Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1931, Page 2

SPECIAL SESSION | WEATHER CORRALS HELDRECOVERY BAR) 672 ARMY PLANES Hoover Believes It Would Re-|New York Defense Move THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO tard Overcoming Busi- ness Depression. By the Associated Press. Because he believes a special session ©of Congress would hinder economic re- eovery, President Hoover has decided against calling one. His statement to this effect at the fegular press conference yesterday was interpreted as a direct answer to Senate Republican independents and others who have insisted an extra session should be convened to deal with unem- ployment and the depression. One of the most recent demands for an “im- mediate” assembly came earlier in the ‘week from Senator La Folletts, Wiscon- sin independent Republican. Muct Work Way Out. ‘The President said: “I do not propose to call an extra session of Congress. I know of nothing that would so disturb the healing proc- esses now undoubtedly going on in the economic situation. We cannot legislate ourselves out of a world economic de- gression; we can and will work ourselves @ut. A poll of the members of Congress | r would show that a large majority agree with me in opposing an extra session.” The presidential statement was inter- preted as leaving no room for a change of mind, and congressional leaders are making no plans for a meeting before the regular date in December. Republican leaders have insisted since before the last Congress adjourned that there was no need for a called session. Democrats, for the most part, have said it was a question for the President to decide since the power rests with him alone. La Follette Is Attacked. Some Senators held the presidential d&nnouncement to mean even that the Senate would not be convened to con- sider the World Court. The President sald he had recelved, & number of requests for a called ses- slon, principally from religious organ- izations, which he did not name. ‘The People's Lobby issued a statement today attacking Senator La Follette and other Independents with the assertion that “playing Progressive politics' with human misery is no less dastardly than playing Hoover politics with such Pacts cited by the Wisconsin Sen. ator in his support of the special ses sion, the lobby said, are no more im- perative now “than during the closing days of the last Congress, when these same e Senators could have forced this special session if they had sny nerve.” BANDITS’ ESCAPE BY PLANE FAILS $12,000 Currency Loot From Bank Recovered in Capture of Youths. By the Associated Press. TORONTO, May 23.—Two youths, ac- cused of making s getaway from s $12,- 000 bank robbery in Pontiac, Mich, in a stolen airplane, were in jeil here to- day. The money was recovered. The prisoners are Louis Kish, 31, of Detroit and Adam Morgan, 20, of Pon- tiac. Police said they had confessed the robbery and waived extradition. They were arrested yesterday as they sought to change trains after abandon- ing the stolen plane at Chatham, On- tario. ey were for Montreal. Police said Kish told them he took flying lessons at an aviation school near Detroit, obtained a to the u::ut‘ entranice of a branch of the tiac Commercial Savings Bank and stole an automobile in t. They parked the car in a fleld on the outskirts of Pontiac last Thursday and returned to Torning they wentto tap fied where y wenf eld W Kish had been lessons and stole a plane. They flew to the field where the car was parked, drove to the bank, let themselves in and waited until the six employes came to work. When the vault was cpened they herded the bank le into it. seized a bagful of money and drove to the plane. Becoming lost over Lake St. Clair in & fog, they caid, they landed at an air- ham A maid in a hotel where they found the money bag in a clothes closet with 50 $1 bills in it. Detectives were waibing for them when they stepped off the train here staggering under two heavy mew hand- bags in which the money, much of it in silver, was found. GRAIN SECRETARIAT OF WORLD PLANNED London Conferees Agree on System | for Clearing House of Wheat i Information. By the Associated Press LONDON, May 23.—Delegates of the | wheat exporting nations who have been | in session here for the past week today reached an agreement for the appoint- ment of a secretariat to act as a clear- ing house for international information, statistics and crop reports. The session continued with informal peace making, which was expected to be followed by formal adjournment cf the ! sessions early this afternoon. The delegates calling another confer- ence when the time appears more pro- pitious for reaching a solution of the world wheat crisis, but a final decision | has not yet been reached. The plan of the secretariat repre- sents a compromise between the two {actions, one of which has held out for quota restrictions on exports and the other repudiating any which might force their nationals to curtail wheat production, stepped up in wartime and maintained at peak levels “*Ted by Russi, the grain iny in, the grain-growing na- tions of the Danube Basin sought an agreement upon the quota scheme. Rus- sia insisted that these states were en- titled to their former prestige among el nations. e American delegation had held i | chaiw of aerial defense, never before {the Air’ Corps, upon which we must |rested the burden of refueling every | plane of the division one or more times | of thousands of gallons of gasoline and Off Three Hours. Put By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 23.—The war bird's most potent foeman—the weath- er—conspired today to delay the great- est Army air show in the country's history. Bogged down by sopping wet flying fields, topped by leaden skies, 672 Army planes postponed for three hours their hop-off to defend the metropolls from an_imagined enemy. For hours the high commanders of the at aerial fleet scanned the sky in the hope that skies from which dlrllzllng rain had been falling, would clear. But shortly before noon conditions continued so bad that orders were flashed to stay on the ground until 3:30 p.m. (Eastern standard time), when the airmen hope to get away. Rain Over Whole Area. The rain, beginning to fall in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn shortly after midnight, soon spread over the whole Metropolitan area. Threatening bursts of lightening added to the risk of aerial “combat.” But all planes left in the open last night to allow sleeping space the hangars for pilots, were reported undamaged by the elements. Thousands of spectators headed for the four Long Island airports—Fair- child, Mitchel, Roosevelt and Curtiss Fields—even before the flyers were out of their bunks. About 50,000 were ex- pected to be on hand to see the get- away and untold hundreds of thousands prepared to see the show from vantage points along the strategic course of the "dl;!emlve" mh:neuven. leavy bombers, swift pursuit planes and observation units were on t.hpe line ths morning on four Long Island flelds Teady to take off for a mass parade down the Hudson and a demonstration of aerial warfare over Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan. The planes moved into the New York area from Dayton, Ohio, yesterday to work out the defense problem put by the air strategists of the Army. This problem assumea that New York was in danger of attack by aircraft from airplane carriers of a hostile fleet some- where on the Atlantic. It assumed that the Navy was not available for defense ::,dmflémlt Alr gl'vlslfln was ordered o to n, Aantis ag My yton, then on the The fleet arrived yesterday in wings, pr S the g soastered suadrons in one | TFey et " hering addrees. A brief | of the largest mass movements of air- craft in.{g: history of aviation. The Ppersonnel numbered 1,400 men. Repairs Are Facilitated. ‘The orders to postpcne the maneuvers 'he.r; 4 ‘welcomed by hmlm!eds of me- cl ics laboring on planes requiring minor irs. k repairs. Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulols, in charge of the show, sald weather re- ports indicated a rapid clearing of the skies by midafternoon. d"nu Toar of mm:hmmm at wn, e morn- ing as motor after motor was warmed up. ’x;be ‘weather xepbn“r: was posted 1}1 Lht;el post operations lding at Mitcl Pleld at about noon. The wind ve- locity was 10 miles an hour on the sur- face, in a southwesterly direction. At 1,500 feet the velocity was 25 miles an hour. Visibility on the ground was five miles and ceiling at the fields 1,500 feet. There were many bresks in the skies, the cloud formation ‘would be dispersed. indicating probably ATR GROUND FORCE TESTED. BY JOSEPH . EDGERTON, Staff Correspondent of The Star. HEADQUARTERS, 1st AIR DIVI- SION, MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y., May 23 (#)~—The last great element of doubt in the operation of the Nation's aerial de- fenses was removed by the brilliant suc- cess of the Army Air Corps yesterday in transferring 672 planes of the 1st Air Division within a few brief hours from the Midwest to the Atlantic sea- coast. Within a span of 24 hours the great air force moved from Chicago across the farming land of Indiana and Ohio to Fairfield Air Depot, near Dayton, and then weathered the severe trial of a mass movement with stop-watch pre- cision across the justly feared Allegheny ranges, Waterloo of many splendid pllots. The movement of the great air di- vision, largest air force ever organized as a unit in the world. over a distance of more than 1,000 miles, the average distance traveled by the squadrons, is a source of intense gratification to the ranking officers for many Teasons. Ground Organization Test. nt lesson of the lovement is that the last link in the fairly put to the test, has been strained | to the utmost and has not yielded. The link which has been 50 sorely tried and found worthy is the ground organi- zation of the Air Corps “Never before have we had an op- portunity to test out thoroughly cur ground organization,” explained Brig. | of the division, whose handling of the movement from Chicago to the seacoast rank as one of the greatest peace- | time successes of the Air Corps. “Pre- vious maneuvers have been aimed en- tirely at the development of the tacti- cal units. They have been held for the training of our pilots in organized operation and military strategy. Test Splendidly Stood. “Today the ground organization of depend for the success of any large military operation, has stood its first great test splendidly. Every plane of the division has completed the move- ment across the mountain and seaboard States on schedule. Theorles of ground management, which in the past have been worked out only on paper, have worked in practice at a time when any slip would have spolled the chances for a perfect movement of the air force.” Upon the shoulders of those respon- sible for ground handling of the force n route, entailing the handling of tens | ofl, the supervision of landing and clearance of hundreds of planes on fast schedule, the maintenance of com- munications by radio and other methods for the checking of operations along a score of airways and the checking of planes for maintenance purposes at in- termediate points. Mountains Weary Pllots. The movement across the mountains { left a majority of the pilots thoroughly | weary after several days of intensive | operations, involving many hours of dally, and this was reflected in | the landings at the fields around New IYork. which were more rg as a3 | general rule than at any of the points 50 far visited by the various squadrons. The officers and men have been on & out firmly for a reduction in acreage as the best solution to the problem. Called at the suggestion of Canada. the international conference May 18, attended by delegates of ‘heat.- countries. here 11 wi 3 were the rigorous schedule been made decision of the War rtment to inject & large-scale military problem into the program. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, commander | __ Upper, left to right: James A. Moore of Washington, Miss Ever Louise Conner of Chicago, William J. Codd of Spokane, Wash., and James H. Pelham of Birm- ingham, Ale. Lower, left to right: Jack Emmett of New York City, Robert Rayburn of Newton, Kans., and Willlam J. Dono- hue of Herkimef, N. Y ORATORS COMPETE One Girl and Six Boys Meet| in National Contest at Constitution Hall. strictly accounted. Rear Admiral Wil- liam D. Leahy, U. 8. N., and Maj. Gen. Amos A. Pries, U. 8. A, retired, will act as officlal timekeepers, and if the whis- tle blast which they will sound when any contestant is speaking at the ex- piration of his time 1imit is ignored, the n{f!ndlnl orator will be dropped to last place, s ‘The contest finals will be opened promptly at 8 o'clock, when Randolph Leigh, director general of the contest and chairman of tonight's meeting, will ‘esent Senator Hiram Bingham, who musical interlude played by the Tech Symphony Orchestra of McKinley High School, under the faculty leadership of Dore Walten, will follow Senator Bing- ham's address, and then the contest it- | self will be launched. i Each contestant on tonight's program will receive the prize 2'2-month tour of Europe, which he won in his zone finals and the right to which he will clinch by his lrpnnnu in the national finals. The victor in tonight's contest will participate in the final meeting of the Sixth International Oratorical Con- | ‘u?bte in Constitution Hall here next Oc- T, Sponsors of Contest. | ‘The National Oratorical Contest is | sponsored in the United States by lead- | ing newspapers and by prominent edu- cational and professional organizations. | Besides those represented in tonight's | finals, the sponsors whose representa- tives pnmud in the earlier elimi- nation gs_include: Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Constitution, University of Vermont, Springfield Union, New Bedford Times, Oklahoma City Dally | Oklahoman, Louisville Courier-Journal, | Cairo Evening Citizen, Danville Com- mercial-News, Great Falls Tribune, Portland Oregonian, Salt Lake 'g'fl;:on;, | n Every Evening, Minne Ml Assoclation, Indiana State Bar Association, Illinois State Journal, University of Florida, Quincy Herald- ‘Whig, Elgin Courier-News, Peoria Jour- nal-Transcript, Fargo Forum, Utica Daily Press, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Des Moines ister, Columbus Dis- patch, Idaho ucational Association, El Paso Herald-Times, Appleton Post- Crescent, Antigo Journal, Ashland Press, Baraboo News-Republic, Beaver Dam Citizen, Beloit News, Berlin Journal, Chippewa Herald-Telegram, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, Fond Du Lac Commonwealth, Green Bay Press- Gazette, Janesville Gazette, Kenosha News and LaCrosse Tribune Leader- Press, Wisconsin State Journal, Mani- towac Herald News, Marinette Eagle- Star, Marshfield News-Herald, Merrill Herald, Monroe Times, Oshkosh North- western, Portage Register-Democrat, Racine Journal-News, _ Rhinelander News, Sheboygan Press, Stevens Poin¥ Journal, Stoughton Courier-Hub, Su- perior Telegram, Two Rivers Reporter, Watertown Times, Waukesha Freeman, | Wausau Record-Herald, Wisconsin Rap- ids Tribune and Amarillo Daily News. PRESI[;ENT, IN CAMP, RADIOS EULOGY OF CORNELL WAR DEAD (Continued Prom First Page) “These young men of the Tinkham unit were typical American boys. Their xperiences and their reactions typify the response of American youth every- where in the hour of crisis. Volunteers sprang up right and left: young men eagerly offered to risk their future— their lives—because they wanted to do their man's share in a crisis of the world. Without on atom of selfishness they sought to carry out their ideal of manhood. It involved hardships, dan- ger, even death, but they were un- afrald. With heads erect, with vibrant tread, they left their training camps “Aljve with purpose, alive with honor, alive with faith, their only anxiety was how quickly they could get over ther They had no illusions about what wi ahead of them. Life to them had been sweet, joyous and care free. Tomorrow it might be ended. Yet they never faltered, and gave up all for a cause which they believed to be right. There was no searching for hidden motives or for ulterior purposes. They accepted whatever came, with a smile, and they did not ask questions. They had no hatred in their hearts, but they went about their job with a full resolve to play the man's part in a terrible busi- ness. Patriotism and Devotion. “Their patriotism never wavered, but rather their devotion grew and found |p, its way back to the quiet campuses which they had left in the full flush of their youthful enthusiasm. “To them and to all those from Cor- nell who followed them we didicate this memorial. In speaking for the Cornell dead I am drawing the attention of | this Nation to all its university war | dead; indeed, to all our youth who went over, never to come back. “In this memorial, as in all our other | memorials, we do not seek to glorify war or to perpstuate hatreds. We are commemorating not war, but the cour- l’! and the devotion and the sacrifice of those who gave their lives for their fellows and for their country. We raise these because we are able to remember the ideals which possessed us at the Because of adverse weather the pilots have lost & day set aside here for rest and maintenance of the planes and, after a hard schedule for today, are unhrwdmmmmunlonum’lmd tomorrow. One of the purposes of the ers was to test the stamina of teriel, and in this di- maf l#unv.hnrequu-nm time, We do not condemn our own action or belittle the high motives and ideals which based our efforts when we acknowled that the war was a c-m-l trophe, you have built a loving their memory, We can glory, but we and our be the better foy remembering ument to . HOOVER T0 GONFER fe in_the scenes which they loved | ’ t 23 - ON POSTAL DEFICIT | Postmaster General and | Philp Ride to Rapidan Camp 1 With President. President Hoover left the White House shortly after breakfast this morning to spend the week end at his Rapidan fishing camp in Virginia, where he will be engaged in the third of a series of conferences incident to the governmental economy program. The conference this week end will be with the Postmaster General and the | four Assistant Posmasters General, to determine what can be done to reduce the operation expenses of the Post Office Department, which on June 30 next will have a deficit of more than $140,000,000. In the automobile with Mr. Hoover | on the ride to his mountain retreat were Postmaster General Brown and W. Irving Glover and J. W. Philp, Sec- and Fourth Assistant Postmasters Gen- eral. Secretaries Theodore G. Joslin | and Lawrence Richey, with Capt. Joel T. Boone, White House physician, fol- | lowed in another car. Mrs. Hoover, | with Herbert Hoover, jr, and his wite, | went to the Rapidan camp yesnerdly,‘ | Before leaving the White House the | President made a hurrled visit to his | office, where he was absorbed for nearly | 15 minutes in studying papers which had arrived overnight and required his | immediate attention. Arch Coleman and F. A. Tilton, Pirst and Third Assistant Postmasters Gen- eral, will arrive at the camp during the forenoon and attend the confer- | ence. The remainder of the week end party will include Col. Theodore Roose- velt, Governor of Porto Rico, and Mrs. | Roosevelt; Maj. Gen. Lejeune, former | commandant of the Marine Corps; Mrs. | Lejeune and Miss Lejeune; Prof. Wil- | liam Starr Myers, professor of political philosophy at Princeton, and Mrs. Myers: Edsel Ford, automobile magnate, and Mrs. Ford; Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Cole- | man and Mrs. Tilton. | ‘The President and his companions | left for the fishing camp with over- | coats in the anticipation of chilly | weather in the mountains. They expect to return tomorrow nigh | |Y.M.C.A. UNIT PRESENTED | | v | Branch Formally Given to Colored Citizens. A colored community branch of the | Young Men's Christian Association, to |bs known as the Anthony G. Bowen | branch in honor of the first Y. M. C. A. | colored worker, was formally nted last night to c:lirea citizens of South- Community east and Southyest Washington. The presentatibn took place at Ran- dall_Junior High School, with R. B. De Frantz, segretary in charge of col |ored work of the national organiza. | tion, making the principal address. The branch was founded as a result of the development by colored youth of the Rialto Club, organized four | years ago by Mrs. Mary Proctor. For- | mal application to the board of man- |agers of the Y. M. C. A. for entrance into that body was made three months ago. j Deaths Iieportca. | (nThe Joowing deaths have been reported to the Healfh Department in the last 34 hours: | B Walker Tucker. 83, 3301 P st Mary Ferreil, 81. 121 3rd st. n.e Walter Byron. 76, Tuberculosis Hospital. udwarth. 73. 37 U st. 68, 1471 Irving st. 1408 8 st. 8. bbin, 49, 3428 14th st. fT, 7. 3524 13th st V. ‘and ‘Anna Btevens, ‘oleman, 55 Preedmen's Hospital. 32 st se ph D. 24 3rd st | | Jo 48, grounds Mt. Aito Hos- Lucy Dudiey, 41, Emergency Hospital. Clara Price. 40, 'Preedmen‘s Hospital | ncil. 36 9277 New .’ Preedm | Boriges, 20, 1203 Thfi follow) ! the Health ntonio = s boy. oféc‘?: h‘u:bu (diogsi aliichs Bii vor an T. and Nel Falls, boy. y. 8 - 4 iy i Horm N ":‘k Sris ina He! : i Ay ) i1 rted to Rnoun? 0y. llli James H. iola George and Jannie NEARLY $700,000,000 IMPORTS IN CLASS U. S. MAY DENY ENTRY (Continued From First Page.) roducts of convict or forced labor have 'n indicated recently by the contro- versy over exclusion of Russian lumber. American lumber interests have hom- barded the Treasury Department to shut out absolutely lumber from the BSoviet country. In turn, there have been threats from Russia to cut off enormously valuable purchases of goods in the United States if her lumber is excluded. Caught between two fires, the Treasury Department has been in a difficult position and not long ago, in a case su] d to be & test, admitted a ufl; of lumber from Southern Russia. new law is an amplification en- largement of provisions which have been in force for some years to pro- hibit importations of all goods, wares, articles and merchandise mined, pro- duced or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor, forced labor or indentured labor under penal sanctions. In effect, it is intended to shut out products of in- voluntary labor as to which there is a penalty for non-performance. Not only are direct importations from the country or origin affected, but im- portations which come through a third country. Indirect imj itions present questions of much inistrative difM- culty. One effect of the expansion of the convict labor provisions, it -is pointed out, would be to exclude dia- monds from British South Africa. The whole situation is complicated, however, by the fact that a ;nmlon was put into the law to the effect that the prohibition shall not apply to goods which are not luced in the United States in sufficient quantities to meet the consumptive demand. It is a very vague proposition likely to embarrass Treasury officials still further in their interpretation of the law. MIDDLETON CASE DELAYED 5 DAYS Former Patrolman, Eliminat- ed in Slaying, Faces House- breaking Charge. Eliminated last night as a uusrect in the assassination of Jack Cunnin ham, police informer, Former Patrol- man Wallace J. Middleton was ar- raigned in Police Court today before Judge Gus A. Schultz on a house- breaking charge growing out of allega- tions that he helped Cunningham loot & speakeasy on 't near Twelfth street several weeks ago. The case was put over by Judge Schultz until Wednesday on motion of Assistant District Keough, who explained there were “several angles” of the housebreaking ;hm w‘m‘d‘flhuhh‘d to investigate uj . e ‘was represented b Attorney Charles E. Ford 3 S Alibl Checked by Police. After checking an alfbi which placed Middleten in a nearby lunchmemn'hen Cunningham was shot down early Tues- day near Fourteenth and I streets, po- lice booked the former officer on the housebreaking charge at No. 1 precinct ::“l']‘ night and he was liberated in $3,000 all, Milton Yudelevit, said to have told police he was in charge of the premises :gbbed l‘l’y llw; thinmi’wl& entered on e police 5 as the complainant against Middleton. i Vernon B. Hawks, 28 years old, of New York avenue near Ninth street, was still being held today by first pre- cinct police, who hoped to obtain in- formation from him of the shooting in a tfxnkeuy several days ago of gurt Smith. Hawks is said to have denied bei esent at the time, . ! )(m ton, t'm Iulpenl(on°d follow- ng his arrest was approved yesterds: the District Comm\-lonen.’hu GEY clined to comment on charges that he participated with Cunningham in hi- | Jacking activities. Implicated by Cunningham. The ‘former policeman was implicated in the killing by a death bed statement of Cunningham, in which the police informer intimated that Middleton shot him. Police said, however, it was not the first time Cunningham had given ve. |them a “bum steer.” Prelim! examination of an old Army .45 revolver, found by a work- man Tuesday on Lincoln road north- east, revealed that the weapon had been discharged recently, according to detectives of the homicide squad. ‘The gun was turned over to Capt. John Fow.er, ballistics expert, for com- ?lfllon with a .45 caliber slug taken rom Cunningham's body. A report on Fowler's findings was expected later today. Cunningham, a avenue south- b T e, et m lor Monday morning at the District by was sworn in ingham’s death bullet wound in the abdomen, Attorney Michael | GLOBE FLYERS SET FOR EARLY HOP-OFF Gatty and Post, on Way to New York, Sure They Will Beat Dirigible Record. “Certainly we will make it . . . we have probably the best equipped plane ever used in a world flight and further more we want to take the récord away from the big balloon,” said Harold Gatty and Wiley Post at the Washing- ton Afrport today as they waited for the motor of their craft to warm up areplrlwry to hopping off for New ork. The two fiyers, who arrived here yes- terday from Oklahoma via Columbus, Ohio, expect to make a 10-day trip around the world in an effort to lower the present record held by the Graf Zeppelin. Post, winner of last year’s Los Angeles-Chicago air derby, will handle the controls. Gatty, a gradu- ate of the Australian Naval Academy, pwill navigate. Their monoplane was wheeled out of a hangar this morning at 8 o'clock and one hour later Post had her off the ground after a short run down the field and headed immediately for New York. There they will confer with F. C. Hall, Oklahoma City oil man, who is financ- ing the flight. He is now en route to the metropolis by rail. Ready for Start. Just before climbing into the cockpit Post repeated a statement made yes- terday while conferring with diplo- matic officials here that “the motor is in perfect shape and never functioned smoother than on the flight from Okla- homa. We are absolutely ready and | will leave New York the minute the weather looks right. After we get start- ed we will go through almost any kind of weather.” On the entire 16,000-mile flight they | contemplate stops only at Harbor Grace, | Newfoundland; Berlin, Moscow, Novo Sibirsk and Yakutsk, Siberia; Nome, Alaska; Edmonton, Alberta; Cleveland and New York. Gasoline and oil sup- plies at these points already have been arranged. The flyers came here to apply, through the British embassy, for authority to fly over Soviet Russia and Siberia. ‘This rmission, however, had been grant befcre they set the monoplane’s wheels down at the Washington Air- port,. At the last minute, after they had conferred with Secretary Stimson and other diplomatic officials, it devel- oped through a misunderstanding, no application had been made to Poland for permission to fly over her territory, and State Department officials arrahged for this permission to be given the fiyers when they reach Berlin. | May Start Tuesday. Gatty said this morning they were keen to get away from New York either Tuesday or Wednesday, and immedi- ately after refueling at Harbor Grace they ex) longest leg of their venture, the 2,800- mile hop to Berlin. He said the plane was equipped to carry 540 gallons of gasoline and has a cruising speed of 160 miles an hour. He estimated that they have “almost a 100 per cent margin on fuel” for their long fight to Berlin. Every article not absolutely necessary has been dis- carded, even to their parachutes and the engine starter. ‘The flyers completed arrangements early today before going io the air- port with the National Aeronautic As- sociation for an official check of their departure from and return to New York City. The plane will carry a radio _set, with a call letter KHRDW. It will have a transmitting frequency of 35!z meters with 10-watt power. The fiyers said they will be able to receive on either high or low wave length. Two Flyers Climb 23,000 Feet After One Air Tank Fails Share Remaining Tube in Picture-Taking Flight Over New York. By the Assoclated Press. MITCHEL FIELD, N, Y., May 23.— Sharing their lone effective oxygen tank and tube, two Army aviators soared over New York City yesterday at an altitude of 23,000 feet, a height at which human lungs cannot function without arti- , | fietal aid. Shortly after Capt. Albert W. Stevens, off, the lieutenant's oxygen tank Contiguing their two alter- the remaining tube in d completed their of pho! = the city. Twends-Ave svpotgres mere inkeny blew out a gasket. flight, however, the ited in RIDER HAS CLOSE RECEIVER NAMED CALL IN FIRE JUMP| FOR MAYFLOWER ct to take to the air for the |y, Cavalryman’s Spill Provides Thrilling Climax at Horse Show. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. PLEASANT HILL FARM, Md., May 23.—A near-tragedy, in which a trooper from Fort Myer narrowly escaped se- rious burns or death in the blasing wreckage of a fire jump, furnished a breath-taking climax for the second day of the Worthington Valley Horse Show and stole the spotlight from the equine performers here yesterday. Cavalrymen from the Virginia post had completed an exhibition of trick and rough riding and were putting thcir mounts over a flaming barrier and through a burning archway to gain the outside course when a faltering animal upset the jump. Pvt. Edward Anderson wids unseated and he rolled across a burning board from the de hed barrier and, ap- e mass of crackling timbers just beyond. Unseen to hose in the stands on the far side of the fleld, however, he stopped in a tiny clea between the two fires and unseathed. Woman Hurt in Spill. Another spill occurred earlier in the afternoon when a horse which Mrs, George A. Saportes of Monkton, Md., was schooling over an outside jump became frightened by a sudden blaring of band music and bolted. She was taken to a Baltimore hospital to be treated for shock and bruises. Washington horses falled to break into the blue ribbon class, but se ondary awards were collected by ex- hibitors from the Capital area, includ- ing the 3d Cavalry at Fort Myer. On Tip, the gelding jumper of E. E. Adamson of Washington, were pin- ned three white ribbons, representing fourth places in as many jumping classes over barriers at heights ranging from 4 feet 3 inches to 5 feet. Papoose, owned by Mrs. C. D. Herron of Bethesda, Md., and Gold Foyle, shown by Percy M. Niepold of Washington, combined to take third place in the pairs hunters and jumpers’ class, in which a team from Fort Myer, Garcon and Sir Knight, was second. The 3d Cavalry’s mounts picked up one other red ribbon for second place and a pair of yellows for thirds in the jumping classes, Squire, a gray gelding, getting two of these awards. Squire was second in the jumpers’ sweepstakes and third in the $500 jumpers’ stake, while a stablemate, Flash, was third in the jumping class staged over 4-feet-6-inch Jumps. Trillora Farm Entries Score. ‘Three blue ribbons and an equal num- ber of yellows were won by Trillora Farms, Shrewsbury, N. J., horses with By Request triumphing in three classes to account for all of the blue awards. Richard K. Mellon’s Rolling Rock Farms of Ligonier, P ‘was second three blues and a yellow, Birdcatcher, Laurel and Stralde Gift winning tkeir classes to earn their first blue ribbons of the show for Mellon. A number of horses are entered by exhibitors from Washi in the three $500 stakes for saddle horses and hunters, which will feature the :Lulnl of the three-day meet here to- iy Karl W. Corby has entered Noble Roland in the $500 stake for saddle horses 152 hands -and over; Easter Morn, in the middle and heavyweight hunters stake and Sarilou Smart, in the stake for saddle horsés over 14.2 hands and under 15.2 hands. Happy Time, shown by W. PFrank Burrows of Washington, and Vernon G. Owen’s Harrlet Lee, are also show in the latter stake. SPRING CONC.ERT GIVEN Interesting and Varied Program I3 Presented at Willard Before Large Audience. The Lovette Choral Club, under the | direction of Eva Whitford Lovette, with Elsie Cranmer, accompanist, gave its fourth annual Spring concert last night at the Willard Hotel before & large and eager audience. An interesting and varied program included selections by T. S. Lovette, in whose memory the club was named; Schubert, Schumann, Greig, Strickland and the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Han- del’s “The Messiah.” soloists were Mary Randolph Ruff, Audrey Koons, Nellie Barber Brooks and Ethel Lynn Fast and inci- dental solos were provided by Fay Bruce Swenson, Beulah Burton Smith, Lorena Stockton Gawler, Thelma Mills Rector and Lucy Mayo. During the “Swanee River” number Vincent De Honestis played a violin obbligato and two flute obbligatos were played by Rob- ert Nelson Brevinger later on in the program. Members of the choral club who took part in_the concert included Mrs. J. Lester Brooks, president of the club; Mrs. Paul Brumbaugh, Mrs. Charles . Burnside, Downer, Mrs, Mrs. P rs. Lucy Mayo, Hattle 5 . Frank Nye, Clara Riese, Mrs. Valentine Ruff, Mrs. Blucher W. Rector, Mrs. Iorwerth Roberts, Mrs. Roy L. Swenson, Carolyne Schulte, Maregert C. Smith, Mrs. George H. Smith, Janice Stockton, Mrs. H. E. Van Horn and Mrs. Louis H. Volland. WHITE HOUSE WORKER'S DAUGHTER IS BURIED Mrs. Kenneth Coe Died Thurs- day at Charlotte, N. C. ¥uneral services for Mrs. Kenneth S. Coe, formerly Miss Ruth McCabe, of Army Air Co hotograph expert, and | day. m John g&rkm. ,ltih pilot, had ¥ " ctton. this city, were to be held this afternoon in the S. H. Hines Co. funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street. Burial was to be in Glenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Coe, who died Thursday. in Charlotte, N. C., was the daughter of John McCabe of the White House clerical staff. She had lived in Charlotte for eight years. 8he 15 survived by her husband, her parents, three children, Catherine, Mary Jane and Kenneth 8. Coe, Jr., and two )\Bllherl. Mrs. Ethel Tolson and Mrs. Doris owen. | STORM DAMAGES CROPS Rain and Hail Beat Down Cotton in South Carolina. COLUMBIA, 8. C., May 23 (#). damage w -EX- tensive done to cms: in sections of South - t and early to- lO the York vicinil Many M, 5 or] o] N, firmm:a&y would have among the high scorers of the day with | the hotel BY LOVETTE CHORAL CLUB | on Hotel Company to Fight Ac- tion of Group Represented by Mrs. Willebrandt. The Mayflower Hotel today was under & temporary receivership, following the filing late yesterday of a petition on be- half of five bondholders, who, it is de- clared, take this step as protection against & proposed new financial set-up. Following close on their action, notice came from Willlam E. Leahy, counsel for the Mayflower Hotel Co., the own- ers, that the receivership would be fought, and that the “vast majority” of second-mortgage bondholders would line up with the company against the re- ceivership applicants, who are represent- ed by Mrs. Mabel We%er Willebrandt. Justice Oscar R. Luhring of District Supreme Court, who granted the tem- porary recelvership, named Thomas P. Littlepage and Joshua Evans, jr., to take over the property pending outcome of the court action, which is designed to have the hotel placed permanently in the hands of receivers or of a up. of stockhoiders. i, Bond Company Receiver Named. The move here was concurrent with court action in Chicago, where the Fed- eral District Court apj ited a receiver for the American Bond & Mortgage Co., which financed the Mayflower and which, according to the owns the Ma T . hotel is operated by the Mayflower Ho- tels Corporation, a subsidiary, which is also a defendant. The complaining bondholders in the action here areé Ernest C. Mulvey and George R. Ellis of North Attieboro, Mass.; G. Wallace Tibbetts of Boston, Franklin P. Noyes of Waterville, Me., and John D. Colgan of New York. The bond company is to be owned by William J. and Hattie Moore, Harold A. Moore, Kenneth W. Moo: Katheryn Moore and Cl all of whom are with the comj In her petition, Mrs, Willebrandt sets out that the first bond issue was floated for the hotel in 1922 and operations begun in 1925. May, 1928, she says, when the rea- sonable market value of the property was $6,300,000, the bond issues and l;!llge‘;o oincumbrancu amounted to $7.- Charges Intent to Cheat. At that time, she said, the defendants floated first and second e Inuu“ o]r s;r.om;;ooo and 32.1400, ot mr; spectively for the purpose of “en: themselves and with the intent to trick, cheat and defraud the inves .’ Her petition adds that the ing the bonds was $! in addition, old encum! 175,000 were paid off, with the result that the defendants “enriched them- " to the extent of $1,625,614.55. The defendants, it is further con- tended, knew that they could not comply with the terms of repayment, because “had been uuummg' op- erated during the whole of its tory and operation.” Alleged losses of approximately $300,- 000 in 1927 and $460,000 in 1928 are cited in support of this argument, and the assertion made that they would have been $100,000 greater had proper allowance been made for depreciation. 1In all, petitioners say, the bonded in- debtedness of the hotel is at the rate of $9,537 per room, exclusive of the public Tooms. ' Outlined. - tion in the proposed reorganiza gmz ocourt is told that on March 1, last, the defendants organized “The Mayflower, Inc.” and four days later mailed notice to the bondholders of & “fraudulent* plan of reorganization. Bondholders who will not agrze to this reorganization are to be “frozen out,” it is contended, while the plan, it is de- clared, is to derive solely to the profit of the operators, and would remove safe ds the holdings of the second olders now enjoy and throw the losses on them. Interest due on the bonds April 1, was not paid, eccording to the peti- tion. Interest due on the bonds, April 1, was not paid, according to the mflflm The bonds are said to be held by people all over the country, and unless the court acts immediately, the petition says, the defendants may destroy or secrete the books of the concern or may squander $200,000, now held by the Mayflower Hotel Co. The petitioners believe that the ho- tel may be made to pay opeuungl eX- penses and make some return to them- selves, it is set out, and the court is asked to enjoin the operation of the establishment by the receivers, or any attempt to b other legal action be- cause of the default of the bond pay- ments or failure to pay taxes. The Mayflower is one of the best known hostelries in the country and has entertained many celebrities. Vice President Curtis makes his home there. Management Not Affected. Danlel J. O'Brien, president and man- aging director of the hotel, issued a atement today calling attention to the fact that the receivership order does not affect the management of the institu- tion. t should be distinctly understood that the managing company is not in receivership. The order was granted against the owning company (the May- flower Hotel Co.) and not the managing company (the Mayflower Hotels Cor- poration of America). “The managing company has & 23- year lease,” O'Brien said, “and guaran- tees to its patrons the same high - ards of management which have ‘given the institution an international reputa- tion. “The present receivers assert no claims whatsoever to interfere with this management.” 3 RECEIVER APPOINTED. CHICAGO, May 23 (#).—Federal James H. Wilkerson appointed the Chi- cago Title & Trust Co. receiver for the American Bond & Mortgage Co. yester- day. Application for a receivership made by H. T. Clarke, a creditor. company’s affairs were placed in ¢! of protective committees in August, 1929, and the Department of Justice reeently undertook an examination of the coli- duct of its business by the company's former officers. 2 ‘The American Bond & Mortgage Qo. consented to the receivership, sta that best interests of all parties wo be served “by an orderly administration looking toward an vltimate reorganiza- .. BAND CONCERT. il By the United States Soldiers' : Military Band this evening at the stand at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. - mermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, Mareh, “Anchors Awaigh, faveh, * » C. A. Zi Overture, “Beautiful Gi tion, “The