Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1928, Page 2

HESSESHFTS &8 N POLICE SHAKE ;‘fl'hird Precinct,Where Staples Served, “Cleaned Out” by Radical Reorganization. A radical reorganization of the Metro- politan Police Department, affecting 43 members, several of them ranking offi- cers, has been ordered by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent, to become ef- fective Monday morning at 8 o'clock ‘The changes will result in a “clean-out™ of the third preeinet, to which Police- man Orville Staples was attached be- fore his suspension and conviction by the Police Trial Board. Every commanding officer and nine privates of the third precinct will be scattered among & number of other pre- *eincts. Sheetz Goes o Tenth. Those affected are Capt. Ira Sheets, who will be transferred to command the P | e | | i { { \ tenth precinct; Lieut. Michael L. Ready | and Sergt. J. J. Knight, who will go to the eighth precinct; Sergt. C. C. {Gouldman., who will go to the fourth precinct; Sergt. H. T. Burlingame, who Will go to the eleventh precinct. and the following privates: J. H. Hunt and F. E. Schenck, who prepared the evi- dence against Staples, assigned to the | ninth precinct; J. J. Agnew and G. W. Cook. assigned to the fourteenth precinct, G. J. Leahy and C. N. Strange, assigned | Te to the second precinct; 1. r, assigned E. J. Scott and N. G. Thay to the h precinct. Pvt. V. V. Vaughan also was changed from foot trolman to motor cycle officer, . L. patrol duty ‘will 1emain for to patrol driver, but both the third precinct. Headley, | Warden was changed from foot | | Those transferred to the third pre-| einct fill the vacancies caused by the shake-up are: Capt. William G. Stott o ‘he fourteenth precinct, Lieut. W. E Holmes and Sergt. J. H. Lee of the fourth precinct, Sergt. Emil Desch of the cleventh precinct, Sergt. J. W. Mc- Ginnis of the eighth precinct and Pv J. H. Maynard. H. T. Mullen and H. W. Pickles of the ninth precinct; R. J Allen and A. W. Grinsel of the second precinct; S. F. Gravely of the fourth precinct and W. H. Banning of the elev- enth precinct. Others Affected. The shake-up also involves several of- ficers in other precincts. Capt. C. H Bremmerman will be moved from the fourth to the fourteenth precinct, Capt. Frederick M. Cornwall will go from the tenth ' the fourth; Lieut. E. T. Harney, from the eighth to the fourth; Pvt. V. D. Hugh:s, from the first to the second; Pvt. H. G Freeman, from the tenth to the eleventh; Pvt. H. H. Allen, jr.. from the fourth to the eleventh, and Pvt. M P. Creel, from the fourteenth to the fou th. The following pairs of policemen will ts as & result of the of the fifth precine Guyer of the eighth precinct, Sergt. T. T. Dalhouse of the sixth and Sergt. J. C. Maloney of the fifth pre- cinct and Pvt. E. C. Rhue of the thir- teenth precinct, and Pvt. J. K. Edwards | of the tenth precinct. Maj. Hesse’s drastic transfer order eame on the heels of recommendations ers tnat the ingering, ure to report violations of police and conviction in the courts of wiolations of the law. recommendations, in_Congress. The Staples case itself is not l’e‘:pon- gible for the shake-up, according to po- Yice nmch‘;fl.m‘g::“;han&u in Lhé third nct, r, it was said, were p;:Sned some time ago. but were de- Eyed until the investigation and the trial were completed. Speak for Cornwell. Comwell of the tenth precinct, who will be transferred to command the fourth precinct. The committee also sought to learn from Maj. Hesse the reason for the transfer of Capt. Cornwell and the co-operation of the associa! his successor, . Sheetz. Prank J. Bol , president of the as- Sociation, headed the committee. The pthers were William F. Dismer, Varnum Levitan and Raiph Wallace. LAWYER KILLS SELF AFTER SHOOTING GIRL Woman Victim Says Assailant’s Action Was Due to Unre- quitted Love, Br the Asoristed Press, NEW_ YORK, April 12—Charles Pa- terno, Brooklyn lawyer, £hot and killed | himself last night in sn automobile parked on a busy street after he had wounded Miss Anna Lustig. Physicians 8t Coney Isiand Hospital said the girl's eondition was critical Despite a serious wound in the head, Miss Lustig told police how Paterno, whom she had known for 15 years, furned a revolver on her as they sat in the automobtle and fired a bullet into the side of her head He was about W fire again, she said, when ehe grappled with him, kicked the Goor open and fell into the street Miss Lustig said Paterno had been “madly in love” with her, but that she @4 not rewurn b Hection HEALING PAS.TOR FAILS TO MEET CLASS IN WHICH SUIT AROSE (Continued_from Pirst Pege.) et he would bring suit next week on i the clergyman, Mrs, Pord 1t s stated, Feb- 0 Lhe alleged remarks are ave been made refiecting on Mrs. Fords conduct with the clergy- men, Mrs. Ford wid tne court Uiat ber reputation among her fellow church Workers, friends ang husiness associates hns been Gumaged. ‘The name of ey Feeynolde, however, does Dot sppesr in S0 declaration HUSBAND COLLAPSES. 1008 ANGELES, April 12 (P ~Logan ¥ Melcal!, busband of Madge Beliamny fim aciress, collapeed yesterday from worry over what hie termed the “fail- wre’ of the match and was unable 1o ppesr in court yesterdsy o prosecute hie suit for divoree. b Tia Ji Miss Bellamy is not contesting the | V" Metcall ulleges she tion in which siter marriage @t Mexion their pledged | tion to Above, left to right: | G. Stott, from No. 14 to Below, left to right: «i. THE EVENTN¢ STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL Capt. Ira Sheetz, from No. 3 to No. 10; Capt. Willilam 0. 3. 2 Capt. C. H. Bremmerman, from No. 4 to No. 14; > | Capt. Frederick M. Cornwell, from No. 10 to No. 4. 'GOD? | Arguments between celebrated bibli- {cal =scholars over the veracity of | Jehovah and the Jocation of the Gar- i den of Eden enlivened the session of tthe American Oriental Society at Cath- olic University yesterday afternoon. The first of these was started by the assertion of Prof. W. A. Irwin of the University of Toronto that the God of the early books of the Old Testament not only was an unscrupulous liar him- self and an encourager of liars, but also was._ guilty of various other acts of moral turpitude. The God of Genesis, . Prof. Irwin pointed out, was Yahweh or Jehovah, the god of war, who was endowed with all the desirable qualities of a human fighter, which included great prevarica- God Given Popular Traits. “All classes of people in ancient Israel,” he said, * and dissembled without compunction'’ There was very sfill of the worth of truth- fulness. This condition inevitably found its culmination in a lying God. He de- ceived His enemies; but also He served His interests by deceiving His friends and servants likewise. “The character of God grows out of the character of the people and then the character of the people is molded by has set up, the whole running & viclous circle.” with the lying, de- praved war god, he said, there was grow- in the minds of a few persons of truth, who came the great prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezeklel, and has continued to our own day. “I disagree 100 per cent with Prof. Irwin,” said Prof. Julian Morgenstern of the Hebrew Union College, president of the soclety. He said that some of the incidents in the Old Testament on which the former speaker had based | his ideas of Jehovah's character were altered by the priestly code of a later date and that the earliest texts repre- sented them quite differently. Refers to Older Texts. | The statement that “God hardened | the heart of Pharaoh,” Prof. Morgen- | stern said, “does not appear in the older texts, which state simply that “Phar- aoh’s heart was hardened.” He sald he did not know of any place in the Old Testament where falsehood was repre- sented as a true virtue. “Ungquestionably,” he said, “there was lots of moral turpitude.then just as there is today, but that doesn't justify assuming that Jehovah was the incar- | nation of it.” The ancient Israelites, said Prof. George 8. Duncan of American Uni- versity, started out with a very crude Jehovah whom they represented as guilty of such petty things as being Jealous of his knowledge and the first human beings for eating of the tree of knowledge because of this. It is wrong, Prof. Duncan said, to in- | terpret the Bible as representing God | glorifying evil when nothing of the kind | was meant. The Hebrews, he sald, had leome to a realization of natural law | which, since God was all powerful, must | come from him. Missionary Gives Views. The argument can only be answered, said Rev. Dr, Lemon L. Uhl of Cam- | bridge, Mass., for 50 years s Lutheran | missionary in India, by interpreting the Beripture in the light of the personal- | itles of the men who wrote it. o ‘I know this from bitter experience, he said. “Many and many s time i | teaching bright natives I have been | cornered by this same argument. They would cite cases of & cruel, false God | and ask if they were supposed to emu- late him. It is & difficult situation” The argument over the location of the Garden of Eden resulted from the paper of Dr. Duncan, who maintained that i v impossible to locate the Eden of Genesis. Many scholars have be- Jieved that 1t must be somewhere near | the present sources of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Bome, he said, have ol ed Eden among fhe mountain springs of Armes th unishing | S NATURE FOUND VARIABLE AS PEOPLE'S IDEAS CHANGED They Embodied Own Vices and Virtues in Deity, Says Scholar—Location of Eden Debated. | Babylonia, and still others in northern Me: , near the Black Sea. In {all, Dr. Duncan said, several hundred locations of Eden have been advanced, none of which stands up under analysis. Their Geographical Knowledge. ‘The knowledge of geography possessed bq the biblical writers was very crude, Dr. Duncan said, and they could be ex- cused for the apparent discrepancies of their facts with the actual geography of a regicn they had never seen. Most scientists, Dr. Duncan said, now think that man originated in Ceptral Asia, which he agreed was the most likely birthplace of the human race. ‘The reasons for placing Eden there, he sald, were: The finding in Java of the 500,000-year-old bones of pithecan- thropus erectus, the earliest known pre- human; the finding there of two species of anthropoids, the gibbons and oran- outans, which mpst closely resemble man; the discovery of bones of primates ver{.clue to man: the fact that Mon- golia is the oldest dry land on the Iobe, that it is centrally located and it most of the domestic animals originated there. Dr. Truman Michelson of the Smith- sonian Institution declared that recent explorations in Central Asia had proved rather disappointing. since no human artifacts had been found of any great age. The weight of evidence, he said, seems to be for placing the Garden of Eden of anthropology in hills of India. Central Europe, how- ever, still has a good argument for its claim as the birthplace of man, Michelson said. . Adam and Eve Debated. Then the debate switched to Adam and Eve, or rather the first parents of the human race. Could the human race have descended from a single, pair of individuals? Dr. Michaelson was asked. “Most anthropologists,” he sald, “would answer yes in a minute, but I will not be so rash. There may have been two pairs or possibly more. But the ancestors of the race were cer- tainly a small group, by no means so many as a_ hundred " Dr. N. Martinovitch of Columbia University, considered one of the world's greatest authorities on the history of Central Asla, said he didn't believe the human rac: came from there. “I never heard of anybody coming from there,” he sald. “Throughout history, as far | back ve can go, it has been a place of passage. Huns, Turks, Mongols and {all the rest have come through there, m it never has been a home for any- Other Raclal Homelands. Rev. Dr. Philo L. Mills of Catholic 'l_lnlvcmlty then presented a paper on The Journcy of Gilgamesh (o the Isles of the Blest,” which also touched Indirectly upon the Eden discussion. This was an old Babylonian story in which Dr. Mills belleved that the home- land of the race was described in the Himalayan Mountains. Dr. George A, Barton of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania added to the df | cussion an account of some seals r | cently found in India which bear fig- | ures “closely resembling some of those | found in excavating the ruined settle- ments of Summeria, the st civilized people in Western history, He sald that the identity, however, still was very much in doubt. Prof. A. V. Willlams Jackson of Co- lumbla University read & paper on the probable physical appearance of Mani, | who founded a religion that for a tin | was the greatest competitor of Chrls- Uanity In Rome and who was flayed wlive In 274 A D, Updike to Speak on filvy. Representative Updike of Indiana will speak at the City Club weekly forum to- morrow at 12:30 o'clock, on the subjec “Our va{ and the Vital Part It Pl in the National Defense Bystem.” Thel are three more forums on the club’s schedule, which ends April 27, Towns Ask Governor for Protection | From LanCBS Band.s RU]C 0‘ Tcrror By the Associuted Press DULUTH, Minn, April 12.—Armed with & statement thst their community 1 been terrorized “1o the point where women and children are afraid for their lives, even in thelr own homes” @ committee of eitizens from Orr Cusson, North Woods towns, have gong to Bt Paul 1o ask the Governor otection from the lawless element {Vhey were sppointed, and produced a Jenusry 24, Jest | stalemnent signed by 115 citizens of the | got back home, iwo small towns, They sald coples of Aocument Bherift tealf sayp his wife 16 "o ] B, bise Lmd been peny W for | in m murder char Commitiee members told of & mess weried bim the fourth dsy of their jameeting held Tuesday night at which | permen not to use thelr names for | Magle and County Attorney Forbes here | The lawless element has been in eontrol of thelr section of the county for three years, the citizens suid, “slmost without interruption or interference.” Polnting w0 the assault snd slaying | of Mrs. Clara Brown, 62-year-old store- | kewpey, near Orr Bunday, and snother death last Priday, which has resulted ke, the statement sald | the condition “gan no longer bhe tolerated " Committee members nsked newspa- | some one would “get them" when they ‘The two towns are in the hesrt of the Norks Woods, not . SKUNK LEADS WILD LIFE JAY-WALKERS Rabbits Run Second in Auto- mobile Animal Destruction, Deer Frequent Offenders. ‘The common skunk must add to his other bad qualities persistent jay-walker, This was_brought out before the American Soclety of Mammologists, meeting at the National Museum this morning by Albert R. Shadle of the University of Buffalo. | Speaking of the automobile as a de- | stroyer of wild life, Mr. Shadle said | that several accounts of creatures lying dead along the auto highways show | that skunks constitute about 50 per cent of the fatalities. Rabbits are a poor second In the jay-walking class, | furnishing only 16 per cent of the fatalities. In the West, however, the California jack rabbit hold the records, according to Dr. C. Hart Merriam, and roads are | strewn with the bodies of hundreds of these creatures. The jack rabbit, Dr. | Merriam said, is blinded by the lights of a car and simply stands still in | the middle of the road. | | Deer Follow the Leader. Deer used to be bad jay walkers, Dr. Merriam said, because of their tendency to follow the leader. The herd will start across & road in single file, and the motorist is almost sure to hit one of 1ll‘lrm unless he comes to a complete stop. An operation on the brain of a live porpoise at Cape Hatteras was de- seribed by O. R. Langworthy of Johns Hopkins University. It was rather haz- ardous surgery, he said, not because of the aggressiveness of the porpoise, but because everybody in the neighborhood flocked to the beach to witness the per- formance, the men dropping their cig- arette ashes nonchalantly inta the ether | cans. { The experiment was made in an ef- fort to determine the motor centers in the brain of the little whale, but it fafled, because of the difficult condi- tions under which it was performed. ‘The porpoise, Mr. Langworthy said, has a very good brain, with a large and deeply convoluted cerebral area, one portion of which probably is especially | adapted to preserving the equilibrium of the creature in the water. Art of Taming Animals. The lé't of taming wild animals was described by Vernon Bailey of the United States Blological Survey, who showed motion pictures and living specimens. _Bv, A. Goldman of the Blological Survey told of introducing animals foreign to a section, and Fran- cis Harper of the Boston Society of Natural History told of the spread of the cottontail and gray fox in New York and New England. All whales possess a peculiar physical organ which enables them to gauge water pressure, sald Ernst Huber of Johns Hopkins University. This is known as the “melon,” an ac- cumulation of fat of special composi- tion, located in the upper jaw just in front of the blow-hole. This lump of fat, Dr. Huber said, is kept under a certain tension by the animal's faclal muscles, and acts as an automatic gauge, enabling the whale to sense the presence of obstacles in water and pre- venting them from diving too deep to a point where they would be crushed { by the pressure of the water or bump | into the bottom. It also enables them to avold shallow waters where the big animals might become stranded. The “melon” is richly supplied with nerves, he_sald. ‘The whale has lost almost entirely the sinus hairs in the reglon of the snout which guide the seals and the sealions. Keep Ear Tubes Closed. Seals and animals such as the mana- tees have special muscles, Dr. Huber sald. which enable them to keep the eyelids and the ear tubes closed under water—the latter so that when they rise to the surface their ears will not be full of water and they can hear at once any alr-borne sounds. They also have speelal muscles which enable them to keep the nostrils closed. ‘The whale long since has lost the power of hearing out of water, but still retafns these muscles because they fit into the general scheme which oper- Dr.|ates the “melon” and the blow-horn. The latter was described by Dr. Huber as being such a remarkable develop- ment and so intricate in its operation that Investigators have been puzzled for *“The birth of ‘& monkey ba ‘ rth of & monkey and the. | behavior of the infant for ":rey first few | hours after birth are surprisingly like | those of the human, Carl Hartman of the Carnegle Instituf id. “The | baby cried for the first he said, “several minutes after It was born and could hold on to the mother's kin al- most at once.” Mountain Sheep Not Extinct. The ovis poll or mountain sheep o the Pamirs, which has been comldgredt one of the rarest of living animals and which was the object of a special ex- pedition by Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt two years ago, is far from tAxlllu.{l, Whl‘llllm J. Morden of the merican Museum of Nat said last night. e s Although seldom seen on the Chiness side of the Pamir range, Morden said, there are still great flocks of them In the Russian Pamirs, He described his own adventurous expedition into the Turkestan mountains, which resulted in his obtaining a considerable collection. Although he had expected trouble with the Soviet authorities, he was received with the utmost courtesy, he sald, but later, when he crossed into Mongolia, he was captured and tortured by Chinese soldlers, finally escaping only by the good offices of a Russlan consul. Among the other animals which he collected was the Asfatic roe deer, which barks like a small dog, and the ibex of the Himalayas, still fairly abundant, but almost impossible to capture or shoot. The ibex, he sald; lives during the day among 1inaccessible crags, but comes down to lower country after dark to graze. ‘The hunter's only chance is to start out in pitch darkness after mid- night and climb crags, where he is in danger of death at every step. Then he will be above the ibex as they return at dawn, and, with good luck, may shoot ong or two of them, LEGAL AUTHORITY DIES. Dr. Andrews Was Well Xnown as Author and Expert. NEW YORK, April 13 (# —Dr, James De Witt Andrews, prominent as an anthor of legal work and for many years chairman of the committee on classification and restatement of law for the American Bar Association, died Iast night in a Brooklyn hospital. He was 72 years old, Laborer’s Pickax Unearths Miser’s $1,000 Gold Pieces Hy the Associated Press, CHICAGO, April 12—~A day Ia- horer galned §1 by his work yes- terday. His pi unearthed some n:rmlun miser's horde of gold pleces, The gold was found on the site of the new Nicholas Intermediate High Bchool in Evanstgn, incased in s leather bag inside a tin box, Authorities have no clie to flug:r- son who burled the treasure, Cold of 0 and i that of being a| FOSSILS OF HAIT AT SMITHSONIAN Bones of Extinct Animals Brought Back by Recent Expedition. A considerable collection of the bones of recently extinct animals from the limestone caves of Haiti has just been brought back to the Smithsonian Insti- tution by Arthur J. Poole of the Divi- sion of Mammals. | The caves, which are near the Western edge of the great central plain of Haiti, near San Michel, are infested | by bats, The floors are six or seven feet deep in guano and refuse. Scattered | through this guano the Smithsonian | expedition found quantities of animal and bird bones, though the period of | their deposit probably does not extend back more than 1,000 years. | Though the bones have not yet been | worked over, Mr. Poole has been able to identify the skull and skeleton of a ground sloth. Several rodents resem- | bling in size the muskrat and beaver are represented among the bones and there is at least one insectivore, In some caves, the Smithsonian sci- entists found skeletal remains of man, but whether they belonged to the pres- ent natives of the island or to the In- dian aborigines, who have been ex- tinct for a long period, has not yet been | determined. How the bones got into the caves is not clear in all cases. Most of the small- | er bird and mammal bones undoubtedly represent prey eaten by owls. Bones of the larger creatures probably represent individuals who entered these caverns | by chance. ‘The owls responsible for the deposit are now themselves extinct. In form they resemble the barn owl, byt were nearly three times as large. They were nrst described by Dr. Alexander Wet- more, assistant secretary of the Smith- sonian Institution, who christened the species by the peculiarly appropriate name of Tyto ostologa, signifying one who watches in a graveyard. DENY KLAN CAUSED PENNSYLVANIA RIOT Witnesses in Suit Declare People of Carnegie Start- ed Trouble. | | By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, April 12.—Many wit- nesses took the stand in Federal Court here today and denied that members of the Ku Klux Klan were armed or stirred up trouble with citizens of Carnegle, Pa, on the night of a riot there in 1923, when one Klansman was killed. The witnesses were called by the Klan after former members rested their case. The suit of the “banished" Klans- men, who sought to have a recefver appointed in Pennsylvania and an ac- counting of $15,000,000 collected in this State was dismissed yesterday by Judge W. H. Thomson for lack of jurisdiction.- The Klan wants the court to enjoin the former Klansmen from using.its name and award total damages of $500,000, claiming they collected that: amount without authorization. People Sneered. Ray Bowser of New Kensington tes- tified people lined along the route of the parading Klansmen sneered at them. John H. Connaughton of Washington, D. C., chief counsel for the Kian, asked Bowser, as well as other witnesses, whether the Klansmen carried any guns, clubs or other implements in Carnegie and the reply always was “no.” John Ogle, New Kensington, Pa., sald after Klansmen and citizens clashed at a bridge leading into Carnegle, Sam D. Rich, then grand dragon of Pennsyl- vania, ordered them to return to a :‘Mw‘ fleld “to avoid any further blood- Ogle testified three or four guards, carrying revolvers in bolsters, were sta- tioned about the fleld where the order held a demonstration before marching into Carnegle. Hav! thrown out the counter suit of the former members, who sought to restrain the Klan from operating in Pennsylvania, and asked for a receiver- ship for the order and an accounting of all funds, Judge Thomson told Van T. Barrickman, defense counsel, to read only that part of the deposition ma- terial to the issues now before the court. Barrickman proceeded to read sec- tions of the deposition bearing upon the suit of the Klan, which seeks $500, 000 damages from the five former mem- bers {rem interfering with the Klan and from interfering with the Klan and conducting Initiations, When Barrickman started to read a part of the deposition deal with Stephenson's story as to how Hiram W. Evans gained his position as im- perial wizard of the Kian, Con- naughton objected and was ustained, the court holding it was- controversial and threw no light on the questions at issue. X Another objection was upheld. when Barrickman started to read a guestion he put to Stephenson asking if Evans had had anything to do with Stephen- | son's imprisonment in Indiana. Connaughton objected to another question to Stephenson as to how the Klan planned to control courts and legisiatures. arrickman then came to that part ition where he had asked fana Klan leader who was re- 9 , attorney. Con- naughton objected and Judge Thompson upheld him, saying, “I don’t want to go into & murder trial in another State.” Witnesses yesterday told of a watch having been kept on public men and officeholders throughout the country. Their records were In.-rt for reference by Klan secret agents, it testified. Barrickman, in arguing about admis- sion of the Stephenson deposition, told the court he represented 26 local units of the Klan, having been authorized by them to intervene in the suit on their behalf. ‘This brought a statement from Con- nluthum that the defendants were “trying to jump in and out of the Klan at the same time." Burning and Branding Charges, Btephenson's allegation that the Klan used women to besmirch the characters of certaln men was stricken out. Bections of the deposition permitted to go into the record over objection by Klan counsel we: Btephensor charge that grand dfagons were instruc by Evans to follow his orders blindly and that if they falled to do so they would be un- nenated, dvunlnlud and their characters attacke Hlephenson's allegation that the “Black Mask Robe" *nuu WS author- iged by Evans and that this was the of- ficlal robe when Klansmen went on kill- ing and whipping parties, especially in the Bouth, Stephenson's charge that Evans told him and boasted that a negro had been burned at_the astake in Texas; that Kinnsmen had eut off a negro's ears, and that K" had been branded on the forehead of another negro. Btephenson's allegation that the “Purple Robe" gang \‘h ) also known as the “Death Battallon, was headed by Charley Lewls and & - 12, 1928 Upper, left to right: Capt. Herman Koehl and Baron von Huenefeld. Lower: Col. James Fitzmaurice. GERMANS’ AIRPLANE IS BELIEVED FAR AT SEA ON HOP TO U S. (Continued from First Page.) was across Conception Bay, clearly visible. The local airport was safe for use in event of a forced landing, but the lakes in this vicinity were not. No Arctic ice was reported from the grand banks or along the shipping lane. Assisted by Winds. The aviators have picked a time of favorable winds for their flight, but will find wintry weather still prevailing, Dr. James H. Kimball of the United States Weather Bureau, who vised all of the ocean flyers from this side, said In®New York today. “They will have considerable wind assistance,” he said, “in contrast to the generally prevailing contrary winds for a westward flight. The great men: the flight will be the conditions east of ‘Newfoundland, where the temperature is about freezing and where there are probably low clouds.” NEAR CRASH AT START. Bremen Skims Stone Wall in Taking Off at Airdrome. BALDONNEL AIRDROME. Irish Pree State, April 12 (#),—Bearing the irations of two nations for trans- atlantic flying honors, the silver gray German monoplane Bremen sped west- ward today on what was hoped to be the first spanning of the Atlantic from east to west by airplane. Essaying the same feat, seven av- fators have lost their lives since last May. / ‘Terror-struck spectators watched the heavily laden plane speeding along runway, but failing v rise at first. After running 900 yards, the plane took the air at' 5:38 am. (12:38 East- ern time). The flight of some 3,000 miles, if successful, is ex- 1o terminate at Mitchel Field, ew York, early tomorrow afternoon. Sightéd by Coast Guard. Two hours after the start the Gal- way Coast Guards saw the Bremen go- ing strong, well out over the Atlantic and headed in a northwesterly direc- tion. The coast guard saw the plane passing over Costello, Galway, 7:05 a.m. having traveled the miles between Baldonnel and that point at the rate of about 100 miles an_hour. At the controls were Capt. Herman Koehl, German war fiver, and night flying expert, and Col. James Fitz- maurice, commandant of the ' Free State air force, who will alternate as pllots at four-hour intervals. Behind them sat Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, his last pfennig staked on this venture, durtng which he will man the fuel pump, cook and keep the log. Never had the plane been tested with its full load of 2,500 liters of fuel and its peculiar undercarriage until it started up the sloping runway. Fifty men armed with axes, hatchets, crow- bars and fire extinguishers were or- dered to their stations along the runway ready to jump into action should dis- aster occur. Spectators, including President Cos- grave and other Free State notables, had a minute of hee -t-breaking agony as the Bremen made its first mad rush alon the runway. The machine was shroud in a cloud of dust, swirling from the road behind the starting point. Up the slope it raced to the crest, at the 600-yard mark where it was cal- culated that it should take the air. Then the plane started careening down the slope on the other side and disap- rlr!d from the view of watchers at he starting point. Spectators Frightened Men who fly and men who know fly- were frightened, for failure to take meant a crash and almost certain eath for the trio incased in the all- tal machine. A(. 900 yards, the Bremen's wheels left.the und. The undercarriage un- der the tail whirled away like a run- away cart. Still the plane was barely skimming the ground and roaring along at 90 miles an hour toward a stone wall at the end of the airdrome. Under the coal control of Capt Koehl, who had said that the take-off was one of the most perilous parts of the flight, the plane headed for a breach made in the wall for the take- off. The Bremen shot through safely “If the wall had not been demolished the Bremen would have crashed. 1 was terrified,” sald Col. Charles Russell, former chief of the Saorsat air farce and & close friend of Fltzmaurice. After seconds that seemed like hours, the silvered wings appeared above the horlzon and men, women and soldlers, knowing the Bremen was in the alr, cheered wildly. It wurvhct n{m. weather. A 10- mile wind helped the Bremen into the | |2ir and a dim sun shone on her silvered wings. In the western sky cloud banks ace of all but obscured the blue Irish sky. Weather reports told of almost perfect weather prevailing to the midatlantic. Prom midnight on notables and - cial guests arrived at Baldonnel from Dublin. It was still dark when the “)Iane was rolled from the hangar at 3:30 It was fully fueled and ready to sta Capt. Koeh! was the first to appear at breakfast at the officers’ mess. Then came Baron von Huenefeld with his monocle. Capt. Koehl had hardly fin- ished breakfast when he left the mess, wearing his big fleld gray German coat and a flying helmet, to superintend the | tuning-u| | For a | was v cheery “Good morning!” to breakfast as the baron finished | In the meantime, Capt. Koehl in- | spected the under-carriage of the plane | minutely. |into the plane. Dawn revealed the | Irish tri-color draped on the right of | the cabin, the German flag on the left | Fitzmaurice and the baron soo! joined Koehl. Baron von Huenefeld was taking final puffs at what will be his last cigar until he reaches America. p. while Col. Fitzmaurice's chair the nobleman, who is an inveterate smoker, would be tempted to light up | during the trip on which his work will | be to sit between two great tanks of fuel in the fuselage and pump the fuel into the engine. Wife Is in Tears. Pitzmaurice was like a spirited school- boy. He walked from group to group | l]aughing and joking with his many friends as if he were on a lark. | whom this was no lark, however. Fear | of tragedy showed in the face of Mrs. Fitzmaurice as the colonel kissed her good-by. She turned away in tears. Then the three fiyers climbed into the plane. Koehl and Fitzmaurice took part of the fuselage just behind the engine. Baron von Huenefeld disap- peared down the hatch into his cabin in the rear. The hatches were cl over both openings. [ minutes as the engine was speeded up and slowed down in a final trial. Then it roared in earnest and the plane was ready to take off. The Free State from under her wheels and in another minute the Bremen was bound for the Atlantic. The weather report on which the aviators staked their lives said almost ideal conditions prevailed as far as mid- atlantic. Beyond that they were not expected to be quite so good. Along land the weather was considered better than on the one to the south. Arrive March 26. The Germans arrived here in secret March 26. drome, Berlin, that morning almost un- heralded, they arrived at Baldonnel about nine hours later, In that time they covered 990 miles at the average of nearly 106 miles an hour. They wanted to continue on the next day, but poor weather set in and also some dissension arose, which resulted in the substitution of Col. Fitamaurice for Arthur Spindler, who flew from Berlin as co-pilot. GALE IS EXPECTED, On the basis of present forecasts, the Bremen is due to buck unfavorable weather on the Western side of the At- lantic. A strong wind was reported by the Weather Bureau to be passing northeast from New England toward Newfound- land, where it was expected to assume gale proportions by tonight Moving Northeastward off into the Atlantie, the storm was expected to gather force and cover a wide area. ‘Weather Bureau officials here were of the opinion that it would be difficult for the Hremen to escape strong winds in the Western Atlantie and considered it continuously after passing midatlant Enroll me as a member of Foening Star \Golden Rule Safe Drivers Club I |, SIUPRRACK Name Address 1 agree to abide by the Golden Rule of Motordom, “Drive as you would have others drive,” a at all times be eonsiderate of pedestrians and children. Koeh! threatened to search him, fearing | In one group there stood a figure lor: The Bremen stood throbbing for 15 | ground detachment pulled the bloeks | the northern route toward Newfound- | Leaving Tempelhofer Air- | likely that the plane would buck winds | CHALLENGES RIGHT F SENATE INQURY ‘ Opevators’ Spokesman De- | nies\Authority to Probe Coal Production Costs. By the Aswciated Press. Winding\up argument on the right of | the Senate coal committee to require | West Virginia operators to present pro- | duetion costs, E. L. Greever of Tazewell, Va., today challenged right of the Sen- |ate to make the present inquiry into | conditions in \the central competitive | bituminous field. ‘Taking up directions in the resolution, | the spokesman for operators in southern | West Virginia declared that there was not a single item in it on which Con- gress could legislate. | _This view was disputed by Senators | Wheeler of Montana and Wagner of New York, Democrats, and Gooding, Re- | publican, Idaho, who contended that | the decision as to whether there could | be corrective legislation for present de- | plorable conditions among coal miners {in parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and { West Virginia was one for the com- | mittee. After the argument was closed the | committee took under advisement the decision as to whether it will compel operators to furnish production costs, and further hearings were deferred until next week. | At the outset Greever sald southern | West Virginia wanted to be left out of | the \whole investigation, as it had no | labor troubles and no strikes. | PO |NATIONAL HEALTH BODY |PLEA OF DR. C. H. HERTY Advisor of Chemical Foundation Says “Pitiful Sum” Is Asked for Research. | A plea for the passage of & bill by | Senator Ransdell, Democrat, Louisiana, which calls for the creation by the Government of a national institute of health, was made by Dr. Charles H. | Herty, advisor of the Chemical Founda- | tion, Inc., New York, in an address be- fore the Louisiana Society of Washing- | ton last night. | _The “pitiful sum of $43,000" is a: present asked for divisions under the Treasury Dej research worl | | CONCERTS. TODAY. 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