Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1927, Page 14

START OF DOLE RACE PRES SNTS UNIQUE SPECTACLE FROM THE AIR. THE FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. SATURDAY. This photograph was taken from a plane soaring over the Oakland airport as the air racers started on their hazardous hop over the Pacific. Tt shows the Oklahom rea 13 on the white starting line, W a drawn between the two rectangles, Iy for the gun, with other planes in the rear awaiting their turn to hop off. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. ARRIVES FOR BIG BATTLE. Jack Dempsey on ¢he roof of the Hotel Morrison the day of his arrival in Chicago to begin training for his title match with Champion Gene Tunney. Leo P. Flynn, Dempsey’s manager, on the left. The ex-champ received a noisy greeting from the Chicago fans. KILLINGS AT SEA G0 BEFORE COURT Cook Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison as Trial of Stewardess Opens. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 20.—A negro |k sca cook today awaited removal « Atlanta prison to begin ser -| were approved of his|noon by the National way, | Planning Comm! sion of its all-da: yaar sentence for the murder wife aboard the schooner Kings while Federal authorities turned their atfention to another alleged killing on the'high seas for which a ship's|p stelwardes scused. $While a j in Federal Court last night returned »nd-degree mur- | 1 der verdict rl Battice, years old, fo is |1 wife' Luc s h 3 ar-old widow, acgused of killing the refrigerating engineer on the steamer American Teader. Battice contended that he killed his | wife because she accepted the ewvances of Karl Badke, donkey engine | a tender on the schooner, who is now awaiting trial on c growing out of the w Kingsway from the York overnment cha his wife in ord to o free to marry F y Zam his 18-year-old | Porto Rica sweetheart. Authorities had not ended their fight to punish Battice hefore they Waits nd on the e war the de before JLouis Fisher, i guished and ¢ African gold coast ed the cook President Rooseve “inspired by e fe of God o poured acid on | line t pending the & nd papers in the case Mrs, | Waits I have been exc t | Mrs. Wai Hor coroner’s 1 fre 5 e tified Fisher v that she poure throat as he He | wom Jesid Assessment Demurrer Filed. The Dist Assistant « Jiams yest to the Cov to 1¢ ments ur for pav marle, \ on w abuts. Mr was paid vol be recovered und int fourth streets, so that the highw. rather than cutting across the present road, as the original plan provided. in a new border street, not as yet . pasis named, to run along recently acquired Occurs on Weird Cruise. parkway east of Nichols avenue south- o ad-| property lines so that it will run east one side, facing the Government park on the other side of the road. | northward from Kalmia street to the | District line was authorized, tance of about three blocks, and in this connection, the preservation of two stream valleys in the same reigh- borhood was authorized, so that road- | from Washington ¢ 1 ‘Wide World Photos. CHANGES APPROVED INHIGHWAY PLANS Four Recommendations of City Heads Accepted by Park Commission. Four out of five recommendations by the District Commissioners for hanges in the highway system here late yesterday after- “apital Park and sion at the conclu- meeting. The first change eliminated Volta place between Forty-second and Forty- The second provided for a change in Twent) enth street or Swart road ine of the old road and be widened, Parkway Street Changed. The third authorized a slight change st. The new road will straighten out and west, leaving private property on Extension of Fourteenth street a dis- vs will run on either side of the tream, which originates in _Silver on her arrival fr Spying, just over the District line, Condemnation Postponed. The commission put over for fur- ther consideration a_ proposal con- \at he | cerning the property bhounded by Al- reet, Forty-sevénth street, *tts avenue, Nebraska ave- niversity terrace and Little Falls road. Condemnation of some property, hout three acres in extené in the ney Branch district west of Six- teenth street, was officially reported to the commission. The widening of Twenty-third street rcle south to the , as part of the Ar- Bridge development, ussed, but pt over to the ser meeting. emori pter PEST CAMPAIGN ASSAILED. Government's Corn Borer Work nded as Futile. COLUMBUS, Ohlo, August 20 (A).— As : that there are now many 1 spean corn borers in Ohio were before the Federal (t's $10,000,000 elean - up began last Spring, Drs. L. and C. R. Neiswander, gists of the Ohio Agricultural ment Station at Wooster, today ed that the Government's cam- is virtually a failure. Mother and 3 Children Killed. IEYMOUR, Ind., August 20 (P).— 11 her three children were ht when their auto- northbound r: a ernm Densel 31 ymou her daughter Mary <, were killed ins The, IN THE CLOUDS WITH THE WINNER. A view of the monoplane Woolaroe, winner of first prize in the great air derby, taken from an ac- companying plane, while the racer was flying over the clouds ahout 30 Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. minutes after the take-off. AUGUST 20, 1927. MISSOURI MAIDENS ENJOY ANOTHER SORT OF FLYING. Being tossed in a blanket in this fashion is a favorite sport of bathing girls at the Lincoln Beach, on the Meramec River, at St. Louis. This one was tossed skyward until the manly arms providing the sport began to sag under the burden. doesn't begin until the toss gets up to 20 feet or so. CAPITAL MAIDENS TRAIN TROTTERS FOR ROCKVILLE RACES. match speed in the fair races. BOY FARMERS OF VIRGINIA PAY VISIT TO CAPY Misses Anna Abadie and Jeanette Hume putting their entries through their paces on the track at the Montgomery County Fair Grounds in preparation for the races at the Rockville, Md., fair next week. The best trotting horses hereabouts will Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Miss Luigia Vanzetti, sister of Bar- tolomeo Vanzetti, photographed on arrival at New York from Italy yesterday to see her brother, who is under sentence to die with Nicola Sacco. Wide World Photos. The thrill Copyright by P. & A. Photos. A L 0 PUTS BRAVE POLICE TO ROUT. Robert P. Burgess holding the un- popular little inhabitant of the woods, who caused a sudden evacuation of the seventh precinct yesterday, when Burgess deposited his captive in a glass jar before the desk sergeant. He captured the 3-month-old skunk in a wood pile. ‘Washington Star Photo. TAL. Members of the Future Farmers of Virginia Soclety on the steps of the Federal Board for Vocational Education Building. The young farmers are payin g particular attention to agricultural matters while here, but also are doing LEGION PILGRIMS MISS LANDMARKS Find Crops in Place of Trenches and Villages Nqw Prosperous. By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 20.—American Leglon pilgrims_scattered today along the old battle front in France iwer having considerable Gifficulty in find- ing landmarks to refresh thelr own memories or to point out to wives and children. Crops wave over what once were trenches, and places which gon- sisted of a few piles of scorched bricks now are neat, prosperous towns and villages. Even war's ravages in woods and forests have been almost completely blotted out by luxuriant nature. The Americans, however, find their former hosts and hostesses unchanged In cottage and chateau everywhere they are meeting the proverbial hospl- tality of the French country folk, and if they cat and drink all that is being pressed upon them the medical sec- tion of the American Legion conven- tion will have its hands full before the visitors leave for home. Invitations to public receptions con- tinue to arrive at headquarters from cities and towns throughout the fength and breadth of France. Thus far, only one has been accepted by Adjutant James F. Barton, in charge of the arrangements for the forthcom- ing convention. It is one from the city of Rheims to a banquet on Sep- tember 25, Many of the Americans are in the | ch vy, Sain Mihiel and Ver | sectors, having gone there almost | immediately upon re 2, |landing at Cherbourg [have r uaintances with, and in ases introduced their general sightseeing in the National Capital. Navy Seeks Amphibian Fighting Plane; Opens Contest for Design for New Craft A design competition for an am- phibfan fighting plane, which would enable a pursuit pilot to land and take oft either on water or on a flying field, has been announced by the Navy Department and will expire midnight December 3. The competition calls for something new in the field of fighting aircraft. The Navy at present is using land fighting planes, similar to the Army pursuiut planes, for- service on the carriers, from which they take off and land on the fiying deck. Battleships and cruisers soon will be equipped with the new Boeing and Curtiss ship- board fighters, but these are fitted with pontoons. They are launched ship land on the water and are hoist- ed aboard. The carrier fighting plane is at a disadvantage if forced to go down into the sea with wheels. Invariably it means a partial or total “wash-out” of the plane. With a seaplane hull, how- ever, it could float on the surface like a seaplane and still embody the land- ing qualities of a land plane. The Loening amphibian observation plane is the only type in service to- day, but owing to its weight and size its maximum speed is held down to about 120 miles an hour. In drawing up plans for an amphibian fighting plane, the designers will be faced with the problem of retaining the present high speed and maneuverability of the single-seater fighting planes, while adding weight 'and “drag” to the by catapults and on returning to thelanding gear. SHERRILL IN HOSPITAL. Cincinnatt City Manager Suffers From Defective Teeth. ASHEVILLE, N, C., August 20 (®). —Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, city man- ager of Cincinnati, who came to Waynesville, N. C., last week to visit friends, was resting comfortably in Misston Hospltal here last night, where he went on the advice of phy sicians after the discovery of a toxic condition, caused by defective teeth, was causing him considerable trouble. Hospital authorities announced that he was making steady progress and that his condition is not regarded as serious, though he suffered consider- able pain from the removal of several teeth yesterday. Noted Surgeon Dies. ROANOKE, Va., August 20 (®).— Dr. § chief surgeon of the Norfolk & Western Raflroad and one of the most prominent medical | woman's other son, Joe, jr., 6, died in 4 local hospital an hour later, families to, the French families who sared for them during the wan - men of the State, died here last night &t 11:16 @'clock after & brief illneas, CAPT. DOLLAR INJURED. Head of Ship Firm Breaks Two Ribs in Fall. SAN FRANCISCO, August 20 (P).—Employes in the office of Capt. Robert Dollar, 83-year-old head of the Dollar Steamship Co., have learned that the veteran ship operator had fallen a few days ago at his home in San Rafael, near here, and had broken two ri The family doctor set the ribs, and Capt. Dollar continued his daily office work as usual. He said nothing of the accident to his office force until yesterday. . Financier Sent to Prison. LOS ANGELES, August 20 (P).— Jacob Goldstein, wealthy president of the Rothschild Mortgage & Finance Co., was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter in Superior Court yes- terday for the killing of his business partner, Frederick A. Stern, July 15. He was sentenced to serve from 1 to 10 years In San Quentin Penlten- varye . o ‘Washington Star Phot; NEW LAND POLICY SEEN AS FARM AID Agriculture Official Urges Constructive Program at Institute. By the Associated Press. WILLIAMSTOWN Mz August 20.—The adoption of a scientific con- structive land settlement program to relieve agricultural ills was urged to- day 'at the Institute of Politics by Nils A. Olsen, stant chief of the Bureau Economics, Depart- ment of Agriculture, in a discussion of land policies as they relate to farm prosperity. Much of the farmers' trouble has been due to Federal and State land policies which stimulated unwise ex- tension of agricultural production, he contended. He outlined a land policy designed to help place agriculture on stable, profitable basis, claiming such a policy should prevent the pres- ent great reserve of potential crop land from being brought into use so rapidly as to cause chronic surpluses from farm products. The outgrown homestead policy with its stimulus to land settlement should be abandoned, our reforestation policy should be expanded and a system of regulation applied to the uncontrolled open range of the West, ho asserted. Reclamation of swamp lands which cannot compete with lands now fin use, and Federal and State activity concerned with shaping public land policies should be co-ordinated, he maintained. G. V. Portus of the University of Australia declared the Australian farmer to be in the same straits as the American farmer. High tariff, high production costs, high land val- ues and a surplus which cannot be profitably sold in world markets pre- gent s agrioultural problem, MANHELDASAID IN ESCAPE OF TWO Mitiworker Accused of Pass- ing Guns to Pair in Pittsburgh Jail. By the Associated Press, PITTSBURGH, August 20.—Arrest of the man who detectives declared furnished the automatic pistols, with which Paul Jawarski and Jack Vas- binder shot their way from the Alle- gheny County Jail Thursday, today gave what authorities said was their first definite clue in the sensational prisos break of the two convicted slayers. The man, taken at Wheeling last night and brought to Pittsburgh to- day, has been identified by the prison bookkeeper, detectives asserted, as the one who handed the weapons through the bars. The man's name was established as Paul Wisnowski. At the county jail, the same one from which Jawarski and Vasbinder escaped, police said records showed he had served a 10- months sentence for violation of the prohibition law. It was a photograph taken at that time that the book- keeper was said to have identified. Detectives also said they had located a man who spoke to Wisnowski in the street in front of the jail on Thurs- day, 10 minutes before Jawarski and Vasbinder escaped. As soon as Wisnowskl was jailed here, the arresting officers went to bed, after having been engaged for many hours in a search for the miss- ing convicts, It was planned to ques- tion the suspect later. He declined to talk when arrested. Wisnowskl has a wife and family in_Steubenville, Ohio, detectives said, adding it was known the suspect had made a trip to Detroit, reported head- quarters of the Jawarski gang, last July. - CHURCH WORKER HELD ON BAD CHECK CHARGE Russell Strohm, Seeking Collections in California, to Fight Extradition to Ohio. By the Associated Press. WHITTIER, Calif, August 20.— Russell Strohm, who sald he was a fleld secretary for the United Brethren Church, s under arrest here today on Columbus, Ohio, charges of passing checks without sufficient funds. Deputy sherif who arrested Strohm in the Christian Church here, where he was discussing collections for its organization, said he was ac- cused of having given a check for $35,000 in payment for a residence here. The check was not honored by the Columbus, Ohio, bank upon which it was drawn. Strobm told officers he was the son of R. B. Strohm, presi- dent of the Farmers & Merchants’ National Bank of Columbus and had a power of attorney to draw on his father's account. He denied the charges against him and said he would fight extradition. N S, Ohio, August 20 (). — Officials of the United Brethren Church EXPEDITIONS FAL TO FIND EXPLORER Cave Rescue Crews Unable to Locate Geologist. Governor Aiding. By the Associated . SHELLMOUND, Tenn., August 20. —Eleven expeditions into Nick-a-Jack Cave had failed today to reveal any trace as to the fate of Lawrence Ashley, cave explorer and geologist, who enfered the cavern at 9 o'clock last Monday. hley, as far as can be ascertained, carried only scant pro- visions with him and was equipped with a limited supply of carbide to light the underground passages which he t out to explore. ar the bank of an underground stream which flows through the re- sses of the cavern one party of searchers found imprints which they believe were made by Ashley’s hands and knees, but there was no clue as to whether the explorer had slipped into the icy waters and had been swept or had merely crawled to the bank of the river in his ex- ploring work. In the meantime there was no ces- sation of the search. Farmers in the community have volunteered to pene- trate the uncharted passages and the State of Tennessee has also taken an active part in the quest. Gov. Austin Peay yesterday ordered Chief Mine Inspector O. P. Pile to report imme- diately at the cave with six picked members of the mine rescue crew from Rockwood. Mr. Pile was to as- sume charge of the work and or- ganize furthr rescue expeditions. J. D. Ashley, brother of the missing man, left his home, in Bloomington, IIl. yesterday to aid in the search. The geologist recently told friends here that he had discovered a nar- row entrance of dirt, loose rocks and shale formation leading to a much larger cavern than any part yet ex- plored. Traditlonal stories of the cave are that it was formerly occupied by vari- ous bands of Cherokee Indians and that there are “lost” entrances to the cavern in Georgia and Alabama as well as the Tennessee entrance. FREED IN ASSAULT CASE. Orchestra Leader Is Dismissed in Police Court. The charge of Thomas J. Gannon, leader of the Palace Theater Orchestra, which has been pending since July 18, was dis- missed by Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court Thursday fter the Avlef\'nwl.m( had withdrawn his plea for jury trial and stood t by the court. Gannon ~ admitted striking Harry Heimer, 7 years old, of 2602 Mozart place, after the hoy snapped a rubber band in the eye of his 4-vear-old daughter., Judge Mattingly ruled that the af- fair wa ustified and that it was making a mountain out of a mole hill Gannon had previously forfeited his bond and was brought in on an at- tachment. assault against Husband Under Bond. Chief Justice McCoy_ vesterday or- dered the release on $300 bond of Earl O. Keyser, who was arrested on a warrant arging non-support of here today sald Russell Strohm, held at Whittier, Calif.,, on a bad check charge, was not a fleld secretary of ko chureh ag far as they knew, I the petitioner, his wife in West Virginia. Hearing on the writ was set for September 15. At- torney E. Russel Kelly appeared for