Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1926, Page 4

8t tudy, decided . ciation, after extensive study, {AVY HEADS HERE | CONFER ON BLAST Officials . Believe Lightning Caused Disaster—Site Chosen With Care. Department officials are inclined to agcept the theory that a lightning bolt £ Bullding No, 8 was responsi- explosives has never the Navy as of much said that within the past three years the Insurance Asso- it was of little use to on Rear Admiral Joseph chief of ordnance and then command- ing ‘at Indlan Head, so reported to “the dej In the case of Lake dmiral C. C. Bloch, JSite Carefully Chosen. The Lake Denmark Arsenal was established many years ago and the 5 site mdubctod with greatest care.| of its isola- Yfl population, and also because of its surface forma- . tion, a number of hills rising. from 300 to 500 feet within the reserva. tion: The numerous storage build- b were erected during the World #‘, but were placed about the hills and at various ‘t‘:e't.fm levels as an additional prof on. In every case where there were two closely adjoining storehouses, one was designed to contain high ex- plosives and the other for storage of non-explosive material. The Lake Denmark Arsenal is the . major storage center for ammuni- tion of the Navy Department. It contained not only the large num- ber of mfl-nbml:n;”.gwt:m bombs TemoY m e B the war, but & 4-inch shells. red by the Navy until the Army ;:I hcll);fiu for their care. Origi- nally manufactured for the Navy- bullt railway guns used in France, | they were transferred with the guns ' to the War Department after the war. Blick Powder Belleved Intact: nts, and were i’v‘:vy"'m-r the ;n‘rtnnd mn was no market to abso; . der ty .0t biack there. Admiral Bloch, the ordnance chief, 'wumotthoutwbotntenmthe Navy Department conference today, ving - from leave be- ‘Williams; chief of - ordnance, who h":l’"n authorized permit: - | ted one newspaper man and a photog- rapher By the Assoclated Press. vaz Yonx‘ ey July: 12.—'&!.‘ Dv'vm account of, losion . er, N. J., by one “:t'im- victims, was lven yesterday Ephraim in, a marine the Brooklyn Nevy Yard. Ervin was a member of a detachment which went to Dover Sat practice. & “I was standing about 100 from shell house No, 21 when & bolt of Hgntning struck a tree, ng it in two end setting fre to it," he sald, “Sparks from the tres (Continued from. First Page.) night. i Gen. Drum late yesterday to make a trip into the area with an n party. They soon had to abandon. their automobile- be- cause of debris which the road, and the shell fire made it neces- sary to crawl to vantage points on ® |in ruins, but the flag was u et Re higher ground surrounding the naval reservation. They proceeded to the scene of th arsenal powerhouse, which was de- molished, and therp could see houses crushed flat to the ground. A large wooden watertank nearby had been split in two and the water had swept the hiliside. The only normal thing noted about the entire reservation was the flag, ‘which continued to fly fromi its pole “ |in front of the commandant's quar- ters. The headquarters itself was Not one of the 500 Army bulldings undamaged. Roofs were scattered and area- furniture and other household e , shattered and crumbled, were lodged’ In all sorts of incongruous places. Even concrete buildings were crushed as.if they had been paper. A shell store of galvanized iron was many places fire passed over the scene and reduced the wreckage to a smoldering, indistinct mass. ‘The extent of damage to civilian ROCKAWAY, N. J., July 12 (®.— Refugees from the shell-rocked area surrou: the burning Navy am- munition depot at Lake Denmark re- urned today o mn;:: oaunt:;‘rn. and made of & peaceful mining valle: :‘a:;nmudlmud.-munmoz e Argonne, Ten square miles about.the arsenal mthlk‘fillnflm”“lll':: for _ thelr treasures, -to. ¥ind 16 BODIES FOUND IN ARSENAL - DISASTER; 200 ARE INJURED were headed in its direction Saturday | would . | near the depot, ated. ! WS D yards | g tod ,000,000. The mill vilage of Mount Hope, ‘was virtually - ed. The t.om of Rockway, two miles Ten towns in Bergen, Morris and ic - counties reported « dama ranging from shattered homes to broken windows. \ At Glenwild Lake, pear Blooming- miles from Lake De: mark, bathers say the explosion caused the water to rise four feet and thonmlmnotbhckfiqwbr. Yes- terday, & 16-inch shell fell in Bloom: ingdale. At Butler, 22 miles away, pleces of debris were found. Splinters of wood 18 inches long were found in Ond;nd, 32 miles from Lake Den- mark. . Thowholougmflhubyfiwom plosion -is & favorite wvacation and | Aj week end territory for New. York|. . | folk, Lake Denmark At M n‘tu;'llz‘.. of mer resort. ou: pe, one the villages severely affected disaster, is an iron mine. - There was. ‘motor: trafic when the dis- of ex Inuonwl: an outragecus and practice. On the other hand, Gov. Moore says that he has no desire to criticize the Federal Government. Explosions. were continuing_ this :-ornlu at the rate of 15 to 20 an our. 5 i bl ge | Strange stories by the | 3-Year Reoord, Climaxed by Loss of $-51 and Explosion, Points to “Jynx.” Consolidated Press. 2 NEW YORK, July 12.—Late last Saturday afternoon, awed and silent Fhied Siat tomb of 38 American saflors. As they looked there was a blast less than 40 miles gway and death and ruin again had visited the Navy with the destruction of the naval ammunition depot at Lake Denmark, near Dover, N. J., and another roll of still unac- counted dead. ‘With scarcely a pause, malevolent still - dog Uncle - Sam’s sea forces, The sinking of the S:51 was the culmination of appalling series of disasters in the Navy, During the pre- ceding three years surface vessels, aircraft and submarines had suffered 8 . accidents, .costing 222' 'lives. a “jynx’—a bird of ill-omen perching on. every fighting top—ha ‘whispered in. the fore- ve been castle in officers’ quarters. Record of Three Years. Exclusive of Saturday’s holocaust and a series of similar explosions Nebr., 12.~There K.”and stbstitutes for.the word O “yes” in the English- language, says !g, e i g8 i i i g 9 §§E§5§ i Lot 5t L) ¥ fezdss &5 H Mainly these multilated than a | ‘yes" are- colloquial - -But op! brought to | employed by many whé hundred yor T ung - people following . list as well as|use “yes™ in its {600 TREES DAMAGED “BY STORM; 60 DOWN Lanham’s Survey Reveals Most Broken Saturday Night Were Prail Silver Maples. which have rocked the Staté of New | Navy's years is as Jei since the ‘war, the r-;g of the last. three follows: g " Accidents WL 12 463 488 ‘While the United States Navy has n.\wné- n known as a hard luck sea force, the story of cumulative Il fortune reached its climax -in the years following the World War. It ‘reached tx‘nax with the series of rigid airship Shenand commander Andi?l of'the érew perish- - | ed in the wreck of ‘the ship over Ava, ©Ohio, Séptember 3 of last year. On' September 7, an explosion in the bofler room of the destroyer Noa took four lives. The 8-51 went :down on Beptember 25. On October 25, § sea- planes were lost at Baltimore and: 11 ‘more ‘wrecked. ‘The evil ly 3 | . | forees walted' until the dead of the from entering the devastated area. fugees Return to Devastated Area To Find Homes Masses of Wrec| and little dwellings destroyed marked the path of exploding shells. Brig. Gen. Drum after an inspection last it ordered the town evacu- through the night and this mol 12 ‘xbd.lnch shells con- SRR pet 0 reclaim whatever of thelr |-mate. animals, possessions have been saved, are al- lowed to pass. Ambulances of the Red Cross on,another search, and kitchens of the Army are moving other trafiic allowed in the grim area.| drove . Rackaway and Dover Hit. “ Rockaway and Dover, larger towns at the foot of the vajley at whose head the arsenal burns, have suffered Bhattered Takes Destroyer for Lake Denmark; N. J:, Secretary Wilbur, Rear Admiral E. A. Campbell, judge advocate geperal, and mh:mufl C. C. Bloch, chief ‘Throughout the i valley exploding shel a yard in diameter. the center of the Army post golf lin) deep well into a well kept %5“1 wg taken from: their tomb. n ti M In. ‘These are recent and climatic: hor- rors in an appalling calendar of mis- O he year 1028 1-fated 16 year ‘was an 1l year. An avalanche of ‘trouble started- with the ramming of the destroyer Zeilen by the transport Henderson in a thick fog in Admirally Inlet on'July 27. No lives were lost, but from then on there was “Jynx” in the crow’s nest. The ‘years for lcel: dents inthe Navy. But 1926 has now chall this record m-‘mn the most of 20, 1928, the submarines 11 collided at Pearl Harbor, Hawali, as the result of confusion in Theré was rejoicing over the ‘but this First while | ington, D. C.; olson, mm-m’um:%mnm- police reports e damage. Prhe trees in the northwest, o HELHCE LIS o i gigéfig"’?iiifi Bitiet (Continued from First Page) lllted.ul are in the =Brooklyn b N address un- Pvt. Charles Hen- drick, Mount Valley, Kans., lacera- tions; Pvt. L. C. Joner, address un. known, lacerations; Pvt. Anton Bush, 3 Corcoran street, Jersey City, N. lacerations; Pvt. A. W. Taylor, ad- dress unknown, lacerations; Bernard Schackman, phlrnmdu st third-class, no ulg ons. 0 rank/was given for the following slightly “injured: Albert Burg, Dell- wood, Minn.; John M. Harrod (previ- ously reported safe), 1440 West Thirty- second street, Cleveland; B. Q. Mye, 216 Finley street, Fostoria, Ohio, MARINES REPORTED SAFE— Q. M. Sergt. Warren F'. Granger, 5750 Rising Sun ."“'k Phlwvl;hm Sergt. Bornl':’ u ‘ash- Sergt. Jackson P, Nich Tex,: Sergt: Norfan &, ~STORE BY THE POLICE olo;r Has Narrow Escape During Ospture, When He Nearly Plunges Through Skylight. ‘ashington avenue, mpeter Ernest Okla.; Pvt. John street, New OSTIA, Italy, July 12 () —Premisr aboard the dreadnaugh! adr. | Mussolini, | TOWN OF 600 DESERTED Remain Amid Debris as Popu- | By the Associated Press. HIBERNIA, "N. J.,' July 12.—This ‘normally ot 600 population, to- throughout-the in hospitals and refugee window in the village is shat. are blown in, numbers of the streets - WILKINS BREAK . v « Flavor.fit for a king! s+ s and it wins a welcome from -every house- wife because you can enjo it every meal, economscally! ’ 8 i Starting 'Tomorrow July 13tk MOROCCAN SULTAN French Pm and Pre- mier Meet Visiting Mos- lem Chief at Depot. By the Atsociated Press, - PARIS, July 15—Paris today re- ceived a distinguished and wurnusual visitor in the Sultan of Morocco, Mulal Youssef, Who has come at the inyita- tion of the government to participate in the celebration of Bastille day and gflmm‘mu-uwmmn Reac! ‘Toulon yesterday on the m%h» “c:mn tn:P:rh by trai 3 en an imposis ;l.lehlm“h at the station. TE gation was headed mmw and 1nelud:yd the premier, the heads of the Benate and Chamber, and representative of the governmental departments. Talks to Newspaper Men. Breaking his traditional silence, the Sultan consented to talk to men whg. on the train en ro;;u to Paris. . Speaking through an inte: reter, he said: ot “Everything in France interests me, and I want to see everything.” He added, with a smile: “I think newspaper men are bothersome, oo TR WELLONES GALLADK PRS- GENEROUS TERMS fiéaohes London by Plane for Conference on Debt to Britain. N, July 12.~The French finance minister, Joseph Calllaux, ar- rived by airplane from Parls early this afternoon to confer with Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, regarding funding of the French war debt to this country, Questioned about the prospects for an agreement, the French statesman sajd: “There is always hope, and one must always keep hopeful.” ‘The * British public expects some sort of surprise package from the con- ference, which opens in Downing Street this afternoon. < Judging from Paris reports, would seem that a complete agree- ment had been reached, with new and important concessions to France, leaving it only necessary for M. Cail- :‘n:mm: put his signature on the dot- British treasury officlals, however, would not admit .that this situation existed. It was maintained that it t the Franco-American debt. funding agree- ment remained the basis of today's negotiations, with Downing street ad- hering to its formula that none of Britain’s war debtors shall pay more proportionately: to the United Btates than to this country. It was reported that M. Caillaux planned to get around this by ob- taining concessions here, and then us- ing them as means of obtaining new terms in Washington. Whether such a_ solution would be forthcoming was a sub; of much speculation in financial circles. “Pennsy” Sued for $15,000. Eleanora Garafele of Fairfax, Va., has filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $15,000 damageg from the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. alleged personal injuries. She she was injured while stepping platform of one car to er August ? last when the train . sudden start. She is repre- ted by Attorney Rudolph H. 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