Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1928, Page 11

WAR SHOW STARTS | WITH BATILE ROAR Fight of Lost Battalion Fea- tures Display of Army Material. The roar of sham battle reverberat- 4ng over the Capital yesterday from “Argonne Forest,” down at Washing- arracks, inaugurated before aft- | n and evening crowds estimated at more than 16,000 the fight of the Lost Battalion, which will carry on today and tomorrow for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the Army. The imposing collection of war ma- ricl for the.military exposition and | carnival was augmenied today by two | more groups of airplanes, including nine | huge bombing planes and seven Curtiss planes. ected to | Iy illuminated and spectacular show. which drew a about 10,000 last It was a stirring performance. Be- ginning with cavalry and infantry drills and exhibitions, the demonstr: tions worked up to a tremendous roar- ing climax in the sham battle. It was the subject of widespread and favor- able comment today among the thous- ands of witnesses. And the manage- ment, from Maj. Gen. Charles P. Sum- | merall, chief of staff of the United States Army, on down, appeared highly pleased. Admittance for adults is $1 and for children under 15 years 25 cents. Returns all go for the Army Relief Soclety and for general Army relief, Shows Army Equipment. The Lost Battalion episode is the climax of the exhibition, which shows the latest developments in all branches of the Army, with literally thousands of pieces, ranging in size from huge bombing airplanes to tiny instruments. While the evening program is some- what abridged in its aerial features and Cavalry demonstration, it presented a brilliant disolay of pyrotechnics, and the | flare of gunfire and spotlights. Battery | A of the 16th Field Artillery, Fort Myer, which pre: s a dashing exhibition of skillful driving and intricate mansuve THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON; D. T. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 5. 19%8." ing of caissons and guns. at the after- noon show, is supplanted at night by the Gray Horse Battery, Battery C, 16th Field Artillery, also from Fort Myer, whose gray horses stand out picturesque- ly in the setting of flares and pyrotech- nics with which the field is {lluminated. The big show opened sharply at. 2:30 yesterday after the parade through downtown Washington, with a demon- stration of acrobatic work on horseback by the Machine Gun Troop, 3d Cavalry, at Fort Myer. Lieut. Ellwood R. Quesada, Washing- tonian pilot, was the star of the sky show put on by the Army Air Corps. Other features of the air show were the cruising of the Army blimp T-C 10, for- mation flying and acrobatics of three pursuit planes, and a smoke screen laid down by a pursuit plane. The bombers from Langley Field, under command of Capt. Cecil B. Sellers, and the Curtiss Hawk pursuit planes under command of Pirst Licut. Virgin Hine were added to the air show today. A big observation balloon floated its funny looking sausage shape over the scene, moored to its truck on ground. Tank Proves Speed. A new light tank now undergoing test by the Army was proved to be about twice as fast as the regulation tank in a test in which the new one made 22 miles an hour, tearing up the sod of the drill field. Maj. Gen. Summerall and Mrs. Sum- |merall, who head the committee in charge of the big show, were presented in person to the throngs. when they | released Signal Corps homing pigeons from the field, for a pigeon derby to Fort Leonard Wood, Md. The “Fight of the Lost Battalion” | brought into play all mobile elements of the Army on location. With trees and underbrush simulating the Argonne Forest, where the gallant fight of Maj. Charles W. Whittlesey's battalion of the 306th Infantry of the 77th Division took place 10 years ago this week, sol- diers in the uniforms of both Ameri- cans and Germans re-enacted those stirring scenes. The Yanks advanced to their objective, were surrounded by |Germans, and finally, rejecting all terms of surrender, held out and fought out of the trap to the accompanying |roar of artillery, rifles, machine-guns, anti.aircraft guns, spitting tanks and zooming_airplanes. Maj. Whittlesey is impersonated by Lieut. John B. Armstrong of the 12th Infantry, Fort Washington, whose sol- diers play the roles of both Americars and Germans. A high spot in the big fight is the capture of an American by the German forces hemming in the Lost Battalion. The captive is sent with a white flag of truce to the American po- sition while the terrific din of all gun- fire is stilled. Maj. Whittlesey advances into the open from behind the war-torn shrubbery, meets the messenger, reads the demand to surrender, and with & superb gesture of contempt, tears the message in pleces, throws it to the ground and jerking the messenger with him, goes back into the bushes as the thundering roar of the fight resumes with more intensity than ever. American Reserves Arrive. American reserves protected by a simulated advancing barrage, in the form of mines electrically exploded with deafening blasts, advance upon the Germans surrounding the American battalion. An American airplane carries messages of hope in parachutes drop- ped from above. Tanks tear into the battle with their short guns barking, machine guns are brought forward with the American advance. One tank runs into a mine and is blown up, only to proceed steadily into battle. Men fall “wounded” and ‘“dying” and are car- ried off by medical department men, supplied with a lot of “bloody” band- ages. And in a final cataclysm of smoke, deafening roar of battle and cries of victory the Yanks drive to vic- tory, the Stars and Stripes are raised on'a scraggly in the woods, and the German prisoners are marched, limping and with hands up, across the field. The general committee in charge in- cludes Maj. Gen. Summerall, Maj. Gen. . W. TIreland, _surgeon gen- eral; Maj. Gen. W. D. Connor, com- mandant the Army War College, and Mrs. Summerall. The executive head was Gen. Connor, and his assistant was Col. L. D. Gasser. The executive com- mittee_consisted of Gen. Ireland, Maj. Gen. R. H. Allen, chief of infantry; Maj. Gen. B. F. Cheatham, quarter- master general; Brig. Gen. H. O. Wil- liams, 16th Brigade. SWALLOWS VANITY CASE. Wisconsin Girl's Plight Puzzles Doctors Seeking Lost Device. STEVENS POINT, Wis. 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