Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1929, Page 30

30 EADURANCERECORD 15 SET Y JENEN Lgne Flyer ‘Remains in Air Over 35 Hours Despite Rough Flight. ! By the Asscciated Press RCOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., March, 29 (#).—Martin Jensen today holds an unofficial solo endurance flight record of 35 hours, 33 minutes and 21 seconds. The record was established when he landed at 5:34:55 p.m. He was in the air 8 minutes and 22 seconds longer 4han the late Royal V. Thomas, who the solo record. was unofficial because the National Aeronautical Association does not list golo records. 1t keeps only one endur- ance record, irrespective of the number in the plane and without regard to sex. Officials of the association, however, supervise and time solo endurance flights. t automobile gasoline left in his tanl One object of his flight was to demonstrate that auto gas could be substituted for highly refined air- plane fuel successfully. He said he was not tired by the long hours alone in the air, adding that bumpy air currents both days had forced him to use his 440 gallons of gasoline more rapidly than he had expected, frustrating him in_his plan to remain aloft 40 hours. The first person to greet him when he landed was his wife. Jensen, who was second to Art Goebel in the Dcle flight from San Francisco to Hawali in 1927, was born in Kansas. He went into aviation when he joined the Navy and resigned with the rank of ensign. He is 27 years old. He flew a Bellanca monoplane pow- ered with a 200-horsepower Wright whirlwind motor. CONVICTS SALESMAN IN GIRL'S DROWNING Jury Finds Perfume Worker Guilty in Death Occurring in Susque- hanna River. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa, March 29.— Convicted of mutder in the first degree in the drowning of Miss Verna Klink, 30, Harry D. Bowman, 39, perfume salesman, today faced life imprison- ment, the sentence fixed by the trial ury. - %he jury returned its verdict late yesterday after deliberating less than an hour and a half. Counsel for Bow- man announced that he would file a motion for a new trial. Miss Klink, manageress of a confec- tionery store, was drowned in the Susquehanna River January 25. Bow- man maintained that while he was with her at the time, her death was due to a suicide pact between them. He said that he had lost his nerve and waded out of the river. The State contended that Bowman had drowned the woman after robbing her of $900 which she told him she planned to use to purchase the little store in which she was employed. CONVICTED OF FRAUD. NEW ORLEANS, March 20 (P).— Ralph Merrill and L. V. Wineman officials of the defunct Merrill Lumber Co. of South Bend, Ind., were found guflty in United States District Court ere yesterday of concealing $25.000 in assets in bankruptcy proceedings. They will be sentenced April 18. agien s D CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ‘TODAY. A lecture on “Christian Science: The Fulfillment of Scriptural Promises,” will be delivered, § o'clock, in Masonic Au- ditorium, Thirteenth street and New York avenue, by Salem Andrew Hart, C. 8. B, of Cleveland, Ohio. Lecture free; public invited. FUTURE. The annual Parent-Teachers' card party for the benefit of Nativity School playground will be held Easter Monday, 8:15 pm., in the school auditorium, 6000 Georgia avenue. ‘The Gaelic American Club will have 8 special Easter dance at the Playhouse Easter Monday, 8:30 pm. Timothy Berry, chairman. ‘The Washington Elmira College Club ‘will meet tomorrow, 8 pm., with Mrs. Orlando C. Troxel, 1801 Park road. ‘There will be an Easter sale at St. James’ parish hall, Eighth street north- ;s near B, tomorrow, beginning at Anacostia . Citizens’ Association will meet tomorrow, 8 p.m., in Masonic ‘Temple, Fourteenth and U streets southeast. ‘The Dupont Circle Citizens’ Associa- tion will meet Monday, 4:45 p.m., May- flower Hotel. Miss Elizabeth Butler Howry will speak of the need of estab- lishing a suitable opera house in Wash- ington. ‘The Sixteenth Street Highlands Citi- zens' Association will meet Monday, 8 p.m., Sixth Presbyterian Church. Manor Park Citizens' Association will | meet Monday, 7:45 p.m., Whittier School Building. Capt. H. A, Chapman, presi- dent of the Fire Fighters’ Association, will tell, “How to Prevent Fires and How to Turn in an Alarm.” MOTOR OIL '5¢a gal. For use in all motor cars at any Season~ | for Saie by w F. & W. Grand 400 Seventh St. N.W. I = | { THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. FRIDAY. MARCH 20, 1929. WIFE GREETS RECORD BREAKER |SCRUBWOMAN HELD IN ROTHSTEIN DEATH !Only Witness Still in Custody Hurls Invectives at Attor- ney and Police. | de i | By the Associated Press. l NEW YORK, March 29.—A $40-a- month scrubwoman, of the many per- | sons rounded up in the elaving of | Arnold Rothstein, notorious Broadway gambler, alone remained in custody to- day. Mere chance placed Bridgst Farry in | third-floor corridor of the Park Central | Hotel two hours or so before Rothstein 1 was Jured to room 349 and shot down {on_the night of November 4. | Taken into custody as a material ' ness, she has been held first in jail, !then in a hospital and later in an institution, unable to raise the $5,000 bail necessary to obtain her freecom. Meanwhile, scores of others—rack- | eteers, chorus girls, gamblers, bootleg- igers and gunmen—have found their . way both in and out of jail. Some, held | merely on suspicion, have been released without legal formality, Others werc invective against District Attorney Ban- ton and the Police Department. The district attorney and the police iars holding her in Dbelief that she knows more of the shooting than she has told. | POLICEMAN, SPEAKING 16 LANGUAGES, IS DEAD Versatile Peacemaker Among Chi- | nese and Italians Succumbs | in New York. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 29.--Capt. John | P._Archiopoli, one of the most versatile | | members of the New York police force, { known principally as a peacemaker in {the wars between the Chinese tongs, | died today, 2ged 50. He spoke 16 lan- guages. He specialized in the activities of the rival tongs in Chinatown and held the | respect of the leaders of the organiza- | | tions. | in Mott and Pell strects he was usually jabla to bring about peace after ail {other efforts had failed. 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