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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1924 PRESIDENT HANDS OF GLOBE-CIRC Coolidge and his cabinet greeted the American fiyers, who arrived in the C through heavy fog and threatening storms. The airmen had covered approximately 4 hours at Bolling Field yesterday afternoon, President The trip from New York had taken almost 6Y; hours, ched Bolling Field. Washington Star Photo AWAITIN(QTHE AMERICA . Rear Admiral William A. Mof- fett (left), chief of the Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics, and Brig. Gen. Mitchell, assistant chief of the Army’s Air Service, at Bolling Field yes- terday afternoon just before the arrival of the round-the-world flyers. Copyright by Miller THE NEW “MISS AMERICA.” Miss Ruth Malcolmson, entered in the At- lantic City beauty pageant as Miss Philadelphia, who walked away with top honors, and will be known as Miss America for the next year. She wore this costume in the “bathing suit parade.” Copsright by TUnderwood & Underwood. President Coolidge, spects one of the escort Wasbington Star I before the arrival of the airmen yesterday, planes at Bolling UNVEILS THE OLD CIDER MILL. Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland wants another ruling in matters pertaining to prohibition. Yes- terday he announced that he would allow his cider to ferment, and he tells Federal authorities to interfere if they so desire. Hill at left, Capt. FOLLIES GIRL IN MARBLE. Dolores was once a big attraction of the Ziegfeld Follies. She is married now and lives in Paris. Jo Davidson, American sculptor, is completing a marble likeness of her in his Paris “IT WAS THIS WAY. AID LIEUT SMITH. And then he went on to tell just how the world flight was made. His interested audience at Boll- ing Field yesterday afternoon was composed of President Coolidge and TAKING LADDIE BUCK FOR A STROLL. Mrs. Coolidge with one of the White House pets, taking her daily walk through the grounds of the Executive Mansion. , FLYERS NARROWLY MISS FATAL FALL Had Trouble Occured Ten Minutes Sooner They Would Have Hit Roofs. John Harding, jr, who was uard the plane when he and ik Nelson were forced down v outside of Baltimore, and . G. Meister of McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, were brought to Wash- ington last night about 8 o'clock in the automobile of Lieut. “Tiny” Har- (mion, who drove to Halethorpe im- fmediately after the flyers landed yes- Aerday afternoon. If the gears in the Liberty motor “Which has pulled the New Orleans through the air from Ivigtut, Green- land, had become stripped 10 min- utes before they did “there would have been nothing left but a grease 3D . Hardin, timore in a blinding rain at an alti- tude of only 1,000 feet, and there was no place below to land but the roofs of buildings. A short distance out of the city the propeller began |10 decrease its .revolutions. Lieut. Nelson made a hasty but thorough amination of the ignition, the gas- vline flow and other functions of the motor, which appeared to be in working condition. Luckily Found Landing. There was nothing to do but land and he yelled back to Jack Harding to pick out a fleld. “There’s one!” Jack cried back, and Lieut. Nelson dived for the field near the railroad station at Halethorpe. . He made a beautiful landing. The escort of cight planes and the two remaining globe circlers fiying in formation re- ceived a severe jolt when they saw Lieut. Nelson go down. Capt. Meister, who was flying in the formation of three planes led by Gen. Patrick at the head of the escort, immediately plunged for the field, convinced that if the bis Douglas could land his De Haviland should also. He carried Gunnar Nelson, brother of the pilot of the New Or- leans, who had flown .from Dayton to Boston and was returning home by air. Then Gen Patrick’s plane, piloted Capt. St. Clair Streett, landed, and Ly this time the officers in the New Orleans were convinced the motor was “sho Nelson Comes to D. C. Capt. Meister insisted that Lieut. Nelson také his plane and fly into Washington “so as to be in on the hand-shaking.” He expressed a wish to stay with the plane, but finally was persuaded to join the other planes in the air which had been circling over the field for about 15 minutes. So with his brother in the back seat of Capt. Meister's De Haviland, Lieut. Nelson took off, leaving Lieut. Hard- ing and Capt. Meister on the ground. The two endeavored to locate the exact cause of the motor’s failure, but were mnot entirely successful. Then they decided to prepare the motor for removal and at the end of two hours’ hardwork the engine was ready to be lifted from the plane. A detail of soldiers from Bolling Field arrived €arlyin the evening and.when Lieut. [ columns of The -Star, Copyright by Miller Service. President Gains Renewed Faith by Airmen’s Success “It is with a renewed faith in America that I welcome you,” President Coolidge told the world fiyers in a statement issued at the White House yex- terday evening on hin return from Bolling Field, where he Rreeted m_personally upon their arrival from New York. “A new record of achievement has been made in the past six months by you in the domain of aviation. It has been made by men who wear the American uniform. Jt has been your skill, your perseverance, your courage that has brought this great honor to our ocountry. In what is probably the geatest opportunity for futare scien- tific development of transpor- tation your enterprise has made America first. I trust the ap- preciation of your eountrymen will be sufficient so that in this fleld America always will be kept first.” Harmon reached the field the plane was left under heavy guard. The field near which Lieuts. Nelson and Harding fortunately found them- selves when the motor failed, is an old airdrome, and it is said the first airplane flights credited to Baltimore were made from that field. NEW ENGINE REQUIRED. Plane Will Continue Flight to Seattle After Repairs. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., September 10.— The work of installing a new motor in the world-flight plane New Or- leans, of which Licut. Erik Nelson is pilot, and which was forced down at Halethorpe, near here, yesterday, while en route from New York to Washing- ton, was begun this morning. A’ stripped timing gear was the cause of Licut. Nelson's mishap, and after ‘examination by Lieut. John Harding, jr., mechanician. it was de- cided to install a new engine rather than attempt to repair the old one. The new motor and a crew of mechanicians to do the work arrived at Halethorpe last night by motor truck from Bolling Field, Washing- ton, and early today its installation was begun. Plane to Finish Trip. Lieut. Harding, who went on to ‘Washington last night for the recep- tion tendered the aviators, also re- turned today to help put the plane in shape to continue the flight to Seattle from Washington. When the New Orleans does resume its flight, it will carry no flowers if Lieut. Harding has anything to say about it. He made this decision last night, when he found in the cockpit of the machine the bouquet which was to have been dropped on the grave of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery yester- day. Harding drew forth the bouquet and tossed it away. “It's the last time I'll every carry flowers,” he declared, “and they came too darn near being all mine for me to keep them as a souvenir.” The plane made & perfect landing, being undamaged. e I1f you need work, read the want studio. RIFLEMEN BATTLE WITHGALEAND MUD in Camp Perry Matches Be- set by Difficulties. Special Dispatch to The Star. CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September 10. —The Capital riflemen who will de- fend the reputation of the “State of Columbia” in the small-arms firing school and later in the national matches, slogged through a sea of mud foday and bucked a gale to “sight in” their new special match rifles under direction of Team Capt. H. H. Leizear and Lieut. James Wind- sor, specially assigned instructor. Scheduled practice was cut short by another storm in the bad weather series that has flooded the camp daily since the District of Columbia boys arrived. The first shooting pairs up did well and finished early, then pro- ceeded a mile on foot to the pistol range for primary lessons in using the official Army hand gun. The sud- den downpour, however, drenched both pistol toters and Springfield shooters before record scores could be begun. Resort to Indoor Sports. Driven under their canvas shelters, the Washington guardsmen soon made all secure and turned resourcefully to those familiar indoor sports of sol- diers in camp. Under present service conditions men and officers alike wear three shirts and four pairs of breeches by day and simply add a bathrobe or a bed sack when making ready for bed. Last night Senator Col. Smith W. Brookhart, director of the small arms firing school, told the District team, during intervals when he could make his voice heard above the rain on the canvas, about the development of a new automatic rifle for the Army. This coming gun, he said, may soon displace the familiar Springfield and revolutionize not only the present- day firing practice, but infantry tac- tics and organizations. The good within today's ill wind lay in the holiday enjoyed this after- noon by the District riflemen, in place of doing duty in the pits. They were scheduled for four hours’ instruction through actual performance in hoist- ing and lowering the glant targets and flashing signals to the firing lines of the value and location of hits, This training the school wisely exacts of all competitors early in the course. The result is an immediate cut in complaints on slow pit service. However, much R. O. T. C. and C. M. T. C. members may need this instruc- tion at the distant end of the rifle range, it is a familiar story to.all District guardsmen, who serve a thorough apprenticeship 4n such work at the Congress Heights range. Hence, today's rejoicing at escape from the butts detail. The first trophy awarded ‘to a member of the District of Columbia team is a silver cup purchased by the members - for Staft Sergt. H. T. Walker to transmit immediately to ‘Washington to Mrs. Walker ald a newly arrived young son at 116 Fif- teenth street northeast. A telegram announced the arrtval of this 6-pound 4$mascot Sunday morning, __ Team Representing District | Wide Wofld Photo. | After the landing and official re- | ception by President Coolidge and | his cabinet at Bolling Field vester- | day afternoon, Lieuts. Smith and | Wade taxied their planes down to {a hangar at the south end of the field. Among the friends of Licut. Smith who met him at the field was Maj. Arnold, commander of Rockwell Field, Calif, Smith’s home station. Lieut. Smith invited the major into the back seat of the Chicago and he was taken for a “ride” down the fleld to the hangar. After the two pilots had seen their valuable craft were safe for the night they were con- veyed in automobiles to the New Wil- lard Hotel, and assigned a suite of rooms on the third floor. The first step was to “clean up,” which task was performed between reading stacks of telegrams and let- ters. The mail was from all parts of the world, most of it having been sent direct to Washington to await their arrival, although several let- ters had followed them around many thousand miles. The Duke and Duchess of Brough led the list of congratulatory messages. They are held in high esteem by the flyers, who still have memories of many pleas- ant days as their guests in England. A message, which was placed at the bottom of the list in very endearing terms, was signed “Sweetie.”” The author of the telegram is unknown to Smith or the “gang,” but the flight leader thinks it may be from the woman who sent him a letter in Vienna announcing in unmistakable terms that she was going to marry him, / No Hurry Much. ‘The minutes dragged by as the tired fiyers slowly continued prepar- ing for their evening’s program. Cap Burdette' Wright, “social secretary” to the boys, dashed in and out of the rooms in pursuit of his duties of and Low Clouds Prevent Tributes. Discomfort Added Low black clouds over the city yesterday afternoon prevented the world flyers from touring the city and dropping flowers on Arling- ton before landing at Bolling Field. Army regulations, Lieut. Smith said, require that airplanes fiy no lower than 3,000 feet over ‘a city. If the planes had flown at a low altitude, made necessary by the clouds, there would have been the possibility of many per- sons on the ground being injured in the event of a forced landing. The flyers regretted they could not carry out this part of their program, as they had brought flowers with them from New York to be strewn on the graves at Arlington from the air. Lo The gain which is made at the ex-|food and should be fat; fat peopie pense of reputation should rather belshould take much food and it should Each ship will be fitted out with an ! Flyers Try to Rest, Dress for Party And Read Mail in Short Time | Chief Interest When Flight Ends Is Isolation, W here They Can Laugh at Early Hours, Alarm Clocks and Other Nuisances. Army Regulations |Qgden, Injured, Secretary of War Weeks. arranging this and that for the flyers but his hardest job was to speed up | the airmen in their dressing. By 6 o'clock they had made little head- way and as this was the hour set for a confarence with newspaper men, Capt. Wright dragged them into the reception room, which was filled with correspondents. Smith was at- tired in khaki trousers, white eocks and undershirt; Nelson in blue and white striped silk pajamas; Wade in trousers and shirt, while Ogden was fully dressed in uniform. In response to questions Smith told the news- paper men he wanted to go up in the mountains of Oregon when the flicht was over and become isolated from everything, including clocks. It is Jack Harding’s plan, he said, to have 17 alarm clocks beside his bed, each set for a different hour, and as they go off to experience the joy of being able to turn over and con- tinue with his sleep. The flyers were greatly honored by the presence of President Coolidge yesterday, théy declared. ~ Dash for Country Club. At the end of 15 minutes’ question- ing Capt. Wright called a_halt on the ground that the flyers had to prepare for the dinner Gen. Patrick was giv- ing at the Columbia Country Club. A mad rush for clothes was made, within a couple of minutes they were dressed in new uniforms and boots which they had made in England. Nelson by mistake had taken Hard- ing’s bag out of the New Orleans, so he wore Jack's clothes, which fitted him perfectly. The pilots were rush- ed in automobiles to the club, stop- ping off for a minute at station WRC, where Smith greeted thousands of listeners. Harding arrived at the Willard after the others had left for the dinner, donned Nelson’s uniform_and went to the Country Club. By iid. night all had turned i Has Still More- Lieut. H. H. Ogden suffered much discomfort on the trip from New York to 'Washington yesterday. A souvenir hunter acquired his fiying helmet without his permis- sion and he was forced to endure the blast from the propeller with- out any head covering. Added to this was the injury to. his legs which he received on the destroyer Barry when he touched a ground- ed antenna wire on the vessel. A large chunk of flesh was togn from the upper part of his leg and last night continued to give him much pain. An ancient Greek rule of diet was this: “Thin people should take little be-Jean. opyright by Miller Servi FOUR DIE IN BATTLE! AT POLLING PLAC Louisiana Feud Reaches Cli- max in Gun Fight at Primary Election. By the Associated Press. OPELOUSAS, La., September 10.— Four men are dead and two others, innocent bystanders, are not ex- pected to live, as the result of a gun battle yesterday at Plaquemine Point polling booth, in St. Landry Parish. The dead are John Childs, his two sons, Thomas and Getty, and Joseph Cormier. The injured are Arville and Bap- tiste Richard, both of whom are in a hospital here, each suffering from two dangerous wounds. The shooting resulted from {1l feel- ing of several years' standing, ag- gravated by an encounter Letween Thomas Childs and Cormier a month ago, and the heated political cam- paign incident to yesterday's Demo- cratic primary. Cormier was officiating at the booth as an election commissioner, Wwhen the Childs trio appeared. An argument over political matters arose and the elder Childs drew a pistol and began firing. Cormier returned the fire, killing his assailant in- stantly, but himself was wounded by bullets fired by the two sons. The three shot it out. Cormier, wounded a half-dozen times and lying on the ground, emptied his pistol, calmly re- loaded it and resumed pouring a stream of lead at his assailants. Thomas Childs was killed instantly. Cormier died 20 minutes after his op- ponents had been bested, while Getty Childs lingered an hour. The Richard boys, brothers, were in the line of fire with other by- standers and were & little slow in .seeking cover. Each was struck by stray bullets. The trouble between Cormier and the Childs family is said to have originated eight years ago, when Cormier slapped Thomas Childs, then a boy of 13 years. Four weeks ago Thomas Childs and Cormier met at a cotton gin in Lewisburg. They fought with knives, and while Childs was slashed several times, he in- jured Cormier so badly he had to be placed in a hospital, where he re- mained until a week ago. FORMER OFFICIAL STABBED. Ex-State Representative Engages in Election Row. SHREVEPORT, La., September 10.— Former State Representative Sellars of Natchitoches Parish yesterday was stabbed eight times by L. Fuller in an election row at Robeline, La. Mr. Sellars was reported tonight to be in a serious condition. Airships of Steel. In England they're building _air express ships entirely constructed of steel, including propellers. They will have a sailing radius of 1,000 miles and a speed of 100 miles an hour. H. Stayton at right. Smith Says Gas, Not Food, Caused Aberdeen Delay The world fiyers did not keep President Coolidge and the thousands of people waiting at Bolling Field yesterday in order to eat at Aberdeen, as was re- ported by radio from that base, Lieut. Smith emphasize?l last The entire formation nes landed, he xaid, and ips of the esxcort needed fael. Ax they had small tanks, it took considerable time to fuel them and while this work was being done the officers at the fleld rushed up a lunc fmixhed the meal a back on the fiying field before he last of the escort planes d been gassed. MARINES TO HONOR U. S. WORLD FLYERS Every Plane at Antietam Camp to Take Part in Welcome Ceremony. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. ANTIETAM BATTLEFIELD, Sep- tember 10.—The marines here are planning to give their share of wel- come to the world flyers when they pass here on their way to Moundsville, Ohio. ; A great demonstration has been arranged. Everything that can fly will take off as they approach and escort them for several miles. All the big guns will be fir®, and bombs will be dropped all around. Meanwhile, the marines are today thawing out after the cold night. Frost was reported in several of the encampments, but the marines are used to all sorts of weather, and now that the sun is shining bright- ly are feeling pretty chipper and in readjness for the big show Friday. Bayonet drills are the program today, and they are hard at work. Tomorrow is the last dress fehear- sal, and the following day the marines expect to do _Lee's and McClellan’s armies one befter. J e — ERROR IS EXPLAINED. Captions Under Pictures Churchmen Transposed. Through the use of wrong cap- tions the pictures of Rev. A. J. Gay- nor Banks, D. D., and Rev. Raymond L. Wolven appeared in The Star on two days during the last week with erroneous’ information beneath' the pictures. Rev. Mr. Wolven was in- stituted vicar of Trinity Diocesan Church by Bishop James E. Freeman at exercises Sunday morning. Dr. Banks is the national director of the Society of the Nazarene of the Epis- copal €hurch, who will preside at the annual convention of the society to he held at Trinity Church, Septem- ber 15 to 19. of No Chance for a Word. From Life. Rub—So you and your wife had words? Dub—Well, yes; but I didn't get to use minel By United News Pictures SEEK REDUETON N PHONE RATES Federation of Citizens’ Asso- cations Repeats Request for Hearing by Commission. Request for a substantial reduction in the rates of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company was made by William McK. Clayton, repre- senting the Federation of Citizens' As- in a petition filed with the litles Commission today. Charging that present telephons rates are unreasonable, Mr. Clayton asks that a formal public hearing be called lookjng to a downward- re= The letter follows: he Federation of Citizens' Asso- ciations petitioned the commission in February, 1924, for a reduction in the rates, tolls and charges of the Chesa- peake and Potomac Telephone Com- pany. This request of the federa- tion was refused by the commission, The federation now renews its petde tion and respectfully asks the honof= able commission for a formal publis hearing looking to a substantial rt- duction in the rates, tolls and charges of the telephone company * ® *.° “The federation avers that the monthly reports of the said telephone company made to the commission show that the said company is now and has been for a considerable period of time anterior to the filing of the federation’s petition of February, 1924, earning a rate of return unrea- sonable, unjust and unfair to the private and public users of the tele- phone and excessive beyond the intent of the statute controlling.” The accountants of the utilitles commission have already begun a study of the books of the telephone company to determine whether a rie hearing should be held at this tims. Nearly two years ago the rafe for unlimited service was reduced from $5.50 to $5 a month at the voluntary suggestion of the telephone company. e NON-VOTER CALLED GOAT. Republican Club Chief Would Label Ballot Casters. NEW YORK, September 10.—John A Stewart, president of the Repub- lican League of Clubs of the State of New York has recommended to the executive committee of that\organiza- tion that voting citizens be rewarded with medals and chronic non-voters be barred from the polls. He urged legislation disfranchising every per- son, permanently or for a term of years, who cannot maintain g valid excuse for having failed to vote at three consecutive elections. Mr. Stewart recalled that the citi- zens of ancient Athens received about 9 cents each for attending to their election duties. “Would it not be a good idea,” the speaker asked, “to give to each cit- izen casting his ballot a little medal that could be pinned upon the dress, in order that the voting ‘sheep’ might be distinguished from the utterly | contemptible, mon-voting ‘goats’™

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