Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1929, Page 5

ARTILLERY UNITS G0 AFTER RECORD 260th Members Start Annual Firing Practice at Fort Monroe. Members of the 260th Coast Artille: Anti-Aircraft Regiment, District N tional Guard, began their annual firing for record target practice at Fort Mon- roc, Va., today. Guardsmen spent the morning getting ammunition to the guns and everything | in readiness. & Two batteries of the organization now | hold the highest scoring ratings among the entire National Guard anti-aircraft units of the United States. Battery A, commanded by Capt. Louis M. Gosorn, a searchlight battery, and Battery C, commanded by Capt. Robert T. Daly, a gun battery, having led the entire coun- try in high scores for their respective units last year. The gun batteries will shoot each aft- ernoon this week and the searchlight batteries will hold their target practice each night at 8 o'clock. Langley Field will furnish pilots and airplanes for all target practices of the Guardsmen. Lieut. James H. Wallace will pilot the target plane this afternoon and Lieut. C. Hale tonight. Lieut. J. L. Goff of the 61st Coast Artillery at Fort Mon- Toe will accompany both pilots as ob- servation officer for the maneuvers. Curtiss Challenger planes will be used. Col. F. H. Smith, adjutant general of the District National Guard, arrived Sunday to inspect the Guardsmen. He will remain in camp for several days. Capt. Christian G. Foltz, representing the chief of the Militia Bureau, arrived | Monday morning for a two-day inspec- | tion. Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan left Bolling Field at 2:30 o'clock today by | plane and will arrive at Langley Field | at 4 o'clock. Gen. Stephan will be pres- | ent for the night air sham battle to- night and Tuesday's target practice. Maj. J. M. Lusby arrived Monday morning for a week's encampment and | also will pay the troops a visit on Sat- urday. Maj. Walter W. Burns. commanding, and Maj. Frank C. Schofield, director of training activities. have arranged a full schedule of both day and night training activities for the week. TURKISH AIR MISSION T0 TOUR U. S. FIELDS | Three Prominent Officers to Study | American Aviation Plants and Systems, By the Associated Press. A complete study of American avia- | tion methods, with a view to their possi- ! ble adoption by the Turkish air service, will be made by a Turkish air missfon | which will arrive in the United States | August 12. | The Turkish embassy announced that | the mission, which consists of three | prominent aviation officers, plans to visit virtually every important air sta- tion as well as manufacturing plants in the United States, during a month's | stay. The tour will be made by airplane and has been aranged by -the Curtiss | Afreraft, Corporation. [ The mission is headed by Maj. Shefik Bey of the Turkish general staff, Capt. Ferruh Bey, a well known Turkish pilot trained in France, and FPirst Lieut. Kiazim Bey. who has been studying British aviation methods for two years. | The visit is an outgrowth of the ex- pansion program of Ghazi Mustapha | Kemal, the President of Turkey. | PLEA TO COLbRED WOMEN Mrs. Stewart Urges Greater Inter- est in Home Conditions. An appeal for colored women to in- terest themselves in national affairs, was made by Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart of Indiana, president of the National As- sociation of Colored Women's Clubs, in an address before a gathering at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Twelfth and R streets, yesterday atfernoon. Mrs. \sitre:x,:n x:rged'gamculmy a better en- vironment for the negro child, es) be!Mnre '.h‘!‘ age of fl\'ge‘.l G rs. lethia ~Williams, daughter ruler of Columbia Temple 422, I. ‘B P. ©O. E. of W, also delivered a brief ad. dress in which she stressed the im- portance of woman as a factor in build- ing a nation. A few remarks were made by Mrs. Rebecca Styles' Taylor of Georgia. Rev. E. C. Smith, pastor of the church, expressed a hearty welcome to the vistors and pledged his co-opera- tion to securing better conditions in the homes of his parishioners. A second address was made by Mrs. Stewart before colored citizens at the Campbell A. M. E. Church in Anacostia last night. in which another appeal for improvement in home conditions was made. Rev J. A. Dames, pastor, ex-| tended a welcome and also made a! few remarks. . | WASHINGTON BOY HURT. Youth Visiting Culpeper Is Injured When Gun Explodes. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va. August 5.—Dorsey Crouse, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dorsey Crouse of Washington, was seriously injured by the accidental dis- charge of a gun yesterday while he was visiting relatives at Elkwood, this | county. Medical aid was obtained from Culpeper and later the boy was taken : I:‘lt Alexandria Hospital for treat- ent. This is the second accidental shooting to occur within a week. Peggy Berry, 9-year-old twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Berry, was shot through both legs when her brother's rifle fell from a shelf to the floor and discharged from the force of the blow. METCALF RITES HELD. Chemist Is Buried at Former Home in Oberlin, Ohio. « Interment for Norman Wight Met- ealf, former empolye in the chemistry division of the Bureau of Standards, ! who was discovered dead in a gas-filled room at the bureau last Friday after- noon, took place in Oberlin, Ohio, today. At an inquest following the discovery Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt, coroner, issued a certificate of suicide. Metcalf had been employed in the Bureau of Standards since July, 1928. He was a graduate of Oberlin College, Ohio, and intended to use the subjects studied by him in the bureau as an aid in the preparation of his thesis for the degree of doctor of philosophy, which he expected to take at the University of I}gnou next year. He was 31 years old. A widow, Elsie Smith Metcalf, and a 4-year-old son, Harold, survive. BOMB WRECKS 3 HOUSES. Flaming Fuse Tossed From Auto- mobile in North Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, August 5 (#)—A stick of dynamite with a flaming fuse was tossed from a speeding automobile early yesterday, wrecking three houses in the northern part of the city. Hun- dreds of persons were terrorized by the blast, but no one was injured. Police believe the explosion was caused by persons in sympathy with striking hosiery workers. . An employe of ‘a hosiery company who refused to strike lives in one of the wrecked hol U. S. Veterans Seek Vainly for Tomb of German Unknown Tribute Paid War Dead in Charge Presented to Von Hindenburg. By the » ted Pre: BERLIN, August 5.—Representatives !of the American Veterans of Foreign Wars, today sought in vain for the tomb of the German unkonw soldier, with the purpose of being the first Americans since the World War to pay tribute to the German war dead. But Berlin is probably the only Furopean capital without a monument to the “unknown soldier,” and so the Americans laid their wreath on a statute to Frederick the Great. The delegation was commanded by Capt. Edwin S. Bettelhelm, jr, and came in the name of Comdr.-in-Chief Eugene P. Carver of Boston, Capt. Bettelheim is the national aide-de- camp of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Veterans Warmly Received. The veterans, who are warmly re- ceived by German officials, will be the first Americans to pay tribute to the Polish War dead at Warsaw on Wednes- day. Capt. Bettelheim submitted a copy of the veterans’ charge to the Germen soldlers, to President Von Hindenburg. It read as follows: “Soldiers of the German Fatherland, living and dead, we American veterans salute you. We honored you for your courage and patriotism during ~the World War and we bow our heads in tribute to your dead. Bravery Is Praised. “Your warriors mnot only did your duty to your country as every soldier must, but fought us strongly and brave- ly for the principle which you believed was right, such as we who sought to fight just as bravely for the. principle which we thought was right. “We know you did your duty to your country as we hope we did to ours. Patriotism and willingness to give one’s life for his country are what makes your nation and our nation so strong today. We fought the good fight and came out of the conflic.. warm friends and with highest respect for each other. “May this respect and friendship en- dure for centuries to come. In the name of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, all of whose mem- bers have fought on foreign soil or on the high seas, I salute you.” Sy i ‘Gater at Large in Jersey. BLOOMFIELD, N. J., August 5 (P).— A husky Florida 'gator, 4 feet long, is at large here. 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Detectives declared today that the woman’s latest victim has been uncov- ered in a fruit merchant in New York City, who is said to have been fleeced out of $1,000 on an alleged “fake” tele- gram which the woman is said to have displayed and purporting to have been sent to a fellow countryman in Italy, in which a large sum of money had been transmitted. |~ The victim, Samuel E. Rezzato, of | 32 West Tenth street, is said by police to have given the woman $1,000 for investment in a proposition which was calculated to bring a double return in ndg{nnn to a trip to Italy with expenses | paid. | i Miss Howells was arrested by Head- quarters Detectives Ira E. Keck and | | B. W. Thompson of the bad check and | fraud squad after they had listenca | to the story of two young English- | women who have been employed in this city as nurses for the past 10 yea who returned to this country Sund: a week ago from Havre, France. 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