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WENDEL WITESS ACAN TESTIES ewark Grand Jury Hears Mrs. Boding, Secretary to Detective Parker. . iv tne Assoclated Press. - NEWARK, N. J, July 327.—Mrs. Anna Bading, secretary t& Deteetive Ellis Parker, went before the Federal grand jury investigating the Paul H. Wendel kidnaping case today. | As she entered the jury room she Qeclined to say whether her employer, vho is under indictment in Brook- in connection with the kidnaping, gould appear later in the inquiry. Mrs. Bading testified before the Mercer County (Trenton) grand jury @t the time of its investigation of the #confession” Wendel made in the Lindbergh baby kidnaping. Wendel Jater repudiated the “confession” and gharged he was kidnaped in New York and tortured into making:it. » He alleged he was then brought fo New Jersey, turned over to Parker nd confined in an institution for e feeble-minded. The Mercer in- Quiry caused a three-day delay in the electrocution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the Lindbergh kid- ap-murder. » Detective Parker and his son, Ellis, 3r. were among those indicted in ‘Brooklyn in the alleged kidnaping of Yendel. Also indicted was Harry Weiss, who has admitted a part in the alleged plot. /| THE WEATHER ? District of Columbia—Showers to- ght and tomorrow: slightly warmer night; gentle shifting winds. Maryland—Occasional showers to- *hight and tomorrow; slightly warmer %onight in west and central portions. % Virginia—Occasional showers to- sight and tomorrow; slightly warmer 4n extreme northeast portion and not Quite so warm in central portion to- aight. « West Virginia—Mostly cloudy, prob- $bly showers and thunderstorms to- might and tomorrow; not quite so fvarm tomorrow and in north portion tonight Tt (ERTRST IHET] - Report for Last 48 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. | ! W ashington Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SMALL, slim man of anxious mien walked into the District Court press room the other day, embarrassment and “I have a great favor to ask you fellows,” he began. “I got a marriage license yesterday and it was published but I want you to publish it again.. flance’s age. She's 39, but I said 40, and she’s pretty much disturbed about it. the right age I think it will be all “And unless you do,” he added in a fearful tone, “I'm afraid she wan't marry me.” The next day his name led all the Wayside REQUEST. apology plainly written on his face. “You see, I made a mistake in my right.” rest. * x ¥ % TROUBLED WATERS. The copious quantities of suntan oil now being used by man as well as woman swimmers is something of a problem at a hotel swimming | pool here. Despite frequent changes | of water, the oil forme a film on | the bottom of the pool. Small boys dive down and trace their initials on the bottom, all of which is a bit embarrassing to the management. * X X X PAST. N A Federal office which radiates power and authority there sits a dignified official of one of the New Deal agencies, but if you should walk in and say, “Hello, pride of the West,” it would be the password to a luncheon invitation. |Returns to Chicago to De- But if you publish it again with | | January, and more than 500 replies KNOX “ALL SET” 10 GET T0 WORK liver Acceptance Address Thursday Night. By ‘he Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, July 27—Col. Frank Knox, Republican vice presidential nominee, returned by train today, de- claring he was “all set mow to work in earnest.” Thursday night he will formally accept the nomination in notification ceremonies. After that, a coast-to- coast campaign tour has been charted for the vice presidential candidate. Col. Knox returned from Manches- ter, N. H, where he spent 10 days working on his acceptance speech and on “general plans for the campaign,” he said. 2 The candidate declared he found Republican prospects in New England “excellent.” “It looks like a big Republican sweep all over New England, with all of those States coming back to the Re- publican party,” he said. “I am confident that we shall carry Maine. It looks like a certainty now.” The pagentry for the notification, it was explained ' by Chairman Chauncey McCormick, to strike the notes of “Americanism, constitutional- ism, and the flag.” The big Chicago Stadium, scene of the ceremonies, will be elaborately decorated in Fourth-of-July fashion, McCormick sald. Upon the candidate's arrival, hun- dreds of balloons will be released, carrying flags into the air. As he leaves at the close, the streets for several blocks in each direction will blaze with the light of red-fire torches, held by a file of young Republicans. S.E.C. (Continued From First Page.) the investment trusts and companies were interested. for the inquiry were sent out last| | have been received. Informal con- ferences have been held with repre- PBaturday— 3 4pm J Spm._ Desrees, Inches in a small town in Iowa and the | hole had no vision that any of the would arrive at anything more than prom- One Summer day the boys | State-wide reputation or | inence. This executive spent his boyhood “gang” frequenting the old swimming sentatives of some trusts and com- panies to discuss their replies. | Officials said the initial public ex- ™ | predecessor companies of the Equity Corp. of New York, including the | Interstate Equities Corp., Joint In- | vestors, Inc., and Granger Trading Detailed questionnaires seeking data " | amination would embrace some of the | QUEENMARY SETS CROSSING RECORD Refuses to Claim Speed Rec- ord as Distance Is Shorter Than Normandie’s. BACKGROUND— Until 1929 Great Britain ruled the waves with the Cunard liner Mauretania, which captured the Atlantic speed record by a 26.06- knots figure. Seven years ago England lost the ‘“championship” when the German liner Bremen established a record of 4 days 17 hours and 42 minutes. Last year the French Normandie took the honors. Then in May of this year England announced her return to the speed race with a giant new super-liner, the Queen Mary. Fog cut the liner's speed on the first voyage. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 27.—Great Brit- ain’s S. 8. Queen Mary docked today after making the fastest crossing ever recorded for a steamer between Eu- rope and New York—but her com- mander did not claim the blue pennant of Atlantic supremacy. “We very well do not deserve it,” said Sir Edgar Britten, skipper of the liner. So fhe blue ribbon, emblem of At- lantic speed, remains with France's Normandie, which in June, 1835, averaged 20.64 knots for the crossing, as compared with the Queen Mary’s 29.61 knots. The reason is that the Normandie started her best run from Southamp- ton and traveled 3,192 nautical miles. The Queen Mary was clocked from Cherbourg, 3,098 nautical miles away. The English ship made the crossing in 4 days, 8 hours, 37 minutes; the French ship covered the longer route in 4 days, 11 hours, 42 minutes. Aboard the Queen Mary were 1,795 passengers. Many of them witnessed the crash of a seaplane, killing one r;:n, off Nantucket Lightship yester- o Sir Edgar said he believed the crash was caused by the vacuum aft his ship. “'I"};.at's what brought him down,” he sai | PHOTOGRAPHER DIES IN CRASH. BY FRANCIS W. CARPENTER, Associated Press Staff Writer. ABOARD S. S. EXERMONT, EN ROUTE TO NEW YORK, July 27 (P).—Eight men, survivors of a fateful | airplane dive into the Atlantic Ocean | off Nantucket lightship, and their dead Washington Pioneers in Aviation I."—Capt. Patrick N. L. Bellinger Has Been Flying Navy Planes for 24 Years. Lieut. Patrick N. L. Bellinger, U. S. N., i shown in 1914 at Pensacola, Fla., in the open seat of a Navy Curtiss H type seaplane in which he taught members of the first Navy flight classes at what is now the Naval Academy of the Air. In the oval is Capt, Bellinger, commanding the Navy's newest airplane carrier, the U. S. S. Ranger, as he appears today after a quarter-century of fiying. In the District of Columbia and its environs live a half score of men and women who were flying before December, 1916, and who played a vital part in the Army and Navy, have been stationed in Washington up to the time of the Summer changes of station and are well enough known here to be numbered as Washingtonians. Some of these aviation history- ‘makers are veterans of from two- score years to a quamer of a cen- tury of continuous flying service. Some of them, once famous figures in flying, now are unknown in the aviation world in which they once were leaders. In a series of articles, The Star traces the histories of these pioneers. Their permanent records now are being collected in an “Early Bird” room in the new Edison Imstitute Museum in De- | | | aboard the South Carolina, where he continued until April, 1912. Bellinger went into the submarine service and on September 12, 19132, five months after receiving his com- mission as lieutenant, junior grade, he was in command of one of the “pig boats.” Turning to the other extreme, he applied for aviation training and n November, 1912, was ordered to the naval aviation camp at Annapolis for instruction in flying of heavier-than- air craft. tion was feeling its way, and those who learned to fly to a considerable extent were self-taught. As an aviator he broke into print when on Jure 13, 1913, he established a new altitude record of 6,200 feet for hydroairplanes. When the fleet went South in January, 1913, for the annual Winter maneuvers, naval aviation went along At that time naval avia- | —U. S. Navy Photos. a Navy plane and conducted the first night seaplane flying. The year 1916 proved a busy one for the Navy's premier test pilot. Bellinger added a score more of “first times” to his Navy flying record, PACE OF EXPORTS OF U. . MOUNTING Rise of Imports Under Trade Agreements, However, Slackens. Reciprocal trade agreements, ne- gotiated by the Democratic admine istration, have become an {ssue in the present campaign, the Repube lican platform favoring repeal of the law under which they were concluded. This series of articles attempts to present the results of the treaties as indicated by avail- able figures on foreign commerce. The series is not presented as an argument for or against the treaties. The article which follows is the second of the series. BY CRESTON B. MULLL America’s foreign customers give promise of again taking more than five billion dollars worth of American goods annually as the reciprocity program of Secretary of State Huil gathers momentum in opening foreign markets to the product of American labor and agriculture. With prospects for a two and a half billion dollar business this year—the largest since 1931, the second year of the depression, with its tatal of $3,781,172,000—14 countries with which the United States has recipro- cal trade agreements in force or obtained promises of minimum pure chases are already responding to re- duced tariffs and are taking the pro- ducts of American farms and fac- tories in ever-increasing volume. Regarded as a unit, countries from which the United States has obtained tariff reductions, quota increases, or specific undertakings to buy Ameri- can goods have accounted for a | greater proportion of the gain in | American sales abroad than countries with which no such agreements exist. Figures Show Contrast, among them live bomb dropping, spot- ting of gunfire, spotting and signaling for battleship fire and radio testing. His only time out was for the knitting of broken bones and healing of cuts. Awarded Navy Cross. In November,-1917, Bellinger, now | a lieutenant commander, was in com- | mand of the Naval Air Station, Hamp- ton Roads, Va., where he served through the wat and up to the time {of the trans-Atlantic flight in the Spring of 1919. In this flight he com- ‘msndcd the NC-1, which was forced | down near the Azores. the crew being rescued by the Greek ship Iona. For | his service on this flight he was award- ed the Navy Cross. | The nine nations with which re- ciprocal agreements were in effect all or part of the first four months of 1936 together with Russia took 15.3 | per cent more American goods than in the same months of 1935. How- ever, countries without agreements took orly 10 per cent more. ©Of th eighty million dollar increase betwee: the two four-month periods thirt: millions were accounted for by agreement countries. During 1935, with only Cuban, Bel- gian, Haitian and Swedish agrec- ments in force all or part of the yeer the rate of export increase was oni | 7 per cent, but with the coming int th troit, together with those of 300 other Early Birds who compose a diminishing company of aviation immortals. | thought they would make “Jack” the iobject of their playfulness and while he was swimming they hid all his clothes except his pants and a suit of underwear. Perforce he had to cloth himself in the underwear. The I pants they turned inside out and at- tached the legs to two poles. In those days it was no disgrace to wear father's cut-down clothing and the lining was usually made from flour | for the first time, aboard a collier,| After the trans-Atlantic venture, | f0FC¢ ©of the Canadian, Braziliar and established an operating camp | Bellinger came to the Navy Depart. | Netherlands, Swiss and Honduran | on shore. The entire time was spent | ment here for duty in the office of the | 38Téements during the first fou in experiments and tests of co- | chief of naval operations and the Bu- | ONths of this year, the rate of ga: ordination of aircraft with fleet op- i reau of Aeronautics until October, leaPed to 15 per cent. ’ erations. It was demonstrated that|192], when he became senior aide to| Simultaneously a slackening airplanes could perform such duties the commander, Air Force, United | 8T0Wth in imports occurred, although as scouting, locating mine fields and | States Pacific Fleet. | they were still advancing more rapidly In July, 1923, he went to the War | than exports. With four agreements NC flying boats in the first|One of the handful of aviators whose | College at Newport for two years of | i operation all or part of last year imports soared 24 per cent over the Corp., New York; Chain & General’mmpanion were rushed to New York r.Equities, Inc., Boston; Yosemite Hold- | today. |ing Corp. and Union Investors, Inc.| The large Bellanca cabin plane, pi- Detroit, and their parent, subsidiary |loted by Capt. William Wincapaw, and affiliated companies. ;veuuu New England fiyer, crashed On August 3 the commission will | yesterday after it had circled the turn to a study of Reliance Interna- | British liner, Queen Mary, so several tional Corp. Eastern Shares Corp.,; Boston newspaper photographers could American, British & Continental Corp. | take pictures. iand Reliance Management Corp, all| Edwin T. Ramsdell, 46, Boston Post Z 96 2! Record for Last 21 Hours. ¢ (From noon vesterday to noon today.) - o§4- at 5:30 pm. vesterday. 7:15 am. today. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON, Aviation Editor of The Star, AVY AIRPLANE PILOT NO. 4, commander of one of the Submarines and Lieut. Bellinger was| of at Year, 5107 0. 67 * Recora Temperatures This Year. Highest. 105, on July 10, . Lowest, 0. on January 23. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. _, (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 93 per cent. at 1 a.m. today. Lowest, 46 per cent, at noon yesterday. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear today. A Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. Tomorrow. High 2 5505 am W 10:08 am igh Lo Sun. today__ 8un. ‘tomorre =5 Moon. today____"~ 1:5% p. Automobile lights must one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in_ inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. Average 355 7.08 684 m. 1i:30pm. be turned on 1 89 e 6 1 ®5 89 01 Station Weath'r. bilene, _ Clear ny. Cloudy Clear Rain s ex 52 Detroit. Mich! El Paso. Tex. Galveston. Tex. elena, 2 IIEAN IS DD T DT PR DA BB S DI R D maha, Nebr. hiladelphia - Cloudy Cloudy .. _ FOREIGN STATIONS. (7 am.. Greenwich time. today.) Temperature. Weather. ndon._England. Cloua: Franci in. reenwich Azores__ 5t Itrvin S. Cobb Says: Old Red School House Used to Be Red on Outside Only. BOHEMIAN GROVE, Calif, July fi.-Ya, in my early days, we also fiad the little red school house. May- the reason we liked it then was that it got its red thne from the t on the out- e and not from the teaching staff on the inside. o Likewise, in unprogres- e times, thought th® youth of the land should be taught ! sacking. In the course of events the ! youngster had to march home in his | long-legged underwear with an escort of playmates led by two standard bearers flaunting his pants from the | seat of which the flour sack lining | He admits he was peeved at the time m. ' but he has outgrown it. * % ¥ % BELIEF. | "THE almost-human capacity of mod- | © ern machinery really s super {human in the case of Edwina Ham- bleton. she was with the other afternoon to make a call over a public pay sta- { tion. She did not have a nickel, but she did have a quarter and that struck {her as being quite as useful to her situation. : | The other youngsters waiting for her concluded eventually that she had | been gone long enough to make a dol- | lar’s worth of telephone calls and went | to investigate. ! They found her sitting in the phone booth, an expectant look on her face. “What are you waiting for?” one of them asked. “For my change” she explained. “I put in a whole quarter.” It took some arguing but they even- tually convinced her that she could get the money back only by buying telephone company stock and collect- ing the dividends. * Xk ¥ X CONFUSION. A TAXI driver named Kennedy, who probably doesn’t like street cars anyhow, has painful reason to believe that even the cars are confused by all this rerouting business. He was riding along beside one, a ‘Takoma Park car, going up Fourteenth street the other day. The front trucks of the car crossed the switch at the | intersection, but not so the rear. In- stead of going north as the ordinary course of events dictated, it swung out toward the east and the taxi. If it failed to reach the former, it succeeded in getting to the latter with a pretty heavy jolt. The hacker’s vehicle and his feel- ings were pretty badly hurt but he, himself, escaped. * %k % % INVENTION. Some of the inventions which necessity mothers are pretty artful. The shoe -polish people maybe would be saddened to learn about the one devised by a girl whose shoes are the talk of her office group. They are mo end bright, all because she found out one night that if you don’t have shoe polish, the kind you use on furniture makes a good substitute. That's her story, and she sticks to it, as the polish sicks to her shoes. . * %k kX MACHINE. 'OR the second time in 12 years . the single linotype which is used to publish the Enquirer-Gazette at Upper Marlboro broke down the other day and Editor Samuel A. Wyvill, who also is composing room foreman, ad writer, publisher, etc., had to send a hurry call to Washington for a repair man, It all reminded Editor Wyvill of the unusual circumstances under which the linotype was set up orig- inally. The machine arrived by freight to- gether with a machinist to set it up. The machinist and Mr. Wyvill un- packed the various parts and laid them carefully. Then they went to | proclaimed to the world that “mother always used Pride of the West flour.” Edwina, who is young and imagina- | L, | tive, detached hersélf from the group: | of New York. _l\m'der photographer, died shortly after the | accident apparently from internal in- Jjuries. Walter Jordan of the Christian (Continued From First Page.) | the court house for a conference with the sheriff and had been asked by the officer to wait for him on the jail floor. Weaver and C. B. Clevenger, a broth- er of the dairy expert, reiterated that Prof. Clevenger had left the jail yes- terday. New Clue Offered. Meantime, a new clue had been laid before the sheriff in a report that a woman guest of the hotel had heard a soft-spoken man's voice from a room believed to have been occupied by Miss Clevenger, after hearing a piercing seream followed by a sound as if a water pitcher and gl#sses had been knocked to the floor. Stenographer Gives Tip. The description of the voice of a man in the college girl's room at 1 | a.m.—the hour officers said she was slein—was obtained from a Boston | stenographer who had a room two doors from Miss Clevenger's. Detectives in Boston quoted Miss Lydia Everson, a vacationist, as say- | ing she heard a “sharp, piercing | scream” come from the blond co-ed's | room and then a “sound like a water | pitcher and glasses falling.” “I went to the window,” she re- lated, “and looked across the court. I saw that the room from which the scream had come was dark. Then I heard a man’s voice, cultured and | soft-spoken.” Miss Everson said she dismissed the incident then, thinking a woman probably had had a nightmare and her husband was soothing her back to sleep. Prof. Clevenger, portly, partly bald and gray-haired, was taken into cus- tody by Sheriff Brown on his return from his niece’s funeral in Ohio. An hour before the time set for a habeas corpus hearing for the pris- oner’s freedom, Sheriff Brown advised the trial judge Saturday that Clev- enger already had been released. Soon afterward the sheriff told newspaper men that although the professor had been released, he was remaining in jail “to aid me with the investigation.” Reached at home iast night after Clevenger's attorney announced -the prlodtesaor had left the jail, the sheriff said: “So far as I know, Prof. Clevenger is still in jail. I don't think he would leave without telling me.” Attorney Weaver told newspaper men Clevenger had “left the jail of his own accord, as he has been staying of his own accord.” “I don't know that the sheriff's office has ever considered Clevenger & 8 suspect,” he added. Weaver declined to say where the slain girl's uncle went when he left the skyscraper jail, but promised “he'll confer with Sheriff Brown at least once before he leaves the city.” He attributed the secrecy of Prof. Clevenger's whereabouts to the fact that “he’s really a rather modest type of man and he doesn't want to be Ppublicized.” The sheriff continued to hold Daniel H. Gaddy, 28-year-old hotel night watchman, and L. D. Roddy, colored elevator operator, for questypning. —_— lunch at Mr. Wyvill's home, about a mile distant. ‘When they returned the town was ablaze—the famous Marlboro fire that brought Washington apparatus to the Prince Georges County seat—and townspeople had carried everything they could Nft put of the Enquirer- Gazette office. The structure was saved and Wy- vill himself was one of the most sur- Science Monitor and William Reiter, | vice president of La Touraine Coffee | Oo., owner of the plane, suffered deep | { head gashes in their attempts to es- | cape from the plane. | Others in the party, all uninjured, | were Herbert Stier, Boston Herald iphutoflapher; George Mason of Bos- | ton, vice président of the National Aeronautical Association; Ezra 8. Eaton of Brookline, Mass., presiden treasurer of Thompson's Spa, Inc.; Leslie Cain, 26, of Rockland, Me., and myself. We had circled the Queen Mary | and were taking pictures of her stern | | when the plane got caught in a down- | | ward draft about 200 feet above water. | | It lost altitude despite Capt. Winca- | paw's desperate attempts to nose the ship up. As we fell toward the water Winca- paw yelled to Stier in the co-pilot's seat e're going down. We're going down.” We smacked the water hard. As I swam to the surface I got| caught in a wire, but Stier freed me. Eaton lay groaning on the end of a | pontoon. Reiter bobbed up at the | other end, blood streaming from his | head. Cain was holding up Jordan, | whose head was cut. Capt. Wincapaw and Ramsdell were on another pontoon. We saw Rams- dell slip into the water and go under. Wincapaw dived after him. He went under a second time and a second | time Wincapaw brought him to the surface. The plane fell about 300 yards in front of the Exermont and Capt. | Lundmark quickly put over a boat (and we were taken aboard. Blanton (Continued From First Page.) ard Kleberg, Milton West, Marvin Jones, George H. Mahon and Charles L. South. W. R. Poage, a former State Sen- ator from Waco, also appeared nomi- nated. Morgan Sanders from -District 3 was having a tough fight with his only opponent, Alton Grant. Sanders ‘had 20,112; Grant, 19.174. Others apparently in for runoffs were Hatton Sumners, 10,059, and Claude Westerfeld, 4,434, District 5; Nat Patton, 18,467, and Bonner Friz- The National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. LBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., July 27.—The plank of the Republican A platform against American participation in the League of Nations or the League Court drew the usual howls from senti- mentalists and internationalists that it meant a policy of isolation. of reproach of eral European Gov. Landon’s Alice Longworth. prised men in town when he suc~ ceeded in finding every single part of the intricate linotype machine. sense. | Navy's new | 829, and Oscar Holcombe, Houston mayor, 12,946, District 8; W. D. Mc- to be to commit this country blindfolded to the madhouse of European diplomacy; to insure our being involved in disputes that do not concern us. ‘The people who advocate such a course are of the type who would have liked to see us apply sanctions to Italy, regardless of the probability that such action would have precipitated a gen- N successful attempt to fly the | efforts established the place of naval | instruction and then for a year was Atlantic, and now commander of the airplane carrier, the Ranger, Capt. Patrick Neison Lynch Bellinger, U. S. N., with 24 years of fiving service to his credit, is recog- nized as one of the world’s outstand- ing naval aviation pioneers. i Naval aviation was less than two yvears old and the first Navy seaplane had been purchased less than a year before “Pat” Bellinger, then a youth- | flying service. | A quiet-manmered, soft-spoken South Carolinian, Capt. Bellinger al- | ways has held the highest respect of | his hard-flying comrades in naval sidered among the finest of their | number. He has held many im- the Navy Bureau of Aeronsuucs,i | commander of the aviation detach- the war zone. ment at Vera Cruz, Mexico, in April, flew an American airplane in the ! face of hostile fire; commander of all naval aviation units in Asiatic waters and naval attache at the American Embassy in Rome. Born October 5, 1885, in Cheraw, 8. C., Bellinger attended Clemson | College and was appointed to the| Naval Academy, from which he was| graduated in June, 1907. In those | days graduates served for two years as past midshipmen before receiving | their commissions. He served his two | years aboard cruisers and battleships | and in June, 1909, became an ensign aviation in the scheme of things. Due to the showing made by Bellin- ger and his fellow pilots, it was de- cided to establish an aviation training station at Pensacola, Fla. and in January, 1914, Bellinger, with two other pilots, went there an the U. 8. S. Orion with all the aircraft equipment then available. Plane Struck by Bullets, When, in April, 1914, the United |ful Heutenant in command of the states occupied Vera Cruz, Bellinger | submarine C-4, was transferred to the was in command of the aviation sec- tion and for 43 consecutive days he piloted his seaplane over enemy terri- tos. the plane being struck several s by enemy bullets. This was the first time an American airplane had | aviation and always has been con- | been flown in the face of an enemy. Two months later, with the World War going on in Europe, Bellinger | portant posts, among them that of | went to the Mediterranean aboard the | administrative and executive head of U.S.S. North Carolina for duty in the protection of American interests in The North Carolins an armored cruiser, was equipped with | | 1914, when, for the first time, he a long catapult for the launching of seaplanes. Returning to Pensacola in January, 1915, Bellinger took charge of the ex- periment, test and inspection depart- ment until August, 1917. His duties included the testing of all new air- planes and practically all new aviation equipment prior to their use in the service. He bettered his former alti- tude record by 3,800 feet, carried out the first successful demonstration of locating mine fields from a plane, flew the first airplane from a catapult since the initial shots in 1912, fired the first tests of machine guns from aviation aide on the staff of the com- | mander in chief, Battle Force, and for another year was aviation aide on the staff of the commander in chief, United States Fleet. He then re- turned to Washington for six months of duty in the office of the chief of naval operations, after which he went | to Rome for three years, ending May, 1931. Commanded Aircraft Tender. | From Rome, Bellinger went to com- mand of the aircraft tender Wright for a year and then took over com- mand of the airplane carrier Langley for a year. | Langley attained the highest score of any aircraft carrier in the communi- cation competition for the year; was | awarded the Gunnery Trophy for air- | craft carriers; the award for the De- partment Small Arms Trophy for the auxiliary class; Class D for the highest merit in small arms. and the prized award for excellence and engineering performance among vessels in indi- vidual competition. In June, 1933, Comdr. Bellinger re- ported to the Bureau of Aeronautics as head of the plans division and later became administrative and executive head of the bureau. During this tour of duty, he received his promotion to rank of captain. In June, 1936, Capt. Bellinger took over command of the Ranger, latest of the carriers. Capt. Bellinger holds the following | decorations: Mexican Campaign Badge, | Victory Medal and Aviation Clasp, | Commander of the Military Order of | Tower and Sword of Portugal, Navy | Cross and Order of Saints Maurizie | and Lozzare of Italy. | zell, 8,938, and Emerson Stone, 7,851, | Seventh District; Albert Thomas, 14,- | Farlane, 17,651, and Grady Woodruff, 8,393, District 13. ACTIVE IN D. C. AFFAIRS. Representative Blanton, quring his 18 years in Congress, has taken an active interest in District activities, which have kept him almost continu- ously in the limelight. Early in his congressional career as & member of the District Legislative Committee he fought vigorously for improvement in the Police Depart- ment and later as & member of the subcommittee on appropriations which framed the annual District supply bills, he battled successfully to cut down the amount of the Federal pay- ment toward District expenses. Large- ly as a result of his activities, the Isolationist is a favorite term those whose greatest desire seems explosion. ) The paragraphs on international affairs in Topeka speech recalled that Re- publican leadership has never shirked responsi- bility in the international field, but that it has refused and continues to refuse to surrender the freedom of the United States to exercise independence of judgment when problems arise. Mr, Landon has a predilection, unusual in these days, for common " (Copyright. 1936.) lump sum dropped from $9,500,000 to its present $5,000,000 figure. Only the persistent refusal of the Senate to agree with Blanton and his subcom- mittee prevented the figure from be- ing reduced this year to $2,700,000. Created Series of Sensations. Always an aggressive fighter, Blan- ton's activities created a series of sen- sations. First he threatened to “get” former Commissioner Frederick A. Fenning out of office, and succeeded. Then he turned on former Police Capt. Guy E. Burlingame, and as a result Burlingame was retired. Next he ar- ranged through the now famous “gentleman’s” agreement with Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown for the pro- motion of former Police Inspector Albert J. Headley to the rank of an assistant superintendent. Headley got the promotion, and was subsequently retired. Blanton’s most bitter fight, how- ever, centered around his more recent activities to stop a movement for repeal of the so-called “red rider” to the 1936 District appropriation act, which he sponsored. This rider, which forbids the teaching or advocacy of communism in the public schools, led to many verbal battles on the floor of the House, during which Blanton frequently hurled charges against Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, and other leading educators, who believed in academic freedom in the class room. And suddenly before Congress adjourned, Blanton, in con- nection with his fight against the opponents of the “red rider” sent questionnaires to District school teachers, seeking to learn their views on religion and political questions. ‘Throughout his long congressional appropriations which he believed un- necessary and built up a reputation in congressional circles as “the watch dog of the Treasury.” He also took an active part in the move at the last session of Congress which re- sulted in the removal of Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood. Blanton later ad- mitted he had done Gen. Hagood an injustice and joined in the move- ment which resulted in the officer’s restoration to active duty. Blanton first came to Congress in 1916 and served continuously until 1928, when he ran for the Senate, and met defeat.’ Two years later he again ran for the House and was re-clected, and has since served continuously. As a membgr of the Appropriations Committee, Blanton expected to be- come chairman in the next Congress of the subcommittee which framed the huge annual War Department supply bill. Representative Parks, Democrat, of Arkansas, present chair- man of that subcommittee, will not return to Congress, and Blanton, as the ranking majority member, was slated for the chairmanship. Such a move would have taken him off tha subcommittee in charge of the Dis- trict supply bill. Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere in the City [ Full Sports Base Ball Scores, Race Results, Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. Complete Market News of the What- ever it is, you'll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition. ‘THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c a month. Call National 5000 and service will start'at once. Under his command the | career, Blanton consistently opposed | 1934 total—due in large part to the drought—but the rate of rise fell to 17 per cent during the first four months of 1936. This follcwed the virtual elimination of all imports in certain farm products, such as the grains, which were brought in heavily last year as the result of the 1934 drought. Other foodstuffs, such as | cattle and cheese, as well as a wide irange of raw materials and semi- manufactures continue to enter the United States in large quantities. | Export Gains Shown. Stimulation of exports is seen not jonly in comparison of agreement | countries, but in comparison of groups of commodities on which we have | been granted tariff reductions or quota | increases with those on which we have not. The principal classes of com- modities which account for the $80.- 000,000 gain in sales from January through April this year were the fol- | lowing, with their approximate values of increase: Cotton, unmanufactured.--. $8,500,000 Petroleum and products-.. 10,000,000 Tinplate and tagger’s tin__ 4.000,000 Electrical machinery and | apparatus Power-driven metal-work- | ing machinery. Mining, well and pumping machinery | Textile, sewing and shoe | 3 | machinery | Agricultural machinery and implements Automobiles and other ve- hicles Fertilizers and materials - With the exception of cotton, which was bound on the free list in several agreements, the United States re- ceived concessions in all the above= named groups, not for all classes with- |in each group, perhaps, but for & substantial portion thereof. The Import Picture, The import picture is somewhat dif- | ferent. A gain of $107,749,000, or 17 per cent, was revealed from January through April this year, and of this figure $40,000,000 was accounted for by Canada and Cuba, the balance be- ing spread over all other countries. ‘The percentage gain for Camada and Cuba, taken together, was 36, and for the other eight agreement countries, 24, and for non-agreement countries, 11. Thus, the agreements would ap- pear to have done more to bring goods into the United States than to send them out, but not all or even a very large share of these additional imports have been competitive with domestic products. 3,500,000 11,500,000 1,500,000 2,500,000 4,500,000 6,000,000 fertilizer Crimes (Continued From First Page.) investigation. Pifty-seven men are defendants. Existence of the fantastic order, which purported to war on come munism and defend white supremacy, came to light a week after Charles A. Poole was killed, on May 12. The first confession in that case also came from Dean. He admitted he pumped bullets from two revolvers into the kneeling form of the 32-year-old man who had been accused falsely of mis~ treating his wife. Dean has pleaded guilty. The trial of 14 others, has been postponed until some time after August 3, when argu- ments will be heard on 44 defense motions. Two of them request sanity examinations for Dean and for “Cal.” Davis, who is a defendant. Six Black Legionnaires will go on trial Thursday, charged with flogging Robert Penland, an Ecorse steel worket. Sixteen are charged with conspir- ing to kill Arthur L. Kingsley, pub- lisher of a weekly newspaper in sube urban Highland Park. Five are charged with conspiring to kill Mayor Voisine of Ecorse. -