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ATTITUDES and longitudes. One of his
latest tasks was the surveying of the
waters in which he disappeared
Served as Captain in War.
Hodgson and his wife, formerly Miss
Edith Fockett, attended Wilmington
College together and were married
shortly after his graduation from
Haverford. William is their only child
Mr. Hodgson is fellow of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement
of Science and a member of the Amer
lean Society Of Civil Engineers, Society
of American Military Engineers, Wash
ington Academy of Science, the Amer
lean Geographical Society and the Co.'S
mos Club. He is the chairman of the
committee on central surveys in the
American Society of Civil Engineers and
at one time was president Of the Wash
ington Post Of the Society of American
Military Engineers.
During the war he served as q cap
tain and later as major in the Corps
of Engineers, attached while overseas
with the 29th Division.
Their home here is in the Valley
Vista Apartments, at Belmont road and
Ashmead place.
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FLOOD WARNINGS ISSUED.
Slight Danger Is Anticipated at Lower
Mississippi Valley Points.

ST. LOUIS. May 20 CP.-For the
first time this year, Government flood
warnings were issued yesterday here
and at other points along the Lower
Mississippi River. It was the fourth
time this Spring, however. that the
river had gone over flood stage at St.
Louis, and a stage Of So feet was fore
cast for Wednesday, six feet above the
flood mark. The river was more than
80 feet early today.
Slight danger was anticipated in the
lower valley, Government forecasters
said, as streams below st. Louis were
not as high as two years ago, when the
last disastrous food waters of the
Mississippi swept over the countryside.
In Missouri, the Usage, on rampage,
was reported at standstill, with bot
tomlands in the vicinity of Osceola,
Warsaw and Linn Creek inundated.
According to the Weather Bureau
prediction, the Missouri River will
reach its highest stage since the 1927
food by tomorrow, and warnings have
been sent to all towns from Jefferson
city to St. Charles. The Missouri is
expected to rise to 31.5 feet, while the
high mark two years ago was 33 feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-20
BROOKHART WARNS
OF REALTY INTRIGUE
Charges Proposed Probe Is
Used to Effect Quick Sales
of Securities.

The proposal for an investigation of
real estate financing activities in
Washington took a new turn today.
when Senator Brookhart, Republican, of
Iowa, charged in the Senate that the
effort to bring about an inquiry is be-
ing used by certain individuals to induce
out-of-town investors to dispose of or
trade their F. H. Smith Co. bonds
quickly.
The Iowa Senator sounded a warn
ing to investors throughout the coun-
try who hold first mortgage securities
not to let strangers frighten them and
not to sacrifice or trade their present
holdings without investigating.
Quotes Letter From Chicago.
Senator Brookhart asserted that a
letter has been received here stating
in one instance a Chicago doctor was
urged to forward to a broker here his
holdings in F. H. Smith Co. bonds in
order to get as much out of them as
possible before an investigation of real
estate activities here gets under way
It also was declared by Senator
Brookhart that shortly after the pub
licity regarding an investigation began
a circular letter was sent out by
another concern Offering to trade other
securities for F. H. Smith stocks or
bonds.
Made Specific Charges.
The resolution which Senator Brook
hart introduced in the Senate 10 days
ago. asking for an investigation, con-
tanned specific allegations against the
F. H. Smith Co., but was worded so as
to provide for a general investigation
of real estate and finance corporations,
if the resolution should be adopted.
The proposal for an investigation is to
be considered by subcommittee Of the
Senate District committee tomorrow
morning.
Senator Blaine of Wisconsin, chair
man of the subcommittee. which is con-
sidering the Brookhart resolution, also
brought discussion of the question into
the Senate this afternoon, declaring
that his study of the situation thus far
has convinced him that the District OF
Columbia does not have sufficient law
to protect the honest business man or
the innocent investor.
Questions Senator Blaine.
When Senator Brookhart had finished
reading into the records his statement
of the new developments which he said
had come to him, he inquired OF Sena-
tor Blaine how consideration of the
proposed investigation was progressing.
The Wisconsin Senator replied that
it was not his purpose ito go out and
indict anybody, either to convict or
find them not guilty. He said that
rested with the appropriate legal
officers.
He added, however, that he has OBJ
served that the District is in need OF
legislation along several lines. He re-
ferred especially to the procedure for
mortgage foreclosures and also criti-
cized the statute regarding usury.
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(COnGlnueu FTOHl ClESO EdBCO
the difficulties encountered by searching
parties.
still cling to the hope that they may
have been picked up by a sea-golng
steamer. pointing out that they dis
appeared in the lane travelled by these
vessels. If they were picked up oy
steamer, 1t was said, they will not be
put ashore until the Virginia Capes
could be reached. a delay which might
have been sufficient to prevent mes
sage from reaching Bay Ridge as yet
Capt. r. S. Patton, director OF the
survey, and Maj William Bowie, .chlef
of the geodesy division, left Washing
ton for Bay Ridge this morning TO take
part in the search.
The Hodgson family had been spend
ing the week end at Bay Ridge, where
they own a Summer cottage. with
them were Comdr. E. H. Pagenhart
chief Of the surveys chart division, and
Mrs. Pagenhart.
Shortly before noon, father and son
donned bathing suits and started for a
canoe ride. They had padded about a
mile from the west shore when the
storm struck. Several years ago, in the
course of his work, Hodgson charted
the Bay waters and was familiar with
all the currents, bays and inlets in the
vicinity. 1t was at first hoped his
knowledge of the waters might enable
him to guide the canoe to shelter and
outride the storm.
AS the hours passed, however, and no
word was received, Mrs. HodgSon APP
pealed to authorities at the United
States Naval Academy and searching
party was organized.
Plane and Boat Search Waters.
A seaplane and submarine chaser
searched until dark without success.
Small fishing vessels took up the search
when darkness fell and all night long
searched through the hundreds Of tiny
bays and inland creeks along the west
shore.
At dawn today Naval Academy off,
Gals renewed their efforts. Two sea-
planes. flying low, cruised over the bay
and along the shore. hoping that the
two might still be clinging to the canoe.
The subchaser, 25-foot Academy
launch and dozen pleasure craft
plowed through the driving rain this
morning over the area where the canoe
was last seen.
Fishermen familiar with the bay ex-
pressed the belief that there was slight
chance of finding the two alive. They
pointed out that the canoe, II IL nad nap
pened to strike bell buoy or any other
obstacle, would have sunk. Even had 1t
remained afloat. they say. the chance
that the two could have chung to it for
"a hours in the tossing water is remote:
Aside from his work in the Federal
service, Hodgson, who is AZ years old,
contributed several writings, which
have aided in the advancement Of
eeodesy. In particular he is the author
Of several books dealing with primary
triangulation.
He was born at Wilmington, Ohio.
July II, 1880. He obtained degrees Of
Bachelor of Science from both Will
mington College and Haverford College,
both in Ohio. In 1904, shortly after
his graduation, he became associated
with the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
From 1911 until he became assistant
chief of the division of geodesy, except
for a period of military service, he was
engaged in field observation for the
first order triangulations, asTonomic
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Laborer Found Dead,

William Forest, so, colored, of the
600 block of Second street, was dis
covered dead early this morning in the
storehouse Of Max Shapiro, 929 Whole
sale row. where he had been employed
as a laborer
Forest reported for work at 2 o'clock
this morning and later disappeared to
be found dead at o'clock upon a pile
Of potatoes. in the rear of the store,
D. fellow worker. Forest was pro-
nounced dead by DR.. ]. E. Lewis of the
Emergency Hospital. The body was
later taken to the .norgua.
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TWO DIE IN CRUSH
OF BASE BALL FANS
so Injured in Stampede From
Rainstorm at Game in
New York.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 20-Eighteen per-
sons were in hospitals today recovering
from injuries suffered in a stampede Of
bleacher fans at the Yankee Stadium
in which college girl and a teamster
were killed.
Miss Eleanor Price, IT years old, q
student at Hunter College, and Joseph
Carter, so years old, were killed. More
than so were injured.
The stampede occurred yesterday
when 5000 fans rushed from the south
bleachers to escape heavy rain, which
stopped the first game of a double
header between the Yankees and the
Boston Red Sox.
Bleacher Fans in Mad Rush.
The bleachers where the accident hap
pened are behind right field and have
been named RuthvilIe by the fans be-
cause it is into that stand that Babe
Ruth usually hits his home runs. It is
favorite vantage point for boys. When
a Slight drizzle IGdenly turned into
deluge in the Yankees half of the fifth
inning the fans in the right field
bleachers rose as one person and
crushed toward the southernmost exit.
This exit leads down ID steep steps
w d pdSSdSCWdy. AS the pressure OF
the crowding fans increased those first
on the stairs were toppled down and
those behind them fell on them. In a
few seconds the stairway was a mass
of screaming, fighting panic-Stricken
humanity, while those in the rear, I'M
aware of the crush on the stairway,
pressed forward to push others onto the
human heap.
The crush was not stopped until po-
lice rushed into the stand and drove
back the hundreds showing toward the
top of the stairs.
Scores Drop to Ground.
Wire netting inclosing either side of
the stairway gave way under the pres
sure of bodies. and scores dropped from
The pile to the ground beneath the stand
and escaped injury.
Miss Price and Carter were among
t:l~sa at the bottom of the mass. The
g is l4-year-old brother was beside
ncr. but escaped serious injury.
Folicc called reserves and ambulances
and set up emergency f1rst-aid stations
in the players dressing rooms, where
ambulance surgeons attended the scores
of injured. The injuries ranged from
fractured skulls, broken bones and In
terral injuries to cuts and bruises.
Hundreds Of persons had their cloth
ing torn of in the Jam. Police Com
missioner Whalen and District Attorney
John e. Mcclellan visited the scene
and after an investigation said the &C
cident was unavoidable.
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letter from Prof. j. Russell Smith, pro-
fessor of economic geography at Column
bia University, written on June is. 1928.
in which he recommended the Piedmont
area of the South as a good newspaper
field. They included letters from Har-
we'll & Rockwell. New York newspaper
brokers, and Bryant, Griffith g. Brun-
son, New York advertising representa-
tives, written in the latter part of June
and early July. regarding newspaper
prospects in the South, both in connec-
ton with prospective newspaper pur-
chases and with advertising conditions
Submits Digest of Situation.
Another was q memorandum which
Lavarre said he had prepared in June,
1928, and which he later presented to
Archibald r. Graustein, president OF
the International Paper & Power Co.,
at their first meeting several months
later. Lavarre also transmitted digest
on the situation concerning the various
newspapers in which he was interested
and which he said he had prepared at
Mr.. Graustein's request.
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SEVEN DIE, 5 HURT
IN G PLANE CRASHES
Homemade MonopIane Falls
1900 Feet as Wing Is Torn
Off in Dive.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Seven persons were killed and eight
we're injured, three seriously. in six air
plane crashes Sunday. One of the
planes involved in the accidents was an
Army ship and another was a home
made monoplane.
Maj. Joseph Noyes, 40, of Oklahoma
City. United States Department of Com
merce, inspector for Illinois, was killed.
and Frank Graves, IS, Lowell, Ind, was
injured seriously at Kankakee, Ill, when
Graves plane crashed from height Of
65 feet after a 2,oo0-foot attempted
spiral landing.
Maj. Noyes, who was stationed in
Chicago, had gone to Kankakee to In
spect a new airport and was examining
Graves for commercial pilots license.
Plane Crashes at Take-off.
Corpl. Archibald Bryent, Goth Squad
ron, 3rd Attack Group, U. S. Air Corps,
was killed, and Lieut.. Edward Hertz
berg, pilot, was injured slightly at Gal
weston, Tex, when in an attempt to
take off the machine nosed into the
ground.
At Muskegon, Mich. George F. King,
%. and Morris r. Mellinger, rs, lost
their lives in their homemade mono
plane. A wing was torn from the fuse
lage while King was pulling out OF a
voluntary nose dive, and the ship
crashed 1900 feet.
A Calgary Aero Club plane crashed
at Calgary Alberta, killing N. E. Stevens
and D. E. McCallum. A wing broke
when the plane was making loop and
the machine fell 2,500 feet.
Strikes Wires In Landing.
Louis Scott, 10, mechanic, was injured
fatally. and o. G. Corben, pilot. was
slightly hurt in q crash near Pawhuska,
Okla. in an attempt to land after en-
CINE trouble had developed. The plane
struck high-tension wires and fell into
a ditch.
-Four persons were injured, two sell
ously, in a crash of plane In an al
tempted take-off at Roosevelt Field, N.
Y. The seriously hurt were Dorothy
Gusnell, rs, Baltimore, Nd, and Mrs.
Lucianne de la Paulle, New York.
Six thousand Sunday visitors at the
Lanbert-Field st. Louis Flying Field IN
St Louis saw plane piloted by oscar
Heintze, 2l-year-old transport pilot,
crash from $50 feet. The pilot and ms
passenger. Will Langedorf, 81, were IN
lured slightly.
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BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Marine Band
at the Marine Barracks this evening at
o'clock. Taylor Branson, leader:
Arthur S. Witcomb, second leader.
March, Marine Corps Institute"
Branson
Overture, "Carnevar. .Glazounow
Characteristic, Rustic Of Spring."
Sinding
Trombone solo, Aero Polka"
Zimmerman
Principal Musician Robert E. Clark.
Fantasia, lie Ctd~... .Massenet
Dance of the Hours, from
La Gtoconda" ........... .Poncnlel1
Grand arch, "Heroique". Saint Saens
Marines Hymn, THE Halls Of
~~' MonteZuIna.'
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner"
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FAILURE STILL is MYSTERY.
Officers and Crew at Cuers Decry Sa-
botage Reports.

CUERS, France. May 20 CP.-Mo-
tors of the Graf Zeppelin were being re-
paired today to permit the dirigibles
return under its own power for Fried
richshafen.
Two of its five motors when placed in
commission yesterday emitted tune
full drone which delighted Capt. Leh-
mann. Two new motors arriving from
Friedrichshafen will be installed as
quickly as possible, with the likelihood
the trip home would be made with only
four engines functioning.
Investigation of the causes of the en-
CINE failures Of Friday has not lessened
the mystery attached to them. Three
crank shafts were broken clean and
sharp against the joint where they en-
tered the bodies of the motor. There
was no evidence Of previous weakness.
Those in charge continued, however,
to decry charges of sabotage. The very
word was taboo at the hangar
Two new motors arrived today from
Friedrichshafen and mechanics immedi-
ately began work on installing them.
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Hole That Cost Millions.

The railroad tunnel under the Cas-
cade Mountains cost about $4,000 900
and including electriflcatlon and other
improvements, the total expenditure on
the project has been approximately
s25 100000.
The new Cascade tunnel lifts the
American record from the Moffatt
tunnel in Colorado, gil miles long, and
is exceeded by only four tunnels in the
world; the Simplon, st. Gotherd, Loet-
schberg and Mount Gents tunnels in
the Alps. ... -..
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tory in tone, and asked the Central
China war lord to come to Marking as
evidence there was no breach with that
government. He added-for the fourth
time in two years-he was ready to re-
sign his many Offices for the sake Of
unification of China.
His message then took cognizance of
Fengs control of the lower two-thirds
of the Peking- Hankow Railway and the
entire Lunghai Railway. traversing Ho-
nan Province, and asked for release Of
these railways that commercial traffic
might be resumed
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and defrauding the people to enrich
himself.
The majority of A.arshal Feng Yu-
Hsiangs commanders announced their
support of the Central China war lord
and asked him to take up arms against
Chang Kai-Shek, who now, thus, has
been brought face to face with the most
formidable opposition the infant Nam
king government has been called upon
to down.
1t was reported here Feng was con-
tinuing to blow up railway bridges and
had rendered the eastern hundred miles
of the Lunghai Railway impossible,
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Man Holds Job so Years.

Joseph zalesky, who recently celebrat-
ed his 1880 birthday near Nancy
France, has spent more than 80 years
working on the same farm, and has been
engaged in farm work for "a years. He
is said to be the grandson of noble
man of the court of King Stanislaus OF
Poland
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-20

Wrecklng the road
as far eastward as
Kweitel1.
While no word
was available today
from Marking, it
was known troop
movements " ere
going on on q large
S ale northward
from Marking and
Pukow along the
P u k o " - TientSin
Railway.
The final mes
sage of President
Chang to Feng,
W h &c h provoked
t h e changeable
Feng's outburst,
Was most concilia.-
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amount the United States would be en-
titled to under the payments would De
limited to maximum Of 45,00o,oo0 soIo
marks per year.
Under the Paris agreement of 1925 no
renaration charges on Germany can
take precedence over the American
Army occupation charges except by the
consent of the United states.
The suggestion was mace TINS MORN
mo that the proposed revision OF pay
n1ents might be transmitted by Mr..
Hoover to the special session OF Con-
cress for its consideration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-20

Hsiang, Christian
general" widened
today, with open
charges by Feng
that Chang was
guilty of malfea-
Sance.
Feng's publ c
statement, an an
swer to Chiang's
kilograms in which
the Marking off,
cial said he was
sure rumors of
Feng's disloyalty
we're false. de-
clared Chang to
be guilty of abuse
of power. of mis-
appropriation of
government funds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-20

INULIbIIIUEU ELVIII LIaO IdSt.I
downpours In the Southwestern section
of the State threatened to inundate
many thousands of acres along the Red
River, which reached flood stage at
Fulton and Index late yesterday.
At Memphis, the Mississippi last night
reached 40.9 feet, So feet above flood
stage.
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FRENCH TO MAKE TRIP.

Eckener.
PARIS, May 20 (P.-The French air
ministry today accepted an invitation
from DR.. Hugo Eckener to take five
French aviation officers as passengers
aboard the Graf zeprelin when the air.
ship returns to Friedrichshafen. The
five officers will be chosen from the staff
at the Cuers-Pierrefeu Flying Field.
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CHANG IS ACCUSED
OF MALFEASANCE
Breach With Marshal Feng
Widens as Central War
Lord HurIs Charge.
BY the Associated Press.

SHANGHAI, May 2o.-The breach
between Gen. Chang Kai-Shek, So
called president Of the Marking central
government, and Marshal Feng Yu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-20

Admiral Jellicoe has just received the
freedom of Southampton, England, his
native city. p,
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"POWER TRUST" SET
BUY u. S. PRESS,
NORRIS CHARGES

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u, S. PLAN GRANTS
BERLIN MORE TIME
ON PREPARATIONS

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LEVEE GIVES WAY,
MENACING $4,000
ACRES IN MISSOURI

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SPORTING A "SHINER,"
PRESIDENT SUBJECTED
TO USUAL QUIZZING

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CHESAPEAKE HIDES
FATE OF CIV. H0DGS0N
AND SON WILLIAM

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POULTRY RECEIPTS
ARE HEAVY HERE
Fruit and Vegetable Offerings
Also Plentiful at D. C.
Market.

Fairly heavy receipts Of poultry
chickens, ducks, geese and keats and a
few turkeys-proved interesting to re-
tailers and wholesalers thsi morning.
Supplies were fully equal to the demand,
with a fair quantity to hold over until
tomorrow, dealers reported. and prices,
they stated, were fairly reasonable.
Commission merchants continued to
have attractive displays of fruits and
vegetables, the more attractive of the
fruits being received from the West.
Persian melons, honeydews and canta-
loupes received from the West, and
peaches, apples and cantaloupes, prod
ucts of growers in nearby States, were
plentiful.
Country Line Overstocked.
Many of the peaches offered this
morning were from storage plants, hav-
ing been put away when the market
was overstocked. They sold around So
and $3.50 a bushel, while choice stock
of Pennsylvania fruit, freshly gathered,
brought SO.
Dealers had small quantities of White
Heath peaches, choicest of the cling
variety, from Virginia. They are used
chiefly for sweet picking, according to
dealers, and found ready sale at So a
bushel. Cantaloupes from Colorado sold
from SIPS to $3.50 crate, some soft
ones selling as low as 81.
An ovel stocking of the country line
section of the wholesale market was
reported this morning. Receipts of to-
matoes, stringless beans, eggplant, pep
pers and other vegetables were heavy,
while haulers also had plentiful supplies
of cantaloupes of splendid quality and
few watermelons to offer the retail
trade.
Commission merchants and country
haulers had quantities of several veg
etables used for picking purposes to
offer at fairly reasonable prices. The
list included caulifower at $3.50 and IS
a crate, New York cucumbers at 50 e
bushel, small white onions at $3.50 per
100 pounds, peppers at SO cents bushel
and numerous other varieties of veg
etables.
A continued firm condition of the
butter and egg market was reported.
Strictly fresh eggs are by no means
plentiful, dealers stated, and consumers
are willingly paying fancy prices for
them.
Business this morning was reported
fairly brisk after slow day yesterday,
Monday usually being quiet in the local
market.
Today's Wholesale Prices-Jobbers'.
Prices Slightly Higher.
Butter-One-pound prints, 46ha471z ;
tub, 451aa5612; store packed, 30a32.
Eggs-Hennery, 43a45; fresh selected,
38a40; current receipts, SO.
Poultry, alive-Turkeys, hens, So;
toms, 80; Spring chickens, large, 32a33;
medium, 80; small, 80; Leghorns, ga
| 81; fowls, 29a30; Leghorn fowls, 22a23;
ROSTERS, %; ducks, 15a20; keats, young
! 60a70; old, 35a40. Dressed-TurkeyS
38a40; Spring chickens, large, 38a40;
medium, 37a38; small, 35a36; Leghorns