Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1928, Page 19

STAR, WASHINGTO? D._0, FRIDAY, JANTUARY 20, 1928. 19 ROMA HERD GIVEN GALLANTRY AWARD Sergt. Chapman Receives First Cheney Plaque—Was Burned in Crash. By the Associated Press, Further Tecognition of the bravery and heroism of Harry A. Chapman, master sergeant, 19th Airship Co. of the Army, who saved the lives of four com- | Tade nd his own at the time M the airship Roma aisaster in 1922, was given today with his dc~xgnaflon as Tecipient of the first Cheney award. The award, announced by the War Department, is to be given on this date annually, the anniversary of the death of Licut. William H. Cheney, Air Corps. | killed at Foggia. Italy, in 1920. ward, donated by Cheney’s sister. is in recognition of acts of valor or of extreme fortitude or self-sacrifice in a humanitarian interest performed in connection with aircraft. It is a bmnn‘ plaque bearing the name of th a cert e of award and the | 1 interest from a $10,000 trust| pman. a native of St. Joseph, Mo. of the crew of the Roma when it | himself entrapped with | a canvas-inclosed com- h escape cut off by flames knife he made an opening ln‘ through which he helped | i nions to safety, being burned severely while so doing. Then he! escaped himseif. The burns he received ) tened his life for a time and he s in Walter Reed H back in the service 11 mont! pm here. but mended con- but Chapman’sact ! hing co in the Army more than 11 'my officers declare him to r in addition to bcmg} perior SOCIETY ed from Eighteenth Page.) ? the Italian liberator, who has been spending several d: at the Carlton, as left for New York preparatory to v. Miss Garibaldi, who | was on a visit to the United States on | government matters connected with im- | migration. was last in Washington as | & member of the Italian Debt Commis- sion. She will return to this coux“n early in the Spring. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Humes of New York are now in Washington and are | ing at the Mavflower, where they | were the guests of the latter's sister, Mrs. Henry D. Flood. at a luncheon for | 10 given today in the presidential dmmg Edward Mortimer Parrish of | Lee Lamar Robinson, the Hotel | Roosevelt. Mrs. Robinson accompanied her daughter to Richmond for a stay of a few days and will leave there to. morrow for Miami Beach, Fla. to re- main during the Winter months. Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen will speak on “Disarmament”sbefore the Political | Club at its regular meeting at | gton Club, 1010 Seventeenth | northwest, tomorrox at 2:30 | o'clock pm Mrs. Frank Morrison, | sident, will receive with the honor t. Mrs. Henry T. Allen. at the in- stion following the speaking R. Perry has designated 2 Army day and will have | the tea table Mrs. Charles | n rall. Mrs. Merritt W, Ireland. | 1t A Helmick and Mrs. Her'n'l‘ B. Croshy ssisting hostesses will be Mrs. Frank E. Hopkins, Mrs. Frank W. ed. Mrs. Lewis C. Brinton, Mrs. Lewis W. Cass, Mrs. Charles W. Mortimer and Mrs. J. P. Wade. Mrs. Rose Yates For- rester will introduce the speaker and a musical program will be given by Mrs. Fannie Shreve Heartsill and Mr. Francis T. Eeartsill. street Miss Helen Imirie of Chevy Chase is the guest for a month of Mr. and Mrs. A Cooper Brown of Bloomfield, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Edson Bradley, who for | some years maintained a Winter home | in Washington, have left New York for Palm Beach and will be at Whitehall | for the remainder of the scason. Episcopal Church Home Benefit Card Party. ‘Tables are being sold rapidly for the ecard party to be given Tuesday after- noon, January 24, at 2400 Sixteenth | street, in the ballroom, for the benefit | of the Episcopal Church Home of the | Diocese of Washington, which is under | the control and supervision of a board of governors, headed by the Bishop of Washington, and a board of managers, | by Mrs, Willam Channing | Johnson. More than a hundred tables have aiready been reserved and it is hoped by the committee in charge of . of which Mrs. Judson Cobb ian, that the total number will { | | | of the commitiee. nounced by ! 5. Charles J ictor Cushman, Mrs, Viclor s Randoiph 1L ore W. Noyes, Mrs R. Bhand 5. P. A M. B Lambdin and Miss Junet wife and daughter of Rev in of this city, will sail January 25, on & Mediter- s, embracing Pale "l Europe for the John McCormack benefit of the Bhrine ate Conception st the z iorium Monday night de the Ambussador of Bpain and l‘mm. Benator and Mrs Ransdel), | “Tasker J. Walsh riet League of American Pen 5 sy preswited by WL Teception 1 by o e nted by am Bradiey Tkt Ciesr eiection from sy section will complew Montegus Lation Us bee pres the Art ir0ay eyve Glovies of I Carroli will preside will o Atuer the Jecture ol yeception in and the special Dunican valers g ot prule L euld Liis Wonler, SERGT. HARRY A. CHAPMAN. LECTURE FOR TEACHERS. Dr. Karl Buehler to Give First of Series Tomorrow. The first of two lectures especially for teachers of the puplic schools will be | detivered tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the assembly room of the American Red Cross, by Dr. Karl Buch- | ler. professor of chology in the Uni- versity of Vienna, who is lecturing this vear at American University here. Arrangements for the lecutres were made jointly by Dr. Frank Ballou, su- perintendent of schools, and Dr. Ed- | Ward T. Devine. dean of the Gradu- ate School of the university. The nex lecture to be given the following Sat- urday morning will be the second on the same subject, continuing a “Criti- cism of Psychoanalysis from the stand- point of child psychology.” TIHE TEVENING U. S. STEEL ACCUSED ON HOUSE FLOOR Beedy Says Corporation Seeks to Monopolize Shipping of Burlap. By the Assoclated Pre The United States Steel Corporation was accused in the House yesterday by Representative Beedy, Republican, Maine, with working hand in hand | with foreign shipping lines in an at- | tempt to control the movement of jutes ‘nnd burlaps from India. He also at-| tacked Congress for what he said was | its failure to provide adequate funds | | for the Shipping Board. Beedy said American firms pur- | \rl!’\fld 600,000 tons of jutes and bur- {laps a year from India and that the steel corporation had endeavored to keep & part of the traffic from Amer- ican lines. He charged the steel cor- poration with “selfishness” in making | an offer for the government lines to India, which, he said, had been allocat- ed by the Shipping Board to the Roose- velt line in an attempt to build up — | private operation of American tonnage | |in_this service. He contended that the steel corpora- tion sought to acquire a monoply of | American flag t.onnage in this trade. TEXAS HANGARS BURN. ! | Ellington Field, War Aviation | Camp, Damaged by Grass Fire. HOUSTON,. Tex., January 20 (P).— A grass fire swept by a strong wind last night set fire to Ellington Field, war- | \lime aviation training camp, and de- stroyed three unused hangars and omu' | equipment. Firemen from Houston, 16 miles away. pumped water from ditches to extin. guished the flames. 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