Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1928, Page 3

TWOMORE GIVEN ORATORY HONORS Miss Sheila Doody to Repre- sent Private and Parochial Schools District. Relief LANS | Sure Relief BELLANS FOR INDIGESTION 25¢ and 75¢ Pkgs.Sold Everywhema "SALESMEN WANTED burner. One school of the private and paro- | ehial schools district and another of the Virginia district today announced their representatves in the coming in- terschool meets in The Star's area of the Fifth National Oratorical Contes! | The schools and their respective spokesme are: The Academy of the Holy Cross, 2 Upton_ street, Miss | Sheila Doody, 1120 Euclid street, of | the private and parochial schoold dis- rict, and the Herndon High School of { Herndon, Va., Miss Grace Cooper of FLAT TIRE? o | Miss Sheila Doody. 18-year-old mem- M Al | ber of the senior class, won the right | Cross Academy LEETH BROTHERS | to represent the Hol Rdmy —for leading « Preferably men who have had | with her oration on “The Pre: { nificance of the Constitution daughter of Mrs. Daniel Doody. Sheila | 1c ambittons to become A tea { following her graduation from readems. in June. she plans fo entey Trinity College. rookland, - 515 13th St. N.E. ctudy for her chosen profession. At Holy Cross. Miss Doody is president of 4 Bath | the senior class, and she is a leading ¥ | player in basket ball. Victory at Herndon. | Miss Coover, 16-vear-old daughter of FOR SALE NEWLY PATERED AND PAINTED fif | e | she plans_to enter THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, N. €., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1928. st orars vieor || CERMANS EXTEND RUNWAY FOR HOP {Added Distance Expected to Overcome Muddy Field. Irish Pilot Rumored. ! N | By the Associated Press, | | DUBLIN, April 4—Their ardor un- | ! dampened by continued rainfall, the 3 | German transatlantic fiight aspirants | R AN | foday prepared an artificial runway to cnable their heavily laden plane to i : \ take the air at Baldonnel Airdrome. | N\ Several hundred old railroad ties X AN were brought in to lengthen the run- | \ \ X N way. Baron von Huenefeld, sponsor of \ the flight, hoped that this extension | would give the Bremen sufficient head- | way to enable it to rise before hitting the ground that has been softened by the rain s Capt. Herman Koehl. pilot, and the baron maintained silence as to their | plans and the rumor persisted that Col. Of the Academy of the Holy Cross. Fitzmaurice, head of the Free State Air Force, would act as relief pilot in place | WIFE CAUSES ARREST‘ of Arthur Spindler. It was reported = S that Herr Klose, who preceded the Self and | Bremen to Baldonnel and has since re- turned to Berlin, was attempting to get Baron von Huenefeld's backers to ap- prove of this The story was that Spindler had quit after a row last Thursday morning The Bremen was being fueled on the | MISS SHEILA DOODY. Attack With Chair on Mother, Charged in Fairfax. | Special Dispatch to The Star | FAIRFAX, Va., April 4 —Sheriff Kir- | by yesterday arrested William P. Hin- kins of Hunters Station in Mount Ve | non district on complaint of his wife. | aple. r. | runway for the hop and Spindler re- | marked fhat the weather was not suit- The baron reminded him that Reasor AMERICAN SECURITY SAND TRUST COMPART T 15th & Pa. Ave. W Real Estate Dept i | Rev. and Mrs. Glen J. Cooper of Hern- | don, defeated the other contestants in | the Herndon High School finals with her speech on “The Present Significance of the Constitution™ In her official victory over Miss Elizabeth Buell. Miss Mildred Presgraves, Edward McGuire and Hal McCarty, Miss Cooper won not | only the verdict of the 10 judges. but | <he won also the straw ballot of fhe ~ass. In that interesting verdict Miss | Cooner received the votes of 30 students | | for first place against the 12 votes for | the same honor received by Miss Pres- | | while Mrs. Florence Hinkins, who charged that | Capt. Koehl was in command and the intoxicated he assaulted his | Conversation became heated, with the | Yesult that Spindler started for Berlin mioktiersiristaw, iBdrs, ‘Willikm Desmond | sout tel BNLEL of Alexandria, by knocking her down | with a chair and breaking her arm in ', 5 two places ATONEMENT’ TO BE SUNG. He also knocked down his wife with a | e chair and kicked her, it is charged. Mrs. Hinkins swore out A warrant be- fore Justice of the Peace Charles Zoll. | Hinkins is in the Fairfax County jail | awaiting indictment by the grand jury Soloists and Chorus of 100 to Be at Fox. A group of soloists and a chorus of 100 | Sunday 16, | zraves |~ The finals were Miss Nancy orineipal: C. N. Brown. Miss Lois Gosnell. Miss | Gertrude Carrier. Miss Nina Ford, Miss | Elizabeth Bernard. Miss Annabelle Gib- <on, Miss Elizabeth Hillsman and Miss Annie Robv-Walker. Miss Doodv now has time to prepare . | Anthraclte |for her next comvetition. which takes { ace in the groun phase of the contest. R d d | The eroup in which the Academy of the Holy Cross is located will meet | Abril 24 in McMahon Hall of Catholic Spring Prices Now Effective—Fill Your | University. The other schools whose {snokesmen will do forensic battle at Coal Bin With the Best | Coal Obtainable. | that time are Immaculata Seminary, The Best Is the Cheapest ‘}st. Paul's Academy. the Academy of the John P. Agnew & Co. Immaculate Concention and the Acad- 728 14th St. Main 3068 judges of the Herndon school G. Edwards, | emy of the Sacred Heart. Group Meeting April 16. Miss Cooper’s next bid for victory in the contest will be made in the third Virginia group meeting. which is sched- uled to be staged in the auditorium of iher own Herndon High School April {16. In that contest Miss Cooper will compete with the representatives of the Floris Vocational School of Herndon, | the Fairfax High School, theLee Jack- | son High School. the Aldie High School {and the Ashburn High School. & The winner of the private and pa- T WILL rochial schools district group meeting devts contracted 1o sif. BOYSTON ¥ THE BOARD FOR | will compete, will win an award of $20 and the right to enter the private and parochial finals May 4 in the audi-| torium of St. Paul's Academy, when the | cheanpionship of that district, $50 in | 1137 {cash and a place in The Star finals| Anpli- | Will be at stake. de Likewise, the winner of the Herndon | | group meet. in which Miss Cooper will | | compete. will win a place in the Vir-| ginia district finals and a cash award of $20. The Virginia district champion | will be given an award of $50 and s .l - | . | nd_nlace T iat pecifcally anmounced place in The Star finals. | e 1% 16Ga any oS | GOLDEN RULE SAFETY 8 comp! DRIVE GETS BACKING |- FROM C. OF C. DIRECTORS | (Continued from First Page.) 1| cated to be dealt with by the law to | the entire satsfaction of everybody. New complications and new sources of | danger are arising continually and there aie many justifiable exceptions. It all | comes back to the proposition that the | |only safe trafic code was expressed | | very fully and briefly 2,000 years ago | |in the Golden Rule, which can be ex- | pressed in the language of the| + | motorist: “Drive as you drive.” TAVE TS LOOK 1 in Brstclass Send portal or twithout charze) would have others, The following suggestion came this| morning from Richard S. Meryman, 515 Twentieth street: “Inasmuch as you are conducting a campaign for safe driving, 1 wonder if | you can and would bring pressure to | put a stop to the fast and unsafe driv- | ing of the ambulances connected with | the hospitals, I have talked with many | = { doctors and not one says that such driving is necessary. In fact, all of them agree that these ambulances are | driven too fast. Also, the ambulances are equipped with sirens as powerful as those of the police department “Imne driving these sirens are continu- ally going, terrifying motorists and | pedestrians traveling ahead, thereby | bringing about an unnecessary condition | conducive to more accidents, Would Use Gongs. Why are these ambulances allowed | to break speed laws when doctors will | tell one that it is almost never neces- | sary? Why couldn't these ambulances be “equipped with the gongs used in New York and Philadelphia, heard only | |# block away, but apparently serving | | their rxmr[mu ? | ‘I fully recognize that, in very urge; cases where human Iife 1s ‘b stake enc | ceptions should be made and ordinary rules of traffic should be waived.” W. A. Whitney, 1827 Lamont street, writes “As one of those yet unfortunate peo- ple still wending our way through the | streets of Washington afoot, please allow me o offer my sincere congratu- lations on your drive to prevent the awful annual slaughter of children by automobiles. 1 have had the pleasure | of seeing your production at the Fox Theater, and it is a worthy plece of { visual preaching, the viewing of which hould accompany every sentence for s driying handed down in the 3 830 a.m L OR PART LOAD mond. Va oy |rRde e, WEVE BEEN DOING 1T 157 ~WINDOW SCREENS™ MADE TO ORDER We use the finest mesh wire. Our fartory 1th & " RLEEBLATT 14" Window Shudes and moreens P e 879 Furniture Repairing K & Leaks maxe vour roof ROUFING COMPANY ¥ We Stop Roof IRON reany 1o CE This Million-Dollar Printing Plant s 8t vour eervice U receive caref Thc National Capital Press 'VC'qrn’icc: & Skylight ¥o orter 0o small site FLIES HOME FOR HOLIDAY | ¥ dent T. 8hull, Jr., New York U. 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Urged for Extra Pay Under House Bil]j | Three pioneer Army airmen now liv- | tired at 75 per cent of all pay and al- |ing in Washington—Brig. Gen. Benja- llf'rzflrl:fir‘n df_’fm‘chl;dl;;:d;\_;:‘g ;:\[ch they min D. Foulois, assistant chief of the | " oyt o et ™0 be benefited Air Corps; Maj. Herbert A. Dargue.|py the bill, all of whom are well known | commander of the pan-American flig |and Maj. Thomas De Witt Milling— | would receive mcreased fiying pay and | retirement annuities under the McSwain here, are Brig. Gen. Frank P. Lahm in charge of the Army Air Corps train- ing center in Texas; Lieut. Col. Roy | C. Kirtland and Majs. Henry H. Arnold |in which Miss Doody and Miss Appich | included in this number pioneer aviators' bill, hearings on which were held by the subcommittee on avia- |and Lewis H. Brereton. Of the offi- | cers serving in_aviation in the Army tion of the House military affairs com- | prior to 1914. 24 qualified as aviators mittee yesterday. and @f this number 7 now are on There are only seven airmen in the|active flying duty. 2 transferred to | Army today wno qualified as pilots on, other branches. 5 retired and 21 are | or before December 31. 1913, and the | dead, 18 of whom were killed In flight | foregoing three Washington flyers are | and the remainder died from other | 1t s in Tecog- | causes nition of the extremely hazardous mn-) Chairman Wainwright, Republican. neering fiying work they performed | New York declared he was of the more than 18 years ago and their con- | opinion that the cases of these officers tributions to the advancement of mill- | were meritorious and that he looked | tary aviation that the McSwain bill | upon them “as self-sacrificing ploneers.” | would give these seven officers 75 per | Congress, he sald, was “prone to be | cent increase over their base pay for | cold-blooded in such matters, much fiying, as against 50 per cent received | more so than foreign countries,” and by the other officers of the flying serv- | he felt “this little group is entitled ice. 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