Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1925, Page 5

DISASTER VICTING * FONERAL TESDAY l.ansdowne, Hancock, Shep- pard and Lawrence to Be Buried With Honors. With full military honors, four of he vietims of the Shenandoah disuster will be laid to rest in Arlington Na tional Cemetery at 11 o'clock Tues. duy morning. The four officers are Jieut. Comdr. Zachary Lansdowne, eut. Comdr. Lewis Hancock, Lieut. B. Lawrence and Lieut. E. W. Shen- pard Arrangements for the funeral serv ices were completed last night with 1 nnouncement that three com panies of blue jackets and three com- panies of marines, under Comdr. John 1. Rhodes of the navy yard. will the military honors. The N Band also will participate, Three of the bodies arrived yester- day and were placed in the receiving vault at the cemetery. The body Tieut. Comdr. Hancock will arrive to- day. It was announced last night that there will be no proc ion frowu the recelving vauld to the graves. The zraves assigned to the Shenandouh ~Victims are In the Dewey section of the cemetery, close to that of Li Lewis Maxfield, who was killed in wreck of the ZR-2 Capt. Evan W. Scott chaplain corps of the fiviate at the servi Officers of the Navy yade the formal requ ight ihat those intending tc fluwers For the victims should hold them until witer 830 o'clock Tuesday morning, #o that they will be fresh on the day of the service The list of pallbeare: our victims was ma t and follows: For Lieut. Comdr. Lansdowne— v Hall, Greenville, Ohio; Gard Knox, Long Island; Comdr. E. G. Allen, Washington; Lieut. Comdr. B. DeMott, Philadelphia; Lieut. dr. W. A. Bdwards, Washington, @nd Lieut. Comdr. M. R. Plerce, Lakehurst. For Lieut Comdr. M. A Long nan, <« chief of the Navy, will of. Department last sen for each of > public last Comdr. Hancock—Lieut. D. B. Beary, Lieut. Comdr. Mitscher, Lieut. Comdr. B. K and Lieut. Comdr. ¥. C. Sher- W1l of this city, and Lieut. J. rinold, Lakehurs For Lieut. Lawrence—Lieut. Comdr. Royce, Lieut. . W. Reichelderfer &nd Lieut. T. T. Patterson, all of this and Lieut. T. G. W. Settle, Lieut nd Lieut. (junior grade) 1 of Lakehurst heppard—Commander E. Lieut. Comdr. D, - Lieut Wilson, Washington: Carpenter, Washington: Lieut inior_grade), C Buauch, Lake- Yurst: Lieut. T. W. Spear, Lakehurst, und K. M. Parsons and Harry Gard ner, both of this city. NAVY AIR OFFICERS DISPUTE MITCHELL Declare Hawaiian Flight Was Per- festly Planned—Say Serv- i ice Progresses. Br the Associated Pross. N FRANCISCO, September Lieut. Comdr. James Strong, com- mander of the naval seaplane PB-1, issued today the fol g statement in reply to Col. William Mitchell's charges relating to the Army and Navy air service: ¥ The flight (the San Francisco-Hon- olulu non-stop project), was perfectly planned. Any one of the three planes ‘could make it. The PN-9, No. 1, had already made a 28-hour flight, which is sufficient to reach Honolulu. We cannot say what went wrong with the PN-9, No. 1. The engines and planes are far superior to have ever had. Plane guard vess e not too far apart for radio com- work or for safety. aval aviation has developed re- markably in the past few years and mlong progressive, farsighted lines. .Attempts such as this would require maximum performance and assist to 5 great degree in developing aircraft and engines.” Similar comments were made by Lieut. Allen Snody, commander of the PN. 0. 3, which was forced down and towed back after making 300 miles of the Hawaiian flight HOWARD ELECTED HEAD OF ARMY AND NAVY UNION Local Man Bring National Headquarters to Washington. Chaney O. Howard, librarian Bureau, was elected nder of the Army and Navy Union at the thirty-seventh an nual encampment held last week at Cincin Capt. Howard is past local garrison nder. His election as national imander for is sald, means the immediate national corps h cinnati to Washington Following his election and installa- tion on September 2, Comdr. Howard mnnounced that his staff would in- arles L. Fox of the District corps’ adjutant general; Mcllree of the President’s s chief of staff, and H. Harrls, Quar- S. Marine Corps national corps’ ter general encampment will be held in o nearby and preliminaries will be directed from the new offices here. New garrisons, new members und reconstruction of old garrison snd department charters is the aim Comdr. Howard. DEATHS ACCIDENTAL. Coroner's Jury F‘;S_ Two Were Killed in Mishaps, Verdicts of accidental deaths were yeturned by a coroner’s jury yesterday tgfternoon in the deaths Friday of Famuel M. Dickerson, 15 years old. who 11 down an elevator shaft, and Eimer S. Carrick, 33 vears old, who flicd from an electric shock. Selection Expected to Capt. of the Pension mational comi ters from ation: John ¥, headquar quartes Dickerson, who lived at 1133 Twenty- fourth street, was killed when he fell from the sixth floor through an eleva- tor shaft of a building under con- #truction at Seventeenth and-1 streets, vhile Carrick, whose home was at 1029 Fourth street northwest, received an trical shock when he attempted n off a switch at the National Woodworking Co., 39 New York &venue northeast. ATRPLANE PLANT PLANNED. CLEVELAND, September 5 (Spe- ‘ ’ 11).—Construction will start shortly Yiere on mechanical headquarters and £l:ops for the, National Airw ort Company, which wi ted at the Cleveland air pany will operate u press and mail service by air Dew Tork to Chicago. . |original consignments after the first | jafter y 1 of the| Scrap the Navy, of most of it, re- duce the army materlally and every- body put on their flying togs and en- joy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in the great open spaces. Such, in substance, are some of the recommendations contained in Col. “Billy" Mitchell's new and “umn- censored” book, “Winged Defense,” now going the rounds of higher-ups in the military establishment. Col Mitchell's statement of yesterday re garding the Shenandoah and PN-9 has served to increase interest in his book even further. As was to be expected, Col. Mitchell smoke screen, nor spare gold braid or | silver stars of those directing Amer- | ica’'s defense in his writings. Perhaps | he waited until the book was published to submit it to his su-| periors in accordance with the War | Department regulations. | At any rate, the publicity attendant | upon Col. Mitchell’s decision to do his | owf editing has not burt the sale of | the volume any. Book stores in this | city were soon sold out of their | accounts of the book were printed | in local newspapers, most of the vol- | umes finding their way into the of- | fices of officlals at the War and Nav. departments, it is reported. Bo store proprietors lost no time in wir ing extra orders. Cartoons Hit Superiors. | As has been said, “Winged Defense” is emgbellished with numerous repro ductions’ of cartoons depicting vari ous aspects of Mitchqll's_ attacks on | the aviation policy of Mie military de- partments, but these cartoons cannot 1d to be a part of the book itself. | v are used as miniature decora- | on the inside of the cover. Col. | Mitchell is quoted as saying they were | put’ there by the publish without his knowledge. Secretary Weeks and Col. Mitchell are prominent figures in several of them, the latter in the role of publie hero. The book itself is not lengthy, com- prising but 10 chapters, but there are, in addition, a prefatory explanation of who Col. Mitchell is, a foreword of sev- eral pages b the colonel himself, a | preface which is in reality a summary of the entire work, a closing chapter | giving the author's conclusions in no | uncertain terms and a voluminous ap- pendix detailing the work of the G ernment’s agencies dealing with aero. nautics. Sees Air Era Dawning. Opening his book with the assertion | that “the world stands on the thresh- old of the ‘aeronautical era,’” during which epoch “the destinies of all peo- ple will be controlled through the air,” Col. Mitchell pictures & future any- thing but rosy for America unless she awakens to the possibilities of ‘air power."” The wars of tomorrow, he declares, will not be fought by armies or navies, but by aircraft, and there will be no need for a general draft of the coun- s man power, as in the World War. enough men to direct the coun- air fleet will be needed, he Now and then, he admits, the com- ander-in-chief of the air forces may find it advisable to call on'a ‘sub- marine or two for special duty in mid- ocean, and even a battieship might be used under certain conditions, but on the whole the Army and Navy can sit back and watch the excitement, the colonel indicates. The former assistant chief of the Army Air Service reviews sketchily the development of aviation during| and since the World War, lamenting, | withal, that “all of the great nations | except the United States have adopt- ed a definite air doctrine as distin- guished from their sea doctrine and their land doctrine.” He repeatedly urges a separate department of aero- nautics, co-equal with, if not superior | to, the War and Navy Departments, | Recalls Bomb Tests. | The bombing gxperiments off Chesa peake Bay in 1993 are reviewed in de tail, with unconcealed enthuslasm over the sinking of the ships regarded as impregnable. Charges that the Na “insisted” on carrving-out the-tests under conditions unfavorable to air-| craft are contained more or less| directly in several places in the volume. Mitchell loses no time in aiming an alr service “bomb” at his superiors, inserting the following remarks in the preface at the.very outset: “There never has been any lack of interest by the people in aviation in the United States. What has hindered its de- velopment has been the extreme con- servatism of the executive depart- ments of the Government. The pres- sure of the people on Congress has resulted in the beginning of decisive congressional action.” “From a military standpoint,” the preface continues, “no specific mis- sion is assigned to our national aero- nautics. It is regarded as an auxiliary | to the Army and Navy. Actually, there is no air force in the United tates. The system of creating one s so complicated and so difficult to | put in motion that an air force could | only be brought to a state of efficiency | ars of trial, hundreds ef-mis- takes and the wasting of many lives and gillions of dollars in money. In other’ words, relatively, we are little better off than we were at the begin- ning of the World War. Turning again to the Navy, the author said: “Surface navies have en- tirely lost their mission of defending @ coast because aircraft can destroy or sink any seacraft coming within their radius of operation. In fact, aircraft today are the only effective means of coast protection. Conse- quently, navies have been pushed out on the high seas. The menace of sub- marines from below and aircraft from above constitutes such a condition that the surface ship as an element of war is disappearing. Today, the principal weapon of the sea is the submarine with its mine la; fighters and torpedo craft Sums Up Hearing. In connection with the . aircraft hearings held by Congress the author “The evidence before both con- ional commiittees plainly showed : 1. There should be a depart- ment of aeronautics charged with the complete aeronautical defense and the aeronautical development of the coun- try. 2. There should be an aeronau- tical personnel entirely apart from the Army and Navy, and 3. There should be a department of_ national defense. h subheads for the air, Army and av: Nay\'ies. Col. Mitchell continues, have | Chesapeake was the best p [it. {along the’ bottom of a been ‘“'so tremendously - curtatled by the advent of aireraft, it is probable THE SUNDAY STAR, 1 IMITCHELL’S BOOK SEES PLANE | KILLING NEED OF ARMY OR NAVY Latter’s Usefulness Virtually Outlived, Former in Stage of Arrested Development, Air Officer Says « in Uncensored “Winged Defense.” that they will again revert to being an auxiliary of armies and air forces.” Armies, he adds, may be said to have reached “an epoch of arr ment” and their role “will much the same in the future as it has in the past, if air power does not entirely prevent them from operat- ing.” Navies, he asserts, are “in a period of decline and change.s ¢ ¢ The surface ship, as a means of mak- ing war, will gradually disappear.” “In studying the battleship,” the author goes on, “we found that its bottom was its most vulnerable place. It contained no armor and had stic ing out of it the open water pipe con- necting with the condenser system g 3 < behind u|The use of the water hammer or! figiC ‘hide his, sukgesiiy | water hnpelled with great force by | an explosion under the bottom of the vessel would certainly cave in the bottom, spring the seams and cause the vessel to sink.’ Amused By Navy Secretary. Recalling the ajrplane-battleship controversy of 1920, Mitchell makes this remark: “It as an amusing fact at the Secrets of the Navy at that time announced that * * * he was willing to stand on the bridge of the ship while we bombed it. * * ¢ orced to action by the joint resolu- tious of Congress, the Navy Depart- ment began drawing up conditions under which these vessels should be destroyed. * * * The Navy insist- ed on anchoring the target ships on what is known as the 100-fathom curve, which lies about 76 miles out to sex from the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. * * * As we might have to naneuver for an hour in approaching he targets and discharging our pro- jectiles at a speed of 100 miies an hour, we .would probably have to iy 300 hundred over the water on each bombing raid. “In tme of war, of course, we would take the chance, but in time of peace it was entirely unnecessary to send alrplanes so far out at sea. There were two other places that could have been used, one at Cape Hatteras where the 100-fathom curve came within 20 miles of shore; and the other at Cape Cod, where it came within 10 miles of iand. But the majority of the naval officers were so #ure that the air attacks would prove ineffectual, that it was desired to show as many Congressmen as pos- ible how little could be done b; air force, and us the sea off the for this, it was chosen. Saw Reasons for Demands. he reason that the ships were anchored in 100 fathoms was because it was required that they be sunk in deep water by the terms of the inter- national agreement, and, next, our bombs would not have so great an effect as they would if the water were not shallow. In shallow water, if we can burst the bombs against the bot- tom, they may explode up on against the bottoms of the vessels with very much greater force than where th water is deeper, in which case there |18 no ‘tamp’ upward against the ship- ping. It was up to us, however, to show what we advocated could be done, s0 we had to accept the condi tions as they were offered. These made us operate under conditions that were about as hard as could be drawn up for the accomplishment of the dif- ficuit experiment.” In a chapter on “Civil and Com- mercial Aviation,” the author draws a picture of great airports of the futyre, housing as many as five huge padsenger-carrying dirigibles. Col. Mitchell comes out strongly in sup- port of lighter-than-air craft for com- mercial purposes. “It is difficult to convey an idea of | the comfort states. of airship travel,” he “There is really nothing like The cabins are large and commo- dious. One can walk around. There are no severe shocks or jolts as are ex- perienced on a railroad train and al- most no undulations such as are expe- rienced on sea craft. There is no dust, no noise and any temperature desired can be maintained. The view from the cabin windows gives one a better idea of the country than it is possible to get by other means of transporta tion. When people understand the safety of this method of transporta- tion it will be very popular.” Hits Appropriation Limit. In a later chapter another dart is launched at the executive departments, as follows: “Another very important consideration {s the budget. So long as the budget for the development of afrcraft is prepared by the Army, Navy or other agency of the Govern- | ment, aviation will be considered as an auxiliary and the requisite amount of monéy, as compared with the older services, will be subject to the final declsion of personnel whose main duty not aviation. This. has resulted in an incomplete, inefficient and ulti- mately expensive system of appropri- ating money.” Suggesting that another conference for limitation of armament be held, Col. Mitchell declares that “as a pre. liminary step in developing the whole theory of the limitation of armaments, it is belfeved at this time that it is practical to do away entirely with the surface battleship, the airplane carrier, certain naval hases and dock rds and many useless and expen- sive organizations of ground coast de- fenses. * * * We may look forward to the establishment of a permanent international committee charged with considering the views of any nation on the question of a limitation of armaments.” Venturing a few predictions for the future, the Air Service writer has the following to say: "1 can say now, definitely, that we can encircle the globe in a very short time on a single charge of gasoline.” Deseribes Storm Danger. An interesting discussion of storms that affect aircraft is contained in the book. Formation of a storm such as is reported to have wrecked the Shen- andoah is described in language re. markably similar to that used by sur- vivors of the dirigible in recounting the storm in Ohlo. “Although the storm as a whole,” it fs explained, “may move at 20 miles an hour, the wind velocity within it is sometimes 150 .miles an hour. As the storm moves along the air near the ground is retarded by comlng in contact with trees, houses and other obstacles in just the same way that the current river is re. tarded. In consequence the air above travels faster and the result is that the whole thing moves along the ground like a rolling cylinder. This downward rolling movement of the air has a tendency to precipitate an airplane onto the ground in the same manner that a current may precipi- By the Associated Press. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany( September 5.—The report from Amer- ica that eight of the safety vn.lve.| were removed from the "dirigible | Shenandoah before the flight which ended in her destruction is regarded at the Zeppelin works here as a logi- cal explanation of the disaster. - It is believeq that the dirigible was % 3 =5 B Removal of Valves Explains Disaster To Shenandoah to Zeppelin Experts hampered in maneuvering after the removal of so many valves, as the remaining ones could not discharge helium gas quickly enough when the ship was forced suddenly to a high altitude. The Zeppelin directors also believe that the valves in themselves were too small, as_they were intended for hy- drogen, the specific gravity of which is less than that of helium. ted develop- | remain | the | | despond.” WASHINGTON, NEBRASKA SENATOR SAYS SHIPS CAN PAY Howell, After 92-Day Cruise, Convinced U. S. Should Operate Lines. Senator Howell, Republican, Ne- braska, who returned yesterday from an African trip, during which he trav- eled 92 days on Shipping Board and foreign ships, declared he was con- vincéd that the.only way the United States could build ‘up commerce on the sells was by Government opera ton. Thi: tion ¢ method of Government opera- #hips can be made a success, | he said, if th re operated fo “blood” on a competitive business sis without any gentleman's agree- Under the present system, he there is no incentive for Gov. ernment shipping employes to make a lline & success because a n ax one becomes xuce it is sold to pri vate opes | ment. | added, ful . Li 1l Manned. enator con- . because they maintain a per crew. British officers and se men go into the shipping service their lifetime work and after a period of vontinuous service they are retired on a substantial pension, he said. On the other hand, he added, ships gre operated by temporary and crews, who are paid off wfter each vo Stopped for Repairs. ‘The Nebraska Senator said he started on a voyage on the American South African line with a Schedule of days. The ship put out, he charged, without being properly con ditioned' and three times had to be stopped and have one of the engines sverhauled and it required 33 days to mplete the trip. He declared the ter ship to the one he was on had previously required $0 days to make the same voyage with passengers aboard. The British ships, he said, maintained an unbroken schedule. NO SHIP COULD STAND ' STORM, UPSON AVERS iBalloon Authority Declares Squall ! That Wrecked Shenandoah ! Was Too Violent. | By the Associated Press | DETROIT, September ither {the Shenandoah nor any other power- |driven aircraft could hyve weathered {the violent line squall in which the {Navy's dirigible met disaster Thurs \day.” Ralph Upson, former interna {tional balloon champion, said today ir. Upson is considered one of the |country’s foremost authorities on meteorology in relation to flying light- er-than-air- craft The danger confronting a dirigible {when caught in such an atmospheric {condition as prevailed near Caldwell, | Ohio, is fourfold,” he said. { “In the first place there is the dan- ger of being carried up so fast that she cannot discharge the expanding gas quickly enough to prevent burst- ing. " An alternative danger is being carried back down, producing a nega- tive pressure so fast that it is impos- ible to valve the air to equal the out- |side pressure. When the outside pres sure is greater than that inside, the hull is bound to collapse. | “Thirdly, there are the bending mo- ments in the structure of the ship dug |to the forces of the air outside. | _““The controls, too, were inefficient. They all were worked by hand, and the surfs of the rudders and ele- vators were so huge that considerable effort was required to move them. The unwillingness of pilots to valve I helium was another bad feature, he said. Still another contributing fac- tor, he belleved, was incomplete weather data. tate a ship against the rocks. the equipment best thing we c these storms. “‘Aircraft need have no great diffi- culty with such obstacles. All that is necessary is a proper meteorological {service equipped with an efficient radio system and good mnavigation instru- ments on the plane: “I want to sa the lighter-than- the dirigible, another part of his work With vailable at present the n do is to keep out of »mething about machine—that is, Col. Mitchell states in There were many ups and downs en- counter with it, but before the World War the Germans succeeded in Tying 200,000 passengers in airships without a single acciden Our ftigures show that, in the larger airships with a full load, passengers can be carrled for distances of over (500 miles at about 3% cents per * ¢ An excellent lighter- air station can be constructed about $5,000,000. Five airships, running continuously from New York ple as are carried on all the fast {trains at the present time.” Says Helium Progress Slow. ‘Satisfactory progress is being made in the development of helium gas,” he continues. “By using non- inflammable helium gas in alrships oped which is sure, safe and reli- able. We have, then. two means of navigating the air that are fairly well developed. One is the airplane. *"+ * Then we have the lighter- than-air machine or airship. Neither of these classes have reached their ultimate development, but real prox- ress is being made daily in perfect- result of the lack of: “In a few years we may expect air lines from the United States to Eu- rope and Asia via the Arctic and to Australia and Africa via South Amer- ica and the Antarctic continent,” the book asserts. The concluding chapter of “Winged Defense’” harbors another sally at America’s air policies. many years of service and an intimate knowledge of the aeronautical organi- zation of each of the great powers,” the colonel emphasizes, “I am con- vinced that our inefficient national military aeronautics, our undeveloped civil and commenciai aeronautics, and our curtalled and interrupted experi- mentation in aeronautics are a direct result of: A department of aeronautics to handle the whole air question, co- equal with the Army and Navy. Sees Real Policy Needed. A definite aeronautical policy. . An_organization, both military civil, to fit the aeronautical . A method of providing suitable personnel for all air undertakings. “5. A single system of procurement and supply for all air undertakings. *“6. A system of instruction and in- spection for all air elements. “Until these fundamenftal principles for the creation of air power are put into effect, the air power of the United States will continue to floun- der in the siough of acromautical & American | “The Ger- | mans used a dirigible airship in 1900. to Chicago, could carry as many peo- | a means of transportation is devel- | “As a result of | D. C, SEPTEMBER | Crew’s Fight (Continued_from First Page.) morning chores were interrupted by the advent of the airship on her Mid- western cruise, or how Its whirring propellers aroused them from their sleep, causing them to clearly follow the course of the dirigible. The fact that their eyes were riveted on the marvel of the air made them witnesses to the United States Gov. ernment’s investigation. All of them told that while they watched they noticed the shifting course of the ship, how it swerved |and careened, and elevated and i swooped, and then how it buckled amidships, drooped doywn at both ends and broke fn two. They further testi- fied that they saw the parts drifting about In the air separately, one part settling shortly out of sight beyond the bhills and the other rising and soaring away and beyond range of | vision over a distant eminence. Parts dropped out of the open ends, they relate. The next of their experi- | ences were their rushing to the scene where they saw survivors climbing from the wreckage and where they helped retrieve bodies from the wreck- <e and in one instance from s hedge where ‘the victim lay concealed for hou here was an enforced reaction to- to the vandalfsm that has pe vaded the region of the di early Thursday morning. Pressure of public opinion, the pleas of officials carried by the press and the presence of Department of Justice officials workifig under orders from Washing ton, caused souvenir takers Lo return thefr loot to the investigators today. | day Barograph Recovered. The much sought-for barograph was returned as were parts of the seven separate logs of the ill-starred ship. Valves measuring three feet across, binoculars belonging to the officers, | graph-charts, clothing and papers 6, SUPERSHIP ASKED TO CARRY ON FOR ILL-STARRED SHENANDOAH Wreck Inquiry Board Finds Dirigible Twice Size of Ill-fated Giant of Air Is Needed Immediately. 1925—PART 1. Called Epic. were returned. Sill there were &hou- | sands of pieces of aluminum frame- work and dozens of instruments scat- | tered throughout the counties sur. rounding the scene of the disaster and wherever sightseers have returned. In them or in their taking many have lost an important story that the Navy Department should know, the investi- gators said as they continually ex- pressed their regret at the hysteria of the crowa The last of the survivors of the wreck left Caldwell today for Lake- hurst to join their comrades who left two days previously for their home port. During the morning the last of the bodies of the victims were en route | elther to the keeping of their families or to Arlington to lie among the hon- ored dead in the National Cemetery All of those on the ship as it out of the East on the fatal morning | have now left the region of disaster except two Injured who lie in a Mari etta hospital. Lieut. Comdr. C. . Rosendahl, be- fore his departure, asked the Asso. clated Press to express to the authori- ties and citizens of Noble and sur rounding countles his deep apprecia- tion for “the wonderful co-operation they had accorded him. Lieut. Edward Carsey, Columbus, | brought a message to Capt. Steele late today from Gov. Vic Donahey of | Ohio, conveying the sentiment that | all Ohio is bowed in grief by the dis | uster. The services of the State were | offered by him and he was told of | the ceremony at the Ohio State fair- grounds Friday, when 25,000 people arose in the grandstand and with bowed heads paid a moment's tribute | to,the Shenandoah dead. Capt. Steele returned to Lakehurst | tonight at the conclusion of his in- | vestigation. Comdr. Klein is ‘thus left in charge of further details of the data gathering. The investiga- tors do not know how long they will remain here. i LAKEHURST HONCR SHENANDOAH DEAD Memorial Exercises to Be Held at Same Time as Arlington Services. By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J.. September —Flags remained at half staff through- out Ocean County today, while plans were made for memorial services to be held for the officers and men who lost thefr lives when the dirigible Shenandoah broke into three sections in the air above Ohio, Thursday morn- ing. Comdr. F. R. McCord said that mps of the officers of the naval air station planned to be present at Arlington { Cemetery when the services for the dead take place, probably on Tesday At the same hour, memorial services section where the Shenandoah was Choirs From Churches. haplain Comdr. Frank R. Kranz will be in charge of the services, and the naval air statlon band will take part. Choirs from several churches in_the vicinity will be asked to sing. The body of George S. Schnitzer, adio engineer, arrived at Tuckerton, members of the Tuckerton Mason: Lodge to the home of his parents-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Parkes, where funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon. A firing squad from the naval alr station will attend Will Lie in State. he body of Charles Broome, ma chinist mate, which will arrive at the Pennsylvania Station in Atlantic City tomorrow morning, will lie in state in All-Memorial Hall from 6 o’clock Mor day evening to 10 o'clock Tuesda morning, when funeral services be_held. The bodies of C. P. Mazzucco and James A. Moore, jr. both machinist mates, arrived in Jersey City tonight. FINDS AIRSHIP F:‘APERS‘ Flyer Recovers N. A. A. Charter Granted Youngstown. TOWN, Ohio, September 5 —Ernest S. Hall, Warren aviator, 2y flew to the wrecked Shenandoah 2d found the charter of the Youngs- | town chapter of the National Aero- nautic Association in the control {cabin. He delivered it to Arthur J vneh, one of the chapter's organ- ers, on his return here. The charter was to have been dropped from the Shenandoah as it flew over Youngstown. i “Please keep the door closed to pre- vent swallows building inside the church,” reads a notice posted on the church door in an English. village. Hotel Inn Phe Main 8108-814 604-610 9th St. N.W. 5 T ey 137 with £'io Toom. B0% mo 0f Special Interest to Good Architects and Builders the matter of perfect sanita- tion in the buildings they erect. While advancement has been made in many lines, the in- sanitary functioning of the com- monly installed toilet or water closet by permitting the dis- agreeable odor accompanying their use: to escape into the place where they are used con- tinues. Thus far, this has been accepted as an unavoidabie nuisance, but_that is no longer necessary. A demonstration is being given at 1228 H street northwest of a closet combination that effpctively draws and drives out " the offensive odor, and leaves the air as pure after its use as it was before. It does this with- t any expense; wastes no ST in its mechanical “rrh. thereby making repair bills of rare oc- currence. Every Architect, Builder and Householder is deeply interested in this household necessity, and therefore should avail them- selves of this' opportunity of seeing what is being exhibited and demonstrated at the given address. Open Monday at 9 AM. will be held within the hangar, in the | housed during her stay at Lakehurst. | today and was escorted by the | {GANGSTER TIED, BURNED | TO DEATH AS REVENGE Brutal Punishment Meted Out to Man Who Violated “Under- world’s Tenets. By the Associated Pre: NEW YORK, September 5.—The underworld of the East Side inflicted murder in one of its cruelist forms on | one of its own members today. A charred body, identified as that of Morris Grossman, of this city, | | a gangster, was found in the wreck of | a burned sedan automobile on East | Eighty-first street early this morning. | He had been shot four times through | the body, and imprisoned in the car, | with his wrists tied behind his back | before the car was set ablaze. | Grossman, police said, had a crimi- | | nal record,” including numerous ar- |rests in connection with shootings. | Revenge for a violation of one of tI | unwritten tenets of the underworld, police believe, probably was the motive for the crime. | Identification was made by compari- son of finger prints. | Feathers of which the color is washed out by rain are the curious possession of the touracou, a bird na- | tive to Senegal Youveturnedto Studehaker | tradefaronetodai | FLORIDA | | | [l Investments Crystal Beach, just south of ||l Tarpon Springs.’is in the heart it of developments involving mil- I|l tions. Prettiest Beach on Guif Coast. Paved streets, Water and Electricity. A. C. L. Sta- )l tion on property.” On Dixie Highway and Guif Shore Drive. Convenient to Tampa and St. Petersburg. Busses to any point in’State. A few good lots left at a reasonable price. Call, write or phone J. C. Adams. Il Mutual Real Estate Co., Inc. 1226 14th St. NW. Main 8071 | LOTS For : ?ale Clarendon, Va. Arlington Park Subdivision $200 Up 0s. 18 and 19, Block 6: 7 to 16 and 20 to 23, Block 23 to 25, Black 8, between car lines on Park Avenue and Chest- nut Street. Will sell as a whole or in groups. By owners. Address Box 22 | Copley Courts 1514 17th St. N.W. f Make Reservations Now Leases Begin Oct. 1st Desirable Apartments Reasonable Rents Excellent Service Apply Manager on Premises Main 4500 or Columbian Investment I Corp. T i 5 |EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS ARE RECORDED HERE Disturbance 5,500 Miles Away. Bendandi Reports Tremors 124 Miles From Faenza. * BIG STILL SEIZED ON CHILLUM FARM Prisoners Claim to Be Ten-| ants of Roscoe Bruce, Negro Educator. A “very sharp” earthquake was re- | corded between 11:41 a.m. and 2:30 { p.m. yesterday on the seismograph at orgetown University. Father Ton | dorf, seismologist, said the maximum turbance was recorded between 3 o'clock and 12:18 o'clock. He es | timated the distance at 0 miles | from Washington, but was unable to determine the direction CLEVELAND, September 5 (#). Special Dispatch to The Star HYATTSVILLE, Md., September Five negroes and a quantity of alleged distillery equipment were selzed emy“ yesterday at the farm near Chillum, | sn"“earth tremor. beginning about said to be owned by Roscoe C. Bruce, | 11:11 a.m.. and lasting almost an hour former assistant superintendent of the | was recorded on the ‘\“‘h_”"'gr"'p!’ ot colored schools of Washington. John Caroll University, Father ¥. L. o Odenbach announced late today. The Iifforts were made by Sheriff Fink | maximum occurred at 11:3%. Indica- last night to communicate with Bruce | tions are the shock occurred many in New York to notify him that the | Miles from Cleveland place was unattended and the stock | FAENZA. Italy, and poultry might suffer. | The seismog of Raphuel Wives Held as Witnesses. !.,u,, ke prophet The prisoners are Melvin J. Stub.|mic disturbanc blefield, Hal and Lucius Layman and | dications were that the wives of the Layman brothers. ahaut.. 300~ kllometers The men are charged with manu. | %" acture and possession of liquor and are held under $6,000 bonds each, in | lieu of which they were sent to the Bladensburg jail. The women are | held in $500 bonds each as material | witnesses Equipment Elaborate. Sheriff Fink said the Puu!]’\"\flnl} seized was the most elaborate ever | (). taken in a raid in this county. About, mained in 100 cans which had contained alleged | fortress of 1 Iye, believed by the officer to have | ment yesterday been used to aid in the fermentation | President processes of liquor manufacture, were | The delay in the transfer is caus- found about the premise ing much uneasiness. Gen. Rivas has Stubblefield said he h held the fortress since the recent raid ployed by Bruce to look in protest against the inclusion of pla in his absenc Jiberals in the binet Pine Whiff Beach New South River Subdivision Adjoining South River Park ONE MILE OFF WASHINGTON-ANNAPOLIS (FORMERLY PART OF FAIRLEA) September 5 (#) the Observato, ndi, Ttaly's earth ded a violent seis morning. The in- the shock was (124 miles) dis re RIVAS RETAINS FORTRESS. Ignores Agreement to Surrender | LaLoma to Nicaragua Head. A MANAGUA, Nicaragua, September Alfredo Rivas today »asession of the strategical despite his agree to surrender it olorazano. i been em after the ROAD Many lovers of shore property have wondered when this beautiful estate would be subdivided. Now is your chance. Lots for sale. Natural sandy beach. Beautiful level ground. Water view from every lot. Magnificent salt-water bathing. Good fishing, crabbing and boating. Buy now and save money. Prices advancing. Turn to right half mile this side South River Bridge. Representative at beach over Labor Day Frank Bernard Adams 3233 Bungalows 7 Buili—2 Left $350 CASH AND $65 PER MONTH Why pay rent when you can buy on such easy terms and get value received. They contain 5 large rooms, attic, hardwood floors throughout, beautiful electric and plumbing fixtures; large lot, etc. To inspect, drive north or transfer to bus at 15th and H Sts. N.E. and ride to Channing St., 2 blocks east Garman Bros. 2423 Bladensburg Rd. Lincoln 9400 Auction Sale of 30 Lots Clarendon, Va. Wilson Boulevard Saturday, September 12 2 P.M. Perfection and Low.Cost in Installation and Operation Simplicity—Efficiency—Economy Electrical Ignition—Thoroughly Reliable Absolutely Noiseless and Odorless “TIFFANY” The Last Word in Oil Burners for Residences i From the Smallest to the Largest AUTOMATIC TEMPERATURE CONTROL BURNS LOW-GRADE FUEL OIL The Lowest-Priced Oil Burner of Its Class on the Market F. E. MAGEE, Agent 1365 Conn. Ave. Main 3409 NOW IS THE TIME Open Evenings 516 Evans Building