Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1924, Page 4

MOVE T0 PROMOTE FLYERS UNDER WAY Weeks Also to Go Limit | -Seeing They Are Repaid E° Own Money Spent. Arrival of the at’ Seattle. officially first air circuit of th . will be fotlowed with the T tion of roport by them out of which valuabl data will be extracted for the be fit of all Government agencies hav- | to do with aeronautics | this way the experiences and Jessons learned by the world flyers will be made available not only to their brother officers of the Army alr service, but to the Nav office and other departments chia in phases of aerial navigation both military and commercial Expect Valuable Data. While a full of enthu- siasm the of Lieut Smith and his colleagues of the flight was manifest toda and Fank and file of offi-| b cencies interested | alts of the flight npleting the ure, for purpe Maj. Gen. Patr air service, de arising from the tion of t ¢ the highest f the aviat- recognition of the hips demanded of em durin and repe of the War Depart- & in its power to fully. Secretary I d to see that the | are senerously treated by the lepartment, to the broadest reach of | the law and Army regulations regard- promotions in the service and nsiderations to do ev flvers in finan Repayment Is Assured. The ry has declared his inte the flyers repaid | from (xist r service funds for any curred during the fligh approp: to ask Con ization. S Seere Mr. W care of the down into connection, | would situation even then, dig his own pockets if ake | ring that address to | student officers at the A War Col- | lege a few dayvs before he retired from active service, took occasion to iz Army's promotion to provide a way for n the lower crades in his world flyers at had just returned to the an con- | tinent and still were several thousand miles from their starting point. but it is known that Gen. Pershing was inspired to speak of the promotion law with them foremost in mind, de- serving of higher rank, but prevented from receiving it un the existing fon-on-merit plan. which only in cases of colonels ral officers drawn to fill va- n the two highest grades in -t service Agitate New Plan. Gen. Pershing has not . known whether he. acting and not handicapped by which go with the uniform in Army service, will lead a movement to bring about promotion | by tion in the lower grades, it is probable that the ideas he has expressed will be made known to Congress. and once that is done he will advocate such a law Meunwhile steps have been taken to incorporate as a part of the per-| gonal service records of the flyers the letters and citations they have received as result of the world ANSELL, BISHOP workable May While Tet it now as vet Washington’s Largest Victrola House nes 10 P.M.] 0-U-R| GREATEST ANNIVERSARY PHONOGRAPH SPECIAL! 1 Console Model| Phonograph Made to Sell for $125 g 6 10-in. 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Because of Mr. Doak’s standing in the brotherhood and his popularity generally among labor men 1t is thought that he will have more than a slight chance to defeat the junior Senator from Virginia. He IS a na- tive of Roanoke and several years ago, when he ran for the House on the Republican ticket. he was de- feated by only a few hundred votes. ——— e flight. First among these is the mes- sage delivered to them in the name of President Coolidge when the land- ing was made at Indian Harbor, Labrador, marking the return to the continent from Hurope. 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Flying conditions ideal as the aviators made their last lap. ut. Leslie Arnold was hugsged and kissed by his mother, Mrs. Cora Arnold, and his sister, Mrs. Frances Cole of Spokane, Wash., who had no seen him since he started on the flight. The flyers left Kugene, 10:02 am, on their last landed at Vancouver Barra Wash., a few minutes after leaving Port- land to make adjustments to Licut. Wade's engi The fiyers left Van- couver at 11:57 a.m. Huge Welcome Sign. A huge welcome sign. 130 feet spelled in letters 20 feet high, greeted the aviators as they circled over Sand Point. Among the ve: the lake awaiting the flyers was the Canadian destroyer Patra, The officers aboard had been gated by Dominion officials to the greetings of the Cana ernment officials. Platinum and gold rings containing bloodstones were present of the aviators Maj. F Martin, first commander pedition, and his mechanician, S Sergl. Alva L. Harvey, were given silver rings “We would not undertake another world flight for a million dollars, un less ordered to do so, now that it Oreg., at They | were over,” Lieut. Smith told newspaper men. “Every one of the squadron feels relieved. All of our big wor- ries are over, with the exception of | making speeches. If no speeches were scheduled, all of us would feel better. All Greatly Relaxed. “Last night was the first one in 175 days that we didn’t have to work on the planes. We made 76 flights and actually flew on 66 days, the dif- ference being due to doubling up some of the stop: Lieut. Nelson volunteered that his greatest worry was whether the plane would be all right when he was ready to take the air again, as it was mighty hard sometimes, he said, to keep the planes from being damaged by souvenir hunters. But- tons on our clothes, flaps of our trousers. anything and everything, requested by well-meaning souvenir fans” he added Lieut. Harding, when asked if he was engaged, said: ‘“The newspapers all say 1 am. but the funny part is that I'am not. There Is nothing new along the matrimonial line with any of us.” During_the Pl 28,000-mile journey the es Chicago and New Orleans had seven engine changes, while the Boston 1., sunk off Faroe Island, had six engine changes before the final accident in the North Atlantic. Views on Route Taken. Questioned on the feasibility of the route followed, Lieut. Smith said that the return of two of the four origi- nal cruizers was the answer. The flight was started officially by four planes from Seattle, Wash., 8:30 April 6, under command L. Martin in the as completed S by two of the orig- s and the Boston I, a are air cruiser sent to Pictou Har- y otia, for Lieut. Leigh was wrecked August 21. ginally left Santa 17. but on account for landing gear here, the official hop-off was made from Seattle, cut- ting 19 days off the journey. Visited 21 Countries. The personnel of the flight includ- ed Maj. Mertin, commander, and his mechanician, Staff Sergt Alva L. Har- vey, who were missing for ten days after their flag plane Seattle was wrecked, April 30, on a mountain near Port Moller, Alaska Peninsula, on the Bering Sea coast and who were forced to quit the expedition; Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, commander after Maj. Martin's accident, pilot of the fla ane Chicago; Lieut. Erick H. Nelson, pilot of the New Orleans; Lieut. Leigh Wade, pilot of the ill- fated Boston, and mechanics, Lieuts. Leslie P. Arnold, John Harding jr., and Henry H. Ogden. The route of the aviators traversed or touched 21 foreign countries and 25 States and one territory of the United States. A total of 57 hops were made, average of 453 miles each jump. With each air cruiser consuming 20 gallons of gasoline in an hour of flying, the three planes used in ap- proximately 351 flying hours 21,060 gallons, each plane used about 30 gallons of oil every 2,400 miles and in the 27,534-mile flight, the machines had 1,026 gallons of oil. HUGHES PmSES FLYERS. Trip Has Aided Foreign Relations of U. §., He Says. The flight has accomplished impor- tant results of an imternational as- pect, in the opinion of Secretary Hughes. “The establishment of friendly con- tacts in the various countries visited.” he said in a letter to Secretary Weeks, “the strength and efficiency of the Air Service which the flight evidenced, and the new prestige which the flyers have brought to our flag_ will have a far-reaching effect an tituting pontoons on the international relations of this country, the benefit of which cannot be overestimated.” Mr. Hughes extended the congratu- lations of the State Department and expressed deep admiration for the “courage, perseverance and extraor- dinary skill of the fiyers.” Replying to the Secretary of State, Assistant Secretary Davis said: Did Work of Ploneers. “The War Department has felt that the flight is & scientific achievement of & high order, made by a little band of well trained and energetic Army men, who are carrying on in our time the pioneer work done by their predecessors of former generations. “Our military personel is thereby rendering the same service to the world at large as was performed by our fron- tier troops when they opened up the Weet, established the overland trails and assisted in the development of the transcontinental rallway systems. 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