Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1928, Page 2

28 PRESIDENT GIVEN REPORT BY BUTLER G. 0. P. Chairman Praises Candidates and Harmony at Convention. Publisher Dies BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Stait Correspondent of The Star. CEDAR ISLAND LODGE, BRULE RIVER, Wis, June 18—President Coolidge today is receiving a detailed account of the Kansas City convention from Senator William M. Butler of Massacuhsetts, chairman of the Repub- lican national committee, who arrived at the Summer White House this morning. Before reaching the presence of Mr. | Coolidge the committee chairman said | that the party has reason to feel proud | of its choice of standard bearers and that the harmony prevailing through- out the sessions of the convention i; y gratifying. He stated he is; ;snr;ecé;g{g B be I Washington when | the 20 or so members of the national | __ committee call on Secretary Hmwr; next Thursday. | -SUCCUMBS IN 0w | | EDWIN T. MEREDITH. nominee is to get the latter’s ideas as to the selection of a chairman of the com- mittse and regarding campaign plans He declined to say why he was not at tending this conference with Mr, Hoo- . and when asked directly if h T PARLEY FROPOSED ON TRAFF LTS Transportation Companies to Be Called Into Confer- ence on New Signais. Representatives of the transportation companies of the District probably will be called into conference byithe Public | Utilities Commission in the near future | to consider the effect of the proposed | nstallation of 840 additional automatic | | iraffic signals on street car and motor bus schedules, it was announced today | | by Earl V. Fisher, executive secretary {of the commission. | The Capital Traction and the Wash- {ington Rapid Transit Cos. object to | certajn of the ?‘roposed installations, and s a result the commission is con- | sidering calling a conference of their officials, as well as the representatives | of the Washington Railway & Electric |and other transportation companies, to | discuss Harland's program in detail. John H. Hanna, president of the Capital Traction Co. wrote to Fisher stating that he is apprehensive that the | instaliation on Seventh street, between | D street and Massachusetts avenue, { will result in serious interference with | schedules and that he also is appre- ; hensive as to the effect of the instal- lations at many isolated intersections, particularly at Thomas Circle and at Wisconsin avenue and M street in Georgetown. E. D. Merrill, president and general HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1928 | FIRST AVIATRIX TO CONQUER ATLANTIC—HER CREW AND PLANE I EARHARIBPP“SES g MISS EARHART'S PLANE LANDS IN WALES; FUEL USED UP IN OCEAN HOP | | S | (Continued from First Page) are out of work at the present time, % R DAUGHTER'S FLYING Disapproval Fails to Daunt Girl Pilot, Father Admits. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 18.—A picture of his daughter as a slight but deter- mined girl, who didn’t let parental dis- approval stand fn the way of her learn- ing to fly, was drawn here today by |Edwin S. Earhart, father of Amelia | Barhart, who, with- two companions, ' hopped off yesterday in the tri-motored plane Friendship, in an attempted transatlantic flight. Earhart, a Los Angeles attorney, al- though he disapproves of his daugh- ter’s flying, could not conceal his pride as he told of her air and scholastic exploits and spoke of her courage and unwavering nerve. Miss Earhart came to Los Angeles after her graduation from Columbia University. One of the first things she did was to buy an airplane and learn to operate it. All this ‘was without the knowledge of her father. Miss Earhart Wealthy. “You see,” sald Ear] 5 wealthy in her gwn righ e ‘i, group of commitiemen upon the party’s Dut that was about all T i about | but they all seemed ready to spend it, under the circumstances. She was | their last sixpence to catch sight of the ought there was any likelihood of hi; l o | suceessful transatlantic plane. 4 manager of the bus company, advised remaining at the head of the comm Fisher that signal lights at such loca- tee to direct the coming campaign. answered by saying that was something | about which he had no say. Seldom Is Enthusiastic. Senator Butler ran true to form in| the matter of interviews and seemed reluciant to express himself or to make comment, other than to say that thvi party had reason to feel proud of the| presidential and vice presidential nom- inees. However, this was not taken as significant of anything in particular, be- cause Mr. Butler is not the kind to in-| dulge in enthusiasm. The fact that he was one of that little group of Coolidge | die-hards, who were hoping and praying | for something to happen in the form of a draft, is believed by those who are fa- miliar with his ways, to have nothing to nt lack of enthu- the lodge and not go to the executive , 0 as to have a long, un- g g B2 3 g gnE= ¢ Belrated i r I were about 100 persons in the | ‘The collection was con- y higher than izu}.,ud mof ‘Iger & day, according one attendants. The esident He carefully folded the bill | denomination would not be | ident showed interest in the Miss Elizabeth Terry, who brought to Brule from 8t.| lvhot')pnl Church, in Duluth. She | cellent control of a SR SOpEANIO | singing passages of “Lord, Cor~ the | the service and after taking with the blind preacher nished, the President drove awey. iack suit made him look more like | reiéeter than the regular minister | Brule or the blind preacher. { it had not been for the expressed | the President this blind lay | reacher would not have had the hopor to him yesterday. The of the lttle church, thinking it would be more appropriat: to have a regularly ordained minister, arranged to | have one from Duluth occupy the instead of John Taylor. Learn- of this, the President had word zut lh::hh?!tbaufigt llt.wnuld P{;‘;hener keep thel r lay preacher, and bis hint was tagen 4 ! i T 5 I EE ? - Kl ht B - SR g FIVE DIE AS AUTO | HITS TROLLEY CAR| Three Men and Two Women Vie-| tims of Crash at James- town, N. Y. | By the Associated Press | JAMESTOWN, N. Y., June 18.—Five | , three young men from Erie, Pa., and two you women of this city, were instantly killed here early yester- dsy when their automobile collided head-on with s trolley car, The dead Raiph T. Baptist, 27, steel worker, driver; Gertrude M. R. Johnson, 23; Ella 25, cook at the Y. W. C, A, . Lewis, 3 . 22; Albert Byrnes, 22, machine operator. The trolley car was being taken to 8 nearby carbouse and, according to witnesses, was traveling about five miles an hour. The automobile, which ‘was sald to traveling at & high rate of | driven across a viaduct in :g:edv wWas ommg direction from that in which trolley was going The five bodies were hurled high fnto the air and the automobile, a {Secretary of Agriculture in| | blood pressure was given es the cause of | They had two children. ition to his | Farmer's Tribune. . | his grandfather’s publieation. Through Wilzon Cabinet Will Be Buried Wednesday. By the Assoc! o | DES MOINES, Iowa, June 18.—Edwin T. Meredith, Secretary of Agriculture in | tions at Thirteenth street from E to | Massachusetts avenue, K street fromf Twelfth to Sixteenth street and Fif- teenth street from K street to Florida avenue are not vitally necessary “and therefore undesirable.” At isolated in- tersections where the movement of traffic is heavy, he added, “our view is that the situation can best be handled | by a police officer.” the Wilson cabinet, died last night. The | end of a long illness came at 6 o'clock | as Mr. Meredith slept. | At the bedside of the 51-year-old | farm publisher and Democratic pres- dential candidate were Mrs. Meredi! his mother, Mrs. M. J. Meredith of Los | Angeles; a son, a daughter, four broth- | ers and a sister. Heart failure resulting from high death. Mr. Meredith had been ill for several months, but the illness did not take a critical turn until a month ago, shortly after he had returned from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, where he had gone for observation. Funeral on Wednesday. Funeral services will be held from the Meredith home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. ! Dewsgm his illness, Mr. Meredith per- | mitted the use of his name against Gov. | Al Smith of New York in the recent | Iowa Democratic presidential preference | primary, which Gov. Smith won. Mr. Meredith always had been known as a “progressive dry,” and he was an out spoken opponent of the New York Gov- | ernor’s views on prohibition. Besides his political activities, Mr. Meredith was widely known as the pub- lisher of farm papers. Three such pul lications have their headquarters here. He entered politics in 1914 as a Demo- cratic candidate for United States Sen- | ator from Iowa. He was defeated, as he was two years later, when he was a candidate for governor. His entry into fim followed a steady upward climb the business world. Began as Dirt Farmer. Starting as a “dirt” farmer, the oc- cupation of his father and grandfather, | he entered the publishing business. Hi stand on farm questions—he constan! sought improvement of the farmers’ conditions—won him national attention. President Wilson named Mr. Meredith to the cabinet in 1920. In the 1924 Democratic convention Mr. Meredith's name remained before the delegates to the end. On the 10ist ballot he re-| ceived 130 votes, third to John | W. Davis and Oscar W. Underwood. Edwin Thomas Meredith whs born at Avoca, Iowa, December 23, 1876, the son of Thomas Oliver and Minnie Mi- nerva Marsh Meredith. He married Miss Edna C. Elliott of Des Moines in 1896. Youth Bought Farm Paper. Mr. Meredith's grandfather, in addi- | agricultural interests, was the publisher of a farm weekly, the It was devoted to cP“oPluLm and met with financial difi- Ht.!es when thlnth!novement ged m;lt. ‘l.ng complet a year . land Park College, Des Moines, )l:gl;lllg‘ Meredith, then 20 years of age. bor- rowed $1,800, with which he purchased six_years it brought him much hard work and little success. The Farmers' Tribune was discontinued and in its place Mr. Meredith established Suc- cessful 2s a monthly periodical. That proved the foundation of the successful Meredith Publications, the name of Mr. Meredith’s business, to which eventually were added Better Homes and Gardens and the Dalry Farmer, the three having a combined | mon;ohaly circulation of more than 2,- In 1917, William G. McAdoo, then Secretary of the Treasury, appointed Mr. Meredith to the of excess profits advisers. ‘Two years later Presi- dent Wilson named him a member of the Industrial Conference Commission and in January, 1920, selected him for the post of Secretary of Agriculture to succeed David F. Houston. Prominent in Advertising. Mr Meredith served as sident of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World in 1919. He was a director of | the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago from the establishment of the Federal Reserve fystem until his appointment | as Secretary of Agriculture. He also was a director of the Audit Bureau of Circulation and of the United States Chamber of Commerce BSoon after the United States entered the World War Mr. Meredith was ap- pointed a member of a labor mmmz- | sion which visited Europe as guests of the British covernment. The mem- ber, of the commission studied labor wunditions in Great Britain, France and Italy and ~delivered many addresses to workers in ghipyards and munition plants, telling them of the preparations | the United States was making for its part in the war. Mr. Meredith was actively interested in club work for farm boys and girls, He helped organize and for severa) years was chairman of the national commit- tee on farm hoys and girls club work, i Liquor Law Application Delayed. BOGOTA, Colombia, June 18 (#) Application” of the law that restri consumption of alcoholic liguors in C lombia was postponed yesterday until October, when the Senate decided on the delay in order to enact first legis- lation W prevent & crisis In the ex- chequer. The smaller liquor consump- tion would, it 18 expected, reduce the in- come of varlous government depart- eDe. | | Bpecial Assembly 'Senion. BPRINGPIELD, 111, June 18 (#) The third special session of the present Llinols General Assembly was called to convene late today. The session's busi- | ness will be enactment of legislation providing for a complete readjustment of Cook County (Chicago) real estate . ‘Thomas Jeflerson is said to have Hght coupe with & rumble seat, was ._l-wlhhofl. been the first, statesman to adyocate tree public schpols, | flight was due to the | he visited the camp of the Nicaraguan | being well treated. The prisoners were NO STAGE CAREER FOR MISS EARRART One of Sponsors, Praising Courage, Says Flyer Will Not Capitaize Flight. By the Associated Press.’ NEW YORK, June 18.—George Palm- er Putnam, the publisher, in charge of the arrangements for the flight of | the Friendship, told the Associated | Press today that the success of the “indomitable courage and will of Miss Earhart.” Credit to Stultz. “I do not mean to take any credit from Stultz. He is a wonderful pilot and his technical skill undoubtedly pulled them through,” Mr. Putnam | said, “but I am convinced the flight | never would have gone through if | it had not been for the determination of Miss Earhart.” “I am convinced that she does not mean to capitalize on'her ‘great feat in a sensational way. She may write a book which I will be glad to publish if it is acceptable and perhaps she may make a lecture tour later on,| but she will not go into the movies or on the stage. Laughs at Stage Offer. “While we were in Boston I asked her specifically if she would accept $3000 a week for appearances on the stage. “Thirty thousand wouldn’t be | enough,’ she said, and laughed. | “Her heart is all wrapped up in avi- | ation. She loves flying and made | the flight for no other reason. I picked | that girl for the flight and I'm proud | right now that I did it.” | — SAYS 21 AMERICANS = HELD BY SHNDIO 18 Marines Among Prisoners, Mexican Says—Report Discredited Here. By the Assoclated Press. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, June 18. | —A representative of Mexican radical groups who has arrived here says that rebel leader, Augustino Sandino, and found 21 American,held there as pris- oners, Esteban Pavievitch, a Peruvian of Jugoslavian descent, sald that when he left the rebel camp on Thursday all prisoners were in good heaith and said by Pavievitch to be George B, Marshall of New York, manager of the La Lux Mine, which was ralded last April; two American mine workers and 18 American Marines. He stated Sandino had issued a de- cree saying that after June 14 he would no longer respect foreign prop- erties except tl . owned by Bpaniards and Latin-Americans. The rebel leader intended to show by this action that the protection en- joyed by foreign interests was due to his lenjency and not to the presence of American Marines in Nicaragua. Pavlevitch claimed that Sandino had 2,000 well armed and well equipped men, and expected to fight under favor- able conditions with the coming of the Tainy season. He asserted Sandino won & pitched battle with the Marines on June 11 at Zapote, near Bacaya, routing the Americans after killing a number of them, including their commander. The American Nyvy Department said | it had no report of any engagement between Marines and Sandino followers on June 11 in which Marines were killed or wounded. There have been no reports of any fight on toat date from other sources, and the Honduran message named as the dead commander an officer who 1s not listed on the Ma-~ rine Corps roster KELLOGG DOUBTS REPORT, r Secretary Says Prisoner Rumer Is With- out Foundation. Becretary Kellogg today declared that the report lroma’gr{uumlu that San- dino held 21 American prisoners, amor them being 18 Marines, was withoul foundation, and said that he did not belleve “that there was a word of truth iy The Becretary added that “We are always recelving this propaganda, and the strange part of it is that the re- ports always emanate from some place In the confusion of news from Burry | Port reports were received in London that there had been four passengers on the plane, including Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer. These reports could not be confirmed immediately because of difficulty in communication. Advices from New York definitely stated that | Mr. Ellsworth was in that city. | Burry Port is a small seaport town, 4 miles west of Llanelly. It has a tidal h"r‘r and dock and a copper smelting works. | | Welcome Was Planned. Until about noon it semed highly probable that the Friendship would land at Southampton, her goal, and that seaport was all set to give the Ameri- can girl and the plane a great wel- come. The first definite message that the Friendship had succeeded in crossing | the Atlantic came this morning from Capt. George Fried, commander of the steamship America, who identified the plane by its number. | Capt. Fried sent the message to the London office of the Associated Press. The massage read: | “Seventy-five miles southeast of Queenstown _ (Cobh), the seaplane Friendship NX-4204 circled overhead | and attempted to drop two notes on board, but was not successful. The plane then flew north. (NX-4204 is the number on the rudder of the Priend-“ ship) Watching for Plane. Capt. Fried's sighting of the Priend- ship was not an accident, as he was watching for her. The jovial com- mander who was the hero of the An- tinoe rescue of several years ago is intensely interested in transatlantic fly- ing and had made plans to be on the keenest lookout for the plane. Before salling from Southampton yesterday, the' captain plotted the Friendship's probable course and an- nounced confidently that he expected to sight the plane. When Col. Charles A. Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, Capt. Pried diverted the course of his to the north and was on the almost continuously for 24 hours watching for the Spirit of St. Louis. He also arranged special searchlights at night and a heavy smoke screen by day to attract the plane. On this occasion he missed the transatlantic fiyer by about 30 miles only. ELLSWORTH IN GOTHAM. Putnam Says Only Three Were on Friendship Flight. NEW YORK, June 18 (#).—Lincoln Ellsworth, Arctic explorer, reported in cable dispatches to have been a passen- ger on the transatlantic monoplane Friendship. was found at the Metro- politan b here this morning. “1 certainly was not on the Friend- ship,” he said. “I would have liked to ve been, but I wasn't asked.” er Putnam, publisher, and one of the sponsors of the Friend- ship flight, said he was positive no men | were In the plane besides Wilmer Stultz | With and Lou Gordon, pilot and mechanic for Miss Earhart. He said that he had not seen Ellsworth recently, but had every reason to believe that the Arctic explorer was in New York. MISS EARHART CONFIDENT. “We'll Make It,” She Says Before Take-off. ‘TREPASSEY, New Foundland, June 18 W).—Muus ‘Armelhum'hnrt lnlu two men off yes! y morning at :51 g‘:Yock Eastern standard time on a transatlantic flight. They hoped to | reach Valencia, Ireland, in 18 hours. Advices by radio froni the plane during the night were that all was well. While the people of this sleepy little harbor on the southern end of the Avalon Peninsula intoned their prayers at church, the big pontoon-equipped Pokker monoplane Friendship roared across the harbor, rose into air to circle over the village and then headed east into a cloudless sky. ‘The take-off was made after five un- successful attempts and the dumping of 30 gallons of gasoline, 200 pounds, which reduced the fuel supply to about 700 gallons—less than 20 hours con- sumption for the three 220-horsepower Wright “Whirlwind" motors. e same confidence which Miss Ear- hart had shown during the 13 days she and her companions awaited favorable weather prevailed as she took her place in the cockpit with Wilmer Stultz, pilot, and Lou Gordon, mechanic. “We'll Make It.” “We are going today in splte of every- thing,” she said as she rose early in the morning and scanned the weather re- ports indicating favorable conditions, with following winds for all but 700 miles of the almost 2,000-mile journey. “And we'll ‘make it.” Then with Stults and Gordon she entered a dory and was rowed out to where the big Fokker rose and fell to the Harbor swell. Half an hour later they wers started on their great ad- venture. They were reported by a steamer as they cleared the tip of Newfoundland and started out along the steamer track toward their destination. Through the day and early hours of the night other steamers reported them, either by sight or through the medium of the Friend- ship's radiocasts. Stultz was acting s both pilot and radioman, and when he was sending, Miss Earhart was at the controls. The plane had two sending sets, one working on 600 meters, the other an emergency set for use df the plane should be forced down on the water and the engines stilled. Mrs. Prederick Guest, wife of the former grltllh secretary of state for air, 18 the backer of the flight. Mrs, Quest, the former Amy Plllgpn of Pitta- burgh, sald that the flight was being made in the hope that it would be an- other link in the fri:ndship chain be- tween England and the United States, and “truly helpful 8o aviation.” Precautions Are Taken. To that end she commissioned George other than Nicaragua' He asserted that if the report was true “we would certainly know wmemm.’m it here,” Palmer Putnam, New York publisher, her American representative, to take all possible safeguards for the fight. The plane was purchased from Comdr ILOG OF FRIENDSHIP FLIGHT , [ By the Associated Press. (Time given is eastern standard.) Sunday. 9:51 am.—Took off at Trepassey, Newfoundland. 11:20 am.—Message from plan= sald she was passing over Grand Banks, 60 miles to th> east. Noon—Steamer Concordia sighted Friendship passing over Grand Banks 12:30 p.m.—Chatham, Mass., radio station received messaga .from Friendship soying: “Fair weather and going ahead O. K." 1:12 p.m.—Stultz radioed wife at Mineola N. Y., “All O. K. 4:45 pm.—Steamer Rexmore talked to plane 700 miles off New- foundland. 5:30 p.m.—Rexmore heard further signals from Priendship “apparent- ly still going strong.” 5:37 p.m.—Steamer Elmworth re- ceived message, “All's well,” from Friendship. 11 p.m—Friendship ragioed steamer _Albertic that everything was O. K. and she was making 110 miles an hour. Monday. 5:00 a.m.—Steamer America re- ported Friendship circled vessel 75 miles east of Cobh, Ireland. “6:40 a.m.—Plane landed in Burry Estuary off Burry Port, Wales.” Richard E. Byrd, who had bought it for his South Pole e: tion. It was ped with and given pon! rigid tests for over a month at Boston, where the start was made two weeks T e apiooed i s ~mot equ up-to-date air navigation instruments nnfill "c.:l &h:a pontoons was as well equipped physically as any e used in ocean to date. ki almost a duplicate of the Southern Cross, in which Capt. Kingsford-Smith an three companions flew from the United States to Australia. The pontoons would allow it to land on the water, where it could seek help from ships by means of its emergency radio set. No lives have been lost in other ocean flights where seaplanes were used. Is Qualified Pilot. Miss Earahart, 30-year-old Boston so- cial service warker, is a qualified pilot ir." She learned Tving. on the. Faciie air, e learn ng on the Pacific Coast. She is slim, blonde and has a striking resemblance to Col. Lindbergh. In a letter she left for her mother and sister, who live in Medford, Mass., she wrote: “If T succeed, all will be well. If I don't, I shall be happy to pop off in the midst of such an adventure.” She repeatedly denied that she was making the flight as a commercial ad- venture. She is engaged to be mar- ried to Samuel Chapman of Boston, an electrical engineer. | Stultz, chief pilot and former Army | fiyer, is an aviator of long experience. He was a pilot for the late Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson on her un- successful attempts to make a European | flight from Old Orchard, Me., last Sum- mer. On one of the attempts Stultz piloted the Grayson plane several hun- dred miles to sea when motor trouble developed and he turned back. Last Winter he made a non-stop flight to Havana with Charles A. Levine and Miss Mabel Boll. Gordon is an experienced flyer and machanic_formerly in the Army Air Service. His home is in San Antonio. | ‘Three women have last their lives in attempted transatiantic flights, and the only one attempting it who was| not lost, Ruth Elder, was forced down | before she had reached her goal. The first was Princess Lowenstein- Werthelm, 62-year-old Englishwoman, who took off from Upavon, England, August 8, 1927, in the plane St. Raphael, with Capt. Leslie Hamilton and Col. F. F. Minchin, on an at- tempted flight to Ottawa, Canada. The second woman to sall away into the unknown and never return was Mrs. Grayson, who, with thrée man companions, left Roosevelt Field De- cember 23. After pussing Cape Cod they were never heard from nor seen. The third woman lost in an ocean flight was the Hon. Elsie kal{, who, with Capt. Walter Hinchliffe, attempt- ed the westward crossing from Eng- land, starting March 13. Ruth Elder was forced down near a steamer off the Azores in her plane, the American Girl, while attempting a New York-to-Parls flight last year. CHANG'S SON NAMED. General Is Appointed Military Governor at Mukden. MUKDEN, Manchuria, June 18 (#).— Gen. Ch: Hseuh-Liang has been ap- pointed mlury governor of Mukden in succession to his father, Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, former Northern dicta~ tor, (Chang Tso-Lin has been reported dead in various advices from injuries recelved when the train in which he was fleeing to Mukden from Peking was bombed. It was sald that news of the death would be kept secret untll his :]on arrived from Chihlli and succeeded im.) Heads Italo-American Body. ROME, June 18 (#) —Count Volpl, Italian minister of finance, has been elected president gf the Itallo-American Assoclation, VERFORD WE ST oCARMARTHEN EXETERo Upper: The Friendship, in which DORCHEST!& Miss Amelia. Earhart, Wilbur Stults Legis Gordon crossed the Atlantic, shown in Trepassey Bay, Nefl‘-flhfl. before the hop-off. Lower: Map Center: The fiyers, left to location of Burry ht, Gordon, Stults and Wales, just off whic! Mrs. Stultz Awakens Neighbors to Tell Them of Husband's Successful Sea Hop By the Associated Press. MINEOLA, N. Y, June 18.—When word came that her husband had guid- ed his plane safely through the Atlan- tic storms and was nearing his destina- tion—England—Mrs. Wilmer Stultz guessed she'd “never want to sleep | . e Before the telephone bell tinkled | bringing the news the Associated Press office, in New York, that the hlendshlg. of which her husband was chief ;uo . bad circled the liner Amer- ica off the south Irish coast and then continued on toward England, she had | looked wan and tired. With the first tinkle of the bell she was at the phone. “Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you,” was all she could say for a mo- ment, and then “Isn't that Glorious?" Then, dropping the , she into the hall and waking up the | other tenants of the apartment house, | where in her rooms she had kept a 20- mog!r vigil, without :leq:o or food. was getting awfully tired.” she lmn:tted.fl‘;upt .n‘xxn I feel like I'd never want to Sl Then she dashed out to get the latest editions of the papers to read more fully of her husband’s exploit, ¢ i h she plainly showed her anx- fety as paced the the BOLL PILOT BARES ROW ONHOP PLANS Crew Split Over Atlantic Flight—Some Would Sail for England. By the Associated Press. . HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland, June 18.—A difference of opinion among members of the crew of the monoplane Columbia as to plans for its flight was admitted today by Oliver Le Boutil- lier, one of the two pilots. He said that while he favored starting the flight for England tomorrow morn and fiying back to America at the first favorabie opportunity, other members of the crew were talking of flylng back to New York, taking the plane to England by steamer and then attempting the west- ward flight across the Atlantic. Mabel Boll, who wanted to be the first woman to fly the Atlantie and who is the leading spirit of the Colum- bia expedition, could not conceal her agitation when she learned that the Boston aviatrix had disregarded weath- Er conditions and set her face toward urope. Le Boutillier had expressed the opin- l:n 'm'eme“rJn -;';’; Miss Earhart's leparture t ndahip was only circling the coast to study weather conditions and asserted the Columbia “would not be drawn out.” Later, when it became apparent that the other was off in earnest, Miss Boll said: * just cannot imagine Bill Stults taking such a foolhardy jump with a three- corner gale g in the Atlantic. 1 wish them luck, but I think 20 hours' fuel is not suficlent to carry them aoross.” WILL SIGN AUSTRIAN PACT. The State Department announced today that the American Minister, Albert H. Washburn, at Vienna and the Austrian minister for f n affairs will & troaty of friendship, com- merce and consular rights between the United States and Austria at noon tamorrow. The treaty is simllar to treaties of triendship, commerce and consular rights signed within the past five years by the United States with Germany, Hungary, Estonia, Salvader, Honduras, | Cheerlo, Latvia and Norway. WOMAN BACKER EAGER TO MEET MISS EARHART Mrs. Guest, Sponsor of Ocean Hop, Has Never Seen Girl Who ' Made Flight. | By the Associated Press. SOUTHAMPTON, June 18.—Capt. H. | H. Railey, representative of the Friend- | | sponsor of the flight, and several other | persons took off for Burry Port in a | seaplane at 3:15 pm. | Mrs. Guest was “not a pit disappoint- o St ZRlaE R TS Elon. she said before leaving here. b feeling I have," Mrs. Guest | told an interviewer at Woolston, “is one of absolute rejolcing that they should have landed safely on this side. I felt sure that Miss Eurhart would get here safe and sound.” Mrs. Guest added that she had never met the young aviatrix and that would be very 'of the opportunity | of shaking hands with her as soon as | possible. tion was | b i original inten | the flight myselt,” she said, “but as cir- cumstances didn't m&t that, I | word before I came the States that {1 hoped some woman would be able to | make the flight instead.” | SPENDS NIGHT PRAYING. | i | Miss ! That Flight Is Over. MEDFORD, Mass, June 18 (#).— Mrs. Amy Otis Earhart, mother of Amelia Barhart, the first woman to fly 'l‘!:hll_‘umklfi.:u w? wearied by her Vi mee! 3 Anight ‘spent In praver becide s vade | receiving set had taxed her endurance the utmost. | Friends ing for he: | Mrs. Earhart received the “dmumer‘n safety with | sense of thankfulness | wanted to say “very glad." GREETS Miss Earhart Radios “Vielet, Cheerio,” at Start of Flight, RYE, N. Y. June 18 (# —From Tre- wfoundiand, Miss Amelia T George s Gt ONE OF SPONSORS nt the following message to Palmer Putnam, one of the sponsors of her flight, to indieate she ® Atlantic: “Violet. I Earhart's Mother Thankful suma then about 19 or 20 years of age. Since then, I understand, from Comdr. Byrd, she has spent fully 500 hours in the air and during that time she never has had an accident.” After she finished her elementary schooling she was sent to a girls’ school Earhart characte; At Columbhn:mlwdty, she did out- standing work in both experimental and calculative in Juae. HOME CITY PREPARES TO GREET GIRL FLYER denied MOTHER GIVES THANX® AT STULT2'S SUCCE Joyful That Long Period of A: iety Is Over—Received Dis- patches Through Night. S, A, B e ces between Mrs, """.“"fl‘hmt;’n at Bénter, Qverture, “The Star Spangled Banner. By the United States Martne Band the Marine 4 ¥ Tkt dams, . V0S5 March, “United’ States Marines.” “Doc” Clifford Lieutenant”,. Titl Herbert Shoe". " . Ansell minot‘“lhn.“':! By the United s Willlam Selection, “The Student M"‘“‘ Suite, “Ballgh of the Flowers Mu ) ™o Y “The Swr Spangled