Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1927, Page 4

ENGLAND ALARMED | AT AIR DISASTERS Comic Note Injected Into Discussion by Woman’s Ocean-Aerial Fashion. BY A. G. GARDINER, By Radio to The Star. LONDON, September 10.—The gumnx series of Atlantic di as produced a profound revy of feeling in the public mind in re- gard to the ocean flights, and in the press the strong opinion is expressed that the gama is not worth the can: dle. 1t is clear from the fate of the : planes Old Glory and. Sir John Car ling that the conditions of the Atlantic flight are so iricaleulable .in the pres. ent circumstances as to make the ad venture a reckless and unjustifi gamble with death. It is argue the gaifis attendant on success wholly _incommensurate with gravity of the risks taken. The f that the Atlantic cot'l be flown worth_establishing, but having b established there was no practical gain in pursuing an adventure which adds nothing to knowledge and does not even give a chance of escapi disaster. Discordant Note Struck. Whether Government action in the matter is possible at this stage is not clear, but it is certain that a ¢ tinuance of the present alarming re ord of catastrophes will compel action, and feeling is stro financial Incitements to en charged with fatal risks. A discordant note in the controversy was struck at Liverpool Sir Brancker, the vice air mar in a speech declared that the east to west flight must be accomplished. The public will fail to see the motive for urgency in the matter, consider- ing the record of failure which has at- tended adventures on the east to west royte. Charles Levine is still waiting here for news of favorable conditions, but the public, having supped full of disasters, would welcome an announce- ment that the venture has been can- celed. the Touch of Comedy. A touch of comedy was lent to the grim tale by Miss Mabel Boll, whose frantic efforts to get a lift across the Atlantic are making her a sort of serio-comic heroine of the day. She solemnly announces in the press the fact that she has got a costume for the adventure,. consisting of a little whité garment cut in the shape of & riding habit, with an ermine cape —a sort of little white bird of the At lantic. It is an excellent idea for Holly- wood, but it is pointed out that the Atlantic .is not consplcuously re. spective to erxine, notably suspectible to feminine fasuions. (Coyright, 1927.) DISEASE IS CURBED IN FLOOD DISTRICTS BY HEALTH CRUSADE (Continued from First Page.) resent time,” Dr. Dekleine stated. ‘The State and local health. officers that I interviewed all state that ty- phoid fev.r, smallpox and malaria and other eommunicable diseases are less prevalent now thag usual at this time of year. -Typhoid and malaria are diseases most ~ommon during the Summer and Fall of the year, and up to the present time this year there are fewer cases reported than they have had in recent years. Fewer Deaths Than Average. “In Louisiana 142 deaths from ty- phoid fever were reported this year up to August 26. !year during the same period 210 cases were reported. There are less thas one-third as many deaths this year from typhoid as com- _with the average for the last five yedrs. “‘Smallpox Is qlso much less preva- lent in Louisiana:than during the same period in former yéars. Ons hundred anc ninety-éight _cases of smallpox were rted - from - Janyary 21 to August 26 of thtbynr. During the same v-rloqim 1926, from Japuary 1 to August 31,921 cases were reported, The average for the past. five years for this same period was 713.4. Small- ox 15, taerefore, about one-fifth less {!\l‘ year than during the same period in 1926 and about one-fourth less than the average for the past flve years. “We do not happen to have the ures in regard to the prevalence malaria in the flood States, but the statements of the health officers, both State and local, indicate that this disease is less prevalent than usual. The Red Cross has also undertaken extensive work which will do much eventually for its control.” The Red Cross has constructed more than 10,000 screen doors to be placed in homes. Mpst of these doors are already placed, but the work is still in progress and it will be some time before it is completed. Not all houses in the flood area will be screened, but those that need it most will be, The Red Cross also has distributed for free use, by the Iocal health agencies and physicians, large quantities of quinine sulphate. Thousands of persons are using this @s a preventive for malaria. Several thousand gallons of oil used for cov- ering stagnant ponds has been sup- plied and used by local heafith egencies. Fighting Pellagra With Yeast. In view of the. widespread preva- lence of pellagra in some of the South- ern States the Red Cross is distrib- uting 5,000 pounds of pure powdered Yyeast to all persons aficted with this diseasé in the flood area. The Red Cross decided upon this program of relfet upon the recommendation of Burgeon General ‘Hugh S. Cumming &nd Dr. Joseph Gofiberger of the United States Public Health Servire, Dr. Goldberger, world renowned for his researches on pellagra, stated in 8 recent report that pellagra is on the increase in all the Southern States, in and out of the flood area. The apparent cause for this present increase is not definitely known, but it ig probably due to economie condi- tions-throughout the Southern States, which makes it more difficult for many of the people to obtain an ade- quate diet. Failure of the cotton crop and low prices :have made it more difficult for the people to obtain an edequate diet. Secretary Hoover will confer tomer- row with the chairmen of State rehabilitation commissions of Arkan- sas, Mississippi and Louisiana, with & view to obtaining a general summary of the flood situation in those States through which he has just toured by special train, automobile and boat, Monday he will make his first visit to the flood regions of southeastern Missouri, including stops at New Madrid and Cape Girardeau. He will then go to St. Louis and leave Tues- day for Washington to report his find- ings to President Coolidge. PO Clothing Appeal Issued. With the approach of the Fall school term and the need for extra elothing for poor children, the Saiva- tion Army is asking the public for as- gistance. Shoes, - stockings,- outer .garments, underwear, or in fact anything that & child can wear is welcome, it says Each article will be renovated as fast as reeeived and then distributed to needy familles. The Salvation Army A will'call for any gifts when notified, THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, NAVY PLANE, UNDER COM ROUTS MOSQUITOES BY DUS Capt. Harold C. Major Suc- ceeds in Task Over Isolated Pond. PARIS GREEN IS USED Marine Corps Officer Su'j-l gests Opportunity for Private Firms. Seiccting what they believed to be the most inaccessible® and difficult place on the Atlantic seabsard for eradicating m mosquitoes, ublic Health Service, 1 the difficult task of wiping ause of the disease in Bam. berg, 8. C., employed a Navy plane flled with mosquito-fighting Marines from Quantico and 1,000 pounds of Paris green during last week and met with “complete success.” Learning of the aeria]l warfare the Marine: t Brown Pield, Quantico, have been waging against millions of the pests in the vicinity of the Mar Corps base during the past year, pub- lic health officials and citi South Carolina asked the Nav. partment to demonstrate their succes: in what they believed to be the worst hotbed of the malaria-germ breeders in the East and South, Rear Admiral Willam A. Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautic: and a South Carolinian by birth, sponded immediately and dispatched the Navy's three-engined, all-metal d moneplane stationed at.the An- a Air Station to Bamberg. Telegram on Results. Yesterdey he received a telegram from L. L. Williams, jr., Public Health Service officer, based at Rich mond and in charge of the mosquito fare, which said Completed recheck of pond today. Complete success, Demonstration per- fect. Success of airplane and Paris green control of malaria mosquito in impounded water assured. Flight per- fectly handled, Congratulations to the Navy Department and the Marine Corps flyers.” Capt. Harold C. Major, U. 8. M. C. on duty in the Bureau of Aeronautic: who used to lead bombing raids in northern France and Belginm while flying with the Marine detachment | rating with the British Royal Air rce during the war, was selected to command the expedition. Alone, he shoved off from the Naval Air Station in the big Ford monoplane Tuesday morning and landed at Quan- tico, where he took on Lieut. H. D. Palmer, Staff Sergt. William W. Bird, Sergt. M. Y. Shepherd, Gunnery Sergt. Kinttle and Corpl. Harger and the hopper device for releasing the poison. Sergt. Bird was the designer and builder of the hopper and it was his duty to operate it during the tests, ile Lieut, Palmer sat in the first pilot’s seat and Sergt. Shepherd was assistant pilot. The others were to assist Sergt. Bird in filling the hop- per and discharging the poison in the air. Attack Is Launched. The monoplane then took off, stop- ping at Fayetteville, N. C., for fuel, and.landed at Bamberg on the same afternoon in a field which Capt. Major previously had picked out on an advance flight to the 8outh Caro- lina town. _Wednesday the plane took on sev- eral hundred pounds of the Paris green, which was mixed equally with alberene, or powdered soap stone. A flight, was made to determine the best Joag to be carried and the best alti- tudes to fly at. Thutsday morning snother test flight was made to de- termine the wind drift and its velocity and then the attack was launched. The territory, breeding place of the pests, was a dammed-up pond, com- pletely covered with trees and shrub- bery, making it almost impossible for the airmen to see any water whatever. It was about three miles long and one mile wide. - Owing to the growth, it was a physical impossibility for in- dividuals, armed with “squirt guns,” to roam about in that area shooting mosquitoes and the cost of clearing away the growth was almost pro- hibitive. - Governor Watches Take-Off, ‘While Gov, Richards, his staff, officials of hydro-electric power proj- ects, public health officers and " the malaria-suffering citizens looked ‘on hopetully, the big monoplane took off with 500 pounds of the “ammunpition.” Then it drepped down to withia 100 feet of the tree tops and Sergt. Bird “opened up” on . the insects. Three runs weré made up and down the ter- ritory at the low altitudg, A landing was made for 500 pounds more powder and three more trips were made, while the hopper swept every inch of the ground with the deadly polson. The entire operation was over in 30 minutes and, according to the nublic health service officers who made tests of the water immediately afterwards, not a mosquito was left living in the area, The recheck’ yesterday cow- firmed their previous convictions. The hopper, about four feet square at the top, tapered down proportion- ately, and a venturi tube, similar to those employed in determining air speeds of a plane in flight, but much larger, was attached, permitting the air to blow the powder out. A con- trol device was attached, allowing the operator to regulate the intensity of the spray. It was located in the cabin and the poison was sprayed through the floor of the plane. Their work over with, the big plane hopped off Friday morning, leaving behind it an enthusiastic crowd of South Carolinians. It battled muggy weather all the way to Quantico, where the expedition came to an end. Opportunity for Commerce, Capt. Major said the ‘“mosquito fighters” would be willing to give an- other demonstration of the airplane dusting at any time Bamberg feels it is needed, but he thought the way had been paved for commercial ppera- tors, many of whom are engaged in crop dusting now, but have not vet taken up the ‘mosquito as an enemy, There are several projected hydr: This Bank Will Lend You Money Taxes THE MORRIS LAN, For each 860 or Jractionborrowed you agree to de- sit $§ a month in an account, the }lm)celdx of whici may be used to cancel the note when due. Deposits may be made on a weekly, semi- monthly or monthly basis as you prefer. $ $1,200 $6,000 MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H Street N. W. ““Character and Earning Power Are the Basis of Credif"’ of- | Easy to Pay | Above: The Navy mosquito fi €. Major, in charge of the expedi hiing airplane. n to South Carolina. H. D. Palmer, who piloted the mosquito fighter. v Lower left: Lower right: Capt. Harold Lieut. | | electric power plants in South Caro- | lina, but State regulation requires | that before utlizing the waterways | the growth must be cleared away in | order to wipe out the mosquitoes. One concern has §20,000,000 to spend on a new plant, but finds it must first clear away. growth which will cost about $500,000. After the demonstration given by the Navy plane. one of the officials was told, informally, that the interest from the $800,000 fund alone would support a plane, pilot and the poison and the task could be accomplished in less than a day’s time, depending upon the extent of the area. Only |two pounds of the Paris-green-alber- ene solution is necessary to cover, ef- fectively, one acre of ground by the airplane_method. Capt. Major said the big Navy.mon- oplane proved “ldeal” for the task, first, becuase of the load it could carry and, second, there was absolute safety in flying at the low altitudes, owing to its three engines. It is be. lieved this is the first time a large transport has been used for “dust- ing.” REVENUE BUILDING PLANS BEING PUSHED| Treasury Official Expresses Grati- fication at Co-operation of District Heads. Gratified that the District Com- missioners have seen fit to vacate the western half of the Farmers’ Market by November 15 to make way for operations for the new Bureau of Internal Revenue Building, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dewey yes- terday said plans were going for- ward for the new building, but that no definite date could be set as to when the excavation might begin. The Government owns three-quar- ters of the site for the bureau build- ing, located between Tenth ~and Twelfth, B and C streets, one-fourth of the site still hanging in condemna- tion proceedings. Title has not yet been obtained by the Government, to the northwest square, but is expected within a short time. Mr. Dewey sald he was glad also to co-operate with the District authorities in not rushing the farm- ers out of thelr market during the Fall harvest sellimg season. Excavation will be started on the Department of Commerce Building /| site mear the ‘corner of Brand Four- teenth streets dnd on the Internal Revénue Building site, the fifst two big vprojects for the Government bujlding program in the big triangle south of Pennsylvania avenue. » . BELGRADE BANK FAILS. U. 8.'Depositors of ,-’{00,000 May File Claims Up to October 1. By the Associated Press, Bankruptcy of the First Agricult- ural Bank of Belgrade, Jugoslavia, which bas more than half a million dollars in deposits from America, was reported yesterday to the State De- partment. Depositors’ claims should be pre- sented in Belgrade by October 1, and the State Department has authorized the Amerjcan consul to accept cabled power of attorney from American de- positors to file claims. COLLEGE HEAD RESIGNS. Dr. Weaver of Mercer to Become Baptist Bducation Secretary. MACON, Ga., September 10 (&), —Dr. Rufus W. Weaver, for nine years president of Mercer University, announced here today that he had de. cided to accept the position as seecrs tary of the education board of the Southern RBaptist convention. He says he will Jeave Macon on October 1 to go to Birmingham, headquarters of the board. — More buildings will be erected in any previous 12 month: To Pay Your Or Put in Your Loans are pass- ed within a day or two after filing application— with few excep- tions. Monthly e For 12 Months MORRIS PLAN notes are usually made for 1 year, though they may be given for any of from 3 t0 12 months. $45. $100. $500.00 Toronto, Canada, this year, than in| COL. WOOTEN REPORTS. Arrives to Aid in Industrial Sup-{ plies Mobilization. Col. William P. Wooten, Corps of Engineers, recently relieved from charge of river and harbor works in the gulf division, at New Orleans, has reported at the War Department for duty in the office of the Assistant Sec- retary of War in connection with plans for the mobilization of industrial supplies In case of an emergency. He relieves Col. Harley B. Ferguson, Corps of Engineers, who is scheduled for duty with' troops. Both officers are making an Inspection of the prin- cipal industrial districts of the United States and are expected to return here the latter part of the month. FONCK MAY ENTER RACE. September 10 Rene Fonck, Wash., that SPOKANE, (A).—Possibility French aviator, may enter his Si- korsky plane in the New York- Spokane non-stop airplane race {n- stead of going ahead with his con- templated transatlantic project wus indicated today at the headquarters of the National Air Derby Association, A telegram from the Aviation Serv: ice Corporation of New York City, Eastern representatives of the . Air Derby Assoclation, said it was prob- able that ¥Fonck would be an entry in across the continent. D. C, GOLDSBOROUGH ILL INMARYLAND HOME Lawmaker Reported to Have Been Freed From Asylum on Own Plea. By the Associated Press, BALTIMORE, September 10.—The Baltimore American, in a copyrighted article, will say tomorrow that T. Alan Goldshorough, Representative ~from the first Maryland congressional dis- trict, s ill in his Denton, Md., home after his release on August 3 from the Springfield State Hospital for the In- sane, On that date, the article states, Mr. Goldsborough appeared before a lun- acy jury in Denton, pleaded his own case-for two hours, and was releaged as gane In the face of testimony by Dr. .Oskar Diethelm and Dr. Max Levin, John. Hopkins Howpital psy- chiatrists. who declared him insane. Tho lunacy hearing was held on petition of Mts; Laura Hall Golds- borough, his wife, whb declared in the document that her husband “is a lunatic with lucid intervals and is incapable of governing himself or the management of his estate,” the ar- ticle oontinues: Prior. to the lunacy -hearing, the article states, Mr. Goldsborough had personally petitioned the Circuit Court of Caroline County for a writ' of habeas corpus, “that the cause of his detention be inquired into.” The hearing on the writ, the American continues, was to have been held im- mediately after the lunacy hearing, hut was considered unnecessary when the verdict was announced. PEARL SALESMEN SILENT. Chinese Along Paris Bidewalks Draw Customers With Smiles. Correspondence of the Aseoclated Press. PARIS.—Chinese pearl peddlers are the talk of Paris, because they seem to avoid talk themselves. People become interested in the small, quiet merchants who stand silently out of the way of sidewalk trafic with many strings of false pearls on thelr arms. Their eyes alons are in motion searching the crowds for customers. As soon as they no- tioe a slight hesitation they smile, and the smile seems to bring the prospec- tive buyer to them. A hundred of these sidewalk sellers have formed a colony in Paris. They come from the province of Chekiang, attracted by the tales brought back by the thousands of coolies who worked here and at the front during the war. Misrepresentation Charged. Misrepresentation of competitors is charged in a complaint issued by the Federal Trade Commlssion against the Calumet Baling Powder Co. of Chicago. A hearing In the case will be held in Chicago tomorrow, it was announced yesterday. William W. Sheppard, trial examiner, will preside and Richard P. Whitely, attorney, will represent the Federal Trade Com- mission. SEPTEMBER 11, 1927—-PART 1. OF CAPITAL MAN, SQUIRE REVEALS M/RRIAG ' OF RICHARD WASIBURN CHILD Miss'E'va Sanderson Is Bride' at Stroudshurg, Pa., Ceremony. Diplomat Recently Divorced| in Paris—Details of Nuptials Lacking. By the Associated Pre STROUDSBURG, Pa,, son were married here late today by Squire P. M. Niles, the latter said late tonight, after newspaper men had that the marriage had taken place. ceremony at his office a short time riage license at the county courthou here. Except 1o say that the rlage’ took place at 5 o'clock, hé’ de- clined to give any detalls of the ceve- mony. 3 Mr. and Mrs, Child, o far as could be learned here fonight, left Strouds. burg ‘almost immediately after the geremony, but no- one apparently knew their destination. Telephone Buck Hill Falls, Pa., brought no re- sponse. Mr. to Italy, late Pre: being an appointee of the dent Harding, and is widely known as an auth His former wife, Maude Parker Child, writer of note, obtained a ol September | 10.—Richard Washburn Child, author | and diplomat, and Miss Kva Sander- | spent many hours to verify reports | Squire Niles said he performed the | after the couple had obtained a mar | ar. | calls to Mr. Child’s Summer home at |’ hild was former Anibassador | | “ { RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD. APARTMENT SUIT | Sherift Calatas of St. i i=h went to Halisheek late today to in- TGN SADOLHEAD CHARGES THREATS Louisiana Educator, Visited by Band, He Says, and Ordered to Leave. By the Associated Prees COVINGTON, La., September 10.— Tammany Par- vestigate charg Wingo, principal of the High School that he, his wife and vaby had been forced to fies from home, after being threatened by a band of unmasked men. Prof. Wingo drove to Abita Springs of Prof. G | early today and told of a visit to his hcme by a mob of 15 unmasked men hey gave me only 15 minutes in | which to pack up our belongings and get out,” he said. “They said that if at the end of that time they returned and found me there, they would kil me.” He said that the only reason he could assign was that some time ago he had had some difficulty with parents of some of the pupils, who objected to his method of correction for infractions of school rules. He added that he was living with a - FILED BY WOMAN Margaret R. Harrison Claims Own- ership and Asks Purported Stock Sale Be Canscled. v from him in Paris several mont ag0. Mrs. Child, it was said, was Mr. Child’'s secretary. TS Sy |W. L. WALKER WILL FILED. $1,000,000 Estate Divided Between Widow and Daughter. NEW YORK, September 10 (F).— Ninety per cent of the million-dollar estate of Willlam L. Walker, former | vice president of the American To-| bacco Co., will be divided equally be tween his widow and daughter, it was disclosed today when tha will was filed for -robate. | The widow fis Mrs. Jane Haskell Walker, daughter of former Giov. Has- | Kkell of Oklahoma, and the daughter is the wife of Harvey C. Hincs of | Kinston, North Carolina. The will provides that 10 per cent of the estate be divided between Wal ker's brother apd two sisters. jesion St oSy Liquor and Roadster Seized. Seizing 60 quarts of alleged liquor | and confiscating a voadster, Policemen | Dowd and Barrett of No. 6 precinct | yesterday afternoon arrested Ralph H. Meredith, 717 Fourteenth street south- east, charging him with transporta- tion and illegal possession of liquor. He was released on $500 bond. The ar- rest and seizure were made in the rear of 202 E street shortly after noon. . Two children, aged three and four, at Cologne, died recently from the effects of sucking the white sap out hs | | Margaret R. Harrison, who claims [ to own apartment 41 in the Toronto | Apartment House at Twentieth and P yesterday filed suit in | District Supreme Court against the | | Toronto Apartment Company, the F. | H. Smith Co., the W. H. West Co..| Reuben D. Vining, manager of the apartment, and Leida Waters, assist-| ant manager. The plaintiff asks that a_ purported sale of her certificates of stock be set aside and that she Dbe restored to the peaceful possession | of her %partment, | Mrs. Harrison through Attorneys Charles N. Joyce and Tench Marye | tells the court that in 1920 the F. H.| Smith Co. formed a co-operative of the building and she bought apar ment 44 for $9,300 on a down pay-| ment of $1,900. She claims that the | management of the building was so | expensive that the rentals would not | meet the operating costs and that as- sessments were made against the cer- tificate holders. Because she failed to pay an assessment of $186. the plaintiff savs, the Toronto Company advertised her certificates of stock | for sale in Delaware and bought in the | certificates. She has been dispnssessed | unlawfully, she claims, and asks for | an_accounting from the defendants | and the restoration of her apartment Bokanowski Sails. 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