Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1927, Page 3

MRS. EICHWALDT SURESONIS SAFE Sits in Home, Confident Navi- gator of Dallas Spirit Will Be Rescued. By the Associated OAKLAND, Calif., While the outside world commented and speculated, and naval and mer cantile com pass point little haired mother Hay Calif., home sadly bravely. confidently repeating T know Alvin will be safe at home She was Mrs. Florence waldt, mother of Navi M. Eichwaldt, whose dr: “We're in a tail spin” elec August 20.— toward a cific, in tor raced mid-P; sat vessels in her 1y, H. Eich- tor Alvin matic SOS fied the Nntion last night and then threw a | the €loak of nervous anxiety about sate of the rescue plane, Da Spirit, and its crew, Capt. William P. Erwin and Eichwaldt Mrs. Eichwaldt received the first word of her son's call for help with a start. "It she said, and then took off her glasses to wipe off the tears that persisted in welling forth despite her confidence in the sea-faring son “How near is the was the mother’s first query Alvin will he safe at hom: the utmost confidence in my son. will be picked up. Alvin is an cellent swimmer and if they had time to get out their life raft and clini onto it they will be all right. "It had plenty of provisions—I know, be cause I fixed them." RWIN'S FATHER CALM. was a blow,” nearest ship ‘1 know He El es to Comfort Wife in Trying Hour. PAWHUSKA, Okla., Augu —The Rev. W. A. Erwin, father of Capt. Erwin, pilot of the Dallas Spir listened calmly today when told that all traces of his son's airplane had been lost last night after it had sent )S calls. Erwin declared merely that he not given up hope.” He said he would leave immediately Tex., to be with Mrs. Erwin the period of suspense while news frgm their son is lacking. MOTHER OF ERWIN CALM. ster 20 (A). resses Confidence in Safety When Told of Lack of News. DALLAS, Tex.. August Confidence that her son, C liam P. Erwin, is safe, was express- ed today by Mrs. Louise Erwin when the was told that no news had been veceived from her son’s Honolulu- bound plane, Dallas Spirit, since the HOS message radioed out last night by the plane as it went into a tail epin over the Pacific. “That plane’'s safe,” said Mrs. Er- win. “I'm just as confident of it as 1 am of anything in the world.” Mrs. Erwin was at the home here of her son and his wife. The pilot's wife, who had planned to accompany him as far as Honolulu in his Dallas- to-Hongkong flight, but was barred 1 have | ex- | v 11.905-Mile Jaunt Provided Many Thrills for Army Tourists. | 11.905-mile National G of Hanford MacN it Secretary of War, and his fation aide. Capt. R. G. Ervin, be- tween July 4 and Auzust 6, and which resulted in their Army observation plane being christencd the “Spirit of { Unrest™ by Col. MacNider, is regarded |as unparalleled in the history of the Army Air Corps by reason of the fact | that” every objeciive was made on | schedule to the minute. Every point was made on during_the days we flew,” said | | Capt. Ervin, *“not only on time but lon the minute—something that few railroads can b of. True, the | weather was good. the equipment e cellent, co-operation perfect, but it was ail on scheduled time. Our hats are off to the Curtiss F observation plane) and the Curf | motor of 400 horsepower, which made ible The ion flizht time | | this po: | The h points of Col. MacNider's | flight, and points that long will be | | remembered by Capt. Ervin, too, oc- curred after the two had left ¥ 19, following call They started Wyo., S h Dal., July dent Coolic Careyhurst, | town on _the Union Pacific \bout 125 miles north of Ch (o visit former Gov. Carey for a few | | hours City., 8. Pre; for | |on | out | Had Narrow Escape. | “Not being a flyer,” Capt. Ervin | said, the governor did not pick out the { best of fields for a landing, but ter ¢ | looking around the country fora while | T thought I could land all right. We did make a slow landing, but a ditch covered with alfalfa and not visible [from the air was struck, causing the plane to bounce about 5 feet in the { air.” This took the pilot by surprise and he could do nothing but sit and wait, which he did. The plane finally stopped, but about yards from an- other ditch, only this one was about 3 feet deep and 3 feet wide. “As the altitude here is about 6,600 feet, the nothing broken—was very . he added. “The take-off from here will be re- membered, continued the pilot. “After walking all over the fleld, fol- lowed and annoyed by hordes of mos quitoes and ‘nose’ flies, it was finally decided to ti to make it, instead of dragging the ship about 2 miles over rough country to bigger fields. There was absolutely no wind and the ther- mometer read close to 100 degrees, which did not help matters much. There were about 2,200 feet available, slightly on a sidehill and downhill grade. One iarge haystack and two very deep ditches had to be missed, our inspection showed. “Giving her the gun, we started slowly, but the plane did not increase its speed as fast as it should have. After getting so far that it was im- because she was under 21 years of possible to stop, it was absolutely age, was at the bedside of her brother at West Collingswood, N. J. Rev. W. A. Erwin. the father of the flyer, is en route to Dallas by au- tomobile from the family home at Pawhuska, Okla. AIR MAIL DELIVERY T0 SHIP DUE TODAY Navy Pilot Will Try to Drop Sacks on Ocean Liner Leviathan. By the Associated Press. INEW YORK, August 20.—The liner Leviathan sailed today, its passengers #agerly looking forward to witnessing the first shore-to-ship air mail delivery dver attempted. At noon tomorrow, provided present lans do not go astray, Lieut. C. H. hildauer, U. S. N., will arrive above e liner 500 miles at sea with water- proot bags of mail. On sighting the plane the Leviathan 1 reduce speed to 5 knots and eut. Schildauer will fly parallel with the ship, lowering the mail bags at the end of a 500-foot line on a drum. Members of the liner’s crew have been pssigned to grasp the mail bags and| tut them free. A destroyer will accompany the Leviathan to salvage the mail sacks #hould they fall into the sea, and two pruisers will be stationed along the plane’s course in case of emergency. The shore-to-ship plane service is expected to shorten mailing time eross the ocean even more than Clar- ence Chamberlin recently demon strated it could be decreased by ship- to-shore plane service. LIEUT. KNOPE FATALIST. Father Does Not Expect to See Plane Navigator Again. ST POINT, Wi U®).—Lieut. Vilas Knope, naviga the missing planc, Miss Doran, was a firm fatalist, his father revealed today. N. J. Knope, the father, who said he had frequently tried to dissuade his ®on from flying only to be met with the assertion that when “his time came to die” nothing could prevent it, believes he will never see rgain. 20 . August 1 sun. nd An attempt to analy Jizht and also the blood tropic hefore a after exposure to the sunlight is being | SOLUTION “The undersigned hereby the partnershin heretofore ¥ #hin that rmined and shall stand dis. of NICKL. Sub Vilas | necessary to force the plane off the ground to avoid hitting the last ditch, with the result of a sure bad crash.” It was found there that an O-1 will actually fly at 40 miles per hour at 6,600 feet altitude, and the pilot would like to know if there is any other ship of equal weight, horse- power and load that can do this. Carried Down By Current. “The next stop was to be Chey- enne,” he said, “and on this leg to cap the climax of the take-off and in- crease the age of the pilot, another extraordinary occurrence happened. Flying along very peacefully about 15 miles to the east of the Laramie Mountains at 1,000 feet, and in per- fectly smooth air, although a heavy thunderstorm with lots of fireworks was working right over the moun- tains, the plane without any warning at all entered a down current of such intensity that in much shorter time than it takes to teil-about it, it was forced down to 50 feet off the ground in spite of the fact that the pilot had given her full gun and was climbing as hard as possible. “The hopeless and helpless feeling that resulted is indescribable. After landing at Cheyenne, I told the story to one of the air mail pilots, who said: "Oh, sure, that’s nothing out in this country. About three weeks ago one of our bhoys was flying about 500 feet off the ground when one of those things hit him, forced him on the ground and crashed him.” Any one who wants a thrill go out there and hit ‘one of those things.’ " venne Col. MacNider and flew to Colorado Springs, North Platte, Nebr., Mason Jowa, and Yankton, S. Dak., to North Platte, thence to Sterling, then Cheyenne and on into Salt Lake City. Flew Over Varying Country. So far,” continued Capt. Ervin, “the weather had been breaking ab- solutely perfectly, and it seemed that there would have to be a bad day soor, but to our surprise July 26 turned up another wonderful day. Leaving Salt Lake City for Spokane, Wash., at 8:40 a.m., via Bolse, Idaho, and Pasco, Wash., we flew over some of the worst and most beautiful coun- try ever seen from an alrplane. After leaving the Great Salt Lake it is necessary to climb over the Hansell Mountains, and while trying to climb high enough to get over them the motor started missing. “Right at this point there was no railroad within 30 or 40 miles and only one house in sight. Aiming for this house, we started down, but had only gone a few hundred fect when the motor picked up again. The ship made a wide, level turn without miss . so the nose was pointed toward { Pasco, and after passing over tne | west end of 1daho and the east end of Oregon the air mail field at Pasc vas reached, and with graceful leaps and bounds a landing was made to et gasoline after 4 hours and 40 min- | utes’ of seeing tough country, tough air, and having poor visibility. Spokane was reached in an hour's fiying, and a total distance of 640 | miles s covered in 5 hours and 40 | minutes actual flying time. “It seemed to the piloi that air conditions on this route were pretty bad on a fair day and must be ter ble in Winter with wind blowing at e this dtth CHARLES SHE! 410 IBLE FO others than b st w AND_UPHOL mates furnyshed T WORK CEMENT — WALKS. Conine. garaee floors Dorches {ORTHEAST CONCRETE O %th St NE. Line._500 I ¢ ME OTHER CITY set our return load rates. Full an ad shipments to Philadely New eton. | Pittst Richmond “and _w inta Special Phone 1360 PATIONAL DELIV PEACHES e Rocksille Fruit Farm. one mile A A e M. o the road T Potomar il now. Dut wilt Jast only m: stens, 1 part h. g “rates. Main Peaches Ripe AT QUAINT ACR —only 5 mils from District; drive throuzh Bilcer Spring: tum_right av Shgo. . RY_ASSOCIATION. Inc.* out 50 and 60 miles an hour, as it fre- quently does. How those boys on the r mall line make it in Swallows' is a mystery.” Gorgeous Sight Over Rockles. The State convention of the Ameri- can Legion was attended early the following morning before starting | cast at 1050 am. via Miles \ City, M “This route lies directly over the and a more gor- | grous sight ever been seen,” | Capt. Ervin said. ving Spokane, | surrounded by small hills, you run into Lake Coeur d'Alene, one of the | most beautiful lakes imaginable, lying at the foot of the Rockies, its shores surrounded by attractive farms and hom »m there you go over the first | ridge of the kies, where, inci- dentally, there’are no possible places to land for 60 miles, and come out into the first valley, directly over a little town in Idaho, Following the railroad winding its way through the mountains for 80 miles; you come to a second valley and thd town of Mis ' PLANE COMMENDED | ‘Ship. Forced Into Air at 40-i | Mile Rate, Saved from Crash. THE SUT\'T)AY‘STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. AUGUST 21, 1927—PART 1. ] 1 MACNIDER AND ERVIN SET RECORD ON AIR TOUR BY COMPLETING SCHEDULED STOPS ON MINUTE Assistant Secretary of War beside the plane in which he has covered hundreds of miles in the p: it few weeks. soula, Mont. Still following the rail- d, to save a long walk in case of force-down, about 100 more miles re covered hefore Helena, the State bital, is veached, and from where, miles east, the mountains taper off, | the great plains begin. Leads in “Nolhingness. “For vast nothing everything whipped and stretches for about 300 miles east and west and about 150 miles north and south. The | best air line lies close to the railroad, | running down to Billings and then to Miles City. The latter was reached | 6 hours and 5 minutes after leav- ing Spokane, & of 620 miles and against a head wind. | Another long flight was on sched ule the next day. [Peoria, Ill, had tc be reached by dark, so a art made at 640 am. for Mason through the southwest corner North Dakota and diagonally South Dakota. Hers the on weather of the whole trip was en- countered, when it rained for three hours out of Miles City. As the coun. try was flat except for a small section | of the ‘bad lands’ of South made no_difference, and Mason was reached 6 hours and 20 minutes later—a distance of 650 miles. R fueling, after a picnic lunch, off again | for Peoria, where a landing was made | 3 hours and 45 minutes later, due to | the fact that the fleld had been moved and could not be found for some time. A total of more than 1,000 miles v flown between 6:40 a.m. and 7:15 p.m., with 112 hours out for lunch. “After all the trouble to get there, it was found that a mistake had been made in the schedule and no one was expected until the latter part of August, so sail was set once more for Mason City the next morning, where we arrived 3% hours after leaving.” Encountered Heavy Fog. From Mason City, Col. MacNider and Capt. Ervi to Lincoln, Neb., back to Mason City, Rockford, Day- ton, Louisville, Camp Knox, Cincin- nati and Pikeville. The flight between the latter two cities provided more concern for the two airmen. “The weather man said there was to be good weather,” Capt. Ervin said, “but disappointed us by having a thick fog on hand which did not lift sufficiently until 10 minutes of 9. Pike- ville lies in the extreme southeast cor- ner of the State, right in the hill coun- try. Although the hills aren’t very high, still they are mostly straight up and down with no landing fields and very few in the small valleys between them. Information had been supplied that there was a fleld 3,000 feet by 900 feet at Pikeville, but they had faiied to say that two-thirds of the field was in corn, and that the other third had a barn and two trees in it with about enough room to get between them. Landed in Corn Field. “The weather all the way down from Cincinnati was cloudy, visibility poor, ceiling about 500 feet, getting down to zero by the time Pikeville was reached. After circling the fleld and nearby country, it was found that after all it was the only place to land. Picking up a few corn stalks with the landing gear and lower wings, the plane came to rest finally at the edge of the remaining third that was not in corn and a sigh of relief was heard from hoth occupants.” MacNider drove to Williamson, _Va., and attended the State Legion convention and was back in time to Jeave Pikeville at 4:15 for Washington. “The take-off was effected by start- ing in the corn at a place where it was very high” Capt. Ervin ex- plained, “and getting up speed enough to utilize all the good part with a straight run.” Three hours and 15 minutes later the plane landed at Bolling Field. After a rest of one day here, Col. MacNider and Capt. Ervin flew to York and Middletown, Pa.; Albany, Rome and back to Bolling, completing 103 hours and 35 minutes flying time. . MACNIDER RESUMES TRIP. Unhurt in Mishap, Coming Here by Way of Mitchel Field. BETHANY, Conn., August 20 (®). —Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secre- tary of War, who was unhurt when his airplane turned over on landing at Danbury this morning, took the air again here this afternoon for Mitchel Field, N. Y. He was a passenger in a plane pi- loted by Lieut. Louis N. Eller, Regu- lar Army instructor for the Connecti- cut National 2 Mr. Mac) to Washington, D. C., own plane, which he had left at Mitchel Field. Learns to Drive Car at 87. Special respondence of The Star. BELFA . — Eighty - seven young and learns to drive an automo- bile. That's Isaiah W. Cross of Bel- fast, who now drives his own car, and recently while on a visit to Roxbury decided to motor down to Cape Cod just to look the place over. The trip covered 6 miles, as he went to Provincetown, and he made years | their it without mishap or inconvenience. SMITH SAYS DOLE RACE WAS MISTAKE [Flyer Calls Honolulu Hops for $35,000 ““Stunts”—De- plores Crashes. SAN FRANCISCO, The whole Dole air American mainland to Haw big mistuke,” Krnest L. Smith, fi to hop to the islands, v, in commenting upon r that Capt. W. P. | Erwin and A. H. Eichwaldt may have fallen into the sea last night. “It is stunt flying,” Smith declared, ‘not practi with land planes. nd now there are six men and a girl out there somewhere, battling for lives. All for §35,000. It isn't worth it.” Air Currents Tricky. Martin Jensen, Honolulu pilot in the | Do his 1 way aid ce, was quoted as saying that ne went into a tail spin on its across the Pacific, and Smith he hit treacherous currents at Shipping_men here who know of the San Francisco-Hawaii route de- clared today that tricky alr currents have been noted in mid-Pacific, and that in all probability these were not charted so as to warn airmen. Smith was of the opinion that Ir- win might have ripped the covering of his fuselage again, causing him to drop into a tall spin. “Remember how the Dallas Spirit came back after the first take-off,” Smith said, “with the fuselage linen ripped and fluttering like rags? It's a wonder she didn't go into a spin then. Only One Thing to Do. “The only reason I can see for that message (speaking of the SOS from the Dallas Spirit last night that they were in a tailspin), must have been the linen. Maybe the fuselage ripped off again or tall covering, or even the wings. That would throw the ship out of control, and mighty suddenly, t00. “There lsn't anything you can do when that happens, except what Er- win did at the airport—bring the ship down and pray to heaven you bring it down right side up.” Smith upheld the theory that the Erwin plane may have dropped so close to the water that its radio an- teana was dragged off. “We lost ours when we came within a few feet of the waves and didn’t have another,” he said Mechanics in Erwin's camp at the Oakland municipal airport deelared today that Erwin carried one extra antenna_wire with him and that if Eichwaldt could rig it up with a proper drag welght and the radio set was not damaged n the tail spins he should have been able to resume his messages—that is, provided Erwin re- mained aloft. EIGHT CITIES ENTER RACES FOR TIPTON CUP Contests for Amateur Yachtsmen to Be Held at St. Peters- burg, Fla. By the Associated Press. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., August ight cities are entered in the Lipton Cup races which will be held here September-3, 4 and 5, it was announced today by Dr. Fred York of St. Petersburg, chairman of the Gulf Yachting Association fish class committee, who is directing the races. The entries are: Pensacola, Fla. Mobile, Ala.; Biloxi, Miss.; Mande- ville, La.; New Orleans, La.; Houston, Tex., and Venice and St." Petersburg, Fla. About 500 yachtsmen are expected. The races are exclusively for ama- teurs, Dr. York announced, and vachtsmen who have not accepted money awards for yachting during the past six years are eligible. The Eastern Shore Yacht Club of Mobile tied with St. Petersburg last vear for first place and as a result the Lipton cup remained in possession of the Southern Yacht lub of New Orleans, trustee for the trophy. This Horse Sits Down. Correspondence of The Star. LONDON.—London has a horse that sits down in the roadway when bobby puts up his hand to stop the traffic. ' The horse belongs to a firm of coal merchants and draws a load of coal every day. When the vt happens to be stopped by a. traffic cop the horse sits down on its haunches. As soon as the traffic is released it gets up again and goes on. The owners say he's a very intelligent animal. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif. August 20.— Only slight hope for the survival of Miss Mildred Doran and the six men missing on the Pacific between San Francisco and Honolulu was expressed today by naval authorities following a test of a rubber life raft similar to those taken on the_airplanes on the Dole flight and by Willlam P. Erwin and A. H. Eichwaldt on the Dallas Spirit. The test was conducted 30 miles off Point Loma. Three bluejackets from the alreraft tender Gannet, Seamen | W. E. Owens, R. A. Lassarn and C. H. Schnagel, were set adrift in a_six foot rubber raft, similar to the rafts with which the missing airplanes were equipped. The primary object of the novel test was to determine the drift of the raft for one hour in a 15-mile wind. It determined more. Although smooth Tests of Life Raft Show Slight Hope For 7 Flyers Forced Doxyn on Pacific seas prevailed off Point Loma, waves dashed clear over the raft at times, necessitating rapid bailing The three bluejackets were very cramped in the little raft. They drifed three-fourths of a mile in the one hour | they were afloat. Officers sald the raft was too shal- low in the water to be affected ma- terially by the ocean current, but the wind velocity would be a vital factor. The fact that Miss Doran, her pilot, Auggy Pedlar, and Lieut. Vilas Knope, the navigator of the Michigan school teacher's plane, were forced to seck safety in the cramped quarters of the rubber life raft provided they escaped death in the forced landing, makes their condition worse than that of the pilots and navigators of the other missing planes, officers said. The bluejackets in today's test said they were glad to get back to the Gannet after being :drlfl an hour. 15 DAYS, TIE SET - INGLOBE CIRCLING Schlee and Brock to Leave Detroit Tomorrow on Way to Harbor Grace. ted Press August A cireling the globe in the record-smash- ing time of 15 days will guide Kdward I, Schlee, president of the Waco Oil Corporation, and William Brock, his pilot, when they hop off Monday morn- ing for Curtiss Field, Long Island, en route to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, tho_official starting point. Edward 8. Evans, Detrolt manu facturer, and Linton Wells, newspa per man, using airplanes and other means of conveyance, completed a round-the-world trip in 28 days 14 hours and 36 minutes for the present record. By using their plane over the entire charted court of 20,845 miles, Schlee and Brock hope to return to Harbor Grace in 15 days. Reconditioned, Schlee's Stinson-De- troiter monoplane, in which Eddie Stinson recently won thé national air tour, will serve as the flyers’ vehicle. The ‘plane has been christened “Pride of Detroit.” Plane Is Christened. The flyers plan to leave Curtiss Field for Harbor Grace Tuesday. From that point the route lies to London, Stutt- gart, Belgrade, Constantinople and Bagdad. Then through Persia the route swings southward in a loop to Caleutta, Rangoon and on to Hong- Kong. Tokio, the Midway Island Honolulu, San Francisco and th castward through Cheyenne, Chic ind Detroit would return the plane to its starting point. Three ocean hops, each spanning more than 2,000 miles, face the flyers. The first is from Harbor Grace to London, the second from Tokio to the Midway Islands and the last from Honolulu to San Francisco. Preparations for the flight have cen- tered largely around providing for contingencles on these hops. Equip- ment similar to that carried by some of the Dole Honolulu fiyers will be placed in the Pride of Detroit. Special Equipment. The complete emergency equipment, weighing 14 pounds, contains a life raft and oars, two bottles of air for inflating the boat, a 15-day supply of emergency rations, one gallon of water, condensation water cups, dis- infectants and stimulants, a dozen flares for drift correction, two flash- lights, six friction ship flares and a Very pistol for firing red, white and green rockets. The gas tanks when empty should support the plane in the event of a landing at sea, but the time will be dependent upon conditions. Schlee, who is 39 years old, is mar- ried and has two children. Brock, 31, also Is married. SEARCH IS FUTILE WHERE DALLAS SPIRIT FLASHED SOS CALL First Page.) 20. (Continued from sudden activity at dawn. An amateur radio operator at Luke Field reported having intercepted a part of a mes- sage from an unlocated ship stating that the Dole flight plane Golden Eagle had been picked up. A few minutes later a second message was intercepted saying that the Golden Eagle was “being picked up.” Efforts to confirm or trace the mes- sages were futile. The Luke Field radio set is not an official Army sta- tion, It is an amateur station built and operated by men stationed there, The fourteenth naval district ex- tended the search today for the miss- ing Dole planes, sending aircraft and submarines to comb the huge tri- angular area north of the island of Hawali which previously had been less searched than other regions. Two patrols of two planes each left the Pearl Harbor air station before 7 a.m., fueled for flights of approximate- ly 400 miles each. Hawalian Area Searched. One patrol went to Molokal Island, around which they planned to swing through Pailclo Channel. The second patrol started for Hana, at the south- eastern tip of Maui Island, from which they were to return to La- haina, via Alenuihala Channel, join- ing the first patrol. The planes in each patrol were ordered to fly about 10 miles apart, and to send radio reports of their positions every 15 minutes. The submarine tender Holland and eight submarines left Pearl Harbor at 8 am. yesterday to form a line running southwest from Kaena Point, northwest of Oahu Island, to a posi- tion north of Kauai Island, at which they were due at 4 o'clock this morn- ing. The remaining submarines avail- able for formation were returning to Pearl Harbor today from the south- ernmost point of the island of Hawali. Two submarines which were de- tached from formation yesterday to search channels about Maui Island were to rejoin the formation north of Kauai Island. Eight other subma- rines early today were 65 miles north of Kaena Point, heading northwest toward the windward side of Kauai Island. Bad Crash Feared. As a result of radio reports last night that Erwin's plane, the Dallas Spirit, had gone into a tail spin, re- covered and tail spinned again, appre- henslon concerning the fate of the plane was expressed at Pearl Harbor. It was pointed out that a plane going down in a tail spin, particularly when heavily loaded, crashes badly. While the Navy was entirely with- out official information of the where- abouts of Erwin and Eichwaldt and their plane, the flood of rumors be- came so persistent this afternoon that Rear Admiral John D. McDonald posted a lookout on the observation tower at Pearl Harbor with orders to report all airplanes. Standish Statue Planned. Special Dispatch to The Star. PLYMOUTH, Mass., August 20.— Plymouth, landing place of the Pil- grims, may yet have a statue to an individual Pilgrim. The Miles Stand- 1sh Association has proposed the erection of a statue to Capt. Stand. ish. If erected it will be the first of its kind in the town. The first Bellanca airplane, which won 14 first ptizes, was built in a garage in Omaha Home Improvements of All Kinds Heat Your 3350.00 Home Hot-Water Heating System Installed Complete in Six Rooms Extra Radiators at Smafl Additional Cost 1 to 3 Years to Pay H. K. Contracting 424 S5th St. NW. Phone Main 5414 Evenings, Adams 3660 hope of | S ERWIN FAMOUS IN WORLD WAR AS“TERROR OF WESTERN FRONT" Pilot of Dallas Spirit, With Capt. Byrne V.. Baucom, Cited for Daring Exploits Aga.iflst Germgp Army. William P. Spirit Byrne Capt Dallas Capt. Corps, Erwin, pilot of the shared Jointly V. Baucom, Army being the “terror of front” during the war. With Capt. Baucom, the Capt most brilliant American aviator. The two airmen formed the t “Frwin and Baucom.” Erwin the pilot and Baucom Their scope of operations, absolutely fearless and death-defying, hecame known to the enemy and they were feared more by the ground troops than by any other allied alrplane. For their services Erwin and Ban com were given the Distinguished am of was with | to the cf Alr| com now on duty at Brooks Fleld, | 1 Antonio, Tex., the reputation of | sround. Diving down almost level with Western | It, he digpersed the enemy Erwin | f emerged from the war with one of the | ( ecords obtained by any | battery was captured by the Amer V GOEBEL PLANS RETURN. “lyer Takes Plane to Pearl Her- bor for Crating. WHEELER FIELD, Honolulu, Au- st 20 (P).—Arthur Goebel, first Dole in the recent airplane wali, took off in his plane, from Wheeler Field at p.m for Pearl Harbor. His 1l he crated at the Pearl Har- I station for shipment to San stimated {t might do the crating [ race to H: the Woolar winner | great service in this respect ton. another ked of according ' CHANGES HOP-OFF POINT. Capt. Hamilton to Fly From Eng- on occasion he and ' a German battery, in the face strong fire from the nd shot and killed a German officer who was cing on a horse. Then he kept the srman ttoops in a dugout until the land Instead of Ireland. LONDON | cans. the observer. | had ransat the In the Sedan sector six days befe o the armistice wi the oak leaf cluster, along with com. Against the advice of expe enced officers he undertook a recon he 40 miles from 1 of from Dub. | nalssance flight in order that | Service Cross with the ofk leaf cluster | and the French Croix de Guerre, These two airmen lived together, slept together and flew and fought to. | gether. The: emy plane: the Army Air down enemy air particular object in the war. duty was to harass ground break up batteries and destroy lines of communications while flying at the perilously low altitude of 30 feet, with the entire German army shooting anti- aireraft, machine gun and rifle bullets at them brought down ording to re of Corps, but shooting ft was not their Dove on Enemy Lines. Their tactics were to dive down on their target, at a terrific speed, while win opened fire with both his fixed guns which fired through the pre pellor. Then as he pulled up in zoom Baucom, standing up in back seat, poured steel-jacketed bul- lets into the enemy. Invaribly this | with Their | o0& the flight troops, | UPON the | - had the desired effiect—dead, wounded | and fleeing troops. Erwin’ Distinguished Service Cross lauds him | for his “long period of faithful and hl"rflh“' service in which he “set an in- spiring example of courage and devo- tion to duty” to his fellow airmen. He fl_v‘w under the worst weather condi tions possible and in face of heavy odds in the Chateau Thierry engage- ments, and repeated his work in the $t. Mihiel offensive. In the St. Mihiel area he flew as low as 50 feet behind the enemy lines harassing the troops, and on one oc- casion twice drove off enemy p about to destroy an Ameri tion balloon. He frequently e Infantry contact patrols, rendering | filled with rocks citation accompanying the ; O | tinguished n of himself and mpanion, h ay mor could obtain some information that he thought would be of much assistance to the ground forces Flying conditions were almost im possible, but Erwin and Bacum took off. They flew at “perilously low alti. | ¢ ¥ nz for Bris tudes”” and were subjected 55 t stream of antiajrerafs q rifle fire. Their pl bullets, but Erwi into enemy territory. ketting the desired in “poured de London to- )1 tomor- Kills Daughters and VSelf KLAND. y st 20 (4).— Wilic 4 night ind K his daughters, Patricia and Cleo, 16; wounded his w v fatally and then killed > s<hoot! d in the far whilc shot > probe imself. family the Clear Road for Attack. The lone airplane then att ichment of German soldiers that holding back the advance of the rican’ doughboys, giving a clear road to attacking forces. T ped and at low win had to land almost straight . He displaved great skill as a in this mane the citation landing his plane on, a field Immediately the two were attacked by Germans, but with | wn and smoking pistols, they | 2 fought their way through to the | anity's Arec aoed American lines, where Baucom de livered the information, which proved | troops.” Ahes pilot id Av rtments. in- co and shelter is first industry program of 1% increases deman for our graduates After the war, Erwin returned to| private life while Baucom remained in | the service. PBaucom then took the | pilot’s course. qualified as a pursuit | pilot and was on duty in Washington | for four vears up until a few weeks "l“‘f';‘! wlr’:-n riw ;:.'av }:lenl to Brooks LEWIS HOTEL TRAINING SCHOOLS Feld 2 few d e will be ferred t6 March Fieid, Riverside. Callg,| - Pennsylvania_Ave. at 23 Strect win was not awarded the Dis. | P, Service Cross in <0 until a_vear and a half ago. The War Department had the coveted honor for him, but efforts to locate | his address proved unavailing. Fu ther search brought to light his whereabouts and the honors were | bestowed upon him. nd women. or Phone School oven 8:30 a.m. unti Ei Prize Sea Flights Decried in Protest By Aero Official By the Associated Pre: T. JOSEPH, Mo., August 20.— Carl Wolfley, vice president of the National Aeronautic Association, today telegraphed Willilam P. Mac: Cracken, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Commerce, pro- testing against the staging of fur- ther oceanic air flights for prize money. While admitting that the oceanic flights staged so far have been “wonderful,” Wolfley declared that the recent Paclfic Dole air race was too disastrous, and he was convinced present-day equipment would not justify any further at- tempts= to span either the Atlantic or the Pacific Oceans. Wolfley urged the Government to concentrate its efforts in the de- velopment of aviation over the air routes of the United States A copy of the telegram was sent to Porter H. Adams, president of the National Aeronautic Associa- tion, at Washington. BEES ROUT PAINTER. Frantic Home Owner Tries Vain to Get Rid of Pests. Special Dispatch to The Star. DENVER, August 20.—Somewhere in this city there is a happy house painter, a disgusted house owner and an‘Indignant swarm of bees. Lately Mrs. Frances Treese called a painter to paint the roof of her home and contracted to pay him by the hour, The painter encountered a swarm of bees in the eaves of the house, and at their buzzing protest he promptly retreated. The hees refused to move, and they also refused to let the painter on the roof. Mrs. Treese called police. Then she alled the fire department. Neither would help her. In the meantime the painter sought refuge under a shade tree and fanned himself, while his pay went on. He grinned happily as the hours | slipped by and he visioned the size of his check. Mrs. Treese kept telephone wires warm trying vainly to get help. At last accounts the bees still were | holding the fort. in STREET BIDS APPROVED. Four street resurfacing projects, amounting to nearly $50,000, will be done by the firm of Corson & Gruman under a bid approved by the Commis- sioners yesterday. The work will be carried out within the next two months. The locations are: South approach to Highway Bridge, $15,000; Nichols ave- nue southeast, Fourth to Upsal streets, $16,000; Thirty-eighth street, Suitland road to Alabama avenue, and Suitland road, Thirty-eighth street to the District line southeast, $13.200: Twelfth street southwest, E to Water streets, $3.600. MT. VERNON STEAMER Charles Macalester Leaves 7th St. Whar! Daily 10 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. Round Trip, 85¢ Admission, 25¢ and Lunch Counter on St Mt. 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