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Evening star., 1928-03-28
PACKARD ESTATE
SET AT S4,O1O,ODO
Widow Gets Bulk of Property.
Many BequeSts Are Made
in Will.

JAMESTOWN. N, Y, March "a
James Ward Packard, former president
of the Packard Motor Co, who died in
Cleveland several weeks ago, left an
estate Of more than $4,000 900 accord
ing to the will filed in Surrogate s
Court here
The estate is estimated at approx!-
matcly S150,000 real property and ap-
proximately $4,000 900 personal prop
ertv.
Among specific bequcsts arc gifts to
his widow. Elizabeth Gillmer Packard,
Of the residence at Lakewood. N. Y,
100000 I'm cash. stock In the General
Electric Co. iewelrv. household and per-
sonal effects. motor cars boats and use
Of the property al Warren. Ohio. where
Mir Packard maintained Winter
home.
Three sisters. Carlotta Packard of
New York. Alaska Packard Davidson
Of Accotink, Va, and Olive Packard
Gardner of Cleveland. receive $4,000
each. Henry Packard White of Detroit,
a nephew, also receives $4,000,
Smaller bequcsts arc made to two
godSonS in France, war babies" costs
OF whose education was assumed by Mr..
Packard household and personal Scrv-
ants and employees,
Endowment funds Of $4,000 each so
To the Warren. Ohio. Library Association
and the Warren. Ohio, City Hospital
Association and $4,000 to Lehigh Uni
verSity.
A trust fund of $4,000 in memory
of Mr. Packards mother Is given to
the Christ Episcopal Church of Warren,
Ohio. The motor manufacturers col
If uta n Cleveland
Museum of Art
The remainder of the estate is trans
fcrred in trust 10 the Union Trust Co.
Of Cleveland Warren Packard of De-
troit and Marion H. Fisher of James
town Mrs. Packard is to receive the
income
After Mrs Packard's death the
residuary estate will pass one-third each
to Warren Packard of Detroit. Lehigh
University and the Seamens Church
Institute Of New York.
Evening star., 1928-03-28
OF CHINA
BY AMERICA is SEEN
DR.. Sun.Yat-Sen Alarmed at In
creasing Population in
This Country.

AI.--Translations Of the
Three Peoples Principles" Of DR. sun
Yat-Sen. the Bible" Of the Nationals
movement, have only recently opened
up that important book for English
readers.
Among the most startling theses adj
vanced by the late founder OF the
Kuomintang, or Chinese Nationalist
party. Is that a hundred years hence
the population OF the United states
will be two and a half times that OF
China and America will be in a posi-
ton to absorb the Chinese as the Chi
nese for thousands of years have alb
sorbed other races,
when I compare the rate OF In
crease of each nation with the numbers
in China ! am horror stricken said
DR.. Sun. America. which a century
ago had only a population of 100000,
now has l00,000,000 In another hun
dred years. according to the present
rate. there will be 1000, 600 Ameri-
cans"
Meanwhile. Or Sun argued, the
population of China, which has re-
manned stationary at 400000.000 for
200 years. would make no gain. Sup
posing America conquered China IN the
course Of a century" he continued
there would be only 4 Chinese to 10
Americans and the Chinese would have
accepted their civilization.
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following some little delay in getting the
machine fueled and warmed up for the
hop. which they hope will keep them
in the air until some time after noon
Friday
The flyers we're confident the Stin-
-Detroiter monoplane Onder power
Of its 220 Wright whrlwind motor
would keep them In the air for more
than SIS hours They expect To cruise
up and down the Florida East Coast
In order to achieve q recognized new
mark, H. will be necessary for the two
pilots To remain in the air at least onc
hour longer than the previous record.
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Policeman Tobin Refuses Liberty on Bail
While Companion Is Held in Bribe Case

when told of their purpose. Tobin
is said to have declared that he was
innocent and wasn't particularly anX-
iois to get out anyway In any case
he said he would not leave the jail
while Edwards Is still locked up.
Formal charges were made out
against Tobin yesterday by Assistant
United States Attorney Ralph Given
IN Police Court. He is charged with
violation of section 1874 of the District
Of Columbia code. This section covers
the taking Of bribc by a United
States witness for the purpose Of
changing or withholding testimony. He
will be arraigned in Police Court Tues
day. At that time Morris Kohen al
legged bootlegger. who Is said to have
brlbed Tobin. will be tried on liquor
charge
Evening star., 1928-03-28

Because no arrangements had been
made to get his companion out of jail,
Policeman Paul Tobin of tho four
teenth precinct who is being held on
charge Of cxtortion last night re-
fused to leave his cell when his friends
attempted to bail him out Tobin was
arrested Monday night in company
with Frank Lyle Edwards. former
prohibition informer by Lieuts d
McQuadc and H. H. Groves night IN
spectors.
Yesterday a group OF Tobin's friends
In the Police Department prevailed
upon a bondsman to 60 bond for him.
No action was taken in Edwards be-
half The $4,000 bond was signed and
the hondsman and friends Of Tobin
drove down to tho Jail expecting TO
bring him back with them,
Evening star., 1928-03-28
BOY FORCED DOWN
|NRECORD FLIGHT
81. Paul Aviator's Third At
tempt to Set Mark Ends
After IL Hours.
Rx the Assncinted Pre.s

By the Associnted Prose
ST PAUL. MINI March 28-Genn
Shank, St Paul aviator. ended his third
unsuccessful attempt 10 establish a new
world endurance flight record here at
1924 I'm. today. when a plugged gas Jet
forced him down after IL hours and
10 minutes in the air He took of at
TIA O'Clock last night
Shank said he had difficulty in keep
ing awake.
The cold weather made me very
sleepy" he said
A broken gas feed line ended Shank's
first effort to establish a new endurance
record after he had been In the air
1919 hours Another attempt failed
when oil and gasoline flooded hia
engine.
Evening star., 1928-03-28

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layer felt mattress, in any
size YOU wish.
Evening star., 1928-03-28
SEEKS STANDARD CAN.
French Minister Would Evolve One
Type of Container for sardines.

Correspondence ot the Associated Prsss.
PAR1S.--ToO many kinds Of bottle
and sardlne cans are compllcating lifc
and the cost Of living Maurice Bo-
ianowski. minister OF commerce. is
furtherinc efforts to trim down the
number hoping Standardization will
lover costs considerably
There ere 50 varieties OF liter bottle
and 40 of varying capacity. which. 1t e.
agreed, can he reduced IN fraction nf
that number. Sardines now come IN
u sizes Of boxes. Everybody azrce-
that's too many.
Evening star., 1928-03-28
Ranger Candida tes.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.
HOUSTON. TeX.--A Texas ranger
may BE- the sergeant A. arms at the
Democratic national convention here in
June. Two captains Of rangerS-Tom
Hickman and Bill Stcrling-are adj
vanced by influential Texas Democrats
for the position. Both are 6-footers.
Evening star., 1928-03-28
HALDEMAN HOPS OFF.
Takes or With Stins0n In Hope of
Breaking Record.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla. March % lip
Capt. George Haldeman and Eddie
Stinson took off from the beach run
way here at 1885 o'clock eastern stand
ard time) this morning in an effort to
better the worlds endurance Night
record
The takc-of was without incident
Evening star., 1928-03-28
FIREMAN TOO PROMPT.
Starts Blaze to Earn His Way Into
Department..

PARIS.-A fireman who started fires
50 he could play hero and put them
out has been sent to prison for seven
years.
Louis Thibault wanted to be a cor
poral in the Plaisir fire brigade, and
he knew the only way to win promotion
was by distinguished service. His hero
ism wasn't very effective, for the two
barns he set aflre burned down. But
he was on the scene so promptly that
angry farmers suspected him, and he
confessed.
Evening star., 1928-03-28

In expectation Of increased travel.
railway lines between Riga and Indra.
the Soviet Russian frontier, are to o.
cfrpnutbcOpd
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Sports Are Binding Links for Rhodes Men Abroad

who Guido their models. Upon our re-
| turn from one of the vacations my
roommate asked:
Have you heard Jim? I never heard
such an awful accent in my life. It's
not American, and 1t can't, be Eng
fish. for even they can't understand
MIN. He's perfectly unintelligible.
1t was worse. Jim was linguistic
curiosity to English and Americans alike
and a considerable discredit to the lat
ter. There are more who fail miser-
ably while on the other hand there are
Americans who learn to speak it quite
creditaply.
I ran one day into a chap whose
scholarship had been very high at home
in fact, it was practically his only
qualification for the scholarship. He
should not have been chosen as Rhodes
scholar. After short. incoherent talk
he told me he must rush off, for he was
very busy plotting the notes and pitch
of all the bells in Oxford. to what pur-
pose none shall ever know.
T REALLY bc,ieve that most Ameri-
cans are unhappy at Oxford Af:ei
the first glow of poetry. such as I ex-
periencsd down by the banks of the
Cherwell in the beautiful days of early
Fall, there sets in the damp, foggy
disagreeably cold Winter, with scarce
glimpse of the sun. Physically oxford
becomes most uncomfortable place in
which TO live. The college bedrooms
end living rooms are cold, the streets
are cold; 1t is one perpetual shivering
until Spring.
Rather surprise is to come from
the luxurious american universities,
where all modern science and huge for
tunes have built every possible facility
tor physical comfort In study. Take
this American student and put him IN
a dark. ill-lit room. where he must go
down three flights of stairs and across
an open court under a naked sky. in
nothing but his bathrobe and slippers
to teke his t,lp in the morning. He will
not be long in drawing his comparisons
between modern universities of twen-
tieth centur" appointments such as he
has Just left and an Old World uni
versity. still medieval In many respects.
Nor is the cooking something which
would tend to raise his Tagging spirits.
Then egain-by all means again
there is the climate. One must admit
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the problem of maintaining an even
keel in the air. had acquired an aerial
consciousness" as an expert swimmer
keeps his head amidst conflicting cur
rents.
Riding a glider. they lay fiat and
motionless. managing the controls with
skilled hands. When something went
amlss. they were not caught unpre-
pared Each circumstance. possibility
and eXigency had been thought out be-
forehand.
In action. they might have been called
acrcbats and contortionlsts. "A specta-
accident, thus:
The glider wavered, stopped and
plunged downward. AS she struck the
ground round ball of hands, arms and
legs rolled along the sand. The ball I'M
wound itself and Orvile Wright. arising,
put handkerchief to his scratched facs
and walked back to appraise the dam
age Once the glider turned turtle, ana
on numerous occasions 1t darted down.
ward when 1t was supposed to soar aloft.
Whatever the occasion. you could look
for one thing. A round ball would un-
roll itself. and Orville Wright would
stand up. scratched and bruised, but al
ways calm. d1gnlfied and Unconditional"
A. w. Drinkwater, Weather Bureau
representative at Manteo, Roanoke Is
land. tells of the time he and confrere
hid in nearby marshes and observed the
brothers making glider flights. That was
some months before the power flight.
This is the same Mr. Drinkwater who.
in 1903. broadcast the winged language
of aviation to On unbelieving world. On
the telegraph line ordinarily used for
transmitting weather intelligence along
the North Carolina and Virginia coast
Drinkwater pounded out the news of
actual flight
When newspaper men f1ocked to Kill
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Israel Pcrry's sloop was badly rugged
| OUTFIT, even Though it was his home.
When the young aeronaut finally ar
rived at the wild Kitty Hawk beach he
was famished and worn, not having
eaten for "a hours The pc5tmistresS
herself prepared Wiibur's mesl. and he
ate with an appetite that characteriZes
cirmen.
A few Gays later the schooner Lou
, Willis lanasd shipment Of books and
general baggage. That was In August.
1900. 1t was three weeks before OrVille
arrived. The brothers struck bargain
for quarters and board at the Tate
House for 81 week.
We're on a vacation" Wilbur said.
land want to carry On some experiments
in kite flying"
They had brought along strips of osh.
pine and spruce. These were tested
and measured, ard. with their fitness
proved, the brothers built them into a
frame. kite, designed to fly with a
man on board. They unfolded bolts OF
cloth on the Tate porch, cut them into
suitable lengths, and asked for the use
Of the family sewing machine. No, they
didn't need assistance. And the post
mistress saw that they were as adept at
| handling Elias Howe's invention as thcy
were in flying kites.
The inquisitive Capt. Tate could
hardly keep back the tide Of questions
that ebbed through his mind.
do you think you can make ma
chine that will fiy?" ne asked.
HIM responded Wilbur. looking
from his work. and picking up cigar
box lid :Ill throw this into the air. -
he said. going through the motion. las
| long as that lid has momentum, it flies.
r;r t11N ~
our machine, 1t. too, will f1v." Con-
,incing proof. indeed. Capt. Tate began
to be believer.
The spirit of aviation worked itself
into the veins of Capt. Tate. He was
missionary of the new faith long be-
| fore his neighbors would take credence
| in it. He believes TO this day that he
was the first man in North Carolina
| to find merit In the dream of flight.
X X * X
T ATE in September the Wrights
~ moved to Kill Devil Hills. about
miles from Kitty Hawk. Erecting
a tent on the sand, they lived. slept
and cooked in the open. Here they
made tests with a glider that was OPP
Grated from the ground by means of
strings. The Contraption was wrecked
and repaired, each time with a lesson
| learned.
The experimenters returned to Day.
| ton before Winter closed in. but came
to Kitty Hawk for another vacation
in August 1901. They brought along
g. glider. which was assembled on the
beach and tried out on Kill Devil
| Hills
Those first gliders were not bowling
| successes. Sailing down hill. they
we're hard to control. They careened.
| dipped and wabhled. All this inter-
spersed with discussions and friendly
| arguments between the brothers
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Something vital was wrong. Their
specifications for construction followed
closely the tables laid down by Lilien-
thai and approved by Langley. In
stead Of the gli6er soaring at an angle
of 3 degrees. in wind blowing II
miles an hour. it tipped toward earth
in q dangerous course. and could be
kept aloft only by adjusting the eleva-
ton rudder at an extreme angle.
When the Wrights returned to Day.
ton. after their 1901 vacation. they
frowned at the bitter outlook of avia-
ton.
Nobody" said Wilbur, will fly for
thousand years"
Two possibilities presented them
selves. Either the theory and practice
Of mathematics were wrong. or human
fight was impossible. There was as
as in the other
Wilbur Wright stated his difficulty
before the Western Society of Engineers
in September. 1901:
IF take piece of paper and. after
placing 1t parallel with the ground,
quietly let 1t fall, 1t will not settle
paper ought to do, but it insists on
contravening every recognized rule of
decorun. turning over and darting
hither and thither in the most cratic
manner, much after the style of an
unframed horse. Yet this is the style
of steed that man must learn to man
age. Now, there are two ways Of
learning how to ride fractions horse
One is to get on him and learn By
practice how. each motion and trick
may be met: the other is to sit on a
fence and watch the beast a while
and then retire to the house and at
leisure figure out the best way Of over
coming his jumps and kicks. The lat
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we still have the roller on which the
plane slid down the track"
Capt. Daniels emincnce. however,
arises out of the fact that he was
Americas first airplane casualty. While
he was holding to one CT the struts of
The Wright plane gust of wind caught
the wings and yanked Daniels of his
feet. Tangled in the wire bracings.
the man and the plane went sailing
down the dune slope headed for the
open ocean. Before the gust was spent
the accident victim was scratched and
bruised and the plane wrecked.
But it's all right" Wilbur said, feel
ing the injured Daniels. mot rib
broken"
John Daniels was frightened out of
his wits Pacing the solid deck of his
good ship, the Edenton Ferry, he MAIN
tains: Never again! No more air.
plane rides for me-"
The brothers were excited the morn
ing they made their successful hop"
Capt Daniels said.
The engine was started to warm her
up. but she couldn't make off because
she was tied to the track. According to
the laws of flip the coin it was Or
ville's turn. He lay in the machine
flat on his stomach. Meantime, follow
best to cheer Orville. We shouted and
clapped our hands-but really we
couldn't get up much enthusiasm
With the anchor released and Wilou.
running alongside for the first 40 feet,
Orville gave his ship the gun Coast
Guardsman snapped a picture as the
machine lifted off the track. the only
photograph taken of that memorable
sight. The ship was about two feet off
the ground.
27-mile wind blew against the
plane as it sped down the track. The
front rudder was balanced too near the
turn itself. At times the machine would
rise to about 10 feet and Just ss sud-
denly aim toward the ground.
The 12-second flight ended 120 feet
from the point of origin. The machins
few 10 feet a second against a wind
blowing IS feet per second.
NOV hop across Currituck Sound
by plane or ferry, for there is no
bridge, and meander up the broad sand
road to the village of Coinjock Here
live Capt. William j. Tate and Mrs
Tate. former postmistress of Kitty
Hawk. Mrs Tate tells of the letter she
received from Wilbur Wright asking
for description of the adjacent beach
Soon Wilbur appeared on the docks
at Elizabeth City. inquiring about the
best way to go to Kitty Hawk No roads
then. The mouth of the PasquotanlS
River opens into Albemarle Sound ard
Currituck Sound. Where these two Join
is the metropolis of Kitty Hawk
Wilburs journey on sailing slooD
from Elizabeth City to Kitty Hawk is
still an argument in favor of air travel.
The 35-mile cruise took 36 hours. TIE
modern airplane can make it in Is min
uteS
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ter system is safer, but the former
turns out the larger proportion of good
riders.
1T is very much the same In learning
how to ride flying machine; If you
are looking for perfect safety. you will
do we'll to sit on a fence and watch
the birds; but If you really wish to
learn. you must mount machine and
become acquainted with its tricks by
actual trial.
In the cold light of logic, rhetoric
and science. this piece of exposition
has no equal. Examination of this and
other utterances will bring out that. in
his reasoning, insight and power of
analysis. Wilbur Wright had transcend
ed platitude and banality. and was hob
nobbing with the spirits who shape
human progress. Wilbur Wright was
not only co-founder of aviation he was
its Huxley. its principal commentator,
its articulate mouthpiece.
Drift, pressure. wind resistance, CAM
bers, figures-these phenomena OBJ
sessed the brothers minds on their re-
turn to Dayton. Even mathematics
had failed them.
I'VE saw" said Wilbur. that the CAL
culations upon which flying machines
had been based were unreliable and
that all were simply cropping in the
dark After two years of experimenting
we cast all existing scientific data aside
and decided to rely upon our own in
vestigations."
Then they actually laid the ground
work and superstructure of aeronau-
tics. They constructed a wind tunnel
in their Dayton bicycle shop. and by
the Fall of 1902 had tables of their
own
In September and October. 1902. they
made nearly 1000 flights from Kill
Devil Hills. Plainly. they had solved
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what isolated as persons in a foreign
country.
The American Club met officially
every Saturday night in George street
went to the first meeting. 1t was just like
being home at college. There was the
same talk, the same gossip. the same
congs, the same rehearsal of foot ball
stars and scores. I left early in amused
disgust. After all. our primary aim
in being students there In England was
to associate with Englishmen, to ret
their point of view, learn their habits
OF thought. to see how they live an|
capabilities and limitations.
All this was of far greater value to
us than any further smattering OF
books which we might pick up at home
or anywhere else. But the Rhodes
scholar often is not achieving this end
Indeed. he is one of the paradoXes OF
education. To see him in oxford is
not to mistake the American in ac-
ton, speech or dress. Everything about
him smacks of Stars and Stripes way
ing violently over the II. S. A.
Alas for this fragrant Ameri?anism
when he returns home to us! Behold
the inevitable walking stick with yell
low gloves, slight suspicion of mus
corners of handkerchief peeping from
vest pocket to match. the most obvious
Engli5h cut of his clothes. my! how
the English tailor hates to cut the waist
line of trousers straight as American
belt and custom dictate.j And then.
the accent is tolerable throaty English.
which 1t never was in En"land
Strange does 1t seem that persons
can change SO rapidly! Men who Bit
terlv scorned England and everything
English return to America with all the
mushroomed manneriSms and affecta-
lions of a true-bred Englishman.
Our English" or rather American"
is. to be sure. social drawback in con-
versation and speaking. In England
y person can be promptly allotted to his
-ocial caste by his accent Unfortu-
natelv the American accent is most 1e-
cidedly not that of gentleman, &C.
cording to English past experiences.
and the student of oxford or the man
Of teas must. If nothing else. be
gentleman. 1t Is wiser for the Rhodes
scholar to drop his mother language
ct cnce and learn English as quickly
as possible. even sometimes riskine the
atrocious results Of young Americans