Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1921, Page 30

730 : THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C BOTH SIDES STILL UNCONVINCED . IN BOMB VS. ARMOR ARGUMENT . | Easy to Steer Ship. Tone by radis contrel S Garman ex | was ordered a yoar L0, Spd come | which resuited In mang valaanie W :~ ) @ b im- & s The radio operating officers found it | perts have also controlled small | pleted last fall by the Philadelphia | provements and absolute certainty viators Say lowa Was Theoreticall cers found | Dachts for limited periods of time. mavy yard, based chiefly on patents | of control. b y y was easy to veer the ex-lowa's rud But N0 Other ZOVErNMENt NAE ©VeT | m e —————————————————————————————— , FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1921 4 fectly and promptly. This remarkable | tled to large credit for the perform- | it was rumored $1.000.000 had been | taken out by Mr. Hammona in 1910 control was mocomplished in spite of |ance of the ex-Iowa, which i{s the)spent. He explained that the radio- The General Electric Company in the fact that the air was alive with |largest craft ever operated by radio | control equipment itself cost less than | stalled electrical motor equipment radio messaggs from’ the flagshiplcontrol. John Hays Hammond, jr. | $10,000, and that the bulk of the ex- | and the crew of the Ohio, ) whicl Ponnsyivaniadto Norfolk and return|Who took out the basic patents on | penditure went for repairs on the | the ex-battleship had been assignet ol Trom the alvcratt tender Shawmut | Which ~the equipment was based, | antiquated ship's hull and fitting up | as a “tender.” under the direction o to the various planes in action. gerved as consulting engineer for the | two of her four engines for oil fuel Capt. F. L. Chadwick, had conductec All Offices and Yards Bl A Wh,l N M der fully 15 degrees, and that she re- | been able to perfect an armored tar- W sponded within five seconds after re- |get 8hip of sach proportions, and this Of own Part* 1le avy en ceiving the order. Only one period of |achievement will be greatly valuable delay was experienced between & a.m., |in all gunnery and aerial bombing 2 24 when she went into action as a target, | practice herenfter. Point to Easy Conditions. Wnd 4 e when she returned. (o | Assisting Commander Hooper was steam power with her own crew, and | Lieut. Commander Riley O'Connell, ex- that was a half hour's delay "l‘ lhe!!cul'lvo officer of the Ohio, a naval i » whe that | e V. vas chi S 8i- | Both sides in the bomb-versus-|bombers, which came o thick and fast o e I e O e | o far. the. Tadiaation ¢ the vty iarmor controversy clalm the advan- |that actual counting was difficult, and | capacity to the boilers, and a crew | piloting cable in New York harbor i : & Wetack i many differgnces of opinion were ex- | yaq gent aboard to inspect the equip- | channel, by which ships at night or in {tage in the bombing attack made by | proel 3 " 1™ ter developed that ihe | mant fog are able to steer a perfect course air forces on the target battleship,|two direct hits were obtained in the| 'various difficulties might easily 4by radio signals from this cable. |the ex-Towa, Wednesday, 100 miles|last of these salvos, which seemed to|have arisen with the oil burners or | Lieut. Mineratti, operating the Ohio’s | out at ses, and the verbal battle|have completely overwhelmed the tar- | water feed, which usually recquires | radio, and Lieut. Hurty, in charge of ‘rantmucs to rage as strenuously |get with direct and close indirect hits.| human attention, but the radio con-| the radio equipment on the ex-lowa, ashore as ever. . The maneuvering of the target 8hip, [trol mechanism worked perfeetly | were also important factors in the | Members of the Senate who favor |tho ex-lowa. was a remarkable piece | throughout. success eof the target ship. the “battleship as backbone of the|of work, which stands to the credit| The boat successfully maintainéd| One peculiarly valuable feature of Na idea also had several lively|of the bureau of steam engineering [nine knots' speed, the maximum she | the radio control was a clock aboard | clashes on board the observation|of the Navy, and the small percentage | was -capable of with only two boilcrs | the ex-lowa, which would automatic- | | boat Henderson, with members of the |of hits achieved by the twenty planes | working, all morning. and on radjo, ally stop the engines of the ship, un- { House, who generally fuvor a re-|with their soventy bombs was directly | “orders” successfully slowed down to|less a radio-control order was re- ! quetion of appropriations for $40,000,- |due to the agility with which this old | three knots per hour. During the!ceived at least every fifteen minutes. {000 battleships and an increased |11,000-ton battleship dodged to the |aftc@oon the oil burners “gummed”|This was a safety precaution which | expenditure for $4,000 aireraft, which |right or left, and slackened or in-jto a certaln extent and reduced the would automatically prevent a run- | they cluim would be equally effective | creased her speed the moment a bomb | Steam pressure. so that seven knots|away or an accident in case the radio in warfare. was released over her. per hour was the average speed main- | control was biocked or put out of " AFmy and Navy air officers unite in tained during the midafternoon, This, | order. . el et o0 e 't ‘the | The Ohio. four miles astern. gave | powever, gave the “enemy” more than | The expense of fitting up the target | bombs aimed the ex-lowa fell |her over 100 separate “orders” by |enough speed. ship was less than $100,000, Com- S. enti- | mander Hooper s Evening é’;gunday Star 6(0c a Month Delivered by Regular Carrier J. Maury Dove Company Will Be Closed From July Ist Until July 5th CALL MAIN 5000 and the service will start AT ONCE within the sixty-foot “danger zone" |radio, to which she responded per mmander ted W 101 that within the sixty-foot “danger sony|——n0—————— acon JIoORe (4 ore damaged and put her out of com- mission if they had been loaded with 3 - T.N.T. or other high explosive. _ The battleship enthusiasts ridicule ’ this assertion and point to the fact. eres ar that the aircraft obtained only .two direct hits in about four hours of actual bombardment with seventy . : bombs. They declare thet any Magy were the offerings to the ORI Wil Arausl ifram Twenty-six to i thirty-six knots in actual warfare in gods of the ancients, but bacon stead of mine knots as did the tar- was deemed most fitting for the get, and that zig-zagging will 3 executed continuously at high speed. offering to the Goddess of the Pleased With Results. Harvest. l_t was known sh.e any rvice officers expressed showed special favor where this delicacy graced the altar. the results, explaining that 50 per cent of indirect hits was “very good” on altitude. They declared that the pres- ent sighting device was never de- veloped with the iden of being used against a moving targef. but only against such stationary targets as am munition dumps, towns, supply bas and railroad stations They express th that within a year, providing more appropriations can be obtained for scientific research, bomb sights and releases will be per- fected so as to give 100 per cent bet- ter performance than is possible to- day, and that aircraft personnel can be drilled -also to double their ef- ficiency. One military attache representing the air_force of a first-class power declared on the Henderson that the exhibition was “remarkably good.” and that when American bombers had been given intensive training at mov- ing targets at sea they sily develop [0 per cent gre than they showed over th The official board of observers was much criticized by air service officers of both the Army and Navy for not making public a detailed report of the bombing so as to show the compara- tive accuracy of the indirect hits. Their first official report. by wireless derson, stated that “no en obtained out of eighty bombs dropped by twenty planes in thirty-five separate attacks. Not Given Right Data. The press associations broadcasted this news, and about two hours later the board corrected its finding to show two direct hits made out of sev- enty bombs dropped. 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