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HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 1 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1930. VIRGINIA TO PLANT MEMORIAL TREES Pollard Calls for State-Wide Program in Connection With Bicentennial. Gov. John Garland Pollard of Vir- #inia is sending out a call for State-wide tree planting in connection with the | bicentennial celebration of George Washington's birthday in 1932, accord- | ing to an announcement today by the American Tree Association, ‘which s endeavoring to secure Nation-wide co- operation in tree planting in connection ! with the bicentennial | The action of Gov. Pollard, it is said, | ts Virginia in the lead as the first | te to issue a call for memorial tree | lanting in that year. Charles Lathrop k, president of the American Tree Association, received word today that Gov. Pollard is in favor of the plan and is asking the landscape engineers of the State Commission on Conserva- | tion and Development to co-operate. | The George Washington Bicentennial Commission, with headquarters in the Washington Building, today issued a ‘booklet telling of the general plans for co-operation in memorial tree planting, listing the aims of the American Tree Association Gov. Ritchie of Maryland will put the plan before the State Bicentennial Com- mittee as soon as organized and Gov. Graves of Alabama has turned the sug- gestion over to Col. Page Bunker, the State forester, it i< faid. Frederick V. Pisher of the District of Columbia Com- | mission is said to have expressed the | view that the tree-planting plan will | bring big results, FIRE DESTROYS FEED ON VIRGINIAN'S FARM| %'wo Barns, Holding About 45 Tons, Are Burned in Blaze Started by Tractor. @pecial Dispaich to The Star. CULPEPER, Va., September 11 Both the Culpeper and the Warrenton Fire Departments were called out to a fire which originated from a tractor | being used to grind feed and which | destroyed two large barns and their | contents on the farm of O. A. Groves, 8 miles from Remington, in Farquier County. This farm formerly was owned by J. M. Millman of Culpeper, who re- cently sold it. In addition to 45 tons of feed-—which i doubly valuable at this time—a binder, comn planter, feed mill and the tractor were consumed. It is estimated that the loss is nearly $8,000. THREE NOW IN RACE FOR SHERIFF POST John N. Simms, Republican, With- draws as Unopposed Candidate for Maryland State Senate. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. LA PLATA, Md., September 11.—Ju- lian E. Simpson of Tompkinsville, this county, through petition, has entered as an indépendent candidate for election to the office of sheriff. This entry makes a three-cornered fight for that office in the county. The other candidates are W. Purcell Gardiner, Democrat, and Robert V. Cooksey, Republican. Another political turn of interest in the county today was the withdrawal of John N. Simms. the Republican candi- | date for State Senate. Mr. Simms was unopposed in the primary election held on Monday. No information can yet be obtained concerning who will be ap- pointed to fill the vacancy. TEACHERS’ MEET HELD Prof. R. R. Tolbert Named as Cul- peper County Leader. 8pecisl Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER. Va. September 11.— Almost 100 per cent of the teachers of Culpeper County attended the meet- ing of the Teachers' Association yes- terday in the Ann Wingfield School. Only two out of the whole number were absent. Prof. R. 'R. Tolbert, who is com- mencing his fourteenth year as princi- pal of the Culpeper School, was re- elected president of the county associa- tion, the five vice presidents—one from each of the school districts of the county—being Miss Ruth Campbell, Miss Virginia Tinsley, Ratrie Kelly, Prof. Rosenberger and Mrs. Ray Hud- son. Miss Lee Perry was elected treas- urer and Miss Mabel Burton secretary Historian Challenges Hoover. SAUGERTIES, N. Y., September 11 ().—Poultney Bigelow,” historian, who has just celebrated his 75th birthday, challenges Herbert Hoover to a mile run, to leapfrog, to tennis, to split & cord of | wood, to climb Pikes Peak or to swim | the Hudson., Judges and Senators, he thinks, should be at least 70 years old and Mr. Hoover should retire until he is ripe for hard work at SPECIAL NOTICES. FOR FLOORS. ~WALLS. 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Apollo Soucek, another navai| pilot, boosted the airplane ceiling to 38.- 560 feet, then to 39,140, on May 8, 1929. But a German ascension of 1901 to, 35,524 feet remained the Mount Everest of official ballooning until the emergence | of Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray in 1927.| During 26 years of aviation history only | the balloon altitude record had re- | mained static | At Scott Field, Illinois, the Army as- | sembled a small group of technicians | and appointed Capt. Gray chief of aero- | nautical development. In the first of three flights he spanned 28,510 feet above the earth and set a new mark for a free balloon ascension | in the New World. The Federation Aeronautique International, called | FAI, gave afficial recognition to that achievement. | “ st Resting.” It was not as spectacular as flights | to follow. At 27,000 feet he became un- | conscious from the exhaustion of heav- | ing sand bags overside. But the craft had already started down, and the gush of movement revived him in time to direct the envelope to a landing in a field near Ashley, Tl Swathed in black leather garments, he lay ‘helpless in his basket, awaiting | the arrival of fellow officers in pursuit planes. As one rescuer taxied to & landing, he shouted to a farmer: “There’s & man in that basket.” He’s hurt,” replied the farmer. “No | —he’s dead. | Gray opened his eyes. He| Just resting,” he said. | A flight to 28,510 feet taught Capt.| Gray what to expect at higher levels, | Between his first and second sallies, his | balloon, the S-80-241, was groomed for | further cosmic exploration. At 1:33 he Tose. A gentle western breeze blew | from the Mississippi River. At 500 | feet he dropped the first 50-pound | sand bag. A deafening whirr dispelled tranquil- | lity as the pilots of two planes gunned | their motors. They zoomed off almost at right angles to Capt. Gray's line of flight. Soaring, they buzzed around him in loose spirals; a plane demands skill- ful control when flying close to a rising balloon. Capt. Harry Young and Maj. | C. W. Cummings, fiight surgeon, flew in one ship. The other carried Lieut Leslie Holeomb, pilot. and an Army moving picture photographer. | “Without discharge of ballast,” noted | Capt. Gray in his Caterpillar diary, the | balloon floated to 3,000 feet. Desiring | to increase the rate of ascent to 800 feet per minute, I pulled a knob device and dropped a bag of ballast. The rate-of- | climb indicator soon showed the effect ' of unballasting. The dial sprawled to | 800 feet. | “By keeping an eye on the instru- ment and pulling strings to drop sand, | I controlled my ascent at hetween 600 and 800 feet up to 25.000 feet.” At this level the plane escort was forced to leave. The flying was too “thin” for heavier-than-air craft. But the pilots had orders to remain near their charge until he came down; for come down he must, no matter how | high he sailed. They kept sight of him as long as possible, then started a high altitude patrol, from which they might witness his descent. Dangerous Rate of Fall “At 25,000 feet,” the diary continued “my rate of ascent decreased to 500 feet per minute. T was getting real cold and put on my heavy fur gloves. Shortly after 1 felt a streak of cold down the we !'back of my head, directly beneath the zipper-closer of my helmet, which was not protected by fur. That was my principal dscomfort durng the fight, and it became quite severe at the maximum altitude. “About this time my goggles frosted with condensed breath. My vision was impaired and finally possible only through a space the size of a S5-cent plece. This condition did not allow me to enjoy the splendid view; it made reading instruments difficult’ and pre- vented inspection of the balloon during | critical moments. “After pulling all the ballast knobs, my ascent began to slow down. At 40.- 000 feet I walked around the basket, shaking each sand bag to see that it | was empty. One or two had not opened | properly when the strings were pulled. I wanted that extra thousand feet badly. “After finally managing enough effort to throw overboard the 20-pound cy inder which had been supplying oxy- gen all the way up, I felt the balloon push up slowly. The altimeter showed 41,300, which 1 later discovered was a thousand feet below the altitude re- corded by the sealed barograph.” Eight miles up the S-80-241 clawed thin air and wavered, a glazed sphere in the May sun. In her basket the mariner mutinied against numbness and the unyielding tug of gravity. He looked up: blue sky was the dome to space. Metallic fingers scratched telltale s on the barograph's smoked paper cylinders. Momentarily balloon and pilot hung at 42,470 feet “Having accomplished my mission and being nearly exhausted, my next problem was to start down “To pull the valve open against the rubber = elastic closers and seals of grease was the hardest job on this fiight. After that I craved only rest But my rate of fall was dangerous. My velocity varied from 1400 to 1900 feet per minute. I was racing at breakneck speed. Loss of gas. flapping of the slack and its failure to parachute added to my momentum in wes to mis A Spinning 'Chute. “I knew this rate must be reduced to 700 feet ger minute to effect a safe landing. 1 must eliminate weight. This I did by dropping the sand bag rack. radio batteries, oxygen heating battery. radio_horn and two remaining oxvgen cylinders, each attached to its individ- ual parachute “When these articles were thrown over, thev appeared to jump up and past the balloon, since it’ was traveling down t0o much faster. “With all ballast gone looked like a dish rag, fal for my safety “The only thing left was to step off with the old faithful parachute and walk home " 1 climbed to the edge of the the balloon ng too fast around and quarter-mile was 120 miles from Scott Field lieve the upper air currents carried me about 90 miles an hou Tales From th e Caterpillar Club No.9—A Caterprllar in High Altitudes. Upper: Lower: | fashion and I was able to guide the | expedition surrounded by from a river. flooded, although it was not sloppy or into a small plowed field trees about 100 yards The ground had been ™ Ninety Miles an Hour. “The wind was blowing about 20 miles an_hour. ‘chute whipped about and gave me a wallop that threw me on my back and made me roll a complete somersault. “I was tangled and trapped in the silken shrouds. As a last farewell, the There I lay, a big fish a net. The more I wriggled, the more I became entangled. ‘With the hot sun beating down, plenty of clothes for minus 60-degree ather and completely jaded, I had more thoughts of napping “In a few minutes some men came unraveled the mess. My walk through a cornfield the plane seemed like five miles ‘I found I had landed 1 hour and 33 nutes after starting the flight and I I be- Coxwell's and Glasher’s famous high-altitude ascent feet) in England, September 5, 1862. *That comprised the second episode in lighter-than-air adventure Sealed instruments recovered the fol- lowing day from a Wabash River swamp | contained the flight's unbiased | When calibrated in the laboratories of | the Bureau of Standards, Washington, | they verified the pilot's story—namely, that he had ascended approximately 40,000 feet; more exactly, 42,470 feet. Not Enough Proof. But parting with his balloon and signing the Caterpillar roll rebounded against him like the reflex of a boom erang. From FAI headquarters, Paris came a frank refusal to grant the alti- tude record, because Capt. Gray had not landed in physical possession of his instruments—this in face of proof of- fered by the National Aeronautic Assc ciation that the balloonist was in his basket when the bag reached its ceil- ing. Besides, an Army cameraman had filmed a moy picture sequence of Capt. Gray's ascent and jump—a Cater- {pillar story told photographically Assurances from Army and Navy fiy- ers, petitions from aeronautical experts, affidavits and barographic records failed to jar the FAI from its stand. Ambition uged him on. The unofficial | record implied failure, He was bitten by a constant reminder that the flight might have been more perfect: he could have laid evey official doubt in its eternal grave and satisfied critics for all time In the next few months the aeronau- tical development section renewed prepa- rations for a cosmic exp-dition. Capt Gray and hi tants essayed to cor- rect every mechanical defect that had made itself on May ¢. Doubt, chance and inefficiency never kn-w such cold analysis as was focused on them at Scott Pield nown Above the Clouds. Soon all was in readiness. Improve- ments had been made in the defective helmet. An electric cofl from dry cell log. | Capt. Gray before the take-off. —United States Army Air Corps Photo. (about 37,000 In his wake an escort of four Army planes roared, the pilots hoping to be of assistance later. Within 30 minutes he had disappeared above the clouds. His followers estimated he had risen 28,000 feet in the current of a 100-mile gale as | he vanished. The S-80-241 was seen later over the Ohio River, near McLeansboro, Tll. St Louls radio stations began asking for reports by any one who might glimpse the ballo A Ghostly Apparition. The escort fleet landed at dusk, two planes at_Madisonville, Ky., and two planes at Henderson, Ky. These towns pointed in the general direction of Capt Gray's course. By sundown no tangible word had been received of his progress They slept little at Scott Field that | night. People in neighboring States felt aimost as much solicitude. All night radio stations besieged homes in cities, towns and countryside with entreaties to keep watch for the Army's balloon- ist. His tanked oxygen would last only two and one-half hours. Hence by nightfall it was certain he had grounded Newspapers, radio stations and postal officials joined the searching legions. No news came from the night Next morning a boy climbed a tree near Sparta, Tenn., and found the figure of a man prostrate Capt. Gray's cadaver was 310 miles from Scott Field | " "Then they resurrected the story of his third and last lighter-than-air expedi- tion Shortly after 5 pm., November 4, the balloon was sighted by a farmer named Goddard: the bag satled drunken the Cumberland Monutains, traveling leisurely, the drag rope touching ground at times. As it passed overhead God- dard reached for the rope, missed, and the phantom ship passed on. He watched the pendulum-like swing of her basket, seemingly empty. He saw | neither head no. hands; heard no voice. | It was a ghostly apparition from the low-hanging clouds Goddard lingered long watch the basket settle in a tree after 5 o'clock. No man wants to climb a tree after 5 o'clock. So he went home to bed saying, “Tomorrow, I'll see what the thing looks like.” “Sand All Gone.” Next morning Goddard remembered his promise to investigate. The S-80- 241 still nestled in the branches, st fruit for a tree. Goddard sent boy. The youth's face chilled with fright when he saw a man with a leath- er face. Goddard inspecied the figure himself. Then he ran to town for help. He lay m. ked, his head leaning against the oxygen tank that had served and failed. Near his moccasined feet rdboard and a panel, dangling ng—his log. Was ever sub- Jimer hope or more fervent prayer | framed into words than his last entries? His numbed hands epitomized his life with enough to It was ... Sand all gone, 40,000——" And this “Sky ordinary bright—"" Tethal forces overtook him and he deep blue, sun very to wither in the blast of a high altitude gale. Nature marched a phalanx against him. From one side it attacked with low temperature; from the other side with sinking pressure; from be- low with the magnetism of gravity and from above with a sinister face of malevolence. All these things she threw against one man. Nature triumphed. Interesting theories essay to explain how the air explorer met his demise One clue comes from Capt. Macready, who recalls his own suffering during a record-breaking flight. Reduced air pressure almost caused his lungs to burst. A fellow balloonist holds that Capt. | Gray_threw too much ballast overside | He should have kept a ressrve supply | for breaking his swift descent. He cut the oxygen tubes from his mask | order to ow out the tank of ballast, this autherity explains. Lieut. Col. John A. Paegclow. com- ! mandant of Scott Field, beileves that at | | his ceiling Capt. Grey was so weak he | could not turn the valve of his oxygen | cylinder. “It was thin atmosphere that got him,” said the colonel “Clock Frozen.” Had life ebbed into his body, might have rested in his basket | waited for a fortuitous landing in the spreading boughs of a tree. Now consider that elliptic flight diary found in the balloon basket: It is writ- {ten in a telegraphic style that does not altogether defy interpretation, espe- | cially when compared with thermo- |graph records and barograph curves and by exercising logic and reason. At 12,000 feet he writes “KSD (of St. Louis) of rickets.” Low pressure was affecting him in the way rickets affects one. He starts his oxygen apparatus At 15000 feet, 2:30 pm., his goggles begin to fog. His entry, “4V,” means he has four volts of current flowing to his oxygen tank and goggles. Nex at 19,000 feet, 3:05 p.m., the thermom eter reads zero. The radio still blares and he hears the melancholy music of “Traumerei” as a saxophone solo, The balloon rises. He releases sand ballast regularly, tunes his radio and reads instruments. Everything functions | blamelessly. At 3:10 p.m. he cruises at 23000 feet. Snow falls: temperature 8 degrees below zero. KMOX of St. Louls sends him “Thinking of You.” At 3:13 pm. it is still snowing 3:15 pm. WLW of Cincinnati presents “Just Another Day Wasted Away.” The S-80-241 floats higher. The ther- mometer tumbles to 25 degrees below. While listening to “The Pied Piper” from WLS, Chicago, the altimeter reg- ters 30,000 feet and temperature 35 below. Capt. Gray writes a laconic entry, in- nocent but foreboding: “Clock frozen.” A Tremulous Hand. he symptoms The next entry, “—40 degrees. too much heat, 2V, 36,000, —32 degrees getting warmer.” Some time before he had coupled on four volts of electricity from the storage battery. As he rises the air's conductivity decreases and he feels unduly warm, so he is forced to shift back to two volts. He indites the next entry tremulous hand. Since passing 29.000 feet all his writing grows less legible The entry shows the effect of low pres- sure on his mental faculties. To wit “Hair (air?) pulling out belly Vac- {uum in mouth, 39.000 feet degrees.” | It shows the mercury is rising and he | has . entered the stratosphere, where temperature is calculated to remain al- most stationary. In fact, the strato- sphere is slightly ‘'warmer than the re- gion below. . belly Vacuum o is enigmatical And finally the denouement: o S sand all gone 40.000- He had reached the ceiling and in- tended staying there to make observa- tions before cutting away the reserve ballast—namely, the framework used to carry sandbags. This should give him his final lift. Realizing, however, that his oxygen would last only an hour and a half, he probably reasoned time was too short and precious. At any rate, the framework was not thrown off. Engraved in Water. While the above entry was the last in Capt. Gray's handwriting, the in- struments ticked and carried on. One barograph dropped out disabled, but the | other lived to the end. Examining its curve, we find that at its ceiling the 5-80-241 was “oscillating,” or pumping up and down. At 4 pm. the craft reached the top of its first oscillation, 42,200 feet. ‘Three or four minutes later it reached the valley of the first oscillation, 42,100 feet. Five or six minutes later it ascended again to 42.- 220 feet. At this juncture the battery was dropped for ballast and the ga ship spurted 250 feet higher. The peak. 42470 feet, was reached a few min- utes later. It is certain Capt. Gray was alive when the 5-80-241 reached her ceiling for dead men cannot valve oscillating balloons. Just after the balloon started down to begin another oscillation she was valved The ship began a regular, controlled descent. At 4:28 p.m. she was down to 9,000 feet and changed abruptly to & rapid rate of fall. Only human intelli- gence could have prompted this accel- eration. The balloonist was alive, thinking. Did he crave oxygen or did WANTED OLD & WORN FUR COATS Also Mink & Jap Mink Capes Highest Cash Prices Paid If You Have an OLD FUR COAT Please Bring It to 635 F St. NW. Room 207, Barrister Bldg. 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Ricken- | backer, who is now vice president and | director of sales for the Fokker Air- craft Corporation, grinned somewhat sheepishly. | Isn’'t So Funny, He Say | “Had a tumble, walking in my sleep,” | he_explained | It seems that since the war, | Rickenbacker has been troubled fre {quently with sleep walking. A few | nights’ ago he left his bed, walked in i Col. Will Rogers Says: CAMP RICHARDSON, Calif. We got a funny situation here, brought up about 'a dozen girls to play the “divorcees” in the hotel scene in “Light- nin'" and here every day watch- ing ‘us shoot is a hundred real “divorcees” from Reno and round the lake here, all dying to get into the pic- tures while they are serving their time. If any woman 15 miss- ing from your community and you don't know where she is, she is here. The most popular charge here lately as grounds for divorce is snoring, and husbands staying out | late playing miniature golf. They put in all spare time making their trous: | he gasp for alr? Did a sudden change {of pressure crush him? He had the | mental valor to pull the windlass and | allow more gas to escape from the bag | As time cbbs the man wanes and crumbles. At 4:38 the tank is drained of oxygen. At 5:20 he loses conscious- | ness.* Defeat mocks victory during his | last moments. 7 | " Officially, his name is engraved in | water, Twice the judiciary repudiated his victories. In neither flight, they contended, did he return to earth in possession of his instruments. A dead man has no power to posses: Capt. Gray, however, possesses the honor and glory given by his { His balloon basket is in the National | Museum, the War Department archives hold a moving picture record of his parachute jump. He is buried in Ar- ;ungwn——homc of heroes, (Next—The Pan-American Caterpillars Two Join the Club and Two Die.) (Copyright. 1930.) | golden GULDENS ! 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Each .p-runemuqulnum E !enm.l phones and elevators is uninterrupted g Milk and ice delivered | conducted service room, which t d ts’ i ane cbiainasie it Dallatng i _resident manager take you thi | basket T heard Lieut. Holcomb, pilot of | batteries served to heat and melt frost |the photoplane, shout to his camera- | that would crust his bullt-in goggles. Wort s up KOONS Rootne ~“118/ard 8t & | man | The glass was coated with gelatin, as Company | ™ 6n, God! further precaution against accumiula- District 6933 T R i “ e vave tion of moisture. Oxyge ks wi R airs | At 8,000 feet 1 waved my 1 xXygen tanks were : " PHONE N ‘1 counted three batteries # Simmons 257 54 $1 | ring | “capt. Gray 5 “While watching a swamp come to- | tume former] Wanted—Return Loads |, 4"e Go O, o pened with & tug | Macready, who —from Boston. New York City Rochesie |op my shoulders that straightened me | altitude record fim\m;[nma Golumbus, i up. worz his Army o New Hampshive. Long-distance mo o | “Then commenced a voyage over the | sweater, breeches our specialty. opplest alr waves I've ever ridden. and four pairs of socks: feet encased in Smith's Transfer & Storage Co [The parachute did everything but loop. | fur-lined moccasins, Gareful attention 1 You St North 3343 IOnce or twice I thought it was umn: :u: (Iu}v-n to the oxygen apparatus. But iy g to do that. It side-slipped, spun and |his Lif> would depend not only on Printing Craftsmen . | rolled. | tanked oxygen, but o the alr's pressure are at your Service wsi “Some one had told lr‘ne‘lt an ;:n&- nlxg At 2:35 pm. Capt. Gray took ‘nf; I v ey ; cible to dainpen the oscillation and steer |and rose quickly to 100 fert. Wind | hausted from one % 1 result_getting publicity G 0 e e (he TGEpE, 0 1 |caught the basket and tossed it. His| Stized by the whisling winds and ‘The National Capital Press tried the scheme afiex Javingthe pull | rate of elimb increased #o about 700 feet | glacial climate, he must have fought 12101212 D Bt. N.W. Phone Nationsi 085 Iing in my belt. It after & |p:r minute hopefully and savagely e was an man the Let us pu &0 keep out leaks, 3 sped to his retribution The escort fleet was ordered to Sparta. Rough terrain allowed only one ship to land. The three others retired to Nashville. With a guard of honor, the airman’s body went back to Scott Field by train Then followed a thorougn investiga- tion by an officers’ board. It laid claim to all records and studied the mariner’s asent, descent and death. Thin Atmosphere Got Him.” Capt. Gra had reached 42470 feet at 4:20 p.m.: valved his balloon to com- mencs descent at 4:21, valved it again at 4:28, whil> at an altitude of 39,000 feet, and dicd in the interval necessary to reach the earth. 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