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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
EHRHARDT TO ATTEND
Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO A,to1lrt ia

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, August 16.-Joseph Ehr.
hardt Of st. Louis, who last month ir
England won the Wakefield Cup, Offered
by the Lord Mayor of London as an In
ternational trophy for leadership ir
model airplane flying, will take part In
the national model airplane meet ir
conjunction with the National Air
Races on Curtiss- Wright Reynolds Air
port, Chicago, August % to September
/, inclusive.
Young Ehrhardt sent in his entry e
Joseph J. Lucas, chairman of the mode
meet, from London on the day he wOr
the international title. His tiny baIss
wood model established q worlds record
fight Of 2 minutes SO seconds. ThG
model of the British youngster which
won second place remained aloft only
minute and "a seconds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
OFFICERS CLASS GRADUATES
IMPLANES BY MEANS OF RADIO

When graduation day arrived they
were scheduled to perform two radio
flights. Arrangements were made with
commercial broadcasting station to
conduct the graduation exercises dur
ing the afternoon performance of the
show
kilograms from the commandant and
assistant commandment of the technical
school were read over the microphone
of the ground station, received and
acknowledged by the students while
flying over the vicinity of Soldier Field
Each of the graduates was called upon
| for brief remarks by radio, and finally
radio performers IN the ground studio
sang their congratulations, concluding
the exercises.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17

When their duties required officer
graduates OF the 1s2s-3o officers class
IN communications at the Army Air
Corps Technical School to be in the air
ut the time set for their graduation
exercises recently, the officers of the
school, not in the least dismayed, had
them graduated by radio.
The members of the class were de-
tailed on detached duty in connection
with the military show and exposition
held In Chicago recently for the benefit
of the Army Relief Association. AS a
part of their training during the final
class week they installed radio In two
planes to radio broadcast for the pur-
pose Of advertising the show twice daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
DIXIE DERBY PILOTS
TO BE HONOR GUESTS
Woman Flyers Who Leave Here
Friday Will Be Banqueted
by Aero Club.

Woman pilots flying in the Dixie Air
Derby, starting from the Capital on
Friday. viii be guests Of honor at q
banquet to be held at the Willard Hotel
Thursday evening beginning at O'Clock,
under the auspices of the Aero Club OF
Washington.
The Dixie Derby, which will take
the woman racers south to the Missis-
sippi River Valley, thence north to Chi
cago, with a finish at CurtisS- Wright.
Reynolds Airport, will be q feature OF
the national air races program at Chi.
cagon the latter part OF this week and
the early part Of next.
HosteSses at the banquet viii be the
members Of the Eagle Wings Flying
Club, q unit of the Women's City Club.
The women's race starts from Wash
ington Airport at IL o'clock Friday
morning and the management OF the
field has arranged q program of varied
aeronautical events during the day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
AIR LEGION ANNOUNCES
NEW AID FOR FLYERS
Crash Board will Assist ANY Mem
Der Who Has Forced Landing
or Craek-up.

A crash board, 70 proceed imnne-
diately to the assistance Of any member
who has had a forced landing or a
crack-up, has been named by the Dis
trict OF Columbia Air Legion. it was
announced today by T. j. Waggy, man.
ager of the legion
Lieut.. w. C. Buell. has been named
chairman of the board, and with him
viii serve Mr.. Waggy and Charles Glad
hill, with Miss Harriet Sackett and Ted
KreiS to serve SIS alternate members.
An members Of the board are licensed
pilots. They have been instructed TO
make thorough investigation Of all
crashes and forced landings and 70
make such recommendation upon them
as they see at.
Mr.. Waggy also announced that Lieut..
Buell. has been named to the board OF
directors of the legion for the balance
Of the present year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
CuckOOn Is Name
Given AviatOrs Who
Leap Unnecessarily

"Cuckoon, q person who jumps
unnecessarily from an aircraft
with q parachute"
This new word has been add
ed to the aviation language by
John Arthur Shaw Of the D. G.
Air Legion, local private flying
club. The name was coined,
says Shaw, because persons who
Jump when they need not do 80
must be cuckoo and also be-
cause o cocoon bears an en-
bryonic relationship to q cater
pillar. The caterpillar Is the
patron saint of the Caterpillar
Club. that mythical organization
OF aVtatorS who have saved their
lives by emergency parachute
jumps and who are known
henceforth as "Caterpillars."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
BYRD TO ATTEND RACE
Admiral Will BE Guest of National
Aeronautic Association.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, August l6.-Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd will be the guest of
honor at the annual banquet Of the Ma
tional Aeronautic Association at the
Hotel Sherman, Chicago, the evening Of
August %, the eve of the opening of
the National Air Races at Curtiss-
Wright Reynolds Airport.
His definite acceptance was TRANSMIT
ted by United States Senator Hiram
Bingham, president of the air body, to
the recently formed Greater Chicago
Chapter, which is in charge of the
event.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
Model Aircraft.
BY GEORGE W. WATERS.

ORE than dozen model plane pilots Yesterday quaAd
the third District Columbia Model Aircraft Leagues
a ment for 1880.
However the classes instruction in model aircraft
nue through Central High School,
model builders
the big tournament which will be held August IS
outdoor contests
Field the Mcfarland
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
Air Mail AYerts Loss.

BY the Associated Press.
Airmail postage ON q piece Of mining
machinery flown from Ohio to Chile
totaled $3.50, but the machinery fore
stalled closing down, Of q plant with
loss of Seevral thousand dollars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
RunwaYs 900 Feet Wide.

LOS ANGELES R.-Airplanes land4
ed and took-off simultaneously on the,
same runway at United Airport IN
test. Runways are 800 feet in width
and require 100000 feet Of paving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
AR Corns Lists Family of Five.

HONOLULU (H).-Wheeler Field
claims the largest collection of broth
sets among the enlisted men. There
also is a father and son combination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
Kitty Hawk Gets Telephone.

KITTY HAWK, N. @. B-This his
toric spot, where the Wright brothers
experimental with airplanes, is now
connected with the outside world by
telephone. The connection was made
by stretching q cable across Currituck
Sound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17

The Thompson Trophy carries
with it $4,000 for the winner, and
this has been no small induce
ment to the flyer and plane man
ufacturers, although the prestige
to be gained from such race is
worth considerably more than
that to the plane manufacturer
who builds the winning ship.
There are five glider events
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
FAMILY OF -FOUR
FOUND SLAIN IN
EASTERN STATE

POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y. Nov. 90
UP}-Hustcd Germond. his wife and
two children we're found stabbed to
death today in their home at Stan
fordyille, 20 miles from here.
Poice expressed the theory that
the family had been murdered
sometime Wednesday. Germond
supplied milk to dairy and when
he made no delivery today, the
dairy sent a man to investigate. He
found the four bodies
The official Of the milk company
who found the bodies is Wilbur
Coon
When he entered tie house he
found the body Of Mrs. Cermonc
on the kitchen floor. The body Of
her 13-Ycar-old daughter vas un-
der thc kitchen sink and police be-
iieye she may have tried TO hide
"hen the assailant entered the
house
Gc.mord and his 8-year-old son,
Raymond, appareu utly were stabbed
while in the back ward and their
bodies carried into a wagon house.
Sheriff Bernard Rockefeller, with
several deputies and Coroner John
Card went to the Germond home.
They said it was certain the four
persons had been murdered by an
intruder.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
CASE OF RUSSIAN
CONSPIRAT0RS IS
APPROACHING END
BY EUGENE LYONS
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

MOSCOW, Nov. 90. U.P)-The
prosecution of eight counter revo-
lutionaries. who in the last three
days have confessed an unpreced-
ented organization for internal
vandalism, was threatened today
with legal complications.
An appeal to Michael L. Kalinin.
president of the Russian Federal
Soviet Republics, may be made to
decide the authority of Prosecutor
Nicholas Krilenko in summoning 10
witnesses, including Professor Osad-
,tchi. former president of the
state planning commission, and the
engineer. Schein.
OSadtchi and Schein are men,
bers Of the central executive COM
n;ittee and as such are entitled to
parliamentary immunity" before
the court.
The trial was rapidly approach
ing its end, the eight defendants
having completed their confession
of 10 years of effort to starvc and
otherwise inflict suffering on 150,-
! COO 900 countrymen in a plot to un-
oermine the nations economic life
and prepare for foreign inter-
ventionist war. The court ruled,
however, that their testimony re-
garding the rules of friendly for
, cign powers must be heard in sec
ret, with even the press excluded
as compared to the public count
sessions and the use of the radio
movie camera and thousands OF
columns Of newspaper space 10 ad-
vertise throughout Russia the con-
LESSONS of the doomed plotters.
! The confession of the eight de-
fondants-all of them scholarly
men who said they longed for COM
forts of the czarist regime-were
interpreted in Communist an d
some diplomatic circles as "a dis
gusting picture of the spiritual
! bankruptcy of the old causes"
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
Three CRASHES
over HOLIDAYS
DAMAGE CARS

Two automobile accidents last
night and one Wednesday night
resulted in no injuries for drivers
or occupants of the cars involved,
although the automobiles were bad
ly damaged,
Each Of the accidents occurred
on a straight road, and in each one
driver side -SWiped the other. knock
ing both cars from the highway.
L. j. Martin and r. S. Magquen
were drivers in one accident. one
mile cast of Coyote Wells on the
San Diego Highway According to
2 report on file in The state traffic
office Martin W2s driving il the
middle Of the road when his car
hit Marquen's. One wheel and the
running board were torn from Mar
tins car, and the axle and steering
wheel badly bent.
In another accident Wednesday
night, 200 yards from the city
limits of El Centro on the Imper-
ial highway, Maude Makinson and
Blnkley Prince We're driving cars
that collided.
Lewis T.. MullenneauX and Fred
West were drivers in the third acci-
dent. which happeped on the Ca
leXico highway After side-swiping
one another in the middle of the
road each driver blamed the other
Tor the accident The cars were
Knocked from the road.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
LATEST PREHISTORIC FIND
PRESENTS PUZZLE TO SCIENCE

CORDONA, Alaska, Nov. 2S.
U.P(-Alaska's newest "prehis-
toric" animal was being exam
ired from all angle today as
scientists and laymen alike at
tempted to determine whether
II really was beast or reptile
OF centuries ago, or was merely
the carcass Of killer whale or
large seal o. walrGs.
The carcass, found on Glacier
Island recently by Jerry o.
Leary and Charles Gibson, was
closely inspected by w. J. Nc
Donald, supervisor of the Chu-
gach National Forest. and
party Of six others who return
ed here yesterday. They brought
portion of meat that still
chung TO a part Of the skelc-
ton, and said il Cooked and
smelled like horse flesh"
Although scientists said it
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
Gar OF Movies
Marries Widow

BETHESDA, Md. Nov. % U.P)-
viii H. Hays, motion picture exc
cutivc and former postmaster gen.
cral, was married here last night tc
Mrs. Jennie Heron Statesman, WI
dow Of former United States min
istcr to Bolivia They were enroute
to the west today for a honeymoon
trip.
The wedding united two promi-
nent Indiana families. The bride Is
the daughter Of William Parke Her
ron of Charlottesville. Her father
was the late Captain William P.
Heron of the 72nd regiment Of In
diana volunteers in the Civil War.
James F. Statesman died in 1919.
Hays first wife, from whom nc
was divorced, was Helen Louise
Thomas, also of Charlottesville.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
NONE INJURED
AS STEAMER AND
FERRY COLLIDE

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. %. up
The Southern Pacific ferry boat
S1nts Clara, enroutc from Oakland
t. San Francisco laden with early
morning commuters, was rammed
by the British freighter Irish Bank
today.
No serious injuries we're reported
and damage to both vessels was
nominal
Although few persons we're
Jared by, the impact when the nose
OF the freighter loomed out of the
dense fog and struck the Santa
Clara'S bow giancing blow, there
was 10 panic.
Both vessels were proceeding at
Snairs pace through the fog. when
Captain John SOuza of the Santa
Clara first saw the freighter, which
was enroute to Oakland in tow of
a tug
Captain Sou5e ordered full speed
aStcrn, and the ferry was backing
al the time Of the impact. The
freight pushed, rather than struck
the f2ryboat
After aSccrtaininG that there was
no damage of consequence, both
vessels proceeded 10 their dcStina-
tiCnS
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
SENATE MAY HOLD
SPECIAL SESSION

WASHINGTON. Nov. 28. UP
President Hoover may call tho new
oloc controlled senate into 2 special
session next March to handle the
world court issue, it was learned
today from a source close 10 the
executive.
Privately Mr. Hoover dccidcd
some weeks ago that he could not
liSk the court al the session which
opens Monday. Ec fears that the
senate would debate it at the eX-
poNsa OF other business and thereby
disrupt all his plans for the next
year.
Unless the appropriation bills
arc passed before March 4 a spe-
c.al session OF both houses would
be necessary and the country viii
be i'll for another summer of legis-
iation, A special session Of the sem
are alone. however is another mat
ter The senate itself without the
house can consider no general leg
hlation, but only treaties and s>c-
CutiVe business.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
DAWSON URGES
BETTER PAY III
AVIATION BRANCH 4
b. Joseph IL. Baird
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. U.R}-
Correction of inequalities in all
corps promotion and pay, augmen-
tation of the Army air fleet. and
settlement of the long standing dls-
putc between Army and Navy over
aerial coast defense were urged BY
Assistant Secretary OF War Dawson
today in his annual report.
lie pictured a satisfactory year
Of progress in air corps develop
mcnt, during which a number OF
difficult missions We're carried out
successfully, Also the corps casualty
"ate was lowered.
Referring to the air crpS promo
ton problem" Dawson said:
Sluggish promotion raises havoc
with the morale OF the air corps
polsCnnel' Is responsible for the re-
s.GnaticN Of valuable Officers whose
services the government can i'll al
ford TO lose, places burdens ol re-
.ronsibility upon Junior officers en-
Aycly out OF proportion with thcn
grades; and finally tcndS to Under
mine the efficiency Of the entire
service by paving the way lor 2
spirit Of hCpelessnesS which IS bound
to develop apathy
Congress, in its five-year military
aviation program Of 1926, provided
that within half decade the Army
should have 1900 "serViceablo ar
DlapcS" Las. June there were only
1915.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
DISCOVER CLUE TO
MISSING TEACHER

FORT MORGAN, Colo, Nov. 28
U.n,-Discovery of blood-spattered
weekend bag, and box of face
powder. sent scores of searchers to
Sijou Greek today in q hunt for
the body Of Enid Marriott, 80, miss
ing school teacher of Wigginss.
Miss Marriott stepped from train
at Virgins a week ago last Sunday
night after visiting over the week
end with friends in Denver. Then
she disappeared.
The finding Of her bag and face
powder in the frozen creek five miles
cast Of Virgins yesterday strength
Cncd the belief Of Sheriff Rufus A
Johnston that she was kidnapped
and slain.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
COURT REFUSES
MOTION TO SET
ASIDE DEFAULT
Davidson Wins Another
Point In Conspiracy
Accusation.

Pointing out that because Of their
positions as county clerk and shcr-
if of San Francisco county II. /.
Mulcrcvy and Thomas 2. Finn
should realize the Importance of q
superior court summons, Judge
Vaughn Thompson this morning
denied a motion to set aside default
entered by Attorney Don Bitler for
William Caine Davidson. plaintiff
in a million dollar damage suit.
The default was entered when
Mulcrevy, county clerk of San Fran
cisco, and Finn, former sheriff of
the same county, failed to appear
in superior court here on the date
set for hearing Of the case. At the
same time the suit against numer-
Gus other defendants was dismissed.
Later Mulcrevy and Finn, through
their attorneys, entered a motion to
set aside default on the grounds
that it had been entered through
surprise, inadvertance and eXcusa-
BILE neglect.
In affidavits presented to the
court the defendants stated that
lilc SuIlLilUltS ildu DtCIl given W ii
San Francisco policeman with in
structions that he was to turn
them over to the lawyers represent
ing the defendants. Through an
inadvertance. claimed the defend
ants, the summons was overlooked.
Judge Thompson pointed out
that, by virtue Of their years of
service in public office Mulcrevy
and Finn should be acquainted
with the penalty attendant upon
failing to answer a superior court
summons
Appeal Expected
The defendants did not show
proper diligence in making efforts
to answer the summons, and either
appear personally or have repre-
sentative in court at the time OF the
hearing. ruled Judge Thompson.
1t is thought that the defendants
will appeal the decision. They can
only appeal on the motion 30 set
aside default, since by entering of
the default other aspects of the
case are closed.
DavidSonS suit was for 81 100000
damages for false arrest. In his
complaint he charged that. in
order to suppress testimony he was
Continued on Page Six
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
KELLOGG PEACE
PACT CAPTURES
NOBEL AWARD

OSLO, Nov. 28 (U.P)-Trank 3.
Kcllogg, former secretary of state
OF the United States and co-author
with AriStide BRAND of France Of
the Kellogg BRAND pact to outlaw
val, has been awarded the Nobel
|pcace prize for 1929
The award gave the United States
her third Nobel prize this year.
Sinclair Lewis won the 1880 prize
for literature and DR.. Karl 7 and
|steiner, OF the Rockefeller Institute
in New York, received this years
prize for distinguished work in
medicine.
The 1890 peace award was given
to Archbishop L. @. j. SOdeIDlom.
primate of Sweden. member Of the
Swedish academy, and author Of
many theological works. His most
recent work was The Church and
Peace" written as Birge mcmor-
al lecture
1t was understood that Kellogg
and Archbishop Soderbiom would
come to Go to receive their prizes,
which amount to between $4,000
and $4,000 each.
The award to kellogg obviously
was made for his work on the
peace pact. which was signed by
The great powers.
-Four other Americans have won
;hc peace prize. Theodore Roo7evclt
in 1906: Elihu Root in 1912, Wood
row Wilson in 1919, and Charles G.
Dawes. joint holder with Sir Aus
ten Chamberlain Of England, in
1925.
Aristide BRAND of France and
the late Gustav StreSemann of Ger
many won the prize Jointly in 1926.
Erdinand Buisson, Of France. and
Ludwig Guidde Of Germany shared
The award the following year No
peace prize was given IN 1928.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28

was perfectly possible for some
prehistoric animal to have
been carried down in the Col
umbia glacier and washed on
to Glacier Island, they added
that appearance of the skeleton
indicated that it might be the
remains of killer whale.
Early reports of the discov-
cry declared that a massive liz
ardlilSe furbearing. perfectly
preserved animal or reptile IS
or so feet long had been found.
Examination of the carcass
showed the skeleton to be "a
feet long, with 4 Ii foot tail,
six foot body. and four foot
head. The skeleton is 2S inch
es in diameter at its broadest
point. A small portion still had
flesh clinsing TO the bones.
There were no evidences Of
teeth,
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
Gasoline Tax
Fund Divided

SACRAMENTO. Nov 28 UP
CALIFORNIA; SO counties will receive
Sc. .26O.4 .473 as their share Of the Sl8,-
18l,4l9 collected by the state from
thc 3-ccnt tax on gasoline for the
six mcnths from April 20 Scptcm
Lcr 30. it was announced today py
State Controller Ray l.. Riley.
Tho county apportiOnment repre-
Scnts a gain Of S896.446 over the
amount collected during the prcvl-
Gus six months.
Under the new law adopted n
1929. no county will receive less than
$1,000. The remainder OF the motor
vehicle fuel fund is distributed
among the larger counties on the
basis Of their registration OF motor
vehicles.
Imperial county's share of the
.und amounts to $73 ,503.43
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
Coast Market
Trading Laggss

los ANGELES. Nov. %. UF)-
While interest Jagged, prices We're
lower in early trading Oh the Los
Angeles Stock and Curb Exchanges
today. During tho first three hours
CT trading the five most active is
sues showed combined turnover
Of only 3lo0 shares.
TranSameg.ca sold off n from the
previous close, 1900 shares changing
hands at a. and I4@i.
Standard Oil lost Is at 48at ;
Union Associates was down /, at
24i,, and Bolsa Chica Oil declined
8. at Il.
Claude Neon, on sales OF 4OG
shares at Is, was off IS
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
TO
HOLD CONFERENCE

Re-apportionment Of congress
sional districts will be the princi-
pal interest of the Southern Coun-
ties Republican Central committees
When they meet at the Barbara
Worth hotel tomorrow.
Sessions are scheduled to begin
AT 10 O'clock and an all-day scs-
sion is anticipated
Representative arc expected
from Santa Barbara, Ventura. Kern,
San BernardinC, Riverside, Los An
geles Orange, San Diego and I'M
serial counties. Dinner will follow
the afternoon session.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
RAILROADS SEEK
GOVERNMENT AID

NEW YORK, Nov. %. U.P)-With
American railroads facing the most
critical situation they have eXper-
fenced since the Transportation act
of 1920. the Association of Rail
way executives, representing every
railroad in the United States, plan
to demand powerful relief legisla-
ton in congress.
A curb on the competition OF
motor vehicles. coastal steamship
lines and oil and gas pipe lines
will be asked Of congress in the
legislation, according to reports
An outstanding provision is a pro-
posal to compel the oil and gas in
dustry to stop use Of s40O,OO0,000 oil
pipe lines.