Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1930, Page 20

DEADLY AR RAD RNY SHOW EVENT Three 'Attacli Planes to Have | First Demonstration Against Land. What is described as the most deadly weapon of attack against ground troops ever developed will be demonstrafed under field conditions for the first time | in public in the National Capital dur- ing the Military Carnival and Exposi- tion to be held at Washington Barracks Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The demonstrations will be given by three Army attack planes, developed gince the World War for the strafing of ground troops, trains and strong points in the battle lines. The activi- ties of these latest weapons of modern warfare are little known in the East since the 3d Attack up, in which all attack aviation has been concen- trated, is stationed in the West The three planes, brought here in the process of transfer and replacement of Air Corps equipment formation attacks on ground troops by &In'x from Bolling Field, who have en practicing for the past week in connection with troops at Fort Wash- ington, Md. who will provide the ground forces for the demonstration this week. Machine Gun Power. Mounting six machine guns each. tncluding three of a caliber heavy enough to plerce light tank armor, the three planes can bring to bear upon & small area & veritable hailstorm of deadly fire, The 18 guns of the three planes do not constitute the strength of the planes, however. In addition to its guns each plane carries either 10 fragmentation bombs weigh- ing 25 pounds each or 25 10-pound bombs, depending upen the type of the target. With bombs and guns com- bined the planes are able to sweep every living thing off the face of the earth in the area of attack. So swift, unexpeeted and deadly is their attack that no adequate ground defense has yet been devised against ! them, according to Air Corps officers The attack planes op-rate at low alti- tudes, approaching behind trees, low hills and other obstructions so as to take their targets without warning A bomb attack on a tank is scheduled ms a part of the attack plane demon- stration. “Fireflies” to Be Used. The Air Corps will not confine its activities during the carnival to combat demonstrations, however, but also will fiy a night demonstration using - “fireflles.” or planes festooned with chains of colored lights, with which many color combinations may be effect- ed in flight. A flaming “comet” also will be flown at night, the plane emit- ting a dense trail of smoke upon which searchlights will play. One of the “firefly” pilots will be | Lieut. W. A. R. Robertson, Air Corps, now stationed at Bolling Field, who served during the World War in the British Royal Flying Corps until the close of the war, when he came to the United States and entered the Army Air Corps. A native of Washington, Lieut. Louis M. Merrick. operations officer at Bolling Pield, will be another of the three “fire- fly” pilots. ‘The youngest of the trio who will pilot the planes in the brilliant night display is Lieut. L. S. Stranathan. “Looping Comet” Coming. A famous plane, kmown as the “Loep- ing Comet.” is being brought from ‘Wright Field, Ohio, by the Army and will be piloted by one of the Army's most. famous aces, Capt. Streett. Capt. Streett also is a native of Washington and a veteran of the World War. The flaming “comet,” which will be piloted by Capt. Streett in the Army show, will present a novel and spectac- ular sight, when it will tear through the night sky, emitting a pillar of smoke, to give the effect of night anti- aireraft fire. Another feature will be a fight be- tween the 3d Battalion of the 12th Infantry Regiment at Fort Washington, using its machine guns, one-pounders and rifies and planes. PRESIDENT OPENS will be flown in ! entire | NOTED PILOTS | Headed by Capt. St. Clair Streett, famous Army gton Barracks this wi left. Lieut. will fly one of the three Training The War Department has stolen march on all other branches of the Government, and is going into the pro- duction end of the “talkies.” Under plans that have been com- pleted for the making of talking motion pictures, it is not unlikely that the other Army heroes of the World War will be heard in explahation of the 1,000,000 feet of historic film depicting | the activities of the ‘A. E. F. from | Hoboken to the Rhine and back home again. This is merely a suggestion on the part of officials of the Signal Corps photographic section as to possible uses to which the “talkies” may be put, if approved by the War Department, But the real purpose of the talking pictures tion of various branches of the Army. Not only will the Army produce its own talking pictures, but officers of the Signal Corps, under arrangements worked out by Maj. C. W. Lewis. head {of the photographic section, will be given special training in everything that picture industry in Hollywood. ~Capt S. W. Hoorn, now station:d at Gov. ernors Island, N. Y., has been ordered to take a complete courss in training in the big Hollywood studios and will leave soon for this novel experience. From time to tims other officers will be ordered to the Hollywood school un- til the Army has a staff of experts in the motion picture field. Capt. Fox in Charge. The task of equipping a “talkie” super the production of _the Army " bas fallen upon Capt ECOLE MIL‘TAIRE‘;S'HMG in the Munitiéns Building and | West Point of Haiti to Supply Native Officers to Take Places of American Men. By the Associated Press. PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, September 20.—President Roy today officially opened the Ecole Militaire, the West Point of Haiti. The opening was described as an important step on the part of the Garde to carry out the recommenda- tion of the Corps Committee looking toward development of native officers to replace Americans in the armed force. A. T. Fox, who is in charge of the | Army’s “still” and motion picture lab- | oratories in the War College. He is be- ! ing assisted by Capt. James Notestein. | Within a few months, Capt. Fox expects to be able to start in on the production end of the business During thé World War the Army re- sorted to motion pictures as a medium {in the training of the thousands of rookies turned into doughboys at the big concentration camps throughout | the country. Since then the Army has BOY WHO MURDERED | NURSE GIVEN LIFE The commandant of the school is| Maj. Oscar R. Cauldwell of Crawfords- ville, Ind., a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and an officer in the United States Marine Corps. He served with the 6th Marines during the World War and was wounded in action. Besides the commandant other Amer- | fean officers were detailed to the faculty | on the basis of the regard in which | they are held by the Haitian people, among them is Lieut. F. E. Wirkus, who became widely known while serving | nold, was on the Island of Gonaives as of the jsland The first class consists of 60 young king” men selected by competitive examina- | tion from 400 candidates representing a cross section of young Haitians, no distinction being made for class or color. BUCKLEY PROBE WIDENS Photograph of Convicted Police Attacker Sent Detective Chief. GREENSBURG, Pa. September 20 (®).—Bertillon records and a photo- graph of Andrew Jacus of Monessen were sent today to Robert McPherson, chief of Detroit detectives, wro said he wanted them in his investigation of the killing of Gerald Buckley, former radio announcer Jacus was sentenced here several days ago to serve two to four years in the Allegheny County workhouse for assaulting and hbeating & police officer two years ago. The prisoner told authorities here he was in Detroit in 1928 and 1929, but #aid that this year he had been in Seattle, Wash. until recently, when he decided to return here. F. L. MANDEL DIES Chairman of Department Store Board Expires in French Capital. CHICAGO, September 20 ().—Word of the death today in Paris of Prederick Leon Mandel, 60, chairman of the board of directors of Manville Bros., depart- ment_store operators, was received by officials of the company. Mandel had been traveling in Europe with his wife since last March. His sons, Leon Mandel, 11, and Frederick L., jr., left hurriedly Monday for France. ‘They are aboard the Europa, now near: ing France, Monessen | Fifteen-Year-old Slayer May Be Committed to Hospital for | Insane. By the Associated Press MORRISTOWN, N, J., September 20. —Harry Woolse: 15-year-old slayer of a domestic servant in his parents’ house- ntenced today to a life term in State prison. { " The lad, who looks much older than, his 36 years, was indicted for the murder on July 13 of Anna Miller of Scranton, Pa. his companion on a walking trip over Green Pond Mountain. He did not plead to the indictment today. His counsel pointing out the boy was said by. four allenists to be suffering from dementa praecox. He will be taken to prison Moriday, but indications were he would be sent to a hospitel for the insane. The reason for the slaying was not discovered. ‘The youth indicated he drew a Jmife and stabbed the young | woman on an impulse and hid her body behind a pile of rocks. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Woolsey of Ridgewood, have a Summer home near the scene of the Killing. | OIL DRILLING BARRED Oklahoma City Wins Fight Against Injunection. OKLAHOMA CITY, September 20 (#).—Oklahoma City won a_phase of its fight to prevent oil derricks from casting their shadows on the State Capitol and the adjacent exclusive resi- dential district in a_ruling’ today by Federal Judge Edgar S. Vaught. Judge Vaught sustained a motion of Phase of brought by the Cromwell-Franklin Co. to prevent municipal interference with tiguous to the Capitol grounds. ~Attor- neys for the ofl company indicated they would appeal Famed Alienist Dies. HUNTINGTON, W. Va, September 20 (#).—Dr. Lewis V. Guthrie, 62, su- perintendent of the Huntington State Hospital and nationally recognized allefist, died here today after a six weeks iliness. He was the author of numerous, works on mental diseases. Air Corps flight to Alaska and return several vears ago, the | best pilots on duty in this part of the country will fly in the military r right), operations officer at Bolling Field, | the other two being piloted by Lieut. W. A. R. Robertson (lower left) and Lieut. Leland S. Stranathan (lower right). 'ARMY TALKIES OF PERSHING AND OTHER WAR HER OES LIKELY | and Instruction Branches of Service Real Purpose of War Department Undertaking. voices of Gen. John J. Pershing and | is for use in the training and instruc- | pertains to the technique of the motion | the city to dismiss an injunction suit | drilling on the W. F. Harn farm, con- | THE SUNDAY STAR, W. TO FLY HERE native Washingtonian and leader of the | ecek. Capt. Streett is shown at the upper of Various toyed with the idea of talking pictures, | but_had never done anvthing about it until now. @apt. Fox has been spe- cializing in motion pictures at the War | | College for the past three years, grind- | ing out on the average of six or seven annually. I | Usage Almost Limitless. 1 The usage to which the “talkies” can be put are almost limitless. Once the studio is completed, the apparatus in- stalled and the walls made sound-proof. majors and generals and staff officers will be called in to make short strips | | of “talkie” film to conform with many of the motion pictures already on file with the Signal Corps. Taking a leaf | from the Hollywood studios and par- | ticularly from the pictures of Byrd's | South Pole flight, ‘brief explanations of the pictures already filmed will be “cut in” so as to emphasize more forcibly and clearly the lessons which the film is supposed to teach. These will be distributed to the various corps areas | for use in class-room work and the | general training and instruction of offi- cers and soldiers in the Army, the Na- tional Guard and the Organized Re- | serves, i The laboratories at the War College | have produced pictures of all sorts from | the demonstration of proper equestra- |tion to the fitting of shoes and the | baking of Army bread and beans. Scarcely a field of military activity has been left untouched by the motion pic~| ture camera. These have proved effec- | tive means of instruction in the past, | but their value will be doubly enhanced, it_is believed, with the introduction of | talking pictures. Hereafter, when the | Signal Corps wishes to put out a film | on the manuel of arms or the school of {he soldier. a qualified Army expert wil | be called into the studio to give a brief lecture explanatory to the film. Looking into the future, Capt. Fox ex- plained that the collection of A. E. F. film, showing practically y War unit of the Army, served for use years hence with “canned” voices of the various division commanders, including Pershing and others. This would add immensely to the historic value of the films, [ | | DR. WILSON ASSAILS CANADA WET RECORD | Nation Becoming One of Greatest Drinking in World, M. E. Board Official Says. By the Associated Press LINCOLN, Nebr, September 20.—Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Board of Public Morals and Prohibition | of the Methodist Church, told the Ne- | braska Conference here last night that Cenada “is becoming one of the great- | est drinking nations in the world" and that the party in power there is con- troiled by liquor interests Dr. Wilson explained that he hadujust returned with Clarence Darrow of Chi- cago from a tour of the various provinces of the Dominion as eve-witnesses to the operations of the government liquor control system | With the exception of France, he de- clared, the Canadians consume more liquor than any other country in the | world. | CANADIAN PREMIER | WANTS LONDON VIEW| Says Wnshin—zTnn‘ Par; and Tokio Officials Are Permanent, but High | Commissioner Should Represent. | | | | | i By the Associated Press OTTAWA, September 20.—Premier R. B. Bennett announced in the House of Commons today that he looked upon the Canadian Ministers at Washington, | Paris and Tokio as permanent officials, | but the Canadian high commissioner in | London should represent th: views of the administration in office in Canada No appointment to the Canadian high dommissionership would be made, he said, until he had visited London. PLANTS CONSOLIDATE | | ,000,000 Corporation Formed by | Merger of Wood Firms. | TACOMA, Wash.. September 20 (). | <Consolidation of four Pacific North- west plywood plants, forming a $4,000,- 000 corporation, was announced today. | The mills included are the Tacoma | Veneer Co., the Portland Manufactur- ing Co., the Walton Veneer Co. of | Everett and the Elliott Bay Mill Co. of Seattle, Harry T. Nicolal, Portland capitalist and head of the Tacoma company, will be president of-the new company. f SHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 21, 1930—PART ONE. 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