Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1927, Page 25

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 6, 1927—PART 1.. |u. s. HOLDS 11 OF 76 GIANT LIZARD FOUND |3l i s o 0 et WORLD AIR RECORDS ON TEXAS PLAINS s Ah:!e;d ;nm an é’:.( ‘::&hng‘::‘e‘: France, With 33, Largely Based on Airplanes, Heads List of Na- its presence In Texas an added element tions in Achievements. he continued to drive until the were knee deep in water. ““Where are you golng, Mr. c-ur*} his wife asked without turning her ! head, and opening the first conversa- tion of the da “To Hell, Madam!" planes, were made by Maj. Mario De Bernardi of the Royal Italian Air ' Mying an Tealian and built monoplane at Norfolk last No- vember. One record is for the maxi mum speed over a 3-kilometer course | of 2§8.573 miles per ‘ hour and the other for speed for 100 kilometers "‘jS\wienlilts Puzsled by Presence of | 248198 miles per hour. The Natfonal Aeronautic Association Tmpleal Tree I na Far From Native Home. " CHICAGO GANG HELD FORWHISKY THEFT Attempted Raid on Ware- house by Four of 0’Donnell Clique Is Frustrated. : l THE WEATHER l District of Columbia and Maryland- Light rain with mild temperature to- day; somewhat colder tonight; tomor- row fair. Virginia—Cloudy somewhat | warmer, with light rain in Interlor today, and on coast tonight: somewhat colder tonight; tomorrow fair | West Virginia—Rain with mild tem- | | verature today; generally fair and | colder tonight: tomorrow increasing cloudiness, followed by rain tomorrow | | night. Temperature for Twenty-four Hours. i | Midnight, 82: 2 am., 30; 4 am., 26;] {6 am, 24; 8 am., 2 10 am., 44; ‘3; Four mem-| noon, 51: 3 p.m., 55; 5 p.m., 55; 6 pm., | ) O'Don- { 55; ¥ p.m., 49; 10 p.m., 45 uding | Highest, 38 lowest, 24 Temperature same date last vear " | Highest, 30: lowest, 17. of mystery. The theory that a migra- tory bird might have brought the egg out of the jungle and dropped it in the and ot | has flled a protest with the Federation | Aeronautique Internationale against the rules which credit this -Itallan =l performance to the United States Of the 78 world aircraft records now | SIMply because it ws In existence, the United States holds | country, and officia 11, Switperiand 1, Germany 4, France | expect that regulation will be amend- | 32'and Italy 21, according to the latest ped. In that event America’s records | s tabulation made by the contest com- | Will totab 9 and Italy's 23 mittee of the National Aeronautic As- | i > sociation and announced last night. 3 The records are established under Lily in the Desert. the rules and regulations of the Fed-| W 00 00 eration Aeronautique Internationale, | i =i Cn € Lo Y Tamily te the | the world governing body for atrerafl | it (8% ot gominty Somin: n twos and threes, these trees seem performances. b Four of the 11 records held by ”‘_;“‘,m be meifther tree nor shrub | stunted to be the first and too gro. | country are for airplanes and the r Tide Table. | mainder for scaplanes. All of SWItZ | ieaqye 1o be the last, says the Nature { (Furnished by United States Coast |@ ai | Magazine, Many of them are black and Geodetic Survey.) Jor spherical|ened by fire. Some are rotted down Today—Low tide, 4:21 a.m. and 4:49 h for weaplanes: |and broken ofr serve as bon pan.; high tide, 10:10 a.m. and 10:35 | . ’ fires for desert wanderers, although pan gage-brush and grease-wood are mere other Tomorrow-—Low tide. 5:18 a.m. and il easily gathered charged Rithicoan 542 pans high (ide. 1191 aim. and | helicopters, and three of Italys are for | o SIDEnt Honton hicar 21008 Dot |afrships, 17 for seaplanes and one for ries a maximum penalty e fun-and Mot ,fl"f‘!"‘" ; years in a Federal penitentiary . : wo ¢ ’ Sun rose 6:36 a.m.: ‘ or | Tex years Februar last ye Its native By the Associated Pross. CHICAGO, March § bers of the Willlam (Klondik lily family is the cultural m the leader himaelf, bond of $50,000 each toda were arrested in a desper: fight before dawn while trying the only warehouse in Chicago hous ing pre-war whisky i More than 50 city detectives and prohibition agents took part in the capture. R for airships, “Drive on, Mr. Cus Texas Panhandle was dissipated when “ ” to Hell,” But She Called | {Egq "5 "team homeward. | Other theories are that it might have | | | #21 antmals, but none of these are| L COLLEGE STATION, es of the United States in at the edge of the Texas Panhandle, taken from the epithaph he ordered rding to an announce | ler anager of the Crescent Age 71 yes 1 lved but seven | S Nl Ol B. Hiller, manager of the Crescen Age 71 years and lived but weven | (0T S0C shown for the Distreiet. Iation | belteved to have heen murdered and |ton on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.” | To for the 50 selected and sent to the department of biology | ed here today by Chief of Police War-|of Martha Danbridge, later the wife | collegs @ Hiller disappearcd ai 5 o'clock this | are told of the Hon. John and one of | total for the fifty cities was $28,088 - o seaplanes, two for gliders such an animal so far removed from|ton and from the wife of the missing | On one occasion, he formally l'nih-d’ !m-r:«-w was Atlanta, with 10.34 o v per cent. AT 71, LIVED ONLY Once Took Wife for Carriage Ride]| (Dt Aot g it was pointed out that such an egg (edged he had been outbluffed | measures almost 2 inches In length. | escaped from an explorer's pack His Bluff in Bay. | - slipped away from a shipment of trop. | SIXTH IN POSTAL GAINS. By the Associsted Press | satiafactory to the sclentlsts here, who 4 T Marcn | regard ‘its presence as unusual. | RICHMOND, Va March 5 Whashington was sixth among 60 The discovery of an Iguana tu-| . | Hon. John Custis died at the age of | #elected | berculata, or glant 11zard, on the plains | Y bt AN ooty eeve the Inores f postal roceipts for ‘ SEEK BODY IN BOX CAR. | ™,k ", i "o or over the same menth far from tropieal jungle. e =t : | has provided sclentists at Texas Agri-| MOBILE, Ala.. March 5 (A).-—Charles | placed upon his tomb: ment vesterday by Postmaster Gen- here | Niwa aand Hotel Co., at the Loulsville | years, which was the space of time | An increase of 13.84 per with interesting theme for specu-| and Nashville depot at Flomaton, is|he kept Bachelor's House at Arling- | cent . Washington last The nearly 4 feet long | robbed and his body thrown into an| Hon. John Custis wae an ancestor | mor ed to $460,183.58. r ot dress [ empty box car, sald a message rec of John Parks Custis, first husband |+ ' was caught on a road near Childress [ empty box car, sald a message receiv ohn Parks (1 ! for, the §0_selectsd at the coll . Munter of the | ren Burch ! of George Washington. Many storles | crease per cent. The grand ¢ Dr. O Ball. head of the biology | morning, sald the message, which | them was he did not get along very | 42741, an increase of $1,210,310. department, termed the “finding of | came from the chief of policeat Floma- | well with his wife | r”w city showing the greatest & home and in an almost tree-{ man. Flomaton is 6) miles north of | the lndy to ko riding. She accepted 1t Jersey Clty came next with- an event very much out| Mobile, writing. He escorted her with every | an increas § per cent, Jackson- An apple tree should have at least | sea- | 30 to 50 leaves to e fnto The reptile is essen-| Freight coming Mobile | courtesy te the 1 15.11 per cent, and: I he pointed out,| were ¢ | headed for Che: with 14.88 per cent. 5 cars of a Today 6:04 pan Tomorrow sets 6:05 pm Moon rises 8:35 a.m.: sun sets Held as Prisoners, The prisoners are O'Donnell, James (Fur) Sammens, convict upon parole; James Barry and James glish Jim- | my) Driscoll. alias Davis, wanted in| connection with a spectacular fewelry | robbery several years ago. Sammons, | Weather In Varlous Citles. whose real name is believed to be | ey John Nolan, is wanted in Baltimore, | Max. Min. 5 Jat. b Sun rises 636 a.m.; sun sets 9144 pm. Automobile Jamps to be itghted one- - Now You May Own a Packa half hour after sunset. Md., in connection with a $47,000 pay | N F s roll robbery. The attempted robbers Morand Bros. wareho of which are stored 86,000 cases of whisk since 1914, Bungs had been by a corkscrew arrangement feet of rubber hose ied out of the fifth | floor window, over an adjoining house | and into another hous nted by the O'Donnell gang, where 18 barrels al ready had been filled. The agents watched while the con- | & tents of eight barrels was forced through the hose with hand pumps, and then dashed upon the robbers O'Donnell and_Barry dashed to the warehouse roof re they stood off the officers until their ammunition was | Marauet exhausted. Then they surrendered. | Membhis It was estimated that within_ a|Mchile. week the contents of the entire 500 | New Orlew barrels could have been siphoned | XS¥ pi. away. The robbery plot wa a Government gauger found a pump in the warehouse two da. He notified Pat R L. Converse, sp intelligence agents, who previously had learned of 3 an attempt to raid the place, and they |3 = set a watch Friday night. an Calif.| Santa F Mex.... Hearing March 15. 3 Possibility of the men making bond was considered remote, since in each | case unincumbered real estate of $10¢ 000 would have to be scheduled. Hear- | ing for them was set for March 15. | Five alleged men bers of the Joseph (Polack Joe) Sallis gang were ar- rested for questioning today in connec- tion with the atemrted raid on the warehouss. They were found in the | SEEK SONORA DIVORCES same saloon in which they recently barricaded themselves after they were | Father of Mexican State's Eight- chased by squads of detectives in | ety | Day Separation Law Is Di- Those _arrested included Frank | (Lefty) Koncil, recertly acquitied of murder; John (Ding! i e [10F Ehe Aueainiod Bieca feated ¢andidate for » ) NOGALES, Ariz., March 5.—Seven February primary election: George | dIvorce suits recently have been filed Hart. ‘Frank Thompson and Edward |In the courts of Nogales, Sonora, Hyps. Mexico, by New Yorkers who are seeking matrimonial freedom via the famous eight-day decree route of | the Sonora courts, it was revealed to- {day. Among the most prominent are the H. M. McCourths, Edwin R. Wolffs and F. W. Mings. { All are filing suits under the gui ance of Arturo del Toro, father of the |amended Sonora divorce laws. Prinei- | pals in the suits are not here, nor will | they be, as powers of attorney cover | personal appearance under the Sonora statutes. Senor Toro i8 said to be dlrecting the New York cases from the Hotel Belmont, New York, m Asheville. N. ( Atlanta. ' Ga. wes af the Atlantic Ciry , in one‘room 00 barr Ala i | n bond there 3 ningham, Al roky N. Dak | Boatan. Maa and 500 “leveiand Clevelan Davenpori. Denver. Colo, Des Mofnes. lowa it Mich Ohio Tows Tox ] d 0. Tex . Tex = na. Mont ndiananolis Jaeksonsilie. ® Al Loniavifie o avannah eattle. D Amb Toiodo: : icksbi M E WASHINGTON, recting Cases. MANY OFFICERS NAMED FOR WAR COLLEGE WORK Large Number on Duty in Capital to Take Courses 1927-28 Class. A large number of Army officers, including many in this city and| vicinity, will be relieved from their resent duties and report at the Army ar College, Washington Barracks, August 15, for duty as stuients in the 1927-1928 course. Among those at the War Depart- ment are Col. Harry E. 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