The Washington Post
August 2, 1929

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“NO. 19 405. "ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER LOSTAPTIOR, WAGKINGTOM. D.C. WASHINGTON: FRIDAY, AUGUST | "2, 1029. ' GRAF ZEPPELIN FINDS . CALM WEATHER STRAIT OF GIBRAL Her Speed Is Increased: After Long Fight With Head Wind. ‘ALL WELL ON BOARD,’ MESSAGE DECLARES Temperature on Dirigible Given as 91 Degrees; ‘Little Too Warm.’ STOWAWAY TO BE GIVEN PUNISHMENT] Gusty Winds Shake Ship During Earlier Part of Her Journey. Gibraltar (Friday), Aug. 2 (A. P.)—Up to 4 a. m, {11 p. m., Eastern standard time) Thursday, the Graf Zeppelin had not been sighted from here. The night was most dark, with little wind. Friedrichshafen, Germany, Aug. 1 (A.P.).—The Zeppelin works received & radio message from the Graf Zep-~ Pelin just before midnight, report- ing that it passd Cape de Gata, Spain, at 11 p. m. (6 p. m., Eastern stan- dard time). The cape is about 186 miles east of Gibraltar, whith, the message said, “would probably be reached by 2 a. m. The message concluded, “All well om board; only a little too warm. The temperature is 33 degrees Centigrade” (about 91 degrees Fahrenheit). Messages from the dirigible said that the weather cleared after seven hours of steady fighting opposing winds and that the speed increased from under 45 miles an hour to more than 62. On the earlier part of the flight the airship followed the same course as on its unsuccessful effort to reach the United States last May, and those who were passengers for a secend time developed a favorite pastime in “pointing out landmarks of that he- *& — ee struggle to regain its Nangar. Stowaway on Board. Aboard Graf Zeppelin, Aug. 1 (A-P.). (2:40 p. m., Eastern standard time)-~ A stowaway was found just after the, Zeppelin left the hangar. He jumped from the hangar down into the Zepp. If he had jumped between girders he would have endangered’ the ship. Dr. Eckener said he would be returned from America with the next steamer and severely punished. The huge cigar-shaped bulk of the dirigible is only thin fabric stretched over girders. Thus, if the stowaway in dropping several feet onto the fab- ric had not langed on a girder, he would undoubtedly have torn the fab- ric with a resulting delay of hours while repairs were made. Paris, Aug. 1 (A.P.).—Bucking strong westerly winds, but beating out. stormier weather to the north the great German dirigible, Graf Zeppelin, which left Friedrichshafen at 3:29 a. m., today (9:29 p. m., Wednesday, Eastern standard time), plowed stead- ' fly through the air currents of Europe and when last reported at 3 o'clock this afternoon, Greenwich time (10 a. m., Eastern standard time), was 50 miles off Barcelona, Spain, with 700 miles of her American cruise behind her. A‘ps Left Behind. Leaving the Alps and the Rhone Valley as she struck across the north- western stretches of the blue Mediter- Tanean the Zepplin already had sailed farther than on her unsuccessful at- tempt’ to reach America last May. Headed straight for Gibraltar as she cuts diagonally across the southeast corner of Spain the airship is making for the open Atlantic at approximate- ly 70 miles an hour. From the Medi- terranean key fortress, 3,000 miles of the flight to Lakehurst remains to be eovered. Flying at altitudes ranging from 2,000 to 3,000 feet the Zeppelin ap- peared at times shaken by gusts of _ wine but valiantly held to her course across France according to the reports made frequently from towns passed. The 18 passengers, including seven Americans, were happy and com- fortable, according to Herbert 8. Sie- bel, of Saginaw, Mich., special corre- spondent of the Associated Press, aboard the Graf Zeppelin who sent frequent dispatches during the early hours of the flight. His first mes- sege reporting the passing of Basel, Switzerland, at 6:10 a. m., said the voyage had been wonderful so far; with Swiss sirplanes playing around the craft as a gesture of welcome from that country as the dirigible woared over it. New Confidence Felt. winds and it was with relief and new confidence that the craft headed. down the river in the direction of Marseille From | t continued ra ny ued ~ Associated Press Photo. ibe; 0 Was MUN suena toward Lakehurst, N. J. Left, Mass., and Mrs. George N. Crouse, @ passenger for the second Joachim Rickard, of Andover, of Syracuse, N. Y. Crouse is time on the big sky liner. BORA ASKS BRITISH T0) SCRAP. VESSELS Junking Is Logical Method of Obtaining Parity, Idaho Senator Declares. “POLITICAL” MOVE SEEN By CARLISLE BARGERON. Senator Borah, of Idaho, jumped headlong into the naval controversy yesterday by ‘calling upon Great Britaip to scrap some of her ships ss: a means-of reaching parity with the American Navy. It was the first outburst of the senator on the subject, but it has been known for Several days that things were not going to his liking. Foremost as a peace advocate and American isolationist, the senator has been fuming and fretting for days at the way in which the naval conversa- tions between this country and Great Britain were shaping up. Bluntly speaking, it has seemed to the Idaho senator that the two coun- tries are moving to a “political” limi- tation of armaments, not a sincere one, which would seem to be, in other words, that he considers the conversations the “bunk.” He was moved to formal utterance yesterday by reports from London that Great Britain did not intend to scrap any vessels. This is the only way, in his opinion, that parity with this country is to be attained, unless the parity to be attained calls for the building of ships by this country. “If I understand the report of our Navy Department correctly,” he said, “Great Britain now has 59 modern cruisers, built or building, a tonnage of 375,300. We now have 18 mod- ern cruisers, built or building. If Great Britain will follow our example at the Washington conferénce and sink some of her ships, and thus come to parity, it will not only save the taxpayer, but reduce the incentive to war, for huge armaments are always an incentive to war, parity of no parity. But if we have to build up to parity it vastly increases the bur- dens of the taxpayer and augments ADOPTED SON LOSES BATTLE FOR ESTATE Court Decision Blocks the Chance of Boy to Share in Shoemaker Will. $250,000 IS INVOLVED Holding that a will cannot be held t oinclude a nadopted child, Justice Jennings Bailey, in an opinion filed yesterday in the clerk's office of Dis- trict Supreme Court, decreeing that a fourth interest in the million aol · lar estate of the late Pierce @hoe- maker, one-time. owner of a Jarge | portion of what is now Rock reek Park, should go to his three: sur- viving chlidren. The case, listed as Newman versus Shoemaker and others. has been in /: couft for severa] years. As a result of the decision, the estate will be divided among Mrs. Clara A. New- man, widow of Edward A. Newman, and Francis D. Shoemaker, of 4205 Eighth street northwést, and Mrs. Abigail Newman, of 3353 Eighteenth street northwest. -The adopted son of Abner Shoemaker, grandson of Pierce Shiemaker, is ovis GloveLr, 12 years old, now residing with his grandmother, in California. Questions were rasied when the case Was recently argued whether the Shoemaker will violates the rule against perpetuities and whether an adopted child can share in an estate, where it is entailed to the descend- ants of the testator. Justice Balley also held that the provisions of the will do not violate the rule against perpetuities. Pierce Shoemaker, one of the pi- oneer land holders of Washington, left an estate consisting chiefly of property that now comprises Rock Creek Park and several hundred ag¢res adjoining the parfi In his will he directed that his trustees should sell the property as the opportunity was presented | and that the proceeds should be divided between his four children and their descendants. One of the .sons, Louls P. Shoe- maker, died after a portion.of the CONTINUED ON ‘PAGE 3, COLUMN 6. | JONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 4. Convict Finds New World After 53 Ye ars in Prison Pomeroy, Slayer in Youth, Sent to State Farm in Failing Health. Bridgewater, Mass., Aug. 1 (A.P.)-— Fifty-three years ago a boy of 17 who hed murdered younger children en-/. tered the Charlestown State Prison to explate his crimes by a life in solitary confinement. Today, Jesse H. Pomeroy, now & grizzled old man*of 71, was teken from behind the grim walls that had for more than a half century been his home to the State farm here, 4 vast expanse of fertile land on which the several hundred inmates raige garden crops. : Pomeroy atrived here in an auto- mobile, his first motor vehicle ride,j fand during the trip his eyes were Basel Fh Baten: Stier’ te Se sangeet and — by, tha vir 7, tual absence of horses from the high- — — — —— ways. He saw but.one from the time he left Boston until he arrived set the outskirts of Bridgewater. And CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 1. tions to which - at the State farm he faced one of TRACTION HEAD BATTLES BAGK IN FARE QUIZ Questions, It Is Charged, Designed to Impugn Capital Company. COMMISSION’S ACTION DEFENDED BY PATRICK Deneis_ Utilities Board Insinuates Improper Entries Made. WILL MEET CRITICISM, DECLARES J. H. HANAN Offers Detailed Answers to All Queries Submitted in Writing. Another effort by the car compa- nies t6 have the question of possible economies resulting from rerouting of cars and joint use of tracks left entirely out of consideration by the Public Utilities Commission in con- sidering the petition for higher car ares failed at the public hearing be- fore the commission in the District Bullding yesterday. Officers and counsel of the Capital Traction Co. rose in angry rebellion at the hearing and protested against the questions being asked ‘them by the commission, charging that the questions were designed to im- pugm the company and its books before the public mind. The protests of the company waxed so warm that Gen. Patrick, chairman of the commission ordered a_ brief recess, and when the hearings were resumed read a statement, prepared in conference by the commissioners, in which he refused to change his position despite the company’s as- saults on the questioning by the commission. Holds Assumption Unwarranted. “The commission,” Gen. Patrick said, “desires to state that the ques- Mm has deen made aré directed to exhibits of- fered in this héaring. No question that has been asked shduld be in- tePpreted as insinuating that the Capital Traction Co. has made any improper entries in its account. Any such assumption is unwarranted. “Upon these exhibits the company is resting its case. If there are any inaccuracies in the exhibits, ‘he commission believes they should be brought out. “If the company desires to with- draw the exhibits and correct them, the commission is willing that this should be done and will suspend this hearing for that purpose. If this course is not acceptable to the com- pany, the commission feels that it must continue the questioning along these lines for the present.” John H. Hanna, president of the Capital Traction Co. and the domui- nant figure in directing the .om- Fire Is Sweeping | Alexandria Shop Fruit Growers’ Express Plant Is Threatened With Destruction. Pire was raging in the Fruit Grow- ers Express repair shop, just outside the boundary of Alexandria, Va., at @ late hour last night, and the entire play was threatened with destruc- tion. The blaze was discovered about 11 o’clock. Three Alexandria fire companies were called, but the flames had made tremendous headway before they ar- rived. Two Potomac companies went into Alexandria to protect the city. The repair shop is valued at ap- proximately $100,000 and employs about 150 men. A large number of ‘| refrigerator cats were in the yard when the fire broke out. SEVERAL INJURED AS REVOL BLAZES IN Beal ———— colle se —A — . tec to. a? Sepp oo aati ‘ SES Se ¢ : oe ; eee ; : . * — * 8 * *8* 8 Py, * ¢ ⸗ Above is a view of the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans., ¥esterday afternoon. we where a riot broke out PUST TRAFFIC POLL TO END TOMORROW Final Result of Voting Will Be Announced in Sun- day’s Paper. ROTARY TURN HAS LEAD By WILLIAM ULLMAN. The last ballot will be printed to- morrow in the Post's referendum to determine where Washington stands on the long-debated left turn issue. Votes received Before Hoon, accord- putilic In The Post’s poll. Thé final result will be announced Sunday. As the showdown campaign draws to a close, it finds proponents of the present left turn firmly entrenched in a lead from which they can be shaken only by a furious “stretch drive” by advocates of the Hoover imodel code turn, which is the one that will make the National Capital’s traffic regulations uniform with those of the rest of the country. As the count stood when yester- day’s ballots were counted, the forces of uniformity either through weak- ness or procrastination in sending in their ballots had given the “conser- vatives” a handicap of 680 votes. With but a single day remaining, the latter group sees little chance of the present turn being displaced. Yesterday's tabulation of ballots brought the total number cast in the campaign to 3,543. Of these, 2,011 jhave been cast in favor of the No, 1, or rotary turn; 1,331 for the Hoover codé method, and 201 for No. 2, the compromise system which has been far in the rear throughout the cam- paign. While Washington continued its balloting on the left turn question, the Traffic Office yesterday initiated a referendum of its own. It came in the form of a questionnaire which will be sent to the police departments of the 300 largest cities throughout the country with the intention of finding out precisely the manner in which left turns are made in each. Local traffic officials, announcing the undertaking, declare they are unwilling, in the absence of precise information, to accept the insistent claim that the Model Ordinance turn is almost unanimously used. The only way in which the actual data may be obtained, they feel, is by means of a digest. qustIOnNRTS as to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1. I favor the method checked Check Methed nere “Go” signal and before completing “Go” 7 thoroughfare.) Driving to the green or “Go” | without stopping. CS ERO IESE RE er (Make an “X” opposite n Lett Turn Ballot intersections controlled by signal lights or traffic officers: The present rotary turn made by pulling over to the —— of the intersection on the Driving to the center ‘of tife intersection on the green or “Go” signal and waiting for the green or U on the left before completing the turn. (The only difference between this and the present ' turn fs that it is made from the center of ‘the umber favored and mail] ballot to Turn Editor of The Washington Post.) for making left turns at street green or waiting for a change in signal the turn. . ter of the intersection on the and completing the turn see epeeneveeeeeewvneweeenaneneeeeee © eoeenreneevenveeeeneenete@eeet@#ee#eneew#ee#e © ingly. will mark the last. expression ef sentiment from the Washington Mail Your Vote Today In Post’s Traffic Poll Persons wishinr * participate in The Post referendum on the left turn traffic regulation will do well to make use of the ballot printed today, mailing it so it will reach the office of The Post tomorrow morn- ug. Another ballot will be printed norrow morning, but all must be delivered at The Post before noon tomorrow so that the final result may be announced Sunday. The present tabulaton of votes follows: Turn No. 1 2,011 AL CAPONE NANIED BOMB TRUST HEAD Chicago Gang Chief Accused ~ by Police After Arrest of 17 Men. NEW ROUND-UP PLANNED Chicago, Aug. 1 (A-P.).—‘Scarface Al” Capone, Chicago gang chief serv- ding a jail sentence in Philadelphia. was named today as head of a bomb trust uncovered by the arrest of seventeen men here. The assertion that the syndicate was guided by Capone was made by Pat Roche, chief investigator for the State’s attorney's office, shortly after police announced one of the men ar- rested last night had made a confes- sion implicating sixteen others. The seventeen in custody were charged with manufacturing bombs which for the last few years have ter- rified Chicago, while those involved in the confession were said to be members of the gang which purchased and provided for the placing of the explosives. According to Roche, James Belcas- tro, one of those under arest, has been a Capone man for years. a never a rival still was uncov- ered, Belcastro would be ordered to deliver a ‘pineapple’ to the rival mob,” said Roche. “There would be a ‘terrific explo- sion and when police and firemen ar- CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 8. . German re U0, 10 SEND AGENT 10 DEBT MEETING Stimson Will Dispatch an Unofficial Observer to The Hague. MAN IS NOT YET PICKED (Associated Press.) Secretary Stimson has decided to send an unofficial American observer to the conference at The Hague, on August 6, to Gonsider the Young plan, designed: to finally settle the problem. The United States, as a govern- ment, was not represented on the Paris experts committee, at which the Young ‘reparations revision plan was evolved. as the four American experts were unofficial] representa- tives. Stimson feels. however, that an American observer at The Hague con- ference would serve the dua] pur- pose of informing the delegates of the other nations of the American Government's attitude and to report fully on the meeting’s progress to the Washington Government. Sev- éral names have been considered by State Department officials for the post of observer, but it is believed the person selected will be one who has dealt intimately with the repa- rations question in the past. The only questions in the repara- tions settlement in which the Amer- fcan Government is interested di- rectly are a proposed 10 per cent re- duction in the bill to Germany for the cost of the American Army of occupation on the Rhine and a spreading over a greater period of the World War claims of private American. citizens against Germany. Since these claims are so smal! in character as compared with the size of the war indemnities allotted to the other allied nations, the United States maintains a hand-off policy with regard to the new plan for col- lection of the future payments from Germany. Secretary Stimson already has an- nounced that the United States Gov- ernment will not permit the partici- pation of American officials in the CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 5. Spinster Is Held, Accused Of Frauds Totaling $20,000 Two Nurses Cause Arrest After Being Stranded in France. nN Accused of perpetrating a $20,000 swindle, Miss Elzina Howells, 48 years old, of 2505 Thirteenth street north- west, was arrested yesterday and lodged in the House of Detention. The portly spinster, sought for sev- eral days, was tcken in custody by Detective Sergeants Bernard W Thompson and Ira E. Keck, of the general office, while walking in the | downtown section. Although she was incarcer ted on «a technica) charge of investigation the detectives stated that two warrants had been sworn out against: her and a further inquiry into her activities was being undertaken by them. Miss Howells, according to the de- tectives, used a confidence game —* which her victims were separated from their life gavings and then sent them to Europe. Warrants were issued against ‘the r, the detectives said, on com- of two nurses, Miss Lillian 4] |Mutiny Begins at Lunoli and Spreads Rapidly” in Main Building. ** ATTEMPT TO KILL |” WARDEN REPORTED Inmates, Armed With Forks Knives and Fur⸗ niture, Give Battle, ~ RIOTERS ARE QUELLED WITH EXTRA GUARDS Objection to Prison Fare and Strict Discipline Given .- as Cause. U. 8S. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kans., Aug. 1 (A.P.).—A mutiny that cost at least one convict’s life and severe injury to several others broke out in the narcotic block of the prison here today. The mutiny began immediately after lunch when the convicts were returned to their cell blocks and was said to have followed the efforts of = group of prisoners to attack Warden Thomas B. White and Deputy Warden F. G. Zerbst. The disturbance centered in 8 block, populated by narcotic addicts, both black and white, but quickly spread to block A, which is the west wing of the main building. The mutinous convicts, armed wiih forks and spoons from the mess hall, and other improvised wespons, de stroyed guard rails and broke wine - dows. * Prisan Reserves Called. Refusing to call upon the military at neighboring Fort Leavenworth for assistance. Warden White — the prison reserves a the outbreak did * public at Leavenwort hours, The prison personnel handled the problem with the strictest secrecy until the firing of weapons and break- ing of glass and shouts of convicts attracted the attention of families of guards and others across the streets. 4 The noise was at its peak about 5 o'clock and spectators said they heard = sounds of explosions and saw POR of glass fall, o> ⸗ that none of the convicts had firearms and that no official or other members of the employed personnel at prison was injured seriously. * One story of the outbreak told at the prison had it that the initial trouble began in the mess hall, when convicts began to throw dishes and refused to march out in order. There is general agreement, how- ever, that the real fighting came it the convicts to their cells. The prison- ers were at no time in a position to break for liberty. Warden Admits One Dead. Warden White’s only statemetif was to the effect that one convict was dead and three injured, under the secrecy order which requires reports of disturbances to be sent to Wash- ington and there made public, if-com- sidered advisable. He said he was unable to give further details, ~~~ Motives assigned by others to the mutiny were varied. One was “Bhat the food displeased the prisoners. AR- a other had it that the convicts who had been permitted to read the news- _ yielded to the suggestion. =. A third laid it to the heat-crayed Leavenworth today having been 1908 oe degrees at noon. 8* —* — Mike Martinez, who has served one an year of a thirty-year term, was the — convict reported to have been Killed, Names of the ringleaders and the injured men, one of whom was said NEWS Notwithstanding the official sectedy it was learned from prison sourcés the cell block as the guards herded © papers of riots in Eastern prisons had @