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AVIATIRS GATHER "IN WASHINGTON Wright I Guest of Honor of Conlerence ‘Washington, Dec. 12, UP—Men and women who have stirred the imagin- ation of the world with eagle sweeps over wide seas, high mountains and dreary wastes of sand and anow gathered here today for the inter- national civil aeronautics conference. There also were other men whose inventions have thrown light on the path leads to air mastery, men whose money made research possible, alr- craft manufacturers—in all, repre- sentatives of forty nations came to be present when President Coolidge delivered the opening address. Wright Honor Guost And there was Orville Wright, guest of honor, who on December 17, 1903, with his brother Wilbur, since dead, made the first flight in a motor driven plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The airplane did not go far, but it was prophetic of the time when man's dream born'as he ‘watched the birds would be realized. ' The conference was called to com- memorate the Wright's brothers flight. . Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, who became a glamorous figure after his filght to Paris in May, 1927, came to Washington yesterday. Amelia Earhart. Captain Emory 8. Land, Lady Mary Heath, British aviatrix, Lieutenant Lester Maitland, Clai ence D, Chamberlin, Arthur C. Gob Lieutenant A. F. Hegenbergen and others who have become famous through skill and daring, or both, were present, or expected before sessions conclude Saturday. Among the foreign representatives was Otto Merkel, director of Lufthansa, Ger- man aviation organization, who was expected to take an active part in conference discussions. Heads Delegation Orville Wright heads a delegation of aviation leaders appointed by the president to represent the United States. They are: United States Senator Ringham, President of the National Aeronautic association; Nel- son T. Johnson, assistant secretary of state; F. Trubee Davidson, assist- and secretary of war for aeronau- tics; Edward P. Warner, assistant secretary of the navy for aeronau- ties; Willlam P. MacCracken, Jr, assistant secretary of commerce for aeronauties; W. Irving Glover, second assistant postmaster gener: Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh; Dr. Joseph 8. Ames, chairman of the national advisory committee for aeronautics; Harry Guggenheim, president of the Guggenheim fund for promotion of aeronanutics, and Lester D. Gardner, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. The congluding event of the con. ference will be a pligrimage to Kitty Hawk, where the cornerstone of & monument to be erected by the gov- ernment near the aite of the first successful flight by the Wright brothers will be laid. London has a huge earring vogue. SULPHURIC ACID FUMES NEW BRITAIN DAILY AERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1928, have a battery installed. It was his intention to register the car by the SWEEP PHHLADELPHIA moa-iuciviog ‘e sna inicnded to -—‘ - Du Pont Company Employe Neglects To Cover Vats Which Boll Over put 1t in shape. Judge Saxe‘imposed a fine of $5 on the charge of driving without having a certficate of registration and suspended judgment on the other charge. He told Evanoski he should have known better than to Philadelphia, Deg. 12 UP-SPhila- |take a set of markers off a junked delphians who were abroad early to- day tound no trace of an acrid, stinging vapor that hung over much of the mid-town section for three hours last night causing throat irrl- tation and dimming eyes. The mysterious fumes not only gray fog, .but penetrated into office bulldings, homes, street cars and subway stations. Persons who breathed it éxperienced a sudden feeling of strangulation, coughed jand pressed handkerchlefs to their mouths. Hundreds hurried into the- aters and picture houses in the af- tected areas while other hundreds sought rellef by purchasing throat lotions and cough drops. After thousands of complaintsand Inquiries had poured into newspaper offices, fire and police stations and the city health bureau, Herbert M. Parker, chief of the bureau of sani- tation, discovered the source of the tumes. Recognizing them as of sulphuric acid origin, he drove to the plant of the E. I. Dupont de Nemours corporation in South Philadelphia. Here he learned an employe had neglected to turn on an oil blanket over vats in the contact sulphuric acid plant. They boiled over and great clouds of stinging fumes swept over the city. The fumes were plainly visible but odorless. ACNUIRES HARKERS OFF JUNKED AUTO Evanoski Buys Second Hand Car and Adopts Plates Investigating the case of Boleslaw Bednarczyk, aged 25, of 272 Farmington avenue, yesterday, after charging him with driving an automoblle without a certificate of registration and with improper markers, Officer Davd Doty inter- viewed John Evanoskli, aged 22, of 30 Bond street, at a local factory, and learned that he had sold the car to Bednarczyk. During the conver- isation, Evanoski mentioned the fact that he had a car with markers that were issued for another car, !mme offenses as had been preferred against Bednarczyk. In police court today, Bed- | narczyk's case was continued until Tuesday, December 18, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney W. M. Green- stein reporting that Attorney B. J. Monkiewicz had requested this ac- tion. Evanoski told of buying a car from a second hand car dealer on Beach 8wamp road and putting on it a set of markers taken from a junked car. He drove the car to his home and later to a garage in the northwestern part of the city to hung over the city like a blue and | and the officer charged him with the ' car and use them. If such practices were allowed, there would be no sense to the motor vehicle laws, he sald. Henry Deversa, aged 19, of 65 Lorraine street, pleaded guilty to ithe charge of driving an automobile without having a license in his pos- | session and judgment was suspended wheh he produced the license. Judge 'Saxe warned him to carry the li- cense at all times while driving. Officer Doty made the arrest. The charge of speeding was nolled in the case of Joseph Rogan, aged i31, of 103 Hart street. Motorcycle Officer Strolls made the arrest, BARBERS ELECT OFFICERS Journeymen's Local Chaoses Nicho- las Settembrino for President— Annual Banquet in January. Officers of the Journeymen Bar- bers’ International Union of Amer- ica, Local No. 316, were elected last night at the monthly meeting held |in Eagle's hall on Main street. Nicholas Settembrino was named president of the organization. The other officers elected to merve with him were as follows: Vice pres- ident, Joseph Linares; secretary and treasurer, Martin C. Connelly; re- cording secretary, Paul Mangiafico; guide, Guido Glantonio; guardian, Walter Georgeslan; finance commit- tee, Paul Mangiafico, chairman, Guido Giantonio and Carmine Ro- vellf. Delegates to the Central Labor Unlon were named as follows: Mar- |tin C. Connelly, Paul Mangiafico, { Vincent Rizzo, John Bosco and Wal- ter Georgesian. Martin C. Connelly and John Bos- co were named as a sick visiting committee. A committee of three, Paul Man- giafico, Martin C. Connelly and Nicholas Settembrino, was appointed to make arrangements for the an- nual banquet next month. Eight Killed in Riot In Bombay, India Bombay, India, Dec. 12 () —Three policegen and five mill strikers were killed today during riots at Parel at the north end of the city {when the mill strikers over-powered police and looted shops. lice reinforcements were rushed to the district and opened fire on the rioters. Many persons were in- jured in the disorder. Shops were closed in Parel business was at a standstill, Jack Tye SCHOOL OF DANCING dr. 0. 0. A, M. Hall 19 Glen Street Slage and Hallroor Dancing Tanght Satarday—2 to & P. N. nrollment Hours Friday 7 to ® P, M. and HARDEEN ACCEPTS RACKLIFFE BROS. CO. Armed po- | that “Jiggs" Shindel, alleged opera- to had given her a balf pint of corn liquor. Meanwhile the storm of charges a1 1 counter charges “at broke be- tween the federal and local authori- "‘l‘ AH ER RA“] tiev and the prosccutor's office re- eom—— garding . responsibility for “wide mlie's m cit’ wi“ m‘r:e;:;ll:::%\;ll::x F:::: continued ! Aroused Over Liquor Kansas City, Dec. 13 UM—From a sick bed today Mrs. Maud Wilson viewed with satisfaction the far reaching results of her angry descent { with a hatchet upoa a neighbor- he believed there were 1,000 places selling lquor within the city, more than double the number of licensed saloons than berore prohibition be- came effective. He said, however, that with his force of si men he was unable to act effectively and ::::?w ';'l";“be:':’;;u';‘l: g “erted tn : he could not get cooperation of ;the police. (pusband and 13 year old daughter, | "y ncoin R. Toyne, chief of pollce, charged Lane was “not telling the The latter dag Carrle Nation was ¢ryep» suffering from nervous illness, due to the excitement and publicity and following her “dry” raid Monday, but she believed she had surpassed her goal. The saloon, in which she left a broad trail of broken glass- ‘ware had gone out of business, and the bullding was for rent. Won't Cooperate “As & matter of fact § ne won't cooperate with us” he said. Chief Toyne said Lane spurned his recent offer of police aid in catching bootleggers. *The situation has become almost unmanageable when I went to see him," Toyne Will Get Action said. “We had made 3,000 arrests Furthermore she now believes she for violations and the county prese will get action frem federal and city cutor had won only one conviction.” prohibition forces from whom she —_— said she was unable to get any re- aponse before she took matters into Urges Labrador Be . her own hands. | Mrs. Wilson, her husband and! 8t Johns, N. F., Dec. 12 (UP—Sir daughter have been ordered to ap- ' Willlam Cohker, head of the fisher- pear before the county grand jury A man's protective union and colleague next week to testify regarding the ' of Premler Sir Richard Squires of saloon's activities and Mrs. Wilson's | New Foundland, in an article in the charge that she saw policemen | Fisherman's Advocate urges the sal jenter and loiter about the place. In- | of Labrador to Canada, to a syndi- !vestigators from the prosecutor's cate, for $100,000,000, office inquired into the reported | sale or gift of liqu.r to minors at the sale the payment of tht colony's the saloon, Mics Wilson declared national debt. He expressed the be- Do Your EY LS : : G SavToo Much’ Dark Eyes Tell Dark Eyesaresaidtoindicatedepthof char- acter and exceptionally strong emotions. Everyone's eyesindicate physical condition as well as character. 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Anxiety Felt for Schooner Overdue Hallfax, N. 8, Dec. 12 P—Anx- fety wi schooner James W. Hall, of her crew was not known hcre. The gchooner sailed from Roston three weeks ago under the command elt today for the American | | a week | W. Harold Laue, chief of the fed-) overdue from Boston with a cargo | extcd<ion of the life of the radio paid counsel employed by those ap- eral prohibition agents here, saidof coal for a local firm. The number | commission for another year from muda, by recent storms. Seek Extension of where she had been blown | calendar of other business in hoth the senate and house for this short session. Senator Dill, democrat, Washing- ton, also wil! sponsor a provision Radio Commission | permitting the commission to employ Washington, Dec. 12 P—Congres sional leaders interested in radio legislation have decided to seek the next March 16, when it would expir: under the present law, Chairman White of the house mer- counsel outsida the government ore ganization, He contends this is necessary to offset the array of high pearing before the commission. READ HERALD C FOR REST RESUL D e e We Cordially Invite You to a Special Demonstration of Redfern Foundation Garments You can be a perfect 16, 36, 46 or even 56, if you will guide your figure to good proportions in a Redfern Corselette or Wrap-Around that has been designed for your type of figure. 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