Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1927, Page 3

NATIONAL DEFENSE MAYRULE SHIPPING Entire Question May Be Re- opened on Basis of Needs of Country. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Although the Geneva conference was intended as a step to reduce ar mament, it may turn out, so far as the United States is concerned, that the entire question of shipping policy will be reopened on the basis of the needs of national defense Admiral Hi the General Board of the Navy, wants ® merchant marine developed s iliary weapon because the naval men to the reliance the British Navy on mer which can be converted into scout ves- sels and commerce raiders. Training of Men. The contest between the school which advocates Government owner- ®hip and operation and the school which wants private operation has heen at times enlivened by considera- tions of national defe: e has been for the most part incidental. The private ownership group usually points to the way in which the Ameri- can Government commandeered such merchant ships' as were in the hands of private owners and argues that the same thing can be done in the next war. The big question, however. is whether private awners will be willing to follow Government specifications in constructing their ves £0 as to make conversion into a warship an easier matter than was the case when the vessels were taken over in 1918. The Navy has an interest also in controlling a. Government merchant marine, because it can assist in the training of officers and crew, though this is done in European countries by & close working agreement between the shipping companies and the navy. In fact, the government subsidy in wome instances is given in considera- tion of such control being permitted. Saving of $3,600,000. The s« iment of the n: tingent here will for the mos in favor of a continuance of Govern- ment ownership and operation. In this connection the Shipping Board has just made public a report on the cost of operating Government cargo ships, which reveals that a ton of cargo was handled in the nine months ending April 1, 1927, at 63 cents less than in the same period of the preced- ing year. The board directed atten- tion to the economies it had effected for the benefit of the American ship- pers of grain and cotton, especially when foreign tonnage was being withdrawn at the time of the British coal strike. Ths Shipping Board points out, moreover, that the reduction of 63 cents a ton came as the Government handled a million more cargo than the previous year. The entire cost of the Shipping Board for the fiscal year be- ginning July 1 last is now estimated by the board to be not in excess of $16,000,000. This is a saving of $3,600,- 000 over the previous year. The argu- ment then comes down to whether the Government will be willing to appro- priate $16,000,000 for a continuance of Government operation or whether the principle involved of getting the Gov- ernment out of business is larger than the actual sums appropriated. (Covyrixht, 1927.) — MAIL PILOT CONVERSES 150 MILES WITH RADIO Plane and Bureau of Standards Test Station Conduct Successful Experiments by Phone. By the Associated Press: Conversation by radio telephone be- tween a mail airplane pilot and a test station of the Bureau of Standards at Bellefonte, Pa., has been success- fully maintained over distances of 150 miles, it was said today in a Com- merce Department report. The post office airplane running between Cleve- Jand and New Brunswick, N. J., was equipped for the telephone communi- cations. A continuous report on weather and other conditions was supplied the plane while in the air, though there was considerable variation in the de- gree of receptivity. The experiments are continuing. BUS COLOR IiECISIONS OFF UNTIL TOMORROW Company Will Select Winners in Competition—134 De- signs Submitted. val com- part be Judging of the designs submitted in the color scheme contest for new busses of the Washington Rapid Transit Co., originally scheduled for this morning, was postponed until to- morrow morning, officials of the bus company announced. One hundred and thirty-four designs have been submitted. The winners will be chosen tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, it was stated. Parachute Jumper Killed. LEIPZIG, Germany, August 22 (®). ~—Anton Merkelbach, noted parachute Jumper, was killed yesterday in a leap with a parachute of his own construc- Hon. A leather strap broks, percipitat- ing him from an altitude of 1,000 feet. SPECIAL NOTICE. contracted by _a . JAMES J. PE! 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KOONS foonet Let us =7 NEVER DISAPPOINT BYRON S. ADAMS > PRINTING ” IN A HURRY High ma,u it n'? [ h.orlud. 119 34 St. 8.W. Main 03 Jones, president of | 4 CAVE ESCAPE CA STUNT BY STATE Official Says Ashley Story Lacks Basis Following Investigation. Cites Alleged Actions of Ex- plorer Toward Party of Rescuers. By tho Associated Press. ASHVILLE, Tenn, August Pile, State mine inspector, to- said that in his opinion L. & hley was not lost in Nick-a-Jack Cave and did not dig his way out who was sent to the cave I Peay to aid in the search fc hley, said he would report to the zovernor that there was no evidence to show that Ashley had been in the cave and that there was a great deal to indicate that Ashley a of the searching party were “work- publicity stunt.’ earch was begun s Ashley, who purchased was reported to have entered it Mon- morning to explore a new cavi His friends said he had left word t it he was not out by Tuesday morning to start search for him. Pile said today that when Ashley came down the mountain from thé place where he said he dug himself out, he passed within a short distanc of the main entry of the cave at which the searching party hered. He did not stop to look at those who were supposedly trying to save his life, Pile added, while the attitude of people there was not that of those witnessing “the return of a dear friend from the dead.” Other evidence will also be included in his official report, he indicated. SEEKS POINT OF EXIT Explorer Threatens Suit Against Persons Charging Hoax. By the Associated Press. SHELL MOUND, Tenn., August 22. —Greatly refreshed after a night’s rest, L. S. Ashley, geologist and explorer, who Sunday morning dug his way out of Nick-a-Jack cave, seemed little the worse today for his six days’ stay in the cavern. He sald his first effort will be to relocate the new entrance to the cave through which he es- caped some eight miles from the point where he entered the cavern. He appeared confident that he would find it, although he said he was so dazed at the time of his escape that landmarks made _little impression upon his exhausted faculties. Ashley made his exit yesterday from the famous cavern, which spreads out under three States and from which maurauding bands of Cherokee In- dians used to make their sallies against white settlers, at a point in Castle Rock Gulch, near the abandon- ed Cole City Mine, eight miles from the mouth of the cave which he en- tered on Monday morning, a week ago. In a dazed, semi-conscious condi- tion and on the verge of collapse, the explorer protested he was none the worse for his experience, though he admitted the experience was harrow- ing enough. Explorer Believed Dead. As Ashley emerged from the cavern through a small opening hitherto un- known, rescue workers were preparing to make a final attempt to locate him, already virtually having abandoned all hope of finding him alive. A crew of trained workers, under O. H. Pile, chief mine inspector, ordered to the scene by Gov. Peay, was ready to en- ter the cave and preparations had been made to drag the River of Dark- ness, which courses through the cav- ern, in an effort to locate Ashley’s body. The entrance of the Nick-a-Jack Cave is on the Tennessee line where that State joins Alabama and Georgia, and the passageways of the cavern run far back into the two latter States. Ashley entered the cave last Mon- day to examine an unexplored sub- cavern, a cavern, which he believes *4s much Jarger than the famous Mammoth Cave in Kentucky,” and it was there that he was trapped by a landslide which cut off his retreat and forced him to dig his way to freedom with a pocket knife- and a small shovel, which he had carried with him into the cave. A supply of food which he had cached in the cavern and from which he was not cut off by the slide served to sustain life during his six days’ fight to free him- self. Angered at Hoax Report. After a brief rest at the home of a friend, near the cave, Ashley ap- peared much refreshed as he related his experiences of the past week. He was indignant at suggestions that the whole affair was a hoax to advertise the cave, on which he is said to hold a 50-year lease, and threatened to bring suit against any parties or pub- lications that spread such a report. Ashley described how he entered the cavern by crawling for a distance of/ about one hundred feet on his hands and knees. Once inside he was “amazed” at what he found. “I have explored Mammoth Cave,” he declared, “but T have never found anything in it to equal the cave I was in.” While he was in the cavern the landslide cut off his retreat and he was forced to seek another exit. Then, using a lighted candle for a compass and his small trench shovel to enlarge crevices too narrow to permit pass- age of his body, he worked for six days until Sunday morning he made his way to freedom. “Conserving my supply of water for the carbon lamps, I resorted to candles for light,” he declared in re- lating his experience. Discovers Small Opening. t was fortunate that I lighted a candle, for as slight as the movement of air was I was convinced that it would lead me to a new and unknown opening. Frantically I followed the draft of air and finally found a small amount of water for my carbide amps “On Thursday night T discovered a small opening. T could see through this but could not crawl through. Tn the frenzy of my first terror I tried to dig my way out with a small pocket knife. ‘The ceiling was of rock and the floor of a hard-packed shale formation. 1 was soon con- vinced of the futility of these efforts and rétraced my steps, some four or five miles to the point where the cave-in took place, and secured a small trench shovel which I had fool- ishly left behind on finding myself trapped. ‘Again_coming to the mew en- trance which is in Georgia, 1 think, T slept a few hours. As soon as it was daylight 1 started digging out. A strong animal odor was present I was in the nest of a family of voung wild cats. I realized that they would do me no harm it I let them alone, so I discontinued my opera- tions for some time and they slunk out of the small opening, leaving me free to continue my excavations. “Due to the small amount of light from the aperture in the mountain side I was able to extinguish my rbide lamps and so conserve fuel. This work continued on without re- gard to time—until I was able to squeeze through the opening I had succeeded in making. I remember coming out into the bright sunlight for the first time in n( a week, and in a short time I discovered that THE EVENING LLED PUBLICITY | MINE INSPECTOR 3 Il on the cave some time ago, and who LAWRENCE exhausted, but glad to be free of the mountain tomb. “What happened after my release I do mot remember well, although the country seemed famillar. I am glad to be back with friends and rela- tives and 1 wish to take this oppor- tuni to thank thos worked so faithfully to res “The theory that 1 und been published that my trip into the cave was a publicity hoax is an out- right lie and I will sue any person or publication which broadcasts this kind of bunk. There was no need | and no reason for me doing such a thing and both my brothers and my- self_resent this implication and will vrosecute any persons or publications cireulating this report to the extent of the law.” Mr. Ashley is a graduate of the University of Illinois. Following his studies there he specialized in geology. HYATTSVILLE CROSSING PROCEEDINGS BEGUN State Seeks Right of Way by Con- demnation for Bridge Over B. & 0. and a Roadway. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., Augus Condemnation proceedings by State to secure rights of way for the proposed bridge over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks and road to elim- inate the grade crossing here opened this morning in the Municipal Build- ing before a jury. Proper of J. Frank Lillard was taken up. A large crowd was present. Robert Archer, assistant attorney general of Maryland, addressed the jury. He stated that State authorities regarded the Hyattsville crossing the most dangerous in the State. He said that from an engineering standpoint it was necessary to go East of the Washington-Baltimore boulevard to build the bridge. Mr. Archer pointed out that Mr. Lillard owned two pieces of property, an office building and a restaurant, that were on the proposed right of way. He said that the office building would have to be moved back 20 feet, but that the restaurant would not be touched. He contended that both the buildings were in the middle of the block and each would be on a corner when the bridge was put through. He thought that Lillard’s only damage would be in the cost of moving back the office building, which Archer estimated would be $1,500. Lillard said he thought it unfair that he should have to bear the full burden of a project that would benefit all Maryland and the entire country. He did mot agree with Mr. Archer that the business of his restaurant would increase. Later the jury ad- journed, accompanied by Engineer Robert N. Reindollar of the State Roads Commission, for an inspection of the Lillard property, and will re- sume hearings on the same property this afternoon. The jury will con- tinue in session until” all property owners are heard tomorrow. Willlam P. Magruder’s case will be considered. Comprising_ that jury today were Henry L. Morris, John H. Traband, H. H. Talbert, Richard Coffren, Up- per Marlboro; Willlam A. Middleton, Brentwor Charles D. Church, Belts- ville; A. M. McFadden, Turner L. Funkouser, Roy T. Fowkes, Tharles W. Reichelt, Mount Rainier, and James H. Hill and Harry Dobbs, Hyattsville. Will across the is capable of great life. who have |i§ —_— The SECRET of GREAT ACHIEVEMENT The Knowing Mother HE stored-up energy, nerve and m brain-force supplied by the milk he was fed during his childhood was the secret of Lindbergh’s successful flight Atlantic. Farms Milk as a foundation, every child ChestnutZarms Pennsylvania Avenue at 26th St. N. 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