Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1931, Page 4

" S WASHING U - FLYERS AND WIVES URUGUAYAN FLYERS HOP FOR OKLAHOMA ON GOOD WILL TOUR Post Three Military Wiley Post, Globe Girdler “Winnie Mae” Carefully Conditioned- for World Trip—Engine Parts Prepared With Microscope. Goes to Roosevelt Field With Gatty. Music and Mousicians Reviews and News of Capital's Programs. F fiéndship Real friendship has a Thousands' Attend m_“lflmmh:n- T'HE first of » series of eight Sum- at the were heard to remark how glad they ‘were that they had come, what “a real treat” it was and such like well deserved eulogy to delight the ears Planes to and Gatty Making Non-Stop Flight to . | e e segeth, o, st |10 dar and mavke sl Bost b Visit Argentina, Paraguay of the spoasors of this affair, -Al- place in business and e previous _inst arred wthe | The actual fiying time was only & few d Bolivi though not possessing the grandeur Chickasha. R T nvl-u;:r:tl:.c'm'my 2 | hours la an olivia. of the Hollywood bowl or the glant finance. We have sought always to merit the friendship of our depos- itors, for in no business is friendship more to be desired than in banking. proportions of & New York Stadium, one wagers that there is no t this side Elysium more ideally mfid to immer musical and choreo- rs less. Tence. fo his" méoting with Harold "The: red the ship would have an Eav_ and his opportunity to circle the R ng{a figu e s hour. It did. Wiley. and his partner loitered at Wiley Post was happy when the way | Roosevelt Field several weeks waiting for was smoothed for the opportunity to|Dr. James Kimball of the United States make real the “biggest thing he could | Weather Bureau to say all was well. think of—that bug to go around the | Mec! marveled at the mechanism world.” of the Winnie Mae. Every now and With assurance of the financial back- | then Wiley, dubbed at the field the ing of F. C. Hall, his Oklahoma friend, | most “unworried man that ever flew and the spontaneous co-operation of his | across the Atlantic,” gave his plane a navigator, Harold Gatty, Post went to|casual look over, always leaving with a work in earnest shaping things for the | satisfied expression. argosy he had “dreamed of for over Then came the big moment—the four years.” dawn of June 3. To Harbor Grace, The big moment had arrived for the | Newfoundland, they streaked. Mid- young man who, as a farmer boy, had | afternoon found Wiley Post Berlin- expressed his aviation bent by Whittling | bound over the Atlantic—real action £ tered across the By Cable to The Star. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, July 9.— Uruguay is sending & squadron of three military airplanes on a mission of friendship to three nearby republics. ‘These planes, which are jolning the celebration today of Argentina's Inde- pendence day in Buenos Alres, have been ordered to proceed afterward Lo Asunclon, Paraguay, to leclnlu in l:somer independence celebration July 18. immense lawn that slopes away from Wash! Monu- ment and viewing the d plat- form and the stage proper were literally thousands who had arrived considerably before 8 o'clock to see what was what. To the left of the stage the United States Army Band, under the leadership of Capt. Wil- llam J. Stannard was assembled, and when the stage was cleared of intermittent darkness the Lisa QGardiner Dancers appeared out of nowhere and presented selections from their Winter's dancing store- house with a success that seemed to echo applause for miles around. ST. LOUIS, July 9 (#).—The ‘Winnie Mae, world-girdling plane bearing Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, passed over Lambert-St. Louis Field here at 11:08 am. today en route to Oklahoma. Post and Gatty dipped the plane to salute the field and flew on. About a mile behind was the plane bearing their wives. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, (Copyright, 1931, by The Associated Press.) graphic enterprises. Among the highlights of the danc- lnlwrmml was Frances Rands’ “Spring Son| one of those bac- hanalian run-and-jump dances, to Which she lent especial grace; the “Blue Danube,” which the Gardiner Dancers present once, twice, thrice, etc, every season and never can do o0 often, and the “Moments Musical” & nice dance done to that eternal Schubert theme song. Those tak- ing part in these and other selec- tions were Eda Vomachka, Christine Stewart, Betty Yoder, Alice Louise To avoid the appearance of partiality in the Chaco dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay. the planes will then fly July 9.—Unde- terred by an accid:nt in landing here | gue aictiare models. it s Jcgronartaried ream: | 1o 18 ey Boll e el . . Wiley Post and (Tomorrow: Wiley Post carves his| Brasil's assignment of seven planes Although one suspects that there are Hunter, Kathryn Mullowney, Be- ;:: ;e:m,g;"?rim o i O niche pigh in aviation's shining hall of | to Buenos Alres for today's celebration | easter things than dancing to band | Atrice ' Mullen, Ann_ Vucinayich, This bank seeks to be Helen Clark, Faye ers, Lora Wills, Alice Cantor, Phyllis Speich and Kathleen Plazza. was the first use of airplanes for good- will tours by South American republics, and the Uruguayan squadron four of the three republics is tha most exten- sive use yet made of aviation for this al:rpflce among Latin American coun- es. music, these brightly garbed young ladies aquitted themselves in a man- ner that should have delighted their noted teacher—who at the moment is hibernating in Spain—and pro- vided a real climax and a real @ance treat for the assembled multitude in the ballet from “Prince Igor,” a specisl arrangement of Borodin's T mr classic, not seen on these ~of -doors boards before. As a matter of fact, the elements _ put their best foot forward last - night; there were gently tempered t the task of getting his sleek 50Nl Siyen, Boppet o for RiEe- m:;:oome Winnie Ml‘e in condition €ha, Okla., at § o'clock this morning. |was the main objective. e himself was The women escaped serious injury|riding the crest of Health's wave Nor when their plane ground-looped and was f.}fl ::néfil t':‘e'flm l‘:‘“};fl’;" .:"':';‘; badly damaged. A sister ship of the|motor soothingly sang. Winnie Mae, the round-the-world plane, | It was E;n{n'mu'yo the job :'(mu.em,.,;. took the women westward. It was rushed | ticulous Gatty ) here from Indianapolis by Pilots Richard | charts, logarithms and all those things Knox and Dan McDuffey. a good navigator relishe: - As the women took off their husbands| To make perfect his plane, ley fame.) |AUTO DRIVER ADMITS KILLING TWO GIRLS (Copyright, 1931 ) By the Associated Pre: . A -— . PLATTSBURGH, N. Y., July 9.—Al- bert Nordstrom, 25, whose automobile Ordered to Pay Alimony. { perfect iy e ey oy | jumped the curb tn Morrisonville killing | ' LOS ANGELES, July 9 () - Superior | ‘were supe spent a month al e Al two little girls, was.arres! lesday. | Judge udley ntine yesterday ‘warming l:::n zn?lhglw"}:nl?%:lem'wfigg the Pacific Cosst, where he once worked | 5o admitted he was the driver and was | lowed H. H. Van Loan. acreen writer, | will make the Oklahoma hop without a |85 chief test piot. The 425-horsepow- | held on charges of manslaughter, sec- | until August 15 to make up a $800 | breezes to beguile the audience on stop. ered, supercharged motor of his Winnie | ong degree. deficit in altmony payments to Mrs,| the hill, there were handsomely Post and Gatty. seeing their wives |Mae was to be what he termed both | “'He said he thought a State tro-per | Gertrude Van Loan. In the event all| modulated lights, an occasional safely in the air, climbed into their |his “mascot and good luck charm.” It|yas chasing him and lost control of the | arrears in the $175 monthiy allowance | wastral plane overhead and only a own ship and took off for Post’s home | Was the Romany rib and of favorable gutomobile. After striking and Killing are not cleared up on that date a| minimum of flying mammalia. town at 9:19 a.m. fortune around his neck. | the girls, the machine careened down | warrant Judge Valentine issucd yesier-' a disinnce the scene was one of es- The fiyers, accompanied by their | Upon its throbbing nine cylinders he | the sidewalk for 200 yards before Nord- | day will be served, & Sines i s mAsione it backer, F. C. Hall, Oklahoma ofl man, | lavished the mass of mechanical lore | strom was able to stop it. Ilene Lucia, 8ot away without difficulty. gleaned from his working on all sorts of | 6, and Marie, her 3-year-old sister, The start of their last lap was held | engines. He even reached back 10| gieq instantly. Police quoted Nordstrom up for a time while the aviators re- | utilize that experience born of barn- | a¢ saying he had the car on order of Pl s door handle on the Winnie | storming days when he thrilled country | william Hicks to go North for a load of | Mae. The handle disappeared during |crowds with his wing-walking and para- | jiquor. the t, probably taken /by some sou- | chute leaps, and gave the right click to venir hunter. erratic motors. ™. TOWN TO FETE FLYERS. Shell of Derby Engine. 1t was only a shell of the engine that carried him to victory in the 1930 na- | tional non-stop air derby from the Pacific | | Coast_to Chicago. Parts had been re- | (#).— | placed oniy after they had been x-rayed, etched and microscopically studied. “We spent as much money on it." | Post said, “as a new engine would cost, | but we wouldn't trade it for two new ones, I'm sure.” To gain more speed he worked out | his own fuel-carrying arrangement and altered the wing _adjustment. The fuselage and five wing tanks served as gasoline receptacles. This moved the weight sufficiently to the front to DET- | p. ine Associated Press. : iy SRR Al ol e e | Selre Wi iy Mo Willhor dGiEnn Speed ing position. ¢ *nd BeUer | voliva. overséer of the Christian Cath- fashionable..at prices made possible by b e M v olic_Apostolic Church and proponent Nevs New b Do o slight negative angle of incidence | o¢ tpe"theory that the world is flat, y y. fo the wings was made to -give mOre | pos his own ideas about around-the- ‘ speed and at the same time balance (o4 fiyers. Asked about them, he the load better.” o . I | i “Around-the-world fiyers? They | S S just go_in a circle around the North Pully loaded, the ship weighed about | Pole." The trip around the Equator | 6,000 pounds with a range of 3400 miles | will be comparatively easy to make, on the 540 gallons of gas and 31 gallons | byt the trip around the earth in n of ofl which she carried. straight north-and-south direction will Spare parts assembled were valve | not be accomplished, for the reason A f nats s fi springs, bearings for engine rocker arms | that it cannot.” anc® Can be - counsellor, servant, protector and friend to its customers. In pro- moting its customers’ in- terests it promotes its own. the Sibelius “Finlandia” and selec- tions from “Chimes of Normandy,” which came the nearest to bring- ing down the house—or the slope— or whatever housed the thousands and thousands scattered within an area of & half a mile or so. E. DE 8. MELC! Regular Delivery Over 100,000 families read The Star ever day. The great ma- Jority have the paper delivered arly every evening and Sun- day morning at & cost of 1% cents dally and 5 cents Sunday. 1f you are not taking advan- m of this regular service at low rate; telephone National 5000 now and service will start tomorrow. Lincoln National Bank 7th & D Sts. 17th & H Sts, A Sale of Dresses At “Give-Away”’ Prices! $1.95 $2.95_$3.95 Dresses for daytime and evening, all as light 2s a toy balloon . . . summery and Voliva Sa).’s f;l;fers Of World Can’t Go | From Pole to Pole Chickasha, Okla., Spruces Up for Post and Gatty Return. CHICKASHA. Okla., July 9 Residents of Chickasha waited impa- tiently today for the return of Wiley Post and Harald Gatty, globe-girdling fiyers, to Oklahoma. Feted in New York and Washington, Post and Gatty, their wives and F. C. Hall, whose oil wealth made their rec- ord world flight possible, were expected to arrive at this little Southwestern Oklahoma town from Columbus, Ohio, at 3 o'clock this afternoon. In anticipation of the evert, Chicka- sha forces have worked virtually to a man and without rest since they learned, upon completion of the flight a week ago, that Chickasha. would be the first Oklahoma town to e visited. ‘The streets were cleaned, the lawns freshly groomed; the little airport southeast of town was mowed and a fence erected to keep the unwary from ‘whirling propellors. Bunting' and huge banners are up. At the Main street drugstores “Win- nie Mae” sodas and “Happy Landings” sundaes best sellers. Sponsor of ‘“Flat Plane™ Theory Scoffs at Feats | of Aviation. | | Open Only Until 2 P.M. Satur- days During July and August The Whole House Is | ~ Under Clearance Rule Il I : Prices have been extravagantly reduced to accomplish clear- | | ance for us—and at the same time providing extraordinary oppor- i it tunity for you to replenish the wardrobe. 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The food was his comment to & newspaper man who | "‘ | interviewed him in connection with come: O long. t. the opening of his twenty-sixth ob- servance of the Feast of the Taber- nacles. He began conducting the feast “If we come down in the ocean— Food won't do by find seats in Chickasha's all who ean well, 1t'll be all over, SATURDAYS argest hall— climax - |us_any good.” in 1908, when he took over the leader- o i the celebra- | ™ compasses for pllot and navigator | ship of Zion from the failing founder, 9103 d were packed, as well as other conven- | Dr. John Alexander Dowie. He has | tional instruments. There was also an | led the 10-day ceremony ever since. “artificial horizon” and a “directional | =—— gyro” to ald in fog and other blind flying. Above the place for Navigator Gatty in the back, a glass-fitted hatch was cut in the wing to let in the sky. STORM KILLS THREE MEXICO CITY, July 9 (#)—Three persons were reported killed last night and much damage done by storms and floods in various parts of the country. Three fathlities occurred at Camer- ino Mendoza. State of Vera Cruz, when lightning struck and set fire to a ‘house. Banana plantations of the Trans- continental Co. were said to have been badly damaged by a hurricane in the ‘Tuxtepec, zone. Landslides caused by heavy rains in the Barranca region of Jalisco have obliged tempomary suspension of through traffic_to Nogales, Ariz, on the Southern Pacific Lines and diffi- culties in train communication are re- Ezmd also by the National Railways various sectors. g Crape Myrtle, $1 MARYLAND NURSERY Edmonston (East Hyattsville Milton R Ney 8% &Pa. Ave. NW, Satisfied the plane was nearly per- fect, Post and Gatty headed for Roose- velt Field after about a day's sojourn in Washington. Wiley went to the Capital seeking permission to fly over Russia. 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