Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1928, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ., MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1928. " AR LEADERS PAY HONOR T0 WRIGHTS Corner Stone Laid ‘Today on 25th Anniversary of Kitty Hawk Flight. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. Staff Correspondent of The Star. KITTY HAWK, N. C., December 17. ~—Amid the bleak wind-piled dunes of this lonely section of the North Caro- lina coast the acronautical leaders of the world are gathered today to pay tribute to Orville and Wilbur Wright, | who blazed the trail for every man who | wings the air lanes of the world. Here, 25 years ago this morning, Or- | wille Wright, stretched prone across the wing of the first successful airplane, yeleased a wire which tethered the strange craft to a monorail launching track and glided forward erratically on the first airplane flight ever made. Today this same Orville Wright, a little grayer but still as unspoiled and | unassuming as on those obscure days, stood on the site of his carly triumphs and listened with visible embarrassment to the praises of men who are traveling the road which he opened to them. This “Wright country” rises out of | the ocean and salt bays into barren | mcres of rippling, shifting sand which at one point has piled up to form a mound | Four of the five eyewitnesses of the first human airplane flight, made by THEY WITNESSED FIRST AIRPLANE FLIGHT Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, N. C., nearly 100 feet high, the famous Kill | December 17, 1903, who were among those to welcome Mr. Wright to the sand dunes of North Carolina for the Devil Hills, which attracted the Wrights to this isolated, inaccessible part of the world and from which all of their early glider flights were made. Try to Anchor Hill. twenty-fifth anniversary of the flight. Left to right: A. D, Etheridge, W. S. Dough, J. T. Daniels and John Moore. 'HISTORY OF FLYING REVIEWED MOTOR CYCLE CRASH THE GREAT HRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS Christmas time is here again and with it all the things that go to make it the most joyful season of the year. ATLANTIC & PACIE ESTABLISHED 1859 Your A&P Store is bountifully stocked with all the good things that go to make for a complete Christmas in the food line— figs, nuts, candies, etc. Luscious cranberries, Jjuicy or anges and big red apples—all these things are to be found so close to your home. The quality is the finest and the prices will mean savings to you. May we respectfully sug- that you shop as early in the morning as possible so as to avoid the rush and aid n n extending better service to you. Fresh Killed U. S. Gov’t Graded Prime TURKEYS ~ CHRISTMAS We will again offer at Christmas time a select lot of fresh killed, U. S. Gov’t graded prime turkeys, Each turkey will be inspected and passed upon by an official grader of the Agricultural Dept. This assures you of the finest quality and we can tell you that the price will mean a real saving. Stop by your nearest A&P today, whether meat market or straight grocery store, and leave your Upon the shifting crest of this hill, | which Army engineers now are seeking | to anchor by covering the loose sands | with brush and Cape Cod grass, there is | AS AIR PIONEERS ARE HONORED KILLS POLICEMAN ot of & momument 1o be [:I"Em?flm‘f‘r';Headlines Filled With Sensational Feats of Ly et D the Federal Government in recognition | Force, Victim of Accident Near order, stating the size wanted, when you will call and our manager will see to it that you are taken care of to your entire satisfaction. of the achievements of these brothers. Then this gathering of aviation en- ! gineers, airplane builders, operators and pioneer airmen from all the parts of the world will tramp down through the sand | and salt water grass to the level stretch near the foot of the hill and, on the spot from which the first airplane flight began, will witness the unveiling of a ‘memorial which has been set up here by the National Aeronautic Association. Today's ceremonies are the culmina- ‘tion of the first aviation pilgrimage in history, a pilgrimage from the four cor- ners of the world. A majority of the | delegates and guests who attended lhe" International Civil Aeronautics Confer- ence at Washington are here. The trip to North Carolina, made by steamboat and automobile from the Na- tional Capital, probably will be produc- tive of important results in the imme- diate future of aeronautics in this coun- try and abroad. It is the first oppor- tunity flying people have had to get to- gether in any numbers, and many state- room and deck-corner conferences were held yesterday. Air Mail to Organize. One of the results of these confer- ences is to be the creation of an or- ganization of a pioneer air mail people who really have been the founders of commercial aviation: in the United States, and arrangements are in prog- ress for a rational congress of the early ‘Army and civilian air mail pilots and operators. In addition, there have been liaisons kreated between various groups cf avia- ftion people during the course of. this trip from which much will be heard later, in the opinions of those partici- pating in this unique trip. * The Kitty Hawk pilgrimage encoun- Rered some difficulty at the outset, when one of the heaviest fogs in river history held the chartered steamer District of Columbia at its Washington wharf jnearly four hours after the scheduled departure time. The lines finally were cast off at 1:40 am. Sunday and the boat nosed its way cautiously down the winding Potomac channel through a soupy fog which hid buoys and beacons. Reaching the lower Potomag about day- break, the boat enmcountered a little clearer weather and proceeded under forced draught to make up for lost It had been expected that the vessel #would arrive at Old Point Comfort Sun- ‘day morning in time for the party to|can attend church services, but because of the delay this was impossible, and an impromptu church service was held ‘aboard the vessel under direction of William P. MacCracken, jr., Assistant Becretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, Jand Woody Hockaday, & member of the ‘original National Airways Marking Com- ‘mission. MacCracken Leads Services. Mr. MacCracken conducted the serv- Wces, taking the story of the good Sa- maritan as his text. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, president of the National Aeronautics Association, played a piano accompaniment for the singing of several hymns. The services were.held in the main salon of the steamer and were attended by virtually the entire party. In his prayer Mr. MacCracken referred to the pioneering Work of the Wrights as one of the great- est_contributions which had been made to human progress. Sunday afternoon the vessel docked @&t Old Point Comfort and the visitors were taken by automobile to Langley Field, Hampton, Va, to inspect the me- morial laboratories of the National Ad- visory Committee for Aeronautics. Di- viding into three parties, the visitors were shown the operations of the at- mospheric wind tunnel, the variable density tunnel, the power plant labora- tory, the flight research laboratory and the propeller research tunnel. In these laboratories engineers of the mational committee, which is a Federal Government organization, have made many vitally important contributions to Jthe advancement of airplane engineer- ing and design. Returning to the steamer for the night, the party was put ashore at Norfolk Ahis morning and traveled by automo- bile to Point Harbor, N. C., taking a ferry there for Kitty Hawk Landing. ‘The trip was resumed by auomobile, a stop being made en route to Kill Devil Hills at the home of Capt. William J. “Tate, near Coinjock, where the first "Wright glider was assembled. i Barbecue Served. { A North Carolina barbecue and tur- {key dinner was served to the party at ~yirginia Dare Shores at noon today by !the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Associ- ation, which is seeking the establish- ‘ment of a national park here which will include the two monuments. The ‘trip to the scene of the early flights {then was completed by automobile and on _foot. Included in the party making the pil- grimage were Orville Wright, Secretary of War Dwight Davis, S. Trubee Davi- son, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics; Edward P. Warner, As- sistant Secretary of the Navy for Aero- nautics; Dr. Joseph S. Ames, chairman of the National Advisory Committee for ‘Aeronautics; George K. Burgess, director of the Bureau of Standards; Miss Amelia Earhart, Parker Cramer, hero of the Hassell-Cramer flight to Greenland last Summer; nearly a score of mem- bers of Congress, Brig. Gen. Frank P. Tahm, Army air pioneer; Dr. W. D. Coolidge, noted scientist, and other American aeronautical people. The foreign delegation included such men as Igor Sikorsky, Lord Thomson, head of the British delegation; Dr. Otto Merkel, noted German air leader; Dr. Jan Papanek, Witold Wankowicz, Wang Chen Fo, Lieut. M. Rodriguez, Setzuzo Sawada, head of the Japanese delegation; Maj. V. Casajus, Senor J. J Jauregul y Gil, Hermann Pohlmann and Signor Caproni, inventor of the famous Caproni multimotored type of airplane. Workers of India have adopted a canoe-shaped slipper, similar to those By the Associated Press. The Capital reminisced today over the 25 years of heavier-than-air flying as the Wright brothers, one of them now dead, were being honored at Kltty\‘ Hawk, N. C., where the first airplane | flight was made. | Airminded people recalled the days of a little more than 20 years ago when the two young bicycle shop operators of Dayton, Ohio, came to Washington to convince a skeptical Government that they had built a machine which would 1ift itself and two men into the air and keep them there for an hour. The ‘Wright brothers, then needing money, wanted to sell one of the frail, strange, craft to the Government. What the Government intended to do with it was not _clear. ! ‘The brothers had been making more | or less successful air tests for several years before they finally submitted their machine to the Government. The specifications of the Signal Corps, which then had charge of anything pertaining to aeronautics, called for a machine which could da 40 miles and hour, which could be taken apart to be packed in Army wagons, and which would land in a field without wrecking itself. First Passenger “Scared.” Maj. Gen. George O. Squier, later head of the Signal Corps, was one of Orville Wright's first passengers, and today he admits ‘that the 9 minutes’ trip he took tscared him to death.” Gen. Squier and Orville talked over the flight here last week during the Inter- national Aeronautical Congress. Just a bit more than 20 years ago four fiyers -were making themselves known. They were Capt. Thomas S. Baldwin, with a dirigible; Henry Far- man, a Frenchman, with an airplane; Orville Wright, who was perfecting his plane preparatory to Government tests, and Wilbur Wright, who ‘was startling the French with record-breaking air journeys at Le Mans, France. The American Government and the Americ- Congress were becoming interested in the subject of aviation, and Orville came here to sell a plane to the War Department, but he had to demon- strate its capacity for flight. Test Made in Virginia. ‘The test was made in the vicinity of Fort Myer, Va, and Shooters Hill, near Alexandria. There were elaborate preparations by newspapers and press associations to cover it. An account of those days shows that there were tem- porary telegraph wires strung all over nearby Virginia. One wire ran into an abandoned golf clubhouse on top of Shooters Hill near Alexandria. Each morning an army of reporters would Jjourney out, several being stationed at Fort Myer and others at Shooters Hill. Still others, on horseback, would range through the woods, waiting for the flying machine to fall. The test was long delayed. Each day it was announced that the time for flying was most propitious at 5 a. m. and 5 pm., and the wind nearly every day seemed wrong.. At 5 o'clock each eve- ning, when no flight was in sight, those waiting made arrangements to sleep in haystacks or whatever other places were available until the magical hour of 5 am. and the hoped-for ascent. Finally the flight was made and the Dayton brothers got their contract with the Government. During this period, however, Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge’s name was recorded as the first Army aviator to give his life in the advancement of the' new science. He fell with Orville Wright, who also sutained a broken leg which kept him in bed for months. Stays Up Four Minutes. In those days the headlines were filled with sensational doings of aviators. On one day Orville remained aloft for four minutes, “thrilling” Army men. A few days later, Wilbur, in France, stayed up 19 minutes, breaking all records. Then Orville made a 62- minute flight with a passenger. And finally he boosted this record to 74 minutes. ‘Together the brothers were breaking a record each day. It was at this time that the possibility of a flight to New York from Washing- ton was advanced, and to further this vision: Orville made a round trip from Fort Myer to Alexandria, Va., a dis- tance of ten miles, in 14 minutes and 12 seconds. Government offigials, diplomats and members of Congress swarmed together in the crowd which witnessed the test flights. There were no seats on the plant for a passenger and there were no wheels on the plane. Rather it was catapulted down a runway and Gen. Squier says it was “bumped into the air. Old timers in aviation say 2,000 persons witnessed the first official Gov- ernment test flight. Thus aviation was officially introduced J. Frank Kelly, Inc. 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The dinner is announced as the “yearly relaxation of the student of philately from his arduous labors in interpreting the world events through the collec- tion of stamps issued by the various countries.” Plans will be made at the meeting for the Christmas tree in the clubroom at 1020 Vermont avenue and a report re- turned on the progress of the stamp essay contest for high school students being sponsored by the society. It also was announced that a resolution will be offered expressing sympathy for the illness of King George of England, de- scribed as a fellow philatelist. Bethesda—Two Youths Freed. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., December 17.—J. Asbury Case, a motor cycle policeman of the Montgomery County force, dled at 1 o'clock tnis morning of injuries sustained yesterday when his machine crashed into the rear of an automobile momentarily parked a mile north of Bethesda. John M. Burke, 20 years old, |and Michael Lydon, 22, both of Wash- ington, were held for investigation and released this morning after an inquiry by State’s Attorney Robert Peter, Chief of Police Alvie Moxley and Police Sergt. Rogers. The young men explained that they had turned the car about and stopped to exchange seats when the motor cycle struck it. Two young women were with them. Case was for six years a member of the police force in Washington, coming to Montgomery County two years ago. He leaves a widow, formerly a Miss Rickert. Burke, whose address was given the police as 1039 Kearney street northeast, and Lydon, 2413 Pennsylvania avenue, took the injured man to the George- town University Hospital and were de- tained by Policeman J. T. Nash of the seventh precinct for investigation. Case never regained consciousness. Ccse was on his way to the Bethesda substation from Rockville when the ac- cident occurred. 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