Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1929, Page 4

| HURRIGANE SWEEPS ALABAMAWITHRAIN Gulf Gale Turns Inward and Through Georgia as North. west Florida Escapes. By the Associated P PENSACOLA, Fla, October 1.—The | hurricane which lashed the lerritory as | 4t passed inland from the Gulf of Mex- | foo apparently was blowing across East- ern Alabama and through Georgia to- day in a fury of rain. Whether the tropical storm which took a destructive toll in the Bahamas and from shipping would dissipate itself in the journey overland, or eventually find its way bagk to the Atlantic O¢ean again and gather back its gales, was problematical. Damage to this city chiefiy was con- fined to trees and telephone pales, al- though the Weather Bureau measured gusts of wind up to 102 miles an hour and an average velocity during the height of the storm of 74 miles. Ex- tensive preparations for the hurricane were believed to have prevented greater destruction. Panama City Suffers. Little was known of the effect of the storm in communities and towns east of here where the storm center passed. Reports from Panama City said that all the docks and several buildings had | been destroyed there. No loss of life ! was reported in the whole area. Dis- | rupted communications’ prevented a check-up of conditions. All telegraph and telephone lines ‘were down east of here, and the Louis- ville & Nashville Railway suspended service to River Junetion, Fla, because of the uncertainty of tracks. A passenger train was marooned at Milton, but the passengers were safe. As the storm roared inland it was swept first into Southeastern Alabama after crossing the narrow strip of Northwestern Florida. A 50-mile ga buffeted Brewton, Ala., north of Mo- bile, some miles westward of the storm center, and Mobile itself felt the fringe of the blow. No damage was reported. Heavy rains and gusty winds were gen- eral through a territory of about 300 miles from Tallahassee, Fla., to the Mississippi beaches. Hurricane warnings were down on the Alabama and Mississippi coasts, the | Weather Bureau replacing the signals with northwest storm warnings as the lhurricnne toward eastward on striking and. Forty-Mile Wind at Andalusia. Andalusia, Ala., reported 40-mile winds and had difficulty in maintain- ing communications with the outside world. Barometers dropped generally through Southern Alabama and misty rain was whipped into fury by the gathering winds. Forecaster Von Hermann of Atlanta said that, while the disturbance might beat itself out on land, there) was a possibility it might re-enter the Atlantic near the Hatteras country and whip back into gale force. Ten Coast Guard boats, with of- ficers and crews of nearly 240 men, converged on the southeast coast of Florida to aid shipping left disabled by _the Bahaman gale. e Domira, British freighter, and the Salina, Italian, remained aground in the Bahamas, awaiting assistan of mastheads waves and other stories of sea disaster. Florida Escapes Heavy Damage. Latest checks showed Florida escaped extensive damage as the storm whip- ped the lower east and west coasts with heavy gales during its passage from the Atlantic to the Gulf. The loss was heavy in isolated instances, but many sections came through with only minor debris. The Florida East Coast Railway re- mained out on the Florida Keys, where the storm center passed with hurricane fury. Highway traffic was disrupted to Key West, at the tip of the Keys. A special boat took Havana-to-United States travelers from Key West to Miami, so that train connections might be made to the East. The clearing house estimated that eltrus damage did not exceed 2 per cent of the crop and that much of this prob- ably would be salvaged, as the fruit was about ready for markets. LITTLE DAMAGE IN ALABAMA. Mobile Starts Removing Safeguards as Fear of Hurrieane Passes. MOBILE, Ala, October 1 (#).—Re- establishing communication and resump- tion of traffic to isolated sections of South and_Southeast Alabama d forward today to provide means of a: certaining the extent of damage caused in those sections from the West Indian hurricane vesterday as it bounded on to the mainland from out of the Gulf of Mexico. Brewton and Flomaton, in Escambia County, Ala., north of here, reported heavy rainfall but slight damage from high” winds. _Pollard. slightly to the northeast and believed directly in the path of the disturbance, was isolated. Other points in South Central Alabama reported heavy precipitation, but com- paratively little damage. Mobile, which had been under the spell of a hurricane scare since Sun- day, today was removing boards frem plate glass windows and doors and re- suming maritime activities for the first time in 48 hours. The official Weather Bureau announcement last night that the hurricane had missed the eity brought expressions of relief from the city’s thousands. Aside from a few trees being uproot- ed and secondary power lines broken, the city escaped the squalls of the after- noon and night with little damage. School sessions and business at the courthouse, both of which were &us- pended pending passing of the storm danger, were resumed today. Traffie, which almost disappeared from the streets yesterday afternoon, had re- turned to normal. The storm, entering Alabama through ‘Escambia County from Florida, was ex- eted to take a northeasterly course to {l:l Atlantic seaboard with diminishing force. SINGER AGAIN ACCUSED. Wite Bues for Alienation of Af- fections. PORTLAND, Me. October 1 (#).— Vernon Stiles, singer. whose second wife yesterday filed suit in Los Angeles against Mrs. John R. MacGinnis, al- leging alienation of affections, was well known in this State. His first wife, Mrs. Eugene Stiles, & nattive of Rumania, was granted a di- voree from the singer in Lewiston in 1923, on the grounds of cruel and abu- sive treatment. The controversy devel- oped over the custody of their daugh- ter, who mwflmakes her home with a Lewiston family. The first Mrs. Stitles testified at the hearing that Stiles struck and chocked her in an alleged argument over another ‘woman. German Millionaire List Grows. BERLIN. Octotber 1 (A, The ste- tigtitcal bureau reported last night that the creation of 130 new millionaires the total in Germany to: 2465, pay taxes on g total t?pltll oll ,580,154,000 marks, ‘The total ocsrul of the 130 newly reported is 442,000,000 amarks : ROCKET AIRPLANE COVERS 12 MLES German Machine, Weighing 660 Pounds, Reaches 82- Foot Altitude. By the Associated Press. FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN, Germany, Octeber 1.—Fritz von Opel yesterday | made the world's first flight in a rocket- propelled plane, successfully covering & distance of 1.2 miles at an altitude of | 82 feet. | Von Opel's machine made its land- ing as well as its take-off by means of rockets, some of which acted as brakes and broyght him safely to the ground. ' The airman suffered a minor accident | before his successful flight. The hair | on the back of his head was burnt off in two failures to rise. ‘The rocket machine is called the Sander Rak One, being named after its constructor, the engineer Friedriech ‘Wilhelm Sander of Wesermuende. It weighs about 550 pounds, ylu weight of 110 pounds in rockets. It has s wing spread of 40 feet. Von Opel's first two failures yester- day were attributed to the failure of the batteries to ignite the rockets. As a result of Von Opel's successful flight it is asserted that catapult con- trivances like those on the new North German Lloyd liner Bremen soon will be outclassed by a much lighter rocket apparatus. Von Opel made his tests today with powder rockets, but expects to adopt & new liquid fuel invented by Sander. BRANCH BANKING TOPL AT PARLEY Heads of Financial Institu- tions Discuss Problem at National Convention. By the Associated Press. 8AN FRANCISCO, October 1.—The branch banking problem and the ques- tion of seeking Federal legislation which would permit national banks to operate in wider flelds appeared to be the y cipal issues before the convention of the American Bankers’ Association here today as delegates settled down for the initial session of the main y. Both problems were discussed at | group meetings yesterday. The plllht“ of the national banks in the new era of mergers was set forth by George H. Hamilton of Wichita, Kans,, in ai | dress before the national bank division | of the association, which afterward adopted a resolution asking Congress to modify Federal laws to permit na- tional banks to merge under more fa- vorable conditions. Hamilton Outlines Position. Hamilton declared that because banks operating under Federal regulations were unable to merge as advantageously as tl under State charters, the; were surrendering their national char- ters in large numbers, thus tending to undermine the Federal Reserve system. He recommended legislation that would definitely allow national banks to a quire trust company business in con- solidations. Edgar H. Sensenich of Portland, Oreg., president of the national bank division. recommended that national supervision of all banks, possibly through the Federal Reserve system, be con- sidered. ‘The pesition of the Federal Govern- ment on this question is expected to be disclosed tomerrow in an address by J. W. Pole, controller of the currency. Committee to Study Question. President-elect John W. Barton of the national bank division of the asso- ciation annqupced a committee of lead- ing bankers would be appointed to study the immediate problems of the national banking system. “Because we are going through rapid changes,” he said, “the division Te- luctant to adopt at this time any pr gram to deal with present problems, fearing that in a very short time it would not fit the situation.” “I would not like to have you feel that the national banking system of this country is decaying. cannot_be- lieve that the foundation of the Fed- eral Reserve system, recognized as the greatest reserve system the world has ever known. is due to decay.” RETIRED OFFICER DIES. Capt. H. C. C. | cumbs at Port Hammond, N. Y. i Capt. Herman C. C. Zimmerm: United States Army, retired, died Port Richmond, N. Y., last Saturda: acecording te War Department advis He enlisted in the Army at the outbreak of the World War and was commis- | a captain in the Quartermaster | Corps Reserve in April, 1917, and as & captain in the Quartermaster Oorps, Regular Army, in July, 1920. On ac- count of disability incurred in the line ; of duty he was transferred to the re- tired list in October, 1928, since which time he made his home on Staten Island. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Ellen M. Zimmerman. JOSEPH CHISWELL DEAD. | 1 Special Agent for Insurance Com-i pany Expires.at Age of 70, Joseph N. Chiswell, 70 old, ape- cial ‘n@ of the People' Wmur:i”u Co., died at him home, 1356 Kenyon strest, yesterday after a short iliness. Puneral services will be conducted at the residence Thurmi morning af 11 a'clock. Interment be at Frederick, d. Mr. Chiswell is survived by his widew, ! Mrs. Pannie 8, Chiswell; two brothers, William Chiswell of this city and Frank W. Chiswell of Californis, and three g Allnut of Dawson- Mrs. Maurice Dade of Jeffer- son, Md., and . Alice Trundle of North Cumberland, Pa. Kreisler Must Practice. NEW YORK, October 1 (#).--When Mr, . Fyits Kreisler are at sea u:: l‘a.ie :-”m’gubby to his statereom every day alone to Zimmerman Suc- s The plane, which was invented by Fritz von Opel, heir to the great Opel automobile works, is shown above getting under way. the controls of the machine. Lower: The inventor at VON OPEL DESCRIBES THRILLS OF FLIGHT IN ROCKET PLANE Great Speed Leads German to Predict Trip Around the World in Five Hours With Gasses as Motive Power. The first flight of an airplane propelled by rockets was achieved yesterday by Fritz von Opel at_Frankfort, Germany. In the air for a thrilling minute and a quarter, Van Opel covered a distance of about @ mile and a quarter at an average altitude of 49 feet. The machine was wrecked at landing, when strong rear winds pre- vented the pilot from attaining sufficient height to insure a safe glide to earth. Von Opel escaped unhurt. Following is the aviator’s own story of his emotions and the thrills of his flight. BY FRITZ VON OPEL. Special Cable to The Star and the New York Times. FRANFORT, Germany, October 1—My first rocket flight! You want to hear samething about my impressions and emotions 10 minutes after my flight, when 1 myself can scarcely grasp my joy! That other rocket trip of mine with a motor car at Avus was critical, too, ' but then at any rate I had four wheels beneath me and I was not suspended between heaven and earth. For the flight I have trained for a year, determined to solve the problem of how to shoot an airplane aloft witheut carriage or motor, but from rails, and how to drive this plane for- ward with rockets. All this now sounds simple, but prior to the year of actual training another year l;:“bdpused in atudies and tests with els. But now the technical side is uninteresting. Now I suppose it is my emotions that count—what this })oor mortal thought, say, 10 seconds before he was shot into the air. Carefully Inspects Wires. T do not possess wore courage than any one else. 1 always have an un- easy feeling when I steer a strange car_or boat. But gradually I gain confidence as my instinct follows my careful preparations and informs me everything is going well. For an hour before this morning’s start I inspected the course and per- sonally went over every detail of the plane—cables, gears, fittings and rockets. I touched every single rocket and wire. ‘That was the most impor- tant of all. Two opposing ignition wires touching would spell “finish.” At last I give orders to place the machine on the starting course, I climb to the narrow seat and am fastened to it. I start the instruments, send the mechamicians back and set the main gears. Now I have got the eurrent in the wires and am ready to start. Sander runs to me and shakes hands once more. We have always co- operated go welll I can see he is worried about me. All will go well, I tell him—that is the great idea for which we have worked. Visibility Is Poor. Now my heart is beating after all. The visibility is not good. Clouds hang low over the valley. I must start right into that mist. I hesitate for a mo- ment. Finally I draw a deep breath and then ignite. Tremendous pressure! I feel the machine racing forward. It tries to rear like a horse. I feel amidst the hissing of the charge that the wings may break under the immense ressure. " A short stroke and the machine jumps clear into the air, The suffocating pressure eases and I-can breathe again. I am the master once more. I ignite and force the machine sharply upward. It mounts as if driven by a giant force. At the great speed I can hear only an even roar. The landscape races beneath me. It l? mlr\éehua to flyhlllkhe f.l’ll.s,p ed.r’lr':': entirely by fire gases which esca he m{u.!es at a speed of 8,000 kilo- meters (about 5000 miles) an hour. When we are able to make full use of this gas we shall be able to fly around the world in under five hours. I know that time will come, and 1 see, #s in 8 vision, the world traffic of the future which will amalgamate all the peoples of the globe into one. _Plane Seems to Fly Itself. Thus I race into space as in a dream, without any feeling for s or time. The machine practically s itself. I scar¢ely need to touch the wheel. I only feel the less intoxicating joy of ml.kh'l{.l t sych as man has never made before. Suddenly—corresponding to a second (4 Canada to Train ! l l i with the time marked on my watch— every noise ceases. rocket has expired. Visions cease; act- uality calls. I must return to earth. I press the machine to a steep elld‘lfl flight. Never before did pastures meadows appear to me so earthly. 1 look for a landing place. I surmount s Tow of trees, using a reserve rocket, and come in a side-slip to 150 feet off the ground, and tough ground. Gliding with terrible bumps along the ground, the plane comes to a halt. How curious is this feeling of sundms still, quite still, immovable! Numb. crouch down into the seat and feel like crying. Is it the elementary joy of still being alive, the joy of success or regret that everything is over? ‘Then some people come, run around the machine. “Where is the motor?” they 3 When I told them I had flown with rockets they refused to believe I was not joking. (Copyright, 1939. New York 08, M Rerveas Tmes &4 “Drunks” Get Hit by Cars. NEW YORK, October 1 (#).—Dr. Charles Norris, the city's chief medical examiner, estimates that at least ane- quarter of the adult pedestrians injured in autemobile’aceidents are intoxioal at the time. 3,000 Single Men For Farm Work Action Is Taken Because of Disappointing Harvest Condition This Year, By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 1.—Three thou- sand single men between 19 and 35 years of age will be trained the comini Winter for farm work in Canada. They will include both unemployed and em- ployed men, whereas previous schemes have applied only to unemployed. ‘The Canadian government is ready to provide employment for this number. ‘The duration of training will not be less thap 12 weeks, and 1,000 men can be taken this coming month. ““The harvest conditions in parts of Canada were disappointing this year,” the overseas settlement department stated last night, “but it is not the case, as has been widely stated, that any con- siderable portion of men went to this part of the country and found them- selves out of employment. The Cana. 's harvest 3 taken the respensibility of finding suit- able farm employment for the 30,000 now indicated. Besides receiving free training, the candigate each will be given $1 a week pockét money and one leaving the cen- ter vlmuraeeelvekabo;ng:h ts for e‘.;h completed week o together wl?l?{ree rail and ocean pn:slges, Wall Board New 1st Qualit Per square fon{. - 3c . Also Insulating Board and Fireproof Rockbeard. Let Us Estimate on Your List of Building Materials 3 BRANCHES 3 Sixth nnd”‘é.gl‘r':-u S w i Comp Moigs Fifth and Florida Ave. N B Brigitwacd 5921 Georgis Avenue N, W. ‘The force of the | IN WRECK 5 TOLD Danish . Tanker Shoaled in Piscid Reet todsy. Hurricane Is Total Loss, Says Survivor. By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI, Fla., October 1.—How the engine Toom crew of the stricken Dan- ish tanker Scandia went below with the ship rapidly fllling and worked walst-deep in water to generate power for the tanker's radio was told nfl.y by First Engineer Qtto Koppel, one of the survivors, brought here by a reseue boat after the ip had broken in three pieces on Placid Reef, 40 miles southeast of Miami, during the hur- ricane Saturday night. Koppel was {h. only one of 28 sur- vivors landed at Miami by the Coast Guard rescue boat Forward who could speak English—and Ottos linguistic efforts were mostly achieved by elo- quent hands and shrugging shoulders. Kaplrl told of a trying Saturday and Saturday night, when the Scandis fought a game hut losing battle with the hurrieane. Heavy With OiL Riding deeply, because of her cargo of 3,500,000 gallons of fuel oil, from Bay- ton, Tex, far Denmark, the tanker drove on into the teeth of the hurri- cane through Saturday. By night the wind had increased to such an ex- tent that the ship could make no headway, and & few hours later, with her engines going full ahead, she was being driven back .into the dangerous reef-strewn shoal water east of the Florida Keys. The inevitable happened at midnight Saturday. The stern of the Scandia hit the reef with great force, then a mountainous wave caught the ship ard hurled her high and fast upon the submerged coral. Koppel said the sec- ond crash broke the tanker in three pleces, but she hung together somehow. Fives Extinguished. Water rushing into the engine room extinguished the fires and lights went out, but Koppel said the crew behaved splendidly, although even officers saw | little he for saving any man aboard. ‘The engine room crew, which had come up on deck as the hold filled with water, was ordered back and the men re- sponded without protest. Quickly fires were started and power to operate the ship's radio was available. ‘The Scandia then began broadcasting distress signals. Koppel said seven decks without answer. The engineer smiled grimly s he spoke of the horrors of that night on the storm-tossed reef. He pointed to three boys, barely 14 years old, who were among the sur- vivors. “It was their first voyage. They are mess boys from Denmark,” Koppel ex- plained. Taking It as Lark. The lads were smiling, talking inces- santly amon| to take it all as a lark. ul“l:d murat::m meh;lpundhfi 1.")?.'3 operatar repor e ship's signal been heard and answered by a land sta- tion. The hulk was still together, Koppel said, and erew were cheered at the prospect of rescue. Early Sunday morning, with the seas have to just how feel about ing able duplicate |IMPROVEMENT IN ILLNESS rockets were sent up from the lurching | themselves, and appeared | when you something that’s really hardtodo... and then you are successful you feel real satisfied ... and that’s marvelous values that made $28.50a talked-of sale price for a long time last “ Fall... we might even venture to say that with blue serge & worsteds it’s even greater. diminishing, Coast Guard cut 1 Saukee mfi:ufl steaming e the stricken cer, and & cheer up. The Saukee took off five men and soon afterward came the Coast Guard trol boat seven from Junon' ville, due to ive al According to Boatswain Seandla struck the reef with . the whils Tl Shead 18 Bt in'1a foertor -.&?."&. ship drawing is deomed, and it is part of her can be sal- vaged, Koppel said. POST OFIGE SEEKS AR AL SAVING Efforts Made to Bring Plane Service Out of “Subsidy” Class by Cutting Rates. The Scandia doubtful if any Conferences looking to cuts of ap- proximately $3,000,000 in rates now paid to air mail operators, to bring the air mail service out of the “subsidy” class, are being held behind closed doors at the Post Office Department, Post- master General Walter Folger Brown attending. ‘The conferences are & part of the recent efforts of the Postmaster General to reduce, if possible, the annual deficit in_the Post Office Department. ‘The conferences with the air mail contractors are being held for the an- nounced purpose of eliminating the dis- parity between the amount earned and expended by the Government for air mail and also to eliminate the dif- ferences in pay to the different e ats “mall s operatin 1 air m: 0 g on & scale which, at the end of the year, uw:x- pected to bring a deficit of approxi- mately $2,700,000. For some time the Post Office De- partment has been conducting a com- prehensive audit of its affairs in an effort to determine just where the annual deficit could be most efficiently | attacked. MRS. VANDERBILT SHOWS Wife of Cornelius in Hospital Un- der Treatment for Attack of Tntestinal Grippe. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 1.—Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., ill with intes- tinal grip at the Graduate Hospital, was by her physicians last night as slightly better. They de- scribed her condition as serious, but sald there was no cause for undue alarm. The physicians told Mr. Vanderbilt it would be unnecessary at this time to call her parents to Philadeiphia. Mrs. Vanderbilt, who was Mrs. Mary Weir Logan before her marriage July 3, 1928, was taken ill Saturday night on | bank: her_return to this city from Newport, SOL HERZOG, Inc. Originators of the Budget Buying Plan in W, hingten, D. C. do we be- to the MEN FLASHES SO Tug Towinq 0il Barge to Tampa Reports Immediate Need of Assistance. By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI, signals from the tug Bafshe, with 22 men aboard, towing the oil ‘Tio- Vel Dicked up_by ‘the Tropieal el u) T station here . % i Immediate assistance is required, the tug's io operator sald. The ition was given as 50 miles west of ar Key, north of Tampa. ‘The call for help was the first mes- sage received from the Bafshe since g:t;rfl:sy n&arEnln‘, ';hen it was reported o ont Key, in Tampa thn‘;num.x i sodiNeridue The 165-foot Coast Guard boat Tal- lapoosa, which had been tied up at Key West during the storm, was reported thruogh Tropical radio to be going to the Bafshe's aid. The Tallapoosa was expected to reach the tug umyluht tomerrow. ONE SHIP IN DANGER. Italian Steamer Only Vessel Still Be- lieved in Jeopardy. By the Assoclated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., October 1.— Only one of the several ships affected by the West Indian hurricane remained in distress last night after a day in which one steamer previously unreport- ed arrived safely in port and part of the rcew of another was rescued. The ship still believed in trouble was the Italian steamer Salina, said to be “off Manzanilla Reef.” It began send- ing out 8 O 8 calls late Saturday night. | ‘The Isle of June, motor freight car- rier, which cleared Miami a week ago for Nassau, arrived safely at the Ba- amas capital today, having been de- layed by losing a rudder on the night following its sailing. The eraft with eight men and a cargo of lumber weath- ered the high winds without da: e. News came from Nassau that the British tanker Potomac had foundered off Andros Island Thursday, but her entire crew was saved, although the ship was broken in two. At least one tug was proceeding to Abaco Island, Bahamas, to take off u'u'eel x::;m!;;r.s of hu:‘ crew of 30 who remained aboard ti unded British freighter Domira, ks A message was received at Key West of the sighting of unidentified ship's wreckage near the Bahamas. THIRD TRIAL DEADLOCKED Jury Fails to Agree on Charge Against Factory President. 8T. LOUIS, October 1 (#).—The third trial of Forrest Ferguson, former pres- ident of the defunct Ferguson-McKin- ney Manufacturing Co., on chas of using the mails to defraud, ended late today with disoharge of a deadlocked jury after 12 hours’ deliberation. Two Previous juries also disagreed. ‘The charge was based on padding of financial statements on which the company _ obtained ,350.000 from s. The company's collapse nearly four years ago was the biggest failure in the city's history. Fla,, October 1.—Distress | COMMUNITY CHEST FUNDS 0F U. S. UP Increase of Almost $5,000,- 000 Shown This Year Over 1928 Contributions. Demonstrating s steady advance in public support of & business-like method of adminBtering we'fare activities, Community Chests throughout the country ral a total of $71,978,593 for the fiseal year 1929, an increase of almost $5,000,000 over the total amount raised for charitable and philanthropic work during the preceding year, ac- cording to & report made public today by Frederick A. Delano, president of the Washington Community Chest. The report was received from J. Her- bert Case, deputy governor of the Fed- eral Reserve Bank of New York and president of the Association of Com- munity Chests and Councils and in- cludes the reports of the campaigns held from September 1, 1928, to Sep- tember 1, 1929. Totals from 330 citles and towns operating under the Com- munity Chest are included. Practically all the major cities which have the Chest method of financing showed & decided increase in the amounts raised in 1929 over those of 1928, according to a ¥able submitted by Mr. Case. In this connection, Elwood Street, director of the Community Chest of Washington, calls attention to the in- creased number of orgizations that will be in the Chest this year, with a consequent increase in the amount of money required for the 1930 campaign, which is now being organized. “We feel sure,” Mr. Street says, “that Washington will rise to the_occasion and that our 1930 campaign, Washing- ton's second, will be as successful as the first, and that the name of Washington will be added to the list of cities show- ing a substantial increase for the 1930 campaign over that of 1929.” HAS ONLY THREE PUPILS. Scotch School for Shepherds’ Chil- dren Claims to Be World’s Smallest. With a register of three pupils, but with often only one present. Loch Doon school, Ayrshire, Scotland, claims to be the smallest in the world, writes a Lon- don Sunday Chronicle correspondent. The school is at the head of Loch Doon, on the Ayreshire moors, and is main- tained for the children of shepherds who may be employed in the area. ‘Two of the pupils are members of the same family, and are brought across the loch each morning by their father. When the loch is too rough for the small boat they stay at home, and the teacher has only one pupll for the day. ‘The school is 16 feet by 8. and has ac- commodations for 16 pupils. There is one teacher, and he has to teach three different classes, each of the three puplls being of different ages. Air Record Claimed. ‘WICHITA, Kans., October 1 (P).— Steve Lacey late yesterday piloted a four-place Cessna monoplane, with a gross load of 3.350 pounds, to an alti- tude of 18,100 feet for what is believed to be a record for ships with such weight. The first 10,000 feet were gained in 20 minutes. Repeating Last - Year’s Outstanding Fall & Winter Event! A Special Purchase of 327 New 2-PANTS UITS —think ef it! We were even able to secure 3l sizes in fast-coler blue serges and hard-finished wersteds for this year's sale! Every single garment is from our regular makers, measurin, up to all of the specifications that we insist on befere the SO HERZOG label gets sewed on . . . they're a wanderful let of suits in single and double breasted models—in all types fer the snappy young man, his elder brother in business or his mare conservas Worth $50, $45 & $40 528 aranteed e father. All Sizesin Many Styles—No Alteration Charge SorL HERZ20G 1| F Street at 9tk