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The News and Qfos THE WEATHER Kattk CUwitaat Ceaonny Mr Thandax aad Frists; m4. VATCBLAtLL tm yur ppr. re! ve 4r tfr mmiM ontor to T14 BtM( fie eT. erver VOL CXIV. NO. 56. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH. N. C. THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 25. 19: TWELVE PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS CLARK CHEERED BY VETERANS WHEN HE RECALLS HISTORY Chief Justice Gets Big Hand From Thousand Old Soldiers When He Tells of Gettys- burg Battle STIRRING RECTTAL 0F PROUD RECORD IN WAB BRINGS BACK MEMORIES After Day of Oratory and Other Attendant Features, Veterans Attend Reception at Trinity College and Have Enjoyable Time As Guests of Durham Daughters of The Confeder acy; Rev. Daniel Albright Long and Richmond News ' paper Man Make Addresses; "7 MiTs"RamTeur PrcHerited r ' GENERAL CARR TO REVIEW VETERANS VMS DEIS PLEA OF IE RAILROADS 10 CUT VALUAT ON FORTY-FOUR MEMBERS OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH NA VIES PERISH WHEN MONSTER DIRIGIBLE ZR-2 COLLAPSES Goucri.l Jtllii'l S. Can, comma inter of Ihi' :t rm v of Northern irgiuiu. liiitcd Confederate Veterans, will be with General James I. Metts, commander of far-' 'ta"il STTi?Tn7 in the renewing i ii o today fur the big parade of the vidoraiis in Durham th's morning. Gcn- ral Carr never misses a reunion and t Inn lieen a particular pleasure for im 1o have hi comrades visit his home it v. By NELL BATTLE LEWIS. (Staff Correspondent ' JPurriani, Aug. "4.-Trains late yester day and this morning brought N rt li Carolina Confederate Veterans to lur hath In such numbers that a record breaking total of 1,023 old soldiers were present here today for the second day ot 'toilr'lf ':'! "rminioft; ' jflieTi nce'iTios' of Chief .1. ! ' t Chirk. Kev. IlMlel A!,.;, It .A :-l Fitzgerald l'lournoy., of Itu-hm I, V.-i., were high lights. The disturbing Ku Klui Klan parade having evaporated into thin sir, there was nothing to divert the atten tion of the veterans from the reception given them by the Daughters of the Confedf racy, and the festivity was heid tuuight peacefully and successfully according to happily unbroken prece dent. Chief Justice Clari'i address which was delivered at the morning meeting, dealt with tfho achievements ot' the North Carolina troops lit the bntth of Gottys burg, when out of a total of 2.",!fi2 Con federate soldiers killed, "Til were from North .irolinn, more than twice us many as from any other Southern Stat The f.iuiom third (lavs charge Iruni eieniinarv Ridge when 47 Confederate regiments went engaged, 14 of which woro from this State, v.as feelingly d scribed by Judge Clark. Special tribute was paid to the behaviour of the Third North Carolina regiment in which Gen oral James 1. Metts was then a captain; and to lien. Stephen !. Ramsour's brigade. Judge Clark told his audience that it is only just that North Caro "fiuians inform themselves correctly as to their btntc's part in the Civil War Gettysburg Veteran Cheered. At tho conclusion of Judge ('lark's speech, there wm a call for all veterans who fought at Gettysburg to stand und about a hundred old soldiers rose and wore loudly cheered. 1 Hiring the entire time that Judge Clark was talking, one old gentleman near the front stood on his feet and, smiling broadly, led the applause, when sonic veteran was not able to hear distinctly, the Chief Jus tice was interrupted by cries of "Louder!': and once or twice his speech was extemporaneously and au dibly amended by old. soldiers who had fought in tho famous battle. Fitzgerald Flourney, a beardless hut impassioned member of the staff of the Kichmond News-ljeader, speaking at the afternoon meeting, worked himself up into a fine frenzy of oratory on the subject of 'Our Southland. He be moaned the passing of thj) old South as the Greeks might tho age of Pericles Jn thundering verbiage, ho called upon heaven to bear just witness to its de parted glories. But Mr. Ftourney, of the Richmond News leader, neverthe less saw promise in the South of to day. In nowise limited terms he pledged tho aHegianco of at least a part of its younger generation to the ideali which he elaimed had made the. South of history the cradle of peerless chivalry and the nurse of all the gentle arts. Kev. Daniol Albright Long spoke on ''The Place of Jefferson Davis in His tory, and gave an exposition, of doc trine familiar to his audience, cxtoll ' ing the patriotism of the ill starred president of tho Confederacy, and re iterating the eternal right of secession. Miaa Ramsenr Presented Miss Mary Dodson Ramseur, of Spartanburg, S. C, daughter of the late famous General ritopuen D. Kainseur. and one of the two honorccs of the reunion, was presented to the assem bled veterans at the morning, session by General Julian S. Carr. A strik ingly beautituL woman, Miss Ramseur, with all the marks of the great lady, added a decided touch of distinction to the rostrum alreay crowded with Un distinguished. Declamations were the style when Confederate veterans were young, and so a regulation declamation staged at the afternoon session was in keping with the tone of the ceremonies. The youthful declaimrr of something like fourteen years waa Henry P. Brandis, Jr., of Salisbury,, and young Brandis' subject wis Henry Grady's address be fore the New England Society of New York. Be it said for Henry 1'. Brandia, Jr.. that he gave the declamation with 7 T""" "'d -8w ot ni the veterans gave him a big hand at the (lose of his creditable performance. Veterans Want Fair Historic Resolutions were passed by the vet ram requesting the Daughter of the Confederacy to aee that jnst histories rf the Bouth'i stand in tin War be tween the Slates bo taught jU tha tnib lie tthools cf NVr'..i Carolina. General 'Julian 8. Carr offered one nf tlie rcsa- - lutioni pointing oat the importance Lof the teaching history fairly and Gen fiT W. B. Smith, the other, rutting the matter in charge of the Daughter. At' the suggestion of General JuDnn S. Carr. a vote of thanks was riven ' ) to tin committees of the Daughters I of the Confederacy, who worked during tha last Legislature for a larger np propriation to the Old Soldier Horn 'no lor ncreaea pensions ior Ti-vennj, : . 11 i I , (Continaed Page Two.) Decides Not To Change Assess ments Announced To Com panies In Letters June 21 CONFERS WITH MEMBERS OF BOARD ON MATTER Makes Public Valuation of Ten Railroads In State Totalling $230,280,084, Though Fig ure Is Subject To Revision On Basis of New Reports From County Valuations Express Deep Regret Over Wreck of Monster Airship NO OPPOSITION 10 naming of mm HI riji VETERANS PARADE IN DURHAM TODAY Generals Carr and Metts Will Review Mile-Long Procession This Morning Durham, Aug. "4. All plans have been completed for the mile lone parade scheduled for 10 o'clock tomor row- morning when every veteran will pass in review before the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, General Julian S. Carr, and the com mander of the TTorth Carolina division, peneral James I. Metts. Saluting an! receiving ngain tho salute that passed between them nflirersand men during tho work of war in a century now pass ed though by no means the less remembered. Now and then the famous "Rebel Yell" sounds out from some street corner of Durham or somo corner of the Trinity Collego campus, rising i little thinner and the higher in pitch but none the less awe inspiring and triumphant from the same throats which sent the rhill of apprehension over the ranks of blue sixty years ago. The parade tomorrow will form at the college. The order of march follows: General Carr. " (ieneral Metts and stoff. Camp Bragg band. Fourth Brigade. First Brigade. Second .Brigade. Third Brigade, Matrons of Honor, ipo;.Mir. maids of honor. daughters of the Confederacy. West Durham Psjnd. Spanish War Veterans. Naval Reserve. Durham -Hosiery XliU Band. Dnrhani Machine Gun Compnny. Red Cross. Klks Drum Corps. Klks. The veterans will begin on tho march but automobiles will be provided fur any who may find that the step which marched to Gettysburg has alowed with the years. The paVade w ill proceed from the college cast on Main street to ihe court house, where the commanding officers and their staffs will tako places in tho reviewing stand. Tho parade will then pass in review and disbond at Dillard street, two blocks east. Assistant Marshals are Lnthrop More- Koontz, and Arnold Briggs. Traffic hend. Jack Cavedo, Boh Hackney, John will be excluded from Main street dur ing the hours of the parade. A. D. Watts, Commissioner of Reve nue, yesterday announced that he hnl decided not ta change the assessments of the property of nine railroads grant 4 - rehearing r hetr prtitrnn for reduction on August If!. At the same time, the Commissioner made public the assessed valuation of ten railroads in the Kta-te totalling op proximately f.,rn,280,(iS4. Inability to get complete reports from counties as to properties hekl by railroads outside of the road bed, the Commissioner stated, would make the reported valua tious subject to somo changes. -- Tw-Gt Reductions . The decision yesterday leaves only two comTlanics with reductions; the Carolina Clinchfield aril Ohio Railroad reduced from $lti,237,2(i4 to 12,SK1,440 plus the undetermined value of local property in counties not heard from, and the Norfolk Southern Railroad Company from 27,02.1,42 to 2lS4. 932 minus the amount of its property assesed in the counties. Although he did not Include the ex planation in the statement, Commis sioner Watts stated yesterday after noon at the reduction in the assessment of the Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio Railroad was due to an error, reported to hime by Chairman W. T. Iee, of the Corporation Commission, in the basic rate for valuation; while tho Norfolk Southern assessment was reduced to conform to the Interidate Commerce Commissions findings of its value. Commissioner's Statement The Commissioner's statement fol low s : "'The following railroad companies filed with me applications for review of the assessments of their property and petitions to reduce the assessments as provided for in Section 2SG Machin ery Act of 1921: Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Com pany. Carolina Clinchfield k Ohio Railroad Company. Durham t South Carolina Railroad Company. Norfolk Southern Railroad Company. Norfolk k Western Railway Com pany. I'iedmont and Northern Rialway Company. Raleigh md Charleston Railroad Company. Soaloard Air Line Railway Company. Southern Railway Company (all lines.) Virginia 4 Carolina Southern Rail road Company. Washington & Vandemere Railroad Company. Winston - Satem Southern Railroad Company. I heard the oral arguments and statements of the representatives on Jiine 21st, 22nd and 23rd, 1921. and received the documents filed in sup port of their applications. After full consideration I announced mr decision to e ach of the companies on July 21s', 1921, as follows: "I denied the reductions asked for by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Comnanv. Durham Rnnth Cnrolinn Railroad Company, Norfolk 4 Western Railroad Company. Piedmont & North ern Railroad Company, Raleigh ft Char leston Railroad Company, Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, Southern Rail way Company (all lines), Virginia & Carolina Southern Railroad Company Washington ft Vandemere Railroad Company, Winston-Salem Bouthboiind Railway Company, except auch reduc tions as were made in the assessments of the properties of tlies companies lying outside their rights of way and assessed by the local assessing officers in the various counties which are ap proved and granted. "I reduced tho assessment of the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railroad from 163704 to 11293,440, plus tho Senators Simmons and Over man Did Not Stop Confirma tion of Marshal CONGRESS IN HURRY TO LEAVE WASHINGTON Eight Nominations For Post masterships In North Caro lina Remain To Be Con firmed; Orders Issued For Moving Troops From Camp Bragg 1 Secretary Denby Sends Mes sage of Sympathy To British Air Ministry LONDON DISPATCHES PUT U. S. DEATH LIST AT 17 Officials Still Have Faith In Rigid Airship; Speculation As To Cause MAURICE LAY, OF GREENSBORO, WAS ON THE ILL-FATED SHIP London Reports State Every One of Seventeen Americana On Airship I enshed ; Brigadier General MaitlancL Famous British Air Veteran, Alio a Passenger; Big Dirigible Was Flying Over City of Hull On Return To Aerodrome When Terrible Disaster Occurred; Catastrophe Witnessed By Thousands of. People; Cause of Wreck Not Definitely Known. The News and Observer Bureau. rVM District National Ti-itik'Bldg Br EDVVARP E. BRITTON (By Special Leased Wire"i Washington, Aug. 24. The nomination of Brownlow Jackson, of Henderson- lie, for Vnited States Marshal of the Western district, was conlinue.1 ny tlie Stnate shortly efore taking a recess nt midnight. Ho will take charge imniedi- itely filling the vacancy made by the recent resignation of Charles A, Webb, of Asheville. In this matter Senator Simmons to day hud a telegram from Senator Over man, now at Salisbury for a homo visit, .laying that he would iuterpose no ob jection to the confirmation of Brownlow Jackson, and Senators Simmons say that lie has none. Ho informed Senator Knuto Nelson, chairman of the Nennt? judiciary comnritteo, that so far as he and (Senator Overman were concerned there was no objection to a favorable nomination of Mr. Jackson. Two Bills Block Recess There was chasing back and forth all the dav between House and Senate leaders who were interested i a recess to sea if somo agreement could not be reached between the warring forces of tho bodies, for a big part of tho Bes nion aro anxious to get awny from Washington. In the House the iiltima- ! turn of action on the nnti beer bill was passed on to tho Senate, and in that body there were two "stonewalls" in the wav. One was the determination (Continued on Page Two.) Government Not Bound To Fund Railroad Debt, McAdoo Asserts Washington, Aug. 2-1. Disapproval of the administration's railrond funding bill, recently reported by the 8onate interstate commerce committee, was ex pressed by William G. McAdoo, former director general of railroads, in a let ter preserved to the Senate toitj by Senator Stanley, Democrat, of Ken tucky, who requested Mr. MeAdoo's views after the committee had refused to hear him. The government is not "morally and legally bound" as stated by President Harding to fund the $763X10,000 the railroads owe the. government for ad ditions and betterments, Mr. McAdoo asserted. He declared "the President must have been mislead into making such a statement," adding that the law provides for the funding only of "the remaining indebtedness of the rail roads, which he calculated at S2G3, 000.000. Payment of this balance, Mr. McAdoo stated, may be deferred ten years by the rsilroads provided satisfactory se curity were given and six per eeat in terest were- paid. "This is the kind of settlement the ' : - - v ' law now authorixes and contemplates," Mr. McAdoo said, adding that when the roads were returned to private control they owed the government $1,144,000,000 for additions and betterments, of which 381,00,000 already has been extended for a long period. He urged that be fore any further advances were made, the railroads be required to abandon the ' inefficiency of labor claims, amounting, he estimated, at about 500,000,000. ''I suppose you real ire that in sddi tion to the l,14t,000,000, the railroads owe the government for 'additions and betterments they hsve received addi tional loans nnder the Esch-Cummins bill of about $300,000,000, making total of $1,444,000I000,,, Mr. MeAdoo's letter said. "Stripped of confusing non-essentials what is now proposed ts that the gov ernment shall wait ten years for $63. 000,000 the railroads owe it 'for better ments and improvements and pay im mediately $500,000,000 to the railroads on account of elaimtfor alleges under ' (Ceatlnaec Page Two.) of tho agricultural "bloc'' to have the farmers' relief bill passed on the con fcrenee report, which had put back into the measure the two hundred million dollar amendment which the House had rejected, .olieo was openiy served on Senator Lodge in the Seuato during the lav that until this bill was passed there would bo no recess. And Senator Jim Reed, of Missouri, expressed cii:il de termination that the anti-beer bill with tho House substitute for tho Stanley amendment should not pass. Ho put on is fighting clothes against tho proposi Iron to permit search of persons and nronertv bv prohibition agents, and lacked by a great array of documents law boks, and manuscript, entered mt a filibustering speech to talk the bill t death, saying that ho would keep up his talking ''though a good man might be killed." Eight Nominations Held t'p. There (ire eight nominations for post masters iu North Carolina now waiting confirmation action by the Senate. The?e nominations novo been sen,t to Sciiutwr Simmons po that he might look into the matter and seo if there would be any objection on his part to tlie continua tion of the presidential nominees. The list comprises the names of Carl Me Iean, for lmrinburg, vice (1. H. Kus sell resigned; Clyde H. Jarr-tt, for Andrews, vice W. li. Walker, resigned; Raymond 15. Wheatley, for Beaufort, vice 11. It. Arringtou, resigned ; 'John M. Pullv, for IjoCrange, vice H. M. Harper, resigned; Hester Ij. Dorsett, for Spi n cer, vice W. 11. I'ethel, removed; Aa C. Parsons, for Star, vice li. W. Scar boro, ri signed; William J. Mode, for Kutherfordton, vice 11. . Halton, re signed; Koscoo K. Tucker, for Kair HlutT, vice It. W. Hoger.i, resigned. II is not known that there' will be any ob jeetion to tho continuation of any of these. The -Postofflee Department today an nounced that it bad requested tho Civil Service Commission Aa hold exnmtm lions at dates to bo set by it for pot masters to fill vacancies existing at Charlotto, Ixmoir, West Durham, Mui City, Albemarle, Madison, Jlocksv lie and Oriental. And that the lVMofticc Department is getting wary about some of the examinations is showii by its an nouncement today that preparation Ot civil service applicants for ramiiiatioa by postmusters is prohiliite'dT"' lamp itragg iranpi The War Department today issued its printed form of general orders N. 3,!, bearing date of July i-'T, announcing the transfer of various units of the army from stations to be vacated, but none to bo rnado till receipt oi ura-n by the, commands to move. In the pub- Washington, Aug 1)4- KxprcsM.'n of d'-rp rogret we re voice) hy governmen' ofticirits without rjecptinn today in M the to'il detraction of Hie giant air ship V. l w.tli a heavy les of Ameri can and ltriti-h lives. l'nde in thH acquisition of ti e new queen of the air and hopes of tremendous development in military and commercial aeronau tics had" lent interest to the proposed trans Atlantic ' flight of the British built cruiser even beyond that which it normally would have aroused. Latest advices to the Navy Depart nlent inillchtrd that of the soveutcew- iiiembcrs of the hand picked American crew on board during tbo lew, nuiy due. Quartermaster Norman O. Walker f Commerce, Texas had survived. Ion- don dispatches, however, put the Amer ican loss at 17. declaring every Amer ican on board'1 was lout. "It is a terrible thing." was the sid comment of Secretary Denby, as he re ceived cabled dispatches giving details of the catastrophe. MessBRc of Sympathy. Mr. Denbv immediately forwarded to th? British Air Ministry a message ex pressing the sympathy of the Navy De nartoient. The Navy Department ot tlie t niieo States evtends to the Air Muustrv and the British Navv deepest svmpathy in tho appalling disaster to the ZU -." The message said: "We hope mir early reports will prove exaggerated as to loss of life." V'ar from lieini? discouraged by the disaster, Naval aviation ollieials mi inoiliatelv urenarod to seek authority fur construction of a new ship of th ZK 2 tvpe in the Vnited States. j "We will carry on, build nod operate ... ' 1 as many .u - s as may no am noncu by Congress," Admiral William Moffett, hief of the Naval Bureau or Aeronau tics, said tonight, "so tiiat Iliese nravn n may not have lost their 11ms in vain." Have Not Lost Faith. Other aviation oflicers, while gnatty listressed, declared they had not lost faith in rigid airships. -1 hey pointed out that Germany had built and sue ces'fullv operated 1 10 ships of similar design, maiiv of only slightly less car rying capacity, while English construe tors had turned out Hi. Tho only serious accidents recorded against these, so far as Naval files indi cate, was the wreck of an early (leTnian Zeppelin over Lake Constance before the wr, and the smashing of yie British Hull, Kni-laml, Aup. 21. (By the As.soriaied Press). Seventeen oll'ieers ami men of the United States Navy and twvnty-sevvn officers ami men of the British Navy met death today in the collapse of the prcat dirigible ZR-2 over the city of Hull. Kvery one of the Americans on board the ill-fated craft perished as far as could br ascertained at midnight tonight. Only live men of the forty-nine who were making the trial trip in the diriyrible prior to the vessel beinjr turned over to the I'nited States Navy are, known to have been saed. Americana On Airship. The American officers who started the trip included: Commander Louis II. Maxfield, Lieutenant Commander Emory Coil, Lieutenant Henry . Hoyt, Lieutenant Marcus II. Ester ly. Lieutenant Commander Valentine N. Bieir and Lieutenant Charles (J. Little. The American enlisted men who went un with the craft rrom Trow(le'ft"'eTPT',e.-f. -A-Hery ftolrert Cwwt, L.-E6rowel,-J. T. Hancock. William Julius, XL Lay, A. L. Loftin, A. I. Pettit, W. J. Steele, N. O. Walker and Georjre Welsh. Maurice Lay, vjivt-iiMJuiu inn, whs one 01 me rigpers selected tor jhe crew to brinur the dirigible to the United States. Advices from Hull, Knpland, evidently mean that the young man lost his life when. me airsnip collapsed.) -- ZR-2 WAS LARGEST Or AIR MONSTERS IT t H .'14 when she ran afoul of her hangar Official dispatches to the department did not contain any information upon which experts could base nil opinion as to the causo of the disaster. The opinion was expressed, however, that the theory of nu explesiou of hydrogen gas in one or more of tho fourteen com pnrtuicnts might bo dismissed all nt once. Construction of these sections nnd the other precautionary measures taken in designing the actual containers of th. gas, it was said, rendered this possibil ity very remote. Structural Weakness. The theory most generally expressed was that -a structural weakness de veloped, similar to that reported of ficiallv bv American observers under date of July It, rupturing the envelop so as to bring the hot gases of tho cx haust into contlct with the hydrogen or that a bucklinu of structural braces might have punctured the fail eon taincrs, permitting the escaping gaso lino to come into contact with tho ex haust lines. Another possible causo of the ac cideut, but considered remote, involve a buckling of structural braces ove or near one of the sit ''power eggs which carried llio .!.' horsepower en gins1 a. The report nf July 1. describing the acident of the day bofore pointed out that tho ship was nblo to stay aloft (Continued on Page Two.) Great Airship Was Faster and More Modern Than The I Famous R-34 New York, Aug. 21. Denis of the sea and of the air would have faced the oflicers and crew of the 7.H 2, just as tlioy were raced Pv the dauntless men of the 1! ,'!!. but I v reason of the increase,! size of the more modern air- ip, its greater speed and more com rtable iirran', mints, many of the hardships of the pioneer livers, would have been avoided. The Irtish. I! ti e first dirigible to cross the Atlantic, started from East Eortune, Scotland, on July 1, p.ip.i, and landed at Boosevelt Kiel. I, Mineola. L. I., on the nicrtnuig of Julv ti, cov ring tlie ;t,L'iiO miles in 1UH hours and J minutes. She lift New York on the oturn trip in Scotland on July ! and reached lier home port a. few day" later. On January ":. I'.Cl, th his tone craft wlmih had cost more than $1,111111100 In I, mi l, was cut almost in two I'va violent wool aim left u w rt-elvieit side lor aerodrome near Edinburgh. Kegardiog the terrible experience of the It. 11 in a shallow atmospheric d pression off the ei-ast of New foundlainl .s tlie following: "The weathor was terrible,' sajd Maj. (I. II. Cooke, the navigating ofti cer of tlie 1! "i, "It seemed as though tho atmosphere was haunted by JiHKJ devils. Wo were shaken to the core Tlutt uifcht we hit everything heavy run, tlll'K fog and low visibility. Tl: -hip seemed as though she was going to break iiiW bUit, rising and falling liko a cork on a heavy sea. At times she seemed to stand up SO degrees into the air. "All had been fine sailing up to that time. The most una sua I thing about the entire tr.p was the extreme vio lence of the 'humps' in regions where they were totally unexpected. I con sulired it almost a miracle that we completed the. trip successfully after what we went through. The weather situation on the Atlantic must be in v cut igntnl thoroughly before air travel between England snd America can b made safe und practicable. With the limited information we have now, trans Atlantic trav.l is highly dangerous" The ''H-'.', howiver, was to have lcn protected I'll the. wav across 1-y six (Continued on Pare Two.) (Continued on Page Two.) JURY ACQUITS MaY'fOR SHOOTING STEP-MOTHER Goldsboro, Aug. -84. In the Superior Court here this afternoon a jury re turned a verdict of not gnilty against Donald Ncwsome, prominent young far mer, who?e trial began hero yesterday, eharged with shooting hit step mother, Mrs. John Newsome. Newsnme admit ted the ikooting, but elaimed aelf d- Ifenaa, Treaty With Germany Laid Before Senate Committee Washington, Aue; 24 Th" new tres'y wilh Germany was laid befolo tho moio bers of the Senate foreign relations committeo today and win re.'- ivej by tliein with sumo expressions cf rneer tainty, but with a general show of np 41Vfll, The text of tho treaty was not made public pending word of i t signature iu Berlin, but It became known that the document reaflirins iu cia-t Ian guaga the principal features of the peace resolution nnd gives forco to vari ous portions of the unratified treaty of Versailles. A first impression of approval wis voiced by Hcpublican und Democratic committeemen alike, and although Curl decision! wera reserved there aipiared little prospect touight that the treaty would lead to a long or bitter tight when it it submitted formally for rat l.-a'. ion. Its submlsswin ia expected rs soon jjs the Senate re-assembles a inc-th hence after the Congressional recesj. Hitchcock Like It Among the first to express a favor able opinion from the Democratic side was Senator Hitchcock, of . Jsebriska, tl:.' c ! lull I,,. 1 - is ion. or Peiiocratic n. en. lor of ..:i..feo led the fisht for rat li f tho Versailles treat-. Pechring I pechfj a "very fayotablo im pi sioii of ti e new ly negotiated part Mr. II :t.-:ifi,ck said no saw no reason why it i-'ioiild not bo ratified promptly Sum t views wer(Yripresxcd privately by other Iiemocrats, although none would talk for publication. Among the Republican memoera of tho committee the or.ly enigma was pre routed bv Cue attitude ef Senators P.oruli. of Idaho, and Johnson, Califer nn. Tho latter is absent from Wash iugtoii and Senator llorr.h had not cold to say until he I.ad opportunity for further study of the treaty. All the other Uepublican committeemen nrc said to have agreed to suppr rt raMi- cat .on. White House Conference The treaty tett, which has been nego th-ted r-l Rerun under an mhibi r, mcrecy rcqhfsted lv this govern moat, Crjt was laid before the Kopuhii can members today at a ednference with (Cootlaaea Fsge Two.) General Maltland Loet Hie llntish losses include the fn motif air icternti llrigadier General E."M. Maifand and all the other officers on board except Lieutenant Wann, the conininiider of the ZR 2. Starting from Ho den Tuesday morning on a test flight to l'alham, tho big- aircraft had been afloat for 3f hours, at times in bad weather, ami n. returning to the Pulham, airdrome at Hie time of the disaster, which con stitutes the most terrible of its kind, in peace times. While flying at about 1HiO feet over Hull, spectators say the ZHi1 seem ingjy buckled amidships and plunged downward over the city and into tho Huinber River. One theory of th uise of tho disaster is that while the ips rudders were being tested tho giant craft took a sharp turn, which aused her frame-wn-a.lt to bilekle and that the explosion of a gasoUne tank completed the tragedy of the air. Th tual cause, however, never may bo nown. A rumor had been afloat for some days that the ZR-2 was struc turally weak, but this was stoutly de nied by all in authority. Thousands Haw Disaster Ti ns of thousands of spectators saw vernl men climb outside the balloon and drop from the falling mass, which enveloped in smoke, and others jumped into the Humber as the crip pled crnft came over the water. As tho dirigible struck, the wreckage above ater was burning, nnd there was slight hanoe for any of the men caught in side to escape. Tugs immediately put out into the stream nnd brought ashore the five ur- ivors, who were taken in ambulances to hospitals. Among these was tho American quartermaster, N. O. Walker, who died soon after reaching the hos pital from burns he had received. A rescue tug pulled another American out of the water. He was dead. Inaide of his coat was the nritiia "Commander Jfsifiold ,r Knrlv reports were to the ffeet that Lieutenant Kstcrly had been lived. I'nhappily, this report proved to be without foundation. It was a moment of terror for the populace when the disaster occurred. People in the streets rushed madly to cover, fen mng that the massive wreck would fall upon and crush them. The terror gave way, however, to horror as the wreck plunged into the middle of the river near the corporation pier. Thrilling Decent Iiuring the full of the airship three members of the crew were observed making a thrilling parachute descent. Thev came down into tho river, where they were rescued by small boats. All who jumped from the falling craft lost the.r lues They had no chance for scape, for the water was covered with burning gasoline and tho heat from the hum ing wreckage was so intense that even the rescuers experienced the greatest diflloulty in approaching for some tunc. Harges, trawlers and email boats tlironged-arouud the debris, will ing to render any possible assistance. Immediately after the disaster tele- . diono message came from distances of ti ft v miles reporting that tho people hud felt un earthquake shock. Ilravery of Keraera. One member of the rescuing party snid that when they got alongside the buruing airship the pilot of the tug asked for volunteers to board one part that still was almost intact. Jumping upon the wreckage, the rescuers ripped open part of the fabric, while part ef :1 ' debris were pulled away, oy means of rops. The task waa a hasardoue one, because one of the balloonettee was it. 1 1 lilted with gas and another explosion was feared. Areng the wreckage an American Nava man waa to be seen hanging iv Ins coat to a girder in the frame of the airship. It ia believed he waa dead, owing to the peculiar positioa ef the body, which waa not recovered. Another rescuer laid tne waa hanging"' on to the tail .of the ihip, appaisntl"" uninjured, while another waa found ilcat.ng in the water. (Both of them weie saved. While tha wacaen wert at work the balloon began to tura aval (Coetlnned ea Page Two.) gf