Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1927, Page 3

" TWO PILOTS FITTED FOR GLOBE FLIGHT Schiee Earned Millions Few Years—Brock Has 15-Year Record in Air. in Snacial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, August ¥. Schlee, backer and co-pilot of the round-the-world flight of the Stin- son-Detroiter monoplane Pride of Detroit and his pilot, William S. Brock, are fitted by temperament and training for their difficult expedition. Schlee is called a millionaire by | those who know him best, and he has | made his money in the ast five vears by his own efforts, Brock has 0 hours to his credit as a pilot and has been flying since he was 16 years old. le is now 31 and Schlee is eight ve: older. The pilot is known all ove the West for his resourcefulness all emergencies, his daring as stunt flyer, and his dependability as an § 1 pilot. Schlee, Tequally daring, has made h's fortune by looking ahead, gaus- ingg accurately the future in the com al world and acting according “Six years ago he started a gaso- line station in Detroit. Today he| has more than a hundred such sta- tions and o train of 50 trucks keep them in supplies. He is pre: dent of the Wayco Oil Corporation. the Wayco Products Corporation, | the Wayco Oil Service, Inc.. and the Wayco Land Co. The other officers of these companies are three brothers, J. B. H. S. Schlee. Parents Were Iumigrants. Born in Detroit of German immi- grant parents, Schlee received his early education in the public schools of that city and in 1912 entered Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. After completing the fresh- man vear he returned to Detroit. | married Miss Leah Livingston and went to work instead of going back e college. 1 enlce found employment first with the Cadillac Automobile Co.. and in 1919 he transforred his services to the Ford organization. where he worked ¢ engineer for three years. he established his first zasoline station, and the iness farived largely hecause he “picked his corners right.” Three vears ago he obtained uptions on some oil land n Michigan, and the Wayco Fuel Co. now has several producing wells. | Nearly two years ago Schlee decided | 1o buy a plane partly for pleasure and partly because, he says now, “he had a hunch that it would be good | business.” He learned to fly, alihough he says he is not a good pilot, and after’ using his own plane for several months for both business and recreation he or- ganized the Wayco Flying Service, Inc.. an air taxi service. He bought three Stinson biplanes and engaged William S. Brock as chief pilot and manager. Took Doctor to Explosion. Brock, an enthusiastic flyer, ac- cepted every commission that came his way and went out for more. Once in the night a call came from a doctor in Pontiac. Mich. There had been an explosion at Bath and the doc- tor wanted a plane for himself, med- ical supplies and two nurses. Brock took off in the night, found a landing field with out lights and carried the physician, his nurses and supplies to the scene of the explosion. When Mrs. Coolidge, at the Summer White House in the Black Hills lost her pet collie this Summer she ac- cepted another collie as a gift. The donor wanted the dog taken to Mrs. Coolidge as quickly as possible. Brock heard of it, offered his services and a plane and was accepted. He then flew from Detroit to the Black Hills and delivered the puppy te Mrs. Coolidge. It was on one of these air taxi trips that he and Schlee decided finally to attempt the flight around the world. On June 16 they were transporting 11 Kiwanians to the convention in Memphis. Their route took them over the straits of Mackinaw and Saginaw Bay. While flying over the water Brock suggested that it was “something like flying over the ocean’ and told Schlee how he had worked out a course that seemed practical for a flight around the world. The busl- ness man listened and thought of ways an? means. The two talked it over azain the next day and within a week v had decided to try it. 1 knew that Bill with his experi- ence was the man for the job,” the backer said and then told something of his pilot's career. Started Flying at 16. Brock was born at Gladstone, Ohio, and moved to Springfield, Ohio, while he was a schoolboy. There he at- tended the Wittenberg Academy, but when he was 16 he decided to strike out_for himself. He had not told his family that the feats of Lincoln Beachy and_other famous pilots of SPECIAL NOTICE. ROOF “REPAIRING. 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Breaking that record is oniy incidental to the main purpose of this flight, which is (o demonstrate, dramatically perhaps, but definitely, how practical and serv- iceable travel by air is today Last May. with the halp of my brothers and Bill here, I started an air taxi service, the Wayco Air Service, in Detroit. In the few months that it has been under operation it has heen so successful that it astonished me, and its success has confirmed me in the belief that travel by air is coming faster even than most flyers believe. ver since I hought my first plane, more than a year ago, and before that when the Army flyers went'| round the world, the thought that soon a single plane might make the <ame trip has fascinated me. The more 1 thought it over, the more I felt that such a flight, broken up into veraging a little more than each. would do morve to sell to the people of the world ¢ other single achievement. "HLEE. Record Hops Arouse Interest. t ‘May Lindbergh hopped to Then Chamberlin. in another single-motored plane, flew to Ger- many, breaking Lindbergh’s distance record. Next Maitland and Hegen- berger flew to Hawaii, and then Comdr. Byrd and his crew flew to France. The public enthusiasm and interest In the feats convinced me that the time was ripe for the world hop; that it could be done by the right men and the right plane with the right engine. 1 know that many wise and experi- enced airmen do not believe that the long ocean jumps should be attempt- ed with a single motor, and they may be right. But I believe, and asain Bill agrees with me, that our flizht can accomplish more toward helping people to become “air minded” if we use a small plane and one engine. Of all the persons in the world who would like to own and operate a plane. or a couple of passenger comparatively few can afford v big expensive multimotored jobs., To get our idea across we felt, that the small passenger plane was the ship for us. 1 don’t know that I have made my- self clear, but perhapd as we go along working out our purposes words will come to me that will explain better what T am after. 1 want to say one thing more. In Detroit and at Curtiss Field, Long Island, we met scores of men who seemed to catch the purpose of our trip and who helped us get ready in every way possible. Up here every- body has been most helpful. Newfoundland Needs Air Service. These folks up here in Newfound- land know by experience what isola- tion means. Aviation to them is more than just spectacular stunts. Suc- cessful air-transport in this great country, with all its resources, its fisheries and forests and it hardy, i dustrious people, will bring a develop- ment and a growth and wealth that cannot be estimated. We wanted to make our start from Detroit, but since we got here both Bill and I are glad we chose Harbor Grace, and we are already looking forward to the date—less than 28 days off, we hope—when he will again come down out of the sky and greet our new friends here. A word about the trip itself. It seems difficult enough when you look ahead of it. but so does everything else man has to meet, and as Bill says, we don't have to do it all at once. (Copyright. 1927 in the United States. Canada. _ Mexico. Cuba. South America, Japan, Europe and the British Empire by the New Times Co. All rights re- served.) —eee that day had decided him to become a flyer. He went to ItHaca, N. Y., where he found employment with the Thomas Aircraft Co., for which he agreed to work for 76 consecutive weeks at $7 York AIM OF GLOBE FLIGHT EFFORT IHope to Demonstrate Practicability . of Air Travel, Backer Writes—First ‘Vorry Over. Pilot Says. BY WILLIAM Special Dispatch to The HARBOR GRACE. Newfoundland. August 27.—I have looked over what Mr. Schlee has said about the purpose of our flight, and I find that he hasn't left very much for me to talk about, especia at this stage, with the whole trip ahead of u In spite of the fact that I know I am repeating some of his stuff—though when we talked it over it was as much mine as his—I want to go on the recor with a word of praise for these Newfoundlanders. When we came down here at the end of our trip from Old Orchard, we found a runway that Detroit, New York or any other big American city would be proud to own. The New- foundland government, 1 understand, put up a great deal of money and busi- ness men of Harbor Grace did almost all the rest of it. Already Accomplished Something. If our attempt should go no farther than Harbor Grace, 1 would feel that we had accomplished something worth while coming here. The provincial government and the city authorities are doing everything in the world to give us a good send-off, and I venture to declare that any aviators flying up this way from the States will get a welcome and service that won't be surpassed in any other town in North America. The ship was fine, as we knew it would be, on the trip up, and the en gine performed right up to expecta- tions, as it has always done. We are taking more gas than we really need, but the ship can carry it, and it will give us a margin of safety that is pretty nice to have. * Biggest Worry Is Over. 1 had no idea that we would find the facilities that were ready for us. That runway tickles me. These Newfound- land folks have had 50 or 60 men at work for weeks getting it ready, and it sure is ready. They told me that a local police officer made 80 miles an hour on it with his motor cycle after it was finished. 1 don’t believe that runway at Roosevelt Field is any longer or better prepared. ; That is the way with expeditions like ours. One of my biggest worries was this business of taking off here, and now that s over. As Ed says, you don’t have to do but one thing at a time, and that is the way that we are going to put this trip over. “Just one hop at a time,” and then another one and then another. (Copyright. 1927. in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Ci South America, Japan. Europe and the Empire by the W York Times Co. All rights reserved.) o ITALIAN AERONAUT T0 FLY OVER ARCTIC Secrecy Surrounds Projected Trip to Be Undertaken by Gen. Nobile. BROCK. By the Associated Pres ROME, August 27.—Although the greatest reserve is maintained by the ministry of aeronautics regarding a propected flight by Gen. Umberto Nobile over new Polar regions, be- cause Premler Mussolini has not yet approved plans for the projected flight, the Milan Tribuna maintains that the flight will be over the region between the North Pole and Alaska. The flight, the Tribuna maintains, will be made in a_dirigible like the Norge, which Gen. Nobile piloted over the North Pole in 1926. Such a ship, the Tribuna says, is now ready in Ciampino hangar. The flight will be made for the purpose of gathering scientific data. the Tribuna says. Plans for the flight, the paper says, are being worked out under auspices of the Italian Royal Geographical Society as well as the City of Milan. It is believed that the dirigible N-4, now in the Ciampino hangar, may be the airship Gen. Nobile will use as, according to the Tribuna, the N-4 has already been altered according to plans worked out by Gep. Nobile for a venture of this kind. AIR EXPRESS PLANES a week plus flying lessons. In three months this 16-year-old boy was assistant instructor, and four months later he was chief test pilot for the Thomas Co., which at that time was_turning out the Thomas Pusher. In those days the student took his first flight sitting on the wing directly behind the pilot, who oc- cupied a saddlelike seat out in front of his plane. A fuselage then was mostly a name. Brock left the Thomas organization in the Spring of 1916 and started with his own plane, a Thomas Pusher, in exhibition work. His first contract took him back to Springfleld, Ohlo, to the county fair, where the whole country turned out to see “Billy go up in a flying machine.” He has done many daring stunts in the air since then, but he never expects to have a greater thrill than he did that day at Springfield 11 years ago, when he showed the home folk that he was actually a flyer. Instructor During War. In 1917, when the war started, he went into the service as an instruc- tor. He was commissioned a lieuten- ant, and, like many other able and ex- perienced pilots, was kept in this country to show others how to fly. At the close of the war he returned to exhibition work and teamed with ey Ringle on a tour of the West, in which Ringle climbed from another {plane to Brock’s and vice versa as one of his stunts. Following that ex- perience he jolned forces with Lillian Boyer, the girl stunt flyer whose specialty is to climb a rope ladder to a flying plane from an automobile racing at 60 or more miles an hour. Two years ago Brock entered the contract air mail service, flylng reg- ularly in all kinds of weather between . Paul and Chicago. He was mar- ed three years ago to Miss Dolly Spiker of Milwaukee. They have no children. —_— Nearly 11,000 new buildings have gone up in Sydney, New South Wale,s {in the past year. lGlobe Flyers Expect Until Plane Returns to Starting Point By the Associated Press. SW YORK, August 27.—For the t two weeks or so neither food nor ecp is going to play any great part in the lives of Edward ¥. Schlee and Willlam 8. Brock, who took off today from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, on their attempt 1o establish . naw speed record in round-the-world travel. til their plane returns its start- point they are goin: to eat and sleep “on th: fly,” according to Rich- |ard Blythe, press representative of the Wright Aeronautical rporation, which built the motor in the Pride of Detroit. While the plane was still at Curtiss Field before leaving for Harbor Grace two days ago Brock ridiculed the idea that the long hours and hasty meals n WILL FLY UNARMED Loads Wortlr $250,000 Safe in Air, but Landing Fields Will Be Watched. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 27.—With inauguration on September 1 of a countrywide air express service, civi- lization moves another step away from the swashbuckling days of Jesse James. The air express is to go unarmed. R. E. M. Cowie, president of the American Railway Express Co., re- vealed this today when asked about the potential value of an airplane ex- press load. The value of any one package sent by air is limited to $5,000. But he readily acknowledged that 20 or even 50 such packages might very possibly be shipped on one plane. ‘The aggregate of such a load would be one which the masked gentry of a wilder day would have considered it well worth their time to hold up a train for. “But there aren’t any aerial hold-up men yet,” Cowie said, “so the air ex- press load will merely be in charge of the regular pilot. No express com- pany guard, even an unarmed one, will ride the planes, “The only danger of a hold-up of the air express, as we vision it now. would be at the landing flelds, and those, of course, are heavily guarded.” —_— 22 Accused of Ball Gambling. ATLANTA, August 27 (#).—A squad of detectives descended on the bleachers at Spiller Park here today during the Mobile-Atlanta baseball game and arrested 22 men for alleged betting and “making books” on vari- 8 phases of the play. Money was changing hands In large amounts, the officers sald. The men were held on disorderly conduct charges. to Get Little Sleep ahead of him and Schiee might wear them down. “Say, didn’t you ever hear of Edi- son?" he asked.” “If we get five hours’ sleep a night we'll be satisfied. -We'll get our food where we can get it. Maybe won’t know all the lan- guages where we stop, but we know the motions and the gestures.” To assure one of them some sleep while the other is piloting the two men rigged up a bunk by laying a single thickness of f2It across a great square gasoline tank in the fuselage. “Schlee and I will stretch out on that when we feel we need a bit of sleep,” Brock said. “It isn't bad. At least not for me, because I'm small. The first time Schlee got into it he thought he'd have to learn to be a contestionist.” DAY STAR, WASHINGTON, FLYERS' MEMORIAL PLANNED ON SHIP Search for Dole Contenders Continues as Ocean Serv- ices Are Arranged. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 2 tragic aftermath of the Dole air from California to Hawaii was flected in vivid contrast today by the naval search for the seven missing fyers and the planning of their me- morial services here. Naval officlals were fulfilling their program to continue the search until “every hope is exhausted.” The light cruiser Omaha and six destroyers plowed slowly along the great circle toward Ha canning the remaining bit of uncovered ary They were expected to arrive at Pearl Harbor Monday. refuel znd return to San Diego, Calif., still searching. Submarines stationed at Pearl Har- bor, accompanied by their tenders, were skirting the shores of the ismand group. They were expected to be through soon. While these efforts were exerted to cover every chance of a rescue, plans formulated in San Francisco for a memorial service at sea aboard the liner Maui, September 16, gained mo- mentum. Mayor James Rolph, jr., of San Francisco, announced he would appoint a_committee on Monday to represent the city in carrying through the arrangements. re- Calif., said he would issue a procl tion calling on IEast San Franc Bay citizens to support memor plans. ‘As a result of this civic approval the decks of the Maui are expected to be deeply banked with flowers sent by hundreds of persons who admired the daring of Miss Mildred Doran and her six airmen companions. o WOMAN FINDS PLANE IS SAFER THAN AUTO Ruth Elder Prepares for Test of Machine Before Trying Ocean Trip. By the Associated Prass. WHEELING, W. Va It is safer in the air automobile, because the airplane ha unlimited space in which to ma- neuver, in the opinion of Miss Ruth Elder, 22 years old, Lakeland, Fla., aviatrix, who is preparing for a non- stop flight from New York to Paris. The young woman, backed by Wheel- ing business men in the transatlantic flight, will be accompanied by George W. Haldeman, as navigator. They plan to hop off late next month. “It wasn't hard to learn flying a plane.” said the young woman. “J never have felt afraid. It is really far safer up there in the air than it is riding in an automobile. There's lots more room.” Confident that she will reach her goal on the other side of the Atlantic, Miss Elder's only worry is competi- tion, for, as she says, “it would break my heart if some other woman got there before Iglid.” Miss Elder became interested in flying while visiting in South Amer- jca two years ago. When her fam- ily moved from Anniston, Ala., her birthplace, to Lakeland, she decided to try her hand at operating an air- plane, and soon she was qualified as a pilot. “Of course I'm very anxious to make the flight to Paris,” said Miss Elder, shortly before she left Wheel- ing for Detroit to make trial flights in her transatlantic Stinson-Detroiter monoplane. I feel very confident that I shall be able to do it. ‘We expect to take the ship route when we cross, and we certainly intend to await favorable weather conditions.” .. CANADIAN FLYERS PLAN TO START TOMORROW Wood and Schiller Complete Tests for Windsor-to-Windsor Atlantic Flight. By the Assoctated Press. WINDSOR, Ontario, August 27 Phil Wood and “Duke” Schiller, nvia: tors, who plan to fly from Windsor, Ontario, to Windsor, England, landed at Walker Field, near here, at 1:07 o'clock this afternoon, following their trip from Curtis Field, N. Y., where their plane’s instruments were tested for theiy transatlantic flight. Wood and Schiller on lahding stated that the plane was in good condition and that they would start their flight some time tomorrow, weather permit- ting. Tests of the plane’s navigation instruments proved satisfactory. Schil- ler, the pilot, declared, and the motor worked perfectly on the flight to New York and return. Immediately upon arrival at the fly- ing fleld mechanics began to put in final work on the Royal Windsor, the Stinson-Detroiter monoplane in which the fiyers will attempt to span the n. , August 27 than in an TAKE-OFF ANY MORNING. Tully and Medcalf May Start Their Flight Tomorrow. LONDON, Ontarlo, August 27 (). —Present plans of Tully and Medcalf, crew of the transoceanic plane Sir John Carling, call for a_take-off any morning at 5 o'clock, following word from Toronto as to suitable weather. It is not expected that the flight will commence on Sunday, but Mon- day is regarded as lkel We Want Houses and Apartments to Rent List your vacant proper- ties with us; we advertise and remit rents same day collected. Stone & Fairfax 804 17th St. N.W. OVER FORTY YEARS OF REAL SERVICE 05 METAL Tin Roofs—Concreting Roofs Painted—Gutter & Spant We Remodel. Rebuild Repal ) QTONEBRAKE or John L. Davie of Oakland, | AUGUST 28, 1npiel 1 27 —PART 1. GIANT SIKORSKY PLANE IS DU HERE TODAY INBRAND-NEW ROLE Queer Missions and Stunts of Flying Shir Are Recalled as Machine Shoves Off for Capital—Welcome Planned. The “giant Sikor: is coming to town in another disguise! Several years ago, this twin-engi cabin biplane, built by Igor r's n an old hangar at Roosevelt Y.. with funds contributed by e: sian noblemen, who were performing various tasks in New York in un ef: fort to scrape up a living, flew dow to Washington with a piano aboard as stunt No. 1. : It appeared for a time that the “giant Sikorsky” would embark upon an honerable career of carrying pianos for a living. But no more came to ned v cerned. Other Queer Missions. Then one day it descended on Bolling Field in an naugural flight over an airline from New York to Yorktown, Va.. and was christened the “York town” with a bottle of pop, took off and was never heard from again in that capacity. With the elapse of more months, it lit at Bolling Field again, all painted up with the word “Macey’s,” and the inference went out that it was to be a_sort_of messenger hoy hetween the ew York Macey's and the Atlanta nch of the store. It carried a load of silk stockings, lingerie and othet things, and while circling over the city. “lost™ an engine. But the aero dynamic qualities of the ship enabled it to get to the field without a crash, the engine trouble was repaired and the next morning it took off for At- lanta. That was the last time it came through here in any capacity. Now the word has gone abroad that “the flying cigar store, the giant sikorsky alrplane,” will arrive at d at 11:30 o'cloc tomor: row morning, bringing with it a bronze tables mmemot ing the ar- city of the “first flying st what the city will do with the tablet has not been learned. sky” s making this about the countryside under auspices of the United Cigar Stores 0 Welcome Is Planned. Efforts were being made last night get bathing beauti Army and Navy officials, Will Roge and other prominent folk out to welcome the old girl. REDFERN FEARED DOWN IN STORM; IS OVERDUE, WITH FUEL EXHAUSTED (Continued from_Fivst _Page.) would land in Rio. Iowever, she realized that his gasoline supply was exhausted and that he was not in the air. Then her attitude changed, and tonight she was worried and dis- tressed, but still hopeful that the morrow would bring good news. Forced Landing Feared. Fear that Redfern has been blown off his course and forced down on the northern coast of South America or some of the islands near Trinidad expressed late today by Paul Varner, chairman of the flight com- mittee. “In view of the fact that we have no definite reports since he left here Thursday afternoon, I feel that it he has not landed at either Para, Per- nambuco, or Rio, he has been blown off his course and forced down some- where on the coast of northern South America or some of the islands near Trinldad,” Mr. Varner said. “At 4:30 o'clock this afternoon it is certain Redfern no longer is in the air. His gasoline supply of 518 gal- lons positively would not last longer than 51 hours and 45 minutes, and as this number of hours has now elapsed, we have no hopes of him reaching Rio de Janeiro if he already has not done so. “If he was forced down in the water there can be no question but that his plane is afloat, as he would have am- ple time to drop gasoline remaining in his tanks into the water before alight- ing. The tanks are so built that the plane can be kept afloat until it goes to pieces. Redfern then has his rub- ber life raft and food for 10 days. Flyer Carries Parachute. “In the event he was forced down over land he naturally would have used his parachute, but in falling over water he undoubtedly would remain with the plane until it hit. “We still hp* ¢ hopes that some in- formation come to us tonight. ‘‘Mrs. Reffern still is very anxiously and pallz‘}ly awaiting news, and, while mué./ worried, is still confident that her husband is safe somewhere." Faith was maintained that Redfern had landed safely ‘“somewhere in Brazil.” but absence of any definite word caused apprehension to mount despite the general feeling that no harm had come to the smiling young aviator who climbed into the cockpit Thursday with the dramatic remark, “God willing, 1 am going to Rio. Had everything gone well and Red- fern’s minimum schedule been main- tained he would have arrived over Rio de Janeiro about 2:46 o'clock. Eastern standard time, this afternoon, But the monoplane had not appeared and dispatches from other Brazilian cities stated that watchers had seen nothing of the craft. The only report of Redfern since he left Glynn Isle Beach was an indefinite radio message which said the monoplane had been sighted by a steamer 300" miles east of the Bahama Islands. Radio Stations Comb Air. Meanwhile, powerful radio stations combed the tropical air, seeking news from ships and West Indian Island stations and Edward Niramier, head pilot of the Biscayne flyers, at Miami, was ready to send three seaplanes to hunt through the islands from Great Abaco in the Bahamas to Turks Is- land on the course toward Porto Rico, over which Redfern was scheduled to have passed the first night of his voyage. Niramier made his offer to Mrs. Redfern, who stoically waits here for word of her husband's safety, but MT. VVERNON STEAMER Charles Macalester Leaves 7th St. Whart Dally 10 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. Round Trip, 85¢ Admission, 25c Cafe and Lunch Counter on Steamer Mt. Vernon not open on Sunt Hot-Water Heating System $350-00 —installed complete in six rooms Extra_radiators at small additional cost. 1 to 3 vears to pay with interest. All ‘other home improvements. electr wiring, papering. painting, earpen! ’l"l K. Contracting Co. 424 5th St. N.W. 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V chairman, the optimistic Redfern was safe in Br . down at some place where there are no communications, but both were becoming worried, During the afternoon erowds hegan to gather before the office the Brunswick News and as cheduled time for Redfern’s a at Rio de Janeiro approached more than 300 citizens were on the street hefore the door of the newspaper building Varner had instructed Redfern on his departure to take no chances, but to make Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco or Para according to his judgsment and fuel supply and, after receiving reports of moderate head w N the Caribbean Sea yest: : ed the belief that the avis land at Para this morning. No word came and it was hoped that Redfer: successfully had negotiated the Carib- and had passed in the v of Para with plenty of fuel to make one of the other probable destinations. This hope seemed lost late today and concern turned to Red- fern's safety as it appeared that he must have been forced down en route. PLANE NEVER SIGHTED. Canvass of Bahamas Shows None Saw Redfern. AU, Bahamas, August 27 colonial government ha all the outlying island without finding any one who had seen the plane piloted by Paul Redfern, | Georgia aviator. All stations in the roup have been ordered to maintain h on the chance that he may »een forced down in this vicinity in the flight. BOOKS WANTED All Kinds—Any Quantity BRING THEM IN Or Phone Franklin 5115516 BIG BOOK SHOP—933 G The Annual Flower Showr of the Federal-American National Bank Will be held at the bank All day and evening Monday and Tuesday EVERY ONE WELCOME The entire buildinz thrown open to vublic Inspection OIL_HEATER SECTION OF THE __MER._AND _MFG._ASSN. The Argonne 16th & Columbia Rd. N.W. Very attractive apartments of two, three and four rooms, kitchen, reception hall, bath and balcony. Spacious rooms, built-in fixtures, semi-hotel service. Location unexcelled, and rentals very reasonable. 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The Federal Fireproofing | (0. through Attorney Alfred Cerceo | tells the court that October 20 last, | it entered into a contract with Mr. | Kluft, on which the Royal Indemnity | $106,900 and s: and the subcon The company d : only about $3.000 to finish but asserts that Kluft charges that it has defaulted under its bond and has called on the indemnity com- pany to complete the job. The plain tiff fears that its money will be dis sipated as the defendant h: e 1| William SUARDSREGRUTED TOPROTET MNES Threatened March on Prop- erties Results in Strength- ening of Forces. By the Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, August ditional precautionary measures were taken by county and State officials to- to prevent further disturbances in the coal fields of Ohio. Two ad- ditional Ohio National Guard officers were ned to the field by Adit ! Gien k D. Henderson and Sheriff | Allison, Jefferson County, heean deputizing additional aides. Fran for cer- for bids and is letting contracts the work and threatens to pay tain subcontractors. — . GILES TO ENTER RACE. Will Make New York-Spokane Hop as Leg of Trip to Antipodes. SPOKANE, Wash., August 27 (P).— " A. Giles, British flier. hs ered the non-stop New York-Spol race to be staged September was announced at national aic headquarters here today. Giles. who ses to hop from the [/nitec an early d to Spokane from New on the long flight to the Antipodes Casey Jones of Garden City. N. Y entered the mation r races Jones was a big winner in the 19 national air races, Thea Rasche, the German aviatrix who is In America, telegraphed derby headquarters today that she would n Spokane for the races. DIES AFTER I;LANE CRASH. Injuries Fatal to One of Three Hurt on Flight. Nebr., August 27 , son of a promi- i derby injuries received in an airplane e Thursday in which Walter Halley, 5. pilot, and cashier of the First i Bank at Rapid City, 8. 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