Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1937, Page 5

HOLD-UP SUSPECT LINKED TO THEFTS Colored Youth Held Faces Charges in Trio of Robberies. Police announced yesterday that a eolored suspect captured by passers-by while fleeing from the scene of a hold- up at Seventh and G streets southwest had been implicated in three addi- tional robberies, in one of which a woman victim was beaten about the head. The suspect described himself as James Tyler, 20, and admitted, police said, that he had escaped from a Pennsylvania prison while serving 31 months for robbery. Tyler was captured yesterday morn- ing by Robert Lee Huffman, 43, of 1131 Fourth street southwest, & taxicab driver, and Charles Donaldson, 700 block of G street southwest. Turned Over to Police. The two men followed Tyler as he ran into an alley, subdued him and turned him over to police of No. 4 precinct. Tyler, it was alleged, had Just robbed Catherine Holden, an em- ploye of & Seventh street dry cleaners’ agency, of $19. The fugitive had the money with| him, it was said, and had thrown away | an imitation pistol, later recovered by | Detective Bernard Day of No. 4 pre- cinct. A 14-year-old colored boy later was arrested as Tyler's accomplice. ‘Tyler, Day said, admitted he and the boy held up the dry cleaner's place yesterday and on a previous occasion a fortnight ago, when they obtained $76. the two in the first robbery, it was said, and Tyler in the second. Identified by Woman. Tyler also was identified by Annie Bhuken, 49, as the robber who struck her on the head with a blunt instru- ment during an attempted hold-up in her grocery at 313 Second street southwest several days ago. The woman screamed and her assailant fled. She required hospital treatment for a scalp wound Police also were investigating Tyler's possible connection with the robbery of Marion Gruer, employe in a Rep- | resentative’s office, whose pocketbook was snatched by a colored man as sghe walked on the Capitol grounds Tuesday night. The purse contained $16. Police said Tyler later brought the pocket- | book to them and explained he had found it in an alley empty. He was not suspected at that time. The two youths are being held on Miss Holden identified | blazing flight from England to Port Washington, N. Y. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Ends Flight From England The Imperial Airways’ flying boat Caledonia, shown as it plowed to the end of its trail- —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Capital Resident Recalls Days Spent on Plane in Mid-Ocean Leo Willinger and His Companions Floated in Ocean Over 72 Hours. Leo Willinger, former Army fiyer, knows just how it feels to be ma- rooned in mid-ocean—Ilike Amelia Ear- hart and her navigator, Frederick Noonan. Years ago, after he left the service, | Willinger and two companions—Pat | Donohue, & mechanic, and Charles Woods, who went along for the ride— | flew an old-fashioned seaplane out over the Atlantic, got lost and floated | around for three days and nights. | “Boy, was that an experience?” Willinger remarked yesterday as he re- called what was then known as the story of “Three Men in a Flying Boat.” *“‘One million dollars, cash in hand.| ordeal again—and I love money,’ wouldn't make me go through that| o | Mrs. | witne: was the day before radio came into the picture.” Willinger, now & salesman, lives with his wife at the Westchester Apartments and intends to take a trip soon to Europe—but not by sea- plane. “I'll keep my eyes peeled, though,” he said, “for some poor pilot in dis- tress.” SCOTTSBORO CASE OPENS TOMORROW | Scores of Witnesses Called for Resumption of Famous Trials. By the Associated Press, DECATUR, Ala, July 10.—More than a score of witnesses were called | today for the resumption here Monday | of trials of the colored “Scottsboro” | defendants, accused of a mass attack on two white women, Victoria Price, gomplaining . was called by the State. Ruby Willinger confessed. It was back in 1925—September. LEO WILLINGER. Lone Bottle of Water. R S T x bottle of water. Willinger and his com- | ¥hal the Ancient Mariner was up | panions took off from Montauk Point, | 3%ainst. Those gulls had one thought Long Island. and intended to fly down | It Mind—that we were their banquet, the coast. It was a test flight. They S0 We believed | | wanted to see how well the old boat' “Then we saw smoke on the hori- would stand up. 7on. A steamer. The waving be- “The gas line sprang a leak.” Will- Ran all over again—in between bail- inger said. “We hit the water and the | IN& Water. The ship Went on—to plane began to sink. Europe. “In half-hour shifts we worked at' “Back to the bailing. About noon | bailing out that water and, believe me, We sighted another vessel. So we | brother, we developed muscles like decided to start the motor in an Greek wrestlers. While one of us effort to reach the ship. With our | I bailed the water, one man steered and | combined strength, pushing through | open charges pending further investi- | the other tried to sleep. The man at the waves, we made about three miles. gation. | the steering wheel headed the plane Then there was a thud, and the MOTHERS TO TAKE CHILDREN TO CAMP into the waves to avoid smashing the battery fell from the wings—but the wings went, too. | stopped. Our last hope. “All the time we were drifting—out At 4 o'clock in the afternoon we | to sea, toward Europe. After the first saw another ship—the Eastern Vic- motor. It, | but nobody on the Leviathan saw us. Board. ~Then the waving really be- | 24 hours we saw the Leviathan go by, | tor—of the United States Shipping | Bates, who testified in the original | hearings at Scottsboro. Ala., in 1931, | — | and returned here in 1933 to testify her | ' : 2 Without food and. with only one | followed us—and then we realized | SOFY was & “frame up,” was not callad | Rlleged government enemies. Explain- by either the State or defense. She was not used as & witness in the trial of Heywood Patterson in Jaa- uary, }936. Patterson is under a 7. year sentence, imposed at his fourih trial, after he had been sentenced to death three times previously. The other eight defendants will be tried under the “iwo-a-week” schedule an- nounced by Judge W. W. Callahan. Clarence Norris, sentenced to death in two previous trials, will have his life placed in jeopardy a third time Monday. Charlev Weems, convicted at Scottsboro in 1931, but never tried since, will follow Norris, CUPID HAS DULL DAY For Second Time in History No D. - CLS JULY 1T, TWO SOVIET HOPS T01. 3. PLANNED One Plane, Ready to Leave, May Fix Chicago as Goal. By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, July 10.—Soviet Russian aviation leaders tonight disclosed plans | to send two more airplanes off on at- | tempted non-stop flights to the United #$tates within a month, probably over the North Polar regions. One plane is tuned up and ready to go; only rain has held it for several | days in Moscow. It will be piloted by Mikhail Gromoff, for many years an outstanding Soviet distance fiyer. He will have two companions. Although Gromoff is expected to cross the Arctic regions, he probably | will not follow the route of the three men who completed a non-stop jump | from Moscow to Vancouver, Wash June 20. Those three—Valeri Cheka- loff, Georgi Baidukoff and Alexander Beliakoff—passed directly over the North Pole, near which the Soviet | government has established a scien- tific eamp. Chicago May Be Goal. GromofI's destination- is understobd to be Chicago. He may try to make a | distance record, surpassing that of Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos of France, who flew 5657 miles from | New York to Syria in 1933. | | The other plane will be piloted by | Sigismund Levaneffsky, who attempted & transpolar flight from Moscow to San Francisco in August, 1935, but was forced to turn back when the plane developed trouble. | Levaneffsky disclosed his plan on | his return here from Sebastopol, where | he tbsted an American-made plane | He told friends he intended to take | off within a month, but did not specifiy | his destination. Denies Report of Arrest. The famed pilot took the opportu- nity to deny reports he had been ar- | rested in the recent moves against |ing his absence from the official | reception for Dr. Otto Schmidt, leader of the North Polar scientific expedi- tion. when Schmidt returned to Mos- cow in June, Levaneflsky said he had been busy fiving Gromoff was the regular pilot of the giant Soviet airplane Maxim Gorky. | | He was ill and not aboard the pl | when it crashed in May, 1935 | 49 persons. Plant Zones by Altitude. In the Grand Canyon of Arizona four distinct climatic and plant zones have been produced by the extreme variations in altitude from the canyon floor to the north rim. Specializing in 1937—PART ONE. MINERS, 75, HIT RICH ORE | Cou Joe struck rich silver ore. Victory Koerner, Spokane, Wash., | M. mining man who reported they had made about $26,000 in recent weeks, said one observed ccldly: “It only After 50 years of picking & bacon- | means we'll have to pay an income | and-beans existence out of the Lemhi | tax.” Prospectors Complain About In- come Tax After Striking Silver. GILMORE, Idaho, July 10 (#)— nty hills, two 75-year-old miners, M. Denton and Benson Evans, suffering from arthritis pains bave help in Moun direct from | 30 v Mountain Valley Mineral W. MEL. 1062, 1405 K 8t. N.. 1OAN@’S mmmmmm?1 ] Twelith Streewammmm The Inventory Sale MUST Go On Until every odd Bedroom and Dining room group—every odd Living Room piece—every model that will not be replaced—is disposed of—together with certain groups of Oriental and Do- mestic Rugs and Lamps. Everything that has not been included in the stock-taking is included in this Inventory Sale—at RE- DUCTIONS from 20% to 50% The Special Price Tags tell the story Bedroom Groups sh Suite in genuine oak, with interest gly carved s, including full there is no burequ s XVI Suit atinwood, handsomely decorated. 8 pieces, including twin beds --$335 American Coloniol Suite; in genuine Honduras mahoganv, 8 pieces, including twin beds $260 $410 American Heppelwhite Group, genuine Honduras mahogarny. Complete in 8 pieces, including twin beds_ $350 Sheraton ahogany, -§325 Dining Room Groups uite, the Kenwood—10 pieces in genuine Honduras in‘aig | Next day we saw the Mauretania. We gan—for this was our last hope. | Licenses Issued in Chicago Underprivileged Group to Leave at 1 P.M. Tuesday for Sal- vation Army Base. Nearly 80 underprivileged mothers and their children will leave at 1 p.m. Tuesday for the Salvation Army's Camp Happyland, on the Patuxent | Just waved and waved, until our arms Thev saw us and sent out a lifeboat ached. 1In between waves—not the | Exhausted, we stumbled aboard the | ocean’s, but ours—we bailed water. We ' liner. The captain ordered food and CHICAGO. July 10 (#).—Cupid laid another egg here today. | Perfect were growing weaker by the minute | and didn’t know it. | | Limited Drinks of Water. | “That lone bottle of water became | | a bone of contention. It was all that stood between us and death. So we | River, Brig. Gen. James Asher, divi- | limited ourselves to a swig apiece every | eional commander, announced yester- day. Camp Happyland is one of the free eamps operated on funds supplied by the Community Chest. It affords a vacation to about 300 underprivilezed children and their mothers each year. | A program of athletics, play periods. etory telling and other amusements is designed to build up the youngsters and provide rest for their parents. Mrs. James Asher, wife of Gen. Asher, will be in charge of the camp, assisted by Lieut. Eva Brown. Mrs. Martha Wixson will have charge of | the culinary department | The Family Service Association this | week will send its second contingent of children to its white and colored camps at Dumphries, Va. | NAVAL SHIP HUNTING FLYERS REPORTS HERE! Naval communications at the Navy Department can work by radio di- rectly with the battleship Colorado, now in the vicinity of Howland Island searching for the missing plane of Amelia Earhart, officials said yester- day, but only during the dark hours. The best time for radio communi- eation nearly half way around the world between the radio towers here and the Colorado is from 2 to 4 am,, Eastern standard time, authorities de- clared. At that time it is dark in ‘Washington and dark in the Howland ! Izland area. Navy Dephrtment officials expect the “big break'—if Miss Earhart is found—to come from the naval au- thorities at Honolulu under Rear Ad- miral Orin G. Murfin, commandant of the 14th Naval District, who is directing the search. It is barely possible, however, that if the Colo- rado should be the ship to spot her first the news would be flashed di- rectly to naval communications here, 4f sending and receiving conditions * were just right. Fate of Amelia, Not Loss of Legs, Worries Beauty Girl, Maimed for Life by i [Train, Has Scores of Job Offers. By the Associated Press. HACKENSACK, N. J, July 10— Btunning, youthful Jessie Simpson, a modern Venus de Milo with arms, but Do legs, several times beauty contest winner, left her hospital bed today worrying only about the fate of Amelia Earhart. ‘The 18-year-old Hackensack girl ‘was cheerful in referring to her own tragedy, and outlined plans for her future, changed when an early morn- ing commuter train sheared off her legs April 26. She was sad only when she spoke of the missing aviatrix, declaring: “Amelia Earhart is certainly in a tougher spot than I am. I hope she pulls through.” S8peaking of the scores of job of- fers she received, Miss Simpson said she planned to accept immediately !an offer to pose for a commercial . photographer. She plans to use arti- | water. | jump overboard we got jittery. Had | six hours, “Then we began to hate each other. “Pat_Donohue, a two-fisted Irish- | man, got the idea in his head he | wanted to jump overboard and swim | for shore. He got tired of bailing | So did Woods and I. We | | were shipping water all the time. The | wings cracked up. The wind blew the | cloth to pieces. Struts crackled like | kindling. ! “There was some waste—and at night we lit this, to make flares, but nobody paid us any mind ! “Ships that pass in the night. We saw them all pass. | Third Night Passed. | “When the third night went by and no one came to our rescue we thought | it was all over. Hunger had us ini its grip. We thought of all those | | 8o0d meals we once had—the fried | chicken, and how we left some on our | | plates. Boy, if we had had a chicken | then we'd have eaten bones and all. | “When Pat Donohue wanted to| to gang up on him to keep him in the i boat. “Even though it was warm weather the nights got cold—and even a drop of sea water struck your face felt like & stab from an icicle. “Frantic, we yelled and hollered and ! waved—until our arms wore out.| Waved and bailed. | “On the last night we had the great thrill of seeing a light house | disappear—and then we were cer- | tain the end had come., All our past | lives came up to vision. way out. And is that a sensation? “When dawn broke, the sea gulls HOT-WATER | HEAT Completely Installed In 6 Rooms as low as ‘275 This low price includes New American Radiator Co. ARCOLA boller, 300-ft. radiation and all fittings, AMERICAN OIL BURNER Includes burner. 23, I Complete Heating Service Get our Free Estimates AMERICAN HEATING ENGINEERING CO. 1005 N. Y. Ave. Nat. 8421 ficial limbs in four months and to , return to her telephone company job. 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