The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 29, 1924, Page 9

SECTION TWO For Bald Men Men World Flight Tonic Works Says Erik; No! Says Wade FORMER LEADER (p23. PRAISES MEN WHO WON Twenty Thousand VOICES |,,.° meccriar warner eUnE oF Ask for Major ' als to be iraawn from world figh’ Lie s. Erik Ne FLYERS ARE INTRODUCED |: ep gperetss to aid or adorned hirsut growths. Took Ten Minutes to Quiet |**’ Cheering Throngs “M sri Mar bald-heaaded men,” we want Ma I was be—ift Stay away| retain that No amount u will He was Maj. > comma a heavy head of hair ng Ameri and Then nh round-the- | my hair ls by the way, all with several gray the boys} . who were forced out ¢ hairs | The SeattleStar — SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, ot SEPTEMBER 29, 1924 a PAGES 9 TO 16 | |Lieut. Moffett Makes Thou- sands Gasp BY DANA W was NORKIS at Band F of the new P. eater combat planes, le of od of wa tered earthward. Then # would right it and zoom up n His corkscrew twists were per ormed, one after another, in less COOLIDGE WANTS TO REWARD THE FLYERS BY PROMOTING THEM (oor J ward t f MORE ABOUT FLYERS STARTS ON PAGE 1 HER Nort nd the ex from the frozen 1 | plains of the trop artin Weeps as Park Crowd Cheers Him Hard to Tell Which Was the Most Glad THRILLS CROWD. Whitcom? Voices ‘Seattle’ S Greetings WITH STUNTS BANKER AND GIRL ARE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH George F, Rodgers and Miss Claire Crew Are Victims PILOT IS SLIGHTLY HURT Rodgers Was Shipbuilder and Oregon Mayor ‘ F c rege F. S I ‘ dent of the 1 ere 4 Mies € I } ed Sunday fi a alr- v riding, 7 from a height of 200 fee was dis- - R rm we owner of a large at Ast ia during zed the Rodgers and = at one ) cE | on | ter will be shut off Aquila, Junching en route. They| (Frances Arnold), sister of the flyer.| of America's dream of acria moved to the park In a long string Mrs, Fred Martin, wife of Maj. | ~~ of automobiles which passed thruj Martin, former flight commander. crowds all up E. Mad! amiably, while Everett | ~~ = oar Dok e, -brother-in-law of | BEDLAM REIGNED WHEN | Spokane, «b AD ag | AVIATORS ARRIVED |Arnold and husband of Mrs. Cole! Get Their Baggage} hovered near by, Each of the women held a big bouquet of flowers NOT WORRIED MUCH, The demonstration fin the park as soon a wh began | ¢ airmen When i for phi the six (thru | urn flyers tographers, were | drove in sight, was second only to) © jed their attention to making their le eat ° SAYS HIS MOTHER | “hae a an Cae ere nL ave Keto, 1 aka't wosy halt an | eearey. from ithe crowd. Beith huge, drab-col cruisers | turned to Lieutenant Koenig, com bounced onto the landing field to| much about Leslie on this trip as I) Oona 1 Point field, and pet ob 7 a8 | did when he was learning to fly at . ’ = gid si the accompaniment of a cannon sa-| 0 Rin oo a sown at Waco, Texas, | *#ld lute and martial band music. ft in the early days of the war. Lowell Koenig, where do we £0 It took 10 minutes of continuous | smith promised me he'd bring my | from here?" pleading before Police Chief B,|boy back safely and I knew he} “You will be taken to Madison Severyns could gain quiet for the | Would.” ant ales, seni pegclaelmersh noe 4 id ikah Vga eR Then she told about her young-| Koenig replied, flyers to be introduced at Volunteer | +525 early days in Connecticut and| “Well, aro we coming back here park. The crowd had waited, ax at| how he forsook his career to join the | later?" Acting Governor W. J. Coyle wel-| great war. |get our stuff out of these ships.” Sand Point, many of them since 11 jalr service; of her fears during the | vo, not anyway,” was p t time he was a student flyer; of let- | Koenig's answe o’clock and it forgot the four oF} | som Romorantin flying field in| “Well, I guess we'd better pack five hour walt as the idols of the] irtnes and from Coblentz, Germany;|our luggago along with us then,” nation arrived. land of his homecoming from the|said Smith. “Come on boys, let's | comed the flyers in the name of/ I'm just the proudest and happt- And s0 y set to work, unpack the state of Washington. “In the |est mother in the world today,” she/ing luggage. grips, and sacks of forceful words of the great West,” | sald, with a smile, while Mrs. Mar- | dunnage fram the fuselage of their he declared, “we're damned glad tg) tm. hardly knowing whether to} planes Tired, but happy, they set see you, fellows.” }amile or cry, smiled with her brave-| out for the dock, where a speed RINGS PRESENTED ly, az she watched her tall husband, | boat was waiting to take them to BY DAVID WHITCOMB put out of the running by a cruel|the yacht. 5 |quirk of fa talking to his fellow | oe ae Mayor Edwin J, Brown then in-|%, 00 | Of the board of county commission |, MT% Cole, & winsome vouns wom-| Throngs Reminded an, smiled with her mother and gen ers, and then Maj. Gen. Charles G. 11, squeezed her hands. They were of Trasedy on Lake Morton was introduced as command. | 1% “ducted Mer Sit uch. They| Merrymakers, forming a holiday ant of the Ninth corps ‘area, Trep-| wanted most to talk to Leslie, up In| crowd from Madison park to Sand| resenting President Coolidge and the| +14 gining saloon, eating hungrily | Point by ferry, patrol boat and naval | \ ollanagy oy lafter the appetite-creating trip from |and private verselx, Sunday passed Rear Admiral J. V. Chase, new) pocene and the exhausting work of | close t harbor craft dragging commander at the Bremerton avy |being congratulated. Lake Washington for ¢he body | of pe diay d opr eos Mother had a hard time being | William Ruddell, one of four storm | Then Seattle showed its apprecia-| ner hoy's best friend Sunday | victims of the Sunday before Soar flges Si petal CAN pal re | ‘The lake wax calm and glassy when President David Whitcomb of 1 coracea vith db elev epee bole the Chamber of Commerce present- ed the men with gold finger rings and platinum a wing insignia. Martin was included | in the ‘esentation and as give seiner and "ar ene=| Martin's Mechanician Only | Flyer Not Here ,Alva Harvey, who was unable to present |terousness of a week ago, and cheer. ing hundreds hushed their voices as iey watched the harbor crew drag: ging the deep waters Gray Hairs Noted On Smith’s Head} HARVEY ABSENT and platinum | ‘ors | There s one man at Chanute | eid, Tilinois, Sunday, who should| A good many people thought Lieut HERE’S MORE ABOUT | fei toon in ‘Seattle, “That wan | Lowell Smith, young man that he 3s, Staff Sergt. Alva Harvey, mechani. | showed a.fow more gray hairs than | / MARTIN clan on the ill-fated world cruiser} when he a Ls a i sige t fo. 1, the Seattle, which was streaks in his head of blac STARTS ON PAGE 1 recked in Alaska in April, while|hair could be easily seen as he pressed forward, the most sorely| piloted by Maj. F. L. Martin fae nee tae weno ew, Cares rear tried of all the thousands who had| Harvey was the only member of | Sunday ‘ ; gathered to pay homage to the spirit|the original flight squadron which| Perhaps the responsibility of lead of America . hopped off at Sand Point, Apri? 6,|ing his men around the world, thru “On the whole, {t was the most|Who wax not present again Sunday |all sorts of hazards, successfully, has happy day of my he asserted |afternoon, when the first aerial cir-| added those & strands to what later. “Today my emotions are all|cumnavigation of the globe ended. | might otherwise be a head of black of gladness and pride--pride in the| Harvey is once more back at his | hair. service whowe uniform 1 wear—pride | duties in the alr service headquar * pee jn the addition to the history of|ters at Chanute field, slipping back | Cocrety Looks On America and the world. Glad that,|with military precision ‘Into every. | thru the grace of Providence, 1 am|day duties, after his brief ascent | As the Flyers Eat here, all nd well, to greet them.” | into international fame. A few alaya) . oo o15 of seattle nociety leaders Maj. Martin will leave goon for|more, and the young men who oid | accompanied the reception commit- Hampton Roads, Va., where he witt|complete the flight will have once | oe on the Yacht Aquilo, which took attend a field officers’ school on|more donned dungaree overalls and | |. flyers from the Sand Point field tactical training and large air units, | ‘ill be back at the monotonous du-| 1° sroaison dock. After washing Stri {ties of peace time fiying.; the grime from their hands and | ; | faces, the flyers were ushered into eae of Balloons 14. Steals Violin [tho yachts dlaing. room, ‘where. a auses False Alarm Well A tasty luncheon was served. ©The crowd at Sand Point had two| as Well as Auto) te tadies, nowspaver men ana false alarms before the flyers got| A thlet not only stole an auto|other guests filed idly by the win in. One was when a child let go alowned by Fred Helzer, Jr, Virginus | dows as the savory odors of food) string of small sausage-shaped bal-|hotel,. but also otok Helser's an-| streamed out: joons and somehody cried, “There jtiaue violin, valued at $600, Heizer “M said a pretty matron of they are!” There was neck-stratch.| reported the lows Sunday night rather ample proportions, “did you ing for them—and more a few sec-| A burglar aboard the Admiral Orl- | ever such appealing ple and ice onds later when the escort squadron |ental liner President. Grant, robbed | cream.” came Into view and a few more en-|Capt. N. M, Jensen of Chinese} It was long past the regular hour thusia * ts for luncheon and everyone was get- ting passably hungry, decided that money and Jewelry by entering and ransacking his stateroom, “Here they l exploit. P They Remembered to \Crowds Gusher In |Could Get by With Picking Out Planes The crowd which greeted the f1 ers at the field seemed ded by in \ntinct In greeting the world: planes. More than a score of alrp | were in the air at various times and |Just preceding the world flyers a of seven alr ships came ngton y were the os | squadron | swooping in over Lake Wash from the South, T cort planes | But the minute the squadron with the world flyers at its peak ag ot thousands of throats: peared welcome ¥ a cry nt up from The boats in the lake began sounding horns and sirens and the autos buzzed their greeting. The planes were easily distinguish able, being larger than their com: rade, Methanids' Go Back As Staff Sergeants Lieuts. Arnold, Ogden and Hard ing, world flight mechanics, rn to active duty as staff ser. geants, following formal completion of the flight, according to Maj, F. L. Martin, former squadron com were given reserve corps commissions for the duration of the flight and wilt return to regular army status in thelr noncommis- jsioned ranks, ho sald All Seattle Turns Out for Greeting Madison st. was in gala at- East tire and thronged with enthusiastic! npectatora from the ferry dock to| waited two, three and four hours. As|s@ 514 frond st, under the wheels |there was a special greeting from the jthe wooden viaduct Sunday after-|tho flyers passed thru waving thelr |¢f' the street cat. ‘The boy was in.|Misses Virginia Butler and Mary noon three houts before the flyers| hands, cheer after cheer arose. stantly killed. layden, representing the Ilinois arrived and they stayed until after 1 were only used at Sand|" srarry Larson, 15, 223 Taylor ave,, |city. Both girls were kissed by the |the flower-decked parade had es-|Point where the crowds were roped| uno aiso was riding on the truck, |flvers | corted the intrepid visitors from the|off the landing field. A battalion of| vas taken to the city hospital with | Then a police detail and an escort | dock to Volunteer park. 600 men in command of Licut. J. 4/0" sttored log. from tho Fourth infantry at Several thousand banked the ferry! Moody kept tho enthusiastic ¢rowds |" Crean was uninjured and was tak. |/awton took the flyers to the Sand dock te catch a glimp of Smith,) back. Port Warden il Edwards |... to the city jail and held for the | Point dock, where Major Paul Kd-| Wade and Nelson and their mo-|Patrolled the water and directed |i nor i |wards' speed boat carried them to chanics, Harding, Ogden and Arnold,| movement of the ve Not 8!" he street car was operated by the Aquilo, private cht of H. F. in addition to the thousands at the|slnale accident marred the day. Motorman ¥, D. Beals Alexander. Aboard they were served | landing field. Thousands gathered| —— a lunch, received a committee of | early, at. Volun Parke wad Of \Cold, Doc? It Not, [io ues Coven So of Second ave. for the downtown par-| | anther bh sabe tosfes ater hehe ade to the New Washington hotel.| Why the Overcoat? Argentine Flyer to | Sic Seattle has never made so general! Mayor Kdwin J. Brown appeared Hop Off in China U. S. Senator Will a turnout in its history. Jon the deck of the Yacht Aquilo| TOKYO, Sept. 29.—Major Q%anni, | ) Biase with a heavy, black overcoat, but-|Argentine aviator attempting to fly | Have Foot Cut Off They’re Unengaged | toned up neasly. James Hoge, the|around the world, wag expected to) MEMPHIS, Tenn. Sept. 29 + _|banker, was chatting with Daniel/fly today from Shanghal to Kago-| While surgeons prepared to ampu | So Step Up, Ladies frefethen, of the Chamber of Com-|shima, Japan, if weather proves|tate his right foot at the ankle, Mash notes covering every one of|Mmerce reception committee, when | favorable. United States Senator Hubert |the 12 nations traversed and repre-|the mayor strolled by. It was one} Zanni was to have made the flight| stephens of Mississipp! talked poll | senting almost every age. to which|f the hottest September days LD baths Abn fo ices weather con: tes today, f ‘ Btls 1] |a woman will confess were received ia Mesonti days bac Ne .,|, Senator Stephens recently eut iis | by the six world flyers now In Seat-| , Doc!" shouted Hoge. “Didn't| Elaborate preparations for Zanni’s | root with an axe, Blood poisoning |tle at the official end of thelr trip.| YOU forget your arctics and muffier,| reception here have been completed. | geveloped, and physicians said ampu And the answer is "No, we have} Walt, I'll have one of the boys get] Warships have been posted to patrol | tation was nec to save the loss no engagements.” Jack Harding denies he is engaged to a Dayton, Ohio, girl ay reported in newspapers after the Chicago stop. He confesses he's interested in a Dayton girl, tho. Ogden steps up with a &eneral denial and ts followed by cach of the other pilots and mechanics So there's still hopes, girls. ‘The Prince of Wales was adamant, but these Yankeo flyers are new tar- gets, tho hardly less beset by the fair damsels of the world. will re- | | both rides were on the offensive Artillery bombing planes and ma- chine-gun fire kept up a terrific bombardment that shook Shanghal. by Prank be, Star Batt Photorrapher Any Kind of Camera « xisting and Malu, while the ¥ ware e s <iangsu forces were hammering at |teer park, the whole city practically ust before the planes arrived, of | riuho, aiming to capture the Woo-| turned out to greet the flyers Tops | fice red ne but news| sung fort |of downtown bulldings were used by | paper raphers from the land-| ‘rhe iiner Empress of Australia,|many as observation platforms, | ng fl long line of cameramen |iving at Woosung, was hastily|while thousand? saw the planes got r n along the north | brought up the river fearing a naval|wheel in from the south from the 0 ¢ ome—and included 1M | attack. Nanking warships were pour-| lawns of thelr hom | this line were some people with | ing shell fire into Liuho. Major Martin, ing to keep Brownie cameras. There was at least) Tne casualties were terrific and|back his emotion, was the first to $1 camera in the Mneup and &@/ stench of unburied dead 12 miles|grect the airmen as they landed. couple of $3.50 “boxes.” What news- | trom Shanghai drifted penetratingly | He visited each plane, gripped the | papers the jen were “shoot: | over the city. A plague was threat-loccupants by the hand and ex. for, pived Mys- | ened, | changed a few words with each. Chase Gives’Ema “Box Lunch” Party) | American destroyers were rushed |back to Woosung and sailors enjoy ing shore leave were ordered to their ships at once, Canadian naval officials from the destroyer Patricia, with a box lunch | while planes were winging in }from Vancouver, Wash. ‘The entire party with ladies, found | in @ trench which parallels the fal tar desinave purneees Stayee| Thrown Under Street Car as Brown, Passing ‘ Auto Truck Overturns “Well Admiral, I see you are oc- cupying the first line trenches.” ne Tho admiral, mouth full of a sand.|. A boy was instantly killed and wich, sputtered a laughing reply one lad was seriously hurt and Janother youth was jailed, fol- 'Not One Assilune | Marred the Big Day Lake Washington looked like a| water carnival Sunday. Every type from a slender canoe to y boats, were lined {n front Id at Sand Point, lowing @ spectacular accident at | Second ave. W. and W. Roy st., Sun- | day afternoon. An auto truck, driven by Linn |Green, 18, 416 Aloha st., was speed- | |ing at about 25 miles an hour, going cing [Went on Roy st, police say. A awalin§ Kinnear steet car was traveling |north on Second ave. Green to avoid the street car and skidded sideways for 75 feet. The truck overturned, throwlng Harley Wiley, of vessel, huge f of the f the f At Madison park, where the flyers | landed, from H, F’, Alexander's yacht, | the Aquilo, additional thousands had | the course and a military aeronautic officer and mechanician detailed to render ald, you a pair of ollskins.” “Three Cheers for Red, White and Blue” “Three Gheers for the Red, White Jand Blue” was the selection of stir. Portland Man Is Killed by Train) ring martial melody played by the} PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 29.—Des. Fort Worden Artillery band as the|mond Gee, 54, was killed yesterday flyers glided to earth at Sand Point|by a Southern Pacific freight train Sunday afternoon, amidst a wild}near the Jefferson st, depot. His cheering and the bellow of countless whistles aboard craft on the lake front, mutilated body train passed, aceldent, was found after a but no one saw tho Lu Yuan Hsiang claimed advances | | ar Admiral J. V. Chase, the | new commandant at Bremerton nav. al yards, entertained tho Yutting| tried | new ship, and was with Lieuts, Eric| Nelson and Lowell h when they ended the long journe Sunday Altho the great crowds were con centrated at Sand Point field, |Madison park dock and at Volun: | NATIONAL GUARD FIRES A SALUTE | As the ships came to earth, Bat- tery C, 146th field artillery, fired a salute. The Puget Sound Coast De- fense band from Fort Worden played |the “Star Spangled Banner” and the band of the 116th medical company followed with “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” Within a few minutes of their ar- rival, |of a telegram from President Cool j!dge, congratulating them on the suc- cessful commission of thelr orders to fly around the globe. Then they were given mail which }had accumulated for them here. In 15 minutes. Congratulations were ex Chase, commanding Puget Sound ‘avy yard; Maj. Gen. Charles G. |Morton, commanding the Ninth Corps area; William A. C |county board; David Whitcomb, of |Goy. eee CHICAGO GIRLS NT WELCOME . J. Coyle, representing Wash- | PR ry H. Ogden, crew of the right limb, and possibly the senator's life, ‘The operation was to be performed today | | Improvement Club Elects Officers At a recent meeting of the Inter- jaken-Montlake Improvement at the ing officers were elected vice président; Roy Cadwalder, secre- tary and Edward Merritt, treasurer, the flyers were handed copies | ,, between reading this and posing for | photographs, they were kept busy for | | tended to them by Rear Admiral J. V. ines, of the | |the C ee of Commerce; and Lieut. | For Licuts. Lowel Smith and Hen. | of the Chicago, | club, | eattle Yacht club, the follow- | Eadwari | Taylor, president; William Harmet,> race on the final hop to the ns of the arduous trip Rash aanend anit. Tt pearned aa tite Of the + ebidave it continent it his plane would be twisted apart} At th table nh ave. N. E., between E. 66th’ | “I dont’ belon; th elebra. | by the suddenness with which he| flyers—M. Fred. Mar B, 60th: sts,, Tuesday saa ot) euctabned i weatens woe mo. whirled it around on its axis in the| Erik Nelson, John Hardi Lowell| | Wednesday, from § a. m. to 6 | tered over from Bellingham * alr |Bmith, Leslie P. Arno elgh | | PB. ™. he is on @ furlough. ‘I came here The crowds gasped as he executed| Wade and Henry 0) David = just as one of you to und greet a vertical bank, flying with the| Whitcomb, Mayor E. J. Br ut these men wings of hig plane two thin vertical|Gen, C. G. Morton, representing - ; . PAYS TRIBUTE TO lines in the sky, for over half a mile. | President Cooll Gen. Robert Alex. || Friedman’s Union Store SUCCESSFU L AIRMEN 7 | = jander: of Camp Lewis; W. A re piten 1311 First Ave. Martin, Mart Martin,” the Mrs. Arnold Knew Son Would | | representing King county, and Lieut. ) | win) make a most important an- crowd roared ure you belong!” | jov. W. J, Coyle. nouncement in Tuesday evene Martin paused, his face working} Get Back, She Says Immediately following the lunch-|} Ins» Star | sik Sig: Wine deal eae E eon the flyers were taken to the Do. Tt s volee grew husky. Then s mother had a hard lime being |Sand Point air field, where Alonzo ¥ (o} 5 mother ° Victor Lewis’ tall shaft, globe-and-|— ued r boy's best friend Sunday | fr rn eye Sg I realize be an any of you, | day wing surmounted, was. to be un the courage, hardihood and stick-to- he was Mrs. Cora Arnold, of Con- f “ : es start and finish of the hist e it-iveness that these men needed to ut, mother of Lieut. Leslie P. {On Entire Shanghai Front; teks a nist complete the flight. I certainly | Arnold, flying companion of Lieut | ; 1 i ‘ hate to face this crowd today for| Lowell Smith, of the Chicago, world Bombardment Shakes City | THovsaNDs oN HAND if my flight was a disappointment | rlight cruise WHEN AIRMEN ARRIVED to you, it was a much keener A brief hug and a kiss when her | BY D. C. BESS | ‘Thousands of cheering persons to me.” son landed at the end of his long | SHANGHAI, Bept. 29.—The flerc-| lined the field at Point f Off-N He hesitated again and sought Night, Sand Point, a breathed! ent battle of modern China's history | day afternoon when the world air- Li t No Pain! handkerchief. And the huge crowd 2, my boyt* and the kindly- raged along the entire Shanghai front |men swooped to bund, of- which overflowed the green lawns therly old lady gave her boy this afternoon. Apparently it is the | ficially ending the | atop the hill, roared out with one | to the plaudits of the throngs to dis- final phase of the iocal conflict. | Of the four planes that left Seat- great voice their appreciation of the |@ppear aboard the Aquilo and wait Chi Hsieh Yuan's troops attacked |tle last April, two returned. Maj man brag the Ait ae tribute! “We're glad you're here, lieutenant,” quoth David Whitcomb, president of the Seattle on bila Lo bprganend Riniond Abraot etlantteee a neaae ips fe ve been pai is Mem : 4 |who made gains {n a surprise attack | Alaska nd Liev righ ‘ade Bee fiyers, | with their | fecort, |S Wvith Mra. Arnetd on the fantatt| Chamber of Commerce, Sunday. 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