Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1927, Page 2

2. MOTORIST IS HELD [NTWO CRASHES Bradford R. Glascock, Ac- cused in Traffic Accidents, | Under Guard in Hospital. Principals in two tr: ccidents ves. | terday afternoon, Bradford Rodney | scock, vears old, 220 Twelfth | street southwest, is in Emergency Hos- pital today with part of his nose miss- | ing and a policeman on guard at his bedside ready to escort him to court | when he recovers According to information obtained by the pol , Glascock was driving | east at Twenty-seventh and Q streets | whem his car collided with an automo- | hila driven by Capt. Charles her of Fort Washington, Md. He failed to and Motoreycle Policeman J. E. ahl, near the scene, went in pur Sixteenth and Q streets, it is charged, Glascock drove across the intersection w h the ‘“stop light” against him. His car struck the ma- chine of Whitney Watkins, 1606 Six- feenth street, and careened against a tree. It was in the second crash that | Glascock lost part of his nose. His car was badly damaged Glascock's _passenger. Mrs. Edna Shepherd, suffered injuries to her face and ankle in the second crash. Both were tasen to Emergency Hospital. Charges of reckless driving and hav. ing no operator's permit were filed | against Glascock by police of the third precinct. Other Accidents of Record. The automobile of Her swor- thy, Germantown, Md., overturned at Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenues yesterday when it collided w chine driven by Edward Drummond avenue, Chevy C| Esworthy sustained a fracture left shoulder and cuts to his face, while Ruth Esworthy's right leg was injured. They were taken to George- town University Hospital. Frank Miller, 39 years old, his wife and child, residing ‘at 2230 East Jef- ferson street, Baltimore, Md., were occupants of an automobile that crashed into a tree in Rock Creek Park yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Mil v _bruised about the bod. d head, while father and child were | slightly injured. They were taken te Garfield Hospital, where the con- dition of Mrs. Miller was reported un- determined. An automobile listed to Henry Rob- erts, colored, 4463 Franklin street, was abandoned at Siy Dix streets northes the car had knocked down jured Howard Shorter, and colored, years old, 310 Tulip avenue, Takoma in- 33 Park, Md. The driver abandoned the car and disappeared, and police later questioned Roberts, who told of an- other man having been the driver of the car at the time of the accident. Hurt by Street Car. Arthur Boucher, 63 years old, 8 erset, Md., fell in front of a moving street car at Wisconsin avenue and Chesapeake street, late Saturday night, and was severely injured. He was unable to tell of his identity until yesterday, when he left George- town University Hospital. Alfred Miller, 18 Madison avenue, Essex, Md.. was driver of an auto- mobile that crashed into a pillar of the railroad viaduct at Florida ave- nue and Second street northeast, shortly after 3 o'clock vyesterday morning. Henry Lang, 21 years old, also a resident of E: and occupant of the car, was hurled through the windshield and cut about the face and body. ¢ Other injuries in traffic accidents reported by the police yesterday in cluded: Roy H. Burwell, colored, years old, 1440 S street; Mabel King, colored, 20 years old. 1531 Kingman place; Raymond T. Blight, 32 years old, 927 Ninth street northeast; J. H. Danile, 27 years old, 1113 Florida avenue northeast and Dorothy Cun- ningham, 6 years old, 2109 F street. PERSIAN ENVOY HURT IN OVERTURNED AUTO Fracture of Shoulder Feared as Re- sult of Car Accident Near Atlantic City. By the Associated Pres ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 11.— Davoud Eham Meftah, Minister to the United States from Persia, is in the city hospital suffering from a possible fracture of the left shoulder and cuts and bruises, received when an automobile overturned yesterday at Absecon, five miles from here. Four other persons in the car were injured. They are: Mr. and Mrs, Fagholish Moury and Dbrahem Broth- ers of Washington, and A. A. Kisohif of New York. CONTINUE VA.IN SEARCH FOR HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER Virginia Police Without Clue Ex- cept Abandoned Auto in Case Where Bus Passenger Lost Arm. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va. July 11— Virginia police authorities today were without a trace as to the whereabouts of the negro hitand-run driver who sideswiped an Alexandria-Washing ‘bus Saturday night and severed the jeft arm of John G. Doerr, 55, of 302 Prince street, Alexandria, just below the shoulder. A search was made by the Arling- ton and Potomac police since the acci- dent occurred, and the only clue found thus far is the stolen automo- bile of John T. Nelson, 2844 Wiscon- sin avenue, Washington, which was found abandoned on King street ex- tended Saturday night, the right windows broken and covered with blood and a door handle from the right side of the machine torn off. The ma- chine is being held in Arlington Coun- ty by police. The automobile was taken from the Nelson home Saturday morning. The hus was on the northbound trip from Alexandria to Washington when the speeding auto passed it just before the ascent of Johnsons Hill. The machine, traveling a terrific speed and rocking from side to side, rideswiped the bus and tore off Doerr's left arm. which was protruding from | ndow. Doerr was rushed to the | wdria Hospital, where an am- tion was made by Dr. Martin D. | His condition is improving. put Delaney ASKS POLICE INQUIRY. | ner Proctor L. Dougherty Commissi asked today by W..J. Wheatley, lowa avenue, to make an in. westigation of allexed “eculpable neglect” on the part of the police of ot 1he tenth precinct for failure to sauit by a | lations we were e: THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €, MONDAY, JULY 11, BIGGEST SURPRISE WAS CROWD IN HAWAIL FLYERS’ STORY SAYS | Plane Slowed Down on Hop to Land in Daylight—Physical Strain “Not Formidable.“ BY LIEUTS. LESTER J. MAITLAND Wireless to The Sta HONOLULU, July 11.— it was now about 2 o'clock in the hour we dropped from 10,000 feet to 4. and New York mes As we reached the 4.000-foot AND ALBERT F. HEGENBERGER. ntinuing the story from our notes e morning of .June 29, and in half an 000 feet, due to the slowing up of our | center engine. its carburetor intake having become chilled with the keen frost level the temprature became perceptibly | warmer, the frost thawed from the carburator intake and the engine picked | So we climbed back to 7.0000 feet, still through clouds. found the clouds sufficiently broken so that we could shoot throught them | But now we FIREMEN TO MEET INSPEED GONTEST City Companies to Compete Wednesday for Cup Given by Star. Fire Chief George Watson today issued formal orders for the conduct of the annual Fire Department speed | contest for The Evening Star Cup, to | begin Wednesday at 9 a.m. The competition, to be participated in by 29 engine companies, 13 truck npanies, the rescue squad and the sboat ercw, will decide this year's and more and more frequently be in the starlight, winner of the cup for engine com- As we were obtaining accurate check on the latitude from Polaris and | panies and the Merchants and Manu- as we did not wish to make a landfall before daylight if possible, we throttled | facturers’ Association Cup for truck | the engines down to rednce our speed to 6, The following tail winds which were at a | were threatening to bring us to the Islands in the darkness. | Loafed Along for Ho Our weather reports before leaving San find considerable rain and cloudy we were averse to reaching the i =0 from midnight until almost little over half speed. We also swung north, knowing we | could sail considefably further in that direction and still make our landfall on the Island of Kauai, which is at the northwestern end of the Hawaiian | group. A few minutes hefore daybreak we were looking eagerly for the first signs of the mid-Pacific islands, which was the goal of our endeavor. At exactly | 6 o'clock San Francisco time, which :30 Hawaiian time, we saw a light almost dead ahead, a feeble glow, but bright enough to tell us we had reach- ed the island group. We soon saw it | was Kilauea lighthouse. At first we | could see hesides only ons great hlack mass, darker than sky or sea, but as we came closer wa saw it was clouds | above an island and soon recognized | the rugged contours of Kauai, with which both of us were familiar from | interisland flight A single word penciled on a note- book and passing between us her:lded he finding of the islands. It was Kauai.” We had still an hour at least until the sky would lighten, so we decided to circle Kauai before striking for Oahu and Honolulu. We wanted to cross the channel between Kauai and Oahu in daylight. so while stalling | went along at about 65 miles an hour. Passed Over Grace’s Camp. Just about sunrise we passed over a wide stretch of land near M in Hawaii_as the “barking . We knew Richard Grace, the ‘alifornia aviator, was there prepar- ing his monoplane for the flight from Hawaii to the Pacific Coast, and this was confirmed soon when we saw the light ot Grace's camp. Very soon a pistol was fired as a signal to us that they, too, heard our coming. Later we learned that Comdr. M. B. McComb, commanding officer of the naval air station at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, had fired the pistol, The sun rose as we were circling Kauai at 3,000 feet. The morning light struck off grostesque cloud shapes, turned grays and purples into vivid pinks, crimsons and lavenders. ‘We thought we never had seen such a magnificent sunrise and doubly wel- comed it after the lonely darkness through which we had passed. It was on the wings of this glorious morning that we headed then across Kauai Channel toward Wheeler Chan- nel, our final destination. With the rising of the sun all sense of fatigue vanished. We opened the throttle at full speed, driving the big Fokker at 115 miles an hour straight across the channel, and swung up over the high plateau between Koolau and Waianae mountain ranges. Barracks Unroll as Panorama. It is between these rugged green ranges that Schofield Barracks, of which Wheeler Field is a part, lies on the plains of Leilehua. Schofield Barracks, the largest army post in the United States, unrolled before us and below us like a panorama, but it seemed deserted. ‘We passed about 500 feet above Schofield Level and dropped rapidly toward the hangars. From the time we began prepara- tions for the flight so fixed had the idea of secrecy become that now as we neared our destination we had no thought whatever that there would be any crowd assembled or any re- ception awaiting. We fully exvected to find a deserted airdrome and land unheralded. Just as we swung around the cor- ner of the first big hangar we saw the broad fleld walled with motor cars and thousands of people. All at once it flashed on us that they were wait- ing to see us land. It was certainly the biggest surprise of our lives. ‘We were still more surprised when we saw the white smoke spurt from a 75-millimeter field gun arranged near the field and understood it must be a signal that we had arrived. We sent the big plane circling the fleld once, banking the plane to the left and swinging around behind and above the hangars and dropping down on the north end of the field at low speed, then taxiing down the field, bringing the plane to a partial halt and swinging it around in front of what we took to be the reviewing stand, located on the north side of the field near the hangars. The Crowd Also Surprised. Maitland brought the plane to a stop directly in front of the stand. We learned afterward we had been expected from the opposite direction and the Army planes had vainly gone to meet us. Our sudden arrival took the crowd completely by surprise. We stepped out of the plane and removed our flying suits. Then came the rush of people to greet and congratulate us. Hawa fragrant flowers were wreathed around our necks, and even the plane received its garland. We had landed at exactly 6:29 a.m., Ha- waiian time. We had reached Kauai, 2,425 miles from Oakland airport, in just 23 hours, It was about two hours and 40 minutes later when we stepped out of the plane at Wheeler Field. For a minute it looked as if our re- ception was going to be a lot tougher on us than day and night up in the air, but we did not mind. We felt right then fresh enough and strong enough to go through it all again, After the first tumult of congratu- corted through the weather around the Haw ands in the darkness vbreak we miles an hour,. high velocity at 10,000 feet s, rancisco indic d we would an Islands, and inder those conditions, as airmen say, at a led, wailans—that is about the only way we can_describe those loyal people who had stood throughout the night to welcome us to Hawaii. Our week’s stay in Honolulu was one continual welcome from friends we had known in the service while we were stationed there and those countless others who extended the hand of friendship. After those hours 10,000 feet above the sea level when the frost formed about the kes of the carburetors and we sat shivering in the cockpit, the warmth of the Hawaiian sun was indeed welcome. Guests at Merry Functions. Ofticinl and so; engagements have kept us busy at our head- auarters and at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, on the heach of Waikiki as guests of the management. Between our engagements we managed to get into the water several times to try out surfboard riding. We were guests of the Outrigger Canoe Club and were taken ca rides in the native Hawaiian canoes. Offi- cial calls on Arm) N torial executives occupied some of the time during the three days following our arrival. We were received by Gov. Farringfon in the capital, the only capital in the United States that was once a palace of kings. On Sunday afternoon we were guests at a luau native Hawaiian feast. ‘We got a hig thrill out of our ini. tiation into membership of the haole (white) branch of the Sons and Daugh- ters of Hawailan Warriors. Hawaiians presented us with heau- tiful cloaks made of feathers of the same type as worn by the kings who ruled the islands centuries ago. We were just about as proud of those cloaks as we are of making the flight. Honolulu's active chapter of the National ~ Aeronautic Association, which Is greatly stimulating commer- clal aviation, entertained us at lunch- eon and presented us with handsome watches, On our final night in Hono- lulu the Sojourners Club, an organi- zation of service men, presented us with beautiful silver cups on which were engraved a picture of our flight and plane. Gives Credit to the Army. All these gifts were received not as a tribute to us individually, but to the Army organization which planned and prepared for the flight, placing every facility at our dis- posal. Honolulu was our. goal when we left Oakland. We rather expected some of the hoys in the Air Service (o meet us, but we never imagined the entire island would open its doors to us and cause us to feel that every one was our friend. Surely Hawaii a port of friend- ship. At least we find it so. As a matter of fact, the flight did not greatly fatigue us. We had later the first morning a rest of about an hour after breakfast, then motored to Hon- olulu and to our hotel. Even then we did not at once go to bed, but met and chatted with a group of newspaper men. Then we turned in for three or four hours of mighty ound sleep, but by mid-afternoon were up and made a dash for the good old surf, booming in over the coral sands of Waikiki. The physical strain of the flight is not formidable. Our preparations and calculations worked out so well, our flight, our reaching Kauai just as we figured and our landing at Wheeler Field all went. so smoothly that we cannot say the mental strain was great Minor things that went wrong did not count in comparison to the fact that we were in a depndable machine and that we had had enough experi- ence in inter-island and other flying to know what had to be done when plans must be suddenly shifted. (Copyright. _1927. in the United States, Canada, ' Mexico, Cuba. South America Japan.” Europe and the British Frn; by the New York Times Co.. reproduction le or in part forbidden without on. Al rights reserved.) URGES SPECIAL TEST OF ROAD MATERIALS Efficiency Bureau Sees Need of Technical Inspection of Paving Block and Curb Stones. Recommendations that the District government e jts road and sewer materials the “tumbler” tests are con- tained in a report the District Com- missioners received today from Her- hert D. Brown, chief of the Federal Bureau of Efficienc The report pointed out that while the bureau is strongly impressed with the evident skill and experience of the inspector of sewer brick, paving block, sewer pipe and granite curb stones, it believes that technical tests should be made to supplement this skill and to prepare for occasions when the services of the inspector may not be available, Recommendations also that the present were made “antiquated” speci- John D. McDonald, as well as a great crowd of triet, offi civilians, Meet Many Old Friends. Old friends were around us eves where. Among the very first was Capt. Lowell H. Smith, the man who led the Army planes in the memora- Dble world flight in 1924. He is now stationed at Wheeler Icield. rom that moment until now our ays and nights had been busy ones, Honolulu welcomed us with wide open arms that morning we flew in thy ckdous man, 12 years old 3 lowa avenue, July 6. Policeman J. W. Anderson already has ‘been cited to appear hefore the | trial board on a chuarze of 55 nes Ject of duty in connection with the | ineident, but W} wivisged O missioner Douzher v format eom | plaint that the real Y W@s Causec in the station house. PS Maj. Gen. E. M. Lewis, and the com- t sewer b mandant of the Fourteenth Naval Dis., and other | Wheeler Field and | crowd to the reviewing stand, which | fications for sand. gravel and broken had been erected just for this occa- | Stone he <upplanted by the recently sion, and there welcomed by the) adopted Federal specifications; that governor of the territory, Wallace R, | the. specifications for granite curh- Farrington; by the commanding gen- | Ing call for a hardness of “18" and I3 of the Hawaiian !)P[\.|r|mg|||v|!hfil the specifications for trefied ck and re-pressed vitrefied paving blocks lay down no directions as to methods or requisites of test. | Mr. Brown advised the Commis ers that no municipality in the United States is as fortunate as Washington, as it has at its command the technical advice and assistance of recognized merit on almost every class of com- modities in the bureau of the Fed- | eral Government. i Wife Accuses Rom;(;or{. 1 Joseph Rosendorf is required, under the terms of a rule signed today by Justice Jennings Bailey in the District Supreme Court, to appear and show use on July 18 why he should not adjudged in contempt for failure bide by a decree of the court rding his wife, Mrs. Minnie Rosen- be to aw tanded wlmost hefore the thousands | of spectators realized we actually had arvived. The picturesqu wi_had waited for us throughout the night. Roldiers and eivilians in tuxedos and caiers daln Lppers and hizh apned boota rain ed vy Chine # dapanese, o Loerse and ¥Filipinos, sians and Ha- Auif. $100 4 month alimony, pending the final outcome of a suit by the wite for a limited divoree, Mrs. Rosen dorf told the court t has failed to comply’ her hushand Wit the order., | companies, The former now is held by Knaine Company No. 21 and the Jatter by Truck Company No. 12, | Chiet W atson’s orders explain that the cups will be awarded the com | panies “showing ihe greatest speed in leaving quarters after the rec L of a tes alarm.” He named a committee, composed of Battalion Chief Thomas ¥. O'Con- !y\n. ire Prevention Engineer W. W. Deane of the War Department and a representative of The Star, to supervise the testg, which are ex- pected to take three days for com- pletion, Procedure of Contest. The ovders specified the following procedure to be observed in each speed test: “Members of the company will he | stationed at different places on the | apparatus floor. with the driver 14 | feet in_the rear of the apparatus seat and ou the side from which he mounts to the se: f paratus seat. “In engine companies only one piece of apparatus will be used, and it will be optional with company command- ing officers as to which piece, the en- gine or hose wagon, is to be used. “The rear step of apparatus in an engine company is to be placed 39 feet from the front door sill. It the house is not deep enough to allow this, a line will be drawn on the pavement in front of the door 39 feet from the rear step. In truck companies a mark will be placed on the truck 39 feet from the front door sill. “The test will be started by striking on the big gong. At the first stroke of the gong members shall im- mediately take their places on the ap- aratus ‘and the motor shall be im- arted. The apparatus shall not be placed in motion, however, un- til the officer in charge has counted the box, which, as above stated, will be “1-3," and has called *Box 13—go!" New Record ablished. Chief O'Connur and The Star's rep- regentati time the companies. ‘h will hold a stop-watch, making doubly sure of accuracy. Previous tests have demonstrated the need for split-second precision in determining he time of the respective companies. ngine Companies No. 21 and 23 ended in a dead heat last year, with a third company half a second behind them. A run-off between the two leaders re- sulted in the former company hanging up a world's record of § seconds, while its rival came within 1 second of tieing the new record. The distance of 39 feet which the apparatus’ must travel to clear the door sill of the house has been ad- judged the average distance covered by a engine or truck in getting fully under way in response to.a fire alarm. The engine will be timed from the in. stant it starts to move away from the mark until its rear step passes over the door sill. The orders this yedr differ from those of last year, in that companies will be given ‘a short advance period in which to prepare for the test. Heretofore it has been the custom for the committee to appear at the house unannounced, but it was found that some of the engines already were warmed up upon arrival of the judges, while others were disadvantageously cold. "Now all companies will have equal opportunity to warm their mo- tors, so that none will have any ad-. antage over the others. e winning engine company this year will be awarded in addition, as a permanent trophy, a handsome bronze plaque, appropriately inseribed, for exhibition in the house. This plaque, donated by The Star, will be similar to those awarded to Engine Companies Nos. 21 and 23, the pre- vious winers. ce will ARCHITECTS MEET ON BUILDING PLANS Board Reconvenes at Treasury to Push Public Program, - Following Surveys. The Board of Architectural Con- sultants convened again at the Treas- ury Department today fo resume their studies of the great public building program for ‘the triangle south of Pennsylvania avenue, The architects since their last meet- ing have been making individual studies of the big problem and were prepared to go ahead with work planning not only the buildings that are to be placed under construction shortly but also selecting sites for futare buildings. The general pl under which the board is proceeding calls for develop- ment of the triangle into a great unit with buildings connected around the rim, with a single exception of Twelfth street cuttting through. THOMAS B. CRISP DIES. Civil War Veteran, Retired Treas- ury Clerk, Succumbs at 84. Thomas B. Crisp. 84 years old, Civil War veteran, and retired Treasury De- partment clerk, died Fri at the residence of his son, Dr. Thomas B. Crisp, jr., 501 Eighth street northeast. He was born in Texas and had resided for the past 40 vears in this city, ere he past master of Myron rker Lodge, No. 27, F. A. A. M., h conducted the funeral service * wh this afternoon at the home, followed by interment in Arlington Cemeter He is survived hy his wife, Mrs. Slizaheth G. Crisp; two sons, Dr. Crisp and Edwin §. Crisp, and two daugh- ters, Miss Dorothy Hanson Crisp, and Mrs. Catherine Mallet, all of this city. Where apparatus | is started by hand crank the man | detailed therefor shall also be sta- tioned 14 feet in the rear of the ap- TWO MACHINES AID SPRAYING OF TREES Additional Equipment Will Augment Fight on Cater- pillar Horde. Two additional spraying machines were put into operation by the Trees and Parking Department of the Dis trict today to combat the horde of caterpillars that foliage of | shade trees. The department has four sprayers and two of them have been at work almost continuously since the first appearance of the caterpillars early in May. The two spraving machines which™ were put into service today, however, are antiquated, and the tenure of their operation is extremely Washington's beautiful doubtful, according to Herbert I.. Lan ham, superintendent of trees and parkings. Trees Most Susceptible. Despite the attack of the cater- pillars, Mr. Lanham declared that the shade trees wre in good condition and while the follage on some of them ha been eaten away almost completely the trees have not been injured. More- over, Mr, Lanham explained that the caterpillars are not quite as numerous this year as last year, due to the cool weather, The trees most susceptible to the attacks of the caterpillars, namely, the elm. American linden and Norway maple, all have been spraved, Mr. Lan- | ham said, and the spraying machines jow are concentrating on the other pecies. 500 Each Day. | Mr. Lanham pointed out that ap- proximately 500 trees are being sprayed each day, but that automo- biles parked along the curbing of the sireets constitute a serious obstacle in the progress of the tree sprayers. Before automobiles became so numer- ous, he said, his department could spray about 2,000 trees a day. While the insecticide used to combat the caterpillars is mnot injurious to the paint on the cars or even to clothing, Mr, Lanham said numerous com- plaints are made to his department whenever some of the fluid acciden- tally falls on some of the machine As Washington has about 100.000 shade tre Mr. Lanham explained that it is practically impossible with his present equipment to spray all of them during the period when the caterpillars are active. The depart ment, he said, makes an effort to spray first the trees that are most susceptible, JURY EXONERATES POLICE SLAYER OF : BOY IN STOLEN CAR (Continued from First Page.) to the driver to stop, but received no answer. After running behind the car for a short distance, the motor cycle was forced to the side of the road and bavely escaped crashing into the fence. As he jammed on the brakes, he said, Campbell fired twice. Put on Speed. The car put on speed again. Bu- chanan said, and ran half a mile be- fore it skidded and came to a stop at Rock Creek Church road. A man Jumped out of the front seat and ran up the road. Buchanan said he caught him and recognized Irvin Davis, who lives at 749 Park road, across the street from the tenth precinct. Bu- chanan said Davis handed himn half a pint of liquor. Kveret White, 5909 g0 Mill road northeast, the other occupant of the car, was found sit- ting in the back seal Harold Mollingsworth, 3573 Warder treet, and his brother, Neal, testified that they arrived on the scene just after the car had stopped and saw Buchanan capture Davis. A man was slumped over the right front seat of the car, they said. The wounded man and the two prisoners were taken to Garfield Hospital in the Hollings- worths' car. Dr. E. K. Smith of the Garfield staff testified that Hall was dead when he examined him. He denied that Hall could have driven the car the half-mile it traveled after the shooting. The two other men ap- peared to be intoxicated, he said. Davis and White both failed to re- member anything about the chase and shooting. White said Hall and Davis and a man he didn’t know picked him up in front of his home and they had several drinks. He failed to remem- ber anything else. Davis said he met Hall about 11 o'clock and they did some drinking. He denied knowing anything about being in the car and said he woke up when the car skidded and stopped. Then he got out and walked up the road until Buchanan stopped him, he said. Lieut. Jerry Sullivan and Detective Dennis J. Murphy, who conducted the police investigation, found that the car had been stolen from in front of the home of David Samakow, 2101 New Hampshire avenue, Saturday night. Samakow knew nothing of the theft until notified that the car had been wrecked. Edwards Denounces Slaying. _ Senator Edwards’ statement follows, in part: “The reported slaying Sunday morn- ing of Larry Hall by Motor Cycle Po- liceman B. R. Campbell is ons of the most atrocious and unwarranted exer- cises of police power that has occurred in the Nation's Capital since 1 have been in the United States Senat “If the proper District authorities do not thoroughly Investigate this out- rage and fix the responsibility where it belongs I shall use my influence as a_member of the District senatorial committee 1o vindicate justice. “Young Mall was exceeding the speed limit, going 50 miles an hour if you will. But does this justify the discharge into his body of a fusillade of bullets. “A prima facie case of unjustified murder has been made out against Campbell—and all in the name of a violation of a minor traffic regulation and possibly a hip pocket flask. “If prohibition in the District must be enforced at the point of a revolver by inefficient and autoeratic patrol- men. then let us return to the law enforcement status quo of 1918." . By means of a clock connected with the door lock, and special keys carried by employes, a merchant is now ahle to tell by whom and at what time his store is opened. By the Associated Press. 'TANTINOPLE, Turkey, July interest hcs been aroused by the first trial in Turkish history of a person accused of at- tacking religion, which began in the Stamboul court vesterday. The de- fendant is Suad Hanem, one of Tur- key most beautiful women and a well ".nown author. Utterances of the heroine in her latest novel that religion is more harmfol than oplum and’ that all prophets are charlatans brought the First Turkish Trial for Religious Attack Starts With Woman Accused for Novel novelist into court under the new penal code, modeled after the Italian, which replaced Koranic precepts in 1926. One section of the code provides a penalty of two to six months’ im- prisonment f r ridiculing or reviling any religion. Turks of the old school are eager to se- the woman imprisoned as a lesson to “hacksliding” young Turks. On the other hand, free thinkers argue that condemnation would be inconsistent with new Turkey's separation of church and st nd proclamation of freedom of religipus beliefs, ¥ is eating away the | 1927, CONTENTMENT MAKES LIFE WORTH LIVING, SAYS DEPEW, 93 Low Spirits Yield to Love of Interesting Things, He Explains. ] — | | Tells How He Has Overcome “Blues,” Hereditary in His Family. By tha Ascociated Press, NEW YORK M. dent, lawyer, the wit of thousands of dinners, admitted “incurable opti- mist,” and one of the most sought- after men in the world for a “recipe” on how to live to be at least 93 years old—his present age—to rev the Assoclated Press, in response to a query, why “life worth living.™ Mr. Depew, who goes to his office in the New York Central Railroad every day, sat back in his sw July 11.~Chauncey in he considers Depew, ex-Senator, railroad presi- | aled | vel | CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW. chair, and in reply to the query, said | # determined tone: “Because 1 do—that's why T con- sider life worth living. Because 1 do.” Matter of Choice. It was matter of choice, he added. “The blues are hereditary in my tamily. My father and my grand- father both died with the blues. Low in spirits. They wore themselves out | worrying and I could have done the same thing. But I decided to take another view of things. “I think life is worth living hecause T decided long ago to think that way. After a_while a man just gets inio the habit then of continuing to think that way through will power, I sup- pose. P Fhe way to be contented with life is to be contented. It is a man's part to make as much as he can of his lif Those who at times get so down in the mouth they think they should take their own lives have lost their Judgment. “At those times a man needs a lit- tle help—God’s help, maybe, for what | | God does is to take hold of a person |and show him what he can do with ‘hls life. Life Always Interesting. | “I have always found life filled with |interesting things. kvery day there | is something new—hooks, people, talk, events, work—in spite of the fact I'm That isn't so old. But I began | finding the world interesting long ago. | A person should do that. You can't | cultivate a taste for travel at 90 or taste for athleties it you haven't arted soones | “Then eventually you've got to | make up your mind how you stand. | iFor my part, every day I take an in. | ventory—mental, morai and spiritual, | “‘Chauncey,” T say to mjy . ‘how do you find yourself this merning? What's on the good side? What's on the bad side?" “And, notwithstanding my dispirited heredity, I find, somehow, 1 always come out on the optimistic side, even on days when 1 have to vis the dent! SAPIRO MAY END FORD SUIT TODAY Purposes of Libel Action Are| Fulfilled, Says Lawyer, Returning Home. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 11.—Aaron Sapiro just an aceident of destiny in the vindication of the Jewish people,” as he described himself—is completely satisfied with Henry Ford’'s publish- ed apologia for what Ford's Dearborn Independent has said about the Jews. So satisfled is he, in fact, that he said after returning home from Cana- da last night that he believed his milion-dollar libel suit against Mr. rd_and the Dearborn Independent would be settled out of court—pos- sibly toda Have Fulfilled Purposes, “The retraction, apology and recan- tation have fulfilled the purposes of the suit, so far as the main inten- tion is concerned,” he said. “I certainly have no desire to cause Mr. Ford any embarrasment whatso- ever, and T mean that to apply from all standpoints. Mr. Sapiro, a Chicago lawyer whose activity in agricultural economics and co-operatives drew the editorial fires which kindled the libel suit, said that negotiations for an out-of-court set- tlement have been conducted ‘“over the heads” of Mr. Ford’'s counsel. He said he believed the public retraction wi a bigger surprise to Senator James A. Reed of Missouri and Stew- artt Hanley of Detroit (members of Ford counsel-in the suit) than to any others concerned. Ford Is Enlightened. “My counsel and T were in negotia- tions for several months to bring about the main result, dealing direct- Iy with Mr. Ford.” Mr. Sapiro said. “We always felt certain that just what happened would occur if Mr. Ford would give the matter the at- tention required. | “So far as any business consider- ation being an element in this im- pulse, 1 think nothing could be far-| ther from the fact. Mr. Ford been enlightened and. being enlight- ened, has taken the obvious step to make amends. Mr. Sapiro s been spending the past five weeks in Canada, directing development of one of his greate projects—a wheat pool of farmer formed four years ago and which this vear he expects will handle a quarter of a billion dollar crop. COST OF AIRPORT AT GRAVELLY POINT FIXED AT $765,000 (Continued from_First Page.) of Commissioners determine upon and include in their annual budget pro- visions for such rt of the expense as should be equitably borne hy the District Government. In a statement issued after the meeting the subcom- mittee stated that it was “influenced in its approval of Gravelly Point by the fact that its development can be co-ordinated with several larze pro- jects under consideration by the Fef- eral Government.” These projects include the proposed Mount Vernon boulevard, which would save the District about $100,000 in dredging cost nd the annual dredging of the Potomac River by the River and Harbor office. The committee also was influenced by the Gravelly Point site, the state- ment added, by accessibility to] the proposed new vernment build- | ings in the {riangle, its availability | for expansion into a splendid joint | Army, Navy and commercial airport | in the future, its availability for ex- perimentation’ and development work | by the Dlepartment of Commerce, and, in addition, by its availability for such local commercial activities as may develoj Held Strictly City Project. i Another element was injected into the situation today when G. Yaden, chairman of the Citizens’ Advisory Council, sent a letter to Commis- STEPHENSON CHECK 10 JACKSON BARED Attorney for Former Indiana Klan Head Says Money Was for Primary. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, July 11.—William | H. Remy, Marion County prosecutor, | today called upon Lloyd 0. Hill, at- torney for D. C. Stephenson, to de- {liver to the prosecutor certain alleged documentary evidence which is sup- posed to substantiate Stephenson's | charges of political corruption in Tn- diana. Instead, however, according to a copyrighted article in the Indianapolis Times, Attorney Hill turned over to the Times a check drawn on D. C. Stephenson in favor of Ed Jackson for $2,300. The check, from the First dated September 12, 1923. Jackson | was at that time secretary of State.. The check is indorsed by “Ed Jack- son.” Accompanying the check when it was delivered by Hill to Thomas H. | Adams, Vincennes, Ind., publisher, and Boyd Gurley, editor of the Times, was a note which declared that the check was the first one-fourth of $10,000 given Jackson personally for primary expense. The primary at which Jack- son_was nominated for governor was in May, 1924, Expected Other Documen Prosecutor Remy and his aides, who were in conference in the grand jury room, said the check to Gov. Jack- son was not included in the docu. ments that Stephenson_directed Hill to turn over to them. They said they were expecting the other “docu- ments” to be turned over mo- mentar; Gov. Jackson, in Ossawatomie, Kans., today visiting relatives of Mrs, Jackson, when reached on long dis. tance telephone, said he “had noth- ing to say,” when informed of the publication of the photograph of the alleged check from Stephenson, Last October C. M. Hull, a photog- rapher of Anderson, Ind.. told the Associated Press that he had photo- graphed the face and the back of a check for $2,500 drawn on Stephenson for Jackson.” He added that the check contained an indorsement which pur- vorted to be the signature of Jackson. Check Previously Denied. Hull at the time said he did not re- call a check for $5,000 drawn on Stephenson and made payable to Jack- son, which Floyd Christian, a Nobles. ville attorney, said he saw in the cell of the Hamilton County jail occupied by Stephenson during his trial for the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer. Gov. Jackson, in a formal denial, st:(leti that “D. ¢, Stephenson never at any time gave me a check for $5,000 OF hmy sum. as a gift for campaign rposes, an Ny state . did s absolutely faise. ¢ At e ENGLAND AGREES CONDITIONALLY To U. S. CRUISERS PLAN (Continued from First Page.) have been taken under consideration is the same as advanced several davs ago. It approaches the cruiser prob. lem from a new angle by suggesting an agreement on building prog the idea being to give the States N opportunity to catch with ¢ tates dee e 10 pursue new er ser construction. The American delamaen ha\ev been studying the Pproposition, but insist that inevitably it will in:| volve translation into terms of total tonnage, which must be kept down to a maximum of 400,000 tons in order to obtain American indorsement. The British were represented as so certain that their demands were justi: fied and proper that they were de- termined to stretch every nerve, if a break materialized, to show the world that their country was not to blame. On the other hand, the Ameri- cans had no doubt that their propos. u Britain should the l'nilp:; sioner Dougherty inviting attention to the council’'s recommendations for an airport in the estimates for 1929 and concluding with the statement that “in my judgment a municipal airport for the city of Washington is purely a municipal undertaking and I fail to see where the Federal Gov- ernment is or should be interestei in it at all from a financial standpoint.” —_— Desert beetles, which recently were recelved at the London Zoo, exude a poison which blisters human skin and wives off fumes which affect the nose and throat unpleasantly, als were reasonable and it was stated they would speak oit unhesitatingly if a rupture developed. British See Mon!noly. It is contended by the British that a fleet of 10,000-ton eruisers, ask. ed by the United States, would so monopolize the total tonnage that not National Bank of Columbus, Ohio, is! PRESIDENT TURNS BACK TO BUSINESS | | iChief Executive Appears | Greatly Refreshed by Two-Day Rest. | BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Sta STATE GAME LODGE, BLACK HILLS, 8. Dak., July 11.—After two days of rest, President Coolidge re- jturned to his desk at the executive |office this morning to apply himselt in to the business of the Gavern- {ment, which he is on. deavoring to transact remote corner of the country. The President was u lodge before 6 o'clock and appeared greatly otherwise benefited by his Saturday and Sunday vacation. He w for a «hort walk while waiting for break- fast, which took him the banks of Grace Coolidge Creek, his favorite fishing grounds. Whatever longings he may have had as he stood looking down at the rushing water to ke another day off from work, he carefully concealed. At any rate he was successful in re- sisting the temptation to aga try his luck with the trout that are found In the creek. After a hurried breakfast ha left the lodge before 7:3n for his office in Rapid Cit where a busy morning awaits him Gets Farm Reports. Improvement of agrieultu | tions generally in North D: her with favorabie crop pros this v were reported today by his first visitors te, an automohile van headed by Judge R. C land of Jamestown. Due to bad roads encountered on the 500-mile trip, begun Friday, not all of the 15 motor cars arrived. Among those who reached here with Judge McFarland were M. M. Cone, y “0 earnestly at th.s | and about the this morning ¢ refreshed and for President from that 1nager of the Mary Gray Lee farms of 15,000 acres, in Stutsman County: Erick Peterson, A. O. Roberts, E. A. Reed and several others. Speaking for the delegation, Judge McFarland told the President the things North Dakota needs most for rl its future prosperity and comple- tion of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River seaway project and diversion of water from the upper Missouri River to the James River, Active Day Tomorrow. The week promises to be a full one for the President. His schedule for Tues calls for an especially active day. udents of the Spearfish Nor- ' mal School in the northern neck of the Black Hills will call at the execu- tive offices to pay their respects and to have a group photograph taken with the President. On the same day a group of live-stock men from this section will call to extend greetings, and in the afternoon the revival of the pony express, bringing an invitas tion to the President to attend the Cheyenne Frontier day celebration 4 and round-up, is due to complete its run. The big event of the week is sched- uled for next Saturday, when the President will attend the farmers’ picnic at Ardmore, S. Dak., on which n farmers from this State, yoming, Colorado and raska will It is understood the Presi- dent will make an address. Son’s Death Recalled. It was just three years ago yester- day that Calvin, the younger of the Coolidge boys, was buried at Plymouth Notch, Vt. The President sent back word to the White House several days ago to ship a large wreath of flowers to be placed on the boy’s grave. As is their custom on the Sabbath, the President and Mrs. Coolidge at- tended church services yesterday. Once again they went to tge little white church in Hermosa, tfe sames one they have attended each Sun- day since coming to the Black Hills. A crowd of several hundred tourists, * anxious to catch a glimpse of them and to hear Rolf Lium, the 20-year old student preacher, the Summes pastor of the church deliver a sers mon, gathered. The churchyard was jammed with automobiles bearing license, from 17 different States. Bes. cause of the smallness of the chuech, as many people stood on the outsi as were seated within. 4 There were eight Boy Scouts i uniform from a Scout camp at Plae ville, S. D, seated in the row 1 front of the President and Mrs. Cool idge. They made the trip with th former Summer pastor of this church, Jesse Perrin, who shared with youn, Lium the distinction of conductl yesterday's services. The service lasted 50 minutes, a at the request of the hoy preach the crowd remained seated until th presidential party had left. Lium introduced Perrin to Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge and Perrin escorted the President to the door as Lium follow=~ ed with Mrs. Coolidge. On the return of the Coolidges to the Summer White House, as on their ay to the church, all traffic on the 12-mile gravel road that winds over and around the hills was halted. This, it was explained, was done to protect the President from careless automo. bilists coming around the sharp curves ite direction and to pre. ng of dust in the path of the White House limousin — CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY The Jane A. Delano Post, No. 6, American Legion, will meet, § o'clock, at 1337 K street. The Jewish Consumptive Relief So- * ciety will have a card party tonigh on the roof of the Hebrew Home for the Aged. Mrs. Charles Rosenthal, chairman. FUTURE. Dr. C. W. Over, teacher of propheey: . in Bible Institute, will lecture on “The Creation” tomorrow at 6:45 p.m., in the lecture room of the Church of the Covenant, under auspices of the Busi. ness Women's Council. vel talk by Miss Elizabeth Cooper, illustrated, at 8 pm. Public invited. Civitan outing to Beaver Dam Golt Club tomorrow, beginning at 1 pm, { Dinner, 7 p.m. followed by entertain. ment. Board meeting postponed until noon July 19. Col. James S. Pettit. ©amp, No. 3, United Spanish War Veterans, will meet tomorrow, § p.m., at 921 Penn. sylvania avenue southeast. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Navy Band, ‘{ the Capitol at 7:30 o'clock tonigh » March, “Pomp and Circumstance,” Elgar Massenet Overture, “Der Geist des Wojewo- den” . Grossmann (The Ghost of the Mayor.) . Solo for cornet, “King Carnival, (Musician E. Hruby.) Humoresque, “Wedding of Helnle and Kathrina i Alford Grand scenes from the American 4 Suite, “Scenes Napolitaine: enough tons would be left for Great Britain to use in a large number of smaller cruisers. Such cruisers, the RBritish “have maintained throughout the cruiser discussion, are absolutely necessary because of the pectiliar po- 45( e country. \‘flmp “Ballscenen. alse, Rhapsody. “Espana ;38 3 ch of the Little Leaden Sol. “aed ..Pierng . “The Star Spangled Banner.”