Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1937, Page 5

SEALANDINGS FILL HISTORY FFLYING Rodgers and Crew of 4 Rode Pacific Waves 10 Days in Battered Ship. Speelal Dispaich to The Star. NEW YORK, Jaly 3.—The history of trans-oceanic flying is replete with instances of forced landings at sea, both in flying boats and land planes, the outcome of which have been marked in some cases by swift tragedy under circumstances seemingly fa- vorable for a prompt rescue and in others by a happy ending long after all hope had been abandoned. Probably the most harrowing of all &uch adventures befell the late Comdr. John A. Rodgers and his crew of four in early September, 1925, when they were forced down by lack of fuel on the first attempted flight from Cal- ifornia to Hawali and rode out 10 days in their battered Navy flight boat, the PN-9 No. 1, before being rescued by a submarine and towed nearly 100 miles into Honolulu. They heard over their radio the grim mes sage, “all hope is gone,” long before they were found, but could do noth- ing to revive the search because their transmitter had been rendered useless when the ship came down on the water, Ulm Ship Vanished. More recently, in the same general locality where Comdr. Rodgers and his companions experienced their 218!2-hour ordeal, half of it without adequate food or water, the British fiyer, Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm, and his two companions, on an attempted flight from Oakland to Honolulu, in December, 1935, vanished swiftly and without trace after radioing that they had missed their objective and broad- casting frantic pleas for help. Army and Navy airplanes and boats by the score went into action at once, and there was high optimism at first that the empty tanks of Ulm's twin-mo- tored land plane—a craft generally similar to Miss Earhart's Lockheed Electra—would sustain the fiyers long enough for them to be located and saved, but the search proved fruit- less. Ulm and his companions had scorned suggestions in California that they take along a collapsible rubber lifeboat and life preservers similar to those carried by Miss Earhart and Capt. Noonan, saying tha their ship would float “indefinitely” in the event it came down with exhausted fuel tanks. Another tragic sidelight on their venture was that they kept Appealing frantically for the Army or the Navy to “turn on the beam” in Honolulu, their preparations for the flight being so scanty that none of them knew there was no radio beacon at their destination Rode Seas for Eight Days. The longest known survival of a land plane after a forced descent in the sea was that of Stanislaus Haus- ner’s Bellanca monoplane, which he rode for eight days off the Azores be- fore he was picked up by a British oil tanker in June, 1932. The plane itself was salvaged nearly six weeks later by an Italian steamer, and a diary was found in the cabin which told how Hausner had pieced out his emergency rations with fish which he caught by fashioning a hook out of his compass needle The first of all the land planes to Attempt & transoceanic flight, a Brit- ish craft carrying Harry C. Hawker and McKenzie Grieve, which took off from St. Johns, Newfoundland, on May 18, 1919, developed motor trou- ble 1,200 miles out and landed alongside a steamer. This vessel was without radio, and all the world, with the exception of Hawker's wife, had Riven the flyers up for lost when the boat reached port more than a week later. Others who came down alongside ships in the Atlantic and were saved include Ruth Elder and George W. Haldeman. who took off from New York on October 11, 1927, and were forced down by engine trouble 350 miles from the Azores, and Lou Reich- ers, who landed alongside the steam- ship President Roosevelt on May 13, 1932. 47 miles from the Irish Coast on the Ireland leg of an attempted flight from this country to Europe. Drifted 8 Days on Seaplane. Willy Rody, his pilot, Christian Joanssen and Fernando De Costa Viega drifted for eight days off the American Coast on their seaplane, Esa, which was forced down on a flight here from Europe in September, 1931. before & Norwegian motor ship picked them up 80 miles southwest of Cape Race. Back in August, 1924, the Italian airman, Antonion Locatelli, and three companions survived a sim- ilar experience, which lasted for nearly four days when they were forced down in their flying boat off the coast of Greenland during the United States Army Air Corps' around-the-world flight. They were saved by a Navy cruiser on patrol duty in connection Wwith the Army's ambitious aerial undertaking. In August, 1928, Capt. Frank T. Courtney and three com- panions were rescued by a trans-At- lantic steamer shortly after their Dernier Wal flying boat caught fire 500 miles from the Azores on a flight to this country via Nova Scotia, Walter Wellman, nNewspaper man and airship enthusiast, was rescued with the crew of his non-rigid dirig- ible, America, by a steamer 800 miles off Cape Hatteras in October, 1910, It was the first attempt to fiy from this country to Europe. M rs.bamer Takes Second Vacation - In Over 25 Years And Vice President Gets Out His Cane Fish- ing Pole. By the Assoctatea Press. UVALDE, Tex., July 3.—Vice Presi- dent John N. Garner pulled down his old cane fishing pole today and headed for the deep holes—Ileft a bachelor for two weeks by Mrs. Garner. For the first time in more than 25 Years, with the exception of an Ori- ental trip in 1935, Mrs. Garner is going to have a “real” vacation. She left by automobile today for Amarillo with her granddaughter, Genevieve. Her automobile was hardly out of sight before Garner and his fishing cronle, Ross Brumfield, left for the ‘Wweek end. Mrs. Garner said she would meet her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Tully Gar- ner, at Amarillo and the three of them would make a leisurly trip - _through New Mexico. while awaiting reports of the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGITON D. C, JULY 4 1937—PART ONE. Await Word of Flyers, Missing in Mid-Pacific ot g S Mrs. Fred J. Noonan, wife of Amelia Earhart’s navigator, and George Palmer Putnam, husband of the fiyer, look over a globe, two flyers. Putnam called at Mrs. Noonan's home at Oakland, Calif., to offer his sympathy. Lieut. W. W. Harvey, naval flying ace, who flew from Hon- olulu, seeking trace of the flyers. He was forced back by a storm last night. One of the latest Earhart photos, taken at Karachi, India, June 15. Miss Earhart is shown with Noonan, left, and Viscount Sibour of the Standard Oil Co., when the flyers landed at Karachi on their round-the-world flight. —A. P. and Wide World Photos. Fate of Another Woman Flyer Is Pacific’s Secret Miss Mildred Doran Was Forced Down in Dole Flight. Bs the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 3.—The only woman besides Amelia Earhart ever to have been forced down in a trans-Pacific flight never was heard from again. Miss Mildred Doran, young, attrac- tive school teacher of Flint, Mich,, who perished in the 1927 California- to-Hawaii Dole flight, was Miss Bar- hart’s predecessor in an unfortunate Pacific flight. She was a passenger in a plane piloted by the irrepressible “straw hat” aviator, J. Auggy Pedlar. Lieut V. R. Knope of the United States Navy was navigator. Most thrilling rescue was that of Comdr. John Rodgers. His Honolulu- bound ship was down for nine days, but he and his crew were saved by a submarine. Among the ocean’s victims were sev- eral other Dole race entrants, Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm was an- other Joser in the vast distances of the Pacific. His last despairing radio message said: “We are landing on the water now, heading into the wind ——." Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, who once flew across the ocean, perished on a later flight. QUEéN WILHELMINA TO HONOR WRITER Officer's Rank of Order of Nassau to Be Bestowed on Van Loon. by the Associated Press. STAMFORD, Conn, July 3.— Hendrik Willem Van Loon, author and historian, was advised yesterday Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands would bestow the officer's rank of the Order of Nassau upon him when she makes her birthday citations this Summer. The award will be made for the enhancement of the Dutch race by his works of literature. The consul general of the Nether- lands in New York actually will con- fer the knighthood upon Van Loon, for the Queen. The date has not yet been set. Van Loon, who lives at Old Green- wich, Conn., was born in Rotterdam, Holland, in 1882. He studied at Harvard and Cornell and the Uni- versity of Munich. At one time he was an Associated Press writer in Washington and later, during the Russian revolution of 1906, at Mos- Cow, St. Petersburg and at Warsaw. At the outbreak of the World War he worked for the Associated Press in Belgium. Later he represented the press service in France, Italy, Switzer- land, Holland and other countries in Europe. His works include “The Story of Mankind.” “The Story of the Bible,” a life of Rembrandt, and a widely read “geography.” EXECUTIVE FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED Walter Cary, Westinghouse Vice President, Is Victim of Heart Attack. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 3 —Walter Cary, 65, vice president of the ‘Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. and a director of four Westinghouse subsid- laries, was found dead in bed today in his Park avenue apartment. His physician, Dr. Robert P. Wal- lace, said Cary died in his sleep of a heart attack. He said the vietim had suffered a heart allment for some time. The - executive was the brother of Irving Cary, an official of the Oorning Glass Co. of Corning, N. Y., who shared the apartment but who was not at home last night. Cary was a director of the Bryant Electric Co. of Bridgeport, Conn.; the Moa Bay Iron Co., the Westinghouse Electric Supply Co. and the Westing- house Lamp Co. 117 Degrees Second Day. EL CENTRO, Calif., July 3 (#).— ‘The temperature reached 117 degrees here today for the second successive day, the Weather Bureau reported. Earhart (Continued From First Page.) o station in the Nurru Islands picked up a message on the Earhart wave length saying “a ship in sight ahead.” The message was untimed and part of it was unintelligible, but the Brit- ish station was quoted as saying the voice was similar to Miss Earhart's. This station is on almost a direct line with Miss Earhart's flight route and heard her Thursday as she passed within 60 miles of Nurru The unsuccessful searching plane reported encountering the snow and sleet at high altitude. Snow is un- known at Howland Island, only 50 miles from the Equator. Great Hazard in Sun. Rescue workers said the sun there would be a great hazard to survival of any one exposed to its merciless equatorial rays. Reports indicated clear skies and a calm sea in the region of the hunt. Searchers put little faith in numer- ous reports of amateur radio operators of supposed messages from the Ear- hart “flying laboratory” and asserted there was no convincing proof that she and Noonan remained alive. But the radio messages purporting to come from the lost twin-motored plane continued to flash despite offi- cial skepticism. Paul Mantz, Miss Earhart's techni- cal advisor, expressed the conviction that two Los Angeles amateur wire- less operators had really picked up a message from the plane and that Miss Earhart and her navigator had reached an atoll in the South Pacific. Searchers said they had reason to believe the last message from the plane came at 1:45 am. today (7:15 am, E 8. T) as a series of dashes. But amateur listeners insisted they had heard reports at 9:42 am, 9:55 am. and 10 am, E. S. T, indicating they were from the plane. Recognized Her Voice. One reported he recognized Miss Earhart's voice saying “KHAQQ SO S, KHAQQ S O S, KHAQR SO S.” These are the call letters given Miss Earhart for the “just for fun” world flight that came to grief during an attempted 2,570-mile flight yesterday from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island. | After a 21-hour search of the waters about Howland, the Itasca returned to the island, intending to remain there as a base ship for other search- ing craft. Failure of the flying boat to get through from Hawaii caused it to resume the hunt. i From Oakland, Calif., George Pal- mer Putnam cabled a request to radio station KGU here to broadcast hourly messages to Miss Earhart in efforts to locate his wife and Noonan. Putnam asked that her initials, “A. E.” be broadcast on the hour, followed by “SOS. Land or water? North or south?” He said he hoped Miss Earhart might be able to pick up the messages and indicate her location and whether she was on an island or afloat. May Have Drifted Back. He said the Pan-Pacific Press Bu- reau had computed that Miss Ear- hart might have drifted back to the original position, when she radioed she was 100 miles from Howland. Half an hour later she sent an alarming message that she had only half an hour's supply of fuel left and could not make the distance. The bureau figured that with a 5-mile- an-hour drift Miss Earhart, if afloat, would have drifted back to the spot from which she first broadcast. A request to the Itasca to cease broadcasting on the same wave length as Miss Earhart was made by Coast Guard headquarters at San Fran- cisco in efforts to pick up any dis- tress signals she sends. Officials said Miss Earhart was au- thorized to use 3105, 6210 and 500 kilocycles and that the Itasca had been using the same frequencies in tests, The Coast Guard at San Francisco planned to operate three monitoring stations. Officers explained that should Miss Earhart broadcast they might be able to pick up the signals. Besides the battleship Colorado, the aircraft tender ~Pelican also was pressed into the sea-combing task from the Hawaiian Islands. At 2:12 p.m., Eastern standard time, —_— AMONDS | complete line of starmds 4rd and all-American made: watches. 5 Shop at the friendly store—:: ou're always greeted with 4 i ; ile—with no obligation to bay: yesterday, Miss Earhart had reported the necessity of landing soon in her 380,000 “flying laboratory,” saying no land was in sight. Despite this report, Mantz said at Burbank, Calif., he felt confident she had reached some coral atoll and even if she had not the two-man rubber raft could float “indefinitely.” Frankly concerned, Putnam waited for word at San Francisco although he continued to hold out hope of her uitimate rescue. Startling, Putnam said, was Mantz' belief that in the ‘background” of the radio calls could be heard what sound- ed like the roar of an airplane engine. Mantz informed Putnam he be- lieved Miss Earhart had brought her big plane down safely on a coral atoll when the gasoline supply ran low and had rigged up an emergency radio broadcasting set. The airplane motor in such case would be used to generate power, Mantz explained. Itasca Search Fruitless. The Itasca made a fruitless search in the Howland Island vicinity, belch- ing black smoke in the hope of being seen by the flyers. Then it was ordered to return to Howland. An alert eye was kept by all search- ers for an orange kite, which Miss Earhart and Noonan took along to fly as a distress signal. One of the host of theories advanced, that the flyers may have landed on Baker Island, a southern neighbor of Howland, was blasted by information that four colonists there are equipped with a radio which could have quickly relayed the information. Coast Guardsmen, grasping at any clue for checking, relayed to the Itasca the Oakland, Calif., amateur operator's report that at 9:55 am (Eastern standard time) today he had heard possible distress calls. As in all other cases, no position was learned The Coast Guard, however, pointed out it may have been the Itasca itself testing on an 86-meter wave length Coast Guard officers concentrated their search in a hundred-mile area southwest of Howland, saying it was “beyond belief” that the woman fiyer overshot the island. Cloudy Weather Forecast. Clouds and some wind formed the weather report from Washington, D. C, for the vicinity of Howland. In Washington, Charles Horner, president of the National Aeronauti- cal Association, said it would be “awfully painful” to pronounce the flight “foolhardy” in the face of “such a tremendously courageous attempt.” He considered the last stages of the flight, begun from Oakland, Calif., May 21, “even more difficult in some ways than the recent non-stop polar flight of the Russian aviators.” Ruth Elder, who with George W. Haldeman was rescued in rough At- lantic waters after their plane was forced down in 1927, expressed confi- dence in Miss Earhart's ultimate rescue. Ship Lanes 300 Miles West. Bailing -ships ply about 300 miles west of Howland, a treeless sandspit on & direct air line from Honolulu to Australia. The island, 1500 miles from Honoluly, is only a mile and & half long. Mrs. Noonan, wife of the navigator, collapsed at Oakland and was placed under care of a physician. Previ- ously she expressed hope the Itasca would find her husband and Miss Earhart. Experts agreed that Miss Earhart's plane, with its huge, empty gasoline tanks to add to potential buoyancy, would float for some time, but empha- sized that the length of its endurance would depend upon its condition when it came down, the character of the ocean surface and the seamanship of the flyers involved. The extent of their food and water supply was not known here. Flight (Continued From First Page) to do will be to confirm it when you land in Honolulu.” But the tousel-haired flyer shook her head. She said that she was constitutionally opposed to advance announcements of her plans and in- tentions to any further extent than was absolutely necessary or unavoid- able, that “so many things can hap- pen” 1o change one’s program, “or even & woman's mind.” With what soon had the appearance of uncanny foresight in view of the accident to her ship when she tried to take off from Hawal ifor Howland Island, she said: “If you use that story at all, wait until the 'round-the-world flight is over, or nearly over. I think it would be absurd to make such an announce- ment now, especially if I should be forced to give up my present program or postponed it for any reason when I had only just started around the world.” Miss Earhart said that her decision to retire from the stunt flying arena was prompted by a number of reasons. Among them was the repeated urging of her husband, George Palmer Put- nam, that she give up hazardous flight attempts. her own feeling that she had done her fair share in this field and the growing conviction “that I'm getting old and want to make way for the younger generation before I'm feeble, too.” Miss Earhart's first spectacular flight was in 1928, when she crossed the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland with the late Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon in the tri-motored Fokker seaplane Friendship and be- came the first woman to span the ocean by air. Four years later she made the same flight alone in a single-motored Lockheed monoplane equipped only with wheels and in the early part of 1935 she flew a similar ship solo from Honolulu to Oakland, the first woman to fly over this 2,410- mile expanse of water and the first pilot to make the trip alone. She later made a solo non-stop flight from Mexico City to New York, a feat as yet unduplicated by any other pilot or combination of pilots and in many ways one of the most difficult of all her achievements be- cause it involved taking off in the rarefled atmosphere of a fleld more than 7.000 feet above sea level with & plane carrying a heavy overload of fuel. (Copyrieht, 1937.) PAY GAINS BY PRICE RISES Worker's Annual Pay Increases $162, but Expenses Also Are Higher. By the Associated Press. The American Federation of Labor said yesterday price increases in the last three years have nearly wiped out labor's gains from higher pay. Government figures, the federation said in its monthly business survey, show the average worker's annual pay has increased $162 since 1933, but that increased living costs have offset all but $17 of that amount. “This is all the progress made in three years of rising business, and & period of rising business is the most favorable of all for raising workers’ real income,” the federation added. The average workers' income, it said, was $1,082 in 1933, and $1,244 in 1936. “Many of the price increases which raised workers' living costs were due to strong industrial combinations which raised prices much more than Was necessary to offset wage increases,” the survey said. ""Murco” Is Always 100% Pure Get More Years Per Gal. 1#*“Murco” First cost is the least cost in painting if you do not choose wisely. Paint that looks good on the brush cannot always stand up under the weather. 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Solomon, manager of Washington Airport, following a long-distance telephone conversation with Putnam at San Francisco. “Mr. Putnam is hopeful that the carrier wave conditions will improve with nightfall and there will be a better chance of picking up a message from the missing plane,” Solomon ex- plained. *: Putnam told Solomon, for years a friend and business associate of Miss Earhart, that an “alert” radio net- work had just about been built up and would be able, in the event any messages were sent from the plane, to determine their authenticity and to establish bearings on the source of the messages and 30 narrow down the search. SOVIET “LIQUIDATES" MORE THAN 70 SPIES Secret Police Official Announces Clean-Up of “Counter- Revolutionaries.” By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 3.—Leonid Zakov- sky. chief of the Leningrad secret police. announced yesterday the arrest and “liquidation” of more than 70 persons who allegedly acted as coun- ter-revQlutionary spies and ‘“diver- sionists™ for the Estonian intelligence service. The alleged leader of the band, whom Zakovsky identified only as “K.” was said to have been killed by A Soviet secret agent near the fron- tier when he resisted arrest. Zakovsky, in a newspaper article, said all members of the band. which he said had agents within the Red army and munitions factories, had not been seized. Zakovsky also referred to the arrest of two German engineers alleged to be spies. FIREMEN PLAN FAIR 8ix-Day Exposition Slated Oxon Hill in August. OXON HILL, Md., July 3 (Special) —A six-day county exposition and fair will be staged by the Oxon Hill Volunteer Fire Department, starting August 23. Features will include a public wedding, mule, pony and dog races, farm and home exhibits and fireworks displays. at PROBLEMS GITED INEARKART HUNT Col. Rowell Says Plane on Water Usually Is Hard to See. While two former Washingtonians are leading searching expeditions for Amelia Earhart in the vicinity of Howland Island, Col, Ross E. Rowell, director of Marine Corps Aviation, Bureau of Aeronautics, yesterday cited the difficulties in the path of those seeking to find the missing aviatrix. Col. Rowell said his experience has been that it is very hard to see just ‘where a plane is floating on the waves. He cited an instance where Marine flyers had pessed over a down plane half a dozen times, without sighting it, when they knew the general local- ity of its disappearance. The weath- er, of course, is a vital factor, he said. Unless one has a waterproof radio set it is difficult to maintain radio commounication aboard a down plane he declared. The least moisture will interfere, he explained. Kite Reported on Plane. 1f Miss Earhart is within some 25 miles of Howland Island. Col. Rowell said, chances are better that she will be found. If she can get her kite, which dispatches say she carries in her plane, up into the air, this will increase the chances of rescuers being able to spot her from the air. Lieut. Warren W. Harvey, attached to VP-6F at Pearl Harbor, Hawail. took off at 6 am. (Eastern standard time) yesterday, to search for Miss Earhart in a Navy patrol seaplane Navy officials calculated that it would take him around 18 hours to negotiate the 1,800 miles to Howland Island. He served at the Washington Navy Yard in 1933, taking a course in ordnance there. Lieut. Harvey's plane, similar to the type that flew from San Diego to Honolulu and from San Diego to Coco Solo in the Canal Zone, has a cruis- ing radius of some 3.500 miles, offi- cials at the Bureau of Aeronautics said. Colorado on Way. Also speeding to the search for Miss Earhart is the battleship Colo- rado, commanded by Capt. Wilhelm Lee Friedell, who was on duty at the Naval Gun Factory at the Washing- fon Navy Yard from 1933 to 1935. Since then he has commanded the Colorado, which had just arrived at Honolulu with R. O. T. C. units from the Universities of Washington and California when Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department, ordered him to pro- ceed to the search. Officials here calculated that it will take three days for the jorado to reach the vicinity of Howland Island She carries three planes, and these will be employed in the search as soon as the vessel gets within “strik- ing distance” of the area Capt. Friedell has spent much time in the submarine service and for his World War service received the Navy Cross as commander of the United States naval submarine forces in European waters. —_—_ CHURCH CARNIVAL OPENS WITH PARADE TOMORROW The eighteenth annual carnival of St. Gabriel's Church, to be held at Grant Circle under sponsorship of the Georgia Avenue Business Men's Association, will open with a parade at 6 pm. tomorrow. Phe parade route will start from Georgia avenue and Kenyon street going north on Georgia avenue to Decatur street, east on Decatur to Ili- nois avenue, and south on Illinois avenue to the carnival grounds. Included in the parade will be a number of floats and five bands—the Metropolitan Police Boys’ Club, Elks, Fort Stevens Post, No. 32, American Legion; the Sons of the American Legion Fife and Drum Corps and Chestnut Farms Dairy. Prizes will be awarded for the best float, for the best child's costume, the best decorated bicycle, the best deco- rated girl's baby carriage and the best decorated boy's wagon. The carnival will continue until July 17 with two amusement rides and 37 concession stands in operation. Motor Law Fought. Motorists have organized at Cape- town, South Africa, to fight some of the unpopular provisions of a new ordinance proposed for Cape Province One provision that aroused great an- tagonism would require any motorist to pay for emergency medical atten- tion to anybody injured by his car. He may attempt subsequently to re- cover such outlay from the person benefitted if the latter is found to be culpable. The aim is to safeguard hospitals from casualty treatment costs. Four outstanding feéfures of the ORGATRON 1. Console conforms ments to A. G. 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They are now part of a great Summer music move- ment which takes music to millions of Americans in the hot months But the Boston Pops are still unique, They are the only Summer concerts which have been part of a schema to provide year-round employment for symphony men from the beginning. Henry L. Higginson's original plan for the Boston Symphony, made in 1881, contemplated employmeny on a year-round basis. Dine, Sip and Listen. They are the only Summer concerts of similar scope which make food and drink an essential and unashamed part of the program. People eat and” sip wine and beer in redecorated Symphony Hall, which this Summer was cool in green, gray and a littls gilt. The whole lower floor, sacred to dowagers with trailing ermine in the Winter, is given over to tables through the Summer. The funny thing is that the dow- agers, such as are in town, come to sit at the tables just the same. The tables are no gesture, as at New York's Stadium, The Pops are unique as well, in that George E. Judd, who manages tha Winter affairs of the orchestra with neatness and dispatch, 1s through the Summer a ‘“common victualer,” as the holders of food and drink licenses are called in this Commonwealth. Common Victualer Judd explains that he prefers to have the licenss in his own name because he can con= trol what is served at the Pops and the manner in which it is served. Music Comes First. “Otherwise our concessionaire would be hot after the dimes, and his wait- resses would be stumbling through the music, making a racket.” says Mr. Judd. “If the music deserves quiet, we simply stop serving, no matter how thirsty the patron may be.” Common Victualer Judd can's see why other towgg with orchestras don't do as Boston does. 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