Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1923, Page 14

i BLANE FORWRE Chief of Iii-Fated Destroyer Squadron Exonerates His Fellow Officers. Dy the Asaelatéd Pross. 4 SAN DIEGO, Calif., September 25,— Lieut. Commander Donald T, Hunter, commanding oficer of the U. S. 8. Del- rhy, which led destroyer squadron 11 on the rocks off Honda, Calif., Sep- tember 8, was ready to take the stand | ut the opening of today's session of | the naval court of Inquiry investigat- | Ing the disaster which cost seven ships and the lives of twenty-three enlisted men. . According to the testimony of Lieut. | Laurence F. Blodgett, navigation of- ficer of the Delphy, he and Lieut. Commander Hunter together made al decision to turn eastward at lock the night of the wreck, the r actually issuing the order for a | change of course. Watson Takes the Blame. Edward H. Watson, chief of | ill-fated eleventh squadron. told the court yestérday, however, that he | he decision td turn east-, epite radio warnings that were too far north, and that| . Commander Hunter had issued order to change ecourse at clock, in accordance with his in- ructions. for which he assumed full was Capt. Watson to! clear that he made this critical fon that he asked the court —— |Golt Apt to Kill Men Over 50, Say British Doctors By the Ausociated Pross. LONDON, September = 25.-—The death of A. R. Smith, secretary of Dover College, who succumbed has revived e at which Mr. Smith the twelfth English golfe: middle life to die on the links this year. Some British physicians contend that fifty is the game's danger mark. They say that the arteries have become rigid at this age and that club-swinging ls likely to be fatal. P — responsibilities,” wnswered Capt. Wat- son. imply want to make clear that Ca swers only when they to implicate one of ‘Liguor Not He dented emphatically liquor was in any wi responsi for the disaster, and sald that if any of his officers or men had had liquor aboard their ship he must have known t since Vdestroyers are such small ssels that officers and men are thrown Into closest association, and one could not conceal liquor from the others. ‘This denial came in gesponse to a gpestion from his counsel, Capt. . Craven, who explained that it “was customary in disasters such this for certain critics to charge t the use of alcohol was responsib! U. S. FLYERS FROM HAITI HERE ON WAY TO ST. LOUIS Lieuts. Ford Rogers and Horace 7T.|to come into my house and tell me THE EVENIN PASTOR QUITS DRY VACANCIES THIS WEE RANKS INHUF ey e e 2 Sisson and Robert L. Hayocock. Vacancies In the administrative and supervisory stafts of public schools, caused by the resignation of Mrs, Cecll Norton Sisson as general director of the community center By the Associated Press. partment and transfér of A HARTFORD, Conn., September 25.|sistant Supt. Stej E. Kramer to be ~—Prohibition was criticised today in |principal of Central High School, an interview by the Rev. G. Herbert | probably will be filled at a special con- Elkins, who has resigned as assist-|ference of the board of education ant state superintendent of the Anti- | tonight. Saloon League. Mrs. William B. Hn‘-dy‘ e:llll dnt He Is quoted by the Hartford Cour- | director of the community é¢en o- e, s e | e L et manently against’ light wines and |for s beer: that because he is English he |Dr- Ballon will adhere to his polley has been heretical enough to stand up om Whenever ”'7‘?.:..' in meetings of the league and say: laycock, supervis “It will take more than your propa- | D i T ganda to convince me that there is! t | no virtue in & bottle of Bass.” n October 1, sald, will Kath- “If I choose to let grape julce fer- ment in my cellar no man has & right| Favors Wine and Beer. Says Cause Suffers From Own Fanaties. that I must not do It statement attributed to him. Mr. Elkins. as quoted, expresses Lowest Rental Rates fear tha® harm may come to prohibi- tion from its friends, and thinks that General Typewriter Co. n'.!e ;o&lnlllry!wouldd hll\"‘c l;‘eon b;:‘h.ir 2 Stores off ha stopped with the prohibi- tion of saloons and distilled lquors, || 1423 F St. N.W.—616 14th St. N.W. His congeption of the proper place of | e the -Saloon gue is not a da organization of teetotal- Typewriters another | “propa MAY FILL TWO SCHOOLJzzz" th administrative pringi- two administrative prin- s, s sald, are the outstand- ing candidates for the third division supervisorsh! xfl rs. A. J. scoll, secretary of the SVOIE Braithe . member of o a _member of the District Congress of Mothers and ~ Assoclations, a1 those being considered f tion as general dir munity center d AIMS TO RAISE $250,000 FOR JEWISH CENTER HERE Campaign gudqnnmn M’r Di- tecting Drive Opened in Federal National Bank Building. Campaign headquarters for the $250,000 drive for a Jewish commu- nity center here wae opened yesterday in the Federal National Bank bullding, 14th and G eets. The bank re- cently don: the headquarters, which will for this work for more then a month. Committees are being arranged by Morris Cafrits. chairman of the drive. 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Pratt, presiding member | Proceed to St Louis tomorrow. of s favestioeting ' that the| The pilots stated on landing here was not satisfied to rest with |that the only untoward incident of, - Watson's frapk acknowledg- | thelr trip was experienced at Guan- BF rorpuaatbITty tanamo, Cuba, the first stop. The fleld was under two indhes of water, Course of Inquiry Undeclded. |but successful landings were made What course the examination of | With difficulty. The next stops were Lieut. Commander Hunter would take | Hava Charleston and Wii-: today, therefore, was expected to be | MME! which they left yes- entirely | terday mornin | frank ad- Admiral Willlam A. Moffett, chief missione that he himself nad de.|Of the bureau of aeronautics, visited the fatal change of rourne:."’“ station this morning to person- he haud never yet ordered sound. | lly congratulate the fiiers on their taken in all his fourteen months | Undertaking. chief of the eleventh squadron; ———————— it ho attached little welght to radio | Little Girl—1I would like some snals warning him he was too far|cigaretts for my aunt.” north to turn into Santa Barbara| Clerk——Virginia. channel, and that he had “not taken | Tittle Girl--No, Aunt Mary. the pains” to verify the propeller | ==== revolutions count on which the dis- | covered by his squadron was e Admiral Pratt of the investigating | body asked Watson to state whether he had ever obfected to his division com- manders asking independently for radio mpass bearings with which to check eir squadron commander's naviga- n, or whether he had ever objected to their taking soundings for the pur-’ pose of making Sure that the squadron flagship was right in its dead reckoning Had Never Objected, He Says. To these questions Capt. Watson an- swered that he had not ever objected . o 80 that there might be no ke in the record. atson had made his nsibility from the stand, ever, commending hig the officers and men who faced | ath with him in the disaster andiairplane at the i costia, Sunday bject to his division commanders | checking his navigation for errors or | reporting euch errors to him if they | discovered them. > Under cross-examination by counsel | for the division commanders involved, fled his answer by g5 could not have WOMEN PLAN to PREVENT sickness. 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