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SATURDAY, MAY 24
Alliance Between japan and France May
Result From D’Oisy’s Flight
BY MILTON BRONNER
LONDON. Georges Ed m e
Charles Marie Peltier d'Oisy, lieu
tenant in the French air force, by
his record-breaking air flight to
Hongkong, and beyond not only
has made American and British air
experts sit up and take notice but
he has become to the Japs the
most interesting man in the world.
While the Japanese exclusion
laws are being discussed in Ameri
ca dont' forget this:
With Germany crushed in a
military way, with the Jap alli
ance with England at an end,
■with strained relations with us
Japan has turned her eyes to
the strongest military power in
the world—France.
Japanese military men swarm
in France. When Lieutenant
D'Oisy hopped oft from Paris on
his trip to French Indo-China, the
biggest crowd of military experts
to bid him goodbye were Japs.
And it was they who urged him
and his government to continue the
flight from Hanoi to Tokyo. They
want to see how it is done. They
want to examine the machine
when it lands in Japan.
And they may buy a lot of them
because those same machines could
hop off . from Japan well—towards
America.
Lieutenant d'Oisy as early as
May 6. the twelfth day of his jour
ney, had set a new world record.
In that time flying by way of
Bucharest, Angora, Bassorah and
Bouchir. he had landed at Calcutta
6300 miles away in 12 days. He
made the distance from Karachi to
Agra in India, 851 miles in less than
seven hours. He flew from Agra
to Calcutta, 750 miles, in six hours
and a half.
D'Oisy is using a regular army
machine. It is what is known as
a Breguet 19-A 2, furnished with a
Lorraine motor of 400 horsepower.
It can carry a pilot and mechanic
and 450 kilograms of useful weight,
900 litres of gasoline apd an ap
preciable quantity of oil.
Under such conditions the ma
chine is able to do 200 kilometers
per hour without trouble. It is
made of duralumin.
For his great trip d'Oisy only
had a reservoir of gasoline substi
tuted for the bomb-throwing ap
paratus.
As the Frenchman has far ex
ceeded the performances of the
American to fly around the world,
the French government is confident
that French and British airmen,
who are seeking aviation com
panies will soon get big orders
from Japan for machines for its
army and navy.
D'Oisy, who has made himself
the hero of the hour, is 32. At 18
he volunteered for the army. In
1912 he transferred to the aviation
service and in 1913 he was made
a pilot.
Just before the war he made a
flying tour around France. When
war broke out he Joined Farman's
squadron. He soon won the mili
tary medal for extraordinary bra
very. Later he brought down four
enemy airplanes, was cited twice
in the army orders and made mem
ber of the Legion of Honor.
He was made sub-lieutenant in
1915 and lieutenant in 1917. In
1919 in a Goliath he flew from Con
stantinople to Paris via Sofia,
Bucharest, Vienna.
In 1922 he made the trip from
Paris to Bucharest in 19 hours.
Since then he has flown all over
Morocco and Tunic, going all
around the latter French colony in
one continuous seven-hour flight.
He is a popular member of the
biggest sporting clubs of France
and Tunis, being known as "Pi
volo.”
BILLY EVANS SAYS
Has baseball from an artistic stand
point made the strides during the
past 20 years that it has financially?
It is always possible to start an
argument by coxh.iaring the star
players of today with those of 20
years ago.
On one point the old-timers are a
unit. They do not believe that the
pitching of today is 60 per cent as
good as that of a score of years
back.
Danny Murphy, now an assistant
to Connie Mack at Philadelphia, was
a great hitter in his day as a star.
Danny made six hits in his big
league debut. If I am not mistaken,
and lived up to that reputation
throughout his career.
Chatting with him on the home
team bench the other day, we dis
cussed pitching past and present. It
is his opinion that in pitching the
game has gone back badly. In many
other departments of play, he be
lieves, it has progressed.
"Modern pitching doesn't carry the
thought that the old-timers put in
their work. Getting the ball over the
plate seems to be the big idea of
modern pitchers. To some that is a
tough job in itself. The old pitch
ers tried to keep the ball where you
didn't like it."
There you have the opinion of one
of the great batsmen of other days on
pitching past and present.
Murphy doesn't argue that the
pitchers of his day had infinitely more
stuff than the modem twirlers. He
does Insist, however, that the old
timers used their head to greater ad
vantage.
Danny admits that possibly the
ball has seriously handicapped
pitching from a physical standpoint.
However, he says th« lively ball has
nothing to do with the working of
the brain.
"One badly pitched ball often loses
a game," says Murphy. "It was a
rarity for the old-timer to make many
such mistakes. Modern pitchers are
much at fault in this respect, but
often the breaks of the game make
up for their carelessness."
Nick offers a unique srgument t«
Manager Stanley Harris at Washing
ton. agrees with Murphy on every
point except that he insists pitching
of today Is even worse than Murphy
paints It.
Nic koffers a unique argument to
prove that the twirling of SO years
ago had It all over the modern brand.
Who are the leading pitchers on the
different American League clubs?
asks Nick.
Before you have a chance to reply
he adds. Johnson at Washington,
Dausa at Detroit, Bhocker at St.
Louis, Coveleskie and Uhle at Cleve
land. Quinn and Ehmke at Boston.
Faber at Chicago and so on down the
line.
All of them were stars years afb.
avers Altrock.
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THE FRENCH ARMY PLANE IN WHICH LIEUTENANT GEORGES D'OISY (INSET) I,
MAKING A RECORD FLIGHT AROUND THE WORLD.
mym
No one knows better than the poor
fish on the scaffold what it means to
be at the end of your rope.
The Athletics' presence in the cellar
may be explained by Mr. Mack’s re
lentless insistence on getting to the
bottom of everything.
The Louisville Derby Is fifty years
old, or almost as old as that hat
that Judge Landis wears.
The French have finally agreed to
play with an American tennie ball in
the Olympics, thereby averting an
other international catastrophe.
The Finns are expected to carry off
the javelin throwing championship
this summer and they can't carry it
too far off to suit us.
Helen Wills is on her way to Paris
to face Suzanne Lenglen, and speak
ing of faces—but that would hardly
be gracious.
It Is hard to tell whether Mr. Sin
clair's Zev, beaten twice in two starts,
lost his speed or his congressional
pull.
It is said that Quintln Romero-
Itojas took a lot of punishment, but
it Is suspected the spectators took a
lot more.
William J. Burns has left the White
House, which was nice of him. Most
of these political guys take every
thing.
“I didn't use my head when I
fought Dempsey,” gurgles Mons. Car
pentler. . . . When you agreed to
fight him, you mean, Frenchle.
DO YOU KNOW
BASEBALL ?
By Billy Evans
If you want the final decision on
any baseball dispute, write Billy
Evans, NEA Service, 1200 W. Third
St., Cleveland.
QUESTIONS
1. Batsman has thre balls and
two strikes. The next pitch is a
bad one, high and inside, close to
the batter’s face. The batsman
ducks in order not to be hit with
the ball. In so doing his bat fell to
the ground. The umpire called
him out.—N. E.
2. Does a batted ball have to
touch an infielder or outfielder's
gloved hand to be counted as an
error?—A. W.
ANSWERS
1. This play is a pure matter of
judgment. Apparently the umpire
decided the batsman struck at the
wildly pitched ball. That could be
his only excuse for calling him out.
2. Scoring base hits is up to the
official scorer. When a player is
only able to get one hand on the
hall and that the ungloved one, the
drive Is usually scored a hit.
FISH LEAGUE
P. B. Culley's Whales Friday af
ternoon at the Y. M. C. A. took Bil
ly Toland'a Lobsters Into camp In
the baseball game by the count of 6
to 4. In the polo game the Lob
sters proved the better swimmers
and ran up a total of four points
while the best that the Whales
could do was to make a lone point;
the game ending 4 to 1.
The Mackerels and Sharks also
split their games. The Sharks, led
by Francis Youmans. gave the
Mackerels their second defeat In
baseball of the season, when they
put across four runs In the last
Inning. The score of this game
was 5 to 2.
Jake Roseman pushed his Mack
erels Into the pool and gave them
the necessary Inspiration to win
their first water polo game. “Pee
Wee' Levy was a tower of strength
to the Mackerel team, and his play
ing was greatly responsible for the
2 to 1 victory over the Sharks.
Monday’s games: Lobsters vs.
Macekerels; Shark# vs. Whales.
TEAM STANDING.
Won. Lost.
Sharks 7 3
Whales 5 B
Lobsters 4 B
Mackerels 3 6
ACQUIT MRS" EICKNER
Of Killing Husband Jury
Out Fifty Minutes
ANNISTON, Ala.—Mrs. Evelyn
Rue Rlckner, 2*. was acquitted by
a federal court Jury here late Fri
day of the murder of her husband.
Ll*ut. James C. Rlckneg. whom she
said she shot at Camp McClellan
last June after he had threatened
her and her little daughter because
he objected to children.
The pretty young widow, who
collapsed on the stand on the open
ing dav of the trial a* she related
how Rlckner had declared h* would
leave her when he found thaht she
was to give birth to their child;
hew later he had gone overseas,
cut off her monthly allotment and
then written her taunting letters
describing a German girl whom he
had met. broke down with a hys
terical cry »• *>• verdict nas read.
White House Grass None Too Good For
Speck, Says Davis
auu*k- JONATHAN M. DA Vi S, KANSAS "DIRT-FARMER” GOV
ERNOR. LOWER LEFT—DAVIS AND HIS PIGS "BACK ON THE
FARM.” LOWER RIGHT—MRS. D AVIS JUST OUT OF THE KITCHEN
TOPEKA KaS—When Jonathan M.
Davis, “dirt-farmer" governor, moved
into the executive mansion here two
years ago, his favorite cow, "Speck,"
began grazing on the state capital
lawn.
Now Kansans are wondering wheth
er “Speck” will get to feast upon
the White House grass.
For Davis is in the race for the
democratic nomination. The JCansas
state democratic convention put him
in it. >
Davis, though primarily a farmer,
has been In politics practically ever
Bince he left college. His first job
was in the legislature. Later, he was
in the state senate.
But in 1922, when he announced
his gubernatorial candidacy, the poli
ticians did not take him seriously.
He wasn't discouraged though.
He campaigned all over the state
in his flivver, hobnobbing with the
farmers and making speeches in
MILLEN SCHOOL
Commencement Exercises to
Begin Sunday, June 1
MILLEN, Ga.—lnvitations have
Just been mailed by the senior
class of Millen High School an
nouncing that their commence
ment exercises will be held Sunday,
June 1, and Monady, June 2.
Millen High School closes Its
spring term on Friday, May 30.
Sunday morning the commence
ment sermon will be preached by
Dr. W. F. Qulllian. president of
Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga.
On Monday evening the bacca
laureate address will be made by
Col. J. T. Bolfeuliet, of Macon, Cia.,
who has a country wide reputation
as a gifted orator and the most
sought of in the state.
Prof. W. V. Lanier, county su
perintendent of schools, will de
liver the diplomas to the follow
ing graduates: Lizzie Darlington.
Alma Waters. Clinton Warren,
William Turner, Katherine Smith,
Edward Boland, Edward Rachels,
Charles Anderson. Ellas Daniel,
Mary Bergeron, Virginia Parker.
Annie Belle Riddle, Gladys Proctor,
Blanche Gregory, Eugene Stephens,
Cecil Parker, en Patteraon, Eunice
Chew, Melvin Bradham, Albert
Clarke. Burton Beard. Rosabel La
nier, Winnie Newton, Seaborn New
ton, Bennett Aycock and Clara
Newton.
This is the largest class to ever
graduate from Millen High School.
OCTAVIUS ROY COHEN
Was a Visitor In Augusta
Friday
Octavius Roy Cohen, famous hu
morist. was in the city for a short
time Friday. Mr. Cohen Is a na
tive of Charleston. S, C., but has
made Birmingham, Ala., his home
for several years. He Is rela’cd to
the Cohens of Augusta, and has a
number of friends here
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
scores of small towns. When e.jction
day was over, it was found he had
won by a majority of mors than 20,-
000, despite the fact that Kansas
normally was overwhelmingly republi
can.
He set a record in vetotng bills.
Most of them were measures which
he contends would have increased the
people's tax burdens.
Davis blames the present tariff
schedules for a lot of the farmers’
troubles. He is opposed to tax ex
empt securities. He favors a consti
tutional amendment permitting the
conscription of wealth as well as men
in time of star.
He and Mas. Davis have three chil
dren.
But after them, "Speck" comes next
in the governor’s affections.
"She a mighty fine cow," he de
clares. ‘ And the grass of the White
House lawn wouldn't be a bit too
good for her.”
GREENVILLE BROKER
Found Guilty of Forging Cot
ton Receipts
GREENVILLE, S. C.—Baylls
W. Harrison, Greenville cotton
broker, was found guilty of forg
ing cotton warehouse receipts and
obtaining loans on them from a
local bank hy a Jury In sessions
court at 7:40 o’clock Friday after
deliberation of six hours ad thirty
eight minutes. Sentence will be
pronounced tomorrow morning.
Counsel for Harrison said Friday
night that a motion for new trial
would likely he made In court to
morrow morning when Judge T. J.
Mauldin taken up the matter of
sentence.
Harrison listened without emo
tion to the verdict. He had main
tained calm throughout the trial,
except for a few minutes early Fri
day when Attorney James H. Price,
of defense counsel, referred to the
defendant's aged mother whom the
lawyer said had mortgaged every
thing she had In order to secure
bond for her son and to fight his
case in court. Harrison would
make no statement.
Trial of the case against Harri
son began Thursday morning. Sev
eral hours were required In select
ing a Jury, after counsel for Harri
son had sought to have the case
continued to a later term of court
ATLANTA WOMEN
Meet In Golf Championship
Today
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—Satur
day Is Atlanta day, so to speak, In
the finals match of the thirteenth
annual tournament of the Southern
women's golf association which
ends Saturday.
Mrs. Doiler Lowndes, of Atlanta,
and Miss Rosalie Mayer, also of
Atlanta, began their battle for the
southern tltlry at ft o'clock, teeing
off with a fair alae gallery follow
ing. Mrs. Lowndes. It Is believed,
will have little difficulty In win
ning the championship.
Night Mail Flying Will Start July 1
WASHINGTON.—The "dream” of
the Postal Department—continuous
transcontinental air mail service—is to
become a reality July 1.
On that day postal service flyers
will start piloting their planes In
Bteady flight between N ew York and
San Francisco.
An air mall pilot will take off from
New York at noon, arriving In Chi
cago at eundown. There another
pilot wdl take off with his cargo
of mall In pursuit of the setting sun.
When darkness falls, he will be
gu ded by a line of beacons 1,000
miles long, between Chicago and
Cheyenne, Wyo.
Coming into Cheyenne with the
dawn, the second pilot will be
relayed by a third, who will
wing over the rugged tops of the
Rockies snd Sierras an<J land by the
shores of the Golden Gats before
sunset.
(Slant Beacons Light Way,
At the same time, a relay of throe
pilots will bo making the eastbound
trip.
It Is upon night flying—the flight
between Chicago and Cheyenne—
that the fate of transcontinental
air mall service depends.
Realising this, the Postal Depart
ment has established a lighted air
way In the "darkness zone" calcu
lated to make night flying scarcely
more hazardous than flying by day.
Automatic acetylene lamp* have
been placed every three miles. Every
25 miles there is an emergency land
ing field, equipped with a revolving
electrlo searchlight. At Intervals of
25P miles are the regular landing
fields, provided with revolving
searchlight beacons of 600,000.000
cendlepower, casting their beams 150
miles.
As an added precaution bids for
new planes with slower landing
speeds have been called for. The de
partment will furnish the motors—
Liberties—while In other respects
the planes must fulfill rigid depart
mental specifications.
Special Stamps.
The personnel of the air mail fly
ing force—4l pilots and 157 me
chanics—will not be augmented; nor
will the number of planes now in
use—varying from 75 to 80—be in
creased.
Special air mall stampa have
been printed and distributed, while
the route has been divided into three
zones—between New York and Chl
caßO. Chicago and Cheyennes and
Cheyenne and San Francisco. An 8-
cent stamp will carry a letter any
where within one zone, and a 16-cent
etamp within two zones, and a 21-
cent stamp within three zones.
Letters destined to cities off the
air mail route will not require extra
postage. They will be taken from
the planes at the nearest point to
their destination and sent on from
there by train.
Special air mall post boxes are
now under construction to be
painted red. white and blue, deslgn
nated by signs and honored by spe
cial collection.
Auxiliary air mail service has
been In operation for several years,
but Its purpose has been merely to
advance the malls —picking up late
malls in New York, for rxample,
carrying them to Cleveland and
placing them aboard a westbound
train which left New York the day
before.
The new system will lift a'r mall
out of its auxiliary status and give
It the standing of an Independent
service. It Is to be tried for one
year on an appropriation of $2,750,-
000. Then, if successful, it will be
made a permanent Institution.
TOP—A GROUP OF MAH, SERVICE FLYERS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. C. E. JOHNSON .WESLEY
L. SMITH, E. G. LEONHARDT, E. M. ALLISON AND DANIEL KISER. CENTER—THE ROUTE THE PI
LOTS WILL FOLLOW. LOWER LE FT—ONE OF THE BIGGEST OF UNCLE SAM'S MAIL PLANES. LOW
ER RIGHT—ONE OF THE GIANT B EACONS THAT WILL LIGHT THE FLYERS WAY.
ASSEMBLY REPORTS
Indicate Trend Towards
Greater Cooperation
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich—Much of
Friday’s session of the Tresbyterlan
General Assembly here was devoted to
the hearing of reports concerning the
cooperation and union of the Presby
terian church with other denomina
tions. These roporls were presented
by the stated clerk through the de
partment of Church Cooperation and
union, and related not only to that
department hut also to the World
Conference on Faith and Order, the
World Conference on Life and Work,
the Federal Council of Churches, the
Council on Organic Union, Federated
Churches, the Presbyterian Church
and Churches of the Reformed Family
the World Alliance for International
Friendship. Through the Churches,
and other cooperative agencies.
The various reports indicate the
trend toward greater denominational
union. Th at of the American section
of the Fxeeutlve Section of the Al
liance of Reformed Churches states
that the eltuntton In Buropi Is If any
thing, more serious and critical than
it was a year ago. It says;
PROTESTANTISM
AT STAKE
"The whole of European Protestan
|*m In Ht stake. It Is not flic ohltrch
of anyone country, but throughout
the whole of Europe which Is threat
ened by the collupae of European ci
vilization. For one thing the fluc
tuating value of the various cur
rencies Is laying unexampled burdens
upon religious and educational Insti
tutions."
The report of the Federal Council of
the Churches of Christ in America
emphasizes its work In creating pub
lic opinion against flu 12 hour day
Live Opportunities for you
{ { PPORTUNITY knocks but once.” So said the
I I sage. But don’t believe it. It isn’t so.
Opportunity knocks every day of your life,
every advertisement in the Herald is brimful of oppor
tunity for some one. Many of them are written with
you in mind. They offer you opportunities to save
time, money and effort—opportunities to surround
yourself with conveniences—opportunities to eat bet
ter, sleep better, dress better, and live better.
You would live in ignorance of these opportunities
were it not for Herald advertising. Somebody might
be selling a new, better and more economical food; or
a utensil that would add immeasurably to your comfort
and well-being; or some better material for making
shoes or clothing—but you would never know it.
Modern advertising is a boon. It keeps information
up to date on the many things we need in order to live
profitable, happy and useful lives in this age of rapid
fire progress.
Every advertisement in The Herald is a real oppor
tunity.
Don’t Let It Knock in Vain.
In Industry, which, It says, la "a moral
trespass and challenges the churches
In their own Held."
"In no way," continues the report,
"has the Federal Council been of
greater service to the churches than
In Its work In behalf of a more i
Christian International life. A world
shattered by war and yet carrying
on Its international life In a way from
which war will arise just as surely as
fever comes from an undralnud
swamp, must turn to Christ for moral
and spiritual leadership in ilndlng a
better way. In the Commission on
International Justice and •Goodwill,
the churches have had an Invaluuble
agency through which to voice In a
vigorous and united way the Chris
tian Ideal for the nations. The cam
paign to develop public sentiment In
support of the Permanent Court of In
ternational Justice is only one of
many illustrations that might be given
of the Council's work In this Held.
"The development of friendship and
sympathetic understanding of the
orient, which has a vital bearing on
the. foreign mission program of every
denomination, has been a matter of
■pedal concern. Through the council
clear and united expression has re
cently been given to the conviction
of the churches that In dealing with
the restriction of Immigration from
Japan method* of friendly conference
should he followed rather than the
proposed method of abruptly abrogat
ing the present agreement with Japan.
"Of unique Interest are the Influ
ences that have lately been bringing
American Christianity Into n new fel
lowship with the churches of the or
thodox eastern fslth. The experi
ence of confusion and suffering
through which the Greek, the Rus
sian and the Armenian churches have
been passing has led them to turn
more naturally to the Christian forces
of the west and have caused the
hearts of the latter to expand in
sympathy. In the new relations
thus established each has been rom-
THREE
ing to appreciate the other and to
desire a deepened fellowship."
PROMOTE FRIENDSHIP
OF NATIONS
The report of the Universal Chris
tian Conference on Life and Work
to ho held In Stockholm from Au
gust 11 to 12, 1925, stutes that grati
fying progress Is being made, and that
the churches of Europe are manifest
ing deep Interest in It.
"The work of promoting Interna*
tlonal friendship and good-will through
the churches has been vigorously
pushed during the year by the central
organization of the American Sec
tion of the World Alliance for Inter
national friendship through the
churches." Fays the report of that
body. "At the beginning of the year
th« American branch adopted a prr -
gram of three principal alms, In co
operation with the Commission on In
ternational Justice and Goodwill of
the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ In America: First, parti
cipation by the United States In the
humanitarian work of the League of
Nations, Second, participation by the
United States In the Permanent Court
of International Justice; Third, »n In
ternational Conference to discu i
economic questions.
"The first of these objectives has
been obtained snd great progress has
been made toward the other two.
The solid hacking of the religious
forces of the country encouraged the
Federal Administration to take steps
during the past year In favor of the
World Court and the proponed In'cr
nntlonal Economic Conference. To
secure the endorsement of as many
organizations as possible In favor of
the World Court, a nation-wide cam
paign was conducted with the co
operation of the World Peace Founda
tion of Poston, the Federal Council
of the Churches of Christ In America,
and other interested groups."
Estimate* show 100,000 men will
be needed In the wheat belt. What
a pity harvesting wheat can't bo
made a a popular a a golf.