Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1928, Page 6

D. . THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1926.° B UARDSMEN BLAST 0 FORTIFY SELVES: e T { D. C. Militia Unable to Make . Impression on Mountain I With Entrenching Tools. | CAMP ALBERT RITCHIE, CAS- CADE. Md. August 16.—The camp of mbia National Guard shaking today when 1p the rock nding moun- troops might ns. For two ve been trying to use the entrenching tools, but they ake any impression on the e 1\ W. Oehmann, commanding was presented with the! ¥ he sent Lieut nental plans detail ¢ fortifica- he charges were then rock by the ex- 1e clay at Fort hey have been ch most of the e performed ] tasks bespeak: Almost Named to Reformatory Board camp in the rain and | William 2 the slopes. nduct of the personnel so far mp has been above reproach. vision and brigade ady have been started tion of Hagerstown on to this place and the surrounding area. | Gen. Stepl npanied by Lieut. | on adjutant today in the and Thy Mapping out the various positions of the Army, so that they might tell Lie Louis C. Brinton, jr., structor and adjuta District Militia, just how they woul handle the situation if thrown in the field in this section. The 29th ! Signal Company laid miles of wire to | establish telephone and telegraph sta- | tions The base ball game which started the vesterday for the commanding . donated by Gen. Stephan, turned into a slaughter. and by the time | #ix_innings were played, the Medical Department Detachment conceded the 1st Battalion to be the superior team | and the game ended. The 1st Battalion will play the 2d Batialion Saturday aft- ernoon. of . McCullough of manufactu s Chamber of Commerc Attoruey General as membors of th advisory board of the United States Industrizl Retormatory for ng Men. first offcuders, were ou direction Deerfield Ordered to Chanute Field. ! Lieut. Col. Seth W. Cook, Army Air | Corps, today was designated by the War | Department as commandant of the | Corps Technical School at Chanute | Field. Rantoul, Ill, vice Maj. Willmmi C. McChord, Air Corps, assigned to other duty. F COLONEL DIES IN FRANCE. Col. Joseph L. Knowlton, U. S. Army, fetired, who had resided at Nice. Prance, with his wife, Mrs. Eliza B. Knowlton, since his retirement in 1921, died while on a visit to Paris last Tues- @ay and will be buried in the American Cemetery in that city tomorrow cording to advices received at the War | Department. | Col. Knowlton was born at Joliet, 11, | 1, 18 and was graduated t Military Academy in June, | 1895. He was commissioned in the Ar- tillery Corps. but later was transferred | to the Quartermaster Corps, in which | branch he reached the grade of colonel | . 1920, In June, 1921, he on the retired list at his t after more than 30 years' | The super qulk% i Autocrat Motor 0il res you of supreme performance—more miles of safe lubrication per fillt : To fully appreciate Autocrat Motor Qil quality, bowever, you should use it straight— have your crank case drained, and refilled with clean, new Autocrat. 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Photo The monoplane Greater Rockford (above), in which Bert assell (left) and Parke Cramer (ook off from Rock- ford, 1L, this morning on the first leg of un atiempted flight to Stockholm, Sweden. COL. R. D.WALSH, RETIRED, DIES AT WALTER REED Calitornian, Serving as Brigadier World War, Was in Army 40 Years Col. Robert D. Walsh, U. S rs old, died yesterday. I Walsh was . and was appointed Military Acedemy from that He was commissioned a second lieu- tenant d Infantry, June 13, 1878, and promoted thre the usual grades to brigadier general, National Army, in August of 1917 He retired at his own request a years of service Junc 30, 1919 Walsh received the Distinguished Se Geueral During A retired at Walter Reed His- born in Alleghany was Underwood Photo. Suit Case Stolen. case W loot wecks by been preying rocar onian 1 h Thief tourisis who they visit the + and other G ability, energy and devotion (o duty He' is survived by his widow. Mus Susan L. Walsh, residing at the Wyomiu Apartments here, and a son, Ma). Rol Walsh, Army Air Crops, Fort 1 {worth, Kans of Worthy Lerolce "l Ja |HASSELL HOPS OFF ON FIRST LEG OF STOCKHOLM FLIGHT 1Cnnllnm-‘drhrnm Pir;t Page.) | KHAH | messages every hour throughout their flight | ‘The Rockford Chamber of Commerce | is sponsoring the flight plans for the | ockholm journey | wsell was the first of the Great Rockford crew to arrive at the airpo:t | this morning. arriving at 5:45 with Mrs. | Hassell. TFhey left their “kiddies” at| home in bed. The pilot spent a few | moments talking with his wife and later posed for photographers. When asked to pose with Mrs. Hassell, he said Porget it. She doesn't want to be | mixed up in this flight’ Cramer followed a few minutes later coming by auto with his mother, who | had come to Rockford to bid her son well. 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There are Tweeds and Silk- Greater Rockford on its flight to Stock- holm, has been an airplane pilot. ¥ took up flying before the World War and became an instructor at Chanute Field, | the plane was given the call letters' licutenant in 1918, and served in the The pllots planned to send | Atmy Air Corps as a teacher through- | | ‘ 35 black and navy georgettes and ! | | | ; - - lons of gasline and 20 gallons of oil.|Mayor Hylan's aerial police force in|having and displaying indecent pic- There was little or no breeze and the | New York air was described as “moggy” or heavy | were in the employ of the Curtiss by other fiyers. Since 1912 Bert Hassell, pilot of the | continued until it led to their assoc {tion in the proposed flight to Stor | holm. Cramer is a bachelor | mother, M | Clarion, Pa He was commissioned a second | A CHARGES DISMISSED. out the war. Hassell, who was born in Marinette, Wis., in 1893, is married and the father of three children. His family was in Rockford to bid him farewell. Hi home is in Rockford, e attend- ed the grade and hig Packer (“Shorty”) Cr co-nilot, navigator of the Greater Hoosier, pfayelte Purdue University up flying as a liv during the w Kelly and Brook pilot at 1 of Vagrancy Charg g argaret Conagher 1orthe and_ Mi Oehlert. 19. 1259 C were in Police by Ju R mendation of vagrancy 13 against M husky and radio overator Rocktord, was born a Ind, the seat of He is 32. 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