St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 13, 1925

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S > * a COMIC PAGE. SATU SEPT TURDA EMBER 12,” 1925, a AND FOUND ARTICLES. WANTED AND SITUATIONS. * BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. » ROOMS, BOARDING, HOTELS. —By BRI REAL ESTATE OFFERINGS. LOANS AND INVESTMENTS. Dispatch Want Ad Opportunities ONAL AND BUSINESS SERVICE. FOR SALES AND WANTED TO BUY. HOUSING AND HOMES FOR RENT. na ‘ ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH - oOTOS UNDAY MAGAZ COMTC PAG PART ONE. ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1925. —. PAGES 1—8. PRICE 10 CENTS Story in RAINSTORM John D., 86, Tells Life 5-Line Poem Oil Magnate on Birth for Record of Qh Association, day Contributes Poem io Early Settlers’ By the- Associated Press. ber of the association. the 1925 meeting. The verse follows: pune Se on \ THAT LS ; HEIR IDE : aM Bis Bb ytpe x ~ apse, ‘ OL. 78. No. 6. GES oF at Garant EnDp+- | ME" SOMEBODY Gor You CAw'T eee. Nea a * HALOS STREETS iTS ON ‘ THe | 4 SQUARE! ee i j os ES UP TRAFFIC “WIN THE WEST END 4 REC | Tt 7LAN J : Mews Y | Bu of Automobiles f Zand Many Motorbusses = mg and Street Cars Marooned _—— ™) @ for Time. VING BLOCKS ‘eae , CLOG SEWER INLETS ; : W@Water Knee Deep on Parts 3S 4 of Delmar, Kingshighway Ae and Union Boulevard and Nearby Thoroughfares. ‘A freak rainstorm of great vio- ce, narrowly localized in the tral West End, between 7:20 4 8:50 last night, caused Ylood 7 WHILE Jo€ WENT IN | HEAVY FOR MUSIC & ART- "| Nous HE LooKS LIKE A ATTRE “TH ar’ ditions on Kingshighway, M s = > ashington, Delmar and Union FALL ING APART . levards and adjoining traffic e. P roughfares, and _ stalled hun- of private automobiles and a ber, of motorbusses and stree* HAIR IS AUL tear ; WOrMAA)'S c With sewer inlets clogged, the | CROW AIAG » s ts became canals, the water | GLoR* Got g to the running boards, and |, AYOW - places over the hubs of Cars, | ch were brought to a stop | rever the moisture beached | ‘S@ibeir batteries or engines. . ~ Yo ood block pavements, buck- and breaking up, made dang- pitfalls for the “seagoing” rds and other high-built ma- mines which their drivers man- to keep in motion. On some ts the blocks, floating away, | added to the sewer obstruc- e Racquet Club corner, Kings- way and McPherson: avenue, the center of the flood dis- Within honking distance of clubhouse, some 50 autotno- , three busses and two street (Copyright, 1925, by H. Trade Mark Ans, U's. “ay on _—-_. | D FISHER, NIX! AS A PiTcHEeR KNow T'te ONLY HAVE TT worRic ONCE CVGRy . FouR DAYS: WHILE IN PHILCY OR PITTSBURG «TLE * BE A DAILY GRIND IN Thre OUTEL:(ELD oR BEeEnind He BAT! T AIN'T Eoor! “T was early taught to My life has been one CLEVELAND, O., Sept.’ 12.4—A five-line poem, written by him- self on his elghty-sixth birthday, was John D. Rockefeller’s contribu- tion to the record of the annual meeting of the Early Settlers’ Asso- ciation of the Western Reserve here Thursday. Rockefeller is a mem- Accompanying the verse was a letter from Rockefeller, exoressing regret at inability to attend the meeting. The poem, he said, is his contribution to the record of the association for work as well as play, long, happy holiday; Fuil of work and full of play— I dropped the worry on the way— And God was good to me every day.” JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, : WILL SEEK TOEND FULTON ROAD SUIT Highway Commission to Ask Tomorrow That Injunction Be Dissolved. | By the Jéfferson City Correspond. | ent of the Post-Dispatch. | JEFEERSON CITY, Sept. 12.—| The State Highway Commission to- | day made a move to terminate the Fulton road injunction suit which has tied up-construction on State! Highway No. 2 in Callaway and Boone counties, when Newton L. Wylder of Kansas City, attorney for. the commission, announced here) that he would file a motion asking the Cole County Circuit Court to dissolve the temporary injunction, on the ground the suit had no standing in court under the law. Wylder said the motion to dis- solve the injunction would be filed Monday or Tuesday. Judge West- hues said he would set the motion down for hearing on Sept. 22. Wyl- ; REMUS HAS TROUBLE. 1 | TEN HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENTS; SEVEN IN ONE FAMILY St. Louis Party Is Hit. by Train in Belleville — Three of Them Seriously Injured. THREE WOMEN HIT BY POLICE CAR Machine Driven by Detec- |, tive Skids Into Pedes- trians, Inflicting Possible Skull Fractures. Injured. Frank Jureka, 37, of 2431*Cole- man street, burises and lacerations. Mre. Mary Jureka, same address, internal injuries. FINDING LODGING’ HERE Too Crowded at City and County Jail, Bootlegger Lands in Holdover. | | George Remus,. former wealthy | Cincinnati bootlegger, arrived here last night in custody of a Deputy United States Marshal and was lodged in Central District holdover, | where he will await trial in Fed- | eral Court here on charges-in con- nection with the ‘“‘milking” of the | Jack Daniel whisky warehouse, in | 1923. Remus, who was released from | the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta on Sept. 2 and immediately taken to Cincinnati on a warrant in con- nection with another @harge. was in | custoly of Deputy Marshal August | Steinback of Cincinnati last night. | He was first taken to thq city | jail, where Steinback was told the | place was too crowdegl to accom- | modate a prisoner. Steinback then hurried to Clayton and when he was told there were no accommo- dations available there he called ‘ ‘South Twelfth were marooned. The water first over the curbs and tHen the sidewalks, and soon after rain ended, it was lapping, ve-like, against the stone fence the club premises. i Water Over Floors of Cars. Men and women squatted on the of their automobiles, to keep r feet out of the water which risen over the floors of the Negro attendants of the b, wearing hip boots, waded in- the middle of the street, where water was above their knees. Some »wwho managed to leave their bled cars hurried to telephones make early arrangements for aving the cars towed home. Some of the “seagoing” type start- the towing almost as soon as e rain stopped. ost of the marooned motor- ure. Horn-blowing was kept up OY GOLLY- NOW VE. FOR GOTTEN WHAT IT was . Youths in one of the machines pouted for help, declaring them- ves to be the crew of a lost sea- he. “Bring on your submarine.” ed a woman from another car. -DeBaliviere avenue, between hing and DeGiverville avenues, another distress point. Refore O'clock more than 100 automo- were held up there, as well street cars. Trouble crews from “Bolivar” sheds of the United liways helped to remove the of paving blocks that damned sewer inlets. At Page boulevard and Marcus enue the water rose so high as cover lawns and backed up in ments, covering cellar floors h two feet of water. A motor- and many private machines e@ stalled. Washington boulevard, a short nce east/of Grand, was ob- ed by wrecked wood pave- t. The same trouble has oc- in previous thunder- ers this sumer. Aebus ws there by a flooded carbu RCY CROSBY By PE T SEEMS THAT took their mismap with rood. the petitioners to agree to a hear- ‘ing of the injunction case on the ‘same day, on the merits of the sult. /_The temporary injunction now is returnable in Cole County Circuit Court on Nov. 16, and such an agreement by the petitioners would advance the litigation now block- ing construction work on the St. Louis-Kansas City “air line road,”’ if the motion to dissolve is over- , ruled. MRS. DAWES SWIFT T0 ACT Py the Associated Press. der also stated he would request United States Marshal Hukriede, who told him to lodge his prisoner in Central District holdover. Sleep “On the Boards.” When he arrived at Central Dis- trict Station at 10:30 last night with Steinback, Remus wae in ap- parent good Rumor, but his smile faded when Police Lieutenant |'Glassco told him he would have to }spend the night “on the boards” 'in the holdover. | Remus was attired In a plain blue suit and wore a light tan hat. A | walking stick which he carried in -the crook of his arm added a note IN MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT of jauntiness to his appearance. He |Gave his age as 48 and his occu- | pation as a lawyer. He turned over LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Sept. 12.) An automobile swerving from a heavy traffic line here today barely | missed the car in which Vice Pres- | ident Dawes was riding, then ran ‘down and painfully injured one «¢€ } | ingshighway ard * i: 5omal ue, Union boulevard and M Avenue, and Lindel, boulevard | andeventer avenue, were oth- | i Where traffic was. r pavements damaged. River Dee Peres Out of Banks. es Peres overflowed its | ks in Forest pat. and inun-| driveways. The south :en- | of the park was most af-. by this overflow. | rain, in the first few min- of the storm, wag driven so Uy as'to disable some auto- | *s even before the water in Street reached their vital spots. | Wntown rainfall records wa:l Telation to the West End’ There was a heavy rain. town, but it came before 7 Pp. Up to the downtown ralin- Was .28 of an inch, but after Was only .10. No official r«>- Of the rainfal! in the floo ted Was made. | valve BEEN GLACK. ~ BALLED "CAUSE THERES A GUY HERE THAT DON YT GET THE PCINT OF YA JOKES. «~ ~ | i ee | POST-DISPATCH >. : j a ee as many as had horns in work.|'he Vice President’s motor cycle) order, some having been sil-| Police escorts. ced by the failure of batteries.|f7om her car and took ‘he pros- Mrs. Dawes jumped trate officer's head in her lap and directed first-aid measures. The group of official machines | with the squad of motor cycle of- ficers in their van was traveling | along Santa Monica boulevard and had slowed down at Vermont ave- nue when an automobile said by police to have been driven by Dr. Edwin C. Hyde, a dentist, swerved from the line of traffic. It scraped by Mr. Dawes’ machine and crashed into the group of mofor cycle offivers, running down Offi- cer G. G. Hesse. | The Vice President and Mrs. Dawes jumped from their car and Mrs. Dawes supported the injured officer's head while members of their entourage brought~ water. Hesse, with a broken left ankle and possible internal injuries, was re- 'on the Jack Daniel case. moved to the receiving hospital. | A New World Every Day If you own a Radio, a new world is before you every day. You want to hear a great speech, a famous con- cert singer, a splendid orchestra, scores of miles away! You turn the dials, and thrillingly, wonder- fully, it comes to you. ‘ ( ( . ( ll a i i a a a i ' OLA LLL Lae haa frm Many of the best values in » | radio sets are advertised in the classified “‘Radio™ col- umns of the Post-Dispatch today and every day. Look there for the best values at prices you can well afford. | ¢| | Varries more Classified Radio } Advertisements than any other newspaper in America. i i i i i a i cluding Lem Motlow, wealthy Ten- ‘nessee former distilfer. the Government sissippi River near Osceola, Ark., tonight after striking a snag. Forty- ‘three persons, some of them mem- eengers, reached the Arkansas bank $185 in cash to the desk sergeant. The former millionaire bootleg- ger smiled and shook his head when he was asked for a statement “It's best that I say nothing,” he said. Kemus, once reputed to be a millionaire, owes many of the in- conveniences that have visited him since he left the Atlanta prison to the fact that he has not been able to raise bond against the many charges against him. Unable to Ratse Bond. Upon his release he was taken to Cincinnati charged with maintain- ing a nuisance within the meaning of the Volstead act. When he was) released on that charge he was ar- rested on the Jack Daniel IiIndict- ment in which Judge Davis of the | local Federal Court had at $50,000. This was reduced to $25,000 by Judge Hickenlooper at Cincinnati, but Remus fill it. He waived a contest of re- moval proceedings and was brought here at once. Remus’ case will be called Sept. 21, the opening of the fall term and will get a setting at that time. He was indicted with 15 others ih- ee They are charged with conspiracy to violate the Volstead act and to defraud of tax on 893 barrels of liquor illegally removed from the Jack Daniel warchousé. STEAMER SINKS, 43 SAVED Crew and Passengers Reach Bank Safely. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 12.—The steamer Eclipse sank in the Mis- bers of the crew and others pas- safely. ATLANTIC FLIGHT NEXT WEEK PARIS, Sept. 12.—Lieuts. Fran- cols Coli and Paul Tarasoon, both maimed French veterans of the World War, expect to make their flight—a Paris to New York non- stop flight—-early next week, prob- ably starting Tuesday morning. Their flight will be an effort to win the prize of $25,000 offcred by Raymond Ortelg of New York. |The officers took them to City Hos- | pital, | said to be serious. could not |When the locomotive, which Phauling another engine to St. Louis, | istruck the Ford, hurling car and ‘occupants 20 feet. John Jureka, 4, and Francis, 1, children of Frank, cuts and bruises. Mrs. Elizabeth Jureka, 59, of 1112 South Eleventh street, prob- able fracture of the skull. Albert Jureka, 1112 South Elev- enth street, prpbable skull frac- ture. Miss Millie Jureka, 39, 1112 South Eleventh street, probable | the belief that he had been mur- skull fracture, | dered by a robber. The point where Mrs. Christine Nicholson, 65, of | 2028 M ture of t skull. skull fracture. Miss Mamie Wright, street, 49 $2, of 180 probable skull fracture. Ten persons were seriously in- | jured in automobile accidents in| and near St. last night. Seven of them, all residents of the city, were hurled from a Ford touring car in which they were rid- ing when their machine was struck by a locomotive at the Nineteenth street crossing of the Illinois Cen- tral Railroad tracks in Belleville, and three women may have skull fractures when they were knocked | down at Seventeenth and Locust! streets by a machine occupied by | two police officers. | Those injured in the Belleville acchkient were: Frank Jureka, 37 years old, of 2431 Coleman street; his wife, Mary; two sons, John, 4/| years old, and Francis, 1 year old; | his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Jureka, | 59 years old; his brother, Albert, 35 years old, and a sister, Millie,| 39 years old. The last three named) reside at 1112 South Eleventh) street. Auto Skids Into Pedestrians. | The women struck by the police- | men’s car were Mrs. Christine | Nicholson, 65, of 2028 Market) street; Mrs. Mattie Williams, 57, of 19 South Twentieth street, and Miss Louls yesterday and Mamie Wright, 42, of 1809 South Twelfth street, all employed as janitresses. They were walking west in Lo- cust about 8:15 p. m. and had just started to cross Seventeenth when an automobile driven by Detective Canda and carrying Detective Ser- | geant Lanigan as a passenger aD- | proached in Locust from the west) and turned north into Sevepteenth. | The wheels skidded on e wet | pavement and the car struck the pedestrians a side-swiping blow which hurled them from their feet. where their condition was The East Side crossing mishap) occurred at 5:30 p.m. The Jureka) ‘ \family had just arrived in Belle-| can detach it set bond ‘ |ville to visit relatives and | ‘driving south on Nineteenth street | birds, were | Was | The car was demolished. AS -@ Elizabeth's Hospital, where the injured persons were taken in an ambulance, physicians | said that the elder Mrs. Jureka | and Albert and Millie were in a critical condition, but that the ex- | tent of their injuries had not been | fully ascertained. Frank Jureky. afid the two children suffered cuts and bruises, while Mrs. Mary Jur6é- | ka was believed to have sustained | internal irijuries. Frank Jureka, who was driving, | declared the machine was almost | across the track when the locomo- crew said the car ran against the side of the engine. tive struck, but members of the. Falls 1,000 Feet From Plane. NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—aAl Johnson, an aviator at Roosevelt Fleld, Long Island, was killed to- day when he fell 1,000 feet from a plane fiying above Mineola. The) body dropped in a field. Louis Meyers, pilot of the machine. brought his plane down at Curtiss Field and with other aviators, | hurried by automobile to the spot! where Johnson had fallen. Meyers said Johnson apparently had loog- ened hig safety strap to peer over the side, and that the machine had struck an air pocket, bouncing! Johnson out of the cockpit. rket street, probable frac- | tite | a half north and a block west of his Mrs. Mattie Williams, 67, of 19) home. |South Twentieth street, probable | q | and the clothing was thoroughly ' judging from an advance glimpse of | wearer, | tcday frozen fast and calling for MAN'S BODY FOUND INALLEY: MURDER THEORY ADVANCED 40, 4317 Labadie Av- enue, Contained Neither Money Nor Valuables. THROAT SLASHED AND CHIN CUT _ ‘Water-Soaked Garments In- dicate Body Had Been Lying at Spot for Sev- eral Hours. The body of Fred Grieger, 40 years old, a paper hanger, of 4317 Labadie avenue, was found in the alley in rear of 4438 Maffitt avenue at 8:30 last night.-° His throat had been slashed, apparently with a | razor. . Because of the fact that there was no money or valuables in Grel- _ger’s pockets when his body was ‘found detectives were inclined to ' the body was found is a block and There was no coat on the body /soaked with rain, indicating that it | had lain there since the rain be- gan to fall about two hours be- fore. Besides the cut on the throat | there Was another cut on the chin which extended to the jaw on either side. Grieger lived at the Labadle ave- nue address with his widowed mother, Mrs. Anastasia Grieger, who was so overcome with the news of her son’s death that she could’ give no connected statement of his movements. HAND-PAINTED FROCKS SHOWN AT FALL SHOW High-Gollared Dresses Another Feature of Fashion—New Col- ors Named After Birds. Special to the Post-Dispatch, CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—Women must deal with a painter as well as a modiste if they want to be the fashion this autumn. Painted parallelograms and cir- cles and rhomboids, done in blue and purple and rose, a Morse code tapped right out of a can of paint, futurist pictures, all these are lat- est adornment of frocks for fall, a the models created for display at the annual fall fashion show of the fashion art league of America. The art work is no confined ‘9 chiffon as it was in the summer models. Wool, velvet and crepe dresses also are hand-painted. “The flapper with her slip-like frock, with holes for head and arms, is doomed,” said Ralph Mori, one of the directors of the league. “Clothes that are typically fem'r- ine, with frills and furbelows an4 graceful flares are the newest thing.’’ High collars are another feature of the fall frock. But they are al- ways cCetachable, so thaf if the accustomed for vears to collariess dresses, refuses to wear a high collar, deapite the styles, she The new colors are named after “Golden Pheasant,” “Blue Jay.” “English Sparrow,” “Yellow Hammer,” ,“‘Oriole.”’ ae HUDSON BAY STEAMER IN ARCTIC LOCKED IN ICE U. 8S. Coast Guard Cutter Bear to Be Asked to Go to Rescue, By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 12.— The steamer Baychimo of the Fiudson Bay Company, trading out of Vancouver, B. C., which last month was punctured by ice in the Arctic Ocean, was reported by radlo help. The Baychime was stated to be off Herschel! Island. The report of the Baychime stated she had her starboard side stove in the ice for a distance of 20 feee and was leaking badly Mariners here accustomed to the Arctic stated there was no possible chance that any boat cguld get to the rescue of the Baychime, but that her men, ev if she were a good distance from shore, had a good chance to land over the ice. Prinkers Use Up Orange Sarplus. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Stephen Harvey. Mayor of Palm Beach, Fia.. who sailed for Europe on the Majestic today said there no jon- Clothing of Fred Grieger, | Four Members of Commission Named by Coolidge to Investigate Aircraft Matters | se MAG. GEN. JAMES Oumarysce 5 Neer ad Yo HOWARD.C. COFFINS. ts = Saad oe Sy Sa De * GENATOR-MIRAM BINGHAM ger was a surplus of Florida oran- ges because of the increase in American consumption of gin. Cds drH OO DID ginning els. 8 PARTLY CLOUDY TODAY AND WARMER TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. a Se. Maeve oi Q. M.wcceee fe Bios see a. N D Dd A Dp . . . *“e eoeeeee ~ ‘ a B® -Msecd ohhh 77 5 p. TM. geese 77 SP. M.tecdadvs 76 7: Mi éectels 75 Se. thicseseune 74 S @. GBs évecedt 71 See Get ae ee *71 a Os oe ea *69 12 midnight *1i8 ry Seer "67 *Denotes street reading. O ON THE Official forecast for St. Louls and vicinity: Partly Cloudy today and tomorrow; warm- er tomorrow. Missouri: Part- ly overcast today and tomorrow: warmer tomorrow and in west part today. Illinois: Partly overcast and somewhat unset- tled today and to- morrow; not much change in temperature, Highest yester- day, 83, at 11:30 a. m.; lowest, 70, at 6 a. m. Sunrise today, 5:41 a. m. set today, 6:13 p. m. Sun- Stage of the Mississippi River at rise of .1. St. Louis at 7 a. m. yesterday, 2.2, Weather Outlook for Week. WASHINGTON, Weather outlook for the week be- Monday: sippi and lower Missouri valleys: A period of showers early part of week and again during latter half. | Temperatures near normal. Sept. 12.— Upper Missis- HAILSTONES KILL CHICKENS IN ILLINOIS STORM Terrific Wind Lays Waste Strip of Land Miles Wide Near Lin- coin. By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, IIL, Sept. 12.—A ter- rific rain, wind swept over Logan County this aft- ernoon, flattening corn, trees of leaves and caused thousands of dollars of property damage. Hall stones, large as walnuts, smashed window lights and killed chickens. A strip of farm miles wide northwest of was laid waste by the storm. The wind was accompanied by a cloud- burst. Large hall stones gathered in ditches and drifted under hedges and were deep enough in places, farmers report, to scoop in shov- ler buildings on a number of farms were twisted and hurled about. and hall storm stripping land several Lincola The plant of the Lincoln Courier was crippled when a stream of wa- ter eight feet wide poured through a rear door into flooded the presses and motors and the basement, destroyed 15 rolis of print paper. INDIAN VICTOR IN ROAD ~ BRICKLAYING CONTEST Former Football Star Put Down Five Carloads in Six Hours and 46 Minutes. By the Associated Press. OLATHE, Kan., Sept. 12—-James Garfield Brown (“Indian Jim"), ‘former Carlisle football star, stood victorious in the rffidle of the road he had laid here today. With a stolid smile, he accepted a black cigar, apparently none the worse for the titanic effort with which he had saved his laurels as cham- pion bricklayer of these parts. Frank Hoffman of El Dorado, Kan., the challenger, wiped the sweat from his brow, admitting de- feat by 1755 bricks. For six hours and 46 minutes they had laid bricks in the road, j ' four rows at a time, the Indian only grunting as spectators spoke to him, the whtile man struggling against his tireless opponent. Brown put down 46,644 bricks in all—218 tons, or five carloads— at the rate of about two bricks a second. He laid 416% feet of road 28 feet wide, keeping six “tong- men” busy handing him material, And at the end of it all, he said it had only been “another day” and that he could go on as’ usual through 10 hours. As winner of the contest he re- ceived $200. Hoffman got $40. Hoffman laid 44,889 bricks, com- pleting 397 feet of roadway. William Wheaton, who has been laying brick with Hoffman in the road between ElDorado and Wich- ita, undaunted, challenged the In- dian. It was agreed the contest would be in a month or so, Today's contest was part of the celebration of the completion of a highway between Olathe and Kansas City. ‘ PARACHUTE JUMPING RECORD CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—The air service technical school at Cha- nute field, Rantoul, Ill, again es- tablished a record for parachute jumping when four pull-offs from a Martin bomber at 3,000 feet were successful, according to reports — at corps area headquar- te : The jumps were made simul- taneously and all jumpers elighted within a radius of 05 yards. A previous record established at the school on May 12, 1925, waa that of accomplishing 17 parachute jumpa from the cockpit of an air- plane in one day. A total of 16 parachute jumps have been made at the air school from January 1, 1925. to date without injury te | participants in any instance. COOLIDGE ORDERS’ INQUIRY INTO AIR POWER OF NATION; — SPECIAL BOARD APPOINTED — EXECUTIVE ACTS ON SUGGESTION -INJOINT LETTER No Reference Made by Davis or Wilbur to Shen- andoah a nite Col. Mitchell’s : REPORT READY | FOR NEXT CONGRESS Nine Men Chosen to Make ' Investigation Will Begin Work After Lunching at , White House Thursday, By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept: 12.—Pree- ident Coolldge tonight took his first official recognition of the contro- versy stirred up in the last Con- greas over the adequacy of Amer- |fean air power by appointing a special board of nine men to con- duct a sweeping inquiry inte the subject. dent's action was made in a state- ment issued at the White Mouse which said that members of the him next Thursd@y morning to or- ganize and proceed immediately with its study with a view to sub- mitting a report by the latter part of November. The decision to name a special board of inquiry waa reached after Mr. Coolidge had received a Joint letter from Acting Secretary Davis of the War Department and Secre- ry Wilbur of the navy, who sug- ed that a study be made “of the best means of developing and applying aircraft im nationai de- fense and to sppplement the study already made by the War and Navy departments on that gub- ject.” Board A Those named on the board were Major-General James G. Harbord, retired, of New York; Regr Ad- miral Frank F. Fietcher, retired, of Washington, D. C.; Dwight W. Morrow of Englewood, N. J.; How- ard E. Coffin of Detoit; Senator Bingham of Connecticut; Repre- sentative Vinson of Georgia, rank- ing Democrat on the House Naval Committee; Chairman Parker of the House Commerce Committee; Judge Arthur C., Denison of Grand Rapids, Mich., and William F. Durand of Los Angeles. In the exchange of correspond- ence between the President and the War and Navy heads, no reference wag made to the Shenandoah dis- or to the charges made in « series of statements at San Antonio by Col. William Mitchell, former Assistant Chief of the Army Air ; » " en gas — : >> em ue oc Beals « ¢ Z ea Sats o. e * Sek Wey ox ; . = eee ae ta os a 4 ¥B fg ‘ xe eo Fn ore 7a Ales me. Pan a, ae) f i, Re pete Teme eS ad Ks FyE Sade ee Ns Pg <_<. a Z a per ore Announcement of the Presi-- board had been asKed to meet with f i ae .5 ~ a ae A ea eee v a _ o 4 & sete ‘ a %