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Britis¥-U. Spact 2 THE SUNDAY STAR. Wx\SHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST 14, 1927-PART 1/ 1 Death Ends Service NATIONAL AERO ASSOCIATION Retiring as Army Head AIRPORT COST BILL ALEXANDRIAPUNT TO OBSERVE FIFTH BIRTHDAY 1928 IS BAFFLING BRUTAL MURDER ’’ " 1 Jr IS BEING PREPARED I TO MAKE AIRCRAFT Organization Fostered by NEW YORK CHIEFS CHARGED ID GANG Coffin and Hartney Has * I! bl ? Temporary Use ot Bolling H. A. Berliner of This City to Aided Aviation. HjjHW . State Factions Split Over Man Who' Talked Too Much Field Given —City Heads ML, Occupy Property There Native Sons and Hoover, Forced to Run Gantlet of Movement Now Numbers 91 | Want Expense Divided. in a Few Weeks. Inquiry Shows. Machine-Gun Fire. Chapters and Still Assured of a stopping point on the Establishment of an aircraft fac- Ha BY WILLIAMHAr.D. By the Associated Press. mail projected New York-Atlanta air tory In the old Blake Blam elevator Grows. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARION. HI., Ausust 13.—-A story route, which will open about Novem- plant the on Alexandria, Va., water NEW YORK, August 13.—A visit of tho brutal slaying of a gangster ber 1. by the action yesterday of the front and plana for manufacturing of inquiry to the Empire State and "who talked too much” to rival office of F, Trubee Davison, Assistant about 100 planes during the coming In another month the National Aero- War for aviation, in to the metropolitan city reveals to the gangsters and was compelled to Secretary of year were announced last night by its Inquirer that our imperial formally permitting Pitcairn Aviation, Henry A. Berlinger of this city, presi- nautic Association will celebrate and metro- “take a ride” and subsequently run Bolling politan political minds of the Republi- Inc., of Philadelphia, to use dent of the Berliner Aircraft Com- fifth birthday anniversary. a gantlet of machine-gun and pistol the District can party are divided in thj first place Field until such time as pany, which operates the Potomac Five years ago, at the organization bullets, was unfolded here today by provide other landing facilities, Flying Inc., Hoover Field. between three favorite sons of New can Service.. at Detroit, Sheriff Coleman of Williamson Washington last night turned its at- At the name time Mr. Berliner an- meeting in held in conjunction York and in the second place between Oren the favorite-son idea on , County. tention to a bill now before the Com- nounced plans for establishing a with the 1922 national air races, the the one hand '¦ their approval, and Gettys- and the Herbert Hoover idea on the VtWl Fred "Butch” Thomasson and Joe missioners for branch of his flying service at banner, “Make America First in Ihe authorize that one-half burg, Pa., modern air- other. ‘tAtfaßl Booker, alleged Birger gangsters, arc which would where two and a small, but the of establishing a municipal planes. now being built, will be placed Air,” was raised The three favorite sons who bask GEN. ( lIIANG KAI-SHEK. being held on murder charges for the cost in the airport be borne by the Federal Gov- i t into flight for tours over the historic cheering group of optimistic airmen established regard of our death of Lyle “Skag” Worsham. largest and mightiest ernment. battlefield. fell in and began a march up and richest Charles Birger, southern Illinois gang Davison's office INSPECTOR C. A. EVANS. behind PORTER State are the distinguished but re- The action of Mr. Now at College Park. ADAMS. chief, who is sentenced to be hanged closed an agreement which the Com- and down the land. luctant jurist, Charles Evans Hughes; into with the Mr. Berlinger said he hopes to be Converts were hard to.get, because the able and courageous but indolent for the murder of Mayor Joe Adams missioners had entered able to occupy the Alexandria prop- sonally Department, and which specified “air inspects the instrument which and casual ex-Senator and near-boss, chlglregign of West City, 111., and several of his War INSPECTOR EVANS erty there was little for the salesmen” District government took in about three weeks. At present would reveal any landings which James W. Wadsworth, and the limit* henchmen, some serving prison sen- that if the he is utilizing several old wooden in the way of a should action toward securing an airport by to offer to the public not have been made. Where lessly energetic but also daringly wet tences and some now dead, were ton- the Budget FATALLY STRICKEN hangars at College Park, Md.. which bang-up future. Commercial aviation altitude records are involved, the offi- president of University, presenting estimates to were in the Gov- confined, almost Columbia plicated by the sheriff’s story of the Bureau, the Army Air Corps .would built back 1912 when at that time was cial observer carries the barographs Nicholas Murray Butler. ernment carried on its experiments wholly, pay hope and wing-walking intact the killing. depart from its ironclad policy of pro- AT POLICE STATION to to Bureau of Standards for “Big Business” for with flying machines. In these fairs, while the mili- official Favorable. Told to “Run Life.” / hibiting the use of military flying stunts at country calibration. AS HEAD OF ARMY thereby hangar* he already has constructed Jumped about with war- ‘‘Big business” in New York has Harvey Dungy, Birgerite in prison fields by civilian enterprises, (Continued from First Page! tary services Standard Contest Rules. become Washington a place on the big cabin monoplane, which was time and engines. thoroughly accustomed to all for robbery, was charged with the guaranteeing designed by Edward P. Warner, planes war-time pair which, for a time,was as- Slowly the little group expanded un- All aircraft contests in this country three of these names and would not held. the mail route of three attempted arson on sistant secretary of the Navy for be at ail afraid confide Reported Worsham is alleged to have been threatened by the lack of adequate men for til today there are 91 chapters are conducted exactly on the same to the White Li Lieh-Chun to Be January 20. 1902, and in aeronautics, and also a two-seated The House to the ownership picked up at Zeigler, 111., the night of landing space. November throughout the United Htates. standards as they are in the 26 other of any one of of that year drew from the grand training plane, which he will use for known, them. Eastern "big business," as last September 17. by members of the The announcement in Rapid City history instruction “NAA.” as it is popularly membership countries of the F. A. I. Named Generalissimo Herbert M. Lord, di- jury a tribute unique in police purposes. civilian thought and action and if the usual, looks for an arrived personality, Birger band and taken before Birger, by Brig. Gen. grand jury chief third plane designed to carry stands for international regulations Dungy charged youth that $125,000 when the wrote the A two aeronautics, and it has are complied with, an established characted. a familiar where the with rector of the budget, special letter commending passengers and a pilot and for use in American and it is found name, a talking too much to Carl Shelton, would be recommended to Congress of police a played a major part in molding public that a certain performance exceeds safe sound. Eastern "big by Nanking Forces. his presentation of cases before them. with the flying service, is nearing and that business” had to have William Mc- leader of a rival gang. for. Initial work on a municipal air- and only time in completion, it is this craft opinion, both consciously uncon- of the world record then in exist- his innocence, the youth Washington a step This was the first and which affairs. ence, the F. A. I. does Kinley forcibly thrust upon it by Protesting port. brought police nnnais that such commendation Mr. Berliner plans to put into pro- sciously, on air not hesitate to Mark Hanna. taken in a motor car occupied closer toward realization of an air The organization has but one object declare it a new world record. It had to have Warren By the Associated Press. was vigorously was given to a police officer by a duction. It is designed to carry the American Gamaliel Harding forcibly thrust upon also by Dungy, Thomasson and Book- terminal, which has been jury. OX-5 —“to bring home to the When a new performance in this SHANGHAI, China. August 13.—1 t years. grand Curtiss engine or the newly importance country supersedes it by Mr. Harding’s circle of friends tonight er. Birger’s large sedan accompanied urged here for the past two the Fall of 1902, of developed four-cylinder people the vital of aero- a previous one, was stated that Gen. Chiang In authorities air-cooled objective scores in the United States Senate. Nothing them. Georges County wrote the Gaminez nautics.” From that the contest committee may declare it Kai-Shek tomorrow will issue a mani- Method of Payment. Prince Fairchild engine. With this accomplish the American record is falser than to imagine "big busi- festo announcing his resignation With a curse, Worsham was order- Government a special com- plane, Mr. of methods designed to an and forward a as out the “run The which the Commis- District new Berliner will become NAA report of ness" engaged in bringing out a can- generalissimo of Nanking Army ed of car and told to foi attention of Policeman Evans for competitor Waco, desired end, branch out.
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