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an ax, Samuel Sweeney of Beltsvilld found himself faced with two charges VDAY, OCTOBER MAN HELD ON ASSAULT instead of one when police found a pise AVIATORS SUCCEED | NEW CLUES FOUND [DR. EARLE WILFLEY CAARGE MADE BY WiFE | S 520 i i IN PAGII FLIGHT INOLLINGS EASE} , T RESlGNS AS PAS'[UR When Prince Georges Police Make | ney is named in a warrant accusing him Come Down Safely in Wenot-: Vi { § [Bottles, Papers and Rope;Health Impaired in Campaign Arrest a Concealed Weapon | ooy hoiieeioan Sopgcrous weapon. chet; Washi, Somiteils- Discovered at Camp Site for National Shrine of stnte Sh Ly, by Special Detective. Christian Church. Safely Span Pacific ‘ FLYERS FIRST TO CROSS FROM JAPAN TO U. S. made the arrest and found the pistol, referred a concealed weapon charge. lice say the man told them he took the pistol away from his wife. Enjoy Your Bridge Game without frequent, annoying interruptions By the Assoolated Press. ‘The resignation of Rev. Dr. Earle Wil- HUNTINGTON, N. Y., October 5.— | fiey as minister of the National City Milk bottles, old newspapers and bits | Christian Church, the $1,500,000 shrine (Continued From First Page.) and after having been fined heavily for | fiying over and taking photographs of fortified areas, Pangborn and Herndon made heroes out of themselves in a few hours. A move i3 under way to erect a monument in Japan commemorating their feat. Only after a long delay and the in- tervention of the American embassy did | Pangborn and Herndon receive permis- sion to take thcir plane from near Tokio to Samushiro. the only sultable place in Japan for a transoceanic take-off. Panglborn and Herndon got into their trouble while fiying from Khabarovsk, | Siberia, to Tokio. At Khabarovsk they , had abandoned an attempt to break the | Post-Gatty speed flight record around | the world. Having flown from New | York and azross the Atlantic and across | Europe and Asia, Panbern and Herndon found they could not break the record | and decided in favor of & non-stop transpacific flight instead. | Storms Endangered Plane. The two men said stormy weather | over Western Wash'ngton during the last several hours of their flight had | endangered their plane. They circled Mount Rianfer in the Western cascades | es before getting their | the steel skid on ! r plane’s fusclage. | a gearless landing, saved craft from being wrecked when | e down | We were on the right course all the | way, but we were awfully sleep;,” said ! Pangborn. “Boy, are we glad to be! here!” H Mrs. Herndon, who married the avia- | tor in New York just before Herndon and Pangborn left on the round-the- world adventure, made an effort to tele- phone her husband from Albany shortly after the landing was broadcast. Mrs. Herndon is the daughter of James ley, New York boxing commissioner. biggest thrill of the flight, the airmen said, occurred when their engine stopped they had flown about They realized after a m. se was the draining k and they quickly in time to get the as line t: witched to another motor going 2gain. They said they averaged about 17,000 feet aitituce all the way. At the breakfast t>ble with them were Mrs. Pangborn, the aviator's brether, Percy Pangborn, his wife and the two Japanese repcrters. They were served ham and eggs. Lost Much Altitude. “My heart went into my mouth when the engine stopped at the east end of the Alaskan Gulf,” said Herndon. “We didn’t expect the tank to go dry at the time. The engine stopped, started again a couple of times before finally coming to a full stop.” He said they had to descend several thousand feet to make the change. Pangborn was at the controls when they landed and did most of the pilot- ing on the trip. “We became deafer and deafer and had to write notes to gach other in order to communicate, although we sat side by side,” he said. Pangborn said he ate two chicken | legs and a piece of cheese and drank hot tea with caffeine tablets in it to keep him awake. Herndon's diet was light, too, he said. They had a con- | siderable quantity of food left in the plane when they landed. “Snoozed a Little.” “We each snoozed a little, sitting up | in our plane,” Pangborn said. They hoth took baths at the hotel in prepara- tion for thelr first good sleep in two Jdays. Scores of congratulatory messages | were arriving. One was from the moth- | 1 er of Herndon. “We had good weather for the first 1,000 miles and then climbed 17,000 feet trying to get over the clouds, hit- ting real heavy clouds at Dutch Harbor at daybreak yesterday,” said Herndon. “Ice began to form on the wings as we climbed up and down, but we couldn’t get out of it. The plane was loggy, but we flew on through it. We flew three hours after we thought we should have been over land on the Alaskan west coast. “We got worried because we didn't #ce land and thought something had gone wrong and that we were off our gl SPECIAL NOTICES. OFFICE FURNITURE SPECIAL_REVOLV- ing chairs with arms. $1.50; 4-drawer steel flle in olive green. $16.50. 414 10th st. n.W. GUINC™ “WHERE? TELL US WHI D we'll move your surnitvre'nd take might; g00d care of it at low cost. A tslepbon Eall will save vou' time and (rouble. NAT = DELIV. ASSN.® Phone Nat. 1460. g IT MAY CONCI OT RE- for_any bills contracted other than by myself. 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KOONS T5FE% pueris soms PPER:_ Clyde Pangborn (left) and Hugh Herndon, jr, who today completed their ' non- stop Pacific flight, landing at Wenatchee, Wash. —Wide World Photo. Center: Map showing relation of the landing point with Seattle, the goal of the fiyers. Lower: Mrs. Herndon, wife of the chief pilot of the trip, who is joyous over the accomplishment of the flyers. —A. P. Photo, 0 WENATCHEE Z Az *, e, I iy, 7 course,” Herndon said. “As it turned out, however, we were on a straight course all the way.” Bright orange pajajas were loaned by Herndon by Ray Clark, managr of the hotel. Pangborn brought an extra suit of underwear and a shirt. New landing gear for the plane was ordered from New York by telephone by Herndon. The flyers were welcomed in the name of the State of Washington by Lieut. Gov. J. A. Gellatly, whose home is here. BEAT EARLY BAD LUCK. Succession of Disappointments Beset Most of Flyers'-World Tour. NEW YORK, October 5 (#).—Out of the ashes of, failure, Clyde E. Pang- born and lugh Herndon, jr., rose phoenixlike today to win fame and fortune as the first airmen to make a non-stop fli~ht across the Pacific from Japan to thic United States. Before a procession of bad luck over- took them, Pangborn and Herndon had hopped off from New York on a round-the-world flight, in which they hoped to break the record of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, who circled the globe in a little more than 8! days. After several postponements, due to unfavorable weather and inability to ;| get the heavily loaded plane into the air, the aerial comrades finally soared from Floyd Bennett Field on July 28 on the fivst leg in their journey around the world. They arrived at Moscow July 31, just 17 hours behind the time established by Post and Gatty. Shortly after midnight on August 1 the procession of bad luck started. The two flyers were forced cown at Jiettega- i, Siberia, because of weather conai- tions. Two days later, after several intermit- tent stops, they were forced to land at Khabarovsk, Siberia, because of a dam- aged wing, and abandon their attempt to set a new round-the-world speed record. But, deprived of the opportunity to continue in pursuit of one record, Pang- born and Herndon decided to go after another. They decided to make a non- 3 | stop flight from Tokyo to Seattle. Then it was that another misfortune overtook the air birds. After complet- ing repairs to their plane, Pangl and Herndon flew across to Japan and were seized after landing on charges of flying over a Japanese fortificd arca and tak- ing photographs without a permit. Taken before a Japanese court, the two flyers were fined a total of $2,050. They didn’t have the money and had to cable their backers in New York City for funds. Delay followed delay. Their plane had to be equipped with a new gaso- line tank for the -flight they contem- plated from Tokio to the United States. Finally, the last-minute preparation was completed Saturday, and the two fiyers soared into the air. They dropped their landing gear to give them greater speed and began their perilous journey across the Pa- cific that ended in success this morn- ing when they landed safely at We- natchee, Wash., winners of the $25,000 Japanese prize that had been posted for a non-stop flight across the Pacific. Pangborn is a veteran pilot from Se- attle, Wash., who spent a number of years as an itinerant air circus per- former. Hernden, on the other hand, is a wealthy New York acronautical en- thusiast who has been flying for sport rather than fortune. The Bellanca plane they used in chops have new zest when ey GULDENS ‘_ Mustard . their flight is a slower ship than the |Winnfe Mae, in which the Post-Gatty speed record was made, but has a greater cruising range, builto to travel 5,500 miles without a stop. | Two prizes were originally offered for a non-stop flight from Tokio to the United States—one of $25,000 by a Jap- anese newspaper and the other of $28,000 by a Seattle organization. ‘When Pangborn and Herndon found |that they would be unable to take off satisfactorily from the Tokio airport itself, they communicated with both prize headquarters and asked permis- sion to hop off from a nearby beach without being disqualified. The Seattle organization refused per- | mission, the Pangborn-Herndon head- quarters in New York said today, while the Japanese offer was extended to meet | the required change. | W GIBSON’S 917 G St. N.W. “See Etz and See Better” Lack of progress in school is humiliating to parent and child. In fairness to both, the child’s eyes should be examined before he starts to school. ETZ Optometrists 1217 G St. NW. of rope gave District Attorney Blue new hope today in his search for the slay- ers of Benjamin P. Collings. Felix di Martini, private detective, re- tained by Blue, examined the camp site where the bcttles and other articles were found yesterday, and declared the place had been used as a camp about three weeks ago. He sald the fope corresponded to the one used in tying up Collings before he was thrown into the scund the night of September 9. - William A, Kelly, counsel for Mrs. Collings, criticized " Blue yestepday for withholding information ‘and causing Mrs. Collings to make a fruitless and needless trip to Daytcna Beach, Fla. Mrs. Collings went their to try to iden- tify a father and son, detained by Florida police. She exonerated both men. Kelley said that if Blue had given them full information about the Fl.rida suspects, the trip to Daytona Beach would have been avoided. TRAFFIC JAM HALTS PRESIDENT’S RETURN Woman's Two Parachute Jumps at Airport Draw Big Crowd and Cause Tie-Up. While traffic tled up nearby Virginia roads for two hours yesterday afternoon —even deiaying President Hoover's re- turn to the White House from his Rapi- dan camp—Miss Ruby Harrell, Balti- more girl pllot, made two successful parachute jumps at Washington-Hoover Alrport, the fist to be made by a woman at that field. Stepping overboard 4,000 feet above the ground, Miss Harrell on both occa- slons landed in the airport, a mark which men twice had missed this Sum- mer. ‘The traffic jam, due to the jumps, which attracted 7,000 spectators, cou- pled with the construction work on Highway Bridge and & balmy day, ex- tended from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to Arlington Cemetery in midafternoon. On the Lee Highway, over which the President’s motor cara- van returned from the Rapidan, auto- mobiles stretched fender to fender for miles, halting completely the White | House machines. | " So great was the congestion that the Secret Service men left their machine to ride on the running boards of Mr. H:;’\;er's car, the better to protect their chief. Only by circling on the wrong side of a moving street car did the party make its way across the Key Bridge, over the Potomac River, into Washing- ton proper. Skillful driving by the White House chauffeurs brought the party intact and together to the Execu- tive Mansion. i Texan Will Not Pay Prize He Offered For Hop to Dallas By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex.,, October 5.— Col. W. E. Easterwood, jr., Dallas aviation enthusiast, sald today Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Hern- don, who successfully completed a flight from Japan to Wenatchee, ‘Wash,, could “fly in some other direction”—that they would not be eligible for the $25,000 prize he offered for a Japan-to-Dallas flight. “They cabled me from Tokio asking about my offer, while I was attending the American Legion convention in Detroit,” sald, “and I replied that ‘Texas will pick its own aviators’ that we are interested in flights for the advancement of aviation, not in stunts. I will have to be the judge of the plane and of the aviators in such an attempt.” BuiLT FOR CHOOSEY PEOPLE and have met their every want as is illus- trated in the sale, We find that one must have a knowledge of the value of things in home living to really apprecie ate a home. The architectural theme of the whole grouping is in perfect taste and they are exquisitely fin- ished. There is an utter ab- sence of barniness and cheapness, and no pos- sibility of what is known as “spot houses'’ injuring your invest- ment. The grouping produces a Private Park and the modernness of the homes themselves has met with great success. The whole arrangement affords the maximum protection to future value and is worthy of the seconds of the short” time it takes to see " them. Besides, for the first time in Washington, a new attractive term basis is offered. i s Turn right in To inspect: Titiery ' L'y enve from_Chevy Chase Circle two squares to Ritfenhouse = Street, right one sauare to Broad Branch Road. erected a year ago at Thomas Circle through the Nation-wide contributions of Disciples of Christ, was made known after the regular morning service yes- terday through a personal letter from the minister to the congregation. Dr. Wilfley, who has been minister of the congregation for the last 21 years, attributed his resignation to the condi- tion of his health. He is expected to return to Washington later today from his Summer place in Delaware. Dr. Wilfley stated in his Iletter that he had Moped to return to his work earlier, but the condition of his health was still such that he was afraid it might be some time before he could I have the physica! endurance to under- take with assurance and satisfaction the strenuous work that was needed in a church of such outstanding position. He tendered his resignation, he said, with profound regret, but realizing the congregation needed and deserved the best leadership it could secure, he therefore felt it should be left free to | call a mores vigorous man. He ex- pressed his gratitude to the congrega- tion for its kindness during the months of his {llncss. Action Scheduled Thursday. Dr. Wilfley's resignation was read by Green H. Hackworth, chairman of the | Official Board of the church, who said: “I am sure that the congregation shares my personal regrets that Dr. Wilfley has thought it necessary to take this action. Official action on Dr. Wilfley's letter will be taken at the annual meeting of the congregation on Thursday evening of this week. Dr. Wilfley's health was impaired | very largely through his energetic activities in the campaign to erect| the beautiful nationally representative | church of the Disciples of Christ, which was dedicated during the International and World Conventions of the Disci- ples of Christ held here last October. The strain of the effort. together with | the hard work incidentil to a great convention, broke his health. He preached only one sermon in the new building. | For a time a few special ministers conducted the services there and, when it appeared that Dr. Wilfley would not be able to resume the work at an early date, Dr. H. H. Harmon of the Board of Education of the Disciples of Christ was given a leave of absence | from that work to become acting | pastor. | Came Here 21 Years Ago. Dr. Wilfley came to Washington 21| years ago as acting pastor of the Ver- | mont Avenue Christian Church, where | Dr. Frederick Power had for so many | years ministered. Dr. Power had been | the pastor of President Garfield. When Dr. Power died Dr. Wilfley was chosen | to succeed him. | Dr. Wilfley was born at Kansas City, | Mo., in 1867. Choosing the ministry as his life calling, Dr. Wilfley went (o Bethany College, West Virginia, follow- | ing this with studies at Chicago and| Columbia Universities. His first pastorate was at Minerva, Ohio. Subsequent ministries were at St. Louis, Crawfordsville, Ind., Newcastle, Pa. It was while he was at Minerva that he met Miss Bertha Elder, whom he married. They have two| daughters, Miss Catherine Wilfley, an | active ald of her father in his chur work, and Mrs. Ralph H. Henn of Ge- neva, Ohio. Student of Shakespeare. Dr. Wilfley has long been a student of Shikespeare and it was his annual custom throughout his ministry to give a sermcn on the moral and spiritual and PACE COURSES To accommodate the largest Metropolitan 2515. REV. DR. EARLE WILFLEY. implications in the plays of Shake- speare. He had broad interest, being a Thirty- second Degree Mason, a trustee cf the United Soclety of Christian Endeavor, a member of the Readers’ Club, the Shakespeare Club and Theta Sigma, a special ministerial group. He had also been active in establishing the local Federal Council of Churches group. His interest in Shakespeare dates back to a brief stage career before Dr. Wilfley began his studies for the ministry. Upon his return to Washingt-n, Dr. ‘Wilfley intends to take a complete rest, it was said, until his health is restored. 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