Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1930, Page 23

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, HOMAGEOFFRANCE OA 3 i ks 5 PAID OCEAN FLYERS President and Premier Speak! at Fete for Coste and Bellonte. By the Associated Press. P. , October 25.—The welcome of France was extended today te Dieu- | donne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, re- turning transatlantic fiyers, in France’s | most hearty fashion. | President Gaston Duumer“u and h!mm Andre Tardieu spoke the greet- | ings &nd praise of the nation for its beloved war ace and his mate. There ' were elaborate ceremonies at the Elysee | Palace and a similar function at the | City Hall. As a special mark of eom- | memoration the French government ! also included in fhe honors of the ‘.KI elevation of Col. Charles A. Lind | to the rank of a commander in tl Legion of Honer. l Fly to Le Bourget. 1 The valorous birdmen, taking off | from Bleville Pleld, Havre, shortly be- fore midd: lew into Le Bourget, from whence their recent voyage to the New World had its beginning, in the same airplane, the Question Mark, in which they had span sea. Thousands ite was go- P‘r’l‘;: made mational holid: f ce s ay of the homecoming, and Paris, despite gloomy weather, was brilliant in its en- thusiasm, with hundreds of thousands of persons swarming the streets. The fiyers were hailed everywhere the route from Le tq the see Palace and City Hall as heroes o the first rank could be a t like the Rue du 'y nonm:n Teplied. Tired and Depressed. ‘The fiyer appeared tired. He seemed lepressed. “Twenty thousand miles, do you get the idea?” he suggested to the Asso- ciated Press representative. e a rest now, twenty more do wrong with the motor, want? Nothing ‘what?” Mary Coste and Diana Bellonte, the latter of whom had suffered a collapse agreed, it was a coming from that of e ace's af ‘been_interru 11 URGE ELECTION OF G. 0. P. CANDIDATES 200 Attend Rally in Weodmen's Hall at Mitchellville, Md, John Bewie Presides. By & Staft Correspondent of The Star. r| he started for'ard again, te | Ul attorney; ‘Thomas Edward Latimer, candidate for surveyor, and W. Curtis Hopkins, can- didate for sheriff. ”:lmd(e ‘P!:orler, w% and ‘; Wil- Ryon, spoke. licans also held a meef in Ormn?uwnl‘ht. while on Tuesday night they will meet at Suitland in the community hall, w’:'l?- 'uhdenl';fl the Taxpayers' Asso- c , when they a to meet there last week. o OIL COMPANY HEA DIES OF PNEUMONIA|*! Roy A. Grifith Was Associated ‘With Harry Sinclair at Begin- ning ef Career. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 25.—Roy A. Griffith of Tulsa, Okla., president of the Sinclair Oll & Gas Co. died of douhm at Dector's Hospital, where mn a patient h;-l several d.lig e was an important figure in the oil business, for his career began when he associated himself with Harry Sinclair at a time when Sinclair's rise to promi- nence was just . When E. Raogers Kemp died. Mr. Grifith sueceeded him as president of Sinclair Oil & Gas, with headquarters at Tulsa. But ill health kept him from active participation in company's affairs for more than a year, Duri the period of his iliness he was unde! trcatment here. His brother, who was at the bedside ‘when death came, had not cempleted funeral arrangements today. — PARENTS OF PRODIGIES ;| and Executives of six 35-cent taxicab eempanies operating 35 cents, 60 cents and 85 cents, respectively, for trips made The above map, showing the territories covered by the the cabs of these six companies, it was agreed with Richmond The cab company efficials also agreed to eliminate the term “eity proper” from their cabs and circulars the grounds that it was an inaccurate description of the area cavered by a zone ai conference. in the city a new rates, B. Keech, in the District have agreed 3 $1.10 rate for trips to Blue Plains, D. C. be displayed in a prominent place in all of people’s counsel for the District, who arran; to adopt uniform zome rates of toward deception. Drifted In With the Tides Sailor Braves Enormous Waves for Bottle He Didn’t Get—Swimming Test That Ended Queerly. Wooden Leg His Bank. BY ANGUS MACGREGOR. NEW YORK, October 25 (N.AN.A). —The North Atlantic exploded a lot of wind and water this last week. Ben ‘Trippett of the Leicester Castle, by his ewn , brought mest ef it to New York with him. Ben had a bottle secreted somewhere he deelines Leices- q 2 R i of Mr. Trippets. eaugh: u(':dd on for life. = Tries Trip Onee More. Pinally he himself u- tiously and ufi"fl'm &?fld splinters. None could be found and even mere cautiously. Once more he had gotten = man . Leicester Castle split it there was haly Mr. Trippett. All the water in the seven seas, or | 80 it seemed, dumped right down on | him, and teok him for anether slide down the deek. Tumbling, somersault- ing, spinning, he traveled the h of | the ship in quicker time than snybody | had ever dome it before. He aaw the same rope, clutched at it, missed and crashed against the rail. Por a time he hfl zulu still. Then he got up_ slowly, at the dent where he had hit the rail, at the spray showering in the bow, ht moodily of his precious hettle and went oW. Ben sadly. Queer currents lurk among those tiny islands that kle the Southern Pa- | cific. Powerful, swift and secret, they | glide through the warm blue waters like snakes slithering to a kill. 0ld Sea Tales Cited. An old sea tale has it that one of | these currents struck a clipper ship's | rudder across the hee! so suddenly the helmsman was fii inte the ses, but whatever witnesses incident are long sinee dead. The Wit~ nesses to John Gold's stery are alive and here today. man en the| Gold is ore sea) Elsle Swift, w‘\m.h"\ell yesterday for dry dock in Boston. A shert time :gn she was bucking « swell off one of the Ladrene Islands, and Gold, with twe ef | his fellows, was watching the heel-: toe of the graceful ship from the beach. It was a hot day, the air hung mo- | tionless as the sun seared through and Gold, mopping his brow, remarked that it would be foolish to row the mile and s half to shipboard when they eould swim it more easily. Prom to a dare to a bet took no time at all. So there was nothing for Gold to but {fie his few clothes in & bundle, hold the - | “My eyes were stick 3 He is “I mever saw the stuff agein” seid | & Gold put on a hlg:t of speed. Panic seized him. He discarded what little swimming technique he had and struck wildly at the placid sea. Every time he raised his arm to take a stroke now agony stabbed through his head. His muscles were knotted. His lun swelled until he thought they would make a hole in his chest. “I shipped so much water I could have sunk in a aufnnl tea,” he sald. g out of my head an inch, from the pain. And all the time I could make out the Elsie Swift's lights getting smaller and smaller. I bo‘m to yell.” t was no good. He hadp't much breath left. Hi ;!“.l ‘were no but gurgles. He let himself go then. He remembers mumbling, “Davy Jones, here comes a rust '»L.&:‘: His feet went dewn o ahout feet, then scraped bettom. ‘Was Over Sand Bar. “‘Was I in heaven?' I asked myself, and then I found out. I wasn't in heav- en, but on the sand ber, which was just as good for me." ‘That was what a current had done for Gold. It has eaught him and steadily pushed him back to land. ng\l-ll- ious end to a bold start, but Gold and Falstaff are agreed that ignominy only a word. “My wife before me kept her money in her stocking,” sald John Woodin, known as “‘Long John Silver,” a few days ago, “and I keep it in my leg, my 'ood:n ene. It's as simple as that.” But now John has what's left of his in th: and he's on X wever, is enly - porary. When he gets another his -ong comes out ef the an his crutel out the window. “Long John” took a snooze in Jean- nette Park, New York, one evening. Twa thugs set upon him. One snatched off ‘Woodin's iron-shod, leather-socketed pe; leg and dealt him a blow on the head, and “Lang Jonn” continued his dream. Took Leg With Them. ‘When he came to his leg was gone. Angry, disheveled and blood-stained he atitute across the street, made his way to his room, teok the rest of his money, burg! k. “I've smelled salt in in the and I'm hflln.‘mlw. dog’s The man was not as vehement as his words indicate. He was too busy with veal cutlet and peas which weuld n stay on his knife. Middle-aged, thin and that you could tell he was a gailor. “The only time I get gryb At to touch with a cane,” he sald, “is when 'm ashore. At ses I never potas - butter or mlmm)m. ndensed milk {s a rare luxury. Mustard and piekles? I'm lsughing at you. And the mest you can say for the coffee and tes is that they're warm and wet.” Warking on Gravy. The cutlet had disappeared. now working on the gravy with a hunk of bread and great relish. “When you get on shore the land- He was | sharks, male and female, are after you. hoose. Y They dope you with ]filuu . You get fighting mad, blind to the world, and when you come to you're busted, in alley or in jall. “At sea it's just as bad. You're at the merey of a bucko skipper and hard- hitting mates. Some pup of a third officer on my last eruise gave me such 8 kick that my teeth are still rattling. hopped into the Seamen's Church In- | tall, it was enly by his horny, red lklll trustees, lega s, and the university faculty. | G | economy pr ES BECOMES W ANDL PRESIDENT 1140 Colleges and Universities Represented at Lexington, Va., Ceremony. By the Associated Press. IGTON, Va., October 35.—In historic Lee Chapel, Francis Pendleton Gaines today became president of ‘Washington and Lee University. Gowned in the robes of a dector of philosophy, the 38-year-old educator Valentine’s recumbent statue of Robert E. Lee and repeated the president'’s oath after 8::!10 Walker St. Clair, rector of the uni- versity 140 Schoeols Represented. Before them seated in the chapel built l:{ the Confederate leader when head of the school after the War Be- tween the States were ‘those who marched in the academic procession before the inauguration, including rep- Tesentatives of 140 American colleges and universities, 40 of them presidents. In the academic procession in order were the senior class of Washington and Lee, President Gaines and Mr. St. Clair, Gov. Pollard of Virginia, Presi- dent Emeritus Henry Louis Smith and the speakers of the day, the hoard of legates from other schools y. t_included Dr. Ray bur, Secretary of the In- ‘Those Lyman terior. Inauguration in Gym. ‘The inauguration ceremonies, fol- Ioy the administration of the oath of tum. licy l:l‘ a university an students. ‘Their power, he said, is to “depozit in the life of the boy something a little fiper than culture, a little rarer than cempetence, 8 little nobler than sue- cess." President Gaines announced himself as opposed to extremely early specialization in education. He com- of ideals of the what they mean to its | pared Washington and Lee Schools ef the past to show that the university had retained its fundamental ideal, in- tellectual freedom. ——— CHURCH BODY OUTLINES PROGRAM OF ECONOMY Council of Seventh Day Adventists at Omaha Meeting to Eliminate Extravagant Expenditures. By the Associated Press. OMAHA, Nebr., October 25.—An am for the coming year has been outlined for the Seventh Day fi.‘, entists. The president’s council ef denomination yesterday authorized naming of a Survey Committee to aid local and unien confereness in working out an efficiency plan with a view to eliminating extravagance in expenditures. be curtalied, however, it was stated. “Under no circumstances should the church plunge this eause into great trial and perplexity by borrowing money,” Rev. J. L. Shaw of Washington, D. C., told the council. Rey. Mr, Shaw 1s treasurer of the World's General Con- ference of the church. It was agreed that those conferences in need of funds should be assisted to the fullest extent by sister conferences having stronger financial resources. church | ‘The werld-wide mission- | ary activities of the church are not to| D. C, OCTOBER 26, 1930—PART ONE, NGE VIRGINIA TOMBSTONE ‘V| TR T B STRA TOMBSTONE CITES JOYS OF BACHELOR Old Epitaph Found Over Col- onial Captain Buried Standing Upright. BY REX COLLIER. An oddity of historical importance in conneotion with preparations for the George Washington hicentennial has | just come to light near Cape Charles, a., with the disclosure that Martha John Custis, is buried there in an up- right pdsition, with an epitaph far from complimentary to his life. The strange inscription on the crum- although Capt. Custis died at the ripe old age of 71 years, he actually “lived his bachelorhood. The epitaph apparently was carved with great reluctance by an English sculptor, who took upon himself the duty of explaining, an the reverse side of the big stone, that he was obliged to follow the “positive” wishes of the de- ceased. The quaint tomb stands in & remote spot on the banks of Plantation Creek, Eastern Shore. It was in this immediate vielnity that the first white settlement in Northampton County was es- tablished in 1619. settlement later became “Arlington”, the home of the Custis family. 'hen George Wash- on the Potomac River which later be- came famous, he christened it with the name of the old Custis property on the Eastern Shore. According to Marvin Barnes, Cape Charles resident, who has made a study of the tomb and photographed it, Capt. Custis was regarded as a “queer old Occasional Furniture Cogswell Chairs lour of choice colors. spring cushion. Fiddle-Back Windsor ish on birch. large seat. Boudeir Chairs. ‘Well pleasing colors. High back. Footitool ‘With tapestry-covered top. Consele Table and (Save $3.00) walnut finish. Semi-Venetia beveled-edge mirror. Governor Winthrop hogany. Three-drawer (Save §1). strongly and substantially bullf BEDS and BEDDING at substantial SAVINGS Double Day Bed. (Save $15.50). 39. With Innes base. Denim covered mat tress. Washington's first father-in-law, Capt. | bling old tomb advises the world that | but seven years”, and that was during | down on the extreme tip of Virginia's ington Parke Custis acquired the tract |1 (Save $1.00) Mahogany fin- braced; -$5. (Save $2.25) In cretonne of -81. Mahogany or .. $33, (Save $16.00) Pinished in ma~ base. Fiber Ferneries ....._$2, In several colors, Coil Mattress en coil spring § first father-in-law. “Lived But Seven Years” reads this tombstone on the Custis, buried in an upright pesition near Norfolk. He was R T ] rave of Capt. Jehn rtha Washingtan's man" who insisted on carrying with him 1o the grave the eccentricities for which | | he was noted during his lifetime. Capt. | Custis was the father of Daniel Parke | Custis, first husband of Martha Wash- ington. One of the last requests, Marvin as- | serts, was that his body be lowered into | the grave fest foremost, so that the | corpse would remain always in @ standing ition. The old gentleman ordered that his last resting place be marked with & , oblong stone of simple design, on ace of which was carved: neath this marble tomb lies ye body of the Hanarable John Custls, Esq, of the city of Willlamsburg and arish of Banton, formerly of Hungar's arish, on the Eastern Shore of Vir-| ginia and the County of Northampton, e place of his nativity. wfi'l‘l “Aged seventy-one years and yet lived but seven years, which was the space of time he kept a bachelor's house at Arlington on the Eastern Shore of Virginis.” On the reverse side of the stone is the name of an English stone carver who added the following postscript: “This inscription put on this tomb by_his own itive order.” The inscriptions are framed with carved draperies, tucked at the upper corners. The lettering 15 quite distinct, al- though portions of the stone show the effect of storms which have swept across the cape during the long years intervening since its erection. The tomb nestles in a grove of old trees near the shore, and is protected by a tall iron picket fence, just large enough to enclose the grave. RGINIA OFFICIALS SEEK MILK RULES :Health Authorities Disouss | Means of Buying Food to Aid Poor in State. By the Associated Pross. RICHMOND, Va., October 35.—Offi+ clals of the Virginia Department of Public Health and the State Agrioul- ture Departmeat are now in the midst ©of an effort o effect an understanding between the cities regarding milk pre- duction for the benefit of State pre- cers With this matter in view, & meeting | of State health officers 4nd representas | tive dairymen has been called, to be held here on November 18. Investigation Being Made. Meanwhile an investigation of ditions, regulations and seurces of ply is being made under the direef of the Health Department. every city in the State has heen yisif by an engineer who has callected data to be used in the effort te arrive st uniform laws and rules. 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They're right. | Damned ordinary. | Spends Birthday Writing His Boek By this time he was stowing the | bundle in his teeth and wade into the i ocean. Fortunately there was a bar, and John could get 8 quarter mile out' before starting his swim, but there 4 Maple Bed Room Suites . (Save $31.00). Early American d esign. Ghest of Drawers and Dresser. . $77.50 Poster Bed. Dressing Table DEMAND THEIR CHILDREN Nursery Chest of Drawers . Attorney, Seeking to Get Pair From Instructor, Says Violinists Are Not “Performing Bears.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. October 25.—Ruggiero and Glorgio Riccl, violin prodogies, are. not “performing bears,” but human be- 1 entitled to a home" Edward G. , attorney for their parents, told Supreme Court Justice Dowling yester- day. Grifin asked that 'me Court Justice Valente be made render an immediate decision on a habeas eorpus the perents, Mr. and 1. stek to regain the their instructor and legal Griffin also asked that be restrained from taking the children to Cincinnati, where they are scheduled to appear in a concert next Tuesday. the defense was given until Mondsy to submit motions. Seven-Mile Rope Found. three miles it runs under the sea. is for hnuhr-m‘d.me peopk- h‘e.r; world. s e ‘The increase over 1929 in the exports ¢f leaf tobacco from the Unitcd States s wveraging about 12.5 per cent a menth. Lackey, fi::d"numv g was still a mile and a quarter to go. Bet Was for Dollar. “The sea,” said Gold, "“was smeoth and warm as a bucket of milk. e waves were fat and oily. They n’ really waves, just soft swellings. It was great for a swim, but I never had swam more than 50 feet in my life. That was my worry. But, thinks I to myself, if I can walk a mile for & cigarette 1 can swim & mile and & uarter for a dollar. The bet was a (& it in the South Pacific falls as N B Wtarted_ twilight was turni . 8t blue to purple. In 10 minutes i night. l!)ola swam conservatively because he ign't know how leng he could last. He saw by the lights on the Elsie that he was making fair progress. But a few minutes later, when a swell swung him high, he saw that he had gone no farther; that, in fact, he seemed to have gone backward. l'l'e looked back to out and no lights, lay, heaven alone knew how far back. There was nothing for John to do but continue on. Lights Grew Smaller. “T didn't think te float. I just plugged along, and I was getting mighty tired. 1 looked again at the Else. \The lights coffee into his Rold. His arm, leng and narrow, logked like a carge boo: “Well,” T said, “you can alwa job on & farm er as & watchman. Dreamy Look in Eyes. “On a farm?” A dreamy look came into his eyes. “Yes, that Would be the place for me. up.” And that's where I'll end “Eventually—why not now?” I per- isted. LB “T'll tell you, mate,” he said. “The sea 15 In my blood. When it's in your bloed ¥you can't get it out,” Nothlnt was left of a four-square meal but crumbs and & few coffes stains. H as puffing grandly at s e cigar 1 had him. “Besides,” he continued, “it ain't such swift | & bad life after all” It's wonderful what digestion can do for a man. (Copyrisht, 1830, by North American News~ aver Alfameed Prevident Trujillo Is 38. DOMINGO, public, October 25 (#P) Rafael Leonidas Trujille, tvwnu-t President of any sovereign nation, ob- served his thirty-eighth birthday an- niversary yesterday. He has held office since August 16. et unknown pilot flew his sirplane were getting smaller. 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