Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1930, Page 2

ANDREE'S DIARIES Experts Sworn to Silence and Books Will Be Given Swed- ish Government. By the Associated Press TROMSOE, Norway, September 4.— Examination of the bodies of Salomon August Andree and Nils Strindberg re- sumed this morning by the Bwedish experts, Prof, Hedren and Prof. Lith- | berg, produced a variety of small ob- Jects belongings to the two men, but threw little additional light on the fate ©f the expedition. In Andree’s pocket was discovered a box of matches, besides some trinkets identified as having belonged to Strind- berg, who apparently died before An- dree and was buried by him on White | Island. Strindberg’s belongings were recognized by his brother, a Stock- holm sculpter. The preserved body of a very rare arctic bird, nautical tables and charts, all belonging to Andree, were found among the objects in the boat. Clearing up the mystery of the ex- pedition’s wanderings now depends wholly on the text, as yet undivulged, of the Andree diaries and note books, rticularly those found on Andree’s Body yesterdsy. Diaries Not Examined. ‘The diaries are be kept carefully locked. and it is sta that even the perts have not yet examined tkem oroughly. Mr. Hoel, the Norwegian jentist, said that statements about zr;\ were based on rumor and guess k. Prof. Lithberg stated that all mem- rs of the examining commission had rn silence on their contents, and at nobody else had been permitted get near the hooks. The doors of e room where they are stored were adlocked and sealed Tuesday night ind the seals were unbroken when &ne commission started to work yes- rday. % In addition to all other finds the iarfes will be turned over (o the edish government, according to Prof. thberg. 2“1 ;‘nuw nothing about Frankel's foi S e i, g al S b nlmtzed in the diary). 1 - hr:o nmm (:r mulylnlmu'n:he umuma. ‘e have been repe Y g:‘:’l( any Mhn‘;‘ymgm r of the jon had seen such a thing Would certainly have told me, Swern to Silence, - “Besides this all the members of the dommission have sworn silence, and m.eln khx“ been permitted to get It was past 11 o'clock when we fin- hed our work Tuesday night and left e hospital. We then locked ene door locks and the other one we led. On returning Wednesday the seals were unbroken. ‘The diaries as well as all other ds will be handed over to the Swed- government. In the ineantime, so s it depends upon me, nobody will to know an | of the contents es. the diaries,’ The commission this morning issued statement on its mmost recent finds. “The continued examination of An- Fs ‘body has not- luced any new to throw it on the te of his expedition. | SECURELY SEALED' OCCUPANTS OF THIS CAR ESC THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, APED WITH SLIGHT INJURIES g R % Despite the fact that this bus practically folded up the automobile in a collision at New Jer-cy avenue and E streets today, the two occupants were only slightly injured. Coste’s Own Story Pilot Lays Stress on Value of Radio, Declaring Indispensable as the Motor in His Westward Ocean Flight. at BY DIEUDONNE COSTE. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, September 4.—It .5 24 hours since Maurice Bellonte and my- self landed at Valley Stream after mak- ing the first continuous flight from a great eity of the Old World to the greatest eity in the New. In those hours we have had time for thought. The thing that impresses me most a5 I look back upon those hazardous hours is the radio. . I followed.very closely.the comment of Maj. Kingsford-Smith, a great aviator, upon his successfully ne- gotiating the westward passage of the Atlantic He lald particular stress upon 1 da the same. 1 should say is just ss indispensable as_the motor itself. 1 say this in spite of the fact that the radio falled us at the latter end of the VO] . Our radio, of 100 watts input, was capable of establishing communica- tioni over distances up to 1,000 kilo- meters on the 600-meter wave length. That is the wave used by ships and all transatlantic liners. Throughout the long hours after we passed over the French coast line north of Rouen until we had made a land fall on the Western Hemughzre, we were in constant touch with ships and at times with French and then American coastal ? “In his pocket, however, were found & number of shells for ll\'m 8 box e. lis his mwnuuuagdfietln . After t, Btrindberg's one pencil. of his Observation Z “It seems to be proved that Andree outlived Strindberg, because some things longing to Strindberg werg found in h«’a kets. These were recog- e Strindberg as belonging “Examination of the boat has begun. The boat h?dmbem wl:;zm mxl with uipment of e . In one :gd of the boat there has been found e e e and a . vn: Y:zr in which Andree had tic “1?5""«';:». was wfi'finfli St unfavorable weather PAPET | tired swimmer who likes %o know render feund in the boat, and the other car- was found beside Andree. Exami- nation of the boat continues.” “(Copyright, 1930, and uil rights reserved apan. Bouth "America and in B3 e asmociated Press * FRANKEL FIRST TO DIE. Slockholm Paper Says He Perished 3 After Balloon Landed. SSTOCKHOLM, Sweden, September 4 ~The news] r Dagens Nyheter 5 y ad learned that Knut nkel, third member of the Andree loon e: ition, died after the bal- bt was brought to earth and while the party was en route back to Hvit- ‘Véen l\vyhlu Island) ts information was said to have been | obtained from the newly discovered diary of Salomon August Andree, that dgcument which Andree wrapped in an olgl jersey and placed beneath his clothes and his back as he lay down to die in late 1897. “The paper said the diary also revealed Ahat the explorers started across the ice taward land after the wreck of their ‘bélloon and were still going on Septem- bér 5. Nils Strindberg, Andree’s scien. tific worker, died after the arrival at l-fifi.vll):n and was buried by Andree = Bources in charge of the diary, which s being examined by experts at Trom- | Others #de, Norway, insist that no information as to its contents has been given out. Only the bodies of Andree and Strind- bérg were recovered by the Horn expedi tion in its visit to Hvitvoen. —_— LAWYER ANSWERS WOMAN’S SUIT FOR BREACH OF PROMISE | (Continued From Pirst Page.) 2; that thereafter, notwithstand- ing her assurances, she introduced to him as her son, a boy of 16 years, and that thereupon the contract was ter- minated. “The plaintiff in her suit charged that th: services of a minister had besn se- cured, and the marriage date settled, when Brown suddenly changed his mind, and would not go through with ceremony. them records of the Marriage License Bureau show that Brown returned the license for cancellation. CORRECTIO! ALEXANDRIA, Va, September 4. tated in_error yesterday that ) l||y N. Burke of 208 Y!lku stations. If one can picture the sensa- tion of being seated in an open cockpit, hour after hour—age after age it seemed to us—with nothing about one. but rain and mist, one may obtsin a hazy pic- | ture of what those Jittle vacuum t colls and plates meant to us. Radio Bridged Gap to Aid. It was as if we were not in midair far from help. We could talk to other per- sons. And, far beyond that, we knew —we were extremely aware of the fact— that in the event of a mishap others would of our plight, others would speed to our aid. Now that it is all over this mll m:dvhl, but I shall never forget the feeling. At only one time did we ask a ship to give us our position. We asked that of i eapped With s Tadlogonimeter. sl 2 s ::whmmc too bulky for a single- niotored plane to carry on such a flight. 1t gave us our bearings. It was not im- at that particular time that we them, but was it comforting? It was, indeed! Our: call was merely the of & that there is some one to assistance In event of need. I do not remember what our position was at the time. Yes, the radio was just as important #s the motor; if it had falled us earlier in the flight it might have been quite unfortunate, but since it did not be- come inoperative until after we had reached the American coast, we had nbt so much to worry mbout. was the coast. We had nothing to do but follow it—which was not so simple. I doubt if any one but an aviator would appreciate this fact—and one who Had covered long distances over unfamiliar territory. We nearly met disaster in a ravine into which we flew unsuspectingly in Nova Scotia. If the radio had been working at that time we could have ascertained the corvect course to New York, but, unfortunately, the fleld exciter on the generator, rating by a propeller in the slip stream, ‘lld developed trouble. Al Instruments Worked Well, But on the whole, all instruments worked splendidly, lnclufllnt the radio —and there are 35 to 40 instruments on the Question Mark. Upon them our lives depended. All this should point to the fact that the success of our flight was not de pendent upon courage, heroism or a thing of the kind. If others who have attempted to fly from Europe to New York have failed, the chances are that it was because of lack of adequate pr!g‘ aration. I cannot stress this too much. e taken off with an excess of courage and a lack of reflection. I admire them all, They have, of course, my highest regard, for, despite failure, l(l of them have contributed something to the era of transatiantic aviation that is to come. But. there is one thing that occurs to me that I can- not stress too much. t 5 the ques- tion of meteorology. If Beilonte and I determined in advance that the route to be followed was an unknown quan- tity, in that we were right. Lost 600 Miles in Dodging. We knew that \:"c‘wo:;‘ld have ‘,:‘,, .x::lnl‘n.e‘_ many difficult and trying mane; our yhlll)e with the weather, and. that w had, indeed, to do. If we had at- ten.pted to fly the direct route we would have been defeated. I have measured the distances, or at least estimated them as best I can, and I eompute that we lost 600 miles in our various side trips to avoid storms or find tail winds. All this went to convince us that there was no route that could be de- termined in advance that would e the best under all circumstances for. a transatlantic crossing. Weather con- ditions determine everything. =~ That is why we went 100 miles to the south just before reaching Nova Scotia. That was a loss of time, but by this trip out of the way we saved ourselves grlnbly ‘:\'-ny hours in that we avoid- opposing winds. ‘This maneuver indicates that future flights, thougk. they be run on a sehed- pglass, aluminum and hard rubber did Rene Racover, who has handled the innumerable details incident to our arrival, tells me that the newspapers this morning printed dispatches from the little island of Ste. Plerre saying that we made our first American land- fall there. "t would have been pleasant to make our first landfall over Prench territory, but it simply is not true. Neither Bel- lonte nor myself. can understand it. We were in communication with a wireless telegraph station on Ste. Pierre, but we did not pass within sight of the island. We did not see it at all, so how could any one there have seen us? We passed far to the south ef it. I am quite certain of this. Now that it is all over and I have had time to think a little, I may as well . -that at no time before or during the flight were we ever anything but extremely confident that we would be successful, although we, of course, were ways keenly aware of the fact that everything dernded u) the motor. But how can I refrain from mentioning how hay we were when we first were sure that,we had sighted land? That was over Nova Scotia. Thought of Byrd's Defeat. Until that time, you know, and espe- cially during the long hours when we strained our eg: for a glimpse of the American continent, we thought fre- mly of your Admiral Byrd. Admiral great flver, who took ail pains with preparations, far arrived in France, lnd‘g:ohh ly flew over Paris, but landed in sea. the fog. along the coast because of faced mist and fog. We For hour after hour we had llmrl! had to believe that fog, which defeated Admiral Byrd,- would not play us the During ‘dhle period all our hope g all our was founded on one appliance. I have men- tioned it before. It was the radio. To say the least, it was interesting to know that always we were in touch with other human beings, on ships or on land. I have said that we were not much concerned after making a landfall, that after’ reaching Nova Scotia we were confident of arriving at New York; but that, perh-:s‘, is not quite accurate. For we still had our worries. And that, again, was the radio. Those little dots | and buszes that came to Bellonte out | of the ether meant everything. He could still hear them. He was at the controls a total of five hours out of the time since we left Le Bourget, but very nearly all the time he had clamped (o his ears the little black discs through which we knew that we were still a part of the world,. that we eould still communicate with our fellow-| beings. Looking back on it, how thankful we should be that that accumulation of not go wrong until we had actually ar- rived at the American coast. When it did go out we could not understand Jjust what was the trouble. Does Not Know What Atled Radio. We do not yet know what it was, ex- cept that Bellonte, who has operated radios for the Prench Air Union, be- lieves that it was some defect in the exciter, which provides current for the fleld colls of the generator. Several radio experts have volunteered to over the equipment, and when we take off tomorrow for Dallas we trust that it will be in good working order. It is very impertant. I might add, while I am on this tepic, that, even when the transmitter was not funttkmlrgl it was a eat comfort to know at the world did not consist solely of the gray fog blanket through which we flew, but | that Bellonte was constantly listening to the buzzes and whistles of radio sets on ships and ashore, far and wide. Anyway, radio or no radio, I was not discouraged. After three years of prep- | aration there could not be room for doubt. How could I doubt, after that long period of preparation, after surviv- | ing some 20 plane wrecks during the World War; after flying to China and back, that I eould prepare a plane in such’a way that X could fly the Atlantic | with absolute certainty?” How, after the constant possibility of being _forced | to land on between Paris and the Channel Coast, could I doubt that, tt:tu,ce over the Atlantic, we would make Every one asks me, “What were you thinking? Did you think of your d’;u gg‘ela; id dyohumgnmk :Itgour wife as dodge r and- there to avols storms and disaster?” b, ‘What can I say? I did not think of | them. No, 1 thought of one thing. 1 was making a troublesome flight. I thought of the best way to dodge those Shout: How could's maas thint of Lok . _How could & man of - thing else? il + Patience Meant Success. Well, that {s all past. It could be done again. I am not anxious to do! it. ‘But, after all, given a stanch plane | and a competent pi 1 mean one who takes everything into consideration—it could be "done n. ‘There is mo reason why it couldn't be. Patience— that is the chief requisite at present. Endless study of meteorology, endless study of your airplane, pa and refusal to say' “Quit"—those are the r-{umu-. and they are not rare. feel ‘that this flight has brought out things not known before to avia- tion. But I do not wish to make im- mature pronouncements, I have not ule fixed in advance, will never be over a prec termined course. They will be controlled by weather conditions. rday mmmmwmmfimm seor, But, after all, we were not battling the weather. were fooling it. It put untold obstacles in our path. We evaded them and found wi to help us. Never were we so grateful . »s when ‘we 8p- proached the American coast. had time to think. The weather, that amount making several stops rather than a single hop, the desi hll:ltly of several motors rather than one; these things are to be considered 1 have thought them .. During mmdm%w t of them ever anop, snd ~—Btar Staff Photo. TWO PERSONS HURT INBUS-AUTO CRASH Occupants Slightly Injured When Car Is Overturned and Pinned Against Tree. ‘Two rsons were slightly injured when a g;uh\niton Railway & Electric Co. bus collided with an automobile at New Jersey avenue and E streets today, overturning and pinning the au- tomobile between the bus and a tree on the northwest corner of the inter- section. The injured are W. C. Edmonds, 70 years old, of Randolph, Va., and Fred W. Johnson, 43 years old, ‘both resid- ing l.“ present at the Metropolitan ote] Condition Not Serious, Both Edmonds and Johnson suf- fered lacerations to the hands, legs and face and were admitted to Emer- gency Hospital where they were hrought by the Fire Department rescue squad summoned hurriedly to the scene. Physicians said their condition is not serious. Earl Mattingly, 1630 Park road, driver of the bus, told police the auto- mobile struck his bus broadside, dis- lodging him from the driver's seat and causing him to lose control of his bus. Bus Dragged Auto. M-mnpy sald the bus dragged the automobile before it, overturning the :uunnobfle and finally crashing into the ree. Firemen of the rescue squad extri- cated the injured from the machine and took them to the hospital. Six per- sons, occupants of the bus, were jolted from their seats, but were unhurt. PITT LEADS FIELD IN CITY TITLE PLAY Manor Club Star’s 73 One Stroke Ahead of Otell and Tuckerman. Playing the last nine holes in ‘34 strokes, two under par, Harry G. Pitt of the Manor Club, took the lead early this afternoon in the opening round of the 2-hole District amateur golf champlion- ship at the Burning Tree Club. Pitt registered a 73 for the first round of the elongated title chase to lead Dr. L. 8. Otell of Indian Spring and Wal- ter R. Tuckerman of Burning Tree by & single stroke. The score of Tuckermah, who has been playing golf for more than 30 years, has been a semi-finalist in the national championship and has held both the District and Middle Atlantic titles, was as remarkable as the lead- ing 73 made by Pitt. Pitt was out in 39 and back in 34 for his 73, while Tuckerman missed a 4-foot putt on the ninth hole to score a 39 for the first nine. Pitt had two birdies over the last nine to get back in 34, and Tuck- erman also picked up a brace of birdies for the same total. The second round is being played this afternoon. Miller B. Stevinson of Columbia, the defending champion, playing poorly, re- turned a card of 82, nine strokes be- hind the leader, which makes it neces- sary for Stevinson to adhere closely to par if he is to win again. Other Jeading scores follow: V. G. Burnett, Beaver Dam, 77; E. T. Rice, Washington, 77; J. F. Sullivan, Indian Spring, 78; Frank K. Roesch, ‘Washington, 78; Roger Peacock. Indian Spring, 79; Thomas D. Webb, Washing- ton, 79; T. M. Belshe, Indian Spring, 79; C. D. Evans, Washington, 79; Ever- ett Eynon, Columbia, 78; J. M. Hunter, jr., Indian Spring, 80; C. B. Murphy, Congressional, 81; J, J. Lynch, Argyle, 81; Porrest Thompson, Beaver Dam, 82; Harold N, Graves, Indlan Spring, 82; J. A. Cox, Argyle 82, and Willlam P. DiEste, Indian Spring, 82. BY COSTE EARNINGS Correspondent Quoted as Saying French People Are a Bit Hurt. ROME, Italy, September ¢ (#).—The | principal reaction in the Roman press today to the successful conclusion of the Coste-Bellonte flight to Ameriea seemed to be a kind of stupefaction at the $2,000,000 which is alleged will ac- crue to the flyers as a result of it. Popolo di Roma quoted its Paris cor- respondent that this somewhat de- tracted from the glory of the flight and that the French, although {nmud of their countrymen’s prowess, felt a bit hurt C.hel’elg'v many non-flying persons had publicity from the venture. derived I have formed definite opinions. The flight becomes more and more inter- esting as the worry recedes and I have opportunity to contemplate just what conditions we encountered and what problems we solved. * (Copyright., 1930, in_North and ica, Ameriear by e’ New "York Fimés ‘oo "All particularly because 50| g D. C., THURSDAY, COSTE FLIES SOUTH FOR $20,000 PRIZE Take-off for Dallas Delayed an Hour in Starting Motor of Question Mark. (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) Cabin monoplane in which the manager was flying is far faster -than the sesquiplane, ‘Will Meet at Greenville. Arrangement was also made for a rendezvous of the two planes in air above Greenville, Tex., which is about 40 miles from Dallas. The take-off today was witi.essed by not more than 200 persons in striking contrast to the thousands who broke through police lines and almost caused a riot of jubila- tion when the Frenchmen arrived here the day before yesterday. ‘The red sesquiplane veteran of almost countless adventures in the air, made a romantic picture as it was towed from its dim hangar into the early morning sunlight. On its scarlet flanks to which it has traveled under the guid- ance of the former war ace, who was at its controls today. Among these cities were such names as Tsitsikar; Karbine, Calcutta, Karachi, 2;)\!!\5, yme, Hanoi, Shanghal and ep. For it is in this plane that Coste flew around the world except for the Pacific, made world records for both straight line and closed course distance flights and in several weight-carrying events. Dressed for Outing. In contrast to the many sweaters and fur-lined flylng suits in which the aviators arrived two days ago at the end of their cold flight along the great circle they were dressed today in clothes which suggested merely a jaunt to the seashore or the country club. They wors Jight business suits under flyers’ coveralls and except for their helmets were otherwise: unprotected from the elements. ' Y DALLAS PREPARES WELCOME. Aviators of Southwest Help to Receive Coste and Bellonte, DALLAS, Tex., September 4 (#).— ‘The tri-color of France and the Stars and Stripes. floated together in Dallas today ‘as. a -thrilled city suspended nor- mal activities to give ® traditional Texas welcomie to Capt. Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, French air voyageurs who conquered the Atlantic. This oity ‘was the rendezvous of#air- men throi t the Southwest, who winged their way here to particjpate in the welcome of the Frenchmen, fly~ ing to Dallas from New- York to collect a purse of $25,000 offered by Col. Wil- liam E. Easterwood, now in Dublin. Pifteen Army planes from Kelly Field, San_Antonio, were in the convoy as- sembled here to fly north to greet the scarlet sesquiplane which triumphed over more than 4,000 miles of storms, fogs and hazardous weather between Le Bourget ‘and Curtiss Flelds. A comrade who once met hazards far different from fogs and storms in company with the French ace rlanned to be among thousands to welcome him. He is R. de Prance, member of Capt. Coste's time squadron, now s resi- dent of San Antonlo. Program of Welcome. ‘The program of welcome called for official greetings from Gov. Dan Moody, or his representative, in behalf of the State. Detachments of Dallas policemen, as- sisted by several ‘companies of National Guardsmen, had been assigned to guard planes at the field and keep the crowd from rushing in upon the flyers when they landed. ‘The National Broadcasting Co. had opened a special wire from Dallas to New York for a coast-to-coast network broadcast of the landing and reception, with station WFAA, a 50,000-watt sta- tion, as the key station. After ceremonies at the fleld a pa- rade into town was planned and a din- ner in honor of Coste and Bellonte was arranged for tonight. Col. Easterwood, whose offer of $25.- 000 attracted the French fiyers to Dal- las, is the official greeter of the city by appointment of Mayor J. Waddy Tate. In the colonel’s absence, his personal representative, George Smith, Snyder, Tex., newspaper man, assisted in wel- coming preparations. Army Aviators Alded. High aviation officials from the Army's chief training center at Kelly Field helped arrange entertainment for Capt. Coste and Bellonte during their stay, which presumably will be’ brief, due to their expressed desire to pay an offi- cl;ll visit to Washington as soon as pos< sible. Some uncertainty still remained as to the terms of Col. Easterwood's con- tract with the French fiyers. His rep- resentatives here sald they had no di- rect authorization to present the purse to Coste and Bellonte upon their ar- rival. They expressed bellef the money had been posted in Paris. The purse was one of many Col. Easterwood has offered for aviation feats. Arrival of the Question Mark at Love Field will mark the first time y of his prizes have been claimed. GOOD WILL TOUR PLANNED, Leading Citisens Consider Trip Over U. 8. for Coste and Bellonte. NEW YORK, September 4 (#).—The New York Times says Capt. Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte probably will make a good will tour around the United States in the near future at the uest of a committee of leading citizens. ‘While plans are still indefinite, it 1is understood the committee will be made up of men high in the State, in aviation and in the diplomatic service and that the project will be financed by private subscription. Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow and been offered the chairmanship of the committee, but walved the honor in favor of a higher official. He is said, however, to have pledged substantial financial ald to the project. Rene Racover, manager of the French flyers, when asked whether Coste and Bellonte would accept an invitation to make such a flight, replied, *Certainly.” Capt. Coste referred ipguiries to Mr. Racover, 5 Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who ac- cording to the repart will be an active member of the committee, said, “There is nothing I can say about it at this e. Richard F. Hoyt of the banking firm of Hayden, Stone & Co., it was reported, would " handle the financial arrange- ments for the flight. The projected plans call for the itinerary of the flight |to be arranged by the Department of Con'::nerce through its division of aero- nautics. WILL VISIT CLEVELAND. Coste and Bellonte to Place Wreath on Grave of Myron T. Herrick. CLEVELAND, September 4 Capt. Dieudonne Coste and Maurice nte, the French transatlantic fly- ers, will come to Cleveland to place a wreath on the grave of Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, it was announced to- day by the Cleveland Advertising Club. Officials of the club said the fiyers agreed to come here as part of a pros- pective good will tour, =~ Arrangements were made by long-distance telephone ht. Hg'#n_n knowi hfi $he 'x;oved am- L W YR R A were inscribed the names of far cities | SEPTEMBER 4, 1930 Maurice Bellonte (left) and Dieudonné Coste, heroes of the Paris-to-New York non-stop flight, reading telegram: s and letters of congratulation in their suite at the Ritz Towers in New York, the morning after their epic flight. (0005 MAY MAKE RECORD TRY IN “7° Friend of Coste Considering Bagdad as Goal on Return Flight. By the Associated Press: PARIS, September 4.—Paul Codos, friend and aviation associate of Dieu- donne Coste, may attempt to make a new long-distance flight record when he brings back the “?” across the At lantic from New York. ‘When Codos sails, as- yet undeter- mined, he will take with him the mechanic, Vernon, a specialist in tuning up engines, and also a mew motor exactly like the one used in the west- ward flighit pcross the Atlantie. He also will have two supplementary gas tanks, which Coste discarded:-before he took off from Le Bourget as up- necessary. Codos .would .like to fly from New York to Bagdad, or at least from New York to Aleppo. All he has to say is: “It remains to be worked out. It is no %ood counting your _chickens before they are hatched. There will be plenty of time to make plans when I get to America.” Dispatches from New York here yes- terday quoted. Capt. Coste as saying Codos would be allowed to make the flight back. me. Coste and Mme. Bellonte have not decided yet when they will make their departure for New York. Mme. Coste is almost certain she will leave before the end of the week, but Mme. Bellonte may leave later with Codos. DINNER TO FEATURE CELEBRATION HERE FOR FRENCH PILOTS tainment, and at 12:30 will be taken to the White House by M. Henry and in- troduced to President Hoover and high Government offictals. ‘The President’s luncheon will be a large affair with about 80 guests, the invitation list for which is being com- piled by George Akerson, Secretary to the President, and which will include high Government officials, diplomats and prominent flyers. ‘The flyers took off this marning to fly to Dallas, Tex., and are expected to fly back to New York before coming to Washington. Just what time they will arrive in the Capital Sunday afternoon has not yet been determined and de- pends largely on the weather and flying schedule of the Frenchmen over the week end. First Go to Embassy. ‘When the French flyers arrive at Bolling Fleld they will go directly to the French embassy, where they will be entertained at a reception and din- ner. While it was stated at the White House today that President Hoover nat- urally could not serve as chairman of a committee to arrange a Nation-wide tour for the French fiyers, he will place every facility of the Government at their disposal. Col. Lindbergh will fiy his planeg. to the Capital from New York as a part of the escort from New York, which will meet the Frenchmen before they reach Bolling Field. Both he and Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who is also flying here, will be among the distinguished | gugsts at the White House luncheon. ‘The President felt that it was un- necessary for him to act as head of the F’rmed committee to arrange for -the atfon-wide tour for the fiyers, siice the governors and mayors of the var! ous . States and cities would render every possible co-operation. He will| place at the disposal of such a commit~ tee the aeronautics section of the Des partment of Commerce and any other agency of the Government which could render any possible service. ‘The ‘arrival of the fiyers at Bolling Field on Sunday, it was sald, will not interfere with the President’s sched- uled - week end visit to his Summer camp on the Rapidan. The President and Mrs. Hoover can motor back to the ‘White House early Monday without un-~ due haste to be on hand to receive the fiyers at noon. BULGARIA IS WARNED Macedonian Threatens Revolt if Peaceful Activities Are Opposed. SOFIA, Bulgaria, September 4 (#).— The Macedonian leader, Michabloff, Jast night issued a manifesto calling on the government to countenance officially his “peaceful activities in the interests of Macedonian autonomy:” At the same time Michaploff warns the government that unless his demands are met he will pursue his objective by “every revolutionary means.” s ‘The document will be League of Nations. sent to the! —Wide World Photo. | B PAUL CODOS, Comrade in many flights of Dieudonne Coste, who is expected to fly the Ques- tion Mark back to Paris. —Associated Press Photo. Coste and Gronan, Foes During War, Meet at Banquet | Lindbergh Also Present, but Leaves Occasion to Ex-Enemies. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, September 4—Two | Transatlantic fliers who faced each |other across battle lines of the great | war, were friends today, bound together {in the fraternity of their conquest of dangerous ocean air lines. Dieudonne Coste, French war ace, and first to fly from Paris to New York, and Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau, Ger- man naval aviator during the war, who recently flew a seaplane here from Ger- many, met last night at an informal dinner given for Capt. Gronau and his crew of three by the German-American Conference. ‘- Entertaining Lindberghs. Although it had been planned as an all-German affair, invitations were sent at the last moment to Coste and his flight companion, Maurice Bellonte. Coste and Bellonte were already en- gaged as hosts at a dinner to Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. It was hardly expected they would attend the | Gronau function. As the last course was served and |speeches were about to begin, the French fliers were announced. Ac- companying them were the Lindberghs |and Mayor Walker. Give Ovation. ‘They were accorded a tremendous ovation by the several hundred guests |and were welcomed by Capt. Gronau in | & short speech. in German. Coste, replyi in French, said avia- tion knew no border lines and fiiers | were all members of one family. Mayor Walker declared the meeting the .greatest step toward peace of which he had ever heard. Col. Lindbergh was introduced, but declined to speak, leaving the occasion hto the French and German visitors. PRESIDENT OF ERIE SEES BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT Looks for October and November to Be Good Months, but An- ticipates Seasonal Decline; By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 4.—C. E. Denney, president of the Erie Railroad; said yesterday that one of the definite signs of real improvement in business 18 that the road's daily car loadings are showing occasional improvement over corresponding days last year. “There is no weekly improvement as ,” he said, “but whereas we' showing dally ‘decreases in - car loadings of ‘from 10 to 13 per cent, this figure is now oeul.lcm!{ Teduced to 2 per cent and occasionally are able to show daily loadings of or two cars over last year.” He added that he looked toruoctnhn and - Novem! to be good ly,” but mprth{ usual s _anticipa during months gene: seasonal GERMAN FLYERS HERE TOMORROW Gronau and Companions to Be Received at White House at Noon: The German conquerors of the At~ lantic, Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau and his three companions, will be visitors to the National Capital tomorrow and will be received by President Hoover at the White House at noon, it was announced today by the German em- bassy, The visit will be informal except for the White House visit and the fiyers are to return to New York tomorrow night. They will come here by rail, leaving New York tonight and arriving at Union Station early tomorrow morn- ing, according to word received at the embassy, Arrangements for the visit to the White House were made by Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Com- merce, who probably will introduce the visitors to the President. The flyers will be guests of Dr. Otto. C. Kiep, German charge d'affajres, at an informal glnner tomorrow night at Dr. Kiep's ome. The trip to Washington had mnot been planned and arrangements have been made very quickly and will not admit of a formal reception, it was an- nounced. The chief pu of the visit is the White House reception at noon. The German flyers, who were visit- ors to Chicago during the National Air Races, will leave their giant Dornier Superwal flying boat at New York, it is anticipated. Dr. Kiep now is in New York and probably will return with the ROBBERY SUSPECT MAY SURRENDER Nalley Wires Wife He Will Return to Capital Immediately, One of the two men sought in con~ nection with the $12,000 robbery re- ported at the Southern Dairies Sunday | night was expected to return to the District and surrender to police some time today. Fred Nalley of the 1200 block of Neal street northeast, one of the suspects, wired his wife today from B that he would return home immedtiately. The wire read: “Will arrive home this morning. -Ev- erything O, K, Fred.” ‘Two men were scen to leave the build- ing by William J. Whalen, truck driver employed at the plant, who furnished police with the names of the men and said they had given him $100 to keep quief. ‘Whalen told police they threatened to shoot him he made any outery. Whaien failed to make known ‘the fact that the robbery had occurred or’that he knew anything concerning it- until Monday morning, when the ‘theft was discovered. driver was arrested by on a grand larceny charge grow= ing out of his failure to report the rob- bery and was held.under $10,000 bond for the grand jury when arraigned in Police Court yesterday. DR. AUSTIN NAMED TO GALLINGER POST C. Commissioners Appoint Philadelphian as Resident Psychiatrist. } D. The District Commissioners have ap- pointed Dr. Henry E. Austin of Phila~ | delphia chief resident psychiatrist of Gallinger Hospital, & new position, paying 85,600, created by the recent appropriation act. Dr. D. Percy Hick- ling retains his position as ‘chief of the psychiatric service of the hospital without pay and will be senior in rank to Dr. Austin. At the same time Dr. Hickling's office, in which he trans- ected his business as District alienist, is being moved from the hospital to the District Building. The appointment was reminiscent of the resignation of Dr. George M. Kober as a member of the Board of Public Welfare last year. Dr. Kober took issue with the board over its policy of creat< ing paid positions such as the one now filled by Dr. Austin. He looked with some alarm at the high per capita per day cost of patients at Gallinger Hospital in comparison with the cost at other institutions and held that Dr. Hickling could take care of the work as he had done in the past without pay. When it came to sending up a supple- meatal estimate for a salary for the new chief resident psychiatrist, Dr. Kober endeavored to secure an investi- gation by disinterested experts before approving the item. His motion was lost on a tie vote, one member being absent and one who was present declining to vote. Dr. Ko- ber promptly resigned after many years of service on the Board of Charities and its successor, the Board of Public Wel- fare. Dr. Austin has had 15 years' experi- ence as a practicing psychiatrist, six of them as clinical director of the Con- necticut State Hospital and - three as clinical director of the Mississippi State Hospital. During the war, he was psy- chiatrist to the Siberian Expedition of the American forces. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Marine Band, this evening, at the Sylvan Theater. Monument Grounds, at 7:30 o'clock. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur Wit- comb, second leader: March, *“‘Washingt-n Police”. E;Aaphln Hadley Overture, “In Bohemia,” Op: Saxophone solo, “Fantasy”....Gurswich Musician Xenneth Douse. Excetpts from e Piratez of Pen~ zance” . Sullivan “Arabesque”. Schumann “Entrance * from “Cydalise”. . . .Flerne “Dance o .the 3 “The Snov Maiden". Rimsky-Korsakow “Norwegian Rhaj Lalo Marines’ hymn— “Tte iialls’ of Montezuma.” “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Soldiers’ Hc e Military Band, this evening at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant: March, “Regimental Youngsters”. Fuc.x Overture, “Light Cavalry” - Suppe have | Suite character’stic, “Don mesot:f." ran k “A Spanish Village.” “Sancho Panzo.” Qu Excerpts from No, Nannette”.. s R { -trot, “The Song * Love".Henuerson Waltz sulf shn g and Love". ‘fiummm«