Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1930, Page 4

GLADYS DDOMNELL LEADS AR DERBY Six Contestants to. Fly Sec-j ond Leg Today From San | % Diego to Phoenix. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif, August 18— ‘With Glady's O'Donnell, Long Beach, Calif, in the lead, six contestants in the Long Bench-Chicago women's air derby waited the starter’s gun today to take off on the second leg of the erose-country race, & 300-mile jaunt to Phoenix, Ariz. A stop en route Wl be made at Calexico, Calil. Mrs. O'Donnell, mother of there childrén, covered the 100-mile Long Beach-San Dicgo hop yesterday in a fraction under 3¢ minutes to nose out Marjorie Doig of Danbury, Conn. The standing of the contestants in elapsed time was unofficially compiled a4 follows: TRSen W Gladys O'Donnel], Long Beac 813 i , Danbury, Conn, 35 o rron Holtywood, Callf, 47:07; Mildred Morgan, Beverley Hills, Calif,, 51:20; Ruth Stéwart, St. Louls, 58:09, and Jean la Rene, Kansas City, 58:16 20,000 Witness Start. Approximately 20,000 persons packed Long Beach Municipal Afrport grounds to watch the fivers leave. The report of a gun fired in Chicago and trans- itted over telephone lines sent the contestants on their 2.365-mile flight Miss la Rene had difficulty starting her plane’s motor and lost eight min- utes at the start. She said her plane had not been serviced with gasoline, Prizes offered in the race total $22,« 000, including lap prizes. ‘The con- testants are fiying ph:;; pto‘:;ize?“: ;‘;h s¢ than s e d all the fiyers have hours of flying time. , Tex.; {‘flow, and Madison, Wis. The finish at | Ohicago will be staged as & part of he Netional Alr Rates from August 33 30. w'rne feld of starters was smaller than hoped for by race officials. Helen Cox of Valley Stream, N. ¥Y.; Jéan Shankle, Fort sill, Okia, and Mary Bacon, Brookline, Mass. re- d en route, falled to arrive In e for the race. MANY FOREIGNERS ENTERED. $100,000 in Prizes Offered in ‘Various Races in Chicago Event. CHICAGO, _August 18 () —The olympiad of the alr brings the wings of the Nation to Chicago this week. The tenth annual National Air Races open Saturday at the Curtiss Glenview Afrport, drawing together the top-hole fiyers of America and Invaders from England, France, Italy and Germany. nly two men, John Livingston, Aurora, TlI, and W. G. Moore, Kansas City, are entered in the Southern Derby to start from Brownsville, Tex, tomor- row. The finish is scheduled for Satur- day and the prize money is $4,000. Two Atlantic Derbles. Two more are entered in the men's Atlantic Derby for 200-horsepower pianes to start from Miami, Fla, Wednesday. The two, racing for $3.500 winnings, are Arthur J. Davis, East Lansing, Mich., and Arthur W. Killips, La Grange, Ill. The finish is set for Baturday. The men's Atlantic Derby for 100- horsepower planes will start from Hart- ford, Conn., August 21, finishing August 24. The entrants in the $2,500 com- tition are: Charles E. Meyers, Cleve- and; Verne Roberts, Moline, IiL; J. Wesley Smith, Philadelphia; Henry Little, jr., Philadelphia; Leslie Bowman, Hempstead, N. Y., and Eddie Schneider, Jersey City. No approved entries had been received today for the men’s 87,000 Pacific Derby, set for a start in Seattle, Wash, August 21. The women's Dixie Derby, to start from Washington Friday, ending August 26, has drawn 8ix entrants: Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie, Memphis; Vera Dawn ‘Walker, Los Angeles; Laura Ingalls, St. Louis; Martie Bowman, Hempstead, N. Y.; Nancy Hopkins, Garden City, N. Y. and M ; Halzlip, Kansas City. ‘The winnings are $4,000, Five in Non-Stop Race. Lee Schoenhair, Akron, Ohio,; Wiley Post, Oklahoma City; William 8. Brock, Detroit; coe Turner, Los Angeles, and another whose application is awaited, are entered in the $12,000 non- stop race from Los Angeles, scheduled to start August 27, ending the same day at Glenview. The prize money for the races ex- ceeds $100,000 and chief among the speed events is the Thompson Trophy race, open to all types of ships. A number of “mystery” ships have THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, Upper: A group of foreign fiyers, assembled by Lieut. Alford Williams, for- mer Navy fiyer, as they arrived in New York City on their way to Chicago to compete in the international air races. Left to right: Marcel Doret of France, Frits Lohse of Gérmany, Lieut. Williams, Pietro Colombo of Italy, Flying Officer R. L. R. Atcherly and Lieut, H, L. the last two from England. Lower, left 1o right: Jean Le René of Chicago, 8 demonstration pilot, and Mrs. Mildred Morgan, mother of three children, who are flying in the Women's Air Derby from Long Beach, Calif., to Chicago. —A. P. Photos. PARISIAN EXPEDITION MUST LEAVE GREENLAND Danes Decree Ousting of Scientists Who Landed Despite Gov- ernment’s Prohibition. By the Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, August 18.—The scientific expedition financed by Le Journal of Parls must leave Scoresby Sound, Greenland, the Danish govern- ment decided yesterday. The expedition, headed by Dr. Downbroya, landed on the sound despite the government’s prohibition, and orders have been forwarded to the authorities there to oust the explorérs, The go ernment objects to the expedition’s presence, it was said, because on previous visits to Angmasalik and East Greenland, Dr. Downbroya failed to comply with conditions laid down by the * | authorities. The expedition left Bergeg in July in the Norwegian whaler Crane. The inspection_ship, Godthaab, will be in Scoresby Sound presently to enforce the government's orders. Farmer Shot to Death. MOUNT AIRY, N. C., August 18 (). —Spencer B. Simpson, 22-year-old farmer, was shot to death yesterday at the store of Jess Moser, whom police ordered held in the Surry County Jail without bond. The shooting is said to have followed an argument between the two over the charge of purchases made at the store. P plevEo e already been entered in the Thompson tace, regarded by aviation manufac- turers as a laboratory for new designs. The Army, Navy and Marine Corps will be represented along with the éit- izenry. European nations have entered some of their best fiyers, including Marcel Doret of France, Marshal Pietro Colombo of Italy, Capt. Frederick Lohse of Germany, and Lieuts. R. R, 1 R. Atcherly and George R. Armour 0f England. X MISS AMERICA IS READY FOR SPEEDBOAT RACES Gar Wood Drives New Oraft at Speed Above Ninety Miles an Hour. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, August 18.—Gar Wood, who will defend ihe Harmsworth speed boat trophy against the aspirations of Miss Marian (Betty) Oarstairs of Eng- land on August 30 to September 1, drove his Miss America IX at a speed above 90 miles an hour at Algonac yes- terday. Returning to Detroit late last night the American sportsman expressed him- | self as pleased with the performance of the craft. He did not know the ex- act speed attained as no timer . was He planned to make further tests today. The Miss America IX is similar in design and in power plant—it has two | 12-cylinder motors—to the Miss Amer- ica VIII, her companion boat. The lat- ter has attained 93 miles an hour, and Wood belleves that the new boat will go faster. “We are not trying anything phe- nomenal,” he said, “but we felt that we needed another boat to make cer- tain we would not be caught fiat-footed by the English.” Russ Celebrate in Camp. Citizens of Russia were put through a strenuous drill and military maneu- vers at the training camp held at Mos- cow this year to celebrate the anniver- sary of the Communist revolution. En- trance to the camp was marked by a huge officer’s cap ato) ed_pole. 3020 Dent Pl. N.W. Just North of 30th & Q Streets 3 Rooms, Kitchen Bath and Porch, $40 Food Price News A&P stores will keep you posted There is no lack of good food for everyone these days, and— if you know where to look for it—it is cheaper than at any time since the Great War put prices up. Try any A & P store. You will find what you want at the latest low prices. keeps nothing long at old prices. at new prices. A & P has so many customers that it Fverything it offers is new In other words, as fast as producers lower their prices to A &P, A & P lowers its prices to consumers, content always with its small margin of profit—274 cents in the dollar. 8o even if for any reason you do not buy at A & P stores, use them to keep you posted on good food prices. There you will get the latest reliable news of what you should pay. «m ATLANTIC & PACIFIC = 1930, The Great Atlantls & Pa ifle NEW JURY LIKELY FOR EWALD CASE District Attorney Denies Mat- ter Will Be Dropped if Present Group Fails. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 18.—Charges that 812,000 was paid to influence the appointment of George F. Ewald as & city magistrate will be given to & new county grand jury if the one now in session persists in its failure to return indictments, District Attorney Orain announced today. Denying that the matter would be dropped because the present jury de- clined last week to indict anybody, Crain indicated that the grand jury now in session might still take action. If it does not, he said, he would ask the court for the right to submit to another grand jury evidence against Ewald himself, who resigned as magi- strate after indictment for mail frauds in mining stock sale against 8. Bertha Ewald, his wife, who loaned $10,000 without interest to Martin J. Healy, Tammany district leader, and | against Healy and Thomas T. Tom- maney, through whose hands the loan passed. ‘The money was loaned at about the time of Ewal appointment to the bench in 1927, but Mayor Walker has asserted that if anybody paid any money in_the hope of influencing him to name Ewald, “the money might a8 well have been thrown in a sewer for all the good it did.” iGov. Roosevelt has asked for the records in the Ewald case. They were sent %0 him by Crain today. D.C. 1S INVOLVED N $42.500 SUIT & Difficulties in Finding Home| for House of Detention Are Revived. ‘The difficulties experienced by the District authorities in 1928 in finding a suitable home for the House of De- tention and Woman's Bureau were re- vived today with the flling of a suit for $42,500 against the District of Co- lumbia by Bion B. Libby, as trustee in bankruptcy of Samuel J. Solomon. 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