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TOLD BY HERNDON He and Pangborn Had Hard Time Finding Place to Land in U. S. (Continued From First Page.) Beach, less than 300 miles from Tokio, but actually it was more than 400 the way the Japanese routed us. Flew Well Out to Sea. We were forced to fly well out to sea and travel the entire distance away from land, due to their regsoning, per- haps, that we might see sbme more of their fortifications, or, as we think, the places where their forts should be, but are not. Without running the motor very fast we wade the record time of 3 hours and 15 minutes between Tokio and Sabishiro. We discovered the beach there to be a naturzl run.ay about a mile and a haif long, but very rough from the last half on. A wo:den ramp had been buiit on e sand duce at one end to give a ¢ laden ship its initial momentum. This was previously erected for Brom- ley, Gatty, Ashe, Allen and Moyle, but we found it too wide for our eight-foot tread and made the fishermen at Sa- bishiro narrow it. The ramp was made of 2 by 12-inch boards laid crosswise to the plane’s course. After it was narrowed we discovered that the planking underneath ,the ramp was not_laid near enough to the ends of the boards, so that & heavy shi» rolling over Yhe ramp would tip the boards one at a time, with the possible result of tezring the tail out of the ship. The entire ramp had to be relaid, at & gross expense of 30 yen. Pangborn Designs System. In Tokio we had decided tha‘ our chances of success on the Pacific hop would be greatly improved if we drop- ped our landing gear immediately after taking off. But_previous experiences with Japanese officials had_convinced us that were this act known we should never be allowed to fly from Japan. Consequently, Pangborn designed a system of dropping the landing gear, which, however, required machine shop work, As this had to be done in secret, of course, we got the co- operation of some of our American friends in Japan. Two sleeves were fitted into an axle after it was cut. Steel pins re machined and en airplane cable was attached to holes in_the end of each pin. There were eight pins in all. In Tokio we successfully kept our secret, but it had to be revealed at the deach on the morning before we took off. Previous to_that we had planned a take-off on October 2, but we discovered our maps to be missing. We don’t know whether they were lost, strayed or sto- len, but every one who had anything to do with us in Japan had threatening letters from the Black Dragon Society and so we placed the blame for the missing maps on that organization. Fears Fail to Materialize. Having revealed our plans for drop- ping the landing gear on October 3, and being prevented from taking off be- cause of bad cross winds, we lived in a state of perpetual fear for the next 24 hours lest the Japanese authorities learn our plans and prevent our flight. However, their aviation bureau closed at ncon on October 3. so it was too late for them to hold one of their famous conferences. Therefore we ex- perienced no trouble from that quarter. ‘The morning of October 4 dawned overcast, but we had favorable weather reports of atmospheric conditions over the Kurile Islands, so we decided to take off. ‘The ship was loaded with 915 gallons of gasoline, 45 gallons of oil and emer- gency food rations, making a total weight of 9,000 pounds, which we be- lieve to be a record load per wing area. We wound up the engine to full throttle, holding the ship back by means of the brakes. At 1,700 revolu- tions per minute, we let her jump the chocks and we started on cur long trip, pot knowing whether we could get the load up or not. Pangborn was at the controls while I had one hand on the <dump valve, the other holding the throttle wide open. The heavy ship gained momentum slowly, and finally the tail came up. Pangborn’s two hands were on the stick, fighting to make her fly. The air speed mounted slowly—50, 60, 70 miles an hour—and still be were not flying. At last, at 90 miles an hour, the plane :oull:ced into the air—only to settle ack. Plane Climbs Steadily. After a mile and an eighth, at a bundred miles an hour, the ship actu- ally flew. It climbed steadily, going southward. _After two or thr# miles we turned slowly, circled back over the beach at 1000 feet and headed our course for America. We had figured it out previously that 3 we held a compass course of 72 de- grees we would eventually arrive over Queen Charlotte Island, on the Cana- dian coast, and fly from there to the United States. We checked our compass over Kok- | kaido Island and other islands in the | Kuriles. About 300 miles from Sabishiro we | First one, then | dropped our wheels. the other. ‘We had crossed the Rubicon. have to crack up in Japanese territory, and then we surely would have been jailed, or else we would crack up on the Aleutians and never be able to fly from them. After proceeding for about 500 miles up the Kuriles Islands, we headed out to sea with a handful of meager weather reports and plenty of fog ahead. We dropped the rest of the landing gear piece by piece by pulling the cables we had strung up, thereby pulling the steel pins out that were holding thd gear in place. The air speed increased about 15 miles an hour with the landing gear removed. Tce Forms on Wings. ‘The first serious trouble we met was due to ice forming on our wings just as night fell. With our still heavy load we were tirying to climb above the clouds, and having a tough time at thav. It was bitterly cold. Even the drinking water in our canteens froze, ;o lmy nothing_about our hands and eet. Pangborn took a short nap just before darlk and then relieved me at the con- trols. The moon rose about four hours after sunset. We viewed a marvelous sight. The clouds below looked like cotton. We were flying at about 14,000 feet. The night seemed to last forever, although in reality it was about nine hours. The first encouraging sign we saw, and it was very welcome, was a vol-. cano. Before leaving Japan we had hoped that we might see it at a dis- tance, as it was on our course. As & matter of fact, it loomed up directly under us in the fog, showing us that we fWel’e exactly right in our course 5o far. Fly Through Cloud Bank. After passing the volcano we came to a high bank of clouds, which we could not fly over, so we had to go through, and took on a very dan- gerously heavy load of ice. We had to fly with wide-open throttle at 17,000 feet for four hours, thereby using up our precious supply of gasoline rapidly. The clouds at last lowered and the ice melted, to our great relief. With the ship's release from the additional weight of the ice, we flew over clouds and fog from Attu Island east. Pang! here climbed out on the wing struts and unscrewed the remain- -~ If any- | thing happened from then on we would | i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1931. stY OF FLIGHT ] Pangborn and Hernflon Landing at Wenatchee PPER: Telephoto from San Fran U Japan. the fiyers a $25,000 prize offered them to friends. of Clyde E. Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr. at Wenatchee, Wash., cisco, Calif., showing the wheelless plane | by & Japanese newspaper. Lower: Mrs. Dixon Boardman, mother of Hugh Herndon, jr., photographed at her Park avenue home in New York City yestercay as she read reports of her son's successful flight to her daughter, Mrs, W. L. Shillader, who is phoning | —A. P. Photos. ing two landing gear struts. We were | then over the Gulf of Alaska. | We were both suffering from the terrific cold in spite of the fact that| we were wearing heavy flying suits and had four warm blankets over us. We had figured on reaching Queen Charlotte Island at 10 o'clock on the night of October 5. We finally reached th2 north part of Vancouver Island at midnight, two hours later than we ex- pected, and they were very anxious| hours. We kept looking for lighthouses blinking on the coast, but for a long time we saw nothing but winking stars, which we mistook for lighthouses. | | Change Course for Seattle. ‘ The first sight of America was a flashing beacon on Vancouver Island. ‘We changed our course for Seattle. Soon. flying at 16,000 feet, with the clouds just under us, we thought we were over Seattle. We could see the| glare of lights reflected on the clouds, | but we weren't sure it was Seattle. A | high cloud bank ahead proved to be Mournt Rainier, so we established our position definitely. ‘We then had to plan on landing in a b'~ field, from which we might have to take a heavily loaded ship on a non-stop flight to Dallas, Tex., because we still believed that we had been accepted as entrants to Col. Easter- wood's Japan-to-Dallas one-stop flight for a prize of $25,000. ‘We changed our course for Spokane, where we knew there was a big field, but on arriving there we found it foy bound, so we headed for Wenatchee, which we knew was always clear, hav- ing visited that city several times in the past and for which we had always had a fond spot in our hearts. Had we not been planning on flying to Dallas, we would have continued on until our gas was exhausted, not caring where we landed, so long as we_established a long-distance record. ‘We gave up the long-distance record idea in the hope of capturing the Easterwood prize. (Copyright 1%, Wy Newspaper v 4ha Nooth American Alliance, Inc.) FEAT PRAISED BY JAPAN. Congratulations on the transpacific flight of Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon were conveyed to Secretary Stimson today by Kijuro Shidehara, Japanese foreign minister. “Now that the ocean between us has been bridged by one continuous flight,” said the message forwarded through the ! American embassy at Tokio, “accept my | warm congratulations on the event and | on the intrepidity, skill and _patience | which have enabled Messrs. Pangborn and Herndon to achieve this memorable | result, which will always remain a land- ( mark in the history of aviation.” | FLYERS LANDED WITHOUT CENT. | | WENATCHEE, Wash., October 6 (#). i —Out of the terrors of their historic | non-stop flight across the Pacific came {affiuence, praise and rest today for : Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr. Wenatchee and the State of Wash- jirgton in general went to heretofore | unheard-of pains to shower two avia- tors with ecomfort. Townspeople forgot about the depression and raised to purse of $500 to provide the fyers spending | money. Pangborn and Herndon were without & cent when they landed here yester- day morning to complete their 4,877- mile flight from Samushiro Beach, Japan. Before the first cheers had died away a representative of the Tokio newspaper Asah! handed them an or- der entitling them to $25,000, prize money, which long had been posted by that perfodicai for the first non-sto) airplane flight between Japan and L!Y‘e) United States. But the $25,000 order didn't provide any immediate spending money, and the collection was taken up to take care of that situation. N ‘Wenatchee staged a spontaneous cel- ebration. From its 15,000 persons about 10,000 collected to make the flyers wel- come. The flight was praised in an ad- dress by Lieut. Gov. John A. Gellatly and described by Maj. W. I. Whidby as “greater than Col. Lindbergh's fiight over the Atlantic.” A movement was started to have the $25,000 prize offered four years ago for a non-stop flight between Tokio and Seattle given to Pangborn and Herndon. This morning the flyers were allowed to sleep late, but were called upon to g0 to a neighboring town for a lunch- eon and a community banquet. Behind all the felicity, however, there was the indelible memory of what might have happened had they not outflown the hazards that beset them. Ice had fcrmed on the wings of their plane. Their motor stopped when they were 3,000 miles from Japan. Their hopes suffered a severe shock, when they thought they were -rpro-chlng the mainland and then flet or three hours before sighting terra &l FLYERS DISAPPEAR AFTER CRASH INBAY Rescuers Make Vain Search for Plane After Explosion Off Nova Scotia. By the Associated Press. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, October 6.— The crash of & plane believed to be the ship-to-shore “New York,” carry- ing mail from the liner Bremen, was | reported today by William Faulkner, | lighthouse keeper at Bur Coat. | Whizzing along in the darkness, the caft was heard to come down heavily |on Cobequid Bay, he said. An explo- sion followed and cries echoed over | the bay, but when Faulkner and other | rescuers rowed out on the bay, they could find no trace of men or plane. A mail plane, manned by Friob Simon, pilot, and Rudolph Wauchk- neckt, mechanic, took off from the yesterday, when she was 630 miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland, ih an at- tempt to get the mail to New York 29 hours faster than the liner could reack there. Flying blind through fog and against headwinds, they reached Sydney, N. S, | last night, and took to the air again about midnight. Lightkeeper Faulkner said that when he heard the shouts over the bay he was so low it was impossible for more than an hour. Organizing a search party in Noel, Hants County, he then proceeded in the direction from which | shouts were still coming. After they | went a short distance the cries stcpped |and no trace of a plane was found. [Nl ECONOMY [ AL_PRFST” FINISHED SERVICE 12¢ 1b. Minimum Bundle $1.2 An excellent laundry service that thrifty ini MET 1452 Rheumatism Kidney Trouble Arthritis—Neuritis If you have Arthritis, matism, e us D) sas. Its beneficient therapeutic 'effect is vouched for by physiclans of note every- where. One writes: “I_have prescribed your famous Mountain Valley Water to my patients fo: " "No_taste, . Order a' case today or for further information. Mountain Valley Water For 75 Years the Prescribed Water at Hot Springs, Arkansas. 306 District National Bank Bldg. Metrogolitan 1062 or. not a physi phone or write PLANE OF PACIFIC FYLERS WHEELLESS WHEN IT HITS GROUND. MLLNG FOLLOWS MYSTERY TS |Death at Dunn Loring Is Climax to Series of Threats. Special Dispatch to The Star. DUNN LORING, Va., October 6.— | Melvin Stevens, 28, was shot to death about midnight last night in front of his home on the Merrifield road by an unknown assailant whose shotgun blew off the side of Stevens’ head. The victim was taken to Georgetown Iiospital by Paul Herrman, town sergeant of Falls Church. but was dead before he reached ‘Washington. HOOVER T0 GONFER ONUNITY PROGRAM Summons Congress Leaders for Meeting at White House Tonight. (Continued From First Page.) cratic member of the Senate Finance Committee. ~Mr. Garner hurried to Washington from his home in Texas in an Army airplane, put at his disposal by the President. Senator Walsh of Montana is another Democratic Senator in Washington who may attend the conference. On the Republican side, Senator Wat son of Indiana, leader of the Senate; Senator Fess of Ohio, chairman of the Republican National Committee; Sena- tor Borah of Idaho, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, a member of the Finance Conimittee; Representative Snell of New York, chairman of the House Rules Committee; Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, a member cf the House Ways and Means Commit- tee, and several others are expected to attend. Representative John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, the Republican leader of the House, will be here if the invi- tation to attend reached him in time. He has been at his camp in New Hamp- shire. The invitations to the confer- |ence were sent cut from the White | House Saturday night. | Silent on Parley Report. | . The White House would not discuss today a report from New York that on Sunday night President Hoover held an | New York bankers. This conference was not held at the White House, it was reported, and was surrounded with | great secrecy. Four of the country's | most powerful financiers are reported to have held a meeting yesterday at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York and to have talked over the White House conference of Sunday night. financiers were George Whitney, part- | ner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Albert H. | Wiggin, chairman of the governing {board of the Chase National Bank; | Charles E. Mitchell, chairman of the | National City Bank, and Willlam C. | Potter, presicent of the Guaranty Trust | Co. | _ The death of the late Senator Dwight | W. Morrow of New Jersey removes from the conference one of the President's most trusted advisers. It is not long | since Mr. Morrow was in consultation with the President. The conference of important conference with a group of | ‘These ! Last night's catastrophe climaxed a series of mysterious shootings which | have baffled local police for some time. | According to Sheriff E. P. Kirby, he and his deputies had been summoned to | night at 9 o'clock follows a series of conferences, indeed, which the Chief Executive has held in recent days with members of his cabinet, including Sec- retary Mellon and Secretary Lamont, the congressional leaders set for to-; |North German Lloyd liner Bremen |’ tried to get a boat off, but the water | after their landing from a 4,500-mile fligh: from Samushiro Beach, | Dunn Loring on several occaslons in | ‘The flight, one of the most dangerous ever attempted, won for | the past three weeks, Stevens and his | next coor neighbor, Arthur J. Shugars, | claiming that some one was shooting al | them from the woods adjoining their | homes. According to_the stoty told | police, some one would first throw stones | at the houses and then open fire With | a shotgun on whoever appeared. | Previous Searches Made. | It was also charged that on one oc- |casion a shot was fired at Stevens as he sat in his house next to an electric light, the bullet missing his head by a few inches. Police on each ocfasion |searched the woods and the neighbor- |hood without finding any trace of a suspicious character. Kirby said today |that he has been unable to find any evidence on the exterior of the house that it had been fired on as charged. | Last night Stevens and his two |brothers, John and David, of Tysons Corners, together with Shugar and a number of neighbors, armed themselves to hunt for the mysterious assailant. Town Sergt. Herrman, Constable Ben Runyon and others searched the woods jon either side of the Stevens home | without success. Herrman then left the |party in pursuit of an automobile with |a drunken driver. Five minutes later | he heard a pandemonium of shots and screams break loose. Rushing back to | the Dunn Loring road, he found Stevens | |stretched on the ground near his home. | |The men with Stevens told the officers | {they had been fired on from the woods | | nearby. County Coroner Dr. C. A. Ransom was-summoned and held an inquest at the Shugar home, taking testimony from eight of the neighbors and wit- nesses. The inquest adjourned at 5| o'clock this morning without a_verdict. Dr. Ransom has continued the case | urtil tomorrow to permit a further in- | vestigation. Deceased Was Well-Digger. Stevens, who was 28 vears old, was a well-digger. The neighbors state that, 5o far as is known, he had no enemies. Shugar, on the other hand, told Sheriff | irby that he thought some one was | fter him.” | Stevens is survived by his widow and three small children, the youngest 6 months old. Mrs. Stevens took the | children to her mother-in-law’s home, in | Ballston, last night immediately after her husband’s body was rushed to toe hospital and before the inquest was held. No funeral arrangements have yet been completed. | For the heads of the Treasury and Com- merce Department§ and with leaders |in the business world, among them | Bernard Baruch of New York and Julius Barnes. NEW VETS’ POST ELECTS Policeman J. E. Bennett Heads Service Group. Motor Cycle Policeman J. E. Ben- nett of the Traffic Bureau was elected commander of the newly organized Washington Police and Firemep’s Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars last night at the first meeting of the as- soclation. ©ther officers names at the sessicn, which was held at the home of Hubert S. Riley of No. 10 Engine Company, are Sergt. Oscar L. Rose, No. 25 En. gine Co., senior vice commander; Sergt. vice commander; William E. Riley, Park Police, adjutant, and Pvt. Herbert M. Smith, Traffic Bureau, quartermaster. Science Flies Found Making Sea Surf Home. Two flies that live In the sea surf)| were found by Dr. J. M. Aldrich, asso- clate curator of insects at the United || States National Museum, during a re- cent collecting trip on the Pacific Coast. One is the paraclunio, thus described by Dr. Aldrich: “It is a member of the | midge family, but is robust and strong, and its leathery wings are unaffected by sea water. Coming out of the reced- ing wave, it runs with fluttering winy o\'u; the wet rock until it is submerged again.” ‘The other does not actually become submerged, but lives on the wet rocks, feeding on the soft-bodied organisms found there. “In this fly,” says Dr. Aldrich, “the mouth is developed into a pair of pincers for holding its prey, a structure unknown in other fijes, where the mandibles, such as occur in lower orders of insects, are reduced to small needles, hardly recognizable. This specles. was the principal find of my trip.” Hello, Folks: a half hour of Fun, Frolic John E. Fondahl, Traffic Bureau, junior || Garner Flies 2,000 Miles TEXAN, IN AIR DEBUT, HURRIES HERE. A 2,000-mile flight as his first air- plane trip did not disturb Representa- tive John N. Garner of Texas, 62-year- old Democratic leader. of the open GOSkDIS of s Arsay Wisien 0] an. at Bolling Field late ye-terdly.:zer a fast flight from his home, in Unvalde, "& down in South Texas. “It did not bother me even if it was the first time I was ever in one of the dang things,” Garner said. “As soon as I got used to the noise it sang me to sleep. It was tiresome, when I was ;:z“ft' because 1 couldn’t do anything sit.” . Says He “Got Sorta Cold.” Garner breakfasted at home Sunday morning and stopped a short time in Muskogee, Okla., and St. Louis. He spent the night at Dayton, and arrived here after noon Monday. He and his Lieut. Willlam Olds, encountered iy above it to get. througm. The Texan ly above ge! . The Texan said he “got sorta cold, away up there at 6,000 feet.” Reaching the Capitol, Garner first went to the Speaker’s office, where his old friend but political enemy, Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, held sway for six years. They were cronies for 28 years, the aristocrat from Cincinnati and the rugged Southwesterner. Both entered Congress in 1903. They met as tail-end members of the Foreign Affairs Com- mittee and became fast friends. May Be Next Speaker, As he entered the S, er’s spacious rooms for the first ti since Long- worth adjourned Congress, March 4, he looked around the dismantled place, glanced at the desk behind which the Ohian sat, and then hurriedly turned away saying: “It does not look the same with Nick gone.” ‘When Mr. Garner reached his hotel he found in one of his pockets a note wl::;‘.h he did not know was there, It read: “The spirit of the Lord watches over you and keeps you in perfect safety. His spirit is guarding, protecting, in- spiring and guiding you in all your | ways. It was in the handwriting of Mrs. Garner. Garner is serving his fifteenth term in the House from the fifteenth Texas | REPRESENTATIVE GARNER. district. If the Democrats organize the House in the coming Congress, he un- doubtedly will become Speaker to suc- ceed his late colleague, Longworth, ‘Will Attend Conference. Ruddy of face and clear of eye, de- spite his long service and hard work, Garner said he was feeling in excellent condition. He received an injury to his left hip when he was struck by a fall- ing tree limb while holding a ladder for a workman. “The only time my pocketbook ever helped me was then,” he said. “The limb struck my billfold, loaded with papers, and softened the blow. But the hip is black and blue. Garner declined to disclose the pur- pose of his hurried visit, but it was learned he would attend a conferent at_the White House tonight. ‘Wednesday he plans to return to Unvalde by airplane to remain until shortly before Congress convenes, De- | cember 7. He approves of flying, and expects to wing back over the Southers route. D. C. EDUCATION PLAN IS BEING DRAFTED Needs With Government to Be Outlined. Members of the National Advisory Committee on Education and Secre- | tary Wilbur of the I erior today start drafting their recommendations | to be submittel to President Hoover | and to Congress following a two-year | study of the present relations of the | national Government to education. ‘The committee will be in session here throughout the week and it is | not expected that the recommenda- | tions will be completed before Friday. This group was appointed by Secre- tary Wilbur on June 1929, to out a program which would permit | the Federal Government to render the greatest service in the fleld of edu- cation. The general chairman of the com- | mittee is Charles R. Mann, director of Two-Year Study of Co-operative the American Council of Education. J. W. Crabtree cf the National Edu- cation Assoclation is general secre- | tary. = A donation of $100,000 was made by the Julius Rosenwald Fund to be used in the compilation of information by the committee, composed of 51 out- standing educators. Australian Doctor Uses Plane. SYDNEY, Australia (#) —The old- fashioned country doctor’'s chaise has a modern counterpart. Dr. Vickers, a member of the Australian Inland Mis- sion, i= off to care for the natives cf Mornington ISland in the Gylf of Car- pentaria in his plane. 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Incidentally the reception of Glenbrook worsteds has been enormous—but new arrivals from the work rooms yesterday have replen- ished the assortment of patterns and sizes. The Mode—F at Eleventh *% A—5 “PANICLAWS HELD DEPRESSION CAUSE Chicago Trade Board Head Urges Slash in Cost of _ Government. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 6.-—Thomas Y. Wickham, director of the Board of ‘Trade, in a statement yesterday charged that governmental interference and what he called “the four panic laws” had brought about the present depres- sion in a “land of plenty.” The laws he Disted as: ~ Grain futures act, Volstead act, Grundy tariff and farm marketing act. He added: “No one can live permanently beyond his income. The cost of government everywhere, from the school district to ‘Washington, has finally exceeded the ability of the people to pay for it. “Can’t Keep Up Both.” “We can quit eating, close our school junk our autos, railroads, banks a: factories; and keep on with our com- missions and bureaus and multitude of governing bodies; or we can put the Government back to the proper sphere of government, where we say what it does and what it spends instead of it telling us what we do and what we spend, and go ahead with our normal activities. We simply can’t go on keep= ing up both. , We can keep up the pay roll at the office and factory and pay the Govern- ment more than the office and factory earn; and now we ‘e learning we can- not even earn if the Government is ?olnz to a competitor, using taxes or its special pay roll. “Why wonder that wheat and cotton, copper and coal, stocks and bonds, homes and office buildings do nothing but decline or that labor and capital, bank presidents and merchants, white collar men and labor lie awake nights | and wonder, in fear. ; “Snoopers All About.” “This 1s a land of plenty. From its | fertile fields to its skyscrapers, its rich | mines to its modern factory plants, | nothing but wealth greets the eye. But his the B |over it all has fallen the ghastly death | hand of Government control. Skulking | everywhere is the Government’s snoop- |er, at each man's back and in every | home is the tax collector, all about is | the governing body, always feasting, al- ways laying more trouble, always seek- | ing to control the lives and the wealth | of the people. Citizens should not tol- panic created by laws. AKRON HANGAR STARTED Construction work is in progress on a second dirigible hangar at the Naval Ailr Station, Lakehurst, N. J., home of the U. S. 8. Los Angeles and futu home of the U. S. S. Akron, world' largest airship, according to a warn- ing issued to all aviators today by the Navy Hydrographic Office. ‘The hangar is being built 1.300 feet | east of the big hangar and will have a maximum height of 100 feet, it was stated. A portion of the framework ‘hus been erected and there will be danger from cranes 150 feet high during the course of construction. Flood lights | will lp}’lty on the structure and cranes | at nig) erate a |

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