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16 2 YOUTHS DROWN WHLE SWINMING Virginian Sinks at George- town—_Colored Boys Disap- pears in Anacostia River. David R. Stinson, 19 years old, of Orebank, Va., who had been making his home at Cherrydale, Va, while working here for the Fletcher P‘lr!-‘ proof Co., was drowned in the Potomuc | River late yesterday afternoon while swimming off a pier at Jefferson and K | streets in Georgetown. The young man had gone with his| cousin, Wesley Flippen, and Benjamin | Shiffiett, both of 2424 Pennsylvania avenue, for a swin, and, according to his companions, sank out of sight with- out uttering & word. ‘The body was recovered by Clinton W. Scott, proprietor of a boathouse near the place, and William Athey of 3417 Q street, who was at the boathouse. ‘With a grappling hook which Scott had at the boathouse, they found the body and brought it to the pler. The Fire Department rescue squad from No. 1 station arrived and worked at resuscitation without avail. Stinson was taken to Emergency Hospital in the hespital ambulance, and further efforts were made there, but he was found to be beyond recovery. The drowned boy's cousin and his swimming companion said that Stinson | had just put on a bathing suit, and taken his first dive into the water. He swam a little distance and then disap- peared, Shifflet dived for him, but was unsuccessful in finding the body, which was finally reached by the grappling Thooks. Stinson made his home at Cherry- dale with Mrs. Katherine Harmon of Harrison avenue, and according to his cousin, had planned to return to his relatives at Orebank, Va., this morning. While swimming with several com- panions late yesterday in the Eastern Branch of the Anacostia River, James Robinson, colored, 19 years old, living near Stanton and Sheridan roads, stepped frem waist-deep water over a 20-foot drop in the river bottom and drowned before his companions could reach him to drag him back to safety. The youth went down at a point off the seawall and just opposite the Navy Yard. His body was recovered shortly later by Policemen C. C. Humphrey and T. Crow, who brought it up by dragging. Robinson’s body was removed to the District Morgue and the coroner notified. g One of the companions of the youth, Leonard Monroe, also colored, of 2902 Stanton road, said Anderson had ven- tured some way ahead of the others in the party, and their efforts to reach him were futile. MYSTERIOUS VISITOR MURDERS GIRL BY GAS “If I Can’t Have You, No One Else; Will,” Words in Note, Offer Only Clue. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, August 17.—A note reading, “If I can't have you, no one else will,” furnished virtually the only clue the police had to work on today in trying Yo solve the death of Miss Mary Frances Morgan, 19, who was found in her Narberth home, yesterday, strapped to a chair near & gas range with opened Jets. The girl died a few minutes after she was found unconscious by her mother, Mrs. Clarence Morgan. Shortly after her death Maximillian Hebrank, a neighbor, discovered the note lying on the kitchen table, just back of where the girl was found. He said it was signed with the initials PR Mrs. Morgan told police she knew no one with the initials “P. R.” and that, as far as she knew, her daughter had no love affairs. Mrs. Robert Thompson, who lives di- rectly across the street from the Mor- gan home, told police she saw a well- dressed young man drive up to the Morgan house about 4:30 p.m., Friday, in a dark-colored coupe and enter the house with a brief case. The girl was found unconscious at 5:30 p.m. Police now are seeking the young | man reported seen by Mrs. Thompson. | GERMANS MAY PROBE ! SHIP’S PART IN REVOLT | “Dissatisfied With Crew” Explana- tion of Captain in Connection With Venezuela Charge. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, August 17.—The possibility of investigation by a maritime court at Hamburg of the part played by the German steamship Falke in the recent revolution in Venezuela appeared to- night. The Prenzlau Co. the owner, said they were anxious for the vessel to re- turn to Hamburg so that its status might be cleared up. They maintained that they knew nothing of the pur- poses to which Venezuela has alleged the ship was put. The German consul =zt ‘Trinidad cabled the owners that ‘“money is urgently required for coal, water and stores. Not less than $5,000 is needed. Expect to have no difficulties for re- turn under the German flag.” In reply to cabled inquiries to C‘Yl‘ ‘Tipplitt of the Falke as to what really happened, the company received only the cryptic reply that the captain was “dissatisfied with the crew.” BRITON IS HOPEFUL OF ARMS AGREEMENT J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, Fa- vors Conference Between Dawes and MacDonald. By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ontario, August 17.—J. H. Thomas, British lord privy seal and minister of unemployment, sald here today he hoped “Gen. Dawes and Premier MacDonald would reach an agreement” on naval disarmament. “The race in armaments led to the last war,” he asserted, “and competi- tion in armaments will lead to the next.” The contention of the Labor party, he said, was that Great Britain should set an example of peace, but he did not mean to intimate that the interests of the United Kingdom should be sacrificed. “I hope there will be an economic conference,” Mr. Thomas sald when questioned on this matter. Asked if he thought the people of Great Britain were solidly behind Mr. Snowden in his stand on reparations, the Brit'sh minister replied: “I don’t think it, I know it.” ARBITERS ARE NAMED. Board Will Begin CottoneDispute . Study Wednesday. LONDON, August 17 (#).—The offi- cial board of arbitration in the ‘”"fl" in the cotton industry of Lan ‘will begin deliberations Wednesday with | study, beginning with the early z:g- e CLINTON W. SCOTT, Who rescued the body of David R. Stinson from the Potomac. Firemen and physicians failed to resuscitate the —Star Staft Photo. NEW NAVY ARSHP READY FOR FLIGHT ZMC-2, Metal Clad, Passes Inspection and Will Take Air Tuesday. Special Dispatch to The Star. DETROIT, Mich, August 17.—With its formal inspection by the United States Navy Survey Board completed and its initial flight scheduled for Tues- day of next week, the ZMC-2, metal clad airship, built by the Detroit Ah’-‘ craft Corporation for the Navy Depart- ment, the new style dirigible, is reldyl for the air. On its successful maiden flights and formal acceptance by the Government hinges the future of metal clad, lighter-than-air craft product, as the ZMC-2 is the first ship of its type ever bullt. In its siccessful performanace is ex- pected to not only revolutionize dirig- ible construction the world over, but will also serve as the engineering and sclentific basis of experience in the building of airships of larger size, ac- cording to officials, The new dirigible resembles the Zeppelin type airship in that it is a rigid ship, built to carry the strains and stresses due to flight by means of a rigid hull. However, the means of carrying these strains and stresses have been worked out along entirely different engineering lines from those concelved by, and developed by the great Count Ferdinand Zeppelin. After sufficient progress had been made in the underlying engineering work, Congress -appropriated $300,000 for the purpose of building an experi- mental, all-metal airship for the United States Navy. The construction of this craft was authorized by Congress for the purpose of determining the advantages of all- metal lighter-than-air craft. This par- ticular ship was designed and buiit in the most convenient size to provide a practical test of all-metal construction and to enable aeronautical engineers to develop the relative advantages thereof. Eminent aeronautical authorities con- sider the ZMC-2 one of the most im- portant innovations in the history of aviation, Summarizing their reasons for this statement, it is found that the all-metal dirigible combines three dis- tinct characteristics, none of which have ever been incorporated in a light- er-than-air ship. They are as follows: 1. It is built entirely of metal, instead of a sheathing fabric which hitherto has been used in dirigibles. It has a gas capacity of 200,000 cubic feet. 2. It embodies advanced principles in shape; that is, its diameter, 50 feet, will be only about one-third of its length, 150 feet, whereas the familiar Zeppelin type of airship have been from 7 to 12 as long as they have been thick. 3. Its method of control differs radi- cally from previous dirigibles. Its ele- vators and rudders, which regulate its maneuvers up, down and sideways, in- stead of being at the rear, are in the form of eight fins projecting from the hull about 30 feet forward of the stern. Constantly increasing knowledge of the science of erodynamics and the de- velopment of alclad, an alloy of alumi- num and copper alloy which is almost as strong as steel, have made possible the building of this all-metal airship. The design of the ship itself is the result of more than seven years of pelin and coming down through period of the late war to the present. In performance characteristics the ZMC-2 is similar to the non-rigid fabric blimp, but in the magnitude of its im- ortance as an engineering achievement t is at least equal that of any rigid airship ever bullt. Its size of 200,000 cubic feet was determined upon as sufficient to fulfiil Government experimental requirements. Prior, however, to submitting a definite proposal to the Government, various systematic experiments. were conducted. General specifications of 2ZMC-2: Length of hull, 149 feet 5 inches. Diameter of hull (maximum), 52 feet 8 inches. Fineness ratio, 2.83. Dis- placement of hull, 202,200 cubic feet. Total ballortet displacement, 50,600 cubic_feet. Ratio of ballonet volume to hull volume, 25 per cent. Thickness of skin, .0095 inch. Length of car, 24 feet. Width of car, 6 feet 6 inches. Number of air valves, 3. Number of gas valves, 2. Number of fins, 8. Total fin area, 440 square feet. Total elevator area, 190 uare feet. 1 auto- matic rudder area, 95 square feet. Engines (Wright Whirlwind J-5), 2. Power at 1,800 R. P. M., 440 horse~ power. Propeller diameter (all metal), 9 feet 2 inches. B Owing to the vast amount of experi-] mental work the ship cost lpé)mlmluly $1,150,000. A survey board has been appointed by the Secretary of the Navy to make the preliminary. inspection of the ZMC-2, and to accompany the ship on its trial hts. Lieut. Comdr., Wil- liam K. Harrill, senior member of the board; Lieut. C. V. S. Knox, resident naval inspector during the ship's cou- struction, and Lieuts, C. E. Bauch and G. H. Duggan and George V. Whittle compose the board. — SURRENDERS IN PROBE. Carey, sought in connection with an alleged murder, arson and blast here, to- day walked into the county prosecutor’s: office and after a conference, was served summons for his appearance Tu y before a grand jury. Carey is a son of D. M. Carey, sr., alleged leader in an arson gang, who committed suicide yesterday be- fore: he was indicted for first-degree }nu ler. Ehe indictment was returned ollo KANBAS CITY, August 17 (#).—June of three firemen. last o] ne was closely associated with his t-t‘her.y Coronation in October. vestigation of an explosion, August & which resulted in the desth ‘The bl destroyed year-old son of the former Maharajah of Indore and sufi-nn of the former Nancy Miller, is visiting here while en route to India, where he will be en- throned in October. His father abdi- cated after charges were made of as- Justice Rigby Swift presiding. tong G e &1 Archivald Ross our, C. T, and’A. G. Walkden. ... sault on a former dancing girl, Mumtaz Begum. Six weeks’ festivities have been planned for the occasion of the accession BERLIN, August 17 (#).—The 21 DEATH POLICY SUIT U. S. Appeals Court Holds Company Is Liable in Flickinger Case. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., August 17.—Pur- suant to its recorded judgment that the L,. National prohibition law is not violated when a guest accepts and drinks contra- band liquors in the home of his host, the United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals for the fourth circuit today issued a mandate ordering insurance paid in & case tried here in which the insured had dled of poisonous liquor. The order of the court provides that gl:llnnee of $6,000 on the late Samuel Flickinger be to his mother yton Flickinger be pald ried. and beneficlary, Mrs. 8. A. of Norfolk, Va. Flickinger, member of a prominent Norfolk family, died in Baltimore in December, 1927, after drinking, it was alleged, gin cocktails contain! wood aleohol, served in the home of und H. Murphy, in a fashionable Baltimore | both apartment house. ‘The occasion was a party given Flickinger and his flancee, Miss erine McDonald, of New York. McDonald and the host’s wife also suc- cumbed from drinking the poisonous drinks. Murphy recoverd after hospital treatment. Insurers of Flickinger refused to g:y the claim, and set up the defense that liabilities had ceased to exist when the insured violated the law. The case was appealed from the Federal Court ab Norfolk, which rendered a_ verdict for Mrs. Flickinger, who sued as bene- ficlary. A new trial was refused in the court at Norfolk. e SALVAGE SUNKEN PLANE. Crews Start Raising Ship; Co- Pilot's Body Sought. WINDSOR, Ontario, August 17 (#). Salvage work on the sunken airplane, the Miss Detroit, which crashed into Lake Erie near Pelee Island last Satur- day night, causing one , was started today by a Cleveland crew. Meanwhile, the Canadian government fisheries tug, Elsie Doris, and a Cleve- land speedboat were cruising in the shallow waters near the small islands to the south of Pelee Island looking for the body of John Kasper, co-pilot of the Miss Detroit, and the only one of its four passengers who was not rescued. Hope that the pllot had reached one of the small islands alive had vanished long since. Kasper was wearing a cork lif- preserver, which, it was leved, would keep his body afloat. to Mr. Kath- Announcing to select “Miss W ashington, 1929” 18, SWAPS FOUR MULES FOR BRIDE, SHE QUITS, TROUBLES PILE UP Father of 13-Year-Old Wife Sells Animals Given Him by 43-Year-Old Husband and Is Put in Jail. By the Assoclated Press. HOPKINSVILLE, Ky., August 17— When a 43-year-old man married the 13-year-old daughter of a man nine ears younger than himself and takes to Detroit to live with some of his nine children, and the girl bride doesn’t like married life and her father sells wwo pairs of mules. Such happenings as these plus dramatic and other more or less Eluunl elements Ei‘:“ county ) a few paper purporting to gi consent of the girl's father, Henry Gibbs, 34. Gibbs went over to Trigg County and prosecution against Green on the consent paper. happy together, and, t, Green gave his father-in-law four mules to forget and forgive. The couple went to Detroit. ‘The bride says she didn't get the pret- is8 | ty clothes promised her, and, moreover, didn't like the idea of being stepmother to nine children. So she ran a and hid out in the Michigan city until her father went there for her and brought Green followed. He was minus one bride and four mules. He wanted one or the other, but the bride stood on her rights, and the !llhzx-in' law had sold the mules. Yesterday Green had Gibbs put in jail on a charge of converting the pro- ceeds of the sale to his own use. But he still said he'd rather have the bride than the animals. Today the bridegroom came to the conclusion that putting her father be- hind bars might not be the correct way to win a girl's heart, so he made bond for Gibbs. and went to the Christian County jail for a second benediction. But Gibbs wouldn't come out. “I'll die in this cell before I'd let you go my bond,” he asserted. “But if I ever et out I'm going back over to Trigg e ity and take up that forgery mat- T again. Some curfous newspaper men visited the bride again. “I'll die before I'll go back to him. I married him for the trip to Detroit and the pretty clothes, I got the trip, but I don't like the nine- children idea,” she said, As if these dramatics and complica- tions weren't enough, the Gibbs family has asked the officers of this county to furnish a guard for Loulse to see that she isn't led into changing her mind. The sheriff is thinking of swearing in some extra deputles to serve as ushers when the Gibbs case comes up in court Wednesday. O’BRINE SLIGHTLY HURT LANDING ST. LOUIS ROBIN Plane Which Set Endurance Record of More Than 420 Hours Dam- aged at Syracuse. By the Associated Press. SYRACUSE, N. Y., August 17.—The St. Louis Robin, the plane which set a new endurance record of more than 420 hours, was damaged in landing at the municipal airport here today. Forrest O'Brine, the pilot, was slightly hurt. ‘The mishap occurred as O'Brine ar- rived at the airport, where he was scheduled to stage a refueling exhibition tomorrow. As he was about to land the plane was seen to lurch and dove into the earth, damaging the Ianding n‘-r and ripping fabric on the right win, 2. O'Brine crawled from the plane un- alded. His hand was cut, but otherwise he appeared unhurt. He sald his foot caught in a cleat on the floor, jamming the controls and that he was not able to right the ship before crashing. a “Beauty CHILD IS KILLED UNDER COAL TRUCK’S WHEELS Three-and-a-Half-Year-0Old Colored Boy Dies While Playing in Alley. A 3%-year-old colored boy was in- stanly killed shortly before noon yester- day when he was run over by a slowly moving coal truck, which had just dumped coal in the rear of 1433 Spring road. The child, Wendell Pringle, son | of Jesse Pringle. colored janitor of the | apartment house at 1445 Spring road, was playing with other children about the truck and had been warned away by James E. Clark of Cedar Heights, Md., colored driver for the Griffith Coal Co., owners of the truck. Clark told police he had just cleared the children out of range of the wheels and had started his truck in the alley in back of the apartment when he suddenly heard a scream. The rear wheel had passed over the Pringle boy. Airplanes are being’'shipped from the United States to China. o Contest” ASHINGTON’S prettiest girls invited to enter photo- graphs of themselves in this contest at our F St. Shop. Valuable prizes. A = of the “Hahn” Stores. Material in Fall “HAHN- SPECIALS” clever simulation. You can almost “bristles” against their back- ground of new Autumn Brown, Blue, Burgundy and Green Kid. Strikingly new and different. Ends Friday, August 23. tails broadcast daily by Station “WOL”—o Full de- r inquire at any $6G-50 Silver Fox! Of course it isn’t really “fox skin”—but a feel the silvery 7th & K 3212 14th “Women’s Shop” 1207 F St. THER new “Hahn Specials” for Fall —include real lizards and suedes. Such swag- ger shoes for Siz-Fifty! ON ROCKWILLE PIE E5e Congressional Airport Cor- poration Asks Change to Commecid District. though the county commissioners at their weekly meeting Tuesday declined | to defer the hearing, scheduled for September 8, on the application.of the Congressional Alrport Corporal for a rezoning of a portion of the Wagner farms, on the Rockville pike, at Hal- pine, under lease to the Airship Cor- poration, owners of nnrgz property, | dj who are opposed to proj change, namely, from residential to commercial, have not, it was learned today, lost hope that a postponement will yet be ordered by the commis- sioners, ‘The property that the Airport Cor- poration desires changed to commercial extends 970 feet along the Rockville plke and has a depth of 300 feet. It 1s desired by the airport people to erect an administration building and filling station there. Asked to Defer Hearing. At their meeting on . Tuesday the commissioners were requested to defer the hearing so that a number of in- terested property owners, who will not have returned from their vacations or business trips by September 8, may at- tend the hearing. In this class were cited John F. Wilkins, Gilbert Gros- venor, Mrs. Joseph H. Bradley, Mehrle Thorpe, Malcolm S. McConthe, Philan- der Johnson and others, all of whom are sald to be strongly opposed to the re- quested change in classification. The commissioners, however, held that a postponement of the hearing would necessitate readvertising at con- siderable expense and that those not present on September 8 could be heard later. A postponement until early in October was ssked, by which time, it was suggested, everybody interested would be back home and in a position to_attend. It became known today that the pe- property along the ll;::kvlle to the pike from District ot Conumbla ‘THese people are reported to feel that classification of the property as commercial would make possible its use for not only airport purposes, with the attendant noise and general uncesir- able activity, but would permit the es- tablishment there of almost any kind of industrial projects and would greatly injure their properties for residential purposes and have a serious effect o residential property values throughout the lengths of the Rockville pike, which, it is_held, is destined to soon become the finest and most desirable residen- tial thoroughfare lMln& into the Na- tional Capitol, if the existing zoning is not disturbed. Lively Hearing Predicted. But whether a postponement is or- dered or not, a lively hearing is pre- icted whenever held. Interested property owners have already retained attorneys and the whole matter is ex- pected to be gone thoroughly into. As matters now stand, the hearing will. be held in the county building at Bethesda. WOMAN DETECTIVES WIN LONDON INDORSEMENT | Society Leaders Find Smartly- Groomed Sleuth Excellent Pro- tection Against Crooks. LONDON (#).—The lady detective is coming into her own in London society, whose season is annually growing more elaborate. More costly piate is used, more jewels are in evidence, and there are more gate-crashers. London hostesses have found that the best safeguard to their functions is not a large flat-footed man, but a svelte, chickly gowned woman who can mingle with the guests and arouse no undue suspicion. Most of the women detectives have their own business and their own cli- entele. They are well acquainted with the outstanding members of the petty thieving tribe and can readlly spot them on a crowded ballroom floor, around a closely-packed dinner table or at a wed- ding where costly gifts are within easy ireach of itching fingers. KENTUCKY PRISONERS GIVEN CRIME LESSON Proclamation of Governor on Con- demned Men Read to In- mates Weekly. FRANKFORT, Ky. (//).—Once a week the silent men and women expiating their crimes against soclety in Ken- iy penal institutions hear & practl- cal lesson in the folly of law violation. In every penal institution and jail in the State they hear the story of two men who transgressed the law sgainst murder and soon will pay the penalty llf\l/:x State exacts by forfeiting their It is not because of any interest in the brutal crimes, but execution of a method conceived by Gov. Sampson to impress law violators through concrete evidence that crime does not pay. It is his proclamation, read to the prisoners each week through which the story of the two convicted murderers is unfolded and will be repeated until the two men die in the electric chair at the State Prison. September 13. Carl Hord, one of the condemned, killed Marion A. George, a Louisville merchant, in a robbery December 13, 1928. Charles Mitra of St. Louis, an accomplice, already has been executed. Ivan Hutsell, the other man awaiting execution, was convicted at Lagrange of the slaying May 19, 1927, of Mrs. John Ditchler. He killed the woman and her husband in revenge because the former aided his conviction in an Indiana case which caused his impris- onment. MAN 82 AiR-MINDED. Millionaire Real Estate Dealer Buys First Plane-Train Ticket. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 17 (#)— The first plane-train ticket sold by the ‘Transcontinental Air Transport in Louisville was bought by an 82-year-old millionaire, John P. Starks, chairman of the Starks Realty Co. He left to- night by train for Indianapolis, the first stop on his trip to Los Angeles. He expects to remain in the West and travel to Lakehurst on the Graf Zep- pelin if he can get passage when ti big dirigible comes around the world. Many New Fall Styles have been added to WRIGHT CO.S UGUST SALE of Good Furnituie; New Arrivals in LIVING ROOM SUITES at August Sale New 3-tone Jacquard Suite Three good-looking pieces of the latest de- sign, specially priced for our August sale. 3-pc. Italian Velvet Suite Reverse of cushions i frieze. A suite idea and a wonderful i value at . . striking new 9.5 outstanding SALE VALUE. Full sofa. struction. n *339 SAVINGS! New Shapes New Upholsteries New Shades 3.pc. Wood Frame Mohair Suite Graceful lines, fine qual- ity mohair covering. AU An GUST 0dd Sofa, Denim Upholstered | length Web bottom con- Choice of col- 3-cushion *49 3-pc. Bed-Davenport Suite 119 Choice jacquard velour upholstery. Daven- port opens to {full size bed. Well ors and patterns. Love Seat in Figured Damask Certain to be one of . the most popular pieces for living room. Finely made. Down cushion. Octagon h-pa TABLE August Sale Price Burl toop, walnut finish. S p ecial Complete BED OUTFITS Secretary DESK August Sale Price Very newest design in wal- nut or mahog-s any fini August Sale Price Consists ~of all-cotton mat- tress. 2-band link spring. Mahogany- finish metal bed. August Sale Price Mahog- 172 any-finish metal ends. Good cretonne covering. If purcha;ed separately:— The Bedis. ........$6.95 The Mattress is. . . .$6.95 The Spring is. .....$4.95 LOW TERMS Convenient '18% With .'Cosil Spring xt e Breakfast Suite Coloriul enamel finish, Attrac- 172 Arranged deco- rated. 905-907 7th St. N.W.