Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1927, Page 3

b REPORT OF FINDING RAFT DISCOUNTED Message Reported Received by Amateur Doubted by Radio Experts. Br the Asso LOS ANGELES, cxperts today were count a report ma Alhambra, Calif.. he had picked t from an unnar mid-ocean a3 sumably been found ¢ companior Lero tain that t The messa ““Passer dead, man alive on life raf picked up raft, sank plane In his opinion roy sage came from within 1,000 miles of the Pacific Cc wd it entic i was being relayed from one ship t another at se Both the Feder the Radio Corpor: counted the repor company pointed ceived the me on meter wave length, where senger ships carrying radio have to 700 meter wave lengths Consequen the experts tained, it would have been for Leroy to have picked sage from a ship 1,000 mile at sea. No passenger ships, the ex perts commented, are known to be in the vicinity in which Leroy's mes- | sage would pl m. Leroy declared that ed up stations as Australia, and his acquain clared he had a_good repu radio ability and reliability. WOMEN SUPPORTING | CONSERVATION WORK Pennsylvania Club Buys 100-Acre | Forest and Plants 100,000 Trees. ie radio pre Mild had ed aft Doran, with wever, was cer- e m found 9:12 a.m sight.” said ERWINWON FAME FORVALORIN WAR Round - the - World Flyer Starts Trip on Tenth Anniversary as Pilot. I Telegraph Co. and America the Fe Leroy ind out that m: rossible up a w he far wtion for | l By the Associated Pre i YORK, Pa., August 20— only | in the home but in the woodlands | of their State, women have hecome interested in conserving resources. | A tract of 100 acres in forest land | on the Lincoln Highway has been | purchased by the Pennsylvania | Federation of Women's Clubs. It | will be dedicated and marked for | Myra Lloyd Dock, pioneer among women in American reforestation. This purchase, together with the 100,000 trees planted by the club- women of the State under the dire tion of Mrs. John B. Hamme of York, is part of the program of con- servation, forestr reforestation of the General Federation of Wom- en's Club: IOWA BANK BANDITS BELIEVED SURROUNDED Posse Claims Five Robbers Are | Hiding in Woods—Search Begins Today. By the Associated Press. ROWLEY, lowa, August five bandits who held up the Fa National Bank at Vinton, lowa day afternoon, are believed to be sur- rounded in a wood near Rowl dense growth is under heav and an attempt will be made to pene- trate it today, leaders of the posse say. The robbers told George Me cashier, to get behind the counter or they would “blow his head off,” and then compelled the assistant cashier and bookkeeper to open the reserve vault. A man who was passing_the bank was knocked down by one of the men, but apparently was not badly hurt. One of the quintet stood guard at the bank’s door. OPERA MOVES QUICKLY. BERLIN, Milhaud, French ) record for brevit during the recent “Modern Chamber Music F tival” at Baden-Baden. He produced an opera of eight nes, each of which went over the boards ir exactly one minute, Milhaud’s nearest Paul Hin ith of the most prominent man composers, whose opers took about 1172 minutes. German composers, Kurt We lin and Ernst Tc of Mannheim demonstrated the possibilities of opera by rendering works 19 and : minutes long. respectively a s | a new | competitor was | : of of younger Ger tic sketch WOMEN MAY BE SMARTER. ' NEW YORK, August 20 (P).—Are women smarter than men? I would undertake to convince a nearly anything, merely any times that it was ard de Voto, North- | in the Sep- | 80, answi western Un tember Harp “One dees not te h women in that | may be the de obstinacy | nd in e prepares o selt for intelligent op- | position i calied for oelock A M REP, ATRIN EORS: Peaches Ri AT ‘OU. INT AC —only 5 Siver Spring: turn A MILLION-DOLLAR l—‘-l-'zy’i-nzl‘m. S{f:: ;:( ped to bandls every x The National Capital Press 01212 D_ST_N.W ROOFING—by Koons Slag Roofing. airs. Root Parr iz Thoro! work al Call us up! | KOO BY cladly Rooting Con NEV APLOINT RON S, ADAMS PRINTING 119 3d St. S.W Muin 933, IN A HURRY ! High §rade. but not hixh ¢ €0 R BN the mes- | Two other | c | . Robbins of the Ohio | of Health | a live | t a hoax. | or more | > ., August 20.—Ran of America’s foremost air n the World War, Capt. William ewin, pilot of the Dallas Spirit, undertook @ round-the-world flight from Dallas August 10 to round out a decade of flying. He wore the Distinguished Service Cross, won in the war for obtaining valuable information under fire and “strafing” machine gun nests to pro- tect American troops. Bight enemy planes were brought down by the voung officer—he is now 31—and he himself was shot down in his flying machine several times. Abandoned Music Career. m at Ryan, Okla., Erwin was educated to be a musician, but when war was declared he abandoned a tour of the country with a composer of religious songs and went to Fort Lo- gan H. Root, Little Rock, to become an aviator. His training was com- pleted overseas and he became a pilot in_September, 1917. In his flight toward Honolulu in the Dalias Spirit, Capt. Erwin took a zig- P to look for the missing Doran and Golden Eagle. vering the first leg of a ht from Dallas to Hong- kong for a § ze offered for him alone by William sasterwood, jr., Dallas capitalist who announced the offer t: side show ified Capt. < ay th he took off yester day, the prize would be withdrawn. Lost $25,000 Award. pt. Erwin was offered the sepa- e prize after his automatic disquali- fication for the original $25,000 prize Da s-to-Hongkong flight because (lf’ a ed landing at Beaumont, Calif., while flving from Dallas to Oakland. Rules of the National Aeronautical Association regulate this flight and | ops are provided only at Oakland, Honolulu and Tokio, the same as Capt. Erwin had planned. Capt. Erwin entered the Dole prize flight to Honolulu as a part of his flight around the world, but was Bo | forced back to Oakland with a ripped fuselage. His ar-old bride had | planned to accompany him, but was| barred b ations providing no one under 21 STATES BAR CHILDREN IN PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC| Residents of Ohio and West Vir-| ginia Under 15 Forbidden to Cross Line. By the Associated Press. WHEELING, W. Va., August 20.— As a means of checking the spread of an epidemic of infantile paralysis, health authorities of West Virgini: and Ohio eed to forbid children 5 of age to cross the State line. Chiidren traveling with motor tou pm States other than Ohio and West Virginia were ex- cepted from the order. ate police were stationed at connecting Ohio and Marshall West Virginia, with points in nforce the quarantine, which blished by Dr. W. T. Hen- st Virginia health comm after a conference with Dr. State Board and other health authori ties. Dr. Henshaw came to Wheeling for survey of th tuation after city alth ities had quarantined 12 house: to combat the epidemic, which has also appeared in other rearby Ohio river towns. One death n Wheeling and one in_Martins Ferry have been attributed to the epidemic. THAYER’S HOME CITY TAKES PRECAUTIONS Special Guards Placed at Strategic Points Throughout Wor- cester, Mass. By the Assoc WORCESTI sted Prese , Mass., m s August 20— es taken by throughout the to prevent disturbances and life and property following of the Massachusetts rejecting the appe: etti extended to y of Judge police authori country r Thayer 4 of Police ( e H. Hill placed fixed posts throughout the Approximately 40 men were en- in this speclal duty. Public gs and bridges were objects of 1ttention of the patrolmen as- izned to this special guard duty. guard was continued at Thayer, who pr mous trial. A guard wa he home of Chie the Mass the ded of “husetts | VETERAN OARSMAN DIES. in Many American Events. SA TOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Au- ust 20 (P).—James H. Riley, 82, vet- n oarsman and one of the survi rs of e in America, d here last n survivor of the days Plaisted and articipant in rowing races in America ago. A vie- tory over Ned Hanlon was one of his achievements. | Ten J | many ©) Phone M. 650 | James H. Riley, 82, Participated lafter Iid l Tl corn THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. SATURDAY. _— e — s e BELIEVED FORCED DOWN IN SEARCH FOR MISSING DOLE PLANES Capt. William Erwin (lower left), and A. Jl. ll‘)k':l\\'nlth (lower right), and to the las their plane, Dallas Spirit, who, ac from them were in serious trouble while Doran and the Golden Eagle. con ADEQUATE RADID - ONPLANES URGED ;Equipment for Sending Mes- | sages After Landing Advo- cated by Experts. | By the Associated Press, SAN FRANCISCO, August 20— | Radical changes in airplane radio in | stallations o as to make it possible | for planes at sea to send and receive | messages after they have been forced {u-mn were advocated by experts here | today. |""The radio operator on a well | equipped plane depends on an elec- { trical generator which gets its pro- | pelling power from a steel fan attached !to the wings and not a part of the | engine. As soon as the plane puts down to sea the radio power supply is cut off. If the power generator could be attached the the crankshaft of the plane motor, messages could be sent after the plane was down, providing the engine is kept in motion, it was | pointed out. B. H. Linden, supervisor of r rting United States dio in this district, sts a different remedy. He feels t steps should be taken to force nes to be properly equipped with It is pointed out that if all entrants in the Dole race had carried radio | sending and receiving equipment as did Art Goebel, the winner, the results today might have been different. It nht have placed Goebel in second | place, for Martin Jensen. without a radio, was four hours off his cours lost. Had he used a radio and ob- ined the radio beacon signals, as did_Goebel, he would have heen able to keep closer to his course and with his speedier plane would have won | the race As for the missing Miss Doran, which rried no radio, its occupants would ave been able to signal their positions as they went out of the air and would have given rescuers a target at which to_shoot. Jack Frost, who plloted the Golden Eagle, refused to take a radio sending set on account of its welght. He pre- ferred to rely on a receiving set to ob- tain radio signals and disregard the message received mbing the Pacific for the Miss FLARE SEEN AT S& BUT NO TRACE FOUND OF LOST AIRPLANES (Continued_fr rched nearly all Haw ers without finding the s trace of the Miss Doran and the . Dole race entrants, three days rdue in Honoluly either wrecked or helpless. Submarines have investigated the rd side of all the islands except while seaplanes have rounded nd most of Maui and Molokai. Submarines also searched the waters between the islands of Maui, Hawaii hoolawe. canwhile other naval v s are hing from San Francisco and the destrovers Sunnadin and Pelican are covering fixed courses at s Maui. The Sunnadin and been out since Wednesday night, the day following the departure of the two sing planes from Oaklanid The Associated Press rey aboard the Sunnadin reported seas off Makapuu Point, Island Oahu, at midnight of W which caused naval authorities to ex press doubt as to the ability of airplane to survive on the surfa the water in such weathe At 9 o'clock Thu Sunnadin_reported h flare in the north din and the Pelic found nothing. B lican have ntative high of v night ing sighted a 30th the Sunna ated but Crop of Rumors Smaller. The rumor crop Friday was much smaller than on Thursday, princip because of the reaction lo publication in the Honolulu Advert of the erroneous report that the Mi Doran, piloted by Pedlar and navi- gated by Lieut. Knope, with Miss Doran as passenger, had been found and those aboard rescued. Residents on all the islands, ever, continued to watch the se 3 and some reports were received terious” floating object of the people has bec strained, however, and they are seem- ingly unwilling to guess at anything being an airplane unless it is pretty well proved not to be anything else. Rewards for the recovery of the lost flyers now total $40,000, half from James Dole, sponsor of the Oakland- Honolulu flight; $10,000 from William K. Malloska of Flint, Mich., of the Miss nd $10.000 from the San aminer, whose plane, the Golden Eagle, is one of the missing. The successful flyers ir contest were entertained by the Engincers’ A which Art Goebel, pilot of the Wool- aroc, winner _of the flight, declured flights from $an Francisco to Hawaii can be made with perfect vided proper preparations Those_present the meetin for a half minute in silent pra the safety of the Doran and the Go Believes Plane Nearer Mainland. Martin Jensen, pilot of the second place plane, Aloha, expressed opinion t t Pedlan, in the Mi: Doran, probably v between 600 and 800 miles from San Francisco, basing his belief on his remembrance of Pedlar's previous mechanical » with the ninth cylinder of his which never had_functioned properly. Jensen said Pedlar and the others could float their lifeboats for 10 day sen’s average speed during his in which his average altitude s for the most part between 10 and ) feet, was 95 miles an hour. The first land Jensen saw was the north coast of the Island of Oahu, from wh he shot over the mountains into the “back door” of Wheeler Field. In response to rumors of a fous floating object” having bee drifting vesterday between Black Point and Diamond Head, on the hern side of the Island of Oahu, ithorities turned their Dole t night ciation, at the e n Head saw nothi anned the waters and POLICE RAIB BUFFET. Rosenthal Held After Police Seize Liquor Supply. The City Club Buffet, a_ near-heer establishment at 1103 Twentieth street, reported by the police to be conducted by Louis Rosenthal, was visited yes- terday afternoon by Sergt. George Little and the dry squad, the raiders reaching there, it is ch enthal had accep n in civilian attir from a policeman in pint of liquor. Following a_path leading to a va- ant store, police reported 14 jars of liquor we .d. Rosenthal did not nim the Four separate ¢ one of possession were filed against Rosenthal, and he furnished bond in the sum of $2,000 for his appearance in Police Court, The purple raspherry s a cross be tween the ted and black raspberries. inesday, | the | e sponsor | secupants of the Miss | the | for a | le and | | DISEASE DIAGNOSED ' FROM DROP OF BLOOD | French Physicians Declare Serum Patterns Indicate nd without doubt | po ne Associated Pre PAR possibl by ex: from t per wh French | | ris and | trifu 1 north of | and evaporated by uniform h of 4 Douris can te | norma | ing th cise o tern is to arch and nosis ¢ Trade The | nounce | month = tion in char; must p ties. The nume their the Ur | I araed prices | of the { 2 unifc | to this noon ¢ this mg The Janei | sti Ro Tr Such A drop of r according to the nature of the from which the y permitting, they belie ing prices transportation charges to ihe Io | suming point. Grounded Steamer Floated. NOR 1000Hotel l Positions Open/ | School open | LEWIS HOTEL TRAINING SCHOOLS Pennsylvania Ave. at 23d Street || Phillips Terrace Apartments WILLIAM S. PHILLIPS & safety offered by being able to broad- cast the position of his plane in dan- ger. The added weight of a sending |set might have meant the difference between winning and losing the race. | Under the Linden plan, two de- | stroyers might be placed between San ancisco and Honolulu, in an event like the Dole race, and the vessels as well as shore sending stations could Nature broadeast a characteristic signal that a plane might follow and steer into. Linden feels that short wave, lengths are desirable for planes on account of the low power used, together with the d given by all commerclal and ama- | feur outfits listening in. These offer | the possibility of following a plane's position half the distance from San Francisco to Honolulu. Honolulu | |could then pick up the signals after | half the distance was passed. GERMAN OVERSEA PLANE COMPLETES FINAL TESTS Lieut. Koennecke Lifts Ship With Load to Be Carried Over Atlantic. By the Associated Press. COLOGNE, Germany, August 20 | Lieut. Otto Koennecke this morning completed the weight test flights of his Caspar biplane Germania, taking off easily with a full load of almost 900 kilograms of fuel, such as he in- |tends to carry on his transatlantic tlight. Joseph Wall, radio operator at the Cologne airdrome, was ordered to go up with Koennecke and Count Solms- Laubach later in the forenoon for a tryout. Wall underwent a thorough medical examination yesterday and was pro- nounced physicaly fit. If today's test proves his technical fitness, he wiil ccompany Koennecke on the trans- atlantic hop. Count “Solms-Laubach, financial hacker of the flight, had hoped to go, but withdrew when it was indlcated that Koennecke should be accompa- pert radio man. of Illness. 1S, August is said to be | e to diagnose certain di ses iminir drop of blood serum b patient. s the contention of Dr 1 Mondain, as set forth in a pa- ich Prof. d’Arsonval read to the h Academy of erum from which the red s have been removed by cen- ‘tion is placed upon a glass pplication weat of 40 degrees Centigrade, wses different patterns to ap- m_ these patterns that Drs. nd Mondain believe that they the nature of the disease tient Is suffering. A an image recall section of a lemon. 1In the cancerous subject the pat- ular, leading the discover- aw a parallel with the cellular which characterizes cancer, e, the diag: a cancerous state before the 1 serum gives { a v ot Body to Probe Rate-Fixing orl Commodities. 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August 20 (®).— Too mueh speed in making prepa tions and lack of adequate test be blamed, in the opinion of Flovd Bennett of the Byrd North Pole flight, for the failure of two of the Dole| flight planes to reach their destina tion and for the crashes which attend ed the taking off of others “Many of the entrants in the Dole ce were not standard planes,” Ber “All of them had to be re nd many that tried to enter we would have clissed It is no surprise to me 1 that many of them « unable to start or crashed bef race.” | 'EICHWALDT STARTED | ON SEA CAREER AT 15, Erwin Navigator Has Spent 12 | Years on Ocean Study- | ing Courses. By the Assoc SAN FRA August Alvin H. Eichwaldt, 27-year-old navi gator steer the Dallas Spirit over the Pacific from Oakland, Calif., to Honolulu with Wil- | llam P. ¥rwin, went to sea when he was 15 years old and followed the sea up to the time he climbed into the fuselage of the Erwin monoplan chwaldt’s home is in Hayward, Calif., where he has lived with his mother, Mrs. Florence Delanoy Eich waldt, | During the World War Eichwaldt ed eight months in the Navy with mine layers-in foreign waters. When ne left the service he held the rank of quartermaster | After the war 20, selected to a sichwaldt _continued following the sea and held a first | mate’s license when he entered the | Dole race, only to be prevented from | participating in the event by a mis- | hap to Dallas Spirit. DORANS SEND SYMPATHY. | Girl Flyer's Family Wires Mother of Lost Pilot. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., August 20 ().— A message of sympathy from the Doran family of Flint, Mich., has been received by Mrs. Frank Pediar Joy of Miami, Fla., mother of Auggy Pedlar, pilot of the biplane Miss Dd the Pacific with its crew, M Doran and Vilas Knope. “We are still hoping for good news. | Please accept ou y in these hours of anxiety,” read the messag: (Signed.) “THE DORAN FAMIL Mrs. Joy, visiting relatives here, was forced to keép to bed, for she is worn out with anxiety over the fate of her son. Man Held on Check Charge Ac- cused of Slaying. BUTTE, Mont., Harry J. Carter, who with his | pretty girl wife, a self-styled artists’| model, is charged with passing worth less checks in many the United States, is wanted in Hunt- | ington, Quebee, for: the murder of | Adelard Bouchard, a taxicab driver, in July, according to word received | here from Canadian authorities. 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