Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1928, Page 3

o DRIVE ON MARAUDERS |LIFE SAVING CLASSES GETS 5 INDICTMENTS| = ADDEDATY.M.C.A. ACHENLIE Instructions to Be Given in Pool n. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST |HIGH SCHOOL GIRL BEATEN AND CHOKED THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 8, POLISH SEA FLYERS' |VIENNA ROAD BONDS WISDOM GETS BETTER | wiy gy BIG MAJORITY | AVES | s . [Immigrant Pair, Will Rogers Wed Twice Before, Say. WIND ALONE § POLISH AVIATORS Plane Nearly Capsized, They Report,-on Landing Near Ship at Sea. Y OPORTO, The with- feed after toward the Polish owski and t 800 p over the | sage on 1 to take the feet of the PART OF AMBITION! (Continued from First Page.) We had the greafest assistance from | M. X. Amiot, builder of the plane, and his technical staff. and they put as much enthusiasm into the preparations | as though they themselves were to be borne over the unknown water wastes | | on its silver wings. Sextant Proves Valuable. | we took with us in the way of food | two chickens, biscnits, 10 liters of water and some coffee. The plane was well equipped with Morell magnetic com- ps one earth indicator-General | Electric compass and an improved sex- | tant of fave leptite, which proved of inestimable value during the flight | | In case of a forced landing the plane, | equipped with dumping valves, could | be supported for some time on the water | by the empty tanks, and we also had an_inflatable rubber boat The day before the start was divid- | ed by us between the meterological ! and our friends. We went to about 11 pm. in order to get up | 2. al which time we headed | field. We found there numerous ! large crowd. composed of | ent representatives, friends and well wishers, gentlemen of the press and the usual large sprinkling of cu osity seekers : Weather Misty at Start. | the time of the start the sky was and the weather misty. The ew across the runway and we not make use of it for the take- evertheless the plane lifted eastly | a 700-meter run, giving us a| | L | 126 to 20 Is Vote on Question of $25,000 Issue for Six Miles of Improvements. Special Dispaten to The Star. VIENNA, Va., August 8.-—The special clection held here yesterday on a $25 000 bond issue for surfacing streets, re- sulted in a vote of 126 to 20 in favor of the proposition. About six miles of {road are to be surfaced with sand and gravel under supervision of the Fairfax County Highway Department, the con- struction to be similar to Pleasant street recently built as a specimen street. The work to be included in this building program is as follows: Resur- facing of Mill street, Railroad avenue and Church street, from the post office to Lawyers road, with stone chips and tar surface The other streets to be of sand and gravel are Beulah street from Maple avenue to corporation line, Glyn- don street_from Maple avenue to Bar- ringers. Church street from Beulah road to Mill street, Park street {rom Commins to corvoration line, Avr avenue from R d street to Lawyer road. Center street from railroad cross ing to Church street, Lawyers from Church strect to corporation line Maicolm road from Lawyers road to West strect, West street from Lawyers road to Malcolm road, Orchard street from Windover avenue to colored ceme- ter) North and South street from Orchard street to Raymond Blackman's, g assurance of its power dent, we pointed its nose up- | d and soon atlained a comparative- | high altitude. which enabled us to | the hills north of Paris without | difficuity | i regret that we did not | E h | we now know csuld have been casily | done. A few minutes later familiar | were behind us in the 18 our flight ayer France we had | dy, calm weather, mist and a slight | wind. The plane proceeded at 175 meters an hour. We were escorted | ed to watch over the first mile of journey through the air. Wave Godspeed. We left land at Lorient at 7:28 am | while numerous sailors and fishermen e waving us Godspeed on our ven- t The air was so calm that 20 | minutes after the start we were able |to reduce the revolutions per minute by 100. Judging from the slight mo- {tion of the waves, we knew that we had |a favorable wind. This condition did | not last long, though. About half an hour after leaving the shores of France we came into a fog | bank so thick as to be totally im- penetrable to the eye and extending | Sail Knoll street from Nutley street to North and South streets, Windover ave- nue from Walnut street to Knoll street, Walnut street from Windover avenue to Lawyers road, Lewis street from Ma- ple avenue to Government farm, Pleas ant street from Maple avenue to Col ored Hall, and Old Court House road from Maple avenue to Dixon's lane The roads are from 16 to 18 feet wide Church to Give Picnic. Soecial Dispateh to The Star OLNEY. Md., August 8 St. entertainment at Brookeville Saturday beginning at 5 pm. The entertainment will be a play, to be presented at 8 p.m | when half-way across, we were to in- | terrupt the flight when we had 30 flying hours of fuel left to complete it Cool Thought Prevails. We had to do it, though, in order to follow the safest route and be guided by cool thought rather than ambition My decision to return was influenced | by the following circumstances: The weather conditions, the direction | of the wind, the distance to the near- est land and the possibility of help. | Hill | road | John's ! frst by one plane, which was as- | Episcopal Church will give a picnic and | BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—A re- assuring letter from Mrs. Stone says Fred is getting along fine. That's great news. Here Is a se- cret, but don't let ! it out—they are | going to tell Hoover Saturday that he is to go | into the finals 3 against Al His | 2 ) speech is to be ¥ shortened to 45 | ‘ minutes. That's | a long time for a man just to | . gy say, “I am proud / that my party | Z has chosen me | for their stand- | A ard-bearer and I hope that 1 will be able to live up to that high standard.” I see where Coolidge says that Hoover will win Cal has to issue alpost & sensational statement now-a-days to get in the papers. He can catch a whale now and never even land on the edi- torial page. |LIONS CLUB ATTENDS CAMP LETTS OUTING | Members and Families Y. M. C. A. Site for Day on Rhode River. Drive to motorcade at the zero milestone, member of the Lions Club and their families today journeyed to Camp Letts on their annual outing A program of athletic stunts and games provided entertainment during the afternoon. A swimming party in the Rhode River also was scheduled A tour of inspection of the camp was Forming a club sccretary, Leonard W. De t who also is associate general secrefary of the Y. M. C. A., which operates the camp for Washington boys: The Lions Club takes an active inter- Jest in Camp Letts, sponsoring annual | awards of silver cups to the best camp- | ers orge L. Haines is chairman of | the committee in charge of today’s | outing. - to be made under the direction of the | iWilIinm C. Kennedy Held for At-| | tack on Miss Katherine Kennedy. Couple Not Related. Charged with assault upon Miss | Catherine Kennedy. pretty 19-year old | McKinley High School pupil and stu- | dent at Corcoran Art School, who was | beaten at_her home, 109 Carroll avenue, Takoma Park. Md., Saturday afternoon when she allegedly refused to attend | a picture show with him, William Cal- | houn Kennedy, 26 years old, an artist | residing at 1619 Seventeenth streef, was arrested today by Detective H. K. Wilson. The principals are not related Complaint was made by J. R. Ken- | nedy, father of the young woman, who obtained a warrant from Samuel R Kyle, justice of the peace in Montgom- | ery County, Md. The prisoner admits striking Miss Kennedy. | | The father said his daughter met | Kennedy at Corcoran Art School and | he had visited her at their home. He | objected to the visits, he said, when he |learned Kennedy had threatened the |girl's life, but the threats were con- sidered a joke. The father said the young man tele- phoned his daughter ‘Saturday after- noon to make an engagement to go to the movies The latter refused. but | Kennedy later appeared at the house | Mrs. Kennedy and another dau:hlvr‘ left the house, and when they returned | they found Catherine practically un- conscious. | Miss Kennedy alleged that the art-| ist had struck and choked her and then | left. Nelghbors made an unsuccessful search for him. In conversation with a Star reporter, the prisoner said he went to the Ta- koma Park home Saturday afternoon, | declaring Miss Kennedy had made an | | appointment with him, and he became | mad when she failed to keep the ap- pointment and struck her. Kennedy was locked up at the sixth | precinet station, and was removed today fo Silver Soring for arraignment FLAT TIRE? Call Fr. 764-5-6 Priced . According Applied to_Distance 50c to $1.00 $1 Limit LEETH BROTHERS Formerly Main 500 Spare Tires | Marry After Month Two veterans on the matrimonial seas, each of whom has been mar- ried ‘wice before, with a total of 12 grown children and many ~rand- children from their previous mar- riages, were wedded here last night The bridegroom, Abraham Zendel, 716 G strect southwest, is 67, and the bride, Mrs. Jan¢ Kosovsky, 646 Tenth street northeast, is 58. They had been acquainted only a month, Both are immigrants from Russia and teither knows English. Zendel, employed as a mechanic in the automobile supply shop of Harry E. Chidakel, 509 Seventh street southwest, has taken out his first citizenship papers. He has four sons in New York and three daughters and a son in Russia. Mrs. Kosovsky has two sons and two daughters. The marriage was performed by Rabbi M. A. Horwitz at the home of Samuel Chidakel, 646 Tenth street northeast, where the couple will make their home. A wedding feast followed $90.000 in Jewels Stolen. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.. August8 (P). Theft of jewels, valued at $00.000, from the hotel suite of Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Heinz of Atlanta, Ga.. was revealed yesterday when a negro bell hop was arraigned on a charge of grand larceny. SALESMEN The local distributor of the largest and soundest oil burner manufacturer, handling a complete line of all types of oil burners, has an opening for two or three salesmen who have confidence in their abil- ity when properly trained by factory repre- sentative now in Wash- ington. Ask for Mr. Harbin At 1719 Conn. Avenue | i | | Youths Before Rockville Grand Jury Charged With Assault, Housebreaking, Burglary. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 8—In- dictments were returned today by the Montgomery County grand jury against five youths in connection with a cam- paign of the police against an alleged gang responsible for robberies in Howard, Prince Georges and Mont- gomery Counties. Carlton Davis, George FE. Leak, ‘Thomas Leizear, George Hunton and George Bender are named in the in- dictments, each charged with assault. housebreaking and burglary. Davis and Leak were arrested recently following an attempt to rob the store of Aubrey Beall at Ashton and are said to have confessed, implicating the others. Beall was awakened by a burglar alarm and fired at the gang which fled in an automobile, one of the number firing back at him. The office of William H. McCeney at Burnt Mills and the home of Leon W. Grimes near Burnt Mills were robbed, the former of a gun and the latter of money and jewelry. for Those Unable to Take Les- sons in River. Potomac water safety campaign for the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. and Boy Scouts, today announced the launching of addi- tional life-saving classes in the pool at the Y. M. C. A, 1736 G street. In addition to the instruction being given daily at Davis' float, in ths river, above Three Sisters Island, Mr. Chandler, beginning this evening, will broaden the scope of the regular Boy | Scout. life-saving hour at the Y. M. C. A. pool, so that persons unable to sttend the river classes in the after- noon may obtain instruction at night. This service is iree to all Y. M. C. A. | members each Wednesday evening | Curing the Summer. Non-member {may obtain the instruction free upon ;naylnz the usual pool admittance fee, it was stated. | | Leland W. Chandler, directing the | Sugar was first made in India in the | first century A.D, according to the | Liberty magazine. It was introduced lin ope in the twelfth century. Here’s an Empty Thought uppose the Railroads Threw Away Box Cars After They Were Used Once or that gasoline stations discarded the 5- gallon oil and gasoline cans, that would be a tremendous waste, wouldn’t it? You would feel touchy about it, because you know that vou would have to pay for it vourself, every time you bought gasoline or whate modity was shipped in of a box car is slightly a milk bottle, but it is er com- the box car. The cost higher than the cost of a waste, just the same, to discard a bottle after it has been used once or twice. Help the dairies of Washington to avoid this waste. Return all empty milk bottles. to the level of 20 meters above the ocean surface. With a plane as heavily | loaded as ours we could not risk fiy- ing so low, so we had to choose the route between the fog and the clouds— i bl ¢ { unable to make any observations or get m a watery grave. | Our. bearings. isted aboard the | The plane wa: flying with amazing | evenness at an altitude of 300 meters. At | night was advancing, the clouds were | {9 am. (always Greenwich time five|all over the sky and astronomical ob- | hours earlier than New ¥ork or East- | servations were impossible. | ern standard time), Idzikowski reduced | (The conclusion of Maj. Kuhala's| the revolutions per minute by another | story, which has been delayed in trans- | 100. which enabied us to make telling4 mission, will be published when receiv- by .,°,f”{"}" ;‘:;" whmn?ee‘fi;i:: ed. which will probably be tomorrow.) | STONELEIGH COURT started lifting Observations taker with the sextant showed that we were |50 kilometers off our course due to a |brisk north wind. Our fiying speed at || Connecticut Ave. and L Street 1-| that time was 180 kilometers per hour, ble apariments from and our position 45 north, 10:30 west. e | hs. Under WARDMAN Management Apply Resident Manager. Continuation of our course toward the | | Western Hemispher~ was the most dan- | | gerous because land was 1700 kilo-| meters away, the wind southwest, there- fore partly against us, and probably heavy fog ahead. In addition there were no ship planes on that course. | The nearest point was the Azores, but engine did became The plane carry the fi fdential gu and saved the: ‘The piane The 25% Discount Period Expires Sept. Ist. ,‘ To have an inter ional Underwood and Under Photo-["ortr'lilfl wood portrait of yourself Size 7x9 certifies that wherever in all the world your picture $17.75 g tion. You save 25% I Regularly $23 ordering no UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOQD the dual role of being a Decatur 4100 Regardless of who the bottles belong to, put them out. 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This was cutting 150 kilometers from our route. Fog Comes With Evening. The weather continued glorious, the | wind came steadily from the northwest, | the plane flew at 180 kilometers an | hour. We were at the latitude of the Azores, 41 north 28 west, at 7:30 p.m after 15 hours of flying. About 8 p.m. the sky became overcast | and the water was covered by a fog bianket 300 meters thick. The wind | was weaker and, judging from the waves, came from the south. At 10:30 | pm. we were at 40.30 north, 3¢ west, | fiying at 175 kilometers an hour. We were forced to fly through the fog close | to the water to avoid stronger winds. In order to measure our deflection from the course, I went to the bottom of the plane, where the drift indicator was built in. There I noticed a consider- able flow of oil under the ship, which was not there before. Greatly alarmed, I halled Idzikowski, who soon reported a falling of ofl ure. His first words were, “What 1 we do? 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