Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1934, Page 18

T8 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, DECEMBER 2. 1934_PART ONE. U.S, PROBES FATAL FALL FROM ELIDER Head of Soaring Society Retires POSTAL WORKER HONORED BY FRIENDS. EXPERTS WILL SPEAK Democratic Women to Hear So- cial Insurance Discussion. “Social Insurance” will be the sub- Ject of a forum dinner to be held Fri- day evening at the club house of the Women's National Democratic Club. The speakers will be Dr. Isador Lubin, commissioner of labor statis- Witte, executive director of the Presi- dent’s Committee on Economic Se- curity, and Thomas Eliot, associate solicitor of the Department of Labor. Each speaker will discuss a partic- ular phase of the subject amtl the formal addresses will be followed by a question period and discussion from the floor. Feathers on Gowns. Evening gowns trimmed with pheas- tics, Department of Labor; Dr, E. E. ant fa rs are seen in London. Lansburghs Plunges 1,600 Feet Into Biscayne Bay. NO CONNECTION WITH ANY OTHER WASHINGTON STORE ™™, 8™ gnd E and Phone Orders Filied—District Gift Lamps Bridge Lamps! Table Lamps! Indirect Reflector Lamps! All with Silk Shades! Sale Priced ge Indirect Reflector Lamps in rich bronze-plated designs with lovely pleated silk shades in soft tones! Lansburghss By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI, Fla. December 1.—A De- partment of Commerce investigation was launched tonight into the fatal plunge from his glider here today of | Warren E. Eaton, 46, of Norwich, N. Y. a motorless aircraft authority and expert operator. ! Eaton, president of the Soaring So- | ciety of America and head of a large pharmaceutical ¢ompany, hurtled 1,-| 600 feet from his towed glider to the waters of Biscayne Bay. The glider | crashed nearby. Inspector John R. Puckett of the Department of Commerce viewed the | HIRAM B. JONES, scene of the crash late today, with| Superintendent of Motor Vehicles, the pilot of the towing plane, Earl| Department of the Post Office, who Southee of Athens, Pa., and other | was honored by his co-workers and witnesses describing the tragedy. friends yesterday when he retired He talked to them again tonight| after 30 years' service. He and his and inspected the glider, brought to| wife, who was present at the cere- shore, but did not comment. mony, were presented with a watch Eaton was an_assoclate in gliding| and chain and a basket of flowers activities of Richard C. du Pont of | by Frederick J. Zwissler and Jo- Wilmington, Del, holder of the| seph F. C. Hartley, Jones’ successor NO CONNECTION WITH ANY OTHER WASHINGTON STORE ™ 8™end E United States glider record for air-| as superintendent. Mr. Jones, a line distances. Spanish-American War veteran, is With Southee in the towing plane| 59, and lives at 1705 Lanier place, was Paul du Pont, also a gliding en- —Star Staff Photo. thusiast. Another glider, piloted by e Harold Bowen of Norwich, was also attached to Southee's plane. Dearer Pearls Expected. Bowen, Southee and young Du Prices of culture pearls are expected Pont said tonight they were unable|to mount as the result of the recent to explain the accident. Southee |typhoon in Japan. In Europe they expressed belief, however, that Eaton |already have increased 15 per cent. may have suffered a heart attack.|Reports declare that Japan’s famous or became nauseated and jumped | pearl fisheries in the Pacific were seri- from the glider, but lost conscious- |ously damaged and that millions of ness before he cowd open his para-|oysters, used in producing the pearls, chute. were destroyed. The EYES have IT— When VISION is RICHT! 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