Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1931, Page 4

AR'Z00' ATTRACTS VISITORS AT RACES Exhibition Gives Glimpse Into Past, Present and Fu- ture of Aviation. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON, Aviation Editor of The Star. /ELAND AIRPORT, September 1 mense greenswarded airport, covering some 1,100 acres of flat Ohio farm land, has become a sort of aero- pautical zoological park, with peculiar- looking _aircratt in fenced-off spaces Jeering through the palings at & myrlac goggle-eyed humanity. The ciief dif- ference between this spectacle and that 2 old--fashioned zoo 15| S ety eating all their that the spectators are S peantits—if they can afford pea- uts to eat. P S hen not actually in fiight, the ar- planes participating in the bewildering array of events making up this great- est of acronautical shows are staked down in serrid ranks e ending from bere to way over yonder. where CHfT Henderson's _gaudily uniformed fleld people dwindle down to nothing at all and the airplanes become merely a sort of varicolored hedge row on the far edge of a mile-long plain. Like Fortune Telling. A walk along this line is much like a visit to_the den of an acronautical fortune teller: it gives you a glimpse of aviation's past, present and future There are airplanes which have made history in the last few years. There are irplanes which " are making history today. There also are airplanes of types new and as yet virtually untried, which are forecasts, perhaps, of the alrcraft which will fill the skies tomorrow. There are among the Motley array of aircraft such ancients as the ox- powered trainers of post-war vintage. one of which came to an inglorious (_l\d yesterday afternoon in a dead stick janding contest. The contestants were Tequired to land to a bull's-eye on the field without the use of motor or brakes. The old-timer came in too high and the pilot. attempting to kil his speed, stalled and slipped squarely into the circle on one wing tip. A fast ground loop and the poor old erate settled down dejectedly on_the bull's-eye at en angle which bespoke wounds too deep for the surgeon's knife. An abashed pilot clambered out to superintend the towing away of the wreck. Flyer Ts Disqualified. One of the officials of the contest asked whether the landing, which was the only one in the circle, was to be allowed, rgplied tersely: “Nope, he's disqualified. It was a contest without brakes. He broke.” ! There are many airplanes which have figured in aviation history, one of the most recent of them being that of Russell Boardman and John Polando, the Cape Cod, in which they estab- lished the world's non-stop distance record between New York and Istan- bul, Turkey. z One of the interesting spectacles, in- trocucing what many claim will be the raft of tomorrow, has been forma- tion flying by autogiros, those new wind- | nill planes. Six of them have been present at the races, two of the noted | autogiro pilots being James G. Ray “eroft, who landed in the White Hous and Capitol Grounds in Washington, and Amelia Earhait Putnam. | There are many new-type high-speed | planes of all sizes, many of them the low-wing racing type. which is begin- ning to appear on the Nations trans- port lines in answer to demand for greater and still greater speeds. Tak- ing advantage of perfect stream lining and design, they are able to achieve igreat speed with relatively little horse *power. obviously the goal which th aircraft industry must reach for future I success. Marines Show Gameness, The Marines of Fighting Plane Squad- ron 9 from Quantico, Va., continued - their demonstration of gameness, which characterized the crash Sunday created two new caterpillars when Lieut. L. H. Sanderson and Lieut. W. O. Brice took to their parachutes to save their lives. Equipped with two new planes, Sanderson and Brice were back in their places yesterday afternoon and the * squadron ‘went through the identical maneuver, which resulted in the crash IRICHENBACKER MEETS UDET, GERMAN ACE Air Enemies of 15 Years Ago Shake Hands as Friends at Cleveland Races. Flying With Von Richthofen, | Stocky Major Shot Down © 62 Allied Planes. - By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 1.— | Two fighting men, enemies in Prance 13 years ago, had met and made it up teday. Yesterday, for the first time since ! their combat days in the World War, | Col. “Eddie” Richenbacker and Maj. | Ernst Udet greeted each other as friends. It wasn't much of a meeting, prob- ably, to those who like their meetings well spiced. But the effulgent were | suddenly silent as the two aces gripped i hands and looked into each other’s eyes. | They made a striking pair. Richen- | backer, tall. dark and faciturn; Vdet, | short and almost pudgy, like a jovial Santa Claus without the whis'ers, | | whose daring has made him a favorite | with the crowds at the national air | races. At Chateau Thierry, Soissons and St, Mihiel they opposed each other. Rich- enbacker shot down 26 German planes and Udet, who fought in company of Baron von Richthofen, is credited wkh 162 allled ships. | "I am glad to meet my old enemies | 1 who have now become my friends,” Maj. | Udet said in soft, clipped English, speak- | ing into a microphone. There was more, | jand then very quaintly, he concluded | with * something that ' sounded like o | “by “I'm tickled to death to see him,” ob- served Richenbacker., “——to think | that we're both alive. Today will teach young America what it means to have | been an enemy, and then have the priv- flege of shaking hands with one as a | friend. We are proud to be friends now.” They shook hands, then, and for | about 10 seconds stood eye to eye. And that was how ace met ace 13| years after a pretty tough war. | AND FOE IN WAR COL. EDWARD RICHENBACKER. MAJ. ERNST UDET. Sings Here | SYRIAN COMPOSER IN U. S. ON CONCERT TOUR. | PROF. MITRIE MOURRE, Noted Syrian poet, composer and sing- | er, who has come to Washington during the course of a concert tour to sing at the Knights of Pythias Hall Sep-| tember 14. The first singer at the Syrian Greek Orthodox Church at Beirut, Prof. | Mourre is one of the best known com- posers and singers in the Near East| today. He was awarded a first prize in 1919 for composing the Syrian national anthem and again in 1920 for writing “The Royal March of King | continuance of HANDICAPS KEPT BY DERBY FLYERS Continuance Voted Despite Charges of Unfairness From Minority. By the Associated Pres: CLEVELAND, Ohio, September i-— Despite warm arguments against the use of handicaps in an airplane speed derby, there was a vote of 21 to 5 on | record -today from pilots who arrived Sunday for the derby from Santa Monica, Calif., favoring the continued use of the handicap system. Disqualified in Race. Gladys O'Donnell of Cleveland, who was disqualified from winning when the race was half over, was in a minority with four other fiyers when the vote | was taken at a meeting last night. The race was_won by Phoebe Omie, Memphis, Tenn Several times the session threatened to et out of the control of the chair- man, Florence Barnes of San Marino, Calif. Finally, Louise Thaden, Has- brouck Heights, N. J, a derby entry, took the floor. “Let's all be good sports and sto quibbling like children,” she said. “I've ied not to gripe and I think we al should adopt the same attitude about this derby.” Makes Plea for Harmony. Miss Thaden urged that the pilots profit by this year's experience and turn their attention toward forming ac- ceptable rules for next year. Those of the pilots who voted for IFIVE-OF CHILDREN | DEFEND MRS. JONES {Daughters Take Stand to Aid Mother, Accused of Murder. By the Associated Press. AMELIA COURT HOUSE, Va., Sep- tember 1.—Three daughters and two sons of Mrs. Jeston Allen Jones yester- day took the witness stand to defend her against a charge of murdering her husband, J. Will Jones, last January 8. Their testimony, for the most part, was directed against credibility of that pre- viously given by her son Robert, who said his mother plotted his father’s death and even urged him to commis the crime. Oscar Jones, who was indicted with his mother, took the stand for the de- fense late yesterday after being advised that he need not appear unless he de- sired. Commonwealth Attorney Gen- eral K. Taylor subjected him to a rigid | examination. Charles Jones also was called. Others Defend Mother. | Mrs. Antonce Ordonez of La Paz, Bolivia; Mrs. Emily Rickman and Mrs. Caroline De Haven of Carroll County, Va., aligned themselves with their mother and told of Robert’s conversa- tions with them and of alleged demands for money. “Robert told me,” said Mrs. Ordonez, wife of a former secretary of the Bo- livian consulate at New York, “that he had it all in his hands; that if mother comes across everything will| be all right. He said he wanted some- | | thing besides words: that it took money to go to school and get somewhere in the future.” | Senor Ordonez testified that Robert | said if his mother assured him money enough to go to school he would have ! nothing more to do with the case. ‘ Worth $10,000. | Mrs. De Haven quoted Robert as| saying it would be worth $10,000 to | the Jones family to prosecute Richard | Lee, a colored farm hand, now serving | 20 years for the murder, because of | the ‘double indemnity provisions of an | insurance policy. Robert Jones tes-| tified that his mother told him she planned to have Richard Lee kill his | father. | The prosecution began a counter- attack by assailing the testimony of | | Mrs. Rickman. After asking if she had | ever written of the death of her father | ac a murder and receiving negative re- | plies, Commonwealth Attorney Taylor | introduced a letter written to Robert | which the witness identified as her own. It referred to the death of Mr. Jones as a murder and sald “Papa’s family, ex- cept grandpa, is as crooked as She denied that she wrote Robert about money to build a house. Mrs. Jones listened intently while her daughters were on the stand. Her hus- | band, J. Will Jones, prominent dairy- | man, was shot to death in bed the night of January 8. Mrs. Jones and her son Oscar were arrested after Rich- ard Lee in his trial charged that he was offered $25 by them to commit the murder. “GRATITUDE” OF FRIEND COSTS WATCH AND CHAIN, | | | | | Columbus, Ohio, Man Misses Valu- | ables After Being Thanked Effusively for Loan of $1. | The “gratitude” of a friend cost | Martin J. Walker of Columbus, Ohio, his watch and chain yesterday, he re- | perted to police | Walker arrived here Sunday and engaged a room at one of the missions. There he struck up friendships with several men One of these “friends” accosted him on the street yesterday and asked for $1 to buy something to eat. Walker handed over the $1 and start:d to walk away. | ‘The “friend,” however, ran after him and insisted vn shaking his hand with effusive expressions of gratitude. A few minutes later Walker found his watch, chein and penknife gone, | lifted, he thinks, during the hand- | shaking. | He can D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1931. Land Safely After Air Crash FLYERS TAKE TO 'CHUTES AS PLANES FALL. H. L. SANDERSON (upper inset), Lieut. W. C. Brice (lower crashed while flying in formation at the National Air Races Sunda I1IEUT. 8. | inset) and ruins of the former's plane, photographed after the fi Both men landed safely in parachutes. —A. P. Photos. |MOTORSHIP FOUNDERS ON LAKE HURON REEF U. 8. Lifeboat Takes Off Thres of Crew and Rest Reach Shore in Ship's Boat. By the Associated Press, SOUTHAMPTON, Ontario, September 1.—Rolling helplessiy before a strong wind Off Lake Huron, the motor ship | Francis P. Ritchie of Chicago was smashed 10 pieces and sank on Chan- try Reef, near here, Saturday nignt, Five of her crew came ashore in the. only lifeboat, the remaining three hav- ing beenytaken off the vessel by a life- boat cref headed by Angus McRitchie, captain Bf the local government life- boat stafjon For thlec days the Ritchie had wal- lowed befpre aterrific storm. Her en- gines were disabled on Thursday and ever since that time cottagers along the Bruce Peninsula had watched the vessel drift. Late Saturday she crashetd, into the reef, but did not appear in any | grave difficulty until the storm increased \11’; intensity and waves pounded her to pieces. Gasoline Production. | By the Assoctated Press. | Great Britain foresees production of oil from coal or. a large scale. A report to the Commerce Depart- ment_indicated that Imperial Chemi- cals, Ltd.. foremost leader in the devel- opment, has slready a plant capable of .| producing 15 tons of bituminous coal | daily. The British company claims that in the new plant's process about 60 per cent by weight of the coal treated is recovered as gasoline and that the prod- uct has been nused successfully by mo- ltor vehicles of all descriptions. BRIAND FISHES FOR MACKERE FROM YACHT OFF GALLIC COAST Captain of 'Statesman's Craft Says He's| Real Sailor and It's a Treat to Be With Him. By the Associated Press. OUISTREHAM, France, September 1.—Aristide Briand, who has been chief pilot of France's ship of state 11 times, s 69, captain of his own little ship which never is upset by politics. Because the call of the sea was in| his Briton-Vendeean blood, the states. man made this his Summer port of call some years ago and bought a yacht. always be quiet and undis- turbed here with his good sloop Simou- nelle and an old-fashioned villa and garden up a back street near the water. Fishes for Mackerel This Summer, in spite of the doctors’ warning about his arteries, he came as usual, bringing chauffeur, valet, cook and his little terrier, “Monkey." All the “natives” were delighted, but none so much as Capt. Louis David, who is Mr. Briand's companion for long ays in the estuary of the Orne, above | the locks of the port, or off the coas with the lines out for mackerel. “Our fishing is never a very serious matter,” says Capt. David apologeti- | cally, “but we bring in all want. What a treat, to be with Mr. Briand. He is a_great story teller—good Gallic yarns. I don't see where he gets them | all. He seems to take them out of the air. One after another. What a treat | to be with him!” The round shoulders of the states- | man bend over the tiller. while his skipper handles the sheets sheets generally bring her in m the narrows. times. But Mr. sailor.” a good hand at helm and " comments Capt. David, “but I yself through They're a bit tricky at Briand is a real L T ADDRESS RESERVATIONS once again: “Waldorf- Astoria, New York™...and feel content. The old Waldorf is reborn in this new, 1931-edi- tion Waldorf which opens OCTOBER FIRST. «..Former key personnel retained, including: Ltcrs BoOMER, President; Auc Treasurer; FRANK READY, Manager; and “OSCAR OF THE WALDORF." 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GROSNER’S 13825 F STREET Your Last Chance! ——CHOICE OF Remaining Spring Kuppenheimer AN Yfl Fatears ntinu u-ul- handicap sfls‘tfm z | sal eir approval was on condition Czar of Russia during the celebration gg'bf’ . . . = Son of the 300th anniversary of the Ro- art of a race. | manoff reign. | = Ir his studios at Beiru* Prof. Mourre | has_ trained the voices of many Greck *in midair 24 hours earlier. The squad- “ron has lost three of the nine plane: with which it left Quantico only a few days ago, that of Lieut. J. G. Adams having been forced down and damaged en route to Cleveland. It was hauled j into the National Guard hangar st u-‘m‘l Shape o, Teioin the squadfon, on the | Orthodox bishops. clergy and laymen, | On Sunday. September 13, the day T back Tome. ho e CSanderson | including Archbishop Victor of Brook- | before his Knights of Pythias engage- and Brice were completely destroyed. | ™ N. Y. and Bishop Sophronious of | ment. Prof. Mourre will lead the choir s a game exhibition and one which | Los Angeles. He has given concerts in | at the Syrian Church at Eighth and has boosted Marine Corps stock with | the Cathedral of Constantinople, at L streets. the crowds at the races. Fall's Just Around the Corner Home Folks' Nite by LJ 5 » M‘ }@ ¢S he’ ks 10 A Boligee o grand prize as well as the prize for | g ¢°! women. She scored 109.19 points, while A D. C. Warren of Alameda, Calif,, who o1l o won the men's division of the racé, was \ots nc® o NEW VALUE given 1035 points, * eS8 Lee Brusse of Glendale, Calif.. took | [, e’ % ™~ nd STANDARDS third place with 101.84; Elden Cessna, | ¢ ) Ve . Wichita, Kans. fourth, 101.37, and ok Y 3 : : Marcellus King, Minneapolis, = fifth, 4" "& n 00.76. oW Second place in_ the women's division | was_awarded to Mrs. Martie Bowman of Glendale, with 98.98 points; Mi . Mae Haizlip. Ferguson, Mo., 98.90, third and Miss Edith Foltz, Portland, Oreg., fourth, 97.98. - " Points_were scored on the basis of comparative power of the motor and speed of the plane. Calculation of the points, which entailed considerable fig- uring, created resentment among many of the derby pilots. Forecasts of unfavorable weather. in the Middle West prevented air race spectators today from witnessing the seven transcontinental flyers dash - across the finish line from Los Angeles, f Calif. The derby, which had been set * to start this raorning, was postponed for_better weather until tomcrrow. Twelve huge naval flying boats from % the U. S. S. Wright were scheduled to arrive during the day from Rockaway, Smart Topcoats N. The boats, "each capable of carrying a load of 12,000 pounds in men, guns and ammunition, were to | parade across the field and dock at the | Vs 0, [ Cleveland lake front. ; : 3 | $2,500 SPURS PILOTS. \ BURBANK, Calif, ‘September 1 ()., - —Seven pilots entered in a free-for- v+ all air dash to Cleveland have a ma- terial incentive to hurry along to New York from there in an effort to break the transcontinental record of Capt. Frank Hawks. | Vincent Bendix, Chicago airplane manufacturer, telephoned from Cleve- land last nigbfs an offer of $2,500 cash fo rtne breswing of Hawks' record. Bendix said if more than one flyer should lower the record the man with the best time would get the money Col. 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