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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
CINCINNATIIN TRIBUTE
TO LINDBERGH TODAY
City Plans Great Ovation, With
Elaborate Program of We'll
come for Air Ace.
BY the Associated Press.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, August g.
Cincinnati is prepared today to tender
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh a celebra-
ton that will rival in spirit any he
has been given.
The sighting Of the famous I'VE"
combination, Col. Lindbergh and the
Spirit of st. Louis, will be the signal
for an outburst Of whistles, bombs.
sirens. church bells and even a wa
terway calliope.
Col. Lindbergh plans to arrive at
Lunken Airport here at 2 O'Clock this
afternoon from McCook Field. Day
ton. Ohio. leaving there at l pm.
A brief reception at Lunken Air
port will be followed by a parade
to Redland Field, where the official
reception is timed to begin at $3.50
o'clock.
At the ball park. where a base ball
game has been postponed to permit
Cincinnati's thousands a glimpse of
the aviator, a program, consisting of
a patriotic concert, introductions to
Boy Scouts and school children and
a 15-minute talk by Lindbergh on
Aviation" has been arranged. AT
z o'clock a public dinner on the roof
garden Of the Gibson Hotel will be
given.
Lindbergh's official visit to Cincin.
natl ends at 8 o'clock tonight,
although he viii stay over here to.
morrow night before taking off for
Louisville on Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
HUNTERS OF BANDITS
DISCOVER FOOTPRINTS
Forester Believes Marks Were
Fresh-Search for Robbers
Is Continued.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WOODSTOCK, Va, August g.
Hope was revived yesterday that the
two men and two women bandits who
held up the Mount Jackson Bank II
days ago are still hiding somewhere
on Great North Mountain southwest
of here, when a telephone message
was received from q United States for
ester stating that he had found fresh
footprints of women's shoes on the
West Virginia side of the mountain
on a spur in the Lost River section.
The message stated that the prints,
which showed the heel marks of the
shoes of two men and two women,
were made probably within the last
Is hours. They are not far from the
deserted camp, composed OF a pine
bough shack, which was discovered by
woodchoppers yesterday.
No posse took the field from here
today, but Magistrate Arthur Sticllley
stated that the West Virginia authori-
ties had renewed their search on the
Hardy County side of the big noun
tain, which is covered with a $4,000
acre forest.
Should additional information indi-
cate that the bandits have been driven
farther back in the mountain. Sheriff
Borden is in readiness to again lead
a posse from here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
MYSTERY INVALID BELIEVED
TO BE DAUGHTER OF CAR
Son of Court Doctor Ends
Probe, Declaring Her
Claim Is True.
Was Thought to Have Been
Slain With Rest of Fam
lily by Reds.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August 6.-frau Won
Tchaikovsky, the mystery woman CT
Castle Seeon." Is the Grand Duchess
Anastasia of Russia. Gleb +. Botkin'
son of the physician to the late Gar
Nicholas, and boyhood playmate OF
the grand duchess, announced TO-DAY
at the conclusion of an investigation
of the mystery woman
Botkin, an artist and writer, was
commissioned by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, of which Inc star
is a member, to go to Castle Seeon III
Bavaria and see Frau Won TchalkoV.
sky. AS a boy he knew the Grand
Duchess Anastasia and other members
of the Russian imperial family. lie
lived at court, shared exile in Siberia
with the imperial family and was one
of the last to have seen the grand
duchess before the execution OF the
imperial family at Ekaterinberg, IN
1918. His father was killed with the
Car. Botkin escaped to the United
States, which has been his home since
the Russian revolution.
Botkin went to Castle Seeon, where
he met and talked with Frau Won
Tchaikovsky. What he discovered
there and his conclusions he tells in
six articles, the first OF which will be
found below.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
LEVINE AGAIN FAILS
TO SIGN CONTRACT.
American Ignores Meeting
With Drouhin to Close
Flight Agreement.
By the Associated Press.


PARIS, August 6.-Forecasts of an
early hop-off of the Bellanca plane
Columbia for the flight from Paris to
New York were upset this morning
by failure of Charles A. Levine to
keep an appointment to sign a con
tract with Maurice Drouhin, French
pilot.
The money not having been de-
posted, the start cannot be made in
any circumstances before Tuesday. il
is stated.
Drouhin expressed encouragement.
after waiting in vain until noon for
Levine to appear. He declared, how
ever. that he would continue to do
his part until it appeared that the
flight was utterly impossible.
Drouhin's lawyers said they would
give Levine another chance to meet
them this afternoon. If this failed
it would be considered in Drouhins
camp that all means of inducing
Levine to carry out his engagements
had been exhausted, and the Columbia
would probably be seized Monday.
Levine this morning, for the third
time in two days, ordered the removal
from lie Bourget Field of all the spare
parts for the Columbia, and the
duplicate motor. Drouhin interviewed
with the cartman. and the latter had
to go away without his load. He said
he had been ordered to take the motor
and spare parts to transportation
company who would pack them for
shipment.
The destination was withheld but
French aviators at the field expressed
the opinion that the motor was in
tended to equip British machine at
Nottingham, England. for the Atlantic
flight in case the departure of the
Columbia was prevented by legal
procedure.
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HONOLULU RACE
PLANES DAMAGED
Two of IS Entered for Prize
Contest, Under Test,
Forced Down.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 6.-Two
of the Is planes entered in the forth
from the North American mainland
to Honolulu today were undergoing
repairs as result of test flight &C.
cidents which for q time led to belief
that the flyers were lost.
One plane was that which Miss
Mildred Doran, Michigan school
teacher, and John A. Pedlar of Flint.
Mich. have entered in the race, and
the other that entered by Fred Burgh
of Honolulu, and which Lieuts. George
Covell and Leo Pawlikowsh expect
to fly.
Miss Doran and Pedlar were forced
to land few miles west of Mendoza,
Calf. on a flight from Santa Monica
to San Francisco, about 500 miles,
trouble. They fixed the spark plug.
but broke the undercarriage in taking
off second time.
Pedlar Telephones for Mechanic.
Pedlar stayed with the plane, tele-
phoning to a personal friend, Glenn
Hunstook. an aviation mechanic at
Modesto, and asking him to hurry to
the scene with spare parts to repair
the carriage. Miss Doran went to
Modesto by automobile. announcing
that Pedlar would fly there and pick
her up today to continue the flight to
San Francisco. d stance IF about ITO
miles.
The Burgh monoplane, flown by
Otto Shafter and William Tremalne
on test flight from Los Angeles 10
San Diego. arrived in San Diego asst
night after two halts which caused
it to be reported lost twice. The flyers
started for San Diego Thursday. but
first were forced to halt at Santa Ana,
some 90 miles from their goal, When
an oil line gave trouble
Hats for Repairs.
The plane Of AL Henley ard Ben
nett Griffin of Oklahoma. forced down
at Amhoy. Calf, Thursday. on an at
tempted nonstop flight from Bartles-
vile. Okla, to San Francisco, reached
Glover Field. Santa Monica, Calf,
yesterday. and halted for temporary
repairs. They said their halt was
caused by broken exhaust pipe
which allowed sparks to shower over
the fuselage. mena cling the machine
with fire.
Maj. Livingston Irving of Berkeley,
Calf. was the first 10 officially
qualify for the race. He appeared
before the flight committee, presented
his license ard permits, and passed
an oral examination. The only other
formality needed is TO have his plane
approved by United States Depart
ment of Commerce inspectors, ex-
pected to arrive here today.
With the air derby scheduled to
start at noon, August IL. all planes
and pilots must he qualified the fore
part Of next week.
LlOyd's Agency Holds AlOof
Lloyds agency. which offered GER
tain odds against Col. Charles Lind
bergh in his flight TO Paris. will have
nothing to do with the Dole airplane
race to Hawaii starting August -.
IT'S too dangerous" said Charles
Fornholt, San Francisco represent
alive. in announcing the agency
would neither quote insurance rates
on the planes and flyers nor offer
odds for or against them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
MINE PRESIDENT SLAIN.
Official~1of Union Surrenders After
Tragedy.

COLUMBUS, Ohio August 5 LP).-
Differences of opinion regarding the
operation of the Lick Run Mine near
Jacksonville rested Thursday in the
killing Of c. j. Merz. president Of the
Lick Run Co. Jim McMananway,
MerZ's son-inlaw. surrendered to
county authorities. declaring he had
killed MerZ in self-defense. McManan-
way had approved the position Of union
miners and held an office in the local
union organization. Merz had been
operating the mine on a non-union
basis. The killing was regarded by
authorities as a personal affair and
not indicative Of a flareup between
workers and union adherents.
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where she could be taken to SwitZer
land by Russian friends. Later she
was taken to a sanitarium at OberSt
dorf, in the Bavarian highlands. She
was visited there by Mrs. Tatiana
Melnik, who had known the Grand
Duchess Anastasia in childhood. Mrs.
Melnik was convinced that she is the
Grand Duchess Anastasia.
Early in January of this year the
Danish court ceased paying Frau Won
Tchaikovsky's expenses. The Danish
Ambassador personally requested the
Russian Duke George of Leuchten-
berg to give shelter to the invalid.
The Duke of Leuchtenberg is dis
tant relative of Gar Nicholas III.
Although not convinced of Anastasia's
identity. he received her into his castle
at Seeon.
On February "a, 1927. Nachtaus'
gabe. a Berlin evening newspaper,
began publication of series of articles
championing the identity of Frau Won
Tchaikovsky as the Grand Duchess
Anastasia. The articles continued until
the middle of March. Two weeks later
Nachtausgabe announced that Frau
Won Tchaikovsky was an impostor--
Francisco Schanskowsky, an insane
Polish laboring woman.
Copyright, 1927. in all countries by North
American Newspaper Alliance.)
.NOte-The frst 81 Mr.. Botktns articles
iciH appear In The Star tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
LORD HEWART TO SAIL.
English Chief Justice Will Visit
United States and Canada.

LONDON, August 6 R).-Lord
Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of Eng
land, will sail today on the steam
er Empress of Scotland for a visit
to Canada and the United States.
He intends to tour Western Canada
as far as Banff and return to Toronto
about August "a to address the Cana
dian Bar Association and receive a
degree from the University of Toronto
The following week he will address
the American Bar Association at Buff
falo. After spending a few days in
the United States he will go to Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick, returning
to Montreal for the opening of the
law courts. He expects to return to
London late in September.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
FRENCH HONOR LEGION.
Special Stamp to Be Issued for
Paris Convention.

PARIS, August 6 (P).-The French
post office will issue a special series
of stamps in celebration of the Amer
lean Legion convention in Paris this
September.
The stamps will be Of two denomi-
nations, 80 confines and $50 CEN
times, the former red and the latter
blue. Each will carry an engraved
likeness of Washington and La
fayette separated by an ocean on
which the steamship Paris is sailing
away from the Statue of Liberty
with a monoplane design similar to
the Spirit of St. Louis, in which Lind
berg made his flight, overhead. Each
will bear the words. Legion Amer
icaine, Septembre, 1927"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
DIVER CLINGS TO LIFE.
Youth With Broken Neck Passes
TWentyIFourth Day.

FLORENCE. s. C.. August LP).--
w. w. Register, 19-year-old Florence
youth yesterday continued to cling to
life after suffering for "a days with a
broken neck and n shattered spinal
cord, resulting from a sha,low-water
dive in a swimming pool here.
Physicians declared Register spent
an uneventful night. but they held
out no possibility Of his recovery
The hundreds of sympathetic letters
being received by the youths mother.
Mrs. J. w. Register, indicated the
case has attracted virtually Nation.
wide interest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
GLADIOLUS SHOW CLOSES.
Prize Winning Flowers on Exhi-
bition at Final Session.

Approximately ESQ persons last
night saw the close Of the gladiolus
show held by the Takoma Horticul-
tural Club at the Takoma Library.
The flowers which won prizes Thurs
dav evening were displayed.
G. G. Thomas was the general chair
man in charge, while w. T. Simmons
was head Of the committee that man.
aged the gladiolus exhibition. Others
on the committee were l.. A. Hansen.
Mrs. r. Fl. Fairless, Mrs. E. l.. Gran
dali and r. G.. Pierce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
FISH BODIES TO MEET.
u. S. Bureau Interested in Sessions
Next Week in East.

Two conventions which the Bureau
OF Fisheries Of the Department of
Commerce is interested in will be held
in New England next week. The
American Fisheries Society will hold
its annual convention in Hartford.
Conn, beginning Monday, and
Wednesday the United States Fish AS
ISOLATION will convene at Boston for a
four-day session.
Among the features of the Fish
cries Society meeting will be a session
on trout culture at which methods of
preserving trout and combating dis
ease will be shown. The society is
composed Of fish culturists. biologists
and conservation experts. The United
States Fish Association Is made up of
persons in the fish business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
Federal Officials
Desert Capital ON
Various Missions

Washington officialdom virtually
Is depopulated today. only a hand.
full of Senators and members of
Congress being In the city.
The remaining two members of
the cabinet in the Capital last night
were Secretary Kellogg, who Is
going to Buffalo for the week end
for the dedication of the interna-
tional bridge, and Secretary VIII
bur, who is departing for the West
Coast. The Navy head will stop at
the Presidents Summer home Ell
route.
The recess of the Supreme Court
also has allowed the justices to get
away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
HAYS DENIES POLITICS.
Former G.. o. P. Leader Holds Trip
Is Only Visit to Son.

NEW YORK, August 6 P).-WilI
II. Hays, former chairman of the Re-
publican national committee, left yes
ferday afternoon on the Twentieth
Century Limited, declining to com.
ment on reports that the trip was OF
political significance.
II am going to Culver, Ind: 10
spend Sunday with my son, who is in
the Culver School camp" was all he
would saw
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VIRGINIA TROOPS
DEPART FOR CAMP
Richmond Contingent First to
| NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
! Go Tomorrow.
4necial pispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va. August 6.-The
first detachments of the 1880 ReEl-
ment. Virginia National Guard, lett
the city this morning for the annual
encampment of the Guard at the State
Rifle Range at Virginia Beach. Some
SO men will go from Richmond, ana
a there will also be similar attachments
from the 116th Regiment Orders FOR
the movement of the soldiers from
their home stations show that most OF
them will entrain tonight in order to
reach camp by Sunday night.
The soldiers are due to reach the
camp beginning tomorrow at AIN,
and arriving at intervals until late in
the evening. On arrival they will be.
gin the erection of tents and get
things in shape for the two weeks of
intensive training, beginning Monday
morning.
: 2,6OO to BE in Camp.
Adit. Gen. Sale says that the re-
ports at this time indicate that there
will be not far from 1000 men in the
camp, all of the regiments having re-
cruited up and the vacancies in COM
mands having been organized and
made ready for the trip.
Instructors have been on the field
for a week in preparation for the lee
lures, problems and all work for the
officers. Rife firing will start early
Monday and will continue every day.
save that this is suspended on Sun
DAYS. Arrangements have been made
in the camp for all sorts of entertain
ments for the men in the evenings
radios, band concerts, dances, boxing
bouts. wrestling contests. During the
stay there will be a series OF ban
games between the various companies
and the final game for brigade honorS
will be the work of the last day, at
which time the regimental field day
will be held. One of the features OF
the encampment will be the teaching
of swimming to the men from the
upper and inland sections of the
State, with access to one of the best
bathing beaches on the Atlantic coast
a quarter of mile from the camp.
Alexandrians to Depart.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va, August g.
The Alexandria Light Infantry, unit
of the Virginia National Guard, will
leave here Sunday morning at IL
o'clock for Virginia Beach. where 1t
will go into camp for two weeks with
other units of the State Guard. Forty
two members of the local company
will make the trip and are expected to
arrive at Virginia Beach at o'clock
Sunday night.
The Citizens Band will play at the
community band concert which will
be held on the lawn of the Alexandria
post office Tuesday night at O'Clock.
Roger c. Sullivan, bandleader. will
conduct.
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Journalism Professor Named.

IOWA CITY, Iowa. August 6 P).-
Appointment of Frank l.. Mott. pro-
fessor of English, as head Of the de-
partment of Journalism at the Uni
Versity of Iowa was announced yester
day by President Walter Jessup. Prof
Mott succeeds Prof. Charles Il. We'll
Ter, who died March last.
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Court Stopped Payments.

In spite Of these disappointments
Frau Won Tchaikovsky continued firm
III the belief that she would be recog'
nized as the Grand Duchess Anastasia.
Two operations improved her infected
arm and her health gained to point
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
Peaches Ripe

AT QUAINT ACRES
.ortv MILES from District. drive through
silver Spring: turn right at Sligo. Open til
D pm. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06

Copyright. 1897 in all countries by North
American Newspaper Alliance)
NOte--The first Of Mr.. BOtkin'S articles
GiH appear IN The Star tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06

discovered she was still living and he
had thrown a bundle of rags over her
TO prevent her from being carried off
with the bodies of the dead. He told
her that the cremation and burial
squad of Bolsheviks had been in
great hurry to get It's work done, be-
cause the White Russians We're adj
vancing on the city. They had not
noticed the missing grand duchess
Under the rags. He had then hastily
gathered together his mother, his
brother and sister. and, taking Anas-
tasia, started for the Rumanian
border.
The Washington times., 1927-09-23

Washington on December rs, 1890,
to Brig. Gen. Payiance Peers, Of
Revolutionary War renown, has been
discovered here by Miss Julia Peers.
among the effects OF her late father,
George Peers.
The letter Is authentic. according
to experts, and is q remarkably
legible specimen. IT reads:
Fellow Citizens and Brothers of
the Grand Lodge fof Masons) of
Pennsylvania:
have received your address
with all the feelings Of brotherly
affection mingled with those senti.
ments for the society which Il was
calculated to excite. no have been
in any degree an instrument n the
hands Of Providence to promote or.
der and union and erect upon solid
foundation the true principles Of
government Is only to have shared
with many others IN d labour. the
result Of which let as hope will
prove through all ages d sanctuary
for brothers And 4 lodge for the
virtues.
Permit me 10 reciprocate YOUR
prayers Tor my temporal happiness
and to supplicate that we may all
meet hereafter in that eternal tenn
pie whose builder Ii the Great
Architect Of the universe.
&c. WASHINGTON.''
The Washington times., 1927-09-23
TUNNEY THANKS
D.C. VE TERAINS

That Gene Tunney. even III the
excitement Of his triumph last
night. Is deeply appreciative 81 the
good wishes Of his admirers was
demonstrated today BY telegram
received from him BY the Vincent
3. Costello Post Of the American
Legion.
Yesterday Major u. L. Atkins.
assistant Engineer Commissioner and
senior vice commander of the poat
sent d telegram To Tunney wishing
him luck. Today an answer Sc
acknowledgment and appreciation
was received.
The telegram to Tunney read
This post Of the American Legion.
800 strong, wishes you the best 81
luck in your contest tonight. we
expect you 10 show Dempsey Thai
an ex-service man can still fight.
in reply Tunney said. Your verv
kind and thoughtful telegram has
been received. May I take this
occasion to express my sincere A.
probation e Gene Tunnev
The Washington times., 1927-09-23
Letter By Washington
to Masons Found

NASHVILLE, Ky, Sept pa letter written by George
The Washington times., 1927-09-23
BIRTHS

Andrew r, and Mildred Puceta, boy
George r. and Gertrude Mullen. boy
James g. and Irene Ehriatmore, girl
John r. and Bessie v, Sherbert
Pete and. Ida H. Bender, hoy.
Evcole and Omelio Cioci, boy.
Charles d. and Dorothy Rynex. boy,
Daniel and Agnes Heath, boy.
Mark and Ethel G. sweadsor. boy.
John 1. and Dorothy A. simpson,
Laurence D. ana Thslma Conway.
Heath D. and Ida Davidson. boy.
Thomas 2. and Mary Z. oConnoT,
Leroy r. and Elsie Paul boy.
Homar L. and Daisy A. woodward,
Philip. and sadie Milestone. girl
Harold W.. and Nellie a. Smith,
Harry e. and Bessie e. Robey, girl.
Clinton L. and Mary =. Scott, girl.
George =. and Lele M. Jones, girl.
Robert A. and Anna a. Ralph, girl.
Clyde s. and Florence 1. Buswef.
girl
Maurice ana Ethel Tailey, girl.
John n, and Carrie Hunter boy.
William and Zela Gray. boy.
Francis and Mabel Graham. boy.
Leslie and Thelfna Anderson. boy.
Harry and Bertha Bennett. boy.
Carl and Gladys Alexander boy.
Richard and Im0Rene Queen. boy.
James H. and Gladys Patterson, boy
James II. and Gladys Patterson, girl
Michal and Leila Proctor, girl.
James and Amanda Rueker GIRL
Fred and Martha Merritt, girl
The Washington times., 1927-09-23
Births, Marriages, Deaths
Phone Notices to Main $3.50, Obituary Desk
WILLIAM 6. COLEMAN

Funeral services for William G.
Coleman, who died Wednesday, we're
held at the funeral parlors Of S. II.
Hines Company, 1901 Fourteenth
o'clock. Interment in Rock Creek
Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1927-09-23
H0NER B. MmIARn

Funeral services for Homer B.
Willard, who died at his residence,
1913 N st. N. W.. yesterday, win be
held tomorrow at the funeral parlors
of William J.. Lee. 332 Pa. Ave. N.
w. Interment private.
The Washington times., 1927-09-23
ANNIE a. FITZGERALD

Funeral services for Annie A..
Fitzgerald. Az K ST. N. E., who
died Wednesday at her home; 70.
morrow at O'Clock at st. Aloysius
Church. Interment In Mt. Olivet
Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1927-09-23
MRS. EMANIIEI PEAcH

Funeral services for Mrs.
Emanuel Peach, who died yesterday
at her home, 1911 Allison st. N. W.;
funeral tomorrow at the late resi-
dence. Interment in Glenwood Gem.
etery.