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LEAGUE'S SUPPORT 1S CLIMBING HERE Three Government Officials Will Participate in Meet- ings at Geneva. By the Associated Press. An upward climb in the extent of United States participation in the Teague of Nations' non-political activ- {ties was seen yesterday in official Washington as at least three Govern- ment officials prepared to take part in coming months in League meetings. Since 1920, it was estimated, United Btates officials had taken part in ap- proximately 90 League meetings or conferences, acting either as official delegates, expert advisers or unofficial participants. Official and unofficial records show ® far heavier participation since 1927 than in the seven previous years. - This was contrasted, however, with the en- tire abstention of the United States from League of Nations political ac- tivities, and was attributed to the in- creased activities of the League along humanitarian lines. Meanwhile. it was held virtually as- sured in most Government quarters that Frank B. Keilogg. former Secretary of State, would be elected by the League Assembly, this month, to the bench of the World Court. Kellogg was nominated by the Amer- fcan panel, composed of Elihu Root, Newton D. Baker, Roland Boyden and John Bassett Moore—acting in a non- governmental capacity—to fill the va- cancy left by the resignation of Charles Evans Hughes at the time he became Chief Justice of the United States While officiels were reluctant to com- ment_on the po'icies likely to be fol- lowed by Kellogg it was said freelv that the “peace-mindedness” of the former Secretary of State probably would be strongly felt in the Court. John K. Caldwell of the State De- rtment is expected to be one of the nited States representatives at the conference on limitation of the manu- facture of narcotic drugs. to be held, probably, next month. Also, if prece- dent is followed, this country will be Tepresented by a sizable group at the egeventh session of the preparatory commission for disarmament confer- ence. George R. Putnam, Department of Commerce lighthouse commissioner, has been appointed delegate to the League's conference on the unification of buoy- age and lighting of coasts, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, October 6. Miss Grace Abbott, chief of Children's Bu- reau of the Labor Department, is now in Europe in connection with the League investigation into traffic in women and children in the East. Sending official delegates to League eonferences by the United States did not begin until 1924, and since that time 19 conferences have been partici- pated in. This country began its co- operation through expert advisers and consultants as early as 1920, however. and has aided in approximately 40 meetings. CHAPIN EXPLAINS ROAD CONGRESS AIM World-Wide Improvement in High- | way Construction Is Major Purpose. Sensing world-wide improvement in highway construction, Roy D. Chapin, president of the American Organizing Commission that is preparing for the sixth International Road Congress here October 6 to 11, said last night that ‘Washington will witness a great gather- ing of foreign engineers and highway administrators, representative of more than 60 foreign governments. Each delegation will number from 25 to 30 persons, he said, in illustrating the magnitude of the conclave. ‘The convention will devote its atten- tion to problems of engineering, admin- istration and financing of highways, as | well as traffic regulation. An interna- | tional exhibition of road-building m: chinery, under the auspices of the American Road Builders' Association, | will be a feature of the gathering. “The direct public reaction to the |Sea Hawk Crashes Bomber and Both Plunge to Earth. Three Army Pilots Escape Death in Parachutes, Navy Flyer Perishes. R BY. DON GLASSMAN. EHEARSING WAr maneuvers, Fighting Squadron 5 of the Navy's silver-skinned sea hawks, screamed over Hampton Roads b and threw off smoking furrows. | Plowing the air at 4,000 feet, they piled the knottage high. Their wings re- | flected mirror lights and dancing beams. Lieut. Addis C. Nelson, flying at the “V" front, position No. 1, led his mates through acrobatics. They practiced stringing out and making phantom at- tacks right and left. Pursuing mirages is not a game for sea hawks. They want real targets. The section leader looked around. Stretched below he saw the Naval Air Station and beach landing. The bay was thronged with steaming tugs and tramp freighters, cutting wakes of frothing water. But the harbor craft might be stunned if he swooped too low. Half a mile from the starboard bow an olive-skinned bomber hove up. She was a gargantuan devil ship, a flying arsenal, mighty er h to scatter n army. Her engines moaned; she lum- bered and waddled. A hawk could sing circles around her, sting her nose and clip her wing. and before the five-ton }leviathan could snap back the hawk would dance out of range. Lieut. Nel- son conjured up a picture as he pulled into a stall at 4,000 feet. Army-Navy Game. Here was a chance for target prac- tice. The whaleboa’ would not mir . It would be a sham bettle between the Army and Navy. The bomber's crew would know how it feels to have sting- ing wasps buzz around their craft. And every sailor wants to prove he is a bet- ter “air mariner than a landlubber. Lieut. Nelson hugged opportunity. He decided to take his mates a-hawking. “Squawk! Squawk! his plane croaked. “Squawk! Ssqqqq-g-quuuaaww-kk!” they echoed. It was the prearranged signal— ready!” They would sine~ the whale's nose and rub the varnish off her rudder. Nelson whipped his tail, pulled his prancing ship into position, and the gun barked in bursts. The hawking musketeers rallied, ready to pounce, sting and disappear. Thirty-etght hun- dred feet below the silvery curl called Tanners Creek meandered into the bay, and 1,500 feet to starboard a giant bomber smeared the sky with an olive stain. The muskeeters saw their prey dip| into a sluggish left curve, turning back | into her own furrow and heading east| in the direction of Virginia Beach,| across the narrow promontory. As the bomber swung out of her curve and assumed a level keel Lieut. Nelson sig- naled: “Attack echelon left!” The musketeers broke the “V.” Lieut Roy R. Darron flew position No. 2; Lieut. Daniel W. Harrigan brought up | the rear. The string of hawks stretched 1,000 feet as they swept into a sagging line, and with a final “Squawk! launched a charge. At the first spurt| their speed was ut 130 knots per | hour. At less than safe distance the| musketeers wound up the echelon. Leave these sea hawks poised in air momentarily and see what the Army airmen and bomber were doing half a mile away. | Three men manned the Keystone.| Lieut. Donald H. Stuart, Air Corps Re- serve, held the wheel. Technical Sergt. A. B. Jewell, ship mechanic, sat beside | the pilot and watched the instrument.| Staff Sergt. Fred P. Miller was testing his radio receivers in the fuselage. They were just a few minutes out of | home port, Langley Field, on a test| flight to try out motors and radio.| Miller wore headphones nd had picked | up DOL of the Second Bombardment Get | short Lieut. Stuart struck across Hampton Roads. He maneuvered over the Nor- | folk suburbs, piloted through gentle J U M P' Tales From Into] TiTE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D H not a very good swimmer, and with all the Caterpillar Club No. 7—The Death of the Sea Hawk. . C., SEPTEMBER 7, the clothes I wore, in addition to the chute strapped on, I was a bit fright- ened. I struck out. Unable to make headway, I extricated myself from the chute and swam for shore again. I was so tired and winded my arms could take me no farther. Practice Jump for All Fiyers. “Then I saw a rowboa$ making for me, so I tried to wiurn over on my back and float until it came. In turning over my feet struck bottom and I real- ized I was on terra firma. “I am convinced that if I had worn the heavy flying clothes I had intended | to wear I surely would have drowned. My greatest mistake was working into a state of exhaustion while trying to free myself from harness. “It appears to me that the flying personnel does not have enough ex- perience in the care and handling of chutes. I believe all flyers should have at least one practice jump. “On a recent coast-to-coast flight and return I was & member of the crew of four that covered 7.500 miles. During this trip I never once h: my chute strapped to me, since we regarded it as excess baggage. None of us planted faith in it, and if an accident had oc- | curred we would have gone down with the plane rather than trust a pack. “I shall never go up in another ship| 1930—PART ON). AUTO SALESHAN SOUGHT IN KILLING Los Angeles Police Probe Story of Mexican, Held as Wife Slayer. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 6.—Police | today brought the name of Paul E. Bronchurst, missing Hollywood _auto- mobile salesman, into an ever-widening investigation of the mysterious beach slayings of Lois Kentle, Los Angeles co- ed, and Francis Conlon, her fiance. To other men, Harry Harmon, 23-| yeal-old Kansas oil-field worker, and | Miguel Garcia, Los Angeles fruit picker, also are held while their recent activi- ties are being checked. Garcia Accused of Killing Wife. HEARST BUYS FAMOUS. ROOM IN ENGLISH CASTLE { Publisher Plans to Dismantl “Great Chamber” and Re-Erect It in South Wales. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 8.—The “Great Chamber,” or dining yoom, of Gilling Castle, Yorkshire, England, de- scribed as one of the bist examples ex~ tant of Elizabethan architecture and decoration, has been purchased by Wil- liam Randolph Hearst, American mb— lisher, from Arthur S. Vernay of Lon- don and New York, Mr. Vernay an- | nounced yesterday. Mr. Hearst plans to dismantle the | room and re-erect it in the old: Norman Castle at St. Donat, South Wales, which 1 he bought five years ago and has re- | habilitated. ! The price Mr. Vernay paid is said to | have been in six figures. The price Mr. Hearst paid was not announced. | . The chief value of the room for col- lectors lies in the stained class win- dows, of which there are three. The large bay window displays the heraldy and genealogy of the Fairfax family, the south window that of the Staple- Harvard President Says ‘49 Factories™ Turn Out U. S. Laws By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Septem- ber 6.—President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, speaking before a gathering of 200 visiting jurists at Langdell Hall, Harvard Law School, to- day sald many' aspects of cur- rent American jurisprudence were “machine-made law.” He as- serted that “49 factorles” were turning out laws of this kind at full speed. ‘They turn out statutes at such a rate that there are more statutes in the United States than automobiles,” he said. “They are, incidentally. more profitable than automobiles to lawyers, and they are even more difficult to get rid of when they are worn out since they cannot be exported.” Lieut. D. N. Stewart, who comm: were clipped by the Sea-Hawk anded the bomber, the wings of which —U. S. Army Air Corps Photo. He rose in his seat. torn, he looked to his commander for | orders. | saw white gashes | The bomber began dragging the right | wing stumps. She staggered in a dan- | gerous list, like a vessel about to careen !and sink. Stuart shifted full left rud- | der. 'That hoisted her starboard some- :’h?t and she rode a slightly beveled eel. The crew clinched these straggling moments to meet the crisis and devise |an_escape. Even full left rudder did not keep |the LB-5 from sagging. To offset this the pilot throttled is left engine Stuart tried his controls. He twirled his wheel. The right ailerons swung free in the wind. He resolved to aban- | on the wreck. “Jump!” he ordered Jewell as he cut the motor switches. “Huh?” the mechanic gasped. That command had never greeted him before. the officer cried . “Tell Miller. Hurry!” Emerging, Miller saw Stuart strug- gling with the controls. Sergt. Jewell |crawled half-heartedly, gingerly, onto | the left wing between the motor nacelle and fuselage. A Water Landing. Before deserting the cockpit Stuart guided the bomber for the mouth of Lafayette River. He climbed out after Jewell. All three hung to edges and fittings. Miller waited chivalrously for his mates to leave first. Lieut. Stuart tried to grip the wing corrugations, slipped, fell, and was swept into space. Sergt. Jewell, in a trance, fingered his ring, releasing the umbrella. His parachute trailed in a white ribbon alongside the fuselage. At length he | was dragged off. Miller studied his plight deliberately. He was a seasoned Caterplliar. He poised himself on the entrance steps, Group Operations Office. During their | and on freeing his hands leaped. After | period in the air the bombing|one flip-flop he laid hold of the ring|admit I wasn't very enthused |crew ascertained that recent mainte-| and whipped the cord out of its pack.|order. nance repairs were in good order, and | The chute filled with air and brought | with the controls, particularly ailerons. his head up. The bomber spiraled clumsily, plunged into the Lafayette River and crumbled into a disheveled eongress will be the impression that banks and glides. The ship performed heap. world affairs are getting back to their normal course,” Mr. Chapin said. “The sessions will serve to rivet public atten- tion to the question of highway trans- portation, a ouestion that is of vast economic significance to every one, and they thus will help to turn the world's thought toward more fruitful channels. “It is well known that transporta tion is one of the most important keys to economic progress and inasmuch as highways are built at comparativel small cost and are built quickly, we can look for an expansion of highway systems all over the world within the comparatively near future.” BANK CLUB HOLDS OUTING A water carnival and miniature golf tournament were features of the Riggs Bank Club’s annual outing yesterday 8t Greenbury Point, Md., on the Severn near the Naval Academy. A field meet, dining and dancing completed the pro- gram. The entertainment committee was led by George H. Morris. 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Stuart contributed this Cater- | pillar story: “On_the morning of November 9, | 1927, Sergts. Jewell and Miller accom- | panied me on a flight in a Keystone bomber. * * ¢ | “We were flying at an altitude of, | about 2,800 feet, directly south of the! |cld Army base, when I felt a rather! | severe jolt transmitted to the wheel. | | .“I thought we had run into a strong | air current. Jewell reported the right | wing had been stripped and the left was about to drop ofl. ‘I was blown off the trailing edge. | {ter a few seconds of deliberation | | my parachute opened. I landed on the| |south bank of the Lafayette River be- hind a billboard and between a grocery |and filling station. I unharnessed and! rolled up my chute, finding that the| silk was entangled with the ‘lead fish’ |and 6 feet of antenna wire. “After learning Sergts. Miller and ewell had made successful jumps, I| Visited the wreck and instructed police | |and firemen to rope it off and warn | bystanders against smoking. | ““Then for the first time I learned I had been in a collision with another | plane; salso that the enlisted men had | been fished out of the river, none the | worse for being wet.” Sergt. Jewell, hangar chief and in- spector, the senior non-corgmissioned | | officer of his organization on duty on | the line, avers that on the fatal morn- |for the regular crew chief. | “I thought the flight would last onlYS a few minutes, because it was merely 1o test radio and motor equipment. “Before taking off I had gotten out' my Winter outfit—helmet, goggles, | gloves, fleece-lined suit and moccasins. | | Later I decided that the suit and moc- | asins had best be left behind. They | | wouldn't be needed on a short flight. | “We had been in the air perhaps 30 ! minutes when the crash came. * * * “Lieut. Stuart told me to jump. I| over that | He was having lots of trouble Enjoying the Scenery. | _“On leaving the cockpit and making | |my way back on the trailing edge, I| was in no great hurry, and can't say I |was scared; but, appreciating the dis- tance covered in the past few seconds| % Harmon is charged with suspicion of without my parachute. | grand theft of F automobile. e said Sergt. Miller, awarded second degree he purchased in Valley Center, Kans. by his Norfolk jump, unfolds the tale| Garcia is charged with suspicion of of an operator trapped in the bomber’s | murdering his wife Joseft, found dead radio compartment. | with 23 stab wounds yesterday. “I was communicating with Station| Police want to question Bronehurst DOL of the Second Bombardment Group | regarding a quarrel he had over the tel- Operations Office, Langley Field, when | ephone, supposedly with Conlon. They the crash came. I thought one of the | were told the quarrel involved a girl. motors had thrown a propeller, as had | They said he had been absent nearly Boston, Vrates. | 0. 418 10th | 2 | gine parts from the wreck. rere In Vermont the bomber into vibration. Long-distanice mo7iné through the right window of the radio compartment showed him the butch- its fabric flapping in the Met. 4180, Est. 1900. * Approaching Norfolk, the Army fly saw several “V” formations of Curtiss Hawks. All passed above the bomber at a safe altitude. Soon the Navy ships flew out of sight. The bombing crew gave them no further thought. In fact, they were ignorant that an attack echelon of hawks was diving on them at that moment. One can hear little above the thunder of two roaring Lib- ertys. Even fear must be drowned in the uproai ‘When the collision came no one in the bombing crew saw or heard the screaming attackers. The echelon volplaned, swifter than a hurricane. At intervals of 300-500 | feet the musketeers swept after their leader. Nearing its target, the diving | formation generated 180 knots an hour. Lieut. Nelson measured hair-breadth passes, timeters, not feet. No doubt, as he headed his Curtiss for the bomber in a steep angle dive he had estimated the target’s speed. At close quarters he made no effort to swerve off and avold the olive right-hand wing. Did he s how long and broad it was? Did his | ship's wing obstruct vision? Nobody | knows, Nelson buried the story in his | grave. What the Army airmen missed and what Darron and H rigan saw was the clash of silver and olive. Pouncing |from above, vnseen by the bombing | crew, the Curtiss slashed the Keystone's top and bottom right wings about 4 feet from the ends. Nelson flew through the dizzy whirl, probably not knowing what had transpired. The Keystone re- n- | tained an even keel and rode safely { through harzardous moments following the impact. Its crew saw nothing of sea hawks or musketeers. Groping for the Cockpit. Immediately swerving out of his dive and leveling off, Darron sailed over the {bomber and after his leader. Nelson { grappied with his plane as she slumped her nose and swirled in revolting spins. No one saw him after that. No one | knows whether he lost control or lapsed {into senselessness. Fire tongues sprang over the engine cowling. The wind stripped linen and wing pieces and en- Faithful, {Darron followed Nelson. He could be of no possible assistance, however. Nel- son and the silvery hawk crashed with bombilation and resounding splash in | the mouth of Lafayette River. 200 yards from shore. Darron circled the nearest house and signaled a man to the rescue, Meantime Lieut. Harrigan sped back to the Naval Air Station, What did the bombing crew think when a muffied boom sent the LB-5 into a shudder? Sergt. Miller, a Caterpillar for hav- ing saved his life on May 28, 1927, at Reynoldsburg, Ohlo, felt a shock, even l'.hl’ou'h the insulation of his radio hel. met. In his first jump a faulty pro- | peller had caused the accident.” This {time the feel of the ship was different. A damaged propeller would have thrown One glance ered wing, wind. They Keystone held her equi- | poise. Sergt. Jewell was studying the Instru- ment board when he felt the collision. # s culating his clearance in cen- | and realizing the advantage I had over, | the lieutenant and thinking of a jumpl into the unknown, I just couldn't make myself hurry. ‘Just as I was in & position to jump! something struck my legs. Looking {down, I saw Lieut. Stuart rolling over the trailing edge on his back. At the |same time I was unconsciously pulling my rip cord. I jumped and had no more than cleared the ship than my| chute was fully open. “I found great interest in the plane's | fared slightly worse. Almost as if aimed, | unavoidably, they headed for the open | river. The water, within a few degrees | of freezing, would brir - any parachutist | |to his senses. | Jewell hit 100 yards from shore. He | was fully harnessed, and the water at | the point was over his head. Doggedly, |he rose to the surface, churning his |arms like a windmill and beating the water with his legs. The chute, harness | and heavy clothing dragged on his bedy, | ‘esncclally his life-saver. The silk sail flight and watched it crash on the river sponged up water and began to sink. bank. I was little interested in my The sergeant meddled with his harness own jump, as I was descending nicely buckles. He frecd himself of the para- and enjoying the landscape, not know- | chute. Seeing a rowboat coming from |ing that in a very few moments I was shore, he managed to remain afloat to fall into the Lafayette River. until rescuers fetched him out. “The day before I had glanced over G some pictures in the Second Bombard- Safe by a Nose. | ment Group Operations Office which! Sergt. Miller attempted to solve his | showed how to free one’s self from har- | problem, too. He planned to follow ress just before striking water, Army instructions on how to effect a/ “Ail this came back while I was water landing with a parachute. Just| watching the river. I believe I could | as he released one buckle and was try- | have freed myself from the chute had ing to disengage the other, he dipped I thought I would fall in water. When into the frigid stream and sank to his I did it was too late to unhitch. I am nose. That was the depth of the water. | One or two more inches might have drowned him. He threw out his arms and managed to paddle shoreward. For | | the most part the water level stood at| | his mouth. Approaching land, a naval | officer waded out and helped him ashore. The skiff which had originally headed | for Miller swerved to rescue Sergt. | Jewell. | | In unpiloted flight the bomber flew {over several houses dangerously. The| gas tank fell away and struck a home, | inflicting slight damage, while the wreck missed the dwelling by mere inches and | dropped to the river shore. The Navy plane submerged itself com- pletely. No sooner than its splash was heard, a Negro butler, working in a yard | close by, pulled toward it in a rowboat. | He arrived in time to rescue Nelson from the sinking wreckage. Fifteen minutes later a launch arrived from the naval base and commandeered the body | and plane The Curtiss buried herself in an aqueous grave, and when salvaged ap- peared so battered it was impossible to recondition her. | Nelson, whose home was in Brook- line, Mass., was 29 and a graduate of the ‘Naval Academy, class of 1921. He was once stationed on the U. 8. § Wright, flagship of the Aircraft Squad- ron of the Scouting Fleet. He had been on duty at Hampton Roads Naval Air Station for two years. | | EDISON STEWART WARNER RADIO SETS Sold on Easy Terms Your Old Set in Trade There are none Better and Few as Good. GIBSON’S 917 G St. N.W. | AM! All Materials Lowest Prices! $125 Up HOME IMPROVEMENTS Special Sunday Tip Marshall Hall STEAMER Charles Macalester | ing April 22. happened in May. But as I looked out of the fuselage window I dismissed the ‘bad motor’ idea and proceeded to the rear cockpit, not forgetting to pull my | receiver plug, which I had failed to do on my first Caterpillar jump. “1 crawled over the side, ready to drop as soon as Sergt. Jewell jumped. “Not!” “I tried to let go with my left hand, but the spring step caught my little finger. After some anxious moments I got it free and dropped. As soon as had turned over, head down. I pulled the rip cord, and in my excitement threw it away, forgetting that 1 wanted very much to save it. _The chute func- tioned much quicker, I believe, than on my first jump. "'Judgigag xg}me 1 would alight, T pre- dicted it would be exactly on the shore line, I began unbuckling the snaps in I hit water. fhe. left leg strap I fell into the river. All my wriggling would not get me out of harness. Being able to stand on the bottom, with water just above my mouth, I swam a few strokes. A row- boat came alongside and the occupants helped remove my harness before res- cuing Sergt. Jewell. “Learning that Lieut. Stuart also was safe, I accepted a kind invitation to dry my clothes in a nearby home. “As a footnot I wish to state that my reason for dropping off the side of the fuselage on both jumps is the near-| ness of the rear pit to the tail on the LB-5. ship is to think o ‘The upshot of the sea hawks’ attack get out the best way you can fand the Caterpillar jumps was an ex- change of official communications. The chief of the Army Air Corps dispatched a message to the commandant at Lang- ley Field, inquiring “whether it is a general practice for planes from Hamp- ton Roads to use ships of your station targets on which practice attacks |may be made: whether there is any agreement between the commanding officer of Hampton Roads that his pilots |may practice attacks on aircraft from your station; whether on November 9. 1927, any specific authority was granted the Navy to use the bomber flown by Lieut. Stuart as a targst for their hawks * * The answer to the chief- communique was “No!"” . Both air services vowed never again to launch surprise assaults in times of peace. The loss of one rriner’s life is somewhat assuaged by the enlist- iven a chance, the parach ‘e can sus- pend death. (Copyright, 1930.% Next—The Bomber Attac-. Two West Point classmates join the Caterpillar Club together. MISS SENGLER DROPS SUIT AGAINST COSTELLO Actress Refuses to Explain Action in Breach of Promise Case Involving Film Actor. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 6.—The breach of promise suit brought by Vivi- enne Sengler, actress and scenario writer. against Maurice Costello, veteran | film actor, was dismissed upon motion | of the actress today. She refused to| give a reason for her action, or say if there had been a settlement of her | claim for $100,000 damages. | “All that I care to say,” she com-[ mented, “is that I am leaving for New York early next week, where I expect to | continue my screen work.” Miss Sengler had accused Costello, | who is the father of Dolores Costello | Barremore and Helene Costello, of pro- | posing marriage to her in Stockton, | Calif., September 10, 1928. She ulleg?d! they planned to be married the follow- | | In his answer Costello denied he ever Inspect Tonig While unfastening | ment of three members i ! ing he was substituting in the bomber | G; r the order. two months, while Conlon and his fian- | cee were slain in their beach tent at | Ensenada. Mexico. less than two weeks ago. Thelr bodies bore many stab | wounds. Vague Stories Cause Check. Vague stories told by both Harmon and Garcia caused the police to make careful checks. Garcia, who allegedly ! killed his wife in much the same man- ner Conlon and his flancee met death. | told cfficers he had just returned from | Guasti, Calif. His claim of employment there was being investigated. Police |sald Garcia fits the description of a “crazed Mexican” seen at Ensenada two weeks ago. Detective said Harmon’s accounts of his doings conflicted. These included definite accounts of being in Kansas, | Springerville, ~Ariz.: Coronado, Calif.. | and Ensenada during the last three | weeks. He also said a bullet through | the windshield of his battered automo- bile had been fired from ambush near | Tia Juana. Said He Fired to Scare Girl. | Previously he told sheriff's deputie: 'he fired the bullet himself for effec |upon a girl friend, Clytie Conine of | Valley Cente: She was with him in | his car when he was arrested, but was | released afte: questioning. 'ELKS CH'RITY DANCE TO BE HELD THURSDAY “My idea of getting out of'a disabled | Events Will Continue Twice Week- | 1y at Clu Throughout Ser~on. A charity dance, ‘he proceeds of which will be donated (> the needy of the city, will be given b i Lodge, No. 15, B. P. O. Elks, Thursday n'ght, at the Elks Club, 919 H street The charity dances will continue every “hursday and Saturday night through- out the season. Emil Brahler is chair- man of the aance committee. A band concert by the Boys Band | of the lodge, under the direction of gdomrge Chapman, will precede the lance. . YOUTH 'S IDENTIFIED Furniture Victim Is Pennsylvanian. RICHMOND, Va., September 6 (&) Dispatches from Fredericksburg, tonight said that G. B. Phillips, a furni- ture dealer there, had identified Johnny Knowles, Richmond amnesia victim, as the son of John Knowles, boilermaker for the Baldwin Locomo- tive Works, Eddystone, Pa. The amnesia victim, who answers all queries concerning himself with the name of “Johnny Knowles,” was found wandering in a park here early this wesk and was interned in a hospital. ‘The Fredericksburg dispatches said that Phillips rscognized the youth’s picture appearing in a Richmond news- paper. I eacke The Original Krieg’s Express & Storage Co. 616 Eye St. N.W. Phone Dist. 2010-11 No Branches SHIPPING STORAGE MOVING MT. VERNON STEAMER Charles Macalester Under U, §. Government Inspection Leaves Seventh St. Wharf Daily 10 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. Round Trip, 85¢ Admission, 25¢ Cafe and Lunch Counter on Steamer Mount Vernon Not Open on Sundaya ht or Sunday - DETACHED HOUSE AT ROW HOUSE PRICES HOMES OF 10 North 21st and Rand 0 NEW IDEAS Woodridue olph Sts. N.E. A Beautiful New Restricted Subdivision of Over 100 Detached Brick Homes 6, 7 and 8 Rooms Colored Porcelain Bath and Kitchen Fixtures Attic Play Rooms Pool Room for Adults Garages Open Fireplaces We Will Be Looking for You This Evening Drive out Rhode Island Aven ue to 22nd Street N.E.—then north to Randolph Street and left on Randolph to 21st. The radio operator pulled his| 127 7otn Teceiver plug and groped for the cockpit. Instruction 3 INCORPORATED ET NORTHWEST Dealer Says Amnesia ANDREE'S RELICS PIGTURE TRAVAIL Roll of Film in Camera Is One of Objects Being Wrapped for Shipping. By the Associated Press. TROMSOE, NORWAY, September 6. ‘Wrapping up of the relics of the Andree expadition found on White Island was | begun today so the treasures would be ready to carry aboard the Swedish war- ship Svenskund when it arrives here. Some of the relics suggested a dra- matic picture of the explorers’ wander- ings in the deserts of ice. One is a| ball of rolled-up thread with fish hooks made from pins attached at intervals. The spring balance scale carried by the party almost was in good enough con- dition for use. In a camera, a roll of film was found. This was removed and packed sep: rately. Packed among the instruments was a dish containing scraps of fos One of the two sledges found was empty. On the other, which had besn drawn up from the shore, was a canvas boat in which most of the objects mentioned in the foregoing were found. Build NOW! Lowest Prices! Easiest Terms! Best Built Metal GARAGES Also Frame. Stucco Garages. tion to the cost. AETMETON 200 K St. N.E. 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