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THE mtOOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. Al'lUL 23. 1928. Ms) DRAMATIC EPISODES IN LT.

FLOYD BENNETT'S AIR CAREER -tj4 Nr ita-X-X I viv fill Si I i 'I 1 i sr. kj BrM ft -tH 'lir 0 Left to right Col. Charles A. Lir.dbergh preparing to hop off from Curtiss Field, L. with serum which it was hoped would; air expedition for the relief of the stranded Bremen fliers the expedition on which he started while suffering with influenza and save Bennett's life.

Bennett on crutches after he had been injured in a test flight of Byrd's transatlantic plane America. (The resulted in the fatal attack of pneumonia. (Left to right are Fitzmaurice, Bennett, "Duke" Schiller and Balohen.) Bennett insert shows Mr. Bennett.) The last photograph of Bennett, taken after he had flown to Lake Ste. Agnes as commander of an and Commander Richard E.

Byrd just after their North Pole flight, with the dog which flew across the top of the world with them. Smith and Rockefeller Jr. Join in Tributes to Bennett; Flags Ordered at Half Mast Bennett Sacrificed His Life Trying to Aid Bremen Fliers; With Byrd in Arctic Flights DENMARK BISHOP CALLED GOAT OF $100,000 'FRAMEUP' (Continued from Pge 1.) dren that I shall not be beck to din ner?" replied the detective. "You can't." The Bishop, in Maroh, 1826, waa convicted by Jury of his peer and sentenced to serve three months in Jail. He served from May 21, 1926, to Aug.

21, 1926. Had to Work In Jail. "I had to work in Jail," Bishop Bast, continued. "They asked me to translate the probation laws of the United States, chiefly those of the State of New York, with the idea that they will be some time put In force in Denmark. Bishop Bast's case has divided Methodists the world over into two camps.

Following the expiration of his jail term, a movement was begun to have him reinstated In his post from which he resigned under suspension, with salary continued, In 1924. Intensity of the religious controversy that his plight has provoked is Indicated by the fact that a Dr. H. Jensen, Danish experimenter with serums, Is now in Kansas City, and is reputed ready to spend $100,000 for counsel to swing the Methodist Episcopal Council of 17 against the Bishop. Nephew a Brooklyniie.

Arrayod on the other side are the Rev. Dr. Dorr Diofcndorf of East Orange, N. who will act as counsel fsr Bishop Bast. The Bishop will also be accompanied by his nephew, Eu'tenius Bast, formerly of Brookly.

While there were numerous charges Widow Rejects U. S. Plea to Bury Bennett In Arlington Cemetery Floyd Bennett, the aviator who died today In Quebec, wll be burled in Brooklyn in Evergreens Cemetery. Funeral services wil be held on Sunday, according to an announcement made today by Mayor Walker. The Mayor said Bennett's widow wanted her husband buried in his home boro, and that sha had refused the request of the Federal Government to have the interment In Arlington Cemetery.

Details of the city's part in the ceremonies will not b9 arranged until confor-ences are held with Mrs, Bennett and the pilot's friends and associates. It was announced, however, that the parade to greet the Bremen fliers would be held on Monday and that the cty's dinner to them would be Tuesday evening, being both after the burial of Bennett. Telegrams of sympathy were sent from all parts of the country today to Mrs. Floyd Bennett, following the death of her famous aviator husband in Quebec. In New York tribute was paid by Governor Smith, Mayor Walker, Army officers at Mitchel Field and many outstanding persons In the aeronautical field.

Mayor Walker ordered all flags on city buildings lowered to half mast and similar orders were issued by all the Boro Presidents. Amohg the telegrams and tributes were the following: Governor Smith "He was a great aviator, one of our greatest. His last flight, risking his life, coming from a sickbed to fly to the disabled Bremen was characteristic of the man." Gloom Over Welcome Here. Mayor Walker great camaraderie of the air knows no national boundaries. Bennett's tragic death has cast a pall of gloom over New York's preparations for the reception of the transatlantic John D.

Rookefeller Jr. He died as he lived, responding to the call of duty and honor. F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation The Wat Department, the United States Army and the Air Corps unite in offering sympathy on his heroic consecration of a lifetime to the advancement of aviation. Praises Bennett's Modesty.

John Harding Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce Floyd Ben nett was endowed to a marked degree with rare gifts of vision, determina tion and a capacity for constructive work. His personal modesty won for him many friends. Joseph V. McKee, President of the Board of Aldermen New York had come to regard htm as her very own. He was a brilliant flier and did much to advance aviation.

Major John N. Reynolds, com manding officer, Mitchel Field- Commander Byrd has suffered a great handicap In the loss of Mr. Bennett practically on the eve of the start of his Antarctic expedition. C. S.

Jones, chief test pilot, Cvrtlss Aeroplane and Motor Co. Floyd Bennett was undoubtedly one of the best pilots in the world. Fokker Fays Tribate, Toe. Anthony H. o.

Fokker, Atlantic Aircraft Corporation, Hasbrouck Heights American aviation has lost one of Its most brilliant pilots In the death of Floyd Bennett, and I have lost a very good friend. Charles Lawrence, president Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Peterson Floyd Bennett's Indomitable will has done much to further sate ana sane flying. Charlea H. Colvin, president Pio neer Instrument Company, Brooklyn It was Just like Floyd Bennett to give up his life for fellow airmen. Sherman M.

Falrchlld, president rairchlld Aviation Corporation Famed Bootleg be made set out from Detroit for the north. They came down at Seven Islands, some 500 miles from their goal, and here Bennett was taken ill and could not proceed. The plane went on without him, carrying MaJ. James Fitzmaurice, the Irish member of the Bremen crew, in bis place. Serum Proved Useless.

Bennett was removed to the Jeffery Hale Hospital, Quebec, and there, while doctors fought for his life tnd the most distinguished fliers In America rushed to be near him, he became gradually It was thought that pneumonia serum, developed in the laboratories of the Rockefeller Foun dation in New York, might help him, and at hardly a moment's notice Col. Charles A. Lindbergh agreed to carry the remedy by air to a fellow flier in terrible distress. Using a fast Army plane, Colonel Lindbergh set out yesterday afternoon from Curtiss Field, L. and covered the 500-odd miles at a terrifio rate of more than 130 miles an hour.

The serum, however, proved to be useless. Bennett, it was found, was In the grip of double pneumonia, a type for which no serum had yet been devised. And today the North Pole filer died, sacrificed to his own eagerness to aid other fliers In distress. Real Man," Byrd's Tribute. In his book "Skyward," Commander Byrd relates how he "discovered" Bennett, while he was working as a mechanic on a Navy ship.

"Once he had his chance," Bennett's chief declares, "he showed that he was a good pilot and one of the finest practical men In the Navv for handling an airplane's temperamen tal mecnamsms. And above that, he was a real man, fearless and true one in a million." After the North Pole flight, Byrd commented as follows: "Bennett Is a man of the greatest energy, endurance and skill, both as a navigator ana a mecnamc. i should not like to be In the Arctic without him and I would take him before any other man In the world." He revealed to Bennett then his plan tor a transatlantic flight and added: "We go together." But they did not go together, either then or on the South Pole flight, still- to oe macie. Kept Emotions Controlled. Bennett had superb control of his emotions, but during the test flight last April, realizing that the plane was nose heavy, he gave the only rlgn of nervousness he ever displayed.

That sign, Byrd says, was to lick his lips, and at the time he nudged Lt. George Noville and nodded toward Byrd. The plane, under the guidance of Anthony Fokker, Its designer, landed at 60 miles an hour and turned over. All but Fokker were injured, Bennett by far the most seriously. He was hanging upside down in the wreckage of tha pilot's seat, his leg smashed, blood pouring over his face, blinded with oil.

First Thought for Comrades. He believed ha was dying; but his first, thought was of his companions. "We heard a strained voice," lays BvTd. "crvlna 'Look out for It was Bennett, the man in a mil lion Bennett, fearless and true. Byrd, himself with a broken arm.

made his way to his comrade and did what he could for him until help should come. "Ouess rm dona for, commander," Bennett told him. And Byrd, though replying, "Nonsense, old man," thought he waa right. Near Death for a Week. For a week It seemed that Bennett wotid die, but he pujled through, he was up on crutches before the rebuilt America left for France and during the past year ha seemed to regain his od strengtn.

Ho was on a lecture tour when the chance came to go as chief pilot of New Ycrk City's official relief plane to aid the transatlantic Bremen. He had a severe cold, but noth ing could stand In the way of his ln regarding the use of funds against the Elshop, most of which were dismissed, the question put to the Danish Jury, on which lt convicted him, was whether or not he had mistated the receipts and expenditures and profits of his paper, the "Lighthouse." The Jury convicted him on this point. On Jan. 30, 1923, however, a group of prominent Copenhagen citizens, including Mr. Vedel, got together, and proclaimed his Innocense of all the charges brought against him by the church elders, city officials and Danish newspapers.

nj Charges Against Bast.lui ln, This group Issued a statement in which they said they had made every effort to get their views before a "public court meeting," but had been thwarted, and so appealed to the public. The charges, as definitely outlined agairst Bishop Bast, were: 1. Having kept no control of contributions. 2. Having kept three separate treasuries while only accounting for one.

3. Having used the legacy fund. 4. Having used the private production fund. o.

Defrauding the fund of 6. Appropriating the contract fc rebuilding the Jerusalem Church. 7. sVtlng the trustees of. the church responsible for the debt.

8. Although ha waa supposed to work without pay, to have earned a on the "Lighthouse." To "the last char je Bishop Bast replies that he devoted the proceeds from the Lljhthouse to charity. "Low-Minder Charges." Regarding Bishop Bast's friendship-with the other man's wife, Baron Palle RosenkranU of says: "If an lnaulsltlve person should asK $800,000 CUT LOOMS IN KEARNS' ACTION AGAINST DEMPSEY Suit Nears Collapse as Judge Threatens to Quash All but One of Promoter's Claims. The almost complete collapse of the suit brought by Kearns against Jack Dempsey was Indicated today when Federal Judge John C. Knox declared he "had in mind throwing out clauses two, three and four in Kearns' charges," according to the Associated Press.

These Involved over $500,000 of the approximately $700,000 sought by the boxer's former manager under their old contract. The sudden statement of Judge Knox madea flurry in the crowded United States District Courtroom and caused adjournment of the trial at noon until 2 da for a conference between the udge and attorneys. The parts of Kearns' case threat ened with being quashed before going to tne jury deal with his effort to recover a percentage of Dempsey's earnings for the latter's first fight with Gene Tunney in Philadelphia in September, 1926. The contract under which Kearns claims his share of the money expired in August. 1926.

HOME DEAD LETTER 'OFFICE' ADMITTED BY POSTMISTRESS Confesses at Trial's Resumption She Never Asked Advice on Unolaimed Mail. Mrs. Fallah L. Qulnlan admitted at tha resumption of her trial this afternoon before Federal Judge Marcus B. Campbell that at no time during the six years that she waa postmistress of East Northport, L.

did she con sult the postal authorities as to the return or other disposition of the several hundred articles of mailed matter which postal Inspectors found In tne garret oi ner home last Dec. l. Several times she sought this Information in the published book of regulations supplied postmasters, she saia, out sne coum not rememoer wnst part oi the volume she con sulted or tf she had looked through tne "copious index. That unclaimed letters had to be sent to the Dead Letter Office at Washington she knew, she said, and had Instructed her clerk to send soma on several occasions. She could not remember, however.

If the clerk had sent Admitting that packages of parcel' post matter were in her garret while her postnice was being Inspected back in 1920, as wel las last October, she said she did not then advise the in spectors of this because "tney didn't ask me. Mrs. Qulnlan Is under Indictment charged specifically with the (heft of two hammocks received at her post-office last May by' parcel post, addressed to Herman Rlchter, a resident of the village. tentlon to carry aid to the men who had crossed the ocean he himself had once hoped to fly. On April 18 ha and Balchen, who also left a sick bed to go with the relief party, flew to Detroit In one of Commander Byrd's South Pole planes.

They were put to bed in the Ford Hospital but would not stay there. On April 20 they took off In a Ford plane for Murray Bay and made the 800 miles In about nine hours. But Bennett's cold developed Into pneumonia and after waiting a day Balchen pushed on without' him. Bennett was taken by plana to Quebec on Sunday, April 22, and his wife, Herself suffering from a severe attack of tonsillitis, went there to be with him. Commander Byrd canceled all his engagements and joined the Bennetts at the hospital.

pened, but she did recall clearly that Bennett was an ill man when left for Detroit a week ro last Monday. Mrs. Bennett drove him to Miller Field that day, Mr. Rodger recalled, but only after a doctor had given him a tonic to buoy him up. "He was tired and nervoiu and overworked," she said, "and eemd unable to get his full strength together at any llmt.

So the doctor waa called." But hardly lisl Bennett gone to Detroit-. It aa Iran that ritjr that he left to to Quebee and death thst Mrs berame III. When Bennett broke his le In the America accident Mrs Bennett wa III, too. This time, although sha should have been In bed, she hurried to the hos pital to be with her husband. his waist, without explanation.

It was thought he planned to use the pistol (or signaling In caee of a forced landing after nightfall. The serum and three white rats to be used in the diagnosis of Bennett's illness were brought to the field by rnomas A. Appelget Mr. Rockefeller's private secretary, and he and Lindbergh climbed Into the open cockpit. A Dangerous Takeoff.

The plane was headed with the wind, always a dangerous takeoff, but Lindbergh took off, saving the few minutes it would have required to taxi down the field, turn and come back for a normal takeoff into the wind. At a speed of 60 miles an hour, the plane's wheels struck a slight bump, the right wing wobbled down toward the ground, almost touching, but Lindbergh "gave her the gun" and the plane headed north for its flight of over 500 miles through rain and snow. Lindbergh had planned to land at Montreal because of the storm near Quebec and a special train had been provided there to rush the serum here. Crowds Greet Him at Quebec. With the fast little ship under his hand, he changed his plana on the trip and 3 hours and 42 minutes after the takeoff from New York swooped down on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec.

Thousands of excited Quebec residents had thronged the field and roared a welcome as he and Mr. Appelget climbed from the plane and ran (or a waiting automobile. They were driven to the hospital where experiments to test the type ol ameumonta threatening the life of Bennett were begun on the rats they Had brought. Lindbergh Sees Bennett. Lindbergh was allowed to see Ben-net for a moment and he then drove to a hotel where he again encountered a crowd waiting for him in the storm.

He said he had a very good flight and then went on to explain that visibility had been very poor from the start and that for many miles he was guided only by his compass. He followed the Hudson to its source where he ran Into a snowstorm. Unable to sight any landmark, he steered by compass to Lake Cham-plain, cut across country to the St. Lawrence River eight miles above Quebec City and after circling several time to locate the field came down on Battlefield Park, Plains of Abraham, to a perfect landing. Why New York Waa Appealed To.

Dr. Delaney, explaining why the offer of serum from the Rockefeller Institute was accepted, said: "No doubt there is any amount of antl-pncumonia serum in Canada and possibly in Quebec but Dr. Ba-rach knew that the New York State Department of Health manufactures a special serum containing antibodies agaiast Type 2 pneumococcus. This can only be obtained from them and in anticipation that it might be Type 2 pneumococcio Infection, the Rockefeller Institute Volunteered to send a supply of this serum." Dr. Hayward.

superintendent of the Montreal General Hospital, questioned the need for Lindbergh's hazardous flight. He said they had Type 1 and Type 2 scrum available there but that no request had been made for. It from Quebec. Serum Also Unshed by Train. Befcral tins of the serum were shlnfrdby train from New York last nighl.

which were to have been used if LltidUcruh had not won throuch. but aWe they were also Type 2 they weriuof no use. Lildbergh's failure to come to MorJreal as planned was a disappointment to Mayor Camillien IToude and ro.umlttee of welcome, which had waited at the air field there for sevn hi hours until news of his safe am il In Quebec was received. 1. Pilots Grief-Stricken By Death of Bennett MPrhel Field.

L. 1. April 25 iA', Thrlxlr pilots at thA Long Island fly ing tflrltia were grlef-strlckcn todnv 07' death of Floyd Iinnnett. He mc 1 fac to regarded as one of the grrntcst In the rountry and was held personal regard of hi. tinnsxtimlng manner, the nlrn.uiie mar.u-rar.

sent the followUig telegram mmantler Hyrd at Quebec: have lost a loyal aid and avla- tint a notnbli- figure in the death of Fit Bennett. Permit me to ofTct in i.Tnpathy." 2 tl'ighett V. S. Medals lete Held by Bennett Viifhlnon, April 25 (P) Floyd was the holder of two of the highest awards within the gift of the Amenenn Oovernmnt the Mednl of Honor and the Dl llnsNilshrd Hervlre Medal. The Medal of Honor was awarded for cournie and intrepidiiy at the rl'k nl his life as a member of the Bvrd North Pole expedition.

Hie Distinguished Pervir Medal wns awarded "for exceptionally merllorlnis servlr to the dovcriiment" In t'ic North Tola fllolit. For his v.nk ih tha MieMilbn polar exiwdltion he aa connnii'ied by the twretsry of the Navv. His Distinguished Bervlce Medal was pre. actus! bjr Ui President. BREMEN WELCOME POSTPONED AGAIN UNTIL MONDAY But Same Program Will Be Adhered To Air Regulations Issued for Event.

The city reception to the crew of the transatlantic plane Bremen has been postponed until Monday and the city dinner to them until Tuesday night because of plans for the funeral of Lloyd Bennett, who died this morning in Quebec of pneumonia contracted as he was aiding In an attempt to reach the fliers marooned on Greenly Island. Groven Whalen, chairman of the Mayor's reception committee to distinguished visitors announced the change this afternoon. The Board of Estimate yesterday approved an appropriation of $60,000 for the city's entertainment of the Bremen tiers. Air regulations have been issued by William P. MacCracken aeronautics chief of the Department of Commerce, for the guidance of fliers at the arrival of the filers at Mitchel Field.

No plane will be permitted ahead of the plane of the ocean fliers itself and one must get within half a mile of her except the authorized military escort and press and news reel planes and others specially authorized to do so. During the two-hour period Immediately alter the landing no planes except those specially authorized by the Air Marshal, Major John N. Reynolds, will be oermitted over the flying field. Included among tha methods of welcoming the Bremen's transatlantic fliers, when they arrive here, will be a radio microphone In the air. As the sea fliers' craft files over tne last 100 miles of her trip approaching Mitchel Field, una is to De accompanied by a Curtiss plane carrying a transmitter ol WOK with Louis A.

Witten, the station's announcer, antf Jack Poppele. the chief engineer. The scenes witnessed from tne air wui be described by Witten for the radio audiences through his "sky-mike." ONE DIVORCE SUIT IN FIVE MARRIAGES Out of every Ave marriages In the United States there is at least one which results in a disrupted home and a court action, lt waa reported today at a meeting of the National Probation Association's Joint Committee on Domestic Relations Courts, The committee, wnich comprises judges from all parts of the held an all-day session at the headquarters of the association, 370 7th Manhattan. The present situation Is "very seri ous, according to a report made by the committee after a countrywide survey. In the discussion that followed the reading of the report, lt was suggested that Dnmestlo Relations Courts become "clinics" for a study of the causes underlying domestic troubles Instead of merely confirming their attention to the legal points Involved.

U. S. MISS10X ARY SLAIN FOR HIDING WOUNDED CHINESE (Continued from Page L) University of Wisconsin and Northwestern Medical School, Evanston, 111., came to China In 193. His daughter, who Is a nurse, is In the United States at present. The Presbyterian headquarters here was advised that Presbyterians throughout Shantung, except those at Tslnaug, have all either evacuated or their evacuation Is under way.

The Nationalist troops today wars in Tilnan, capital of Shantung Piov-ince, some 230 miles south of Peking, their onpctive. The Southern forces under Feng Yu-Hslang entered the city yesterriuy. The Northern troops offered virtually no resistance. Tens of thousands of Northerner! fled to Chcfoo and Wclhalwei on the coast. Lawlessness and hrtrandage prevailed today as they trekked across the province.

'and Rnallsh residents at Tilnan barf been evacuated belore the cltv fell. All women and children wnt to isingtao. a here rour American de stroyers are anchored. a rKnii ininy American and an ential number of British remained in Tslnsn. Most of tnm are connected with tne enantung Christian Uni unity.

ALUMNAE HOLD DANCE Alumnae of St Joseph's Commercial academy nem ineir spring dance last nlirht at tha Hotel ftt (Irona Ahmit 3 friends and graduate of the school at 1Y1 nrldg st. danced at ths br-flt recrpiion fur lmorovemnu to the I convent, citapel. mim Mine Mulligan la president of tin alumnae group and May V. Ofa Was chairman of the daaov committee, I Floyd Bennett's career as a flier was associated, almost from beginning to end, with that of Commander Richard P. Byrd.

Bennett was born at Warrensburg. M. and at the age of 27, when the United States entered the World War, he enlisted in the Navy. Three years later, in 1920, he qualified as an air pilot and after having been discharged from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant he began that association with Byrd which was to continue until the day of his death. Their first large venture together was in 1925, when Byrd went as flight commander of the MacMillan expedition to Greenland.

Bennett went with him and was his pilot. Together they flew some 6.000 miles over the Arctic ice, landed there, took off again and returned to their base. Flew to North Pole. The following year both were again associated in the flight to the North Pole. When the monoplans Josephine Ford swung out from Spltzbergen and later circled over the North Pole the two men who looked out of her cockpits and were the first to look down on the pole from the air were Byrd and Bennett.

After circling several times around the pole Bennett turned the Josephine Ford back toward Spltzbergen and with Byrd navigating returned to his starting point, having covered about 1,600 miles in 15 hours and 51 minutes. Commander Byrd thought so well of his North Pole pilot that when he made his plans the following spring for the flight across the Atlantic from New York to Paris the first man he picked to go with him as the transatlantic pilot was Bennett. That part of the plan, however, was never carried out. On April 16, 1927, the Fokker monoplane America, In which the Atlantic was eventually crossed in perhaps the most sensational flight of all time, was taken out for a "factory test" at Teterboro Field. N.

J. Seriously Injured. Anthony Fokker, the designer and builder, was at the controls and Byrd and Bennett were two of his passengers. About 300 feet from the starting point after a short and uneventful spin, the America nosedived over a email mound and crashed to earth. The fuselage was shattered and this aoctdent to the machine was prab-ably responsible for the fact that the Byrd venture was not the first to start across the Atlantic to Paris.

More serious, however, were the injuries to Bennett. For months afterwardfirst in St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan, and then at his Brooklyn home, 239 Ocean ave he was confined to an invalid's bed or chair, only occasionally venturing out of doors, on crutches and with one leg heavily bandaged. Awaited Bulletins. Late In June, when Byrd was wait ing to take off without him.

Bennett came down in an automobile to the hangar at Roosevelt Field, talked to his flight commander, shook hands with the men who were to go on the flight which he would literally have given an arm to make and pathetical ly inspected the great three-motored America as she stood there, almost humanly eager to fly. Then, on June 29, when the America with her four men swung out over Hempstead Plains toward Newfoundland and Paris Bennett forgot his pilns and his crippled leg and with a telephone instrument at his hospital bedside waited for hourly bulletins of the progress being made. And from his bedside, while the America flew on, he spoke over the radio and on June 30 he said: "If 1 can't be in the air with these men. I am glad to be on the air. I am happier than words can tell that the America Is well on her way to Paris, making good progress A bulletin received from Commander Bvrd earlier In the day said thev were In a fog at an altitude of 10,000 leet and In freezing cold.

Only flying men can know how sertoui this Is Ajaln Chose Bennett. And when he went to bed lata that nlirht left word that he must be awakened the mlnut word arrived that the America had landed. When Hyrd and his men. after their narrow rsrnpe in the sea water off the coast of Frnnre, returned to this country plans were laid for the air conquest of the South Pole and here again the first man Byrd thought of was Bennett. He had now almost completely recovered and arrangements wer quickly made thnt.

Hyrd a South Pole pllo'H were to be B-nntt and Balchen, one of the (our to make the transatlantic Off Without Htm. Tlin the Bremen, with two Oer-mmi tilers and an Irishman, crossed the wesibornd er'd landed on I'eiiouM Cheerily Island, off The npeded fuel n-'M s-n'e parts leave th" Wand and presently Bennett and Balchen In a sister plane of on In which the flight to the fjuth Pole wa to 5. Floyd Bennett's death has taken awa7 from American aviation a man whom everybody loved. J. T.

Trlppe, president Pan-American Airways A splendid pilot and an unassuming nentleman. Grover A. Whalsn, chairman of the Mayor's committee for the reception ol Bremen fliers: Floyd Bennett's death is a great loss to aviation. Courageous, sef-saerl'lctn, he riied in harness. His death is a serious personal loss to me.

SAY BROOKLYN GIRL MARRIED LUNATIC (Special to The Eagle.) 1 Washington, April 25 Elopement of a Brooklyn girl with an alleged tana-tic today led to the Equity Court, where marriage annulments are granted. The petition for annulment of the marriage was made by Paul L. Reed, father of tha man said to be Insane. Both bride and groom have names Indicating connections with prominent New York families. The bride la Gwendolyn Olmstead of the Hotel Touralne, Brooklyn.

The room la Theodore Van Wyck Reed of Washington. The two eloped on Anrll 10 1st. to Rockvllle, one of Maryland's Oretna Greens, according to the pe.l.lon, an I there were married by the Rov. 8. J.

Good. At the time of the elopement Reed was on leave of absence from 8t, Elizabeth's Hosnltal here. Reed and his wife have been asperated since the day of the marriage, the I't't says, both returning to theip parents. Queen Cited riety she gained aa bowleg queen the British authorities to deport her, tor she was the wife ef a subject of Argent! a. She la now In Frenee.

Edward Hurhee, a real estate man of Douilrston. L. told Justice Fawcett today that a man who looked like Charbonneau In 1B24, under the name of Al Conway, rented a cot-ls-e. where he remained a mon-h wit ha woman then as "Mrs. Ctnway." He said she loked like the famous botleg queen and added that they aald thay had lived at the Prince Gcoi-ua I'ntel.

Manhattan. Mrs. Charbonneau la about IS, a brunette and slender. Justice Fawcett awarded her a decree and $50 a week alimony. Charbonneau was served tvlth the divorce papers at 483 2d st.

their predicament until after the pilot had left the llnjr at Ambrose llcht. Thry said the ship's omcrrs refused to let them send a wireless collect and that at Southhampton thf were put in Jail for almost a month. A letter to friends brought money but cot enough for the ps-sag. The liner reached Quarantine at 9 o'clock last nlttht and dlchar-d aev-eral thousand bogs nf mall. Mr.

and Mr, ttcljert W. Hl-lvr were permuted lo be taken off by a tugboat so they entiM hurry to thlr ynunf dsiiehter. who Is 111 In Tom Hcency. who Is to fitht C'-Tie Tunney and who was listed for psssnge aboard the Olympic, did not make the trip. As 'Other Woman9 in Divorce what ft was that imersiew accused the Bishop of, we shall only answer that he attacked him because of a irtendchlp to an especially noble and honorrble man, his wife ard child, and made charges of so shabby and low-mlndcd nature that if any one had made such charges In bygone dv he would have ben horse- whipped out of the city.

That la all there is to say about the matter, espe- dally by a person who knows these piople and knows how beautiful are their relations and what veluable people they are." ro longer holds his office rn the chttrrh. Bishop Bast epecta that the session In Kansas City will completely clear him. recount victory for urs. walters': A mysterious ec-repondent who might be the "world-famous bootleg quee not other days and was described and Identified by wltneases aa Mme. Olorla de Cassarea f.jured today In the trial of suit for divorce brought by Mrs.

May V. Charbonneaii of 1018 W. 13th st. Coney Island, before Jus tice Fawcett In the Supreme Court. Th suit Is against Albert A.

(Hand some Al) Charbonneau, who failed to appear. Madame ae i the whisky ship Oenerel Berrett about two years ago, and last year sh sailed from here for England, her native country, where she first saw the light of day aa Mabel Davey, a child of humble origin. The noto Bennett Was III When He Left Brooklyn Last Week Mrs. Katherlna V. Walters, Demoil cratlc co-lcadcr of the 1st A.

Dwa declared the victor In the pHmary 'J fhht for State Commltteewcman Item Stowaways Unmoved by Jail, Now Glum; Must Face Wives that district after completion of the recount of votes by the Board of Elections In Brooklyn today. PERSONALS eiKsirtttnui ir-ninann-r-tTtiiomi. awaf wiiii hraa faak to tmif Imi.rMll. jrlis Dl. lin n'ii J5S.

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UonstO, WW4 A motherly lady, who believes that It "wasn't God's will, apparently, that Floyd Bennett should make any more of those wonderful flights," la mourning his passing today. She is Mrs. Josephine Rodger of 239 Ocesn who lives on tin fourth floor directly beside the apartment occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bennett.

She has known them well since Christmas. She moved into the apart-mrnt Just about the time Bennett broke his leg In the accident to the airplane America and she has b'en very friendly with the flier and his wife ever sine. Today, she said, sha could hardly realize what has ri Two automobile salesmen who made tl round trip to Europe on the While Star llher Olympic, luted aa a'ow-awaya, were somewhat glum when the vessel docked this morning, not because of a sojourn of almost a month In 4 Southampton Jail or because of the loss of spring sale, but because they had yet to explain to their wives. They were Roy Apcsrof 217 W. IVn st.

and Charles Msaon of 210 64th it Manhattan. They went aboard the Olympic, before It railed on March 11th. last, to wish bon voyage to uitin friends, automobile salesmen. The leava-tsklng became merry aad Spear and Maaoo wtra not aware of.