Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1924, Page 27

AIR MAIL PILOTS SETGOODRECORD Only One Load Lost in 300 Trips—Few Failures to Make Time. By Consaliae ted Pross SAN FRANCISCO November 18— Uncle Sam's new daily through air mail serviee, which has linked New York with San Kraneisco and brought numerous intermedtate cities within hour communicating distance of the two farthest metropo- lis of the continent. hus establishe 1 highly enviable record for effciency menths that it has been he 300 trips aress continent In both directions, a disfance of 855.- 060 miles, the only air mail lost or damaged was one load carried. in.a mail plane ing ‘n Frarcisco Iast August, midair cent attempt of a San Francisco automobile dealer to cover himself with afr mall stamps and have him- self carried as mail from San Fran- cisco to New York. To the same lack of passenger-carrying facilities also may be credited the refusal of post office authorities to approve the novel publicity stunt. Had the auto ! man been accepted as “mail” the air mail pilots would have had to chinck him into the steel lined com- partment into which all mail goes, | ana keep him there for the 31-hour | journey to New York. Have 14 Changes, The air mall “passenger” would have had a chance to get a change | {of alr and stretch his legs several | | times en route, however, for pllots and machines, like the Pony Express of the frontier days, are changed at_all 14 stations. Uncle ¥am a: presen thas 88 plancs i his New York-San Francisco aif | mail service. The planes work in re- |lays, 28 taking the air each day as | the fastest mail service in the world goes hurtling from Atlantic to Pacific and vice versa. They fly on a 90- | miles-an-hour schedule from coast to | ~oast, which means, with stops ac- | sounted for, an average of close to | 106 miles an hour. | New York and San Francisco, it de- | velops are the greatest beneficiaries {of the air mail service. The average ir mail cargo now Is 130 pounds. 70 | | GOV, SMALL'S CASE WILL BE APPEALED Master in Chancery Holds Him Responsible for $1,- 000,000 in State Funds. By the Associated Preks, SPRINGFIELD, Tli., November 18, Whether Gov. Len Small will be held accountable to the State on funds aggregating approximately $1.- i 000,000, as held yesterday in l’l! re- | Bort of Master in Chancery (. G/ Brig- | glo o Judge F. W, Burton in the gamon Cireult Court, determined finally by the Illinois Su- preme Court. This was indicated by a motion of- fered by Attorney Werner W. Schroe- der in behalf of the governor. Schroeder moved to suppress the re- port of the master and filed a list of objections which wili be the basis of exceptions to the report when it is argued in the Circuit Court. Judge Burton whl hear arguments on the motion fn the Cireuit Court Monday. ‘The finding of the master also holds that Vernon Curtis and the es- tate of the late Mdward C. Curtls must account for funds paid to the Grant Park Bank. The master held that the Grant Park Bank was not, in fact, a_bank, but & mere agency used and operated by E. C. Curtis and Vernon Curtls for the handling and investment of the public funds of the State of Hlinofs. The.interest money involved In the | case was for the time that Gov. Small served as State treasurer. ISTILL BLAST KILLS MAN. Apparatus Rigged Up iq Ahlm:lonJ ed Mine Entry. | BLUEFIELD, W. Va. November 18, | —lid, Wohlford was killed when a 200-gallon still exploded yesterduy in an abandoned entry of the Tidewnter mine of the Houston €oal and Coke |Co. at Kimball. Federal ande Sta | prohibition officers, Informed that the | #1111 was in operation, arrived a short time after the explosion, and found that a inine rescue crew had brought out Wohlford's body. public San- likely will be M BELIEVE BODY THROWN IN POND AFTER DEATH New Hampshire Officials Not Satie- fied With Present Status of Travers Case. By the Associated Press, WHITFIELD, N. H., —Continuance - of the into the death of James J. Travers, whose body was found in a mill pond November 18. investigation Travers' death, three mon, Emile Dube, Edmund Fournier and John Keir, all of this town, have been ur- rested on charges of violating the, state Hquor law. NOTED SURGEON DEAD. Dr. Perry 8churtz, 68, Succumbs | in Michigan. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., November 18.—Dr. Perry Schurts, 6% years old, snid to be the first surgeon of the | after hix death, was announced here | they here on November 5, on the theory that his body was placed in the water United States by County Solicitor Matthew J. Ryan. The county solicitor sald that he h. questioned five persons who were wit Travers on . election night and that had sald he was too intoxicated to stand. Mr. Ryan said that no complete of- ficial reports had been received from elthor the state chemiat or the pathol- ogist concerning their examinations of the vital organs of Travers. In an incomplete repott, the state pathol- oglst gave as his opinfon that Travers died before hia body was thrown into the water. ‘The state chemist’s in- complete repert, made public toddy, sald that death was not caused by alcoholic polson, ‘although traces of alcohol were found. As a result of the investigation of at 16. thvities {n the here last night. of various controversies. the statement that it physician: AN L3 Tn Morocco, as dan married at an extrem to remove a kidney without subsequent death of the pa- tlent and widely known for hix ac- interest of heaith throughout the country. dlcdi Dr. Schurtz was always the center | 1t was hel who shocked the medical world with was safter to expectorate on the sidewalk than in the street and proceeded to prove it | to the satisfaction of many prominent | r. Schurtz was born in Constantino, Mich., in 1855. ke the Prestm ion of the day. WOULD YOU consider living on 16th STREET, if you *hought you could. Well, we are willing to help you. 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