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sationS," Miss ellis admits. 81 knew what
was happening to me, and knew there was
nothing to worry about. We had been flying
upside down; and when our plane went into q
nose dive, knew something was wrong. just
loosened the belt which strapped me in and
sort Of fell out of the plane.
THE next thing knew I was pulling on q
rip cord, and before had time to analyze my
feelings I had landed between the tops of two
trees that were very close together. I swung
myself over to one of them. And :" She
paused and shrugged her shoulders at that
part of the story. We'll, there was, much to
my embarrassment, with one foot caught in
some twigs and what looked like couple OF
thousand people milling about under the tree
below me.
After bit an old man climbed up and re-
leased my shoe, and then somebody found q
stepladder and climbed down. A policeman
just sort Of cleared the way, and we made
grand dash for the car"
A ND that is all there is to it, the second
feminine, blue-eyed member of the Cater
pillar Club insists, except that she was back in
plane half hour later acting as her own
pilot The next day she was on the field at
her regular class, for she was a student at the
Curtiss Flying Service School located on the
field.
Miss ellis received her ground and flying
training in the Curtiss schools at New York
University and at Valley Stream Long Island.
She went into aviation because her father,
John H. ellis. a consulting and designing en-
gineer, insisted that she decide between going
back to school and learning to fly. She had
been a student at Michigan State College last
year, but left because she found college dull.
Her fathers proposition sounded good, for she
didn't want to be a coed and she did want to
be an aviatrix!
Miss ellis started flying on August 6 and
received her license two months and three days
after she started instruction She was born In
Minneapolis. but has lived in a number OF
lie. 81. 10. -.rs .st..y tt.t' f,'ns...., - 500
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sufficiently on to itself to realize to what extent
and in some ways how comically. as well as
how tragically it is rushing its way into pre-
mature tiredness and old age for something
that Is not worth rushing for.
How long must it take the young mind to
begin to realize that it is not missing any
thing by passing up the usual rounds of pleas
ure as they are doled out by the usual methods
A GOOD book is apt to contain infinitely
more adventure, amusement, delight ex-
element, beauty, wisdom and entertainment
than most of the dreary rounds of the streets.
There is no limit to the adventure of delving
into q good book. There such pathetically
defined limitations to the delights of Main
street.
Such evenings usually add up to zero. Ever
try and look back and remember what you
did on one or another of the Saturday nights?
They stick together in a heavy lump of unde-
fined memory in the mind. Not worth cata-
loguing. Not sufficiently differentiated to mat
ter. One evening like another and still youth
goes rushing along in the frenzied fear that
it Is missing something.
A cruel way to C.leck up on the futility is
to indulge In weekly stock taking. Nothing to
show for evening after evening of leisure.
Nothing to show for those hours of rush except
leisure hours of third-rate pastime 1t is a
sorry inventory-enough to drive mind to
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but fortunate gust of wind blew her away
just in time. 1t didn't help matters much,
though, for it carried her directly towards the
high tension wires that stretched above rail-
road. Suddenly the course changed and she
swayed above apple orchard and then
f1oated down.
I've never jumped since, and probably I
never SHALL" she says now THAT ended it.
Some day would like to pilot plane. But
I don't know whether or not III be able to
do it,"
Mrs Mcfarland was the forty fourth member
of the famous club
She is slender and fair, graceful and fem
inine, but admits that she was a youthful TOM
boy Now her only interest in sports centers
I'm aviation. She is employed a bookkeeper
In q business firm at Canton, Ohio, but admits
that in a while the rows and rows of
numbers develop wings. And when she looks
from the window she sees a slender figure
swaying high in the air while thousands Of
people watch below.
SENTY work is interesting she adds, speaking
A'A of the prosaic task which is hers now.
"And anyway, that's the way it goes"
Fay ellis career didn't end when she jumped
to save her life. Rather, it was merely be-
ginning and it's been going forward merrily
ever since.
When she became member of the sales or
ganization of the Curtiss Flying Service re-
Gently, she had the distinction of being the first
airplane saeswoman to be employed by a ma
tional firm
Miss Gillis is extremely matter-of-fact on the
subject of her descent from an airplane on
September /, 1929. while flying with Lieut.. John
L. H. Trunk over CurtiSs Field. Long Island.
She and the test pilot had taken up an ex-
perimental plane, which flew to pieces" while
they were in 1t.
my sensations as was coming down? You
Dee, I really didn't have time to 60 having SEN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12

HE most appalling aspect OF the ruSE
and crush of American life lies not
in the fact that we are indubitably
the most energetic, nervous and
highsst-geared people in the world.
Much it is true, has been written and
spoken on that score. Visiting foreigners COM
ment cape at our speed, the nervous energy
of our methods and the general pell-mell,
make-haste, step-lively watch-your-step tenure
of American life as it is lived today.
All true enough, but in themselves neither
meretricious nor damning.
The great joke us is not that we make
haste, but where are we rushing? What do
we do with this leisure for which we so fran
tically scurry through the days? Once we
have it, then what? For what do we scramble
for trains, hurry for appointments rush for
ferries, strain through the days work, bolt
luncheons, waggle frantically at the hooks of
telephones, send messengers Scurrying, keep
the cables and the telegraph wires humming?
Whittier why? wherefore?
gaze upon it from a plane's-eye view;
walk through its turbulent streets, talk with its
nervouSly keyed business men; see its scurry
ing automobiles and taxicabs observe the rush
for trains and boats feel the hurry, the scurry,
the haste. the waste, and then watch this city
complete its hurried workaday. See its nervous
men and women pour from out Office buildings,
shops, subways, trans or motors and turn their
tense faces toward home and the relaxation
for which they have SO hurriedly toiled all day.
Think of how they have strained for this
moment. The girls in offices; men on big or
little business deals: truck drivers stepping
the gas; men, women, children, rushing through
the day; rushing toward their chores, young
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States. New York City has been her home for
the last six years.
Flying has always held a strong appeal.
and it will forever more" she insists II like
swimming tennis. basket ball and track, too
T.. anything but golf! And I'm interested
in art. I've kept house too long to be violently
interested in domestic art, though"
Miss ellis keeps house for her father, sister
and brother. She rides gayly through the
clouds by day and then goes home to bake a
cherry pie and wash the cups and saucers. Life
Is loads of fun, no matter what she is doing!
lust now Miss ellis is tremendously inter-
ested in marketing her salesmanship.
81 see no reason why a woman, particularly
o woman who is herself a pilot should not be
a good aid to other women in choosing plane"
she says.
Miss ellis is going to assist in putting the
feminine touch in aircraft. She has discovered
that women especially interested in in
teriors and color schemes of planes, just as
they are in automobiles.
And some day, maybe not so far away, when
they fly to tea parties and luncheon engage
mentS as easily as to business. and the adven-
ture element will be lessened when airplanes
seek the clouds, women will want crimson or
blue or orchid ships And if they want them,
they should have them, according to those who
are pioneering in aircraft craftsmanship. They
are convinced that the commercial side of avia-
ton is growing steadily. And if a woman
wants to sell combination of speed and COM
fort and maybe thrills, aeronautic salescraft
will answer her purpose.
DURING the four years that have elapsed
between Mrs. McFarland's sensational
parachute jump and the leap to safety which
Miss ellis made, aviation has taken a serious
turn, away from the spectacular as is demon
Strated by the experiences of the two woman
members of the Caterpillar Club themselves.
One had gone into the clouds in the gay,
buccaneering days of old when aerial acrobatics
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girls and boys eager to be free or the restraint
of workaway, and out into the world of leisure
and recreation.
Watch them What then?
THE kind of recreation for which the vast
majority has strained through the long
exacting day is of a brand to make your heart
ache for the waste of vitality. Rushing Amer
lea uses its leisure in one third-rate fashion
after another. Rushing America struggles for
recreation that is not worth the candle in its
tawdry, temporary surcease from the rushing
reality Of another day.
Amusement, variety, gayety, fun and plenty
Of 1t, are as essential to youth as nouriShing
food, but rushing young America seems to
know neither discrimination nor temperance
in the pursuit Of these essentials. The result
is that the third-rate forms of amusement and
diversion thrive, and palaces of cheap enter
tainment, gaudy dance halls line the main
streets Of sizeable towns all over the country.
Leisure Is something you cram with these
indigestible, cheap and unintelligent hours of
so-called entertainment
Even that new and popular indoor-spor
known as the radio does not help the dilemma
of young America trying TO use its leisure. So
much that comes on the astonishing wings
Of this new device is in key with the cheap
and tawdry entertainment of the dance and
music hall. And young America does not seem
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- HE most appalling aspect of the rush
and crush of American life lies not
in the fact that we are indubitably
the most energetic, nervous and
highest-geared people in the world.
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The Washington times., 1930-05-12
HOOVER IS BACK
FROM CAMP

Aside from the fact that DR..
Hubert Work, former chairman Of
the Republican national commit.
tee. fell into the Rapidan River
up to his neck" President Hoover
and his party had a pleasant
weekend at the presidential fish.
ing camp in the Shenandoah Ma,
tional Park.
The President and his guests re
turned to the Capital at $40
o'clock last night. Before leaving
camp a lunch was prepared which
was eaten on the roadside during
the return 110-mile trip.
Saturday presidential fishing
luck prevailed. Mr.. Hoover net,
ting 20 trout, and Lawrence
Richey, one of his secretaries, also
master fisherman. caught II.
It was trusting to an uncertain
log in the stream during a dam
building operation that caused
Work his nome -1tary inconveni
ence. The log rolled as he step
ped on it. and down he went. His
companions quickly pulled him
out.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
POLLY FORAKER MAKES PRETTY JUMP
THREE CRUISES
FOR RESERVE

Naval Reservists from Wash
ington and Baltimore will take
three cruises this summer up
the Atlantic coast in two-week
periods aboard the U. S. S. Up
shur. a destroyer. New York
will be the liberty port on each
cruise from Washington and
nounced today.
The first cruise will be from
July S to July 10. the second
from July 26 to August 9, and
the third from August 16 to
August 80. all from the local
Navy Yard.
. The department announced
that 5000 reserve officers and
men will make the voyages from
various ports Of the nation this
year.
About 800 will make the
cruise from Washington and
Baltimore. Aoout 40 destroyers
will be utilized in training the
citizen sailors of the country.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE PROBES
QUALIFICATIONS Of ROBERTS

The qualifications of Owen J
Roberts to serve as an associate
justice of the Supreme Court will
be thoroughly investigated by the
Senate Judiary Committee. it was
learned today, even though his
appointment by President Hoover
has been received with marked
acclaim in the Senate.
The Senate Judiciary Commit
tee will consider the nomination
today and in all probability, it
will be referred to a subcommit-
tee for inVestigation-just as have
thousands of other nominations
Investigated Parker
A similar action in the case of
Judge John j. Parker, of North
Carolina, was followed by pro,
tests against his confirmation by
the associations for advancement
of colored people and by the Fed
Grafton of Labor. leading ulti-
mately to his rejection by the
Senate. No such outcome is
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
GOLDSROROUGH
SETS Z MARKS

NEW YORK. May 12 G.N.SD.-
Frank Goldsborough's youthful
face glowed with sunburn and
pride today. The l9-year-old son
of Brice Goldsboroueh. who vent
down in the sea with the illfated
dawn. landed in New York Sun,
day afternoon. completing his
round trip transcontinental flight.
twice breaking the Junior pilot
record for crossing the United
States.
His actual flying time for the
trip from the West Coast was 28
hours and 18 minutes, as com
pared to "a hours aud three
minutes for his westward jaunt
and the 48 hours for the record
established more than a year ago
by Richard James, Flushing IN.
" high school.
GoldSborough used a Kinner-mo-
tored fleet biplane. chriStened
The American Boy"
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
RACE MEET SET.
FOR MAY z

HAGERSTOWN. Md. May 12.-
President Harry Edward Bester. of
the Hagerstown Fair Association.
whose five, day race meeting opens
here May 27, said today he is out
to surpaSs last falls meeting,
when 40 per cent of the first
choice horses in the wagering gar
nered purses.
Edward }. Brennan, of Balti-
more who will act as racing secre.
tary, stated that he has had ap.
pliCations for stalls from many
prominent Eastern stables that
heretofore have confined their &C
tiVitieS to mile tracks.
Brennan thinks this is due to
the fact that racing Oh State half
milers is conducted in the same
orderly fashion as that at Bowie.
HaVre de Grace, Pimlico and
Laurel, and that stables of promi-
nence will patronize Hagerstown.
Cumberland, Timonium and MARI
boro as long as the men behind
these meetings continue to run
things as they did a year ago.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
Cinders Cause Fish
To Flop Selves
\ Out of Creek

RICHMOND. Va, May 12.-The
citizens of Dante, Va, and sur
rounding communities are feast
ing off of the fish captured in a
peculiar manner. Following a
hard rain. Clinch river. at Dante,
was filled with trash and cinders
and the cinders got in the gills
of the fish, causing hundreds of
them to flop out of the water
to the land.
1t is reported that 500 fish were
captured by citizens who flocked
to the scene after the storm.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
Child Falls 2I Feet,
ESCAPES Injuries

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. May
l2.-While playing with a group
of children in the house of a
neighbor, Eric, 2. son of Vernon
E. Kemp. executive secretary of
the local chamber of commerce,
fell from a third-story window,
with no more serious injuries
than slight bruises and a bad
fright.
The distance of the fall from
the window ledge to the cement
walk below was 81 feet.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
on Tour,
Greeted bu Grounds

GROSSETO, Italy. May 10 1.N.
SO.-Premier Benito Mussolini
was accorded tumultuous well
come when he arrived here today
on his first state visit since 1925.
BlackShirtS from all over the
neighboring countryside were on
hand to cheer II Duce when he
stepped from his private car.
The premier is making a nation
wide tour of the Italian provinces.
He will go to Leghorn tonight.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
Population Gains;
Farms in Decrease

MARTINSBURG, w. Va. May
12.-Jefferson county, adjoining
Berkeley, and one of the three
Eastern Panhandle counties of the
State, gained a total of 40 in
population and the number of
farms decreased 73, according to
census returns, announced by
Supervisor Harold o. Keedy, Of
this city.
Jefferson county's total popu.
lation is at present 15.769,
against 1929 in 1920. The
county contains 831 farms in
comparison to 9O4 ten years
ago.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
Street Work Begun
In Annexed District

ALEXANDRIA, May 12.-The
city has begun the work of build
ing sidewalks and Improvements
in the annexed territory. The
building of a sidewalk along Rus
sell Road for the protection of
small children attending the
Maury School already is under
way.
Fills are being made for the
widening of Russell Road from
the new city limits to Hume
Springs. .
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
KensingtOn Citizens
To Nominate MduOT

Nominations for mayor and two
vacancies in the town council
will be made May % at a town
meeting at Masonic Hall. Kensiug-
ton. Elections will take place
June 2.
Mayor LuCien B Ernest Is not
expected to be candidate for re
election. Contested seats IN the
town council are those of H. P
Hartshorn and willard A.
Wathen.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
Catherine Mdnns
To We'd J. GreenWeLI

LEONARDT TOWN, May IL
Announcement has been made OF
the engagement of Miss Cath
crime Manns, of West Baltimore.
to James Greenwell, of Bretton's
Bay. The wedding will take place
on June 16. at St. Martins Ro-
man Catholic Church in Balti-
more, with the brides brother
Rev. Father Manns, S. j. perform
ing the ceremony.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
Highest Honor GiUen
SeUen Duke Seniors

DURHAM, N. c., May IL. -
Receiving the highest honorary
distinction that comes to a mem
Der of the rising senior class,
seven Duke University students
have been tapped" by the senior
order of Red FriarS. The chosen
men represent several fields of
extra-curricular activity. They are:
James Heizer. Silver Spring, Md;
c. F. Honeycutt, jr., Suffolk, Va:
Irwin Morgan, Farmville; C. H.
Llvengood, jr., Durham. N. c.;
W. D. Murray Rocky Mount, N.
c.; George Rogers, Asheville. N.
C., and w. M. Upchurch, Raleigh,
N. c.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
40 At TGkOn1G Park
COUe0e Graduate

Forty members of the twenty
sixth "raduating class of Wash
lngton Missionary College, Ia
koma Park, yesterday finished
commencement exercises when
they heard an address at Colum-
bia Hall by Prof. Charles E.
Weniger.
President Harry H. Hamilton
conferred degrees and presented
diplomas. The graduates then
held banquet in the gymnasium,
The Washington times., 1930-05-12

anticipated by the Senate. No
such outcome is anticipated in
Roberts case.
The lawyers in the Senate. and
they comprise the Judiciary Com
mittee, having regarded Roberts
as one of the outstanding legal
luminaries of the nation. They
looked upon his prosecution Of
the Governments oil cases as an
outstanding legal achievement.
They also indicated high regard
for his knowledge of the law and
privately have declared he is
eminently qualified for the ma
tion's highest court.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
Deaths From Cancer
Decrease in France

PARIS. May IL G.N.SO.-Can-
Ger is on the wane in France,
according to a report submitted
to the Academy of Medicine.
A paper prepared by Auguste
Lumlere and Paul Vigne, of Lyon,
reveals that a 20-year study in
their city showed cancer deaths
to have increased in the period
l9O6-1926, though the number of
victims actually had decreased.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
Berlin Has 100000
Licensed Vehicles

BERLIN. May II 1.N.S) DE
spite the mild weather the num-
ber of motor vehicles in Berlin
fell off steadily in the winter. but
the upward turn has now set in,
and the number of vehicles IL
censed has reached the 100000
mark. Actually, however, there
were only 98,398 on hand on April
l, which is 258 more than the
previous record, made on October
/. 1929.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
Secretary Lamont
Loses Police DOq

The Wanderlust last night
seized King. three-yearold police
dog. belonging to Secretary of
Commerce Robert P. Lamont, who
today asked police to help him
find the animal
The Washington times., 1930-05-12

MISS VERA DOVE
OF 4434 GRANT RID. N. W.,
who has just returned from
Havana and Mexico City, where
she installed the first hosiery
mending machines in the Latin
American capitals.
The Washington times., 1930-05-12
D. C. NATIVES TO MEET

The Society of Natives of the
District of Columbia will hold a
meeting Friday night at 8 o'clock
at the Washington. Club, Seven
teenth and < SITS. n. W.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
NEWCOMERS SPEED
OLMSTED GRILL Nine

Strengthened by the addition of a
group of stalwart players who performed
in the public high school base ball
championship series. which closed yes
terday, OlmSted Grill tossers figure to
show marked improvement. Olmsteds
will meet Pierce A. G. Sunday after
noon at 3 o'clock in Magruder Park,
Hyattsville, in senior section game of
the Capital City League. It will be
the first formal ball game to be played
on this diamond. The park was some
time ago donated by Hyattsville as a
municipal recreation center Olmsteds
won the only game they have played
so far in the league and are hopeful of
scoring over Pierce.
Dependables of the team now include
Everett Russell, Calvin Young, Charlie
Casassa, Joe Ready, Lawrence Lewis
Bernie Hammell, Jim Daniels, Henry
Quantrille, Dick Nelson, Harry English,
Fred Nau. Frank Cumberland. Gilbert
Levy, Harry Collifiower. Ed Wills, Fred
Hungerford, Ralph Clark and Albert
Miller. Russell Tech first baseman and
pitcher, is slated to hurl against Pierce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
Fights Last Night

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.-Fidel La Barba, Los
Angeles, outpointed Bushy Graham,
Utica, N. Y. Go. Joe Dundee, Balti-
more, outpointed Harry Mason, Eng
land 10).
CHICAGO. - otto Won Porat. Chi
cago, knocked out Jack Gagnon, Boston
co.. Vittorio Livan, Italy, outpointed
Haakon Hansen, Norway 90. Henry
Firpo, New Castle, Pa, outpointed Bus
ter Mallini, Greenwood, Miss (6). Tt
ger Johnny Cline, Fresno, Calf, out
pointed Eddie Ballatin, Chicago "a.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Levinsky, Chi
cago, knocked out Mitz Minikel, Mil
waukee "a.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Cook. Sgd
ney, Australia, outpointed Chuck Wig
gins, Indianapolis Q0).
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-John Schwake,
st. Louis, outpointed Frankie Wine,
Philadelphia 00). Peewee Kaiser, st.
Louis, knocked out Kid Adams, Ha-
vana, Cuba (5).
OKLAHOMA CITY.-Johnny Simp-
son, San Antonio, Tex, knocked out
Barney Allen, Philadelphia ca.