Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1928, Page 10

10 'Gray Keeps Peace at End of | Last Week of Life—Exe- cution Planned. ¥ the Associated Press W YORK. January Marked the closiig: of Week of life for Mrs. Ruth Snyder | and Henry Judd Gey unless* some unforseen development prevents < their execution next Thursday Gov, Smith. who was'in New Y today, has not vet agpo a_ his decision on the last pleas for elem- ency. but his getions it the hearing Two davs indicated that he had o intention of overriding:the courts. courts, Warden Fing Sinz absence the last full Lawes was Prigow today, but in his plans aent ahoad for the | 1 and for, the hrief funeral s on_the following day Such always are held in.the ltle | bining the death. chamber and are attended only By 'the mem- Pers of the immediate families of Cthe deceased Mrs. Sndyer Feels Sad. Gray kept hix peace today deen his custom during his s Ihe death se, but Mrs . Snyder, ways more communicative, let it Be known that she was feeling very 4 The sadness, she said, d by the fact that rhe under- Warden Lawes was angry hér. away from room h e accused me of sending | naterial to the papers.” she said *I wrote some stuff~on some pi of paper. but 1 didn't know what 4t was for. Now Warden Lawes is #nzry at A tabloid printed “stuff” Mrs. I'fnyder wrote, however, as “Ruth's +8&coop.” and asserted that the secret {®f how she got the writing out of the sdeath house would go with her to the | igrave. X Lawyer and Clerk Barred. A lawyer and Jaw clerk who were | ibarred from Sing Sing because of the Incident, tried to reach Warden Lawes today by telephone to protest their| “innocence of smuggling the copy out, {but were unsuccessful. Sing Sing authorities today investi. | Eated a repart: that Mrs. Josephine | Rro\u\ mother of Mrs. Snyder. had “smuggled written messages out of the | prisor. for the doughter. Warden | Lawes admitted he had begun an in- Quiry into such a report, but with- held comment. ARMY BAND TO TOUR. The. Army Band at Washington =Barracks will make a tour of Penn “®yiva ew York: Ohio, Indiana, st Virginia. North Carolina, South Carotina. Georgia. Alabama and Dela- | iware and: give public. concerts practi- pally ever night in the principal| Fpities. These concerts are sponsored Jn the various citiex hy patriotic. fra. Aernal. educational and other organi- Zations. i The band will leave here January 16. giving its first concert in Reading “the same evening and continuing its Tprozram of concerts in other cities until February 25, when the final con- cert will be given at Wilmington, Del. C. C. Cappel of this city has made 1l arrangements for the tour and will _epresent the bant in the citier visited. Cap'. William J. Stannard, leader, and [ Thomas 8. Dar have immediate supervision of the personhel and alternate in - conduct ing the music, TERMS $5 Down $1 Weekly S| caught-—mi second leader, wil) | "THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 8, 1928 PART 1. ACES UP' By JOHN KNO The Fact Story of American Avxators in the World War in this am Lukes boxh rauit piot his o o the st | Previous installments i"lvu\'l\v deseribed Lie s training s a hattle with an 1 story of his vic a awo in 4 single day. 18 1 T.~~Today | | e 4 vecord - | T army siatiment o | DA Tkt st far i enemy | ¥ Misabied ongine, He was trapped.” read on CHAPTER V. HE rush and combat ha¢ swinzg of the avvied Luke hixh enough for a long Swooping glide with one nee in a hundred of escaping from the | in whieh he found himself. There was a little gas in his rese tank. By hard work with his { pump he coutd feed it into his e [ for the few minutes that would de- | termine whether or not thix was his jlast ficht. But—a man wheds work- ing a mas pump eannot alsa work a | machine gun. Speed was Luke's i only defernse. Alone and with a arted on his long slide. d-—caught | tered—and then burst into roar as Luke 1| His first dive o \ range of the swarmin { he was alone and no help was in | dead_engine he | The enzine in—sput- full toned | frantically, nt | sight. Although he did not know that Wehner was dead. he could not see his friend und the sky above and behind him black with pursuinz | Fokkers. | Swiftly the Kkilometers slipped he- neath. A quick slance behind showed him that the pursn i ing and that ship out of the chase as the drew nearver. Safety was | when a new factor entered the situa- tion. Immedintely ahead Luke saw the smoke puffs of bursting French | antiaircraft shrapnel. As he drew closer he saw that the ground bat-| | teries were firing at a G which was fiving directly across hix I;mh with two French planes in hot | | pursuit. | German Aeroplane shot down in air battle by Lieut. Aero Squadron, Pursuit Group, 26(h Division, under burlan in foreground. Frank Luke, jr. German avintor's hody Wehner is ‘entitled to share i ties over both balloons, uested, two IN°8 | aeked Lieut. Wehner who was above ! Licut. gra and on one side. I started climhing to | ioin the fight when two K A. attack ed me from the vear. 1 turned on them. opening both guns on the | leader. We came head-on until within a few yards of each other, when my opponent turned to one side in a nose dive and I saw him crash on the ground. T then turned on the sec. | ond. shot a short burst and he turned | and went into a dive. | saw a num-! her of E A apove, but could not find ! and three pl The story of that unhelievahle minutes swept through both like a_prairie fire. The allies electrified by the triumph and iermans depressed. The story too thrilling for even the working German propaganda to Keep it from their armies; thou sands of their own men had scen parts of the battle from the ground The doubt that had been growing in the mind of the ened into certainty: the * American could fight and fight with deadiiness, in xpite of what their off cers told them to the contrary. were a million Americans trenches and the futur It js no exax: ation te say the demoralization of the Ger army on’the west front re ived a great Impetus from that minutes’ work by the Arizona Hye Ace of Aces. Another Vietim, Banking sharply, Luke abandoned | his pump and as his motor died he | { dove between the two French ships, | fired his last cartridges into the Ger- | | man and_sent him flaming to the | | ground.. Twenty-five minutes had | | “lapsed since he and Wehner had | opened fire on the first halloon—two | balloons and three planes had falen | before his gunsi—e record unequaled | in_warfare: | Luke guided his shattered plane to an ahandoned airdrome in the rear of the French lines and stepped 1o the ground to find himself the hero of the Verdun front. Wildly cheer- | ing French soldiers gulded him to the position of a battery of American | artillery whose officers and men re- ceived him riotously. He was escorted to a_field telephone, from which he told Hariney of his victories | | and his safety. Azain let his own| | terse report téll the modest story of | this victorious battle against impos- sible odds: The Ace's Report. “September 18, 1918, “Lieut. Luke reports: Lieut, W ner and 1 left the airdome at 16 h { (4 pm.) to spot enemy balloons. Over | St. Mihiel we saw two Germun bal- loons near Labeauville. We maneu vered in the clouds and dropped down, | burning both. We were (hen at. | tacked by a number of E-A tenemy | aircraft). The main formation ai- in American The next morning was one of ex of the 27th "Aero Squadyon. wires had been humming along the front and when the caln light of morning arvived every on knew the surprising facts. Secor Lieut. Frank Luke. a “greenhorn.’ | had won. 13 officially confirmed vic vies in six days of fighting: he had paxsed Capt. Edward Rickenbacker of When Frank Luke stepped from bullet-ridden plane behind the lines | nch infantry they burst into | applavse for his amazing feat. Lieut. Wehner, so turned and made for our linex. The above fixht oc-| curred in the vicinity of St. Hilaire, | On reaching our balloon east on our side found enem gave and we got after a short within_ our eminence acco Aces™ in the Ameriean Afr “There had been nothing aceidenta ahout any of these vietories. Each 1had been the reward of supreme sKil chase with some other Spadgiand darin ‘hat ot Luke's. tel- him off his lines, n&'ln\\ pilats was the unbelievable com- encounter he crashed! hination of luck and kil that haa| nines east of Verdun. kept the mew wonder led to the Service it and observation raachine With This Coupon Needle Threader 1S¢ Value 7c BOTH SIDES OF 7™ AT K ST “THE DIP‘N Big Clearance Sale SEWING MACHINES kit s ONE DAY ONLY This Duplex Electric Cabinet Sewing Machine Regular Price $92.50 ol Every machine brand new—fully guar. anteed—lessons free on attachments—only 12 at this price. Clearance Sale on All Reconditioned, T'rade-in and Used Sewing Machines—These machines are all in will give years of service—wonderful bargains— Regular Price $7.00 New Home $9.00 Wheeler & Wilson, $10.00 Singer, .. $7.00 Wheeler & ‘Wilson $10.00 Domes: $10.00 National $10.00 8. & C. 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The fatal word “missing” was Wi ten afier his name on the mnrnlnu i report;'there had heen no word from | any source concerning his |nn|mhln‘ fate. No one had sean him go down. He hadn't been veported anywhere | along the allled line and that mmm) one of only two things; he was dead | or a prisoner. The doubt hit Luke | harder than it hit the other officers of | the squadron, Wehner had been hix | ter _time he had | to Wehner's keep: Ing when he dived t leaving his tried a the air above to | planes. The hours ould stand aking o went - by until Luke the suspense no new plane, he 1y lines and eruised forth over the scene of day's fight, scanning round for xome sign of hix missing comrade. Two German planes dived Kk him, but. for the first time, sided combat and continue! his search. When his gax tank | ¢ he glided back o the home feld, ‘where his eager met by shaking next day a considerate Germ: i for flew _low over the front iine trenches and dropped a weighted mes. veporting Wehner's death in the tle of the 18th; Perhaps Luke felt relief at learn- ing the truth. Even the knowledge of his loss was b than uncer | tainty. No one ever rned Luke feelings from him, he kept his | own counsel. but it was evident that the death of his closest friend had shuken -his serenity. Somewhat list lexsly he accepted the dinner given to him by the Ist Pursuit Group to | eelebrate his victor! At that din ner he made the a punc¢ement “hat he would never submit to eapture, as told in the opening chapter of (h Zehronicle. He was both please arrassed by the praixe showe upon him, but more than usually in- different to the Wwarnings of his offi his fellow pilots and his me- k| the the b 0| Luke was a favorite with these unsung heroes in overalis the squad- ron mechanics, although he brought them more toil than all the rest of| the squadron put’{ogether. Iy a| passed that he did not bri plane so shattered by bullets and | shrapnel that a complete joh of re- building was thrust upon-the over-| worked knights “of the mnkn\; wrench. Still they loved him for his daving and often worked far into the | night without orders so ihat he misht | 1ake the air in the morning with plane in the’ hest' condition in which | they could put-jt. He spent hours| working with them. laughing at their warnings and predicting. that his luck would carry him throuzh the war ugscathed. (Covyright n | 10083 * Tomorrow—Read how Lieut. Luke won his first decoration and how he again escaped from another German (rap with one mare victory to his eredit. WARSHIP PLANS UP. Secretary Wilbur and his “principal | dvisers” will be called before the flouse _naval committee Wednesday | for quektioning on the administra tion's 5,000,000 warship building 4! program. Questioning of witnesses { will be limited In an effort to ex | \ resentative Britten, Tllinoix ‘vm\l.lm: Republican committee me | her, declared today that he belie " (e program should bo upproved as | ! coon as possible. hut annvunced he ! watild ‘endeavor 1o have a definite ) time st for completion of construr. | tio NGINEERS T0 ASK 1 said, | resgnted in_we (U5 WATER SURVEY Sessions Opening Tuesday Will Deal With Flood- Control Problem. An inventory by the Geological Sur- ry of United States water resou | with a view to flood control, and organization of the Departmen. of the | to accomplish con | gincering supervision of the public works function of the Government | will he the chief objecie of the Ameri ean Engincering Council, which meets hers for a twoday session, Tuesday and Wednesdiy. More than 100 leading om - all parts of the expected to attend the ing. Practical 1 the problems con- | fronting the engineering waorld \\||I he nssed at section meetin |legislative program for 1928 wilt e de clded upon, The 2 the N alized en- ! engineers sntry are dinner will he held HY Hotel Tuesday night rd. Rritish prineipal speaker. Urging an_inventory of sources, as provided in the hill introduced in the House December Dean Dexter & 00l of ineering. versity. of the clare f life can he assured only .y th of complete n on thé subject The which would he mads available by such an inventory. he “will be utilized hy ensineers financlers. courts and others in con neetion with the « construetion and administeation of projects for do niestic, monicfy <upplies. irrign the control of m do Ry no other n safe ne nse of this< At naty e assured.’ All branches of engineering are rep by the American ing Council. the membership of which comprises practicing. teaching and in veatigating engineers and experts of the country. ar Would Forbid Cotton Trading. By the Associated Press. o Trading in cotton futures on ex changes of the country would be pro- | hibited under bills introduced vester- day by R x»rm«nrlnll\nn Blanton and | Tones, . of Tex: provided penalties in c form of fines and imprisonment. 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