Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1928, Page 4

LINDBERGH, IN AIR, Plane Good for 110,000 More Miles of Flying, He Claims. BY COL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGR P+ Cabie to The Star and New Vork Times AROARD SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS @yer Windward Passage. February 8.- Bight-three am.. seventy-fifth meridian | | thme. Wind esst by north, sea calm. | sky partly overcast. Altitude. 2.300 feet: ®ir speed. 93 miles per hour: compass | o 1 April 24 Rickenbacker was { sent up to drive away or <hoot above St. Mihlel. He flew across the German Nne and approached the region fn which the enenty ship was reporied from the Ger- man side. to gain whatever advantage there might be In postponing the enemy’s discovery of his hostile inten- corirse, 290 degrecs. The western coast of the Island of Falti is fading into the hortzon: a small vestel is visible abont six miles to the morthward. Cuba is not vet in view. This is the second longest flight sinee leaving Mexico City—nearly 806 miles— | and the seventh longest made by the &pirit of St. Louis. New York to Paris. 3510 miles, of course was the greatest tance covered: the s>cond. Washing- 2:1 to Mexieo City. about 2,200 miles Then comes San Diego to St. Louis, slightly over 1.500 miles. Al three of theee tripe required overnight fiving. Pourth is the trip from Caracas. Vene- miels, to 8¢ Thomas, in the Virgin Is- Iands, around 1.000 miles. Fiith and sixth. the flights botween St. Lonis and New York, sabout 950 miles each. Travels 40.000 Milee The Spirit of St. Louis has. up to the taking off from Port au Prince. been in the air more than 459 hours and cov- | ered a distance of nearly 40,000 miles in & total of 467 flights “The origina! motor has never been feplaced and has not as yet received 8 | mmjor overhauling. Neither plane nor | engine have had aver 3 per cent re- | placements and vet both are in excellent eondition and entirely capable of con- tihuing in service for a much longer than thev have now been in use, th proper care and maintenance. the modern plane and engine should minimum life of 150.000 miles. Nine-twenty am.. 3.100 feet over low untains of Eastern Cuba. mountsins below are covered with @ semi-tropical growth, broken fre- Quently by banana plantations and small cultivated fields. A few miles sway to the south, along the coast. is a Tidge of mountains rising several hun- dred feet above mv present altitnde. To the north is the Guantanamo Valley. eovered with flelds of suger cane. The eritire country appears 10 be well in- habited and several small cities are wvisible. Carries Mait Sacke. I am carrying with me three sacks of mail for Havana. the first »ir mail @ver carried #n the Spirit of St. Louis. One of these sacks came from San Demingo and although it remained in the plane for two while I was in Port Au Prince. it will still arrive in Mavana dayx shead of time. This is :::dluflon of the possibility for air southh of the United States. The fiying conditions 1 have encountered @uring the tour have been favorable ot air travel. yet in case of a fag & Plane could remain on the ground for days If ry and still be far ahead of travel. opporti- attractions for both climatic and historical. = l"ft' years . ibtedly lhwuw'fll Iines opers over the West Indian Islands betw to & route tral America. for develop- 16:19 a.m., 2.100 feet, over Ria Cavlo. ‘The territory below is low and level Witii a few hills visfble here and there | @80 15 10 miles 4o the southward, Sky @lear except for scattered cumulus 11:56 4.1., 1.300 feet over island slong mmht s Monha planes extend many miles inland $0 the mounta! 4 Borizon. The. WRITES OF FUGHTil 1 1 RS The two ewhyro fivers were totally wm. Awals (hat two enemy planey wers wind hoth finally 1 nanse to_ att Mo were immedi CHAPTER IIL A Wild Chass—and a Victery. down a German plan~ fiving tions, until the last moment As a result of this sirategy. Ricken- backer was sble to sip up above and | bshind the German without #pparently atiracting the latter’s aitention. Just as the Yank was about to launch his | ship inte & shooiing dive which wou | send the German down in flames. he took the precaution of looking behind, ! He turned just in time 1o see a huge black Albatross fighter diving on him | out of cloud. The lower plane had { been “bait.” Rickenbaeker was the | "game.” and the German higher up was | to gather him in. Rickenbacker shot his plane straight | up Into the sir. Nfting It by prayer as | much as by engine powes. As he climb- | ed out of his danger his eagerness to | escape changed 1o an equal eagerness to | shoot down the German who had given | him such a scare. In & few minutes the | superior clmbing abitity of “Rick's” | plane had put him above and behind | the seeomnd n and his fingers were {just closing on the trigger of his machine fi" when he looked back to | ee that he was safe from amy more | planes. Rickenbacker Svrrounded. Once more he biessed his foresight. A few hundred yards were two | airplanes. both rushing at him at full | speed. 'With enemles above snd below {and with no friends m sight. Ricken- | backer was in a perilous position and nothing but mirsculous luek could bring him home in safety. Forgetting s quarry below, Ricken- | backer again sent his plame strajght up { into the afr. but the new arrivals could | climb just as fast as he could. Ricken- backer ducked, 7oomed, circled, side- i slipped and employed every maneuver i he knew—but the two pursuers staved | right with him, imitating his every evo- lution in a sort of grim game of “follow the leader.” | Just as “Rick™ was expecting the Ger- man bullets to tear through his back he came 10 & large cloud. he dived into fts fleecy proteetion, ehanging his | | dixgetion part way through énd cir- the eoast. which appear greatly 85 my plane passes. I am 10 108 feet 1> get & clear view of 3he wild life. lust passed two small sharks. A num- of small boats are five miles out to Quite & few fish are visible, rang- up 4b sbout three feet in lengi e of the larger birds doudle up wings and fall into the water as e plane overtakes them. 1:32 pm., 800 feet, imterior of Cuba. ous plantations, occasionsl sugar , frequent landing fieids, 40 pm., over Havana SoyEEht. 1975 i the Umited Siates Canuts. Mexicn. C.im. Contral and Somth Amprica Turope and the Brtish Dom nions o he Tork Times Co. All righte Soosroa LINDBERGH IS MADE CUBAN 1DOL AFTER FLIGHT FROM HAITI 4 from Pirst Puge Zontin — kg of the Pan-American Congress, swer the Appisuse of the erowad Ap Lin h befL the baleony. he re- beived 2 motherly blessing In English Mme. Pouvert Terry, wife of & nent Cubsrn, who made ner way e B9 great was the desire of Cubans 1n e the Lome Ragle srrive 1hat they eside an ancient custom. The ir that an unescoried woman mus wout hersel! bewide u man in g5y :‘. conveysnce was defled by anik 68 Cunen senorites and vemen of all wio teaveled the % miles ¥ tne feid L bergh said the Bpirit of 81 Jouls eovered rasrly 40009 rnikes since «r“ off from Sen Diczs tor Ney and ulUmately, Paria 1t was ex 4 that some 8000 miles of 1his art of e good-will tsur in which Visiled Mrxico, Guatemals, Beitisn curas, Belvador Homdurs: Nira- Costa Jica, Pensms Colomma 2ieis, B! Thomas, Porio fun, the Inican Republie and el / Plane SUM Rervicesble. of the movor and plane s oy ienst 9% per cont of )15 original Won and (he plane i» capahle of more 1 the dislance slicady ; w8l “Planes of this #00uld e gl for 10 b proper care Aet plans for bie Blght 1, B Louis Bonaey have nn yer been compieea “8 plan, however, v &) simg L Wew i of Plorian ™ Lindberght explained Pect 10 lesve wilh 8 comparstively losg In facr the Spinit of i e 1k B0 3 0w gl gasoline 10 & 0 B Lo Arat 84 ms) wervice beiween the the Aniilles war Jiwtgrelen Lindvergs e arvival ‘Iwo sacin of Drom Beiin Lowingo wnd one fiom fyer's progiom \nde o 8t Cunp Columbia sy officers and sviation Lached 1o Ui camp Amimsssdos b end Mrs Judeh lesued seversl sarid InvitaLlons o members of the cais colony and Asing Amerisens reception s Wmor of Byer laie alleruavs, i ' | I-Prines were delivered wi Ha- y the plane cllnz within the misty sheiter for half an hour. When he ventured forth the sky was clear of alrplanes and he has- tened to his airdrome 1o tell the detafls of his narrow escape. As he landed Doug Campbell and Charley Chapman came over to his ne “Why @idn’t you watt for us?” they | demanded. “We chased you all over France trying to get into formation with you—-and then you go and hide in a cloud As he realized that his Jast two “en- emics” had been members of his own i Muadron, Rickenbacker decided not to { make a report of the detafls of his ma velous “escape ” Rickembacker's First Vietery. On the 29th of April Rickenbacker {and our old friend of the Lafayette Excadrille, James Normsn Hall, went out in search of a German twe- | seater reporied o be above the Preneh lines near Beaumont. After ha\ving AXESY and ¢ | America on the highway of success, | Fanes on necessiti tea, sugar and molasses, when to exist was a stupendons and continuons fght ! oval gieed dominated George 11 To meet the expense o ane realm he taxed the other Dike the mother who uses the crean from the top of the battle 1ases the health and | I Part 4—The Air Foree of the A. E. F. Whoee theflling deeds and Reraie explaite huve e American geaple. Thin amasing fact-story will !little fun with the German “archies” and teasing them into wasting several thousand marks' worth of ammunition. e Winalow soarsd German plane shet down by Capt. Lddie Rickenbacker. of human contention, proved George s datal amistake, and started strength of her children 1o save for sonme other form of expenditure or pleasuve. Whole milk is vital to child Nife. 1's charged with vitamines, e'covtalizer at yanr corer yrocer’s obtiain The wise mother leaves the eream in the milk (ar the children ACES UP! 515w wor The Fact Story of American Aviators i.n the World War i % i ned o Wlews with evers wo the two fivers elimbed Into the sun just At & German Pfalz plane came into aight. As Rickenbacker came out of the sun’s rays (he German pilot saw him and commenced to climb fo the Yank's !level to offer battle. Then Hall flashed fnto view with his guns biazing. The German, who had nol seen Hall, dove for home with Rickenbacker on his tail and Hall right behind. The three plane: voared toward the carth with motors wide open. At 150 vards Rickenbacker presied the triggers of both his ma- chine guns, “Pighting the Flying Circus.” ing the nose of my airplane slightiy, the flery streak lifted ftself like th stream of water pouring from a garden pilot's s2at. The swerting of the Pfalz's conrse indicaied that i.s rudder was no longer held by & d ng hand. At 2000 feet above the enemy's kne I pulled up my headlong dive and watch- ed the enemy machin- eontinuing en its course. Curvifg stightly to the left, the Pfalz circ»d a Hitle ta the south and crached into the ground just at the edge of the woods, & mile inside their own lines I had brouth! down my | first alrplane and had not been sub- jected to a stngle shot!” Meissner Scores. On May 2 Iyn went out with anothsr pilot 10 pro- tect a Prench photographing plane north of Pont-a-Mousson, both flying Nieuporis. The French cameraman had st started on his work when two Al- tross planes fumped the Americans. diving on them out of the sun. Mejsaner zoomed swiftly above the fearest Ger- man and shot burst after burst into his ship. The German pilot twisted snd spun to keep out of the line of fire and Meissner opened up his throttle and dove at top spesd. finally getting in & burst that hit the German's gas tank and set the Albatross afire. Meissner straightened out a thousand feet above | ground and watched his adversary rath and at the same fime looked around for hiz companion and the other German. Neither was In sight. hut Melssner sax something which took his | mind off any airplane but his own. Under the strain of the long_snd swift d.ve, the fabric had ripped off his entire wpper left wing—and the fabrfe on his upper right wing was loose and flapping 1a the wind! His ship was al- ready beginning to slide down and if the right wing fabric let gg he would | drop like a stone. Knowing that he was | going to fall and preferring to drop be- hind his own lines 50 that he could have & military funeral. Melasner “habied” his disintegrating plane, with the motor barely turning over, and eoaxed it out of German territory, across No Man's Land and over the Amerfcan lines. The plane safled slowly on, dropping lower nd lower as it went, and the polit dared ake no effort to elimb o change his direction for fear that any added strain would strip away the loosening fabrie | and bring the flight to », sudden snd tragie end. The ground came nearer and nearer; Jimmy Melssmer sat tight, prayed and waited fof the end. The landing wheels | swished through the top of a bush— | struck the ground —bounced —hit with & | rending erash and the ship turned over, sinttering ftself Into a complete wreek! | d to find that he was st} alive, Melssner realized that he must be terribly mangled—bul gamely strug- gled out of the wreck and climbed fto his_feet—to find that he had escaped without & seratch! Instead of a military funeral, Mefsa- | | ner got a Distinguished Service Cross. “The Amerieans were ol flying French Nieuporis and the promised | ation, always a hone ) THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. ’PRISUN LABOR HIT m. forecer In (lie heatts of the | table yesterday, Peter J. Salmon “The tracer bullete cut a streak of living fire into the rear of the Pfalz’s tail.” writes Rickenbacker in his book, | made goods. Rats- Gradualiy it setiled inio the | State Prison Boerd. also condemned | discontinued by the Federal Trade neral services for Aurelus Sullivan. 45- | Commission, had been corrected. | octety was effected. under the diree- | °Rce. 511 South Fairfax sfreet {tlen of the Petworth Women's Club. 4l | Mrs. HL. M. Test, chairman of the music | B¢ aaction. at a meeting in the Petworth {School last night. Prof. Otto Simon vacal instructor and chore direetor in - C LR CREL TR LT ik, shows :":N’:‘n"r“"“’r" "“,'.’df;‘";m““"‘- was named o7 $130.132.48 was spent in the pub- n it (3 hana Fow 3 Flarence P Richarde o Weilio, Pa. | pm. o | was behind the charge that “alrplane | manutacturers stole twelve hundred | Dispensary Tax Reduction League. Ine., w (s} NAVY SEEKS TRACE OF LOST AVIATORS Brooklyn Man Reads Testi- | Searchlights of Destroyers mony From Braille Before Ptay on Sea After Two House Group. Falt in Tailspin. BY BLIND LEADER Resding with sensitive finger tips | Ry the Associated Pr trom perforated Brajlle sheets laid be- SAN DIEGO, Calif., February 9.— fore him on the House labor commitiee | Searchlights of the destroyer fleet the age of 11, protested against unfair | the wreckage of a Navy airplane which competition of the produets of prison | plunged 1.000 feet into the sea yester- {labor in the markets of the country|day, carrying Lieut. Pitahugh Lee Rhea | with those of free labor. | @ Radioman Leo Richard Lonnergan “Take sway the broom-making In-|io their death. dustry from he biind and you wilundo | A sudden and unexplained tallspin. | the work of half a century,” he said, | the terror of all ocean flyers, swept the | addressing the committee as & repre- | piane and its occupants fnto the sea ssntative of the American Foundation gq they were “spotting” torpedoes. The | for the Blind, in support of tie Hawes- | qeqtroyer fleet was engaged In battle Cooper bill to restrict the sale of prison- | practice and the plane was assigned to | toflow and observe the course of tor- A. T. Davenport, general manager of | soqoes, the Sweel-Orr Co. of New York, and | ™ goyeral of the destroyers abandoned Benjemin Bermax of Cincinnati, & rep- | nracijes and crutsed about the area | resentative of the Unfon-Made Gar-|ipyoughout the night, white their lights ment Manufacturers of America, agreed | piayeq over smaller craft In the search. with Salmon that it was impossible to Whether Rhea and Lonnergan es- | meet the competition of underpald | eapeq from the plane as it fait or when | prison labor. They alw protested |fi -k fhe water was nat learned. lousness of the prison | pjeut. Rhea was born In Virginta in contract system. | Opposing _the bill before the Senateé | yoaqemy from that State. He made Iinteystate Commerce committee, John | o home in San Diegn. Lomnerzan was S. Moorman. president of the Indiana | 5g vears old and also Hved here. | private interests, and said that the | practice of Indfana State Prison false- ALEXANDRIA, ly Iabeling and seiling shocs as United . - States Army shoes, which was ordered | A EXANDRIA, Va. Pebruary 9.--Fu- the present sysiem of contracting with | year-nid night watchman. who commit He suggested. however. that & soRi- | ted suieide here Wednesday. have been tion of ths problem of competition | dejaved until word ean be recejved from | might be ebtained by an agreement ' s prother. Richard Sulilvan. postmas- | | between State prissn wardens and su- er of Logan. Va.. who is said to be his| | perintendents to pay conviet labor the | oniy survivor. The body is at Wheat- | same wage scale as free labor, (IS |ey’s mortuary ehapel. City Coroner Dr. raistng the price of prison-made goods T Marshall Jomes v Sepator Hawes, Democrat. Missourl. qqsrtificate of death by suvicide | snid suel & sofution would be a direet (a0 U0 DS aptartvania County. | violation of the Sherman act. shot himself through the head after at tempting to kiit Mrs. Marv F. Richard: her apartment at 310 Seuth Pitt planned to marry following divorce pro- ceedings against Lester L. Richards. Petworth Organizes Society, With Sullivan was divoreed and met Mrs. : Richards Decemtber 21, last. Mrs. Rich- Prof. Otto Simen Directing. #rd<’ two givls, Meiba. 9. and Ruth. 5. Organization of the Petworth Choral CHORAL CLUB FORMED. | Srret. beomvse af soaiousy. “They had are being eared for by Mrs. Ofive fl'f;r- d son, Vineent Fdward Richards, 11 years . 1% with friends in Potomac, Va. Mrs. Schesl Exnenses Shewn. A report made by Harris Hart State le schools of this city for the 1926-7 Mrs. Test and Prof. Simon. in ad- sosston. Of that total $46.71570 H Aresses o the assembled singers. (0ld | cyiripyted by the State. $88.000 by of the henefits to be dertved trom such 2 ¢ an organization and streseed the need Alexandria and $416.76 was donated by of a choral society in Washingion. Twenty charter members were presant- | ygp0g work on the route to be fol- | other sources. The organization is to mest the sec- | CRAC FNC TN de here February 22, ond and fourth Wednescays of ol | ghservance of the anniversary of the month. Officers will be clected At the 'y iuqay of George Washington. City next meeting. | Engineer Dunn will begin work on the o S Marriage Licenses. Marriaze sicenses have Lean ismed to the bia will ald local pelice and Boy Seouts . that day. Fow r:‘, m.yrr,:-;l«..‘ Maserick A st of 350 business and prafessiona - Ry e ot 4 | men who have not pald their license. T ot Byt St Lo and MOV gy Jamary 1. was turned over to the A "Jackion and Ruhy ¥. Sehom | police loday. Pach will be netified to and Darathy | PRY Dancille Va e fore Police Justice Willlam 8. Snow on Thin cpe and Relen Monday morning. Bareroft, Va | Porty-five eolored children received e e Rewmningion | the toxfn-gnti-toxtn treatment at_the Alein v o1 this ety | Alexandria Public Health Department deniine yesterday afternoon K S An informal meeting of the City Coun- L1 o Ooctavra I Pratner | ¢l will be held today in the couneil e T thig cuv aid Norma’| chamber of thé Munieipal Office Build- o or w0 Mo | 108 The meeting will be called at 3 | The old Jackson Hotel, the ¢olored | hostelry whieh was considerably 120,000 American-built planes had not damaged by the tornado November 17, yet appeared in France. At home the | wil} be razed Monday. The mnnex re- Government and the aviation industry }unuv comstructed on the west of Pey- | were facing a storm of criticism and the [ 1on street will remain. | language being expended at the front | Rev, D. A. Swicord of Korea ad- {on the subject of American ariplanes | dresscd the third session of the Mis | was not a thing to reproduce in & fam- | sjon Study class of the Second Presby- fly newspaper. Something was evidently | terian Church last night. Rev. F. M. very wrong and somebody was to blame | Delaney, pastor, presided. | —but who? Tomorrow T wifl try to| A meeting of the Layme's League of {tell you a few hitherto unpublished the Episcopal Churches of Alexandria fa, about what was ealled “The Great wil) be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the American Steal.” | Christ Chureh partsh hah. Dr. L. W o teht 1978 ) S the diocess of Washington, whi address Tomorrow ~Read the truth about the meeting. American airplane production during | A meeting was held in the flmw‘ the war—and learn what there really | Mason Hotel last night by Dr. F. ho hopes to bring about amendments million dollars and never sent a single | to the national prohibition law. airp'ane to France." 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Ilchards {s recovering from her wound. | City Manager Paul Morton today | glass-inclosed and electric-heated re- | viewing stand tomorrow or Saturdav. | Pifty police from the Diatrict of Colum- | by the end of the eurrent week. | i Those who fa)l will b» summoned be- ' [ig] | | | Glazebrook and Dr. Brown, laymen of | Buck, executive secretary of the Federal | = —————— “Smoke House” for Kentucky Governor By _the Assnciated Press. PRANKPORT, Ky., Pebruary 9. - It is & matter of deep concern fo the commonwealth when it suddenly is discovered that a governor is with- out the' convenlence of a “smoke house.” A bill prepared for intro- duction in the Kentucky General Awembly by Representative Wil- lam McClave would set aside $25.- 000 for the erection of a betrn, smoke house and chicken house “for the convenlence of their excellencles.” “Whereas the Governors of Ken- tucky have no place to keep their meat, and whereas they have -no chicken house in which to keep fowls, the buildings would prove a great convenience.” the bill- points out. A model dairy also would be provided. LIFTS BAN ON HORSES. Army Will Permit Shipments From Philippines. An' order which has exiled Arm: | horses sent to service in the Philippine | Islands and prevented their return to | the United States because of the fear o f glanders and other horse diseases has been modified in Army regulations first issued on the recommendation of Ma). Gen. Fred W. Sladen, command- |Ing the Philippine Department. The old order has stood ever since American occupation of the islands, and worked particular hardship on officers who de- sired to take their private mounts <‘u’hl'n they went to duty in the Philip- pines Under the modification Army horses | may be returned to this country under certificates issued by the Veterinary Corps showing that they have not been exposed to these diseases for 60 days preceding shipment. MRS. H. L. DAVIS DIES. | Long a Resident Here, Woman Suc- cumbs in Ohio. Mrs. Hattie L. Davis. 73 years old, widow of Dr. Charles A. Davis. who practiced dentistry here, died in Akron. Ohio, Tuesday after a short iliness. Mrs. Davis. who was a resident of this city for many years. in recent years ha her daughter, Funeral services will be conducted a: | the residence of her son, Dr. Lleweliyn | | F. Davis, 1843 Park road. tomorrow aft- | ternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will he [ private, Mrs. Davis was a member of the Seventh Day Adventists. 8he is sur- | vived by her daughter, Mrs. Gelink. and three sons, George R. Davis, local at- | torney: Dr. Mark Davis, dentist, and Dr Liewellyn F. Davis. Robert Quillen T BLACK MOUNTAIN. N. C! Pebru- | U |Ary 9 (#).—Robert Quillen. author and humorist of Fountain Inn, 8. C.. has been ill at a s.natorium here for sev- eral days. Phyalcians today were hope- ful of improvement in his condition i i hili These Shirts Are Real Bargains Fancy collar attached or sep- i Wi 51.39 $2.50, §3. 3 for 84 Fine Imported Madras, eotc. Collar attached or separate and $4.50....... Imported White English Broadcloth: neck- hand collar 31 89 attached; were ' $2.50 veeee 3 for $5.50 Finest grade Cacoon Rread- clath; collar at- s 15 tached and meck- * band. White anly. 3 far $9.00 Silk Shirte, radium, crepes, ote. 3 for $16.00 - Mufflers Rlack and White Rayoms, and with emhvaid- ored spote. Were 31-89 $3, 8380 and 98, SEVEN SELEGTED | Full Panel Expected Today the iast week in une in Trial of Indiana Governor. | By the Associated Prass INDIANAPOLIS, February 9. Seven men—three farmers, two business men, | & colored laborer and a structural fron worker—had been tentatively picked to- day to try Gov. Ed Jackson on charges | of attempted bribery. | With selection of jurors in the hands of the State for. the third time sinces the trial started yesterday, indications i for the impaneling of a full Jury before ! adlournment today were excellent. Each has exercised only | |of the 10 peremptory challenges allowed. | | The governor and two co-defendants, | | George V. Coffin, Marlon County Re- | Robert I torney, are charged with offer- er Gov. Warren T. McCray | | $10,000 and immunity from embezzle- | ment charges then pending against him | if he would appoint not guilty yesterd: | were granted separate trials. Gov. Jackson, a former prosect { judge of the Henry County Circuit’ Court, studied closely each talesman ex- The defense questioned tales- men as to thelr religious and political | connections. ~The governor is a Re. or and | The State was more interested in ! | whether prospective jurors were mem- ' | bers of any fraternal orgamizations of | iwhlch the governor also is a member. | The specter of the Ku Klux Klan hov- ered over the proceedings. | The indictment against the three men returned by the county grand iury hich had investigated charges of po- litical corruption for more than a vear. D. C. Stephenson, now an inmate in the Staie prison for life for murder. but 2 political power when he was grand idragon of the Klan several ye: | was named in the indictment | Ing been a co-conspirator witli the three He was not indicted. TO GATHER. Church of Advent Group to Spon- sor Meeting Tonight. The Laymen's Service Association of the Church of the Advent has invited members of all laymen's associations ! and men’s clubs in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington to a meeting tonight at 8 o'clock at the church. 8econd and streets. Capt. chief of chaplains, U. 8. N., will make the principal address. The Young People's Service League will have a dinner tomorrow evening In the parish hall. ut to the “Quick” Now | All Suits, Overcoats and Top Coats nm;ining of this season—regardless of fcrmer price— All means Fashion Park, Charter House, Richard Austin (English) and Mode makes. excepted—and alterations, if any, at cost. Just think what such a choice at such a price offers. Sizes are broken—that’s why we're persuaded to make such tremendous reductions. Only Full Dress Vests—Street and Dress Neckwear Flannel. ete. MWere SI0 & § $1.90 Cut Silks i 1080 Finest of the Knitted and '3 tor 450 Underwear Made Madras Ath. letie Umion Suite that were $1.50, now 3 for 32,50 Bath Robes Blankot and $5 and $7.50.. ., Lot of fine Rlan. 89, $10 and $12 Mercerized Blanker, PRESIDENT IS iNVITED Asked u,ni&ififl«;,mi. Ve 2 0 erans’ Convention fn June. | Pate of Atlarfta’ Ga. to attend’ the | eighth annual convention of the D | abled American Veterans at Denvet | During hi§ éonference with the | President. Comdr. Pate discussed pro- | posed _legislation for veterans of the | World” War. He urged completion of ! the permanent hospital eonstruetion | program at emergency sneed, pointing | out the steady rise in the number of | mentally dizabled veierans who are in need of institutional eare Thie Guapantoen their choice as | (Indianapolis) | All three defendants pleaded | Coffin and Marsh | “True Copies” Poor Copies are not only nnsatisfactory but create an impression of careless- ness about an office that hurts business. MultiKopy No. 25 = the most satisfactory. Made in Black, Blue, Purple. Green, and Red. Gives clear, neat coples that last. = MultiKopy No. 5. black. gives 20 copies at one typing It is light weight. and the number of copies depends on the weight of ths second sheet.. MultiKopy No. 95: enrre- spondsnce .. weight black. makes 100 or more copies from one sheet. STATIONERS ST Nl - W WASHINGTON-D-C Dress Vests White Pique, just a little soiled | from handling. ) "0 W ore S8 to 10, QZ 9 i | | Choice Ml Hose d Wool and Silk and | Week! Wore $t, 59€ ti 3 for $1.68 f' $1.50 and $2... 3 for 3300 Weel and Silk WL §].79 $2.50, $3, $) 80 2 for $5.00 Golf Hose Choice of $3 and 51.95 $3.50 grades Choice of 84, 52.95 $4.50 and $8 97,98 Hi! wime o $4.95 W Pajamas 3 ler $4 80 Weve $3, $1.80, 34 sz-ss and 88, Caees A for S7.00