Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1931, Page 16

A—16 % NAVY T0 MAINTAIN PRESENT FORGE AT WASHINGTON YARD Jobs of 3,866 Civilians Held Safe for Present by Capt. Kintner. MINIMIZES PROSPECT OF OTHER REDUCTIONS Brooklyn and Philadelphia Stations Both Lbove Average in Employment. The jobe of the 3,866 civilian workers at the Washington Navy Yard are safe for the present, Capt. Edwin G. Kint- ner, Construction Corps, U. 8. N., of the Navy Yard Division, Navy Depart- ment, said to day, as present conditions do not point to any reduction in the force. Unforeseen factors may Aarise he added, that may change the situa- tion, resulting in increases or reduction. The otganization at the Washington yard was built up to 4866 in August, 1929, to take care of the prospective construction program, which was later reduced. This necessitated & cut in the force, and by August, 1930, it had dropped to 4.176. In the last year, due to the slackening of work, it’ has been further reduced by 519, so that on August 1 the local yard had 3.866 | civil employes. Brookiyn Above Average. Capt. Kintner pointed out that at the Brooklyn, N. Y. Navy Yard on Au- % 13 there were 3,440, a figure above fhe’ average for the past 12 monihs, which was 3,403, At the Philadelphia d there were 3414 emploves as of ugust 6, this being below the average for the past 12 months, which was Kintner made it clear, delphia yard is now above what it was in the so-called boom times preceding the stock market crash. In August, 3929, there were 3,356 employed at the Philadelphia yard, compared with 3,414 now at work there, ‘The captain took occasion to explain that published reports of estimates that between 200 and 300 men are to be discharged at the Philadelphia and Brooklyn yards in the next three months are not at all sure. As in the case of Washington, he said, conditions may alter the situation. Fluctuation Unavoidable. Capt. Kintner said: “Efforts to ize the work load at the yards are being made at all times, but some fluctuation is unavoidable—the ships ©of the fleet must move and ships are not available at all times to permit making the work load exactly even. ‘The forces in the navy yards are not much below what they were two years ago, which Is in striking contrast to the situation in the majority of private in- dustrial plants—some of which are em- ploying forces that are only a fraction of their normsl forces. “The Navy is doing what it can to support the administration policies of maintaining wages and employment.” THE WEATHER District of Columbia and Maryland— Cloudy tonight, tomorow partly cloudy; mot much change in temperature; gentle variable winds. Virginia—Cloudy tonight, partly cloudy; showers in extreme southwest portion: not much change in temperature; Entle variable winds. ‘West Virgini nerally fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in the temperature. ‘Weather for Past 24 Hours. ‘Thermometer—4 p.m., 78; 8 p.m., 75; 12 midnight, 73; 4 am, 72; 8 am, 72; noon, 80. Barometer—4 pm. 3032; 8 pm 30.32; 12 midnight, 30.34: 4 am., 30.33; 8 am., 30.36; noon, 30.36. Highest -temperature, 81, occurred at 12:30 pm. August 14, Lowest temperature, 70, occurred at 2 am. August 15 Temperature same date last year— Highest, 75. Lowest, 63 Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 3:19 am. and 3 pm.; high tide, 9:02 a.m. and 9:31 pm Tomorrow—Low tide, 4:10 am. and 4:36 pm.; 10:20 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Today—8Sun rose 5:20 am.; %:04 p.m Tomorrow—Sun rises 5:21 am #cts 7:03 p.m Moon rises 7:18 a.m.; sots 8:21 p.m Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset Rainfall. Comparative figures of the monthly rainfall in the Capital for the first eight months against the average are shown in the following table Average 1931 January ..3.55ins, January February .327ins. February March ....375ins. March April 327ins. April May 3.70 ins. May June 4.13ins June July ...... 470 s, July August ...4.01ins. August ... 264 ins Record rainfall for the first eight months was January, 1882, 1884, 6.3¢ inches inches; April sun sets sun 09 inches; February March, 1891, 884 1889, 9.13 inches; May 1889, 10.69 inches; June, 1900, 10.94 inches: July, 1886, 10.63 inches; Au- gust, 1928, 14.41 inches Weather in Various Cities. Clear 0.02 Rain 0.04 Clou: 010 0.66 Cloudy Gloudy Piclondy 0.08 Cloudy ear 0.64 Cloudy Clear Clear 0.02 Glouds Atlantic Baltimore, A Birmingbam Bismarck N Boston, Mas: Buffaio. N. ¥ Charleston, 8.C Chicago. 1. 0. Cincinnati, Ohio Cleveiand. Ohio. 30 38 Columbia. 8. C. D, uron.’ 8. Da. Indinvapoiis, Clear cksonville 0.82 Pt cioudy nsas City, Mo Slesr ot wexusLsss 3= e ¢ i ?‘r; SREnER: ‘were, only a shorb time since, prosper- tomorrow | high tide, 9:51 am. and| THE EVENING A Tale of the Umemployed HIGH AND LOW RUB ELBOWS IN BREAD LINES. BY ONE OF THE UNEMPLOYED. R. AVERAGE MAN of the City 1 faintest conception of the pathos and sadness and sorrow that’s hidden in the ranks of | little article is merely a minute portion of a great saga that could be written around them. ashamed of it, but on the other hand, I'm not exactly proud of it. I live with the Unemployed, sleep with them, eat the streets with them looking for a job—any kind of & job that will bring in money. I know them. Washington today there are authors doctors, lawyers, architects, portr painters and just plain bums. There who wes, & year ago, one of the fore most brokers on the wheat exchange of Chicago, I've met men who were dirty of Washington hasnt the 1'l\e Army of the Unemployed. This I'm one of the Unemployed. I'm not in the soup lines with them and tramp “Living in the charity missions of one man in the Central Union Mission hungry, downcast and forgotten, who ous, well fed and respected citizens of their home towns. And now, they're bums. ‘Walked Streets in Rain. “One of them is my friend. When I landed in Washington with exactly 3 cents to my name and applied to the mission for a bed and a bite to eat they were forced to turn me out because of the 'lack of room. It was raining that night, and I walked the streets soaked to the skin. On the corner of Pennsylvania ave- nue and Thirteenth street I first saw him. Standing there, shoulders squared, chin up, with hiswclothing in rags and a two-week growth of beard, he pre- sented to me the extremely unusual picture of a down-and-outer who still believed while there was life there must be I slouched under the meager shelter of the dripping awning with him and there we stood in silence for five minutes. Finally he turned to asked me for tobacco. I told him I had not smoked in three days, and with a shrug of his shoulders he re- marked,’ “Ja. I know. It's hell.” From then on the ice was broken and he became my friend and adviser in misfortune. He was a German land- scape gardener who at one time had worked on the country estate of Von | hope he wasn't arrested. Neither of us | food. I could tell of a man who stood in me and in a broken German accent | i Hindenburg. He had exactly 10 cents | to his name and he bought with it a | cup of steaming coffee and one large | bun. Although I was so hungry that at times I became dizzy, I simply didn’t | have the heart to accept half when it was offered. I don't know where he is now.- He disappeared yesterday after- noon after telling me he was going to “touch up” a bakery for some rolls. I had eaten in 24 hours. There's & medical student down at the Gospel Mission Who, up until & vear ago, worked his way through col- jege. Summer before last he quit ‘col- | lege to work for a year to try to get ahead—financially. His last job was at Virginia Beach, running a bath house at one of the smaller hotels there The wife of his boss, a woman old | enough to be his mother, fell_in love | with him. Well, the boss fired him and | ordered him off the premises within an | hour, Now he's “on the bum Needy Meet in ‘Jungle.’ I could tell of the suicide of & man | in’ Baltimore because he had not eaten | in five days: T could tell of nights spent “in the jungle.” * * * Do you know what the “jungle” is? It's a spot just out- side of the B. & O. yards where we unfortunates meet to boil coffee in a ! tin can and eat stale bread one of us has begged “And 1 could tell you of miserable nights spent tramping the streets in a | cold - downpour of rain, of men Wwho fainted from the biting, gnawing pangs of hunger, but_were too proud to beg a bread liné muttering insane nothings to himself and when he was in(ormed‘ there was no more food, ran scream ing down the street. I could tell of a} man and his wife who showed up at| one of the missions and asked for food, | and when they were refused, they slept in the park. The next morning the man disappeared. and that night the woman quietly slipped out into a de-| .;eig!dad shack and bore a child, who later | I could tell of things that no paper | would print . . . but why tell them? | No one is interested in the unemployed Some of us are not even interested in| ourselves any more. It's a case of the best dog wins the bone. Well, what’s the use? hiked across the country. I've “ridden the rods” of freight trains. I've worn out the only pair of shoes I possess trying to find a job. There are no jobs I've hitch- NEW TRAFFIC RULE FORTRUCKS ASKED Van Duzer Holds Regulation Is Imper/ative Because of Change in Types. New traffic regulations controlling the size of trucks and their use of bridges | were adopted yesterday by the District | Commissioners. In asking substitution of the new rules for those already in force William {A. Van Dugzer, director of vehicles and | traffic, reported recent years had seen numerous changes in the types and size of trucks which made it imperative that the regulations be modernized. He ex- plained six-wheel trucks now in com- | mon use and heavy equipment may now | be hauled on specially designed trailers which distribute the load in such a manner so as not to injure the pave- ments. Among others things, the ordinances provide vehicles shall not be parked or stopped for unloading of passengers on any bridge or approach. No vehicle the weight of which, including its load, ex- | ceeds 28,000 pounds on solid tires or 30,800 pounds on pneumatic tires, will | be permitted to use any span without written permission. No street railway car weighing more than 64,000 pounds. including its load 1l be allowed to use any bridge. No way car pass two or more other cars coupled tegether on any bridge if either of the latter cars weighs more than 50,000 pounds. After January 1 no motor vehicle equipped with solid tires not heretofore licensed to operate in the District will | be registered or titled except where | unusual service conditions make the use | of pneumatic tires impractical in the {>pinion of the traffic director. All heavy equipment will have to be registered. |U. 5. ASKS BUILDING BIDS {Estimates on Justice Department Structure Called by Treasury ‘The Treasury Department today is- sued a call for bids for the foundation of the new Justice Department Build- ing. which is to be erected on the south | side of Pennsylvania avenue just west of the new Internal Revenue Building. | Bids must be in the hands of super- vising architect by September 8 Science Cycles of Rain Well Defined in California Study. Existence of wet and dry cycles is revealed by mathematical analysis of the rainfall records of California, Dr. A. P. Gorton of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography reports to the Ameri- can_Geophysical Union. “Fluctuations of rainfall.” he says “occur at intervals of from two to three | years, five to six years, and 22 to 26 | years, the first being more noticeable in the records of the northern stations | and the second in Southern California. Los Angeles shows successive wel and dry periods, 11 years in length. with a | total cycle of approximately 22 years. In addition to these there is evidence ( TAX COLLECTIONS TOTAL $35.8.880 D. C. Revenuss Are Doubled | Since 1921, Towers Says in Annual Report. Tax collections during the fiscal year ended June 30 totaled $35,892,830.04, or $1,028,553.79 more than in the pre- | vious year, C. M. Towers, collector of | taies, revealed todsy in his annual re- | port to the District Commissioners. The principal increases included real | te taxes, up $924,547.45; intangible | personal taxes, up $41,39801: interes |DIVING TOWARD TARGET | at present, the officials are interadted | Langley Pield, the Mount Shasta still | maneuvers STAR, WA NAVY KEEPS FAITH IN BOMBS DESPITE FAILURE OF ARMY Rear Admiral W. A. Moffett Believes Army Planes Not Adapted. HINGTON. DECLARED EFFECTIVE Bombing Craft Must Be Constructed Especially for Task, Naval Air Chief Says. Inability of Army bombers to sink the old merchantman Mount Shasta ff the Virginia Capes yesterday has failed to chake the faith of naval air- men in the efficacy of diving bombing in the sinking of #irface vessels The Army bombers are heavy air- eraft not structurally adapted for div- ing with bombs up to 1,000 pounds in weight, as they fly along in a straight line over an ocean target, trugting to formation and a salvo—the dropping of a number of bombs at the same time—to sink their objective. Interview Refused. Rear Admiral ‘William A. Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, declined to be inter- | viewed on the Mount Shasta bombing, | deeming it a delicate subject. He ex- | plained. however, that the Navy under- takes practice of bombing surface ves- sels as regular clockwork, and favors the diving bombing attack in which aircraft swoop down from great heights upon a target from all direc- tions. Planes must be specially built for this work Secret naval tests are now going for- vard on the radio-controlled destroyer Stoddert on the West Coast. Naval airmen believe that they will gain much more valuable information in this method of endeavoring to attack from the air a destroyer steaming full speed, with not a soul aboard, her engineering and navigation being accomplished by radio, instead of aiming at a st tionary target, as was the Mount Shasta. Aerial target practice, with floating rafts, marked with fiags is not neglected by the Navy, how- ever, but the officials anticipate that the most valuable information will be gleaned from the work with the radio-controlled destroyers, which is being carried on under cover of strict- est secrecy. Eventually, it is believed, the three ships will be sunk by aerial bombs. ,but mainly in ascertaining the destruction wrought by different types of aerial borabs on a vessel. The Navy Department has never re- leased figures on the bombing of the Washington and the German ships off the Virginia capes shortly after the ‘World War, aircraft having taken part in these exercise: Acting Secretary Ernest Lee Jahncke today withheld comment on tle Army Air Corps fiasco off the Virginia capes. “This is strictly an Army matter,” he said. “They know their business. I must decline to be quoted.” Coast Guard Called. The Mount Shasta rested on the floor of the Atlantic, 60 miles off the Virginia capes, placed there by gunfire from two little Coast Guard cutters after the Army bombardment failed. In an hour of intensive bombard- ment 50 high-explosive, 100-pound bombs were aimed at the rusty old craft, with only two direct hits being scored. When the bombers returned to proudly rode the waves, defiant, though listing” slightly In turning the abandoned Shipping Board vessel over to the Coast Guard, Langley Field officers announced the were “successfully com- pleted.” Over long-distance telephone the chief of bombardment operations said the Air Corps “didn’t intend to sink the ship, but only to make a test.” Offi- cers at Air Corps hearquarters here, uu- advised as to the day's activities, how- ever, asserted that, “as far as we know, the maneuvers call for the sinking of the ship.” Flames Break Out. The hoodoo ship finally plunged to and penalties, up $37,699.86; trust and | the bottom in 600 fect of water after special funds, up $554,699.20, and gaso- | the cutters Carrabassett and Mascoutin lins tax, up $180,312. | poured 100-pound shell broacsides into | her midsection. Just before they opened Water Collections Gain. | Another boost was shown in the col- | lection for water, which aggregated | $1,883,912.73, or $317,579.62 more than ! in the previous year. This Included | Tents, water main taxes and other items. | Towers reportec. the receipts of his office had more than doubled since 1821, They by years: 1921, $16,- | 045,836,28 $16,636,682.25; 1923 121,374.87; 1924, $18,857.403.13; 1625, $22,206.856.14; 1926, $26,606, 646.84: 1927, $30,291667.58; 1028, $32 512,871.97; 1929, $33.484.825.35; 1930 $04,864,276.25; 1931, $35,892,830.04 | Other Revenues Fall Off. | Decreases included tangible personal texes, down $495.042.23 insurance taxes, down $38,064.81. and miscel- laneous collections, down $399,287.42 Collections for building and other pormits totaled $267.709.15. Receipts for various types of licenses amounted to $279.484.29. Police Court fines ac- counted for $415.448.77, while thase of Juvenile Court totaled $365.48. Rents ot buildings and other property pro- duced $104,329.45 SCUFFLE FOR PISTOL COSTS LIFE OF BOY What was said to have been a friendly <uffie between two colored boys, each seeking possession of a .25-caliber pistol which they had found, ended in tragedy yesterday when the gun was| discharged accidentally. ‘Willam Hall, about 13 vears old, died al Emergency Hospital shortly after- | ward, a Bullet having entered his lung. Charles Scott, 13, of 1759 Willard sireet, was held by police pending a coroner’s inquest Scott and the Hall who lived at 1318 Wallach street, had been visiting 2 the home of the former’s aunt, at 249 Florida avenue. They werein the apartment alone when they found the okitol and started playing with it, young Scott said. The Hall boy obtained the | g first, according to Scott, who toid | pelice he was tiving to take it away iom him when the gun was accident- ally discharged Headquarters detectives are investi- §ating. | just VETERANS IN HOSPITALS |i POTOMAC CRUISE GUESTS ‘Two hundred veterans from Mount | bombers lined up in formation at 5,000 {feet and moved in for the kill a few | minutes | flew | causing & slight list fire flames broke out in the hold of the Mount Shasta. apparently caused Ly one of the two direct hits scored by the Army. From the start the Mount Shasta was a jinx to the Army. In two pre- vious attempts, earlier ia the week, to bomb her a Langley Field bombardment squadron became separated over the cean, radio communications were dis- rupted and several planes were lost in the fog, with none of the bombers even sighting the old hulk. This resulted in & Navy offer to find the ship.for the Army and even to sink her if necessary, much to_the chagrin of the Air Corps. Determined to vindicate their service of the Navy jibes. Air Corps heads called on the nine best bombing pilots at Lang- lev to find the Mount Shasta and sink her forthwith. Many Bombs Used. | With the sun piercing through light cloud banks. the nine planes started out on their mission of destruction. Sight- ing the hulk shortly before noon float- ing peacefully on the calm waves, the after 12 o'clock. One after another, in rapid succession, the 100- pound missiles of high explosives were dropped at the Mount Shasta. The first hit came about five minutes after the first bomb was dropped, striking up in the bow. A wisp of smoked curled up from the staunch old craft. and ob- servers anticipated she would soon keel under, but she shook it off and came back for more. Again and again the bombing planes over her, dropping their loads v into the sea. Finaily an- wrecking part of the superstructure and but otherwise do- ing no apparent damage. The only other bomb that tame close was one that struck just aft the stern, under the counter. The Mount Shasta was heaved almost out of the water, Alibi is Claimed. Around the Air Corps hesdquarters today officers were saying the Motnt Shasta couldn’t sink because she was loaded with lumber. Agein the Navy laughed, pointing out that if wbolly filled the ship would have sunk quitker than if empty and if only partly filled tal hit would have put her decks h If the Coast Guard hadn't come to the rescue and completed the task, the Navy planned to ask permission to send its bombing planes out after the Mount hasta and show the Army Alr Corps how it should be done. 50-YEAR RESIDENT DIES . Plane Drops In on Training Sechool TWO SAFE IN FORCED LANDING ON ORCED down when valve trouble developed in their motor, two fiyers en route to Pennsylvania from North Carolina made a successful landing shortly before noon today alongside Bladensburg road rear the District line on the grounds of the National Training School for Boys ‘The pilots, Lloyd O. Youst of Pinehurst, N. C.. commercial fiyer, and his helper, O. A. Blackwelder, also of Pinehurst, were on their way to The two men left Warrington, N. Harrisburg, Pa., to refuel. They Cunningham, Pa., where Youst has an interest in a fiying service C., this morning in their light biplane, with the expectation of landing at ere over Northeast Washington at an altitude of about a mile when motor trouble devel- oped. They decided to take the first emergency field they could find rather than risk circling back over the city to Hoover Airport Youst sald he would have no difficulty in taking off again after he has obtained repairs for his motor. A% Capt. Cliff Travis Tells of Experiences While on Visit to National Capital. Served as Chief Instructor of Aeronautics in Peruvian , Naval Service. An amazing story of how he flew mail over the most difficult air route in the world, the skyscraper pass of the towering Andes, a forced dive in dense fog wherein he plunged out of cloud banks to find himself heading into the snow-covered wall of a stegp mountain and numerous adventures in the treacherous South American jungles and mountains, were related today by Capt. CHff K. Travis. veteran aiiman, who arrived in Washington from South America & few days ago. Originally from Seattle, Wash., Capt Travis journeyed to South America some vears after the war and was employed by the Peruvian Navy as chief instruc- tor of seronautics, with the rank of a captain. He has been down there for the last five years and speaks Span- ish like a native. During his dutles in the Peruvian Navy he flew all over South America, and was given the op- portunity to explore many of the fasci- nating ruins of Peru's ancient civili-| zation, and in his personal collection has many interesting “finds,” some of them of great value both in their ma- terial and archeological aspects. Tells of Thrilling Rides. He modestly tells of thrilling rides over the far-flung and little known areas where flerce head-hunting tribes of the Jivaro Indians wage never-ending warfare against their equally savage enemies, ever seeking victims to con- tinue the ancestral custom of taking and shrinking human heads to doll- like size. When flying low over jungles, natives oft:n shot arrows at the speed- ing plane, some of which he afterward recovered from the fuselage and wings in which they had been embedded. Later he learned that these natives, who had never seen white men or air- ships. had thought the plane to be a giant bird and, therefore, their rightful prey. At times, when he landed at armed outposts in the ihterioz of these countries, the natives approached him as if he were a deity. Trey would gin- | gerly touch his face and hands to see if he were fashioned of flesh and blood or whether he was an illusion. “So long as they onmly touchtd me with their fingers and not with Lht\vr poisonous arrows and spears, 1 didn't care,” said Travis with a smile After two and a half years of navy and army life, he resigned {rom the Peruvian service and joined up with & commercial air line. ~After flying the South American routes, he was assigned to carry the mail in the perilous hop to and fro from Santidgo, Chile. to Mendoza, Argentina, across the mighty s. Terrain Offered Challenge. ‘This hop of but 150 miles, which at an average required about an hour and | s half, had to_be made over terrain that offered & bitter challenge to the most skilled earthbound mountain climbers. Naturally, a forced landing was out of the question. times was made under weather condi- tions which thrust tae pilot #gainst al- most insurmountable obstacles of og, snow, sleet, hail and violent winds. Special planes, of course, were essential. Superchargers were required for the matars of these planes, which enabled them to %ttain great speed at high alti- tudes. Travis has made the trip across the Andes 240 times and has unfuccess- fully attenspted it 23 other times. The day following an unsuccessful attempt however, he has always inanaged to complete the flight and _deliver the mails. From Mendoza to Santiago the pilot must take his plane up to above | 19,000 feet, depending, of course, on visibility over the Cumbre, or "hump’ of the Upsallata Pass, the perilous northern route between the two sities. Here he meets every known phase of weather on occasions, which combine all the worst features of atmospheric conditions. Once over the “hump, the plane is seized by the terrific wind force and literally hurled about 6.000 feet down the rugged mountain side into one of the many canyons below, out of which he must find a passage At tiles, Capt. Travis says he has had ot more than five lengths of the plane in which to effect a turn, and during most of the time under unfavorable weather conditions he has visibility only to the wing tios and, below him, per- haps for 25 feet or more. Mistake Means Death. A mistake, of course, means instant death. The pllot must act with a split second's thought, for hesita‘ion ‘woull ‘The ETERAN AIRMAN RELATES THRILLS OF FLYING OVER AND The flight at ¢ —Star Staff Photo. s .5, WORKERS CAR * FACLITIES SOUGHT | | | Federal Bar Association to Ask Congress to Give Parking Funds. ‘The Federal Bar Association is pre- |pared to ask Congress to authorize | parking facilities for Government em- | ployes. | Legislation will be sought for instal- lation of accommodations in. the tri- angle bulldings and for use of the adja- | cent public park areas. | A report dealing with the whole sub- | ject has been prepared by a_special | committee, headed by Charles B. Lin- | gamfelter, an attorney in the Bureal of Internal Revenue, which was named R. Vallance, ‘This report will be submitted to the Execu- tive Committee of the association on August 24. | It is estimated that a minimum of 5750 cars must be cared for on an all-day parking basis, and that the de- sired facilities in the bull s could CAPT. CLIFF K. TRAVIS. when clear air momentarily allowed him to glimpse an svenue which led to safety. | Afterward he ln\'estlnteddmu I‘W!;% under better weather conditions an found that he had been fing in ‘h‘l:;,sosro%m“ at a cost of about very heart of the Andean Mountains, | 000, and that his escape was nothing lhortzlh:h;'m Jdide STl 2 of & miracle, since he had been forced | The, Kot venue and Commerce time and again to turn the plane away | g3, which are the only Mall ftrom canyon walls when he sighted |structures already erec ted. | ! says thc committee has "LS;T 2 near as 10 feet from his wing | Tne teport seys the ommittee bas the Government workers to paying Only-Condors Would Knt | reasonable parking fee in the bunfl.\:': Had he smashed up on that occasion, | The, report criticizes the recent park- only the condors would have known |ing restrictions which have been in what happened. Instead of being in the 'effect in the downtown area. clear, as he had supposed, he was at times amid big snow-covered mountain peaks. \ In clear weather, Travis says, there | is no grander sight in the world than | the majestic range of the Andes, viewed from a high altitude, where to the north | at times the peak of Aconcagua rises 098 feet above sea level. the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere. | Capt. Travis was the pilot of Capt. | A. W. Stevens, the Army Air Corps photographer, who made the recent | series of pictures over Mount Aconcagua | that for the first time simowed the true | curvature of the earth on one plate. | CEff Travis, his fellow airmen say, is | {one of the most capable nd fearless fiyers in the world. His fousra-week | trips over the most perilous route in the | world s to him 'on® in the day’s work. | When ‘asked, however. If bis small son WO e an aviator, . e - geud g " | Due to the alertness of a Washington After his vachtion in Washington and | detective, Willilam L. Stevenson, 63, who New York, he returns to South America | has eluded police in various parts of to resume - fiying. th “You get used to that country, and |the country foy about a year, is being same get to like it,” he offered with & (held in Baltimore on charges of swin- smile as he left Washington fdr New |dling 30 persons; including an eminent York, "“Drop down and visit us some | ;o0 tme.” Well> maybe, but not over the Hopkins Hospital surgeon, out of me. y) ut not oves | Kl $6,009. “hump” of the Andes in bad weather. *Stevenson, who is said to have in- duced his victims to invest in a myth- ! ical min project, was arrested here | yesterday by Sergt. Charles Mansfield. | The arrest was made at Pennsylvania | avenue and Seventeenth street after the detective followed the alleged swindler from the Veterans' Bureau. | ., Stevenson, who said he is a World | Wer veteran, came here to transact | business with the bureau. Sergt. Mans- | fleld saw bim on the street and recog- nized him from a description broadcast by Baltimore police. Taken to Baltimeore. Following his arrest, described himself as a California min- RS < el y,_express} to return to Baltimore and face the charges against him. He was turned over to Detectives Mat- thew Dunn, Graydon Ware and Michael Simmons of Ba! P AL - B4 R R SWINDLE SUSPECT IS ARRESTED HERE W. L. Stevenson Turned Over to Baltimore, Where He - Faces Fraud Charges. FATALITIES PROBED BY CORONER’S JURY Electrocution in Elevator, and Shooting of Boy Are In- vestigated. Two inquests were opened by a ch oner's jury at the District Morgue to- day into the deaths yesterday of Arthur E Day, 35 years old, of Baltimore, Md. and William Hall, colored, 10 years old, of 1318 Wallach place. Touched Tension Wire. Day. an elevator constructor, was electrocuted when he touched a 220- volt. wire while working in an elevator shaft on the fAfth floor at 1620 Fuller | street, and the colored boy was"fatally I(;unded in a playful tussle for & re-" volver. The fire Tescue squad was summoned after Ernest Fuller of 1109 Tenth street, Day's ca~worker, found the Baltimore man hanging unconscious from the dangling wire. Members of the squad could do nothing for the stricken mar®| However, and he died while being rusbed | to Emergency Hospiial in an ambulance. Played With Gun. Fuller was severely shocked himself | in attempting to release Day and was | given first-aid treatment by physician. Day had teen staying in Washington at the McReynolds apartments, police were told. P The colored boy was shot in the chest | by Charles Scott, colored, 17 vears ¢ld, | of 1759 Willard street, while playing | - with a revolver in a rear room at 249 | Florida avenue. Scott tcld police that | he was trying to take a revelver away | from Hall whrn it accidentally dis- charged. | HAIL KILLS 280 - | | Vitims Were in India in Remark- | able Storm »f 1888. P e United. States: friends, as well family. Bobd Jumping Charged. Stevenson, Baltimore police charge, declared he had discovered #s members of his George G. Finney finally discovered mining land was hon-existent, the lice added. i fre- itis April 30, 1888, in & es east of Delhi, e killed, principally by hail. In a| nearby district 16 more persons were | du the same 1215 ENGINEERS LEAVE TOMORROW FOR VIRGINIA BEACH Largest Local Militia Unit Will Undergo Two Weeks of Field Training. COL. OEHMANN EXPECTS 490 MEN TO MAKE TRIP Program Changed With New In. struction Provided to Relieve Some of Monotony. Another contingent of the local Na- tional Guard. the 121st Regiment of Engineers, which is the largest unit in the local militia, will leave Wash- ington tomorrow afternoon for Vi Beach, Va., to begin its annual two weeks of fleld training, under the direc- tion of Col. John W. ‘hmann, its com- mander Col. Oehmann, when not commanding troops in the field, is the building inspector for the District of Columbia. ‘The old National Hotel armory at Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue will be agog from early lomorrow morning until the troops depart for the steamboat wharf, where they will board the steamer District of Columbia for the voyage to Norfolk. where they will be debarked and piaced aboard trains for the trip to the Virginia State rifie range. Special details of officers and men have been ordered to report at the m ::rl,\' to lo:‘d (Lh: heavy im- nta on trucks for transporta tion to the boat on which it will be loaded and ready before the main body of troops arrive. Steamer to Leave at 5:30. Col. Ochmann said the column will leave the armory at 3:30 o'clock, and, headed by the 12ist Engineers Band, of which Meyer Goldman is leader, will march south on Sixth street to M ;!r!:l to the Norfolk & Washington lock. Present plans call for the steamer to leave her dock at 5:30 o'clock, provid. ing a short period of daylight sailing down the Potomac. Immediately after the troops are embarked supper will be served, and except for the guard for the day there will be no duty to be performed on the trip. The vessel is scheduled to arrive at Norfolk about 7:30 o'clock, but the troops will not be debarked until half an hour later. Two hours will be required to transfer the baggage from the boat to the train, ln? t::e troops will be entrained at 10 o'clock. . Out of enroliment of 494 enlisted men, Col. Oehmann said that 490 would 80_to camp this year. The cavp training year, it was said by Col. Ochmann, has been materially changed, with some new instruction provided to relieve some of the monotony of heavy work, such as trench .~ Consid- erable time will be given over to mus- ketry firing, and to anti-aircraft firing, using the rifle. Men to Cook Own Lunches. The local Engineer regiment has been organized as a division combat regiment. enlisted men will be to cook their own lunches in to Washington in the forenoon of the fcllowing day. Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, command- ing the local militia brigade and the 29th National Guard division, compris- ing the National Guard units of this city, Maryland and Virginia, will make an official inspection visit to the camp on August 23, when the regiment will be paraded in review. Many visitors from Washington are also expected on that day. NEW JAYNES CASE SUSPECT ARRESTED Detective Sergt. Barrett on Wi From Atlantic City With Prisoner. Another suspect in the slaying o: Mrs. Elizabeth Jaynes, 57-year-old Garden T Shoppe cashier, was being brought here today from Atlantic City, where he was arrested yesterday. The new suspect, according to police ot the New Jersey city, was arrested by Detective Sergt. Robert Barrett of ‘Washington and Detectives Samuel Wheatley and Edward Webb of Atlantic City. ‘Barrett, it is understood, left here in quest of the suspect. Thomas Jordan, after questioning Mrs. Edith Magruder Dodsworth, 30, arrested here several days ago. According to the Atlantic City de- tectives, Barrett gave them descrip- tions of Jordan and asked their as- sistance in locating him. He was ar- rested a short time later in his home there. Washington police refused to give any information concerning Jor- dan’s arrest, but the Atlantic City of- ficers said they understood he had linked with the case by a woman un- der arrest heve. On arrival here, the suspect will be taken to headquarters for questioning. LOSS OF $610 IN BANK REPORTED BY WOMAN Loss of $610—most of which had just been withdrawn from the District Na-