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Scj.Go CAFRITZ 1 TIIE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. !>. TUESDAY. MAY IS. 1326. 3 PARTY WAITS AT HOME CINCINNATI THRIVING AND HAPPY V AMUNDSEN Dixie’s Champion Orator f BOOKS BOUGHT “Bring Them In” nr Phone SALE OF PAROLES -j FOR PASSAGE ON BOAT TO U. S. 1 UNDER RULE OF COL. SHERRILL FRANKLIN 5416 icon tin ued from First Page.) stance, preventing Ice from forming of Army Dictator on them. Fears i IN JOLIET CHARGED It suddenly has become a center of in- "I was very well satisfied with the Soon by His en- terest with the landing of the Amund- precautions taken to' protect the Allayeil sen-Ellsworth-Nobile transpolar ex gines against the’ cold, which made it possible to two of Tael. The Paramount Garage Co. Reported peditlon. have only the Rare GARAGE BUHHERS Warden to Have airship’s three motors running. The Rumors running over Alaska about one always ready brought third was warm and S Only Money the landing of the white men to be started at any moment. Declared or Eskimos from all parts of the country "It bad thing that the wire- now being dis- was a Former D. C. Official Has “uKE scj.go to see t,'ie airship, less stations could not be heard after Pull Would Work. mantled on the beach. The metal we passed the 87th degree of latitude of Career RENT” frame- of the ship now seems like the on the American side. Then we had Biggest Job ! _ Hay, >l. 3931 Night, Ad. 6055 ! skeleton of a prehistoric monster, all no reports of the weather conditions the silk and canvas being stripped off. our route Hands. ! i H.' flip Press. and could not choose accord- On His Associated Sunday morning an airplane suddenly ing to the liest meteorological situa •Tl ICAOO. May j | 18—The Chicago appeared in the blue sky. It proved tion. Southward, therefore, we had to . Tribune today published statements on landing to carry a camera opera- continue our flight without knowing j BY SMALL. I ROBERT T! Rigid j attributed to John L. Whitman, war- tor, come to take movies of the dis- how the weather was in front of us. j May IS This den of the penitentiary, his mantling of the Norge. Two hours If we had received weather reported CINCINNATI. " i State in City*' Ohio valley, testimony special later another plane arrived for a regularly we would have flown where “Queen of the Deed j before the crime owe considered the hotbed of ring jury was similar purpose. the weather was good. Risk I Island here yesterday that it polities and boss rule, is beginning to Ask for FRESH i common talk among' prisoners that Nobile Analyzes Plight. Fuel Enough to Reach Nome. unique experience of being EVER Restrictions like its city the sparkling beverage only money or political influence we we had under the non-political rule of a \ j Col. Nobile, commander of the "When landed in Teller started remedy. Sterile and sani would get them out. fuel enough not only to reach Nome, manager. When Cincinnati fury—-Waled in non re- I Norge, in commenting on various as- ruler, it The was quoted as relating of flight to proceed 750 miles more to tiie out to get a non-political turnable bottles. EVER- i warden pects the success of the of but engaged of | specific instances, in one of which a the Norge has southward. But not knowing how went the whole distance. It FRESH Is citrate this to say: States Army, j Magnesia ar Its best. At convict escaped over the prison wall "The magnetic compasses func- the weather was. it would have been an officer of the United j figuring a. West Pointer who had most druggists a stilting tioned, regularly, as foreseen, ac- very imprudent to continue the flight. JOSEPH A. MULLAKKY that 'J | leaving note that he had in ¦I been virtually from boy- COL. C. O. SHERRILL. “The crew during tiie flight worked Os Augusta., (ia., who bested in uniform ; given S6OO to a man who had promised cordance with experiences met be- more any entangling wonderfully for three days and three a hood ought not to have parole. fore in the Arctic and as stated be- than half dozen brilliant Northern an economical government, the city to obtain a nights in spite most political alliances. fore the hop-off. We flew so far from of the fact that speakers at Kansas City, Mo., to win officers said they should have it. Pub- "fin being double-crossed." he them were already tired when title district finalist in the Cincinnati, so far as any one seems the magnetic pole. 1,400 miles, that of we the of city lic work virtually ceased. It was wrote. “I’m not getting out. 1 want left Spitzbergen. having had a hard National Oratorical Contest. Mullarky, to know, is the only American no trouble was to be expected. This under the complete next to Impossible to get a lamp post j to see the governor and find out why foreseen, we really job in Kings Bay preparing for the who is 19 years, will be of the today which is was but could one of an Army However, erected or a hole in the pavement ease was not considered. As soon only flight. district finalists who will oppose sway officer. |my trust in the compass (deviation Sherrill really is an repaired. The answer to complaints j us 1 do that I'm coming back." chart?), that we used in order to con- "Especially was i astonished over Miss Myrtle Posey, local champion, Col. Clarence O. always Assures they “ex," for he resigned his commission was: trol the magnetic compasses. the calmness with which faced in the national finals at the Wash- wouldn’t give us the money, Came Hack to Prison. This dangers night in the military establishment Janu- ‘‘You possible steer when the very serious met at all ington Auditorium on the of up you get." to prison, control made it to during flight.” ary 1, when he came here to take so take what Future And tlint man came back the sun compass could not function. : times the June 4. Things finally became so bad the strangely George his duties as city manager at a sal- with i Warden Whitman said. and. the sun being by or j ('apt. Gottwaldt. tiie wireless city threatened to close the No Regrets was hidden clouds expert Norge, ary of $“5,000, or something like five officials (enough, the convict mistaken, for fog. of the in describing his receiving hospitals. Thereupon a special credit Desirability case favorably Norge's times as much as he was i his had been passed “The radio goninieter, was experiences with the radio $600,000 voted. There also was upon l>y which of I in the service of Uncle Sam. of was a Rose Roof t tiie parole board. great importance before apparatus, says: an to the old regime. In instance, our arrival voted end Select Your another the warden at Spitzbergen, especially on the way Special Equipment Has Bigger Job on Hands. Imagine the surprise of the "new j said, a him t Had It's all in the know- convict told that lie had to Leningrad and Kings Bay. could MEXICO CHOOSING order,” when examination of the city beenj honest during his incarceration, "The Norge was equipped with a For quite a few years Col. Sher- j not be used very much in the trans- funds showed a surplus of $600,000. * Home Site* NOW! ! “played game square," as he specially rill had been chief military aide at ing how—p lii the had the polar flight. However, it worked regu constructed Marconi valve With an additional tax levy of more put giving an output the House, and officer in & I it. but had found that it did him larly until we in 87 degrees of transmitter aerial of White than $1,000,000. based on new assess sincerity to sustain a Hedges Middleton, Inc. ! no good, so he raised $460. Soon there- were a. maximum of about 200 watts: The charge of public buildings and parks. latitude on the American side of the ment values, added to the regular city REALTORS after the man was paroled, the warden waves were 600, In latter post, and through his Pole, but later it could not work, the transmitter 900 and ORATOR FINALISTS the budget, <’ol. Sherrill had plenty of standard. 1412 live St. NAN. meters, a wave, training the Engineer Corps of said. antenna being by ice. 1.400 and continuous t in money spend on the city and is Franklin 9503 was quoted covered transmission, the Army, colonel became ac- to Warden Whitman as "This was not very important, lie- as well as spark could * the proceeding to do so. The people are We Itavc ni a d ea saying that Peter Klein, deputy war- energy quainted with details of munici- cause the direction was so well point- be utilized. The for the trims- some behind him, and, tired of political den. slain by seven escaping convicts a Champions pal government, but since coming to they for Rose SPECIAL NOTICES. ed out by the magnetic compasses and mitter \vas delivered from wind- Seven District bickerings and political deals, reputation on May 5 in the new prison, hail once mill-driven generator, supplying Cincinnati he has found that running 3 the sun compass that Point Barrow 3.000 are going to give him every chance WILL NOT BK KKSPONSIBLK FOR »NY been discharged by former Warden high a big.
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