Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1929, Page 4

AMERICAN DRIVER TOTRY FOR RECORD Novice Set for Attempt to, Shatter Speed Mark of Maj. Segrave. By the Assaciated Press DAYTONA BEACH. Fla, March 12 —A comparative novice at high-speed automobile driving today awaited th: ! receding tide along the occan beach race course for an attempt to bring back to America the straightaway mile rac- ing record set by Maj. H. O. D. Segrave ¢ England yesterday at 231.36246 mile hour. R sore taking the wh 6 *ler Triplex, owned by J. M. White ot Philadelphia. however, Lee Bible, little known local mechanic, was ready to undergo tests by the American Aute- mobile Association to determine his capability of driving the former title- holding car at high speeds. Otherwise. any mark he might set would not be recofinized as official by the national cing body. TG eerave, who startled the automot world at the burning pace he set in_ trim, streamlined speed creation yester- day, still was not salisfied with ii mark. He said last night he believed his Golden Arrow could attain a max- jmum speed of 240 miles per hour and indicated he wanted ancther chance tc *“open her up. P Even Targets Arranged. Never before was technic ment so perfected for a only was the mechanical perfection the machine taken Into consideration. | but the weather, tide, beach condition | and even targets at which the car was | aimed by its driver, all had a place in | the arrangements which made the rec- ord-breaking run possible. To be officially timed. a driver must make two runs, one north and one south | on the beach, with and against the wind, | to determine the average speed. | At the far ends of the beach speed- | way were set up two great bull's eye- | The great targets swung suspended | between posts, while far down the| beach a human eye, traveling at nearly | bullet speed. was glued on them during | the tests through a regular telescopic | sighting arrangement similar to that | which might be found on a big gun. | The second run was a mite easier for | Segrave, as the driver not only had the targets at which to eim his car. | but had his previous tracks to follow if he lost momentarily in the mist the sight of his targets. White Hopes Record to Fall. Through all this co-ordinated effort and prearrangement the new and amarzing world automobile speed record | went back to England at the hand of | the first man who drove & car 200 miles | an hour in official trials. White, however, hoped that it would be a record for but a day. His Triplex, | a powerful creation of 1,500 horsepower, but with little thought at stream lining, was ready. It remained for the A. A. A. officials to sanction Bible as its driver, and today, some time shortly after 3: o’'clock in the afternoon, White expected the car to make its try. With ideal weather and beach conditions, White said his car could make a maximum speed of 270 miles an hour. ‘White Confident. ‘There were numerous opinions ex- ‘pressed here today regarding the pos+ sibility of White breaking the record with his Triplex. White, of course, was confident. Ray Keech, who drove the car last year to its 207 miles an hour record, ‘was certain it could never develop more than 220 miles an hour at best, since it is not a streamklined vehicle. Bible, who hds never driven racing cars except in track exhibitions, was | certain the Triplex could do the trick and equally certain that he could drive | it at that rate. In any event, he was | willing to stake his life on it. ‘The general feeling in Daytona Beach, however, appeared to be that “the rec- or?d:hat will stand a while was set yes- v SEGRAVE TO SEEK BOAT RECORD. TR E S jon of | Father Believes Racer Will Win Speed Laurels on Water. LONDON, March 12 (®).—Maj.| H. O. D. Segrave may be expected soon | to seek the world’s motor boat speed | record, his father, Sir. Charles Segrave, has revealed. *“Not only do we now hold the world's speed record on land,” the father said, “but I have every confidence that Maj. Begrave with Miss England will win for England the blue ribbon of motor boat racing. “Frankly, today is the proudest day of my life, a day to which I have tried to work for many years” Sir Charles Segrave is the donor of the Wakefleld Cup, which Maj. Segrave won by his record-breaking run of yesterday. The trophy carries a pension of £1,000 sterling. to be paid as long as the record is held. OWNS RAPHAEL PAINTING. New York Banker Displays Four- Century-0ld Art Work. NEW YORK, March 12 (#).—A four- century-old painting, that of Giuliama de Medici by Raphael, hung last night in the private collection of Jules S. Bache, New York banker, transferred there from the studio of Sir Joseph Duveen for a conslderation of $600,000. ‘The painting is the only Raphael por- trait of a man in private hands. .. The painting was purchased by Sir Joseph in Berlin in 1925 for a price re- ported to be $500,000. It was painted in 1514 but disap- peared half a century later and was not found until 1867, when it turned up at the house of an art collector in Florence. U. S. TO AID CHINESE. Large Number in Mexican Area| Held by Insurgents. Br the Associated Press. At the request of the Chinese lega- tion in Mexico City, the American gov- ernment has consented to use its good offices in behalf of Chinese citizens in the districts of Mexico held by the rebels. The Chinese legation particularly re- quested that the American consuls at Chihuahua, Torreon and Mazatlan look after the interests of the large number ©f Chinese in those districts Marriage Licenses. agc licenses have been Issued to the ing. ard Seanell. 25, wnd Jean . McAdoo. Pa Brics C. Kight, 31. and Rachael T. Cather- H. M foliow] d this city. Rev. J. E. cel of the 36- Telephoto of ) | vesterday in his superspeedster, the Gold { beating the ofd record of 207 miles an ho | EGRAVE WAN1 Not Satishied With 231.ii Deseribing Thrills of Ru V) ile By the Associated Press. OCEAN SPEEDWAY. DAYTONA | BEACH. Fla., March 12--Maj. H. O. D, Segrave last night sat in the safety of | his hotel room and described to news- paper men the thrilis he experienced as he shot his Golden Arrow motor car over the beach at 231.36246 miles an “I veally expected something serions you know what I mean—u skid—a bump—that would have placed me danger,” he svowed. i “At least 11 times during the rum back and forth, I ran into the wate I could feel the car slow un each timc my wheels dipped the surf. “This car can do at least 240 miles an hour and I would like to sec it driven that fast, but you can't do more than 240 miles an hour on this beach. bes there fsn’t enough room for a suff Iy long start. "I am not satisfied with the rc ord I set today. My car will do 240 miies an | hour under ideal conditions and I would like to see it driven that fast. We are here to set a record high enough to| stand for and T will have to confer with J. S. Irving. ner of my car, to see whether Tll run again. | even if J. M. White docs not break my | record.” Scgrave Vhite is now here waiting for a tr Segrave’s statement, after he had calmed somewhat from the tension he | was still under immediatcly after the race, does not jibe with one he made | when questioned then, that he was through with racing ' forever unless | Dr. Leonid Strakhovsky,1 Cited for Bravery, Fought | Bolshevists. Linguist Received Historical Degree at University of Louvain. Dr. Leonid Strakhovsky, Russian edu- | cator and former soldier, who escaped from a Bolshevik prison under sentence of death during the revolution, has Jjolned the faculty of the Georgetown | School of Foreign Scrvice as & pro- | fessor in its history department. | Wounded five times and decorated | for bravery in action, with the cross| of the Russian Military Order of St. George, Dr. Strakhovsky has had a distinguished and adventurous career. The son of a Russian governor, he was | singled out for arrest by the Bolsheviks at the outbreak of the revolution of | 1917, sentenced to death and contined awaiting exccution. He escaped and | fied to Murmansk. From 1918 to 1920 | he fought with the French Foreign Legion and the Russian field artillery against the Bolsheviks in North Rus- ;;ln xtm the Archangel and Murmansk ront. Made 200-Mile Ski Trip. After the collapse of the White armles in North Russia he made his way to Finland on skis, covering 200 miles across snow_and ice. In July, 1920, he reached England, where he became secretary of the Russian consulate of- fice in London and then joined the army of Gen. Wrangle in the Crimea. As a result of Wrangle's decisive di feat, Dr. Strakhovsky during the yea 1921 to 1924 occupied himself mainly with political anti-bolshevik activities | in Europe. He continued his post-graduate stud- ies at the University of Louvain, in Belgium, where he received the degree of doctor of historical science nnd[ traveled extensively. He speaks Eng- | also knows the Italian, Chinese and | Japanese languages, He is a nephew of Prof. Michael Rostozeff of Yale Uni- versity, who is probably the most emi- nent living historian on matters con- cerning the ancient world. Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, regent of the Georgetown School, came in contact with Dr. Strakhovsky during his Euro- pean studies of the Russian question, and the latter came to this country recently to assist him in the prepara- | tion of material bearing on the Russian revolution. Lecture on History. At Georgetown Dr, Strakhovsky will lecture on the political and diplomatic history of modern Europe. Another member of the Georgetown | faculty was has just joined the history | depariment is William Boyd Carpenter, | a specialist on Far Eastern affairs who | has been attached to that section of | the department. A former examiner of | universities for the Scotch Department | of Education and parijamentary law | secretary in the British colonial office, | Prof. Carpenter has spent many years | in China, Japan and Korea. He reads and speaks the Chinese language. Carpenter _is_an_alumnus_of | The Food-tonic That Imparts a ’ | Feeling of Fitness and | ; Strength— man. 20, both of Baltimore, Md.; Rev o Joseph W. Adams. 24, and Mavsie H. Warren. Rey. William M. Hoffman. Solomon Amdursky. 29. and Sara Abram- 23, both of Scranton, Pa.; Rev. G. Sil- Rectortown, Va., 6. Delaplane, Va.; n. 27. and Flizabeth B. W. H, Manokoo 1 White, 24; Lond Mabel M. 7. 'and Mary Meeker, TNl Rev. Jumies Murshall Bethuel M. Webster. jr. A Wilson, Rev Robert Juhnston. Clagret! Ward. 40, and Eva M. 25: Rev. James H say. Jehn E.Smith, this city, and Stella Herran, 41, Long Island, N. Y., Rev. 8. D. Frankiin. and Ruby E. Bul- Warreo H. Walker, 21. #n, 19, Rev. H. D, Tillman. e o . ‘ T. | 28, and Eleanor Harrls, | SCOTT’S EMULSION Rich in the Health- building | Vitamins of Cod-liver Oil feld, Bloo: | was lish, French and German fluently and | B EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1929. j. 1. 0. D. Segrave, famous British racer, as he flashed by on the sands at Daytona Beach, F to set a new world speed record for automobiles at 231 miles an hour, en Arro ur set by Ray Keech of Philadelphia. TO GO FASTER -an-Hour Record. He n Along Daytona Beach. { White beat his yesterday's record during the present meet. My cxcitement was at the highest pitch when I gripped the steering wheel.” Segrave continued. “My biggest problem was to keep the car steered straight. I had about the same feeling o when I ran to 03 miles an hour. when The greatest credit of this race goss to Capl. Irving.” Maj. Scgrave said he did not think the record he set could be set much higher on the beach nere, because of the poor visibility caused by mist which kicked up by the surf and the shortness of the course. He said his visibility yesterday only about threc-quarters of a mile. Segrave said the reason he ran through so much water was because he found the sand harder nearer the surf than higher up on the beach. Maj. Segrave said that he probably would made faster time had his mechanicians not “talked me out of” putting dises over the racer’s wheels. The mechanicians, he s discs at b he perfect near th middle of the mile conrse, which caused my car to leave the ground and hurti through the air 30 or 40 feet before I came back down on the course. The steering apparatus worked 1y and T in dange id. RUSSIAN. FLEEING DEATH BY REDS. ' JOINS FACULTY OF GEORGETOWN __DR. LEONID_STRAKHOVSKY. _ Victoria, Cambridge and Berlin Uni- versities, and hLas lectured in this coun- try at Virginia and Johns Hopkins. He is well known in Washington, where hé :;ns spoken frequently on Oriental affairs, BOARD WILL REQUEST FUNDS FOR WALKWAY By a Btaff Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va, March 12—A definite request to the Board of County Supervisors to provide the funds for the construction of a sand and gravel 1 walkway through the abandoned county road known as Hayes strect will be made at the meeting of the board Friday. James B. Lockwood, proponent of the lane, expects to be out of the city at that time, but has prepared a formal request for submission to the board. The project will be greatly strength- ened by the support of Mrs. E, Wade 11, wife of the county treasurer, who has wrilten a letter to the supervisors requesting them to take favorable action in the matter, It is planned by Lockwood and many others who have joined him in the plan to have the abandoned road de- veloped solely into an attractive wood- land walk for the benefit of the stu- dents who attend the Washington Lee High School from the Clarendon section, aldan A It is not necessary to have had an Account at this Bank to Borrow Easy to Pay Monthi, Depontt. Loans $120 $180 $240 $300 $360 $540 $1,200 $100.00 $6,000 $500.00 THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H STREET, N. W. 3| in mishaps resulting in minor hurts. BYRD NAMES AREA AFTER CAPT. 3c01T :British Polar Explorer Is Honored by Leader of U. S. Expedition. BY RU! By Wircless to The Star and the New York | sinse LITTLE AMERICA, | March 12.—Comdr, | part of the region recently explored by him after Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, famous British explorer, who con- | tributed so greatly to the knowledge of | this continent and who died on his Te- {turn from the South Pole. He rests with his companions on the other side L of this barrier on which the Byrd party {1s living, §SEVEN ARE SLIGHTLY |, scou Land s petucen ing mavard . HURT IN ACCIDENTS of the 150th meridian, which is Antarctica, Photo. wes the eastern boundary of the Ross De- pendency. | Mountains Included. Fireman, Policeman and Two Chil-| dren Included in List Reported | by Traffic Officers. tains discovered by Comdr. Byrd and s undoubtedly true land overlaid with p of ice and snow. name it bea |land and hope it will be approved b; the proper authoriti ) in talking of his famous ¥ i Antarctica. It is too bad that the Nunataks of King Edward | Land should be the only things to bear | the name of that galiant man.” 1l King Edward Land Undefined. The limits of King Edward Land i have never been defined. inasmuch as the only persons to set foot there be- fore the Byrd expedition were three members of Amundsen’s expedition, who made a trip to the Nunataks. The region was discovered and named b; | Scott on his first voyage in the di | | | A firoman, a policeman and two chil- dren were among seven persons slight- Iy injured in traffic accidents yester- day. James Carroll, 27 yeurs old, of 1133 Thirteenth street, the fireman, suffercd slight injury to the right hip when struck by an automobile driven by John W. Blocker, West Clifton Terrace, He was given first aid at Emergency Hospital. |~ Ross H. Kaylor of the Traffic Bureau's ! motor cycle corps was thrown from his machine on New Jersey avenue near P street abvut 8 o'clock when avoiding a - collision. He treated at Emorgency | COVery, but he did not land there be- Hosnital for daturs b TATEeNCY | cause he did not at that time believe e oy ok Jeft WHist) (Gnditions would permit them to do so. Genle Robinson, 6 years old, of 1231 | On the charts King Edward Land has U street, and Maurice Serrell, 15, both | Be¢R recognized as the reglon near the colored, were slightiy huet. The former | oust and including the Scott Nunataks. was struck down by an automobile and | 30 it seems fitting that his name should the latter suffered a hurt knee when b€ glven lo the large area to the south his bicycle collided with an automobtie. | ©f Kibg Edward Land up to Amund- Lee K. Hong, 35 years old, residing S¢U's “appearance of land.” the begin- |at the Franklin Apartments: Miss Abbie | Nings of which were first seen by him. Taylor, 42 years old, of 1704 P street, | Byrd Admirer of Scott. and Terry Coleman, colore ’ > g | There are many reglons on the coast | of Antarctica and near cach other which bear different names, such as Adelie Land, King George Land and Oates Tand. Comdr. Byrd is sure, as a result of his flights, that_land begins just to the cast of the Bay of Whales, whether or 'REBELS PLEDGE SEARCH [FOR AMERICAN'S SLAYERS, the bay in the form of islands. Comdr. Byrd has always been a great admirer of Scott. (Copyright, 19: Co and the Louts Post-Dispatch. —All rights for publication reserved throughout the world.) | General Reported to Be Probing| Killing of Floyd Thompson i in Nogales. | ! | By the Assoclated Press % Mexican revolutionary leaders No- PR - | | gales. Mexico, have promised the United | | States consul there, Henry C. Damm, | BORIS GIVEN DOCTORATE. |to do everything in their power (| __ Srmea bring to justice the persons guilty | University of Sofia Confers Earned {the murder of Floyd Thompson, an D : | American, whose body was found March | Ryt o0 i |7 in Nogales shortly after the revolu-! SOFIA, Bulgaria, March 12 (#).— iuunlsls took over that town. | Just before his departure for Vienna, | Department today that he had had two | versity of Sofia conferred on King !interviews with Gen. Borquez, comman- | Boris the degree of doctor of natural der of the Mexican rebel garrison there, | sciences. It was the first such honor land that the general was instituting | awarded by the institution, and Boris a full investigation to supplement one | was said to be the first sovereign already made by the sheriff of Santa |the world to win such a title by sci- Cruz County, Ariz. The sheriff's in- | entific achievement, vestigation found that Thompson had The bachelor King is an accom- | been murdered. | plished zoologist and botanist and is Gen. Topete has ordered Lieut. Col. | an international authority on ornithol- | Aquirre, who was chief of police at/ogy, ichthyology. entomology and hor- { Nogales at the time of the murder and | ticulture. ~Beside possessing one of the who since has been ordered to active | finest menageries in Europe. the King military duty at Oritz, Sonora, to re-| has rare collections of reptiles, insects, turn to Nogales to carry out the in- | butterflies and tropical plants and vestigatio trees. holds transportation 30,000 miles minutes! Four President Eights were the air ever picked from the assembly line in the Studebaker factory by representatives of the Ameri- can Automobile Association. Certified as strictly stock cars by the A. A. A, and under the constant supervision of A. A. A. timers, engineers and other officials, they were driven 30,000 miles each at av- erage speeds of from 64 to 68 miles an hour. g ¥ ‘Studebaker- Nothing else on earth or in the factory. STUDE.BA Builder of Champions Byrd has named | said Comdr. | {not it is under the southern limits ol1 . by the New York Times | Consul Damm reported to the State | where he arrived yesterday, the Uni- | STUDEBAKER the greatest record in 26,326 consecutive Capt. Marvel H. Parsons Will! Be Transferred in i October. |Records of Four or Five Available Officers to Be Examined. Now that the District of Columbia | is faced with the necessity of securing | !a new major and superintendent of | police, Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d., di- rector of public buildings and public | | parks, finds himself facing a similar problem concerning the superintendency of the United States Park Police. Capt. Marvel H. Parsons, the Army Coast Ar- | tillery officer who has been superintend- | ent of the park police for nearly four | years, Is scheduled to be transferred from his present post in October. Col. Grant is in communication with | ‘War Department authorities and intends | |to examine the records of available Army officers with a view to selecting | _ | one to become the new superintendent | leaves. Four or five of these records | are being chosen for Col. Grant's perusal | be forthcoming at an early date. i Seeks Four-Month Leave. | ‘Pentative plans called for Capt. Par- | sons to go on_a four-month leave of absence zbout June, and he is consider- ing making a trip to Furope at that 'time. His application for leave is now | pending in the War Department. Fol- |lowing this leave, if granted. he desires to go_to the Army Artillery School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Capt. Parsons succeeded Capt. W. L./ | McMorris, who is now at Fort Monroe, |va., as superintendent of the United | States park police, the force of some 70 | men who control the parks of the Na- | | tional Capital, on October 14, 1925.| | Capt. P. J. Carroll is the captain of the ‘Un‘ucd States park police. | Capt. Parsons was born in ‘Massachu- | setts August 23, 1889. He served as pri- | vate (first class) in the Connecticut! iNnMwnal Guards, and later was pro- GRANT FACES TASK OF FINDING PARK POLIC] UPERINTENDENT \ CAPT. M. H. PARSONS. tar Staff Photo. This area included the large moun- |of the park police, when Capt. Parsons. moted to first lieutenant in the Coast Artillery in August, 1917. Later in that year he was appointed a captain, and A great area, |and it is expected that a decision will a year afterward chosen a major in the Const, Artillery Corps. He resigned from the service on March 5. 1919. He was appointed a captain in the Coast Ar tillery Corps July 1. 1920. Before com- ing to Washington he served in the Hawatian Islands. In Charge of Guards. Capt. Parsons resigned as manager of the Welfare and Recreational Associa- tion of Public Buildings and Grounds Inc. on February 15 and was succeeded in this position by F. W. Hoover. In addition to his job as superin- tendent of the United States park police, 157000 CAR TAG - RECEPISSTOEH {Bandits Rob Messenger in | Front of Wisconsin State Capitol Annex. | | | | | By the Associated Press. | MADISON, Wis, M [men held up the me | Wisconsin automobile license division |in front of the office in the eapitol annex today and took $157,000, mosily !in checks and money orders. | The amount of cash taken in the robbery has not been determined. | © As Russell G. Pfeiffer, a clerk em- ployed in the license department, left the annex accompanied by a fellow \ employe, the robbers accosted them, ‘and took the satchel containing the I money. They escaped in an automobile. Robert L. Siebecker, assistant sec- retary of State, sald the loss was cov- lered by insurance. Few persons saw the hold-up, which, was completed in less than two, | minutes. Only persons In the second| story windows of the division witnessecl | the robbery. | Officials said the bandils obtaine less than $2.000 cash. However, ther imight have been additicnal negotiabli loot, they said. CITIZENS PAY HONOR TO CAPT. WHITEHURST Federation Committee Thanks Dis- | trict Commissioners for Retaining Him in Local Service. Capt. Parsons, as head of the protection | division of public buildings and public | parks. has charge of guards that con- trol the Government building:. This force embraces inspector William Wright,, 4 captains, 13 leutenants, 24 sergeants, and 317 privates, and in ad- dition there are two fire marshals under Capt. Parson's command. Mrs. O'Neill Asks | | Freedom to Keep | | Pledge to Author | | | Agreed to Yield if Either Ever Loved Another, | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 12.—The New York American says today that Mrs. | Eugene O'Nelll in going to Reno to ob- | tain_a divorce from the playwright is fulfilling a proviso in their marriage | | ceremony whereby each agreed to give | the other freedom should love for an- other arise. This proviso to the marriage cere- | mony, says the newspaper, was worded, | “until love do us part” and was to be |come effective whenever desired by | either, O'Nefll, says the American, reminded his wife of their agreement in a letter from London in which he said: “I love some one else deeply. There is no possible doubt of this. And the | some one loves me. Of that I am as| deeply certain. “We have offen promised each other that if one ever came to the other and | said_they loved some one else that we would understand—that we would know that love is something which cannot be | denied or argued with.” | "Carlotta Monterey, actress, has been | mentioned as the present object of O'Nelll's affections. history in traveled so far so fast as these four President Eights—each one of them a strictly stock car, identical with those you can buy from Studebaker dealers. The flashing performance, the unequaled stamina and endurance of The President is expressed in the smartest of modern lines and colors The President sells at' One- Profit prices, characteristic of -$1785 to $2575 at And K ER Eckener Sits for Portrait. MUNICH, Germany, March 12 (#). Dr. Hugo Eckener yesterday sat for se: (eral hours for his portrait before Prof. | Walter Firle, who has a commission from an American admirer of the Zep- lin commander. A committee of the Federation of Citizens' Associations called upon the District Commissioners today and thanked them for retaining Capt. H. €. Whitehurst in the employ of the Dis- | triet, following his resignation from the Corps of Engineers and his assignment | as assistant to the Engineer Commis- | sioner. | " 'rhe committee was headed by George C. Havenner, president of the federation. He was accompanied by James G. Yaden, former president; Thomas J. Llewellyn, chairman of the committee on highways, parks and waterways, and E. V. Brennan, TROJAN WEAVE . by Kuppenheimer A long wedring, firmly woven weave ~lastrous umlxnaootl. !t’lmorh; inal Kuppenheimer conception, the product ‘of a half century’s experi~ ence. There's new beauty in the colors, fresh grace in the styles~and long satisfaction in the wearing. *63 Other suits $2775 to $90 CROSNERS 1325.F. K STREET UuPPENHEIMER