Leased Wire Associated Press * Service The Weather Cloudy tonight. l*os?lt?Iy ?how ??rn Thursday. Nut uiuch change Id u-minraturo. VOL. XVII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1927. SIX I'AGES. NO. 195. Airplanes Awaited By Thousands at Honolulu As They Near Island Dole Flight ('ontentant Woolaroe Expeeted to Arrive About Five-Thirty, Eastern Standard Time POVII HOURS LATE Estimates Were That Flight Would Be Completed in 22 Hours; All Four of Plane* Close Together Wheeler Field, Honolulu, Aug. 17.?(AP)?Ttie Army StehaTT^n" "inlcK^ifTPd a m dlotcnuu from Arthur Goebel at #:!? a. ni. (ihmui time) tliat the Woolaroc wiui nenrlim tho Island of Oahu. Tlvo crowds at Whwlcr Field etoctrtfted at ?:."*) n. m., >%h?*n a plan:* was siuhletl rem lute In front the ocean. It was be llwe# to be one of the Dole filer* hut It prorad to be one of the Anny scout plane* nearchlnsc for the Dole aviators. Wheeler Field, Honolulu, Aug. 17.? (AP)?The Dole flight plane Jf'oolaroc reported by the S. S. | Ity of Los Angeleg at 8:59 a. m. ^Pacific Time) as 491 miles from Blila city, was expected by aviation. officials to aMght at Wheeler Field at about 11:30 a. m? Paci fic Time, or 5:30 Eastern Stand-: ard time. Wheelec Field, 25 miles from Honolulu, was surrounded by thousands of auioinoblles, and a crowd estimated at more than 15. 000 Impatiently, waited to greet the fliers. Eight planes took off from Luke Field used by the Army and Navy in Pearl Harbor to escort the Dole fliers to land. Three other Dole planes were reported also approaching thlBf Island of Oaliu in the content for ?the prizes of (25.000 and $10. 000 offered by James D. Dole, for first and second planes to land In the 2,400 mile flight from Oak land. California, which began at noon yesterday. They were be lieved not far from the Woolaroc. Honolulu. Aug. 17.? (AP) ? The steamship .Manulanl radioed that she had sighted two planes at 2 a. m. today (4:30 a. m. Han Francisco time). She did not iden tify the planes. On the basis of radioed reports, the Woolaroc, piloted by Arthur C. Goebel, and navigated by Lieu tenant W. V. Davis, was estimated to be 620 miles from Honolulu at 6:30 a. m. local time, Goebel, within an hour, was estimated to have flown 125 mil.* making hi* probable arrival at Wheeler Field 11:45 a. m., it was said. Honolulu time is two and a half hours earlier than San Francisco time. I The four planes If they had made the 2,400 mile course in the i 22 hours the aviators said they expected, would have arrive! at Wheeler Field about 7:30 a. tn Honolulu time or 10 a. m. San Francisco time. This would have been abAut 1:30 p. m. Eastern Standard time. San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 17.? (AP)?-Bound for fame and for *anfc?'n first trans-oceanic aerpl derby, four Intrepid airmen and their crews today were be lieved to be flying fast toward their goal. Oahu. In the Pacific. 2,400 miles from their take-off point at Oakland. W The night dropped a mantle of |s1lence over the progress of the ?aviators with the exception of Ar thur C. Goebel's Woolaroc, the only plane in the race equipped with radio sending apparatus. Lleuteuant W. V. Davis, of Han Diego, the Woolaroc'* navigator, periodically sent out messages in dicating It was traveling steadily upon its course. The monoplanes (folden Eagle and Aloha, piloted by Jack Frost and Martin Jensen, and the bi plane Miss Doran, In which Miss Mildred Doran, the flying school teacher from Michigan la a pas senger, were the other survivors of the nine who weat to (he start ing post yesterday. There had been no report early .today on the progress of the Gold en Eagle since It passed otit over the Golden Gate yesterday. Frost's plane was equipped with a radio receiving se?. Jensen'a plane was ?Ighted by a vessel passing the 260 mile mark at mid-afternoon yesterday^ but the Miss Doran like the flW#fen Eagle, had been unheard since the start. Estlmatl*# the arrival of the airmen In Honolulu In about 22 hours elapsed time, they are ex-1 pected to drop down on Wheelerl Field about five a." m.. Honolulu time. Great preparations had been' nude for their arrival in the Ha-I W?i! where the winner, 122 r?*l*e the first prlie of 125. 0!,.*rtd br D. Dole with 110.000 to the second. A -Tl" Doran took up the race VMtenlay to catch th# par. srl an hour and a half behind *V?am. Pilot Auggle pedjer waa forced to land the machine back to the airport *ft* making aa < By Tt? Tm^lm AuRUit 10 12:31 p. in.?Monoplane Gold en Eagle takes off at Oakland Alr port. 12:34 p. m.-*-Monoplane Aloha} takes off. 12:36 p. m.?Monoplane Wool aroc takes off. 1:05 p. m.?Aloha passes over J Furallones. 2:03 p m.?Biplane Miss Doran ] takeg off on second attempt.^^^^^ Fir. 186^mlles out. reports Aloha overhead, north of direct course. 2:43 p. m-?Miss Doran report ed passing Farallonea. 2:50 p. m.?Steamship Wil li ol ml na reports Aloha putting) south toward direct course. 2:55 p. m.?Destroyer Meyer] reports Aloha 200 miles out, still | 35 miles north of course. 4:00 p. m.?Destroyer Haiel- j wood reports Woolaroc 270 mil? out. 4:35 p. ra.?Steamship Wllhel-j inia reports message trom Wool aroc 300 miles out. 8:00 p. m.?Destroyer McDon-i ough report* Woolarac 300 miles j out. 8:50 p. m.?Destroyer Corry re-J i ports message from Woolaroc 517 miles out. i 11:30 p. m.?Destroyer Corry I reports message from Woolaroc j 750 miles out. WixlnewU), August 17 2:00 a. m.?Steamship Manu lanl reports through the Army Sig nal CurPa> two planes believed the Woolaroc and Miss Doran on northern edge of course to be ap proximately middle way. I 2:00 a. m.?Steamship City of , Los Angeles reports In message* I received by the Army Signal Corps I Honolulu two planes belleve4 the Golden Eagle and Aloha, on the southern edge of. the course, ap proximately mid-way. 4:00 a. m.?Steamer Manulanlf reports Woolaroc 1,485 miles onj her course. Old Glory Hopes To Take Off At Five! Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Aug. 17. ? (AI?>?Indications were strong at the hangars this morning that if two storm arras In the North Atlantic should clear during the day the monoplane Old Glory would take oft for Rome at five o'clock this afternoon. Mechanics worked all night on the giant single motored Fokker and early today Its two pllota, Lloyd Ilertaud and James Dewltt Hill announced that all prepara tions for the ocean hop were com pleted. Northern Chinese Bombard Nanking London, Aug. 17.? (AP)? Northern Chinese forces this morning captured I'ukow, Reut er'r. reports, and this afternoon were bombarding Nanking, across the Yangtse. British subjects were evacuating from Nanking to Brll^ ish war vessels lying along the south bank of the river. easy take-off. The flight Itself was eclipsed by the sensational smashing take-offs at Municipal Airport, Oakland, yesterday. That^event so thrilled the audience of 100,000 gathered {along the runway that the race 1 seemed but an incident aftor the i hazardous take-off with a ton of' gasoline had been accomplished. Eight fliers started In the race. Two runway nmashups were pre dicted by motor experts and two occurred. The monoplane Elencanto, after a clumsy run down the long start ing point, failed to gain the prop er lifting power, weighted with a ton of gasoline and rocked and tumbled off the runway as a re sult. The pilot. Lieutenant Nor man Goddard, and his navigator, H. C. Hawkins, were uninjured., As the craft failed to take to the |,alr when it had moved about 3,000 feet along the runway, the pilot, attempted to bring the machine! undor control but the wobbling machine came to earth after a! smash that brought newspaper correspondents within range. The Pacific Flier, owned by Ma jor Livingston Irving was also smashed up in a runway accident, | after he attempted to tak* off > twice, but failed because of the weighted gasoline tanks. I Two planes which were forced hack yesterday, (he Oklahoma and1 Dallas Spirit, put back soon after the race started to make needed, repairs. Th* Oklahoma had devel-j oped engine trouble, but both' planned to start for Honolulu as toon as practical. Island of Oahu Goal of Dole Air Fliers Roanoke Island Ready To Greet Visitors At Celebration Thursday L. Cohoon Will Make the Addre?? ?/ the Day on the Subject "Our Debt to the Pioneers"; Excel lent Transportation Facilities Manteo. Auk. ? 17.-r-Old Fort Raleigh, -on Roanoke Island, near, where the first English settlers' landed, and opcupyln^ one of the most Important placos In Amerl can history. la ready to greet the host of visitors- who'will go there ?fi}om all directions Thursday for the purpose of btoervlng the throe hundred and fortieth anniversary of the birth df Virginia Dare, the, first white child to be born on American ? soil. F6r. weeks the people of Roa-| noke Island have been preparing for this celebration, and their ef fort* are now approaching frui tion. They ate eagerly awaiting the dawn of tile day on which they might cliep hands with peo ple from all sections and com mune together In commemoration i of an 'event"that has - not been1 dimmed by the pasaage of time. "Our*Debt to? the Pioneer?," Is th*M#ub$ect selected by Walter L Y3bhoan. ploqoent apesker of Klit abetfi Oily. wJio wjll make the mo njorlal address. . J Mr.. Cohoon en J in the Mountains TWO AH RESTED I'nsae of Federal, State and Countv OflFieer* Seareh-i iiif; for \*rtailant* Who] Hed in ^ Logan. \V. Va.. Auk. 17.? C A I*> J -?Volleys from the rifles or moon shiners in ambush today had I raised tho total killings In the J mountains of West Virginia to four in I it 11*' more than month. Three turn, one a state prohl-J i>itinn MtM-nt- dropped under the, .sudden flr?? which swept Their ? camp on Island Creek yesterday. j (Jus J. Simmons, another pro hibition agent. was shot from am bush July 11. while Ncarchinu thej wooded niountainr. for moonshine stills. Two men were under arrest in j connection with tho ambush yes terday In whirli Kd Hensley. the I prohibition agent lion, his in year! old son, and Krnest Marcum, all] of Hart's Creek, were killed. Tin-1 six surviving numbers of thej party, one Howard Tomlin, also of j Hart's Creek, wounded, fled to I shelter among the trees, but had ' been accounted for today. Mean white, a pome of Federal r| state and county officers contin ued search for the assailants.| < Dave Hensley a brother of the. slain officer, spread thr alarm, es caping the withering fir#' in a daub j through thr woods, and tramping 1 14 miles over the mountains to I this city, where the posse was | rained. The bodies of the three slain I men lay as they fell. bullets 1 through the head of each. Other j j members of the party clung to i concealment In the woods until, the posse appeared, and all Were I [gathered again. Not until then, and not until 1 I their bodies had bee n carried byj mules over mountain trails to the I nearest highways, was the real| [search for the assailants begun. | The attackers apparently fled Im mediately after the shooting. Thej attack had not been without some I | warning, however. Dave Hensley; dold possomen that a party of men I | visited the two-day ramp Monday., land warned them to be gone on yesterday. A few minutes fire, and (three lay dead, and the rest were I scattered to the woods. Hensley said members of the party wore not searching for! I st Ills, and as'far as possemen worn able to learn, the fact that Kd j Hensley was a prohibition agent was unknown to the attackers. J Hart's Creek is about 30 miles I north through wooded mountain! region from the sceno of the k 111-1 Ings. \ The two men arrested. Arch Adklns and A. F. Roberts, resi dent of the district, are held for i questioning. Three stills were [ found during the search, one near, the scene of the shooting. I 8even men, held for tho killing; of ftus Simmons, are to go on trial! for that shooting September 5. It) was decided a few days ago. I Visitor Tells About Elizabeth City Of 40 Years Ago ! Recollectlona of Kllzaheth City ,of 40 y< am ago were recalled hy J J. li, I'ebworth of Norfolk who. ("following the water" practically .all in life until he retired a nhort 'time bko. wan a frequent vlnltor jher? In the eighties hut had not seen the town In four ri n>n>?'d on which It la .hoped that men high In the world |of aeronautics and of wide Influ ence in the realm of Government 'T# ?h?W k to Speakers (at the banqeut were Francis D. Winston of Dertle. Charles W. ,528!*? ??(. ,,?fQulmana> and waiter L. Cohoon and W. O. Saun GS of. P??quotank. Countlea represented In addition to I'asquo iriPppWll"t,e"nd l^rqulmans were |Currltuck, Camden, Chowan and i uare. I Not A Local l?t<>Jort I #" w- O. Saunders", editor '\L '"dependent. introduced by W. Calther ns a man of Nation al reputation, who outlined the scope of the organization. Con Igress, he pointed out, has author ised a monument at Kill Devil [Hills to commemorate the spot where aviation was born. In a commission, he reminded. conalaU Ing of the Secretary of War, of he Secretary of the Navy and of the Secretary of Commerce hat been lodged the power to decide upon-the form that the memorial "nail take nnd to erect It. Wheth er the commission will spend a few thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars, he said, de penda upon whether Kill Devil Hills is to remsln Isolated and In accessible, or whether It Is to bo Put upon a State and National highway. Make Kill I>evll Hills accessible, in hIm opinion, and It will mean the erection of one of the most Impressive memorials In America. "America Is aeronautical!? nilnded. * declared the speaker. .. ... ?f,on lakiM to tho air. It will he only a few more years before we shall see the world on The proposed monument at Kill Devil Hills will commem orate one of the most notable achievements In human history. The only bar to the erection of a memorial In keeping with the achievement at Kill Devil Hills la the inaccessibility of the site. Ra move that handicap and a fitting monument is assured. With such * each anniversary of the Wright brothers' Micht on Decem ber 17 1903, will b? marked by a celebration that will bring to the spot thousands of visitors |from all over the country. Would llrlna Tour Mm I Hut that is not all. Our sae ha" sidetracked for years. Tourist travel has not come near us. but hss traversed OMr HUt* through the i'ledmont or the Weat. This travel will con tinue to follow xood roads and human Interest* a fitting monu ment on Kill Devil Hills and the spot mad# accessible to motor traffic will, coupled with the add "d attraction of a second National shrine on Itoanoke Island, birth place of Virginia Dare, divert the main stream of tourist travel through North Carolina Into thf Atlantic Coastal Highway and th? Virginia Dare Trail, which Is a segment of that highway. Th# or ganisation which we contain plate tonight, ihen, Is ono of mdte than local slgnlflcsnce. carry the Idea which I have outlined to Ita frntl tlon snd Kdenfon. Hertford. Windsor. Elisabeth City and the other county seats of the Albe marle will have something to go to the world with Francis D Winston of Windsor, introduced as "a man equal to any occasion," stressed "the vita! lin (Continued on page 4) SIOUX INDIANS PAY HOMAGE TO MR. COOLIDGE K