Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1928, Page 3

‘151 | lg. The Fact Story of American ks " BALTIMORE PARK HAS $100.000 FIRE Carlin’s Dance Hall and Gym- nasium Destroyed by Spec- |1 tacular Blaze. ;e Was fighting Quentin Roosevelt was a_ pilot in h " Squadro On July 14, “ue of ‘the first group 2 osevelt was killed in the crash By the Acsociated Press. ot i e aCra, ace. O I BALTIMORE, _ February 18.—The John ' MeArthur o' B lnrge rrnmex mml;inam;n dance hall 'n Hunt' and and gymnasium of Carlin's Park, the largest amusement park in Baltimore, | e was destroyed by last night.which E of the brightest names on threw a great glow over the eity the honor roll of the Air Serv- Five alarms were turned in to com- | ice is that of Capt. Fleld E. bat the flames, which were said to| Kindley of the 148th Aero have caused approximately $100.000 | Squadron. Born at Pea Ridge, damage. {Ark. h> must have imbibed some of The fire was discovered just after the | the last of the spectators of the Johns Hop- | € Kkins-Loyola basckt ball game, which | F: 1 his great battle early was plaved there last night, had left (in the Civil War. the building. A few plavers were still| _When the United States entered the on the floor None was injured. |World War Field Kindley was the Though no cause could be given for |owner and proprietor of a motion pic- the fire an investigation is being made ture thoater at Gravette, Ark. Perhaps of two mysterious dons which took | s he stood in the back of the house on place while the structure was in flames. | busy nights and watched the first “war One resounded &s the fire reached a | Pictures” flickering across the screen, storeroom in which, according to John | J. Carlin. owner of the park. nothing | was stored, and the other occurre | when the two frame towers on the | front of the building fell. | The fire spread to the adj skating rink, but was quickly guished. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE. clal Roc! v 18 (Spe- ing of the | ¢ A | Association, y | held in the E itorium and | conducted by the president, Rev. S J le, was largely attended. It was featured by an address by Dr. William | T. Pratt, county health officer. who is | in the midst of a campaign designed | to educate the people of the county“as | to the mpom?ca‘;‘:témrl;numz\ng the | dren agains eria_and other . Field E. Kindley, one of our communicable diseases. His remarks ‘,f:lp."g fl;,—,.,f.., and his mascot. were largely on diphtheria and the | Forker. toxin-antitoxin treatment he and the | 5 county health nurses are administering | to children from 6 months to 13| he felt a stirring of that remarkable Years of age, his talk being illustrated | courage and flving ability which was to wita motion pictures. Two plavlets |mark his Army career so distinctly. entitled “Smart Aleck” and “Poor| He “joined up” with the Reserve Of- John,” were presented by pupils of the | ficers’ Traming School at Fort Riley, hign schools, the high school orchestra | Kans,, at the outbreak of tne war, in gl:red under the direction of Kenneth | April, 1917, and three months later was tri of the school facuity. and the ! sent to the Ground School at the Uni- | versity of Illinois. Champaign, Ill. He sailed for England September 16 and ! was assigned to the Royal Air Force for training as a _combat pilot. That he number of years a member of the board | took his training seriously is evidenced | ©f county commissioners. died Thurs- | by the fact that King George of Eng- day at the home of her son and daugh- | land decorated him with the British | ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clark. | Distinguished Flying Cross and that he near Sunshine, aged 71 years. She is, was credited by the R. A. F. with nine survived by a daughter and two sons.|German planes shot down and three | Mrs. Ruth Warfield of Howard County | more driven down out of control. and David and Henry Clark of this county. The funcral took place this | Great Fighting Record. moming from the home of Mr. and| The reports of his air battles while Mrs. He Clark, burial being in the | with the 148th Squadron are one of Mrs. Clark was a |the best collections of air fighting rec- te William F.{ords in existence. We are reproducing | them here as one of the most interest- ing parts of our story. They are taken | from the files of the War Department at_Washington. The most historic of these battles is | the one he fought on July 13. in which | he won the first victory credited to the It reads: “July 13, 1918. “Time, 8:57 am.; locality, West : height, 12.000 feet. enemy air- Albatross D3 8:57 am. I saw about six low us between Courtesy U. S. Signal Corps. Ponbusé‘n;s \\;ss transacted. ow a long illness of a com- Pplication of diseases. Mrs. Margaret A Clark, widow of John O. Clark, for a Fire of unknown origin did damag to the extent of several hundred dol. lars Thursday afternoon to the dwellins on what is known as the Flack farm o the Rockville rike, adjoining Garret Parz, now the property of Robert Farper. Washington banker. Rockville | 148th Squadron. Tear of the building. P. Killum Miles, 21. and Miss Prance: Mfzver, 18, both of Richmond, V: married ysierday afternoon by | .n aireraft . Bertram M. Otgood of the Baptist | Poperinghe and Ypres. An Albatross Church. { came out ot the clouds between me and | L — *|my formation. After climbing head-on - HELD IN PURSE THEFTS. Mre. Eva Wright Charged With 17 1 bursts of 100 rounds into him at point- i k range. Soon he and another E. | A. were on my tail, diving vertically at me. Of course, ] was watching them Robberies of Girl Clerks. : the one 1 had fired two i The mystery of a series of pocketbook | robberies since iast November, in which EEE:E] employes of four prominent department | #{ . stores have been viciimized, id | B by detectives 1o have been soived vester. | |3] Madison Apartments N.E. Cor. 18th & Eye Sts. day when a total of 17 cases of 1 & 2 Rooms and Bath and one cas? of Furnished or Unfurnished o} were placed ag. Wright, 2114 N street, each charge rep- | $35.50 and up Mrs. Heimel, Res. Mgr., M. 8548 Tesenting a s'len pockelhook. === Detective Sergt. William P. Du Busky. | eided by Detective J. F. Boxwell, who | investigated most of the cases, said the | prisoner, who is at the Hou: Police say she would visif observe where pocket hem at | Transferred 1o West Point. Capt. Richard P. Thompson, Army ental Corps, at th> Army L Bchool, this city, has been ordered West Point, N. Y., for duty at the M Academy. ntal | N " THT TR Many a smoker has thought he had cig- arette satisfaction roped and tied—un- tilhetried Yorktown. This cigarette may make you wonder whether, after all, you have been put- ting your money on the right smoke. Yorktown is dif- ferent. Different flavor, different aroma, dif- ferent mellowness, different pep. And how the up- and-comers like Y PRINTING Py tor LU%: satitactory something new! Ihe»Natiunal Capital Press | Twenty for 15c, Roofs Made Leak-Proof [ Larus, Riehmond, Virginis ™ o that sk sed make the rwul I ING | wy | ACES UP! 'Part 4—The Air Force of the A. E. F. i |1 saw his tall come loose and he went - (down in a vertical dive with the tail ! | edge, must have crashed not far from | port in the following words: ;over him I half rolled and shot l"o! By JOHN KNOX Aviators in the World War ; bursts at tried to climb out of his dive plane hanging to his fuselage. He con- tinued to dive vertically through the clouds and, to the best of my knowl- the lines southeast of Ypres. By this time thi E. A. were firing upon me and I maneuvered my way through the clouds back the lines and rejoined my formation.” ‘The victory was officially confirmed by the commander of the 65th Wing. Royal Alr Force, to which the 148th United States Squadron was attached at that time. The next battle report of this re- doubtable fighter reads: “August 13, 1918. i “Time, 9:30 a.m.: height, 10,000 feet; enemy aircraft, Fokker biplanc. “Engaged enemy aircraft, attacking one of the formation. Fired 75 rounds at 80 yards and enemy aircraft started to turn. In the turn his nose went down and he fell on his back for a few seconds and then intc a slow. spin. Con- tinued to fire on him until he went into the clouds. Later I went down under the clouds at Ostend and saw, southeast of Ostend, what appeared to be an air- plane burning on the ground under- neath scene of engagement.” Ten days later the former young movie magnate had occasion to write | another report. briefer than usual, but | just as conclusive as those which had preceded it “August 13. 1918. | “Time, 1:52 pm.: locality, north of Roye; height, 6,000 feet; enemy air-| craft, probably Fokker. | “Attacked six enemy aircraft, firing burst of 125 rounds into a two-seater, which went down with left wing low and upon landing ran into a shell hole, turning upon its left wing and nose. 1 attacked another at 50 yards. when both guns jammed and. not being able to clear them, I washed out.” The weather for the next two weeks | was bad and so it was not until Sep- tember 2 that Kindley again took his pen in hand to write the following: ‘September 2, 1918. “Time, 11:50 am.; locality, south of Romaucourt; height, 3,000 feet; enemy aireraft, Fokker biplane. “Dove on Fokker which was close on | tail of one of our Camels. Fired only a short burst when E. A. went over on | his back with a stream of black smoke issuing from his fuselage. The smoke cleared away before he crashed. Was | then attacked by one Fokker and one | Hannoveraner, who were very stout. | The Fokker left. but the Hannoveraner | continued to riddle me with bullets, ' which, I believe, were explosive, while I could only get one burst into him.” | It was only three days after Kind-, ley's encounter with these two “very | stout” foes that he wrote another re- | “September 5, 1918. | “Time, 5:20 pm.; locality, over St.| Quentin Lake; height, 9,000 feet: E. A., Fokker. “My formation was dived on by two Fokkers which came out of an E. A.| (enemy aircraft) formation of nine ma- chines overhead. I turned to fight one | off the tail of a Camel. when the forma- tion broke up. Having zoomed, he dove on me at once. While trying to put a | burst into him 1 stalled and went into pin. Just as I came out I ovened | upon a Camel’s tail. 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On the turn I followed him with both guns and continued to fire until he pulled up in a stall and then into a very slow spin. I last saw hllmdsplnnlng at 2,000 feet through a cloud.” To one who remembers the war days in the air over the Flanders mud, those terse, vivid reports from Kindley's modest pen bring back the yesterdays —the early morning mist and the dawn brecze bringing its hint of freshness into the stale smells of the battleflelds —flat, pungent smells of burnt powder, sour stinks of gas pockets at the bot- tom of shell-holes, shell-churned graves too near the surface. Then there was the sharp, damp chill floating in from the North Sea that made men feel the need of something warm for breakfast and wish that some time it might be BREWER ACQUITTED IN GUNLAGH DEATH Dry Agent’s Three Compan- ions in Fatal Raid to Be Released. Special Dispatch to The Star, BALTIMORE, February 18.—After deliberating 35 minutes the jury in Federal Court late yesterday brought in a verdict of not guilty in the case of Joseph Randolph Brewer, Washington prohibition agent, indicted for first degree murder by the grand jury of St. Marys County in connection with the killing of Charles V. Gunlach, 73-year- old farmer, during a raid on his farm near Leonardtown last September. Contrary to expettatjons, the argu- {ments of both Amos W. W. Woodcock. | United States district attorney. who | defended Brewer. and Robert H. Archer, | assistant attorney general of Maryland | who conducted the prosecution, were | short and the case was given to the| jury at 5:17. Judge Willlam €. Cole- man presided at the trial. The verdict brought a wild demonstration of approval which the bailiff restrained. Brewer made his way across the courtroom and shook hands with all the jurymen Mrs. Brewer, who, with her 5-year-old daughter. had sat by her husband since the trial started Monday. was not in court, having collapsed during the argu- ment of Mr Woodcock. when the de- |fendant also broke down and wept. | _After shaking hands with the jury Brewer immediately went to the district attorney’s room. where his wife had re- itired. and she threw her arms around his neck and burst inte tears again | Brewer then picked up his little daugh- ter and kissed her. Others to Go Free. Following the verdict, Philip H Dorsey. State's attorney of St. Marys | County, who had assisted Archer in the ! nrosecution. announced that the in- “ictments against Dano M. Jackley, | Robert F. Cornett and John T. Fisher. ir.. prohibition agents who accompanied Brewer on the raid and who were joint- ly indicted with him, would be nolle prossed. Bitterness between opposing counsel iin the case. which cropoed up several times during the trial. reached a climax they died. Over all the sound of the s guns—sometimes faint and far away like | 44ing_the closing arguments. when the trial taps of the drummer as the orchestra tunes up while the audience The efrect of an exploding bomb. Courtesy Signal Corps. ended so that they could go home and cose and quarrelsome and insistent— again rising to the full-throated be lowing thunder of the drumfire preced- ing an infantry attack. No matter what | concerns might fill the mind. the voice | of the guns rode above them all, for | their voice was the voice of death and | every man listened for the moment | when his name might be called. ! (Convright 1098 1 | Tomorrow—Read Kindley's own storles | of his further battles in the air ana | how he won honors and decorations by | N 151214 fore him. New Court Quarters. Special Dispatch to The Star. i FREDERICK, Md, February 18.—A magistrate’s courtroom is being equipped in the County Courthouse to provide | permanent quarters for the three local | The quarters will be | opencd next week and a magistrate will be on duty day and night. Previously | cases have been heard at the City Hall | at police headquarters. Reasonab ncern Phone Main 9700, apartment ed us to satisfy the most hub of N.W. car lines. rooms. reasonable. and courteous. elevator service. 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Woodcock accused the prosecution of | intimidating & witness. “It is sad times” Woodcock sald, “for Maryland's criminal justice pro- cedure for a State’s attorney to intimi- date a witness with the aid of a pro- fesslonal manufacture of evidence and by the use of ilegal whisky.” The district attorney was referring to Clyde Goldsborough of St. Marys County, who testified Brewer had made threats against Gunlach’s life in his presence. It was brought out later in the trial that Goldsborough did not volunteer his evidence until State's Attorney Dor- | sey hired a private detective from Washington to pump him. and it was testified the detective gave him whisky. Woodcock said he did not believe it was possible for Brewer or any one else to be as heartless as Mrs. Gunlach's testimony would make him, when she testified that Brewer deliberately drew his pistol and shot Gunlach through the head and in the breast as he was lying helpless on the ground from two other shots. Defends State’s Attorney. Archer defended the hiring of the private detective by the Stat attor- ney, as well as the use of whisky to make the witness talk. “If the State's attorney had not taken the action he did to get the truth out of Golds-| norough he should be censured,” he df clared. “Goldsborough was an unwill- | ing witness. He was living at the home of Brewer's father-in-law, and was pay- | ing attention to Brewer's sisteP-in-law | |IL was to be expected that Dorsey | would have difficulty in geiting him to | testify. The fact that it was unwilling | testimony should give all the more | | weight.” Archer asserted that after Golds- | borough gave his information to Dor- I sey, Brewer himself tried to iutimidate Goldsborough rsey. Archer said, had Brewer arrested for the attempt, but the agent was dismissed on the charge “I have made and drank home-brew myself.” Archer said, and. turning ‘o the district attorney. added, “If this be treason. make the most of it 1 In his charge to the jurv Judge Cole- man said the jury must either find th~ | defendant guilty of murder in the first ‘nr second degree or acquit him. | “In the background of the prosecu- tion is the eighteenth amendment and 1"!9 prohibition law." he said. “When the shooting took place that resulted in this indictment, the accused was acting under the authority of his commission. which made him ~an, officer of the United States. “The eighteenth amendment and the prohibition law have provoked and con- tinue to provoke a great deal of disct ‘cmn In your present capacity vou m: lay aside all personal ovinion concern | ing that particular law. We are not here concerned with the passage or the wis- H St. W. le Rentals RANDALL H. 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