Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1922, Page 38

WARSHIP SHOOTS PLANE INTO 60-MILE SPEED WITHIN TWO SECONDS By the Associnted Press. NORFOLK, Va, May 26.—From the stationary to a speed of sixty miles an hour in one and four- fifth seconds was attained by a -ated spotting scaplane suc- fully launched by the flagship INDANA PLATFORN ' 0.KDUNOPPOSED Public Service Law Attacked. Administration Commended. State Ticket Chosen. May 26.—Adoption of a platform commending the repub- lican national state administration and the renomination of the present the party’s state ticl ber election ion here two aryland's catapult at Yorktown yesterday. pult is a modification of ism used by the Navy and requires a run of :et to_impart an initial ty miles an hour. . Which ‘was witnessed th ate Is from Wash- 1 air station at nd of the aircraft the of the republican | | e conyention. Coming in the t McFall, Lieut. Com- ion aide to a surprise was the plat- t of the the launching was miral Mn ary 1. Jones, fleet 3 Admiral Long, of the com s “to make it responsive ple’s welfare” Vain la W law o | o the peo- | t minute ef- platform committee, succeeded in Raving the committee | the withdraw its plank for repeal of the | clerk of the subreme court. der b i Henry A. Rober convention also al return of state ticket, Patrick J. Lynch, t the Washington nts resulted in the ° nine r made i state nominees for the er the platf m devel- | tion the ir. the dele senting vote in the plat present dir: in advance «¢ was much ny Solon A. Enloe and W. C. Me, \\m . —_— Florida now claims to have more ater adapted to the raising s than any other state in the primary law thoush | the convention there n as to the ad\xs-l urn to the|a ations. | o place on ! Un Concrete— Don’t Guess Whatever use of Concrete you are planning, the Port- land Cement Association can, and will gladly, give you absolutely dependable information about it. We will tell you exactly how to use Concrete to get the best results. 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PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIAT!ON oA National to Improve and Extend the Uses of Concrete " THE EVENING DEPUTY IS ATTACKED. Virginia Officer Wrests Knife From Assailant’s Hand. Special Dispateh to The Star. STAUNTON, Va., May 26.—An at- tack on Deputy Sheriff W. L. Palmer of Fordwick, this county, was made whep B. N. Hite of n *hurchville, Attabked him with frog-sticker” G W R pocketknife. The attack occurred as the deputy: emerged from the county Jail after locking up Frlnk Hite, a son of the man. ‘Witnesses declare that the elder Hite made & lunge at Palmer the minute he came from the jail. but that the deputy did not see his as- sailant and proceeded to cross the street. Hite, it is alleged, muttering curses and swearing he would kill Palmer, ran after him across the street near the county courthouse and STAR, WASHINGTON, D. again attempted to stab him. Talmer caught his upraised arm and wrested the knife from him. He then locked his assailant up in jail with his son. he son was arrested, according to county officers, on a warrant sworn out by George Bare, near Church- ville, charging him with selling some of Bare's sheep ,withowt his knowl- edge. —_— The first British navigation act was passed in 1381 C.;, FRIDAY,” MAY DOUBT TAYLOR SUSPECT. Authorities Question Doran's Con- nection With Murder. May 26, 1922, 7 POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., 26.— County guthorities express doubt that Frank A. (Mac) Doran of.Chicago, ar- rested yesterday near Fishkill village, seventeen miles southeast of this city, had any connection with the murder of William Desmond *Taylor,” motion picture director. Doran asserted that he could not remember having told Herbert Barnhart of Waterbury, Conn., a chauffeur, who caused his arrest, that he had been implicated in the killing. 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