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MERIDIAN MANOR,

I4Z9 CHAPIN ST. NV.
Fireproof building, elevator service.
ipcinerator. tile baths and showers;
electric refrigeration on house current.
Rooms, Kitchen, Furnished, Dinetto
and Bath, $4,000 TO $67.50.
Resident ManaRer
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CARLISLE COURTS,
18th ST. AT COLUMBIA RID.
NORTHWEST CORNER.
Very Attractive Apartments,
Parquetry Floors Throughout.
3 Rooms. Kitchen, Bath and Porch,
$3.50 and $4,000.
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3I4I MT. PLEASANT ST NV,
Very Convenient to Car Lines, Buses,
Uptown Shopping Section.
Large Rooms, High Ceilings.
Refrigeration
Rooms. Kitchen. Bath and Porch.
$40 90,
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NEAR CONN AVE. AND s ST.
Handsome. Exclusive Apartment.
9 Large Rooms, Kitchen and Baths.
Reasonable Rent.
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18th AND X SITS. NV.
SOUTHWEST COR, OVERLOOKING
FARRAGUT PARK.
, rooms, kitchen and bath. $500
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Starving Boy Eats
Too Much, Faints
From Indigestion
Collapses From Hunger
Twice, Then Food Over
comes Him at Hospital.

Robert Postell 16-year-old hitch
hiker from New orleans. collapsed three
times here early this afternoon. the first
two times from hunger and the third
time because he'd eaten too much.
Postell, weak and wasted from the
last long jump Of his hitch-hike trip
from Greensboro, N. c., to the Capital.
on few meager morsels Of food, first
collapsed on Fourteenth street. between
G and H streets, and was picked up and
taken to the first precinct by Policeman
Hendrick Boese, where he was given
ammonia, coffee and orange juice.
While waiting to be taken to Gallinger
Hospital for further treatment, young
Postell collapsed again.
At Gallinger the boy was found to be
suffering acutely, STILL from hunger and
liquid foods were set before him. He
was cautioned to go easy on the food at
first, but he wolfed everything that was
set before him and the shock on his
system was too great.
The wasted body Of the boy, under
nourished throughout the six weeks it
took him to make the trip here from
New Orleans, was unable to stand the
food and he collapsed a third time, this
time because of indigestion.
Robert spent the night in the Alexan-
drla Hospital after fa1ntlng and being
picked up in the Potomac Yards. He
was given some food there last night,
and they were preparing TO feed him
there again this morning, but the boy
was anxious to hurry on toward New
York and left before breakfast.
The last time he had eaten before
that was in Greensboro, where two
young boys obtained food in their home
and brought 1t to him on the highway.
Roberts parents, he related today,
were killed in an automobile wreck in
st. Louis when he was IL years old.
Since then he had been making his
living singing over a radio at New Or
leans until the radio station went ont
of business. He was known to the
radio audiences as 'Whistling DAN
Out of job and with two brothers
In the Navy, three sisters out West.
Robert decided to journey to New York
to see his brother, Eugene, and to try
to get another job.
Il left New Orleans about six weeks
ago." he said. II only had rs cents
with me when I started"
He said he got work with a show at
Spartansburg, S. c., watering an ele-
phant. When the show left he contin-
ued on his way.
When picked up he was dressed in
a shirt, a pair of khaki trousers, a
pair Of old shoes and no socks.
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VICE SQUADS SEIZE
z IN RUM RAIDS
Four White and 18 CoIored
Persons HeId-FuriouS
Battle Staged.

Twenty-Five persons, four white and
eighteen colored, were arrested in a
series of liquor raids last night and
early yesterday by members of the
police headquarters vice squad and the
vice squads of the three police inspec-
ton districts. All, except one, were
charged with illegal possession of liquor.
Detective w. C. Wren was given a
furious battle when he and Detective C..
s. Dyer raided a house in the first
block of Allison street northeast. Nor
man Jones, colored, 80, was. treated at
Fredmen's Hospital for scalp wounds
sustained when he attacked Wren with
a bottle. Ferman Jones and Eunice
Jones, both colored, also were arrested
during the raid.
Two white men and a young White
woman were among those arrested. The
men were Napoleon LIE Feore, 81, of the
100 block of Second street northeast.
block Of M street. The raids were at
their residences. The woman was Marie
Robinette, 20, of the 200 block of
Twelfth street southeast, arrested at
her home.
Other Arrests Listed.
Others arrested by the headquarters
squad were:
Henry Lowrey, At, colored, of the
1400 block of Montello avenue north
east, and Glen Coleman, IS, colo. ed.
200 block of Warren street northeast,
both taken in their homes, and Cert
rude Butler, 81, colored, of the 800
block of Second street southeast.
Three men and three women, all coll
ored, were taken in raids by members
of the first inspection district vice
squad, operating under Sergt. r. A.
Johnson. Those arrested were: George
Kelly, 80, arrested in the 900 block Of
Fourth street; Marie Rich, 4S. and
Eloise Gray. 81. arrested in the 400
block of Washington street; Charles
Harris, 80, and Edith May johnson, 40.
arrested In the $500 block of Champlain
street, on charges of possession. and
James Walker, 40, arrested at the lat
ter address on a charge Of disorderly
conduct.
Others arrested were:
Sue Pomer, 80; william Southworth
so, and Pharaoh Robins, so, all colored
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MOFFETT SAYS HOP
SHOULD BE WARNING
Declares Flight to Istanbul Shows
America Could Be Attacked
From Europe.

A warning that the Boardman- Polan-
do flight to Istanbul, Turkey, shows
that America could be attacked by air.
planes from Europe was sounded in a
statement issued last night by Rear Ad-
miral William A. Moffett, chief of the
Aeronautics Bureau.
I'VE should be especially proud of our
commercial and civil aviation" Admiral
Moffett said "since we have regained
the long distance nonstop record, flown
by American pilots in an American de-
signed, built and powered plane.
United States naval aviation saluteS
the pilots who brought new
achievements to American aviation.
THE successful flight from New York
to Istanbul measures the progress made
in aviation since Lindbergh's pioneer
fight to Paris. Its significance is that
airplaneS can now fly from Europe to
America and carry an effective war or
mail load"
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Science
Snake-WOrshiPing Tribe
Survives on Island.

Remnants of strange tribe of snake
worshipers in the highlands of New
Georgia, one Of the Solomon Islands,
are reported by j. H. L. Waterhouse
in the British anthropological journal,
Man.
These people are known as the Ka-
zukuruS. No white man, says Water
house ever has seen one of their viii
lage sites in the rough hill country
and there are very few of them left,
although there is mixture of their
blood in the rest of the New Georgia
population.
placed in an inverted position so that
the roots are uppermost. All sorts Of
snakes are held sacred. They also are
reported to consider the crab q holy
animal.
The tribe has been almost wiped
out by leprosy. Waterhouse has obtained
a vocabulary of several hundred Kazu-
kuru words, from which it may be pos
sible to trace the racial connections of
the almost vanished prlmitives.
IT. r. H.
(Copyright. 1917
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.W|CKERSHAM SEES
|. us. PRISONS SIDE
Note Tells Bates He Regrets
Commission Lacked Fa.
VorabIe Comment.

Regret that the last report of the Law
Enforcement Commission had not spok-
en- more favorably Of the Governments
improved penal machinery was ex-
pressed yesterday by Chairman Wicker
sham in note to Sanford Bates, Fed
eral prison superintendent.
Making no differentiation between
Federal and State institutions, the COM
missions report dashed out at the pres
ent prison system" as Anticipated, ineff1-
cient, as falling either to reform the
criminal or protect society and as con-
tributing to crime through brutal treat
ment of prison inmates.
Bates answer. given to newspaper
men, was that his bureau during the
past year had put into effect nearly
every one of the commissions % recon-
mendations.
Reports to Mitchell.
1t was learned also that the Federal
prison superintendent had written
report to Attorney General Mitchell in
which he listed each of the commits
sions suggestions and beneath 1t re-
ported the task either done or under
way so far as the Government was con-
cerned.
In its scathing denunciation Of the
prison system, the commission made
little mention of Federal institutions,
and virtually every one Of the examples
1t cites as bad was State or local in
stitution.
In his note yesterday Mr.. Wicker
sham pointed out that In a report by
"a experts, appended to the commits
sion'S study, there was a resume Of eff
forts to improve the Federal prison sys-
tenn. Bates was one of the "a who
wrote this report.
Il wish" Wickersham wrote, that
more reference had been made to this
history in the report of the commission
itself, because think the legislation is
epoch-mak1ng and the changes in the
whole system Of penal management and
control and the custody and training
OF offenders is really revolutionized by
the legislation which you have pro-
mcted and the changes which you have
made"
Comment of Mitchell.
When asked his opinion of the Wick
ersham report, Attorney General Mitch
ell said he thought Bates work had
not been sufficiently discussed.
Along with his letter Mr.. Wickersham
sent to Bates copy of the report. The
note was mailed from New York, where
has resumed his private law practice
after more than two years Of work with
the commission here.
He plans to return to the Capital
shortly to present to President Hoover
fifteenth report of the commission de-
failing its expenditure of the $500 900
appropriated by Congress With the
submission of this report the commits
Sion'S work will be done
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BY HUGH HERNDON, JR.

BY Radio to The Star.
MOSCOW, July 81 (NANA).-Push-
ing on confidently on our round-the-
world flight Clyde Pangborn and !
landed our plane on MoScows flying
field at 1852 am. today, local time
(4:52 am, Eastern daylight-Saving
time).
We are fresh and eager and intend to
leave Moscow Immediately after the
banquet which the Soviet government is
giving us. BY that time we expect to
be 10 hours behind the mark set by
Post and Gatty at this stage OF the
flight.
But we think we are going to beat
their record Our machine carries so
much more gas than theirs, and We
plan to make only one stop to their two.
Moscow Fields Confusing.
Coming in from Berlin today we
had some trouble determining which
was the flying field here because there
are so many open spaces in Moscow:
But finally We located 1t and settled
down to a good landing.
There were not so many people TO
meet us, but what was lacking in
numbers they made up in eager cor
diality
After leaving Berlin we ran into
fogs These lasted three hours. Pang-
born had the stick during this time,
Sometimes he had the plane at an
elevation of $4,000 feet.
We crossed the Russian border near
a town called Bigossovo and soon after
ward the weather cleared up. We were
navigating by our Richie aperiodic
compass and Sperry gyroscope. and
when we emerged from the fog we
found we had hit the route right smack
on the nose.
Our maps were not very good-very
little better than the maps We had in
England, which were tourist maps. We
tried to follow the railway line part OF
the way, but found that where the map
indicated a turn the railway ran
straight and vice versa. So we de-
pended on compass bearings.
Surprised by Churches.
We got some rest by taking the stick
in turns, the fellow of duty sleeping
and getting fairly good relaxation.
We hit Moscow squarely after some
hours of good flying weather. We could
see the golden domeS of the churches
shining and knew we had arrived. We
heard that the Soviet had burned the
churches, sc 1t was rather surprise to
find so many standing.
Food we had in plenty. The chicken
supplied us in Berlin was still holding
out. So were the quart Of Scotch they
gave US at Croydon and the thermos
bottle of coffee we received in Berlin
We touched very little Of the Scotch
and turned the bottle over to an Amer
lean newspaper correspondent. He told
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Herndon's Own Story
Pair Still Confident Of Beating Ro"nd,the-W World
Record Made by Post and Gdtty.

us Scotch was very rare In Russia.
At the Moscow Field we were met by
a small group Of newspaper men and
Soviet flying officials. They showed us
maps end helped us plan the Siberian
crossing.
May Change Route.
We leave Moscow with the intention
of following the same route taken by
Post and Gatty. but circumstances may
result in our changing 1t. If we re-
ceive reports along the line showing
that one route is better than another We
naturally will choose the better route.
The Russians refueled our ship in
record time. The quality Of gasoline
and oil they put in we found entirely
all right. This was one of the things
that had been worrying us, but now
that's settled. The Soviet officials as
sure US, of the same kind of fuel no
matter where we settle down.
They escorted us off the field, and
after a short customs examination
which was a mere formality they took
us to a hotel after a tour through
the Red Square and around the Krem-
lin.
At the hotel we found the banquet
spread in a private room, and were able
to crafty our curiosity as to how Vodka
tastes. We found it pretty good clear
liquid, but there isn't much taste to 1t.
The Russians made speeches and
drank tosstS TO our success in our flight
across Siberia, the Boring Straits and
on back to New York.
Both Have Rabbits Feet.
If this story seems a little helter-
Skelter please bear in mind that I am
debating it between courses Of nine
course luncheon. Just about the time
Pang and / were at the fish course we
discovered that each of us was carrying
the hind foot of a rabbit killed in a
grave yard at full moon-little luck
symbols. Neither Of US knew until
this moment that the other carried such
a charm.
They seemed to have Incorporated
because it has been run off more quick
ly than our dinner in Berlin.
Now. as we head into Siberia, you
will get only occasional short messages
from us. For they tell US it is very
difficult to get news out Of that broad
expanse Of marsh and forests. We feel
no trepidation about this next leg of
our flight. We will keep a straight
course and won't lose our way This
morning, coming in from Berlin, We
tween 4 and S, but we never worried
We were sure of our course and knew
we were flying high.
Once more-we are confident we are
going to beat that Post and Gatty rec
ord.
Copyright, 1881 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
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FRENCH PRINCIPLE UPSET.

PARIS, July 81 (R).-"Congratula-
tons to Boardman and Polando and
to the United States" said Joseph
Lebrix, lcng-distance airman, today
when he learned that the American
flyers, on the strength of unofficial fig
ures, had taken the distance record
away from France.
MY best congratulations" he re-
peated. But hope to win the record
another attempt in the very near
future"
Lebrix returned to Paris yesterday
from Moscow. preparatory to another
nonstop Paris-to-Tokio attempt. He
recently failed to make it, being forced
down in Siberia.
Upsets Power Principle.
Some aviation experts made no eff
fort today to conceal their aStonish-
ment over the Boardman-Polando eX-
plot, saying 1t might upset their
French principle of constructing long
distance airplanes, which have been
tending to be higher and higher in
power.
Until now there never was any doubt
that Francs had superior equipment for
long distance flights and none OF the
experts guessed that the Coste-Bellonte
record would be broken by little ship
of only 800 horsepower.
Lebrix, however, was not surprised at
the performance of the little plane.
IT knew the Cape Cod was capable OF
this exploit" he said, but it is none the
less a remarkable achievement for a
comparatively low-powered plane"
The distance covered is accepted by
the Daily Auto as las kilometers (aoout
on ,,1iIocl orc ofor than the CnSfn.RPl-
lonte record, or As kilometers more than
was necessary to break the record. 1t
was believed the record would be ac-
cepted by the International Aromatic
liberation If regulations have been COM
piled with.
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ZEPPELIN IS HOME
AFTER ARCTIC TRIP
Eckener Calls Cruise Easy.
New Territory Charted
by Scientists Aboard.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN July 3I.-The
dirigible Graf Zeppelin completed her
latest bit of globe-trotting today when
she settled down in her hangar after a
seven-day cruise to the Arctic.
The ship reached home port sooner
than had been expected, and cruised
for an hour over Friedrichshafen and
Lake Constance before DR.. Hugo Eckener
brought it to the ground at am I'll
pm. Thursday, Eastern standard time).
AS DR.. Eckener and the passenger
scientists, headed by Prof. Rudolph
Sandwich, left the gondola, a band
played Deutschland Uber Allies"
Arctic Trip Proves Easy.
FriedrichShafen was excited and proud
of the latest exploit of the big ship,
but there will be no formal celebration.
The city fathers announced that times
we're too hard for money to be spent
that way.
The Arctic cruise was described by
Dr. Eckener as highly successful and
as a relatively easy trip.
often we enjoyed skies of italian
blue" he said, land we never were
bothered by the discomforts OF the
Arctic"
Prof. Sandwich complained because
the weather was too warm. we all
perspired copiously in our Arctic out
fits," he said.
New Lands Charted.
DR.. Eckener already is planning an
other cruise to the North. He expressed
the hope that the journey could be
made soon, when funds are available,
and that in time the Graf Zeppelin
would become a favorite method OF
transportation for persons who feel the
call OF the North.
The scientists aboard the vessel
charted more than $4,000 square kllo-
meters of hitherto unknown territory,
according to Prof. Samoilvich. and
sent up numerous observation balloons,
of which at least two undoubtedly
reached the stratosphere. In addition,
many photographs were taken.
One result of the flight will be new
man of the Arctic, as hitherto undls-
covered islands were spotted ana some
land shown on present maps was 1ouno
to be non-existent.
Graf Stops at Berlin.
The Graf Zeppelin landed at Tenn
pelhof Airdrome, Berlin, at 6:3S pm.
Yesterday tlZ.oo pin, cdSoVClh SSoLtA
ard tine) on its way to Friedrichshafen
amid the lusty cheers of thousands Of
Berliners. The as men who made the
Arctic trip set foot on land 1or tne
first time since the Graf stopped at
Leningrad on its way to the North. The
group included two Americans. :,
Heinrich Sahm, Berlin's towering loro
mayor, presented the coat-of-arms CT
Berlin to DR.. Eckener, the crowd sang
the national anthem and radio micro
phone was turned over to DR.. Eckener.
So intent was the crowd on watching
the Graf land that the red monoplane
of the transatlantic flyers, Clyde. Pang-
born and Hugh Herndon, slipped down
into the airdrome a short time after
ward almost unnoticed. newspaper
man and one police officer recognized
the plane first, and ran out 10 meet
Panghorn and Herndon.
The Graf rose into the air a snort
time later and headed for her nome
port.
CALLS ARCTIC AIR ROUTE SAFE.
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HANKOW IN DANGER
Martial Law Declared in Chinese
City as Flood Threatens.

The State Department was informed
yesterday that martial law had been
ordered in the food threatened City of
Hankow because Of the large number
of refugees from the surrounding
stricken territory.
Consul General Walter A. Adams ear
lier in the day had reported the city
was threatened by an almost record
breaking flood level on the YangtZe
River. The water was flooding an area
of 80 square miles, including many
Chinese villages, the report said.
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taken In raid on Shepherd road north
east: Howell Boulder, %, of the 2100
block of N street, arrested in the act
of delivering liquor which had been
ordered by policemen.
wade Shields, 80, of the 900 block of
I, street northeast; Herbert Smith, 80,
and william Gray, 600 block of Callan
street northeast, the latter three coll
ored. arrested in the 600 block Of L
street northeast. James Anderson, so,
and his wife, Rose Anderson, colored,
arrested in their home on Fort drive
northeast.
Small quantities Of liquor were re-
ported confiscated on each raid.
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POST AND GATTY SPONSOR
TO DEFEND FLIGHT MARK

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD. Calf, July 31.-F. c.
Hall, wealthy Oklahoma City oil man,
who financed the Whey Post-Harold
Gatty tight around nda sne %or1o, saio mere
Herndon. jr., should set new record,
post and Gatty will fly the Winnie
Mae" again in an effort to regain the
title"
Hail indicated that he was not appre-
hensive that Fangborn and Herndon
will excel Post and Gatty's time.
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OF TURKEY
. HONOR AMERICANS
Boardman and PoIando In
vited to Be Guests of
Mustapha Renal.

CONTINUED From First Page.)
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MAY FLY BACK HOME.
Boston Newspaper Reports Plans for
Return Hop Over Atlantic.

BOSTON, July 81 (P).-The Boston
Globe says it learned last night from
reliable source that Russell Boardman
and John Polando planned to make a
return flight across the Atlantic. and
thus become the first flyers to make a
round trip Atlantic crossing.
The Globe says the Boston flyers plan
to stay three days in Turkey. then fly
to Vienna, Berlin. Paris and London.
At London they win begin preparations
for the return flight.
Meanwhile Boston organizations were
planning to try and persuade Boardman
and Polando to make Boston their first
stop on the homeward flight from Lon
GOO
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Amy Johnson Leaves Omsk.

SHANGHAI, July 81 CP).-Amy John
son, British woman f1ier, en- route from
England to Tokyo, took of today from
Omsk. She telegraphed here that she
expected to reach Krasnojarsk tonight.