Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1928, Page 4

SHINGTO N ¢ 5 - HCKMAN DEFENSE "~ USES STATEPLAN, Prosecution’s Arguments Are| _ Adopted in Attempt to Prove | ) Slayer Insane. By the Aseo LOS AN theft of ACES | :.‘ The Fact Story of American Aviators in the World War —erem— By JOHN KNOX e i o B i s Part 3—Our Naval Air Forces v oof our naval | The English pilots admitted cheerfully that the young Yank was good and congratulated him heartily. adding | their sincere wishes that his luck might continue to hold and bring him back safe from future flights Ingalls tested the efficacy ot these good wishes two davs later. when he aving of led into The Dover Patrol. The narrow seas which spread their troubled gray waters between England and France have been crossed and recrossed since the dawn of recorded istory by mighty men whose hands gripped their weapons while their fierce eves questioned the further shore Caesar came, and the Anglos and the and the . William of rd the Black Deep-waisted cogs and car- racks bore their loads of Sussex men- at-arms and Hampshire archers. Ru- t and Drake and Van Tromp and Nelson sailed and fought their tower- ng white ships in the narrow water- The great Napoleon gazed across troubled waters. at the white f Dover with vast dreams of Half the quarrels of the ve come to this crowded strait ication: history has filled 3 ages with the tang of the salty eezes that blow between Gris Nez and the Cinque Ports. be- tween Dover and Calais That madness which afflicted the world from 1914 to 1918 was no ex- coption 1o historic habit. The | Fnglish Cha! rmed deep by the propell s. destroyers nd cruisers. packed | with human ammunition for the guns n Flanders and by hospital ships re- ning the wreckage of war. ve' started their ad boen accepted as vesterday, wher ke the stand after ive Lieut man; s Dot~ he facts he defense he coast. tald o the prisoner “fits’ n in the Pendletor 1 indulged in a lone rald on the German airdrome at Varssenaere, in Belgium | | Cemmg at top speed from the south- | west. Ingalls swooped over the air drome at a height of less than 400 feet His small pursuit plane could carry only four 25-pound Cooper bombs. but he placed all of them to good ad- vantage, making direct hits with three on German hangars and planes. Not satisfied with the damage he had caused by his bombs, he attacked again through the barrage of anti-aircraft fire, spraying the running figures on the ground with his machine gun and then making a second and still lower attack. In his last two swoops at the airdrome he fired 650 shots from his machine guns Leaving the German fiving headquarters in confusion he fled across the Belgian lines to safety be- fore the swarm of avenging German planes could get high enough to attack him. Bad weather intervened for a week. but the 21st of August saw “flying weather” again. Ingalls was soon on his way with two English pilots for company. all fiying Sopwith Camels They came close-to death before they returned to their Dunkirk airdrome that night. (Conyright 1925 by John E Dille Co.d Tomorrow—Read of Lieut. Ingalls adventure with a German “airplane trap.” Read how he and his comrades shot down the “bait.” and escaped the jaws of the trap by a narrow margin. ! tempted to obtain Mrs. Isobel Klein, | ]l at Pendle- ce detective as—he threw on the 1 said I thought Judge do vou suppose *“T told him he'd probabl fine.” ., B he said. ‘He won't doesn't believe in capital But I guess I throw a Reveals Fear Meotive. On the m e for killing the girl. Lucas quoted Hickman as saying *Evervbody was looking for me, and I ;,1? sca ed. Then 1 made up my mind ey was reading a jon in which Hick- luding the pursuing po- and of how he sat in his it was being searched e ter the murder was dis- evered. a smile showed at the corners f the young prisoner's mouth During the search of the apartment by the police. the confession said, the sl in $20 bills which Hickman had as ramson from the father of the slain child ay hidden behind a wall jroning board. where it was not sighted by the officers. The officers had ding & towel with house mark on it wrapped about Ma- rian Parker's body. During the morning session of the a deposition by a former Kansas over of Hickman that the used to kill chickens for cus- the butcher shop featured he reading of testimony of absentee witnesses. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair and con- tinued cold tonight. lowest temperature tonight about 26 degrees: tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness, with slowly rising temperaturs Maryland~Fair and continued cold toright: tomorrow increas ng cloudi- | For the first time. men struck be- low the surface of the waters. Close. pent Teutonic crews struck hard blows rom metal boxes swimming deep below the waves—blows so hard and a 'LOWDEN WILL LEAVE INDIANA TO WATSON Conference Report Says Governor Will Not Enter State Primary. so shrewd that they came within hair of winning victory for their cause. Our Navy's Problem. The chief problem of the American ! Navy in the Summer of 1918 was to| hunt down German submarines in the | Channel and the North Sea and to| harry their bases in conquered Bel- | |gium. It was for this greal purpose | {that there came into being the Dover | Patrol. destined to write new pages !into the long and bioody history of B the Assaciated Prece the English Channel INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. February To help in combating the common A special dispatch to the Indianapolis enemy. the United States Navy “loaned® | Star from Washington last night savs certain of its aviation personnel to the | that it was definitely decided at a con- | Roval Air Force to reinforce the hard- | ference yesterday that Frank O. Lowden pressed Enelish fivers. Among these will not enter the Indiana preferential was David Sinton Ingalls. a Cleveland presidential primary next May. This bor of 19, who had enlisted in the Navy | will leave a clear field. as far as Lowden 2s a machinist on the day this country | is concerned. to Senator James E. Wat- | entered the war. Young Ingalls had son. who is expected to announce his undergone air training in this country candidacy within a few weeks and in Europe Younger than Frank | The dispatch also says that it is Iuke, Ingalls developed many of the stated definitely that Secretary Hoover characteristics of the famous Army ace | will not authorize the use of his name and startled the Flanders front with!in th: primary. though it is reported a series of remarkable air victories that James P. Goodrich. former Gover- at the same time that Luke's flaming nor of Indiana. one of his political ad- German balloons were lighting up the | visors. recently advised him to do so St. Mihiel and Argonne sectors. “Suwfl’;fi tnlmwlunm x}{!v'dfn and ! Vice President Dawes are likely to pool apaile)plavypilier. thelr interests in the contest for the Lieut. Ingalis was detailed to fiv 2 election of the delegates. the dispatch a pilot with Squadron 213 of the Roval! stated. Mr. Goodrich. it is expected Alr Force. From the beginning of his | will attempt to name delegates favor- service with this English unit Ingalls showed a skill and daring in | tle. president of the Indiana Farm Bu- air combat which was the admiration |reau. it is understood. will urge the (of many older pilots of much longer | farmers to give their support to Senator experience. | Watson. b-xng-ns' first appearance in the com s t reports came on August 11, 19 |just a few davs before Prank Luke PRAISES DRY PATROL. won his unconfirmed victory notth of | | Chateau Thierry. Ingalls. flying an ‘F.ngluh Sopwith Camel. and accom- Josephus Daniels Says Florida [panied by Lieut C. B Brown o | Units Were Needed at Start. | Roval Air Force, met an Albatros: | two-seater seven miles northeast of PALM BEACH, Fla.. February 2 (#). Dixmude. in Belgium. Ingalls dived o' _while declining to comment on the | the attack. Brown following ®ith a approaching general election, other than | weather eye out for possible German | 1, express confidence of a Democratic rescuers. The impetuous voung Amer- | victory Josephus Danieis, Wwar-tme ican and his English teammate sWiftly | gecretary of the Navy, took occasion to herded the German into & position UD- | eypress his satisfaction at the mobili- Former | voung able to Mr. Hoover. but William H. Set- | pess. with slowly rising temperature in | der their guns: the conclusion of the the interior. | ight is well told in the following com- Virginia—Fair tcnight: tomorrow in- | bat report from the files of the British ereasing cloudiness, Dot much CHange In | ministry of war: { — htind | “At 955 when at 14.000 feet, seven o e P ot o | miles northeast of Dixmude, sighted . 10 diness, }nh Bre & "* enemy afreraft, two-seater, coming v Tising em- | yoyards our lines st 10,000 feet. On | seeing our Camels the enemy turned |and dived towards Ostende. Camel< attacked and leader fired about 150 rounds in short bursts at 150 yards. | pursuing enemy aireraft down to 5.000 | feet east of Westende. Just after the Camels broke off combat the enemy went into a low spin, which became faster and faster and was last seen | <till spinning about 1000 feet from the ground, obviously out of eontrol | “(Signed) ~ COLIN P. BROWN, | “Lieut. R. A.'P. “D. 8. INGALLS. | “Lient. U. 8 N.R. P | report carries the | Record for 24 Hours. rmometer—4 pm., 46: 8 pm., 40 12 midnight, 37, 4 am, 34; 8am, 27 noon, 35. Barometer—4 pm. 2098, 8 pm 0%; 12 midnight, 30.21: 4 am. 30.28; . 3035 following \firmed destroyed by the Belgians ) R. GRAHAM, pmmanding 213 Squadron.” | Shooting down & German airplane | was not such an unusual event in the | August of 1918 that Ingalls' first vic- acted any parti attention Weather a flower garden. His ways expecting. in the fact that we all need their milk, sends to the grocer's for she knows what to e P s LI zation of Coast Guard units to stamp out rum running on the Florida coast. “1f it had been done when the eighteenth amendment first went into effect there would not be all this furore about its now.” he declared in com- menting upon the use of seaplanes, Coast Guard patrol boats and destroy- ers now being used.’ Mr. Daniels arrived here from Miami. Nearly 800000 pounds of manila hemp, for making rope, was shipped from Sumatra to this country in the 251 year. yesterday Established 1842 Direct Branch of Factory 1340 G St. N.W. A number of bargains in used Grands and Uprights. Full line of Brunswick Panatropes and Joseph Jeffe —had an l»\tr“hrlr;vinz fondness for flowers, and always advised young and old to cultivate theory was that life's worth while as long as you are expecting some- thing, and with a flower garden you were al- Half of the joy of living lies are always expecting— expecting the weather will be fair, business will be zood, expecting the children will be home and So the W gton Mother Milk because Quality Milk, ’ Simpsa xpect WOHAN LAVNER * SUESMILLIOWARE Former Capital Resident Says He Promised Her Home and Fortune. 1By the A od Press. LOS ANGELES, February 2.—Al agreement whereby Col. E. C. Wheele 1 Nevada millionaire, was said to have at- | Washington attorney. as his sec- | retary for life was revealed here yes- | terday when his suit to recover $25,000 from Mrs Klein came to trial. | In a counter suit Mrs. Klein declared | | that Col. Wheeler to obtain her services las permanent secretary offered her these inducements- | | Promised to take her into his home {as his niece, educate her two children, !bay her a home and automobiles, give | her $100.000 in Nevada Water Co. stock and make a will leaving “er his fortune. That was seven years ago, and since !then, she contends. he has paid only | $20.000 on her $67:000 Beverly Hills { home, made only small down payments on two automobiles. failed to produce | the Water stock and taken notes for ! all of the money he has advanced | | " She asks $90,000—her salary for seven | years at $250 a week Mrs Klein came to Washington about 10 years ago from Tennessee, where she | had graduated from a college in that| State with a law degree. She was un-| derstood to have been a member of the | Tennessee bar, although she did not be- | come a member of the Washington bar She was emploved in the offices of | James A Emery. an attorney, in the | Unfon Trust Building. Her husband. | Edward J. Klein. had died before she came to Washington. leaving two chil- dren Members of Mr Emery’s law firm re- called today the circumstances under | | which she entered the employ of Col | Wheeler. and verified the fact that she had filed suit against the Nevada mil- lionaire. “ARMY DAY” PLANNED BY MILITARY ORDER | May 1 Designated for Celebration to Be Patterned After Navy Observance. Celebration of an “Army day” on the | first of next May, somewhat after the | | fashion in which “Navy day” has been | observed on October 27 for the past; few vears, is being planned by the | Military Order of the World War. | The commander-in-chief of the or- canization. Col. Thatcher T. P. Lequer. has called on the chapters to organize patriotic celebrations on May 1 “to bring to the attention of the prople of the country the service rendered by the Army.” The District of Columbia Chapter has announced a local observ- ance stressing the importance of the R. O. T. C. and the Civilian Military Training Camps. Under the leadership of Rear Admiral Thomas J. Cowie. the Military Order specially active in supporting ‘Navy di which was instituted by i the Navy League of the United States and co-operated in by the Navy Depart- ment. The order now feels the time is opportune for the institution of &/ similar demonstration for the Army. WILL TRAIN 7,200. Plans have been made by the War | Departnient for the training of 7.200 | Reserve Officers’ Training Corps stu- dents in military camps during June. July and August, this year. an increase of 168 over the total attendance last year. The allotment for the 3d Corps Area. which includes the District | of Columbia, for this year is 1,083. There are 108.000 students enrolled n the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps 1t varjous colleges and schools. From hat number. 7.200 of those who have ompleted their junior year in such raining will be selected to attend the camps. | | S e | Government motion picture censors in Persia are showing no interest in the moral tone of the films, but refuse to pass any that reflect on the Persian overnment or the Moslem religion | F Street at Eleventh ROON at Washington's most madern and complete jewelry house. provements the entire building at the north- west corner of new quarters of R. Harris & Co. Nothing is being neglected in n tractive jewelr to display an the quality of noted for over Reme 7 Fe ORI A THURSDAY., TEBRUARY 1928. “Export Doctors,” porr P MARNES ADVANE e e | ARAGUATRE A suggestion in the Senate yester- day afternoon of a Federal subsidy for doctors brought a counter pro- posal for the exportation of surplus physicians Senator Copeland, Democrat, New York, who is a physician, in fighting an appropriation for ships described it as a subsidy and proposed that Congress “give the poor downtrod- den doctors” some millions. Senator Barkley, Democrat, Ken- tucky. replied that if there was a surplus of physiclans he would gladly support a move to export some. | Best Traditions of Corps Up- | held as Soldiers Plod | Through Forests. The Star and Chicazo Daily . Copyright. 1928. PROGRESO, Nicaragua, February 2. | | Be Radio to ! News —The Marines in their long trek to| BOY RUM INFORMER HELD FOR GRAND JURY Shelton, 17, Accused of Accepting Bribe, Pleads Not Guilty in Court. Stewart S8amuel Shelton, 6721 Piney Branch road, 17-year-old prohibition informer, arrested about a week ago on a charge of accepting a bribe to with- hold testimony in a liquor case, waived hearing and pleaded not gullty oefore ;\( YN Judge Robert E. Mal | United Stares branch of this morning. He was held bond for the action of the A Shelton is alleged to have accepte: $200 in marked money from Bemjamin Chesavoir, 604 H street, on the agree | ment that he would leave town and nc! | testify in the liquor case against Ches - | voir, in which he was the principal wit - ness. He was arrested T detectives at Union Station. Fully 140,000 natives, 40,000 Eurc peans and 20.000 Arabs, Chinese ar Indians attended the fair at Bandoen herlands East Indies Ocotal. in bringing supplies to the bat- | Season-End BLUELAW SCORED AT GTIZENS” MEET Central Association Also Fa- vors Midcity Market Site. Deploring the attitude of the District Commissioners regarding the selection of a site for the Farmers' Market, the Gentral Citizens' Association, at a meet- ing 1ast night in the North Capitol Sav- ings Bank, voted unanimously to sup- port the tight for a site north of Penn- sylvania avenue. The preference of the members was strongly expressed in favor of the midcity site at Fifth and K streets. Condemnation ot the Lankford bill for a regulated Sunday was expressed by Henry Flury. who deplored police action in arresting several boys for coasting in the street Sunday. Mr. Flury ap-| tle area, are showing the efficlency of modern training and are upholding the best tradition of other campaigns. The supply train in command of Maj. Harold Pierce is carrying six months’ supplies to the front line area. Despite the heavy marching yesterday, they proved themselves good soldiers under any circumstances. The weather was hot and the roads were deep with dust. Marching takes place between 2 and 7 a.m. aud between CLEARANCE SALE 3 and 8 p.m., to allow rest for the oxen and troops during the hottest parts of the day. Travel will require 18 days. The country is regardec as extremely dangerous, and it is feared that the outlaws under Gen. Sandino may be en- countered where least expected. An advance patrol clears the path and the first and last of the ox carts carry ma- chine guns on top of their loads. ready for firing in the event of trouble. All the men are heavily armed. Despite the hardships of the march, the men sing as they go forward. There are doctors and dentists in the party to look after those who may become ill. The average march of the train is 10 miles a day over unmapped country, | which is heavily forested and where the | roads are in extremely bad condition. There is danger not alone from am- bushes, but from fever. malaria. ticks. fleas and other insects. Dysentery is also feared. on account of the water, pealed for active support for the Na-| yhich has to be carried over the entire tional Association Opposed to Blue Laws | royte. The oxon are in care of nati‘e and warned the association against apathy with regard to the efforts at stringent Sunday regulations. Robert McMackin cited the need of one or more incinerators for the District and declared that residents near the present refuse plant suffer greatly from insanitary conditions. Francis de Sales Ryan. president, was elected delegate to the citizens' com- mittce of the National Association Op- | posed to Blue Laws and was urged to represent his organization as emphati- cally opposed to efforts at “legislating aflszion into the people of the Capital ity Dr. Wilham P. Kenealy, John G. Me- Mahon, secretary, and Henry Flury dis- cussed the inadequacy of school building ccommodations and the association voted in favor of an appeal to the Dis- trict Commissions to urge forward the so-called five-year bullding program, which it was said has fallen behind. — Two huddred fifty delegates repre- senting 60 countries attended the World Motor Transport Congress held recently at Olympia, England. REMOVAL SALE A DISCOUNT OF 20°. ON ORIENTAL RUGS We have made an enviable record of Success in Business ever since w2 opened in Washington six years ago. Starting with a small, incenspicuous room, we have rapidly grown from a small business to one of the important Oriental Rug enterprises here. Our present establishment at 920 17th St. NW. is too small for the proper conduct of the business and we have leased the large showrooms at— 1739 Conn. ‘The finest specimens of Oriental Prices as low as $8.00—as high as $1,500.00 Make your own reductions from these figures. tenders. who carry their own supplies. The oxcarts alone cost the United States $17.000. g ‘The guards accompanying the trair plan to build a new road. over whicl trucks will run later. This would serve a double purpose. However, the rain: season will wash out the roads within | three months. The men receive one hot | and two cold meals a day. Only cannec | foods are used. but the soldiers are sat- |isfied. There it a fine spirit of com- radeship between the officers and men. Aviation Lures Spaniards. MADRID, February 2 (#).—The avia- tion “rage” 1s sweeping Spain. More than 10,000 voung men have written | government officials desiring to begin | courses in the military schools which will teach them to fly. 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