Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1923, Page 3

LETTERS DILDSE TREASURY DIPUTF ! THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, JULY 22 1923—PART 1. 3 NEW ROUTE OF MODEL AIRWAY IS PIONEER HIGHWAY THROUGH CLOUDS FOR FUTURE AIRPLANE TRAVEL Statement on Silver Alloca | tions “Disproved,” Senate Commission View. o Charges that statements made to the controller general by the Treas- ury Department in connection with silver bullion allocations “have been disproven by. evidence” were con- ned in letters made public yes(er-[ by Senator Pittman, democrat, Nevada. The letters disclose that After Undersecretary Gilbert had refused to reopen the allocation ques- tion, as requested by the Senate com- mission on gold and silver, the com- sion made a direct appeal to the troller general for a rehearing. Senator Pittman, in discussing the correspendence, aid Treasury offi- cials had been uilty of deliberately ignoring mandatory features of laws jequiring the purchase of silver to ‘t“\l;l.(l' that sold during the war to Great Britain, and the statute regulating the use which could be made of silver bullion obtained from the melting of uncurrent subsidiary coins, Statement Held Disproved, Evidence taken by the Senate com- mission has proved, Senator Pittman serted, that when the Treasury ‘partment stated to <he control- ler general that it held 10,000,000 ne ounces of silver obtained from he allocation of standard silver dol- lars to be used for the emergency coinage of subsidiary coins during the w it did not have an ounce of such silver. 1In support of this assertion the commission submitted l.u' the controller general a transeript of testimony of employes of the mint burea Senator Pittman d co clared the con- S on permitting Department to use 10,- 000,000 ounces of silver it had ac- yumulated from the melting of un- turrent subsidiary coins had taken the government ‘out of the silver | market two months earlier than had | Noeen calculated, and had resulted in great injury not only to the silve: mining industry, but also to th engaged in copper, lead and zine min- ing, who had been able to mine those ores because of the amount of silver they found in them NOTABLES PRAE BOK PEACE AVARD Hughes Lauds “Noble Mo-| tive”—Diplomats, Bankers and Others See Offer’s Value, By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July 21.—-The Ameri- | n peace award, ward W. Bok's | dowed fund by which $100,000 will | 0 to the person evolving the best | plan for American participation in | the establishment of peace, has e ted warm approval from man distin- guished Americans, the policy com- nmittee controlling the award an- nounced today A flood of from notables daily letters in by and telegrams many fields is re the “committee Secretary Mr. Bok’, Kahn, banker, and pe that “American alism | ractical sense would find a solu- of State Hughes pra le motive.” v interested,” writes | “hapman Catt, suffragi E ure to break the d. isolation. The American people alwavs think right when they | hiuve been prodded hard enough and ! given time enough. Vanderlip Gives View, Co-operation among nations is the + chief ential in such an endeavor, according to ank A Vanderlip, banker, who declares that this prin- | «iple has well embodied in the existing_le - John H. Walker, president of. the inols State Federation of Labor, | war an evil which only edu- on will eliminate, but welcomes “agenc for preventing and nimizing it. One of the warmest commendations of the award is that from Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turke: merican citizens must welcome these discussions. Thank goodness our state of indifference has not yet become chronie.” SPECIAL NOTICES. GOTNG_BY AUTO TO_ WICHITA, KA Tny ahare experises. Dantels, sé. or at room ALK Y WILL RUILD YOO rom bungalow, d- | an n With Rirls or family motoring west first week 0. August. Will go_ all or part way to Chi- cago. 59-P. Star office. < NITUCRE REPAIRED, PAINTED, porch _rockers seated; chairs WICKERCRAFT, 1402 § st. n.w OCTETY OF THE BPANINH WAR led off the lawn party which was to ND QUARTERLY MEETING OF d_Chapte . has been called MARION STEWART LEWIS, Grand W YORK FEW DAYS urniture: $100. SANTINI WRUCKING CO., 1247 So. Bivd., Bronx, 4 AFTER JULY 20, 1028, T WILL NOT BE RE- Eronsible for any debts unless written o i given by me. J. A, VERNON, ¢ Botibne Va. T JIAYE PURCHASED THE BUSIA 35: I Hoffiz, located at 1721 20th st, n.w. and |\ ) (cHANuTE , CFieLp ILLINOIS CAPT. ST.CLAIR STR : .Control ol‘/‘l‘gerEETT METEJROLOGICAL [1,500-MILE MODEL AIR- WAY FLIGHT REVEALS NEW ERA IN AVIATION (Continued from First Page.) data in the operations office of Boll- ing Fleld to ascertain the condition of the weather along the proposed route. It would be folly to attempt a flight across the mountains of- West Virginia and Pensylvania it thunder- storms were raging. But radio and telegraph reports complete to the minute showed ‘“clear” and “fair” along with the velocity of the winds at altitudes from the ground to 9,000 feet. . This information alone is a prominent and valuable feature of the airway. At 9:05 a.m. Tuesday the imposing “model airway control,” De Haviland 4-B, of Bolling Field roared across the ground, and carrying, besides pilot and passenger, two sets of baggage and two packages of “airways express” to be delivered at Dayton and Indianapolis, headed up the Virginia shore of the Potomac river, with Moundsville, 215 miles away, as the first stop. A few clouds were in the sky, but traveling at ninety-five miles an hour we soon left these behind, and in a short while found ourselves over Leesburg, Va., and with fair weather ahead. At 9:40 o'clock J give notice that creditors are given ays in Which to present thelr clatims. MRS, A. ZOBY, 1721 20th WORK—0 garage flo NORTHEAST CONCRETE CO., it E.Lin. 500, 220 :l;iSK‘ VIDER’S” POT ROAS' Can be bought at Snider's, 119-20-21 Center Market. \TT) “*Blgy Puts HI Your Convenience —and comfort both will be served by having us attend to Heating Plant repairs now. The Biggs Engineering Co. WARREN W. BIGGS. President, . 1810 13th St. N.W. el Frank. $17. Autos Kill Little Time —in the shep when they come to McReynolds for Repairs, Repainting We give you service. R. McReynolds & Son Paiuting, Slip Covers and Tops. Main 7228, MENT WALKS, el BTEPS, porches. 240 in Heatlng.® enpro biige; overlook whole city: sonably priced and easy ferm: LOUIS OTTENBERG, 301 Colorado_bldg. ere’s a Roofer Reudy to make things snug and tight at moderate cost. Tell us your troubles and we'll be on the job. Right at your elbow. Call Muain 14. IRONCL Trustes, M Loofing 1410 F at. n.w. Company. Phoae Malnid. Martinsburg, W. Va.,, was passed at 2,400 feet and then the mountains hove in sight. The twelve-cylinder motor roared on without a break, Jeaving Cumberland and Frostburg in the slight haze that covered the ground and picked up the National highway that goes into Uniontown, Pa. Over Uniontown a dark cloud of smoke hung from the coke ovens. This city was left behind at 10:35 o'clock and the plane took a southwest course to Waynesburg, Pa. Beneath the De Haviland range after range of mountains with “fast” railroad ex- presses or slow freights winding their way In and out, resembled long black caterpillars, laboriously climb- ing up and down blue ant hills. Over more ranges, around which narrow yellow threads—roads—wound their way, we flew, and before we knew it Lieut. Beau pointed ahead to a river —the Ohio—on the banks of which rests Moundsville and Langin Field, the first stop. It had taken just two hours and ten minutes to make this 215-mile air line flight. Fue] Taken On. Landing at the station, fuel was taken aboard while the weather out- look for Ohio was learned. “Good,” the bulletin board reported. Twenty min- utes after, in the air again, leaving I hind this most important fleld of .ic mounitins., Without it the route ELFRIDGE.) FIELD. (g COLUMDBUL! JDATA FOR THF Ml I ATRWSY *lrn] i s s | HE7 detod | Sa8d, (=14 INW ) - 10| 1A AN -rs AW/ 1 Tiw. 0 [N to the middle west would have to be changed, which would mean length- ening it. Up the Ohio river for a few miles, Lieut. Beau sent his ship, then a westward turn and into Ohio. The terrain bemeath now was a Series of_rolling hills. Past Zanesville the ground became flat as a table, and if an emergency | occurred a landing would be easy. |Roads ran in parailel straight lines through Ohio, it seemed. All turns were sharp or square. Farms, resem- {bling a patch quilt, were cut out in squares, some a light green, others vellow and some pink. showing the various degrees of growth of the crops. - Columbus, Ohio—a journey from by train, was passed at and at 1:15 Lieut. Beau “set” the De Haviland~ down on Wilbur Wright Field, the air service supply and inter- mediate depot. Here the huge Barling bomber, the world's largest ship, is being assembled and when we arrived it was virtually ready to fly. Express for Dayton was dropped off here, to be relayed to McCook Fleld, only fifteen miles away and, assured of good weather, we again took off, preceeding north up the state of Ohio to Toledo. Reaching this city: one hour and thirty- five minutes after we left Fairfieid, the course was changed to the shores of Lake Erle and into Michigan, flying over a portion of Canada. Over Detroé‘!fl 0 o'clock the Liberty motor sang its same plea ant tune, never missing a beat. Te more minutes of fiying and Lieht. Beau “idled” his motor, dived and came to a stop on Selfridge Field, Mt. {Clemens, Mich., where the first pur- suit group and the only attack unit of the air service is located. It took just six hours and fifteen minutes %o fly to the MicMigan metropolis from ‘Washington, a distance of 605 miles b; the round-about route- we followed. Had we been in a hurry, we could have preceeded from Moundsville in a north- easterly direction through Cleveland and made the trip in less time, but there was no occasion for arriving at the Detroit suburb ahead of schedule. Notified by Radio Upon landing, it was found that Fairfleld had sent a radiogram that the Bolling’s ship was on the way. At the time we left Washington this information went out to Moundsville and when we departed for Fairfleld, Moundsville llkewise wirelessed ahead that we would arrive at a designated time. Had we failed to turn up at any of these places within an hour beyond the' time due, planes would have gone out from the nearest stations to search for us. -This radio system obtains all along the route. The ship was turned over' to me- chanics, together with the parachutes and other flying equipment,. where everything was thoroughly examined and tested. At 10:45 Wednesday we went out to the line, the ship ready for flight. The motor was warmed up, gas, oll and water having been supplied by the mechanics, and at 10:55 we waved good-by to Selfridge. Down the coast to Trenton, Mich., then into the state, passing over Dundee and Adrian. Indiana scon hove in sight below and beneath us lay the city of Fort Wayne. Proceed- Washington of more than ten hours | ing southeast for awhile, Kokomo hove in‘sight. Lieut. Beau had locked his centrols, which made it possible for him to fly with as much leisure as the occupant of the rear seat. Only the rudder bar was kept In active service to keep us on even keel when }we hit a bump or twe. 1 At 1:1v o'clock the ship came ‘to NORTON S, (l BUEEDJ /',, a halt at Kokomo in front of two hangars and a gasoline station main- tained for the alr service by the Indiana National Guard. This fleld is & necessary fueling depot and is ranked in equal importance with Moundsville. The 225 miles from Selfridege to Kokomo was covered in two hours and fifteen minutes and after a brief rest during which our maps were folded for our next leg of the journey, we headed due west for Rantoul, 111, where Chanute Field and the Alr Servic Technical School is located. Here enlisted men are turned out skilled mechanics, electriclans, radio operators and are well versed In every part of the air- plane, which later is to be in their personal care. If the enlisted man does not desire to remaln in the air | service on completion of his training he 1s well equipped along mechanical lines to earn a good living wage “outside.” Chanute Field is 105 miles away from Kokomo, and the trip was made in an hour flat. Lafayette and Wil- liamsport, Ind., were the principal cities passed over en route. A short stop was made at Chanute we took off for Dayton, where we were due to lay over for the night. Flying southeast, Lieut. Beau passed over Danville, 1li., and one hour and twenty minutes later landed at Shos Field, on the outskirts of Indian- apolis, where the airway express package was deliveréd with a bill of lading, a delay of only three min- utes. We taxied down the field, got into the teeth of the wind and took off. Trouble with Engine. Down the fleld at elghty miles an hour, the DeHaviland sped, but just before the wheels left the ground a miss was detected in the motor. It lasted only a second and the roar continued. It was due to hitting a stone on the ground. High in the alr once more, an eastern course was followed and the thoughts of fiying once more disappeared as the fading sun colored the Indiana landscape be- low. Over Richmond. Indiana, how- ever, the first indidation that the old Liberty had a “bug” in it occurred when it started “spitting” oil. This, for a few minutes, occupied the at- tention of the pilot, who indicated that if it became worse’ he would park for a few minutes in some Hoosler's fleld and clear up the trou- ble. But it did not, and at € o'clock we came to & halt on McCook Field, Dayton, having flown from Mount Clemens in a circuitous route. The to- tal miles covered was 548 in five hours and thirty-five minutes flying time, while altogether seven hours clapsed from the time we took off at_Selfridge and landed at Dayton. In connection with our landing we unconsciously created much conster- nation on the part of the city of Day- ton (McCook fleld being located vir- tually in the center of the town.) In landing the speed of the propeller is cut_down to a point where it is not sufficferit to sustain the plane in flight,*hence we were gliding with the motor open. On the descent, Lieut. Beau frequently opened and closed the throttle quickly in order to keep our downward glide at an even angle. Once or twice the throttle stuck which caused us to drop a little too fast 2na aroused in the minds of Day- tonians that we were going to “crack-up.’ Spend Night in Daytonm. X The night was spent in Dayton and the next morning while mechanics were scrvicing the plane we had an (FEkY ./\‘ |ing mechine from a “Cycleplane” to and then | ? /J G‘\ s"‘\‘\x«‘év \ Fooe” 2 opportunity to make a rough inspec- tion of this greatest aeronautical | plant in America, if not in the world. It ig there that the Army bullds, ex periments and tests every type of fly- a helicopter. Ships are bought from American and forelgn producers and almost in every case some change has to be made. The famous T-2 did not win world renown until it had been o'clock Thursday afternoon, we com- pleted our journey in from Dayton, | @ distance of 400 miles, in four hours | and twenty minutes. We had traveled almost 1,650 miles In sixteen hours flying time, without a mishap, an accident, an irregularity and right on schedule. Next week another Bolling Field flier will take one of the two “airway” ships over this course, as will pilots from other stations, keeping an endless chain of | tions | BOing to make other disposition ot the field at a later date he notify the airways section at once. These flelds can be found scattered along the Waushington-Moundsville route, One is located at Leesburg, another at Martinsburg, W. Va. i Cumberland, Mad. Waynesburg, Pa., and at pl tween these cities. Another thing airways group is laboring to plete is the marking of towns. the ald of maps, fliers can vays find thelr w but if the along the airway are marked, many are now, flylng is much sler. "The names of the cities ap- (pear in big white letters on large building: fifteen places between here and Dayton and an equal nun ber between Dayton and Detroit But there are many cities and towns, too, that bear no identification mari {. The plan of making the airway |the model for future establishment 10f a network of lines all over the United tes calls for designating towns les apart as main sta- quipping them with all facilities for accommodating plane pilot; substations 100 mil art and intermediate landing fields enty-five miles, apart, As the airway stands today, ex- perienced pilots ‘have no difficulty in covering it, but officers declare the station, substation and intermediate landing ficld plan must be carriea out. The airplane has been developed to the stage where it can fly in all kinds of weather, but tr: ng high about the earth in storms and heavy rains is hard work. The pilot pre- fers good weather both for his ship and himself, and unless the journey is urgent he is going to wait for a better report. So the meterological section of the air service, under com mand of Capt. J. B. Sherry, $ Corps, stagioned at Bolling n s these forecasts all along route daily and provides the pilot with_information of every of weather and wind he is going to en- counter on his journe The government has paved the w for civilian flying and in a short time—a few s the most—if private and_bu; s take advintage of this airway, the present model will be used as a basis for rrying out present plans of placing oud trunk lines across every state in_the Union. This story simplic air highw future hold them. the as written to show the of a regularly controlled and the promsie the in store for more of - uty Re . fragrant and lasting. ment | Plenty of Light and Air In the New COMIING T0 SERVE AS AIDE TO LEARLE Will Act as Intermediary at World Dairy Congress Here in October. An example of the tangled stat world relationships was furnished vesterday in an announcement by the World's Dairy Congress that Sui n General Hugh S. Cumming of the United States public health service would act as an intermediary betwe the congress and a commit th league of nations the da con- vention here in October. Dr. Cumming, while a regul member of the health committee e the league, which a as its inter: organization n of iry before his office that he ess as a repre ites governm he would be son in the dair, ; of the U that although congress be the by Ludw of the and Dr. the R dairy congress said Dr. medical director health committes had attended u meeting of the mittee in Parls which considered the question of aiding the dairy congress movement. In a letter Rajch given out here. “The ‘committee noted resolution of April 19 morandum_from t » World's Dairy Congress cided to ask Dr. Cumming general of the United health service ree to intermediary between that and the committee. 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The hellcopter is mak- ing progress and planes of all types, “trick,” observation, bombers, attack and pursuit are constantly belng worked on. In addition the fliers there are conducting night-flying ex- periments between their field _and Columbus, about 70 miles away. Each plane has big headlights on the edge of the wings., Landings and take-off are made without the use of flood- lights, because, if night flylng is to be adopted (and it must be if the air- plane is to keep abreast, at least, of the railroad and automobile) there may not be any flood lights in some lonely fleld in the mountains if a forced landing is necessary. A beacon is located at McCook, which serves to gulde the filers to their destina- ion. “'hie weather conditions all along the alrway, while not making it im- possible, made it inadvisable to leave Washington Monday morning as our schedule called for. Had we hopped off on that day we would be required to lay over a day in Dayton. This day layover is to account for any bad weather that may be encountered around the route and should a Stop- over be necessary at any station, the airway ship always will arrive at its home station on the day It is due. So we had our day layover here and hence took off Wednesday at 11:30 for home. Close to Perfection. The old liberty greeted us with a resonant roar and turned the huge Martin bomber “prop.” over at 1,500 revolutions a minutes (as it had done all along the route) without an in- terruption. “I love them,” said Lieut. Beau at Detroit as he beamed with pride on the twelve cylinders. “I have unlimited faith in them. They need| not be any more closer to perfection { than_they are now. A heavy fog greeted us as we took | off, so Lieut. Beau, who heretofore had averaged about 4,000 feet altitude | throughout the trip so far, hung at| 2,000 feet in order to keep track of; his route. Speeding along at ninety- five miles an hour Springfleld, Ohlo appeared and disappeared ‘in a few minutes, and then we put on 1,000 more feet of altitude. Near Columbus a_celling of 4,000 feet was reached, placing us just ynder the canopy of the fog. Passifig the capital city of Ohio once more we headed toward Buckeye Lake, where Lieut. Beau found that 5,000 feet woul as we were vielng with a stiff breeze at lower levels. At this height there! was no wind to speak of so we milled along our coursé landing once more at Moundsville for fuel. The return journey was marked by & heavy fog and at Uniontown we once more encountered the clouds of coke-oven smoke, Whith”with the fog, rendered the osphere opague. It was difficult to see more than five or ten miles ahead on the ground, but after the mountains were passéd over .things brightened - up and smooth sailing was encountered Washington. ng at Bolling:Ficld .ay 4:05 be better |. their best to convince the American public that the air route is the basis | of travel for the future. In Use for Three Years. Since its establishment in Ma: 1921 (at which time the Washington- Dayton route only was in effect, ex- pansions having Meen Mnade from time to time, more than 175,000 miles have been flown by airway ships, on schedule, and on airway travel. Not one fatality or serious injury has oc- curred, Two ships, however, and both Martin bombers, flying over the air- way, but on special missions, crashed during the year, which resulted in several fatalities, but on the log of the regularly flown airway, nothing of this nature is shown. As was stated at the outset of this account, landing flelds now are the center of interet of the airway offi cials—Capt. Burdett S. Wright, chie of the airways section of the air service and Capt. St. Clair Streett of Bolling Field, the control otficer. All along the route Lieut. Beau poinfed out white circles with a dot in the ccnter, which were emergenc ing fields. But these are not lqcated at twen- | ty-five-mile intervals, as they should be, and that is what every officer in che cast and middle west is working for. Almost daily they leave their stations and fly along the airway looking for suitable places to land. ‘Lhey approach the owner and re- quest permission to use the property as an emergency field and place a marker in the center. If that per- mission is granted, all the alr serv ice_asks is that if the proprietor is| A REVELATION IN ROAD GUIDES; SPE- directions highway. Chicago and retun priented bolder attaches to stéring .00; mouey _ bacl ssatisfied. 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