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2 REORGANIZATION UPTO PRESIDENT Word From President Will; Assure Bill, With Modifica- tions, Watson Says. BY. J. RUSSELL YOU Staff Correspondent af The SUMMER WHITE HOUSE, SWAMP SCOTT. Mass., feprembe: Legicla- tion providing for reorganization of the axecutive departments of the Fed eral Government will he adopted if properly preésented to the next session of Congress. according to Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, one of the Republican leaders of (He Senate. who submitted an interciew fol lowing a long conference yesterday with Président Coolidge. Senator Watgon added mains 1o A very large that axient it re with President Coolidge himself whether or | not such legislation is 1o he pressed There i no mistaking Mr desire t6 obtain the nécessary which all of the departments and independent ernment may be reorganized so as promete increased efficiency and at the same time effect further sconoms in the Government, but it is cor tain he will Insist upon this Jegisla tion until other matters of more im mediate importance are disposed of Senator Watson said fhere question that a vast majority the members of the Housé and Senate are now thoroughly convinced of the nesd for such reorganization: that there ax jste a shameful waste of effort. monex and time hecauseé of duplication and even triplication of work. With some modifications. he ventured, the hill drawn up by thé joint congressional committes an reorganization. which has been approved by the adminisira tion. can pase. He believed that either elimination or modification some more or less radical features will satisfy those members of the ate House. who are known ponents of the measure. o oolidr Taw Iureans agencies of the Goy Economy Strong Factor. Asids from the practical wolved reorganizing the ments. Senator Waison believes auestion of economy shonld e a strong factor in support lation Tt zoes Govarnment will save of money when the departments are properly reorganized,” he sald. “Thera i* now’ a tremendots waste of public money hecause of antiquated business méthods. T ecannot accurately esti- maté this saving in dollars ind cents hut without any fear of sontradlction T will say that with the agencies of the Government properly organized and their work systematized. the Gov arnment will save several millions an nually Senatar Watson gave positive as surance that he will give every assist ance to the administration In getting it _passed. The subject was touched upon, but only briefty. during his con ference with the President vesterday while they were outlining a tentative legislation program for the coming session. Senator Watson gathered howevar. that the President. while ex tremely anxious 1o see the reorgani zation bill passed as soon as possible ia aven more anxious ta have the tax revision lsgislation. the World Court and amendments 10 the Esch-Cummins transportation hill disposed of hefors anything slse Building Bill Not Senator Watsen was akeut provision being program for a public buildings hill Thit ie another matier that depends almost antirely upon the pleas of the President. It is known the Prasi. dant has bheen hammering away at Congrese to authorize a public build inge program for the District of Co. lumbia, which will providé an annual appropriation of $10.000.000 for neriod of five years. This. the Presi dent is adviséd. will assure enough public buildings of a suitable construc tion and worthy architecture to nearly adequately meet the physical demands of Governmeént work. Sites for these buildings in the Mall south of Pennsylvania east of Fifteenth street heen sélected. Congress, however consistently refused to consider President’s request principally the promise that there should general public buildings bill needs throughout the entire country The President has heén promised by any number of party leaders in Con gress that if he will agree to a gen aral public buildings bill, his program the National Capitai will be promptly grantéd Senator Watson. while agy there iz need for a number larze Government huildings arly house the personnel and fo pro- moté efciency. dif not care to say whether the coming session wonld he An opportuns tims to attempt this legislation. He was inclined to heiinva that if the President geis stiongiy he hind the measurs and i verv insist ent about it he might mest with sne. cons logic in in Aepart the very of this legis without sayinz that the large amount Sure. not so sure made on the already have has the upon he a to meet N seing that of new to prop. Tax Revision Firat, order of their importance Coolidge indicated to Sena following legislative In the President tor Watson the program: Taxation revis raiirond legisia- tion. aimeéd to maks consolidation of carriers compultory after a seven ear period devotéd to voluntary uni fication; World Court and further re. striction of immigration. Then may come reorganization Intimation that zress will take up received with gréat explained here that the present strictive immigration law. which ap pliés to Burope and Asiatics. is heing broken down by an influx of unde. sfrables from Central and Sonth America. The Government has not heen able to properly protect the boundaries. Thers has heen wholesale hootlégging of immigrante 0.-R. LUHRING NAMED the coming Con- surprise. It was ASSISTANT TO STONE Former House Member From In-| diana Will Succeed William J. Donovan. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. September 3 (®.—Former Representative Osear R.'Luhring of Indiana today was ap. | pointed Assistant Attornéy Gensral, Mr. Luliring, a Republican. whose homé is in Evansville. has heen serv ing on the legal staff of ihe Labor Department singé his retirément as a mamber of the #ouse sevérai vear: axo. His appointment fills the va camey caused by the prometion ot William J. Donovan te he Assistant 1o the Attorney General. A Rotary Dinner. From the Boaton Transeript Tou're in a pratty state.” stormed hie wife. “Why, vou can’t évéen walk straight.” Thash all ri’,” answeréd the impen- itent one, “it was a rotary dinner. avenue and! immigration was ' CONVICTS ESCAPE PRISON | THAT CONFINES CHAPMAN | | Two Prisoners Cut Through Top of i Cells and Gained Freedom Last Night. the Associated Press, HARTFORD, Conn.. September 3 Michael 1. MeDonald, a life prisoner for murder. and Frank Land. another prisoner, escaped from the State prison at Wethersfield by entting holes ihrough the taps of their cells | Auring the night | McDonald was one of five men who | received life saniences for ihe Kill ing of William F. Madden. a former | Trinliy Collége foot ball star, who was A walchman at the warehouse of the silk factory of Cheney Bros. In Man- chester. January 30, 1919 { McDonald when arrested Hoboken, N. I, as his home. was known as McDonnell Gerali Chapman. notorious handit, who was found gullty of\ the murder of » New Britaln policeman last Oc toher. also is an inmate ai the State's m where the escape of two men | urred this morning. Chapman, however. is not In the swme section of the prison as were the cells of the two men who escaped. The bandit tence ged last ne, hut who was granted # reprieve now s iting_action by the Su me Court of Errors on his ease. GUNNSHOOTSATI TOLEAD SWEETSER Bobby Jones. Dick Jones and Guilford Are Ahead in Other Matches. By clatmeéd He also OAKMONT. Pa., Sepiember 3 (#). Watts Gunn. a Iad in his teens from the home city of Champion Bohby Jones. continued to he a sensation In the National amateur <hip tournament Jess Sweetser holder by 7 holes Gunn golf champion when he lad national title metropolitan King the end of the first 18 second match round oné under par, in the today former and prasent up at of the shoi 71 ning round. Robhy Jones indicated that he would have little dificulty in disposing of Clarence Walff of Sappington. Mo, when he led by 4 up with half of t maich eompletad. Jones used only strokes in the round Jess Guilford of Boston, the only | jreal vatéran remaining in the compeéti tion held an- advamtage of bne hole over the runnerup of last vear, George von FEim. after an viphili battle. Threa down early in the first round. Guilford had cut the lead to one at the turn and picked up 2 hole: an the tecond nine. Dick Jones of White Plains. N. [Who defrated Roland MacKenzia. the medalist, vesterday was one ahead of Lauren U'pson of -the University of California at the énd of 1% Gunn's card Out— In ¥ 4 E. R. STETTINIUS, MORGAN PARTNER. DIES IN NEW YORK Page.) 1 3 4 4 34 3 3 3 3 (Continusd from First d and finally consolidated with the Rabeock & Wilcox o, oné of the largest manufacturére of watér tuhs hollere for stationary and ma hoilar accessories. steam rine and purposes. other Was Given Free Hand. Stertinine personally handisd the great skéin of négotiations in volvad in this multiple with a skill and judgment that com. manded the admiration not anly of his partners and the businéss men with whom he deslt in this conntry. but the high government officials France and Great Britain. who him virtually a free hand My also of zave THE STREET WIDENING URGED ATHEARING Property Owners 12 Thoroughfares Speak in Favor of Project. An almost tinanimons santiment in tavor of the widening of 12 of the most important strests In the down- town section of Washington devel- oped the public hearing held hy the Commissionérs in the hoard reem of the District Building today 4 A general objection to the widen/ ing of several on the lsi was filed hy the Mid-City Citizens Assoctation but the individual reprasentatives of owners of property alons those same strears urged the wideninz Speaking for the husiness interests a8 a whole, R. P. Andrews. president of the Merchants and Manufacinrers’ Association. mads an ardent plea for the widening of all 12 atreets anickly as possible, declaring that the carrving out of the plans would hen- efit the entire city Oml * or 3 Next Vear. Although the Merchants’ A tion and many Individuals advocated ihe immadiate widening of practically ak of the 12 Enginéer (‘om missioner Hell announced that he canse of the large amount of money involved in the complate program the oeta streets, he able 1o three of the Commissioners would not recommend moré than two or the streets in the estimates for next fiscal yéar He requasied spsakére ta indicate the strests which. ‘n their opinion should bhé widened first. At the con clusion of the hearing Col. Bell said thé Commissioners would have 1o de cide within two or thres days on the streets (0 be recommended in order 1o ge! thém in the estimates which are almost ready to he transmittéd (o the Budget Bureau The letter of the MId-City Citizens Associatlon bused fts objection largely on the removal of trees when streets are widened, aAnd argued that the shade (rees of the Natlonal Capital should he preserved and protected. Trees to Be Kept. This prompied Col. Bell 1o renew thé statément he has made many times in the past that the Commission ers are as anxious as any citizen is in the presérvation and development of the shadé trees Shade tress will not cept wheré there is good reason for Aoing =0, the Engineer Commissioner atated. Latér in the hearing he point #d out that some strasis are linad with types of trees thai are not desirable from the standpoint of permanency. auch as sveamoras and soft maples, and that in the widening of streets thess varietiés could he réplaced with more desirablé kinds of irees. The compléte lst of stre & consid- ered at the hearing follows Tenth sireet, from F Massachusstis Avenue street, from New York to Massachu satia avenues: Twelfth street, from New York to Massachusetts avenues Thirteenth street. from I to K streets ‘Thirteenth street, from K stréet to Massachusetis avenue: Fifteenth street, from K streét 1o Massachusstts Avenus nteénth sireet, from Pennaylvania avenne 1o K street: Sev. enteenth street, from Pennsylvania 1o New York acenue: Connecticut avenue, from K street to Dupont Cir cie: (* atreet southwest. from. Seventh 10 Ninth streats: £ street,from Sev- enth 10 Ninth atreets: (G straei, from Seventh 10 Ninth strests: H streat from Reventh to Thirtéenth stréais, and K street. from Fourtesnth to Six teenth strests. Eleventh Strest Widening Urged. Thera was atrong séntimant in fa- vor of the early widening of Eleventh straet and Tenth strest through the downtow saction. A number of r resentatives of business houses on hoth these thoroughfares urged the he removed ex- street to venth earliest possible date. Fleming Néwbold, représenting The the widening of Eleventh street from Pennavivania avenus northward. The notice of the hearing had only refer- red to Eleventh strest between New York and Massachusetts avenus Mr. Newbold told of the congestion EVENING STAR. Atong | WASHINGTON, [ i | | | | | | | f i i | | SKFE FIRST HUSBAND IN ZR-2 | Shenandoah Executive Officer Wed ‘Wife of Lieut. Charles Little, Killed in Crash in Britain. CALDWELL, Ohio. |'The death of Lieut Hancock, exécutive officer of the Shenandoah. is the second aviatic tragedy for his widow. according tellow officers. Mrs. Hancock's first | Lieut. Charles Little {in the ZR-2, when it crashed over the Rivar Humber in England, August 24, 1921. The ZR-2 was heing manned {in England 10 be brought to the United Rtates. 3 Louis September Comdr to hushand was who was killed U. S. MINE CONTROL FLAYED BY LEWIS: LAID TO HAMMOND Wontinued from First Page.) mond who proposes that the Repub- | liean majority in Congrass shall depart from its traditional policy and through legislation establish a ssmi-ragulation |of the anthracite industrs the astute Mr. Hammond should appreciate that the investment bankers of Naw York and Philadelphia | who control the anthracite fndustry do not desire the prying hand of Con gresa 1o bare (o a_scornful public gaze the amazing profits which they are taking from a naturai monopoly of a public necessity |7 Mr, Hammond should also know [that the Federal Congress cannot differentiate betwesn anthracite and | bituminons mines when dealing with | the basic necessity of coal. It & ob. vious that any legisiation anacted by Congress dsaling with anthracite must similariy be suparimposed upon | the bituminous industry Keee “Devil's Stew.” | “Mr. Hammond. by his vain mutfer. ing®. has hrought the present contro. varsy into the realm of politieal squsa tions. By the same token he has { mixed ‘the devil's stew’ for the forth. “|nrely transaction | Commissioners 1o widen tham at the | coming (ongress to sup.’ Mr. Lawis in citing talk of national |ization of the coal minas referred to | Evening Star. made a strong pléa for | recent reports from the mining region that 4 movement was under way to revive consideration of such a plan Natiogalization w originally outlined in the ¥all of 1922 by Christ J. Golden | president of District 9, and members of a nationalization committes ap. He became a member of he firm | which already éxists from a traffic pointed by the United Mine Workers of P 1. 1914 entered Morgan & When the the World Wa pointed surveyor general of supplies | for the War Department. and suc cessively as member of the War Coun. cil. Assistant Secretary of War, repre- sentative on the Tnterallied Munitions Councii at Paris, and special repre. sentative in Europe of the War De. partment. Gén. Pershing placed great reliance upon his judgment, and from their contacts in France grew a strong personal friendship After the war he devoted much of* his time ta the affairs of the Mar cantila Bank of the Americax and of the General Motors Co. He took a rominent part in tha financial de. velopmént of General Motors after| the entrance of the Dupont inrerests inio thaf cOMPANY, Serving as a mem her of the hoard of directors and of the finance committés. He also was a director of the General Electrie Co. }and of the Guaranty Trust Co Co. on January United States he was ap Found Time for Sports. Although the pressure of business took up much of his time, he w known as a skillful golfer and an en thusiastic vachtsman. f | Mr. Stettinius _is survived by his widow. Judith Carrington Stettinius and by two sons and two daughte Willlam Carrington Stettinfus of Bal time. Edward Stettinius of Newark. | : Mrs. John Marsh and Miss Elizabeth Stettinius, hoth of Locust vValley. The funeral nome at Locust noon at 3 p.m to be held from his late Valley, Friday after will he private. Russian Counterfeiters to Be Shot. MOSCOW, September terfeiters, who printed hlas, at Kiev, in 1822, have heen con. | vieted and sentenced to be ghot, Sev | ral memhers of the same gang who already have | ~agh Daily Nown. | —Two coun mllion rou | were arrdstad previously heen shot ?Runaway Auto Wht;,el Cels Nin Notoriety Than A rolling stone may gather no moss, but a rolling automobile wheel yéstar- day gathered énough notoriety 1o be | isied on a police report. taking more | space than an average murder. Henri L. de Sibour wax placidly driv- ng along Rhode Island avenue just sust of Tenth street, whén the right rear wheel of his automobile dropped !off. Then it started rolling. It rolled |all the way down thé middle of Q street, which intersects Rhode Island avenue near Ténth. until it came to | Ninth street. At this point three | vear-old Ann Kellum of 1320 Ninth | street was negotiating the intersec- | tion. The wheel did not swerve. It swept right intn the little girl and rolled on, leaving her partially stunned, lying in the street. standpoint on Eleventh street hetwaen Pennsylvania avenue and E street He also recalled that the Commis- sloners havé an appropriation now for the repaving of Tleventh street be- tween E ana G streets. where the old cobblestonss still remain. He urged the Commissioners to widen the street at the same time it is heing répaved Col. Bell explained that the Elev- enth street paving work would not bhe undertaken until next Spring and that if the city heads should get authority in thé next appropriation act for the widéning it could he com- hined with the paving job. W. W. Everett, rapresenting Wood ward & Lothrop, joined in the appeal for the widening of Fleventh strest and Tenth streét alse, R. E. Ruckley. speaking for Palais Royal. advocated the widening of Tenth street. There were many other individual owners along Tenth sireet at thé hearing who jnined in this racommendation., Opposes K Strest Widening. H. P. Gattl. représenting property on K street. rénéwed the objection he made last vear to the widening of that thoroughfare. There were a number of other prop. erty owners of K street, however, who urged that it be widened. Among thém were representatives of the office of B. F. Saul and Morris Cafritz. One speaker urged that K street he widened as far west as Washington Circle. Théré was one ohjection, from St. Augustine’s Church, to the widening of Fifteenth streét hetween I and M. on the ground that & narrow sidewalk would increase the hazards to &chool children. The representative of the church concluded his statement hy saying the church would abide by the final judgment of the Commissioners Another item which brought forth much favorable argument was the pro. posed widening of F and G stresta he iween Seventh and Ninth streets, where the unusual prejection of the (Copsright. 1995, be Chicage Dails Nows €6.) old Patent Ofics creates four diagonal | re the Rolling Stone Thén the wheel rolled up to J. W, Bills of 1541 Columbia read. 1t put up A nicé battle against Mr. Bills, | but he came through nobly. subduing the wheel at the expensé of a bruised arm. Dr. Stallard at Emergéncy Hospital tréatéd Ann. but found whe wai not serfously hurt. The automobile: of Mr. de Sihour, who lives at 13 Twenty-ninth strest, was temporarily disabléd. Today a récord of the whesl i€ I'sted permanently in (he Police Deépariment annals. The rolling stona has ohtained much undesirable gen eral publicity. hut thie wheel last night rollad ‘itself into more single police atténtion in the space of a few minute¢ than the rolling stone hat in a few centuries. r to study the subject. The report of the committee has not vet heen presented to the union for adoption or refection at a biennial con- vention. The present advocacy of na tionalization i accordingly attributed |to groups within seeking to commit the organization eventually in its favor. They Spurned Terrapin. In oldén timés when negroes were | taking employment in Maryland. ihey | insisted that their masters should put a clanse into their contracts agrasing that the negroes should mnot he ted upon canvasback duck and terrapin. | — | street intersections, All of which aré | congested traffice points. | Connecticut Avenue Plan. The general sentiment of property | owners on Connecticut avenue wag fa- vorable to the widening of that thor- oughtars from K street to Dupont Cir cle. and those who spoke indicated they preferrad a straight widening from curb to curb rather than a spe. | cial treatment. by which two new | readwaye would he created between | the existing linas of shade trees and | the buildings. | COLUMBUS® o ZANESVLLE DAYTON P AL SOVIET 'HANCOCK'S WIDOW LOST “I'm Losing My Seat, R 1 ED DEALEE .ast Message { From Shenandoah Radio Operator By COLUMBUS “I'm Josing This was the ceived from the doah by the Haves here at 525 according to O'Rrien. chief radio fort. Sergi. O'Rrien tried all night to Associated Pro Ohlo my of had from telling the static get any word the message plight came in at When I tunad said Rergt. O'Rrien GIRL. MISSING FOR DAY. FOUND =eat Inst ill-fatea operator this Rergt ofcer sald keep with the Shenandoah heen midnight of 5:25 this morning. in at Master Reptember doah 3. message re Shenan at Fort morning, o at the he had in touch but hecauss unable to until ship's At 3 that mark seat.’ the heen 5 o'clock the Shenan. fce stations miting order that At station Three officers and 30 Hayes tastrophe was working various air serv- | s0 we kept our trans. | apparatus off the air in | we might not interfers. 10 a.m. tha air was clear and | I again called NERK, inquiring of its wher pected The only to pass over Columbus. reply I could receive at time was a series of question 5:25 a.m SRK called our saving. ‘I'm losing my That was the lasi we had.’ men have dispatched from Fort the scene of the ca- aboits and the time it ex- | : | K | | hasiily WITH WRIST CUT; WANTS TO LIVE Grace Cook Lying in Hospital in Serious Condition. Actions Laid to Long Nervous Iliness That From her cot University Hospital Towing hours through clad in 15 brambles only 0ok a Grace weakly to physicians a stery of nama- less fears and which led her with a and walk ing a newspaper to the end It was early yesterday companion fonnd the girl. a E. Welker the Welker avenue. By the hutcherknife and réservoir nearby was home at Tt was aftre home, by William his mother's dairy maker road, north line. Her from legs were a hrambles splattered. Gorman town University Condition formed gically And now fortably on a cot igain the strength sapped by the shock experiences, and health again. ous. Her nerves depleted of that {ahsance. the following of the Imore than “For months past {have come to me tasth. They was an attack of in and nightgown 25, and pretty neurasthenic to cut butcharknife early more than five miles, trail of hlood which police and men wers unahla to follow gate across found a of hlood and hare foorprinte o'clock last night that she was found, miles from the Welker M was farm of mass of scr The garment she wore was torn and blood- notified lice, and she was bhrought Hospital Still Se A This morning an operation was per Her left wrist contained sev- ered tendons. which were treated sur she is resting com there, trying to re which has incident fighting back Her condition are almost intangible substance which makes wrecks of persons by The story she tells is as dramatic in its way as was the police search and blood vesterday various {linesses First Zave me agony tonsilitis. three miles after her of 4220 Georgetown a har underhrush Miss whispered of fear thing | stairs it terrors 1 and just want to_get left wrist yesterday leav- were morning that Mrs. Scotf mis«ing from Nehraska found a the new trail fears was = tect Grac jorman near on_ Rhoe- the District her wr earnes tehes little | MEN day home. skimpy the po- to George- A path than guided still Mr. Miss heen to her ta is seri entirely is an s0 wel her of never ed disea She fts trall for lations parent it was my Then it 1 went ta physicians, and they told me I was | suffering from neurasthenia also (Neurasthenia i a dizease which saps |the ner {tal and physieal lidiosyneracies.) Rometimes at rified nite. ing in on me. | pressive feeling. |10 et away trom from everything, St.CLamsvitee §; AVA 7/ M ARIETTA /cuusvuu‘ 3 night with fear of something indefi- 1 feel as if something is cl s a And it ta, get -life from one’s svatem, leav ing the subject a prey to eccentricities arious men.| The and night T hecame ter- | there i terrible op. then- T want to get away away from | and WHERE SHENANDOAH BROKE TO PIECES HARRISBURGY :NHEELING ——— —_—— . AL G‘fi A B everybhody to escape Last came was coming 1o get 100 awlul I cut an artery knife away walked and to see anvhody Physicians believe that reduced exhanstion tion of neurasthenia Tuesday horrible of & nightmare does not ramem Aefinitely place thereafter. is evidenced a ers weare so close that the blood was moist Cook had enter A® a companion to Mrs. few months had performed har duties given any with meloncholia or any der the immigration restrictive regu- according Physicians expect her racovery. though thay stated har condition hor- ders on that all spacies of séa nettles sting by | the otenophora which is similar to the | sea nettle in appearance and is char | acterized by the absance of nettle cellx | therefore does not | particular spacies Is common in Chesa- peak Rav. RYL A I -~ .—._A D /: A j\-._'L\AnNAngus ~N ON < OEL&ms-//wAS“‘NGT 5 Sapped Strength. I want to go somewhere it night again (Tuesday I felt that some- | It was down night) like me up and went knife and walked wrist and thought R0 then I thréew the started walking. walked and walked | don’t know why 1] kel aw 1 didn't] T just wantéd I got got a my and I et and alked. 1 awas her nerves | to & state of complate | The méntal téerrorg and | speaks of are an indica- | The happening might be classad with only the sub. <he night nightmare and axactly what to6k Miss Cook doas e Cook wants to live now. That in her solicitude about She asked the phvsleians | if her hand could he made | 1st tly good again More than 50 polics and newspaper | took part They in the search vester- started from the Welker | on Nebraska avenus, awung| down more than a mils to the south | side of Massachusetis avenue and up back mile. tham into the woods for more The trail of hlood At one tima the search- on stones Welker said last night that d his emplov | Welker, who and during the past invalld. | I she was regarded as a mem- | the family. He said she had sign of heing aMiet. | mental | was e return to England, un- | . next November to Mr. Welker il efféct on her. But this, had no ap al- the critfeal . Sea Nettles. Smithsonian Institution says| as well as by day. However a_marine vertébrate known as sting. This PHILADELPHIA Tes NN EICHMOND Above map shM Iocation of Ava, Ohio, near where th: mnmdolh futtarad to the sarth after belng wrecked in - | Cambridge | the ascension | ship were ol SHENANDOAH WRECKED JN; GALE:; 14 DIE AS WIND CRUSHES SHIP ——— Commander Lansdowne Among Victims—Survivor Tells of Ride on Fragment of Air Giant After Collapse—Broken in Three | ontinuéd from First Page) had crashed near Ava. News of this was flashed 1o newspaner offices in (‘o lumbus, and soon every wire leading into the isolated community was busy with calle from those seeking details of the disaster. For some time it w learn where the oiher tions of the craft Then word finally came from Sharon 10 oc more miles south of Ava, that another section had erashed there aft drifting aimlessiy miles in the vm which hroke the ship asunder Those who reached the scene first were confronted with a mass of wreckage and an unknown number of dead and injured ¥ tie calls brought rescue workers. but it v hours hefore it was possible to gauge accurately the seriousness the ca tastrophe. =0 life concernad Lieut. Comd Lieut. Comar the following ace dosh wreck and h & impossible to wilon or por had descended 3 P At abont five time dirigible Account. Rosendahl gave of the Shenan illing escape to rrespondent . Rosendah) said ' went on duty at 3:30 a.m. to re lieve Lieut. Comdr. Hancock, who was navigating the ship. We were line headed west hetween Bvesville and Weather conditions were bad. There was lightning and squalls Although we had all engines zoinz. we could make zronnd speed. The storm crept from the north west. We tried rn south. Ther the iine squall hit ne lifted from an altitude ¢ feet where we righted the ship for a fe& minutes. oniy to be taken up again for an altitude of 7.000 feet “The vertical alrcurrent was %o strong that it carried the ship heaven ward tn spite of an 18.degrees inc tion of the nose of the ship The survivors of wreck will be ordered back to lLakehurst this eve ning. Two officers and two enlisted men will remain guard ship Lieut. Comdr. Rosendahl. navi gator. has wired the Bureau of Navi gation at Washington advice to the disposit of the 15 dead Rosendahl's E. E nt th fiv an ba A 0 he here 1o Heard Cabin Drop. we hand gh ) ased helium thre expecting this We had dropped over all and I had ted the contral of the ship the in an effort to throw overboard valy o k thi bhoard it from heel to “At thix moment there was a crash 1 heard the struts breaking and the nose of the <hip parting from the control compartment. A second later I heard another cragh. which must have heen the conirol ship hifting the zround. It was in this compartment that CémAr. Lansdowne and the ath ers wers killed “The nose of the ship startec country about 23.miles-an-hour speed. brushing d house a barn. We handled the nose as if it were a free halloon and landed safely AL Sharon. 12 miles from the place where the control =hip drepned “McCarthy was forward in the nose and was injurad when he was knecked overboard “Those ith me in the n. > G W of the Hall. T Army G. Maver. Lieut 1. B. Anderson. Chief Machinist's Mate Sheviowitz nnd 1. F. MeCarthy Mate Shevlowitz and J. F. McCarthy aviation chief ri See Ship In the wierd half lght of the early morning storm. with angry clonds hanging in the heavens. rent inter mittently by forks of lizhtnins. the families of 8. 0. Davie and Frank Nelson. farmers living near watched the death stry the elements and the giant div They yraw the Shenandoah motionldss in the air They sav: her dart terrific air pres<ure and 1ossed. first then another pleces by the air White-faced and powerless fixed toward the heavens. they the death atruggle in its tragic max—saw the Shenandoah, darting npward perhaps ettle slowly. Than. her nose poini- ing perpendicularly toward the sk, she was literally torn asunder The nose drifted away in the dark- ness while the remainder of the craft carrying all members of the crew who' were killed except Lieut. E. W. Sheppard. crashed earthward Even then the terrific winds, as though loath to he cheated of their vietim, reached out greedy hands rta tear into still smaller fragments the dismembered sections of the ill-fated |t aircraft. Lieut observer: Lieut N in it stand 15 minntes upward under the <aw her buffeted in one direction and finally he torn to angry demons of the for in th <aw eli- after feet. | at 0 in o 1 d Comdr. Rosendahl the ship's d T to their ranking survis department reach on their return remain hehind he tha v Deps the "CS. Lieut men the hodies of the dead he well pending wo Aispositic reet to the places nar \formed ivors He the conld will . Rauch directed t hat a1A di SECTION LANDS ON HOUSE. Wit RELLE 1e She thet point ship d t ng A Cambridg ently ke O mile apr was the reher the ength. T Archer east of the ball | Every Archer later ss Says 13 Were Kill, troller Cabin was the came te unable 11 Die in According 1 of a station said irship 12 nde t the 1 han in aid Archer’s acce ng killed arn a exact n is not exp il opy pitals Cambrid d alled the dead and he Seq ded i ron min prevented making scene ¢ Doctors Byes ted the scen i id th but jured to some e Eight yecording Are ng )ne man on. Are severa injuries The which 1zt nic ™ any VALLEY andoah morning apparently i a section lande miles north south of wi had b nd pe arth Relle Cabl Arc 1 in € o, Septem at an ap- windstorm of in scene of the er Ande: the morgues and n Lands had Atop the on. with vhen Airigihie in some manner 1. He s of the accident PLANNED LONG FLIGHT. NEW The donh Eim T Ona of the Patty Mond T 1 Uni ] points rned w Trip to Minnesota YORK innesota 4 heading Aue west a height ot reparted miles 15 a Forty-Three Men of Capt 13 he a was to take a the was i newly airsh he "he L "he was sched | Ohio It where Tomorrow new Moi Jose, nes Lac lis and St She! Zachary officers parach Officar Fr rn trip pip At drop rn son Shenandoah par Akr e Ma henandoah w kehurst rship After led to pass ave anapolis she ph Tow W Mo. 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