Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1928, Page 27

PONTARPORT ST SAFE FOR ZEPPELIN Starr Truscott Holds Gravelly{® Location Adaguate for ‘Largest Liners.. The proposed Gravelly Point*airport for Washington could be made an adequate landing point for Zeppelin liners, through the development of a dirigible mooring mast at 6ne end of the airplane landing field as now planned, in the opinion of Starr Trus- cott, lighter-than-air expert for the National: Advisory Committee on Aero- nautics. % Speaking yesterday afternoon before | the aviation committee of the Wash- ington Board of Trade, Mr. Truscott, who is an expert on dirigible construc- tion, declared he could see no reason why the Gravelly Point site for the projected - Washington airport would not make a feasible landing point for airships of & size that probably will be in use in the next few years. Truscoit was asked to advise with the committee in connection with the Iocal airport project, following the sug- gestion by Capt. Hugo Eckener, com- mander of the Graf Zeppelin, that Washington or Baltimore might be selected @8 the Ameriean terminus: for the proposed transatlantic - Zeppelin liners, ‘Point Site Is Best. ln upholding the Gravelly Point site as “feasible” for the development of a landing place for dirigibles, Truscott declared the site to be the .best in the District for the proposed Wash- ington ajrport, irrespective of the air- ship phase of the question. Gravelly Point, he said, could be made.into an airport uinrivaled :anywhere-iin ‘the United Sfates or iabroad. The airport on Gravelly Point, on the Virginia ‘side of = the. Potomac belpw Railroad’ Bridge, would -be- developed in two sections, under presént proposed plans, esch 3,000 feet square. The fleld would be provided by filling in and re- claiming this smn of land now covered by shallow water; Truscott said -the airship- mooring mast, if added to plans for the alrport, should be located at the far lower end of the proposed; field 6.000-foot lonig. 80 as to:leave the great stretch of the field unabstructed for use of airplanes. Considering the present sige..of the greatest Zeppelins, he sdid, & field hav- ing a space clear of dbstruction for at least 1,000 feet radius of the mooring mast would prove adequate for the air- ships. Since the proposed local air- port would be 3.000 feet widt it should prove feasible. though not “ideal,” mncluded. {,;Needs Mooring Mast . The nxpcrt added that Washington thus cotild be made a landing point for dirigible” passengers and freight with- out the'.construction at the airport of great apd costly hangars, .which, he suggested, could |} where dn sites muc,h larger. and farther m& cangested city combined with the contrel tower for the airplane landirg fleld. The mast. he said; should be 225 feet high, al 20 feet n diameter and contain elevi tors far passengers and freight un- lmmz m the ship at mooring. mooring mast for dirigibles \mulfl n advantage to the local air~ port, he suggested that plans for the field be not held in yance decisinn as to the Thl #viation” o ttee body, mm sof ing men, alres Point for the- projected. Wi ioal gton airport. and u-% %fl poh quutlnn Bankrupt Hotel lly l.eopan : BEACEH ¥ m October WEST P ").,w, “d?xh' hén for 2 . ik nkruptey mmee of :;:!em,ln reoelver: mmu o A theef; rouk‘.‘lf [he recent ne effe hubr:muhes damage Was expected in a ( wefl worth the tfiflnance ) 42 Ib. N. W. Burchell 817:19 Fourteenth Street THSORE Relief guaranteed with one nullowo! M by a. ref-| be developed else- |. areas. . mooring mast; he spid. could: be Morrow’s Bedroom, ‘Earthguake Ho Again Recelvmg Tremblor Damagé‘ By the Associated Press. M!X CO CITY, October 23.—Ambass r Dwight W. Morrow’s earthquake hwered bedroom is being repaired again. The walls and ceiling of his ‘sleep- i0g quarters in the embassy residence have been cracked three times this year by earthquakes. Mr. Morrow hasnever been in the bedroom at the time. After each jolt the repairs have been scarce- ly completed when another tremblor has reopened the cracks or caused new ones. The damage has not been serious or dangerous, and other parts of the em- - THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. TUESDAY, OCTOBER bassy residence, and the office building have been cracked even less than. this particular ‘bedroom. dor Morrow makes light of the: matter. Some of his friends have commented that it is rather considerate of Mexican earthquakes to occur early in (the evenings, before he retires to his bedroom, which seems to:have an earthquake hoodoo. Earthquakes have been more frequent in Mexico this year than for some time, but they have not caused serious prop- erty damage in Mexico City, and thers’ have been few casualties lnywhere in the republic. PARACHUTE FAILS, TENT SAVES MAN “Stunt”. Performer Has Close Es- cape From Death in Plunge From Balloon. -Sanitary Grocery Co., Burglars Loot Safe of $100. Burglars visited- a store of the at 2503 Penn- sylvania avenue, removed a safe to an Adjoining building, broke it open and stole its contents, whlch -mounted w more than $100. Entrance was gained by sawing bars protecting a side window of the grocery store and the safe was thrown through the open window. It was then carried .. DYNAMITE KILLS SIX MEN IN COAL MINE Disaster Believed Due to Failure of . Miner to Tamp Sticks Before Firing.f By the ‘Associated Press. B , W. Va., October 23.— Failure-of a miner to tamp 10 sticks of dynamite before firing them is believed by Robert Lilly, State mine' inspector, to have caused an explosion last night which cost the lives of six men in the McAlpin Coal Co. mine near here. The bodies of the six men, including that of B. B. Burkhold, who, according to Lilly, failed to place the explosives in a hole before firing, were recovered by. rlewle crews six hours after the explo- sion. T. T. Durham, Richard" Durham, Laurino Reez, John Herriston and Al- fred Davis, the latter two negroes, were the other victims. ‘Turkish police n( Constantinople are now obliged to learn English, at least a working knowledge of it, so that they to the furnace room of 2501 Pennsyl- (may be able to direct’English-speaking vania avenue and opened. tourists about the city. By the Associated Press. SAVANNAH, Ga., October 23.—James J. 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