Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1929, Page 4

MINNESOTA PLANE STARTS SIXTH DAY Miss Minneapolis Survives Disaster Threatened by Se- ries of Storms and Hail. By the Associated Pre MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Jurie 28— The one hundred and twenty-third hour in the air was passed at 8 am. today by Owen Haughland of Buffalo and Minneapolis and Thorwald “Thunder” Johnson, St. Paul, as their plane, Miss Minneapolis, droned on to- ward a new world endurance record. At 6 a.m. another successful refueling was effected and 100 gallons of gasoline and 6 quarts of ofl were taken aboard. Residents of Buffalo announced coi letion of arrangements to hold a ce! Pration ‘s soon as the fiyers land. It the plane stays up until 10:35 a.m. Sun- day it will better by one hour the pre ent record of 1721 hours for refueling flights recently set at Fort Worth, Tex. Flight Broadcast Is Planned. Announcement also was made thas KST, St. Paul radio station, expects to broadcast a description of the flight, be- ginning about 10 am. (Central stand- ard time) Sunday over a nation-wide hook-up. ‘The elements and a fuel shortage nearly speiled disaster for the Miss Minneapolis yesterday. Haughland and Johnson were forced to struggle through three thundersiorms. Hail fell during one storm, but the propeller on their single motor escaped damage. In attempting to avold one storm during the late afternoon, the pilots discovered they had used up more fuel than usual and they hurried back to Northfield, Minn,, where they dropped & note asking that Wold Chamberlain Pleld be notified to have a refueling plane ready when they arrived. Fuel Supply Runs Low. Through & misunderstanding, the re- fueler, piloted by Gene Shank, was sent to Northfield and when the Miss Min- neapolis reached here Haughland and Johnson had to turn back again until they met Shank. After an emergency supply of gaso- line had been taken on, Haughland dropped a note saying “Boy, I shudder to think how near dry we were.” He added that “I was looking for the motor to quit any time.” When the refucling contact was made, Johnson estimated that they had aboard enough gasoline for about five minutes more of flying. SCENES MARKI NG ENCAMPMENT OF V. F. W. i | | | | | Upper: Paraile which opened annual | session of the Veterans of Foreign Wars last night. Below: Speakers at the encampment (left to right)—Maj. Gen. Briant Wells, deputy chief of stafi; Rear Admiral William H. Standley and Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan. —Star Staff Photo. VIOLA GENTRY HURT AS PILOT IS KILLED IN WRECK OF PLANE (Continued From Pirst Page.) cessfully completed, although Burgin| said that-the two planes were tossed | around by the wind like toy balloons. | Ashcraft's neck was broken in the crash.” Miss Gentry, suffering from in- | ternal injuries, both arms broken and lacerations, was conscious when pulled from the wreckage and asked “What | Commenting on the intermittent storms of yesterday, the note said, “Or- der good weather for us.” ARMY FLYERS GREET LINDY_AND BRIDE Couple Land at Lambert Field, at St. Louis, After Trip From Indianapolis. hn_Fgened?" eir plane took off from Roosevelt | field at 8:49 p.m. yesterday, with 116 gallons of gasoline. It is belleved their | gasoline ran short and the plane | crashed into the tree near a nursery 200 feet from the Jericho turnpike, Girl Ignorant of Pilot’s Death. Henry Hicks, proprietor of the nurs- ery, heard the accident. He said there ‘was no noise from the motor. The gas- oline tanks and carburetor were later found to be dry. The plane landed on its nose, the motor buried far in the ground. Ash- craft’s body was wedged between the motor and the ground. Miss Gentry was found on top of the gas tank, with one foot tangled up in the wreckage. She was bleeding profusely and was hysterical. She lapsed into uncon- sciousness on her way to the hospital in an_ambulance. g consciousness soon after arriving at the hospital, Miss Gentry asked about Ashcraft, but she was not told of his death. . A heavy fog blanketed the flying fleld country for several hours this morning. This was believed to be a contributing factor as to the cause of the sccident. Arthur Ward, an employe at the Hicks nursery, said Miss Gentry's plane, . | The Answer, had barely clea: & water tank before it hit the tree. Note Tells of Fog Bank. ‘The Answer was last seen over Roose- velt Field about 6:15 am, A mechanic on his way to work later found a note which had been dropped from the plane saying that the gasoline was running low but there was enough In the tanks to last two hours. The note described the fog bank as about 30 feet thick. A clock in thé plane, which was broken in the crash, had stopped at 6:15 o'clook. Ashcraft, 33 years old, was born in n, Kans. He had been a fyer for & number of years and was con- sidered an expert pilot. He figured in a serious accident in Baton Rouge, La., in 1924, while with a flying circus. His passenger at that time was killed and Ashcraft was in a hospital for a long period recovering from injuries. Miss Gentry was formerly a cashier in a restaurant. She attracted atten- tion early in 1926 by pil & plane under the Brooklyn and Manhattan 3!11:8‘4 over the East River, in New ork. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, June 28.—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived at Lam- St. Louls Pleld here last night at 8:20 p.m. It was their first visit to the pilot's legal residence since used mail. Due to the uncertainty of his ar- rival a group of about 150 awaited him | an_impromptu T was lu!# in the hangar of the 35th Division Al f which he is an officer. to make an inspecti fleld, of which he said, “I guess I know this field pretty well.” o BENT CRANKSHAFT HOLDS UP SVERIGE Capt. Ahrenberg Hopes - to Start for Greenland Some Time Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. l REYKJAVIK, Iceland, June 28 —The trouble with the Swedish plane Sverige which forced it back here yesterday afternoon a few hours after starting for Ivigtut, Greeland, was found to a bent crankshaft. It was supposed that 1t had been strained when the plane ‘was towed to the Westman Islands after the airplane had been forced down on its flight from Bergen, Norway. The Iceland Air Co. will provide 8| new shaft which will be installed to- morrow and Capt. Albin Ahrenberg hopes to get away shortly thereafter. _ THREE PERSONS KILLED IN WRECK OF AIRPLANE (iems: ai " e’ saen e Two Others Are Injured as Am- "?fl.:rb&nn’-ymdm ifl :;“e ;he .|; again uni week when she an phibian Flunges Into Charles W. Parkhurst went up in an Barnegat Bay. By the Associated Press. unsuccessful attempt to establish a new BEACH HAVEN, N. J., ¥efueling endurince record. i Fog Delayed Refueling Ship. Three persons were kilied and two o ers injured here yesterday in The Answer's refueling ship arrived | at Roosevelt Field this forenoon from of an amphibian plane, owned by the | Hartford, Conn., where it had taken Curtiss Flying Service of North Beach, Long Island, into Barnegat Bay. off at 845 a.m. The plane had been 4G Bixon, ‘Glaude Kincald and = 11 A xon, Claude caid and | U eber o the Beern Haton ponles | Joseph Baltrun, members of the crew force; Harold Potts, 30, Beach Haven |Of the refueling ship and all close | plumber, and Leslie Broome, 28, a yacht captain and member of the Beach Haven Yacht Club. The bodies of Poits and Conklin were recovered. The injured are: Alison Price. 19, of Beach Haven, and Paul Mashelle, pilot of the plane, of New York City. CAPPER SEEKS REFUND. Holds Railroads Overcharged for Carrying Magazine Covers. A complaint was filed with the Inter- state Commerce Commission today by Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas. seek- ing the recovery of $30,000, which he claimed the Atchison, Topeka & Santa | Fe Railroad and several other lines had overcharged him in freight rates on printed mazagine covers from Chicago | to_Topeka, Kans. Senator Capper, hegd of the Capper publications of Topeka. alleged that al various times within the past two yeflrh, he had ordered carload shipments. of | printed magazine covers, billed as ad- vertising matter, upon which the rail-| roads had charged higher than lawful al tes. The petition asked that the commis- sion order the raflroads to put lawful rates into effect and to reimburse him for the loss he claimed he had suffered. | Duke of Gloucester Leaves. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 28 (/) —After three weeks here conva- Set Record for Women. In 1928 she set an endurance solo record for woman-flyers by staying in the air over Roosevelt Field for 6 hours and 37 seconds. 5 After her record was bettered In Jan- uary, Miss Gentry made an attempt to regain her endurance title, but cracked up her Swallow plane in taking off from 1t Field. Plans for another at- Capt. Frank He will sail for Quebec a rou hour July.3. | HAWKS AT START OF RECORD FLIGHT l Aviators Compete For Chance to Give Miss Gentry Blood| Spirit of Aviation Is Evi- denced as Flyers An- swer Call for Help. By the Associated Press. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., June 28. —In the face of tragedy the spirit of aviation revealed itself today as a spirit of which all humanity might well be proud. ©On an endurance flight Viola Gentry and Jack Ashcraft plunged to earth. Ashcraft was killed and Miss Gentry critically injured, hospital physiclans discovering that she was hleeding in- ternally. A message was sent from the hospital to the flying field that the woman pilot needed blood. Who would volunteer? And as one man the flying_and ground staffs stepped forward. Pilots whose names are often in the papers, office executives and their clerks, grimy “grease balls” who oil and tend the en- gines, not & man on the field but begged for the chance to help Miss Gentry. sald that as soon as prelimi- nary blood tests were & donor would be selected and the transfusion operation performed. Word that a transfusion was necessary was received also by members of the Gates Flying Circus, to which Ashcraft was attached. Edward Nibor, a pilot, and William ‘Weeks, & mmechanic, tumbled into a plane at the Gates headquarters at Holmes Airport and flew here, a dis- tance of 20 miles, and then took an automobile for the hospital in an effort to be among the first to offer assist- ance. Miss Bondfield Eschews Levee. LONDON, June 28 (#).—Right Hon. Margaret Bondfield, Minister of Labor, is entitled to attend the levee of the Prince of Wales next Tuesday. Knee breeches and cocked hats are prescribed by custom on the occasion. Miss Bond- field has decided to be absent. Stunt Flyer Surrenders. NEWARK, N. J., June 28 (#).—Wil- liam Hughes is an aviator who hopes to fly to Paris, but he not stunt with impunity ciose to Newark's housetops. ‘The police were ready to send out a plane to pinch him aloft when he came down and surrendered. friends of Asheraft, first learned of the accident to the Answer when they landed. Dixon notified Ashcraft's parents in Kansas. Ashcraft’s brother Francis was killed recently in Macon, Ga, in a similar airplane accident, Dixon said. N. Y., just before h ing off on | ched in 19 hours. pi) ter & seven- n JENSEN FIGHTS FOG INRECORD ATTEMPT Three Musketeers Unaware of Accident Which Befell Viola Gentry and Pilot. By the Associated Press. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., June 28. —The monoplane Three Musketeers was crawling through & heavy fog over Long Island today in a quest for a new | the endurance refuelln, flight mark with its crew unmindful of the tragedy which befell the Answer, Viola Gentry’s plane, which took off last night in another as- sault on the record. Martin Jensen, pilot of the Three Musketeers, saw the Answer disap- pear into the fog, however, and in & note dropped to the fiying fleld asked | yill “What happened to Viola? Saw her Aisappear at low altiture, am worried.” ‘The Three Musketeers was refueled at 7 a.m. The operation was carried on 2,000 feet in the air as the two ships mere forced to climb Move the fog ok, Jensen later dropped his note, which in addition to the query concerning Miss Gentry, requested that a hand drill, some wood screws and a counter sink be sent up, as the top of the Three Musketeers’ cabin had loosened. After refueling the Three Musketeers, Emil Burgin, pllot of Jensen's supply ship, flew cautiously through the fog searching for the Answer. He was un- able to find it, however, and returned to the field. Burgin, upon landing, and unaware of the wreck of the Answer, took on 50 gallons of line and planned to go up in search of the plane again after & mechanic found & note which said the ship's fuel lui)ply was running low. Newspa men later told him of the accident. for "He Owes Not Any Man” To look the whole world in the face, squarely— fairly! What more can any man ask of hime self—or another? It is the one test of manhood where none should fail—and that is why it has been immortalized in song and story. A man may need C., FRIDAY, JUN VETERANS PARADE | PRIOR TO MEETING V. F. W. Convention Opened With March to Western High School. Following an impressive parade, com- posed of units from patriotic and fra- ternal organizations, the District of Co- lumbia Department of the Veterans of Fovelgn Wars opened their tenth annual encampment in the auditorium of the ‘Western High School last night. Upon reaching the school from the assembly point at Twenty-fifth and M streets the Veterans of Foreign Wars members ‘wended their way slowly, to the accom- paniment of a drum, into the auditorium where the encampment was formally opened with a salute to the colors, fol- lowed by an invocation from Rev. V. O. Anderson, chaplain of the District of Columbia Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Capt. Edwin S. Bettelheim, eral chairman, presented E. Agee wles, president of the Georgetown Citizens’ Association, who delivered an address of welcome in behalf of the association. The reply was made -by Capt. Frank Lockhead, department commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who pre- sided over the encampment, Gen. Wells Speaks. Maj. Gen. Briant H. Wells, d chief of staff, United States Army, :g:g apon the influence of the ex-service men of the country in time of peace and urged upon them to give their fullest support to the maintenance of an ade- quate national defense. It'should be the duty of a veteran to keep alive the |- country’s ideals and spirit of fair play, the general declared, but always to re- member that ideals must be supported by adequate force when necessary. Rear Admiral Willlam H. Standley, assistant chief of naval operations, ‘pre- sented the naval point of view on na- tlonal defense by stressing the necessity for an adequate cruiser fleet. He also scored the pacifist organizations which he declared to have been active in their attempt to defeat the cruiser bill at the last session of Congress. The task of t;:: dvefien:mt;e gd:fl:lntl hsh.ndley de- clared, must set the propaganda of the pacifists. ¥ Denounces Neglect. Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, head of the District National Guard, denouncéd the neglect under which the National Guard was compelled to operate, with particu- lar reference to lack of an armory, and urged the veterans to exert such influ- ence as they might to better conditions. In touching upon political affairs, he predicted that the time would come when the District will have congres- slonal representation and a vote for President. Other speakers of the evening consist- ed of Samuel G. Mawson, commander of the Potomac Department of the G. A. R.; Harlan Wood, 'partment com- mander of the District of Columbia De- ent of the American H Department Dis- abled American Veterans, and Mrs. Fred C. Lucas, chief of staff of the La- dies’ Auxiliaries. A short business meeting later was held at which the several committees were formally installed, and reports re- celved from the gosu of the depart- ment. Sessions will be held tonight and tomorrow night. The close will be marked by the election of officers. PRESIDENT GOES FISHING. ‘Will Leave Early Tomorrow for Oamp on Rapidan River. President Hoover expects to leave Washington early tomorrow morning by automobile for his fishing camp on e Rapidan River in the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Madison, Va. ‘When the President went to his fish- ing camp last week he caught a string of good sized mountain trout, and he hopes to repeat the feat tomorrow after- noon. He will leave early enough to get in a good afternoon's fishing. He will spend Sunday resting and probably return Monday morning to the White House. The list of those who accompany the President will be made public late: Swat the Fly Take advantage of an early start by an aggres- sive war on the fly at the beginning of the season. The Star has for free distribution wire-handle fly swatters. Ask for one at the main office of The Star, 11th and Pa. 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