Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1932, Page 5

AKRON FLEWBLIND | IN GAPITAL STORM. Lieut. Comdr. Rosendahl Says Beacons Were Guide in Sleet and Snow. ‘The Navy's new dirigible, U. 8. S, Akron, sailed over the city of Wash-! ington “flying blind” in a sleet and| snowstorm and unable to see the Na- tional Capital late Saturday, January 9, the Navy Department announced the big craft being guided only by radio beacons of the De- p: t of Commerce, on her cruise | ith to take part in scouting exercises | with the scouting force A headquarters here just received ial report from Lieut. Comdr E. Rosendahl, commanding ¢ f the Akron, in which he de- how tk ammoth ship suc- ully weath heavy weather and | can record of a 62-) U er than any other air- | p of the Unked States The flight on to Washington and| Southward is thus described in the language of the report: “In order to skirt the storm, of which we had been warned, we proceeded via Philadelphia, Baltimore, ~Washington, Richmond, Greensboro, Raleigh and_thence to the coast. The visibility wes practically gero the entire time. At Philadelphia we caught one fleeting glimpse of the surface and then uck out totally blind. About half y to Baltimore snow and sleet at ice-forming tempera- tures set in Pass Over Capital in Snow. “We identified Baltimore by seeing the running lights of a steamer head- ing out of the harbor. Just before this time we began to navigate by the De- partment of Commerce radio beacons and passed over Washington in the snow and sleet, with practically no sight of the city. Still continuing to navigate blind by the radio beacons, we arrived over Richmond to get two quick glimpses of the city through the snow- storm. We then followed the radio bea- con beam out of Richmond, picked up the Greensboro beacon and followed it into “clearing weather just north of South Boston. “It was impossible to find tempera= tures above freezing and our ceiling, without loss of helium, was limited due to the fullness of the ship. Before get- ting to Washington I began to get reports of the formation of ice on the ship. At that time we could not see the formation of ice on the elevators, but they began to grow heavy and it was with difficulty that the elevator man was able to put them into the up position. At the same time the ship was gefting heavy all over from the adherence of ice, but did not take more than about a three-degree angle, as| the Akron can carry a good many tons dynamically. Ice Six Inches Thick. We climbed to where the tempera- | ture was theoretically lower than the ice-adherence value. The next morning when daylight came we found that on the . after edge of the elevators there | was an accumulation of ice about six | inches thick and ice ajl over the top of the ship. It was well into the middle of the forencon and practically over the Gulf Stream before we were rid of the ice. Without a doubt, this was | one of the severest situations that any rigid airship has ever ‘been in.” The Akron participated in two prob- lems—one in which she sought for the destroyers of the Scouting Force and | the other in which she searched for| royers with the cruisers of the ting Force. Vice Admiral Arthur | L. Willard, who was commandant of the Washington Navy Yard until re- cently and is now commander, Scout- | ing Force, in charge of the exercise, | ioed a “well done” for this work, The Akron and the cruisers made con- | ta<t with the destroyers about 500 miles | off the Eastern Florida coast. | Lieut. Comdr. Rosendahl thus de- | scribes the return trip: “We then pro- ceeded back, utilizing favorable winds, landed and docked &t Lakehurst about 8 o'clock the morning of the 12th, having completed a.62-hour flight, or Jonger than any American airship has previously flown. We still had approx- imately 50 per cent of our original fuel supply left, as we had so shaped ! our course as to utilize winds and con- | sorve fuel.” WEATHER HOLDS DOWN PLAYES AT SALISBURY Two Naval Craft Land in Satur- day Fog—Lieut. Payne Treated for Hemorrhage. By the Associated Press SALISBURY, N. C, January 18— Two naval observation planes, forced down here Saturday by fog while en | route from Bridgeport, Conn. to San| Diego, were held here yesterday by bad | weather. | Physicians attending Sergt. Payne, who suffered a hemorrhage after the forced landing, said he would require | hospital treatment for some time. He | was given a blood transfusion Saturday | night Other fiyers with the planes were Lieuts, Kane and Mills and Sergt, Cook NAVY ORDERS Capt. Willlam C. Asserson d(‘mched‘ or, 9th Area, San Fran-| , on Pebruary 29, to home, | ve duty detached as | y Yard, Ports- | mouth, N. ay 4, to home, re- Ueved all acti t. Ani pector e [ Y March 27, to home, re- active duty Halford R. Greenlee, title d to director, Naval Engineering ment Station, Annapolis, Md. | Capt. Charles T. Owens, detached commrand U. S. S. Seattle on March 25, | to home, relieved all active duty | Devid E. Theleen, detached as | ge Naval Hydrographic n Francisco, Calif, on April lieved all active duty prederic T. VanAuken, de- ector of naval aircraft, | craft Corporation, Bristol, | commander destr: 3 and additional du dis- | nt Naval Hospital, | >., to home, relieved all | H. Wiedorn, detached | adelphia, Pa., to tem- aval Acedemy, Annapolis, Medical Corps. ge L. Wickes, detached ; Station, New York, N ard, New York, N. ¥ Lieut Prederick W. Muller, Akron Sister Ship Grows WORK PROGRESSING ON LARGEST BLIMP. e = il i ONSTRUCTION of the Navy's latest dirigible, the ZRS-5, sister of the Akron, is progressing at Akron, Ohlo. Some idea of the size of the new glant may be obtained from this view of the framework of the first bay of the ship. —A. P. Photo, Hoover Has Changed Three Years of Abuse Have Failed to Embitter Him, and He Has Learned to Relax and Smile, Even Though Aged 20 Years in Appearance. What have three years in the White House done to President Hoover? Paul R. Leach of the staff of the Chicago Daily News writes the following impressions after a half hour visit with the President. BY PAUL R. LEACH. Nearly three years of the most severe criticism and_personal abuse that any President of the United States has ever had heaped upon him, plus a flood of the toughest breaks possible in any nat- ural course of events, have done things to Herbert Clark Hoover. That could be assumed by any one | able to listen or read, but the odd part of it is that the result on Hoover h)m-‘ |run to the corners of his mouth and, stead of being pinched together, as s lips used to be, giving the impres- sion of extreme, cold thinness, his mouth has a softer line, a more sympathetic line, a more understanding | line. | Has Learned to Relax. No longer does he subconsciously | clench his hands, nor hold himself {tense and uncomfortable. He has learned to relax. His fingers, once 50 nervously gripping a pencil to make lines on paper, rest on the arms of his | chair, to be raised only for a rare ges- ture for punctuation of a spoken re- mark. Mr. Hoover Is three years older by the self is not what you would expect. He | calendar than he was when he assumed has changed, changed greatly, in the | three years following his inauguration, but 1s not embittered. Though he used to. Wince under abusive criticism, he now takes it with a philosophy that has come to him only in these recent, very eventful months of drought, de- pression, grasshoppers and Democratic landslides, a philosophy almost Oriental in its calm. Believes Course Is Right. The President believes his course is the right one despite the caviling against him and his policies, believes that “sitting tight” will see things “One learns,” he said laconically as his own explanation of that philosophy, and he smiled as he said it. Now I fully realize that it is unpop- ular in Washington for any one to speak or write dispassionately about the | President. The thing to do is to be disrespectful, to be able to quote from one or more of the half-dozen books that have been published in the last year, all directed at tearing him down. But Washington is cruel with Presi- dents. 1t has been disrespectful of every President since the Government began. Washington folk, the most in- curable gossips in the world, will tell you that George Washington was an | immoderate drinker and really had fect of clay—as though that would not make him much more of a human being than the cherry tree story ever did Washington people wWill tell you of secret escapades, petty meannesses, chicanery, political skullduggery, or whatever else might have been ' gos- sipped at the time, of all the Presidents. Nothing Unusual. So it is nothing unusual that Presi- dent Hoover has been leaped upon joy- ously by Washington. Wherefore, being just a country boy from the provinces— where the six books have been best ] too—I present some dispas- personal observations growing out of a half-hour visit with the Presi- dent, my first since the 1928 campaign. What was said is immaterial. One of the unwritten rules of Washington is that the President is n quoted. How it was said, Mr. Hoover'’s mannerisms, | the changes that have occurred in him in three years, which are striking, are 1.~ Besides, there are no unwrit- ©hihitions against putting them i ing of the interview he desk, sprawled at ease uncomfortably up- to do. Washington b4 tell you, among other things. that the President does not know what is going or a mistake. He does know what is going on—better perhaps than anybody else in the country. He knows what people are saying and thinking of him; he knows what the political situa- tion he has friends who tell him st from the shoulder instead of vessing him with only what he wants to_hear But that is unimportant. The im- | g for this article is the dis- Mr. Hoover has changed. Looks Visitor in Eyes. Gone is the , so_distract- ing to his callers, of his looking at the floor, at the caller’s shoes, at little geo- metric figures he would draw so metic- ulously on a desk pad—looking any- where but at the caller's eyes He sat looking squarely into his visitor's eyes as he talked, nor did he draw figures. Gone is the diffidence of speech that used to make his callers wonder whether e really was paying attention to them or thinking of something he regarded detached Naval Hospital, New YOIK, | .o yore important. He speaks quietly, on March 1, to instruction Naval Medi- cal Supply Depot, Brooklyn, N. Y. eut. (Junicr Grade) Warren G Wieand, detached Naval Hospital, Par- ris Island, 8. C., to 2d Brigade, United States Marines, Nicaragua. Dental Corps. Lieut. Ray E. Farnsworth, detached Norfolk Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va., to Asiatic station Lieut. (Junior Grace) Alfred Dins- more, detached Naval Station, Guam, to Naval Alr Station, Lakehurst, N. J. Supply Corps. Capt. Edward T. Hoopes, detached Pureau Supplies and Accounts, Navy A Department, to duty as sssistant to chief of Bureau of Supplies and Ac- mounts, Navy Department. direct with an easy flow of words. Gone the old habit of keeping a poker face. He smiles easily and readily, actually chuckles. And that, to my mind, is the most unusual of all the things that have happened to Herbert Clark Hoover, for if anybody {n these parlous times in the United States has reason for forgetting how to laugh, that man is Hoover. Physically he has changed. He is a bit thinner. His hair is a little grayer. He seems, in his bodily thinness, to have gained stature, There are lines around his eyes, deep lines, that were not there in the round, smooth face of the Re- publican candidate of 19238, but it is evident that his health is petter than it | was then, This opinion has been verified by White Hosue physicians. Crevasses | the highest office in the land. In ap- | pearance he is 20 years older. That is what the presidency does to any man, whether he holds office in the years of plenty or the years of famine. | It is the inevitable result of holding | down the most thankless job in all creation, in which the holder is damned if he does and damned if he does not; | in which he must offend friends, won- der whom he can trust, attempt to satisfy, in all that he does and says, | the most diverse people on the face of | the earth, the most critical, the most | ready to applaud when things are going | smoothly, the quickest to condemn when | the breaks are wrong. | It is significant that we have only |one living ex-President, and Calvin | Coolidge is ageless. | (Copyright, 1932, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) 'NAVY CALLS ELEVEN AIR OFFICERS HERE Eight Will Go on Duty in Aero- nautics Bureau, Two at Ana- | costia Station, | Eleven naval aviation officers, now on flylng duty with the fleet or at air stations, have been called to the Na- | tional Capital for duty under orders | issued by the Navy Department. Eight of them will go on duty in the Navy Bureau of s, two at the Ana- costia Nav; Station and one at the Navy hydrographic office. The Anacostia Naval Air Station will | regain a former officer of its staff about May 13, when Licut. Ernest W. Litch, | now with VF Squadron 3s, a fighter squadron attached to the U. . S. Lang- ley, is to return for duty. Officers for d in the Bureau of | Aeronautics are Licut, John H. Grifin, | VP Squadron 7F. Lieut. Comdr. Arthur | W. Radford, aide and flag secretary on | the staffl of tr mmander, aircraft, battle force; Licut Comdr, Van Hubert Ragsdale, commanding VP Squadron 9P, U. B. 5. nne: Lieut. Nolan M. Kindell, Saratoga; Lieut. S. S. Saratoga; VJ Squadron Ticut. John P, adron 6B, U. S. S. Comdr. Paul Cas- sard, U. 8. 8. W Most of these transfers will be made in May and June Anancostia will receive . Donald S. MacMahan abc ne 15, from duty with VJ Squadr | Lieut. William aunders has been ordered _detached ; Naval Alr Statlon, Pensacola” Flo., ooy will come to the hydrographic office. ZAMORA SEES BULLFIGHT Spanish Pre;i_e;l Hn; ‘Workman With Gift for Toreador. ALICANTE, Spain, Jany — President Niceto Alcala Zamora. Sssl- dent of Spain, was Alicante’s guest of honor yesterday, attending a bullfight atter a foot ball game t is an old Spanish cusf | gifts into the arena wnen(:":;éfiflt:r:&wr has pleased the crowd. The President | hurled a gift In & box to one of the | toreadors. 'The box hit a workman in | the bull ring. So the President gave ;hlm 250 pesetas, Fi{zsimmons, VF Saratoga, and Lic | [ Marine Corps Orders Maj. Anderson C. De; March 1, detached 2d Bra);];:f,' :}:fi:fi ragua, to headquarters Marine' Corps, | Washington, D. C. via first avaflable Government convesiance rst Lieut. Prancis M. Wy g ders to Department of the ‘:.:g}’;;“,;,;’g. ified, detached 2d Brigade, Nicaragus, to San Diego, Calif, via the 8. 8, santa Cecilia, scheduled to safl from Corinto an or about February 3. cord Lieut. Harold W January 22 detached Quannc‘za)au‘;:' OL: Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md, =~ Second_Lieut. Samuel 8. Yeaton, on January 22 detached Boston, Mass,, to Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. VRS, JUDD'S PLEA | WILL BE INSANITY Alleged Dual Slayer to Face All-Man Jury—Trial Opens Tomorrow. By the Assoclated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz, January 18.—Re-| vealing the defense will concern itself | chiefly with a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, attorneys for 27-| year-old Winnie Ruth Judd held their final conference today, on the eve of the opening of her murder trial. The slender, auburn-haired office | worker is charged with the murder of her two former friends and room- mates, Agnes Le Rol and Hedvig Sam- | uelson, whose bodies were sent in! trunks to Los Angeles. It will be an all-man jury to which the story of the slayings will be told, since women do not sit on juries in Arizona. Attorneys for Mrs. Judd, wife of Dr. W. C. Judd, Los Angeles physician, worked behind closed doors. They have | summoned thre psychiatrists, in addi- tion to several witnesses from various points in Indiana and Illinois, where Mrs. Judd and her relatives formerly resided. The attorneys said, however, they| had not abandoned the plea of self- defenss as a motive for the slayings and will offer testimony which will| seek to show that Mrs. Judd killed the | two women last October to save her| own life. i At Mrs. Judd's side when she goes, to court will be her husband and her | parents, Rev. and Mrs. H. J. McKin- nell of Darlington, Ind. Sixty-two witnesses have been sum- moned by County Attorney Lloyd J. Andrews. THREATENS TO “TELL ALL.” Mrs. Judd May Link Another in Crime, Allenist Hints. SAN FRANCISCO, January 18 (#). —Dr. Joseph Catton, San Francisco allenist, sald last night that Winnie Ruth Judd had threatened to “get up and tell everything if things don't go the way they are planned” at her trial for the slaying of her two girl friends. Dr. Catton hinted broadly that a second person may be involved in the slaying of Mrs. Agnes Anne Le Rol and Hedvig Samuelson. When Dr. Catton examined Mrs, Judd in the Phoenix Jail, he asked her, ke sald, if she had severed the bodies, as they were found dismem- bered and packed in trunks. He said her reply was: ““I have never even cut up a chick- en in my life, doctor.’” MORE JOBS IN AUTO FACTORIES REPORTED Publication Says Ford Has Stepped Employment Rolls Up to More Than 50,000 Workers. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, January 18 —Improvement in employment conditions in the auto- mobile industry is reported in Satur- day's issue of the Michigan Manufac- turer and Financial Record, which says the Ford Motor Co. has begun produc- tion of its 1932 four-cylinder models and stepped its employment rolls up to more than 50,000 worke The publication says the Ford Co. Is recalling many former employes. Volume production of new models, it says, may not get fully under way until late’ in February or early in March “with the prospect that some 75,000 will be on the pay rolls by the time the reported new v-eight is in production.” “With 50,000 men employed at a base wage of $6 a day, five days a week, the Ford Co. is contributing approximately 181,500,000 & week toward the restora- ion of purchasing power in the Detroit area,” the trade periodical say: “Gossip In automobile circles is that the v-eight is an assured thing and that the bodies for both the four and eight will be 3 inches longer in wheel base. A v-type radiator slanting windshield, some form of engine cushioning to pro- duce the effect of floating power, an automatic clutch and possibly some de- veloment of free wheeling are ex; in_the new Ford lines, i “Whatever Ford does in 1932 in the way of improving its lines as a means of stimulating sales, the automotive trade believes the eventual disclosures will exert a beneficial influence all around by the elimination of uncertain- ties and the release of new buying power.” DEPUTY-ELECT JAILED Uruguay Communist Expected to Miss Congress Opening. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, January 18 (®)—Jose Lizarraga, Cnmmumnagop- uty-elect to the Uruguayan Congress, was arrested Saturday night when po- lice dispersed a Communist meeting at which the government was attacked. Congress will reconvene February 15, with Lizarraga expected to hear of its opening session in jail, FORCED SERVICE SOUGHT Bulgaria to Propose Military Change to Help Budget. SOFIA, Bulgaria, January 18 ()— In order to cut down the military budget, Bulgaria will ask permission at the coming Disarmament Conference to resume the old system of compulsory military service, Premier Muchanoft announced yesterday. He sald the present voluntary system, inaugurated after the World War by the terms of the treaty of Versailles, was proving too expensive. ARMY ORDERS Brig. Gen. Julian R. Lindsey has been relieved from duty with the 61st Cavalry Division, at New York City, and ordered to Fort Knox, Ky.; Col. A, J. Dougherty, Infantry, has been tran: ferred from Indianapolis to Fort War- ren, Wyo.; Lieut. Col. Richard J. Har- man, Infantry, recently stationed in Hawalil, will be retired January 31 after more than 31 years' service; Capt. J. R. Clark, Coast Artillery, has been transferred from Cleveland to the Phil- ippines; Capt. Charles S. Sly, Medical Corps, from Hawail to San Francisco; Maj. R. A. Kelser, Veterinary Corps, at the Army Medical Center here, to addi- tional duty at Fort Myer, Va.; Capt. Cecil C. Ray, Quartermaster Corps, at Chicago, to examination for retirement. Coast Artillery officers in the Philip- pines have been assigned to stations in the United States as follows: Capt. J. E. Harrison and Lieut. C. O. Gunn, Fort McClellan, Ala.; Capt. R. C. Lowry, Fort | Hancock, N. J.: Capt. Samuel McCul- lough, Fort Sheridan. Iil.; Capt. E. W. Miller, Fort McArthur, Calif., and Capt. D. E. Morrison, Fort Monroe, Va Regular Delivery Over 100,000 families read The Star every day. The great ma- jority have the paper delivered regularly every evening and Sun- day morning at a cost of 1% cents daily and 5 cents Sunday. 1f you are not taking advantage of this regular service at this low rate, telephone National 5000 now and service will star tomorrow. 18, 19 Washington’s climate is as temperamental as the traditional emotions of a movie actress. 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