Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1925, Page 27

AIR SERVICE IS HIT WHEN FLIGHT FALS Planes From Michigan Halt in Georgia—Commander Sees Mitchell Vindicated. By the Associated Press MACON, February 28—"The failure of the dawn-to-dusk flight Maj. Thomas G. Lanphier, commande said tonight, “proves contention f Gen. Mitchell before the aeronaut- teal committee of Congress that s fense is inadequate. re are only 15 planes in the Na- today equipped for active war And only 12 of these planes flable * pilots. In fact, the r force of Ame; is in Macon tonight.” Twelve Army pursuit group late today, fa hind their dawn-to-dusk flight ridge Field, Mich., to Miami orrow will take off here to continy the trip at leisure, Maj. Lanphier an nounced tonight. Eleven of, the » with full landing equipment landed at Camp Wheeler late this afternoon after clipping 700 mile from the distance to Miami twelfth was foreed down at Gray a., 27 miles away, and will join the uadron later de ica airplanes of the first whic®. be schedule Fla., tc £q Blames Failure to establish a record in the rt, Maj. Lanphier tributed to ays at Dayton, Ohio, planes left Dayton at 9:55, cen- time, t The first to arrive i landed at followed plane com- Lieut. J ad Johnson down at Gray The from Selfridg to approximately planes w refu and Maj. Lanphi uld be reac maining lap of the tomorrow morning. Loxex Sense of Direction. Over Eatonton 40 miles from Micon, the wppearcd to have Tost its sense of direction. th weather being cloudy. They clreled over Eatonton until Maj. L. landed the bearings, after which ht was resumed. irge crowd greeted them wher hey arrived at Camp Wheeler here The planes left Selfridg Field, Mich. at 6:34; Bastern standard time, this morning, and arrived in Dayton shortly after 7 o'clock, central tim Lieut.” E. C, Whitehcad damaged h plane on landing in Dayton Delayx. . del The tral plane s morning ntr n by th manded by forced distance da The is immed a4 they the re- flight at 8 o’clock Ga squadron the they ARMSTRONG EONCLUDES “BETTER SPEECH WEEK” Students Planning to Take Part in Star’s Oratorical Contest—Other Activities Noted. Better Speech week, the designa- tion of a campaign for improvement in oral English, was concluded Fri- day at Armstrong Technical High School by a playlet in which Eliza- beth Beasley and Horace Shamwell freshmen, and James E. Jones, senior, were the principals. . During the eek the halls and classrooms were carded with slogans prepared by pupils caricaturing the common mmatical errors. Miss Ethel M made a short talk Good Rosier Gaddis, star prize orator, My- Langutge,” by Charles as, and remarks were made by Miss Ophelia M. C. Davidson, chair- man of the Better Speech week com- mittee, and Capt. A. C. Newman, prin- cipal. Miss Hall and Mrs. E. B. How- ard also were members of the com- mittee of arrangements, all English teachers co-operating. Dunbar and Armstrong tied for the local interscholas: when Armstrong decisively defeated the quint representing the former school by a score of 19 to T game was played on the school court before a crowd of enthusiastic part sans. Cook of Dunbar played a bri liant game whenever he could lose himeelf from the blanketing tactic of the Armstrong defense. Dean Orra D. Weaver went to C nati last week to attend the ence of deans of the N. E. A he committee in. charge of Star oratorical _contest March 20 as the final date aion of the competitive essays ing the k beginning that date papers will be rated for their literary value and the eliminations contests will begin. Entries are very widely scattered among the various classes and a sharp contest looked for. Gaddis, last year's winner, will hav a hard time to maintain his laurels. Capt. Newman plans to ha Con- stitution week” again in which vari- ous phases of the Fede will be discussed by te. pils. Al candidates graphical sketches are void the common year, when too much was placed on the individual, and too lit- tle on the Constitution on The has fixe for submis- Dur- tha hers and pu- selecting bio~ being urged fault of str itself. - LE*CH ELECT—ED TRAVELERS’ PRESIDENT Post B of Protective Association Names Other Officers Also. Officials Speak. was elected of Post B Travelers' Association at a meeting night In the Metropolitan Hotel. The State president, W. E. Wellman and the State secretary, Paul H. Stewart, made short addresses. Other officers elected were: Victor DeKnight, first vice - president; L. Galladay, second vice president; Dulin, third ‘vice pre Lynch, secretary and trea directors for the next two years, E. Hamburger, E. J. Murphy, other who were held over, W and F. C. Burkolder. J. E elected: chairman of the legislative committee; S. S. Poole, press commit- tee; J. S. Bussard, hotel committee; Benjamin April, employment commit- tee; the entertainment committee will be composed of M. E. Hamburger, H 1. Galladay, Victor P. DeKnight: membership committee, victor P. De- Knight, and chaplain, Rev. Dr. John Palmer. The following delegates and alter- nates were elected for the following conventions: Baltimore convention M Hamburger, delegate chairman V. P. DeKnight, J. E. Jacobs, H. L. Gal- laday; national convention, H. . L. Galladay, chairman; alternate, S. S. Toole. T B, the Lerch president Protective, P. H w. ¥ 8 o M. Langley Junior High Gives Play. A play, “Bound or Free” by the pupils of section SA4, featured the weekly assembly Thursday at the Langley Junior High School. The program also included a recitation, “Better Speech Week,” by Alma Gemeny; a salute to the flag and the singing of “Washington” by the school. H. W. Draper, spoke. Alsace-Lorraine’s foreign element constitutes nearly one-ténth of the population-and~is rapidly growing: reached Georgia | onlg from Self- | phicr | championship | The | 1 ground law | last | Tuesday | principal, | Convention Leader | | | i [ | DR. D. H. KRESS, Nerve specialist of the Washington which beginx in Washington March 4. | WOMAN’S DEATH BY AUTO | IS CALLED ACCIDENTAL | Coroner’s Jury Exonerates Richard Hamlett, Whose Car Hit Miss Mary W. Shearman, verdict of accidental by a coroner's jur rict morgue yesterday the case of Miss Mary Washington | Shearman, 45 years old, of the Graf- | | death was at the Dis-| afternoon in | A given ot ton Hotel, who died of imjuri - ved Friday night when she ocked down by an automobile th near I street northwest hard Hamlett of 1754 Kenyon | street, operator of the chine, who endered to the police of the third recinet, after having taken Miss Shearman to F gency Hospital, where she died, W released Representative M. Wainwright New York was the first witness told of hearing a <. ash and or- dered his chaufteur to stop. He de- tailed the removal of Miss Shearman | to the hospital. Miss Catherine Ladd, | who was in the machine with Ham- told of seeing n woman step back, apparengly to get out of the {way of an automobile which was ing north on Sixteenth street. She| he woman stepped directly in| h of Mr. Hamlett's car. hearman, who was a member 1y mily, her > liar arman, being a New York ba offices in | London and South Americ: was ac- tive in local church circles, was president of the board of lady man- agers of the Epiphany Church 1 vice president of the ladies’ auxiliary of that church. on | said the Miss of a nation: brother, W POLICé CHIEF’S LIFE SAVED BY LUCK PIECE Fired by Negro Strikes| Gold and Is Deflected From Heart. By the Associated Press. CALEXICO, Cal This is the story of a brought luck. The peso Mexican gold Hardwick, chief of border city, credits the ing his life while atte rest a negro. The the bullet struck the coin, knocking | it from a circular holder where it rested as a watch charm over the of- ficer's heart. He escaped with a superficial wound The coin that formed the watch charm was given to Hardwick several years ago by a Mexican official, ac- companied by the admonition: “Wear this always. It will bring you luck.” The char assured of im- | mortality in the archives of Calexico, for the city council has resolved: “We are grateful t, to the interven- tion of a watch charm, providentially worn, the bullet fired by the would- al in was deflected from its| course.” l | Bullet iary k plece talisman piece and Joe police of this coin with sav- pting to ar- negro fired and is a |RARE EXAMPLES OF ART | PLACED ON EXHIBITION| Four Books With Paintings on Foreedge of Each Placed National Museum Bureau. Four books with paintings on the foreedge of each have been placed on exhibition in the division of graphic jarts of the National Museum, Smith- onian Building. These rare examples of this art were loaned by the collec- tor, B. M. Comerford of this city. Foreedge painting consists of paint- ing pictures and decorations on the foreedge of a book while the leaves are pulled back -exposing a very mi-, |nute surface of cach leaf. This ex- posed part receives the water-color | Ipaint. In some cases both sides of Jeaves have been painted in this vay, so that one picture appears when the leaves are bent one wa and an- other is seen when the leaves are | bent the other way. The pictures dis- appear when the book comes back to normal shape Samuel Mearne in a -1683) of England was the first person known to use i foreedge painting and is given the feredit for inventing and using the | pYocess as early as 1662. It was still | in ate as 1840. Recently in | Washington the process has been re- | vived by the miniature painter, Frank- lin Barber Clark use as PATUXENT BEACH on the Patuxent River. Beautitul beach, good bathing, boating, fsling and erubbing. W ihia easy reach of Washington by auto over good Touds. A Delightful Location for Summer Homes | Lots Sold on Easy Terms THOMAS & DAVIS Charlotte Hall, M; d Near Contemplated Summer | White House Phillips Beach Massachusetts | Large modern house for sale, | built by owner; 17 rooms, 9 master’s, 4 maids’, 4 baths, sunroom. _ Suitable for em- bass: Directly on water. { Private beach. Large garage. | Cottage. Unfurnished. Benjamin C. Tower Realtor 5 Congress St., Boston | 3 1| THE ANTI-SMOKING GROUP PLANNING CAMPAIGN Conference to Be Held Here Wed- nesday and Thursday—See Need for Action. Establishment of a national feder- ation of 2l organizations interested in the eradication of tobacco and the tobacco habit is one of the aims of a {convention of anti-cigarette and anti- will E. tohaceo meet at which M. organizations, the Metropolitan | Church, Wednesday and Thursday. All and local or- have been in- national, State, county ganizations interested | vited to send delegates, while all in- dividuals sympathetic with anti-to- bacco reform are invited as delegates at large, according to the call an- nounced last night by the national anti-tobacco convention promotion committee, of which Dr. Danlel H. Kress is chalrman. All questions before the convéention 3{“ be decided by popular vote, the d@hnouncement said, declaring that the tobaeco situation is becoming dail more eritical, with a national con- aption of more than six billion cigarettes a month. “The rapid increase smoking among in cigarbtte people of all ages and both sexe and especially among growing Woys, is not only a cause of alarm; it is a call to “arms,” the com- mittee declared An avowed aim of the committee is to begin a universal wgitation agafnst smoking in res- irants. theaters, elevators and pub- lic places. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON Standards Bureau Develops New Aids For Makers of Maps Two new for mapmaking by airplane photography have been designed and constructed by the Bureau of Standards, the Depart- ment of Commerce annbunced yester- da; a mag- nifying stereoscope and a camera lucida. The ster alds The instruments are scope, to be used in picking out triangulation sta- tions when airplane photographs are used to supply details for a map based on a ground survey, makes high objects stand up in a very consplcuons manner. The camera is used for ferring points to the map in where a line map s to be made | and not a photograph. It is espe- | clally designed to correct for the variations in scale and for the | atstortion due to roll and pitch of the plane, which the bureau de- clared to be unavoidable in a plane photography tr W:mld Emulate Oslo. Assoriated Pres February 9.- its name to Oslo or the purpose of wiping out all | suggestions of the time when Nor- way was under Danish control, many other cities have al%o expressed a de- [sire to return to their original Nor- | wegian names. Christian: nd now | wants to be called Storesand; Trond- hjem wants to return to the name of Nidaros, and Tergen hopes to be valled Bjoergvin | Correspondence of t | 0SLO, Norway | Christiania chang, Since o of Gen ~ni to anc or and ind 2 | gen | Smi | der Lewis gen I D, ¢ Cart istr | com Mr shoy of Joh! Gen must BY COLONIAL ORD DINNER-DANCE GIVEN ER Officers and Members Guests of Or- ganization Named for Gen. George Washington. he its officers and ning at Hotel La followed by a dance for fri the order. This order, named Washington, has as its mem » qualification that an anc have arrived in America p or during the year 1750, and estor must have held some off military position in the colo aided the colonies in attal ependence. following were present prige Tully Vaughan, comma eral, and Mrs. Vaughan; I th Gordon, second vice comr Gen. and Mrs. Eldon Crom Dr. J. G. B. Bullock, chan, eral, and Miss Roberts; Dr. 1 ‘arman, recorder general, and man; Licut. William Conrad, ar general; Maj. Amasa H ihe, assistant secretary Holcombe, Mr. and Mrs Eradford, William Bowe commiander generals; Wright, Judge Advo and Mrs. Dinwlddie; Smith, keeper of the L. Wingate, t McD, Stewart, m Addams McAlist commander for the MeAllister. mem he m vic n e ney Cha gen. | ce uty, ana w al . rles as eral; | ste monies viee Mrs. Dist Order .of Washington gave dinner for Wednesday ¢ ette. a bers Fay- ends for be stor yrior said icial nies, ning Dr nder niel man- well | ilor Louis Mrs reg Hol- general; one Col cate sid- al urer r of dep- rict, e 5e 0 MARUH 1, 1925—PART 1. CORNCOB: PiPES FAIL » STORES OPEN MARCH 4. It is the idea of the assoctatje TO WIN BRITISH FAVOR “Missouri Meerschaums” Do Not Have Sufficient Wearing Quality, Is Contention. Correspondence of the Assocated Press LONDON, February 10.—The cheap- est pipe on sale today in Lordon, the city which has perhaps two or three times as many pipe smokers as any | other city in the world, s the old- fashioned corncob pipe from Missourl, | which was given international promi- | nenee by Mark Twain. The corncob pipe here retails at 4 to 6 cents each, but even at that can scarcely be con- sidered having made any notice- able inroads upon the British pipe In- dustry In fact, it may be said that the| corncob pipé s considered more of | |a freak than anything else, and bought chiefly by Americans as a r minder of 0ld corncob days back | home, and by a few Britons who have at intervals in the West or West when corncobs were in | | {lived middle r prime. Vipe dealers say here that the cornt | | | cob will ney London. cause it doe The to tr or become really pite the low not last any length of Znglishmen are always | 4 new pipe, say the but they prefer hardwood | in buying a new pipe they to get one which will last |a year or two, or longer. g Premier | | Baldwin, the best known pipe smoker | that this country has produced, has| smoked one pipe in particular, almost | daily, Quring the last seven or eight| years | popular cost, be and | endeavor Merchants to Offer Usual Service During Exercises. “Business as usual” will be the slogan of Washington merchants for fnauguration day. This announce- ment was made yesterday by Charles J. Columbus, secretary of the Mer- chants’ and Manufacturers' Assocla- tion. 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