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Pax Romana Opens
Congress at C. U.;
Peace Efforts Made
Divergent Views
Of Purpose of Meeting
Appear in Crisis
The 18th International Congress
of Pax Romana (Peace of Rome)
met today at Catholic University. Its
nearly 500 delegates, coming from
nations of Europe whose leaders may
soon send them to war. were making
every effort to preserve the atmos
phere of pacific effort for which they
came.
Two divergent views of the pur
pose of the peace congress in the
face of a European crisis were ex
pressed by students and educators
coming from Germany, France, Po
land. Great Britain and Italy. Dr.
Francis Aylward of Liverpoo' head
of the English group, said tha„ “the
one thing we must avoid is any
political talk.” He believed that the
congress should take no position in
regard to the opposing forces of
Europe today, emphasizing only a
long-range good-will program.
The Swiss delegate. Abbe Joseph
Grenaud, in an address at the open
ing session of the congress, main
tained on the other hand that the
present warlike situation gave spe
cial significance to the congress. In
his speech, delivered in French, he
expressed the idea that Pax Romana
should make every effort to solve the
present difficulty. If failure meets
these efforts. Catholics should build
for world peace anew, he said.
Msgr. Corrigan‘s Statement.
. Msgr. Joseph Corrigan, rector of
Catholic University, made this
•'There is no obscuring the purpose
of your being here. The hope of
the world is in Catholic youth. If
humanity is to remain united, there
is no organized power outside the
Catholic Church which can force it
tc do so. We have a serious respon
sibility to face, whatever is going to
happen.
He advised Catholic youth
throughout the world to undertake
leadership of the •'rank and file"
of the people. "If you cannot stand
on the platform with those who
oppose you, let them find you a
phalanx that will stand together
throughout the world," he said.
Another of the principal speakers
at today's session was Senor Don
Alberto Martin Artajo of Madrid,
who was held 90 days as a Spanish
"loyalist'’ prisoner after fighting
with Franco in Spain. The broad
shouldered and dark-haired vice
president of the Central Committee
of Catholic Action delivered his
•actress in Spanish.
A Frenchman's Attitude.
The leader of the French del
egate, Robert Boude, instructor of
history in the Marine Institute at
Versailles, said. "The answer is
very simple.” when asked if the
French delegate would go to war if
hostilities would break out.
"If M. Hitler wishes to use force
we cannot let it go on. We can
not perpetually let a man who be
lieves himself stronger than others
have his own way,” he said.
“It would be particularly painful
to the French people to have to
march into Italy,” he declared. “We
like the Italian people greatly, but
the Italian government is something
different—particularly Count Ciano.”
In a solemn opening mass at the
university this morning Msgr. Cor
rigan said that the great enemy of
the church is the Red International.
“Anti-Christ is heard round the
world, and must be opposed by the
white and gold international of the
papacy,” he declared. “Spread round
about you the glory of your propa
ganda.”
Message Sent to Pope.
At the general session the con
gress sent a cablegram to Pope
Pious XII saying that the congress
“places at the feet of the Holy
Father a prayer for the peace of the
world.”
Tomorrow' afternoon a fuller dis
cussion of the question of war is
expected when the international
group discusses “The Message of
Student Action for Peace.' under
the leadership of Dr. T. Kereken
ef Georgetown University.
Pax Romans is the world federa
tion of Catholic student groups
which is meeting in America this
year in honor of the golden jubilee
of Catholic University.
The delegates came to Washing
ton from New York by bus yesterday
after the Most Rev. Henri-Roger
Beaussart. auxiliary bishop of Paris,
had told the group gathered at Man
hattanville College of the Sacred
Heart in New York: "We must
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Sightseeing Trips Planned.
Talks by the Right Rev. Michael
■ J- Ready, general seqretary of the
! National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence. and the Rev. Vincent Mooney,
director of the Youth Bureau and
Youth Council of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference, were
to be heard at luncheon on the
campus, after which the delegates
i were to visit the headquarters of
! the conference.
Sightseeing trips to the Lincoln
Memorial and the Washington
Monument today and to the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier tomorrow
were also scheduled.
After dinner on the campus,
Ukranian vespers will be observed,
as a prelude to the Ukranian mass
tomorrow. The first study session
will be held after vespers. “The
Spiritual Life as the Foundation of
the A post-date'’ will be discussed.
American University
Names Lecturers
Chancellor Joseph M. M. Gray of
American University today an
nounced the appointment of Dr.
Ludwig M. Homberger, former
executive vice president of the Ger
man National Railroad Co. and
lecturer on transportation problems
in German universities, as visiting
lecturer in transportation problems
at the graduate school.
Dr. Homberger has just finished a
year of study of transportation prob
lems of the United States.
A featute of his course will be
inspection trips to nearby trans
portation centers.
Dr. Gray also announced that Dr.
Clyde B. Aitchison of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, will
lecture in interstate commerce and
commercial law. and Dr. Charles S.
Morgan, assistant director of the
Bureau of Motor Vehicles, will lec
ture in transportation economics.
Others will be Dr. Walter M. W.
Splawn. former dean of the gradu
ate school and now a member of
the I. C. C.. who will lecture on
corporation finance and Dr. William
H. S. Stevens, head economist of the
I. C. C.. who will be adjunct pro
fessor of economics.
iranan frontier upen
But Traffic Slumps
By the Associated Press.
TURIN, Aug. 28.—Traffic across
the French-Italian frontier has
ceased almost entirely on most
roads.
Authorities denied, however, that
the frontier had been “diplomati
cally closed.” Some trains still are
running.
The virtual standstill is due to
the fact that tourist traffic has
disappeared and various rigid meas
ures taken in the frontier region.
Authorities said Italy was not
preventing foreigners from leaving
the country. Italians liable for
military service may not cross the
frontier without special authoriza
tion.
China Shifts Workers
The Chinese government is offer
ing inducements to Shanghai and
Kwantung skilled workers in linen
embroidery and straw braid to move
to Southwest China and teach the
industry there.
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Dies Probers Learn
Silver Shirt Leader
Once Operated Here
Committee Ponders
Pelley's Writings to
Find 'Revelations'
By JOHN C. HENRY,
i The Dies committee opened “The
i Door to Revelations" today and
found the Silver-Shirted spirit of
William Dudley Pelley lurking be
hind it.
Unsuccessful for weeks in its effort
to lay hands on the corporeal mani
festations of the Pelley spirtt, the
committee announced today that it
would use as its text on the Pelley
plans - for - preserving-pure-Ameri
canism a copy of “The Door to Reve
lations,” written by Mr. Pelley in
person.
Interestingly enough, the commit
tee copy of “the D. to R." was fur
nished by Mr. Pelley himself, being
received by Chairman Dies through
the mall on August 15. Mr. Dies
wolud have preferred, he let it be
known today, that Mr. Pelley show
up. himself, but with an attitude of
“we can t have everything” the com
mittee chairman undertook to solve
the Pelley puzzle by literary inter
pretation.
Headquarters Once Here.
Aiding in the translation was a
committee investigator, Richard B.
Baker, who confessed to seeking the
top man among the Silver Shirts in
some dozen cities from Northeast
United States to Mexico. Covered
in the search were Washington, D.
C., and Asheville, N. C., present
headquarters of the “Nation-wide
spiritual movement.”
That Mr. Pelley once had head
quarters in Washington was estab
lished by Mr. Baker in evidence that
he had headed the Galahad Press,
formerly located at 1019 Fifteenth
street N.W. This was in the early
1930s.
That Mr. Pelley may have had
heavenly inspiration in his efforts to
plot America's salvation was dis
closed by the committee’s unrelent
ing examination of his literary out
put. for, in addition to having the
key to “the door to Revelations,” Mr.
Pelley once vacationed for “seven
minutes in eternity.”
“That happened in Pasadena,
Calif .” Mr. Barker explained to the
committee, adding that it was the
title of another Pelley book in which
the author told of dying and spend
ing 7 minutes in heaven before re
turning to set things right, in the
world. Mr. Barker pointed out that
the time of Mr. Pelley’s ascension
followed immediately upon a busi
ness venture as head of the “brief
meal” food emporium in Pasadena.
Hitler Inspired Vision.
Mr. Pelley got into the groove,
however, when Adolf Hitler became
Chancellor of Germany, the elusive
crusader writing for posterity that
on reading of Hitler's elevation he
saw a vision.
"Tomorrow, well have the Silver
Shirts,” he told somebody.
“What do you mean?” somebody
asked (according to Mr. Pelley’s own
written account). \
"Tomorrow you'll know,” he prom
ised, and sure enough the Silver
Shirts began the next day.
Since then (1933) Mr. Pelley has
led a Ufa of hating the Jews, advo
cating a quad-military form of gov
i
ernment ror America and spreading
the written word.
That he was adept at the latter
occupation was established beyond
doubt in ‘“Hie Door to Revelations.”
“I had mastered my craft and
know it," he wrote in chapter 16.
In fact, he estimated at one point
that his writings would measure 19
feet.
As might have been expected
Mr. Pelley s career reflects its ups
and downs and one of the downs
involved the collapse of Galahad
Press. The final blow to this enter
prise being dealt by a Washington
creditor seeking to collect $111.
Although the Washington credi
tor didn't get the $111. Mr. Barker
said that Mr. Pelley had “diverted”
some $100,000 from t>e Galahad
Press treasury during its brief
history.
On the down side for Mr. Pelley,
however, was criminal action
brought against him and finally
resulting in his conviction in 1935
on charges of misApresenting the
financial condition of Galahad
Press and selling stock illegally.
On payment of costs, the Silver
Shirter was placed on probation
for five years, a period of good
behavior which extends to Feb
ruary. 1940.
Pelley Publications Exhibited.
, Exhibits of the Pelley publications,
submitted by Mr. Barker, included
booklets praising Maj. Gen. George
Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., re
tired <10 cents), attacks on the Dies
Committee and advice on how a wit
ness should behave before the com
mittee <10 cents), and slightly
higher priced attacks on President
Roosevelt. Secretary of Interior
Ickes, P. B. I. Director J. Edgar
Hoover. Jews are assailed at all
prices in mail going out under the
label of Little Visits.” a weekly
magazine called Liberator, and ex
pressed material from "foundation
fellowship," etc.
"Here’s a booklet on Miss Perkins
for 15 cents.” Mr. Barker showed the
committee, “but, of course, you can
get all of these at reduced prices
when ordpreri in vnlnmp ”
Pelley Denied Injunction
Against Dies Probers
ASHEVILLE. N. C.. Aug. 28 f/P).—
United States District Judge E.
Yates Webb denied today a request
by William Dudley Pelley that the
Dies Un-American Committee be
restrained from investigating the
personal activities of Mr. Pelley
and the Silver Shirts, an organiza
tion he founded.
Judge Webb told attorneys for
Mr. Pelley that he rejected their
motion because their client had.
otherwise, “an adequate remedy at
law."
The affidavit on which the peti
tion was based was witnessed by
Nell Duncan, identified as a notary
public of Washington. It was dated
August 24 at Washington.
At a session of the committee last
week, after a witness had testified
as to alleged activities of the or
ganization, Chairman Dies. Dem
ocrat, of Texas remarked that he
wanted to question Mr. Pelley but
his process servers had been unable
to find him.
Burial Urn Reconstructed
A second century glass burial urn,
unearthed in hundreds of frag
ments near Colchester, England, has
been reconstructed and is being ex
- hlblted in a museum.
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Mackenzie King Told
II Duce Will Make
Effort for Peace
10,000 Civilian Soldiers
Called Up to Guard
Canada's Coasts
OTTAWA, Aug. 28 i Canadian
Press).—Premier Mussolini cabled ,
Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie
King yesterday that he would
“leave untried no effort to safe
guard the peace of the world—a
lasting peace that is a just peace.”
The Italian Premier sent this
word to Mr. Mackenzie King In
replay to a message which the
Canadian prime minister addressed
to II Duce Friday. Mussolini's
brief reply was:
“In reply to your message. I wish
to asure you that I shall leave un
tried no effort to safeguard the
peace of the world—a lasting peace
that is a just peace.”
VIVII1BII C1UIUICIS V Bliru.
Tlie Mackenzie King message,
made public Saturday, urged Mus
solini to use his influence to pre
vent war. Similar messages were
sent to Hitler and President Ignace
Moscicki of Poland.
In his message Mr. Mackenzie
King said that Canada was ‘‘pre
pared to join what authority and
power she may possess to that of
the other nations of the British
Commonwealth in seeking a just
and equitable settlement of the
great problems with W’hich nations
are faced. ”
Defense Minister Ian Mackenzie
disclosed yesterday that approxi
mately 10.000 of Canada’s civilian
soldiers, members of the non-per
manent militia, were under arms
manning the coast defenses on the
Atlantic and Pacific and guarding
vulnerable utilities and public prop
erties.
Ready for Emergency.
The orders W’ere issued Friday.
Military members, whose service is
entirely voluntarily, responded swift
ly. Civilians in all walks of life
dropped their usual activities and
reported to armories Saturday.
In brief public statements l^st
week the Prime Minister said the
government had moved swiftly to
be in readiness for any emergency
and he indicated the war measures
act of 1914. which has remained on
the statutes, would be invoked if
necessary pending assembly of Par
liament. which would be called im
mediately if it became apparent
peace efforts would fail.
tire to Be Neutral,
In War, Envoy Here Says
By the Associated Press.
SQRANTON, Pa., Aug. 28.—Robert
Brennan, Ireland’s Minister to the
United States, told interviewers yes
terday that in the event of a Euro
pean War his country would remain
neutral.
"That's definite,” declared Mr.
Brennan, here to address an Irish
outing. “Belgium and Holland will
be neutral, and they’re far closer
to the center of the trouble than
we ll be If they can be neutral,
why can’t we?”
"But if any one attempts to seize
or even touch Ireland—I repeat,
any one—they’ll find that we’ll be
able to hold our own.”
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LONDON.—SUNDAY IN THE PARK—Sunday, like every other
day during the crisis, is gun-day in this London park. This is
the kind of spot where the average Londoner takes a Sunday
afternoon stroll. Yesterday crowds attired in their Sunday best
stood about these guns, admiring their long lines and the circle
of shells around them. Today soldiers continued digging trenches
and building more air-raid shelters.
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They study a fourth R—the R for raid. American children were
preparing to go back to school to their three Rs next week, but
these English school children returned today to rehearse air
raid precautions. They’re shown with their teacher emerging
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from a school, each child carrying a gas mask box with, his sack
of books. All over London today there were similar rehearsals.
Photo by cable from London. —A. P. Wirephotos.
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Living Fires Brighter
In Male Than Female
Of Plant Kingdom
British Scientists Told
Tests Show Higher
Breathing Rate
By THOMAS R. HENRY,
Star Staff Correspondent.
DUNDEE, Scotland (By Airmail).
—Fires of living burn brighter and
faster in the male than the female—
at least so far as sex in its most
primordial manifestation in the
plant kingdom is concerned, accord
ing to a report to the World Gene
tics Congress, meeting here, by Dr.
B. N. Singh, noted plant physiol
ogist of Benares, India.
By a series of marvelously precise
measurements he found that the
“male” rate of breathing Is consid
erably higher than that of the fe
male of the same plant species at
first and that it is more fluctuating
with advance of age, followed at the
end by a sudden drop. They also
have more sugars stored in their
cells at the start, but this drops off
rapidly at the time of the opening
of the buds, while in the “fe
males” there Is a marked rise at this
itimp. The females also have more
nitrogen stored in their bodies,
"These differences,” Dr. Singh
said, “appear to be correlated with
the early aging of the male as a
contrast to the more sustained de
velopment of the others to a fruit
ing condition. Light and tempera
ture effects on sex expression in
plants have been noted by other
workers and all point to the con
clusion that the potentiality for
both types of sex is present in plants
at all times and that the conditions
existing within largely influence of
one or the other type of sex genes.”
Effect of Hormones Explained.
Evidence for "pre-sex” hormones
In all the higher animals and man
was presented in a report by Dr.
V. Dantchakoff, Esthonian physiol
usioi.
It is well known, he said, that
the actual sex hormones, several of
which can be synthesized chemi
cally, exert strong mascularizing or
feminizing effects on adult ani
mals, especially in the absence of
the normal sex glands. They mair
cause, for example, all the so-called
"secondary sex characters" such as
the combs of cocks, the plumage of
birds, or the voice differences.
Yet, he said, in the body these
hormones are the secretions of sex
glands born with the individual. The
physiologist is confronted with the
conundrum of something which
seems to cause sex and yet which is
Itself caused by the thing it causes
There cannot be any hormones pre
ceding the glands. Also it has long
been recognized that there is a defi
nite genetic background for sex with
which secretions apparently have
nothing to do.
Changes May Be Shown.
But it may be shown. Prof.
Dantchakoff said, “that while the
differentiation of a gland cannot be
determined by a chemical substance
which will later be produced by it,
a chemical substance of the same
nature may, because cells which will
later go to form the gland possess a
special constitution, be produced by
a special type of metabolic activity
in these undifferentiated cells. We
have shown by experiment that the
introduction of the sex hormone in
an organism before the process of
sexual differention of the glands is
completed can not only effect the
differention of the glandular tissues
of the opposite sex to that from
which the hormone has been de
rived. but also the differention of
the accessory sexual organs and
other bodily characters. It is
established that the primary mani
festations related to genetically de
termined sex may be overridden by
this method.
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development of normal, genetically
determined sextuality are compared
with those, obtained experimentally,
however, two differences are found.
It is not possible experimentally to
exclude completely those charac
teristics relating to the genetically
predtermined sex. and the admin
istration of hormones cannot be
done either early enough or in a
properly balanced manner to simu
late the natural reaction between
hormone and glandular groundwork
in the organism. In spite of this
the results of experiment and nature
are similar in many respects, al
though the sex changes induced may
only exhibit a temporary phase. It
is found also that the introduction
of the hormone stimulates dispro
portionately some of the processes
while others are not inhibited suffi
ciently.
Chemical Factor Figures.
“But these differences are not
sufficient to support the argument
.that the primary substances in
volved in natural sex differentia
tion are fundamentally different
from the substances used experi
mentally. The similarity in the
processes evolved spontaneously and
those induced by the hormones is
a function of the similarity of the
embryonic tissues in both sexes and
of the mechanism acting upon them.
The differences which appear are
conditioned by the presence of a
double-acting mechanism on one
case and of a single-acting one in
the other. The chemical factor
initiates the process of sex deter
mination, even if it does not con
trol completely the subsequent
differentiation.
Development of “double resister”
potatoes, which are immune to at
least two forms of the dreaded po
tato blight and probably to sev
eral others, was reported by Prof.
R. N. Salaman of Cambridge Uni
versity.
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said, he had developed potato va
rieties which were immune to the
form of blight, the only one known
at the time, which was responsible
for the great Irish famine of 1845.
Later these supposed immunes mys
teriously came down with the
disease.
Experiment showed that this was
not the same fungus, but a close
relative, probably derived from it.
Later research in Germany showed
several other of these “fungous bio
types." It was not difficult to get
potatoes resistant to any one of
them. Up to the present, however,
there has been no success in breed
ing a potato resistant to two or more
forms.
Success has come at last, he said,
with the finding of a certain wild
South American species and later
of several Mexican species, which
were immune to the two forms
known in England and probably
also to the new German forms.
They came from the original home
of the potato, where It has had a
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longer time to adjust Itself to all
the malignant influences of its
environment.
This discovery in itself was of
little use. The wild potatoes were
useless commercially. It was neces
sary to undertake a long breeding
program to incorporate their dis
ease-resisting qualities in potatoes
suitable for agriculture without, at
the same time, reducing the size
or nutritive value of the latter.
The new varieties which have
been built up at Cambridge. Prof.
Salaman said, accomplish this end,
at least to some extent. They are
not yet ready, however, to be in
troduced into agriculture. At pres
ent the blight, which used to bring
'ruin to the whole countryside, can
be successfully controlled by spray
ing, but this involves much labor
and expense.
Soviets Parliament
Prepares to Ratify
Russo-German Pact
Agricultural Taxation
And Compulsory Army
Service on Agenda
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[ Bv the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Aug. 28.—Soviet Rus
sia's Parliament took the first steps
toward formal indorsement of the
German - Russian non - aggression
pact today.
The lower House in a 4-minute
session, at which Premier-Foreign
Minister Molotoff was given a huge
ovation, adopted an agenda which
included agricultural taxation and
compulsory military service meas
ures along with the non-aggression
pact—the two preceding bills mak
ing it likely the pact would not
reach formal ratification before to
morrow.
The upper House was called into
session at 4 p.m. 18 ajn. E. S. T.>,
and the two houses were summoned
for joint meeting tonight.
Stalin. War Commissar Marshal
Klementi Voroshiloff. French Am
bassador Paul Emile Naggiar and
I the British envoy, Sir William Seeds,
I were among absentees at the first
; session. A number of diplomats
; attended.
Soviet Papers Accuse Britain.
Wide prominence was given ves
| terday to a statement by Vor
, oshiloff blaming the refusal of
. Great Britain. France and Poland
1 to allow Russian troops to cross
Polish territory' for the breakdown
i of mutual assistance negotiations
among Moscow. London and Paris.
Soviet newspapers also have ac
I cused Britain of “under-handed
diplomatic dealing."
French Ambassador Naggiar was
i believed preparing to fly back to
Paris today to report. He was ex
pected to go by way of Scandinavia.
He was called home on “leave" after
Russia and Germany signed their
pact.
It was understood that French
i quarters consider the French-Rus
I sion treaty of mutual assistance a
' dead letter now. but said they
doubted whether France would de
■ nounce it. They were understood
; to feel that no useful purpose could
be served by such an act.
Expert Britain to Yield.
The Soviet public displayed calm
! in the belief that no war would
break out from the German-Polish
dispute over Danzig and the Polish
Corridor. There was an air of
confidence here that British Prime
Minister Chamberlain would make
j concessions to Germany at the ex
pense of Poland.
Unofficial reports that the Soviet
might now follow up her agree
ment with the Reich by improving
I relations with the latter's axis part
ner. Italy, were seen in the disclosure
! that Italy has an official delegation
attending the huge agricultural ex
‘ hibition in progress here.
A reception was given In their
honor two days ago. a number of
! Soviet officials attending.
The British Embassy was reported
unofficially to have advised British
subjects leaving Russia not to travel
on Soviet ships which go through
Germany's Kiel Canal. The Embassy
reportedly feared that in case of
war Soviet ships would be halted
by Germany and all British sub
jects of military age Interned.
Eight Aviators Enter ~J
Bendix Air Race; I
Miss Cochran Is One 1
Robert Perlick to Fly
Amelia Earhart's
Trans-Atlantic Plane
Br the Associated Press.
BURBANK. Calif, Aug. 28
Eight fliers, one of them a woman. '
were entered today in the Bendix
transcontinental air race to start
Saturday at 12:01 a.m. The race,
part of the Cleveland air show,
will be from Burbank to Bendix,
N. J„ via Cleveland.
The feminine entry was Miss
Jacqueline Cochran of Los Angeles.
1938 winner, who tested her new
plane Saturday by establishing a
national record of 21495 miles an
hour for 1,000 kilometers, on a
course from Burbank to San Fran
cisco and return.
Robert Perlick of Glendale, Calif.,
is to fly the Lockheed Vega cabin
ship in which Miss Amelia Earhart
flew to Europe in 20 hours 26
minutes. The ship has been re
vamped but it is still essentially
as it was when Miss Earhart made J
her solo hop. In 1932 she s«t a
West-East transcontinental record
for women, and three years later
she flew the 2.408 miles from Hono
lulu to Oakland in 18 hours 16
UUIJUbCS.
Mr. Perlick said today he knew
the plane was slower than some
of the military-type craft entered !
in the derby to Cleveland, but ex
pected to finish among the first
five. He is 36 and lives in Glen
dale.
Other entries: Prank Puller. San
Francisco, 1937 winner; Max Con
stant and Paul Mantz of Burbanx, j
and Arthur Bussy, Jack Wright and
John Abbott of New York.
Spectacular Crash Kills j
Cleveland Race Entry
CLEVELAND. Aug. 28 OP).—
Deatth in a plane crash caused the
name of Delbert D. Bush, 26, of
Kansas City to be stricken today
from the list of entries in the Greve
and Thompson Trophy events of
the National Air Races here Sep
tember 2, 3, *.
Bush was killed yesterday when,
during a test flight for the races, he
roared around the steel tower py
lons marking the course. As he i
came back across the airport, his
motor sputtered. He straightened
out and continued north beyond the !
neid.
About three-quarters of a mile
farther his motor stopped. Such
planes require over 100 miles per
hour to stay in the air. He was
only about 500 feet above the
ground. The ship dropped quickly.
Bush turned slightly and his para
chute fluttered out. but he had no
chance to leave his cockpit. The
plane dived into a plowed field,
dug a huge hole in the ground and
bounced along into the woods bor
dering the Cleveland metropolitan
park system. It crashed into the
trees and was smashed into a heap
of wreckage. It did not bum.
Residents and the rescue squad
from the airport had to chop into j
the wreckage to get Bush's smashed
body out. He was dead.
Bush's wife Charlotte and 10
month-old daughter Chardell were
in Leavenworth, Kans.
Blind to Detect Planes
Italy has plans to use blind men to
listen for raiding airplanes in any
future war. They will be stationed
in Rome and other strategic places.
In experiments blind operators of
airplane detecting devices were
found to have more sensitive hear
ing than those with unimpaired
sight.
Hurt in Fall From Horse
Charles A. Haine. 27. of 423 Ninth
street N.E., was treated at George- I
town Hospital yesterday for a frac
tured shoulder, received when he
fell from a horse near Colesville,
Md.
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Weather Report
(Furnished by U. 8. Wemther Buresu.)
District of Columbia—Occasional rain tonight and possibly tomorrow j
morning; not much change in temperature; moderate north to north
west winds.
Maryland—Cloudy, rain in east and central portions tonight and
probably tomorrow morning; not much change in temperature.
Virginia—Cloudy, occasional rains in east and central portions tonignt
and probably in northeast portion tomorrow morning; slightly warmer in
the interior tomorrow. j
West Virginia—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with moderate
temperature.
Another disturbance of moderate In
tensity is centered about 400 miles south
southeast of Sable Island. Nova Scotia, and
moving northeastward with increasing in
tensity. Pressure is high from the Gulf of
8t. Lawrence west-southwest ward over the
lake region. Father Point. Quebec 1022.0
millibars (30.1H inches), while pressure is
rising slowly south of Bermuda. Another
disturbance is moving eastward over Hudson
Bay and Northwestern On'ario. Pagwa,
Ontario. 1009.8 millibars 129.8*2 inches).
Pressure continues low over much of the
Plateau and Northern ilocky Mountain
regions. Kalispell. Mont.. 1000.4 millibars
<29.72 inches), while a slight disturbance
is centered over the wes»ern portion of the
Middle and Southern Plains. Lamar. Colo ,
1010.8 millibars (29.85 inches*. During
the last 24 hours there have been rains in
the Carolinas and Southern Virginia and
southward over Florida, while scattered
showers occurred in portions of the Middle
-nd Northern Plains States and the West
Gulf States. Temp-ratures have fallen
somewhat over the Northern Plains. Else
where changes have been slight.
iveperi wr List in naurs.
_ Temperature. Barometer
Yesterday— Degrees. Inches.
4 pm- 79 30.08
H P.m. _ 72 30.11
Midnight_ 71 30.00
Sunday—
4 a.m._ 69 30.07
• a.m- 71 30.08
Noon_ 79 30.07
2 P.m_ SO 30.04
4 P-m_ 79 30.02
| 8 p.m- 74 30.03
12 midnight _ 71 30.01
Today—
4 a.m_ 69 29.97
Sam_ 71 30.02
oon_ 77 29.98
Baeard far Last 24 Hears.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 80. 2 P.m. yesterday. Year
ago. 82. _
Lowest. 88. 4:30 a.m. today. Year
ago. 66.
Beeard Temperature This Year.
Highest. 96. on August 9.
Lowest. 17. on February 23.
■midttr far Last 24 Ham.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 90 per cent, at 5 P.m.
Lowest. 48 per cent, at 10:30 a.m.
Hirer Revert.
Potomac River slightly cloudy. Shenan
doah very cloudy at Harpers Perry; Poto
mac slightly muddy at Great Palls today.
Tide Tables
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
. Today Tomorrow.
High -«:4Ta.m. 7:58 a.m.
Low ___1:10 a.m. 5:03 a.m.
High-7:10 p.m. 7:50 p.m.
Low -1:43 p.m. 2:53 p.m.
The Bus and Mean.
Sun. today _6.47**'
Bun, tomorrow_5:33 «:45
Moon, today-5:53 pjg. 4:21a.m.
Automobile lights most be tamed on
one-half hour after gunaet.
e
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in Inches In the
i Capital (current month to date):
j Month. 1939. Averase Record
I January-3.41 3.55 7.8.3 '3T
I February-5 71 3.27 0.84 '84
, March - 2 89 3.75 8.84 91
April - 3.78 3.27 9.13 '88
‘May - 0.41 3.70 10.09 89
! June- 4.45 4.13 10 94 ’00
i July - 2.01 4 71 10.03 '88
! Ausust-3.21 4 01 14.41 '28
September_ ... 3.24 17.45 ’34
I October - ... 2 84 8.81 '37
November __ 2.37 8.69 -89
December _ _ 3.32 7.66 '01
nearner m various ciues.
Temp Ratn
I , Barom HirhXow. fall Weather.
1 Abilene __ 29.94 90 65 _ Clear !
Albany __ 30.09 83 57 _ Cloudy a
I Atlanta 30.0(1 84 62 Clear '
Atlantic C. 29.97 76 72 Cloudy
Baltimore 30 00 82 68 _ Cloudy
Bir'inrbam 30.00 81 66 . Cloudy
Bismarck 30.03 81 57 0.03 Foggy 1
Boston 30.06 76 62 Cloudy
Buffalo . 30.15 78 63 1 Clear
Charleston 10.92 80 68 0 07 Cloudy !
Chicago 30.12 75 65 _ Clear
Cincinnati 3o.OO 85 68 . Clear
Cleveland 30.09 81 54 Clear
Columbia 29.97 77 66 0.71 Clear
Denver 29.97 90 57 0.01 Clear
Detroit 30.12 81 56 _ Clear i
El Paso 29.86 92 67 ... Clear !
Galveston 29.97 89 75 Clear
Helena 29.83 89 58 ._ Cloudy i
Huron 29.97 93 70 Cloudy i
Indian Dolls 30.09 82 58 Clear
Jack'onville 29.94 83 69 0.29 Clear
Kansas C. 30.08 86 64 Clear
L. Angelea 29.83 86 64 I Clear
Louisville 30.06 84 60 ' Clear 1
Miami 29.92 85 74 0.66 Cloudy j
MdIs-Si P. 30.06 84 64 ... Cloudy
N, Orleans 29.97 93 75 _ Clear
New York 30.03 So 70 Cloudy
Norfolk 29.86 78 71 1.48 Rain
Okla City. 29.97 94 70 _ Cloudy I
Omaha . 30.06 87 66 _ Clear
Phila. .. 30.03 8u 68 _ Cloudy I
Phoenix 29.71 108 82 _ Cloudy
Pittsburgh 30.06 83 62 _ Oloudy
P land. Me 30.12 77 60 _ Clear
Pld. Ores 29.88 80 54 _ . Rain
Raleigh _. 29 94 76 d3 1.21 Ram
St. Louis 3012 so 60 Clear
S. ilk, c. 29.77 90 63 I Cloudy
8. Antonio 80.00 86 67 0.02 Cloudy
8. Dieao 29.80 79 66 . _ Cloudy i
8. F’ncisco 30.00 66 57 _ Clear
Seattle .. 29.88 68 65 _ Clear
Sookana.. 29.77 91 59 _ Cloudv
Tampa 29.92 88 74 _ Cloudy
WASH..D.C. 30.00 80 68 _ Cloudy
Forein Stations.
(7 a.m.. Greenwich time, today.) }
. . Temperature. Weather.
London. Bnzland- Not Received.
Paris. France _ •• ••
Vienna. Austria_ “ ••
Berlin. Germany_ “
Brest. France _ “ "
Zurich. Switzerland_ •• “
Stockholm. Sweden_ " •'
Gibraltar. Spain _ “
_ iNoon. Greenwich time, today.)
Horta (Faya)). Azores 72 Cloudy *
(Current observations.)
St. Oeorees. Bermuda 81 Cloudy
Ban Juan. Puerto Rleo 83 Cloudy
Havana. Cuba _ 7i Clear
Colon, Canal Zone_ 82 Cloudy
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