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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-04

CORUNNA Spain, Sept. 3, R
The flying boat Whale, piloted
by Capt. F. T. Courtney, which
set out from Plymouth early this
morning landed this afternoon
in a dangerous place on the
GaIican coast near COrunna.
Help was sent to the aviatOrs
and they were brought to place
of safety and have arrived at
COrunna.
The afrmen exchanged greet
ings with the authorities, were
acclaimed by thousands of per-
sons and were served with food.
The machine was not dan1ag-
ed in its descent and all its
occupants were in good spirits.
They found conditions such
that they were not able. to
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-04
BRITISH CANCEL M. p.
PASSPORT TO INDIA

LONDON, Sept. 8 R)-At the re-
quest of the Indian government the
foreign office has cancelled the pass
port to India recently granted to
Shapurji Saklatyala, communist mem
Der of parliament for North Battersea,
London. Saklatyala is a widely known
extremist in the labor ranks. He was
a member of the independent labor
party for some time but separated
from the party because it refused to
affiliate with the third internationale.
He is active in the British communist
party.
He is parsi of Bombay and was
born of Indian parentage.
s He first came to London in 1905.
He has been a member of the house of
commons for several years.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-04
DIR. BovEE DIES

WASHINGTON Sept 3 P)-Dr. j..
Wesley Bovee, we'll known surgeon and
gynecologist, died at his home here late
today from injuries received in a re-
cent fall. DR.. BoVee was one of the
founders Of the American college of
surgeons and a member of its. board
of governors. He held membership in
many medical organizations and was
the recipient of numerous honors for
scientific accomplishments. Since 1903
he had been professor of gynecology at
George Washington university He
was born at Clayton, N. Y, in 1861.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-04
PRINCESS, PLANE, MAY BE LANDED SlFE
Entire District Will Make Holiday TOMORROW
FLIGHT FLASHES
ON AVIATORS
By The Associated Press

Ignoring steadily increasing adj
verse odds and recent heavy
casualties in their ranks, aviation
pioneers continued to drive for
ward as the week ended.
Old Glory, the Fokker mono
plane, was at Old Orchard, Me-,
today preparing for the long trial
to Rome. The two mile storm
packed beach is expected to give
a long enough runway to avert
further wait for the proper wind
to raise the great ship and IOad.
Capt. Rene FOnck, after thor
oughIy testing his new SiIkorsky
bipIane, has announced a pro-
gram of long distance and en-
duranceS flights, designated to
shatter all existing records. He
proposes first a flight to Paris
within a month"
The Royal Windsor plans to
take off from Portland, Me-, to-
day in continuation of its flight
to Windsor, Eng.
Capt. Courtney i'm his Whale
AS at OUIuAiud1 CpdAAJ WHCIG Hc
was forced to land because OF
adverse winds barring his passage
to the Azores; but there was no
hint that the project had been
abandoned.
The Columbia is at CanwelI,
Eng. waiting only favorable
weather for the hazardous west
ward passage" to America.
The Sir John CarIing is Wind
bound at Caribou, Me-, but only
temporarily.
SChlee and Brock, world nav1-
gators, are at Bunder AbDas,
Persia, tIlnhing up for an early
start today for the next hop on
their long tour.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-04
FRENCH AVIATOR WILL ATTEMPT
N. Y. TO PARIS HOP IN Is HOURS

mitchell FIELD, N. ",
R-Capt. Rene Fonck, French
ace, will attempt a New York
to Paris flight in 20 hours
some time within the month,
he announced late today after
making a second test of his new
SikOrSky Sesqui biplane. The
giant plane, carrying eleven
passengers, among whom were
newspaper men, remained alOft
an hour and ten minutes today.
On landing FOnck pronounced its
performance satisfactory.
The French flier regards the
transatlantic flight as merely
the completion of the expert
ment begun last summer when
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-04
WINDSOR
is IN PORTLAND
WAITS WEATHER

PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. (P-
The monoplane Royal Windsor in
which G. A. Duke" Schiller and
Phil Wood hoped to make nom
stop flight from Windsor, Ont, to
Windsor, Eng, was safely stored to-
night in Portland airport after MAX
ing the $50 mile flight in two hours
and quarter from st. Gregoire, Que.
The aviators said they had planned
to land here when they took off this
afternoon, having received favorable
reports on weather conditions here,
and would continue their flight to-
morrow or at the earliest Oppor-
tunity.
Conditions here were not what they
had expected, however. They soon
found their wheels sinking into the
soft ground of the rain soaked field,
and an attempted flight showed they
would be unable to take to the air
again with their $500 pound cargo
which includes 400 gallons of gasoline
Before the plane came to stop she
cruiSed through wet mud, which
was splashed even to the top Of
her wings.
Then they learned for the first
time about the runway furnished by
several miles of hard beach at Old
Orchard and decided to make that
place their point of departure to-
morrow. After covering the engine
and placing two watchmen to guard
the plane, they came to Portland to
spend the night.
Tomorrow they will unload most
of their cargo, fly to Old Orchard,
reload and start from there if
weather conditions along the coast
are reported good. The fog was
drifting in again tonight.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-04
= . = =
Stage OF Bygone Days
Present As Curtain
Falls On Miss Bingham

* NEW YORK, Sept. R-
* Actors and actresses who played
y their parts for bygone genera
* ton filled "the little church
y. around the corner" today as the
* curtain fell on the last act in the
:* career of Amelia Bingham, act
y resS and producer who died at her
y home here last Thursday.
* In the crowd of a thousand
* men and women at the services
y we're many who had appeared in
y productions starring Mrs. Bing-
* ham and hundreds of theatre
y goers who remembered her as
* one of the greatest stars of the,
* American stage a quarter of a
y. century ago.
y
X 4 Il y e y X + * Il * * * y
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-04

his SikOrsky plane crashed and
burned, taking the lives of two
of its crew. FOnck indicated
that he was more interested in
the establishment of new worlds
duration and distance records.
AS soon as practicable after
arriving in Paris, Fonck said, he
intends to make a flight of 60
hours duration and nonstop
trip of 5000 miles, both of which
would establish new records. No
destination for the 5000 mile
flight from Paris has been de-
termined, he said.
1t was indicated today that
Henri Bertau, French mechanic,
would be the fourth man on the
transatlantic venture.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-04
Iowa Women Would
Nominate Mrs. Wilson
For Vice President

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Sept. 3, QP)-
An effort to obtain the nomination
of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson for the
vice presidency will be made by
Democratic Iowa women, Mrs. w. E..
Maulsby, vice chairman, announced
today, following the close Of the
women's democratic headquarters at
the Iowa state fair.
The Democratic women arrived at
no decision on presidential can
"Nrs. Wilson would grace the Oh
fice," Mrs. Maulsby said, "and
would fill it capably. In many ways
we feel that it would be most fit
ting and appropriate that the Of
flee should be offered to her."
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-04

GENEVA, N. Y, Sept. 3 [R-One
man was badly injured and another
was badly injured and another was
arre&::.4;sss. >SSe-ight when police broke up
a small riot during Ku Klux Klan
parade.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-04
Sealing Master Sums Up
Facts and Decides Hope
Remains for Three.
CONTINUE HUNT
No Additional Information
Has Been Received Of
Missing Airplane.

ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 3 Up
The English trans Atlantic plane
ST. Raphael may have landed
safely on the Labrador coast, Cap
tain Agrahab Kean, commodore Of
the New FOundIand sealing fleet,
said today after studying a re-
port that the plane had been
sighted by the British tanker
Josiah Macy 900 miles off the
Irish coast Wednesday night.
Captain Kean, who has been en-
gagged in sealing and fishing Oper-
atiOns off the Labrador coast for
so years, said that if the plane
continued on it's course as far as
Labrador it would first have sight
ed some vessels of the New
foundIand cod fishing fleet now
operating there in fine weather.
The fiiers would see settlers cot
tages dotted along the coast singIy
or in groups.
ST. JOHNS, N. FL Sept. 3 tH9
Search for the missing airpIane
st. Raphael with its titled woman
passenger and two pilots will be
continued over the weekend,
officials announced tonight, al
though no clue to the fate Of
the trans Atlantic fliers had been
picked up.
Coast radio stations have been
ordered to, be on the alert and
maintain contact with ships at
sea to pick up any report that
might indicate the outcome Of
the attempt Of Captain Leslie
Hamilton, 1t. Colonel #. #.
Minchin and Princess LOwenstein-
Wertheim to fly from England TO
ottawa, Ont. They took off early
Wednesday.
Efforts today to trace rumOrs
that the plane had been sighted
off the coast Of Labrador were
unavailing.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-04

Partly cloudy Sunday
and probably Monday
Not much change in
temperature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
WALSH URGES PROBE
OF CORPORATIONS
Montana Senator Would Learn
Methods of Financing Utilities
and Capitalization Growth.

Senator Walsh. Democrat. Montana,
will press today for consideration of a
resolution directing a special Senate
committee of five to investigate meth
DDS of financing public utility, cleo
trio and gas corporations. The in
quiry would be directed mainly into
the growth of pitaliZatiOn' OF such
compa nies: the corporations holding
their stocks; ways in which these
stocks are issued, and the price re-
ceived for them.
The committee would be directed to
determine 1.-The extent to which adj
ditions OF extensions to the property
of the operating companies have been
made. and the value or detriment to
the public holding companies owning
the stock or otherwise controlling such
operating companies
In line with a recent report of the
Federal Trade Commission on it's in
vestigation of the holdings of the Gen
eral Electric Co.. in which the COM
mission suggested a need for legisla-
ton governing interstate transfer of
power. the committee would be in
structed to make and recommend
measures for the correction of "any
abuses that may exist
Hearings would be held during the
congressional recess at whatever
places the committee might consider
necessary. No provision was made as
to the time when it would report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
GRAVE is GUARDED
FROM DYNAMITERS
Citizens Rise to Protect Cemetery
Against Which They Once
Made Militant Protest.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
| CHICAGO, February 26.-Armed
citizens who recently patrolled nearby
| Worth township to prevent burial IN
| the rural community. again have gone
on duty, but now to protect the lone
grave against which they FIRST rose In
militant protest.
Scarcely had a body been lowered
into the earth under the protection of
court order yesterday when there
came reports of a plot to dynamite the
grave, and in an equally short time q
group of residents mustered them.
selves in as guards and warned their
neighbors that bullets would uphold
the law.
I'VE want to see that nothing un.
lawful lis DONE" said William Roulo,
their leader. I'VE shall carry on our
fight in the courts"
The guards remained on duty, but
ii appeared today that Alsip folk were
agreed with Roulo on the nature Of
further moves In their fight to prevent
establishment of a cemetery. which O
plot of land becomes, by Illinois law,
with the burial of one body.
Pending proposed incorporation Of
the community as q village in which a
burial ground would be prohibited by
law. the villagers mounted guard and
turned back one funeral arranged by
the corporation which purchased a.
township tract to establish a cemetery.
The corporation. however, obtained in
junction and yesterday proceeded with
the burial Of James Nimmer, a negro,
while an armed escort and the protest.
ing citizens looked on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
LEGION POST TO DANCE.
Series of Monthly Entertainment
Begins This Evening.

Stuart Welcott Post, the American
Legion, Department OF the District OF
Columbia. will hold the first OF its
series OF monthly dances at rankin
Square Hotel this evening from 9 10
IL o'clock. The series OF dances will
be informal.
Junior Vice comdr. J. o. G. Rob
erts, chairman of the entertainment
committee. assisted by the following
members of his committee. have com
pieted arrangements for these dances
John r. Dover. Floyd ". Woolley
James o. Reid. n. j. Beausoleil. Floyd
6. Caskey, Frank Pooh. Allen NJ.
Ergood, George r.. Bruce, Henry r
Fones, Charles J. Catanach, August
f. Werner, Frederick w. Speaker
Roy S. Hayes. Robert ID. Trussell
Edwin /. kincheloe, Dennis Policy
Roscoe G. Lamb, r. p. McCandlish
Casper Cook, Paul X. Carr. Robey {.
Best, Judson G. Dale. Samuel j.
Mountz. George Fl. Davis. Fred w
Coil and Charles l.. Curtiss.
Tickets for this dance may be mad
from members of the committee or
may be purchased at the hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26

ALBANY, ~ Y. February IS F).--
Gov. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia,
who came to Albany with group OF
Richmond officials for a conference
with Gov. Smith, denied that there
was any political purpose in his visit.
Asked whether his two newspapers
had had anything to say editorially
concerning the prospects Of the New
York governor as presidential candi
date, Gov. Byrd replied:
NO The convention is year and
a half off. and we don't generally be
gin to talk about such matters until
the first of the convention year"
Well, what reaction has the Smith
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
Virginia Governor on Albany Trip
Not Thinking of 1928, He Says

candidacy caused in Virginia." he was
asked.
None
To an inquiry as to whether Vir-
ginia would likely put forth a favorite
son at the next Democratic national
convention the Virginia governor also
replied in the negative, but one of the
Richmond officials who accompanied
him interjected:
Perhaps you are talking to him
now"
The Virginia delegation came to
Albany to ask Gov. Smith to lend his
/ support TO proposed legislation, now
before the New York Legislature, to
i liberalize the law governing invest
ments by New York savings banks In
municipal bonds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
W0MAN'S CAUSE GAINS.
French Political Leaders Atten d
Suffrage Mass Meeting.

PARIS, February rs R.-The
steady advance the cause Of woman
suffrage is making in France was
shown strikingly at a crowded meet
ing here last night organized by the
Union for the Womans Vote. It was
presided over by Maurice Hervey, one
of the leaders Of the ultra. Conserva
tive section Of the French Senate, who
was supportd by an imposing array of
Deputies and Senators.
A feature of the proceedings was a
speech by Senator Francis Saint -Maur.
announcing his conversion to the
cause. After what women had done
during the war, he said, no one could
pretend they did not have the quail
ties necessary to take an active inter
est in the welfare of the nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Partly CLOUDY
and colder tonight: minimum tenn
perature % degrees; tomorrow fair.
AIaryland-Partly cloudy and coidei
tonight: tomorrow fair and colder.
Virginia-Partly cloudy tonight
colder in north portion; tomorrow
partly cloudy.
West Virginia cloudy to
night. tomorrow increasing cloudiness
not much change in temperature.
Record for 81 Hours.
Thermometers pm. 81; pm.
as; Il midnight, ii: am, "a; am.
Sc: noon, 45.
Barometer pm. 29.73: pm.
1852: II midnight. 29.1O; am, 23.i3
s am. 29.74: noon. 29.14:
Highest temperature, 90, occurred
at pm. yesterday.
Lowest temperature. 81, occurred
at am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, SO; lowest. 3S.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States coast
and Geodetic Survey.)
Today-Low tide, s:26 am. and
1925 nm: high tide, 2:45 am. and
3:1s pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 1926 am
and 1875 pm; high tide. 347 am
and ALB pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose CAT am; sun
sets sos pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 6;4o am;
sun sets, 5:06 pm.
Moon rises 2:3S am; sets l2:2l pm
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Temperature and condition of the
water at Great Falls at a.m.-Tem'
perature, 80: condition. very muddy.
Weather I'm Various Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
SEARCH OF FIRE RUINS
REVEALS MAN SLAIN
Fracture of Skull Explains His
Failure to Leave Bed as
Flames Raced Home.
Bx the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
HENDERSON. n. c.. February 20
Hiram Justice, 81, is believed to have
been killed by unidentified persons
who fired his house and burned the
body late last night in Dana, miles
from here.
Persons attracted by the blaze
crowded around the house in time to
see the man lying in bed, apparently
making no move to escape the flames.
When the charred body was examined.
after the fire had ell but consumed
the house, the skull was found to have
been fractured.
Friends Of Justice declared that
another of his houses had burned in
O. mysterious manner some time ago.
but could remember no enemies that
Justice had. Police today were re-
ceiving details Of the tragedy and an
investigation was launched. T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
The Jacket Dress-IIustrated Beloy

SLEEVELESS JACKET
DRESS-The sleeveless
jacket is a youthfully
smart note In this WOOL
embroidered navy blue
dress, $3.50.
Others, $3.50 to $3.50
Junior Misses Section
Fourth floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
FUGITIVE is CAUGHT.
Lambath, Who Fled Occoquan in
1924, Captured.

Augustus Jennings Lambath, who
escaped from the worlhouse at
OccoGuan two years ago last Labor
day. was recaptured yesterday by
Detectives Davis and Aliigood of the
automobile squad.
The capture was matter of luck.
Davis and Alligood were at Twenty
third and California streets on other
business yesterday afternoon when
they saw a young man come out of a
house and start running. 1t looked
suspicious and they overlook him.
Lambath had visited the house. he
told the detectives after admitting his
identity. because he had been told that
woman lived there from whom he
could borrow money by telling q
pitiable story. He didn't get the loan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
BOYS HELD IN ROBBERIES.
Six Colored Youths Accused Of
Burglaries in Georgetown.

Six colored boys are under arrest
in connection with robberias in stores
and vacant houses in Georgetown the
past few weeks. They were arrested
ny Detective Dennis J. Murphy OF the
seventh precinct and Policeman NJ.
Caussin of the fourth precinct.
Four of them, charged with house.
breaking, registered as Cecil Jackson
IL years; John Hay Isaacs, IL years
Frederick Tillman. II years. and Ray.
mond Bell. IL years. Two others
held for investigation, were booked as
Emanuel Chambers, Is. and Elmer
Murray. 10 years old.
The boys were locked up at the
House of Detention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
THOUSANDS HELD
UNFIT FOR COLLEGE
Pressure b. Parents Adds to
Problem. Declares Prince
ton Dean.

BY the Associated Press.
\E,W YORK. February 26.-Thou
sands Of men in the colleges have nc
place there. in the opinion OF Dean
Christian Gauss of Princeton IN
versity. He gave his views TO the
New Norl; Evening Post today.
THE college problem is phase %
the problem of the whole country. ne
said. III il is acute in the colleges IL
is because Of the emphasis-tne over
empha Sis--on the colleges tooeE.
"'rhere are thousands of men III the
colleges who have no place there, and
MANY of them know it. But they are
there because OF the belief OF their
parents that it is social necessity
Between Two Pressures.
THAT is a big part of the problem
Of the college student today. Lhese
men are between two pressures, the
pressure OF their parents ana the
pressure of The college which is trying
to mould them 10 form 1t is impossi-
BILE for them to fit. Add to that
pressure as much more Of the chaos
and unrest of modern life as cannot
be kept out of the universities. ana IL
is evident that your college man Will
be nervously strained, harassed
type"
Novels of the socalled sophisticated
type and modern Broadway plays
which college students read. are full
of the modern unrest Dean Gauss
says.
Il read them myself" he says.
but I'm case hardened. They can
hurt me. But to q man suddenly re-
leased from prep school. where every
thing is done for him, into the compar'
alive freedom of college life. sucn
books are bound to be unbalanclng
They are full of the modern unrest
That's the thing that has caused col
lego suicides.
Disputes Overwork Theory.
THE talk about overwork is in
correct. College men aren't killed by
hard work. A man who comes to col
!ege because he wants to be. say a
chemist, will work night and day to
be one. and never feel the strain. IT,
the men who have no right in college
who perhaps are pushed into col
lege by their parents and are snatched
up in the present day unrest. who Kill
themselves"
Dean Gauss believes the remedy is
return to the old type of residential
college" He says Princeton's recent
restriction on automobiles is move
toward academic seclusion. he also
says that athletic competition Is help
full in giving the undergraduate the
feeling that he is not just a pawn
in the modern unheaval."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26

SIDE TIE JACKIE T
DRESS-Rose-beise fat
crepe dress with a clever
side-tie jacket is q favorite
with the d c butantes,
$3.50.
Others, $3.50 to $3.50
Misses Dress Section
Third floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
BOY INDICTED AS SLAYER,
Accused Of Killing Woman and
Her 5-Year-Old Son.

ASHTABULA. Ohio, February &c
R).--Two first-degree murder indict.
ments were returned by a special
grand jury yesterday against Floyd
Hewitt, 16. confessed slayer of Mrs
Frederick Brown, 81, and her five.
year-old son, Frederick, jr., of Con
neaut.
About IA witnesses were examined
Mrs. Brown and her son were found
slain with a base ball bat in their
home two weeks ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
JEWELER BATTLES THUG.
Bandit Shoots Store Owner and
Steals Gems,

CINCINNATI, Ohio. February &c
P>.-Jacob H. Reinstatler. So. jeweler,
was beaten on the mead with re-
vOlver and then shot in the neck dur
ing q struggle with q robber who held
up his store yesterday.
After shooting the jeweler the rob
Der fed with a tray of diamond rings
valued at $1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26

SWEATER JACK E T
DRESS-Sleeveless wool
crepe one-piece dress has
q matching silk and wool
sweater, bound with wool
crepe. SIS.
Others to $3.50
Sportswear Section. Third floor.