Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1925, Page 2

WIDOW OF WATKIN - AGCUSED OF FRAUD Daughter-in-Law of Repre- sentative From Louisana Hid Assets, Creditor Says. Concealment of assets and present- Ing a “false and uppravable” claim against the estate of her hushand, William Kyle Watkins, son of the late John T. Watkins, Representative |3 from Louisiana. are charged agaimst Mrs. Bessie V. Watkips, 2320 First street. in a petition filed today in the District Supreme Court by John Henry Shepherd, who claims to be a creditor | of the estate to the extent of $16.% Justice: Hoehling issued a rule on Mrs. Watkins to show cause next kriday why she should not make complete disclosure of all the persenal assets of the estate. ,iHusband Found Dead. Willlam Kyle Watkins was found dead in his garage January 29. 1923, and his widow took out letters of ad ministration April 28, 1923, giving a bond of §$3,000. July § she filed her final account showing assets of $728.39 and expendifures of equal amount. which latter included a fee of $300 ta Attormey James T. Llovd. former president of the Board of Education. The widow also presented a claim against her hushand's estate for Attorne ge K. Cur tis and Peyser Sdelin & Peyser. tfe petitioner tells the court that the lat- ter claim is “not susceptible proper probate and proof.” plains that John T. Watkins. of the deceased: his son and another man were partners in the Congres cional and Departmental Information and rvice Co., presecuting claims against the United -States and of a| *“;,':‘:I'f.h.-<»|.;h the crowd behind the green |sumed this positian the strain of the 'BOBBY JONES AND GUNN . LEADING IN FIRST 18 IN GOLF SEMI-FINALS (Continued from First Page) [%reen on the third stonped six_inches irom the hole. and they halved in 4s. Von Elm was trapped badly to th ght on the fourth, and barel escaped to the fairway. He sliced his brassie. while Jones covered 6 vards in 2, resting on the edge of the green. Von Kim's faurth ssed the green to a trap. ang he conceded his opponent u birdle 1. Bobby was 3 up. They halved the sixth in both missed putts of than Champion Adds Anather. The champion added another at the ixth, with a 3 by a perfect pitch om % irap 1o the right, while Ven Blm, buried deeply (n the sand on his tee shot. niblicked acress the areen twice and picked up. Jones was 4 up. Von Iim recovered nicely from a hook to the yough an the seventh, but missed his second putt eof six feet. Jones did the same, however, and it was a half in 3. Both were on at the eighth from the tee and another half in par 3 was the result. Von Elm was within six inches of dropping bis second. Von Elm zained back a hole with an eagle 3 on the ninth, his speon drop: when X foet. | DIng the ball three feet from the pin, | by far the best shot of the nine. Hab- by had a hirdie 4 with twe putts on the gree Their ‘ll ol Bim. out rds: .43445353 EEEREEREE] Bad Break for Von Elm. Jones was )u: 4—as 343 short with his sec- |ond on the tenth, while Van Elm barely reached. Bobby missed a 6- foot putt, which laid his epponent | dead stymie, and they halved in {1t was u bao break for Von Him. Jones second an the eleventh went [and he came aui well. but lost the | hole when Von Elm dropped a 26-foat | putt far a hirdie 3. .lones was 2 up. i Von Elm was hunkered to the left | from the tweifth tee and had to chip { the GREAKING OF OAR BLAMED FOR GRASH Sirain of Contral Seetion Yool " Great for Frame, Righ- ardson Says 1 ‘! | { ' 1 | | Breaking away of the control ear | when the Navy dirigible Shenendoah | nesed upward at an agle of about 30 { Aegrees is helleved to have hean the | cause of the catastraphe whioh sent [ the ziant airahin to the ground, lesv- | {Ing death and destruction In its) !wake. aecording te Lisut. W, L Rich- {ardson of this city. a survivor. i Lien rted te the Secretary today, and | gave Mr. Wilbur first-hand inferma- tion an the catasirophe. Lisut. Rich- lardsom is a civilan emploxe of the Navy BDepartment. an official pha- | tographer, and made this trip as a fmember of the United States Nauval | Reserve. | Scouts Lightuing Pheary. | He scouted the idea thai the big craft had heen hit by a bolt of light- ning, saying that while the storm was raging he did not hear any thunder ar see any lightning. During | | tha height of the storm he was in his | {bunk. ahout 200 feet frem the rear- | {most paint of the ship. . { The vessel cruised along at ahout | {2,500 feet. he said, and then lurched [upward te abaut 7.000 feet. coming {down gradually. She then hegan | pliching badly. when suddenly she taok another upward dive. |- Tt was then that the first crash feame. Lieut. Richardson expressed ithe apinion that when the ship a | iconu'(\l car with its eperating comple- ment was to great and thraw 3 atress! lon the supporting girders which they | teauld not stand. "fi He said that the eontral car was the v WRECK OF SHENANDOAH 1S LAID TO GALE, LOOTERS STRIP SHIP | climhed inte the upper part of the bag. Ralph Jomes and B. 0. Hereth were near ms “'We began climbing dewn the side. 1 didn't ses them drep. I fell abou 15 feet, and F'm all twisted and sore. Tells of Lang Wight. | DEFEAT OF HYLAN VITAL TO SMITH'S PRESIDENCY HOPE (Continued from Kirst Page.) | this fight, he will be in a strategic pe- | sition sither to run for governor or to make a bid for the United States Sengte next vear. He is serving his | third term as governor now and a | feurth term might have the semblance of a perpetual governorship. For that reason some of his friends have talked of the governor as 3 candida® for the | Senate against Nenatar “Jim” Wads. worth, Republican, whe must come up | for re-slection next year. But this | 131k has dwindled away recently and | | the discussion of a fourth term as gov- | | ernor has increased. There are sev- eral reasons for this. In the first place Gov. Smith would find it easier to win again as gov- enor, in all probability, than he would | to defeat Semator Wadsworth. The litical ambitions of the two men so have not clashed. They have been personally ftriendly (o each outside of the political arena from ‘“‘up-State, mously atrong im that also would poll the full strength in New York Cit Fight Would Be Hard. It may he that the political exegen- Republican stor Wadsworth into the senatorial race against each other next year. If they do it will be & great Struggh It must be remembered, that New York usually heen found in the Republican column in a United States Senator more nearl approaches & national issue than does the blennial gavernorship row. If Gov. Smith has senatorial ambi- tions it is urged in some quarter might better wait until 1928, when Senator Copeland. Democrat. must atand for re-election, and enter the race for the nomination. Senator Copeland has ceat in his lot with Mayer Hvlan and Wiliam Randoiph Hearst in the present fight. Furthe more, if the governoy falls of the presidential nomination he could still have a try at ive | ingten, section. and | cles will throw the governor and Sen- | however, | national glections. and the election of | he | the senatorship that | BUSINESS 10 UNITE Real Estate Board Starts Move — Invites Trade Bodies to Co-Operate. Instead of forming a mew organiza tion for nationally advertising Wash- various trade bodies will be urged to get behind some one existing organization, probgbly the Conventien Bureau, far sueh a campalign, it was decided today at a meeting in the offices of the Washington Real Kstate }Board. The meeting, which was attended by representatives of the Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce. the | Hotel Men's Association, the Conven- |tion Bureau and the Realtors’ Asso- clation, was called by the latter body |ta discuss plans for such an adver- i tising campaign. " The primary object will be to bring | people to Washington in conventions, |as tourists or in any other wav, se that thev can learn to know and iove the beauties of the National Capital. The meeting this morning was ad- journed, subject to call. At the next session the organization which. will be used as the spearhead of the campaign { Will be defnitely chosen | Among those who attended wers: | Robert N. Harper, John A. Petty, Themas E. Jarrell, Martin A. Leese. A. B. Seymour, Lawrence Milix, C. K. Lavigne, Arthur Carr, Ben T. Weh- | ster, W. C. Miller, John T. Maury Rufus S. Lusk, Jjesse Hedges and Clarence E. Donohos (POLITICS ARE BLAMED FOR SHENANDOAH TRIP Cabins, Torn From Bag in Storm, Ripped Holes in Cover Letting Rush of Air in to Buckle Frame, Inquiry Board Finds, Outside of the effect which the re- sult of the campalgn may have on Gov. $mith and the Demecratic o nizgtion of the State of New York | there is nothing in the mayeralty | atruggle that has national significance. | There is no question of the Coolidg: administration Invalved. The issues.! outside of the persona! ambitians of | by Henry Ford at Detroit {Gov. Smith, are all local. It is 30| (A Waghington dispatch to the New vears since the Republicans elected a| York World quotes Secretary Wilbur maver of New York City om saving in regard to Mrs. Lans straight-out Republican ticket. Seth downe's comments: “Comdr. lans |LoW was mayor in 1902, but he was a | downe was allowed to chose his time. | fuslon candidste. and there have been ! His judgment was that It would he other fusion mavors. safe (o make the flight at this time Republicans Alse Spit. T would not have permitied the Aight With an outstanding eandidate to. | 352Inst the judgment or protest of day. a man upen whom sll the Repub- | “OT9r lansdowne ) licans had united Ny 4 = TS TURRAE ey furnishing governmental information. | 10 the fairway, while Jones' brassie [first to break av and then the mi The father, it is said, gave his prom. | “econd was 20 vards short of the {dle partion of the ship broke. Th issory notes in a large amount to the | &reen. Ven Elm veached with hisjfash caused by the rending of the Commercial National Bank of Shreve. | fourth, but the hole went to Jopes |frame work undoubtedly gave rise to port, La. with indorsements sald to| with a birdie 4. his chip stapping .p:u '{‘?"“lml‘ ""n -m “n:d been be by J. Riley Wilson. Representative | foqt from the cup. fstruck by Hghtning. he panied eut. from Louisiana. and Semator Joseph Von Elm sank a 3i-foot putt for a fter-End. E. Randall of that State. The notes | birdie ¥ o win the thirteefith, while | (. m":_“ A waifesned Wwere (discounted and drawn againsi.|Jones was 20 feet fram the cup when | W hen the fivat crash of the breaking but at maturity were dishonared. the [ he explodea (ram @ trap on his sec- |AWAY of the control car was heard a eourt is told. Lond. Ven Eiw again was ? down. JELNE 8 W Sme Shwn Y Wepun) T P ia " ra A S s of e s . n Says Widow Baught Notes. | o T he Californian hooked ta the trabs | {icDRer gna' imned frem thelr Bunke & g ght {on the fourteenth. while Jones was (1 Afterend lumped from thelr bunks orannard saye Mrs. Watkina, the fgr to the left, but reached with his|3He Yent o e T administratrix. purchased these notes | mashie. Two putts gave Jones the | H° - Vessel, 3 at sreat dis P 0 gradnally away like a free balloon and a great scount, as much as 3 | hole with a par 4 and he was 3 up. i Artede per cent, and these notes constitute | !the 15 persons confined there made ‘helr rl'Ti:\ a-;:n?s[ her hu.:xha;"ul xhex \ Boosts Lead fo 4. ;u(:’r‘»::nl;:xxav. get 1o the ground as ate. although, it is asserted. her hus- | - Janes 4 T et ot 4 oling | * . . band recelved no henefit from the (y satant e on i Afteemih a5 | The Arat object hitwus b clumn of notes. The trees. and then fhe after portion of The survivors went from north | | Philadelphia by tyain to the main sta- tion in Philadelphia, where they toek a subway train to the Delaware River ferry. After breakfast in Oamden, | N. L, the party left for Lakehurst on & Reading Rallrosd train at 8:12 | am. and were dus in Lakehurst at 10:33 a.m. The survivers attvacted little attention in the quick passage thraugh Philadelphia LA Thomas O. ndley. who was in charge of the survivors, walked with a noticeable lmi “I sprained both legs,” he said. “and some bruises and gashes, but don’t amount ta much. ! had just come of waich and had retived to my hammaeck in the of the ki abaut feet fram LANSDOWNE FEARED (Continued from Firat Page | purposes of the trip, they sald, were to experlment with untrained ground (Continued from Firat Page.) Mate James Moore. o crews and test the new mast erected e J.: Chief Petty Offic at Marietts aiding in the care of the |Schnitzer, to Tuckerton. injured men, Chief Gunner Raymon Cole. Lima. Ohio. and Rigger Jahn I MeCarthy. Freehold, N. J.. whose in- Jurles are’ batisved 0 be not fatal 2 tting at the scene of the disaster | Kizhteen Saved ¥ reck of Show- will be Draventsd today by 4 detall of | LiENteen Sa vom. Wroek of S 45 men and a number s from | andoah Tell Herole Stories. Fart Haves, Columbus. iean 14| 5y e Awocisid Pres. glon men. Sslvation Army warkers, - lacal constables and the Nable County | . PHILADELPHIA Jersey ity George N. J.i Chies Rigger E. P. Allen, to St. Louls, Mo. SURVIVORS' ACCQUNTS. alas | ptember 4.— that Comdr. purchase of these noies | were not authorized by the caurt, it is stated. Referring to the claim of Attarney Jimes T. Lloyd for $500 attorney's fee. Mr. Shepherd declares that Mr. L1 did not perform any services for | William Kyle Watkins during his life. time, although the claim purports te be for services rendered the adminis- tratrix and for the decedent durini | his lifetime. Accuses Dead Man. Mr. Shepherd tells the court that| April 4, 1 Willlam Kyle Watkins | borrowed money fram him. and “while | insolvent” used the money to pur-| chase premises 811 K street northeast | for $7.500. and toak title sinll_\' with | bis wife, Bessie V. Watkin®, with the “intention and purpose to defraud his | creditors.” ~ Mrs. Watkins sold the | property after her husband's death for | $10.600 cash. the court is told. and failed to make any accounting of the proceeds as part of the estate of her| husband. The allegation is made that | this sale and conversion af the pro- | ceeds were “in fraud of the creditors | of the estate.” . A claim is also made thai at the| time of the death of Willlam Kyle Watkins the company of which he| was a partner had claims against the United States tataling $100.000 for | claimants. on which a contingent fee | was hased, and which. if successful, would net the company $20.000, of | which the deceased would he entitled | to one-half. Many of these claims| have been recevered, it is stated. since the death of Watkins. = The deceased | alse owned an automobile worth $3.700, | it is stated. of which no veturn is| made in the account of the.adminis- | tratrix | MAJ. 0. N. SOLBERT | RESIGNS FROM ARMY Is Succeeded on the President's) Military Staff by Col. Sherwood f . Cheney. | i i Mai. Qscar N. Solbert. Corps of En gineers. recently relieved frem duty as assistant military alde to the Presi dent, and now temporarily attached to the office of directar af public build-| ings and public parks of the National Capital. has resigned his commission in the Army to engage in private pur suifs, and his resignation was aceept ed “hy the President taday to thke efféct September 15. | Maj. Solbert was succeeded on the military staff of the President a few months ago by Col. Sherwood A Cheney. Corps of Engineers, formerly in command of the Engineer post at Fort Humphreys, Va., and since then hag been in England on leave of ab. sence until a few days ago. when he | returned to this city. Before he entered on his duties the White | House he had served as military at- tache at London during the adminis. tration of Ambassadar George Haryey Born in Sweden. January 1885, | he was appointed to the United States Military Academy.in June. 1905. He wag a star graduate in the class ‘of June, 1910, and was assigned to the Cotps of Engineers, to which he has been attached ever since. He was a colgnel of Engineers in the National| Army during the World War, and was | awarded the distinguished service medal for his services. He reached the grade of major the regular estahlishment in May, 1920 TWO KILLED BY AIRPLANE | | | Boy Flying to Cure Deafness One | of Vietims, { OQLEVELAND. 0, ic. Septemor 4| ) —aA year-old bo- and a man werp killed today when an alrplane crashed more than 3.000 feet into | Highland Park Cemetery. The plane | had been circling above the muniei- pal golf course and the cemetery when it seemed to develop trouble. The boy. Clifford Davis, was taking | +he fiving cure for deafness, with Capt. W, L. Smith, private flying instruetor. The aceident was witnessed by the ho¥'s parents. Smith -and his passenger circled abéut for nearly half an hour bef the plane got out of control. Diplomatie Relations Resumed, VICTORIA. British Columbia, Sep- | tember 4 (#).—€. H. Branston, consul for Mexico at Vietoria and Vancouver, annmounced today that Mexico had re- sumsed -diplomatic relations with Can- s - il i | made ! was on in |of |and the lead. | =hort | sand hole. 4 | stymiz. Jones was down In 6, winning birdie 3. Jones was home with an on on the shert sixteenth. Von Hlm as 20 ya from the green. The Culifornian’s chip rolled off and he was 14 feet from the pin, and Jones' puit from 35 feei away stymied him. He attempted to chip over and gat in frant of Jones' ball. to halve in 4. Jones' tee shot on the seventeenth was in a bad lie. He lofted to the edge of the green. 30 feet from the pin, { while Von Elm’s second was 20 feet | from the cup. to halve in 4. The home hole was halved in par 4. leaving Jones 4 up of the morning roun Their cards: LR R R R ] Gunn Continyes Great Work. Gunp continued his underpar shont. ing of the past several days when he the first hole of the moi with a birdie 4. Dick Jones w; trap from the tee. He was down in & Gunn 1 up. Both had perfect drives on the see- ond, reaching the green in 2. Gunn missed a short putt stroke. He conceded the hole to Dick, and they were all square. Jon hooked his drive on the third into the rough. while Gunn had a paw- erful tee shot In the middle of the fairway for & fine approach. .Janes came out of the rough nicely to the green's edge. Gunn pitched across the green. but had a geof le Rarely Missed 40-foat Putt. Dick’s first putt. a 40-footer. missed the cup by a few inches. Then Watt laid him a stymie. Jones canceded the hale when he had 1o negetiate the obstrueting ball. Gunn 1 up. Each toko twe putts On the lang fourth. the Atlanta lad | drove into the Jones made about 300 ya chipped out to the front of the green and was on in 3. Dick's brassie shot found a trap. He came out nicaly veaching the green in 3. Watt's firs puit was wide, as was Dick's. They halved it in par 5. Gunn 1 up. Gunn almost topped his drive on the fifth, hut a long run zave him a fine approach. Jones had a perfect drive. His pitch to the green brought him an ovatian, the ball stopping dead 8 fest from the pin. His putt was ton heavy. Jones squared the match by. sinking his third for @ birdle 3. Roth Have Trouble. The short par 3 plavers trouble. Their tee shots w in traps fanking the zreen. Both pitched to the green nicely. Jones overshot an his first puit. sinking his second. Gunn lost a chanee to win the hole when he failed 1 find th cup with a 4-foot putt. He appeared nervous on the greens. They halved | the hole in fours and the mateh re- mained all square. They halved the seventh in par 4. Both were on the edge of the green in 2. Jones putted ta within 5 inches he hple. Gunn's try was eyen hetter, the ball hagting about 2 inches from the cup. They went down on their next shots. The match still was even Gets Lead Rack. Gunn's tee shot on the eighth was 20 feel from the pin. Jones drove into the rough. He was on in 2. His putt was 5 inches short. Gunn holed out on his third, taking the hole 1 up. had powerful drives on the in traps in front seconds. Gunn's Both ninth, but they wer of the green on 1 | Phird 1ffted onlv a few feet to the ton of the pit. He was on with his fourth. Jones' (recovery was pretiy, pitching o the green. Gunn's firsi putt was Dick's fourth overran the the cup. He sunk hix fifth, squaring the mateh Their card Gunn, out.... €5 4 5 4 4 43 639 Jones, out.... 6 4 553 4 4 4 5—40 Jones hooked his second into the rough on the down-hill tenth. His pitch was to within § feet of the cup. Gunn reached the green in 2. His first putt was short a foal. He blew the chance, the ball relling wide. Both had 58, 1 over par, and they were all square. "The par 4 sleventh gave the young Atlantan and his Bastern rival little trouhle. They were on in 2 and needed 2 putts to get home. . On the difficult 621.yard twelfth Gunn found a trap from the tee, while Dick was on the fairway, giving him a good approach shot. Gunn merely pitched out to a goed lie, and then used his brassie, to get {nto another Jones' third was to the front of the green.. Watts reached the green in 5, while Dick was on in Gunn Jaid his adversary a half 5 4 tne hele and taking the lead. 1 up. They halved the short thirteenth in par 3. They reached the green from the tee and sarch needed 2 putt | remained 1 up. Gunn outdrove Jowes on the four- on his faurth | Watts sixth gave bath | { ! the vessel took to the-aiv-again in an- other gust of wind and settled slowiy down. ~ A number of those theve were | waiting on an extension ladder and &% soon ax they weve clase to the ground {jumped hefore the big bag settied. i | Lieut. Richardsan was injured about !the hand and leg. but not serieusly. {As soon as he was sure of the safety {of those in his part of the vassel he ryshed to the telephane to inform hi family e that he was safe. Hi {was the first information ta the de- partment in Washington that anether accident had been vixited an the Navy. CHAUNCEY HACKETT . DNVORGED INPARI e, Former Washingtonian, Freed From Counsel for Anti-Prohibitionists. { | | B Mo Asepciated Pross. PARIS. Sentember 4.—Mrs. Ch:iin | cey Haekett, formerly Miss Katharine Hennen Jennings of Washington, D. | €.. has been granted a divorce by the | | Parla couris on grounds of sbandon- | iment. The couple were married in | Waskingian in May. 1914. Both gave Paris addresses far the court records Other divorces granted by the Paris !courts 10 Americans wer Mrs. Frederick March, formerly Kate Sessions, from her husband on | grounds of abandonment of the hom | They were married in Washington, | D. C., in 1916, H Edward Burtees Everts, a musician. | siving & Paris address. tram his wite. | formerly Mary Isgbel Jamison of St. | Paul. Minn., who let the case go by | default. Thay were married at Hough- {ton, Mich., in 19067 Chauncey Hackett is general coun- sel for the Association Against the | Prohibition Amendment. He was one i of tha chief apeakers at the sixth con- | gress of international prohibition or- | ganizations, held recently in Baris. Mrs. Hackett, who was the daughter {of the late Hennen Jlennings and Mr ! Jennings. made her debut in Wash- ington a few seasons befors her m: | riage. She was one of the most pop: tar huda of her season. not only among the vounger circles but alsp among the older set. She was cansidered a | great heauty and very graclous in her manner. The entertainments given by Mr. and Mrs. JenWings for their dau, ter were elaborate ahd frequant. Her father was one of & group of million- aires. including John Hays Hemmond, who made their money in Sauth Africs jand came to Washington to live. 1 {MEXICAN | | | | | DEPUTY IS SHOT. | | MEXICO CITY September 4 () | Deputy Wencesiao Macib Jast night {shot and probably fatally woundad | Deputy Marin Perez in a pistol fight lin the streets after the adjournment | of Congress for the night. : | The fight was the outgrowth of a | {hot debate over agrarian ori in | {the State of Puebis, which President | { Calles condemned on Tuesday. e ——— | teenth, reaching of the | green from (he tee. Hix aecond wes | 10 feet from the eup. Jones pitehed into a trap 1o the right of the green. His first putt, a thiriy-footer, was | { within 4 inches of the hole. Gunn | meesieqd 2 putis, winning the hole snd | squaring the mateh. Both in TProubl The par 4 ffigenth gave hoth | trouhle. They sank for s and atill were square. b Gunn drove into a ditch to the left of the green on the sixtsenth. Jones was on the sge of the putting carpet. Yeoun, atts came out beautifully, sinking his third for s [par. Jones’ shert puit was wide and Gunn took the lead, 1 up. E The uphill sqvepieenth held no ter: rors for ihe semi-finalists. Gunn drove 300 yards to the green's edge. Jonas was on in 2. 30 feet from the cup. His third rolled to the left, § inches from the cup. .Gunns first putt was heavy. He sank an. eight- footer far a birdie § and was 2 w After powerful drives en the »un‘l!: the green, Jones sank'a 3 curting Gunn's lead 1o the, end of the merning round. eir cards R R R R R AR = = ) t putt, Role of | National Cemetery alon eenth both pitched their seconds tn|™) sheriff and his deputies were on the | scene vesterday and teday. helping wherever they could. The Salvation | wiches todsy as the work of investigat. ing the accident progresses. Warning ¥ Needed. i Bettar pretection from the elements | must be the goal of further dirigible development as the result of the Shen- | andoah disaster. in the opinion of Cel ] €. G. Hall, 8. A, offieial nhurvcr\ He said he belleved ! no reflection on the communication might hava | saved he declared ntific men who study the mavement of storms might have warned us and aided us in gverting the disaste Comdr. Resendahl ma {al that the ship was Aving teo near the gkround and that its gondolas | vaught on the trestops. ceusing th isaster. Other officers have concur ed in the assertion that the ship was at an altitude of at least 3,006 feet | Wwhen it was struck by the squall. The survivors ware unanimous 1 asserting that the fact the gas cham bers were filled with hellum was all that prevented an eXplosion. Reperts that lightping had struck the ghip and was partly responsible for the crash were denied by survivors and witness of the catastrophe. - Wlamed on Wind. i Offcers of the dirigible. explaining the tragedy, said the ship n tered a severe windstorm over Cam- bridge. strong headwinds holding 'he jant machine almost stationary for | 5 minutes, although the engines were - going full speed ahead. After making more than a dozen vain | attempls to elude the storm center by changhg their dourse. the ship ap- | parently nosed its way squarely into| the vortex of the squall and was| abruptly shot upward for more than ezoo feet and then dropped percipi- tately, the ship structure cracking and breaking into three parts under the tremendous strain. Attached to the forward section| was the contral cabin, in which Lieut. Comdr. Lansdowne and 12 other a s and men navigating the ship were at’ their posts. This gondola | broke away from its mooring. crash- ing to the ground from an altitude of several thousand feet and killing all| of its ocpupants. Seven others who| were in the fareseetion of the ship. but net in the control car, drifted as in a free balloon, landing safely nearly- 13 miles a The main section landed almost immediatgly after the break, only 1 of the 23 men who were in it heing killed. Plans tor the burial of the Shenan- went_forward with prog-| resy todgy. Coffins are expected io he in readiness to ship the hedies to thefr designated final resting places toda Lansdowne Rites at Arlington. The - body of Cpmdr, Zachary | Lansdowne, commander of the 1lI- fated ship, has been n‘rdlerefl‘r!"e';\‘\“:: Vi n Washington for buri Jn Aringan) ca's heroes who have gone before. Those of others Who losi their lives pither have been assigned for burial at their homes or probably will be o ansigned. Before vosi: | n daylight the crowds of curious again began swarming fo the wreckage scengs. By -7 a'cloek six airplanes arrived over the deb strewn countryside in efforts to land. A heavy fog hung close to earth, making the lgnding on the hilly ground more perilous than ever. Army trucks, official Army cars and Army metor cycles, some of them with side car paseen; arrived during the .night s sugment the groups finding work to do here and there. With the khaki-plad men were naval officers, some of them in hlue upiforms, some of them in whit Charge to See Wreckage. ' The fve survivors, ineluding Lieut. Comdr. Rosendahl, who spent the night in Caldwell, arose refreshed this morning, saving they had spent & re ful nl"t, They were lnmn( patches from Navy Department oi cials. A headguarters was fitted up in Caldwell tel, from where the work eof investigation and inquiry s being conducted. Farmers around the Shepandoah wreckage scenes began charging ad- mission prices 1o the worning. Their scale was 35 cents per person or $1 for automoblles. Water ‘was belng sold at 10 cents a glass, 'l? body .of Lieut.. W. B, Shej of Washingten. D. C. recoverad, 1 | “etimbing | Masters tater ur;nvl that of #heppard. Azal’umq\u of hodies of the vietims are as follows: Rigger fray. te St Lo sts | xrimy and very | about 5,000 feet or perhaps 6,000 feet. - |sald, The breaking of 3 gas bag over ! power car No. 3. the aft starboard | car of the dirigible Shenandoah, was | | Avmy lassies served caffee and sand. | blamed by some af the survivors of [ nag been fine. the wreck for the tragedy vesterday in_Ohia. When the 15 survivors who came by special car from the scene of the Wreck. en raute to their home station, | arrived at Philadelphia at 7:50 am. | today some of them agreed that this accident, in conjunction with the terrific storm, was responsible for the wreck and its ensulng loss of | life. | The storm was described he survivors as a “Western twister,” a minature cyclone. Some of the men sald they had been ahle to see the storm coming. but that the ship had been powerless to get out of its way. Carry Camrades’ Effects. 1 As the men trooped frém the train | the Nerth Philadelphia station of | | | the Pennsylvania Railread 1o take |air. | to Lakehurst, all of them were carrying heavy bags. “‘Are they your effects””’ some one asked one of the men. poinfing 16 the bags. anather train | No.” he sald. “They ave the | things that helonged to our comrades wha afe dead.” Richardson Wilson of Leuisville, Ky., a seaman, second class, listed vesterday as injured, was among the survivors, unhurt, The 1§ men came on the train in charge of Lieut. Hendley. They were stiff and sore from the leaps they had made from the aivship as it_neared the ground. They were tired. Few slept either lasi night or at anvtime yes- terday. A number of them described how they clung to the outer en and the framework and werked way from the top of the airghi mobt a hundred feet—to a han mear the bottom, where they were able When the broken sections of the air- ship dropped near the ground to lat %o _and drop 10 or 15 feet to safe “We had to run for our live: Wilson sald, “because the portion of the bag in which we were. the upper portion, was reiling, sagging and twisting from side to side.’ Dropped 2,000 Feet. Several members of the party said that not only did the control car fall but that Nos. 4 and 5 power cars fell alse a few minutes later. Wilson sald ‘the.control car must have drop- ped off when the dirigible was 2.000 feet in the air. He could net Agure how high they were when the power cars fell away Wilson gdded that he was awskened by the rollinz of the Shepandesh. “It was ralling tgirifically fare and aft, up and down.” he sald. “The ship seemed to plunge dewn § thou- sand feet or sn. It was a swift, long deseent. “Then instantly It was jerked up- ward at an angle of 46 degrees to f That was when 1 heard the cfash. 1 knew that we were going dawn, and lopked below. 1 could see that we e dropping fast. T made & flying leap for the sogling adder that goes fram the ecat-walk: to the top of the bag. Other men all around me. up and down the ship were climbing the ladders to get away from the dangerous. bottam of the bag, for they all knew that when she struck che tendency. would be for the frame to buckle and kill any one who WS near. 5 i After we got up (o the top of the bhag we began a terribly difienli job of climbing over the outside of the frame, .iearing away portians of the covering to get a hand-grip, 4nd work- ing -our way dawnward and around underngath or nearly underneath. Then we watched for our chanee and Jumped. “‘Searched for Cabin. Wilson-said that his duty on ‘the hip was ':‘i- the-clerieal work, a almost the ' minute he fell tp the sround be ran into Lieut. Bosch, ordersd him immediately to b seareh for the control car. It lay quite a distance. off across a littie valley, he “Tt was 3 splintered wreck,” gald Wilsop. “‘with ma ‘hodi, de and |ynlni' around v‘ft We ;’J‘.".z fied 12 of the dead thére. Later we| found Lieut. Sheppard and Cullinan, who had fallen sej tely when the was stiil well up in the i in the twe power | eontrol ear-to about: fAve b % ont and clung to.the framework before the twp power tars were ripped away." A John 1. Hahn; thedirigible’s cook.! sald_he was getting breakfast ready when the cragh occurred. “It was preceded by a. -;mmlu r;!‘l:d o!( the hip from one of t rn - ore. It S el eouldn't | tejgdt dropping. 1. my fest. on T unl':m“ and torn away. rear the control cabin. when I felt the ship lurehing and plunging. “Up until that moment the waath The moon had been % hide and seek behind the clouds in the sarlier part of the night and I was greatly surprised that we had run inte a sterm. ““Phe ship struck an angle of abeut 45 degrees. ntes I dressed and tried 1o make my way 1o my cantrol cabin. Left Hanging to Girder. “Refore T gat 5 tegt trom my ham- mock the ship toak 3 seriéa of nese dives and was twisted und. | hesitated a2 moment. Then ahe ascend- ed at a terrific rate, traveling almost playin | vertically. T maticed that at the Arst nose-dive the alr was unusually hot and sticky. But after twisting and turping 1o a heizht of about 5,000 or 6.000 feet. we struek an unusually celd curremt ef ‘T was Mfted inta the air with the nose of the ship. hanging on to a -ag- ment of 3 girder. which stuck of the nose of the ship about 100 =, ““After this girder had bumpe. the tops of several tress, 1 teek a chance and let go.”’ Fred J. Tahin. aviation pllet. Arling- P ton. Mass., sald , ol he dead. T T had just Everett Alle judge the time was 5:45, but I guess we all were mixed up on eur time be- cause of the change from eastern- standard to central-standard. “Allen was running the slevators. I started to walk toward my station when a zp of wind struck us on one side and another on the other side. The ship was forced downward. 1 tried to make my way along the keel just as the ship came to gn almost vertical position and started to rise very quickly. Before I could climb 15 feet more, there was a ripping. hiss- ing sound, and the hig ship broke in two. down te relieve Dragged by Ship. “You might realize how fast wa came down when I say that before I could turn my head to see what had happened, I found myselt an the top of a tree. As I started to climb down, part of ihe rigging and wires caught me around the waist and arms and 1 dragged about 1,000 feet by the end of the ship along the road: and hi “I finally managed to f and fell ahout §0 feet. minutes T couldn’t move. T felt as if nearly every hene in my hedy was broken, and I surelv was tickled to death when 1 got could walk around.” All Tobin ware was a pair of hlus eralls and an undershirt. He ep ried a small black grip. which, he said, contained persenal vgluables of men that-hgd heen killed. Spottswand §. Halllburton of Macon, Ga.. an assistant enginesr afficer o the Shenandosh. was in No. 3 go dala, one of the power ears. His was one of the cars that did not fal Every man an the ship.' he said, ad orders to siand by. The grders wers given shout four ar five minutes before the craah. We had been fight- ing through the stopm for heurs and struck into the very eentgr of it at that poini. Men in the after pawer cars, Nos. 1 and 3, remained at their posts, even afier the collapse of the dirigible and the dropeing awav of the control ears and the two forward power cars. They were still at their engines 3s the braken part of the dirl came close to th round, toue por i1 “'F se 2 little and the aftey :nv-r cars were wrenched and twisted ut nat tarn lopas frem (heir fasten- ings. By that time we understaod the complelaness of the disagter, and all ©of the men in the power ea were climhing above the en s to get o hand grip of some kind op the frams of the dirigible. engndoph finally settled TeAr ROWRr ecars were lu ed around savagely l:rv .uv'o.n‘?l minfites. We first. Al .thl'l‘r:“ struck. among “Theas slowed up the speed of sirship, or r‘th'r’thuv p';rr o :a: #irghip in which we were riding, and she hoynced down toward the #round seme of the man were virtu- |wlly thrown hw;- ‘mrzfi t 3’ t was hait davk chance and at the time. couldn’t gee at ance ‘that the mose of the u?:thn was missing. Charles Selar of Indisnspolis, ma- chinist mate, was ene of the maen carried away in the nose of the air- For several IM‘}» “1 was just getting eut of my bup when sudd little eyelone. The airship sank and then bounded upward and the part of ‘the ship in which I was vl:l‘n‘ hroke off. " “Comdr, e _ F aendahl wap wit] S getting her down toward In less than three min- | | myself. | o up and found I k | down the slope. nly spun around in & there might chan for a Republican yictory. with ithe present split in the Demeocratic ranks between Hvian and Walker. But the Republicans are divided 100, theugh met so bitterly ecrats. KFrank D. Waterman. a suc. cessful business man. is the choice of the Republican organization for the nemination. But Willlam M. Bennett, who woa the Republican nomination 1in 1917 from John P. Mitchei. and .lohn | 1. Lyons, formerly Secretary of State York, have declared them- “at the solicitation of The predictions here today are that | Waterman will win the Repuhlican { nomination and Walker the Demo- cratic on September 15, and that they will Aght it out at the polls in Navem ber, with pessibly a third and even a fourth independent candidate to liven things up. Senatar Walker l.n!’n( Mayor Hylan to say whather in the event Waiker wins the Dem | eratic primaries. Hylan will support the regular Democratic nominee. Walker at the same time has asseried | his willingness to support Hylan if | the Jatter wins. Walker's purpase is | 1o ereate the impression in the minds of the Demoeratic vaters that Hylan will run as an independant, with the | acking of Hearst in the event he loses in the primary But even shovld Hylan run on a third ticket, it is entirely unlikeiy he would be successful either in winning { himaelf or in preventing the election |of ‘Walker. With Waterman. Walk and Hylan all in the fisid election day {it is figured that many Repyblicans would cast their votes for Walker to ingure the defeat of Hylan | The underlying struggle for control of New York's Democracy between Gov. 8mith en the one hand and Hearst 3nd his follawers on the other has been hrought inte the open | through leeters written by Hearst to | the editor of his newspaper. the New | York Americgn. and hy Gov. Smith {to the same editor. Mr. Hearst | his communication strangly urges the {re-election af Mayar Hylan and insists that Gov. Smith is a friend of Wall Street, which wishes 1o defeat Hylan. The governor gives Mr. Hearst the lie and says e iz the greatest hurden Mayor Hvlan has to stagger under | until we were ahle to drop lopse. hurt myself when I fell. but not seri- v. ‘No bones were Ralph Jones, Lox Angeles, tion machinist's mate, said: { "I was in car No. 3. 1t was about !3:47 Fastern Standard time when | received signals for full speed. - I t the engine running at 1,400 reve- utions a minute. "‘We were then in the teeth of the storm and I realized the commander had decided 1o go with the storm. Forward, in cars numbers 4 and &, 1 suddeniy heard a ripping nolse. “We were then ecaught in the twister. The ship first regred on e end and then on the ather. Then it made a terrific apd sudden descent, swinging around four or five times. *T again got the signals for full speed ahead, The ahip suddenly lurched upward. We rose to about 5.000 feet, when the Shenandoah. aft. er heing tossed around and around sepmed (o collapse all at once. “'The next thing I knew we struck 2 hill. and the car 1 was in caught in the top of some trees. 1 glid off on t of the hik. I judge I dropped t 35 feet. | avia- nat strike me as it skimmed over the pill. It then rose in the air again. and looking around I saw twe of the other men, one a chief rigger and t | other the cook. They were shout § vards from m v theugh stunned. In a few minutes they got up apd we walked around {n efreles. Kept Propeller Golng. “1 attribute escape trom degih to the fallawing (it of my. attions received when T fire ws wigned to the Shenandosh—those b Ll my propsiiery x,urwn! il spead. belisve tbfl ‘ehakied the saetion with my car to thake & comperatively gen- tie landing.” 1anding of the rear section of the l‘u nandoah after the cracking of the ship wes descrihed by Walter Johnton. Minpeapeile, chist mpchin: 0. w‘:!ut section of the ship. with twe of the care gttached to it, landed on a hiliside,” sald Johnsory “As rg hit the ground the bag was above us an the slope. At once the tafl hm swinging areund and bounc- 1 §. d the slope. When nn;-‘r :;nl: T ran up the Rill 2 e bag. But many o n#‘.!. ' jgflpfi Fom th, “car e bag came hounc- ing after them. Asx it came toward them some of them dived beneath it and tesk a chance on it jumping over them. “'1 don’t know what happened o the others. As the tall swung around and dawn the sl v must have run away from it-fast exeugh to escape,” | s the Demo. | is chal- | | face %0 the car would 3o Beop| { Lansdowne. before starting on the ill | fated trip, had criticized the water-re- lcovery sysiem installed about six | weeks ago and had declared that he intended having it removed. Among men wha understood the i:hlux construction it w freely pre- dicted that the ship could have weath. ered the storm with the.old system. Laad a3t Breaking Point. The original water system dis- {tributed the water recovered from | exhaust zas of the engines 10 hallas: | bags scattered throughout the ship ta | counteract the loss in weight from | asoline consumption. The new sys' jtem. installed at section 110. newr i the place where the dirigible is said i to have broken, concentrated a great { part of the recoveredwater in a ean- i vas bag helding three tons at the | spot where the ship broke. Not only is it belisved that the naw system concenirated too much { weight in ene pari af the ship, bui, {in addition. it_is believed that the | eutting af one of the main eircular {ribs af the ship and an intermediate {rib for installation of the new system {resulted in further weakness. These {formed the main structure of the ship The two ribs. ar rings as they are called in dirizible construction, were reunited by & square rennection in- stead of the original eircular form, |and this also was eriticized by Lieut. ! Comdr. Lansdowne in private ‘ersstions just hefare departure of the ship. Lieut. Comdr. Lansdowne was on {his first day of his seventeanth vear I the Navy when killed. It was 1o |have besn his last Aight. as he had {been ordered back to ses duty Sep | tember 15. He and Margaret Ross | Washington "were married in 1921 jafter a war romance in France, where {she was a Red Cross nurse. Two chil- ‘dn—n survive, one by Comdr. Lans- downe's previous marriage Mrs. Hancock Brave. Mrs. Jov Bright Hancock was hrave under the second tragedy of this sort in her life. Her firat husband was killed when the ZR-2 was destroyed. She had only recently married Lieut Comdr. Louis Hancock. jr.. who was led on the Shepandoah. { One little zirl. the daughter of .1 W. Cullinan of Binghamton, was waiting to celebrate birthday today. She has not been told of her father's death. Several of the unmarried men wha perished wi gaged Secretary Wilbur gglegraphed mus- sages of sympathy 10 the famil the victims. A new waler resovery mystem was tecently instalied in the Ehenandnah and it was necessary ta cut two hig rings inside the gas bag near the cen ter and rivet them together agsin. While there was some suggestion that @ weakness developed from this work. Lieut. Comdr. T. 8. Bovd, second in cammand at Lakehurst, ssid that the ship had been carefully inspected and tested the day before its departure, Plans for burial of the victims of the Shenandosh disaster have not yet been completed. it wad said here to. day, but it was expected that in ad dltion to services at the homes of those who ljved in the vicinity a joint service for all of those who lost iheir lives would be held at the air station on Sunday or Monday. in | ames - her sixth { i | Survivers Return. i The 17 surviving members of the ‘erew arrived at the naval air station |today and were greeted by maore than 500 friends and relatives at the rail. road station. Four of the men were ’Qm(‘l and the rest enlisted men. In {the ecrowd that awaited them ware I many wives and parents, who, for the |Arst time since the disaster, broke down under the strain and wept. The | men were permitted to go to their ! homes to rest after their hazardons ad- venturse Those who returnad wer |, C. Henlay, Columbia, Tenn. Lieut. Lisut. {J. B. Anderson, Hyattaville, Md.: Col | Chalmers G. Hall, United States Army {Alr Service, and Chisf Maehinist Hal- liburton, Macon, Ga. Enlisted men—Henry L. Beswell, Bagdad, Fla.; John J. Hahn. Philadel phia, Pa,; James H, Collier, Iakewaod, N. Ji; Frank L. Peckham. Frontstone, Richardson = Wilson, Yakima. Ralph Jones, lLos Gallf.: Julius Malak. Pa.: Benjamin Hereth, Platonia, Neb Lester K. Coleman, Fort Worth, Tex August - C. Quernheim, Lakehrst. N. 1.i Louis E. Aliely, Logan, Ohie; Frederick J. Tobin, Arlington, Mass., and Raymond Cele, Lima, Ohlo. Mark J. Danovan of Philadsiphia aise was in the party, but did not. come to Lakehurst, dropping- off at his home eit Halliburton sajd that he was in the keel of the ship when the erash eams. The ship hroke, he said. at ssction 96 and at section 130, the latier break oe- eurring near the Waier . resevery LRSS 3