Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1931, Page 2

ISL05E PROGRAN FORBUENTERNAL Capital to Be Stage for Ten, NMontis ‘of Historical Pageantry. i Washington will be the stage next! year for the most extensive portrayal | ©of events marking the development of | the United States that ever has been | concelved, it was revealed in the chron- { glogical program for the George Wash- | in| icentennial which was made public today by Amold Kruckman of ! the District of Columbia Bicentennial Commission. Froz. February 22, when the 200th | annivé¥sary of the birth of Georg? | ‘Washington will be cclebrated at the | foot of the Washington Monument, to Thanksgiving day, the int-rvening 10 months of 1032 will witness an almost continuous round of eveats in which the entire United States snd its posses- sions will have active part. | The voices of the assembled throng on the Monument grounds singing “America’ under the leadership of Walter Damrosch and with the ac- | companiment of massed bands led by John Philip Sousa will be carried by | radio to every corner of the land and to many foreign countries At that signal, traffic in every city of the United | States will be stopped for a moment | in reverent tribute to the first Presi- dent. Plan Great Ball. The National Capital that night will be the scene of a costume ball to which 2,000 persons will be invited. At the same time, a vast pageant, enacting striking events in Washington's life, with descendants of former Presidents in_the leading roles, will be staged. ‘While the George Washington birth- day celebration will officially launch the year's program, it will be preceded on February 11 by the dedication of the reproduction of the house in which the great patriot was born at Wake- field, Va. This m will be under t:‘l! auspices of the Wakefield Assocla- tion. Continuing through the calendar from February 22, the program will include one great event after another. On Mother's day in May will be paid a tribute to Washington's mother. The oldest native-born mother in the United States will be the guest of honor here that day in ceremonies to be partici- pated in by Gold Star Mothers and many prominent women'’s organizatiors, Juvenile Fete in May. A juvenile festival, in which organiza- tions of boys and girls will take part, is planned for May 14. Boy Scouts, OI.rY Scouts and Camp Fire Girls will take leading parts in that day's pro- May also will witness a horse show, which will, if possible, include a dis- play of the famous Pendleton round-up m Oregon in old-fashioned rodeo. June 14, Flag day, will witness one of the greafest arrays of American colors in the history oi the country. Floats from every State and from patriotic or~ ganizations and societies will haye places in the profession, in which the panoply of flags will be carried. the single events Washington pageant, in which 5,000 persons, including some of America’s greatest actors and actresses, will perform. The pageant, depicting the life of the first President from his Vernon, will be presented nightly on June 22, 23, 24 and 25. The pageant is virtually completed now and a Na- tion-wide quest is under way for the man the closest resemblance to George Wi n, who will enact that ‘The District Bicentennial Commission, whieh is conducing the quest, explained today it is a man who not only resembles Washington physically, but who “most nearly approximates Wash- ington's great gqualities of hcad and heart.” Many applications already are in the commission’s n, but de- cision is being delayed pending a more thorough canvass. Ten-Month Exhibit. ‘Throughout the 10-month period, an exhibition will be staged to portray the gv"!.h of the Pederal Government since ashington’s time. Pederal ag:ncles are co-operating with the District com- mission in setting up this display, which is designed to present an un lieled opportunity Governmen to visitors to sce their e cl o} program as ar- ranged to date follows: February 11—Dedication of the build- ing at Wakefield, under the auspices of the Wakefield Association February 21—Sunday services. February 22 (noon)—Ceremonies at Monument at noon; Congressional ses- sion at 1 p.m.; National Education As- sociation (Superintendents) Conven- tion, N. E. A. exhibition and convoca- tion and Colonial ball in the evening. March 2—Texas Independence day. March 12—Porto Rico day. March 17—St. Patrick’s day, national Irish-American celebration. March 25—Maryland day. March 27-—Easter. March 31—Virgin Islands day April 6—Army day April 12—North Carolina day April 13—TItalian-American day. April 19—Patriots’ day; Massachu- setts celebration April 21—Arbor day. April 30—Old South day. 's day | May 13—Dedication of the Alexandria | Masonic Memorial y 14-—Juvenile Pestival -21-—Western round-up, 20—Polish-American day. 21-28—Music week y 30—Memorial Gay June 11—Hawailan day June 12—Idaho Ploneer day. June 14—Flag day June 17—Bunker Hill day celebratio: June 17-18—Convention of the lantic division of Radio Clubs America. Jupe 20—West Virginia dey. June 2¢—Utah Ploneer day June 22, 23, 24, 25—The great Wash- ington pageant play. July 1—British-American day. July 4—Independence day. August 1—Colorado d: August 13—Philippine-Pacific day. August 16— Vermont day August 29— Freedmen's day. Special Labor Day. September 5—Labor day September 6—Lafayette French-American_celebration September 9-—California day September 12 — German - American day. September 17—Constitution day September 26—American Indian day. October 1—Misscur! day. October 9—Fraternal day October 12-~Columbus day. October 18—Alaska day. October 27— Navy day. October 31— Nevada day. November 11-—Ammistice day. November 19—Farmers’ day. ‘ovenber 24— Thanksgiving day. sourrent with the asnouncement of m last night, E. C. Snyder, mc:eg of e District commission. ap- pealed for o tion E Tonians n ‘the Bicentennial celebra in a radio brondcast address over Sta- tion WOL. Boston's | | ern At- of | day and {HEAVY DEATH LIST Naval Hero’s THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1o, 1931 ve Found Gra CONSTITUTION COMMANDER TO BE REBURIED AT ARLINGTON. IGHTY-ONE years Arlington Nationai Cemetery A Gwinn and his wife were discov E ment of Glenwood Cemetery at Philadelphia. cfter his death, Capt. John Gwinn, U. 8. N.. former commander of the U. S. S. Constitution, will be honored by burial in ugust 24. ‘The unkept ‘graves of Capt. vered the other day with the abandon- ‘The photo shows Charles J. O'Neill, commander of the Philadelphia Post, American Legion, who will ex- hume the bodies and donate a casket, I CORNWALLIS TO ooking at the tombstones.—A. P. Photo. SURRENDER DESPITE ILL-FEELING THREAT Weeks of Controvers eant—Dr. Goo v Fails to Halt Pag- dwin Explains Opposition Views. By the Associated Press. YORKTOWN, Va., August 13 —Corn- | wallis will surrender at Yorktown again in October. After weeks of controversy over whether the capitulation of the British Revolutionary War commander should be depicted this Fall at the 150th anni- versary celebration, the United States Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission announces the surrender scene will be re-enacted. A tentative plan to delete it from the pageant pregram brought a vigorous protest from Representative Sol Bloom aof New York, associate director of the ‘Washington Bic:ntennial Commission, and others who declared the ommission would make the pageant meaningless. A vai of reasons was given for the proposed deletion: That the scene might be offensive’to British visitors, that difficulties would be encountered in training a large body of troops in eight- eenth o°ntury tactics, that it was against the tradition of the Army to re- enact the surrender of a foreign foe, and that the scope of the pageant might be limited by its depiction. Announcement of the Sesquicenten- nial Commission's final decision was made by Representative 8. Otis Bland of Virginia, secretary of the commission It followsd a previous decision of the Executive Committee of the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Association not to submit the question to the association’s trustees. Th> committee said the mat- ter was one for the Federal commission to decide. DEFENDS OPPOSITIO! Dr. Goodwin Says He Has No Desire to Obscure History. Declaring there had been “a wide- spread misstaiement of facts and a complete misstatement of reasons” in published comment on th- objections to the Cornwallis surrenc-; scene, Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin, pre-ident of the York- town Sesquicenteantal, today asserted there was no fear of offending the British and no desire to obscure the facts of history on the part of the op- ponents of the sceme, “but rather the view of emphasizing the facts of major importance and of vital and perennial value. “We do not obscure the facts of his- y,” Dr. Goodwin said, “by reveal- g come messure of dignified self-re- straint and conforming to the high ethical standards of the American Army and to an international code of courtesy. We have no fear of offending the British. We do not, however, care to offend ourselves. A “The British are good sports. We tor IS FEARED IN QUAKE Tokio Seismologist Says Temblor Was as Severe as One That Killed 100,000. By the Associated Press TOKIO, August 13—Dr. Akitsune Imamura, noted seismologist, announced today he had located, in Sinkiang, East- Turkestan, the epicenter of an earthquake last Tuesday Dr. Imamura said the shock was most severe somewhere between the North Tienshan and the South Tienshan Mountain ranges and its intensity was as great as that of the shock in Kansu Province, China, four years ago, which caused the death of more than 100,000 persons. As Sinkiang lacks telegraph factlities weeks probably will pass before direct can be received from that arca Imamura said he located the cen ter of the shock by means of a spo- clally constructed saismograph of his | own invention. He is a professor at | Tokio Imperial University. | . i i 1 |COTTON ADVANCES $:.25 | PER BALE AT NEW YORK | By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 13.-—Cotton advanced $1.25 a bale at the opening of the New York Cotton Exchange to- & modetate amount of short rket !: ma responded to strength at Liverpool, where market for American cotton was $2 “There can be nothing local or mu- nicipal or sectional about our celebra- tion here in Washington.” he declared. “It must be big, broad, international in scope.” 3 P~ proposal to hold its stabilization cot- | ton if every third row of cotton now growing is plowed under. Boy and Girl Reds Increase. day in a market where there was only | 1 hope they have not-been slow to see the humor cf this false issue controversy and have smiled over the absurdity of th> assumpticn that they would be |offended by being reminded that America won the Revolution, and that Lord Cornwallis surrendered, by proxy, at Yorktown. The English, however, would doubtless appreciate the delicacy of cur national restraint, even though they would not be offepded by this form | of national self-expressicn.” Dr. Goodwin declared if it was pro- posed to present “an emasculated sur- Tender scene in a lccal community pag- eant” it would be a different matter. The Yorktown Sesquicentennial, how- ever, he said, is national and should be in harmony with national dignity and international courvesy. “If the surrender scene is to be pre- sented,” he continued, “it should be presented ctmpletely and accurately. Such presentation is impossible under existing conditions, with the funds avail- able, unless the Army of the United States should be commanded to mas- querade this scens.” Prefers True Sceme. Such a procedre, Dr. Goodwin added. would be “distinctly contrary to the ethical standards and patriotic sen- timent of many.” Instead of offending the British, he explained, the true scene of the surrender would “tend to steal away the sharpness of any sense of hu miliation which e sensitive Britisher might yzrhngn feel” . It would show, he déclared, the ships | of Admiral Comte de Grasse blockading | Chesapeake =~ Bay's entrance, 7,000 | Prench soldiers lined up on one side of the road to the surrender field and 8,- 500 American soldiers facing them from the other side and between these files it would portrary 7491 British soldiers marching to Jay down their arms as the band played “The World's Turned | Upside Down. “We therefore trust the celebration will place unobscured emphasis upon the triumpl concluded. “not alone at Yorktown in| 1781, but also throughout the world, of those ideals of liberty, securely founded in justice, which were voiced and for- mally expressed in the House of Bur- gesses in Willlamsburg. in Faneuil Hall in Boston, in the Declaration of Inde- pendence and in the bill of rights, which ideals are essential to the well- being of mankind JWe who are opposed to presenting the surrender scene in this national celebration feel the original determi- nation of the Unitéd States commission to omit the surrender scene should be hered to and that the pageant prep: ration should proceed as originally de- termined and directed.” 'SHOALS BIDS ASKED OF 135 ENTERPRISES Ford Company Heads List of In. dustrial and Power Con- cerns Named. One hundred and thirty-five leading chem.cal, farm industrial and power enterprises were invited yesterday by the Muscle Shoals Commission to bid on the private leasing and operating of Muscle Shoals. The bids are to be submitted by September 1 The Ford Motor Co., Allied Chemical & Dye Co., General Electric Co. and three farm organizations, including the National Grange, the Farmers' Educa- tion and Co-operative Union of Ameri and th: American Farm Bureau Fed: eration were among those from whom offers were asked Col, Joseph 1. McMullen, one of the three Army officers appoint=d by Pre: dent Hoover on the commission. said any bid which promised to devote the Muscle Sposls project to agriculture in the most effective way would be the most_acceptable to the commission McMullen indicated that in event none of the bids was satisfactory for recommendation to President Hoover and ultimately to Congress, an effort would be made by the commission to effect a compromise. In this way, he sald. a satisfactory arrangement might be worked out for disposing of the project GUNMAN KILLS GROCER TRYING TO CALL HELP |Stops Victim's Cry of “Thief, Thief"” With Shot After Emptying Cash Register in Store. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. August 13.—A MOBCOW (#).—Soviet B‘l-luh‘l gen- eration of future ing year |OWNER OF MURDER GUN IS ARRESTED Prosecutor Declares Negro Admits Owning Weapon Which Killed Youth. ___(Continued From First Page) . in Wheatley's auiomobile, scaked with gasoline and set afire. Finding of the gun was the outstand- young persons, who ranged in age from 15 to 17 A roughly-dressed man, about 30 yea old, who was reported scen early Tue: day with ‘the two couples in a restau- rant in Mian, and who paid the bill, was' souziit. Two hours and a half after the ap- pearance at the restaurant, the bodies were found in the burning automobile 8 miles away | If the man sought is not onme of i the killers, officers said, at least he could clear up the mystery of how the young couples had spent the hours after 8 pm. Monday, when they last were seen in Ypsilanti, the home town of the two boys. The girls, whose homes were in Cleveland, were visiting Lares. Other Clues Conflict. ‘There were other clues in the case all apparently conflicting. Gold’s purse, bearing stains believéd to be blood, -was found on a road six miles from the funeral pyre. There were tracks of a second automobile which had skidded to a stop in' front of the death car. There was a note handed by a Negro woman to a policeman in Ypsilanti, containing the names of two men, whom she said were the killers. And there were blood stains found on a club and stains believed to be blood on wear- ing apparel in a shanty on wheels oc- cupled by two illiterate brothers, a mile from the death scene. The brothers, Paul Keene, 49, and Lawrence, 36, still were in custody. They had not accounted satisfactorily for the blood-stained club, investigators said, but neither brother can drive a car, and if they are the slayers, officers could not account for the discovery of Miss Gold's purse, six miles way, or for the presence of a second automobile at_the scene. Investigators placed little credence in the accusations of the Negro woman, but were searching for the men she named. Twe Attacks Suspected. Finding of the purse, its contents scattered along the rcad as if it had been thrown from a speeding car, led some Investigators to believe a first at- tack had taken place as the couples were seated in their car along a near- by road, which is much frequented by Petting parties.” There, according to this theory, one or both of the boys were slain and their bodies taken to the lonely road. six miles away, where the giris were assaulted and slain and the four bodies burned. There were signs of a furious struggle at the roacdside where the burning car was found, however, and other officers hold to the original belief that the entire tragedy was enacted there. The purse, they believe, was thrown away by the slayers as they fled toward Ypsilanti, SUSPECT QUESTIONED. CLEVELAND, August 13 (#).—A 26- vear-old man was arrested here early today as a possible suspect in connec- ton with the slaying Tuesday of the two boys and two girls near Ypsilantd, Mich. The arrested man had a Michi- {gan road map in his pocket with the {name Ypsflan'i marked with a pencil Detectives discovered the man sleep- ! ing on a truck which had just arrived here from Chicago. They took him at | once to headquarters for questioning. | ‘The arrested man was roughly dressed and appeared to be of below average | mentality, the detectives said. | _The suspect said he had no address | He boarded the truck while it was en |route here from Chicago. The detec- tives said he told them he had been “up in Michigan” and he had passed ithrough Ypsilanti. His answers were " Dr. Goodwin's statement | evasive when they tried to learn what | he had been doing there. i | |IDLE AID ASSURED BY 227 U. S. CITIES, CHEST REPORTS SAY (Continued Prom First Page) | i | the American Telephone & Telegraph | Co. The meeting was regarded t | unusual significance, since Giford's company is one of the largest in the world and its fact-finding organization is regarded by President Hoover as extremely efficient Others who have conferred recently with the President on unemployment | are Sflas Strawn, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, | and Senator Hebert of Rhode Island, chairman of the special Senate com- mittee appointed to investigate unem- ployment imsurance. Senator Fess, Republican, of Ohio, said yesterday the President would have a definite and comprehensive. pro- gram of legislation to lay before Con- gress in December on the subject of the business depression and its result- ant unemployment. Meanwhile another plan to provide food for the unemployed this Winter | by encouraging the canning of surplus | fruits and vegetables was announced { by Fred C. Croxton. acting chairman of the President’s Emergency Commit- tee for Employment The committee, it was explained, has recommended that local emergency or- | ganizations and other relief agencies help the unemployed put up canned goods, or that these agencies them- selves put them up and distribute them to the unemployed. Croxton said the program, which is intended to be Nation-wide, already has made an ap- | preciable start. Primarily, the campaign is based on {the existence of large quantities of vegetables and the surplus of fruit in many sections “There is no shortage of food in the country, as a whole. but many families |will not have sufficient funds next | Winter to buy fruit and vegetables to maintain health.” it was explained in a | letter sent to assisting groups. “The | children who become undernourished in | consequence will pay penalty in | years to come, Evers possible means to |avert such disasirous Tesults of the present econos situation deserves the serious cozsiGeration of all who can help.” The statement covering the plan ex- plained that many of the unemployed who lack equipment or a proper knowl- aided in obtaining these under compe- tent leadership. here the unemployed themselyes are not to can the fruits or vegetables, it was pointed out that organigations and individuals may put up extra amounts for distribution. Croxton emphasized that the effort is not to produce food for sale that might compete on an already oversupplied commercial market, but only to pro- vide an emergency supply for those without, income to buy. Pope Receives Booth. VATICAN ief Justice the | of the canning methods may be | Qua: Ruins Wrought by Mystery Blast ing_clue by which authorities hope to | find the slayer or s'ayass of the four | | | | sons. HOOVER AIDE FEARS DOLE IS IMMINENT i 'Hook Warns Small Plant| Owners to Aid Idle or Face | U. S. Measure. | By the Associated Press. 3 SILVER BAY, N. Y., August 13— | James W. Hook, a member of President 1 Hoover'’s Emergency Committee on Un- employment, warned American industry today that unless it takes care of its | own workers, a Government dole is tm- | minent. Hook, who is also chairman of the Connecticut State Emergency Commit- tee on Unemployment, addressed repre- sentatives of the Nation's smaller in- | dustries gathered here in conference. | The delegates were told also in a| message from Acting Secretary of Com- merce Jullus Klein that they consti- tuted the backbone of American in- dustry: there are about 200,000 small industrial plants, and that they employ | about 60 per cent of the- Nation's in- | dustrial labor. | Sees Need of Small Plants. ’ “Increase in size” said Secretary Klein, “is by no means synonymous | with increase in efficiency. There 1s, | and In my opinion, always will be, a distinct place in American business for medjum-sized and small industrial and mercantile establishments." After reviewing industry's effort. o care for its unemployed, Hook urged the necessity of each industry or com- pany setting up its own employment re- serve. “This.” he said, “is the direct and pressing obligation of industiies to the problem of mitigating the scourge of unemployment. In addition, of course, it must bear its part of the general burden | It must contribute its share to charity and T must bear its rightful proportion of taxation to finance forwardly planned works. Insurance Expected. “It will be said that there is not a beggar's chance of industry's doing this thing voluntarily. Thet may be true, but I hope it is not. If it is true then this country is headed di- rectly for some sort of so-called com- pulsory unemployment insurance that force upon industry a disproportion- ate amount of the load. “Advocates of such insurance will not admit that the load will bear un- fairly on anydne and will point out that the law will amply provide against paying benefit to the unworthy. haps the law will at first, but if past experience repeats itself and poli- tics play true to form, the time will come when everybody will be jncluded and benefits increased and prolonged.” | Hook also is & prominent New Eng- land industrialist. He evolved a scheme for caring for his own workers. 'FELONS SLUG JAILER TO MAKE ESCAPE Three Flee New York Prison After Rendering Keeper Un- conscious. | { By the Assoclated Press ! prisoners escaped from the Orleans ]coumy Penitentiary today after slugging [the jailer, Prederick Warner, into un- consciousness Authorities said irvestigation dis- closed that one of the men, Edward Blaszack, was not locked in his cell shower bath. He was said to have slipped into the sheriff’s office this morning and stolen a revolver. As the jailer returned from a visit to the cells Blaszack struck him over the head and then freed the two othe prisoners. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band | this evening at the United States Capi- tol at 7:30 o'clock; Taylor Branson, leader: Arthur Witcomb, sccond leader. “March of the Toy from “Babes in ‘Toyland” +..... Herbert Overture, Russlan and Ludmilla,” Glinka Sextette from “Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti Second Leader Arthur 8. Witcomb, Musicians John P. White, Robert E. and Willlam F. Santelmann. f - 1o’ . Ver: Musicians John P. White, Robert E. Clark and Peter Hazes. Grand Scenes from “Andrea Chenier, Giordano .. Verdi Thombone 50lo, “Celeste Alda™ Musician Robert E. Clark Intermezzo sinfonico, from “Cavalleria Rusticana™ . Gavotte, from Cornet_solo, of relief for those who do not come | within the definition of stable workers. Per- | ALBION, N. Y, August 13.—Three Clark, Herbert Erisman, Peter Hl.ws‘ SIX INJURED AND FOUR DETROIT HOMES RAZED BY EXPLOSION. HIS charred and scattered timber is all that is left of four Detrolt, Mich., homes after blast which injured six per- An explosion in one of them—frotm & cause as yet undetermined—started a fire. was tossed high into trees nearby. Debris from the homes —A. P. Photo. Trunk Supplies Insurance and Accident With It By the Associated Press. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Towa, Au- gust 13.—Mrs, Bernice McCurry, searching through an old trunk for her accident insurance pol- icies to see if the premiums had ‘been paid, found an old revolver. Picking it up with one hand as she searched for the policies with the other, the gun went off. Mrs. McCurry lost a finger. At the hospital attendants found the insurance documents still clu.ched in her hand. The premiums were paid. THREE DEAD, FIVE HURT N EXPLOSION Garage Wrecked When Alco- hol or Gasoline Is Poured Into Radiator. By the Associated Press. +BATTLE CREEK, Mich., August 13.— wThree men were killed and five others | were burned, one of them so severely | He was expected to die. in an explosion | and fire In a garage on the outskirts of this city today. Two of the dead were identified as Floyd Carlyle and Robert Fenton, em- ployss of the garage. The third victim was tentatively identified as Clare Hig- gins of Nashville, Mich. Albert Latta, another employe of the garage, was reported near death in a hospital. Others’ Bodies Sought. Firemen were digging in the ruins in the belief one and possibly two bodies were in the debris. A fireman was re- poried missing. | Jack Glenius, the proprietor of the | garage. who was reported missing after the explosion, later was located unhurt. The explosion was believed to have started when an employe poured al- cohol or gasoline into a steaming auto- | mobile radiator, believing it to be water. A back draft caused the roof at the rear to collapse, driving the flames to the front of the building and setting fire to the clothing of several persons. Some of the persons in the building were collapsed. Seventeen in Danger. The fire was believed under control after an hour’s work. persons in the garage when the ex- plosion occurred. The garage, a one-story brick struc- ture, with a wood roof, was destroyed. The collapse of the burning roof trapped the employes in the front part of the building. Firemen said the explosion occurred | when an employe poured gasoline into the heated radiator of an automobile, believing the fluid to be water. KILLING OF RODENTS ' BLAMED FOR BUG EVIL | Hopkins Professor Warns Against | Removal of Insect Enemies. By the Associated Press. Prof. A. Bragzier Howell of Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, to- day charged in a public letter to Sen- ator McNary of Oregon that the grass- last night, but spent the night in & hopper menace in the Middle West | was a result of the Government policy of extermination of rodents. Ground squirréls and other small animals, Howell said, constitute the chief check on the inerease of insects on the Western plains, where there | are few lnl:ectmumu:g.td Such ani- | mals eat large quan grasshop. and dig I devour egg the insects. ! The Department of Agriculture is practically exterminating rodents by poison over thousands of square miles, Howell said, with resulting . “terrible scourges of insects.” | He requested Senator McNary, who is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, control, rather than extermination of rodents. Practically all scientific socleties hav- ing to do with vertebrate zoology, Howell said, have petitioned that of eradication American M | merly was on the lm“n Institution. | SACKETT TO MAKE TOUR for- staff of the Smith- spectators who had entered the | front of the structure before the roof | ‘There were 17| to use his influence for | this | di NAVY NOW READY 10 ST TARGT ‘Offers to Help Army Bombers Locate Mount Shasta for Test. (Continued From First Page) discover and bomb the old hulk, the Mount Shasta. “These difficulties are the better ap- | preciated since the accomplishment of such type of actlvity has been the | common practice for many years of the | Naval Air Service. Our material has | been constructed and our personnel trained with that end in view. There- |fore, the Naval Aviation Service will | be glad either to guide and convoy the Army bombers to and from the target, or, if necessary, even under- | take the entire mission of finding and destroying by bombs said old hulk. “Very sincerely yours, “DAVIS 8. INGALLS.” Announcer’s Account. | The following account of the Army's | “bombing” attempt was offered today | by the Columbia Broadcasting System, | which had John Mayo as announcer | with_the bombers: “The original attempt was made Tuesday merning. The steel freighter Mount Shasta, furnished by the United States Shipping Board from its ships scheduled for scrapping, was to have been attacked 60 or 70 miles at sea off | Old Point Comfort, Va., by a detach- ment of bombing planes from Langley Field, Va. A heavy fog and rain, to- gethfl' with a rising wind, prevented e bombers, flying high above the 2,500~ foot ‘ceiing’ from executing the maneuver, “The planes returned to shore safely, although the Gen. Schofield, Army ship escorting the target ship, was disabled and had to be towed ashore. Lashed about in the storm with useless boilers, the Gen. Schofleld was rescued by the tug Moscoutin. Two sailors were serious- ly injured during the operation. “The major flight of bombing planes | was never out of touch of shore through | radio, but a smaller flight was for a | long time believed lost.” Five Planes in Group. According to Mayo, five planes were in the group with which he flew—three light bombers, a radio ship and one | other plane. They circled the waiting target and escort ships for four hours awaiting the arrival of the major bomb- ing group and finally headed fgr shore. Unable to contact the shore by radio, Mayo said, they found upon landing that they had been thought lost at sea. | The landing was a forced one at Vir- ginia Beach. As they approached shore the “celling” became so low as to make it inadvisable to attempt to fly to Lang- ley Pleld. While over the sea the ship's gaso- line tanks ran low and the pilot dropped sand ballast, Mayo continued. The ship, carrying Mayo, set out with 700 gallons of gasoline and arrived at Virginia Beach with 20 gallons. There were six men aboard including Mayo, with Lieuts. George Halloman of Wright Fleld and Guy Henderson of Langley Pleld piloting the ship. Inadequate equipment and lack of proper practice in bombing_ships at sea were blamed by former Brig. Gen. | William Mitchell for the Army's failure | to sink the Mount Shasta, and he sees in this an additional argument for a [unified air force for the Nation's de- ense. Declares Equipment Inadequate. | The Army planes that went out with | bombs to smash the Mount Shasta had | inadequate equipment, Gen. | asserted in & telephone intervicw with | The Star at his home at Middleburg, | Va. The former assistant chief of the | Army _ Air Service said that the ships were not equipped with directional radio and were without automatic pilots. The ships the Army used Tuesday in the bombing attempt are not aav better than the ships he used in 1921, Gen. | Mitchell asserted. ‘The only ships that will count against |an enemy in a future war are subma- | rines, the general reiterated. A “Chi- | nese wall” against incoming enemy ves- | sels could be built up 400 or 500 miles {at sea, he pointed out, halting surface | Army aircraft need practice several times & year in bombing surface craft. Gen. Mitchell insisted, explaining that this is not now done. In 1921 and 1923, Gen. Mitchell continued, it was proven that aircraft are the only na- | tional defense and that the Nation should have a united air force. ‘The Army's publicity on the Mount Shasta tests was not handled well, the general contended, and the ships went | out in a northeast storm. The surface vessel on the sea, if in actual warfare, | Le maintained, would be “blind—unable to use its guns—under the same con- Went 26 Miles Off Course. COUNTY CANGELS | \ BAN ON OVERPASS Way Cleared for = Building Safety Crossing in Kensington. Special Dispateh to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 13.—Way for the construction of the propoced new railroad overpass at Lincoln ave- nue to replace the dangerous grade crossing at St. Paul street in Kensing- jton was cleared this afternoon when Judge Robert Peter, in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County dismissed the petition of certain residents of the town to stay the work of the State Road Commission. He also ordered dis- solved the temporary injunction grant- ed in January, 1930, restraining the | State Roads Commission from proceed- ing with the work. John R. Oxley, of counsel for the plaintiffs, indicated today that the de- cision of Judge Peter would be appealed. The suit was instituted in September of 1929, by former Mayor Edgar W. Moore and others, when the State Rosids | Commission announced its decision to | build the overpass at Lincoln avenue. | The petitioners contended that the commission had not complied with, cer- tain requirements of the statutes gov- erning such work, and a temporary in- junction was granted. Later the commission filed & cross bill, stating that the requirements com- plained against and which the court ruled must be complied with, had been met. However, the Kensington resi- dents, in their answer, to this cross bill contended that the commission’s decision to build the overpass at Line coln avenue was arbitrary. In his decision Judge Peter said that from consideration of all the testimony he was convinced that the State Roads Commission had fairly considered the questions before it. T. W. CUNNINGHAM, VARE LEADER, DIES AT ATLANTIC CITY ___(Continued From First Page.) 35 years. He came into public notice after the senatorial election of 1926 in llam S. Vare was elected to alleged excessive campaign expenses. Cunningham refused to tell the Sen- ate Special Committes In campaign expenses the source of | he contributed to Vare's campaign fund. He was held in contempt by the Senate and indicted in the District of Colum- bia for contempt of the Senate, but fought off trial by many moves in the courts here and in Washington. At presTnt the case is in the Supreme Court of the United States on appeal. Cunningham was a leader in the tenth werd and was a staunch support- | er of Boise Penrose when the latter was | th> dominant political Jeader of Penn- | sylvania. After Penrose’s death he be- come identified with the Vare organisa- | tion. He was a member of Vare's “war board,” which had the last say on all | political matt:rs within the party in | this city. Recently he was close to a break with Vare because he came out for George |H. Biles for mayor_ of Philadelphia. | Z;rsm opposed to Biles and A pton Moore. Bj withdrew in the interests of harmony, and Moore became the choice of the leaders for mayor. The is to be held next month. Cunningham was_stricken suddenly about 10 cays ago. Taken to a hospital in Atlantic City, he showed 4 men:huntll yesterday when he suffered coliapse. Cirned 1o’ Washington and mid- betors urne n and laid before high naval officials their observation of 'the proceedings from the deck of the | Coast Guard cutter Mascootin, the Army’s efforts. They said they never saw the Army bombers, but were able to observe the | observation planes -over the Mount Shasta. Another naval officer, Lieut. (Junior Grade) Charles P. Hill, U. S. N., detailed by Vice Admiral Arthur L. Willard, commander of the scouting force, from the aircraft of his com- mand, bew in one of the Army bomb- ers. He made his report today to the Navy Department, but this was not made public. Would Be Menace, If Sunk. ‘War Department plans had called for bombing to take place from 60 miles at sea, and the bombers found the weataer variable, but 15 to 20 miles off ihe coast, the weather improved. The bomb- ers did not see the Army observation planes which left the fiying field about the same time. Recited among the other incidents in the Army planes’ flasco are: ‘The Mount Shasta is located in about 118 fathoms of water, instead of 100 fathoms, and if sunk at that depth would be likely to become a menace to navigation. The Army had to depend on the (naval communication set-up and the Columbia Broadcasting System for communication facilities after its own arrangement had become disabled. Poem Is Circulated. The attempt to Bomb the merchantman today inspired l% which was generally circulated about the Navy Department, evoking much good-natured joshing. The poem, the authorship of which is veiled in mys- tery, follows: “The Army Air Service went out to In a beautiful pea-green plane. - It took some bevo and plenty of ego, Some claim it was not quite sane. The pilot looked up at the stars above And said to his n-v!.gnor, oh, dry land, my ‘Oh, lovely dry land, love, If God's willing, I'll leave you no more, No more, no more, It God's willing, I'll N leave you no "1“"‘(::]‘“ to the pilot, "You elegant How utterly silly ‘twould be ° 'd;;.;:vm the Navy its duty and To govern the You reached T bounding sea. hout care ‘more than yuu:‘:hu! ra Unwitting you started to roam, And now you have got far more than Ahdyou 'n;'h safe at you wish you were safe at home, At home, at home, And you wish you were safe at home." “Oh, l‘ilvy, take back your coast de- e1 nse, For we find that the sea is We though on one hand.it elp AWI.ll’ll‘lllum k"‘tnd "m‘:&y that ::e rmy bombers, sent ouf destroy the Mourit Shasta, went off their course home port of Langley Fleld. It was calculated that the Army bombers encountered the coast some' five miles north of stead of at Cap enry. observation plang, however. local Mount Shasta, foating off the Virg} capes, and waifd in vain for the bomb pEAEE P it 8. P. Ginder, aviafl® in Dffice of ‘Training, Com M. the, us ‘We find it we are not so Thc-uh"wm'l'.fil.m“ by Publishes Extant Musie. ATICAN CITY — 2 SRl -