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CREDIT EXPANSION
PLAN MAY SPREAD
Federal Reserve Districts
Watching Conference on
Proiect in New York.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Plans for expanding credit bine
made in the conierence^ at the Feae al
Reserve Bank in New York with the
full knowledge and approval of toe au
thorities here may, i; they work out
into a practicable project, spread to
other Federal Reserve districts.
Briefly, the Federal Reserve System
has been buying Government securities
for several weeks, thus making available
to the banks money that they had pre
viously invested when bonds were lew
What shall the bank do with the excess
of reserves—the proceeds of the bonds
they have been selling? The Federal
Reserve management thinks they shou'd
use the funds to make leans to business,
to industry, to agriculture.
Would Open Loans.
But how does one set about making a
banker lend when he docs not feel like
taking risks? He will not wish to make
unsound loans, to be cure Tin bankers
aren’t being asked to do that But
there are loans which normally would
be made, which would be good risks,
and yet the banks now hesitate. If they
could be persuaded that the Recon
struction Finance Corporation would,
in effect, act as a rediscount agency in
case they found it necessary to get sup
port. and if they would venture to
maintain not as high degree of liquidity
as they have felt necessary in the past,
there would be a beginning of the
process of lending.
But it takes two parties to have a
loan. There must be borrowers. And
while there may be plenty of people
wishing to borrow’ who do not hate
the security or collateral, there are a
great many who can afford to borrow
but who hesitate because of the un
certainty of the future.
So the conference of bankers and
business leaders in New York is signifi
cant of a desire to find a way to stimu
late borrowing on the part of those who
should borrow and lending on the part
of those who should lend. When cap
ital is thus made available, business
operations may begin to expand or at
least they may cease their deflation and
curtailment, which has led in the past
to constantly diminishing employment
and constantly reduced pay rolls Icr
those employed.
Meet Is Challenge.
The meeting in New York is a chal
lenge to American business and bank
ing genius. The conferences are wholly
economic and are much better con
ducted in the metropolis than in the
political atmosphere of Washington.
Gov. Eugene Meyer, head of the Fed
eral Reserve system and chairman of
the board of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, is in New York. The Con
gress here is watching developments
and is for the moment trying to agree
on emergency powers for the Recon
struction Finance Corporation and the
flotation of bond issues for self-liqui
dating projects.
Psychologically the situation has
reached the point where Government
ana business each knows there is a
crisis on hand and that early action is
necessary to prevent further disintegra
t'on of morale. There prevails the
greatest hope that constructive meas
ures new are in the making.
MASSIES ARRIVE
IN KENTUCKY HOME
Leave Train in Indiana and Motor
to Winchester to Surprise
Friends.
Br the Associated Press.
WINCHESTER, Ky„ May 21—Slip
ping into Winchester secretly late to
day, Lieut, and Mrs. Thomas Massie had
dinner at the home of the naval offi
cer’s mother tonight before their many
friends learned of their arrival.
It had been two years since Massie
had seen his mother. Mrs. W. S. Massie,
and his sister, Dorothy, 24. The last I
part of this period he had spent de
fending himself on a charge of slaying
a Hawaiian accused of attacking his
wife in Honolulu.
Lieut, and Mrs. Massie left Chicago
yesterday morning by rail, but arrived
here in a small coupe they purchased in
Indiana after leaving the train.
WHEAT~PIT HEAD
SAYS FARM BOARD
FOILS OPEN TRADE
I
(Continued From First Page.)_
to make $100,000,000 of Reconstruction
Corporation Finance funds available to
sell Government cotton and wheat
abroad by providing credit to foreign
governments.
•‘It does not require an additional
$100,000,0:0 to accomplish this as con
templated by the Strong bill or other
bills now pending in Congress,” Carey's
statement said. ”It requires old-fash
ioned horse sense. If horse sense is
not substituted for fantastic theories
at once, it will be only a question of
a short time before the gram farmers
of this country will be forced to market
their grain as it is done in the Argen
tine—through a couple of dealers—and
without competition, or as it is done
in Russia, where the farmer is a real
slave, without prerogatives of any kind.
Hits Farm Board Attitude.
“The Board of Trade contributed its
every facility in an effort to carry out
the express wishes of the Congress, but
the constant harassment occasioned by
agricultural bureaucracy and the
fatuous attitude of the Federal Faim
Board, have thwarted the normal oper
ations of the Board of Trade to th«
great detriment of the institution itself
and with a corresponding appalling in
jury to the basic industry of the
country."
The Farm Board has repeatedly said
It would follow its announced policy
of selling 5,000,000 bushels of wheat
monthly despite the various proposals
that it dispose of all its holdings or
Impound them for a year or more.
Change in Policy Rejected.
Representatives of the private grain
trade recently suggested that the board
turn over its remaining supply to it
for disposal. This was flatly rejected
by Chairman Stone at a conference at
tended by Senator Watson of Indiana,
the Republican leader, and Secretary
of Agriculture Hyde, among others.
The board feels its policy contains
the only solution of unloading the
wheat stocks without a depressing ef
fect upon the market. It has been
steadfastly followed since last July 1.
The present supply approximates
95,000,000 bushels of actual cash wheat
plus between 25,000,000 and 30,000,000
bushels in futures.
Every efiort upon the part of the
private grain trade or members of
Congress to force the board to deviate
from its policy has been resisted and
it. is likely that the board, will continue
to follow its present policy into the
next year. If Congress appropriates
$100,000,000 to finance export sales, the
board has offers for about . 5,000.000
from foreign government, including
' Germany, Greece and Spain. The
chances are that when the new crop
moves to the market July 1 the board
will have only 50,000,000 bushels of cash
“Wheat provided export financing is ad
vanced by Congress.
Surprises Not Surprising
WOMAN FLYER NOTED FOR “UNEXPECTED.”
AMELIA EARHART PUTNAM.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 21.— Creating
surprises is nothing new to:
Amelia Earhart Futnam.
It may have been a coinci
dence that she took off from
Harbor Grace on the fifth anniversary
of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's solo
flight to Paris; it may have been a
coincidence that she landed at Cul
more. Northern Ireland, five years to
the day after Col. Lindbergh landed in
Paris; but it was not so much a coin
cidence th?t her plans became known
after she was in the air.
Pour years ago. on June 3, a tri
motored monoplane roared over the
waters at Boston, but not until it was
in the air did it become known that a
social settlement worker, Amelia Mary
Earhart. was aboard to become the first
woman to fly the Atlantic.
Left Putnam Behind.
Then, as now. George Palmer Put
nam was left behind, though this time
as the husband of the noted aviatrix
where four years ago he had charg;
of arrangements in America for the
backer, Mrs. Frederick Guest.
Coincidences do not end there.
Mrs. Putnam lists her permanent ad
dress at Rye, N. V. A year ago an
other noted aviatrix. Ruth Nichols, also
of Rye, headed for Harbor Grace. New
foundland, with ambitions to become
the first woman to fly the Atlantic
alone. Injured and defeated by a
crash, she left the field open.
But there are new aspects of this
flight—the main one of which is ex
perience.
Bern July 24, 1898, in Atchison.
Kans., Mrs. Putnam learned to fly in
California when she was 22 years old.
Her instructor was a former Army tutor,
John Montijo, and for three years she
learned by flying from an abandoned
field near Los Angeles and at Glen
dale, Calif.
During this period she qualified for a
pilot’s license of the Federation Aero
nautique Internationale, world govern
ing body cf sporting aviation, and be
came the fust woman to receive a certifi
cate from the Nati nal Aeronautic As
sociation, of which she now is a vice
president and member of the contest
board.
She rode as a passenger on her first
Atlantic venture. Wilmer Stultz being
the pilot, and Lou Gordon the mechanic,
and it was not until nine months after
ward that she applied for a Government
license.
When she did apply for the highest
rating, that of transport pilot, she listed
her solo flight time under 500 hours;
now she can point to a total of more
than 1,200.
She is blonde and gray-eyed, of slen
der build, is nearly 5 feet 8 inches tall,
and still is called "Lady Lindy," not for
ocean-hopping, but because of her re
semblance to Col. Lindbergh.
Liked Social Work.
Educated at a Philadelphia boarding
school. Columbia. Harvard and the Uni
versity cf California, she has mastered
five languages. As a social settlement
worker, she continued her interest in
this line after she had become famous
and many times was found in Green
wich Vil.age among a group of chil
dren.
On her first flight, the first word of
its success came from Capt. George
Fried of the steamship America, who
was p'ying southeast of Queenstown
when the Friendship roared over the
water and circled to drop notes request
ing a bearing. Mrs. Putnam said she
lay on her "tummy” to get a picture
of the ship before they proceeded to a
landing at Bury Estuary, Wales. It was
the same Capt. Fried who, aboard the
President Roosevelt, rescued Lou Relch
ers on May 13 off the southern tip of
Ireland when the speed flier was cn a
leg of a projected round trip New York
Paris flight.
ADMIRAL SAITO
IS APPOINTED NEW
JAPANESE PREMIER
(Continued From First Page.)_
dents and consuls live. The American
colony on that island is very small. Be
sides the consul and his staff there arc
barely 20 Americans living there. There
is an important missionary establish
ment in Amoi proper, but they are re
ported to have declined any military
assistance, being convinced that they
would not be harmed by the Com
munists.
In certain quarters the wisdom of
such a landing is questioned. During
the difficult stages of the Civil War in
China, in 1927, and especially during
the anti-foreign moves along the
Yangtze River, the American Navy has
not found it necessary to land a force as
a preventive measure. While the Brit
ish and the Japanese have sent a con
siderable number of troops to protect
the life and property of their citizens
and their extra territorial rights at
Hankow and other places, the American
Government has never associated itself
with any such move.
It may be that under the present cir
cumstances. when the movement in
Southern China is purely communistic,
a landing of American forces is neces
sary. But many conversant with the
real situation in China are of the opin
ion that the landing of sailors as a pre
cautionary move before any overt act
of molestation of Americans has oc
curred is a mistake.
The situation at Kulangsu is not be
lieved to require a landing operation.
An incursion of the Communists in
Kulangsu could be prevented easily by
careful patrolling of the channel which
separates Hanoi from the island which
is the headquarters of the International
Settlement.
Three Records
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Established New Marks
on Flight.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 21.—Amelia Eear
hart Putnam is:
1. The first woman ever to fly by
plane across the Atlantic.
2. The first woman to make a solo
airplane flight across the Atlantic.
3. The first person, man cr woman
to make two plane flights across the
ocean.
Also, she apparently set a transat
lantic time record when she brought
her plane down In a field In Ireland to
day. She made the crossing in 14 hours
54 minutes.
Although time comparisons with other
flights are net exactly fair because of
different hopping-off and landing placer,
the previous best time was 16 hours ’7
minutes, made by Post and Gatty *n
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Mrs. Putnam’s Ship
Used on Ludington
Line Four Months
“No. 34” Was Withdrawn
From Norfolk Service
for Flight.
The reconditioned monoplane with
whicli Amelia Earhart Putnam became
the first 'woman to fly across the At
lantic was being used, up to a month
ago, as a passenger ship on the Wash
ington-Norfolk line, it was revealed
yesterday by William Briggs, a Lud
ington official.
Mrs. Putnam, a vice president of the
Ludington Lines, borrowed the mono
plane put in service last January. Dur
ing the four months it flew 33,000
miles. About a month ago Mrs. Put
nam had it withdrawn to be recondi
tioned and remodeled for her success
ful Atlantic flight.
j The Lockheed-Veagn monoplane was
equipped to carry six passengers and
pilot, but its Ewso’.'.ne capacity was limit
ed to only sufficient gasoline for five
hours’ flight. To provide for gas suffi
j cient for the transatlantic flight, it
i was necessary to fill the cabin with
extra gas tanks as well as to make
other adjustments for safer flying.
During its Washington-Norfolk serv
ice the plane was known as No. 34.
HEADS CATHOLIC PRESS
Augusta, Ga., Editor Is Chosen
President of Association.
BUFFALO. N. Y„ May 21 (&)■—
Richard Reid of Augusta, Ga., editor
of The Bulletin, today was elected
president of the Catholic Press Asso
ciation of America. He will succeed
Benedict Elder of Louisville, Ky.
Other officers are Mgr. Albert
E. Smith of Baltimore, Md., editor of
the Catholic Review', vice president;
Joseph H. Meier of Chicago, publisher
of the Catholic Press Directory, re
elected secretary, and Charles H. Rid
der of Newf York, publisher of the
Catholic News, re-elected treasurer.
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DO-X Completes First Leg
of Return Flight to
Switzerland.
(Continued From First Page !_
and ran to the farm house, where she
found a very surprised Irishman.
Mr. Gallagher offered her tea but
she was in too much of a hurry to take
it So he motored her to Londonderry,
five miles away, and there she put in a
transatlantic call.
“I did it!" she exultingly told her
husband. George Paltrer Ptunam. pub
lisher. who was waiting anxiously in
New York for news of her.
14 Hours 54 Minutes.
Mrs. Putnam made approximately
2.000 miles in 14 hours and 54 minutes,
giving her the best time record of any
of the transatlantic flyers. She was
headed for Paris when she took off
from Harbor Grace, but she encounter
ed too much trouble to m?.ke it possible
to go any further—almost too much to
get to Ireland.
"About four hours after leaving New
foundland," she said, "I noticed flames
from the exhaust, and became very |
uneasy. But it would have taken four
hours to get back and I though it safer j
to go ahead.
"My next trouble was a leak in the
gasoline tank and all the time I was
worried whether the fuel would last I
out the trip.
"To add to my troubles, I encoun- ■
tered heavy weather and the storm cur
tailed my speed.
"I saw land at about the middle of
Ireland—probably it was Galway—and
then flew north. I next saw a rail
road line and followed that to Lonr on
derry. and I finally landed in the field.
Not Fatigued At All.
"All I had to eat on the trip was
some tomato juice. The only dollies I
have with me are the flying suit on
my back and the only money I have is
$20 that was handed to me as I was
leaving. I haven't even a check to sign.
"I haven't slept since Friday morn
ing, but I don't feel the least bit fa
tigued.”
Mrs. Putnam revealed that she al
most met disaster when she landed.
Her plane came to rest within a few
yards of the farmer's cottage and she,
very tired and half blinded by the con
tinuous strain on her eyes, did not see
the House until the ship stopped.
“It would have been exasperating to
crash into the cottage after safely land
ing," she said, "but my luck held out."
As her plane started its sudden sw’ocp
earthward the racket of its motor
startled a plowman and his horses in
a field nearby. The horses bolted and
the plowman had a hard time getting
them back at their business.
Late tonight Mrs. Putnam sent her
apologies to the man, but they were
not needed. He had learned that the
plane which came on him hke a bolt
by the blue had crossed the Atlantic
and was piloted by a woman—so every
thing was all right.
Hard to Find Her.
The arrival of the slim, blonde. 33
year-old airwoman was so unexpected
that even the Londonderry police had
a hard time finding her when they
learned she had put their community
in the all-time log of big aviation feats.
Mr. Gallagher first took her to the
Elms, the home of Mrs. Francis
McClure, a prominent Londonderry
woman, and from there she sent out
the messages that let the world know
she was safe.
It was in Londonderry that' she got
her first taste of public acclaim. A
great crowd gathered about her as she
was starting back to have one mere
look at the plane that brought her
across. Mayor McCorkell broke through
the ring of well-wishers, shook her
hand and exclaimed, "You've done an j
amazing thing!”
Mrs. McClure was much impressed i
by her unexpected guest.
"She didn't seem a bit perturbed or
anxious," she said. "She didn’t show
any signs of strain or fatigue. She
first had to wash and brush up and
then she went back to her plane.
"Outward'y she was quite calm, but
really she was very excited at making
the crossing. When every one began to
rush up and congratulate her she took
it all with a little smile.”
Hurried Back to Bed.
When the round of felicitations was
over. Mrs. Putnam hurried back to the
Gallanger farm and went happily to
bed. She left word to be called early,
for she wanted to start her flight to
England at dawn.
In addition to setting a speed record,
the airwoman put herself in a special
niche, for no one else ever flew from
America to Europe and then went back
and did it over again.
Her other crossing was in June. 1928
That time she was a passenger. Asked
which trip she liked better, she said:
“There is no comparison. On this go
I was flying low the whole time and had
to rely on myself.
“I am afraid I am a bit deaf after
the terrible roar of the engine in my
ears all the time, but at any rate I have
done it.”
DO-X REACHES HORTA.
Heavy Plane Landed North of Fayal
and Taxied to Port.
HORTA. Azores. May 21 (IP).—The
German flying boat DO-X. largest
heavier-than-air craft, arrived here at
10:55 p.m. tonight (7:55 p.m„ Eastern
standard time), on her homeward flight
from America to Lake Constance,
Switzerland.
The 12-motored seaplane alighted
north of Fayal Island and taxied around
to the waters off Horta, on the southeast
side, to complete the flight from Holy
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AFTER TALKING TO FLYING WIFE
George Palmer Putnam Says Woman Pilot
Didn't Sound Tired in Conversation
From Ireland.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Mav 21— In 6 thrill
filled minutes George Palmer Putnam
heard over a ‘ransatlantic telephone
line from his flying wife, Amelia
Earhart, this afternoon the story of her
perilous solo flight across the Atlantic.
His face showing weariness from a
sleepless vigil, he waited impatiently
while operators worked to put the con
nection through. Then he vetoed a
suggestion that a stenotype record be
made of the conversation, and retired
to a room by himself while they talked.
On Top of Water.
He was smi’ing broadly and looked
relieved when he finished.
“It was a burned-out collector ring
that caused the trouble." he said. “She
flew’ with it tor about 10 hours. She
said since she’d rather drown than
bum up. she flew right on top of the
water most of the wav.
“For four hours, it was absolutely
black and she flew blind.” he went on.
“It was rough as the devil. It wasn’t
an av/fully good ecnnection. but I think
she said she flew high at fi'-' t, but met
ice, and had to droo for that reason.
“Tired? She sounded pretty fresh.
“No, I don’t think she was very
sleepy. It’s too exciting and too hard
work" to fly blind with a sick engine
to get sleepy.
“She said she enjoyed the m-al. Let's
see—a bottle of hot chicken soup, a
cake of chocolate and two cans of to
mato juice. She managed that by pok
ing a hole in the cans with an ice-pick
and using a straw.”
First to Cross Twice.
Putnam reach'd for his coat, which
he had discarded in the warmth of the;
room. A photographer came in for a
picture. Obviously proud and excited,
h? made an effort to talk calmly.
“This makes her the first flyer to have
crossed the Atlantic twice, you know, ’
he 'aid.
Th’n he laughed.
"As h'r hustrnd." he add'd. “I guess
it would be proper to remark I hope it
doesn't become a habit.”
Putnam had far frcm a passive part
in the adventure, however. He *as the
manager throughout, and it was has
word "Miss Earhart." as he called her,
awaited before forming further plans.
He conferred with Mai Edwin A'drin
chief of the aviation division of an oil
company, on plans lor having a new
collector ring rtrhed to the plane
He said Miss Earhart was enthusiastic
In praise of the motor. It gave "beau
tiful service." and it was just the "ex
traneous fittings" which went wrong
A b’-oken fuel gauge mede it impossib’e
for her to know how her gasoline sup
ply was holding out, he said.
Plans Sleep Tonight.
Muss Ear hart was to spend the night
with Mrs. Frances McClure ef London
derry. wife of a merchant th°re, and
tomorrow to b? flown to London in a
commercial plane to give a radio broad
cast at 5 p.m. (noon, Eastern standard
time).
In London she is to be the auest of ,
Lord and Lady Aster, he said. She had
been invited to Paris as the guest of
Countess Violet Di Sibour, and to
Home, where the Italian government
next week will entertain transatlantic
flyers.
But her plans are not certain.
“I may go over to meet her—just to
come back with her,” Putnam, a pub
lisher. said. "I think she'll probablv
be there about two weeks. But I can't
be sure, because, unfortunately for me,
I have business which will take me to
California next Tuesday or Wednesday.'
Tonight. Putnam promised, he'd re
turn to their home at Rye “to get some
sleep.”
rood, Newfoundland, in 16 hours and
55 minutes.
Hundreds of persons who had gath
ered on the breakwater and seawall
along the Bay of Horta welcomed the
huge airliner with its crew of 13. in
cluding Fraulein Antonia Strassman.
woman passenger, who was signed as j
assistant purser. Flares were sent up i
to help the crew locate the anchorage.
ENGLAND WELCOMES HER.
lord Londonderry Tells Amelia Putnam
Her Achievement Is Wonderful.
LONDON. May 21 Lord Lon
donderry. secretary of state for air, told
Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam in a long
telephone conversation with her to
night that England was eager to wel- j
come her after her solo flight across th"
Atlantic.
' She wag quite happy and cheerful."
Lord Londonderry said after he h"d
telephoned to Ireland, where she landed
today.
"While I was talking to her she j
seemed little worse for her arduous ex
perience and was quite happy and
cheerful.” the air minister added.
Wonderful Achievement.
“Personally, X think it was a won
derful achievement on her part to fly
the Atlantic the way she has done, and
I told her that from the point of view
of aviation everybody is proud of her
and that we are anxious to welcome
her.”
Great Britain rang with praises of
Mrs. Putnam tonight.
Late editions of the afternoon news
papers spread the news of her flight
over their front pages, and the story of
her achievement was spread by word of
mouth throughout the country.
Summing up the national feeling,
the Sunday Express will say tomorrow
in an editorial headed "A Great Girl":
"Miss Earhart is the first woman to
fly the Atlantic alone. She is the first
person to fly the Atlantic twice in an
airplane. She holds for the moment a
record for the fastest solo crossing of
the Atlantic.
Whole World Proud.
"The fact that she did not fully |
achieve her intentions of duplicating
Lindbergh's historic flight to Paris is a i
small matter. She crossed. She takes i
her place high on the pinnacle beside
the immortal Lindbergh. And her glory !
sheds its luster on all womanhood.”
The Sunday Times will say:
"What this performance must have
cost in courage, stamina and skill the
only woman who has succeeded in ac
complishing It can really know. * * •
Not America only, not women only, but
the whole world is proud of her.”
POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE
All China Expected to Be Without
Mail Service Tomorrow.
SHANGHAI, May 21 (/P).—'The whole
of China was expected to be without
mail service tomorrow as a result of
the postal workers’ unions having is
sued a strike order tonight. The strike
was scheduled to begin throughout the
country at 5 a.m. tomorrow’.
The postal workers objected to cer
tain policies which the ministry of j
communications has been carrying out
in the post offices. All the workers were
expected to respond to the strike call.
I
Mrs. Putnam to Talk
On Air Today From
London on Flight
B.v the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 21.—Amelia
Earhart Putnam will be heard at
noon (Eastern standard time) t<i
morrow in a transatlantic broad
cast from London through the
Columbia Broadcasting Co. net
work.
PRESIDENT CABLES
MRS. PUTNAM PRAISE
Congratulates Her for Nation on
“Splendid Pioneer Solo
Flight.”
I
President Hoover yesterday dispatched
a cable to Mrs Amelia Earhart Putnam,
congratulating her upon her transat
lantic flight as demonstrating “the
capacity of women to match the skill
of men In carrying through the most
difficult feats of high adventure.’’
The President’s cable, addressed to
Mrs. Putnam at Culmore, Ireland, fol
lows In full:
“I voice the pride of the Nation in
congratulating you most heartily upon
achieving the splendid pioneer solo
flight by a woman across the Atlantic
Ocean.
"You have demonstrated not only
your own dauntless courage, but also
the capacity at women to match the
skill of men in carrying through the
most difficult feats of high adventure.
(Signed.) "HERBERT HOOVER ’’
Congratulations to Mrs. Putnam were
also cabled bv the Council of the Na
tional Woman’s Party. “The council
rejoices,” the message said, "in your
superb achievement. Another myth is
shattered."
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Club Hears Talk on Flowers.
GAITHERSBURG. Md., May 21
(Special) .—“Rock Gardens and Peren
nials’’ was the subject of a talk by I. N.
Anderson of Ballston, Va., before the
Neighborhood Garden Club of Gaithers
burg and Washington Grove in the
Gaithersburg fire house.
Rock Garden!, Lily Pooli,
Fountain!, Flagitone Walk
—any or all can be designed and
built into your home ground.
Now is the time to have the work
done, while prices are low.
We ll be glad to submit our
ideas and prices.
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Cemeterj
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Atlantic 0162—Hyatts. 785
Our First Storewide
Furniture Sale
Of Entirely New 1932 Stock
AT VERY REAL SAVINGS OF
I0%—33%%
It will pay you to see what we offer—in
Occasional Pieces and Complete Suites
Sofas
Chairs
Tables
Mirrors
Lamps
Suites
etc.
George Washington Wing Chair. Chip
pendale reproduction. 1932 Price,
$52.50. SPECIAL. .pOCJ.OV
Colonial Sofa. Solid mahogany. Cus
tom made. Hair filled. Choice of CCQ ETA
coverings. SPECIAL. *P00,0V
6-Pc. Twin Bedroom Suite, all mahogany. fflOC
1932 price, $325. SPECIAL. 'PtnJO
5- Pc. Maple Bedroom Suite. Regular 1932 Ct OC
price, $198.50. SPECIAL. '*,A£™J
6- Pc. Colonial Bedroom Suite, crotch ma- COQC
hogany. 1932 price, $375. SPECIAL..
Other Bedroom Suites, Special from SllO up
10-Pc. Dining Room Suite, mahogany C07Z
Chippendale. 1932 price. $350. SPECIAL, v6'0
10-Pc. Sheraton Dining Room Suite.
1932 price, *285. SPECIAL. »p£.AO
Pleased to hare you call and to let our values
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A Good Sport
AVIATRIX PRAISES HUSBAND
FOR PERMITTING TRIP.
GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM.
By the Assoc a ed Press.
CULMCRE. Northern Ireland. May
21.—Amelia Earhart Putnam described
her husband. George Palmer Fuinr:r.
New York publisher, as a "good sport"
today for having let her fly the Atlantic
alone.
“I did this just for fun," she sold as
she was surrounded by an admiring
crowd after having landed near here.
"I have always wanted to do the
flight myself and my husband is a g'.od
sport. He dees not interfere W'.h my
flying and I don't interfere with his
affairs.
“When he was satisfied that I was
confident I could moke the trip he con
sented, and here I am.”
Mrs. Putnam refused cocktails or cof
fee. saying she preferred cocoa or water.
She was disappointed at having failed
to reach Faris, but said she decided'to
adopt a “safety first" policy on reach
ing land.
RECEIVER IS APPOINTED
Naming Is Made in Bankruptcy of
United Cigar Subsidiary.
NEW YORK. May 21 (^.—Federal
Judge Francis G. Caffey, in the Federal
District Court, today appointed the
Irving Trust Co., receiver in bankruptcy
for the United Stores Realty Corpora
tion. a real estate operating subsidiary
of the United C gar Stores Co. cf
America.
The nrming of a receiver followed a
voluntary petition. Schedules filed
listed liabilities at $8,116,589. including
S7,500,000 owed to United C.gar Stores
Co. for advances, and assets at $1,543,
625.
Ruth Nichols Lauds
Mrs. Putnam’s Hop
As Proving Safety
By the Associated Press.
RYE. N. Y., May 21—Ruth
Nichols, aviatrlx, today sent a
cablegram congratulating Amelia
Eaihart Putnam on her success
ful flight.
“You beat me to it for the sec
ond time, but it was a splendid
Job. My greatest admiration for
your planning and skill in carry
ing cut the hop. Love, Ruth.”
The Putnams are neighbors of
Miss Nichols during the Summer.
Miss Nichols crashed last year on
a transatlantic flight take-off.
“Her flight proves that avia
tion is now so safe that even a
woman can fly across the Atlantic
alone,” said Miss Nichols.
Admiral Belknap Says He
Recommended Mrs. Put
nam for First Hop.
Bv the /sscciated Press.
NEW YORK May 21— Steady fit
tend.:nee at lcctuies on aviation while
she was a social worker in Boston feur
years ego this lac: Winter won for
Am-lia Earner: Futr.am her first chance
to flv acres- the At'antic as a passenger
and thereby paved the wav for her solo
flight that ended successfully today
Rear Admiral Reginald K. Belknap,
retiree. U. S. N, who a’so attended
those lectures, was impressed by Miss
Earhart's rtccdy attendance and ear
nect attention and re-ommended her
for that first transatlantic flight, in
1923.
Admiral Noticed Her.
"The l'ctures,” he said today, "were
given under the ausr srs of the Boston
chapter of the Natic c.1 Aeronautic As
sociation.
“I used to go all the time myself be
cause I became inierested in aviation
before I was retired from the Navy,
although I have never flov.n a ship
myself.
"There were about ha'f a dozen
women that u-cd to attend them.
Among them was Miss Fa-hart, and I
noticed her because the was always
there rnd seemed to be so much in
ca’nsst.
"One day I talked to her. She said
she had been flvir.g about four years
then and was still doing a little flying
frem Denison Airport, just outside of
Boston.
Very Much Impressed.
“One day I was in the office, in Bos
ton. of Capt. H H. Railey when he had
a call from New York. He turned
around from the telephone and said: '
“ Do you know of any woman aviator
who'd like to go on a long flight?’
"I told him about Miss Earhart and
he imn>»',iateiy got in touch with her.
"I understand that flight was first
Firmed for Lady Mary Heath, but she
couldn’t go. So they looked around for
somebody e’se.”
Admiral Belknap was pleased at Mrs.
Putnam's success today.
"That's grand," he said. “I thought
she'd make it. I was very much im
pressed by her when I used to see her
at those lectures, four years ago.”
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Strawberry Fete Planned.
Rev. Henry J. Nelles, assistant pastor
of Holy Trinity Church, announced
yesterday that a strawberry festival
would be held on the parish grounds
at 3514 O street, on June 6, 7 and 8.
GRADUATION GIFTS
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iihed of all gift*—Gradua
tion
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—and complete line of stand
ard and all-American made
watches.
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