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CORPORATION QUL TBY CRTELYL THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1928. k] ey By JOHN KNOX Former U. S. Official Chal-| lenges Authority of Sen- ate to Investigate. Prece ding_chapters told the personal s Br the Assoc Another former Government ol George B. Cortelyou of New York. peared today before the Senate state commerce committee to 0 the Walsh resolution for a sweepi nvestigation into the fir 1 af ©of public utilities corporatic The former Se o s chairman of ated Press f the Treasury CHAPTER VI The Bag of Oranges. LYDE BALSLEY was Ctilities Part 2—The Lafayette Escadrille still unconscious, he saw the smoke puffs of bursting shells about him and fragments of hot steel screamed about v | his head: the German observers had | seen his fall and were directing the fire of their artillery to destroy his plane. When the shelling stopped, he tried to crawl to help, but after drag- ging himself like a dog with a broken back for a few yards he fell exhausted and lay helpless in the blazing sun. At last four French soldiers crawled h SS00 2. cet the National U Assoc DE BALSIEXme 12000 (eet through the wire and dragged him back fo make the i g i, Numbed by the shock of e ot e At SuTWe houd S ) Dullet, his fect Jacked | hospital at Vadelaincourt, where a sur- the resc body to resume command of the | po Sluventis” much in the same you said. As he painfully straightened out | oie a5 the French leutenant near investigation would be f t with his entire rig] vastly gre: be accor y wound he wa: feel 1 posed spe Surther th perfectly legi 1s slmost wholly i Com 8s to the er ARCHBISHOP CURLEY FAVORS GOV. RITCHIE Catholic Head at Baltimore Says He Would Prefer to See Mar; land Man President. a pursuing German and rtical dive. which turned in! n outside loop. shooting back unde German so far that his roll the arm. i at his altimeter and found that he w only 800 feet above the ground and fi n the German lines. Defeated and desperately wounde reasonable course was to lan C Y tholic Arch- an Ca Stale's . was conscious banquet of oo the ann ual and the blood streaming liets tore through his plane. ensible with agony, he went dges fell out of the rack and struck Thinking he had k by another bullet. he looked surrender bafore he bled to death he was mace of stuff too stern to accept surrender while he lived and Almost blindly, he turn- ht | Nim, who complained because the sur- in | geon did not bring him all the pieces | of bone he had taken from the lieuten- | ant’s hip. The young officer was quite indignant because he did not have | enough of his own bone to make a pair of dic ~ Balsley's intestines were punctured in a dozen places and he was not per- mitted to have water although hi fevered body suffered agonies of thirsf Victor Chapman, who visited his wound- | ed friend at the hospital, asked the sur- | geon if Balsley would be permitted to | suck the juice from oranges. The doc- | tor gave his consent, but added that | | no oranges could be found in the vicin- ity; Chapman immediately volunteered | to fly to Paris for a supply. Balsley went to slecp that night a to er of as ar d, nd | War. dreaming of great mounds of cooling oranges and awoke the next morning to find Capt. Thenault and several French officers grouped around his bed. Looking eagerly around for the oranges, he was bitterly disappointed to find that they had brought him only the military medal and the Croix de Guerre, neither of which offered any hope of relieving his thirst. The day before Balsley had seen two men decorated in his hospital ward: both had died within an hour. He thanked the officers who had brought the decorations, but told them that he had more interesting things to do than ic. O e same moming Wictor Ghapman packed a basket with oranges and flew for Valdelaincourt and his fever: k- en friend. It was his day to stay on the ground. but he was glad to give up his rest period to help relieve his com- rade’s burning thirst, so he took off on his peaceful mission to enjoy the flight | for its own sake. The First American to Die. As he sped above the green spring | landscape Chapman saw a flurry of fighting airplanes far to one side of his cour: Drawing nearer, he saw Raoul TLufbery, Norman Prince and a third American hotly engaged with a dozen aviaticks led by the deadly Boclke. Knowing that Balsley would glad'v wait | & few minutes longer for his oranges in such a cause, Chapman climbed high in the alr and dove furiously to the | rescue of his hard-pressed friends. The | Germans scattered at his ferocious at- | tack and he set off in pursuit of two of them who flew away together Just as he was about to overtake them | his plane was seen to dive vertically | with the motor full on. The wing: were torn off by the terrific speed of | the dive and the fuselage crashed into the ground far behind the German lines. Struck by a random bullet in | midair, Victor Chapman had won the | honor of being the first American avia- tor to be killed in action in the World He was the first of the original seven members of the Escadrille Amer- icaine to die. | ‘The fame of his exploits had made him & heroic figure in both France and the United States. During those war days. a dozen years the spirit of sacrifice was the uling emotion throughout the world. The supreme sac- rifice of Victor Chapman, who had taken up the cause of a foreign nation solely because he believed that nation to be right and the enemies of it wron g T N RANE RATES DECLARED UNFAR be spared. 1 wish I could have gone Virginia Commission Recom- in his place.” Balsley walted another day for his mends State Regulatory Body. oranges. When Ellfot Cowdin brought him a bag of precious fruit he asked why Chapman had not come. “He couldn’t make it today.” led Cowdin ('hvrr[‘ly. “His machine is out of order.” ¥ le; orange to his lip | drew new life from the juicy As he was about. to raise one the following day a wounded French officer in an adjoining bed handed him a Paris newspaper con- taining the story of Chapman's death. When he realized that his friend had died in an effort to bring him relief, Balsley nearly die Por’ the six w alsley re- mained at Valdelaincourt he was visit- | cd ¢ day by some member of the | Siecial Dispatch to The Star. | driile, bringing him oranges and | RICHMOND, Va., January 20.—The | other comforts 1o soothe his long agONY. | yeport, of the insurance commission, | The hurricd and overworked staff of | the hospital could do little for the Made to both branches of the Legisla- wounded American and he suffered | ture, discloses that rates and classifi- tortures of pain that would have killed | cation in force in this State have been a man determined to live. Men | died all round him, but he lived, draw- | discriminatory it is recommended that | ing strength from his native *courage | there be a commission of three mem- to sustain his shattered body. bers as a part of the State Corporation One night his wound began to bleed. | Commission to prescribe and determine | The flow increased and be » a hem- | the rates and classifications to prevail | o e. He called the exhausted or-| in the State. derly, who bandaged him so tightly | The reports states that the companies | | that the flow | the cost of te | hours of the ed man in the next bed head jerked down. E orderly, f blood stopped. but at ring pain. As the long the are enforcing high rates, making large , | profits and paying large dividends, tha the system for showing profits and los hich the rates are based, is fallac ous and that the companies are mak- far more than a reasonable profit. | who pu r the | body and leit it for the morning watch pointed out that the rates in Vir- | to carry aw ginia are increased at the pleasure of An hour passed and the man in the | the bureau controlling the business in .bed on the other side gasped in the | Virginia, that there is no competition final agony. Once more Balsley called thy rried orderly. his man is dying!” he exclaimed hen what more can he want?"” the companies and that the in- ses granted in 1926 should not have been granted and should be immedi- ately repealed. The declaration is made d the orderly, turning away to care | that the rates enforced in Virginia is for those who had a chance. at the direction and control of the Balsley rolled painfully on his side | Southeastern Underwriters’ Association and held down the eyelids of the de with headquarters in Atlanta, and that while the face turned cold under the Virginia Rating and Inspection Bu- ands. Then he laid back on his reau is controlled by the organization bed of bloody straw and passed the long h headquarters in Atlanta. hours until dawn, with a_dead man on | The report also declares that Virginia cach side, wondering when his time is “zoned” and that the rates vary in would come. | each of the zones fixed by the com- fie | panies, the rates being high as com- | pared to other States, that in Virginia | being $1.12 and the average in the | United States 92 cents, and that there is “great discrimination” in Virginia | cities compared to other cities. The | burning rate in Virginia is ascertained {to be 49 per cent. and that for the country at large is 52.8 per cent. The report has created a vast amount of interest and insurance legislation will attract much attention this session. the d-‘m:\nd being for a lowering of the rates. ixht. 1998) Tomorrow—Read the breath- less story of Raoul Lufbery. HOLY NAME SOCIETY OF DIOCESE TO ELECT 54 pected at Quarterly 100 Delepfite Parishes E It is the eastiest thing in the world to apologize when you are in the right. Meeting in Hyattsville, January 20— Approximately es from the 54 parishes of the Washington diocese il attend the quarterly meeting of the Holy N; Society of the diocese to be held in St. Jerome's Catholic Church here Sunday. at 4 pm. Annual ction of officers will be held. and an interesting of ddresses ared s S and other by MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U S [reasery | Scientists Meet at National Re- | GEORGE F. CARD EXPIRES. Dies ; BRIDGE FUNDS PLANNED. | Edmonston, Md., to Give Benefits as Span Nears Completion. | Special Dispaten to Tha Star. Income Bureau Employe While Listening to Radio. George Franklin Card, 65 years old, a special searcher in the income tax unit,| EDMONSTON, Md. January 20— Internal Revenue Bureau, where he had | The new concrete bridge over the Easte been vmflny«d since about 1914, died | ern Branch is rapidly nearing comple- while listening to a radio program in |tion. The structure will cost somewhat his home, 1344 Oak street, yesterday |less than $2000. Through the use of afternoon. county road rebate money received by Occupants of the house upon discov- | the town and the revenue from town ering_the body summoned a physician | taxes. a substantial part of the money and Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt, coroner, is- | needed to pay for the bridge is in hand. sued a certificate of death due to natural | To raise the several hundred doliars causes, still needed. & series of entertainments is planned. It i3 hoped to avoid rais- ing the tax rate. The minimum tax rate of 25 cents on each $100 of prop=- erty is now in effect, but the town has | authority by act of the Legislature to raise the rate to 50 EDUCATION OF DEAF IN CONFERENCE AIM | search Council to Work Out Program. Let us quote our low prices Small Orders Given Careful Attention No Delivery Charge J. Frank Kelly, Inc. 2101 Georgia Avenue N.W. LUMBER—WILLWORK—DU FONT PAINT—HARDWARE A conference of psychologists, an-, thropologists and physiclans on the problem of education of the deaf start- ed today at the National Research Council under the direction of Dr.| Knight Dunlap. The object of the conference is to work out a co-ordinated program for the various sciences in dealing with this subject. The division of anthro- pology and psychology of the council will give a dinner in honor of the delegates at the Catlton tonight. Among those in attendance are Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Berry of Worcester, Mass: Frank M. Driggs of Ogden. Utah: Miss Mabel E. Adams of Boston, T. C. Forrester of Rochester, Dr. R. H Gault of Northampton, Mass.: Dr. M. A Goldstein of St. Louis, Dr. E. A Gruver of Mount Airy. Pa.: Miss Bes- sie N. Leonard of Northampton, Mass. H. M. McManaway of Staunton, Va.: Dr. Horace Newhart of Minneapolis. Minn.: Dr. Harris Taylor of New York City. Dr. Madison Bentley of the Uni- versity of Illinois, Dr. Harvey Fletcher of New York. Dr. S. R. Guild of Bal- timore. Dr. Donald G. Patterson of Minneapolis. Dr. F. H. Pike of New York City, Dr. R. Pittner of New York City, Dr. G. E. Shambaugh of Chi- cago. Dr. G. L. Streeter of Baltimore and Dr. J. 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