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HICKMAN SENTENGE ) G P! NTING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY. By JOHN KNOX bers attacked four Albatross machines over Thiaucourt. Although superior in numbers, the four Germans dived away from the impetuous attack of the two Americans and escaped without a shot being fired on either side. The squadron was paraded on May 15 CANNIBALS FETED FEBRUARY 11, . . 1928. points because they were able to shoot elephants, one of which would feed 500 natives, The tusks of one killed welghed 100 pounds cach, and were more than 9 feet long. A gorilla ob- talned for museum purposes weighed 400 pounds. » T der advisement the plea of the Capital | | Traction Co. forsa new trial of the case wherein it | damages In favor of Miss Mabel Snead for alleged personal injuries. Traction Co. Asks New Trial. ‘The Court of Appeals has taken un- | peared for the company, while Attor- neys Newmyer, King & Jacobson 8p- | peared for Miss Snead. was assessed $12,000 FOR GROUND stE P In; for the presentation of the Croix de The speaker was introduced by Br. | iR o the plaintiff charged that on | Gllbert Grosvenor, of The Fact Story of American MAY BE DELAYED Aviators in the World War i | o Attorneys for Convicted Youth to Make Plea Today for New Trial. Re the Ascociated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 11.—A con- templated attack upon the law which he previously had embraced in his un- successful insanity defense today threat- ened to delay the sentencing of Willlam Edward Hickman for the kidnaping and killing of Marian Parker. A motion for a new trial which Hick- man’s attorneys deciared they intended to present at the vouth's appearance in court today for sentence raised the ex- pectation that the imposing of the pen- alty would be delayed until next week. Unless Judee K. J. Trabucco departs from the course he previously mapped out for the prosecution and defense at- torneys, he will name next Tuesday as the time for argument of the motion for 8 new trial. If at that time he over- CHAPTER V. “Jimmy" Hall Is Shot Down. EISSNER'S victory was the the 94th and the next day Capt. David Peterson raised the total to five when he shot | saddened by the death of Charley Chapman, who went down in flames in the same fight. This was the first loss home to the young flyers the lesson that air warfare had its share of death as well as victory. | the airdrome of the 94th. John Mitchell }nr Boston was the captain of the 95th and Quentin Roosevelt. Sumner Sewell, | fourth officially credited to down a Pfalz, but the squadron was {in the ranks of the 94th and it carried | | _On May 6, the 95th came up to share | Hendricks were | rules the defense motion. he then will | Proceed to pronounce sentence. Jerome Walsh, chief of defense coun- | #el. said in the argument for the new trial he would contend that the law under which Hickman was tried on his insanity plea was unconstitutional. addition, he announced, he would In| charge error on the part of the judge in | permitting the State to change the order in which it used its peremptory challenges and also error in the man- ner of allotting final arguments and in the instructing of th~ ‘ury. mitted that he held little hope that the motion would be eranted. but if his plea is denied the way open for an appeal to the State Supreme Couit. Tells of Another Crime. On the eve of the day formally set for his sentence Hickman told his at- torneys of a hitherto unconfessed erime. As quoted by his counsel, Hic man declared that two months before he and 16-year-old Welby Hunt came to California and staged the which resulted in the shooting and death of C. Ivy Thoms, druggist. they sttempted a Kansas City robbery n which they enzaged in a gun battle of the Kansas City escapade was sustained generally by Fam Wallace, watchman for a sporting goods company there, who said he ex- changed shots with two men he found in a storereom. Officials who questioned Hunt on the story said he admitted he was with Hickman on the night named. but he refused to say who fired the shots. Thoms Murder Trial Set. Trial of the two for the Thoms mur- der. which occurred on Christmas da; 1926, has been set for February 15. Al He ad- | hold-up | Part 4—The Air F:);'ce of the A. E. F. Germans pumping bullets into his ship as he tell. Green and Rickenbacker forgot the thrill of their two victories when they had to fly back and report the loss of “Jimmy Hall,” favorite of the squadron and hero of the Lafayette Escadrille. It was not until a month later that they learned that Hall had not died in the crash of his machine; he had broken an ankle and was slowly recovering in a German hospital, but his fighting days were over. It was not until after the armistice that he was released and re- joined his surviving companions of the 94th. Lufbery received the news of Hall's supposed death grimly. With his face set he strode toward the hangar: with- out a word the mechanics rolled out his | chip and helped him into his flying’ Guerre to Peterson, Rickenbacker and Meissner. Hall and Chapman also had been awarded this decoration, but Chapman was dead and Hall in a Ger- man prison hospital. Rickenbacker tells of a nerve-racking experience he went, through on May 17, which almost ended his carcer as an aviator. He and Reed Chambers had gone forth to knock off a German or two to help the squadron record to an carly morning start. They had cruised until their gas was almost gone and had suffered agonies of cold In the icy air 18,000 feet above the ground, but the German pilots apparently were wise enough to stay in their warm beds. At last, when his gas was getting low, Rickenbacker swung off aver Mefz in a Iast search for trouble before he was forced to return home. The sky over the Torralne forests was just bare and as cold as it had been fur r west and “Rick” swung on over Thiaucourt, where he watched three German Alba- tross planes take off from an enemy airdrome and fly straight toward the American lines. The Yankee pilot used his great alti- tnde to cut down the distance between | @erman Hanover two-seater plane brought down by Lieut Reed Chambers and FEdward Rickenbacker, 94th Aero ! among those who were to earn distine | tion or death in the months that fol- {lowed. The partnership between the two squadrons was to continue until the end | of the war. | On the 7th Rickenbacker, James Nor- | man Hall and Edward Green took to the | air to attack four German planes above | | Pont-a-Mousson. When they arrived on | the scene the only German in sight | | was a two-seater which was directing artillery fire against the American lines As the three Yanks closed in on their clothes. They knew without conversa- tion that Lufbery always avenged his friends. For over an hour “Luf” flew without | sceing an_enemy and then, with his | as they all passed Squadron, killing the pilot and wounding the observer, his plane and the unconsclous Germans, closing in to less than a mile from them Montsec. In his cager- ness to catch a victim he forgot the German “Archies” until two shells VONAN EXLORER Mrs. Bradley Tells of Hunt- ing Big Game on African Trip. Mrs. Mary Hastings Bradley, Ameri- can woman explorer, whose schoolgirl daughter was a member of the party, told National Geographic Society mem- bers last night at the Washington Auditorium how she shot clephants. interviewed cannibals and brought down giant gorilla specimens zlong a 1.400-mile “hike” into one of the few rematning unexplored parts of Africa Entering the “Dark Continent” along the route where Roosevelt hunted. the Geographic Society. - —» president November 16, 1923, while attempting to hoard a car at New Jersey avenue and C street. she was caught between the | folding door and permanently injured. KILLER OF FAMILY EXECUTED IN TEXAS George J. R;:srellAH;d«Cnnfonm 13 Murders—10 Vietims Were Children. Iy the Amsociated Press, HUNTSVILLE, Tex., Fehruary 11. {Calmly accepting failure of last-minute | fefforts for commutation of the death | sentence on a plea of insanity, George J. confessed s1~ver of 13 pe sons, was electrocuted at the State pen- | itentiary here yesterday. He was followed | cxpedition, which comprised Mr. Brad- ley and two Chicago universi'y seien- tists, penetrated the unknown west of Lake Edward ard north of Lake Kivu in the Belgian Kongo. Mrs Bradley showed intimate scenes of vil- lage life along cannibal main streels where the party traded its Yy with tin cans and salt. where the netives {ive in constant fear of clophant raids {and are not ncarly so :a as tneir | cannibalistic practices would indicate. The habits of various cannibal tribes differ, the speaker s;aid Some of 'he | women will not indulge in human flesh, | 50 that the husbands had to keep sep- arate cooking pots; in other cases the women accompanied their men on hu- man_raids. Cannibalism among these | people does not mean ‘erocity, she said, but a meat_hunger. . Among the m nic lava poured through f par like giant waterfalls. Iy said. ‘With reasonable precaution it is not difficult to preserve the health, even ! of a child, the speaker said. The little cirl was entertained at parties by natives in eolorful costumes and bizarre dances. In the volcanic area her plea was to be allowed to stay up until the volcanoes “grew red.” Although the route lay in eyuatorial reglons, the altitude, for the most part, offset the latitude, and on the whole the party suffered more from cold than from heat, she sald. The party was welcomed at many olea area | to the chair by Robert L. Benton, col- {ored, convicted of killing a white man. | | Warden N. B. Speer acted as exect- | tioner, Twenty-five newspaper men | Iand a few prison officials witnessed the executions | Hassell was convicted of killing his won at their 1 ell, | in December, 1 tessed o slaving his 1f widow of his brother, and her : children. In a second confession he told of killing his housekeeper, Mrs. Mari- Vogel, and_her three children at their home in Whittler, Calif. The | bodies were recovered when he drew charts showing the location of the | graves. Tex —_— Marine Changes Announced. Col. R. S. Hooker has been trans- ferred from Quanticn, Va.. to Puget ound, Wash.: Capt. T. E. Wicks. from | Ban Franelseo to Second Marine Brig- | ade Nicaragua: Capt. E. G. Huefe, from Nicaragua to San Di Calif.. First Lieut. O. H. Wheeler, Boston, and | to Haiti; First Lieut. I. W. Miller, from Halt{ to San Diego, Calif.; Second Lieut. | 'T. B. Millard, from Quantico to First | Marine Brigade, Haiti; Second Lieuts W. R. Willlams, ‘Alan Shapley, F. G.| Dailey and D. F. O'Neill, at Quantico. | and Second Lieut. Jaime Sabater, in this city, to Philadelphia. Snow is white because its crystals and || prisms reflect only the white She attended the trial on a cot. torneys Hogan, Jones & Phelan ap- | First Lieut. H. P. Smith, at Quantico, || At- N> He omo= RESERVATIONS ARE NOW BEING MADE in the VALLEY VISTA APARTMENT (Cor. Belmont Rd. and Ashmead Pl. N.W. —So. End Million Dollar Bridge) Make Your Sclection Before FEBRUARY 26th THE FORMAL OPENING DATE The most modern and compleie Apartment in the city. RIGIDAIRE--ELECTRICAL DISHWASHING MACHINES— REE RADIO SERVICE—CAFE--VAIET SERVICE—-BEAUTY ARLOR—ALL OUTSIDE ROOMS--LARGE PORCHES--REA- ONABLE RENTS. RESIDENT MANAGER WM. S. PHILLIPS & CO. .516 K St. NW. Realtors Main 4600 PROGRESS YOU cannot PROGRESS as long as you RENT. ihrow off the yoke of the landlord. Stop wasting vour money on RENT and OWN YOUR OWN APARTMENT The Parkway 1009 CO-OPERATIVE gasoline almost gone, he sighted three | burst almost under his ship and ai German planes near St. Mihiel. He was | other burst ahead of the Germans to | high above them and he had no time| warn them that a single encmy was to waste. He sent his ship down on the | about to attack them. The three Ger- torneys believe that for Hickman, at|intended victim, four Pfalz planes ap- least, it probably will be delayed until ' peared out of Germany to dispute the after final disposition of the Marian | matter with them. The Americans had Parker case. | the advantage of greater altitude and While his attornevs continued legal | they dived to the attack. Rickenbacker maneuvers Hickman informed visitors | selected the rear of a German plane and he was ready for sentence. “It hasn't | held his sight dead on him until the | got me scared any,” he told newspaper | Heinie turned over and crashed to the men. “I won't grow gray hairs because ground upside down. Green was trapped some one passes a death sentence. | by one of the German planes and bul- | He then demanded information ON | jets streamed through his plane until he | bangings the reporters had witnessed | jooped over the German and in turn He asked for “more, all the details, | sent a stream of fire into the enemy when answers to his questions appar-| plane Green's shooting eye was more ently were too vague. | accurate and the German plane went down with a dead pilot at the stick. ‘While these two victories were being | won, Hall had attacked another German and was putting a stream of bullets startled Germans in a whizzing di and literally blasted one of them to the | ground with his guns as the other two fled to safety. When Lufbery straight- ened out his ship after seeing his victim | crash behind the German trenches they | were too far on their way for him to ! pursue with his limited supply of ga: oline, so he returned to the airdrome only half satisfied. “Pathetic and depressing as was the disappearance of James Norman Hall to all of us,” wrote Rickenbacks “1 am convinced that the memory of him actually did much to account for the | coming extraordinary successes of his squadron. Every pilot in the organiza- | tion that day swore to avenge the great- est individual loss that the Amcrican Air Service had yet suffered.” | Rickenbacker Succeeds Hall. On_the 8th Rickenbacker took the | IN $500,000 APPEAL | ®ax Board Ordered to Show Why | Deficiency Assessment Should Not Be Vacated. l Justice Stafford of the District of| Columbia Supreme Court yesterday ordered the United Btates Board | ruary 24 why a writ of mandamus sl not be issued against the board egainst David H. Blair, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, vacating defi- ciency tax assessments of more than $500.000 against the Shults Bread Co. of New York. The suit, filed through Attorneys W, C. Bullivan, Raymond P. Garrity and 1eon H. Cooper, is based on the allega- tion that the Commissioner of Interna! Revenue allowed to expire the time for answering the appeal of the petitioner before the board of tax appeals and thereafter sought to have extended the time for filing answer, which the peti- tioner claims i5 beyond the power of the board. The order of the board per- mitting the extension of time was dis- sented to by 5 of the 16 members of the board. The dissenters held that the Fefault Sudgment should have been en- tered. : The eontroversy grew out of a differ- ence between the commissioner and the eompany over the amount of deprecia- tion which the company was entitled o claim during the years 1918 ¥ 1921 ) Oceoquan Disposal Plant Opposed. The District Commissioners are op- posed W the Gasgue Bill providing for the transportation of all miscell- aneous refuse o Occogquan, Va., for Oisposal, arcording W a leter they sent wdsy to Brig. Gen. Herbert M Lord, director of the Budget Bureau ‘The proposal, the commissioners said, involves s great expenditure, and conflicts with a plan for the estab- Ishment of & disposal plant at Oxen Run Bay, near Biue Plains, D. C. VEIG THE }’f;(’l ] manner of from wer receive om waid weni 2 | Chinrg waid eonpany wil 01 trasiness o spening of s » ¥R Serrerary Favris peniin PRINTING IN A HURRY For ¥ bt e ROOF WORK EVERY PRINTING h spaily pes ers. €a e ot ow ¥ar The National Cdpi!‘al Press : Roofs Made Leak-Proof yotar 100% Vg e watietatury sl W ek ainbe the 100l KOUKING TOMPANY TRONCIAD P — T R S into him, when one of the upper wings ' lost Capt. Hall's place as commander of | of his Nieuport came off and he spun | Flight One of the 94th Squadron and to the ground, falling into a patch of | fought his first battle as commander woods near Montsec with the other two ' on the 11th, when he and Reed Cham- e up ! REDUCTION URGED | Publishers Ask Scaling Down of Newspaper and Maga- | zine Schedule. By the Associated Press. ! A scaling down of the postal rates | {for newspapers and magazines from | their war-time heights was asked yes- | terday of the House post office commit- |tee by spokesmen for magazine and newspaper publishers. Opposing a bill by Chairman Griest {of Pennsylvania, which wouwld reduce | the rates to the 1921 basis, Arthur J.; Paldwin of New York, president of the National Publishers’ Association, and | Elisha Hanson of Washington, repre- senting the American vasprlrw ub- lishers’ Association, made & plea for a further lowering to the 1920 rate basc and to create a special classification for news dealers’ bundles. | Cite Effect on Circulation. A group of three representatives of ! the Newspaper Publishers’ Association, tineluding J. D. Barnum of the Syra- cise, N Y., Post-Btandard; Howard | Davis of the New York Herald-Tribune | |and R. J. Beeman of the 8. Louls | Globe Democrat, also presented techni- cal analyses of the effect of the present | rates on newspaper circulation. i Baldwin, who appeared for the Amer- | {scan Publishers’ Conference, & council {of newspaper and magazine publishing | A1, | assoctations, said Jf the 1920 rates were Ji | established the publishers stil would | have 1o bear “one-half of the burden | laid on them” by the 1917 war revenue ‘ declared, however, that the « were wiiling 1 accept these | Malling List Decreased, e volume of newspapers distribut- | | a4 through the mails not only has de- {creased wince 1920, Hanson declared, bt 15 rapialy decreasing from month | 1 month because of the excessive postal * e pomted out that daily | newspaper publishers are resorting o | private means of eirculation of thei: | publications, and, aithough the number | of subseribers had doubled eince 1920, | mnd the volume of sdvertising is greatly | inereased, the Post Office Department ir, currying fewer copies and approximate- | by 30,000,000 less pounds per year, ;AGAIN WINS 'RECOGNITION. ‘F/Huu House Painter Gete Prize k at Art Exhibition | PITIBBURGH, Yebruary 11 (&) 61, who 1ose from an ob ure Just Full 0 wn [ rtist by hanging & canves in the inter- | ational exiitition of puintings aL Car- | regle Lustitute, again has won recogni o Mis Jundecape, “Turtle Creck Valley, Fowara Pitteburgh,” ook second priae | i Anie elghteenth annusl extibition of | | Ao inted Arviets of Pishrgh, Kane | ! hie ensel W Wik one-romm “studio” Joverlooking the railiond tracks near the | dovntown wection | Fhe young tolks hiad some mighty {uoon things at thet exhibition, bt 1 ghiess There's poom enogh once I & while 101 w phetire by wn old man," was Kane's lweonic comment on his latest tonor. Jolin Kane, B painter . 3 Ordered to Capital, Lieut Col Thiomas M. Knox, Quar-| | wrmaster Corpe, wb Vancouver Bar- jucks, Woshinglon, has heen ordered 1o tile efty for 5ury in the office of the Quartermerter geheis) Mu?unm Buila ke Yo LUMBER ASSOCIATION | TO GUARANTEE GRADES Money to Be Refunded to Purchas- ers if Trade Mark Errs, Offi- cials Announce. b % By the Amsociated Press. Every stick of lumber grade-marked and trade-marked at the mills of mem- ber firms hereafter will have the finan- cial guarantee of the National Lumber Manufacturers’ Assoclation. It s be- | lieved to be the first time that a na- | tional industrial association has put a group financial guarantee behind the inspected and graded product of every | | one of its members. Every buyer of grade-marked Jumber | bearing the association stamp, it was | explained yesterday, hereafter will get | exactly what the grade mark says he 15 getting, or the association will refund the money. The association said it was intended In this way to draw a clear line of distinction for the mutual bene- | fit of users and manufacturers of lum- | ber between good lumber, well manu- | factured, carcfully graded and accu- rately sized under Ameriean lumber standard rules, and inferfor lumber, poorly manufactured, unseasoned and | carelessly graded ZOBOOBO000NNGRN0000AN00N00 BE HAPPY Drive Out Sunday Any Time You Can Buy One of These Homes —For the Rent You : 1731 to 1735 U, o 24 L OTITTVTIVITTITOVVDD P S SR A RR R AR AR A AR A AR SR AR 22TRIOITTD IS / Lots—Wid ! BIGGEST BARGAINS F. 0 G Dve out I6th St 1o 1 EEE R 131 H STREET Peoos | tr IFELRLHAARARTLLALLRALRALAALALLRAARRAANRLNRNNN ARARATLLALARRARALARLARARARARARANVARARNNANRNNSY Semi-Detached—Frigidaire—Two-Car Separate Brick Garages—Four Bedrooms—Flectric Lights—Large pshur 51 N W Open and Lighted Until 9 O’Clock P.M. H.R.HOWE { mans looked behind as R|rkrnhmkr‘r1 dived on the rear Albatross from a dis- tance of 200 yards. Flying 200 miles ( an hour and with both guns blazing. | Rickenbacker swept down until he saw | his tracer bullets plerce the German | s back. Then he jerked his stick ack for a stecp climb away from the dead enemy’s two companions, but the | “train was too much for bis Nieuport and the entire covering of the upper | right wing ripped off, leaving him in | ihe same helpless position that “Jimmy" | Melssner had bren in a few s hefore. | His Nieuport fell into a helpless tafl- | pin, with the two surviving Germans | ollowing it down with their machine t as about to crash, when they sped back fo their airdrome, probably 0 get an automobile and come back to pick up his body and the wreck of his | ship. “Rick” Jerked his throttle wide open: the sudden rush of speed snapped the perpendicular tail into the horizontal and steadied the ship. His fall stopped 1l and he began to glide. He was three 1sand feet n the air and two miles from the American lines. Five minutes | would tell the tale. | Paying no_attention to the bursting | “Archie” shells, Rickenbacker fought to old his ship on its course. SUll a lousand feet up, he crossed the lines 1d succeeded in coaxing his ship to a | :light climb—enough to carry him to | the airdrome. With his motor full on, he barely cleared the roof of a hangar and smashed flat on the familiar land- ing fleld. The most extraordinary part of the story was that the German pilot he had shot fell across his controls and | wedged them so that his ship continued on fts flight until it crashed just inside | the French lines. (Conyrieht. 1978 OMORROW—Read the story of the ice aviator who fainted in the air and what happened to him, as well as the further battles of the 91th Squadron, | pitahics e Mook et ki OWNER WILL SELL ~practically new fireproof apart- ment ballding on_account ot other interests. Building has cquity of 150000 over a first trust of $200000. 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