Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1928, Page 3

STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 10, 1928— PART 1. THE SUNDAY SCEN SIX HURT, $200.000 DAMAGE IN SQUALL Sudden Dlsturhance Scatters Picnickers — Smashes Planes and Hangars. First Page.) (Continued from Potomac River side of the Speedway | where the full force of the storm com- | ing upstream hit. Park police imme- | diately roped off the entrance to the drive. Numerous motorists parked along the drive were left stranded between the tiunks of the fallen trees. According to park police the d1m~] age to the Speedway section yesterday | was far greater than that caused by the | tornado \flu(‘h swept over there last Fall. Dolling Field Damage. Spacta r results were produced at | Bolling Field, where the squall tore & narrow path along the line of ships | on the field, twisting planes into heaps, | crashing them one into another, dvm)-\ ping one down on top of an automo- | bile, damaging hangars and upsetting an ambulance in which several men | were riding. | The total damage at the fleld was | ebout $200,000, according to Maj. H C. Davidson, in command. Twelve | planes, three hangars, one ambulance | and an automobile were counted among the casualties. The fleld presented a sight, as if some small boy had sud- denly smashed toys right and left to see how much damage he could do Several narrow escapes featured the squall’s visit to Bolling Field. Some #hips were saved because they were in the air en rout2 to the field instea being on the ground. If all the pl on the field had been in the air w pilots in them they could all have been | saved. according to Lieut. F. A. Lundell, | officer of the day, who witnessed the | destruction. But at that time of day | it was customary for about that num- | br of ships to be “on the line.” Pilots | in the air could have risen above the storm. he thousht, and ridden it out. Plane Hits Ambulance. Narrow escapes seemed to center about the ambuiance which was turned turtle by the treak wind. Private Eu- gene Tuiley Bolling Field drove the ambulance out on the field 1o meet the incoming tin bomber piloted by Lieut, Ford L. Fair and carrying pas- sengers. Capt. William P. Finlay, a Re- torve officer, who is passing through Washington on his way to California, started out to the field and had bcen talking with the pilot when the storm bi Ali of these men ran for the embulance and were inside when the rain began tp beat fiercer and the wind started to rock the ambulance. Mean- ‘while the De Haviland plane nearby had been picked up by the wind and was being blown toward the ambv’ance. When the men felt the ‘bulance | going, they dived in several .ections. | 2ccording to their scveral stories. The DH struck the ambulance and the crash | yed both. | Pvt. Tulley said it felt like the ambu- | lance was lifted by thz wind about 10 | or 15 feet off the ground before it was | }umed upngc! down and crashed. H»j jumped to safety. Capt. Finlay said he dived out of th | back of the ambulance onto the cement | paving, just in lténonxe to escape tlt),e :}l"nbu' lance, only to up to see the heavy | motor of the airplane bearing duwn} Belling Fleld. upon his head. But it didn't strike and | hs escaped, with a few bruises, and a | was trying to get into the hangar be- scratch or two from sliding on the | fore the siorm struck. He said he was cement. -;\umng for Coipl. Moran to taxi the The De Haviland observation plane, ' ivDouglns transport into the hangar. sccording to eyewitnesses who were | When the wind hit the field, King watching from s distance, was seen 10 nosed the ship into the wind, and at- take a crazy tumbling twist toward the | | tempted to hold it there, but the wind ambulance, and strike it with a crash. | picked it up and lifted it 10 or 15 feet | Another Coll R 4 |off the ground, and carried it a long distance, to crack up far from the A sirangs race between a big Doug- | original locatios Gilbert escaped eight-passenger transport, with | virtually without s scratch. | Corpl. Moran at the controls, unable Fandie 1 in the wind, and & driveriess | Flyer Avoids Storm. sutomobile, belonging to Lieut. Elwood | Four other planes which were lo- | R. Quesada, took place when the squall | cated in or near Hangar No. 8 were sent the two huriting down the field | partly damaged. . One of these was the toward a hangar. Pinally the big trans- | Leoning amphibian, which carried seemed to rise up the air, wit- | Fred Melchior, the Junkers mechanic pounce down upon the | to Greenly lsland so he could fly out comparatively diminutive sutomobile, | the ill-faled Bremen. It was slightly Mnmns it to the ground. The tnm-ldnmazed but can be repaired. One! was damaged where it struck [of the damaged planes in Hangar No. hnnpr The automobile was re- |s belonged to Gen.. Benjamin D. ported not much damaged. | Foulois, assistant chief of the United A small plane, Travelair, b'langlnz States Air Service. Others damaged to a private owner, not connected ‘with | slightly were an 0-1 and 0-2. the Government, was Ilifted off the | Lieut. Quesada, whose automobile ound and sailed through the air, | was pinned under the big transport, was disg on the Jeft wing of the big|in the air at the time, flying from Martin bomber, which had come down | Langley Fleld, in an 0-11. He said out of the air but a short time previous. | he saw the siorm far from Washingion Two Douglas two-seater observa- ‘hul skirted around it. From his vantage tion plapes known as 0-2's piled up in|point in the air, Lieut, Quesada said a heap together in a snarl of twisted | he could see little unusual about the wings and fuselage. Two other planes ‘ cloud, which appzared like an ordinary badiy d.mapd on the field included | dark rain cloud. He was greatly sur- 8 PW-9, single-seater pursuit plane, | prised, on landing a few minutes after end a Curtis two-seater observation |the storm, to discover the havoc that plane known as 0-1 | had been wrought, including the dam- Pyt. Gilbert King had a narrow'age to his own automobile. fl;"lr in one of the 0-2’s which he The storm cut a wide and varying —_— path through the Northeast and South- east sections, doing its worst damage to trees and roofs back of the House Office Building and in the vicinity of 8ixth and G streets northeast, One | hundred and fifteen trees were up- rooted, several of them obstructing |trafic_and lmbs of others were torn off. Roofs of four houses were torn | off or otherwise damaged. A woman pushing a baby carriage | was said 10 have just escaped the up- are | T00UNg of a huge tree at the corner Lo, Pijaseiohis, ok, | 0f Bixth and G streets nm—mr]ul in pre, Riepmond aud " way | front of the Ludlow Public School. The mrm»‘."'w IVERY abBoriation, 1a | tree was picked up-and thrown across INCLOBE YOUR PORCH NOW AT LoWw | BIXth street. Several huge limbs of coet. triple windows in 004 condivion from | trees in the school yard were torn off, jgvernoset b5 vt 1 4 1‘ $750 compiete. | hut no one was injured BOHINGES ¥l sve ne ARE YOU MOVING EASEWHERE! OUR | Firemen Called Out, Piremen of No. 7 truck were called | & y0u heiter " Sinin vz | 10 125 C street southeast, the residence | DAVIDBON ORAGE_CO. | of James ¥. Richards, when the wind 1 WILL MOT BE RESPONBIBLE FOI ANY | stripped off the tin roof, Mrs, Richards ‘ CTwrON Crs wronD, 631 Gue s n 5 11+ | Was on the op floor of the house and 1 WILL WOT mE RESPONBIBLE PoR ANy | Deard @ ripping sound, “I thought Gebis ¥ % | the whole roof was being torn off,” she piracted by mysels ald, Bergt. A. J. Bargagni and his men got 1o work and put the roof hack | in. Then they sent for nails | and nalled 1t down tight tree on A street southesst was across the street near the inter- | on of ‘Third street, and another | tree on Third street between A and B | ireets was blown down An awning was damaged over the 1entrance of Iy 3. Albert Potter's | residence, 200 C sireet, by a tree that was uprooted, Most of the trees in the | |yard of the church rectory were badly | Adsmaged Damage was caused to the vm,““, 638 K street northeast, occupled by | | Arthur Dufresnes, but no one inside house was aware of Jt at the time, | Next door. st 649, the same damage | falls o oL 4% | was caused 1o the residence of John | BWiber. ounr p ““wia. | Vincent, Around the corner &l 626 1| PUILIJING. SOEMOUELING Tene | northesst the houss also was | buryeliss ’ 1, dwmaged. 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Lower, left: Scene at Hains Point where Mrs. Wertman was hurt. A portion of the tree to the right fell upon her as she was sitting on the overturned bench. Lower, right: Some of the wreckage at County wae strick by a | ES OF RUINS LEFT BY “FLYING SQUA WHICH SWEPT BOLLING FIELD AND HAINS POINT CHURCHES TO AID IN MISSION DRIVE :Only $17,000 Needed to Reach Goal, With Two Days to Go. With only two days left for tha Central Mission to raise 517.000 needed to reach the goal of its “end the debt” campaign, organizations in Protestant | churches of the city were prepared to- day to extend their co-operation in turning the final meeting tomorrow night into a “victory” celebration. X Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop | of Washington, came to the aid of the | mission yesterday, expressing his sat- | isfaction” over the “exceptionally iine ,unrk which the mission is carrying forward.” “I therefore sincerely hope that gen- | erous friends may be found who will come to the aid of the mission and re- lieve it of its financial embarrassment,” Bishop Freeman added. “I am confie | dent that if any one takes the troubls | to investigate the work the mission is | doing they will readily realize its im- portance.” The interest-carrying charge jon the $54.710 indebtedness of the men’s building, he pointed out, lays a heavy embargo on the limited ex- chequer of the miseion. As the social service agency of the | churches the mission has called upon the churchmen of the city to help it | wipe out this interest charge of $3,000 | annually which is handicapping the | necessary work among the destitute families of Washington. Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South already has | raised more than $3,000 toward remov- ing the debt, and organizations of other KANSAS CITY WELCOMES THRONGS WITH CONFIDENCE Town. Gay Wlth Fluttermg Flags Extendf‘ Hospltablc Hand to Republlcan { Delegatcs. ‘ By the Associated Press KANSAS CITY, June 9. —Republicans, we are ready! With that phrase on its lips, Kansas City qufetly and confidently looks on as the Republican hosts pour into th~ “heart of America” for their national convention next week From the canyons of downtown streets to the spacious Union Station Plaza, and out through the rolling hills of the | residential section, the cify is bedecked with myriad tokens of welcome. Flut- tering -flags hang in profusion from buildings and street wires, while count- less banners nlnu out the greeting, “Welcome G. O. | works in the hills and valleys of Penn | Valley Park, the city will b2 turned over to the Republicans for the great show commencing the folowing day, for which only the lucky hold admission badges. DISTRICT G. 0. P. LEADERS LEAVE FOR CONVENTION Chairman and Delegates on Way to Kansas City—Others in Party. Local party leaders and workers left here yesterday afternoon for the Re- publican national convention The list included Samuel J. Pre chairman of the Republican State ¢ mittee in and for the District of Colum- bia; T. Lincoln Townsend and Dr. John R. Hawkins, who go as delegates; Mrs. May D. Lightfoot, executive secretary of the State committee; Mrs, Bdward F Colladay, wife of the national commit- teeman for the District: Albert Stable, to the Democratic national convention | Mrs. Ceeil Chittenden, Mrs. E. H. Harr that nominated Willlam Jennings | man, Mr, and Mrs. Cabol Btever Bryan. ‘Whl'l‘fllld 'vlr‘Klnlny and Miss Cory, Hedged in between Kansas and Il nols, with thelr favoriie ron candidates, | EEQQ S AYS KANSAS CITY WILL NOMINATE WINNER Kansas City extends a neutral welcome K"v!\l"l‘r‘ Welcome Is Not Garish, With all the color and flags, there | nothing garish about the city’s welcome Outstanding is the simplicity of the Middle West, the characteristic welcome of the Great Plains section, with its warmth of hospitality and wide-open gates, After months of preparation, the city sits back almost nonchalantly to view its handiwork. This is no new business | for Kansas City, for almost three de ades ago—in 1900—the city was ho to the rival camps of Btate delegations treking in by train and motor from the Natlon's four corners, A unanimous salutation of cordiality it is, for 1mnn,< the welcomers wearing the button seribed, “Ask Me, G. O, P, I Live Here," are to be counted some of the leading Democrats of the eity. There is Sena- Confidence of Buccess, tor Jame$ Reed, for instance, whose = front porch may be the By the Associated Promy a Democratic rally if he brings hom KANBAS CITY, the presidential nomination from | F of Ohlo, Houston Distinguished Republicans | femporary chalrman, arrived tonight will be guests at festivities at the Reed |and went to the Hotel Muehlbach, home during the convention { Where he lssued this statement he Republican delegates are here Welcome Squad In Action. to choose the next Pres nm‘r(»m ‘This pur- As the first speclal train arrived o |pose will dominate the ctfon of the day, that from Califcrnia, the welcom- | convention ing squad of a hundred decorated motor | “While preconvention utte cars and (wo bands got into action, It | quently hay needed only this to add the last con- Al time vention touch, and all through the day | inevitable marching State delegations, blaring |presented bands and fluttering State standards [Ing for the added color to the scene. A cowhoy |mon enemy band—a group of hoys mounted calico cayuses—had the honor of open- ing_the pre-convention biast, Convention Hall stands whatever Interprets Enthusiasm Among Delegates as Showing June 9. nees fre- approaches bitterness, this is where any candidates ar It I but a preliminary train- real contest with the eom- Buch enthustasm argues i | the confidence of the delegates in the | ratification by the people of the con ndy 1ur\ nlum will adjourn riotous scene 1 impend, | yemarkable unanimity of support back Only the bl y-—hundreds of yards of Its cholee and a complete agreement of blue bunting set with thousands of [on the electric stars—is the lmit, Suspended |to the country high over the strest n front of the hall | the soundness of the party's prineiples s 8 glgantic eagle superimposed on o 'end will pressnt a united front In the sunburst, the whole made up of scintil- [ coming contest Iating crystals that give off vari-colored rays in the light of the sun by day end | of powerful sesrchlights by night “The actunl convention aotivities are | mited o un area two blocks norih | and south, from Eleventh to Thirieenth | { street, and three blocks enst and west from Main to Central street, In this | virwnl sguare are Convention Hall, th I“hxlln— ‘emple, Eagles' Hall and | Ber of Commerce, where commilt stons will be held; the national commit toe headguarters in the Bgcurity build- {ing, the Kunsas City Clull, Muchlcb: Land Bultimore Hotels and Kansas | Athletic Club, sl the scenc of miliin | delegates serambling newspaper ime | and frantic favorite son supporters An old friend in new Logs will greet the delogates Monday night when ihe oty sloges & flambeau parade to en tertain fts guests, Bhades of carlier days when torchiight processions and fite and drum corps marched the street will be recalled by the blare of bands and brillant flosts depieting former mmnmvul administrations W he perade and & display of fire- Republicans belfeve in NEW YORK, June O (A7) tornates, relutives, advisers and news- paper men, totaling 300 persons on a speclsl trafn this afternoon for Kansas Cily The customary brass bands and evi- dence of an elshorately organized dem- onstration were lacking A small erowd | witehed while the parly sald good-bye | o friends. There were 20 women dele- gates in the party Wind Causes Wire Trouble Buecial Dispateh o The Blas PURCELLVILLE, Va, June 9.—Wind sed some wire troul in this section of Loudoun County Iate this afternoon feveral homes were In dorkness for time. There was & general rain ARmage WAs lilm‘.:rd No Henator | conventlon keynoter and | the fiavor of rivalry, which | NEW YORK PARTY ON WAY e Star sz-m Ph oto WORK HITS BACK AT FARM ALLIES Deciares Party Will Not Re- fuse to Support Admin- istration. By the Associated Press KANSAS CITY, June 9.—Secretary Work, one of the chief lieutenants in fhe Hoover ranks. struck back today at the “alllance” which has been built around other presidential candidaies with a declaration that It was “a chal- lenge to the dministration of which Mr. Hoover {5 a member.” “The Republican party has never, and it will not begin at this time, to refuse its support to the Republican adminis- tration, especially to an administration which has given to the country such an era of prosper- ity and content- ment and of peace- ful relationships both at heme and abroad,"” sald Work in a formal state- ment, issued at Hoover convention headquarters Charges Bad Faith. “The unusual al- liance now formal- effected by the candidates W h o were presumably aspirants in their own right for the presidential nomi- nation, but who now, by the confession of thelr act, are merely opponents of Mr. Hoover, presents a challenge which should not be allowed to pass unac- cepted “The_American public_had accepted BOOKS WANTED in any quantity “‘Bring_them in"' or Phone Franklin 5415 BIG BOOK SHOP 933 G St. N.W. 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