Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1930, Page 26

== WALLACE BEERY'S PLANE KILLS THREE Screen Villain Not in Ship| as Pilot, Wife and ! Friend Fall. By the Associated Pmess. LOS ANGELES, March 25.—Wallate | Berry’s cabin biplane, in which the film | villain expected soon to fly to Mexico | Oity, today lay in ruins in a dry wash near Alhambra, Calif., where it crashed | yesterday, bringing death to two men and a woman. Beery was not aboard | the ship. George Maves, 23, Beery's personal | ilot, his wife, Cynthia Maves, and| yon H. Hayes, 26, transport pilot and | friend of Maves, were killed when the | plane crashed andburstinto flames after going into a tail spin at 500 feet alti- i tude. It struck only a short distance | from Valley Boulevard, one of the main | highways south from Los Angeles. | Scores of motorists rushed immediately to the scene, but were unable to aid the passengers trapped behind a wall | of flames. | Beery, could give no Teason for the erash. He said he had flown the ship | five hours Sunday, and that it was per- forming perfectly at that time. Maves, who came hele from his home in Evanston, I, had been fiying for about five years and was considered a | careful pilot. | hives. THE EVENING STORY One of World-Famous Works of Literature The Bee Hunt. (Washington Irving. 1783 American e: author of "The Sketch “Rip Van Winkle. Traveler,” The beautiful forest in which we were encamped abounded in bee trees—that is to say, trees in the decayed trunks of which wild bees had established their It is surprising in what count- less swarms the bees hav: overspread the Far West within but a moderate number of years. The Indians con- sider them the harbinger of the white man, as the buffalo is of the red man, and say that in proportion as the bee advances the Indian and buffalo retire. We are always accustomed to asso- | ciate the hum of the beehive with the farmhouse and flower garden and to consider those industrious little animals as connected with the busy haunts of man, and I am told that the wild bee | is seldom to be met with any great dis- tance from the frontier. They have been the heralds of civilization, stead- fastly preceding it as it advanced from the Atlantic borders, and some of the ancient settlers of the West pretend to give the very year when the honey bee first crossed the Mississippl. The Indians with surprise found the mol- dering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweets, and nothing, I am told, can exceed the greedy relish with which they banquet for the first time upon this bought luxury of the wilderness. At present the honey bee swarms in myriads in the .noble groves and for- Bl o717, P i R VING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH ests which skirt and intersect the prairies and_extend along the alluvial bottoms of the rivers. It seems to me as if these beautiful regions answer literally to the description of the land of promise, “a land Kowmg -with milk and honey,” for the rich pasturage of the prairies is calculated to sustain herds of cattle as countless as the sands upon the seashore, while the flowers with which. they are enameled render them a very paradise for the nectar- seeking bee. We had not been long in the camp when a party set out in quest of a | bee tree, and, being curious to witness the sport, I gladly accepted an invita- tion to accompany them. The party was headed by a veteran bee hunter, a tall, lank fellow in homespun garb that hung loosely about his limbs and a straw hat shaped not unlike a beehive; a comrade equally uncouth in garb, and without a hat, straddled along at his heels, with a long rifle on his shoul- der. To these succeeded half a dozen others, some with axes and some with rifles, for no one stirs far from the camp without his firearms, so as to be ready for wild deer or wild Indian. After proceeding some distance we came to an open glade on the skirts of the forest. Here our leader halted and then advanced quietly to a low bush, on the top of which I perceived a piece of honeycomb. This, I found, was the bait or lure for the wild bees. Several were humming about it and diving into its cells. hen they had laden themselves with the honey, they would rise into the air and dart off 4 in a straight line, almost with the ve- locity of a bullet. The hunters watched attentively the course they took and then set off in the same direction, stumbling along over twisted roots and fallen trees with their eyes turned up to the sky. In this way they traced the honey- laden bees to their hive in the hollow trunk of a blasted oak, where, after buzzing about for a moment, they en- tered a hole about 60 feet from the ground. ‘Two of the bee hunters now plied their axes vigorously at the foot of the tree to level it to the ground. The mere spectators and amateurs, in the meantime, drew off to a cautious dis- tance, to be out of the way of the falling of the tree and the vengeance of its inmates. The jarring blows of the ax seemed to have no effect in alarming or disturbing this most industrious community. They continued to ply at their usual occu- pations, some arriving full-freighted into port, others sallying forth on new expeditions, like so many merchantmen in a money-making metropolis, little suspicious of impending bankruptcy and downfall. Even a loud crack which an- nounced the disrupture of the trunk failed to divert their attention from the intense pursuit of gain. At length, down came the tree with a tremendous crash, bursting open from end to end, and displaying all the hoarded treasures of the commonwealth. One of the hunters immediately ran up with a wisp of lighted hay as defense against the bees. The latter, however, made no attack and sought no ; they seemed stupefied by the catastrophe and unsuspicous of its cause and remained crawling and buzzing about the ruins without offer- ing us any molestation. Every one of the party now fell to/ with spoon and hunting knife, to scoo] out the flakes of honeycomb with whicl the hollow trunk was stored. Some of them were of old date and a deep- revengs ASSIFIED DV ERITISING in THE STAR produces results Every letter in this rack is a reply to some Classified Aduvertisement. Thousands of letters are received and distributed in the course of a year from what might be called a miniature *‘post office.” THE STAR maintains this service at no additional charge for advertisers who prefer the mails to personal contact. T"HE GREAT NEWSPAPER brown color; others were beautifully white, and the honey in their cells was almost limpid. Such of the combs as were entire were placed in camp ket- tles, to be conveyed to the encamp- ment; those which had been shivered in the fall were devoured upon the spot. Every. stark bee hunter was to be seen with a rich morsel in his hand, dripping about his fingers and disap- | tree. pearing as rapidly as a cream tart I;eofor: the holiday appetite of a school- Y- Nor was it the bee hunters alone that profited by the downfall of this industrious community. As if the bees would carry through the similitude of their habits with those of labo: and gainful man, I beheld numbers from rival hives arriving on eager wing, to enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbors. These busied them- selves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has driven on shore—plunging into the cells of the broken honeycombs, ban- queting greedily on the spoil, and then winging their way full-freighted to their homes. As to the poor proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart to do anything, not even to taste the nectar that flowed around them, but crawled backward and forward, in vacant desolation, as I have seen a poor fellow with his hands in his pockets, whistling vacantly and despondingly about the ruins of his house that had been burnt. It is difficult to describe the bewilder- ment and confusion of the bees of the bankrupt hive who had been absent at the time of the catastrophe, and who arrived from time to time with full cargoes from abroad. At first they wheeled about in the air, in the place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all a vacuum. At length, as if compre- hending their disaster, they settled down in clusters on a dry branch of CPUBLIC preference for THE STAR as the medium for Classified Advertising is evidenced by the fact that THE STAR publishes more desirable classified adver- tising than all the other Washington papers combined. Additional evidence is illustrated above, where every day this picture is duplicated. The photograph shows the public at the Business Counter, where advertisements are being placed in THE STAR and replies are being re- ceived—where the public prefers to transact business in ad- dition to THE STAR’S telephone service and 70 con- veniently located Classified Branch Agencies throughout the city. ’ he Star. Every E: OF THE vening and Sunday Morning NATION’S CA4PITAL 25, 1930. a neighboring tree, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin and to buzs forth doleful lamentations over the downfall of their republic. It was a scene on which the “malancholy gfiquu" might have moralized by the T, ‘We now abandoned the place, leav- ing much honey in the hollow of the “It will all be cleared off by var- mint,” said one of the rangers. ‘What vermin?” asked I. “Oh, bears, and skunks, and rac- coons, and ’possums. The bears is the knowingest varmint for finding out a bee tree in the world. 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