Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1932, Page 20

B4 * AIR LINE MERGER FACES SENATEQUIZ “gi5 Four” Deal Made to Si- “fence Cord’s Protests, M Kellar Intimates. Details of the purchase by the Avia- tion Corporation of the Century Pacific Lines and Century Air Lines from Er- rett L. Cord will be investigated by s special Senate committee appointed to | inquire into the airmail situation, it was sald last night by Senator Mc- RKellar of Tennessee, author of the resolution under which the inquiry is fo be conducted. The committee, which is expected to begin its hearings within a week, ac- cording to Senator McKellar, had been told that Cord's interest were to be bought put by the so-called “Big Four” group of aviation companies, which Told 95 per cent of all airmail contracts, as a means of silencing his protests against the alleged airmail monoply. | Seeks Ludington for Line. | The committea also has been informed | that Eastern Air Transport, another of | the “Big Four’ group, is negotiating the purchase of the Ludington Line, operating_hourly air passenger service between Washington and New York The Ludington Line ranked with the Cord lines as an opponent of the al- leged monoply | The purchese by the Aviation Cor- poration of the Cord lines, Senator McKellar said, is in violation of an understanding which he understood ex- isted between Postmaster General Brown and Chairman Oddie of the Senate Airmail Investigating Commit- tee. Searching Probe Planned. “Members of the committee,” Sen- ator McKellar explained, “had heard of the efforts being made to buy out the Cord and Ludington lines and it is my | understanding that Senator Oddie had | been assured by the Postmaster General that no such.steps would be taken by | any of the airmail contract companies before our investigation began. The committee will go to the bottom of this situation.” The purchase of the Cord lines was announced in New York yesterday by W. A Harriman, chairman of the board of Aviation Corporation, accord- ing to Associated Press dispatches. PATRIOTIC ADDRESSES | TO BE GIVEN TUESDAY D. A. R. Sponsors Rally at 8:15 0’Clock at Continental Me- morial Hall. Addresses on patriotic subjects will be made before an audience that will at- tend a rally of all veteran and patriotic organizations at Continental Memorial | Hall at 8:15 o'clock Tuesday evening, | it was announced yesterday. The rally | is to be under the auspices of the Daughters of the American Revolution. ‘The program will be preceded by a con- cert by the Washington High School Band. “The Need of American Na- tionalism” will be discussed by Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, president gen- eral of the D. A. R.; Mrs. N. N. Nock of the American War Mothers will talk on_“The Value of Public Opinion”; “Why Churches Should Stress Nation- alism” is the topic assigned to Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries; Col. Orville John- son will talk on “The Army, R .O. T. C. and C.'M. T. C..” while the question of “Immigration and Citizenship” will be | aired by Representative Arthur M. Free | of California. Gen. Fries is general chairman in| charge of program arrangements. A | meeting of the entire Committee on Nationalism will be held tomorrow aft- ernoon prior to the Tuesday meeting, mccording to Mrs. Hobart, NAVAL PRESS RELATIONS OFFICER IS TRANSFERRED Lieut. Thurber Assigned to Rear| Admiral Crosley—Mentz Will Be His Successor. Lieut. Harry R. Thurber, U. 8. N, | of Hoquiam, Wash., who has been head | of the Navy Department press room for | the last two years, yesterday was or- dered as flag secretary on the staff of the commander of Battleship Division 3 of the Battle Force, He will serve in a secretarial capacity with Rear Admiral Walter 8. Crosley, commandant of the 8th Naval District and command- ing officer of the Naval Training Sta- tion, Great Lakes, Ill. The change in orders will be effective about. June 1. | ‘The new naval press relations officer will be Lieut. George F. Mentz, former commanding officer of the U. S. States, following a tour of duty in the Asiatic. Lieut. Mentz is scheduled to reach Washington in a couple of weeks. Lieut. Thurber, who was a newspaper man and attended the University of ‘Washington before going to the Naval Mail Man Retires to Walk VETERAN LETTER CARRIER SETTLES DOWN TO GARDENING. FTER walking 95320 miles Ln‘ his 40 years as & letter carrier, | Louls S. Kayser is retiring to walk “for a little exercise.” | Kayser, who is 65, carried mall in Cleveland Park for a quarter of & century, starting in the days when that exciusive residential section was a wil- derness, with only 123 scattered houses connected by dirt roads and cow- paths. “Now I'm going to settle down among my rose bushes at home and do & little walking for exercise,” said Kayser | yesterday upon his retirement from the | postal service | The gray-haired. weather-beaten vet- | eran lives at 3129 O street and his! garden is planted in rose cuttings gath- ered on his Cleveland Park mail route. | Five Now Serve Territory. | When first sent out to the Cleveland | Park section Kayser carried mail for all | the 123 houses then situated between Wcodley road and what is now Rodman street, Connecticut avenue and Wiscon- sin avenue. Today five men deliver let- ters in this territory. “Back in the good old days” said Kayser, “the last house to the north on my route was an old stone residence occupied by a colored man. I only had to go there about once a week. Beyond was only a forest, until you | came to Chevy Chase. The original old farmhouse then stood on the Cleve- land estate and I used to deliver mail there and also to Rosedale, an estate covering the blocks between Thirty- fousth and Thirty-sixth streets, from Newark to Ordway streets. Rosedale | at one time was occupied by George Washington, according to legends.” Kayser's first mail route was known as the “Dupont Circle route” and ex- tended between Connecticut and Mas- sachusetts avenues north to Florida avenue. Collected on Third Route. “There was nothing north of Florida avenue 40 years ago, it was the city boundary lie. “Another route I had, just before going to Cleveland Park, covered the territory from Florida avenue to Park road between Thirteenth street and Rock Creek. I would start out on this route at 7:30 a.m, then switch over ITALIAN CITY FIGHTS FALL INTO TUNNELS Labyrinth Dug 2,000 Years Ago Threatens Destruction of Villa St. Stefano. By the Assoclated Press VILLA ST. STEFANO, Italy, April 2. —Engineers drilled the surface of the earth in many places today in an effort to determine whether the remainder of this little city would sink into the labyrinth of old tunnels dug by the Romans 2,000 years ago. Already a dozen houses are a heap of ruins at the bottom of a pit 40 or 50 feet below street level. It was feared that numerous other dwellings in the area of the collapse would follow them. ‘The great grotto into which the houses fell has not been explored, but from the surface observers can see that it extends for beyond the limits of the hole, 70 feet in diameter, in the earth’s surface. Many homes are lo- cated on the thin crust. ‘The houses started sinking yesterday. There had been a warning three weeks ago when a donkey carrying a man punched his hind legs through the surface of the main street. This small hole widened suddenly yesterday and & wide area crumbled in as residents fled to_the outskirts of the town. Underground rumblings still could be heard today, and it was taken for granted that the earth still was set- tling down on the maze of tunnels. CLUBMAN TAKES BRIDE Californian Weds Mrs. Gladys Cov- erly, New York Society Woman. 1LOS ANGELES, marriage of Mrs, GI Ry! erly, Los Angeles and New York soclety woman, and Jule Lamont Los Angeles manufacturer and clubman, was revealed today. ‘They were married yesterday at Riv- erside, Calif., and left'on a motor hon- eymoon through the North. ‘The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Tom Rylands of New York and a niece of the late and Sir Peter Rylands, a member of Parliament. Forty million Germans are said to be And have the protection of a Guarantee from a reliable John Pritcherd of London | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, APRIL 3, 1932 L PA RT ONE. AIR CORPORATION AGQUIRES 2 LINE 27 Large Planes, Chicago Hangar and Other Proper- ties Involved in Deal. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 2—Twenty-seven large planes, & new hangar in Chicago and the other assets of the Century Alr Lines, Inc., and the Century Pacific Lines, Ltd. were acquired today by Aviation Corporation. | two companies, W. A. Harriman, chair- | a battle with three Japanese aviators. | man of the board of Aviation Corpora- | tion, said no cash was involved in the | jes bid good-by to Mrs. Elizabeth Short | and make a second trip from Park road to Spring road from the old Hol- mead Manor to Rock Creek. There was no Zoo then. “And besides carrying two routes I| collected on another. Beginning at| 5:30 pm, I would start from the old Arlington Hotel, take in the White House, Willard Hotel and old news-| paper row, finishing up at 10:30 p.m.| We worked in those days—it wasn't like the eight hours of today—and all for $1,000 & year top salary.” In his 40 years in the postal service, Kayser was absent on sick leave only five days and one hour. In announcing the purchase of the transaction. E. L. Cord, principal owner of the two companies, will receive for his in- terests less than 140,000 shares of stock in Aviation Corporation, which at pres- Oriental rites and posthumous military | ent has 2,800,000 shares’ outstanding. American Alrways, operating sub- sidiary of Aviation Corporation, may engage some of the outstanding Cen- tury Lines pilots, said La Motte T. Cohu, president of Aviation Corpora- tion and president and chairman of the board of American Airways. American Airways' fying equipment will be increased to more than to San Diego and SBan Diego to E! Paso. The line between Chicago and East St. Louis, Ill, eventually will be dis- continued. That route already is cov- ered by American ys. The other two routes—from San Francisco to Sacramento and to Los Angeles, will not be discontinued. Cohu announced that Cord and pos- sibly one other man would be invited to become members of the board of directors of the Aviation Corporation. SLAIN FLYER;S MOTHER LEAVES U. S. FOR CHINA By the Assoclated Press. SEATTLE, April 2—An American mother sailed for the Far East today | to receive the tribute of the Chinese nation, grateful for the services of her eldest son, killed late in February as he fought for the Chinese. His plane crashed to the ground after Chinese from Seattle and nearby cit- | of Tacoma as she sailed for Shanghai with her younger son, Edmund, 22. | The body of Robert Short, the slain American, will be buried with elaborate honors. BANKER FOUND SHOT | JACKSON, Miss., April 2 (#).—Rob- | ert . Young, vice president of the De- | posit Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. of 180 | Jackson, was found dead in his office [ Leduke’s name PREPARES T0 MEET SONTHOUGHT DEAD for Burial of Another’s Body. By the Assoclated Press | concorp, N. H ! 2—Leon | Leduke tonight prepared to welcome home, alive, the son whom he had | mourned as dead. While & young man who Leduke be- lieves to be his son, Roy, 19, started | from Chicago for Conc the body of | another young man la a Concord cemetery tomb, a body iden- tified in Guthrie Cente cord by the elder Leduke Word of a new clue t of the body here was received this at- ernoon when Harold H. Hill, Guthrie Center coroner, telegraphed the Con- cord police that & chauffeur's Mcense issued by the State of New York to Arthur M. O'Shea had been found {1 the dead man’s effects | man, who died of pneumonta in Guth- | rie Center, had been identified as Roy | | Leduke by letters and papers bearing planes by the acquisition of the Cen-|today with a bullet wound in his head | day showed that these were not the tury ships, many of which are trie motored Five of the Century's eight routes will be discontinued immediately— Cleveland to Detroit, Cleveland to Chi- cago. 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