Unused, was not so difficult as to con-
found them. 1t was this same Mr..
Vasa, very modest artist, who plainly
relishes his work, who revealed facile
and powerful touch in his piano rendi-
tions of the Chopin "Polonaise Mill
taire," a List Concert Etude" and the
Polka in F Major" of his countryman,
Smetana. One presumes that it is his
countryman, for Mr.. VaSa is graduate
Of the State Conservatory of Prague,
Czechoslovakia, and also member of
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RENEWAL OF COLD
! INCREASES MISERY
Austria, Hungary and Bal
kans SuHer-Snow Drifts
Fl Feet Deep in Bosnia.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. March Renewed cold
In Austria. Hungary and the Balkans in
tensified suffering there today. More
moderate weather prevailed in Greece
and parts of Turkey.
There were new stories of the hard
ships and misery wrought by the storm
One came from Travnik. Bosnia. where
two tiny goatherders. brother and sister.
were found frozen to death. clasped in
each others arms. Surrounding them
were 80 dead goats they had tried to
lead out of the storm. Some of the
drifts near them were 81 feet deep.
Plane Service Extended.
Severe conditions continued in North
ern Europe with the Baltic Sea and its
entrances still frozen tight. Plane
service. which has greatly helped the
stranded ice-bound ships. was extended
to the Northern Cattegat and Skager-
rack. Apart from carrying supplies to
ships crews the planes are closely
watching ice movements and radioing
to shipping signs of channel openings.
Intense cold was still reported from
Poland. where it has caused trade stag
nation. Textile mills at LODI were shut
down, unable to operate.
Frost Cracks Water Main.
Copenhagen had a scarcity of water
for an hour yesterday when its most
important main cracked from the frost
Bright weather with low temperatures
continued in England. There was heavy
frost last night.
There was a further increase in deaths
from influenza in England during the
week. the total in London and the larg-
er cities and towns being 1,764 compared
with l,243 the week before. The total
since January is 5.347 against 895 for
the same period in 1928.
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the Washington Conservatory of Music.
Maxim Karolik tenor. and Edith
Wallack. soprano. were the guest SOLO
lists of the evening. accompanied with
entire sympathy by Nine. Marie Zalip-
sky. Mr.. Karolik sang his aria from
"L'Arlesienne, TschaiSovsky's "Entice-
ment," the Russian folk song, and his
encore, Love Is in My Heart" with ex-
IRENE SAVIOR faire and the infusion of
great deal of personality. The audience
was very loath to let him retire. Mrs.
Wallack's numbers we're Relationships
"Warum." sung with depth of feeling:
DHardelot's Il Know Lovely Garden
and Parker's The Lark Now Leaves
His Watery Nest"
Oscar Levine, young violinist in the
orchestra. played with confident
technique the andante and rondo OF
Lalo's symphony Espagnole." we'll &C
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companied by Leah Effenbach, and
Mitzi Clipker. also of the orchestra S
violin section, did the solo in Raft
"Cavatina"
Adrien Valade played an aboe solo in
The Evening STAR from "Tannhaus-
ef." and Ray Vasquez. in clear steady
tones. did cornet obbligato in the ever
popular barcarolle from The Tales of
Hoffman"
S. II. Hanessian. president of the asso-
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County Clerks Bond Raised.

BY a Staff Correspondent OF The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. March 1.-The
bond of the county clerk of Prince
Georges County is raised from $1,000
to $4,000 in bill passed by the House
of Delegates yesterday The measure
was introduced by Henry l.. Morris of
Upper Marlboro
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Deputy Clerks Bond Fixed.

BY staff Correspondent of The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. March 1.-The
bond of the deputy clerk of Prince
Georges County is fixed at $4,000. the
premium to be paid by hte county com
missioners. in a bill of Henry l.. Morris
of Upper Marlboro passed yesterday by
the House of Delegates
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Iowa Band to Give Concert.

WINCHESTER. Va, March l (Spe-
ciaD The Coe College Band of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, en- route from Herbert
Hoover's birthplace to the Inauguration
in Washington, with party of nearly
800 Iowans will give a concert Sunday
afternoon atop Bolivar Heights at
HarperS Ferry
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Shriners TO Greet Texan.

CUMBERLAND, Md. March (Spe-
ciaD Imperial Potentate Frank c.
Jones of Houston, Tex, will visit Ali
Chan Temple Of the Mystic Shrine in
this city, March 20. A committee head
ed by Past Potentate Harry A. Manley
was named to arrange for his recep-
tiOp
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ciations executive committee, took adj
vantage of an interim between two early
selections to present the director, Mr..
Vassa. with fancy baton in apprecia-
ton of his efforts with the orchestra.
F. c. o. '
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01

Sugar cane that grows % feet tan
has been discovered III New Guinea by
American explorers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01

Smart styles and pat
terms in bright colors. OF
rayon and wool. In sizes
80 to 40.