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ASKS VAGRANT LAW
BEFORE INAUGURAL
Rover Would Protect Visitors
.and Residents From
Pickpockets.
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Enactment of a vagrancy law .for the
District of Columbia before inaugura -
ticn day so as to protect Washingtonia «;
and visitors from professional pick
* pockets was advocated by United States
Attorney Loo A. Rover yesterday in ad
* dressing the round table luncheon
* meeting of the law and legislation com
* mit’ee of (he Women's City Club.'
* “It is the only way to pick them be
* fore they begin to pick pockets,” Rover
declared. , ...
*■ In urging the women to use their
inlluer.ee wherever they could to give
« impetus to pending bills affecting the
* welfare of the District, Mr. Rover dis
* cussed the lack of several needed laws
for the protection of life and property.
With a vagrancy law. he said, it would
* be difficult for “professionals” to ply
J their trade here, for the police could
► pick up many suspicious characters and
* known crooks at sight.
! Another legislative need of the Dis
* trict, he pointed out, was a “dangerous
* weapon law,” which, if properly en •
. forced, would prevent the purchase of
* revolvers by criminals. Under the pro
* posed law, he explained, applicants for
* “dangerous weapons” must be investi
* gated and delivery cannot be made un •
48 hours after purchase.
’ The District also lacks a law cover
ing “assault to do great bodily harm,”
he said, nor is there a lew here cover
* ing the crime of burglary. “Burglary,”
* in the District is defined as “house
* breaking,” Mr. Rover said, “and must
Jbe done at night. Burglary itself.” he
* explained, “is not listed as a crime.”
' Possession of a weapon by a person
, discovered in housebreaking should be
► made a felony, the United States at-
J torney recommended.
* Mrs. Charles Alger, chairman of the
* law and legislation committee presided.
Arrangements for the luncheon were
» in the hands of the following com
* mittee: Mrs. Lyman B. -Swormstedt,
► Mrs. Ellis Meredith.* Mrs. H. E. Geary.
* Mrs. Lawton Miller, Miss Gertrude
» Temple and Miss Phyllis Robinson.
* At the speakers’ table with Mr. Rover,
» were seated Mrs. Merrit O. Chance,
* president of the Women’s City Club;
J Mrs. Alger and Judge Mary O’Toole.
I CAPT. FRIED’S SHIP
j, BATTERED BY GALE;
ji REACHES HOME PORT
*
(Continued From First Page.)
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J have fallen into the sea, he said, had
»not Assistant Engineer King of the
* America dragged him up to the deck,
ladder and all.
* The three radio operators of the
* America, speaking over a network of
» 25 stations of the National Broadcast
* ing System from the studio of WEAF
. tonight, graphically told of the anxious
' hours preceding the rescue of the crew
' of the Florida.
The three men. Nelson Smith, chief
radio operator, and his two assistants,
Charles Maass and Lester Bowman, told
in chronological order the part each
took in communicating with the Florida
and taking bearings by the radio di
rection finder.
Smith told first of receiving the SOS
\ 1 from the Danpedike and, then four
hours later the S O S from the Florida.
Describes Sighting Ship.
Maass was at the key Wednesday
, night when the Florida was sighted. He
told the story as follows;
; “Zero hour had come. The Florida’s
.signals were so strong that we thought
'he must be low down on the horizon.
Capt. Fried instructed me to ask the
Florida to send up rockets. I called his
; operator and back came the sorrowful
and pathetic answer; ‘We have no
rockets.* Then I asked him to bum
some bright flare or light on his deck—
you see, it was pitch dark. He came
right back with ‘Our decks are awash.’
“Then I learned that while the ship’s
dynamo was still functioning, there were
no lights available other than the small
; running lights that did not pierce the
gloom at this distance. Suddenly he
called the glad news: ‘We see you.’
. After I said, ‘Well, old man, we can’t
see you,’ he said, ‘Now we see your
green light,’ which meant that he was
on our starboard side. This was about
6:15.
Rescuers to Speak.
“In about 10 minutes we sighted
him. Looking through the port. I saw
her listed badly to starboard. Our job
was done.”
Capt. Fried and the men in the Amer
ica's lifeboat will speak over station
; WABC, New York, and the Columbia
Broadcasting chain from 7:30 to 8:30
o’clock tomorrow night.
Radio also will carry New York’s
reception on Monday.
A microphone is to be installed in the
aldermanic chamber at City Hall, where
Mayor Walker will receivg the rescuers
of the crew of the liner Florida at
12:30 p.m. Addresses at a luncheon
being given for the men by the New
York Advertising Club will be broadcast
at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon.
The municipal station, WNYC, and
a chain of National Broadcasting Co.
stations headed by WEAF, New York,
will carry the ceremonies.
TANKER LIMPS TO SAFETY.
Two of Dannedaike’s Crew go to Hos
pital in Bermuda.
ST. GEORGES, Bermuda, January
26 (4 s ).—The American tanker Danne
daike limped into port here today with
a dramatic tale of an attempted sea
rescue which almost turned into a dis
aster for the rescuer. Badly buffeted,
with half her bridge tom away and with
makeshift steering appafatug, thfe Vessel
put in to send 2 of her crew of 32 to the
hospital and to make repairs before
continuing her voyage from Beaumont,
Tex., to Belgium.
SILENCE HIDES FATE QF 85.
Two Ships Unheard From After SOS;
Trawler Missing.
NEW YORK, January 26 (£>).—Si
lence tonight hid the fate of the Brit
ish steamer Silver Maple, fifth vessel
this week to send out an S O S over
the storm-swept Atlantic, while the
cutters Mojave and Tampa sped to Im
position 780 miles east of Boston, pos
ition 37:10 north 56:15 west.
The plight of the Italian freighter
Capo Vado, silent for 24 hours after she
sputtered an S O S from a point some
750 miles east of Bermuda, also was a
mystery.
No details of her condition were given
and there was no word that any ships
were going to her rescue, except the
British steamer Cleanthis which relayed
the SOS. Her position was given &s
latitude 31:23 north, longitude 48:46.
The Capo Vado was en route to Bal
timore with a crew of 25 or 30 men.
Belief was expressed by the Coast
Guard that the Ashing trawler Seiner,
which had been Ashing on Georges
Banks and had not been heard from
since January 13, had gone down with
* her crew of 20. This opinion was given
after Coast Guard vessels had waged
a vigorous search for the craft, w-hich
apparently was blown far out to sea.
The Silver Maple has a crew of 40
men. She sailed from Oran January
15, for New York.
Germany has more unemployed than
a year ago. j
BOY; 5, IS INJURED BY AUTO
DURING ERRAND AFTER CANDY
Visiting Nurse Picks Up Rob
ert Cockrill and Takes
Him to Hospital.
George S. Gobbett, .6, Also
Is Hurt in Traffic
• Accident.
(
Absorbed in the piece of candy he
clutched tightly* in his llttPe hand. 5-
year-old Robert • Cockrill •of ‘1921
P street southeast, ran into the side
of-a moving automobile at Minnesota
avenue and Naylor read southeast yes
teray afternoon. Thrown to the street,
he was picked up by Miss Minnie Lano
of 2500 K street, an Instructing Visiting
Nurse,* who was driving the car. and
taken to Casualty Hospital, where he
lice at the point of death, with a frac
tured skull.
Robert had persuaded his mother, Mrs.
Jack Cockrill, to give him a nickel to
buy candy. He ran to the corner store
and took a piece of candy from the
bag and was eating it when he reached
the curb and darted across the street.
He was thrown several feet by the au
tomobile 'and was unconscious when
Miss Lano reached him. A parked car
had obscured her vision of the child, a
few feet away. The boy’s bag lay a
few feet away.
BYRD S PLANE MAKES RECORD
IN 10,000-MILE RADIO MESSAGE
Craft 3,000 Feet Over Antarctic Transmits
to New York on 34-Meter Wave
* * \ a t
Length.
A world record In radio and aviation
was established early yesterday morning
when Comdr. Richard E. Byrd’s plane,
the Stars and Stripes, in flight 3,000
feet above the icy wastes that surround
the Bay of Whales, in the Antarctic,
conducted two-way communication di
rect with the New York Times radio
station in Times Square. The distance
between the plane and the receiver was
10.000 miles. It was the first time that
qn airplane in flight had sent and re
ceived messages over such a long dis
tance.
It was 10:30 p.m. In New York when
Operator Carl O. Peterson of the
steamer City of New York, base ship
of the expedition, called the New York
Times on the 34-meter wave- length.
He said that Malcolm P. Hanson, radio
chief of the expedition, would make a
test flight in the plane Stars and Stripes
at about 3:15 a.m., Eastefn standard
time, which is 8:15 p.m. at the Bay of
Whales, in the land that Byrd hss
named “Little America.”
“Listen in and try to hear the plane,”
said the flash from the Far South. So,
while the ether in the north temperate
zone was comparatively quiet, with most
of the broadcasters and amateurs fast
asleep, Reginald Iverson, radio engineer
at the Times station, saw that every
thing at his receiver was in shape to
establish a record. He tuned the dial
to the 34-meter channel, and at 3:15
a.m., sharp, the operator in the South
Polar region kept his rendezvous with
the metropolis of the world.
Radioed Warning of Take-off.
‘‘The plane is now leaving the ice,"
was the warning for,New York to tune
carefully, because just a slight turn of
the dial over the breadth of a hair
would cause New York to miss the
plane. “Listen for WFC.” That is the
call of the Stars and Stripes.
Iverson shifted his dial slightly
around the 34-meter mark. He picked
up a signal. It was the characteristic
240-cycle note of the airplane flying
over the Antarctic.
He eavesdropped as Hanson, an old
timer in wireless, adjusted and tested
his transmitter until the electrical
meters revealed that it was operating to
perfection. Then he called WHD, the
New York Times, 10,000 miles up north.
Iverson intercepted the call, which pen
etrated several climes and crossed the
Equator on its flight to Manhattan.
The transmitter on the seventeenth
floor of the Times Annex flashed “Go
ahead.”
The plane heard the dots and dashes
from the Times transmitter. New York
was linked by an invisible channel with
Little America. Hanson said:
“Congratulations on longest two-way
communication with an airplane in
flight. Hr msg No. 1 de airplane Stars
and Stripes to Commander S. C.
Hooper, director of naval communica
tions, Navy Department, Washington,
D. C.: Sincere regards to yourself and
Naval Research Laboratory and entire
Navy Department on occasion of long
est aircraft communication ever es
tablished. We are in flight, 3,000 feet
over Little America, Bay of Whales,
Antarctica. Fine sunny night.”
The dispatch was signed “Hanson.”
All Words Picked Up.
The transmission ended at 3:28 a.m.,
12 minutes after the message reported
that the plane was about to go aloft.
Iverson broadcast an acknowledgment
that all words had been picked up. No
repeats were necessary because Hanson
sent each word twice and the signal was
fairly strong, although nature tried to
block the record by an unsuccessful at.
tack of fading.
A few minutes later Hanson ad.
vised that he was about to shift the
plane’s transmitter to function on the
65-meter wave. Silence followed. This
OHIO LIQUOR RING
BELIEVED BROKEN
Ten Are Arrested by U. S.
Agents, Who Seize $60,000
in Rum.
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 26.—Ten
men, alleged to have directed the im
portion of millions of dollars’ worth of
Canadian beer and whisky into the
United States, were arrested here to
night by special Federal agents, who
raided three warehouses and conAscated
$60,000 worth of liquor.
The agents, 10 in number, who had
been conducting a three-month spe
cial investigation, are said to have
shattered one of the largest liquor rings
ever discovered in Cleveland.
One of the warehouses was a Govern
ment bonded warehouse, where the raid
ers said they found 2,000 gallons of al
cohol marked with orders to hold it for
the ring.
The liquors were cached in under
ground passages, reached through se
cret panels, the agents reported.
One of them arrested was held as
a witness. The others gave their names
as Harry Berner, Morris Komiserg, Mil
ton Sabad, Arthur Weiss, Julian Weil,
Samuel Grossman, Louis Cohen, Henry
Ruff and James Perry, all of Cleveland.
THE - StrSDAY STAR, WASHING TOX. T>. €.. JANUARY 27. 1929-PART 1.
ROBERT COCKRILL.
A second serious injury to a child
m a traffic accident occurred last eve
ning. George S. Gobbett, 6 years old,
of 125 D street, was struck by an auto
mobile as he was playing in the street
in front of his home about 5:50 o’clock.
Miss Marguerite Dunbar of 4423 Green
wich parkway, the driver of the car,
took the child to Casualty Hospital,
where he was treated by Dr. Louis
Jimal for shock and possible internal
injuries. His condition is said Io be
serious.
wave did not reach New York. It was
not an effective wave to cover such a
long distance.
At 4:15 a.m. Iverson again picked up
the signals from the plane on the 34-
meter channel, which this time suc
ceeded in talking with the radio men at
vhe Mussel Rock station of the Robert
Dollar Co., 12 miles from San Fran
cisco, which reported to the New York
Times as follows:
“Mussel Rock Radio Station, Rob
ert Dollar Co. established two-way
radio communication with Byrd plane
Stars and Stripes, exchanging following
messages single at 25 words per minute
without difficulty: ‘WFC Fairchild
plane Stars and Stripes. Bay of
Whales, January 25, to Ralph M.
Heintz, San Francisco: Congratula
tions to you on performance of your
airplane transmitter on occasion of es
tablishing this world's record for two
way and one-way aircraft communica
tion. We are 3,000 feet over Little
America, Bay of-Whales, Antarctica, in
Fairchild plane Stars and Stripes.’
Signed Hanson.
Mussel Rock replied:
“To Hanson, airplane Stars and
Stripes, WFC: Wonderful luck and I
surely am proud to be so fortunate as
to be a party to this remarkable accom
plishment. Mussel Rock, per Fred Roe
buck.”
The Transmitter Equipment.
Radio men rate signal strength from
l to 10; the latter figure denoting a very
loud signal. Hanson reported on this
basis that the Mussel Rock signal
strength was 7, and Mussel Rock
reported the intensity of the signal
from the plane was of six-degree in
tensity.
The radio transmitter that made the
new record was built by Heinz 'Si Kauf
mann at San Francisco. It is described
as a high-frequency and intermediate
frequency transmitter employing .one
50-watt oscillator tube, which is about
as powerful, as far as electrical- rating
is concerned, as an ordinary incandes
cent lamp. The Stars and Stripes is
equipped with what is termed a fixed
doublet antenna, reaching from the tips
of both wings to the tail and into the
fuselage. This is for short-wave trans
mission, while a trailing wire is utilized
for communication on the universal
commercial wave of 600 meters. The
installation is powered by an electrical
generator coupled direct to the airplane
engine. This is an innovation in air
plane radio.
The plane’s receiver, which picked up
the signals from the Times’ station, is
a special four-tube super-regenerative
circuit for short-wave reception, de
signed by Malcolm P. Hanson and built
by the National Electric Supply Com
pany of Washington, D. C.
, Look for New Triumphs.
So strong were the signals from the
plane and so slight the fading, the bane
of short-wave radio, that the Times’
operators are hopeful that they will pick
up the plane's dispatches as the Star’s
and Stripes flies over the South Pole,
provided the flight is made between
midnight and 4 a.m., New York time,
and if the proper wave is used to con
quer the obstacles that lurk in the radio
channels that extend 10,000 miles from
‘the crossroads of the world” at Times
Square to the world’s most remote out
post, surrounded by snow and ice, 2,400
miles from the nearest point of civiliza
tion.
Comdr. Hooper last night sent the fol
lowing message to Radio Officer Hanson
of the Byrd expedition: . .
“Your message received by air from
the air. Wonderful record and inter
esting. Hope to receive one when you
are over the South Pole. Envy you, as
no sunny nights here now. Communi
cations and laboratory personnel join
in regards to Comdr. Byrd and all
hands.”
KALE AGAIN FOUND
GUILTY OF MURDER
“King of Osage Hills,”
Blamed in Reign of Terror,
Gets Life Term.
By the Associated Press.
PAWHUSKA, Okla., January 26.
W. K. Hale, known as the “King of the
Osage Hill” and alleged by the Gov
ernment to have been responsible for a
reign of terror among Osage Indians
several years ago, again was convicted
of murder and sentenced to life im
prisonment in Federal Court here late
today.
Hale was tried for complicity in the
killing of Henry Roan, an Osage tribes
man on whose life he carried a $25,000
insurance policy. He was convicted on
the same charge previously, but won a
retrial on an appeal.
Nearly a score of mysterious and
violent deaths were visited upon the
wealthy Osage Indians over a period of
several yeats until GovernrAent agents
finally brought about the arrest of
Hale..
The reign of terror’, as it became
known, threw members of the tribe into
a panic. Some of the Indians strung
lights about their homes and posted
guards at night to protect themselves
from harm.
TYPOTHETAE 0. K.’S
DISTRICT AIRPORT
Resolution Urges Petitioning
Congress to Pass Program
for Construction.
Ben Franklin day was celebrated last
night at the Lee House by the
ington Typothetae. Officers of the
Typothetae of Washington, Philadel
phia, Baltimore, Richmond and New
York were guests. The principal ad
dress was made by Wiliam Pass, past
commander of the order.
A committee consisting of William J.
Eynon, Charles P. Crane and William
W. Rapley drew up the following reso
lutions, which were passed unanimously.
“Whereas the District Commissioners,
she Washington Board of Trade, the
Washington Chamber of Commerce, the
Washington Manufacturers’ Association,
as well as the Aero Club of Washington
have indorsed pending legislation which
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SAKS —The Avenue at Seventh —SAKS
provides the City qf Washington with a
municipal airport, and,
“Whereas, the establishment of such
an airport will greatly increase business
activity for the business men of Wash
ington as well as aid and expedite the
business activity of the Federal Gov
ernment. ;
“Therefore, be it resolved, That the
Typothetae of Washington indorse a
program to provide Washington with an
airport commensurate with the dignity
and importance of the Nation’s Capi
tal. and
“Be it further resolved. That Congress
be petitioned to pass such legislation
providing for a construction program
that will permit the city to obtain ulti
mately one of the outstanding airports
of the world, and
“Be it further resolved. That Congress
be petitioned to pass such legislation
this session to make available sufficient
funds for the coming fiscal year to effi
ciently and expeditiously carry out such
a construction program.”
SLUGGED BY ROBBERS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va„ January 26.
Antonio de Piammittorio of Raymond
avenue. Potomac, told local police late
tonight he was slugged by one of three
colored men who accosted him in the
(•;00 block of North Columbus street and
made off with the $22 he had in his
wallet.
The three displayed no gun, but one
used his fist with considerable effect.
Piammittorio said.
OLD “BIKE” CLUB
TO OBSERVE BIRTH
Fiftieth Anniversary Will Be
Marked by Dinner Next
Thursday.
Were the wheels of time to turn back
50 years Washington would witness
next Thursday night a gay festival as
the Capital Bicycle Club once affec
tionately known as the C. B. C.—gath
ered around the festive board and cele
brated the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the organization at its
cluhouse, 409 Fifteenth street, just
across the street from the “white lot.”
The celebration, however, will not be
held at the old clubhouse, which long
since has given way to the Govern
ment building program, but at the
Cosmos Club, where 50 of the 150 sur
vivors of the organization will discuss
th- fin- Doints of high-wheeled “bikes.”
Membership in the club went to those
socially prominent irt Washington. They
were the young "swells” of the city and
invitations to the club entertainments
were eagerly sought. It once was said
that the club was organized to protect
members against the ire of pedestrians
who could not stand the speedy bikes
The dinner at the Cosmos Club will
begin at 6:30 o’clock. Leland O. How
-1 ard is chairman of the committee in
• charge, with his principal assistants
j Clarence G. Allen, secretary, and J.
[ Boteler, treasurer.
VETERAN’S WIDOW DEAD.
Mrs. Elizabeth Skillman, 84, Will
Be Buried Tuesday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Skillman. 84 years
old. widow of the late David F. Skill
man, Confederate veteran, died yester
day at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
A. L. Jennings, 837 Shepherd street.
Mrs. Skillman was born in Loudoun
County. Va.. and had been a resident
of Washington for more than 25 years.
Since the death of her husband in
1927 she has resided with Mrs. Jen
nings. She is survived by three daugh
ters, Mrs. A. L. Jennings, Mrs. Rosie
McKeown and Mrs. Alsindy Jacobv.
Funeral services will be held Tues
day afternoon at 2 o’clock at her resi
dence. Burial will be in the Presby
terian Cemetery at Alexandria, Va.
•
The parish Freckleton claims the
poultry farming record of England bv
having 41.000 hens.
MORROW CONFIRMS
| . RETCIRN TO MEXICO
Ambassador Confers With Coolidge
and Kellogg—Declines to Discuss
Questions of Duty.
Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow, men
tioned for the post of Secretary of
State in President-elect. Hoover’s cab
inet. confirmed here yesterday that he
is returning to his post in Mexico
Mr. Morrow spent a half hour in
conference with President Cooltdge at
the White House, and was later closeted
for some time with Secretary of State
i Kellogg. He declined to comment upon
the subject of his conferences, but an
nounced that he would leave Wash
ington toptht for New York and would
begin tea journey by rail to Mexico
City from New York on Monday night.
His White House call, Mr. Morrow
said, had to do with paying his respects
to the President and taking leave of him
incident to resuming his post He ex
plained that his visit to Mr. Hoover in
Florida was actually a matter of con
venience on the return from his vaca
: tion in the Bahamas.
The Ambassador requested not to br
questioned by the press on matters of
! official duty, saying that it was a dan
gerous matter for an Ambassador to talk
when on leave.