Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1932, Page 23

NING . STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, TWO ARMY MEN CITED FOR VALOR Air Corps Officer and Man He Died to Save Both Get - Cheney Award. The self-sacrifice of an Army Air Corps officer who gave his life to save that of an enlisted man, who in turn later risked his life to save that of an- other pilot, were honored today in the first double award in history of the Cheney Award, gjven eacn year for the cutstanding act Hf valor performed by | an Air Corp officer or man. | s of heroism of the two men | that the special board | declde between them and | e , make the award to both. Those honored are the late Lieut. Robert | D. Moor, killed in a crash on August | 23 last, and Pvt. John B. Smith, then | a member of the 90th Attack Squadron, Fort Crocket Tex. | The posthumous awarding of the| Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieut. | r the same deed which won him y lso was announced | he War Department. | Pilot Killed in Saving Private. | Lieut. Moor sacrificed his life to save that of his enlisted passenger while on duty as Regular Army instructor of the | Michigan National Guard air unit last Augusi. He was leading a three-plane \TAXICAB TROUBLES Minority Alderman, Outnumbered 6410 1, Has Lot of Worries By the Associated Press. NEW YORK,, January 20.— ‘When the New York City Board of Aldermen votes strictly on party lines it is 64 to 1—and Joseph Clark Baldwin is the 1. Being the only Republican al- derman is, Baldwin made clear to- day, something to worry about. e 15 committees. The y must be represented on each. Baldwin, being the minor- ity, perforce is 15 times a com- mitteeman. ‘When committees meet an hour apart he does fairly well, though he has to show some speed. When they meet simultaneously he finds himself & victim of that famous axiom of science which states specifically that one body cannot be in two places simultaneously. LAID TO D. C. HEADS| Manager of Diamond Companyv Sends Along Problem Presented | at Seventh and F Streets. Harry C. Davis, manager of the Diamond Taxicab Co. yesterday sent & letter to the District Commissioners blaming them for all of the ills now confronting the taxicab industry. Davis lald particular stress on the | order barring taxicabs from Seventh | formation when & sudden gust of wind | threw the plane of a formation mate | into the tail of Lieut. Moor's plane, | smashing the control surfaces and | throwing the plane partially cut, of control. | The shock threw the enlisted pas- | senger, dazed, into the bottom of his'| cockpit. Lieut. Moor might have saved | his life easily by taking to his para- | chute. Instead he waited until his | passenger regained his senses and fin- | ally obeyed repeated orders to jump. | By this time the plane was only several | hundred feet off the ground. As the | enlisted man jumped the loss of weight in the tail sent the plane into & steep dive, It was too close to the ground | jfor Lieut. Moor to jump, and he was carried down to instant death in the crash and his body burned. The pas- senger landed unhurt Lieut. Moor's mother, Mrs. Agnes W. | Moor, Holland, Ohio, will receive the‘ Cheney Award Plaque, citation cer- tificates and cash award, which is to | be used for a memorial to her son’s memory. The Distinguished Flying Cross will be awarded to Lieut. Moor’s | daughter, Katherine A. Moor, Holland, | ©Ohio. i Private Saves Pilot. * Pyt. Smith was working in the target supply house at Fort Crockett last Jan- uary when he saw & plane, apparently | fiying toward the building. two fellow workers to safety | ped just as the plane crashed | into the building and burst into flames. bserver was thrown clear of the ge. but the pilot, Lieut. C. W.| Air Corps Reserve, was trapped ous in the cockpit of the blaz- e h dazed by fiying debris and in- jured by having an ammunition box dropped on his foot, Pvt. Smith went | 1o the pilot's rescue. Finding the pilot’s | shy amed in the rudder, the soldier | crawled into the cockpit, though t burning pilot’s clothing airesdy was fastened the shoe and with of another soldier lifted the pilot from the burning, Pvt. Smith was awarded edal lasé July. itation he will be given a | cash award. RETIREMENTS ORDERED | Metactive Sorpoatit radkcantatiiit Fire Department Affected. The District Commissioners yesterady ordered the retirement on February 1 of Detective Sergt, William Messer of he Police Department gnd Capt. W. M. reen of the Fire Department for | physical disability. | Messer, who s 54, was one of the palicemen indicted in the third degree cases, but the charge against him was | olle’ prossed. t. Green, who is 55, has been in department 32 years and had been for meritorious work in the ckerbogker Theater disaster Canada paid nearly $600,000 for | American toys last year ‘ ANY CASH & MRS. MARY DIX DIES CLEANING SPECIAL DRESS$1°OO ' street, and pointed out that a taxi going west on F street would need wings | to escape irom its dilemma when reach- | ing Seventh street, because of conflict- | irg regulations at that spot. | To drive his point home, Mr. Davis | sent along a photograph of a taxi caught in the act of taking wing away | from this mundane sphere, with the | expressed - hope that the “Honorable | Commissioners will make (it) an orna- mental feature of their offices, as a gentle reminder of the haste or lack of scientific study as generally applied to the cab industry. when adopting and enforcing prohibitive taxicab police regulations.” AT COLLEGE PARK HOME Native of Switzerland, Resident of Maryland 12 Years, Leaves Hus- i band and Six Children. . 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