Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1928, Page 4

i BRLFLYER AGAN ONSHOPIG TOUR Miss Earhart Aiready Has| { Bought $1,000 Worth of Clothes in London. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 21.— Miss Amelia ®arhart went shopping again today in company with Mrs. Frederick Guest, sponsor of the transatlantic flight of the Friendship, while a crowd stood | wainly in front of her hotel in a driz- #ling rain hoping to catch a glimpse of the young woman who flew the At- Jantic. | Miss Earhart already has bought a| thousand dollars’ worth of clothes, but | needs some more. She has been pro- ceeding with her shopping scientifically, Bbuying necessary frocks first and then doing miscellaneous purchasing. | Stultz and Gordon See Planes. | While Miss Earhart shopped. Wilmer | Stultz, pilot of the Friendship, and | Louis Gordon. mechanic, spent several | phog hours at they inspected used in the London-Paris service. Gor- don, who had never seen a British air- plane engine previously, was particu- Jarly interested and asked the airway officials and mechanics many questions Following on the heels of hundreds of letters, poems have now begun to flock in upon Miss Earhart. One be- gins “Good Eve of the air, glorious woman fair” and then goes on in praise of the fiver. The American woman has now re- | Jcovered from the first strain of the | ‘flight and the tumultuous welcomes which the crew of the Friendship re- ceived in Southampton and London and said today that she feld much better. Croydon Airdrome, the _British ~ airplanes | Occupies Luxurious Room. Miss Earhart awoke this morning in & richly furnished bedroom in one of the finest mansions in England, the Park Lane town house of Mrs. Guest. ., Miss Earhart had planned to go to the Guest home during her stay in Lon- don, but went sooner than had been expected in order to escape the crowds | and the publicity to which a trans- atlantic fiver is subjeoted in a London hotel. i Her friends in London were still wor- ried today because she felt very tired and had not recovered from the strain of the flight, therefore Mrs. Guest will make every eflm;lw give the Boston ivacy and 3 % luxury Bm;btlkuhlt in the big mansion where Miss Earhart is staying. her hosts even having their own plane and pilot constantly on hand as other m}: have sutomobiles and chauf- Guarded by Scotland Yard. Scotland Yard took Miss Earhart un- der its protection todsy to guard her grom too ardent admirers and cranks. She has been nearly rushed off her admiring crowds. mostly women S gl eager 5 e the Brst woman %o fiy across the Atlantic. Each arrival The number of crank letters alarmed . Therefore, | fiyers at the . Guest, and ] éia 1 f;g § 8 & i’g&Eg“ {iiliee ngis its of the trio have turned foward home. They will fly to the Con- Ginent for the week end, visiting Amsterdam and Paris. This flight will mfly be made in a plane placed at service by the Dutch Air Line, - while the Priendship is being crated for shipment to America. WEATHER REPORTS IDENTICAL. Forecaster Says Miss Boll and Miss Earhart Got Same Copies. NEW YORK, June 21 (#) —The Ear- thart and Boll transatlantic air expedi- tions were furnished Dr. James H. Kimball, meteorologist of the local weather bureau, said here this N The mystery S A I s A The completed Coliseum, at Houston. Tex., built specially for the Democratic n: n fan system to cool off overheated Democrats. where | 2200 s o 2 iWailing of Clarinet and Deeper Complain-| ing of Trombone Prove Musical Mys- tery in Jail Vicinity. of strange ¢ musical | the trashy hills and hollows of !he‘ sounds which have been rising for sev- }dumv« eral days, shortly after dawn. from an | o, old municipal dump in the vicinity of the District Jail has been solved. . 1 Dublic person—you cannot fall down.' Morning after morning the wailing of a clarinet and the deeper complaining of a trombone were heard by prisoners neighborhood of Nineteenth and A The sounds usually began about 6 their slumbers, were intrigued and even eral mornings in succession the mysteri- ous music lost every westige of charm and aroused only the emotions of rage | and desire to rend and destroy. Rage, however, turned to bewilder- | ment, for although the music could bel heard only too plainly, its source could | not be located. The sounds seemed to come from the heart of the old dump, but the neighbors scarecely could pic- ture modern Peter Pan sitting on the trash piles and tooting a serenade to | the morning sun. They did not even search the dump. | Instead they reported the matter to | the fifth precinct police, and Policeman | W. V. Watts was assigned to investigate. | At 6 am. today he heard the musical | notes rising in the misty morning air. | Following his trained ears, he climbed ' in the District Jail and residents in the | streets southeast. | am. At first the hearers, aroused from | amused. But after being aroused sev- | ;intruder in his musical paradise. The | ter of record. AVY “PETER PAN" GREETS DAWN ON DUMP AS SLEEPERS RAVE There, in the heart of the waste, he lved the mystery. Seated on the trash, blisstully unconscious of the }agany he was causing, sat John M. | Curtin, 319 Kentucky avenue southeast, {a Navy bandsman. Curtin's cheeks | were swelling and a horn was at his lips. His heart and soul were in his work. He shamed the trills of the | morning birds and ran his scales with the ease and eclat of a master. | ‘The policeman stood for a moment in |amazement, hands on his hips. Curtin, choking back a lungful of notes, started out of his reverie to find an unwelicome colloquy between the two is not a mat- | Curtin, it is said, explained that he thought the dump an ideal place to practice. It was unfrequented and soli- tary enough to please any musician. | His lonely retreat was shared by another Navy bandsman, who had left the scerte before the arrival of the policeman. They had no idea their instruments had such reach and penetration. He s amazed at the turmoil his playing had produced. In the future, however, he promised, the dawn in Southeast Wash- ington will be greeted only by the birds and the snores of late sleepers at Nine- ;efinh and A streets and the District LEARNING TO BE PUBLIC PERSON IS HARD WORK, SAYS MISS EARHART (Continued_from First Page) the pressure of life in the public eye diminishes. It really makes me a little resentful that the mere fact that I am a woman apparently overshadows the tremendous feat of flying Bill Stultz has just accomplished. having undertaken to go through with this trip I have to go through with it. That is the drawback of being a People’s eyes are on you. Criticism | hurts you and sometimes, even if it is unjustifiable, you cannot gzeply. The pleasure of even the warmest praise from persons whose opinion you value loses something by the very excess‘an t. Some day women will fly the Atlantic and think little of it because it is the ordinary thing to do. But under present conditions it is a thing to think over a long time before attempting. Trepassey as Airport. Trepassey ought some day to be a| great airport for transoceanic tra: It possesses the finest harbor—perhaps | the only harbor—adapted naturally for | seaplane take-offs in its part of the| world. Even’ with better planes than | | those built today, in flying from New York to European points, Trepassey would be the natural stopping place for { fueling, unless the weight of fuel is re- weighs now. But there are very few trains from the outside world into Trepassey and | duced to only a fraction of what it | gether with such other things as our life-saving cushions and even our larger thermos bottle, because after a long succession of failures we got to thinking of weight.in terms of ounces rather than pounds. I did carry a small camera, but we only got two pictures on account of | the terrible weather, one taken above | the clouds over midatlantic, and one of the steamer America which we sighted | in the Irish Sea. Somebody is going to get a good motion picture in an Atlan- tic flight some day. Although I felt like trying -to work my little camera, it was a difficult thing to do, because there was only one small window in the fuse- | lage that opened | There was a big door, however, held | shut by a plece of string all the wa | across. We could not get a lock for it ter our flight up the coast when the lock was broken off by Slim's falling | against it. He almost fell out. { is another reason for keeping small parts and ordinary hardware in a Tre- | passey seaplane station. | Gratitude for Hospitality. If I have stressed the discomforts and ' disadvantages of being the center of a | big news event so much I am sorry. It feally has compensations. For instance, | the loads of beautiful flowers people have sent me, the hospitality of every | one, the kind words and efforts to care for my comfort that have been show- | ered upon me—and the great adventure | itself. | ‘The adventure 1is unforgettable, | though. Thinking back at the flight, it | | had only one moment that could by any | stretching of the imagination be called | dramatic. ‘That was when we sighted | the America. | Our gasoline was going, and we hld‘ absolutely no facilities for taking care of a plane or repairing one. We had passed the place where we should have | seen land. We had dropped messages in | THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928 Gov. Dan Moody and Mrs. Moody of Texas, who will be host and hostess to the Democratic convention. 5 mal convention, which opens there June 26. The hall has 14 exits and a ty- —Underwood Photo. —P. & A. Photos. |MACK'S WET STAND CALLED BODY BLOW (Continued from First Page.) | | of preventing the nomination of Smith for President. If there is an alliance against the Smith nomination it has | not yet become a cohesive group and | is rather negative. So far the opposi- tion has not centered on any one can- didate to fight Smith with. That is the weakness of the opposition, just as it was the weakness of the anti-Hoover group in Kansas City. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, Assistant Secretary of the vy under Wilson and Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920, who is to make the speech nominating Smith, is ex- pected here soon. Another New York- {er, John W. Davis, the nominee of the | party four years ago, is slated to head | the resolutions committee Which will draft the platform. Already there are whispers that Davis will be Secretary | of State if Al Smith becomes President. | SPEAKS ONLY FOR SELF. | HOUSTON. Tex., June 21.—Denying | [he was speaking for Gov. Alfred E.| | Smith in a statement issued last night, | Mr. Mack poinied out that he was ex- pressing his own views when he said Gov. 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Princess Hrkn, deserted wife of Prince Carol, filed a'formal petition for a di- vorce two weeks ago, the suit being in- stituted in the Appellate Court at Bu- charest. ‘The princess, who was married to the then heir to the throne at Athens in 1921, pleaded for the divorce because of “profound affronts offered and de- sertion.” The petition also said ‘that Carol's present conduct is an offense to the royal court. It contained a sup- plementary authorization by the three regents who govern for the boy king Michael, to Princess Helen to apply for the divorce. At first it was reported that Carol, who is living in exile, would contest the divorce, but announcement was made on June 16 that he had decided not to oppose his wife’s petition. Regarding King Michael, Princess Helen's petition specified that the court should make no order for his custody, as his status was settled by royal decree and he now is the sovereign. Carol, who eloped with Magda Lu- pescu in 1925, was last reported in Bel- gium, where he went after being ex- pelled from England when his activities looking toward his return to Rumania met with disfavor by the British gov- ernment, which objected to any plot- ting on its soil against a friendly gov- ernment. o ESPEY NAMED LEADER BY BUSINESS ALUMNI | | persons were injured, four seriously, in Association of High School Holds! Election of Officers Last Night. H. Clay Espey was chosen president of the Business High School Alumni Association at its annual election of officers last night in the school audi- torium. Other officers elected included: George P. Barse, first vice president: Paul J. Sedgwick, second vice president: Miss Margaret McCloskey, third vice president; Miss Elizabeth Mense, sec- retary, and Robert Riley, treasurer. An executive committee was appoint. ed including Israel Silverman, Jerome Kaufman, Miss Ethel Ginberg, Patrick -| Bradley, R. A. Hart, the retiring presi- dent; Calvin Brown, James C. Dulin, g:m;les May and Mrs. Mary Sherman sh. A campaign for the construction of an automobile highway between Venice and Trieste, Italy, is under w: SOL DEATH OF DEPUTIES IMPERILS TREATY; BALKANS AROUSED __(Continued from First Page.) He is a Montenegrin, and in all recent disturbances in Parliament has been tdhe nolls.l'&;t lng I;A‘OS[ vehement in his | lenunciation of the o L b} 5';1!1;\ Raditch. ot T o tefan's nephew, Paul Raditch, wa: killed. The Croat deputy, Dr. B.fllr"-! chek, was fatally wounded and died on the way to the hospital, Dr. Pernar and Deputies Grandja and Jelasttch were wounded. King Visits Wounded. King Alexander visited the wounded. | Ra “Don't worry, | He said to ditch: everything will be all right.”” “I don't mind for my life, your | majesty,” the wounded man replied, “but I must live for my country. There's still much work to be done. I don't want to see Jugoslavia become a vassal to Italy, which will happen if the Net- tuno convention is ratified.” ‘The shooting occurred after Stefan Ratchitch had exasperated the govern- ment deputies by applying such epithets as “swine, thieves, traitors, cowards and grafters."” Ratchitch shot his way out of the chamber and escaped to the ministerial council room. There he barricaded himself. Later he jumped out of the window and fled in an automobile. When he decided to surrender he went to the ministry of interior. The min- ister refused fo see him, and ordered two gendarmes to arrest him. Ratchitch told police he had intended only to kill Dr. Pernar, because, he as- serted, “he had mortally offended me. I am truly sorry about the deaths of the others.” Ratchitch Is Deflant. Ratchitch lost none of his nerve when arraigied, before a magistrate to- day on the charge of murder. “I am ready to be taken out imme- diately and shot without trial,” he ex- claimed. “I have fulfilled my task.” Ratchitch was asked why he carried a revolver in Parliament, and replied: “Oh. everybody in the Balkans carrie: a small arsenal in his belt, why not I?" TEN INJURED IN RIOT. ZAGRED, Croatia, June 21 (#).—Ten a clash between the police and demon- strators who had gathered in sympathy for the Raditch followers killed and :rt:udnded in yesterday's shooting in Bel- e. Croatia, which is the home district of the Raditch group, is much excited over the shooting, and indignation meetings are being held everywhere. The authorities have taken estraor- dinary precautions to prevent inflam- matory public assemblies when the bodies of Paul Raditch, nephew of Stefan Raditch, Croatian peasant lead- er, and Dr. Basaritchek arrive tonight. SAYS CABINET WILL REMAIN. BUCHAREST, Rumania, June 21 ). TEST OF TAXICABS T0BE MADE SOON Utilities Commission Men Wil Inspect Meters and Other Equipment. Engineers and inspectors of the Pub- lic Utilities Commission will make a meter and mechanical test of the more than 1,500 taixcabs in Washington be- fore July 31, it was announced today at the commission. The test will be made in accordance with a recent order adopted by the commission revising its taximeter regulations. The meter test will be made on the charted course on Sixteenth _street above Scott Circle, where the Bureau of Standards had marked out a five- | mile course. The mechanical tests will | be made in the garages of the taxicab companies, The only previous general test the commission ever made of taximeters was in 1925, before the taxicab business reached such large proportions. One of the outstanding features of the new regulations affecting the gen- eral public is a provision which gives the passenger the right to appeal to the Utilities Commission in every case in which he believes he has been over- charged. ~ Another new provision re- quires taxi drivers to wait at least five minutes after calling for a Pprospective passenger before turning on the meter {and starting the time charge. The new | regulations also require all meters to be equipped with lights for use at night The Utilities Commission will keep a record of its tests on file for public inspection. —_— considered the affair purely a domestic |one and added: “I am convinced that despite the tragedy the treaty of Nettuno will be | ratified. The government will not re- |sign. It was not responsible for the shooting. The conference of the little ententa— Rumania. Jugoslavia and Czechoslo- vakia—thus far has been confined to & mutual exchange of views between the representatives of the three nations who have been here some days. Foreign Minister Titulescu of Ru- | mania told the Associated Press today that he was hopeful that the conference would achieve fullest success. “Despite the complexity of the prob- | lems and the divergent interests of the three countries, T am satisfled that full- est accord will be reached on all ques- tions.” he said. “We will show the world that the little entente is a living organ, whose influence for world peace and security is beyond dispute. ROME PRESS COMMENTS. ROME, June 21 (#.—The shooting affray in the Jugoslav Parliament yes- terday is published prominen Italian newspapers, ¥ s e | HERZOG, —Foreign Minister Marinkovitch of | Popolo Di Roma editorially expresses Jugoslavia, who Is attending the lttle | the ope that the Belgrade parties and entente conference here, said that the | fraeas ang prosice. rooes” Rl 3 Jugoslav cabinet would not resign be- | and tolerance, cause of yesterday's shooting affray in| The newspaper Brillante says that the parliament. affair will weigh heavier on the young He told the Associated Press that he ' state than a military defeat. Inc.—-9th & F STREETS —it’s real economy to invest in a new suit when “BUYING IS SAVING” Bona-Fide $25, $27.50 & $30 TROPICAL WORSTED SUITS His statement was made in answer to | IWo cranks for starting the engines the announcement that Miss Mabel Boll | When we reached Trepassey. One fell on her arrival in New York intended |into the water, and then there was one. #0 investigate alleged difference in|If the second had fallen I do not know weather advices received by her and|how long it would have taken to get could still receive. Our efforts failed, those furnished Miss Amelia Earhart at |8 third. 'We would not have been here | I have been asked since arriving here ‘Trepassey. or some time yet. |why we did not land and seek safety Dr. Kimball said he sent his forecasts| If somebody would build a seaplane | by the ship's side. That never even oc- @irectly to Capt. Arthur Argles, navi- | Station at Trepassey, it would be a | curred to us. 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