Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1927, Page 17

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PEACE. The P n Sunday of the new Internation ts the United States and Canada ov {F LEADING EAGLE. President Coolidge wearing the $1,200 Indian war bonnet_presented to him as he was made Chief Lead- ing Eagle of the Sioux tribe at the celebration at Deadwood, S. Dak., of the fifty-first anniversary of the settlement of the town NOW CHI oncrete span_which joins the Unite ice of Wales, Mrs. Dawes, 1 a century o and. PLAY BAGPIPE AT SCOTTISH GAMES. Bett Leckie, two fair bagpipe musicians of music the !lxl{ in the Quaker City. awarded her as a bagpiper. Prince George, -ninth annual Scottish games of the Caledonian Club Miss Anderson wears the championship medals On the spe: ed States and the Dominion of Canada over the Niagara Ri Secretary of State Iellogg and Premier Stan elations between the United Sfates and Great Brit tion of the great steel- ce President Dawes, the e bridge was dedicated Herbert Photos. INTERNATIONAL LINE. Vice President Baldwin at the Peace Bridge dedica- seorge and Secretary Kellogg also Wide World Photos GREETING THE Dawes shak ds with Premier on. The Prince of Wales, Prince are seen in the zroup. Anderson and Bel hia, who provided i Philadel ‘Wide World Photos. PREPARING FOR THE BIG BOUT. Gene Tuuney tapering off a hard day of training with the oars at his training camp at Speculator, N. Y., where he is preparing for the defense of his heavyweight title against Jack Dempsey at Chicago next month. Copyright by P. & A. Photos, “opyright by Paramount News from A. P. Scouts Wile’s Fear, TOMBCORALTED 2% From Pocke While John Keliy slept last Alrs. Kelly opened one eve to sce a masked man leav- Project Would Have Violated Arms Embargo Regu- lations. i ing thei Arou yom ing Kelly, a confectioner 302 Fourth street northeast, she told him about it, but he replied that she must have been dreaming 1 went back to sleep. A \kening was in store for him, however, when he found that $200 and several checks had been taken from his trousers pock- Further vestigation d that the burglar entered a second-storv window and carving knife away with et “ TWO KILLED, 8 HURT i IN AUTO ACCIDENTS Car Goes Off Bridge Near Lynch- burg in Series of Sunday Crashes. at rude HOUS of State Kel will flight fro be he formed by ets. . clo: S wld not hecause of 2 the Ch ned to far as t The confer Rrown thro; took him argo regu! erce today plan of Browns ed with oday rdbergh's S s of Houston wi expect 1o Pride of § Charles Louis inced postpone to Mexico Ci from would renew tate Departn permission n capi Commere ent o atch to The Star LYNCHBURG, Va were killed and eight hurt in , August 9.—Two ne rent in people accidents in the vincinity g Sunday. The dead Laura Williams and Willie Johnson ored. They were killed when the rdriven by Rev. Irvin Williams, hus- nd of a Williams, went through side he overhead bridge ten miles s h of Lynchburg. Irvin Williame, a little girl named Julia Reid, 2 months old, and another Williams about 3 mo old were the nchburg hos. f Ly the hope ©f ob 4 complete the tour to ot date. he Mexic hib S Kellogg's Message. larger t pe 1al “Having f the G e message He explain axamined grant it, “as there 1ail the legit citizens or bet and The trom ngto that ment of iy n req said Kellogs a1 the every disposi < no desir of A from jon ¢ 10 Dt h hahy . o taken to 1 eri pital of Appomattox was tternoon in a collision Concord. She suffered body and Mrs. B. T. Rosser, of this d her right index finger }: sken ceident. Walter and Morton r. Rosser also re- The three in to the Memorial James is still a Sunday on ught e Mrs. ured were b Hospital, whe le the em-) aireraft ater par agal = 8 | suffered a Sunday evening at walked into a car Flippin of this city. colored vear spec 2%, ship! non-militar would be proh E +Police Aspirants to Train. Dispatch to Tha Star IDERICK, Md caudidates for land week Ban Mexican Lifted August 9 positions on e force will start ning period at Camp Ritchie, near Cascade, on Capt. Harry Butler appointed head of the police rent, announced. Candidates come 1rom all parts of Marvland ominent police authorities of farviand and Pennsylvania will give tures. About a score of officers vill be selected to fll the present d ranks of the force, Capt. stated. _Jnenng the 2id | Mary ate pol Albe A 1w tr jepa REFUSAL EXPLAINED. on Non-Military Planes Embargo Re- stored in January it was recalled here that Mr. Kellogg announced embargo on shipments of craft into Mexico had been restored. that time it was said that the inst non-military aircraft suspended for several hut that, effective January X the ban would apply to both mili was not tary and non-militayy aircrafl. forthcoming nuary en ther commant U. 5. AID PROMISED [0 WORLD FLYERS Radio Beacon Facilities Will| Be Placed at Their Disposal. crash H office 18 eatment On | sion |a to fly plane of the will | ard and mail flight to 20 beacon facilities as they now exi the disposal of Detroit business man, rock, former air r contemplated 1d in from 15 | The radio | Government {be placed F. Schiee William pilot, on around the days. The two airmen, who arrived at the Naval Air Station, An a, yesier da afternoon in their Stinson De troiter monoplane which won the recent Ford reliability tour, today con ferred with Government officials with the view to obtaining all possible as sistance on their flight homeward across the Pacific. The plane possibly will take off for Detroit tomorrow, where it will be formally christened the “Pride of De. troit,” and any time after the middle | he month it will be ready to depart | Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, | GE 50-mile flight to London. | Return Route Planned. The return journey from the Orient | will be made by way of Manila, Tokio, | Sand Island of the Midway group and | Hawaii, The distance of the rose the | airmen” have charted is 22,067 miles |and the total flying time would he about 240 hours. The object of the ex pedition is to lower the 28-day record | for circling the globe, now held by | | ns and Wells 5 The nlane had flown from Detroit to | New York, where the latest aircraft | instruments, including an earth induc | tor compass, were installed. This morn. ing Brock checked the compass and other instruments which he employed on the flight to Washington yvesterda Brock, former pilot on the contract | air mail route between Chicago and | itne ¢ Minneapolis-St. Paul, expressed confi ‘“'3”‘, dence today in the hility of the plane | and the Wright eic Whirlwind _engine | {50} to carrw out their plans. Admittedly, |, however, he was considerably worr about the weather conditions in New- foundland, his starting point, and also over the possibility of*obtaining radio | beacon service between Japan, Mid- way and Honolulu. Sand Island is a mere pinhead 'n | I the Pacific and would he exceedingly | difficult to find without the use of | by d Kee burgh Rese Lieut ved. th w | a Due the w | | | Man Specia FR P! quant rum ing, F wi ¥ Le ( radio beacon, he sald. | The idea for a record-breaking world | flight was conceived by Mr. Schlee shout thres months ago, Pilot Brock | said, and plans were formulated im media for carrying out the project. | One or spare engines have been | shipped abroard while Buropean fuel | compan have completed arrange |ments for fuel bases. | To Visit Many Countries. ! R?;‘"l { From London the globe flight goes | say to Germany, Jugoslavia, Turkey Syria, Irak, Persia, Indfa, Indo-China | (' the Philippine Islands, from where | (1" & he plans call for a jump to Tokio. | GVt {From San Francisco the plane will |® | ston at Cheyenne, Chicago, Detroit and | {on to Harbour Grace, the starting | | point. The tw By Pride of Detroit, painted a {bright vellow, has a wing spread of 46 feet and length over all of 32 feet Its high speed is given as 131 miles per hour, while the cruising speed is | 116 miles. Empty, the plane weighs 1.900 pounds, while with a total load. including 400 galions of gasoline, 20 gallons of ofl. nilot and assistant the Ship weigas 5,050 pounds. | perat walk 808 Rec which | Hoag was a 1 expedition which had planned Arcti financiall tempted vented the pilot from being able to juds » surface plane s killed Although suffering from the broken vertebrae bruises, lyzed TS YEAR ON ROADS Runner Also Fined $50 in leading guilty ington sentenced to serve 12 months on e Judge Frederic liquor was strewn over the highw {The driver of the car made his escap afterw contraband to his home. FLOYD BENNETT SENT | Byrd's Companion Transferred to Await Action on Sick Leave NORFOLK, Hampton Roads naval air station to ait Bennett, a little disappointed over the postponement for a year of the South Pole trip, would allow him more time to recu- | he received while testing the America .| for the transatlantic hop. He has dis- carded his crutches and is able to|g The Siasconset pilot, Opinion has opened its seventh sea. ond-story ut. Hoag, Suffering From Broken Back After Air Cras}l. Is Here for Treatment | a in overing he received from a broken back,)tically into the wa an airplane | extricate his in a M , Lieut. Earl vag of the War Plans Div. on, | of the chief of Army 2 Corps, returned to Washington for | at Walter Reed Hospital leave of absence with permis to leave the country, Lieut. member of a private er in an effort to companion from the ng to the death of Mr. McKee, the expedition was abandoned. In dition to Lieut. Hoag, Mr. McKee invited Lieut. Comdr. Homer C. Wick commanding the Naval Air | at Anacostia, to accompany him. Sta- tion duties prevented Comdr. Wick from absenting himselt for the period, | so Lieut. W. G. Tomlinson, photo- |pmphh- officer of the 'station, was | nominated | | Three Canadian pilots of the Royal | and | Ajr e also were scheduled to fly in 1l Mc- | the expedition, which was to have Pitts- | numbered three planes. The exped: who was an Army Corps | tion was partly scientific and partl ve officer. Mr. McKee and|a sporting adventure. Mr. McKee, Hoag were flving in a Vicker's |as a civilian, owned several airplanes seaplane, with the former|of the modern military type which he pilot. when a landing was at-|had converted for civilian flying and on Lac-La-Peche, Quebec. | persorally had flown three times across lassy water” which pre- |the continent. One of these trans | continental hts was across Canada above thelin a seaplane and was the first made to land, |with either land or water type of McKee | aivcraft. 3 Lieut. Hoag's condition has improved to the extent that he can walk about cuts and | without assistance legs bartially lery he will be assigned dived fran- | Field, Mineola from Montreal, Canada, in sea- s, to Hershel Island, on the Ocean and back to Montreal of Vancouver expedition was headed backed by J. Dal a wealthy bachelor h to his as distance leveled off shed and Mr. exact he and with Lieut painful his Hoag and to Mitchel | Long Island. | MARINES WILL DISCARD | FOR TAKING LIQUOR TIGHT COLLAR IN FIELD| Who Raided Wrecked Rum Meuse-Argonne March Demon- strates Unfitness of Serv- Virginia. ice Blouse. | I Dispateh to The Star, EDERICKSBURG, By the Associated Press. Va., to appropriating from a wrecked the Richmond-Wash- | Highway early Sunday morn- ed Le Cours of Caroline County August| Besides writing one of the thrilling chapters of American history, the | march of American Marines from (the | Meuse-Argonne battlefield to the| bridgehead of the east bank of the| Rhine is responsible for much of the | personal comfort they can enjoy this Summer. The discomfort, amounting to suf-| fering, endured by the men during that long, trying and arduous march oo Brom Ta. Coute® 1o whan | moteythan 10 yedts:ags was. anceibed lided with another machine and | bY Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, Marine .| Corps commandant, to the choke-c lar coats prescribed for their uni- forms. “I determined then and there,” he declared, “that if I ever had the power to do so 1 would adopt an open front or rollcollar coat for field! service.” And when the opportunity came he got authority to change the uniform, convincing Congress that it wasn't a good idea to choke a good fighting man with a choke-collar ————— e WOMAN IS ROBBED. Visitor Loses Pocketbook and $60 at Union Station. Mrs. Margaret Scott of Arcadia, Fla., was robbed of her pockethook containing $60 at Union Station Sun- day night. ‘William J. Nalley, 1254 Eleventh street southeast, reported that -his pocket was picked while at Chesa- peake Beach yestcrday. His pocket- bopk, containing a small sum of money, driver's permit, registration ard and other papers, was taken from his pocket. A. Dewitt Mulligan, 1400 Fairmont tfeet, reported the robbery of a gas station at 600 New York avenus {(I Saturday night or early wyesterday. Entrance was cained through a sec- window, he reported, and register r of §27 : ity of liquor runner on by aro- oad and pay a fine of $50 W. Coleman in ircnit Court Monday. o liquor car was wrecked a short ‘ours Visited the scene shortly | rd and took a quantity of the ] TO NAVAL HOSPITAL | | | Request. e Associated Press Va., August 9.—Floyd ompanion of Comdr. Rich Byrd on the North Pole flight, transferred yesterday from the aval Hospital ,at Portsmouth, to acation on an application for leave that he has asked. * however, said it e from the effect of the injuries with little difficulty. (Mass.) School of Upon his_recov- | | in MEAT DEALERS GET REPORTSBY STATES General Functioning of Or- ganizations Detailed to Na- tional Association. Reports of representatives of the several State associations of the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers featured today's the Ral Hotel. The reports per tained mostly to the general function ing of the State organizations. Among making reports were: Charles New York: I. W. Ringer Wash.; Fred Berg, Los An alif.; Charles Vetter, Salt Lake Utah; Bruce Maguire, Fort Kans; Val Ness, Minnesota: Kaiser, Chicago, 1IL; Albert Brooklyn, N. Y.© A. Wells Cleveland, Ohio; F. Wilson, Fort Worth, Tex., and Herbert Kieeman Savannah, Ga. The families of the delegates went on sightseeing ‘ours in the meantime. fe session h those Glotz for Seattle, geles, City, Scott, S Rosen Nominations Due Tomorrow. A committee was to draw up reso- | lutions this afternoon and a nominat- ing committee, composed of two repre- sentatives from each State, was to elect a chairman and decide on recom mendations for candidates for office to be made tomorrow morning. An open meeting for all wholesale d retail meat dealers will be held the Raleigh Hotel tonight at 8 o'clock. Leaders in the meat indus- try and Federal experts are to be the speakers. The list includes the fol- lowing: Dr. J. C. Wright, director of the Federal Board for Vocational Educa- tion; Dr. E. W. Barnhart, chief of commercial education service, Federal Board for Vocational Education; W, €. Davis, business specialist of the Department of Agriculture; R. C. Pol- lock, manager of the National Live Stock and Meat Board; C. W. Myers, director of trade relations for Armour & Co.: E. T. Edinger of the better beef committee, and John C. Cutting, director of retail merchandising of the Institute of American Meat Pack- ars. National Defense Advocated. Adequate aerial, naval and Army forces as a means of preserving Amer- ican liberty were advocated by J. Moss of the National Security League in an address at a banquet of the T- Bone Club of the association in the Raleigh last night. Carnival Committee Organizes. The executive committee of the car- nival to be held at St. Anthony Church, Twelfth and Monroe streets northeast, met in the parish hall last night and organized with George Yo- cum as permanent chairman. The carnival will be on the church lawn from August 22-27 inclusive. There -will be special added features each evening in addition to dancing. — Attacked With Pick Handle. John H. Dunn, 35 years old, in busi- ness at 1010 C street, was attacked with a pick handle by an unidentified colored man at Ohlo avenue and Four- teenth street late yesterday after- noon, following a dispute about work. Dunn was treated at Emergency Hos- pitalw i in | READY FOR THE TRANSPACIFIC HOP. Col. Bennett Griffin, pilot (at left), and Al Henley, navigator, who will fly the monoplane Okla- homa in the Dole prize air race from the Pacific Coast to the Hawaiian Islands this week. More thah a dozen planes are being groomed for the race. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Wite Deserers || 6 EAVRSDARIFY SOVIET SPONSORED | Bread and Water American Delegates Will At- tend Air Mail Confer- ence at Hague. By the Associated Press, FREMONT, Nebr., Bread and water will be the pulsory diet for convicted wife de- serters in Dodge County hereafter, Judge Waldo Wintersteen has de- cided. Judge Wintersteen got some ideas on this form of punishment recently when he conferred at Hartington, Nebr., with Judge Wil bur, who attracted attention a year ago by imposin: cad-and-water sentences” upon 1or vi lators. DAWES CHALLENGED ON GENEVA FAILURE State Department Disputes Sugges- tion of Inadequate Preliminary Plans for Naval Conference. August 9 com- ociated Press. Soviet Ru: By the 4 Although recogn »vernment having nternatio, alled to which the United States & official representatives. lic it has been successful in onference an | air 8, The conference 1l be canvened at The I by the Univ al Irving « Glover, hd nt I General, and R. White, superintendent of for mails, will attend on instructions aster General New. on internationa 1 rsal Post ) September Sec stmaster Expanding Service. has been_expanding ctitioned the Uni- on to call the con- having found the ) at the Stockholm 1924 inadequate for its conference at The Hazue ry agreements to til the ninth uni- ess to be held in i " By the Assoc | ‘sussestions cont ’a( Buffalo of Viee F that inadequate prelim tions might have failure of the G ence were Vi terday 1t was cent Geneva parle; gates had gone over British representat ence held early in League of Nations agenda f ence, At th added, the purely nava situation had cussed and that had been touche ~ prepara accounted for the cortiars ining American ide handling and tre tional air mail and will be presented by Glover and New York on Ballin, A 3 ment heen & w1 fro 1 ship Alber Advocate Uniformity. will advocs said a state- eral New postage and transit portation charges with £ air malil service to be based on a ng units of 1,000 Until such time as air- to make regular and across the ocean, it e-to-ship and ship-to- based on the service n in the United States and New Orleans. in delegates also wiil ination of the special iirplane services by mail letters would be delivery service, and will tion by all countries or or distinguishing ampe.”’ te disarmamor 8 no the wed in Department th to Dy been rais cruisers, shich block at the later indicated by Sta clals that the expec fdge administration the three-power ( was virtually as: been founded to | these preliminary {THREE ARRESTS IN UTICA |- ON BOMBING CHARGES' ™" k for ,000 Damage Ex-|of a uniform mark for air Cool. | miles or of jerart * Laepena will prop | service in ope able is conversatio | Suspects in $300. plosion Held Without Bail for Future Investigation. n 'BOARD TO HEAR CLAYTON. Three | Citizens' Federation Spokesman to By the Associated Press UTIEA,. Ni' Y., . Au | persons were held without bail today {in connection with the bomb explo- | | sfons in East Utica which caused dam- | | age of $300.000. | "Police ofticials opments today in which rocked the ci half a dozen building working on the case was no evidence conr Sacco and Vanzetti symp Discuss One-Man Cars. The Public Utilities Commission will hear the statement of Willlam MeK. Clayt iirman of the utilities com- mittee of the Federation of Citizens' Detective ations, some time next week, in declared there | ODPOsition to purchase of any more with | one-man street cars for Washington. The question arises at this time on Owners and occupants of both build- | the proposal to substitute the latest ings in which the blas occurred | type one-man e for those now in were absent from the city at the time |use on the Anacostia line. The com- the bombs exploded mission was ready te act about twp ‘Those under est are Anthony | weeks ago. hfit Mr. Clayton requesteaf Gumina, 29, a harber: Luca Azzarito,|an opportunity be heard he(gn son Anthony, 16. final decision is rendered. Y 27 expect further devel- l d thizers, | 3

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