Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1930, Page 14

WASHINGTON SAW FLIGHT FROM PARS Revolutionary Hero Predicted French Would Come by Air, Instead of Sea. Back before the era of the airplane, when men were doing what little fying they accomplished in hot-air balloons, a flight between Paris and New York, as exemplified by Coste and Bellonte, ‘was predicted by George Washington. In 1794 the Father of His Country, it is reyealed today by Representative Sol Bloom, associate director of the George W;;hinmn Bicentennial Commission, said: “Qur friends in Paris in a little time will come flying through the air instead fi. Elewlnr the ocean to get to Amer- Made Statement in Letter. ‘The statement was made in a letts written by Gen. Washington to Maj. Gen. Duportail, a friend of Lafayette. Washington did not visualize, of course, the modern airplane, of the sort used by Coste and Bellonte. At that time sensatignal experiments being made in flight with balloons by the Montgolfier brothers and other great pioneer French airmen. But_that Washington, ‘in his far- sightedness, actually predicted flight between the two continents bordering the broad Atlantic is regarded as’re- markable by Representative Bloom. “Washington,” says Bloom, “was 8 man’ of most remarkable vision. He had the habit of looking into the fu- ture. one of rational srcul-flon and develop- ment. We are given to think of George Washington as a remote historical fig- wre withcut contaci or relationship with Americans of the present day. Yet not only our Government and political institutions, but almost every phase of modern life, are stamped by his in- fluence. “Few of us know that Washing was keenly interested in the develop- ment of the steamboat and wrote un- derstandingly of the possibilities of steam navigation, although he did not live to see the successful demonstration of that great experiment. In many fields of progress he saw possibilities of advancement that truly were astonish- were “He was not given to idle dreaming or fantastic forecasting. He had a sound and practical mind and when he predicted a Paris-American air flight, it ‘was not the result of irresponsible ex- uberance which possessed most people at that time. He thought it out. weighed all the elements of success and failure as he saw them. .When he wrote that ‘our friends in Paris in a little time will come flying through the air, instead of Plow\nl the ocean to get to America,’ he expressed that amazing quality of mind that knew no boundaries of achievement, either of time, place or_character. How truly great was this Pirst Citizen of Our Re- public. How well does everything he did and said stand the test of history. Upon the occasion of the 200th anni- versary of his birth, no doubt further advancement in the art of flying wil show added sensational accomplish- ments to confirm George Washington's bellefs and predictions.” CLUB BOYS AND GIRLS TO EXHIBIT PRODUCTS Fair Planned in Mineral County, ‘W. Va., for September 13 to Re- place Upper Potomac Fair. Special Dispatch to The Star. KEYSER, W. VA, September 6.— Mineral County will have a 4-H Fair this year, unagr" Mnllflculwrfi J. ‘i be held on the third floor of the Mineral County Court House September 13. About 150 boys and girls of the Mineral County clubs will have their Pprojects on exhibition and no of admission will be made. The judging will be done Wednesday and Thursday previous to the fair. ‘The fair in & measure will fill the fy‘p caused by the abandoning of the pper Potomac Fair at Burlington this county this year, due to drought condi- tions. The 4-H clubs have always ex- hibited at this fair. ‘Winners in the Mineral County 4-H Fair will be awarded a free trip to the Regional 4-H Fair to be held at Peters- burg, Grant County, October 1, 2 and 3, where they will compete for distriet honors in 4-H Club work. His was no reactionary spirit, but | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, DUAL IDENTITY OF PRISONER. .. IN VIRGINIA JAIL A PUZZLE Man in Franklin County Held for Murder! Identified as Ira J. Turner and Edward D. Saul. ROCKYMOUNT, Va., September 6 (N.AN.A.)—Strange as any detective story in fiction is the case of the man held in Pranklin County Jail called Ira J. Turner by people who claim him as their long-absent relative, and called Edward D. Saul by County authorities who have indicted him for murder. ‘Witnesses who have seen the prisoner and tried to identify him are divided in two camps. Those who know Saul say that he is Saul; those who have known Turner say that he is Turner. Phomh! of the two men are al- most in guishable and resemble the prisoner equally. Yet Saul and Turner were not related, and probably never met. ! Mystery of Case. ‘Twenty-three years July S, 1907, Saul went for a walk in the woods near Henry, 15 miles from Rockymount, with Marshall King. The two young men, residents of Henry and rivals for the affection of Hattie Ramsey, ap- peared to be friendly. Saul, however, carried a shotgun which he had bor- rowed from neighbors. He had, the neighbors said, threatened to kill King. A short while later there was a shot in the woods, observed by one witness, Who is still living near here, and King was found dead with a wound in his back. Saul disappeared and was not seen again, although rewards totaling $4,000 were offered for his arrest and conviction. ‘The story of Ira J. Turner is more obscure. It is about Turner that the mystery centers. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Turner and his home was near Harrisonburg. ‘The prisoner, who claims he is Turner, said that he was 32 years old when arrested last month. Now he agrees with the man who identified him as his son that he was born in 1888. . ‘Turner seems to have spent his early life in the vicinity of Harrisonburg and had never been to Rockymount. About 1912 he is supposed to have left his home in order to travel about and nearby States as a jockey at fairs and horse shows. In 1918, authorities say, he was drafted into the Army and died a few months later in France. His family, they say, collected insurance at the time of his death. Never in Camp. According to the story which the prisoner tells, Ira J. Turner was called in the last draft, and never even entered a training camp. Since the war, he explains, he has continued his itinerant life as a jockey and has not communi- cated with his family for nearly 10 years. Stories told successively by the prisoner have varied so widely that the county authorities are hopelessly be- wildered. Last July 5 the prisoner was arrested in Ashland, Ky., on the complaint of Mrs. Lola Philpott Walker of that city, charged with drunkenness and dis- orderly conduct. As soon as he was behind the bars, Mrs. Walker changed 11 | her charge and said that he was the murderer of Marshall King. Mrs. Walker is a former resident of ‘Henry, where the murder was com- mitted, and she knew both King and It Is Unhealthy To Move With . Dirty Rugs! Why should you carry dirty germ-filled rugs with you when you move? We will take them now and return them to your new ad- dress perfectly cleaned and sterile. 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The prisoner, she now | says, had often visited at her home in | Ashland, sometimes intoxicated, and had confessed to her that he was Saul. He had threatened her, she said, and prevented her from revealing what she knew while he remained free to carry out his vague threats, The prisoner was sent here from Kentucky and indicted for the murder of King. In the railroad station at Ashland, the authorities say, a man came up to the prisoner believing him to be Saul and said: “Hello, Ed.” The prisoner responded immediately, it is said, and entered into conversation with the man whom Re appeared to know. Later, on the train which carried him to Virginia, he was greeted by another acquaintance with the same words. Again he answered and again he en- tered into conversation. After each incident, according to the authorities, he explained to them that his identity had been confused with that of Saul. He was, he insisted, Ira J. Turner. Identified Both. Yesterday when an elderly man named Turner arrived here and identi- fied the prisoner as his son, C. C. Lee, commonwealth attorney of Franklin County, declares he tossed over to this man a photograph of Saul. “Is that your son?” he asked. “Yes, sir,” was the response, “that is my son.” With the old man were E. R. Lay- man and C. F. Layman, cousins of Ira J. Turner, and T. F. Shiffiet, his brother-in-law. As soon as they saw the prisoner they identified him as ‘Turner, but other men, residents of Franklin County, who knew Saul, insist as vigorously that the prisoner is Saul. One of them, John Turner of Rocky- mount, is a distant relative of Ira J. ‘Turner. Saul, he says, was working for his father at the time of the murder, and the prisoner, he says flatly, is Saul. ‘The man about whom this seemingly insoluble puzzle turns was questioned today. He insisted he was living in Logan, W. Va., at the time of the draft | and escaped the draft because he had | a wife and six children. 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Saul had also a finger on his left hand which was shorter than his other fingers, cut off at the tip by a for- gotten accident. There is a shortened finger on the prisoner’s left hand. Saul finally had & birthmark on his cheek, under the left eye. On the prisoner's cheek, in the same spot, is a mark left by a surgical operation. It might have been caused by the removal of such a birthmark. The commonwealth’s attorney con- siders that evidence. A court of law, he admits, might call it coincidence. And, he admits, too, it might actually be coincidence. So this small, nervous man with excited eyes glances about his cell in the Franklin County jail with the air of a child upon whom somebody is try- ing to play a joke and who will not be taken. He is certain that he will be released. “As God is my witness,” he cries, “I am Ira J. 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