Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1928, Page 24

1928—PART 1. WELFARE SESSIONS | OPEN FEBRUARY 20 JANUARY 8, e vt weens | INSULL AGQUIRES - PLANTS IN VIRGINIA |Alexandria, Charlottesville, Warrenton and Culpeper in Reported Deal. MARINE FLYERS AND SCENE OF OPERATIONS IN NICARAGUA MARINES WILL GET SPEEDIER PLANES “Flyers in Nicaraguan Cam- paign Have Been Using 0ld Types. | National Charities Meet Will| Hear Hcover and Other Leaders at Mayflower. Four hundred representative Ameri- an husiness and professional men are expected to attend the first nation- | wide conference ot eitizens on | Reaponsibility for Va., January T.— amuel Tnsull and associates, onz of the largest owners of electrie light plants The nalf dozen war-time DeHavilanc observation planes which the Marine Corps “Air Force” in Nicaragua, con- ; : p sisting of 10 pilots, has been using. in ) 4 " l the operations against Sandino, are | K | munity Public Scrviee Co being replaced with the latest two. seater light bombing and attack planes and before the Marines have settied | their score with the bandit leader, at Jeust nine of the new 150-mile-an-hour | ships will have received their baptism | of fire from the enemy. . | When the. fiying Marines went to Nicaragua at the outbreak of the trouble, they took the best equipment they had for the purpose—D:aHav ilands, which at that time alveady | were under sentence for the junk pile and were just hanging around waitinz | for the new arrivals from the factory. | Despite their obsolete” design. they have acquitted themselves admirably. ccording to reports received here, hut | their replacement by faster, longer- range and higher-maneuverabil planes is expected to raise the offi-| ciency of the air fighters from their | own viewpoint lanes in Transit. | Four of the newest Marine Corps | combination_attack and observation planes—the Vought * Corsairs”—holder of four world's records for altitude and speed. already are on the scene and two more are on the wav, In addi- tion to these, three Curtiss “Falcons™ | now in wide use by the Army Air Corps as observation and attack planes, are due for shipment as soon as thesfactory discharges them. A | lmening g nsed primarily re the other modern planes in the | war zone. The Fokker monoplane | was delivered by Maj. Edwin H. Brain. | ard. chief of Marinz Corps aviation. | in a onmestop flight between Miarmi | and Managua, and another similar | «hip is soon to depart for, Manazua | via the air route in command of Maj. | L. M. Bourne of Brown Field, Quan tico, Va. { Even though the Marine aviators will have the best fighting aireraft in the world, the nature of their duties | in Nicaragua and the topography of | the country has subjected them to| the greatest hazards ever encountered | by an American military aviator any- where, judging from reports that have | werbally trickled into Washington | ro personal ietters from the | ;":":gh ¥ | Upper, left to right: Lieut. Guymon, Lieut. Weir, Lieut. ‘The zone of operations is of a char- | acter that would be “off limits” for| Pabst, Lower, left to right: Licut. F. H. Lamson-Scribner, Sergt. L. H. Center left: Maj. Ross E. Rowell. Right: Map showing hase of operations ai ilt and Capt. R. J. Archibald. distance necessary to fly to scene of fighting. . Serzf. A. 8. Munch and Sergt. M. T. Shepherd. | Welfare, v by Cineinnatl, munity Chests n of the ci ver [ Chieste.” ~ Other zram are 1 Fork, whe | for Community M. Bookman rnt of the Assoc nd. former Secr ! mayor_of Cleve he Responsibilit e’ Wor and Mr. for Welf: Hoover it awful to fly over, very and dotted with mighty rough fores Lieut. sh 1 #g0, n't get me fun Mountains.” Prefazing explanation the ent S his that he never flying Bull car of tr of the cities, the carts consisting of wooden two hulls yoked across the horns. for iwa solid sist ot | buileart whe | the carts sink 5 By buil citlzons’ committee, who w by the American / W Councils, Secretary Hoov, an addres Itare Responsibility of Community . apeal and Councils, ed landing. ake a safe landing the bandits are right on vour trail, o wher eferring to a st Xandino, which occurred down, I expect to have bombinz ndino’s stronghold in 1x and in the wet season down to a depth auiring the tuzging of from 4 10 10 . bulls to extricate them. Flyers o one would spend five of the s appointed | #soclation of Com- | who i% viee chalr- " committee, will | s on “The Human on the hall o on Mars speak of Cincinnati, presi- ation of Community nd vice chalr ns’ com- The Com- | | extended ence dele At the voof fts President a series of ision’ of Work Between lana Private O tion Between mountainonus | ganizations and It | Responsibility uf | Corporations able to fare; Whih Should Ra Chests: Hos Best Be ( Human Bookman will | active voleanoes, sledding in case If you ars for M ven o re you' contemplated “drive a few Schilt wrote: “If for Community The Problem ind How Can the tivelv Be Told statement with the Weifare Work : has flown ovor | ates and in Haiti | 0, Maj. Brainard =uch terrible as exists in Ni he said, are the nsportation outside and shootinz at the Chitope Mr. Procter following accepted tional ci by The two tracks for the wheels, drawn Secretary of V Senntor erick R. | E Woolen, Belle Sherwin, W Amerma H Scene. Lester er at which Perry Ly- restdent of Leland § . will pregide. J. Norton of Detroit he program committee. ard Mra, an invitation to the confer-| stes to attend House on the openinz | afon. In addition to the general mestings table conferenc ali on | have heen planned, at which the fo U Govern- | j,wing subjects will be discussed: | ponsibility Local round of Local and « Local Included Perm T Committee Members. announced business and men and representative women have membership 2 committee to arranze | for the meeting in February. James Couzens. Detroit; Frel- Kellogg, Morristown. Indianapolis. ashington irestone, Akron; C. cludes the Virginia Publ Co. of this city (& lottesville. Warrenton peper | Representatives of the will arrive hera next Frid duct an inspection, and 1 JAM COOPER PROCTER. Iersey ard other m I ware, North Light Co properties chairman of | ot wned bv A, E F Jnited Gas & Inland Power & will be under Ins ldze have Coolidze hav Westorn a reception | 273 the 8 reees poration D. C. CHARGE OF B r Welfara Governments | Co-opera- Welfare Or- Communit Her mmunity Organizations in Communits nent Funds Bequeathed for Welfare?: The Fund-Raisinz| Campafgn: Importance of a Fa - Welfars Education Publicit Public About t Ba Program: Most Effec Communiry | March. was arrested Kathryn Myers Cooper. although they had not that the together for several professional wn living recently as st and typist in Washington. Cooper was released on for a hearing Tuesday. 1 a marriag on the na- Dwight F. Davis, [t purporting to be a gopy o decree obtained in Maryla Myers. father of Mrs. Kath Mis: Harvey S. Woolworth, Seranton, Pa St. Loui Hartford N. his son-inlaw nuously since December 3, 13 h: resided rrying hi He Central months, ooper said she had been earning her ie purchasers iy to con- Po electr: Ma ina, Georgia and | as well as all of the property kin, Ine., Electric Light Cor- il control TYPIST MAKES IGAMY Winchester Business Man Wed : in 1925, Says Mrs. Kathryn Myers Cooper. lizabeth Carter March, former stu dent nurse, daughter of William A. today zamy charge, on complaint of Mrs. on a ho claimed never had heen divorced from been living Mrs. enographer. $1,500 bail, n applying license Monday he ex- hibited to the eourt clerk a paper f a divoree nd. J. H. ryn and business partner of Cooper, sa here con. is daughter im Cooper. for Va.. now living Kathryn Mvers o never had heen | vorce papers. of Front Royal n Maryland. Mrs noper declared she served with any di nny' [vnc:d ume‘fl:'edr ‘nr nhdu{v‘limlsl 5 of it could be found in the United|guyii,50 in onder to met the greatest States.. Rugged mountains, "““5 IY!SU]\S from their guns fl"d‘llflmlvl from the scene of the fivers’ work. | with the V\ ht and Curtis: v terrain, thick brush and no emer-\,.; ¢rthermore hecause the growth In taking off from the flving field at |they will have no hesitancy in swonp- zency landing fields, constitute Nica-|,nq }ouch is so thick that at 2,000 th uan capital, the Marines inz down on the cnemy at at least ragua as the Marines see it. Now and | raoi.51jtude the entire Sandino army m ‘miles of water | 200 miles per hour. then a two-by-four corn field on the |y g he conceal: Maj. Brainard. over Lake Managua, at the far side| Each of the mew side of a mountain offers an oppor- yhije awaitfhg transportation home [of which reposes a 4.000 foot.range machite guns and fe 17-po tunity of making a safe crash, but|afier hix flight to Managua, went out ' of mountains. In this 12 miles the ‘bombs, but a5 the bombs, for even these are so rare that he is 2 on 5 rojding party and before de-|flvers must gain sufficient altitude |particular trpe of work appear t lucky pilot wko happens to be Within® pariing he had in mind what he [ta clear the mountains and then fly |more effective, it is likely that t} gliding distance of one of the gardens. | thought was an undue rek on the |for one hour and 45 minutss aver | guns will be limited one each to the Added to the hazards of getting out | pare o the Marines In fiying right |the rugged country to their operatinz | pilot and obscrver and the weight alive in a forced landing in that coun- | gyep the tree tops. | zone. ordinarily taken up by the other f escaped unhurt and ry is the fact that the pilots are sub-| The flight had to make contact - | suns used for the bhombe, Iragged to the wate ject to capture by the bandits. One |with a bull-cart train and the air- New Planes Faster. | s A i [on a barge and brought by Marine fiver, Lieut. Earl A. Thomas, {men went down to the level of the On_arrival at their “work,” thev| G xy - ficld, where it was and his gunner already have met that foliage. The train was picked up, |are limited to about threequart One Marine pilot. Frank S fate, having been killed by the San- panels were laid out for the airmen |of an hour patrol and fighting wmi-! Jesse ¢ Harmon, had . Quantico, and dino brigands while trying to make and instructions were received. Maj. | neuvers and then, with the gaxoline ing on the side of a mountain vacing pllot, recent) their way back to civilization from a ' Brainard was flving at 2.000 feet and | Supply running low, they must beat | took him twn days to fight h duty with the 3 having | with their bombs and force down. the entire transaction between the been yecalled from 1 In a letter | fire. The pilote, wi |# for home over amother 150 miles fight and the train passed unseen |{On more than one occasion the plar sceived heve his impressions of the | of Maj Must Fly Low. | By "Bim_ because. ot The. concenled [have giided into the field with n few p \ in the statement: | S Perhaps the Marines or anv other | congition of the ground forces. He|drops of gasoline in the small 10 This {5 one hell of a country —it is L Quant fiver would not balk at flying over| way willing to admit after beinz told Rallon reserve gravity tank in th: the country for the sport of it if the¥ | what had happened right under his |center wing section of the DHs. | could keep within 15.000 feet of the ovey that very little effect could be | The 110-gallon tank is filled and | ground. enabling them to glide many | haq on the bandits from a com- |the pilots again take off for a 139 | miles in the event of engine trouble | ity iUe) "Sare altitude. mile flight. With the new or to use their parachutes if needed. " gy rthermore, the “attack™ aviation |and Falcons in use, the pilo But the Marines must operate at an!jn which the Marines are specfalizing, | have mors time to spend in fightin average altitude of about 100 feet, anq which is a post-war serial of- | ns these planes have a longer cruis clipping the tops of the trees as they | fensive development, requires opera- | ing radius and much more speed roar over the handits, dropping 17-|tions at this extremely low altitude.| Whereas now the DHs make abou pound fragmentation bombs and rain-| Attack a W, H Henry ki Kins, | Lord ©'Brian, Buff wald, Chicago: John Richmond: Avgust Vog Mrs. Henry Fairfax. Richmond. D. Robinsen, Toledo: Mrs. John D. Shermon, Estes Park. Colo W. O. Thompscn, Columby crick Lazarus, Columbus: C. man, Cincinnati: William M. Philadelphia: Willoughby ks in traveling from Leen to Oc an airplane can fly from Ocotal, a_ much long distance, in an houp and 20 minutes. In addition to Lieut. Iamson-Serib- ner and I hilt, the- following Marine p onducting the oper- ations E. Rowell. command ing: Capt Archibal V. econdLieut. nner Mike V junnery Sergt. M. T. Shepherd, Sergt. A. 8. Munsch and Pabst. All except Lient. . Guymon and G nepherd, participate: tile of Ocotal when the M force came to the rescue ground forces und killed equipped with bu'l carts went out to the remains. They plice: the fuselage on the carts and started home, but the cart rolled down the | side o the meuntain and it and the plane wera no more Lieut, F. H. Lamson-Scribner of this city xhortly : Lake 2d down pping off He force In Managua Is about 150 mil~s | though they were pursuit <hips, hut 1w ships carrvie ¥ Lyman James Jack Post, New Y. Pepper. e X F. D.} Wilbur. Pals Alto, Calif. James H. his landing was | Gunnery orge Eastman, Rochester. N. Chic s J. Davis, Secretary of <nator George Wharton Labor; Charles F. Kettering. Dayton; , Priladelphia: Frank T Heffelinger. Adams, Cleveland: W. *B. Minneapolis: James R. Angell. New Memphis: Sydney M. Colgate, Haven: Mrs. George Herbert Clarke 1|Orange. N. J.: E. D. Duffield. Newark. Livingston Farrand «|N. 3¢ William J. § : William Green, W machine- T. Herbert John T. Mason. Aurcra. eption | Mann, joned at S ne . placed Licut. | 2 forced land. | and it fecond Angeles: A4 200200 jation’s force is felt against | 120 miles an hour wide onen, the ing machine gun fire down on the ground troope, troop and transport wer types cin exceed this maximum enemy. 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