Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1923, Page 5

Plane Proves Best Defense Against Plane, Experts Find War College Test Shows Anti-Aircraft Guns Less Effective Weapon in Event History of war strategy is repeating itself again and the airplane is named by the American military experts at the Army War College as the prime method of defense against the at- \tacking aircraft. The announcement is made as the Tesult of a recent war game experi- ment at the Army War College here, during which an attacking squadron of combat planes rendered defending bombing planes attempting to send the enemy naval fleet to the bottom useless, because the defenders lacked “wcombat planes to face them. It simply works out the old doc- trine of fighting fire with fire: of de- fending against missiles by hurling missiles: of fighting ships with ships, and men with men. The latest evo- lution does not disregard the satls- factory development of anti-aircraft Wweapons the war, but the war | game effe y demonstrated, in the | opmion of War College experts, airplanes themselves will in the fi ture be the chicf defense against hos tile | of the Delaware bay | the defense point in | & problem which was | part of the concluding work of | just graduated. “hos- | made & surprise attack on to Delaware bay for the > of landing an “enemy” mil- itary force of 100,000 men. Tombers Unprotected. Defenders were “blue,” attackers were “red.” When the “blue” com- mander received word of the im- pending flect attack, his forces were S0 distributed that he had to rely upon aircraft to repel the attempted landing. He rushed a fleet of bomb- ing airplanes against the naval fleet. But the “blue” resources could not provide an adequate fieet of combat planes to accompany and protect the Lombers \ The enemy expected just this development. From the naval air- plane carrier the “red” sent up fight- fng planes to engage the lumbering but powerful bombers War College umpire: vatched the imaginary fight and saw the bomb- ers slowly beaten off by the wasp- like attacking planes. The umpires held that the bombers certainly would have been brought down or driven off by the enemy combat plenes and that 100,000 men would pour over America's shore line be- cause of the lack of combat planes. it was said. conformed fons of Army officers ¢ studied out the probabilities of future naval and land engage- ments. The war game, however, was + not of a nature to serve as any test of the various types of land defenses against aircraft developed since the war to supplement fiight air squad- rons in protecting cities or camps against hostile bombers. Despite this new development, a re- cent War Department memorandum pointed out the enormous strides taken in developing anti-aircraft guns. To replace the present 30-caliber weapon, a relic of war days, a new gun, wi a hort- range of about 37.000 feet and raight-up range of 9,000 to 12,000 and a rate of fire of about 500 % per minute, is being made ready. Fire control is maintained with this Kun through new “tracer” ammuni- tion, visible night or day up to 2,500 vards Other Guns Developed. | Four other guns are being devel- for fighting attacking airplanes. descr ions follow 7 milli- | shells. | B adjusted to explode on | contact with balloon fabric, allhoushc perfectly safe to handle before dis- ! charge from gun. Rate of fire ex pected to be 100 to 120 shots per min ange. 21,000 feat. Tracer am- | visibility up to 15,000 feet. | latlon of this weapon planned ! in h4lter1r‘ of four. operating with | WE SERVE YOU WELL | i “’ELCOME International Photographers’ Asscciation explosive O Bellevue Farms Lunch. Make your convention a pleasur- able occasion by eat-| ing refreshing meals in this unusually cool restaurant. 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Full 360 degree traverse to enable gunner to follow target in any direction. Hori- zontal range, 38,000 feet. Welght of projectiles, fifteen pounds, containing heavy bursting charge. Guns and mounts of this type at present under | test at Army proving grounds. Gun No. 4.—Four-and-seven-tenths- inch type. Weight of projectile, forty-five pounds. Effective alti- tude. 45.000 fect. 00 yards. Mounted on moblle car- riage. Full traverse. Equipped for power loading and with automatic breechblock to speed up firing. Drive Planes Too High. It will be seen from the charac- teristics of the antl-aircraft guns that the object souglit is to drive raiding airplanes high into air, thus minimizing the possibilities of accu- rate bomb dropping. The four guns described provide for barrage work in four different levels, which are ex- pected to make the air untenable for bombing planes up to 20,000 feet and dangerous up to 40,000, which is al- most the altitude record for aircraft. Heavygladen bombers, however, can- not expected to get above a few thousand feet, and the anti-aircraft experts believe the plans they have matured would afford a very definite check to bombing operations, even without the support of combat planes to drive off the raiders. As a supplement to weapons, the experts are working out a system of indirect aiming for all of them, experiments having shown that central station control firing is great- Iy superior to the old wartime systems. Two types of central stations are un- der development. either of which will | obviate the necessity for altimeter statfons and baseline readings, and materially speed up aiming and firing, these new | although requiring less personnel in operation than the old control meth- | ods, New Searchlight. The new anti- xlr t searchlight is of the “dishpan” sixty inches in diameter. Its o illumina- tion range from to 6000 yards. but the light it gives is so intense that in clear weather it would be possible to read newspaper print at_a distance of twenty miles. The new light s designed to throw so wide a beam at -high elevations ct 5,000 that airplanes could be held in its|F light long enough to permit accurate training of anti-aircraft batteries at night. At a range of 6,000 yards the beam varles in_width from 600 to 1.800 feet. depending on weatier con- ditions. A plane traveling at a 100- mile-an-hour galt would require al- most twelve seconds to pass through | this illuminated pathway, no matter in what direction it turned. During | that period the central station con- trol system, experts say, would per- mit aocurate determination of the speed, altitude and direction of flight | for close training of the batteries be- ow. —— The Soroptimist Club. a new organ- izatlon, composed exclusively of busi- ness women and having for its pur- pose the same objects among women | in business that the Rotary and Kiwanls clubs have among men, has been organized in New York city. T==—ARNOLD AND COMPAN ARNOLD AND COMPANY Offer to conservative investors Guaranteed First Mortgages Secured on improved Real Estate in Washington, D. C. In addition to the se- curity of the Real prop- erty, we guarantee uncon- ditionally the payment of principal and interest. Denominations in any amount, $100 and upward. Various Maturities 3 to 10 Years These Guaranteed First Mortgages may be bought on the monthly payment plan. Interest at the rate of the mortgage allowed on monthly payments. 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Douglass says he was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Within the Law. From the Philadelphia North Americen. The suggestion that large ships transfer “their passengers at our three-mile limit to a tender is ob- jected to by the drys on the ground that it would be a bar tender. 'BARGAINS GALORE During Our Big CLOSING QUT SALE of the Entire Stock of LEATHER GOODS In Our Store at 1212 G Street NW === BARGAINS IN MAKES TARGET RECORD. Every Man in Colored Battalion Is Marksman. A target record was made this sea- son by a battalion of the 25th (col- ored) Infantry in Arisona. Every man in the battalion qualified as a marksman. Company B led the regi- ment with forty-nine expert rifiemen, twenty-nine sharpshooters and six- teon marksmen. ‘Three years ago it was prescribed that rifle organizations must reach 80 per cent to qualify, and it was thought that the standard was al- most too high. This year, so far as heard from, every regiment In the Army has overstepped the require- ments from 10 to 15 per cent. 510 WEEK END ARRESTS. Reports of Maj. Danlel Sullivan, superintendent of police, to Commis- sioner Oyster show a total of 510 arrests during the forty-elght hours ending at 8 o'clock this morning. Ar- rests for speeding numbered fifty-one, while those for violations of minor traffic regulations numbered 126. Seventy-nine persons were arrested for intoxication and seventeen for other liquor offenses, four being for driving automobiles while intoxi- Abe Martin Says: police say, and jumped his Ther’s a lot o' indignation amongst th’ women down our way who'd counted onth’ cherry crop bein’ a failure. ! (Copsright Natlonal Newspaper Service.) VIRGINIA COUNTY BOOSTS ||g COMMUNITY NURSE FUND! 5 Stafford Citizens Raise $1,000 nsl Public Treasury and State Provides Equal Sum. i WM@M_MW SRR (T ARBORU THUE Special Dispateh to The Star. ! FREDERICKSBURG, Va., July 16.— Miss Edmo C. Lee. secretary-treas urer of the Stafford County Public Health Association, has reported re- ceipt of $2,000 in cash and pledges toward the fund of $3,000 being raised for employing and equipping a 1'nl’n-l munity nurse for Stafford county. | The organization has been very active in enlisting the interest of all parts of the county and in every quarter whole-hearted support is being siven; to_the public-spirited project The people of Fredericksburg have | jalso given very wenerously. The | state health department has given | | 13500 and the board of supervisors of | Stafford has appropriated $ the | balance of fund having been raised by privite subscription. Plans of the association contemplate com- | pletion of the fund before October 1, SE Whichs titae:ihs mices ol Sater) upon her duties. If this is done, Stafford will be the banner county of the state, having organized the proj- cct in a ‘shorter time than any other | county. A meeting of the assocla- | tion will be held “at Stafford Court | to Leather Goods | § of Every Descriptoin Out Everything Fixtures 444444444*4444444444444444444444444 The R. K. Trevor Expose of the Billion-Dollar Bucketshop Swindle begins exclusively in Washington in he Toening Staf Next Wednesday—July 18th Continuing for fifteen days—during which Mr. Trevor will reveal the methods of one of the most gigantic loots in the history of financial America. x In Wall Street—but not of it—these vultures of finance have mulcted a million families in the United States and Canada out of their hard earned savings dur- ing the years following the war. Mr. Trevor has been for 15 years in close touch with the Wall Street market—and these revelations now about to appear come from the pen of a man who knows what he is writing about. These articles will be doubly interesting—giving as they do inside facts of the notoriously crooked tricks perpetrated on an unsuspecting public—and also serve as a warning against similar dishonest schemes mas- querading under the guise of legitimate investment. Beginning in The Star Wednesday Order both The Evening and Sunday Stu' dehvered to your home by Star car- rier service. 7 issues a week-60c a month Phone Circulation Dept.—Main 5000 03 PR A Ak A oA A ok s e AR AR Ak e A Ak ok e Ak ok e sk e ko ok ke e e e ek sk ok ke e ke e ke ke ek sk ok ke ek sk ok Aok ke ok ok : ; : : : MAJ. BELL PLEDGES PLAYGROUNDS SUPPORT Addresses Directors, and Other Speakers Stress Value of ‘Work Done Here. Pledging support to development of playgrounds here, Maj. J. Franklin Bell, new Engineer Commissioner, ad- dressed directors of the city grounds the boardroom of the District building_today. Oran Moore of the naturalization bureau of the Department of Labor spoke on the value of playgrotnds in_educating foreign-born, George E. Hamilton, president of the Capital Traction Company and former president of the board of edu- cation, epoke. Mrs. Susfe Root Rhodes, supervisor of playgrounds, presided. — e State banks and Insurance compa- nies in Germany are issuing bonds in terms of fifty bushels of rye or five tons of coal, In an endeavor to get German currency on a more stable asis. COMMANDER ARNOLD DIES Retired Naval Officer to Be Buried at Arlington. Commander Solon Arnold, a retired officer of the Navy, died at his resi- dence in this city Saturday after- noon. Funeral services will be held at the Arlington national cemetery | tomorrow morning at 11:30 o'clock. | He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Ida | A. Arnold, and two daughters, Miss Charlotte W. Arnold and Mrs. George | N. Barker, wife of Lieut. Commander | George N. Barker, United States Navy. | Commander Arnold was a native of | Maryland, and was appointed to the | Naval Academy in September, 1876. He spent about fourteen years in cruising in_various parts of the world, and had about fifteen years' | service at shore stations in the Unit- | ed States. He reached the grade of | commander in June, 1906, and was retired shortly afterward on his own | application | s Bessemer steel was first made in | the United States in 1864 at an ex- perimental plant at Wyandotte, Mich “Yes! We Have No Bananas” Still getting _encores a3 a song and a fox- trot! 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