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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
AIR RECORD IS SET
BY WOMAN FLYERS
Bobbie Trout and Edna May
Cooper Forced Down After
122 Hours, so Minutes.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, January 10.--Bobbie
Trout and Edna May Cooper, both in
their middle twenties, rested today after
having established a new womens en-
durance flight record of l22 hours, so
minutes.
The girls landed Unexpectedly at $40
O'Clock last night, ending their flight.
because Of q cracked cylinder in the
170-horsepower motor of their small
monoplane The Lady Rolph. They al
most tripled the former womens record
of AZ hours. 16 minutes, set by Miss
Trout and Elinor Smith Of New York.
Black Smoke Indicated Trouble.
As fresh as though the five-day fight
had been only pleasure spin of few
minutes duration, Bobbie and Edna
each had glad to be back" and
hated to come down" for the startled
crowd.
The end OF the flight came so sud-
denly that those on the ground did not
realize it was over until The Lady
Rolph had coasted to a quick halt on
the sluggish runway and the flyers
jumped out into the mud.
The first intimation they were hav-
ing trouble came at noon, when OBJ
servers noticed a tail of black smoke
wagging behind the plane as it circled
the Municipal Airport. The girls. how
ever, admitted they discovered evidence
If motor failure 10 hours before the end.
Motor FaIters After Storm.
"The motor wouldn't turn enough
revolution to gain altitude Miss Trout,
one of the few women who hold
transport pilot license, said, and it
began missing so down we came"
The motor began to falter just after
they had ridden out one of the most
severe storms ever to beset endurance
flyers.
Promoters of the flight said they
ordered the girls to land because house
holders near the airport were objecting
to their low flying.
II wouldn't want to go up again to-
morrow" Miss Trout said after the
landing, but feel fine"
Refuse to Discuss Hardships.
Miss Cooper said she hated to come
down short of the 150-hour mark Of
the Army plane Question Mark, but
added brightly lit was a pretty good
flight at that"
Neither would talk about the hard
ships imposed by the storm, which pro-
vided rain for nearly so hours Of their
flying.
1T wasn't so bad" Miss Cooper said,
nor hard either" Miss Trout added
Asked how they managed to keep
their faces free from smudge and their
clothes clean, the girls said 1t was a
feminine secret.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10


mine how the club could best cooperate
in the campaign.
Waldo Burnside, corporation counsel
for Hyattsville, gave an interesting talk
on The Government and Laws Of In
corporated' Towns"
1t was voted to cooperate with the
Chamber of Commerce of Hyattsville
in staging q banquet, January 20, at
which George A. G. Wood president
of the Washington Gas Light Co., will
be the guest of honor.
Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, president
of the Women'S Club of Bethesda, re-
ferring to the campaign to clean I'D
conditions In that section, said:
Outdoor advertising may have its
place in the modern business scheme,
but that place, I feel, is not on the
landscape along the rural highways"
Mrs. Edward NJ Willis, chairman of
the department of applied education.
under whose direction the meeting will
be held, has invited prominent mem
beers of other clubs in the metropolitan
district to hear Miss James and see the
motion pictures which she will show, in
the hope that this district will be the
first TO make presentable its roadsides
into The Capital.
The Twentieth Century Club, at its
meeting on Thursday, passed a resolu-
ton approving the anti-billboard cam
paign, in which The Evening Star is
cooperating. Mrs. William Walter
Husband is president of the club.
BILL TO BE DRAFTED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
PURSE-NET FISHING
= HIT BY LEAGUE
Izaak Walton Council Also Pro-
tests Shipments of Maryland Bass.
Asks for Legislation.

The annual convention Of the Mary
land and District Of Columbia Regional
Council Of the Izaak Walton League of
America held yesterday at the Lord
Baltimore Hotel, in Baltimore, unani-
mouE'y adopted resolutions urging the
General Assembly Of Maryland to pass
legislation abolishing purse-net fishing
in Maryland waters and to stop the sale
and shipment OF black bass in that
State.
The convention was called to order by
z. Lee lie Comte, State game warden
of Maryland, and William F. Broening,
mayor of Baltimore, made the welcom-
ing address. Col. G. Seymour Bullock,
repre senting national headquarters of
the league, responded in behalf of the
delegates present.
The convention went into session at
10 am. After caring the report of the
secretary-treasurer, S. Edward Shaw OF
Frederick, Md. addresses were made
by Abel Wolman, chief engineer State
Department of Health on Pollution, and
NJ. e. Towner, president of the Mary
land State Game and Fish Protective
Association, for adjustment Of purse
netting in Chesapeake Bay.
Of the U. s. Bureau. spoke on Federal
Aid in Enforcing Black Bass Legis-
lation."
The banquet at night was attended BY
25S. The speakers were DR.. M. d. Arcy
Magee, president of the Maryland-Dis-
trtct OF Columbia Council of the League
and Henry O'Malley, commissioner Of
the United States Bureau Of Fisheries
Merle z. Towner, president Of the
Maryland State Game and Fish Pro-
tective Association, was POSTMASTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
FIVE PRISONERS ARE WHIPPED.
IT'S AN OLD DELAWARE CUSTOM
Warden Lays Lashes on Bare Backs With
Cato Nine Tails-Dates Back to
Dutch In 1856.

as 1923 movement to abolish the
whipping post was defeated in the
Legislature
No woman has been whipped for many
years.
The law prescribes 40 lashes for high
way robbery, 20 to 40 lashes for break
ing and entering 80 lashes for counter
letting, not more than 20 lashes for
arson or petty larceny and from to 80
lashes for wife beating. In addition, of
course, the offender is fined or i'm
prisoned or both.
First Used in 1856.
The whipping post is known to have
been used in Delaware in 1856, when
the Dutch settled there, but the Oldest
written record goes back to April 8,
l60S, when an innkeeper in Sussex
County was sentenced to be whipped for
an oftense which is not named in the
Until 1905, when it was abolished by
the Legislature, the pillory also was
used in Delaware. The limit was one
hour in the pillory, after which the
prisoner usually was whipped.
The task of administering whippines
Is extremely distasteful to Warden Ell
mer j. Leach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
bandit SENTENCED
TO S|X-yEAR TERM
Two Men Ordered to Prison
Five Years for Snatching
Woman'S Purse.

Convicted of attempting a hold-up
while armed, Lindsay Bunting, SO, of
lis Allegheny avenue, Takoma Park,
was sentenced to six years in the peni-
tertiary by Justice Peyton Gordon in
District Supreme Court today.
The principal witness against Blunt
ing, Abraham B. Barnhardt, 49-year-
old manager Of an Atlantic & Pacific
grocery store at Fifteenth and p streets,
reported he had overpowered Bunting
and beaten him into Inconsistencies
with pipe after the man had
brandished pistol in demanding the
stores receipts.
Charges Man Struck Him.
Gordon Matthews, alias Matthew
Gordon, colored, was sentenced to serve
10 years in the penitentiary for rob-
berry. Harry ViitoS said he asked
Matthews the way to the Benning Race
Track when he met him in that
vicinity November II at $50 o'clock at
night. The cclored man, he declared,
struck him over the head, took his cap,
lumber jacket, sweater, watch and $45
in money from him.
Arthur I. Daniels, colored, was
ordered to serve five years in the
penitentiary on a charge Of house.
uICdAIlB ana ldICeI1y. ne DEOke lnVO
the store of Myer Herman, 3543 Hert-
ford place. on the night of November
20, and stole Is suits of clothes and
two overcoatS.
Five Years for Snatching PocketboOk.
For snatching the pocketbook of Miss
Catherine O'Donnell in front of 1923
Nineteenth street November "a Robert
Mcfarland and John w. Caves, both
colored, were sent to the penitentiary
for five years each by Justice Gordon
Archie Nash, colored, also drew a
term of five years in the penitentiary
for HOUSEKEEPING and larceny. Nash
entered the apartment of c. B. Rufin.
1880 Euclid street, April II, 1929, and
stole property valued at $119.s0.
A term of four years in the peni-
tertiary was imposed on Tony Rivera
on each of two indictments for house
breaking. The terms are to run con-
currently. November he broke into
Walford's sporting goods store and
stole Is watches and on December
he stole watches from the store of
s. Kann's Sons & CO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
MARYLAND U. CIV.
COMMANDER DIES
Maj. Gen. N. D. Hawkins, Viz.
ginia Native, Was III
for Short Time.

Maj. Gen. N. D. Hawkins, COM
mander of the Maryland division Of the
United Confederate Veterans organiza-
ton, died at his home, 3431 Fourteenth
street, this afternoon after a short
illness.
Born in Bedford County, Va, July 26,
184e, Gen. Hawkins was the son Of John
r. and Lucinda Campbell Hawkins. In
his youth he served in the Confederate
Army.
Following the Civil War he attended
Virginia Military Institute, from where
he was graduated with high honors In
June, 1872.
At the time of his death, Gen. Haw-
kins had the distinction of being the
last surviving member of the guard OF
honor detailed by the Virginia Military
Institute commandant to mount guard
over the body of Gen. Robert E. Lee
upon the latter'S death.
Gen. Hawkins was married Angus
20, 1874, to Miss jamie Sydnor Smith
of Campbell County, Va. He was
prominent farmer and business man Of
Bedford County for nearly so years and
. for IL years of that time was county
superintendent of schools.
He is survived by his widow, two sons
j. H. Hawkins and N. ID. HAWKINS, j..
both of this city; five daughters, Miss
Mamie F. Hawkins and Miss Evelyn
Hawkins, both of this city; Mrs. j. K,
Walker Of Bedford, Va; Mrs. j. M. Nc
CheSney Of Abingdon, Va, and MIS-
Henry G. Ellis Of Petersburg, Va. He
also leaves IA grandchildren and two
brothers, Edgar Hawkins of Salem, Va
and John =. Hawkins of Boonesboro
Va.
Funeral services will be conducted al
the Francis Asbury M z. Church to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock. Rev
DR.. j. j. Rives. pastor of that church
will officiate. The body will be taken
to Bedford, Va, for burial.
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Continued From First Page.)
affairs and each man was seated ac-
cording to rank. The overflow, il there
happened to be any, ate with the aids
in their mess car. More than once a
brigadier general, found that there
were so many excellencies ahead of him
at the chiefs table that he had to be
content with place with colonies, ma
jors and captainsl
During the MeuSe-Argonne drive,
our special was parked in the shelter
of a grove near the village of Souilly.
All about us the terrain was shelled
day and night, but for some reason the
enemy artillery and aircraft never spot
ted our train.
There, no matter how hard it was
raining, Gen. Pershing would step out
of his car and walk up and down the
trains length for an hour or more. Sc
lecting one of his aids as q walking
companion. Although was many years
his junior 1t taxed my endurance to
keep up with him on these vigorous
hikes.
Baker Visitor in 1918.
During the big German push in
1918 Secretary Baker was a guest
aboard the train" Col Thornton re-
called. "At Amiens a great crowd
stood in the railroad yards watching
the railroad station. Find OUT said
Mr.. Baker to Count de Chambrun of
the generals staff, what all the excite
ment is about Mr.. Secretary the
count replied, the enemy is Smelling
the railroad station In another mo-
ment we were rolling past the station,
with its shattered roof and broken
windows.
when the general was bound on an
oficial visit to Belgium the train ran
into a heavy shower Of metal near
Dunkerque. Pershing was forced to
transfer secretly to a motor car and
proceed by an indirect route, while the
train backed out of the danger zone.
1.-THE lighter side of Gen. Pershing's
character, in contrast with his austere
dignity during trying days, scarcely made
itself manifest until after the armistice.
Then his young son Warren came to
join us and the atmosphere frightened.
Once, at lie Mans, the general ran a
foot race with his boy the length of
the train. When he crossed over into
Germany, Young Warren, in his little
suit OF khaki, with a toy gun, mounted
guard over his fathers car.
Throughout 20 months Of service
with Gen. PerShing I did not receive
a cross word from him or anything
a reprimand. He was kind
and considerate, but quickly moved to
wrath by failure to carry out his or
ders precisely"
Copyright, 1881, by North American News
paper Alliance.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
CITIZENS APPROVE
BILLBOARD FIGHT
BrightWood Association Com
mends Civic Group Waging
Fight for Beauty.

The Brightwood Citizens Association
at meeting held last night in the
Paul Junior High School adopted a
resolution commencing the work of the
American Civic Association in advo-
eating the removal of unsightly bill
boards.
The association commended William
NICK. Clayton. a member of the aSSo-
citation, for his presentation before the
Senate District Committee few days
ago of the 600 plan for financing
the District of Columbia.
The approval of H. R. bill 1871 was
given by the association in the interest
Of reduced fares for school children
on the local street railway and bus lines
The unsightly dump at the north end
of the Piney Branch Bridge on Six
tenth street was called to the atten-
ton of the members by President
Charles w. Ray. It was pointed out
that it is being used as central point
for storing cinders and not for f1lling-in
purposes. The attention OF the Dis
trict Commissioners is to be called to
the situation.
The association Endorsed the candi-
dacy of Miss Eta L. Taggart, daughter
Of the late Hugh Taggart, for the posi-
ton of Judge of the Juvenile Court, on
motion of John A. Saul.
Traffic lights will be requested at the
intersection of Rittenhouse street and
Georgia avenue and also at the inter
section of Park road, New Hampshire
and Sherman avenues and Monroe
street.
A. W. Foster invited the attention of
the association to the fact that while
there had recently been permitted re-
duction in the butter fat contents of
milk sold in the District there had been
no reduction In the price of milk.
The meeting concluded with an ad-
dress by j. Newton Baker, representa-
tive of the National Society of Sons of
the American Revolution, who spoke on
the subject of immigration"
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sister Christmas day. Earl Reed, g
roomer at Mrs. LimerickS home, tele-
phoned her while she was at work In
a downtown department store on the
morning of December 81, saying Beulah
was i'll. Mrs. Bywaters took a taxicat
to her mothers home and there joined
Mrs. Limerick, Earl Reed, Vernon Lin
erick and another man who had offered
to drive them in his automobile to Miss
Limerick'S home.
Saw No Blood Stains.
Marion s. Ashford, contractor, was
the last witness to take the stand be-
fore the recess was announced.
Ashford testified that he drove Mrs
Limerick and her son Vernon TO Beulah's
home on the morning that her death
was discovered. He said that when he
arrived at the home he felt the girls
body and found it to be warm. He
then sent for the rescue squad.
Prosecutor Collins questioned Ashford
as to whether he noticed any blood on
the pillows or bed clothes, and he an
swered in the negative.
He also testified that he noticed coal
on the floor near the stove, but did not
notice a shell, which police say was
later found at that point.
Detective John Flaherty testified yes
terday that Langdon volunteered the
information he questioned the under
taker on the night of January /, some
"a hours after the latter found bullet
hole in Miss Limericks skull.
would Have Faced Music"
Flaherty further went into detail with
regard to the various telephone boxes
on Langdon's beat from which the
patrolman reported to his precinct on
the morning of the girls death.
Flaherty said Langdon, in response
to hypothetical question which sug-
gested he might have killed the girl
accidentally while investigating a COM
plant Of disorderly conduct, replied he
would not have stepped out of it," but
an eventuality.
Langdon was smiling and confident
during yesterdays hearing At the adj
journment, his wife hurried to his side
and the two were clasped in an emo
tional embrace for a brief moment be-
fore the officer was led back to his
cell
Detective Flaherty testified yester-
day afternoon that two witnesses have
admitted they falsifled to police at the
request of the dead girls mother, who
explained to them she was afraid of
stories of Miss Limericks drinking and
running around late to dances" might
invalidate the latter's life insurance.
Flaherty testified that Vernon Lime
rick at first insisted he accompanied
Beulah, William Paddy and another
girl to dance at Capitol Heights, Nd,
on the night preceding Miss Limerick s
death. Paddy, Flaherty said, corrorborat-
ed Vernon.
Questioned later, Flaherty told the
jury both young men admitted they
lied" Both agreed that Vernon went
to the dance in another automobile and
returned shortly before his sister.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
BILL TO BE DRAFTED.
State Wide Move to Regulate BiIlbOards
On in Maryland.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, January 10.-A
committee to draft a provisional bill
regulating billboards for submission to
the Maryland Legislature was appointed
at a meeting held here yesterday, under
auspices of the Maryland League Of
Women Voters.
Mrs. Charles e. Ellicott, president Of
the league, was named chairman and
the committee was authorized to report
back its recommendations to another
conference. Legislation will be proposed,
1t was understood, with view to levy
ing a State tax on billboards.
Presidents of about 20 women's
organizations attended the conference
in the Southern Hotel. This is the first
concerted Statewide movement to
initiate billboard legislation this year.
Miss Harlean James, executive secretary
of the American Civic Association, and
Mrs. w. L. Lawton, chairman of the
National Council for Protection Of
Roadside Beauty, attended the con-
ference and told about what Is being
done in the Washington anti-billboard
campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
ARMY-NAYY AERIAL
CONFLICT IS ENDED
Land Forces to Be ReSpon-
SibIe for All Coast Defense,
Including Islands.

Several years of controversy between
the Army and Navy over the important
matter Of responsibility for aerial coast
defense have been settled by a decision
that the place of naval aviation Is with
the fleet and that the Army Air Corps
is responsible for all land areas, includ-
ing defense of the sea coasts not only
of the Nation but Of its island posses
sions.
The controversy has disturbed those
charged with the national defense ever
since aviation began to play an 1mpor-
tant military role. Prolonged congress
sional hearings have been held and
special Army and Navy boards have
labored long and diligently over the
matter.
Pratt and Macarthur Confer.
The decision, which was announced
Just as the War and Navy Departments
closed for the day yesterday, came as
a result of conferences between Admiral
william v. Pratt, chief of Naval Oper-
ations, and Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
announcement of the agreement was
made by the Navy Department yester-
day evening
The agreement is regarded as one of
the most important aviation policies
since the close of the war.
Under the newpolicy, the naval air
force will move with the feet as an
important element in solving the prl-
mary missions confronting the Navy
sea forces.
The decision to make naval aviation
an arm of the fleet and nothing else,
automatically makes the naval aviation
suuadrons unavailable, except under ex-
traordinary conditions, for operation
solely in coast defense.
Such land stations as are maintained
by the Navy Bureau OF AeronautlcS IN
the future will serve only as training
stations and as ports, but VIII not ne
regarded as coast defenses.
The agreement, however, viii not re-
suit in the abandonment OF any OF the
Nays air stations ashore for the pres
ent, it was announced.
Pratt Policy Unchanged.
Under the new agreement, it was
announced, the naval air policy enun-
ciated by Admiral Pratt on December 3,
which is to take effect April /, will re-
main unchanged. The new operating
policy outlines in detail war and peace
operations of naval aircraft. subject to
new developments in aviation or to
circumstances which cannot now be
foreseen."
Under this policy the Navy accepts
the general principle laid down by the
Morrow Aircraft Board that there
should be three air arms-military,
naval and civil-functioning through
"co-operation" rather than through
central control.
In announcing this policy, Admiral
Pratt expressed unalterable opposition
to plans for a unified air service, de-
claring that such uniflcation looks well
on paper and in theory has many viz
lures, yet In practice it is suited best
to small and more automatically con-
Quoted units, and under stress OF ma
tional emergency would break down
from its overload"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del, January TO-
Five men. convicted of larceny and
serving terms in Newcastle County
Workhouse, were marched out into the
prison court yard a few mornings ago
and submitted to a punishment as old
as the State of Delaware.
Stripped to their waists, they were
tied to whipping pest and prison
officer with a cat-'o-nine-tails carried
out the sentence of the court. Two of
them were given 20 lashes and the other
three 10 lashes each.
Only in Delaware of the United States
in 1881 is a punishment formally adj
ministered which was general all UP
and down the Atlantic Seaboard nearly
800 years ago.
Whipping Done Carefully.
1t is done as htlmanely as possible
The lashes are laid on so carefully that
they rarely break the skin and the limit,
60 lashes, is seldom administered.
But Delaware believes the whipping
post is an excellent deterrent against
crime. The legislators say that once a
professional crook has been whipped he
is disgraced before his fellows of the
underworld and loses caste. AS recently
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
L. C. STEPHENS FUNERAL
SERVICES ARE CONDUCTED
War Department Clerk Buried in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery This
Afternoon.

Funeral services for Lloyd c. Steph-
ems, As years old. clerk in the War
Department, who died at his home, 5000
South Dakota avenue northeast, Thurs
day, were to be conducted in the w. w
Chambers funeral home, 1400 Chaplin
street, this afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock
with Rev. DR.. Frederick Wenchel off,
ciating. Interment was to be in Fort
Lincoln Cemetery.
Mr.. Stephens had been a resident OF
this city since 1918. He died after ar
Illness of three months
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary
H. Stephens: a daughter, Miss Geral-
dine Stephens of this city; two sisters.
Mrs. Ralph Bretz and Mrs. Edgar Acker
and brother, Harry K. Stephens, all OF
Pennsylvania.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
PET POLICE DOG AWAKES
FAMILY AS FIRE STARTS
Howls and Scratches at Bed Room
Door When Smoke Begins
Coming From Cellar.

Laddie, German police dog pet of
Helen Donnelly, IA years old, got an
extra large bone for breakfast yester-
day and just bit more affection than
he is customary to receiving.
Laddie, it seems, became a hero OVER
night.
The dog bounded up the stairs of the
Donnelly home, at 1919 Evarts street
northeast, when the odor of smoke
assailed his nostrils and aroused the
family by bowling and scratching on
the bed room door.
An investigation disclosed the cellar
to be on fire and an alarm was turned
In. The blaze was quickly extinguished
with little damage.