AMERICAN SIDELIGHTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 156, 5 July 1927, Page 17

AMERICAN SIDELIGHTS.

TRAGIC AERIAL SMASH. FOU3 BTJBNED TO DEATH. A DARING HOLD-UP. (From Onr Special Correspondent.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 5. Four aviators of the United States army aviation, en route from San Antonio to Langley Field, Virginia, were burned to death at Augusta, Georgia, when the left motor of their machine went dead. 600 feet above the flying field, and the plane fell to the ground in flames. Those killed were SecondLieutenant Du,n F. Voorhies, Air Corps Service, pilot of the plane; Staff-Ser-geant Clifford Glenn, 59t1l Service Squadron; Staff-Sergeant James Read. 90th Bombardment Squadron; ami Corporal Kelvin Andrews, 59th Service Squadron. The plane, one of the tourteen modern bombers that had participated in the manoeuvres at .San Antonio, had ascended 500 feet to wait for the other planes to take oil. when the motor went dead, throwing the plane into a nose dire.' It was in flames when the machine struck the ground, and comrades were unable to go to the rescue of the unfortunate occupants. When they eventually succeeded in extricating the bodies they had been almost incinerated. Several thousand people witnessed tse horrible accident. They had gathered earlv that morning at the flying field to see the take-off of the bombers that had halted at Augusta on their way back to Langley field. At the request of the City Government the War Department had permitted the squadron to remain in Augusta, and the officers and men had been entertained lavishly by the Augusta people. The plane was apparently 600 feet up when the motor stopped, and 20Q feet when it nose-dived. The plane stluck the high tension wires fifty feet from the ground, bursting into flames before it Mt head-on. Scores rushed toward the plane, but were unable to aid the flyers. "BOY PLUNGER" SOBBED. Two ''gentlemen" burglars entered the bedrooms of Jesse L. Livermore and his wife and two guests at the palatial home of the Livermore's, at Great Neck, Long Island, early in the morning and disappeared with jewellery and cash estimated at 100,000 dollars. Livermore's sensational operations on Wall Street have won him the sobriquet of "The Boy Plunger." The burglars left behind them jewels valued at 63,000 dollars to which the victims claimed sentimental attachments. Police were baffled at the extraordinary exploit, which came at a time when the New York crime wave was at its worst. The Livermore's guests were Harry Aronsohn, New York silk manufacturer, and Mrs. Aronsohn. The Aronsohna were awakened by the noise at the window, which was followed by the entrance of two weD-dressed young men with drawn pistols. "Now, hush, please," said a gentle voice. One of them walked to the bed and ordered Mrs. —ronaohn to remove a 17,000 dollar sapphire-and-diamond ring. She obeyed, and Aronsohn was ordered to hand over his 1000 dollar platinum watch. A few minutes later they appeared in the Livennore's room, and went through the same procedure. They kept a 17,500 dollar ring, a thousand dollar watch and 200 dollars in cash. On the dresser one of the burglars found an 80,000 dollar string of sapphires. A small 'safe in the room next attracted their attention. While one sat on the bed attempting to make conversation, the other went by way of the window for a large hammer. They demolished the safe, and found Livermore had been accurate in insisting that it was empty. REGULATING U.S. MORALS. New and more stringent laws regulating the moral life of the United States must be the future aim of the Presbyterian Church of America, Kev. Daniel Russell, DD., pastor of Rutgers Church, New York, told a popular mass meeting in San Francisco, in connection with the annual convention of the Presbyterian Churches of the United States. Dr. Russell urged a positive church attitude on reform in an address on modern perils to the social order. "What has violation of personal liberty of individuals or classes to do with the matter?" he demanded. "Only one question should determine our attitude on prohibition and kindred reform moveinente: 'ig jt f or the common weal?' New Testament liberty is the only liberty worth while. "The only way anything can be outlawed is by law, and a prohibitory law w as easily enforced as a regulatory °ne, Dr. Russell continued. "Why paint purity with the delicate brush of generalities? When education has done its work, when the mass has been leavened, then let the church place its full power wtond legislation that will prohibit." Dr. Russell, urged that the church be no longer "mealy-mouthed" on the subject of moral turpitude. "The pocket-book in the pew too often "Peaks louder than the preacher in the he asserted. "Alcohol flows, ™ar threatens, divorce runs wild, crime twives. The church must break with her «w, inefficient past, and gird herself in nortern armour for the struggle with modern forces." nefff* Hg those who attested that the thty drastic action was necessary in «>e toUowing discussion of law enforcement, free love, divorce, motion pictures, «wcious literature and the morals of the college students were Dr. SSS? ¥■ aad Miss Maude fn~ / the department of temperMce an d moral welfare of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education. ine American home is sick," Miss *Jnen said, "of a malady so fatal divl One "friage out of seven ends in ■Wμ *• motion pictures, with their .ionfication of f ree love and and •» nood of salacious literature playing JL philosophy of Ufe are wndSS % recognisable «™ea of this at 4 *)!^ ,111118 the «mtunente expressed the rZJ? SS C meetm g was the report of Sα °S ° f Christian Education; which enemip* f Pltt \ the renewe <l activities of never L *° si^ntie ***** th V will by wet i"w^ vice l*?. I affic ' as a commercialised ' **■ disappeared permanently." STUDENT SUICIDES. tfcne^T 5 *- 111 , student «*"** d^n« £cioW S ' of he t a h d f the Department of who oH, * \ he Un iversity of Boston, on tha? ~ i 5 . a ""Stable discussion < f iw Ject , at tbe iVational Co »z™* tt-%2! 8 Teachers in °* k W

He attributed the present wave of suicide among students to the su<™ e *tio'i conveyed to school children through widespread publicity given a few recent student suicides. It is upon the theorv that such publicity is gaining impetus that he based his prognostication of increase. "Suicide among school children has heretofore been on the decrease" said Dr. Groves, "deeoite the great pressure of modern life." '•Student suicides are introverts possessing minds that look and dwell within themselves," he continued. 'The extro--9 vert, or person whose mind is interested - m things external to itself, finds pleasure e m the brighter side of life, seldom ~ broods, and would not think of commit- ? ting suicide for the reasons appealing to j J the introvert." ° i Dr. Groves pointed to Sinclair Lewi* -; Henry Ford and Edison as typical exSitroverts. There were few geniuses anions -; extroverts, however, he said. e MEMORIAL DAY RIOTS. j The black shirts of Fascism bulked large in New York's Memorial Day on ! May 30. Two men were killed in the ;! morning, reputedly by political adver- . sanes, and in the afternoon there was - a minor riot at Times Square, when 50U : j adherents of Mussolini pursued through .[the streets three men who had attacked ~one of their number. A Fascist 5 tion of 200 that marched in the Memorial • Day parade was guarded bv police to . avert disorder. . The men killed were Joseph Carisi and . Nicholas Amoroso. They were on their I (way to join the parade with tvventv [ comrades when they were attacked at , 183 rd Street and Third Avenue. Amoijroso was shot through the heart and Carisi was stabbed to death. Police expressed the opinion that the ; assailants had intended to kill the , leaders of the Fascist group, and that i the bullets were meant especially for Giocomo Caldora. president of the organisation in the Bronx, who escaped , J injury. After the parade the Black J Shirts went to the headquarters of the I organisation on West Forty-fifth .Street to mourn the loss of Carisi and Amoroso. One of their number, who had remained j at the door, Michael Georia.. an invalided j world war veteran, was attacked bv I three men. • One of Georia's hands -was partly shot off in the war, but with the other ! he laid about him with a whip he was carrying and called for help. The Black Shirts streamed out armed with club-' and whips, and Gloria's assailants tied i precipitately. j At Jamaica, in* another part of New York State, a thousand robed and whitecapped Ku Klux Klansmen. accompanied by 400 members of Klavana, a society of women, ran a gauntlet of fiats anil police in the Queen's. County Memorial parade. They passed the reviewing stand, although at the end of the fourmile march many were in tatters. The parade was halted by a police inspector and fifty patrolmen who said it could j not continue, as the paraders were violating police rules by wearing robe?. The Klansmen maintained the rules onlv forbade masks. After a few minutes of argument, a small drummer boy an-1 a band swung the Klansmen into action j with "Onward, Christian Soldiers.' , j