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Who's Hopping
Today and
Where

Bound for Ottawa, Canada,
Capt. Frank ]. Courtney hoped
off from Plymouth, England, at
6:26 this morning In his Dornier-
Napier biplane ''Whale," accom-
panied by r., j. Little, engineer:
#. w. DOwner, navigator; and q
mysterious millionaire Canadian
passenger, said to be e. b. Hos.
mer, Montreal banker.
Two steamships reported today
that they had seen lights Of an
airpIane in nlid.Ocean Wednesday
night, leading Canadian officials
to renew hope of yet rescuing
the st. Raphael plane, which
hoped off from England for
Canada wednesday morning and
has not been heard from since.
With their El0nOpIane, Royal
Windsor, repaired from damages
inflicted in q forced landing at
Sc. Johns, Quebec, @. A. Duke
Schiller and Phil Wood were
waiting favorable weather to com
tinue their proposed flight to
Windsor, England.
Captain Terry TuIIy and Lieut..
James Metcalf expected to hop
off today from Caribou, Maine,
on their interrupted flight to
London, England.
The 'rOund-the.world fIiers, Ed
ward M. SchIee and William 8.
Brock, hoped off from Bagdad
for Bender Abbas. Persia, at Z
o'clock this morning.
Forced back yesterday BY fog,
Leon GivOn and Paul COFbn,
French aYiatOrg, are to resume
their attempted flight TO America
- soon rs weather Is favorable.
,Unfav0rabIe weather again de-
layed the hOp-Off Of the FOIxI1er
liOnOplane, Old Glory, on its pro-
iected flight to Rome. IL was stated
at Garden City, N. Y.
Indictment weather e holding
Charles ID. Levine and his English
plot Capt r. W. HinChCllf "a I'm
= -. -. - 1900 $3.50 =.
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Santa Claus
Love Notes
To Widow

These are the letters tChich maj
cause Santa Claus to lose his
homie Nth his bride Of only a
felO months. They 1Cere Vritten,
according to Mrs. Taylor, the
tCtfe, one week after her mar
1'iGge to the department store
Santa Claus. That's 4Chut she
objects to mostly, she says. What
he did before doesn't matter
muck.
Here Is the lstter on wkicE
Mrs. Bdird's attorney based his
chief reliance in the, $50, 900 suit
NATIONAL MILITARY HOME,
- Kansas, May -, 1897.
Dear sweetheart.
II am at the above place wait
Ing for something ito develop.
Z Never saw such devastation In all
my life as was caused by the
floods and tornadoes. As soon as
pensions are paid, / am going to
see my sister and her husband,
who is a lawyer. on some legal
business, then shoot at once for
Takoma Park. and we will take
our $2O, 900 and get married. Oh,
Dear Sweetheart. never want
to be separated from you again.
] do want to be with yOu again
80 much. I am feeling fine, look.
ing well. Oh. for those loving
arms again. Oh, that would be
Heaven for me. oh, sweet crea-
ture, I never did know what real
love Is until / met you. I want
you to write me at once. Direct
your letter to Wiley p. Taylor,
National Military Home. Kans.
Then / will get 1t promptly. 1t
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UP some word OF the princess and
her two companions, but without
success.
The hope still persists that the
fliers may have been able to make
a safe landing at some isolated spot
in Canada or Newfoundland, and
that their emergency rations WIN
keep them alive for several days.
Or, on the other hand, IL the 81.
Raphael was forced to descend at
sea, the hope Is held out that the
collapsible rubber lifeboat carried BY
the fliers will keep them afloat untii
rescued, by some ship.
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Then, as an afterthought, Mrs.
Santa chirps up, pointing the ac-
eusinE finger: so, that's where
you were those Sunday nights you
ought to have been home with
me
And poor Santa, disconsolate,
nleekly raises his feeble hand in
protest and whimpers: Il swear
! never proposed to this here
But Santa's eyes twinkle when
anyone mentions that he has a win.
ming way with the ladies'.
Sim some sheilx, !" he admits.
: Meanwhile the woman seornsd.
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aching for $4,000 balm or not a
cent, calmly announces that she
never was really in love with
Santa, but that he kept boasting
about having q lot OF Jack, and
she thought she would take him
up, 50 that she could be life-end
companion for him and incidentally
assure herself comfort in her
sunset days.
Santa Claus in real life IL Wiley
2. Taylor, 81 years old. OF 1927
Twenty.first st. N W., who played
santa last Christmas for local de-
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: WHALE .PLANE SIGHTED
1850 M|E|ESAT SEA
Off ENGL AND

PARIS Sept S-A plane believed to be Capt Frank
COurtneys Dornier Napier Whale was sighted At 7S5
o'clock this morning by the steamer Ontario in latitude
IS 40 longitude $40 west The vessel notified the radio at
0uessant France.
The message stated the plane flying ct height Of
200 meters in west-southwestery direction
The direction Of tho plane indicated that Courtney Il head
Ing toward the Azores his atESmp aeFoss the
Atlantic ocean.
sighted approximately $50 miles southwest Of the southern
tip OF England indicating that Courtney abandoned his
earlier plan Of flying Ireland headed straight to-
ward the Azores after taking off from Plymouth early this
morning
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Sight Mystery" Plane
Flying Near Harbor
Grace, Canada

ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 3d.
A mystery plane" sighted
near Harbor Grace this morn
ing was the basis Of con-
siderable speculation, later to-
day as inquiries revealed that
no official or private plane was
known to be in that vicinity.
Residents Of Carbonear, q
short distance from Harbor
Grace reported seeing the plane
at 1880 o'clock.
The head constable Of Car
bonear confirmed the report.
adding that the plane appeared
tn be heading southeast.
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MRS. HELEN L. BAIRD
MRS. HELEN L. BAIRD
Santa Sued for Loue
Admits He s .Sheik

\ Santa Claus is In trouble-Atrouble for fair
With Christmas coming apace the snow about fall
and sleigh bells about to jingle Santa face with
suit for breach Of promise brought by Takoma Park
widow.
And hats not the worst of it. either Santa Claus mar
red. And Mrs Santa Claus wants to know How come
Santaf
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st. RaphaeL's Lights
Sighted at Sea

OTTAWA Ontario, Sept 3-Some hope that the airpane
St Raphael and its three daring occupants may yet be saved
from the Atlantic today when ships informed
air ministry here that they had arplanes lights
"Wednesday night
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By international News service

PLYMOUTH, England Sept with mysterious mil
honaTe Canadian passenger Capt Frank j. Courtney
hoped off from here at 626 o'clock this morning in his
bplane Whale in new attempt to conquer
the Atlantic Ocean by air.
BESIDES the mysterious passenger who is reported be
Hosme Of the Bank of Montreal who was reported
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Prospective home owners viii annpa.
elate the Washington Real Eafate INV,
that aFe offered in tOday's CIansifIsS
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see. who questioned Beck's eligi.
bility. and then Beck himself.
Garrett alleged that Beck lived
and practiced law In New York
and washington for many years
and was not bona fide resident
Of Pennsylvania when the Ware or.
sanitation picked him for Congress.
Other contests, all charging efec.
tion frauds, are:
Fl. Warren Hubbard Cd for the
seat of Representative LaGuardia
R.) of New York.
w. II. Clark Cd against Rep
resentative White CD of Kansas.
j. Alfred Taylor CD to unseat
Representative England tR.) of
West Virginia.
Knute Wefald (F..Ll for the seat
Of Representative Selvig R.l of
Minnesota.
LaGuardia was elected by so
votes but gained SO on a recount
after Hubbard charged fraud in
counting the ballots. Ninety-three
votes separated Clark and White
in Kansas. Wefald alleged that
Selvig misrepresented his vote on
many questions in Congress.
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'BAUNES,' TOPIC
FOR DEBATE

The advisability of enacting a
"Baumes Law for the District Of
Columbia will be debated tomorrow
night at a meeting of THE Little
Congress" in the Caucus room Of
the House Office Building.
The society which is composed
of secretaries and clerks to Senators
and Congressman has adopted the
following subject for its debate:
Resolved; That the Little Con-
gress favors enactment in the Dis.
trict of Columbia of a law similar
to the Baumes Law in New York
State, providing that where any
person is convicted four times for
felonious offenses. the fourth con-
viction shall carry with it a manda-
tory sentence of life imprisonment
In the penitentiary."
The affirmative will be upheld by
John Robsion, jr., and Moss Noble,
of Kentucky. J. S. Landry. Of
Louisiana and Harry Haberkorn,
of Texas, will support the negative.
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POWER PROBE
UP IN SENATE

A proposal for the most exhaus-
tive Federal inquiry ever to threaten
any division of Big Business" was
before the Senate today in the
Walsh resolution, calling for
nation wide investigation of the so.
called electric power trust"
Its developments may provide q
major issue of the 1928 Presidential
campaign, force sweeping reduc.
tions in utility rates. and ulti-
mately bring a national movement
for public ownership OF all public
utilities.
The resolution, sponsored by
Senator Thomas j. Walsh CD OF
Montana, would authorize Sena-
torial investigation of the manage.
ment. ownership. operation. finan-
cling and control of public utilities,
the relationship of stock-holding
companies to the actual operating
companies and the propaganda and
political activities of both groups.
Walsh didn't except a single
phase of public utility operation in
drafting his resolution.
There will he stubborn opposition
to the resolution, although a Demo-
cratic-Insurgent coalition seemed
certain to force it's adoption. The
opposition came from some Admin
istration leaders, who feared the
investigation might bring about
financial unrest in the industrial
field.
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AID SOUGHT FOR
| MRS. SNYDER

NEW YORK. Dec. 1s.-Hoping
60 swing the pendulum of public.
sympathy in the direction Of Ruth
Brown Snyder. her attorney. Edgar
r. Hazleton. today issued an ap.
peal to those who believe her sem
tence should be conmuted. asking
them to wire or write Gov. Smith.
II know there are thousands of
persons in this State who do not
think that Mrs. Snyder should go
to the electric chair, Hazleton said,
''and IL they will only send their
appeals to the governor it will in
all probability help me at the Glenn
ency hearing"
Ruth. who with her lover, Henry
Judd Gray, is scheduled to go to
the electric chair in the Sing Sing
death house on the night of jan
uary 12, backed out of the murder
plot at the last minute. HazIeton
contends, and therefore should not
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killed BY.
Ak SLAYER

DACULA, Ga, Dec. 19.-State
and county officers today were
centering their efforts on the
apprehension of a pair of Ak
murderers who practically decapi-
tated /. M. IDENTIFIED, SIS, and his
son, John, 9, and robbed them of
$500 on their lonely farm near
here.
The bodies of the two AK victims
were found sprawled across the
floor of their home by Joe Bowen.
another farmer, late yesterday after
noon when he went to call on the
two.
He Immediately notified county
authorities who launched an immed-
late investigation. joined by other
laW-enforcement agencies today.
car and bloody fingerprints were
the only clues left to identify them.
An inquest into the death of the
two will be held at Lawrenceville
today
From evidence left by the
slayers; according to county inves-
tigators, the murder was apparently
committed Friday night as Denni.
field entered his home after feeding
his stock. One blow was dealt the
aged farmer beneath the chin with
the cutting edge of an ax and his
head was crushed in, apparently
with the hammer side.
A plank in the floor, where the
farmer is believed to have cached
his earnings, said to be around
$500. was torn up.
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5 CONTESTS ON
IN HOUSE

With the Senate embroiled in the
Smith and Ware contests. the House
today faced fight of its own in
contests for the seats of five Repub-
lican members.
Machinery will be set in motion
January 6 for determination of the
right of Rep. James M. Beck tR)
of Philadelphia, FORMER solicitor.
general OF the United States and
successor to Senator-elect Ware. to
keep his place in the House. h.
Representative Vincent (R.) Of
Michigan. chairman Of Elections
Committee No. 2. said that first
steps would he to call in Rep
resentative Garrett DJ of Tennes.
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This week will see the old Bank,
Roll knocked for loop anyway. so
get in practice by limbering up on
Laddergram, which by the way won't
cost you anything. Step down a
rung at a time, changing one letter
only in each new word without trans
posing the remaining letters. Keep
away from abbreviations end obsolete
or hyphenated words Our answer
will appear tomorrow Meantime
study this solution to Whip-P POOr-NiT
as an example: 1, Whip. 2, Chip: 3.
Chop; 4. Coop; 5, Poop: 6. Poor; 4,
Pool; 3, Poll: 9, Pill; 10, Will.
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have been convicted In the same
degree as the corset salesman.
"She has been painted a cold, cal,
culating woman, Hazleton said.
but in reality she Is a poor victim
of circumstances and environment.
Some time we shall cure such cases.
instead OF putting them to DEATH"
Hazleton believes there is
sharply defined movement against
capital punishment in New York.
IF they execute this woman she
will be the last woman to die in the
chair" he said. 'The chair Is a
relic OF the age of barbarism, and
with civilization and science on the
march it should be abolished"
Samuel L. Miller. counsel for
Gray, will go into the Federal
courts soon seeking a writ of
habeas corpus.
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Alexandria Man Dies
When Auto Turns Over

With the cause of the spill un.
known, l.. f. Pierson. AZ, 2s39 Duke
St, Alexandria, Va. is dead from a
fractured skull sustained when the
automobile in which he was riding
with John Dove q. Fairfax, Va,
leaped from the highway yesterday,
crashed into tree and turned
over at Russell and Glebe Roads,
not far from Hume Springs. Va.
Pierson died shortly after arriv.
ing at Alexandria Hospital, but
Dove was removed to his home.
found to be suffering from head
hurts. and lapsed into a coma.
Both men were employees of the
Southern Railway Company.
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Gen. Fechet, Air Chief,
Flies Here From N. Y.

Leaving New York about 10
o'clock yesterday morning, Maj.
Gen. James E. Fechet, new chief Of
the Army Air Service, made a per-
feet three-point landing yesterday
afternoon at 12:45 o'clock at Boiling
Field in his Curtiss Falcon.
Capt. Ira c. Eaker was a pas
senger.
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MERGER APPEAL
IN ARLINGTON

ARLINGTON COUNTY. Dec. 10.
In an effort to halt the Alexandria
annexation proceedings in the Ar
lington county circuit court. counsel
for Arlington and Fairfax counties
are in Richmond today. where they
will appear before Judge Prentiss.
president of the State supreme
court of appeals, asking a writ Of
prohibition.
The delegation Is headed by John
s. Barbour, chief counsel for the
counties, and includes Commons.
wealth Attorneys William c. Cloth,
OF Arlington county. and Wilson
Farr, of Fairfax county; State
Senator Frank j.. Ball, Col. Charles
T. Jesse. member of the House of
Delegates; Capt. Crandal Mackey,
former Commonwealth attorney of
Arlington county, and F. s. Nc.
Candlish.
Counsel will contest the constitu-
tionality of the annexation act of
1924. authorizing courts OF three
judges to hear annexation cases.
Unless action is taken in Rich.
mond today, the case will be re.
sumed tomorrow before Judges
Samuel G. Brent. of Arlington
county; Don r. Halsey, of Lynch.
burg, and Frederick Coleman, Of
Fredericksburg.
The Arlington district council of
citizens associations will meet to-
night at 8 o'clock in the rooms of
the chamber of commerce, Claren.
don.
Recommendation will be received
from the committee on streets and
roads for a comprehensive building
program for the year 1928. Other
matters to be considered will be
provision for more modern light.
ing system for the county.
The annual election of officers
of the Arlington-Fa Fairfax volunteer
firemens association will be held
tomorrow night in the Mclean fire
mems hall.
The annual Christmas entertain.
ment of the Woodrow Wilson
School, Fort Myer Heights, will be
held wednesday night at the school
house at 8 o'clock.
Arlington county public. schools
will close Thursday until January
3, for the Christmas holidays.
The Falls Church schools will
close Friday. until January 3.
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INSIST-On the delivery OF your
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from The Times Company Office
BY special messenger.
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A New York State scientist claiunl
to have developed process witt
which garments can be electropIate(
with rubber to make them water
proof.
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AOvERTIsEMENT

Prices realized on Swift & Company
sales of carcass beef in Washington, u.
G, for week ending Saturday. December
IL. 1927, on shipments sold out. ranged
from 1850 cents to 29. 0s cents per pound
and averaged 1901 cents per pound.
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A pitiless legend tells how an
eagle, nistaking his, bald head for a
stone, dropped a tortoise on 1t, kill
ing him.
But it makes little difference how
he died; he had survived to SO, and
had lived more lives than one, and
he had accomplished more fer the
Greek drama than the subtle Euri-
pides would DO, or the fiawless
SophocleS.
SOPKOCLES.
G6ITEE natural gifts of Sophie
l. cies," said Bulwer Lytton,
were the rarest that nature be-
slows on man-genius and beauty"
Consider the good fortune of a
man so physically splendid an ami
NAL as to be famed in his youth
for comeliness and strength, and
winner of the double prize so praised
by Plato, for wrestling and music;
and yet mentally so gifted as to
become the most popular dramatist
Of his time, to triumph again and
again over Aeschylus and Euripides,
to write a great and successful play
at the age Of 81, and to die univer-
sally honored at the age of 80.
Look at the remains which time
has left us of the busts and statues
made Of Sophocles, and see, even in
age, the fine, vigorous body, the
strong face bespeaking the calm,
clear mind.
Here is Greek intelligence and
Greek art, and perhaps Greek wis
dom, too, at their summit.
He was born in 495 B. @. at a
pretty hamlet near Athens called
Colonus; he never tired describing
the beauty of his native place; amid
its groves, sacred to the Eumenides,
he pictured with sad pleasure the
wanderings Of the blind and fallen
Oedipus.
He grew up with Athens, shared
in her many-sided life, many friends
of Pericles and Herodotus, and
played for time an active part in
public affairs.
In the year 440 he was made one
OF the ten Athenian generals chosen;
to lead an exposition against Samos;
it Is true that Pericles gently sug-
gested to him, later, that he was a
better poet than general; but it is
remarkable enough that poet was
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thought Of at all in such con-
nection, and indicates that Athen-
ian writer's differed from modern
intellectuals.
II IKE Socrates, Sophocles sided
IL with the aristocracy in its eff
fort to overthrow the democracy
which Plato has so mericilessly de-
scribed; and when the -Four Hun
bred" ruled he was made a MEM
Der Of the provisional government.
He came of a rich family. and
could not bessr the populat incom-
petence Of such knaves as O.een. He
despised the trading class that was
slowly displacing the landowners to
whom his family belonged
Nothing SO evil IS money" he
says, "ever grew to be currenp
among men.
"ThiS lays cities low, this drives
men from their homes, this trains
and warps honest souls till they set
themselves to works of shame; this
teaches folk to practice villainieS.
and to know every Goddess deed"
(Antigone 296f).
He could afford to despise wealth,
as he had considerable Of it him
self.
Given riches and noble birth,
Sophocles was marked out for the
classic style, as against the roman
tic and well high socialiStic Euri-
pides, whose mother sold vegetables
in the street. The polished style is
the daughter Of leisure; so Turge-
niev wrote more carefully than
Dostoievski, Flaubert more carefully
than Balzac, Voltaire more carefully
than Rousseau, Anatole France
more carefully than Roman Rol-
land.
Hence Sophocles Is the greatest
of Greek dramatistS in the matter
of form, symmetry and simplicity
of structure, pure beauty Of thought
and speech.
The sure instinct of the almost
primitive Aeschylus is here replaced
by reflective perfectionl "Aeschylus
did right without knowing it." said
Sophocles.
The fine Judgment, the lofty Sc
renity, the intensity Of feeling re-
strained within measured utterance
which mark these plays make So
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A---W DR.. WILL DURANT--

and more than the greatest god.
So the dream ends. This is the
grand style" par excellence; a IT,
tanic energy of imagery and phrase,
lofty nobility of design and even
of detail.
"The other productions OF the
Greek tragedians," as Schlegel says,
"are so many tragedies; but this is
Tragedy herself" No wonder that
Aristophanes, when, in the Frogs"
he tells how AeschyluS and Euripi-
DIES contested for supremacy in the
drama, represents one phase Of the
older man tipping the scales against
score by the younger man; "the
very earth shakes as Aeschylus'
lines advance"
Never since has the great strug-
gle between knowledge and super
Stition, between enlightenment and
obscurantisrn, between genius and
dogma, been pictured more power
fully, or lifted to a loftier reach of
symbol and utterance.
The Prometheus is one of the high
places in the literature of the world.
Only legend can tell us of the
later years of AeschyluS. He seems
to have reverted to the mystical re-
ligion that filed the atmosphere of
EleuSis, the city of his birth, and in
play known to us merely in frag-
mentS, and called "Prometheus I'm
bound" he makes the great hero
repent at last and ask pardon of
relentless zeus; Shelley might be
forgiven for feeling that a new
drama on the theme was necessary.
Perhaps Aeschylus was like Job,
and doubted only to believe again;
it is pleasant denouement.
Only with Euripides was drama to
repeat the development of philoSo-
ply, and dare to ask questions
which no theology could answer.
In his last years the old drama
fist knew the bitterness of being SUI
perseded: the young and fortunate
SophocleS won prize after prize
from him. So Aeschylus left Athens
and went to live in Sicily.