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LEGION TREASURY
»
New National Commander
Says Promotion of Ameri
canism Comes First.
B7 the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September 24.—Daniel
J. Doherty, stocky Woburn, Mass., at
torney and veteran of the Navy, took
command of the American Legion to
day with a promise there would la
no “raids on the national treasury”
.during the next year.
Speaking just before he sailed for
"Trance at midnight to take part in
' the veterans’ pilgrimage to World
War battlefields, the newly elected
Rational commander likewise coun
seled Legionnaires to take their stands
on labor controversies “as private
Citizens, not as Legionnaires.”
“The American Legion and each
Individual Legionnaire must preserve
law and order when called upon by
• the legal authorities,” Doherty said.
He specified, however, that “no in
dividual post or department has the
- right to decide who is right or wrong
htn such disputes.”
The new commander said the
“■Legion's policies will be carried out
by the National Executive Committee
“•according to the dictates of the con
KVention, but added that:
T'First of all. the promotion of
-Americanism will be my objective.
Secondly, will come placing the wives
Of .Veterans on the same level as wives
of veterans of previous wars in re
ceiving pensions. There will be, how
ever, no ‘raids on the national treas
ury’ for further pensions.”
Doherty was elected at the closing
session of the Legion’s convention
after a lively contest with Ray Kelly
of Detroit. The election was made
unanimous on Kelly’s motion after the
roll call gave Doherty a majority. He
succeeds Harry W. Colmery, Topeka
Karts.
Rev. Frank .T T.an'iei- --
111., a Catholic priest who served in
the Artillery during the war, was
elected chaplain by unanimous vote
on the motion of an opponent, Rev.
John Bellamy, Massena, N. Y.
As most of the estimated half-mil
lion Legion visitors departed New
York settled back into a workaday
existence that held in the immediate
future nothing more exciting than
an election, the Notre Dame-Army
foot ball game and a few other minor
incentives for thrills.
The Legion had blasted New York’s
assumption that no convention could
cause more than a ripple in its day
to-day surface; it had smacked over
crowd and celebration records right
and left.
For instance:
The city’s telephone traffic on Mon
day—8.552.000 calls—exceeded that on
any other Monday in city history,
with the possible exception of the
Monday following the Wall Street
crash in 1929.
Subway traffic on parade day to
taled 7,000,433 fares—2,555.186 above
normal for the day.
t Yet, with all the tomfoolery and
general spirit of fun, hotel men un
crossed their fingers and generally
agreed that the Legion would be wel
come any time.
"We had less damage during the
last four days than we have had from
some of our foot ball crowds," said
the manager of one hotel that was
host to 2,500 veterans.
CONTRACT IS NEAR
FOR NEW U. S. LINER
Commission to Make Award Next
Week—Vessel to Eeplace
leviathan.
By the Associated Press.
Maritime Commission officials in
dicated today they would award next
week the contract for construction of
* new' liner to replace the Leviathan
in trans-Atlantic trade.
. The award, they said, is being held
up until latest data on foreign con
struction costs is received.
Recently, officials said, the abnormal
relationship between American and
foreign costs of shipbuilding had made
it extremely difficult to arrive at a fair
construction differential subsidy.
The merchant marine act empowers
the commission to grant building sub
sidies up to 331/j per cent of the con
struction costs to make up for lower
costs of constructing vessels abroad.
Bids on building of the new liner
were opened by the commission several
weeks ago. At that time, it found
that the Newport News Shipbuilding
& Drydock Co. had submitted the
lowest bids on both a fixed price and
on a contingent basis.
New York dispatches today quoted
Officials of the United States lines,
which will build the new vessel, as
having virtually decided to accept the
Virginia corporation’s l>ld. These dis
patches said a contract would be
signed before October 15, barring un
expected developments.
AUVENIIoTS REJECT
HONG KONG APPEAL
Church Will Not Send Assistants
to War Area, Headquarters
Announces.
While appeals have been sent from
Seventh-day Adventist headquarters
In Hong Kong for assistants from this
country to help carry on relief and
rehabilitation work in and near the
war area, no persons representing the
organization will be sent from the
United States “in the near future," it
Was announced today by Ernest Dick,
secretary of the General Conference of
-Adventists, Takoma Park, Md.
Dick added, however, that several
nurses and doctors who had been re
moved to Manila might be recalled to
Shanghai to help in the small clinic
which the Adventists still maintain
there.
In recent cables to Adventist head
quarters here, Prof. Frederick Griggs,
president,*! the China division confer
ence, has said excellent morale still ex
ists among persons formerly at the
Shanghai headquarters who were
forced to move to Hong Kong when
■ their establishment was taken over by
the Japanese. A medical clinic and
facilities for teaching languages and
publishing have been set up in Hong
Kong, the cables stated.
' Dick said today that while no as
.. slstants were to be sent from this
' country immediately, several mis
>- sionarles from here are now under
.'assignment to China and a number of
others are in this country on furlough
from China.
Outboards Hold Spotlight at Hains Point
Start ofthe final heat of Class A outboard motors, the opening event today of the power boat
section of the President’s Cup regatta.
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THAI SOUGHT
“Arlington & Fairfax Co.
Again Asks Entry Into
Capital.
Operation of* the “auto-railer” ve
hicles of the Arlington & Fairfax Auto
Railroad Co. in the District, tp pro
vide a connection between its Rosslyn,
Va., terminal and downtown Washing
ton, again is being considered by the
Public Utilities Commission, on a new
plea by the company.
The commission was asked to ap
prove a route which would permit the
company to operate its service to a
Washington terminal at Pennsylvania
and Constitution avenues, but the
company stated it did not propose to
operate a “local” service in the Dis
trict.
The company’s petition, filed late
yesterday, proposes a delivery service
for baggage and mail, in addition to
the passenger service.
A similar petition, made nearly two
years ago. was rejected by a joint
board consisting of members of the
District Committee and the Virginia
State Corporation Commission, and its
findings were accepted by the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
The board held that the company
had not proved the District service
met the “convenience and necessity”
rule. Since that time the company
has established the auto-railer service
from Rosslyn to Green Valley, Va.,
and from Rosslyn to Fairfax, Va„ via
Clarendon, Falls Church, Vienna and
Oakton. The company now has 17
“auto-railers” and has the option to
buy five more.
The proposed route in the District
would be from Rosslyn over Key
Bridge, east on M street and Pennsyl
vania avenue, south on either Twenty
fifth or Twenty-sixth streets, south
east on Virginia avenue and east on
Constitution avenue to Pennsylvania
avenue.
ARLINGTON TO PUSH
BRINKLEY PROBE
Wife of Missing Contractor As
sured Inquiry Will Not
Be Dropped.
Assurances that investigation of the
mysterious disappearance of Arthur
G. Brinkley, Washington contractor,
w’hose abandoned automobile and
empty wallet were found on a lonely
county road last week, will not be
dropped was given today by Common
wealth's Attorney Lawrence Douglas
of Arlington County.
Douglas stepped Into the case after
Mrs. Brinkley, heartbroken wife of
the missing man, appealed to Gov.
George C. Peery of Virginia to spur
Arlington County police, who appar
ently had dropped their investiga
tion, Into continued action.
Brinkley had more than $300 In
hts pocket when he left a bank in
Rosslyn at 10 a.m. on the morning
of September 15. An hour later his
car was found. On the floor near
the front seat lay his shattered eye- '
glasses. The empty wallet had been
thrown on the back seat. No other
clues were found at the scene.
Post Office Gets Beady.
It’s only three months until Christ- i
mas, so the Post Office Department i
is getting ready for handling the
holiday mail. Postmasters are send
ing in estimates for extra Christmas .
help and equipment.
Nellie Cooper o) Kansas City, Mo., who is expected to drive
an outboard in the races today, gives her motor a last-minute
inspection at Gravelly Point. —Star Staff Photo.
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SMS WILL CUD
}
22 Join Forces to Enforce
Constant Check as Bar
Crossing Boundaries.
By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, September 24 —
Twenty-two States joined forces
against “commuting criminals’’ today
In a compact for uniform control of
paroled convicts.
Other objectives of the Interstate
Commission on Crime—made up of
State officials and created slightly less
than two years ago—are uniform laws
on fresh pursuit (chasing across
boundary lines), extradition and at
tendance of witnesses.
Chairman Richard Hartshorne,
county judge, Newark, N. J., said 28
States have adopted at least part of
he program.
The section being crystallized first
provides that parolees or probationers
may not go into another State without
that State’s notification and consent.
Hartshorne pointed out this would stop
such practices as “banishment pa
roles,” or "parolee dumping.”
Paroled men will be permitted to
nake a new start where conditions
ire best for them, he explained, and
ander supervision matching that of
he State which paroled them.
Two Governors—Harold G. Hoff
nan of New Jersey and Richard C.
vfcMullen of Delaware—attended the
sommission's preliminary meeting.
Hartshorne gave particular credit
a the American Legion for the com
pact’s progress through the various
legislatures.
"We of the commission,” he said, ‘‘a
mere handful of officials in the 48
States, while having the skill and the
ilficlal connection, could not prove
n the legislatures that there was a
iemand on the part of the public
tself for this legislation. This the
American Legion could and did do.”
First Installment of New
Rules Appears in Fed
eral Register.
The first installment of a complete
new code of civil air regulations for
the United States was published to
day in the Federal Register, prelimi
nary to a tentative effective date of
November 1.
Occupying 102 columns in the Reg
ister, today's installment includes nine
chapters dealing chiefly with air line
and air worthiness laws and will be
followed by several more groups of
regulations until the entire new code
ia completed.
Recodification of the air laws is
the result of more than a year of
work under the direction of Fred D.
Fagg, jr„ present director of air com
merce, and Prof. John H. Wigmore,
dean of the School of Law of North
western University. Pagg's work was
largely instrumental in bringing about
his appointment last March to the
post of director, vacated by the resig
nation of Eugene L. Vidal.
Since Fagg's appointment Prof.
Wigmore has been assisted by How
ard Knox in completing the recodifl
oation.
Although the work was devoted
chiefly to eliminating duplications,
ambiguous phrases and minor errors
in the body of the civil regulations, a
number of important changes have
been made, especially in the airline
regulations and air worthiness re
quirements. These changes have been
based on conferences between Fed
ral officials and representatives of the
aviation industry during the past
year.
The chapters included in the first
group selected for- publication cover
aircraft registration certificates, air
craft certificates, aircraft identifica
tion markers, aircraft title transfers,
ojiymnc mr worwimess, aircrait en
gine air worthiness, aircraft propeller
air worthiness, aircraft equipment air
worthiness and repair and alteration
of aircraft.
HOWARD P. BROWN
DIES AT RESIDENCE
Actuary of Veterans’ Administra
tion Stricken by Heart
Attack.
Howard Payson Brown, 59. for the
last 17 years actuary of the Veterans’
Administration, died yesterday of a
heart attack at his home, 2301 Cathe
dral avenue. He had been 111 about a
week.
Bom In Lebanon, N. Y.. January 27,
1878, Mr. Brown was graduated In
1896 from Williston Academy. For
merly he was for 21 years in the
actuarial department of the Berkshire
Life Insurance Co. of Pittsfield, Maas.,
and was a former president of the
City Council of that city.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
D. Beatrice Brown, and an adopted
son, David Hargis Barker, this city,
and a brother, Avery Brown, Pittsfield.
Funeral services will be held at 4
p.m. tomorrow in the Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street. Burial
will be in the Cemetery of the Ever
greens, New Lebanon, N. Y.
Esthetic Atlantans.
ATLANTA, September 24 (^.—Di
rectors of the Atlanta Community
Chest, opening their campaign for
funds, decided yesterday they needed
a word without the metallic clink of
’’goal” or "quota.”
In their need for a new word they
found it. “Need” was adopted as the
expression to help loosen purse strings.
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FARMERSHfiOUPS=
COOL TO 30 PARTY
Lewis’ Idea Is Opposed in
Survey With Only One
Exception.
Bl th« Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 34.—Many
executives of farm organizations re
gard with a frosty eye the proposal
for a third party with labor and agri
culture as a base.
John L. Lewis, C. I. O. chief, hinted
at such a possibility in a recent ad
dress. The Republican party has sent
up several trial balloons to sound out
sentiment on a fusion of Republicans
and of Democrats who dislike the New
Deal.
To all of this, however, executives
of several agricultural organizations
said today that In national affairs
Cincinnatus prefers to furrow his
own field.
Heads of the two great farm or
ganizations, the National Orange and
the American Farm Bureau Federa- '
toin, declined to make any comment,
but from State leaders in both or
ganizations came expressions of op
position.
Only One Exception.
A survey of views of farm body ,
executives, made by the Associated
Press, brought one exception to a solid
line-up of opposition to the Lewis idea.
That came from John L. Bosch,
president of the National Fanners’
Holiday Association and president of
the Minnesota Farmers’ Holiday Asso- !
elation. Mr. Bosch lives in Atwater, '
Minn.
He said:
"A political realignment must be 1
formed that will meet and supply the
needs of the farmers and laborers, and 1
if the Democratic party cannot be that ;
vehicle it is up to the leaders to make
it so. Otherwise, a national farmer- 1
labor party will be fotmed.
"We are absolutely in favor of a -
farmer-labor alliance. Vnd we 'are not 1
so particularly concerned what its
name anoiua De, dui wnat its program
will be to meet the needs of those two
producing groups.” 1
30.000 In Group. (
Mr. Bosch says there are 30,000 1
members of the Farmer-Holiday group, i
Some of the other views: i
Iowa Grange Master Charles Star- i
rett:
"The grange is non-partisan and is
interested in the issues rather than 1
the party. I know of no sentiment :
existing for a third party.”
D. E. Wilson, Nesblt, Miss., president
of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Fed- i
eratlon: (
“A coalition of farmers and Indus- ]
trial workers, particularly In the |
South, Is undesirable for a number
of reasons, and Is not even considered
seriously in this section. Our ob- 1
jectives are not the same, either
political or economically.”
Dr. Meade Ferguson, chairman Ex
ecutive Committee, Virginia State
Grange: 1
“There always has been a wide
divergence between the views of the 1
industrial worker and the farmer, and 1
seldom can they be brought together ’
on a common ground.”
Not Political Organization.
H. G. Keeney, president of the ,
Farmers’ Union of Nebraska:
"Our policy has been to make ours l
an economic, not a political organisa
tion.” j
T. Roy Brooks, master of the Mary
land State Grange:
"I oppose the Farmer-Labor party, *
and it s my opinion there is no more j
interest in common between agricul
ture and labor than there is between !
industry and labor.” 1
Joe Frank Porter, president Tennes- !
see Farm Bureau Federation: 1
"We are opposed to any type of class
party.”
R. F. Sams, jr., honorary life presi- J
dent of the Georgia Vegetable Grow- ,
era’ Association: :
"I wouldn’t think the farmers would t
be much interested. I think Mr. Lewis '
is the only one thinking about it, I
trying to get elected President.” J
STABWOUNDFATAL |
TO WARDEN LARKIN !
_ 1
Prison Head Is Fourth Victim of c
Eiot—Five Convicts Charged |
With Murder. |
Br the Associated Press. 1
SACRAMENTO. September 24.— 1
Warden C. A. Larkin, 46, of Folsom «
Prison died at 1:05 a.m. today at But
ter Hospital of infection from atab t
wounds he received in last Sunday's i
riot at the penitentiary. p
He was the fourth victim of the riot, d
for which five surviving convicts are a
under indictment for murder. Two i
convicts and a guard were killed In the a
futile escape attempt. i
Capt. of the Guard W. J. Ryan, also d
stabbed by convict knives, was report- a
ed to have recovered sufficiently to be *
removed from an oxygen tent. t
Three convicts are still in the prison
hospital, two of them In serious condi- .
tion. 1
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Carnegie Judge
Praises Art by \
U.S. Sponsorship 5
By th« Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. September 24.— \
Those paintings that are beginning to
appear in many post offices and other ,
Federal buildings throughout the Na- (
tion drew praise today from Henry
Varnum Poor, the Kansas artist.
In Pnttsburgh, as one of the four J
judges of the 1937 Carnegie interna
tional exhibit, the noted painter and ,
ceramic designer, declared that Gov
ernment encouragement of art was
developing and strengthening regional '
tastes. • 1
He added: (
"The open competitions for art j
projects have been ideal. They have y
given the young men a chance. They f
have been fair and they have left the
selection for the most part to regional a
juries so that the murals have re- a
fleeted the taste and needs of the com- e
munity.”
There were few arguments among g
the judges as they moved slowly o
through the wide, halls. f]
The two Americans, a Frenchman o
and an Italian “get along splendidly,” t
said Judson Smith, the other Amer- 1
lean, in this manner: b
"We just use such words as ‘mag
mfique’ and ‘terrific' • • * and we a
can understand each others' opinions p
perfectly.”
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Dies in Plane Crash
■ .. .. M»i
Charles Wilson, killed in the crash of his plane at Queens
Chapel Airfield yesterday, shown with his wife a short time ago.
_ —Star Staff Photo.
New Commander of Legion
Doesn’t Drink, Smoke or Cuss
Daniel Doherty9 43 and
a Lawyer, Doesn’t
Gamble, Either.
NEW YORK. September 24 tN. A.
1. A.).—The American Legion’s new
latlonal commander, Daniel J.
Ooherty, is a 43-year-old Woburn.
Hass., lawyer and political figure who
erv’ed hi* time in the war in the
Paymaster Corps of the United SUtes
*avy in stations in Norfolk, Wash
ngton and Philadelphia.
Not only is he what the boys used
o call, between pay days, a jughead,
>ut he is also a teetotaler.
There is a rumor going around
imong observers of the antics of the
art few day* of the Legion convention
lere that it was his teetotalism that
von out for him and that Mr. Doherty
masted into office on the crest of a
vave of remorse. But that rumor
lidn't stand up among those who had
wen watching the behind-the- scenes
nanipulations, trades and deals that
narked his campaign under the
ruidance of Bill Doyle, Massachusetts
Mllticlan.
Not only is young-looking Mr.
Soherty a teetotaler, but, as hi*
ergeant at arms told a State caucus
ast year in Cleveland where the
Woburn lawyer’* campaign for the
ommandership was unsuccessful, "He
lon’t play cards, he don't play the
lorses, he don’t shoot craps, he don’t
ramble with nothing. He don’t even
mss.”
"What," demanded a perplexed
-egionnalre at this point, “the hell
Joes he do for fun?”
Job Is a Sacrifice.
Mr Doherty was present and pro
’ided the answer himself.
’’I do what I want to do,” he ex
ilained. "I don’t think a man can
lave fun unless he does what he
vants to do.”
Although very few Legion command
rs have been able to use the national
potlight that follows them into office
0 advance themselves in later pohti
al careers, friends of Mr. Doherty
ere are confident the Woburn lawyer
1 shrewd enough to do It. Paul V.
fcNutt, former Governor of Indiana,
resent United States high commls
loner to the Philippines, is the only
asi commanaer wno turned • Legion
allowing to account at the polls and
ttracted national attention, while the
ite O. L. Bodenhelmer of El Dorado
an for the Senate in Arkansas and
ras defeated by Mrs. Hattie Carraway.
However, it seems to be true that,
rhatever position Comdr. Doherty
ver found himself in, he has used it
o advantage. That seems to be more
han implied in the fact that, while
e started out as newsboy and has
een a practicing lawyer only 18 years
-many of which have been devoted
0 unpaid work for the Legion—he,is
asking a financial sacrifice to take
he |9,000-a-year Job of commander.
Comdr. Doherty is a little man, with
lack, wavy hair, a square, rosy face,
nd hard blue eyes that hide discreet
v behind rimless, octagonal glasses,
ie played a little bit of every sport
rhile working his way through Bur
ett College, specialising in cross
ountry running. "How,” he says, a
ittle mournfully, "the only chance I
et to run is when I'm catching a
rain.” But he manages to keep look
ng very fit, chiefly by playing golf.
Ie is an expert golfer, shooting fre
luently in the seventies.
Comdr. Doherty was the oldest of
tie seven children of a foreman in a
>cal tannery. Cutting up the slim
ay envelope among a family of nine
id not leave much for such luxuries
s education and good times. But the
toherty boys buckled to on their own
nd so did two of the girls. John L.
1 now a doctor and Joseph A. a
entist. Two of his sisters are nurses
nd the man 1.000,000 Legionnaires
re starting today to call Dan is what
e Is.
Politics is Comdr. Doherty's chief
obby. He was elected alderman on
ae City Council of Woburn when he
'as 21 and re-elected at the expira
lon of his first term. But the war
iterfered with the conclusion of that
•rm and he has never run for another
fflce. He has been appointed to his
ther official Jobs—secretary to the
layor in 1931, assistant district at
arney of Middlesex County and special
aslstant district attorney.
DANIEL J. DOHERTY.
He ha* been married 12 years and
has no children. “Unless,” he says,
“you count the Legion. They've been
part of my family for 18 years."
He emerged from the war a warrant
officer and is now lieutenant com
mander in the Naval Reserve.
<Cop»Tiiht, 1937, br the North Amerlcict
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Served Here During War.
The American Legion's new national
commander, Daniel J. Doherty, here
with the Navy during the World War.
He was attached to the office of the
cable censor.
While on duty in the Capital,
Doherty, as a Naval Reservist, was
officially attached to the U. S. S.
Triton at the Washington Navy Yard.
At first, he held the rating of yoeman,
but May 10, 1918, he was transferred
to the Naval Training Station at Nor
folk, Va., where he served as a pay
clerk. Later he went with the Naval
Overseas Transport Service at Phila
delphia.
He enrolled in the Naval Reserve at
Boston on September 25, 1917, and
came to Washington shortly there
after. He was released from active
duty February 11, 1919.
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MILLAN FUNERAL
TO BE TOMORROW
Burial of Leading D. C. Lawyer
to Be in Bock Creek
Cemetery.
The funeral of William Walter
Millan, a leading Washington lawyer,
who died yesterday, will be held at
11 a.m. tomorrow at Francis Asbury
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
3146 Sixteenth street. Burial will
be in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Mr. Mlllan's death followed an
illness of several months. He was 74.
He was a former president of the
District Bar Association and had
been practicing law here since 1890.
He was a faculty member of National
University Law School and was senior
member of Millan & Smith, the oldest
law firm in the city to remain with
out change of personnel. His partner
is R. E. L. Smith. Mr. Millan was
actiVe in church work and in the
Odd Fellows.
A daughter, Mrs. Horace Eppes of
Larchmont, N. Y., and two sisters, at
Fairfax, Va„ survive.
VESSELS CAUTIONED
Hurricane to Pass Bast of Ber
muda, Weather Bureau Says.
JACKSONVILLE. Fla., September
24 UP).—The Weather Bureau issued
today the following 9:30 a.m. ad
visory:
"The Atlantic hurricane was cen
tral 7 a.m. (E. S. T.) near latitude
30 degrees north, longitude 55 de
grees west, moving north northwest
or north, attended by shifting gales
and heavy squalls over a large area
and winds of hurricane force near
center. Center of disturbance will
pass northward some 500 miles east
of Bermuda during the day. Caution
advised vessels in path."
Girl JumperiPedals’ and Prays,
Eludes Death as Parachute Rips
IT the Aisoelited Presn.
BLAOKSTONE, V»., September 24.
-With blond ringlets flying, pretty
7-year-old Gloria Allen “pedaled”
nd prayed her way back from a
rofeasional parachute jumper's death
hen her parachute ripped at 1,700
set yesterday.
She came through it, game and
live, with two broken legs, to the
maxement of several thousand fright
aed fair-goers.
As the Batavia, N. Y., high school
irl detached herself from a balloon
ver the Blackstone Courier-Record’s
ve-county exposition the frail fabric
F the ohute snagged somewhere on
be clothing of her brother, Eddie,
7, who also was hanging to the
tlloon with Sister Florence. 15.
The cloth tore from side to center
nd the girl dropped like a rock, the
xraehute fluttering behind.
Desperately she efatimed her legs
t
and hauled at 'chute corns to ortng
herself under the rippling silk which
meant life.
The air caught it, bellied it open
and she floated downward.
Again it gave way; again she fell.
Hundreds of feet below her pale
faced father, William Allen, shouted
the instructions he. had given her
before they started touring with the
show. Several women fainted and
men clenched their fists, some afraid
to look.
But Gloria was praying and work
ing. too. *
“She fought with her legs as if rid
ing a bicycle and five times maneu
vered under the parachute to block
her fall," said A. F. Hudgins, weekly
publisher and fair president.
Twelve feet or more from deep
grass in a Blackstone town lot the
’chute collapsed the last time. She
fell again, breaking both legs and
her left foot.
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YOUNG PILOT DIES
AS WIFE WATCHES
Charles Wilson, 22, Killed
in Plane Crash Near
District Line.
In the little two-seated plane pur
chased only a month ago with high
hopes that it would lift him from his
commonplace Job in a barber supply
firm to the glamorous career of a
transport pilot, Charles Wilson, 22, of
1925 Kearney street northeast rode to
his death with the setting sun yes
terday.
On the ground at Queens Chapel
Airport in Prince Georges County,
near the District line, the young stu
dent pilot’s wife, Mrs. Helen Wilson,
21, a long-distance telephone operator,
watched proudly as his plane circled
1,000 feet overhead.
Terror drove pride from the young
bride’s eyes, however, when the plane
nosed earthward, its motor roaring,
and watchers on the ground shouted:
“My God, Charlie's spinning in.”
In deadly circles, its controls flap
ping frantically as Wilson tried to
maneuver out of the spin, the plane
plunged earthward to crash in a field
about a mile from the airport.
Die* Few Minutes Later.
Wilson was alive when he was
dragged from the wreckage, but he
died a few minutes later of a frac
tured neck and crushed skull. Sob
bing, his wife was led from the scene.
The couple had been married two
years.
Becoming interested in aviation
about a year ago, Wilson won the
praise of his teachers when he learned
to solo after only 3 hours and 20 min
utes’ instruction. This fortified his
amhjtion to become a transport pilot
and last month he pooled his resources
with Prank B. Swarr, an engineer, of
370 Todd place northeast to purchase
the plane.
"I took off first yesterday,” Swarr
related, 'and stayed up about an
hour. When I landed, at 6 p.m.,
Charlie borrowed my helmet and gog
gles, and I told him: ’Take it away,
Charlie; don’t let it get you down.’
’’He laughed and took off perfectly.
I watched him gam altitude and
walked to his wife. She was looking
up. and I said. ’Look at Charlie,’ and
she said, ’Oh!’
“I locked up and shouted, 'My God,
Charlie’s spinning in.’
Thirty Hours’ Flying Tima.
“He was a fine pilot and had set
his heart on getting a transport li
cense. It’s a shame. Although he
had only about 30 hours’ flying time,
he could fly as well as I, and I’ve got
170. I don’t know what caused the
crash, unless he went into a dead stall
and then didn’t have enough altitude
to come out of the spin.”
Mrs. Wilson was taken away from
the field by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ma
son. 1931 Seventh street northeast,
close friends of the couple, who had
driven to the field with Wilson to
watch him fly.
Funeral services will be held at the
home of Wilson’s parents, in Baltimore.
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DR. CHARLES HUNT,
EX-RESIDENT, DIES
Oculist and Inventor, Who Once
Lived Here, Succumbs in
New York.
Dr. Charles Hunt, osulist and In
ventor, died recently in New York, it
was learned here today. He had lived
here for several years at 3606 New
Hampshire avenue.
An eye specialist, Dr. Hunt main- '
tained offices in Belfast and in Lon
don, but gave up his profession almost
entirely In favor of his Inventions
when he came to this country many
years ago. These include lifeboat de
taching gears, and electrical davit and
deep sea sounding instruments.
Bom In Cork, Ireland, his mother.
Jane Love Hunt, was a daughter of a
former lord lieutenant of Ireland. He
was educated on the continent, later
studying at Trinity College and the
University of Edinburgh.
Coming to America, he married Mary
Leary of Syracuse. N. Y.. and devoted
his time to his inventions, but dis
continued his efforts on an airship on
the death of his father-in-law. He
had worked on it for several years.
Dr. Hunt was a cousin of the late
Dr. Thomas Hunt of Moorfteld's Hos
pital. London. He is survived by his
widow, a son, Charles Hunt, and two
grandchildren.
AIR CORPS WILL BACK
PILOTS REFUSING TESTS
Will Support Those Who May De
cline to Fly Ships Linked to
Suspected Sabotage.
Army Air Corps test pitots will be
given the support of the Air Corps
should they refuse to fly 11 Northrop
attack airplanes built by the Douglas
Aircraft Co. in California on the
ground of suspected sabotage.
The War Department has received
no official communication of any kind
on ,the situation, it was said, and the
matter is in the hands of Air Corps
field personnel entirely. The depart
ment and the Air Corps, however, will
back up the Army inspector and test
pilots in their handling of the case,
it was said by officials in the office of
the chief of Air Corps, Maj. Oen.
Oscar Westover.
Suspicion of sabotage, it is said,
grew out of labor troubles at the
Douglas plant. Inspection of the air
planes is said to have resulted of dis
covery of rags in gasoline lines of two
of the airplanes. In view of possibility
of hidden damage to the airplanes, it
is believed Army test pitots may insist
that factory test pitots make the first
flights.
FEDERAL OWNERSHIP
OF RAILROADS FEARED
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, September 24.—Use
of the Nation’s railroads as "social
reform laboratories’’ will head them
“directly, inexorably toward Govern
ment ownership,” Dr. C. S. Duncan,
economist of the Association of Amer
ican Railroads, predicted yesterday.
Addressing the Allegheny Regional
Advisory Board, the economist as
serted:
"Private credit cannot withstand
the encroachment of public credit.
Private capital secured on the basis
of earning power cannot long mam
tain the unequal struggle with pub
funds derived from taxing power.**
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Awaits Countess Mama
Lance, only son of Countess Haugwitz von Reventlow. is
shown in Tyrolian attire, playing on the beach at Venice under
care of his nurse. He soon will be reunited with his parents,
who recently sailed from New York for Europe after a short
visit in the United States. The countess is the former Barbara
Hutton. —Copyright, Wirephoto.