Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1928, Page 4

FITZMAURICE LAID ¢ PLANS FOR RESCUE Flyer Was Ready to Fight Way to Civilization if Plane Crashed in Woods. MAJ, JAMES C. FITZMAURICE. Tclestaph to The Star York Times LAKE ST. AGNES, Quebec, April 23 —After all that happened to the Bremen and her crew I eannot help but feel that others, too, may have crossed the Atlantic westward by air only to crack up in some remote wilder ness. I realize that we were saved only | by providential luck. A few more miles to the northward. another hour in the air and we would have been far from | any human habitation | That such & contingency might arise | occurred to me in the course of the flight and I tried to recall all that I had read of Labrador the Arctic. The books of Dr. Grenfell and of Hudson stuck. and those splendid tales | of Cooper built around the Indians of | the North. | What did these books tell of land| and weather and the things men live | by? I tried to recall, and I did recall | some of it, for the imp of adventure had always pinched me and these stories and these later books had been impressed most clearly on my mb Lost in Ireland. Indeed, T had evew emce before been It was in the dog of Allen. when. | 2s. 1 wandered for n ‘the bird eggs we nd. finally reaching and so home lni BY By | | and the New | | started out to get fome men cu a jolly good licking | 1 derided that the first thing to do | d come down at some remote | be to hold a conference. Ve would have to discover ways and means to get back to civilization. First of all, we would have to take a good | rest, and we could take that in the ma- | chine. From the stars we could gain a general idea of our whereabouts and 8:3& in which direction a human habi- tion would most easily be encountered For that there was our compass. We | would take it along. As we would have | to travel over soft snow we would re-| quire snow shoes of some sort. We carried a small ax in the Bremen. With | this we would improvise skis, and_we would take the ax along to cut fire- | wood That brought up the guestion of fires. | We would need these for warmth and | cooking purposes. But none of us had | matches. We had not brought them | because of the risk of fire. To be sure— | Baron von Huenefeld had a cigarette lighter, but should this not work we would certainly die. I racked my brain for a solution, and found it in the start- ing magneto Magnet Is Selution. We could remove that from the air- pisne. It was operated by & handle. It made a good, fat spark. If we took slong some petrol as a precaution we would be fairly certain to make a fire under any conditions. There again the ax would come in handy to chop away one of the petrol tanks from inside the machine. 1 tried to picture how we would live. i We brought with us some sand- wiches and hard-boiled eggs and ther- moe flasks of coffee and tea. The bulk of this tood remained untouched and we could take it along. But that food would soon be consumed. What would we do after that? My thought was that we would travel across country until we found a river and then make our way down the river. We could chop holes in the ice and fish, Of course. we had no rods or lines or hooks, but we could use strings and bent pins and red paper for bait. I had seen that done successfully in Ireland. 1 recalled that porcupines were to be found in the north. They would be , easy to catch, and we could eat them. Possibly there would be other animals, but probably we would depend more than anything eise on fishing. One thing that blood-and-thunder reading did for me was to give me a frightful horror of wolves. I remembered stories of people being chased by packs of them, and I recalled that the thing to @o would be to kill one. But how kill one without being killed? - Well, there was the light signal pistol and I had 15 cartridges. Planned to Make Sled. It dawned upon me now that we e uld not possibly travel with the mag- neto and the petrol tank, and the fish we ht catch, or the animals we might kill, without having some means of transportation. There again with the ax we could improvise some sort of sled, and if we chose a river route, we would not have difficulty in dragging it We eould do that in turn, just as Koehl and I had taken turns about in piloting the Bremen How would we sleep at night? Fortunately we were in heavy ing suits. These would keep us warm as we walked by day. At night it would be different. We would face the danger of attack by wild animals or freezing 1 death | In ordinary Winter weather fires would solve that and we would stand rd in turn until the break of day however. the weather became ex- tremely cold, we would have to impro- vise shelter of some kind. As I thought back over what I had read, it seemed to me that some of the Eskimos made their igioos by bullding a framework of | branches and covering them with snow In such sheiters we could survive the severest cold. 1 realized that the dis- tance was enormous; we might be six months making our way back to civili- ation, 1f the ice broke up, we might make a rough raft and float down stresm, stopping only to drag it over Tapids Always Optimistie, Of course, we might not survive, and | 1 remembered wondering in what order | we would go, if we died of exhaustion who would be first and who last, and what it would feel like? 1 remem-| bered Capt. Scott's fave in the Antarctic | 2nd the bravery of that companion of his who stepped out ints the snow when he realized he was imperiling the chances of the others ut, a8 I thought it mistic over, 1 felt course, 1 always ould win through. Bomehow | we would get of any that might arise Pliots have 1o, 1 suppose, and s I had no grest fears as 1 formed the plans to ofier my eompanions in our fHirst cor ference together should we crash on lend s 1 go over W beive or other emergency | | t all now 1 have every Rurope and that \hes are hang- up on the trees of Labrador. What | overtook thelr gallant crews? | hey killed in crushing’ Did die of hunger or exhaustion, or they, or some of them. fighting wey back through s wilderness of forest and w weste of snow? I do not know, but I sincerely bope that this may be d R Upisen \ BELGIAN SHIP SINKS. Two of Crew Missing, 25 Saved as i Vessel Founders. LA MADDALENA ®icly, April Two persons were inissing after the Belgian cargn seamer Conte 0s Flandre (oun- dered off the shore here. Twenly five o1 “ne of the ship, which be Jones Joeuns Co. 0f Antwerp - sed_ The mising men uird ofcer and the radio op » The ehip cerriea 3500 tons of mipcrals, fruns and merchanglee, Jslend of Acprera e P were | 23, 1928, | X% RELIEF PLANE ARRIVES TO AID CREW OF STRANDED BREMEN ___(Continued from First Page.) surface. As a consequence, the flight was postponed until this morning at| dawn. At that time, Canadian nights | being as chilly as they are, the snow | was frozen hard and Balchen, the relief plane pilot, had no difficulty in taking | off. “Don't worry,” he assured Mal. | Pitzmaurice, ‘we will be up there this| morning. We will be at the island by | 10 o'clock.” ! At a conference of the major, Balchen | and the corrsepondent for The Star and) the North American. Newspaper Alli- ance, who is flying to the Bremen, it was decided that it would be too haz- ardous to risk another attempt to reach the island yesterday. Obviously the ship | could not have reached there much be- | fore dark and all hands would have| been too tired to do much work at the | German ship. Therefore, it was agrecd it would be wiser to turn in at this little | village, once a haven for whalers, break | up the flight and plan to rush through work on the Bremen today with the ad- vantage of daylight. Short Repair Job. If Maj. Pitzmaurice has estimated corrctly, it will not take more than six or seven hours to rehabilitate the Bre- | men. e will get a good sleep here,” he said, “and we will have the Bremen under way by tomorrow if it is humanly possibie.” “Perhaps,” said Balchcn, never one to indulge in optimistic dreams, hav- ing been in six major exploration ex- peditions, “we will first have to see | how badly the Bremen is damaged.” Despite the unfortunate change in weather conditions, bringing slushy melting snow, to which the relief planes #kils developed an embarrassing aMinity, the major was not at all depressed Twice Baichen shot the all-metal mcno- | plane across the lake, its three motors roaring under full throttle, but they could not pry the skils loose. “It . looks like we're here for the night” said Fitzmaurice, unbuttoning | his elegant red jacket; “20 horses could not Jift this hardware store from this snow.” | He looked down the 45 feet of fuselage | of the Alliance plane, It was jammed with supplies to the windows;, (wo | great wheels, landing gear, 5-gallon | cans of benzol, jacks and many gal- lons of ofl for the Bremen, not to men- ) tion the boxes of cigarettes, sweets, | clothing and such for the captain and | baron. | The ship weighed, all told, 12,500 pounds. In spite of the load, the glant monoplane rose easily from Bt Agnes | yesterday morning and traveled the 250 miles in less than three hours. Baichen | was at the controls and he hopped it over the hili as if it carried no load | at all. There are more air bumps in these mountain districts than at Coney | Islend’s shows and the plane seesawed | up and down st times, varylng from 3,000 to 4,000 feet, Just one thing marred the Irishman’s joy st starting back. Keeping it as a deep secret, he had smuggled a bottle of rare champaigne, & gift to the baron, n the fuselage. In the shuffie of de- parting, some one borrowed it 'l murder the blarsted wretch,” he declared, “because the baron told me 10 bring back a bottle of champalgne. even if 1 did not get the parts. That blooming wland is drier then a dried herring and, having eaten them, I know there s nothing drier.” Ktroggle Through G | Bul the joy of actuslly starting back with the necessary parts was Loo greal | w permit minor catastrophes long Lo interfere. For three days, he and “Duke” Bchiller struggled through storms to fly to Murray Bay, though hoth realized the ohances of gewing L. necessary equipment were decidedly shim “You can fmagine my delight” he suid, “when Miss Junkers (Herle Junk ers, daughter of the Bremen's designer) wid me how The Blar and the North | American Newspaper Alljance had fur- nished this plane 1 the Oty of New York, one of the only two planes in the country, understand, capable of un dertaking this job. At this moment, 1 want 0 thenk them and I know Capt | Koehl and the baron would wani me o speak for them. When they see me pop off the skils with this big ship they sre going w get the surprise of ! thetr tyves s ve g g g e 18 | { {climb and the pilot pulled her up to a {the Junkers plane landed | latter was kept here through a last- { minute decision by the heads of his | company that the competent pilot should be held in reserve for possible | rescue work, should any mishap occur to the relief expedition Mechanic in Plane. The only other persons in the plane with Balchen and Fitzmaurice were Ernst Koeppen, mechanie, who will superintend repairs to the Bremen, and Charles J. V. Mul Alliance ' cor- respondent. Floyd Bennett, head pilot lof 'the relief plane when she hopped oft from Detroft Friday for the 800- mile non-stop flight that brought her |to St. Agnes, was robbed of his place in th expedition by iliness, the finx that Has haunted him for more than a year. ‘Sl weak from an attack of | grippe when he left Detroit, nnett Run of | KNP llapsed on the way here and was put to bed with & heavy cold. Then the start for Greenly Island was post- ned a day in the hope that he and alchen, also just over the grippe, | would recover sufficiently to make the i 4 Bennett liminated oy eAr ARO enne! was elim| off almost as breathless as Lindbergh's | ¢ ot ynyrd':&unulllmuc fiight by in- istoric struggle against gravity at the | e “received on the first tests of beginning of his New York-to-Paris | }i0'°s TECCUNE 0 U (00 rest put flight, the Alliance relief plane, loaded | ¢ PIOS ANCEIt 0 G0 gennetys to the longerons with spare parts and | oyness proved more serious, and 5 fuel for the Junkers monaplane | pours atter the Alliance relief plane Bremen, took the air at 10 minutes|jor gy, Agnes, a Fairchild cabin mono- after 6 yesterday morning from L"'“"plnne, plloted by Capt. Godfrey Dean St. Agnes, en route to Greenly Island. | of the Canadian Fairchild Co. at Grand To the tense watchers standing on the | xrore " Quebec, took off with Bennett for ice, it seemed as if the great trimotored | the f:ll\' of Quebec. monoplane would never rise and there | "4 ' 0 Titer the machine landed were signs of rellef when Bernt Balchen | o the Plains of Abraham. Bennett finally Hifted her after a runoff of 52| was transferred to a waiting ambulance seconds, which carried him nearly a|and hurried to the Jeftrey Hale Hos- mile pital in Quebec for rest and adequate Even after the great all-metal plane | jreatment and care. Bennett, at Grand had taken to the element for which she | Mere. 75 miles away, telegraphed his was designed, and her 200-horsepower | wife in Brooklyn to take the night train engines were roaring full out, she settled | from New York. sickeningly as Baicl n nosed her over ¥ to gain speed, and seemed about to Film Plane Used. 3 The plane that took Bennett to sh into the low hills ahead. With forward speed came greater control and ‘ Quebec was here to cl;ry out m;m in the keen rivalry that has existed ever safe aititude just in time. But he flew | g “the Bremen's landing, but it was straight ahead for miles before risking n‘ unhesitatingly placed at the disposal careful turn that brought him back | of the North American Newspaper Al- over the lake 1800 or 2.000 feet up, | Jiance by the Fox News Co. whence he straightened out on the first 4 f the 800 The fiyer was removed at his own re- leg of the 800-mile flight to Greenly | gyeqt and by the advice of Dr. Joseph d | Lapernte, who made the 16-mile auto Report Progress. land sleigh trip twice from Murray Bay : to minister to the stricken airman, . Thereafter, officials of the Canadian -Thomas V. Mulroy, engineer of the Byrd Transcontinental Alrways. operators of | Anaretic expedition, talked to Bennett the air base at Lake Bt. Agnes and the | by telephone two hours after the flyer's owners of the first plane to reach the | grrival in Quebec and reported that his German-Irish crew of the Dremen, re- | chief felt & great deal better, ceved reports of the relief plane prog-| The Alllance relief plane was loaded ress with surprising regularity, con-|t, a total weight of almost 12,000 sidering the lack of communications | pounds, which represented her own which has existed In the country | bulk of 6,000 pounds, and an equal mass north and east of Murray Bay since | of crew, fuel for the Bromen and hersell |and five or six hundred pounds of re- At 6:35 o'clock the plane was sighted | pairs for the damaged German plane. passing over Tadoussac, at 7:05 she|The latter included a complete new was over Mille Vaches and at 10 word | under-carriage and wheels, a metal came through that she had landed at|propelier taken from the junkers' mono- Seven Islands | plane F-13, now at Curliss Field, and Then the wire and wircless service | the necessary tools for completing the collapsed for a period while conflicting [ needed replacements at Greenly Island tidings were reported. First it was sald | The relief plane's start was not with- the plane had taken off again at 10:30 | out its lighter side. A fur-coated mo- for & non-stop flight to Greenly, buf | tion picture photographer, who had about noon another report = came|made himself suspiclously helpful in through that the plane was still on the | loading supplies aboard the relief plane, ice off Beven Islands, Plnulliy u mo-}nh-n unsuccessfully to stow away, It gram was received here from Balchen, was said he spent almost the entire Fitzmaurice and Murphy which said | night in the after cabin of the big ship, the plane had landed and refueled, but (but Balchen's keen eyes found him out was unable o take off again with its|and he was efected from the plane. heavy lond In the sun-softened and |Having falled in cleverness, he tried to slushy snow, and would start for Green- | beg his way on board and was the most y at dawn today when the surface of |dejected man in the world when he the fce 18 solid | Anally was left behind amid the jeers Beside Balchen in the pllot's cockpit Inf his fellows, to whom he had boasted at the take-off sat Maj, James J. Fitz- [that others might be balked, but he maurice, head of the Irish Alr Forces | was going to fly into Greenly Island on and co-pllot of the Bremen, who was | the rellef plane brought out of Greenly Island several | Aboard the latter at the start was days ago in an Alliance plane plloted | 400 gallons of fuel for her own motors A. “Duke” Bchflier, The and 60 gallons of benzol, the special message to Floyd Bennett. who orlginal- ( ly started on the relief expedition with | Béilchen in spite of a severe cold. He flew the plane from Detroit to St. Agnes | Lake last Friday—800 miles non-stop— and then was forced to go to bed. he message read: ‘You have been splendid, );"loykd. and we'll all call on you in New ork.’ " (Copyright, 1028, in all countries hy the North American Newspaver Alliance.) NEAR CRASH AT TAKE-OFF. \ Atuan, e Balchen Lifts Plane After Nearly One Mile. BY €. D. ALLEN. Special Dispatch to The Star American. Newspaper Alliance MURRAY BAY, April 23.—In a take- Bremen Flight Backer Turns .o Verse To Praise Almighty for Guiding Hand By the Awsiated Bross e M NEW YORK, April Gratitude for the succosstul transatiantic Algh of the German plane Bremen was ex | pressed by Baron von Huenefeld, backer | |of the flight, In verse which he wrote |in German for the New York Btants| | Zeitung iy The poem was written April 14, the| A" Asy sttar the Brecan mmt--vl1 Bt Chreons | Me Who has ilimpsed the awful fuce of Iy Island and wes translated by George | Thy Ty Bylvester Viereck, The eontiuding | wy, /ler Hawed his hoart e tore Thy crobs M ot B it Wi ' Te now with weyer 1 the w i the me and folds my honds i folk i ot quiel rustis Tunely ana Dlowis whstelands odhowd's vestment rpaties in overywhera relunn Thy omnini Oan it contess muroy ht Above: Duplicate of Comdr. Byrd's tri-motered plane, which flew with supplies and parts to the stranded | Bremen. Left: Flyers in the relief ex- pedition. Left to right: Maj. James Fitzmaurice, Floyd Bennett, Duke Schil- ler and Bernt Balchen. Fitzmaurice and Balchen piloted the relief plane to fuel needed for the Bremen's high- | compresson_engine. 'Maj. Fitzmaurice told Miss Herta Junkers, who is in charge here at Murray Bay, that Capt. | Herman Koehl, pilot of the Bremen, and Freiherr Gunther Von Hunenfeld, | backer of the flight, believe there was at least two and & half hours' fuel left in the Bremen when she landed at Cireenly a week ago the additional benzol ta is considered ample to get the plane to Lake St. Agnes, where there is a large supply. To have attempted taking even a few | gallons more on the Alllance plane | might have proven fatal to her entire | crew, If the take-off of the already | heavy ship is any indication (Copyright 1 in all e tri North American Newspaper Alliz | HARTFORD. Conn.. April 23 (#).— | Clarence _Chamberlin, ~ transatlantic | fiyer, left Brainerd Fleld here at 10:05 | o'clock this morning for Greenly Island, | to welcome the crew of the Bremen. | Chamberlin took off in a Fairchild cabin monoplane. He had as passengers "!.mum Wel round-the-world flyer; Edward B. Kelly, treasurer of the Air- port Construction Co. and his business | associate, and Ralph Morgan, a photog- i rapher. | “Another plane, piloted by Lieut. Carl A, Dixon, took off at the same time with Lieut. Harry Generous and Sergt. | Charles F. Arnoid. This is the second trip to Lake St. Agnes for Sergt. Ar- | nold and Lieut. Dixon, both fiyers hav | Ing gone up to secure photographs and | news of the Bremen's crew, April 17, | " If the weather s favorable, the fivers | will proceed from Lake St. Agnes to | Greenly Island. PRESIDENT IS FIRM ON FLOOD PROGRAM House Committee Chairman Says Lawmakers Will Ac- cede Partly to Coolidge. | | By the Associated Press. Summoned to the White House for another conference on Mississippi flood | control, Chairman Madden of the House | appropriation committee declared today | upon leavin, that President Coolidge | has made all the concessions he Intends {to offer to ths supporters of the Jones | Senate bill. Madden scarcely had left the White House when Chairman Reld of the House flood control committee an- nounced that his committee had decided to accede in part to the President. | List of Amendments. Amendments which Reid said the committee would sponsor on the House floor will be A provision to place upon the States costs of furnishing the rights of way for levees on the main stream of the Mississipp! River from Cape Girardeau, | Missouri, to the Gulf of Mexico. The elimination of a section of the | measure which would make the Federal roads which traverse the path of the proposed floodways In Arkansas, Loutsi- ana, and Missourl, ‘The addition of a clause absolving the Federal Government from llability during future fl 3 In view, however, of Madden's an- nouncement, which a to & White House ultimatum, there was no prospect yet of an agreement be- tween the President and the House because the amendments agreed to by Chairman Reid fall far short of Mr. Coolidge's wishes. President’s Views Restated. Madden sald the Prseident adhered to the views he had expressed to House leaders Friday evening, when he Insisted that at least the following four pro- visions be Included in the bill: (1) That New Orleans and Missourt localities, respectively, protect the Qov- ernment against any damages acoru- ing during the ‘period of construction of the A?ll Iways and floodways. (2) That localities along the main stream provide the ground for con- struction of levees free of charge to the Federal Governmen! (3) Participation to the extent 331, per cent by States of the cost of flood-control work along the tribu- taries 4) That the Federal CGovernment would pay for any lands which it might take over or use in the exeécution of the flood-reliet plans Ohalrmi Madden foresaw an early vote in the House on the Senate Jones bill, and although he would not prediot its defeat, he was confident that ad- mihfstration suppor could ntuster enough votes to prevent repassage over a veto, These calculations were bused on the supposition that the House and the President would reach no agree- ment FIRE MASCOT KILLED. Potomac Dog Found Dead on High way, Vietim of Auto. Special. Dispateh to The Stnr POTOMAO, Va., April 28 fox terrier mascot of the Pot Department, 1s dead, the vic hit-and-run driver, His CArcass was found on Mount Vernon avenue. ‘Taken Into the department & & pup & year ago, Blave bocame & vital part of the organigation that proteots "the safety of this town. Blase stood his "wateh" over the apparatus every night and wis missing. He wus partioularly o Asst, Ohlef B De Blage spent his nights on the pgal of the chemioal wagon, \ no e n of n instead of the Federal Government the | Government llable for damages to rail- | kyprnred to amount | of | Blage, | DISTRICT CONGRESS OFP-T.A. CONVENES Members Hope to Secure Law | Permitting Election of School Board. Legislation permitting the election of | the school board by the people of the | | District was declared to be the “great | dream” which the District of Columbia | | Congress of Parent-Teacher Associa- | | tions hopes to realize in the near future, | | by Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president, | in her report at the fifteenth annual convention of the organization, ln)t'n-l hg in the Ralelgh Hotel this afternoon. i ther legislation which the association | hopes to secure, Mrs. Rafter asserted, | includes bills providing free text buoks | | for high school children, reduced car | fares for school children’ and a home | | for dependent and delinquent children. | “We feel it is a disgrace to the | | parenthood of the state to have a child | |'lose one day of school for lack of shoes | lor clothes,” the president said. - One | | hundred appeals for help had been in- | vestigated; 118 pairs of new shoes, 59 | pairs of rubbers and several hundred | pairs of mended shoes supplied in the | past year, it was reported. “Our slongan, ‘Keep the child in school,’ has been put across without a failure,” Mrs. Rafter declared. { The president also made particular | mention of the parental education lec- | ture course and the Summer round-up ' | in her review of the year's activities Other Reports Submitted. Others to submit reports were: Mrs. 7. D, Blackistone, treasurer; Mrs. Wal- ter B. Fry, recording secretary. Mr: J. W. Byler, corresponding secretary: | {Mrs. L. H. Brown, historian; Mrs. J. N. Saunders, Mrs. Andrew Stewart, H. C. Clark and Selden N. Ely, vice pre idents; Mrs. H. S. Parsons, delegate to the Federation of Citizens' Associa- tions, and the various State chairmen. | he convenfon opened with an in- { vocation by Rev. Joseph R. Slz00, pas- [tor of the New York Avenue Presby- | terian Church, followed by a flag salute led by Miss Frances Hall Greg- | ory and the singing of the P.-T. A.| song. | In conjunction with the convention, | which has as its general topic “The | Three Ages of Childhood in Relation | to the Sevenfold Program of Home and | School,” an educational exhibit is being held which will be open for the | inspection of parents tonight. | Exhibits Show Work. The exhibit is designed to instruct the public in the National and State work of the organization and the vari- ous agencies which are co-operating | with . It includes displays of the | Children's Bureau, the Washington Pub- | lic Library, the American Medical As- sociation, the Washington Dairy Coun- | cil, the National Educational Associa- | tion, the National Congress of Parent- | Teachers, the Children's Welfare Maga- | zines and recreation and posture ex- { hibits: In addition, 30 publicity scrap- | books are shown, 10 of which will be chosen to be sent to the national con- | | vention of the organization. | Dr. Fred A. Moss, professor of ps chology at George Washington Univer- | sity, will speak on “Measuring Mind" at | tomorrow morning's session, which will |be devoted mainly to routine business, including election of officers. The convention will be concluded | with a “get-together luncheon” tomor- {row, at which addresses will be made by several prominent educator: | HOOVER AND SMITH LEAD, EDTORS Y Poll of Newspapers Classesl Them as Dominating in Presidency Race. Gov. Al Smith of New York and Sec- | rotary Herbert Hoover of the Depart-| ment of Commerce are the dominating ' figures today in the presidential race, according to & poll of newspaper ed-| itors conducted throughout the country | by the National Republic. The editors were requested to pre- sent the actual situation in their terri- | tory. A similar poll by the National | Republic /last November also showed that Smith and Hoover were then in | the lead. | 2,673 Responses Noted. | In all, 2.673 editors responded to the poll. which shows that Gov. Smith| leads as the Democratic choice in every State except Missouri and Kansas, where Senator Reed of Missouri pre- valls Gov. Smith tied with Reed In Florida and Mississippi and in Mary- land with Gov. chie. The Democratic poll showed this re- | sult: | amith | e | Meredieh MeAdoo Secretary Hoover had a preponder- ance as first or second cholce in every State except Missourt. The editors trep. resented Mr. Hoover as being first choic in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colo- | rado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, | Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, | Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, | New York, Ohlo, Oregon. Pennsylvania, | Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah: | Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West | Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. ' Conditions in Various States. i | Lowden is reported as first choice of most localities in Arisona, Tilinois, { | Towa. Minnesota, Missourl, Montana, | North Oarolina, North Dakota, Okla- homa and South Dakota. Borah leads in Idaho, Curtis in Kansas and Wat- | son in Indiana in newspaper reports of majority sentiment Coolidge leads in Qeorgia, Norris in | ! Nebraska Hoover and Lowden are tied | in_Mississippi | The Republican poll result was | Horw His W Dawe attered Of Lowden's votes, 720, or all but 164, were in the six States, Ilinois Towa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Da- kota and South Dakota The poll, as analysed by the Hoover leaders, makes the Secretary the lead- ing candidate in States that have a total of 712 delegutes. ‘The poll for Lowden gives him States with 242 dele- | gatos. CLUB INVITES FLYERS. Donatey 81 Woolen Ritchie Scattere " ANy \ Ity | D. C. Organiantion Offers to Enter tain Cross-Bea Alrmen ‘The board of direotors of the Concord Olub has extended an invitation, through | the QGerman embassy, to the transat- | lantio avia Raron Gunther von | Huenefeld, Capt. Koehl anc Ma). Fits- | maurice, to attend a reception to them | by the olub members at the clubhouse, 314 O street, during their stay in Wash- ington, it announced today. The date for the reception will be set o meet the convenienoce of the fivers upon thelr acceptance of the Invitation, it was stated by Gustave Render, financial seorelary of the Congord Club, A | | Robert Peter, who is ill. {to the courthouse yesterday, where i* | among m: 218 Maryland avenue northeast, select ed from among Washington school children to serve as flag bearer at the annual State convention of the District of Columi Congress of Parent-Teach- er Associations. Stafl Phot ROBERTSONGETS HEARING MAY 3 Date Fixed by Judge Riggs in Montgomery County Murder Probe. (SMITH CONCLUDES = ‘ SUOURN N ST Governor Cheered hy Thou- sands as He Leaves Asheville for Home. ASHEVILLE, April 23.—Ten thousand people saw Gov. Alfred E. York end his vacation at 4:40 o'l yesterday afternoon People from every walk of life and from every part of wes lina and from three nej; were jammed into a about the governor's private ing, “We're for you 1 for the op) with the’ governior. In a public stateme pre: just before I Smith announced his in land of the s piest periods of my Iked-of wonderful his messag me feel that I w but th much at v own people as New York or in the executive ma in_ Alb “You have opened to me your h and your hearts, and I leave the happiest impressions of you tiful goun your thriving commur r generous kindness. Never before in the memor: oldest resident here has such a f demonstration been accorded any man as the one tendered parting _governor automobiles jammed and more than an to clear the roads of the governor's tra For more than a ha his arrival at Biltmore struggled madly for the chan get a glimpse of the gover: dreds of people, in, several States, shook hands with hum Accompanying the governor on private car were Senator and Peter G. Gerry of Rhode Islan Joseph M. Prokauer of New Y members of the pri ing James J. Riordan. Kenny, Wiillam H. Todd and Se: William Ro; On the private car of Mr. Todd, which was also attached to the train. were New i e men trailing the government. Early yesterday afternoon made an inspection of States Veterans' Hospital at Otees | addressed the disabled veter: pecial ateh o The Star ROCKVILLE, Md., April 23.—Judge | Samuel Riggs of the Rockville Police Court announced today that the pre- liminary hearing of Samuel T. Robert- | son of Bethesda, charged with the mur- | der of Edward L. Mills, a dairy farmer, | near here last July, will be held Thurs- | day of next week. The date was agreed | upon at a conference of Judge RIggs | with Robert B. Peter, commonwealth's attorney, and Stedman Prescott, altor- | ney for the defendant | The police are searching for the au- | Sp Inote of the note, written in longhand mailed to Mr. Prescott from Washing- ton Saturday, which sald: “To whom | it may concern,” which is the word- ing of the opening line of a “con- fession note” found pinned on the body | of Mills after he was shot down on | his farm near here July 7 last year. “That man Robertson never Killed Ed Mills" the note said. “I did it, | and d— him, he deserved it. They | have got him, but they’ll never get | me. I don't want to see them hold | the wrong man. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. | 1 see you every day in the week.” | Prescott was displeased becatise of | publication of the note, which he said | had been given the police for a quiet | investigation. He said Robertson is in- | nocent of the crime and that he is 2o~ | ing to defend him to the very limit. Clifford H. Robertson of the Rockville | bar, who is a cousin of the defendant, is astisting Prescott. Judge Samuel Riggs has agreed with | Attorney Prescott to hold Robertsor reliminary hearing next week if sat actory to Commonwealth's Attorn Mr. Peter wiil be consulted on the question of a | definite date. The prisoner was taken is said he was confronted by two alleged witnesses. i« 'MRS. HUNTER CHOSEN PRESIDENT OF D. A. C Penndylvania Candidate Named by | Convention—Mrs. Cabell One | of Vice Presidents. Mrs. L. L. Hunter of Tidioute, Pa. was elected president of the Daughters of American Colonists at the closing session of the convention here today at the Washington Hotel. Mrs. James Branch Cabell of Richmond, Va. wife of the novelist, was elected a vice president The other vice presidents elected | were Mrs. Stanley L. Otis of New York City, Mrs. James T. Morris of Minne- apolis, Minn.. and Mrs. Earl J Fel- lows of Los Angeles. Mrs. Harry C Grove of Washington was elected re- cording secretary, Mrs. Freeman C ogers of Pueblo, Colo, cofresponding secretary. Miss Emma L. Crowell of Philadelphia. treasurer, and Mrs. John F. Little of Washington, registrar. Mrs. A. Y. Casanova of Washington, Mes Willam B. Rand of Boston and Mrs J. Coby Reed of Pasadena, Calif . were elected honorary vice presidents. QGeorge B. Lockwood. editor of the National Republic, addressed the con- vention, telling of his recent visit to Charleston, 8. C., and relating the part that eity played in America's early his- tory. A luncheon preceded this after- noon's sesston Woman Dies of Bullet Wound. AUGUSTA, Oa. April 33 (P —Miss Sarah Clark, 22, school teaaher of Sal- ley, 8. C. died today from a bullet wound inflicted by John Henry Baker 34-year-old farmer of Beech Island, S C., whete she was visiting friends Miss Clark, whose home is in Langley. | 8. C., 10 miles from Augusta, died in an Augusta hospital this morning. ! KAUFMAN, 1005 Pa. 1724 Pa CLOSED T( {WOMAN IS RES | whom he could not see personally. o the hospital's private radio station e CUED IN APARTMENT FIRE Victim, Partly Overcome, Is Car- ried From Basement by Firemen. Mrs. Virginia Canisuis was partly overcome with smoke and fright when fire broke out about noon today in the basement of the apartment house at 3701 Thirteenth street where she T sides. More than a score of the oth occupants of the apartment house rushed to the street in alarm as the smoke spread into the upper halls. Firemen, who arrived a few min- uates after the blaze was discovered. ca: ried Mrs. Canisius from the basement. whither she had gone to reach her locker. She soon recovered and suf- fered no permanent injury. The fire damaged the awnings and aoe o two apartments on the first oor. OIL PLANT, LONG INACTIVE, READY TO RESUME WORK MEXICO CIT patches from Tampico say ¢ liam Green, general manager Huasteca Petroleum Co.. ha nounced readiness to resume acti in the oil flelds. which have been almost paralyzed in recent months Mr. Green was quoted as an agreement with the Mexica ernment had been expected oo later, and the Huasteca Co. had been ready to meet the cir arising from a settlement controversy with will start drilling 2one, heretofore unexploited. The work will require the employ ment of at least 500 men, partly re lieving unemployment in Tam Green expressed belief companies will resume as they reorganize will operate on formerly. It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank ro THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Undor Supervision U. S, Treasury 1408 H STREET, N. W. Ave. . Ave. MORROW Until1 P Out of Re: spect for the Passing of Mrs. Leop: old Jonas Mother of Mrs. Joseph D. Kaufman