Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1937, Page 3

-~ JURY DISCHARGED IN DAVISON CASE Fails to Agree After Five Hours of Deliberation in Bankruptcy Trial. E¥ & 8taf Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 26— After deliberating for more than five hours without reaching an agreement, | a jury which sat through four days ori testimony and arguments by attorneys in the case of Emmett C. Davison, Mayor of Alexandria, charged with concealing assets in a bankruptcy pro- ceeding, last night was discharged by Judge Luther B. Way in United States District Court here. The jury retired with the evidence at 4:04 p.m. yesterday and reported to Judge Way at 10:15 p.m. that they were unable (o agree. Davison, who is a candiate for re- election in the Democratic primaries of April 6, was charged with three counts of concealing assets and one of | making a false oath in an indictment | returned by a grand jury last June. William E. Leahy of Washington, chief of defense counsel, sought to show by evidence that Davison did not ex- ercise any control over the bank ac- counts, since they were in the names of his wife and daughter, and that the check represented an advance on salary from the association In arguing to the jury yesterday, William E. Leahy, chief defense coun- sel, charged that the case was an out- growth of a political “frame-up” and that some one was secking to “stab |_ Mr. Davison in the back.” “Somewhere, somebody behind this case,” Leahy declared. “I don't know whether it's politics—but you all know he comes up for re-election in a few days. I do know that some one was out to stab him in the back and Id like to know why.” District Attorney Sterling Hutcheson declared in his argument to the jury that Davison had been evasive throughout the trial Retrial of Mayor Davison cannot be held before the June term of court. It was indicated by court attaches today that when the case is called even then it probably will be continued until the September term. is “THIRD-DEGREE” PROBE WITNESS IS ARRESTED Man Whose Charges Led to 1931 Inquiry Is Charged With Driv- ing While Drunk. James Henry Harker, 28, key witness in the 1931 police brutality investiga- tion here, pleaded not guilty and de- manded a jury trial when arraigned before Judge John P. McMahon in Police Court today on a charge of driving while drunk. Bond was set at $500. Harker, who gave his address as T. B, Md., was arrested last night on Bladensburg road by Policemen H. M Hilldrup and R. W. Smith of the ninth precinct Charges by Harker in 1931 that of- ficers of the first precinct “beat” a housebreaking confession from him led to a grand jury investigation of police brutality in Washingon. As a result several District policemen were sentenced to jail terms. Hostess of Plane Left a Farewell Note to Mother “Sadness Must Always Be for Living,”” She Wrote. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH., March 26.—Doris Hammons, hostess on the twin-mo- tored airliner in which she and 12 others fell to their deaths last night, left a farewell message for her mother in Leddy, Okla. Searchers at the scene of the crash near suburban Mount Lebanon today found the log she had written of her flying career, and on the last page of the little book was written these words: “Sadness must always be for the living. When a ship sets sail it is the eyes of those who watch from shore that are blinded with tears.” e —————— FOUND DOG.+ small. curly gray leather harness; no collar, trict 9131, ... . oSk BRIEF CASE. brown. initials "V, D containing Government p: Phone_District_7900. extension 15 DOG—Black and white. odd eves. spat Reward. J. A McCrary, A!l"‘v : o Alexandria_ 2020-W. hair e; Telephone Dis- nd_white K A No. 4190, male. Maryland Wisconsin 47 between Blackis! 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Chevrolet hrysler road- Pontiac sedan. : Chevrolet coach. mo- Buick_coupe. motor No. M. GARAGE. 1724 Kalo- s rd. n.W, . | pilot with Wilkins) saw the actual | Upper: Lower: THE EVENING All that remained of a big T. W. A. transport plane | after it crashed late yesterday near Pittsburgh. { Among the 13 persons killed. Left to right: Frederick Bohnet, pilot in charge; H. E. Warwick, co-pilot; Miss Capt. STAR, WASHINGTON, Plane Wreckage That Trapped 13 at Pittsburgh Doris C. Hammons of Newark, the hostess; C. R. Lewers, jr., of Kansas City, a passenger; E. J. Fleming, jr., son of a Kansas City judge, and Earl G. Neill, Minneapolis. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. Air Crash | (Continued From First Page.) | el ) line and State and Federal inspectors | began immediately. Dr. J. J. McLean. manager of the * | airport, said some inspectors told him | they believed tce formed on the wings. } “They said they saw ice on parts of | the ship and thought it might have | formed while the plane descended +from 10,000 feet or more to below LhP‘ clouds while heading for the airport,” said Dr. McLean. The 320" left Newark promptly at | 3:15 p.m, stopped at Camden, where | lzhrcr passengers left and five got| aboard. | In Chicago Jack Frye, T. W. A.| president, asserted the ship, its engine | and radio were in perfect mechanical | condition at the time it left and that it arrived over the Pittsburgh Airport | at 6:25 pm., on schedule. The crash occurred at approximately 6:45 pm. This would indicate the | plane was awaiting permission from ! the airport to land. Officials refused to divulge the radio log at the airport or of the rlane, saving it was “tied up” by the Federal Communications Commission. nautics inspector, the only official who would be quoted, said: “The plane apparently was out of control. The throttles must have been closed before the crash.” | No Screams Heard. | The crash occurred at the edge of | |a valley about 40 yards wide. First| | persons to reach the wreckage said they heard no screams or groans, in- dicating all died instantaneously. Had Pilot Bohnet been able to level off his ship, safety lay less than 100 yards away. At the county airport an executive said the plane had attempted to land, | but was ordered to descend at a lower altitude because of fog and mist and the operator could not see the ship at 5,000 feet. It was about five miles to the air- port and eight miles to downtown Pittsburgh from where the liner struck. Capt. Wilkins, in his statement, | said: “About 10 miles west of Pittsburgh Airport, while flying at 2,000 feet, I sighted an airplane flying at approxi- mately 1,700 feet in level flight and dead ahead about 1 mile, headed in the same direction toward the Pitts- bugh Airport. “When I spotted him I immediately slowed up as we were overtaking him rapidly. When within a half mile of the ship it looked as though he were starting to make a left turn. The nose pointed vertically downward. When he was within about 50 feet of the ground I looked away, but First Of- ficer Williams (L. M. Willlams, co- impact. Mr. Williams says the ship | struc kthe ground in full vertical posi- | tion. “The actual base of the clouds was 3.000 feet above sea level as I flew in sight of the ground 10 miles west of the Ohio River. The visibility was also good, ranging from 5 to 10 miles from | my plane. There was no snow or rain | to decrease visibility.” Turned End Over End. Farmer Euclid Bourguignon, one of the first on' the scene, said he saw the plane shooting earthward “turn- ing end over end” three times. “I guess it fell about 500 feet straight down,” he said. Bourguignon said he found a faint pulse in the body of one girl, probably the stewardess, but knew she could not live. Robert McWilliams, a Washington, Pa. taxicab operator, said he saw the ship shortly before it crashed and its engines were laboring. He estimated its height at not more than 300 feet before the fall. Volunteer firemen were the first rescue crew to arrive. They found the two all-metal wings hanging like those of a crippled bird from the twisted fuselage and the tail barely damaged. Several sacks of mail, in the tail, were not badly damaged. | gers were headed for an Easter holi- | | § d had just completed attending a M. L. Cunningham, a State aero- an J e into a mountainside near Uniontown, killing 11. The pretty little stewardess, | Nellie Granger, emerged the heroine | of this crash, beating her way for miles over the snow-covered mountain to summon help. Mrs. Meyer C. Ellen- | stein, wife of the Mayor of Newark, | N. J., also survived. Last September 5 a skyways sight- seeing plane fell in a mass of flaming debris a few minutes after leaving the airport. Nine of her ten passengers died in the wreckage. On Easter Holiday. At least five of the “320's” passen- | day with relatives or friends. | Miss Trask was on her way to Chi- cago for an Easter reunion with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fredd R. Trask of Sterling Junction, Mass, and a| brother, Osmond, who lives in Chicago. Miss Reed, who had been working in New York for three years while at- tending New York University, was headed for Wheeling, W. Va., to pay her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Reed, a surprise holiday visit. | Miss Black was taking her first | plane ride to visit her sister, Miss Jessie Black, a nurse at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. The Kansas City students, Fleming and Lewers, had been lifelong friends school conducted by an oil company, preparatory to taking up work in the | Orient. Lewers, sr., is a district super- intendent for an oil company and Fleming, sr, a former Municipal | Court judge. f Miss Hammons was one of the first | air hostesses. She made the first reg- | ular flight on a plane from Kansas | man had a piece of the plane clear turned end over end three times and | of being crushed by the plane as it then nosed down and crashed fell “I guess it fell about 500 feet| H. S. Griest and his wife of sub- straight down. | urban Mount Lebanon saw the piane & : dive into a slope a few yards from T went down and started dragging | ot oo™ Ciiest said: ou bodies. I was the hfi;‘ one ”;1""' “The plane fell within 50 feet of the uis Koesney, & neighbor, got there |y, ¢ the car. It just nose-dived soon and helped me. I helped take d d hit head first, four bodies, then I got sick and | 0% 80C ReiRE L o ;’l“; Pocies, | “At the point where we were the Eel g0 (i | road slopes down into a fleld, and it “One girl had no legs at all hit right on that slope, not over 20 or 30 feet from the road. “It was just a mass of wreckage. Cab Driver Saw Crash. | The first thing we noticed was one of Robert McWiiliams, a Washington, | the women’s hands sticking out of Pa., cab driver, saw. the crash from the wreckage. * * * We could hear his car He said the motors seemed | something like a little motor running. to be “running slow” and that “I got I thought it was the ignition, and I the idea that the pilot was looking | tried to get toward the front of the for a place to land.” He continued: | plane to cut it off.” “He was flying in a narrow valley | with woods on each side. There was 8 narrow, wet field near the road. He kept gradually dropping toward the " T end of the valley. Then he seemed LONDON, March 26 (#).—The fam- to try to make a turn. ily of John Drinkwater decided today “Suddenly the front of the ship just | t0 forego formal funeral services for dropped straight down. There was a | the British dramatist-actor, who died loud noise. | yesterday “There was no fire. All the pas-| The body will be cremated in Lon- sengers seemed to be jammed in the | don Tuesday and the ashes buried in front end of the plane. There was & rural church yard in Oxfordshire, no sign of life. We dashed in and | Where Drinkwater spent his youth began pulling out the bodies. None ——‘E— of the hearts was beating. | “The pilot's leg was cut off and his ROOF Exp RTS head was crushed. The co-pilot was Our men are experienced: our charges are low; call us for satisfactory service. beheaded. There was a woman ter- * FERGUSON ribly mangled. It looked like they all 3831 Ga. Ave. COL. 0567 One through his body.” FORMAL RITES BANNED died instantaneously.” Eighteen members of the Volunteer Fire Department of nearby Bethel D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1937. FILLING STATION OWNER ROBBED Two Colored Men Slug Him With Pistol and Take $115. ‘Threatening him with pistols, two colored men last night took $115 from Harry Hall, 32, gas station proprietor, when he stopped for a traffic sign at Sixteenth and D streets northeast. Hall, who lives at 36 Sixteenth street southeast, told police he was on his way home with the day’'s receipts when the men Jjumped on his car. They forced him to drive about half a block, then struck him on the head with 2 pistol butt, robbed him and fled. Hall drove to Gallinger Hospital for treatment for a cut on his head. Hardy Walker, 524 Twenty-fourth | street northeast, was held up at pistol | point and robbed of $142 at Fourth | street and Florida avenue, according to police. A young, well-dressed man seized Agnes A. Grimes, 3435 R street, as she | was walking near Thirty-fifth and Ri streets last night, threw her to the | ground and made off with her pocket- book, containing $14. Theft of 43 quarts of liquor, valued at $145, was reported to police last night by Max Sperling, manager of a liquor store at 1518 Seventh street. Iron bars on a rear window had been forced off, Sperling told police. Warren W. Van Srver, 622 M street, | told police yesterday clothing worth $156 had been stolen from his home some time since Wednesday. CALVERT MAN DIES James Z. Howes, 77, Was Promi- | nent at Prince Frederick. Special Dispatch to The Star PRINCE FREDERICK, Md., March 26.—James Z. Howes, 77, died sud- denly, at his home, near Dunkirk, Calvert County, Monday of a heart at=- tack. Mr. Howes was a leading cit- izen and farmer of his community. He was the son of the late J. Webster Harry Hall. AIRLINES AGREE TOUNIFORM FARE Reduction of $10.05 Is Made for Coast-to-Coast Ticket. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 26 (P).—A transcontinental air rate difference was ended yesterday when two oper- ating lines announced coast-to-coast fares would be reduced $10.05 on May 1 to $149.95 and a third line agreed to this figure. ‘The three transcontinental lines, American, Transcontinental & West- ern and United, made their announce- ments simultaneously, effecting pro- portionate reductions of about 5 per cent over most shorter journeys. Year-Round Rates. ‘The reductions were made by United and American Airlines, while T. & W. Airways will adopt year - round rates and abandon the “Winter rate” it put into effect this past Fall. As a result it will actually increase its rate 4-10 of a cent a mile over current charges, but the new rate will be 5.7 cents a mile instead of 6.1 cents, which was its rate last Summer. NOW I EAT CABBAGE Upset Stomach Goes in Jiffy with Bell-ans BELL-ANS FOR INDIGESTION RUSH PRINTING BYRON 8. ADAMS Shaving Outfit— Tomorrow, Last Day! 25 Double-Edge Blades. 1 Large Tube Shaving Cream. 1 Can Talcum. 1 After-Shaving Lotion. 1 Brilliantine. || Total Value, 70c | | All for 3 5c None Delivered The American Airlines and United | Airlines will reduce their New York- | Chicago fares $3 to $44.95, and the latter will also be the T. & W. air- | ways charge for that flight. The American Airlines’ reductions will affect routes between here and California and also connecting with New York City, upstate New York, Boston and Detroit. The United, which also operates to Pacific Northwest cities, said its $105 | fare from Chicago to California cities will also apply to Portland, Oreg.; Seattle and Spokane, Wash., from Chi- | cago. It will continue to operate its $2 extra fare non-stop plane between Chicago and New York. 21 Planes in Service. The United Airlines already has placed in service 21-passenger Douglas | planes, virtually doubling the capacity | of their former Boeing planes. T.& W. ‘ announced a fleet of 25-passenger } “skyliners,” with 16 first-class accom- | modations and 9 second-class, and a | fleet of “club skyliners” for third-class | will be placed in service. | An extra charge of $3 to $8, depend- ing on distance, will be made for berth accommodations on all the Transcon= tinental lines. These are called “first- class” accommodations on T. & W. planes. THE GIBSON CO. 917 G St. N.W. hassock and of an evening Tomorrow's il NEE's storss Tth & H St.-1106 G St. N.W. ‘Nextg a New Car 373...{3,,@‘@&3.63_') (fa_l is Besi.i Howes of this county. He is survived by four sons, J. Mil- | ton Howes, Morris Howes, J. Virgel | Howes and J. Briscoe Howes; three | daughters, Mrs. Owen Lane, Mrs. | James E. Bourne and Miss Lillian Howes, all of Calvert, and two broth- | ers, George W. Howes of Dunkirk and Daniel Howes of Baltimore. Funeral services were held Tuesday | at Smithville Episcopal Church, Dun- | kirk, with interment in the church cemetery. Rev. O. C. Mitchell con- | ducted the service. | Warned About High Prices. | WARSAW, Poland, March 26 (®).— | A warning that unwarranted price in- creases will bring severe punishment was sent to all business associations and cartels last night by the minister of commerce. BEFORE YOU CLOSE ANY DEAL New De Soto or Plymouth MID-GITY "AUTQ CO. | Washington's Oldest De Soto and Plymouth Dealer 1711 14th St. N.W. ||a|¢y’s 2020 M ST. N.W. Let Haley's Do It Right! | | | | | were the first rescue crew at the scene. | City to St. Louis on December 7, 1935. ' goon police from Mount Lebanon and Three of her close fr_xends and Allegheny County joined them. They companion stewardesses listened in | forced back the curious and souvenir The tragedy was the third major air accident within a year in this area. Last April 7 the Sun Racer smashed word that she might have survived in their room for word that she might} have survived. When the official word of death came, they poured four glasses of wine, drank three and smashed all four on a table in a solemn toast to: “The classmate gone west.” PROBE UNDER WAY. Five Federal Inspectors Investigate| Crash at Pittsburgh. | ‘The Bureau of Air Commerce said | today five Federal inspectors were in| Pittsburgh investigating the crash of | the T. W. A. airliner last night which | took 13 lives. Russell Young, aeronautical in-i | spector, was the first to reach the| scene. In addition, it said, R. I. Hazen, airline inspector, of Newark, and G. W. Lossow, airline maintenance in-| spector, of Newark, were aiding in the investigation. B. M. Jacobs, airline in- spector, of Washington, and Russell Delaney, airline inspector at Kansas City, also were ordered to join the in- quiry. The bureau said it had received no official reports on the disaster. It add- | ed that public hearings will be held at an early date. Later, Col. Harold E. Hartney, spe- cial investigator for the Senate Sub- committee on Safety in Air Commerce, also left for the scene of the disaster. Members of the committee said Hart- ney was not going as an investigator, but merely as an ‘“observer.” The tommittee does not wish to interfere with the official investigation. Victims (Continued From First Page.) were trées in the way afid it went back up in the air. “I thought sure it was going to hit| our house. The plane shot up in the air with the motors running, then it/ a\ N PILES Retleve torturing plles with seothing | PILE-FOE. Relisves burning and iteh- KEERY Ing of Blind, Blseding, Protruding Piles. [ | lunch Wednesday with H. E. Warwick, hunters. Ambulances and police cars scream- ed along congested highways, taking the bodies to the morgue. Flashlights of rescue workers sparkled like fire- flies. Gasoline fumes prevented use of acetylene flood lamps. Bodies Came Apart. Lawrence Walthers, driver of a school | bus, said all the dead “had their seat | belts buckled tight,” adding: “We had to cut the belts before we could drag the bodies out. Some of the bodies came apart in our hands as we tried to lift them.” | Joseph Allen, assistant manager of the Allegheny County Airport, had SALES—SERVICE co-pilot of the death-liner. He was among those early at the scene. “As I approached the plane,” be said, “I could see the dead strewn about on the ground. One of them was Warwick. < “At our luncheon, Warwick was telling me about his little 5-ygar-old son. He was telling me about how he was going to bring the lad up and the man he hoped that he'd be some day. “Then he showed me the lad's pic- ture, a manly, smiling little chap. “Near Warwick’s body was the co- pilot's log, book. As I picked it up, a picture dropped out. 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