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IRISH FLIER AT MURRAY BAY DIRECTS PLANS TO AID BREMEN COMPLETE ITS TRIP
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THE PLANS to repair the transatlantic plane Bremen
and bring it with its full crew to New York, to complete
the flight on which the daring aviators started put from
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m to the beHef in Me gnflt or fat*
nocence.
While State’s Attorney Robert
Peter. jr., and Policeman Roy Bod*
mer, who pieced together the links
Df the evidence and swore out the
warrant for Robertson’s arrest, are
(confident of a conviction, E. Sted*
man Prescott, Robertson’s attorney,
Is equally confident of an acquittal,
possibly at the police court hearing
next week.
“They haven’t a thing on Rob
ertson,” Prescott said today. "The
severe grilling while he was held
Incommunicado in Baltimore failed
to elicit a single damaging admis
sion which a guilty man surely
would have let out.”
Prescott is not in a hurry for a
hearing before Police Judge Samuel
Riggs. It is said that he wants a
complete report on the bullets and
cartridges and the typewriter before
preparing his ease. Apparently,
jie is confident that this will not be
Conclusive against his client.
Two-gun Tangle
The State will charge that Rob
ertson owned two automatic pistols,
Snd that he switched barrels on
them after the murder. The claim
will be made that the markings on
the cartridges fired from one are
Identical with those on the cart
ridges fired from the gun which
piled Mills.
The claim will also bo made that
the markings on bullets fired from
Robertson’s other gun are Identical
with those on the bullets which
Snuffed out Mills’ life. As the re
port by the Bureau of Standards
has not been made public there has
been no definite verification of this.
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tered to readers through today’s Times
and Herald classified rental ads.
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fered to renders through today’s Times
and Herald elaesllled rental ads.
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MRS. SAMUEL T. ROBERTSON PRESCOTT ROBERTSON MRS. ROBERTSON SAMUEL T. ROBERTSON
HELD WITHOUT BAIL pending a preliminary hear
ing in Rockville police court on the charge of murdering
Edward L. Mills, Montgomery county dairy farmer, last
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Byrd Fliers, Bennett andßalchen,
Hop Off for Greenly Island
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Atlantic in a westward flight, will
reach Now York in the early part
of next week, seemed assured today.
Everything is in readiness for
rushing repair parts and fuel to
Greenly Island where the Junkers
monoplane Bremen is stranded,
slightly damaged and with practi
cally no fuel in its tanks.
The only thing which may further
delay rescue plans is a raging bliz
zard now sweeping the region be
tween this city and Murray Bay.
A tri-motored Ford monoplane,
piloted by Bemt Balchen and Floyd
Bennett, crack pilots of Comar.
, Richard E. Byrd’s Antartic expedi
tion, took off for Murray Bay from
Detroit today.
Same As Byrd Machine
The Ford ship, a huge affair of
the same type Byrd will use on his
Polar expedition, wfll pick up Major
Fltzmaurice, a Junker mechanic,
: the repair parts and fuel at Murray
1 Bay and then make another flight
1 to Greenly Island. It to probable
that MHos Hertha Junkers will go
along to Greenly Island.
The Ford plane should reach
Murray Bay at about 3 o’clock this
afternoon. Upon arrival it will
be equipped with skids for the
flight to Greenly Island.
According to officials of ’ the
Canadian Transcontinental Airways
Company, tho plan to take Major
Fltzmaurice and tho repair parts
to Greenly Island in tho plane of
"Duke” Schiller, who was the first
to reach tho island and brought
Fltzmaurice to Murray Bay, has
been abandoned and the rest of the
rescue job has been turned over to
the Ford plane. „ A .
It is not likely, according to Rob
ert Cannon, president of the Trans
continental Airways Company, that
the Bremen will make the hop to
New York without a stop, because
the amount of fuel which wtfl be
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FITZMAURICE
Dublin, are being directed at Murray Bay, Canada, by
Major Fitzmaurice, Irish member of the crew, who
will return to Greenly Island to join his colleagues.
taken to Greenly Island will not
be sufficient for the
flight.
May Return in Ford Ship
If It is found that tho Bremen
cannot be put into condition for
the flight to New York, th* three
transatlantic fliers probably will be
taken to New York in tho Ford
P1 The second transcontinental air
ways piano to reach the island was
today at Sacre Coeur, a small
hamlet 20 miles east of Muiray
plane, piloted by A. Vachon
and carrying several newspapermen,
one an International News Service
correspondent, left Greenly Island
yesterday morning after a two-day
stay with the German airmen. It
headed for Murray Bay but was
forced down at Sacre Coeur by the
blinding snowstorm sweeping the
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Keeper Didn’t Know of Flight
QUEBEC, Que., April 20.—Johnny
De Templier is the keeper of the
now famous lighthouse at Greenly
Island.
Johnny, his wife and their five
small children get very few visitors
during the long winter months and
those that do come, arrive by dog
sled or on snow-shoes.
So to say the De Templier* and
their brood were amazed when they
heard the hum of the Bremen’s
motor overhead last Friday, would
be putting it mildly to say the
least.
When he saw the plane alight on
the ice of the island’s reservoir
and crash through as it came to a
halt, the lighthouse keeper rushed
toward it in time to see two of
its occupants extricating a third
from the ice through which he had
fallen.
Le Templier receives newspapers
only rarely and he had no idea that
the aviators had just completed a
July, Samuel T. Robertson, Bethesda builder, refuses to |
make any statement other than that he is innocent.
His wife, Mrs. Mabel Robertson, supports him in hit plea «
DOG SLEDS BRING GASOLINE TO PLANE
transatlantic flight. Being a French-
Canadian, Le Templier speaks only
French and couldn’t understand the
German of Captain Koehl and Baron
von Huenefeld *er the English of
Major Fitzmaurice.
But he gesticulated to them In a
friendly manner and invited them
to hl* house. There h* offered a
change in footwear to the boron,
who had fallen through the ice.
He then offered them food.
New York to Spend
$60,000 for Welcome
To Atlantic Fliers
By IntOTsaMesal News Service
NEW YORK, April 20.—Several
million persons—residents of this
city and visitors—are expected to
take part in the gigantic ovation
which will be given to the trans
atlantic airmen of the Bremen
when they arrive from Greenly
Island. It will be one of the big
gest demonstrations of its kind ever
seen here, rivaling the reception
of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.
Captain Koehl, Baron Gunther
Von Huenefeld and Major Fitz
maurice are expected on Tuesday,
unless held up by bad weather.
Already plans have been com-
Sleted for the welcome and the city
as appropriated |Go,floo to defray
the expenses of the municipality’s
part, SIO,OOO more than was voted
for the Lindbergh reception.
There will b< a marine parade
in the harbor and North River.
The city steamer Macom, flagship
of the welcoming fleet and veteran
of many an official reception, wfil
carry the airmen oetween lines of
fireboats, police boats, snorting tugs
and siren shrieking steamers.
There will be an array of small
craft.
Every boat will be loaded down
with humanity excitedly giving
vent to emotions pent up so many
hours when the fliers were "lost.'’
TRv Fafrooef U«»7y
These photos, direct from Murray Bay, show Major Fitz
maurice with Fraulein Herta Junkers, daughter of the
designer of the plane, who flew from New York to find
out what could be done to help; dog sleds bringing gaso-
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JUKI TOLD
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cessfully defended E. L. Doheny and
Fall in their conspiracy trial. Hoover
attacked Roberta as a "Philadel
phia lawyer.”
"Abuse is neither argument nor
evidence, even if It does ceme from
a Philadelphia lawyer,” he shouted.
"Everhart, Fall’s son-in law, came
her* as a Government witness and
told you there was a legitimate busi
ness transaction; that there was no
bribe. He wasn’t our witness, he
was theirs. I submit, if we had no:
put on a single witness you would
1 have to render a verdict of acquit
tal on his testimony there was no
bribe.”
Hoover said Sinclair "would have
been a fool to have given any one
a penny” for an oil lease Imposing
as many hardships as the Teapot
Dome lease did.
Soldiers Instructed
To Write Mother a Letter
Instructions were Issued today by
Secretary of War Davis to chiefs
off all War Department branches
in this country and insular posses
sions, that he desires that each
offleer and enlisted man of their
commands write a letter to his home
on Mother’s Day, th* second Sun
day in May. as an expression of
love and reverence to the mothers
of our country.
Accident Puts WMAL
Off the Air Today
An accident to the generator in
broadcasting station WMA L will pre
vent that station broadcasting this
evening and possibly tomorrow eve
ning.
Announcement was made this
afternoon that repairs are being
rushed and it is hoped to resume the
broadcast schedule tomorrow
i of ignorance of the crime. Steadman Prescott. Rockville
attorney, has been employed by Mrs. Robertson to defend
J her husband and it was through the writ yf habeas
FRIDAY, APRIL. 20, 1998
Home Asked to Probe
Sinclair-Robison
Poker Party
Demand for Congressional in
vestigation of the famous poker
party here in which Harry F. Sin
clair, Capt. 3. K. Robison and
Navy and Interior Department of
ficials participated was made be
fore the House Naval Affairs
Committee today by Representa
tive McClintic (D.) of Oklahoma.
The party followed Sinclair’s
leasing of Teapot Dome.
Representative Britten (R.) of
Illinois frowned on the suggestion,
saying “If ypu investigate this
you might as well Investigate the
love affairs of men in public
life.’* He said if any of the Navy
officials involved desired to tes
tify, the committee would hear
them, but would not force them
to appear.
Claims Night School
Was Husband’s Dodge
Her husband told her that he went
to night school three nights a week,
but she thinks it was not the kind of
school where they teach the things
a married man ought to learn, Mrs.
Bertha W. Hackleton told the court
in asking for limited divorce from
her husband, Ralph F. Hackleton. of
Upshur Street Northwest, Treasury
Department employe.
Her petition, filed in Equity Court
today by Attorney William L.
Thomas, states that her husband told
her he was going to night school, but
It was only a pretext to get a "night
out” three times a week. He also
beat and abused her she said. They
were married in Baltimore, July 21,
1911.
AstomeMles the* yow cea vest
drive a* year senveaisMe **■ *•
cated through today’s Times sad HeraM
“Whe’s Who” cehimas «a asx* tu the
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FTTZMAURICE AND SCHILLER
line to the sister-ship of the Bremen, which Miss Junkers
used for her flight, and Fitzmaurice and Duke Schiller,
the flier who was first to reach the marooned trans
atlantic airmen, in an informal pose.
■EH SUICIDE
MS SHOUT
STATESVILLE. N. ft, April 20—
Announcement that a shortage of
1214,009 has been found in the ac
counts of D. M. Ausley, 51, cashier
of the Commercial National Bank
hero, was made today by W. D. Tur
ner, president.
Ausley. for many years cashier of
the Institution and a prominent
leader in civic affairs here, yesterday
committed suicide by shooting him
self through ths heart in his hotel
room.
According to the president’s state
ment, the shortage was discovered
by bank examiners who came here
early yesterday mornin», a tow hours
before the cashier’s body was found.
Turner's announcement followed
the closing of the doors of the bank
this morning. Turner estimated the
shortage had wiped out the >IOO,OOO
capital stock and >60,000 surplus.
Dr. C. B. Davenport to
Discuss Racial Crossing
Dr. Charles B. Davenport
director, department of genetics,
Carnegie Institution of Washington,
will give an illustrated lecture
tonight dealing with a study of
race crossing recently conducted in
Japan.
The lecture is one of a series
being given at the Institution’s
headquarters. Sixteenth and P
Streets. Tickets will be furnished
on request.
ARMY AIR FIELD LOANED
A license was issued today by As
sistant Secretary of War C. D.
Robbins to the Bellanca Aircraft
Corporation, of New York, to use
the Miller Field military reservation
hanger at New York until June L
Bey e hemo today see ths veal
Mtate for *■ tedtor’s
Theo* oed Herald classified »agM.
I corpus sued for at the instance of the wife that Robert- i
son was taken from the custody of Baltimore police
i authorities and brought back to Rockville. ' J
DUE GHIEf IS ‘
■DIED
Thomas W. Cunningham, sheriff
of Philadelphia county, and
treasurer of the Republican State (J
Committee, was indieted by the
trict Grand Jury today on stt v
counts for contempt of the United .<
States Senate, and refusing to an
swer questions propounded to him
by the Reed Committee investigat
ing the campaign expenditures es .
William S. Vare in the recent Sena- ’
torial election in his homo State.
Cunningham to specifically charged
with failure to give requested in
formation as to the source of Which
he obtained a gift of >25,000 which,
he admitted, he had made to the
Vare fund. A*.
Each refusal to answer a ques
tion was made a separate count in
the indictment. •'
Although his total contribution
amounted to >50.000, he was credited
with having contributed half of that
sum from his own resources. .
Evaded Questions < i
Cunningham had been ordered to
appear botorethe Reed committee in
Chicago. where ho refuted to
answer three questions propounded
to him at that time.
When the committee returned to
Washington Cunningham was again
brought before it on February 21.
1927. and advised that If he Tailed
to answer pertinent questions he
might be held in contempt Os the
Senate. At this time six questions
were asked him, all of which he
evaded or refused to answer.
Examinations May 12
For School Teachers
An examination for teachers seek- (
Ing posts as principals will be held
May 12, the Board of Education
today announced.
The examinaton Is for teachers
already employed in the schools. ;
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