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ran A iE ti TTTT rl Ready For Hop To Copenhagen 5 I I I I ifi 0 ATLANTIC HOLDS SECRET ELDER PLANES PROGRESS It! ITS FLIGHT TO PARIS Monoplane "American CirP Has Not Been Reported Since Sighted By Ocean Liner 400 Miles East Of New York Harbor At 10:45 O'clock Last Night Flying Eastward At 1,000 Feet Altitude SEVENTEEN VESSELS IN LANE TO BE FOLLOWED BY PLANE, THOUGH NONE HAVE SIGHTED IT Route Is Over Greatest Expanse Of Ocean Vet Covered In Any Flight And Is South Of Great Circle; Pilot Expected No Dif. Acuity With Ice; Weather Report Favorable On Continent A Oct 12 (AP) A calm sea with only a faint breeze and bright sunshine awaited the American Girl along the French Km ThC weather.ut! was favorable except for predictions that tomorrow morning is likely to be hazy. vuvom BELFAST, IRELAND, Oct. 12 (AP) The Dresent weather srsr1'" Glrii It was a beautiful day at Queenstown with a light easterly breeze and some haze, but fairly good visibility. Weather experts fate ay chane nd Prescnt condition! are expected to continue for at least 24 hours.

ti. 12 (AP)-Seventecn ships today were In YoT Gir1' Paris bound from New Hrn.AS?n?Jth! S.h,p8 t0 th Plane were: 1 Pr.esident Roosevelt, Maurctania, Ryndama, Belgenland, Aurania and Cameronia, bound west; the Tu.scania, France, Olynw Nieuw Amsterdam, CaiedoS, Oripsholm, Stuttgart, and the Degrasse, bound east. 7 mJiliw' Oc1- 12-(AP)The Liner Mauretania, 800 miles out from New York, today sent wireless message to The As-SMiated Press saying that she had not sighted the "American 8ea fine weather was reported. The liner is due in New York Thursday night. th? 8 41.50 north latitude, 58.41 west longitude at 12:45 P.

M. if maintaining her schedule of 100 miles an hour the plane should have passed that point shortly after one o'clock this morning. 1 1 ft New Ynrif f)rt 19 fiDi w.n Br U.S. OFFICIALS AT DEDICATION WRIGHTFIELDS War And Aviation Executives Attend Formal Ceremonies At Dayton, Ohio IS NOW WORLD'S LARGEST AIRPORT Project Costing $8,000,000 On Site Where Wright Brothers Planned First Plane Diyton. Oct.

12 (AP) Drdi-t cation of Wright Field, the world's largest airport which has been bum on almost the identical spot where the Wright brothers built their first airplane a quarter of a century ago, brought high government executives and aviation authorities to Dayton today. Secretary of War Dwight r. Da vis, Major General Mason M. Patrick, chief of United States army air corps, and others prominent in gov-j ernnicntal, military, aviation ana commercial flying circles were here to participate in the ceremonies. 'A strange mixture of sentiment and business established Wright Field here.

Th? story goes back 25 years when Wilbur and Orvile Wright. Day ton bicycle repair men and sons of a minister, constructed first their gliders and then a crude airplane, and housed them in a tumbledown shack which still stands just over the hil from the vast expanse of steel and concrete at Wright Field. Although the Wright first airplane flight- was made, at-Kittyhawk, N. it was here the two 'brothers worked out their problems and watch ed their idea take the shape of reality. The late John II.

Tatterson, manu facturer and economist, led a move. ment that resulted in the purchasing of 4500 acres of land by public subscription by people of Dayton and the entire Miami river valley. The land was donated to the government for the new field. Construction was started about a year and a half ago, and so far the field represents an outlay including land, of approximately $5,000,000. When completed the in vestment will be between sv.uuu.wu and $8,000,000.

"LADY BOUNTIFUL" DIE SAT AGE OF 82 Cincinnati, Oct. 12 (AP) Mrs. Mary Muhlenberg Emery, 82, noted philanthropist, known as "Lady Bountiful, died at her home here last night. She had been ill several months. Mrs.

Emery during her life had given away the greater part of her fortune. Always reticent about her gifts very few persons knew of her benefactions which were varied and extensive. The gifts were given with the understanding that no publicity attend their acceptance. Her husband, Thomas J. Emery, died in 1006.

In his will he told Mrs. Emery to give away their fortune where it would do the greatest good. The entire amount which Mrs. Emery gave away probably will never be known. LATE NEWS New Market, Oct.

12 Cesarewitch Stakes. PRICE THREE CENTS lth.elr wa t0 P. if no unreported! mishap had befallon them, Ruth E1-' der and George Haldeman were flying inruugn sunny sKies today over ocean water never yet crossed, in ah airplane by a woman. The Florida aviatrlx and her mala Cd-pilot. took off from Roosevelt Field at 6:04 o'clock yesterday afternoon' ana.

were sighted at 10:45 last night by the steamer American Banker. After that the night passed and the morning without further word of their progress. The steamer said the weather was clear and favoring winds were help ing me gin ana ner nymg escort on ttiAtw Tin. 1 i sighted was estimated to be 400 miles due east of New York, though Dr. fumuau oi the weather bureau said it might be as much as 450 miles.

In order to achieve her ambition of being the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane, Miss Elder and Haldeman, Dr. Kimball said, would have to pass through a severe storm area which they would probably" strike about 8 o'clock tonight. Up to that time, however, he predicted they would have almost ideal flying conditions. The fliers expected to arrive at La Bourget field Paris, about 7 o'clock Thursday morning, eastern standard time, or Thursday noon, Faria time. New York, October 12 (AP The monoplane American Girl presumably was speeding eastward over the Atlantic ocean toward Paris today.

7, f7- COT 'towlrd Copenhagen from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, oars Frances Grayson's 7, Sikorsky amphibian biplane, "The. Dawn." Three hours Mater it had landed safely at Old Orchard Maine, whence its departure across the Atlan "DAW'AVAITS LOW TIDE TO START FLIGHT Mrs, Grayson Expects To Take Off For Copenhagen About O'clock Today WILL TAKE 33 HOURS sats Plaue Being Groomed And Pro visioned; Exact Route Still Remains Undecided Old Orchard, Oct. 12 (AP) Mrs, Frances W. Grayson, Allowing her male companions to extend their sleep for'' several hours, was up ear ly today to direct preparations for the start of her Sikorsky plane, the for Copenhagen at 5 o'clock this afternoon, if conditions remain favorable Mechanics who had remained at Work until late last night, resumed the final' croon in of the hydro- airplane before dawn. Everything ap peared to be progressing tavoraoiy toward the start as planned.

Mrs. Grayson ordered two quarts of hot soup and two quarts of coffee to be prepared for the four thermos bottles the ship will carry. She also asked for a dozen sandwiches of ham and chicken. Mrs. Grayson said that the start would be; made as late this evening as the tide would permit, so that they might haye daylight for a landing in Copenhagen, if they are able to go that far.

She made a rough.estimate of 83 hours for the journey, although she said, it might vary considerably either way. The route was still undetermined this morning with a final decision expected only a short time before the take-oft. BULLETINS (AP) Eagles Pride won the famous I I Jk VOL. IV. NO.

258. ll'K FIRE SOTS SOUTH JERSEY OCEAN RESORT Three Blocks Along Boardwalk Laid Waste By Night Blaze With $4,000,000 Loss CAUSED BY EXPLOSION OF GAS IN GARAGE Thousand Room Hotel, Amusement Concessions, Theatres, Shops Prey To Flames Ocean City, N. Oct. 12-(AP) Swept by fire, the heart of this south Jersey seaside resort today was mass of ruins. Driven by a brisk ocean breeze the blaze, which started at 7 o'clock last night in the Unger Arcade building at 9th street and the Board' Walk, wiped out approximately 60 buildings, including hotels, cottages, shops and theatres, before it was brought under control four hours later.

Many others were damaged. Mayor Joseph G. Champion estimated the damage at close to $4,000,000. The Boardwalk between 7th and 10th streets, was almost completely destroyed. The Arcadia Cafe, the Hippodrome, a pier and amusement center, several motion picture houses and a score of shops and other business places along the walk were burned before the flames spread inland.

Nearly all the buildings were of frame construction and were quickly consumed. An explosion of gasoline in a boardwalk garage was held responsible for the spread of the flames to the cottage and hotel section on Wesley, Atlantic and Ocean avenues. Here, too, the structures were mostly frame and for a time it was feared dynamite would have to be resorted to in order to. check the fire. Among the larger hotels destroyed were the Normandie-By-The-Sca, which contained 1,000 rooms and was valued at the Biscayne and the Traymore.

Nearly every structure from the Boardwalk to Wesley Avenue, three blocks inland, between 8t and 10th streets was either destroyed or damaged. Among the private homes burned were those of Mayor Champion and Dr. W. P. Haynes.

The.lat-ter was one of the show places of the resort. Many families, rendered homeless by the fire, watched over the meagre household goods they had salvaged throughout the night. Others spent the night in cottages that had been vacated for the winter or at hotels. Firemen from Atlantic City, Margate, Somera Point, Pleasantville, Wildwood, Cape May and half a dozen other nearby points aided in conquering the blaze. Hospital ambulances with doctors and nurses also were sent from several of these cities and an emergency hospital was established at the City Hall.

A score of persons were treated for minor injuries, but no one was seriously hurt. Two firemen, William Aldridge, of the Atlantic City department, and Roy Flanders, of Ocean City, were injured. Aldridge was burned and cut when he fell from the side of the Hotel Traymore, where he was battling the flames Flanders was overcome and slightly burned, on the Boardwalk. h. Company 112th Field Artillery, New Jersey National Guard, was patrolling the streets- of the affected area today to prevent looting.

Fully armed, the men were sent here by truck from Atlantic City under command of Captain Garrett Cramer. A line was established far from the fire zone and every preson having no business was met with a bayonet. GERMAN PLANE TO ATTEMPT FLIGHT HERE Warnemunde, Germany, Oct. 12 AP The Heinel hydroplane D-1220 hopped off at 1:21 o'clock this afternoon for Amsterdam and Vigo en-route to the United States by way of the Azores. The D-1220 is a one-motor low-winged hydro airplane of the monoplane being equipped with pontoons which have been subjected to a series of rigid tests.

The plane carries an 800 horsepower Packard motor which supplanted the German engine. Merz, the pilot, is rated as one of the best German air naviga tors. Wilhelm Boo is the radio ope rator. The D-1220 will follow much the same route as that tane by the Junk' ers hydro-airnlane D-1230, which left Nordcrendcy, Germany, last week for a trans-Atlantic flight by way of the Azores and is now ia Lisbon awaiting favorable weather for the next Rfi nuRN T7K tic for the Dani.h capital is to' be taken as soon as the weather permits. At the left above hi) Brice Goldsborough, navigator of the expedition, and at the right, Wilmer Stuits, pilot.

Be-, low the map of the route is Miss Grayson in her flying TWO SOMERSET MEN ARRESTED CHECKCHARGE Credit Bureau Manager Charges Forgery Against Percy Nutter, William Harrington GIVE BAIL FOR HEARING, OCT. 20 Is Climax To Weeks Of gation For Passers Of Alleged Forged Papers Presented on a blanket charge of forgery Percy Nutter, Oriole and William -Harrington, Mt Vernon, were admitted to $1,000 bail each in Peoples Court late yesterday. Pre. limiriary hearing was set for October 20. The two men were brought here yesterday by Sheriff Alonzo Murrell and Deputy Sheriff Walker, of Somerset County on warrants sworn out by A.

B. Hodges, manager of the Del-Mar-Va Credit Bureau, Inc. Arrests were made after weeks of investigating by Mr. Hodges, assisted by Sheriff puffy, city police and local merchants. For months Salisbury merchants and business houses have received an avalanche of "bad" and forged checks.

The usual procedure was to purchase a small article at some of the local stores, giving in payment cheek for a large amount on some prominent person. The customer would accept the change and vanish. Not infrequently the check bore the signature that appeared to be bona fide in the style of penmanship and sometime the name was also printed on the check. Many merchants accepted them in good faith, gave the merchandise and change only later to have the check returned as a forgery. Two such checks have been drawn on James A.

Bailey totaling $173.00. Another was on H. W. Roberts for $06. Each of these checks bore the printed name of the maker and were said to have been stolen from the check books and forged.

Nearly every week for several months such checks have appeared in balisbury and nearby towns, as a rule drawn on Somerset County Banks and bearing the names of well known Somerset residents. The Credit Bureau and authorities have worked continuously in an ef fort to establish the identity of the persons responsible. ACTRESS TO MARRY DIVORCED HUSBAND Los Angeles, Oct. 12 (AP) Ada Mae Vaughn, featured motion picture actress and sister of Alberta Vaughn, has been married, divorced and will be-marrie -again' within a few weeks, all to the same man. Filing a final decree of diverge yesterday disclosed for ttie first time to members of the movie colony here Miss IVaughn's excursion into! the field of matrimony.

Albert R. Hindman, Los Angeles contractor, is the divorced, husband and fntiira hriHpcrrnnm. Th first marriage occurred in May. 1928. and ended a few months later because of what Miss Vaughn last night termed "foolish and silly reasons.

"We intend to be married again as soon as we can," the film actress said. "We are sure this marriage will successful and happy," MEXICAN REBELS SEEK TO LEAVE COUNTRY Mexico City, Oct 12 (AP) Pursued through the wild mountain country of western Vera Cruz, the rebel generate Arnulfo Gomes and Hector Almada today were believed to be attempting to reach the coast, where passage in a fishing boat or other small craft would put them be- yona reacn oi me government. Hot on their trail were scouting parties of federal troops under command of General Gonzale Escobar, who on Monday reported tha he had dispersed the" rebel forces and captured the main body, leaving Gomez and Almada with only about 10 followers. A dozen small groups, scattered in every direction, was declared by the government to be all that was left of the rebel column, which it ia stated never exceeded 1,000 men. Vera Cruz dispatches say the main group captured by the government troops numbered more than 650' and that all were from the units which march ed out of the Mexico City garrison barracks the night of October Taking cogniznance of reports that the government had manufactuured a case of treason against Gomes and General Francisco Serrano, who was recently executed, President Calles has issuued a statement tracing the history of the movement.

He doclared he was aware as early as Ausrust that the revolt was being planned; that he sought to dissuade General Serrano irom tne attempt and that he refrained from action only because of his hope that the plotters would abandon their enterprise. GOVERNOR RITCHIE DENIES 1000 GIFT CHARGED BY CARR Baltimore, Oct. 12 (AP) Reply--ing to a statement made by W. Bradley Carr, dismissed inspector of the Maryland Racing Commission, that he received $1,000 from George W. Loft.

New York candy manufacturer and rac ehorse owner, during his cam paign for governor in 1919 and returned it on the advice of friends, Governor Albert C. Ritchie today de clared the statement was a "contemp tible insinuation." In a statement the governor said Mr. Loft presented the money as a personal gift toward defraying his campaign expenses. Shortly afterward he learned Loft had asked the Laurel, race track to reimburse him and he returned the money to Mr. Loft, the statement added.

SPAIN SAD) TO BE ON BRINK OF CRISIS London, Oct. 12 AP A dispatch from Madrid to the Daily express, dated October 11 and sent by Courier to Handaye, says Spain is on the brink of a crisis and that the people are fearful of the future. Every one in Madrid, the dispatch says, is in a mood of frightened expectancy with plots and counter plots discovered frequently and hundreds of persons throughout the country imprisoned. Quantities of bombs were found stored1 in Madrid even under the eyes of the police, the correspondent says. The power of Premier Primo De Rivera, the dispatch adds, which for-ferly depended upon the army, is now denendine more and more upon the tponce and gendarmerie which ia be-j ing built up as a personal force, if QTATTC HUCrOVr 00 JlAlfO UDoUVVA COLUMBUS DAY" New York, Oct 12 (AP) Columbus day was observed as a legal hoi-iday in 85 states today with ceremonies commemorating the discovery of America in 1492.

Banks and schools, public buildings and many private businesses in many cities were closed and exercises marking the 435th anniversary of the voy-aye of Columbus were held. The major event of the day on the program. in New York was dedication of Casa Italians, a center for Italian culture, presented by Italians in America to Columbia University. The list of speakera included Guglielmo William Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraph, who was the official representative of the. Italian government, and Dr.

Nicholas Murray Butler, president of the University. Business was suspended in the financial district. SEVERE1 FIGHTING NEAR -PEKING, LONDON HEARS London, Oct. 12 (AP) Some of the severest fighting of China's prolonged civil warfare has been around Peking in the last few days, according to dispatches received here which say there have been casualties and captures en a large scale in sharp conflicts between the Ankuochun army and Shansi province forces. The fighting is reported to have resulted markedly in favor of Marshal Chang Tso-Lin a troops.

Chang now is stated to be in a strong position on all fronts, with prospects of final victory. STORM WARNINGS DISPLAYED ON COAST v-m Washington, Oct 12 (AP) The weather bureau today issued the following storm warnings: "Advisory 10:30 A. M. southwest storm warnings ordered Hatteraa to Eastport Maine. Disturbance of marked intensity over eastern Lake Superior moving northeastward will, cause strop south winds this afternoon and tonight reaching gale force along and off the coast from Delaware break water northward." A I i bearing Ruth Elder nearer to a rea- lization of her ambition to be the first' 5 woman to fly across the Atlantic Vienna, Austria, Oct.

12 (AP) -Don Miguel, Duke of Braganza and pretender to the crown of Portugal, died last night at Castle See-benstein, near Vienna, it was learned today. Re was 73 years old. Log of "The American Girl" (AP) Oct 11, 504: P. Eastern Standard time, hopped from Roosevelt Field for Paris. 11:45 P.

M. Eastern Standard time, sighted at aea about 400 miles east of New York by Steamer "American Bankef." 1 The comely 25-year old Florida avia-trix. who said she was retain? unon- God and prayers of her mother for a successful termination of the ture, hopped off from Roosevelt Field at 5:04 P. M. yesterday with Captain George Haldeman as co-pilot If all went well they expected to reach their goal in 38 to 42 hours.

A hop in 38 nours would put them in Paris at 7:04 A. M. Thursday eastern standard time or 12:04 P. M. Thursday, Paris time.

The fliers were following a course that called for the longest over water hop on record, a flight of nearly miles along the shipping lanes St Louis, Oct 12 (AP) France's long distance fliers, Diedonno Costes and Lieutenant Joseph Le Brlx made ready today for their hazardous hop across the Soath Atlantic to Port Natal, Brazil. They plan to get away some time this The airmen arrived here from Le Bourget Field, near Paris, yesterday, completing a flight of 2,700 miles. Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct 12 (AP) While all Copenhagen was interested in the flight of the American Girl with Ruth Elder, the city'a attention and that of all Denmark hs been centered on Mrs. Frances W. Grayson at Old Orchard, waiting for the expected hop off of the "Dawn" for Copenhagen tonight" Everything possible is being done to facilitate the reception of the The probability of a night arrival ia being provided for and.

the airdrome will be illuminated. directly from Long Island to the French coast Seven other trans-At- laatic airmen made over water hopa, of approximately 1,900 miles from New Foundland to the Irish coast on flights to England and Europe. Although it called for a total flying distance of some 3,800 miles, the more southern route was Selected in preference to the great circle, course in the hope of avoiding ice ana possibly being able to fly over fog. While the course followed the shipping lanes all the way, Haldeman said he would rely -(Continued on page 4) New York, Oct. 12 (AP) A second message from the American Banker, relayed through the Independent Wireless Telegraph Company, waa received during the forenoon, confirming the ship's original message sent last night The captain of the steamship, however, enlarging on his first radiogram, said the American Girl waa flying at an altitude of 1,000 feet, favored by ideal weather conditions and a high barometer.

The plane, which flashed lights over the vessel as it passed, was then estimated at about 423 miles east of New York. hop. 1.