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VOL. XVII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY EVENING. AUGUST 25, 1927. . SIX PAGES. NO. 202. Hertford Program on The Air Is Enjoyed By j Movie and Radio Fans High School Orchestra, History of Perquimans, and Many Excellent Vo cal Numbers Over WKBC POPULAR RESPONSE Sidney Shepard, Radio An nouncer, Finds Interest Increasing and Wants More Performers Last night was Hertford Night on the air, with the best of the Perquimans capital's entertainers broadcasting from The Dally Ad vance Station WKUti at tho Al kraina before a large crowd, and with many other hundreds listen ing In on their radio sets at home. The Hertford program was well balanced and of a high order of merit, and won resounding ap plause from the audience time and agaiu, together with many tele phone requests for encores. The Hertford High Schfcol Or chestra began the evening's enter tainment with the jazz tune, "So Blue." The members of the or chestra were William Chappell, saxaphone; Miss Lucille Brough ton, violin; MIbs Ruth Winslow, piano; and Miss Louise Knowles and Sarah Blanchard, mandolins. Next was a solo, "In the Gar den of My Heart," by Mrs. E. S. Douglas, accompanied on the piano by Miss Kate Blanchard. Then L. W. Anderson delivered an address on Hertford and Perquimans that had been prepared by Charles Whedbee, dealing with the many attractions to be found In Hert ford and Perquimans. Mr. Whed bee was ill In bed, and could not attend the radio event. Other numbers on the program comprised a vocal trio, "Don't You Cry, My Honey," by Mrs. B. G. Koonce, Miss Sallie McMullan and Mrs. Carl Winslow. with Miss Kate Blanchard an accompanist; "C 'Est Vous," by the Hertford High 1 School Orchestra; a piano solo, "Jugglery," by Miss Kuth Win slow; "Can't You Hear Me Callln\ Caroline?" L. W. Anderson; the Hertford Chorus, which ln |eluded all the foregojng singers and Jess Wilson. Prof. J. II. Al ford and C. P. Morris In "Love's Old Sweet Song" and "Old Caro lina." with a duet by Mrs. Simon Rutenberg and Mrs. Carl Win slow as tho closing selection. Bobbie BUlott, the city's young est ? lollnlst, will bo featured In the WiCBO program tonight at 8:30 0'clock, with Miss Minnie Nash, bin music teacher, as ac companist. Bobble, who 1b only seven years old. has won much at tention through having played In various churches and elsewhere. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Elliott. Others on tonight's program will include* J. T. Jackson, with Miss Eva Walston accompanying him on the piano; Miss Ida Katherlne Nicholson In a ballad; Karl Walston In classical num bers. and other singers and Instru mentalists. Sidney Shepard, radio announ cer, declared last night that an increasing popular response to the programs, ax evldencod by phone calls from points both In the city and outside. Indicated clearly that the public wu enjoying the pro grams to the fullest. He reminded also that additional artists will be welcome each night for the re mainder of the week, and asked R that all wishing to do their stuff * beforo the "mike" call the Al krama Theatre, phone 413. or riotlfy the Radio Editor of The Dally Advance by post card or otherwlae. Station WK.BO Is broadcasting on a wave length of 202 meters, and a froquency of 1490 kilo cyclos. As had been tho case the night before, telephone calls from all parts of the city last night gave evidence that the program was being heard clearly, and was being enjoyed thoroughly. Tho 10:80 o'clock program Wednesday night was turned over to colored players. The latter in* eluded a double quartet from Mt. Lebanon A. M. E. Zion Church, the Suwanee Four, and several Individual performers. The latter were Mary P. P. Brown, Virginia Brown. Charles Puff, J. E. Nor man. Walter Vaughan and Mabel Allen Cook. They entertained the crowd until shortly after mid night. Mr. Whedhee's address, de livered by Mr. Anderson, Wed nesday night, follows: "With Its fertile acres stretch ing bark on either side of the beautiful stroam which bears Its name the County of Perquimans li nestled near the center of that tier of counties |n Northeastern North Carolina, lying north of the Chowan River and the Albemarle Hound and bounded by the State of Virginia and the Atlantic Ocesn. Hach of th?a? counties of this 1 northeastern section has Its facts f of historic Interests of which It Is I Juatly proud, and not unlike heri (Centlpqe* qq pag9 tl.KK.1M i TO (ilVE PHIZES IN RADIO CONTEST TONIGHT How much do you know uboul your community? Radio fane and movie pa trons in Elizabeth City will be glvtn an opporiun;t> tonight to win three prize* b> displaying the extent of their knowledge about their home section. Rep resentative J. Kenyon Wilson will broadcast a series of quea tlont from The Dally Advance Station WK13G, at the Alkrama, and all listeners. In the theatre and at home, have been asked to havu pencils and paper ready, to take them down. The questions and auswers. neatly written, must be deliv ered at the Alkrama. Passes en titling the holders to attend the Alkrama one month, free of charge, will be given the three person^ submitting the first correct lists, provided the win ner* are present at the theatre Friday night at 8:IB o'clock, when the awards are an nounced. All contestants are asked to remember that It Is essential that they be at the Alkrama Theatre when the names of the prize winners are called out. Otherwise, others next In line with correct answers will re ceive the passes. Raeford Is Quiet As; Negro On Trial For Murder Raeford, August 25?(AP)?| Trial of Hector Oraham, negro accused slayer of Captain Paul W. | Johnson, Raeford, two weeks ago i was expected to get under way] some time today as selection of i jury from the special venire of J ? 7-5 Scotland County men began | when court convened. Graham is alleged to have ahot I Johnson, prominent Hoke County J resident and aon of a former Con gressman. to death. He aur-1 rendered to county officials two days after the killing after hav ing been the object of a man-hunt 1 extending over parts of two coun ties, In which several score citi zens und officials took part. | Although feeling in Raeford was high following the killing, the 'negro'H return here yesterday from State Prison at Raleigh, where he had been taken for safe-keeping after his surrender, was quiet and ! there have been no demonstra tions. Man Drowns During Storm In Lake Erie Brie, Pa., Aug. 25.? (AP)? One man was drowned and anoth er rescued after battling a heavy sea on I.ake Erie for several hours early today when the engine of a small boat In which they left Ilar celona Harbor New York went dead leaving them at the mercy of the waves. The steamer Clement, carrying pulp wood Into Erie saw the flash from a small light about ten miles off the Dunkirk Lighthouse. In vestigating the steamer discov ered Frank Ilurke of Carrlck, Pennsylvania, fighting to keep above the water and signalling for help with a small flashlight. His companion, James Knight, of Winston Salem, North Carolina, after swimming for hours, be came exhausted and sank. Hurke told of their valiant fight against the atorm. Miss Cornelia Phifer Dies At Charlotte Charlotte, August 25?-(API Miss Cornelia Phifer. wldley known throught the south, for her | vast store of historical knowledge and an authority on Confederate History died at her home hers to day after a lingering Illness. Rhe would have been 68 years old had she lived until tomorrow. CHICAOO'H FAMOUS COiK HNH Chicago. Aagttfet 26 ? (AP) ? In assembling a faculty for Us, football coaches' school. North I western University found three famous gridiron) leadnrs ? all j |veterans in eastern football?llv jing in Chicago. I Walter Rtoffen deserts the supe rior court bench every fall to coach i the Carnegie Tech eleven. Arnold; [Horween. Harvard's head coach. | also is a native born Chlcagoan. j Jess Hawley, Dartmouth's foot-. I ball teacher, la the third to spend | t&e pff-teaaon month? fe?rft Elizabeth City Is, Convention City Junior Order Wilson, Auk. 25.? CAP)?Ellt abeth City was selected as the j 1928 convention city and Delos W. Sorrell of Durham, was chosen vice-councillor at Wednesday's ses sion of the annual convention of the State Council of the Junior Order, which concluded a two | days session here last uight. I Tho contest for vice-councillor] 'was the outstanding event of the day for In that office was injected the greatest amount of Interest; and effort. Walter L. Cohoon, Elizabeth | City, last night formally was In-! stalled ns State councillor, having been elected to that office earlier j In the day to succeed Charles W. Snyder, Winston-Salem. who !closed a successful year's work at ; thin session. j Serving with Councillor Cohoon I during the coming year will be jthe folowlng selected during the session: Vice-councillor, D. W. Sorrell; treaaurer, Gurney P. Hood. Golds boro; chaplain. It. Paul Caudell, North Wllkesboro; outside senti nel, L. K. Wilkins. Wilson; ward en. M. D. White, Fayettevllle; In side sentinel. C. F. Phillips, Bur lington; and conductor, Otis White, Burlington. Pour cities put In a bid and their representatives put forward spirited efforts to swing the vote to their respective home towns. Wilmington offered Wrlghtsville. and Elizabeth City, Albeiuarlo and Statesvllle and others were voted on. Klnston and Reidsville with drew their offers in favor of Elis abeth City, which carried the vote by a large majority. POLICE TO ASSAIL POOL ItOOM GAMING "Baseball," "Speed Limit," "At ta Boy," "Keeno" and other games played on pocket billiard tablen by mv'ans of boards fitted with holes into which the balls arc to be rolled, or otherwise equipped for games of chance, are barred Ir revocably from pool rooms in Elisabeth City by a verdict of Trial Justice P. G. Sawyer In recorder's court Thursday in a case involv ing Edgar Williams, operator of tho Pickwick Pool Room, on Mc Morlno street. Mr. Sawyer instructed pollco to be on the lookout for similar vio lations of the law In otfcer pool '-rooms here, and Prosecuting At torney J. Henry I.<eKoy. Jr., in formed tho officers that pool Toonis having such equipment on ^hand, regardless whether it was in operation, also were breaking 'the law. Doubt was expressed by Mr. Sawyer whether the police. If act ually In the pool rboms when gambling was going on, would be f" bio' to detect it. He modified hat, however, by commenting! hat pool room gamesters were) decidedly slick folk. Williams firBt wan directed to f*jr a fine of $5 and costs. On he assumption that he would ap peal to Superior Court, Trial Jus tice Sawyer told him no bond would be required for that. I-ater, the defendant declared he would not undertake to operate the board further, and the court re-! moved tho fine. Williams con-1 tended that other pool room op- j erators here also wer? violating i the law. but declined to give dl-< rect evidence against any of them. : Thinks A1 Smith Has Not A Chance Ashevllle. August 25?(AP) ? Governor Alfred K. Smith, of New York U a remarkably able statcs man. an well aa politically saga clous, but he haa not a chance to win the presidency because of the "prejudice, bigotry, and Intoler ance affecting the public mind." In the opinion of Judge N. A. Sinclair, of Fayettevllle, a Htate political observer, who Is spend ing hla vacation In A?hevlll*. Judge Sinclair's statement was made In the coarse of an Inter view with the times today In which he decided recent newspaper stories crediting him with having come out whole-heartedly for Smith for president. "Governor Smith Is a man of spotless public and prlvste char acter but Is unavailable an a can didate for the prealdency. because he has been so misrepresented thst he la misunderstood, and ?up posed to be merely a politician, whereaa his New York record has proved him a progressive states man of the first order." Judge Sinclair said. "He Is big enough to do hla full duty If elected president, unin fluenced by the churc> or prohi bition queatlons. but 1 am of the opinion that he cannot 1>* nomi nated. or even If nomlhated he would lose two or thre* southern states and coqld not be elected." "Ain't this a freo coontry?" asked a Chicago schoolgirl whrn the police arrested her for leadinx a Kacco-Vantettl demonstration When are we going to learn not to say "alo'V % Rough on Rats Miss Ann Wright, though ever so {attractive personally. Is "rough on rats.'W Mlsa Wright and her col ]league, MIbb Margaret Case, arc conducting a rutkilllng campaign ?in this section with conxiderabh ,succefs. Tlicy work in co-opera tion with the I'niti'd States Health 'Service and use *:trlum carbonate as poison for the rats. This poiMon lis easily obtained at the drug stores and the young women rid ;large buildings of the rats In a slnglo day. Continue Search Hawaiian Waters San Francisco. Aug. 25.? (AP) ?With authority to continue search for the missing Dole fliers, six men and a girl lost while try ing a flight from the Golden Gate, to Honolulu, as long as officers j in charge think there is a chanc? ;of finding thein. the IT. S. S. Om aha, flagship of the destroyer di rvision and six destroyers today were ploughing the 1'aclflc with renewed energy. Tin- Navy had announced that I the search would be given up to |night If views to the missing avia tors failed to materialize. Then ) Admiral Eberle, chief of naval op leratlons. in Washington, au thorized Admiral It. H. Jackaon ]In charitc of the hunt. to use his Jown Judgment a? to how long tho [search should be continued. The result was a radio order to the Omaha and her fleet to con-, j tlnue on to Honolulu, sweeping (probable drift areas between their present positions and the Hawa iian Islands. Naval communica jtlon offlcern were scrutinizing icharts closely in the hope of find ling an unexplored area in which I the fliers, might be found. . Tests of a rubber life raft, the same In every respect as those ! carried by the Dole fliers, renewed I hope that the lost aviators might IBtlM be afloat. The testB, conduct ed 12 miles out in Sun Pedro Chan nel, with an 18 mile westernly j wind, a choppy sea and a heavy ground swell, convinced J. N. List-' man, chief boatswain In the lT. S.J Coast Guard, and commander oM the cutter 254 that It would be Impossible to swamp the raft. Search In Hawaiian waters and' on the islands yesterday continued i intensively but without developing a trace of the loBt fliers. The Navy sent vessels to every point at which It was considered posslblH I that the fliers might be found. | QUEEN CONTEST VERY EXCITING Tyrrell (bounty Girl* Vie With Each Other in l'o|> ulurity und llcauty Columbia, Aug. 25.?Interest is increasing In Tyrrell County's beauty contest which comes to ? close about the middle of next week. The contest was Inaugurated for the purpose of choosing a queen for the bridge and road cel ebration which Is to be held here on September 7. Iteports from Gum Neck today revealed that Misses Evelyn Ever ton and Velma Everton were In the lead In that townBhIp. Those desiring to purchase bal lots may get them from Mrs. W. D. Cox, general chairman of the content, or from any of the follow ing township chairmen: Mrs. I'earl Rhodes nnd Mrs. F.lma Chesson, Columbia town ship; Mrs. Andrew Cohoon. Scup perrrong township; Mrs It M. Co-j jhoon, Alligator township; Mri Vera Hopkins. South Fork town ship: Mrs. Allle l'arlsher. Gum j Neck township. Seriously Injured In Crash of Plane Scottsbluf?. Neb. AlK.tS fAP)?Lieutenant James Daniels and Sergeant Robert I,. Harlow, j wen seriously injured today when | their Army plane used to carry, air mall between the Summer I White House at Rapid City, South J Dakota, and North Platte, Ne braska, crashcd at Bridgeport, in*ar here. Ocean Tide Reaches Yery Thresholds At Nags Head I The highest ocean tide in two I decade* or more at Nag* Head, seashore resort 50 mile* south of [here, was described Thursday by I summer vacationists returning home aboard the steamer Trenton 'and by a party of fishermen Just ?back from a trip to Oregon Inlet. | about ten miles south of Nags (Head. No property damage Is re j ported. The tide was at Its highest 1 Tuesday, according to Mrs. T. P. \ Dennett, but still was well be yond Its usual maxium on the ? beach yesterday. The water. she |said, at times was under the cot itages on the ocean ?hore. and | small boys made merry sailing I boats about the very doorsteps. | The unusually high water is at tributed to a northeast storm ? well out at sea. { Waler waist deep on Hie j marshes about Oregon Inlet was reported by Pat Twiddy. I)r. W. A. : Peters and Dr. Zenas Fearing, .'who also havo just returned from I the North Carolina beach coun try. : The unusual tide recalls a storm , on the sound side at Nags Head j about ten years ago. in which ! cottages were washed away, and ? .several families were marooned temporarily. Thousands of dol ' lars in damage resulted from that ? storm, but there was no loss of life. Dr. J. D. Hathaway, optome ! Irlst. recalled today that a new In jlet was cut from the ocean to the 'sound at Nags Head some 35 ' years ago 111 the course of a , storm lasting nearly a weak. in i which the wind blew ut a velocity of 108 miles an hour. The gale j was so Revere, he remembered. | that particles of sand^carrled by It cut all the paint off the smoke-j 'Mack of the old steamer New . ncrn, which was moored near the I I resort, laden with provisions for, the summer colony there. | Persons who observed the latest' | high tide at Nags Head declare It presented a remarkably beautiful scene, with the sunlight glinting from the shimmering waters from the doorsteps of the cottages' ! to the very horiton. I The summer season at the re > sort has been at its height these [last few weeks, with many hund reds of vacationists enjoying th? bathing, fishing, dancing and j other recreations there. Investigate Wreck At Hendersonville | 'Hendersonville, August 25?1 (AP)?Southern Hallway offi cials were holding an official in vestigation Thursday in un effort 'to fix responsibility for what came rnear being a serious wreck late Tuesday Just outside of the yards hert, when passenger train num-l her 10 crashed with a work train backing Into the city afler a day's work at the Saluda underpass on ( the Spartanburg Highway. Passengers on number ten were, given a severe Justllng and en gineer Dick Montgomery and hiB fireman on the work train barely escaped with their lives when they Jumped just as the crash came. The express and mall cars on number 10 were slightly daniagod, and the coal car of the work train was pushed up Into the engine by the impact. No one was hurt. Engineer B. Rryson had been given orders, it Is understood, to hold number 10. at Henderson ville, until 8 minutes after 5 o'clock, and did so, starting on his way immediately after that tlmoj and meeting the work train barely' 300 yards up tho track, a prell-? miliary investigation showed. ' The slowness with which the two trains were traveling averted serious consequences. Traffic was tied up for about two hourt. Jury Is Selected In Trial of Widow Orcenvlle, S. C., Aiir. 2$.? ! (AIM?A Jury to try Mr*. Kthel I Willi*. and former Chief Deputy Sheriff Henry 8. Townnend, on1 trial for murder In connection J with th? myntcrlou* flhootlnu June' 12 of Hherlff Ham D. WIIIIh. Iiur- | band of tin- woman on trial wan choaen In lean than two hour* to day. Only 3"> talesmen were called before the Jury box waa filled. EIMEMEN TO MEET NEXT AT NEW BERN Oreenahoro, Auk. 26. (AIM?! The next convention of North Carollnr. Flro Association will be held In New Uern. More than 1.000 deleaatea to the fourth an nual convention which carne to a cloae here venterday choae that city by an almont unanlmoua vote. AH officers were re-elected ft* fololwn: A. I,. Duckett, AahevlUe. president; It. C. Whitley, New llern, vkffrenldenl; John Miller, Concord, aeeretary; Chaflea H. Hrhtlbben. Wllmlnaton. treasurer; and C. C. Harris, Rocky Mount,; atatUlcUn. Paul Redfern Hops Off on Non-Stop To Brazilian Capital; Will Try For Distance And Endurance Test Hopped Off At Noon Today I*aul lU>4ir< iti In Nhouii betwnin il ls mother, who Iiah m'ver Tlown with her mhi, and IiIh tiiihri-, Dr. Fred f. iimldcnt of Ilene dlrt (\dlout*. Hlol? I*?ul H. Kedfern, 2G year old Government cuhUmiim enforce ment filer on leave of ubHt-ncc from tin lien ut .Suvanuaii, Ueorgla. native of ttocheMter, New York, father, Fred C. Red fern, IJaptlat miniater and president of flent diet College, Columbia, South CCNhl Una, married. No children. * Plane -8tinston-DH roller, oiMn type monoplane I'ort of Ilrunx wick, equipped with nine cylinder Wright whirlwind. 220 horite-pow er motor. Thirty three fet*t long. 11 1-2 feet high and 48 f?-et wing spread. KHtlinated weight with caiuiciiy fuel load approximately 6.000 pounds. Capacity fuel tanks r?50 gallons. Cruising speed llo miles an hour. Starting point?Ocean Beach, on Glynn Inland, approximately 14 i mlh'i. from Brunswick, Georgia. Destination?Rio tie Janeiro, Brasil. Distance? 4,<i00 ml leu. Ksttmatcd time of flight?rtwo i dayr. and two nltrht. Object?flood will gesture to-.j ward South America in Intereito of trado development Dttwccn two continents and to break long dis tance and endurance record*. Route?Via Porto Hlco - over Carrlbwan Sea to South American coaBl, Amazon Junglo and coaatal mountain range. ' Flare? to bo set off after crossing ? Amazon Rlvor to indicute whether plain, will continue to Rio or veer off to I'oinabumaco. several hundred hiII) h northeast of main goal. Equipment -one earth Inductor compasH and two ordinary marine compasses. A rubber raft, con tent rated emergency rations for 10 duys, portable atlil for dintill i 11 k fait water If forced down on nea. a flare gun and Hmall arms, MmIiIiik tacklc and mosquito net ting for uae If forced to land In Jungle. I>oea not carry radio net. Hackers ? llapnawlck business men. | Estimated contr $25,000 There are nofprlxeH but the monoplane I* longs to Red fern af ter he t a ken-off. Allege Immorality In Yadkin Prison Wlnaton-Salem, August 25? (AP)?Reports of alleged impro per action on the part of prisoners, pistol tot I hi; by some of the men and other improper conduct In the Yadkin County Jail are being In vestigated by th?* county grand Jury ac-ordlng to information re ceived here today. The Yadkin Nipple, a weekly newspaper. In a recent Issue prin ted charges involving a woman pridsomner. Although Jailer Bry ant Kiger denied the allegations In the news story and Sheriff C. K. Moxley. said (he article was his firinformation of any Improper conduct In the jail management, the matter was called to the at tention of tho grand jury. Twelve Killed In Wreck Near London London. August 25 (API ? Twelve persons wore killed and 4* Injured^ 24 of the later seri ously |n the wreck of a Southern railway train last evening, an of ficial revision of the raaualties showed today Four bodies were still unidentified tbIs afternoon. Among the sllghtely Injured were Lord and Lady Lewlsham. both of whom suffered rdts on th?lr legs. They were able to leave Ihe hospital after treatment. MARK STATEMENT Ol STATE INDERTEONESS IfalelKh. Aug. 5. fAIM Total Stnt? indebtedness on July .11 ?food at flf>2,G7C.<00. the com hlned statenw nt of the *tat? audi tor and treasurer shows. Cash in the Treasury totaled 120.012.057.77 Thf general fund totaled f 1.5??3,r. 11.00 and high way and other apeclal funds, f 1 K. 30ft.10*.80 Gasoline Qn Stove Ends Life of Five Norwalk." Ohio, Aug 25?(AP) ? Klvo persona were killed In an explosion In the kitchen or a farm |houn? near Greenwich, In South eastern Huron County lam night. Gasoline wait poured by mistake |oil a rook Move pipe. Th?< victim* were: Mm. May Hick*. 38; Diva Hlcka, 3; daugh ter; Mary Hick*. 8 daughter; Mm. Robert Pool, 18, married daugh ' tor; and Mrs. Pool'a alx months' I old son. I Homer Hicks, husband of Mrs. | Mary Kicks, was sorloualy burned. IOIJK KAKS CORN ON SINGLE STALK AT BLACK ACRE FARM !Otie dosen't have to take the grower's word for It that four ? ears of corn to the stalk are I being produced on Blackacre j Farm, a tract of land reclaimed I by drainage and the last farm In the ronnty on the Acorn lllll road. A ?talk of corn fresh cut from the field showing four ears, all but one of them well developed, stands today In the lobby of the First ft Cltltens National Rank, placed there Thursday by the grower himself. S. W Hastings of Kllx ? tot II City. % Hlacks<re Farm Is owned by W I. C'ohoon. former counsel for I the state Highway Commission 'and Bow Stale Councilor of the North Carolina Junior Order I American Mechanics. Ilttt VI V tVKim HOMW I HRVIVAL NF.AH If K.ttTPOKI> ll#v. W. A Ayr-ra of Forest City, who la holding a revival this week (Ureal Hop* ltaptl?r I Church about alx miles beyond Hertford, spent Wednesday night here as the guest of Mr and Mrs. If J. Ward. Mr. Ayera was the I first pastor of Hlackwell Mem 1 o/lal Church after the brick build ing uatd today was erected Take* Off Front Clynn Isle at 16 Minutes Past Noon on Stinwn Detroiter, Port of Brunswick. 'Nearly 5,000 miles Aviator Expects at Imit to Make Pcrnauiliuco, Port City of Brazil, If He Fails of Capital Olynn Isle, by radio to Bruns wick. Oa.. August 25?(AP)? Tho Stlnson Detroiter monoplane Port of Brunswick with Paul R. Hodfcrn, Georgia aviator, a* pilot, took off from tho beach hero at 12:46 o'clock today on an at tempted non-stop flight to Braxll. With Rio De Jaunelro, the Bra illlan Capital. 4.600 miles away an his objective, lied fern hoped at least to make Pernamhuco, port city, several hundred miles to tho north. He will try for Ion* dl? tance and endurauce records. When tho Ports of Brunswick gracefully rose In the air. a lusty cheer broke spontaneously from the throats of the spectators. This wa* followed by silence an tho lone aviator headed out to sea. For several minutes the Port of Brunswick skimmed only a (tif Icet above the surface of tlio ocean. Redfern did nut attompt to attain altitude until ho had* swung gently to the east and headed direct Into a moderate wind that then was prevailing. As the monoplane became but a speck upon the horizon then vanished Into apace, Mm. Red/ fern collapsod Into the arms of surrounding friends. Mrs. Eu gene Lewis was among those who tried to comfort her*but now, that her husband could no longor gee or hear her, sho made no effort to restrain the emotion which sho had bravely tried to musk with a smile as she bade him good-bye. To the throng upon tho beach, their "ambassador to Braxll" was on his way. Rut to the sobbing young wife, her husband had gone down to soa and a long and anx lous vlgal had begun. The uvlator himself, estimates that it will require him longer than 50 hours to blaxe this new aerial trail betweon tho America* and as much of his course lies over uncharted regions. It Is moreat?an posolblo that the progress of ?2* trip will be unheralded. Only a few communities, likely to possoss radio equipment, lie ttK the course of Ills route. Borne qf theso the filer may pass o?or during the night and cro*a winds jtnay blow him to tho east or wett of others. Therefore, as ho wing* his way southward, tho pilot'* wherebouts . during the entire period "may be somewhere In the sky" as f*r as his wife and friend* here can ascertain. As he waved his hand In faro well Red fern said: ? "God willing I'm going to Rio." Paul Vamer had. however a few minutes previously announced that the pilot had been Instructed jby the flight committee. "If you find conditions bad after ntrlklng the South Amorjc^a mainland follow along the coMt to Para." "If moderated conditions pre vail and you think It advisable swing inland and try for Perna? buco." * ?* Brunswick, (la., August 26-? (AP)?Paul Redfern, 25 year old customs enforcement flier, gave his huge Btinxon-Detroiter Mono plane Its final Inspection early'to day as he prepared to hop-off *t noon oivhi* 4.600 mile Brunswick [ to Braxll flight. | Tho Georgia airman mado do | finite announcement last night that he would take off "probably 'around noon" If weather condl | tlons remain favorablo following |a delay resultliiK from th* pass Iage of a tropical hurricane acros* i his proposed route off the cdfc'tl earlier this week. I Redfern, flying a land piano# I seeks to link the American by air ! In a non-stop Journey to estab 1 llsh new long distance and en j durance records. He has charted a course for Rio I?e Janeiro along | a route oast of the Bahama*, j thence over tho Caribbean soa to a point about 56 miles east of ! port of Spain on the Isle of Trlnl I dad, wlnglnr his way along tho jSoulh American coast, he will head 50 miles east of Georgetown, I British Guiana, before swinging I Inland toward .Macapa, on 'he northern bank of the Amtion I river. Hero he will drop u flare to Indicate whether he will pro ceed for his dealInatlon of Rio, or cut short his flight by to adiof for Poinambu'o. because of a sbortago of fuel or another cause. One thing about the naval limi tations conference they certain ly did keep those Swiss ship builders down.
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