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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-21
CRAVELLY POINT SITE FAVORED
AS AIRPORT FOR THE DISTRICT
Mai. Covell and Lieut. Duke Inspect Near
by Locations-Temporary Use of
Boiling Field Needed

Hoover Field. GraVellv Point and
ended with an inspection of the Ben
ming tract. i'm the northeast section.
Upon their return from the inspec-
ton, Mai. COyell and Lieut.. Duke
went over the maps of the various
fields and will spend the next few
DAYS making estimates of the cost of
land and construction, preparatory TO
submitting 4 report to- the District
commissioners. 1t is possible that
other sites will be visited, also in the
next few days.
Navy VIII Help.
Edward =. Warner, Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Navy, has given assurances
that the Navy would I've willing 10 per
NIT the Joint use of Boiling Field by
night air mail planes. This fact great
~ encouraged Mai. Covell TO view
with optimism the possibility of oh
tanning Gravellv Point as future
permanent airport site.
Mai Gen. Patrick Of the Army Air
Corps is not inclined to Join with As
sistant Secretary Warner in allowing
use Of Boiling Field, hut II was be
lieved that the objections Of the Army
might he overcome.
seen from ltle arr GTdNPtl% I'olHt -
ideally situated. directly on the wa
ter, for an airport in close proximity
TO the business district of Washington
1t would require about two years time
to fill in enough land to permit use OF
the site as a landing field, Mai Covel
pointed out, and about two more
years TO bring it to the size of Class
A field, with eight runways.
Possibilities Called Unlimited.
The chief advantage. aside from It's
accessibility, it was pointed out, woulG
be its safety and unlimited possibili
ties for future extension. Since the
Potomac channel is dredged every
year, the shallow water at Gravelly
Point could he filled at a minimum
cost.
Mr., Berliner who has offered the
Continued on Page 2,~Column 2.)
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STORM PREVENTS
BYRO'S TAKING OFF
Start of Flight Even Tomor-
row improbable, Weather
ForeCaSter Declares.

By the Associated Press.
ROOSEVELT FIELD, \. Y, June
21.-Formal announcement was made
today that fourth man will travel in
the transatlantic monoplane America
on its ocean flight and that that man
will be Bernt Balchen, former lieuten-
ant in the Norwegian navy.
Il decided to take fourth man.
Comdr. Richard 4. Byrd. who is in
charge of the expedition, announced.
ito demonstrate that such a number
can be carried on 81 transoceanic trip
/ would like to call this fourth man n
passenger, but Balchen Is so useful
that in effect at least. he viii be an
important member of the crew. lie de.
serves to go along because of all the
help he has given us and because he
has proved himself TO be a man"
Weather Delays Start.
In announcing Balchen's appoint.
ment this morning Byrd said there
seemed to be only about one chance in
ten of hopping off for Europe tonight
The takeoff will be impossible
either tonight or tomorrow morning
and present atmospheric conditions
do not look favorable for a hop.oT
any time tomorrow. James II. Kim.
ball, Weather Bureau meteorologist,
announced today.
Lieut.. Balchen is an experienced
pilot. navigator and mechanic. He
came into wide notice in 1925, ehcn
he flew over the Arctic wastes in
search of the missing expedition
headed by Roald Amundsen Last
year he was a member of Amundsen g
North Pole Expedition in the airshjp
Merge, being stationed at Spitzbergen.
Tested Plane for Folxter.
There he became friendly with
Comdr. Byrd, who was getting ready
for his polar flight in the Josephine
Ford, and after Byrd had flown over
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APPOINTS DEMOCRATS.
Kentucky Governor Names Entire
Ticket to Succeed Republicans.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, June 81 N'.--
Joseph r. O'Neal. 1925 Democratic
candidate for mayor of Louisville, and
the entire Democratic city and JEFF.
ferson County ticket was appointed
today by Gov. W. J. Fields TO succeed
the incumbent Republican office
holders. ousted by the Court of Ap-
reals. seldom Il. Glenn. state tax com
missioner, announced here today.
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Four available sites for Washing
tons proposed municipal airport were
inspected today by Mai. w. +. II.
C0Vell, acting Engineer Commissioner
of the District, and Lieut.. Donal1
Duke of the Army Air Corps, with 1
result that Gravelly Point just below
the Highway Bridge across from
Hains Point OH the Virginia side. un-
doubtedly appears as the leading con
tender.
Provided the Army and Navy would
hermit temporary use of Boiling Field
for the night landing Of mail planes,
rending establishment Of a landing
field at Gravelly Point, both officials
were agreed that the advantages of
this site are unexcelled in the vicinity
ot Washington.
Lieut.. Duke borrowed a plane from
Henry A. Berliner, lessee Of Hoover
Field. and fled Mai. CoVen over
GraVclly Point so its advantages Of
approach from the air in all dircc
tions could he correctly determined.
Look Into Future.
oouate to meet the progress of avia-
ton for the next 100 yea.s was de-
clared by Lieut.. Duke, who has made
a long and special study of airport
needs throughout the country. In
the opinion Of both Lieut.. Duke and
Mai. Covell, the shallow water at
Gravellv Point could he filled at less
than 5000 an acre, or more cheaply
than purchasing land AT other sites
suggested.
Mai. Ernest l.. Jones Of the Aero
nautics Bureau. Department of Com
merce, accompanied the two inspecting
officers, who made an early start from
the District Building, proceeding first
TO 112-acre tract known as the
Hampton site. seven miles from Wash
ington on the Alexandria -Leesburg
Pike, near the Theological Seminary.
The inspecting party next visited
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Schneider FLYER Killed.

VARESE, Italy, June 81 P).--Lieut.
qjlyin Bora, one of italys . entrants
~. the Schneider Cup seaplane races,
WAC killed today when a 600-horse-
nn,ye, racing machine, in which he
vas making an initial trial flight, fell
into Lake Narese.
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PLEASED AT JAPAN's OFFER.
CfyiciaIs Here, However, Regard Brit
ish Proposal Unsatisfactory.
nc the Associated Press.

uy the Associated preas.
The Japanese naval limitations
oroposal was faVorably received IN
cfficisl circles in Washington today
as displaying not only concilis,orE
(0sntinaea en- Pess p Column ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-21

Two-base hits~~fosIn. Blueee. Wheat, SIM
mons.
stolen bases--RlueRP. Hale,
SacriRces~~Speaker. Reeves. B0iey, JUDGE,
Lot on Observation-Disclosures 3, Fhiladel
Wkta& "
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DRIVE LAUNCHED
TO AID DRY CAUSE
Help of Religious 0rganiza-
tions Will Be Sought by
Citizens Group.

Swinging into action in its can
Of Washington, the Citizens Servic
Association for Law and Order toda
launched drive to make every citize
potential ally of the association.
The board Of directors met in th
University Club for luncheon thl
afternoon and began work on the firs
phase of the campaign, which call
for 10000 members within fey
weeks. Through members of the men
borshiu committee from every rel
eious organization in the city tha
will cooperate, the association hope
to treble it's present membership o
1000 In a fortnight.
Work will begin at once to secur
the aid of religious organizations
Most of them are already supporter
of the association, it was reported
Membership cards will be distribute
at Bible class meetings and other re
ligious gatherings. The membership
cards contain a pledge actively to sup
port the eighteenth amendment.
Method of Inquiry.
DR.. Everett M. Ellison. secretary o
the association. today outlined it's plan
to enlist the aid of citizens, regardless
of their affliation with the association
ANY one may report a suspected vic
lator of the prohibition law to mem
Der of the association. he said, am
the association will Immediately heeil
4! a tyNn o. q
the law Is being violated. If the III
vestigation yields results. the polio
will he notified and the case will h
followed to see whether the police act
Mai. Edwin B. Hesse. superintend
ent of police, today denied that any
pressure had been brought to bea
upon him to make promotions in th'
Police Department with regard TO the
wet and dry sympathios of the men
Promotion by Merit.
In a sneech at q mass meeting o
the association Sunday, Rev. Geurgt
A. Diffenderfer. its vice president sald
The powers that be have been tolf
that if you appoint any one who J:
not dry YOU do it al your own risk.
DR. Diffenderfer left the city yester
day and will not return until Thurs
day.
Maj. 1Iesse said he had heard moth
ing of any attempt to secure the pro
motion of only dry officers. When h'
makes a promotion he makes no At
tempt to learn the political views o1
religion of the officers. he said, but pro
notes them solely on merit and char
acter. Able men who will enforce
every law and whose records and char
acters are clean receive the promo
tions, he declared.
DIR. Ellison said today that the asso
citation had been promised the suppor
of the United States attorneys Office
1--WE have been told that if we car
present evidence that liquor is beins
sold in a place. injunction proceedings
will he started Immediately" he said
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nase on bails---0G Thnrstnn, /. of Hrax-
ton. =.
struck nut-~~Rv Braxton, r.
UItG.--0G Thutstpn. in ~ Innings. of
RommeI. : ~ innings; oI Willis. / In 4
inuings: on RraStuu. 2 in 1 innings
Vmpires-~Messts, Nangrahan, Comn0lly and
Sssst l8nsa
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Foxx for Willis II sixth inning
oua n ninth inning
SCORE BY INNINGS
D
w..hrgto, ..... :, q q q
pbuaderhia u 4
SUMMARY
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PHILADELPHIA. June 2t.-The
Mats won the first game of the dual
hill with the Athletics here this after
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FIRST INNING.

WASHINGTON - Rommel tossed
out Buege Hale threw out Reeves.
Thurston sent long fy to simmons.
No runs.
IPUIA--Simmons singled
to left. Hale lined to Speaker.
Cochrane fouled to Bluege, Dykes
forced simmons, Reeves to Harris.
No nuns
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WEATHER.

20 g. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Increasing cloudiness and warmer
tonight tomorrow showers and cooler
at night.
observation-disclosures, rs, at noon
today; lowest. SIS. AT s;30 am. today.
Full report on page 2.
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Admiral Niscount Saito, head of the
delegation, has free hand to nego-
tIate. the experts made it known, and
ia not bound 10 refer to Toxic con.
tinually for fresh instructions.
They believes the study Of the
British and American proposals will
take considerable time, as many points
are not exactly clear tn them They
profess not TO have been surprised
by tn British proposals, but thought
the American plan would stick even
more closely to the principles adopted
In 1922 al Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
OFFICIALS WILL
ATTEND CIRCUS
City Airport at Mars Hill to
Be Scene of Big Show

Public officials will have "ringside"
seats at the 18th observation squad
rons air circus at city airport, Mars
Hill, Sunday, it was announced to-
day.
Mayor John l.. Duvall, city council
men and county commissioners will
be shown courtesies in appreciation
for cooperation in preparations for
the circus. Interest indicates thou
sands will attend.
Morris st. and Holt Rd., near the
field will be roped off to bar ''mooch-
ers." Money derived from the circus
will help equip the field.
Special street car service will be
provided Sunday on the Mars Hill
line. Squadron members will sell
tickets on the street cars. The pro-
gram, starting at 10 a. m. and con-
tinuing until 3 p. m, will include
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
TWO MORE RILEY
BROTHERS HELD
Lads Who Accused Older
Boys Arrested.

b. United Dress
WARSAW, Ind, April 20.--Robert
Riley, IS, and his brother, George
Riley, Z, were held under $500 bond
today in connection with the poison
Ing of a well at the Mt. Tabor public
school.
The two boys confessed to the poi.
soning plot a number Of weeks ago
and gave information on which their
older brothers, Athol Riley, %, and
Samuel Riley, 90, will go on trial
April &c.
Authorities refused to say wheth-
er any charges would be pressed
against Robert and George and it
was believed the action in placing
them under bond, was to insure their
appearance as witnesses at the trial.
A fifth brother, Edward Riley, Z,
was implicated but was not held.
Thirteen students were made seri.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
many aeronautical features, Captain
H. w. Cook, director, stated.
AWAIT VERMONT TRAIN
Governor Weeks and Party to Visit
indianapolis Thursday

Plans were completed by Chamber
of Commerce officials and commit
tees today for welcoming to Indian.
apolis Thursday the Vermont Spe.
cial" carrying Governor John E.
Weeks and Mrs. Weeks and a dele
cation Of Vermont business men.
Governor Ed Jackson and Mrs.
Jackson will head the party of State
officials attending the breakfast hon.
oring the Vermont visitors, at the
Chamber of Commerce at $3.50 a. m.
Chamber President Dick Miller and
a delegation will meet the train at
the Union Station at 1880 a. m. The
train will be in the Alabama st.
yards until HIS a. M, where the
public may view Vermont's indus
trial and agricultural exhibits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
ously Ill by drinking from the poi
soned well last November.
FIRE ON SHERIFF AID
Deputy Losey, Johnson County, in
Pistol Fight With Hi-Jackers.

Carl Losey, Johnson County dep
uty sheriff, fought a gun battle
with two men, believed to be liquor
hl'Jackers, near Greenwood Tues
day, he told indianapolis police.
Losey declared he chased a power.
tul car from Franklin to a point
near Greenwood, exchanging shots
with the alleged hi-jackers. Finally
they jumped from the car and ran.
The automobile, abandoned, con-
tanned the rifle which had been used
In firing on him, Losey declared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Flora Man Disappears

BIZ United Press
LOGANSPORT, Ind, April 90
Police are searching for James
Rienier, who disappeared after
leaving a note containing his
resignation as secretary at the
Knights of Pythias Lodge Hall at
Flora. Indebtedness of his farm
operations is believed to have
caused his disappearance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
AIRPLANES BANNED

PRINCETON. n. J.-By a snap
py legal bubble, Dean Gauss of
Princeton has added airplanes to
the ban against student automO-
biles. After July / they will be
forbidden on the ground that
when they run along the earth
after landing they are "mOtor We.
hicles."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Ne10S QuirkS
ELUSIVE QUAKE

NEW YORK - Seismographic
sleuths could find no trace of the
earthquake" reported by alarmed
workers in crowded lower Manhat-
tan and concluded it must have been
blasting operations on the East
River. Police were swamped with
calls of inquiry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
GAS.ELECTRIC CARS

DIES MONIES, Iowa-Seven all
steel gas-electric driver railroad
cars are to be placed in service on
short lines OF the Rock Island Rail
road running out Of Des Moines.
Electric current is generated to run
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
BEETHOVEN RELICS

MOSCOW-A notebook in which
Beethoven scribbeld the tunes and
notes he later worked into his immor
tai compositions has just been dis
covered in the Soviet Central ar
chives. Beethoven filled it's fifty
pages with musical ideas as they
occurred TO him in 1925. Each page
has been photographed and the re-
productions will be published in con.
nection with the celebration Of the
Tooth anniversary of the musicians
death this year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Suicide AT SEA

HALIFAX, N. S.-John Trahey,
en- route to New York from st.
Johns, Newfoundland. aboard the
Red Cross liner Sylvia, leaped into
the sea soon after the vessel left st.
Johns and was drowned. Captain
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
CAT ADOPTS FOXES

PARK FALLS. VISA Maltese
cat has adopted" five baby foxes
found abandoned by hunters near
here. The cat accepted the foxes as
substitutes for its own offspring
which had died.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
RIOTERS WOUNDED

MEXICO CITY-Political riots in
the State of Chihuahua have result
ed in severalpersons, including State
Deputy CULLEN, being wounded, Ell
Graphico said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
"E. ID" BABY

NEW YORk-The seventh child
of Mrs. George Dwyer, who was
born during a fire-alarm fire near
the Dwyer home, will be named
John F. d. Dwyer in sentimental
remembrance of the occasion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
AIDS DISEASE EIGHT

GENEVA-Spain has notified
the League of Nations that 5000
pesetas, approximately 1915, has
been appropriated to assist i'm the
maintenance of the leagues sleep
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
LAST BULLET ENDS LIFE

Los ANGELES.-f.ather than
face arrest, c. w. Arnold, BAN
dit who had fought gun battle
with police, killed himself with the
last bullet in his automatic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
PLENTIFUL PRESENTS

CHICAGO.-John Macinday was
enjoined to stop giving presents to
his 15-year-old daughter. The girls
mother, from whom Macinday is sep.
arated, sought the injunction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
KNOCKED DOWN BY DOGS

SHAWANO, Wis.-O. S. Sher.
wood suffered conclusion of the
brain and bruises when he was
knocked down by two dogs playing
on a sidewalk,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20

In Palestine the official languages
are English, Arabic and Hebrew; but
French, Greek, Spanish, German.
Roumanian and Italian also are
heard on every hand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20

James put the Sylvia about and
ordered boat away but was unable
to save Trahey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20

ing sickness mission for another
year in central Africa. Britain,
France, Italy. Portugal and the
Sudan made similar contributions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20

the cars by self-contained gasoline
engines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
CRIPPLED VETERAN HURT

TUNIS, North Africa-Severa
delegates to the Congress of For.
mer Soldiers Mutilated i'm the War
were injured when a grand stand
collapsed at Kairouan.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-27
FAMILY FEUD BLAMED
Arrangement Following Elopcmcnt of 1G-Icar-Old Girl Seen as Cause of Murder of 7-Year-Ol Child.

New York, Sept. 27 tP}-A family feud born of the elopement of 16-year- old girl was attributed by police as the cause of the killing Of a seven-year- old child for whose death the 65-year-old father of the bride was under arrest today,
 Biaggio Arsenic, who police say, shot Angelina Constance with a shotgun as she lay asleep and alone in her home on the upper East Side early yesterday. denied any connec- ton with the killing. although the Constance family and their relatives said he had threatened them the night before the shooting. No one saw Arsenic enter or leave the Con- stanzo home.
 Arsenio's daughter. Frances, olop- ed with a young Sicilian last August and her father blamed the Constan- EOS and their relatives for the mar riage, believing them instrumental in fost ering the romance.
 Police arrested Arsenic as he came home from work last evening.
 Benjamin (Arsenio's som and Peter Saltarelli. uncle of Angelina, were taken into custody on charges of the firearms law when police found in their homes firearms for which they had no license.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-27
Mother Hippo Bitter
 Against Zoo Husband

London, Sept. 27 CP' - Bobby Hipp is the worst hen-pecked hus- band in the British Isles. His wife, Joan, won't have anything to do with him since their son, Jimmy, was born. Trainers at one London zoo have turned themselves into a. court of reconciliation but Johns temper is too much for them.
 When Jimmy was weaned the trainers permitted Bobby to reioin his family, but Joan bullied and badgered the old man so badly the authorities had TO place her in soli- tary confinement in an open pen.
 Since the weather has become chilly 1t Is not safe to keep the lady hippo out in the night air so she has been placed indoors but with strong bars separating her from Bobby in the hippo apartment
 4 Paris divorce seems the only solution. Neither cruelty nor incom- patibility of temperament Is suffici- ent grounds in English courts.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-27
MASS. AUTO COMMISSIONER REPORTS
 COMPULSORY INSURANCE IS SUCCESS

ly difficult for him to get insured.
 This has the effect of making motorists more careful"
 The apparent success of compul- sory insurance in Massachusetts would result ill the rapid spread of the idea to other parts of the country, Goodwin believed.
 "I think that practically every state in the union will have it eventually he asserted.
 Compulsory insurance. under the Massachusetts plan, covers only per sonal injuries and provides no re- course in the case Of property dam age. It costs from $l6 10 s45 per year. depending upon the type of automobile and the location of the owners residence. Insurance costs are higher in the congested areas.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-27
ITALIAN PRESS
 LAUDS ENGLISH
Gives Great Praise to Winner
 of Air Race

Rome. Sept. 27 (UP)-Italian newspapers were generous today in their praise of the English victory in the Schneider cup race at Lido.
 We present our arm to the win ners. admirngly and ungrudgingly." said the newspaper Giornal DItalia. Their victory probably was due to longer training of their pilots. Any how, we raise our arm in Roman fashion. saluting the English sue cess and shout loudly. Long live England and 'au revoir until the next meet"
 We salute the winner" said LImpero.
 The Tribuna said the English mems victory was to be expected be- cause of their hard training and ef- fcient preparation.
 Their victory" the Tribuna add ed, teaches us the necessity of starting preparations for the next competition right now on new basis.
 The Italian people salute Web ster (the winner) and tell Italian constructors to prepare for the next meet"
 Flight Iiaut. S. \. Webster, who won the race by flying his super marine S-5 seaplane an average Of 2S5.1 miles an hour, told the United Press how it felt to be flying at more than A miles a minute.
 The sensations were similar to going at a high speed in any other form of locomotion," he said.
 The great roar of the motor was rot heard. In rounding the curves there was a rush of blood to the head but it adjusted itself on the straightaway.
 Visibility naturally was very diff ncult, though it was sufficient to pilot a plane safely
 Lieut., Webster then discussed the practical value of such a race as the event which he had won.
 "Racing machines will always he the pioneers in developing the speed of aviation. By attaining hlgf speed, racing machines of today be- come the commercial planes Of to- morrow, as proved by past cur races"