Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1927, Page 2

'.2 » SCHOOL PROGRAM SHOWS PROGRESS Two bf Four Sites Provided for This Year Already Purchased. Considerable progress has been made by District officials on the 1927- 1928 edition of the five-year school building program, according to rec- ords made up today by Municipal Architect Albert L. Harris and Maj. L. E. Atkin: ssistant Engineer Come missioner, acts as the District's agent in all negotiations for the pur- chase of school sites. Two of the four sites provided in the current appropriation act for school purposes have been acquired, although the money has been avail- able for only two months, and MY. Harris announced that plans’ for five school projects, started July 1, are advancing rapidly in his office. These plans will be rushed to completion, as Mr. Harris hopes to have at least four of the five schools ready for occupancy at the beginning of the term in September, 1928. Two_ Sites Acquired. The only items for school property in the current appropriation act are for a playground adjoining the Worm- ley School. an eight-room building on Grant road; additional ground for play space at the Peabody school, and an eight-room addition to the Langdon School. The sites for the Wormley Playground and the Grant Road : School already have been acquired, and the ground needed for the Pea- ' body play space is now involved in condemnation. Maj. Atkins, however, has not yet been able to purchase within the 25 : per cent limitation above assessed value sites provided in the appropria- tion act for 1926-27 for the proposed Rrookland-Woodridge Junior High School and a 16-room building in the wicinity of Sixteenth and Webster streets. A number of other school sites pro- wided for in the 1926-1927 appropria- tion act also are tied up in condemna- tion. Actually Maj. Atkins has spent but $170,000 of the $855,000 appropri- ated for school property in that act. The major portion of this was used for the acquisition of a site for the new four-room Potomac Heights School, and a large part of the prop- erty needed for the Brightwood Junior ' High_School. Property for the pro- jected addition to the Wheatley School, an appropriation for which was available last year, is now being pur- chased. Two other items in the 1926- 1927 act, one for the acquisition of property for an addition to the Mor- gan Schodl and the other for the pur- chase of additional ground for the P T T—— to Windsor, England. Ontario, in a second attempt to reach THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 19977 Upper: C. A. (Duke) Schiler (left) and Phil Wood (right), pilots of the Stim- son monoplane, which started this morning on a flight from Windsor, Ontario, Lower: Terry Tully (left) and James D. Medcalf, who started from London, London, England. SCHOOL OPENING AGTIVITIES RUSHED Ballou and Assistants Back I at Desks—Supplies to Be on Hand. ‘With Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superin- tendent, and Assistant Supt. Stephen E. Kramer back at their desks, the Dunbar High School athletic fleld, are in the process of condemnation. An- other item for the purchase of a site for a school in the vicinity of Four- teenth and en streets has not been ! expended, although property for this ; building has been acquired, by taking over District-owned land in the neigh- borhood. News Increase Aids. Maj. Atkins attributes his success { n purchasing school sites so readily ; this year to the recent increased as- sessment levied against pro) y by § Tax Assessor Willlam P. Richards: | The new assessment, he said. repre- ; sents more closely the real value of the property, and makes it less diffi- ; cult to acquire property within the 1125 per cent limitation. ! The plans on- which Mr. Harris is : working include those for a 24-room ! school at Nineteenth street and Co- ! jumbia. , the four-room Potomac ¢ Heights.! 1, a third-story addition i to the Bryan School, containing six {rooms; an eight-room addition to the ' Murray Vocational School ‘and an eight-room addition, with as- { sembly hall, to the Barnard School, at : Fifth and B uchanan streets. With the exception of the Nine- | teenth street and Columbia road . project, Mr. Harris said the other | bulldings probably would be ready i for occupancy at the beginning of the {1928 school term. Construction of the | Columbia road building cannot be istarted until funds are appropriated. { The current appropriation act con- i tains only an item for preparation of ithe plans. . The current appropriation act also {provides Mr. Harris with funds for | preparing plans for an auditorium ! addition to the Wheatley School, the . mew Brightwood Junior High School and an eight-room addition to the Morgan School. These plans will be started, however, until the other projects are under way. -WANTS TO FLY OVER SEA. LONDON, September 1 (#).—Miss Mabel Boll of Rochester, N. Y., ar- ,rived in London from Paris today and Joined the ranks of the 112 women ‘who want to cross the Atlantic with Charles A. Levine or participate in any other flight he may undertake. Levine has letters and telegrams from women in this country, Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, Germany and Hol- land, asking to be included in the flight. The applicants give their weight variously from 80 to 190 pounds, but Levine cannot accommo- date any of them. He called at the air ministry this morning and obtained permission to start his flight from the ranwell Air- drome. ® v BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Army Band, at the Capitol steps, at 7:30 p.m., W Nam J. Stannard, band leader, con: ducting: Uruguayan march, “Coronel Gon- zales” . .Gubitosi Overture, “Festival”. .....Leutner Trumpet solo, “The Commandant,” Chambers ‘Thomas F. Darcy, second leader. Belections from “Don Cesar de Ba- SAN” coveiiinicnniiiiennsd Massenet Nicaraguan waltz, “Los Amors de Abraham” . .Mena March, “Trophy of Victory". Stanmard Overture to “Mignon”... Thomas Two selected pleces— March, Grand scenes from kuine” waes Two fox-! Selected Intermezzo, leness,” Macbeth March, “Fairest of the Fair”....Sousa “The Star Spangled Banner. By the United States Marine Band, at the Sylvan Theater, Monument Grounds, at 7:30 p.m.: March, “Flag of Victory”...Von Blon Overture, “Mountains of the North,” Tregina “Rondo al Oengarese” (GEypsy Rondo) .Haydn Cornet solo, valse brilliante, “Sounds from the Hudson™.... .Clarke John P. White. scenes from ‘“Les Huege- . e .Meyerbeer Characteristic, “Au Bord du Ruis- seau’” (At the Brook)......Boisdeffre #Andante and Rondo Cappriccioso,” Mendelssohn *Second Hungarian Rhapsody”...Liszt “The Star Spangled Banner.” administration offices at the Franklin School Building are humming with ac- tivity today preparatory to the open- ing of school on Monday, Septem- ber 19. Scores of school officials, teachers and applicants for positions in the school system filed through the offices all morning. Dr. Ballou declared that he had re- celved a pPreliminary report on the work done in the school system during the Summer from Assistant Supt. Ray- mond O. Wilmarth and he was highly pleased with it. In Shape for Opening. “In my opinion,” Dr. Ballou de- clared today, “the schools will be in better shape on opening day than in any previous year during my regime. I am particularly pleased to find that the supplies have gone out on schedule and everything will be on hand on September 19 to permit teachers to start work immediately.” Miss Anna D. Halberg, new prin- cipal of the Wilson Normal School, reported for duty at the Franklin School today, after which she went to inspect her new assignment. Under Miss Halberg's principalship the Wil- son Normal School this year will be- gin the new three-year course which the Board of Education ordered in lieu of the former two-year course. Wonder Over Enrollment. Dr. Ballou and other school officials are wondering whether the coming year will be a so-called “lean” year, so far as enroliment is concerned, or a “fat” year. It has been a sort of tradition that every other year is a “lean” year for enroliment, Last year, however, which was scheduled to be a “lean” year, turned out to be an extraordi- narily heavy one in enrollment, and school officials are at sea as to which to predict this year. The enroliment last year, for the first time in history, passed the 70,000 mark. PLANE OF PRINCESS MISSING; NOT-SEEN SINCE DEPARTURE (Continued from First Page.) at Belle Isle and follow the mnorth shore of the Guif of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River to Montreal, thence the Ottawa River to Ottawa. The St. Lawrence offered an inescap- able guide to the destination once the plane reached the continent. LONDON NOT ALARMED. Late Arrival Expected After Slow Speed Over Ireland. LONDON, September 1 (#).—Lack of news regarding the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim and her aerial squires, Capt. Leslie Hamilton and Col. F. F. Minchin, who set off so gallantly from the Upavon airdrome yesterday morning, was causing a certain degree of uneasiness this after- noon among eager followers of the outcome of the transatlantic attempt. It was generally thought that, with speed of the “St. Raphael,” 95 miles an hour, should have brought her over Newfoundland at least by noon today, English time. Reports of head winds along the Atlantic route, however, caused some allowance to be made and there was no real anxiety when, at midafternoon (London time), she was still to be sighted. The authorities of the Upavon air- drome were, like the rest of the world, without news of the flyers, but no special concern seemed to be felt there as yet regarding their safety. Capt. Hamilton told officials just be- fore starting that he fully expected to be able to reach Ottawa before dark tonight, and the attitude of those at the airdrome was that overanxiety about the plane would be unjustified unless it was still unreported when darkness set in. Another factor which caused addi- tional allowances to be made for the failure of the St. Raphael thus far to appear on the other side was the slow- ness with which the airplane made the trip from Vpavon to the western Irish all going well, the normal cruising | LANHAN TOPLANT 3000 YOUNGTREES Fall Program Prepared, With Provision Made for Replacements. The District's Fall tree planting progran: providing for the setting out of 3,000 - aplings was drawn up today by Clifford L, Lanham, superintendent of trees und parkings. The majority of these young trees will be planted in newly developed sections of 1he Northwest, although a number of them will replace trees destroyed on Connecticut avenue and Fifteenth street by the widening of these thor- oughfares. Mr. Lanham plans to start the planting the latter part of the month with a view to setting out all of the 3,000 saplings before the advent of cold weather. The mnew trees will be American elms and Norway maples chiefly, but a few sycamores are to be planted. The replacement of the trees cut down on Fifteenth street between I street and Massachusetts avenue and on Connecticut avenue between Du- pont Circle and Florida avenue, Mr. Lanham announced, will be started Just as scon as the widening of these streets is completed. It is doubtful, he said, whether the trees destroyed on Twelfth street between Pennsyl- vania avenue and E street preliminary to the widening of this block, will ever be replaced, due to the great number of vaults under the sidewalk. The trees and parkings department is now engaged in trimming the trees in the section lying between Seven- teenth and Twenty-sixth streets and Pennsylvania avenue and the Potomac River. Those found to be dead or dangerously decayed are being cut down. Several dead Carolina poplars in the vicinity of Nineteenth street and Virginia avenue already have been removed. Mr. Lanham pointed out that many of the trees in this section are more than 50 years of age. e COMDR. KIMMELL, 67, DIES AFTER STROKE Naval Observatory Officer Will Be Buried Saturday in Arlington. Comdr. Harry Kimmell, United States Navy, retired, of 1931 Biltmore street, died early last night at the Naval Hospital, following a stroke of paralysis August 24. He was 67 years old and had been on active duty at the Naval Observatory for the past 18 years. Comdr. Kimmell was stricken while taking a short cut to the observatory through the nearby woods, and lay unattended for several hours until found. It was not thought at the time the stroke would prove fatal. Comdr. Kimmell was born in In- diana, Pa., April 10, 1860, the son of Judge and Mrs. A. W. Kimmell. At the age of 14 he entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis and was grad- uated with an excellent record in 1878. During the Spanish-American War he was executive officer of the Monterey at the capture of Manila. His last post was aboard the Indiana, In 1905, while on shore duty, Comdr. Kimmell's wife was taken seriously il. In the midst of her sickness Comdr. Kimmell was ordered to sea. Rather than leave his wife, he re- quested that he be retired, and the plea was granted, After about four years on the inactive retired officers’ list he was assigned to active duty at the Naval Observatory, where he had since remained. He was married In 1893 to Miss Helen Bache Nicholson of this city. Besides his widow he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Phillip R. Fowle of Washington and Mrs. W, W. Scott, wife of Lieut. W. W. Scott, U. S. A., now stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and a son, Andrew W. Kim- mell of this city. Comdr. and Mrs. Kimmell were the parents of Maj. Harry L. Kimmell, who was killed during the World War, and who at the time of his death was the voungest major ever in the mili- tary service, and Mrs. Atala K. Holmes of Fort Sill, Okla., who dled last Oc- tober. ‘The funeral services will be held Sat- urday morning at 10:30 in the Al Souls’ Memorial Church. Interment will be at Arlington with full military honors. —_— SEEK CHURCH UNITY. coast yesterday. Her speed on that section of the journey was not more than 80 miles an hour. Nevertheless, the lack of news was becoming rather trying. No one here is qualified to speak au- thoritatively for the airmen who are making the gallant attempt to estab- Police Seek Couple. Police are on the lookout for a youth about 22 and a girl about 16, for recent sooming house thefts. It is reported that the couple ap- peared at several houses in the busi- hess section the past few days and varlous articles were missed after their departure, : lish a westward transatlantic record. The airmen’s expedition was a self- contained affair, and although it is not known to what extent their passen- ger, the Princess Lowenstein-Wert- helm, is interested financially, it is generally understood that she was a somewhat gengrous contributor to the cost of the effort. Scandinavian Bishops Gather in Conference at Fritzoehus. [ cn B Catle e Ccoprighie 16810 DAY OSLO, September 1 bishops in Norway, Swe Iceland and Finland, to the total num. ber of 50, gathered today at Fritzoe- hus, near Larvik. Among the gu is Archbishop Soederblom, who northern Protestant churches' pri- mate. The aim of the conference is to create spiritual unity Scandi- THEATERWORKERS DENANDOREPAY Musicians Negotiating for $85 a Week—Stage Hands Postpone Walkout. Although the contracts of local theaters with union musicians will expire Saturday night and confer- ences regarding the demands of the union for a higher wage scale have not produced any definite result, neither the union leaders nor the rep- resentatives of the theater manage- ments look for any labor difficulties or “dark theaters” arising from that cause, it was made clear today. A. C. Hayden, president of the Mu- sicians’ Union, stated that there would be no trouble here from present indi- cations, and this opinion was also held at the headquarters of several theaters. Demand $85 a Week. The scale of musicians’' pay at the present time ranges from $67.50 per week in the “two-a-day” big motion ::_Zt‘?;; l':ng vnude\;:lle houses here to a week i . hood theaters. PR lEuno The musicians are demanding an increase of pay to $85 per week in the larger theaters, with proportionate in- creases running down the line. The original demands, presented at a con- ference almost a month ago, however, are understood to have been some- what modified. It is believed that some increase will be granted before the negotiations are concluded. Another conference was scheduled for today between representatives of theaters and union representatives. Whether this would bring the issue to a conclusion was problematical, it was stated. It is recalled by persons interested that two years ago, when the musiclans’ contracts were up for consideration the conferences ran two months before a final arrangement was reached, during this time the theaters continuing to operate and the musicians to play without contract. Walk-out Is Averted. In event of a failure to reach terms before the present expiration of the contract Saturday night, it was stated, the same situation might arise and the negotiations go forward without a contract being signed until their conclusion, v Union stage hands, whose contract expired last night, are also seeking an increase of more than 15 per cent in pay, the present scale ranging from $60 to $65 per week, according to thea- ter managers. A walk-out had been scheduled for last night, but at an eleventh-hour conference yesterday it was agreed to extend the time for ne- gotlation for two weeks. Here, too, the prediction of both sides is that difficulties will be settled without a strike or a walk-out. . VACATING OF SITE FOR U. S. BUILDINGS PRESENTS PROBLEM (Continued from First Page.) for landscape embellishment of the upper end of Pennsylvania avenue. Indications are that the privately rented buildings between E street, Ohio avenue, . Fourteenth and Fif- teenth will be razed as soon as the tenants vacate. If all of the several Federal and District activities now quartered on those two squares can- not be relocated until Congress pro- vides money to rent space for them elsewhere, they could be passed over for the time being, it was said. The Treasury Department has not made detailed arrangements yet for the actual work of clearing the north portion of the Commerce site, but probably will do so before long. Work on the new Commerce Build- ing will have to be confined to the north half of the site until officials decide definitely what to do with re. gard to the large income tax unit of Intcrnal Revenue, now located on the south half of the Commerce site. The new home for the Internal Revenue Building, on the site bounded by Tenth, Twelfth, C and B streets, is expected to be started also late this Fall, and one possible solution would be to complete a part of that struc- ture to take care of the income tax unit in time to make way for the southern portion of the Commerce Building. It was emphasized, how- ever, that this is only one possibility, and that the income tax housing ques- tion may be solved in some other way. Space Given D. C. The Treasury Department today of- ficlally confirmed its previous tentative agreement to all wo the Woman's Bu- reau of the Police Department, the House of Detention and the medical clinic of the Health Department to occupy government-owned buildings in the vicinity of Fifteenth street and Ohlo avenue until Congress convenes and providss funds for the rental of private buildings in which to house these activities. The confirmation was contained in a letter which the Commissioners received from F. A. Birgfeld, chief clerk of the Treasury Department. Mr. Birgfeld's letter to the Commis- sioners said in part: “While it is understood the Dis- trict government has no funds with which to pay for the rental of quarters for the activity mentioned, it is assumed that estimates will be submitted to the Bureau of the Budget for inclusion in the first deficiency bill to be presented to the next Con- gress for an appropriation to pay for housing said activity for the balance of the fiscal year. 1928, “It it is found impossible to provide other Government-owned space for the House of Detention before author- ity is secured from Congress, it is the intention of the Treasury Department to proceed with the excavation of the site, allowing the House of Detention property to remain intact until funds have been provided for the rent of other space, or until adequate quarters can be secured elsewhere in some other manner. “‘The department will appreciate an acknowledgment of this notice, and an indication of such action as your board may find possible to take with a view to clearing the site at the earliest practical date.” o PRIEST IS HONORED AT PARISH RECEPTION Rev. Francis X. Cavanagh of St. Martin's Church was last night given a surprise reception at the home of his mother, 2408 Rhode Island avenue northeast, in honor of the tenth an- niversary of his ordination to the priesthood and his assignment to St. Martin's Parish, Members of St. Martin's Parish of- fered a program of music and ad- dresses and presented Father Cav- anagh with a purse of gold in recog- nition of the priest's labors at St. Martin J. Riordan, rector of St. Rev. Martin’s; Rev. Paul H. Furfey, sistant rector, and prominent officers of St. Martin's Holy Name Society and women's organizations made ad- dresses paying tribute to Father Cav- anagh. Father Canavagh is state chaplain of the Knights of Columbus, chaplain of St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, chap- lain of the Curley Club, the Catholic Daughters of America and the Daugh- d moderator of St. - e AMELIA BINGHAM DIES IN NEW YORK Veteran Actress Manages to Get to Window for Last View of Hudson River. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 1.—Amelia Bingham, veteran actress, died today at her home on Riverside drive of pneumonia. She was 58 years old. She had been an invalid for eight months, but this morning she arose from her bed and managed to get to the window to look out over the Hud- son River view she loved. The effort was almost too much, and she was brought back to her bedside. “I am afraid we are nearing the end,” she said to her nurse, and shortly after died. Her sister, Mrs. Mino Leslie, also was at the bedside. Starred in Melodrama. Miss Bingham was one of the stars of the American melodramatic stage and among the first of American women to succeed as manager and theatrical producer, Her first appear- ance on the stage was in a tour of the Pacific Coast with McKee Rankin, and the succegs she attained resulted in a New Yol engagement, making her debut in that city December 18, 1893, at the old, People’s Theater on the Bowery. She had a leading part in the melodrama, “The Struggle for Life.” In 1897 Miss Bingham was engaged by Charles Frohman for a leading part in his production of “The White Heather” and remained under his management several years. Among the better known plays in which she was cast were “The Pink Domino,” ‘On and Off,” “The Proper Caper,” “At the White Horse Tavern,” “The Cuckoo” and “His Jxcellen: the Governor.” During the season of 1899-1900 she appeared in the melo- drama, “Hcarts Are Trumps.” Played in London. Miss Bingham went to London in 1900 and became intensely interested in women acting in and managing their own companies. She determined to emulate them and upon her return to America organized her own com- pany and accepted a play from Clyde Fitch, “The Climbers.” This was first produced by her stock company at the Bijou Theater, New York, January 15, 1001, proved a success from the start, and en- Joyed a long run. The next year she produced “Lady Margaret” and “The Modern Magdalen,” and in 1903 another of her notable successes, “The Frisky Mrs. Johnson.” She starred with William H. Crane and Douglas Fairbanks in “The New Henrietta” in New York the latter part of 1913, and revived “The Climbers” in 1914. Miss Bingham was born at Hicks- ville, Ohio, March 20, 1869, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Smiley. She was educated in the public schools and Ohio Wesleyan University. When she was married to Lloyd M. Bingham she assumed her marriage name in her profes- sional work. Mr. Birigham died in 1915, e believer spiritualism and told her friends that she had had communications with her dead husband, Lloyd Bingham, through a mediumistic friend confided to those nearest to h r a great in was her husband had recently 1t a8 message saying “Don’t thia. so much about death, Amelia, write the book.” This was in reference to her memoirs, on which she had been working for a long time. During her long illness she had received hun- dreds of old-time friends at her bed- side. v e % WINDSOR-TO-WINDSOR PLANE HEADS EAST ON PERILOUS VOYAGE |_from First Page) (Continu made the possibility of a race across the vast expanse of the Atlantic be- tween the two planes imminent. Al- though the Sir John Carling took off nearly four hours before the Royal Windsor, the fact that the former will stop at Harbor Grace, N. F., would glve Wood's plane an opportunity to cut down the advantage gained by the earlier take-off. Both planes are Stinson-Detroiters. A heavy fog which blanketed this vicinity prevented an earlier take-off. ‘Wood and Schiller had combated the weather jinx for several days, reports of unfavorable conditions holding the plane here for nearly a week. A take-off was planned earlier in_the week several hours after the Sir John Carling made its first attempt, but the hop was delayed when weather conditions forced the plane to return after flying part of the way through Ontario. Aviation authorities, including Ed- die Stinson, builder of the monoplane in which the men are making the flight, were doubtful that the reported 370 gallons of gasoline carried by the plane would be sufficient to carry them to their destination. The distance, approximated by ‘Wood on his navigation maps, is 3,950 miles. According to estimates made by the flyers, 16 hours will be required to reach Harbor Grace or St. John's, Newfoundland, the last point of land before heading out over the Atlantic, while 22 or more hours will be spent in flying over the ocean. May Stop at Newfoundland. It was the intention of Wood and Schiller to make a non-stop flight, but before taking off they intimated that if weather conditions were unfavor- able when they reached Newfoundland they might make a stop to get reports and to refuel the plane. The flyers are taking a chart on which the positions of all the British and Canadian steamers on the Atlantic during the next few days are plotted. The approximate position of the steam- ers at the time of the take-off and their speeds are shown. “We don't anticipate any trouble from the motor, but if the engine hap- pened to go dead in midocean or gave us any trouble, we would be able to make for the path of the nearest steamer,” Wood sald shortly before the Royal Windsor took off. MRS. FANNY HAMLIN DIES. Resident of Capital 40 Years—Fu- neral Held This Afternoon. Mrs. Fanny M. Hamlin, 84 years old, a resident of this city for the past 40 years, dled Monday after an illness of several months. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Gunton-Temple Memorial Presbyterian Church. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Anna 8. Hodges, No. 5 East Kirk street, Chevy Chase, Md., and Mrs. Fanny M. Elton of North Dakota, and a son, George R. Hamlin, of this city. Funeral services were conducted at the daughter’s residence in Chevy Chase this afternoon at 2 o’clock. Rev. Bernard Braskamp, pastor of Gunton- Temple, officlated. Interment was private. Accused of Stealing Auto. Out of employment and unable to support his wife and father, George Carville Finley, 24 years old, a Balti- more carpenter, is said by police to have stolen an automobile in Balti- more and bari for its sale in this A epe ff&* oma G B MISSING ON ATLANTIC FLIGHT 7Ea E Fog Along Coast And Out at Sea Reported Heavy By the Associated Press. ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, September 1.—Dense fog was re- ported out toward the sea this morning and the steamer Silvia, arriving here at 7 o'clock, reported heavy fog all along the coast. The night remained fine and clear until daylight, when the weather turned cold and cloudy, but the wind had taken a favor- able shift to the northeast. . 1.5, PLOT WATING FOR TR T0 RACE Navy Stands Pat on Demand for Record Before Trans- porting Cup Contender. With no official word from Presi- dent Coolidge as to his views on as- signing a cruiser to take Lieut. A. J. ‘Williams, jr., and his privately financed and constructed racing plane to Venice for the Schneider Cup race to be held the 25th of this month, and with no official figures in hand as to the speed of the American racer, the Navy Department today clung to its orgiinal agreement that it would grant the aviator’s request provided no mer- chant vessel is available, and further, that he”smash the existing seaplane maximum speed record. From New York, however, came an Associated Press dispatch quoting Lieut. Willlams as refusing to believe press reports that the Executive was not in favor of granting a cruiser to take the pilot and his racer to Venice. “I don't believe it,” the dispatch quoted him :s say:ng. “I think Pres- ident Coolidge and the entire Navy Department are too much interested in aviation to refuse. “The only plan open to me now which will guarantee that I get across in time to participate is by the fast cruiser route. I have looked over the facilities offered by commercial trans- portation lines very carefully and have found nothing to meet my re- quirements in the short space of time that is left. Navy Ready to Aid. “Only a cruiser can do the work and unless the plane can be sent over in that manner, the United States will have no representative at the races.” The foregoing paragraph was in- terpreted here as being in the nature of an ultimatium from the pilot to the Government, which, if it does not act, will put the United States in the position of preventing Lieut. Williams from achieving his ambition—to re- gain permanent possession of the valued trophy for America by winning this year's race. The Navy, however, is prepared to carry out the terms of the agreement made with Williams—to grant him a cruiser if the plane demonstrates its qualifications to give America a chance against the six newly bullt foreign entries, and if the pilot in New York finds it impossible to get transportation on a commercial ves- sel. In view of the reported remarks of the racing pilot on this last phase of the situation, and if a thorough search of shipping records reveals this to be true, then the Navy will grant the cruiser immediately on receiving official notification that the seaplane record has been broken. Before it can do this, though, President Coolidge will have to be consulted. It was learned today that Acting Secretary Edward P. Warner had telegraphed the Summer White House for confirmation of yesterday's ress dispatches, which set forth the resident’s views on the matter. Early this afternoon no reply had been received. Association Interested. In the meantime the National Aeronautic Assoclation, which has entered the Willlams plane in the Schneider race, is watching the situ- ation carefully and at the same time endeavoring to get Willlams abroad by any method possible. There is a vessel leaving for Queenstown from New York Tuesday and it was thought that if the plane could be placed aboard that ship, arrange- ments could be made to have it rushed from the Irish port to Venice by a cruiser on duty with the Euro- pean squadrons. Despairing over t"e fact that Wil- liams may not get abroad in time for the race, one aviation enthusiast has suggested to the assoclation that an SCHEDULE OF SCHLEE’S ATTEMPT TO LOWER ROUND-WORLD RECORD Miies. Harbor Grace, Newfoundland [ London, England. Munich, Germany. Belgrade, Jugoslavia. Constantinople, Turkey. Aleppo, Syria. Bagdad, Iraq.. Bender Abbas, Persia Karachi, India Calcutta, India Rangoon, India. cisens Tourane, French Indo-China. Hongkong .. Tokio, Japan (ra Sand 1sland of Midway Islands (radio heacon). Honolulu (radio beacon). San Francisco. Cheyenne Total mileage.... Mileage at last stop.. Mileage to cover...........18,147 Round world record....... Schlee time at noon today . Time unexpired ......... * Arrived. PACIFIC AIRMEN WELCOMED HOME Goebel and Davis Reception Tinged With Sorrow for Seven Lost in Flight, By the Associated Press. ~ SAN FRANCISCO, September 1.—A home-welcoming, tinged with sorrow because of the missing in the Dole flight, marked the arrival here yester- day of Art Goebel and Lieut. Willlam V. Davis, jr., U. 8. N., pilot and navi- gator of the monoplane Woolaroc, which won the first prize in the James D. Dole air derby. The Matson liner Manoa was deco- rated with flags and the greetings given the flyers by city officials and citizens were enthusiastic, but the wild cheering attendant to the homecoming of other California-Hawaii flyers was absent, at the request of Goebel and Davis, The airmen moved up Market street in an impromptu parade and but few passersby realized who they were, Commenting on the fate of Miss Mil- dred Doran and the six men missing in connection with the Dole race, Goe- R?l declared he feared they were gone.” “All the way home I studied the Upper: Princess Lowenstein-Wert- heim, passenger in the monoplane St. Raphael on jts transatlantic flight, (insert) Capt. Leslle Hamilton, Lower: . Frederick F. Minchin, the other flyer in the St. Raphael. $10,000 Demand New Obstacle to Levine’s Flight By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 1.—A tem- sea,” he said. “If the planes crashed I am afraid the fiyers would have been so dazed they could not get out theit life rafts and the planes very likeld would sink quickly in the rough water that prevailed. “There remains only a slim chance— 2 mighty slim chance—of any of them ever being found alive. There is just a hope tht some of them may have landed on some island.” ATLANTIC WEATHER OBSTACLES CITED porary obstacle to Charles A. Le- vine's proposed transatlantic flight appeared today when the Imperial Alrways announced that they had a contract with Capt. W. G. Hinch- cliffe, whom Levine had selected to pilot the airplane Columbia, and would require $10,000 from Levine for releasing Hinchcliffe. Levine, it is understood, indicated that he thought this sum exces- sive, but offered to underwrite a $10,000 insurance policy on Hinch- cliffe. The Imperial Airways ex- plained that it would cost that amount to train another pilot to re- place Hinchcliffe in experience and value, Negotiations were said to be pro- ceeding this afternoon without any agreement having been reached. — NAVY 0 COMPLETE - QUEST FORFLYERS Nungesser and Coli Chose Best Day in 10 Years, Naval Officers Write. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 1.—Illumi- nating comment on obstacles the St. Raphael may have faced over the North Atlantic is covered in a weather analysis of the flights of Nungesser, Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd in the United States Naval Institute of Proceedings, September issue. The article is by Lieuts. Logan C. Ramsey and Earle H. Kincaid, U. S. N. They point out that between May 1 and July 15 of this year, when the flights were made, favorable weatiier conditions for Eastward flights have existed on only four days. As to the reverse direction, bad as the weather was which Nungesser and Coli en- countered, it is the conclusion of the authors that the day they chose was the most favorable in 10 years. Nevertheless, the Navy experts on transatlantic flying believe that with- Search for Dole Aviators to End September 5—Units Withdrawn. By the Associated Press. Withdraway of the 16 R class sub- marines and the mine sweepers search- ing the Pacific for the missing avia- tors of the Dole race was reported to- day to the Navy Department by Rear Admiral John D. McDonald, ¢comman- dant at Honolulu. The last of the mine sweepers engaged in the work will end its task tonight. The light cruiser Omaha, six_de- stroyers, the submarine tender Hol- land and two divisions of S class sub- marines are en route to San Diego from Hawail and are still searching for the missing aviators. The ships are covering the path which the Dole race was to follow, making allowance for possible drift- ing. With the arrival of these units at San Diego about September 5 the Navy's search for the lost fiyers will end. W. T. DAVIS, 51, DIES. Government Employe Was Once Prominent as Local Artist. ‘William Triplett Davis, 51 years old, once an artist of some note locally and employed as a clerk in the Gov- ernment service for many vears, died here yesterday after a long illness. He was a native of this city. He is survived by two brothers, Henry B. and George M. Davis, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Di Petta. Funeral services will be conducted at Lee's funeral home, 332 Pennsyl- vania avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Itallan cryiser might be willing to plick the xm‘flun entrant up at a European port and rush him to the scene of the world seaplane classic. This suggestion was made in view of the efforts of Comdr. Silvio Scaroni, Itallan air attache, to get the Willlams plane aboard the Ital- jan steamer Martha Washington, which safled Tuesday for Trieste. ‘Why this opportunity was not ac- cepted by Willlams cannot be explain- ed here unless it is his desire to first break the seaplane record before go- ing abroad, and thereby make the 4,500-mile voyage on a naval cruiser. Left. Aug. 27, 4:14 am., Eastern 8. T. Aug. 28, 10:35 a.m. Greenwich T. Aug. 29, 4 p.m. Munich time Aug. 30, 12:03 p.m. Belgrade time. Aug. 31, 11:45 a.m. Turkish time. in 15 years a regular air route across the North Atlantic will be traveled, but it will be far below the path fol- lowed by Lindbergh and his sue- Weather, Difficulties Described. eSSOTS. “H the French aviators: were not forced down,. following is a descrip- tion of conditions probably encoun- tered,” the article gays. “After leav- ing Parls a gentle Yollowing wind of approximately 12 miles an hour aided them for about the first third of their Journey. nln"'abuu: longitude 31 de- grees west, the wind began shiftin slightly to the southwestward :‘nd hf- creased in force gradually until dark- ness. Up until this time a navightor of Coli’s known ability would be tak- ing into consideration the northward drift due to the wind and would make allowances for it, thus maintaining his exact course. May Have. Changed Course. “At about darkness they began to come under the influence of atmos- pheric depression off the. coast of Newfoundland. A little while after darkfiess, still assuming them to be carrying out the modified great circle course, they would have changed their course to the southward. However, a gradual increase of wind which might have been imperceptible in the darkness and which was encountered about this time, may have blown them off their intended course to the north- ward. If the flyers continued they would have come close to the center of the depression, but would have still had favorable winds. “From ¢ rkness to dawn they en- countered freezing temperatures, sleet and snow. The increase in the veloc- ity of the winds, the lowering clouds and intermittent squalls might have prevented them from following the in- tended course, or they may have shifted the course at this point to the northward purposely to avoid the storm’s center. In addition, they had announced that in case of bad weather they might change their destination from New York to Montreal.” After reviewing the possible causes of the failure of Nungesser and Coli, the naval experts quote as a belief, which is gaining many adherents, that the French avijators were forced down by sleet and ice forming on their wings. ‘Wind conditions vary so greatly over the North Atlantic that, with the extra fuel that can be carried on the planes of today, the margin of safety is so small that it can be easily wiped out by unfavorable winds,” they say. o STARTS 7,000-MILE HOP. British Aviator Attempting Lon- don-to-Capetown Flight. LONDON, September 1 (#).—To demonstrate the feasibility of long- distance flying in a light airplane, Lieut. R. R. Bentley, instructor for the South African air force, left Hendon this morning in a De Havi. land “moth” for Capetown. He hopet to make the 7,000 miles in 18 days. The machine has an extra fuel tank, giving an additional cruising radius for the long hops necessary over the . African wilds. Bentley's route follows the course of the Nile to Khartum, and continues by way of Livingstone. Buluwayo and Johannesburg. —— LONDON-TO-LONDON FLYERS MAKE SECOND o __(Canllnuad from First Page.) Hours. 686 103 v 108 Minutes. 30 46 44 troiter, is equipped with a Wright whirlwind motor and is almost identi- cal In construction to the Pride of De- troit, the world cruising monoplane which arrived yesterday in Constanti- nople. ‘Warned by a pre-arranged signal of three flash bombs and continued blow- ing of factory whistles that the fiyers would take-off at dawn, thousands of London eitizens were at the field to speed the airmen on their attempted 3,700-mile flight. ATTEMPT AT OCEAN 1 | 1 4 : ‘ [