Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1927, Page 4

CONTROL OF SEA ‘FLYING HELD LEGAL Officials Believe Planes Can & Be Regulated Like All o Other Craft. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Legal experts are convinced that there will be no difficulty in framing & law to stop stunt flying. The move has the entire sympathy of all offi- clals connected with aviation. For a long time it has been recog- nized that flying over land needed regulation, but the problem of transoceanic flying has never pro- voked much discussion before, because the element of danger to persons on the surface below was absent. The theory now, however, is that airplanes can be regulated just as steamship: launches or any other passenger-car- rying craft. Authority could be vested in the col- lectors of customs not to allow air- planes to get clearance papers unless they had complied with certain regu- lations. While, of course, this would not prevent airplanes from dashing off from unpatrolled postions of the seacoast, nevertheless, transatlantic fiying is necessarily attended with considerable publicity of operations, so that planes cannot be prepared for ocean flights without everybod: ng of it. Inspection System Urged. All the planes which have come to grief on the transoceantic flights re- cently have carried passengsrs. If the United States passed a law de- scribing the conditions under which passengers could be lawfully carried from airports of the United States other countries probably would do Mkewise. ; First and foremost in the minds of officials here is that a system of in- epection be instituted so that only planes which have passed certain tests would be permijtted to carry pas- sengers across the ocean from Amer- ican ports. Besides this, it would be insisted that competent navigators only be permitted to take the planes. In other words, airplanes would be put in the same category as other ocean- going craft in the obligations imposed on those who attempt to take respon- sibility for lives other than their own. There is some debate as to whether passengers who are now taken for hire stand in a different relationship from those who pay a fare, but the legal experts are saying that the whole subject can be handled under the gen- eral authority of the customs laws so that clearance papers will not be granted uniess all domestic regulations have been complieqy with. Hold U. S. Has Authority. Broadly speaking, the Federal Gov- ernment is charged under the con- stitution with regulating commerce between the States and with foreign countries. While the licensing of drivers of automobiles has been en- Liner Passengers Sight “Plane,” hut It’s. Only Jupiter By the Associated Press. S. S. LEVIATHAN, September 3. —Passengers aboard the Leviathan became excited at 6:30 o'clock last evening, New York time, when deck stewards announced that an airplane was overhead. Travelers who were at dinner rushed to the decks and saw a light to the west of the ship. All were exclaiming “It is the Frenchmen.” One of the few on board who re- mained at dinner was Commodore Hartley, commander of the liner. When advised of the sighting of the alleged plane, he said, laconi- cally: “Don’t let those deck stewards fool you by pointing to Jupiter, which is very bright tonight.” OCEAN AVIATORS DEFY RISK WARNING Three Expeditions Make Ready in France—Germans Urge South Route. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 3.—Not- withstanding the opinion of a British meteorologlcal expert. that westward air flights across the Atlantic can hardly hope to escape adverse wind and fog, and the comment by German newspapers that with the advancing season great risks attach to such an king, those airmen, who have their hearts set on flying to America were still going ahead with their plans today. In France three expeditions were making ready. Undaunted by their unsuccessful attempt yvesterday, when they were forced by fog to return to Le Bourget after taking off for New York, Leon Givon and Pierre Corbu were making adjustments to their plane, the Blue Bird, in the hope of getting away again tomorrow, it weather conditions*are favorable. Two Others Ready Dieudonne Costes’ Brequet biplane, the Nungesser-Coli, and Paul Taras: con’s Tango Bird, were pronounced ready to hop off for New York, and possibly Philadelphia, if weather con- ditions along the French coast im- prove and there is reasonable assur- ance that they will encounter fairly good conditions over the Atlantic. Capt. R. H. MacIntosh, imperial air- ways pilot, hopes to hop from Baldon- nel, Ireland, for Philadelphia tomor- row. With him _in the plane will be Capt. Anthony Wreford as assistant pilot and Capt. A. J. Barnes as pas- senger. Explaining his thesis, the British meteorological office expert declared it was a well known fact that the wind over the Atlantic was perpetually westerly, veering from southwest to di- tirely 2 State matter thus far, con- stitutional lawyers for the most part conceive that the Federal Government | could take over this task if it so sired. | ‘elndeed, it the conditions under which & motorist may drive his car can be | fixed by law, so can the aviator be re- quired to conform to certain tests. Most of the difficulties in connection with-stunt fiying over the ocean, ac- ! ¢ording to officials here, arise from the i fact that the aviators do not know enough about ocean navigation. It is | hoped that the Government itself will be able, through its aviation units, to ! the knowledge of ocean navi- gation. In fact, it will be noted that ractically all of the Army and Navy :Ighu have been successful, and the Joss of life has occurred in the case of those civilians who thought they knew ocean navigation, but who ap- arently did not know how to steer or ttle with the elements. (Copyright. 1027.) . BURIAL OF INSURANCE PLOT, VICTIM HALTED Question Raised Concerning Iden- i+ tity of Youth’s Body Holds Up Interment. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 3.—A ques- tion regarding the identity of the body found floating in Gravesend Bay as that of Benjamin Goldstein, alleged victim of an insurance murder plot, stopped the funeral arranged by the Goldstein family yesterday. Goldstein was said by the State to hav. been thrown from a rowboat into Gravesend Bay last Friday by Irving Rubinzahl and Harry Greenberg, at e instigation of Joseph Lefkowitz, neficiary of $70,000 in insurance poli- jes on Goldstein’s life. The three are nder arrest charged with homicide. binzahl and Greenberg are said to ve confessed. % The body was indentified Wednesday Samuel Goldstein as being that of s son, but an insurance company car- n. one of the policies on the youth's fe, reported to District Attorney Dodd ay that investigators had been told a defense attorney that the body ras not that of young Goldstein. Under a confession held by the dis- attorney, Greenberg is said to %ndmltte‘é that he and Rubinzahl Goldstein irfto the bay ina small boat, and then pushed him into the water, as part of the plan to collect 70,000 in insurance. m”l’h‘e funeral of the alleged drowning victim, which was scheduled for yes- ferday afternoon, was held up by an order from the district attorney on in- formation given by the insurance com- pany investigators, until the medical examiner and a dentist who did work on Goldstein’s teeth have made an in- vestigation of the body. H WIFE AND BABY HELD FOR $4,000 ALIMONY First Mate Charges Second Knows of Husband’s Present ‘Whereabouts. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 3.—A mother and her 17-month-old child have spent five days in the county jail for a $4,000 alimony bill which the husband and father owes his former wife. Mrs. Fannie Hall, with her daugh- ter Irene, was brought into court yes- terday for a third appearance on a hearing for contempt of court. She was returned to jail when unable to post the $5,000 bond fixed. Her attor- ney argued that she was being used as a decoy to lure the husband back. It is the contention of the first wife, Mrs. Marie Hall, that the second wife knows of her husband’s whereabouts and planned to join him. Hall and his first wife were divorced in 1922. 420 Legionnaires Off for France. GALVESTON, Tex., September 3 (®).—With flags of allied nations fly- ing from her masts, the French liner Chicago steamed out to set yesterday with 420 American Legion members ‘| the Gee How Oak Tin, a strictly social rect west and at times northwest, and having a velocity of from 15 miles an hour to 55 miles. Then, he added, at no time of the year is the area off Newfoundland entirely clear of fog. He advocated the southern route, by way of the Azores, as best for a trans- atlantic flight from England, for, heg pointed out, for four months of the| year wind and temperature as far as the Azores are favorable, while from then on to the United States or New- foundland the plane could cut across the western ‘wind, thus diminishing THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, NEW TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT BEGUN . Capt. F. T. Courtne, shows, left fo right: Lie in his plane the Whale, is the latest flyer to attempt a transatlantic flight. Downer, navigator; Capt. Courtney and Mrs. Courtney. Photograph HAILTON'S WIFE STILL HOLDS HOPE Waits in Ottawa for Pilot She Expected to Surprise on His Arrival. By the Associated Pre: OTTAWA, Ontario, September 3.— Her confidence unshaken despite dis couraging reports, Mrs. Leslie Ham- ilton today awaited the husband she had thought to surprise. “I have absolute th that Leslie will be found,” she said. “Both he and Col. Minchin are regarded as not only good flyers, but men of courage and resource in difficuit sit- uatiof Mrs. Hamilton, a tall, slender, dark- haired young woman, came to New York from England three weeks ago, and when she received word that her husband had hopped off in the mono- plane St. Raphael on hi. flight, hurried here to surprise him. She emphatically denied a report that she had been estranged from her husband and that her trip here was to effect a reconciliation. “The report is absurd,” she said, “and I want it denied.” Her face pale and drawn from the constant vigil she has maintained, Mrs. Hamilton said she probably would remain here until tomorrow. “Leslie has been in so many tight corners and gotten out safely that I feel—I just know he will be found,” loss of power. Junkers Opposes Flight. Prof. Hugo Junkers in a message to the crew of the Junker plane, the Bremen, which is ready for a trans- atlantic flight, argued against attempt- ing the venture so late in the season. The message brought forth pessimistic comment by the German press, empha- sized by the uncertainty over the fate of the British plane St. Raphael and the unsuccessful starts of the Blue Bird, the Canadian planes, Sir John Carling and Royal Windsor, and the German planes Bremen and Europa. The feeling of these papers may be summed up in one of the captions— “Nonstop flight with one motored land machine, East to West is gambler's hazard.” It is generally concluded that on account of the advanced sea- son the risks are too great. The Tageblatt speaks of the useless- ness of trying to emulate the Amer- icans, contending that fiyers from Eu- rope would be fatally hampered by the same strong winds that ‘“blew Schlee and Brock across.” Denounces Flying Stunts. It denounces advertised flying stunts as a public menace, argues for an of- ficial ban on non-stop flights, and asks that there be a proper authority to assure the necessary precautions in all aerial undertakings. This is in line with the action of the committee on air laws of the American Bar Association, in session at Buffalo, N. Y., in expressing hope that laws would be passed to prevent the mounting loss of life in aerial ad- ventures, and the announcement of the Stinson Aireraft Corporation of Detroit that it would accept no orders in future for planes intended for solo ocean flights. . CHINESE HOLD REUNION IN HONOR OF ANCESTOR Descendants of Great Shun Ai, Em- peror 3,000 Years Ago, Gather in New York. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 3.—Several thousand descendants of the great Shun Ai, Emperor in China more than 3,000 years ago, were drawn to China- town today for a family reunion. The three branches of the Shun family—the Chins, the 'Wos and the Yens—call themselves members of organization, formed to do honor to their great ancestor. Chinese of New York had the largest representation at the gathering. The Chinatowns of San Francisco, Chi- cago, New Orleans, Newark and other cities had delegates here. In connection with the celebration, which will last two weeks, a $200,000 home of the Gee How Oak Tin will be dedicated in Bayard street. Head- quarters of the organization in Amer- ica is in San Francisco. o Crashes Dodging. Child. In an effort to avoid striking a child, Mary E. Richardson, colored, 418 B street southeast, drove her aut mobile upon the sidewalk on D street between Twelfth and- Thirteenth streets southeast yesterday afternoon, crashing into a lamp-post and caus- ing injury to Grace A. Richardson, colored, 43 years old, occupant of the vehicle, Effie Harris, colored, 36 years old, 1828 Fourth street, was injured about 12:30 o’clock this morning when an automobile In which she was a pas- senger overturned in front of 1422 T street, due to sudden locking of the steering wheel. College Names Acting President. ATLANTA, Ga., September 3 (#).— Dr. J. L. Beeson, vice president of the faculty of the Georgia State Col- lege for Women at Milledgeville, was she said. THE WEATHER Maryland-District of Columbia— Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, cooler tomorrow afternoon and night. Virginia—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably showers in ex- treme southwest portion, cooler to- morrow aft: oon ih north portion. West. Virginia—Partly cloudy to- night and tomorrow, warmer tonight, cooler tomorrow. Record for 24 Hou Thermometer—4 p.m. 83 75; 12 midnight, 70; 4 a.m., 6’ 68; noon, 75. Barometer—4 p.m., 0.05; 12 midnight, 30.07; 8 a.m., 30.09; noon, 30.09. Highest temperature, 86, occurred at 4:30 p.m. yesterday. Lowest temperature, 64, occurred at 6 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 68; lowest, 61. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 7:23 am. 7:26 p.m.; high tide, 12:24 a.m. 12:46 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 7:17 a.m. 8:15 p.m.; high tide, 1:19 a.m. 1:35 pm. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose, 5:37 am.; ts, 6:37 p.m. ‘Tomorrow—Sun rises, 5:38 a.m.; sun sets, 6:35 p.m. Moon rises, 12:26 p.m.; sets, 10:32 and and and and sun p.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one-half hour after sunset. Condition of the Water. Great Falls—Clear. Harpers Ferry—Potomac and Shen- andoah Rivers clear this morning. Weather in Varlous Cities. 2 Temperature. @3 (3 83 s Stations, &= Weatber. **39)oW0.E; WouIH Isomo] - AUDINEIA W3t s Abilene Albany Cloudy Sloudy Atlanta . r r . Cloudy Pt.cloudy % Clear Sz FERREIR oz perEaa s Cleveland Col'mbia.S.€ Denver 3= Sonm: % EEESH ndiananolis. Jacksonville. Kansas_City Los Angeles. Louisville . Miami Fla N. Orleans. New York. 0 Ci Phoenix 20 o) Pritebirah 278 oy Portland. e Clotiy ar Clear Pt.cloudy Clear, Cloudy Clear Prcloa: foudy Cloudy Clear FOREIGN, (8 a.m. Greenwich time. today.) tation ‘Temperatu London, Ensland. © BB Rain Paris. France Foggy Sopeniiagtn, - beniar) § B conay Horin (R, le-zfldouu'y Havan; Colon, Ca: One of the four Komodo dragons at the London Zoo recently suffered ‘bound for Paris and the Legion con- vention. The Chicago will dock at Havre, France. Bl named acting president of the insti- tution at a meeting of the board of trustees last night, a sore mouth and tail, and four men were required to hold the huge rep- tile im order to treat it TWO SLENDER CLUES OFFER ONLY HOPE FOR PRINCESS' PLANE (Continued from First Page) of territory in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and eastern Quebec. Ships Asked to Watch. The S. S. Beothic, a Canadian gov- ernment patrol ship, now returning from the Canadian Arctic archipelago, was ordered to watch during the re- mainder of its voyage to Sydney, Nova Scotia, for signs of the plane or wreckage that would indicate the fate of the flyers. The naval communication at Boston broadcast to all vessels off Boston and along the Northeastern Atlantic Coast a request to keep a lookout for the monoplane, Capt. John H. Boulman of the White Star liner Arabic before sailing early this morning for Europe said special lookouts would supplement the regu- lar watch in an effort to obtain a clue to the overdue adventure Capt. Frederick A. Giles, war-time comrade of Capt. Hamilton in the British flying service, awaiting re- pairs at Detroit on his biplane pre- paratory to a flight to New Zealand, wired Mrs, Leslie Hami Capt. Hamilton, at Otta aid in the search. Giles said he would go immediately to St. John's, New- foundland, and make flights extend- ing 1,100 miles out over the Atlantic. Capt.’ Giles expressed the belief that the St. Raphael had come down some- where off the Coast of Labrador. Navy Ready to Help. Although Acting Secretary of the Nav ashington of information on the rendered it practically impo: the American Government to search for the flyers, he indicated that if either Br h or Canadian authorities should request assistance the, Navy would be ready to help. No definite word was received from the plane since it was sighted Wed- off the Irish coast, just before it streaked into the face of treacher- ous rain, fog and head winds over the North Atlantic. The estimated flying period allowed the St. Raphael on the basis of its fuel supply expired at 10:32 o'clock Thursday night, 44 hours after the take-off.” Capt. Hamiiton had said he would make the trip in 37 hours, FEW HOLD HOPE. station Warner British Press, However, Fails to Ex- press Revulsion Against Flights. LONDON, September 3 ().—While some persons still clung to hope to- day that Princess Lowenstein-Wer- theim and her flying comrades in the St. Raphael, Capt, Hamilton and Col. Minchin, might be safe either on a vessel carrying no_wireless or at a remote place in Newfoundland or Labrador, the majority were disposed to regretfully list them among the vanished transocean fiyers. Capt. W. G. Hinchcliffe declared it was too early to abandon hope. F. Sydney Cotton, who flew over a wide area vainly searching for the missing French transatlantic airmen, Nunges- ser and Coli, told the Daily Mail that SEA HOP PLANNED BY THIRD WOMAN Miss Frances Grayson Un- daunted by Fate of Miss Do- ran and Flying Princess. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 3.—Un- daunted by the apparently disastrous outcome of the transocean flying ven- tures of Miss Mildred Doran and the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, an. other woman is preparing to essay a flight across the Atlantic. Miss Frances Wilson Grayson, Long Tsland business woman and feminist, announces that she has obtained a new Sikorsky amphibian plane in which she and a male navigator and a pilot, will fly to Europe. Divorced Grayson's Cousin. Miss Grayson, who married and di- vorced J. B. G on, a cousin of Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, re- taining her husband's name, expects to hop off within three weeks. Her associate in the flight is Mrs. Page Ancker, wealthy sportswoman and feminist of Aiken, S. C. The expenses of the venture are to be borne equally by the women, who have formed the Ancker-Grayson Aircraft Corporation. The especially built amphibian plane, with disappearing wheels for ground landings, will have two Wright Whirlwind motors of 225 horsepower each; a cruising range of 4,000 miles, the greatest of any seaplane byilt to date, and a commodious cabin for its captain, Miss Grayson. Neither the personnel of its crew of two nor its objective has been determined yet, Miss Grayson said. Safety Prime Object. Safety is the prime object of the construction of the ship, which should be able to remain afloat for a consid- erable time if forced to land at sea. Radio and compass equipment will be similar to that carried by-successful transocean flyers, Miss Grayson sald. “We are not flying into the' movies,” Miss Grayson, who is in the real estate business, announced, “but for promot- ing and developing aviation." provided the St. Raphael got across the Atlantic, the chances of those aboard being found were two to one, but they were a thousand to one against their turning up of their own accord. He drew an ugly picture of the “terrible country” of Newfound- land, where if they' landed, he said, they probably would never be heard from. The revulsion of feeling against transocean flying reported to be prev- alent among a section of opinion in the United States and Germany, has not made its appearance in England— at any rate it has not been expressed. Some of the morning newspapers in sympathetic editorials on the disap- pearance of the St. Raphael, say that pioneers in great enterprises always appear foolhardy, but it is those, who embrace forlorn hopes who achieve great things. -These commentators are convinced that the attempts will continue despite the immense risk, until success is achieved, and in time transocean flights will be regarded as a comparatively stmple matter. AUSTRALIA HbP PLANNED. ‘War Officers Consider Flight From Golden Gate. AN FRANCISCO, September 3 (). —The Chronicle says Capt. Kingsford Smith, Australian aviator in the World War, and C. T. Ulm, another Australian flyer, are making plans for a flight from the Golden Gate to Australia, and that Capt. George Wil- kins, Arctic explorer, has been invited to be one of the navigators. Smith expects to pilot the plane. The paper says a Fokker mono- plane has either been purchased or is being bullt for the trip, and that stops are planned for Honolulu, Fanning Island, Phoenix Islands, Samoa, Fiji Islands, New Caledonia and Brisbane, with the flight ending at Sydney. Seiadl HELD TO GRAND JURY. Brentwood Boy Formally Charged With Attack on Girl. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., September 38.—Following a preliminary hearing vesterday on a charge of having at- tacked a 9-year-old Hyattsville girl, John F. Sollers, 13-year-old Brentwood boy, was held for action of the grand jury by Justice of the Peace John J. Fainter here last night. The boy pleaded not guilty. He was com- mitted to the Hyattsville Jail. Patrick Bell, 10, and James Con- nelly, 9, both of Brentwood, charged with assisting in the assault, were re- leased on bond in the custody of their parents. The girl pointed out Scllers as the boy who had molested her, but broke down and was excused when asked for details. She said she was walking along the branch here Wednesday afternoon with a number of other girls when they were chased by Sol- lers and a group of boys who were fishing and swimming. Bandits Leave* Pal” and $1,000. ASHER, Okla., September 3 (#).— Frightened by an exchange of shots in which a bystander was seriously wounded, three youthful robbers fled in their automobile yesterday, leaving behind a mate with most of the $1,000 they obtained from the Canadian State Bank here. The abandoned robber safely fled on foot to the woods. The wounded man is Bailey Browder, a druggis - Repair Parts Steam Boilers Fries, Beall & Sharp 734 10th St. N.W. Real Estate Loans (D. C." Property Only) 5% No Commission Charged You can take 12 years to pay off your loan without the expense of renewing. $1,000 for $10 per month, including interest and prin- cipal. Larger or smaller loans at proportionate rates. PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION Largest in Washington Assets Over $15,000,000.00 Cor. 11th and E N.W. JA BETRY, P 10803 " TARe! Sacrerary D. €. SATURDAY., SEPTEMBER 3, 1927. CRUISER FOR FLYER DEPENDS ON TESTS Naval Vessel to Take Lieut. Williams to Italy if Plane Shows Speed. Although it was announced at Rapid City that President Collidge was willing to have a cruiser take Lieut. Alford J. Williams and his plane to Italy for the Schneider Cup races, it was made known today at the Navy Department that the final decision will depend on the results of further speed tests, Acting Secretary of the Navy War- ner revealed that the cruiser Trenton, now at Hampton Roads, will be held in readiness to transport the naval aviator, provided the Navy Depart- ment sees fit to thus sanction Wil liams’ participation in the trophy race. It is believed at the Navy Department that Williams would be obliged to leave for Venice not later than Sep- tember 9 to get there in time to pre- pare his plane for the international competition. Secretary Warner declined to dis- close the President's reply to his recent communication, but indicated that while Mr. Coolidge was favorable to the use of a naval vessel, he left the matter to the final judgment of the department. Speed Tests Awaited. Use of a warship, Secretary War- ner explained today, depends entirely on the outcome of the speed tests still to be made by Williams. “As yet we have no official record of the plane's speed,” he added. “It is very probable that the Trenton will be used to transport Willlams if further tests prove ths plane to be a creditable representative of Amer- S;‘nn aircraft design and construc- tion.” The Navy would have to be assured of a reasonable chance for victory, he said, before giving its final consent. President Coolidge’s agreement to have a naval vessel take the flyer to Italy was reached, it was said, after Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, the transatlantic flyer, had flown his plane the Spirit of St. Louis over the presidential quarters at Rapid City yesterday, en route from Pierre, S. Dak., to Cheyenne. At any rate, the announcement was made at the temporary White House shortly after that event, Would Sponsor Entry. If the Navy Department sees fit to assign a crulser for Willlams’ benefit it would put the Navy in the posi- tion of practically sponsoring - the aviator’s entry in the international races, although the plane was built from funds collected personally by Lieut. Williams among friends in New York. Although Williams intended from the beginning that the project should be strictly private, he has received in- valuable assistance from the Navy. America needs but one more victory to retain permanent possession of the Schneider trophy. The hope of re- taliating against the Italian victory last year at Norfolk lies in the speed of Williams’ plane, tests of which are now being made at Long Island. DECISION HAILED AT ROME. Exciting Three-Cornered Race Ex- pected If Williams Flies. ROME, September 3 (#).—President Coolidge’s decision permitting the use of an American naval vessel to bring Lieut. Alford J. Williams and his speed plane to Venice to compete in the Schneider Cup races on Septem- ber 25 caused elation in aeronautical circles here. A three-cornered fight between the speediest seaplanes of Italy, Great Eritain and the United States, it is felt, will produce one of the most ex- citing races in aerial history, espe- cially as Lieut. Williams’ machine is considered a most formidable con- tender. Maj. Mario de Bernardi, who won the Schneider Cup race last yvear in the United States, has arrived, with Col. Preste Tacchini, from Varese, where the Italians have been training. De Bernardi is credited with having made nearly 460 Kkilometers 285.8 miles) an hour in a trial spin. o Lawyers to Meet in South. BUFFALO, N. 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Beware of Substitutes. At Good Dealers Everywhere Bayerson Oil Works. Columbia 5228 60-Plate Dinner Ordered Delivered To Ranch by Air By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, September 3.—The St. Francis Hotel here yesterday received an order for a 60-plate dinner to be delivered Sep- tember 16 by airplane at the home of W. H. Moffitt, cattle rancher, near Reno, Nev. Arrangements were made by tel- ephone from the Moffitt Ranch to forward the meal in an express airplane, with electric heaters to keep the food hot, a head waiter to superintend the serving and two aviators, properly attired, to serve. .. FLYERS HELD THROUGH MISTAKE Army Men Suspected as Im- posters by Mexican Cus- toms Officials. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., September 3.—A case of mistaken identity in which he was mistaken for an impos- ter impersonating him, was responsible for the flve-day detention of Capt. C. H. Reynolds and Master Sergt. Gus Newland with their plane in Mexico, Capt. Reynolds said last night. Reynolds and Newland were sent to Arizona from Fort Sam Houston to assist in_the search for Albert Z Menard, World War veteran, lost in the desert. In the course of their search, an imposter, representing him- self as Reynolds, reported that Menard had been seen from the plane. Mexican Heard Report. FLOGGING FAMILY , - CHARGED ON STAND Victim Testifies Four Masked Men Whipped Him and Sick Wife. By the Associated Press. TYLER, Tex., September 3.—A graphic story of how a family was routed from home at night, marched away into the woods and flogged by four masked men was told yesterday by one of the victims, J. R. Richard- son, a cotton picker, in District Court, where one of the alleged floggers is on trial, Cain Anderson, the defendant, is a wealthy farraer and dairyman, and the Richardson family was a tenant on his property. He is specifically charged under the State anti-masking law with being a member of the band which on the night of June 8 flogged Richardson, his wife and their daughter-in-law, Mrs. W. A. Straps. Whipped With Rope. Dressed in a blue denim shirt and overalls, Richardson tcok the stand and described the attack, declaring he had recognized the planter as one of the assailants. “My wife was sick in bed, my four children were asleep and I was in the hall of the house when four men, wearing masks and carrying guns, suddenly entered the house,” Richard- son_related. “They ordered me to put up my hands and my wife to get out of bed. My wife and I were marched from the house to a nearby wood. I was caught by my hand and jerked to the ground on my side and whipped with a rope. “Dewitt Osborne finally took the rope and tried to break every bone in my body. (Osborne is also under indictment and awaiting trial) Reynolds was forced down in Mex- ico half a mile south of the Rio Grande near Presidio, Tex., on his re- turn trip to San Antonio. His release by Mexican authorities would have been only a matter of a few hours, he said, if it had not been for the hoax in Arizona, - Before Reynolds could get away re- ports that he was not Reynolds, but in reality was the imposter responsible for the false Menard report came to the ears of Mexican customs officials. Gas Trouble Reported. This complication, Reynolds said, re- sulted in the five-day delay in the re- lease of the plane. The aviator reached San Antonio today after a Says Wife Was Whipped. “They jerked my wife down and whipped her.” Richardson said she asked, “What was that for?” and one of the men re- plied, “Because you won't work. The witness asserted the party es- corted them back to the Richardson home and instructed them to leave the country within a few days. The cotton picker's 6-year-old son Henry preceded him on the stand and told the assistant attorney general, who questioned him, that ‘“Anderson run our family out.” Charge Liquor Involved. By their exposed features and flight from Marfa, where they went after their release. Reynolds said his plane was forced down by gasoline trouble. Mexican customs officers found the aviators shortly after they landed, but the fly- ers were unable to make them under- stand their story. i G e Former Moderator Dead. STONEY BROOK, N. Y., September 3—Rev. Dr. John Fleming Carson, 67, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church ‘in Brooklyn for 35 years and former moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly, died here yesterday. clothing the elder Richardson said he identified both Anderson and Osborne, although on cross-examination he ad- mitted he had told two officers the day after the whipping that he did not know his assailants. Mrs. Richardson testifled they were requested to leave Anderson's farm prior to the whipping, when she re- fused a request to allow liquor to be made there. Anderson asked her hus- band to make whiskey, saying he would furnish the materials, she said. The State rested its case condition- ally late yesterday, with the announce- ment that one more witness would be introduced later. Manufacturer’s Representative for a Nationally Known Gas Appliance with an established business throughout the country de- sires to place its product in the hands of a responsible agent who has had selling experience, some capital and a desire to make money by working. This product is sold through gas companies, plumbers, architects, builders and jobbers. It requires salesmen with aggressiveness and ability to interest users in its use. If you measure up to these requirements, write fully your qualifications and an opportunity for an interview will be given. 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