the Bear in Arctic waters, NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Army Lieutenants Fly to Honolulu, and Byrd Hops to France. By EDWARD W, PICKARD WO more great feats in aviation marked the week, and both wera American accomplishments, First and of more importance was the flight eof Lieuts, Lester J. Maitland and Albert Hagenberger from Sen Francisco to Honolulu. Taking off from the Oak- land municipal airport in a huge three- motor army Fokker monoplane early Tuesday morning, they reached Wheeler field on the island of Oahu, their destination, in 25 hours and 50 minutes. The distance is about 2.400 miles, The army langest transoceanie airplane flight on record, and made it without The passengers and crew of the steam. er Sonoma, 740 miles from the Golden Gate, were electrified when Maitland brought his plane out of the mist and dropped to within 200 feet of the wa- ter he passed by. He had then been more than nine hours on his way. The came aviators thus made the mishap. as the flyers President next report from from the steamship Plerce, 1,100 miles from California, which reported bearing thei: radie asking for a bearing to be sent to es- tablish location. At 3 a, m, the plane radioed that the flyers were 700 miles off Honolulu, The landing was soaked fleld. The the entire length of the field. Then, circling it back to the front of the review stand, where army, navy and civil authorities were waiting te extend congratulations to the flyers. The crowd went wild with Joy and enthusiasm. Guns thundered in sa- lute as the plane stopped before the reviewing stand. Colonel Howard, department ficer, rushed the grasped Maitland’'s hand and shouted. “You dig it, and 1 congratulate you.” Maj. Gen. Edward M. Lewis, com- mander of Hawallan department of the army, clasped hands with Mait- land and Hegenberger, The of both aviators filled with tears as he said : “My boys, I congratulate you. Maitland said that on the island of Mauai failed to func- tion, “Our compass,” he said, “is what us here. If we hadn't had that we should have been out of luck” The flyers were presented to Wallace R. Farrington, Rear Admiral John D. McDonald and other digni- tories, who loaded them with beauti- ful Hawallan flowers and leis, the na- tive emblems of greeting. Cablegrams and radio messages of congratulation were showered on the happy young men, and they were es- pecially pleased by a congratulatory wire from Commander Byrd, who learned by radio of the success of their flight while himself winging his wiuy across the Atlantic. Army offi- elals In Washington were especially pleased by the achievement of two of the army's birdmen, which supple- mented the almost successful attempt of Commander John Rodgers of the navy in the fall of 1025. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, In his dispatch to the lieutenants, sald: “1 can’t help alluding to the fact that coming on top of the Byrd polar flight and the Lindbergh and Cham. berlin flights, this latest flight again demonstrates the reliability of the air. cooled engine and represents a tinet advance in avintion® AVING waited many days for fa vorable weather, Commander Richard E. Byrd of the navy hopped off Wednesday morning from Roose- velt fleld, Island, on his scien tine flight to France. With him in the biz three-motored Fokker America were Bert Acostn, Lieut, George Noo ville and Bernt Balehen, formerly of thie Norwegian navy. In the earlier stages of the flight the America made faster time than did Lindbergh or Chamberlin, Radio messages from Byrd were received frequently, nnd told of passing through cuntinuous made on a rain- huge plane taxied came air of- to plane, the eyes " the radio beacon got Gov, dis. Long dense fog and low-lying clouds wiich completely cut off the vision of the aviators, Friday morning at 8:30 the aviators made a forced landing on the beach near Havre, The plane was wrecked, but none of the men was injured. The America approached near Paris at 3 a. m. Friday, and In the rain and fog lost its way and turned to the north, finally coming down within G30 feet of the beach at Ver-sur-Mer, FTER several days in Washington and New York, conferring with officials and business men concerned with aviation development, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh flew back to StL Louis for the purpose of getting his Spirit of St. Louls and making a non stop flight to Ottawa, Canada, where he was to be the guest at ‘he jubilee celebration of the Confederation of Canada, In New York, Harry F. Gug- genheim, president of the Daniel Gug- genheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, made this ment “Arrangements announce just heen com pleted under which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh will undertake a country- wide tour of the purpose of fu in have airplane for the interest States aviation public ment.” IROSPECTS for from naval limitation conference in Geneva, are growi some good results ington States agreement in a way the United could and caused surprise by coming out in favor of the British proposals. But unanimity is a requisite and the American delegates showed not sign of yielding. Then tacitly, put still size scarcely accept, the the rec. they could not ACTOSS their plan, though they that the question of the ight be hoped of bat tleships m discussed a announced measure of three dels had committee considerable the destroyers “a ment concerning vealed. In the matter of cruisers, the Eng- lish delegates proposed that those ves. sels be divided Into two classes, Only a limited number of the 10000.-ton 8. inch gun cruisers would be allocated, the balance of the cruiser tonnage go- ing into ships below 7,500 tons, carry. ing Ginch guns. These lighter ships would be worthless to the United States because it is without naval bases and the ships are incapable of accompanying a battle fleet into com. hat operations any great distance from a base, As the technicians de. cided against any limit for small eraft under 600 tons, the Japanese and Brit- ish could set the seas swarming with little boats jammed full of torpedoes, any one of which is capable of dis- abling a capital ship. between been Ss ACCO and Vangzetti, the Massachu- S setts radicals whose conviction for murder has attracted internation. al attention, will not be executed dur- ing the week of July 10. Governor Fuller, who has been studying the case carefully, has granted the men a reprieve of 30 days, He has also given a 30-day respite to Celestino Madel- ros, sentenced to death for another murder. Madeiros has asserted he was a member of the gang that com- mitted the murders for which and Vanzetti were convicted and that they were not involved, Sacco § Bown years of trouble over the defunct Grain Marketing company and the Armour company was in a fair way to be ended when petitions were filed with the Illinois commerce commission to bring Into existence a corporation to control eleven grain elevators in place of the Grain Mar. keting company. The Armour Grain company asks permission to quit op erating public warehouses In Chicago and the Rosenbaum Grain corporation asks authority to enlarge its business and 10 Issue’ £2.500.000 of bonds, The documents are in the names of the Export Elevator company, an Artonr property, and the Postal Elevator company, a Rozenbaum organization, PRESIDENT COOLIDGE may In. clude in Lila nest message to con gress a recommendation that an in. stular bureau be established under which the Philippines and our other {sland possessions would be gathered | together under one civil department head. He told this to the correspond. ents after his conference with Gov- ernor General Wood, The idea is not new and has been before by Mr. Coolidge. The President said he had no change Philippines policy in view as a of conversation Gen Wood. He was encouraged, he said, by the report that the general gave as to conditions, « The general result of the administration's attitude he finds, an acceptance of the policy on the part of the Filipino people (political leaders excepted) and a feeling of security and stability. He pointed out that 95 per cent of the local governmeht ig in the hands of the natives; they hold nearly all the offices and carry ernment, suggested in result eral his with has been, on most of the gov OCIETY, especially in the East, S was intensely interested in the that Miss Grace Vanderbilt, twenty-seven-year-old danghter of and Mrs, Vanderbilt, and Henry Gassaway Davis IIT, a min- 1d eloped in New York and were married the municl- building and later in the Little h Around the Corner. The bride, report, had been sought by many men of high § sition, including Prince England, Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill of Donegal Her Gen, Cornelius ing engineer, bh in first pal according to h in marriage wr George of and the marquis brother that General and Mrs, Vanderbilt were strongly opposed to her marriage to Mr. Davis. The groom grandson of former Senator Da- vis of West Virginia. He was gradu- ated from Princeton in 1924 and } been a post-graduate student at the Columbia school of mines, said is a as EPRESENTATIVES of 45 nations gathered in Stockholm for the twenty-fourth convention of the Inter. nations amber of Commerce, King Gustaf and the crown prince attended the opening session and the delegates ven a reception in the royal palace. The 400 German delegates were greeted with especial warmth by the other this is first time heen sented at parliament. were gi members, since Germany has the international the repre business J DICTAENTS against three of the most prominent bankers in Los An- geles In connection with the investi. gation of the overissue of stock of the Julian Petroleum corporation were re turned in Saperior court there. Fifty. five others already had been indicted in connection with the case The indicted bankers are Charles F. Stern, president of the Pacific South. west Trust and Savings bank: John E, Barber, president of the First Se. curities company and vice president of the Pacific Southwest, and Motley If. Fiint, executive vice president of the Pacifie Southwest Trust and Sav. ings bank. Stern and Barber are charged with felonies—three counts of embezzlement and another count of accepting a banker's bonus, Flint is charged with usyry, +“ HANGHATI cablegrams say that the \J Nationalists suffered a tremendous reverse at the hands of the northern army, losing hundreds of thousands killed. wounded and captured. But not much reliance should be placed on such stories until they are confirmed. | Peking dispatches indleate that Chiang Kal-shek's offensive in Shan- tung is in full swing. Japanese along the Shantung are in a state of panic and calling for troops from Tsingtao. The moderate branch of the National ists has formally charged the Japa. nese with breach of neutrality, assert ing that Japanese troops were sent into Shantung prdvince for the pur pose of enabling Marshal Chang to | maintain the dictatorship of North China. Immediate withdrawal of the troops was demanded, ] Bo major political parties were warned by the Anti-Saloon league that, under the league's guidance. the | drys in both parties will be organ ized to demand the nomination of | “satisfactory” candidates for Presi dent and congress and on state and lo cal tickets In the 1928 campaign. The proclamation of the league, ls sued by its general counsel, Wayne B, Wheeler, asserts that “the Anti-Sa- loon league will use ts well-estab. lished and successful methods in the coming political eampalgn® } TRY THIS He % By EDNA PURDY WALSH J . 2 Str rr rr rrr pr rr er rr rr Ol Using Old Phonograph Records LD or cracked phonograph rec- ords become quite numerous In a family of children, One of the ways of using them to advantage after they are cracked or too worn to play, is to keep one on the ironing board to Weep the iron polished. It is handier and quicker than a plece of beeswax that is too small There are other uses of old records which enable the children to learn the properties of wax and to construct things from it. The wax may be melted away from the other Ingredi- ents In the records by putting them in Th oll of turpentine, or by heating in boi. lng water. The other Ingredients form a residue, leaving the wax top. The wax can then be used for model- ing various animals and toys. It can be used for waxing floors and furniture by adding turpentine to the desired on consistency, Articles that floors doors crack such warp are exposed and will not under the heat of sun or ator if they are frequently treated with wax. A good floor wax is com posed of two parts of wax and three parts of venice turpentine, Br oar radi- An Inexpensive Favor OMBINING the practical with the C and beautiful, the hostess may surprise her feminine guests with this bouquet made of the small articles every woman needs, The small paper doliles used for ice cream are made the base of the bouquet. The rest of the items may be purchased at the local variety stores. Spread next to the paper are ten artificial leaves with their wire novel service the paper to form the bouquet holder. A deep rose ruffle of crepe paper is next sewed to the leaves. A spool of thread is wound in a ilghter shade of rose paper. A thimble is also covered in this shade, A paper of hooks and eyes is rolled into a pale green shade of crepe paper cut like a poinsettia. Lingerie tape, black pins, a rolled package of needles and a few colors of embroidery floss are likewise par- tially covered with pale rose-colored crepe paper. At first glance the favor looks like a bunch of small flowers, (E 1927, Western Newspaper Union.) More Than One Way Mre, CC. R. N. writes: “Our neigh- bor's little boy was visiting us and he I was busy at the time and over looked offering him some. Finally, glancing at the coveted sweets, he re- marked : ‘My mother don’t let me ask for anything, so you will have to offer me anything you want me to have. He got the candy.” Boston Tran. seript. % Truth About Diogenes The author of “Mistakes We Make" refutes the story that Diogenes lived in a tub, and says it “had no better origin than a comment by his biog- rapher, Seneca, who was not born till more than three hundred years after the eynic’s death.—'A man so crabbed ought to have lived in a tub like a dog.” Druggists’ Mortar Old The druggists’ mortar, which has come down to modern generations ale most unchanged In shape, can be traced back to prehistoric times, The mortar in 118 present shape was used centuries before medicine was known ns an art, and was used to crush hard bodies. It wns used by savages as well as elvilized peoples. by the United Fiates Deg tent of Agriculture.) In order to serve a “vegvinhle plate” ut home you don't need special Lind of plates used by restau. rants for the purpose, [If your combi. nation Is pleasing the family will satisfied to have the vegetables served as ot any ordinary meal, From three to five vegetables are usual'y selected for a vegetable dinner. Innamerable good combinations may he plunned as the vegetables come on the market. Prepared Arte the he Here Is a menu: Corn tered carrots rood In-between-seasons fritters, cole slaw, but. and baked apple. 'I'lls combination fulfills the requirement that there should be something hearty fritters, made with egg and rich becnuse they are fried; something mild-flavored-—the carrots; something wacid—the apple. The pungency of the cabhage gives the necessary pronounced flavor that lends character to the whole plate, The HMustration was made by the United States Department of Agricul. ture, which further suggests that some thought be given to the color and appearance of a vegetable plate, since appetite Is so often stimulated through the eye. tig and milk, corn PROTECT AGAINST DAMAGE BY MOTHS Woolen end Fur-Trimmezd Clcthing Must Be Stored. (Prepared { Woolen | fur coats ! ull the | mot In i must, a housekeeper kno he {| very carefully protected against dam. | age by ' or ad { moth, does not eat fabrics; It selects | them for laying its eggs, however, so | that the lary: or worms, will have {| un abundant supply fond £8 every WH, moths, of suitable { a8 soon as they are hatched. 1f there ure spots due to food on the garm . the inrva that part of ti erly glore i to the Ary clean honee {0 Ps not onl been ¥ becaus = 1, but becaus the garments brushed, cealed moth remove probability, that thorot iy 80 exes are dislodyg after that they have heen aire | sunned to get rid of the gasolin The l game senerni { ough ig and hrust | good sunning-—-applied to all cio nt storing It for summer, will go a long way cleanir home before | assuring protection from mot kept A brown paper pa 68 an bag, provided It Ig carefully in that { possibly get in to lay their epzs | tight or trunk Is gond, if clothes have first prog pared, but cedar chests have cial virtue of killing any youn that might chance to develop in spite of the most careful efforts to hrush and bent the garments. The use of napthalene or paradichlorobenzene flakes Inside a tight package or box or trunk is also good and is mended, since the fumes, when close- ly confined will kill the moth. It is sometimes possible to closet where clothing is being in such 8 way that moths cannot en- Everything must containers, f fia as well erpensis such Aa way no moths chest been " re. 1 arly 1 Falhe the sw or ¥ inrvae recom. Guard Against Moths by Fumigating Clothing in Closcts. ter. On the whole, the safest course for the housewife to follow Is tv put the clothing for each individual in = uit box by itself, with napthalene or paradichiorobenzine, and wrap each one up In several! thicknesses of heavy paper, turned under at the ends #0 that no Insects can get In to iny epga. It Is needless to add that each box should havp its contents noted on the outside so that It need not be un. wrapped in order to locate some article, Substantial Dish Made From Any Kind o Pea t kind for baking. but a very ial dis Bcan beans ure probably to serve a wll sume meal with beans, # cfenm soup, of a Cus- of some sort. Most of dried beans ure good sources of 3, but as vitamines A sud must e581 re cially egg dish at the For example, tard the i . qessert be fur by dishes, nuke =» ings to 1 % we lower Fils iespoon fa 0 put © seasonings INK #8 ye rr. winiful of 1 tablespoons 4 nfuls of wool: of salt i 1NRPs OF and a tablespoonful of minced or if you like it, or g@ sm all onion cu 8IICPR, Bake the henns in 8 very mo ernie aver AGA AGS ne to time the from six to ten hours fn little boiling water fro: hut never enough of thie bean to bring the pot and al to become nicely browned, water beyond the top beans. Keep the last the t lid on then uncover " Pp Siiced Oranges Are One of the Nicest Desse:ts or cut-up oranges are easiest and nicest desserts, either just as they sre or In 8 soft custard. Shredded coconut sprinkled over sliced oranges makes a favorite southern dessert known ss "am. brosia Sliced oranges may be served in tart or patty shells with a spoonful of whipped cream. Orange and water cress salsd with French or whipped ereamn dressing is appetiz- ing, and, of one of the course, oranges may form at least half of any mixed fruit salad, fruit cup, or fruit gelatin, Use orange juice for making the part of 8 mixed fruit gelatin, with such combinations as chopped apple, banana, orange and fig: or grapefruit, orange, pineapple, nuts and dates; or canned peaches, pears, oranges and a small amount of preserved water melon rind, citron or other spicy pre- serves, Plain orange jelly made with pure fruit juice is a delicious dessert in itself. When half congealed it may have the white of sn egg beaten through it, but this is not necessary. A dainty to serve orange jelly to an Invalid or a child is to scoop out the contents of one orange, leav. ing the rind a basket shape. Fill this with the jelly when ready to mold ig pure Jelly way Baked Omelet Will Ease Pressing Kitchen Tashs A baked omelet is practically a cus tard without sugur. The advantage in baking an omelet Is that It does not require such careful watching ns the other type and so may be munaged the housewife has other press. ing tusks on hand, "The proportion of milk to eggs iz different from that in ordinury omelet, which requires very little milk. The recipe Is sup. plied by the bureau of home econom- fos. Baked Omelet, 1 quart milk % § eqns teaspoonful gait 1 teaspoontul melted butler Warm the milk and pour It into the fightly beaten eggs. Season with salt and butter and pour this mixture into a greased baking dish, Dake in a moderate oven surrounded by a pun of witter, until set In the center. Serve fron the dish, adding more seasoning as desired,
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