Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1933, Page 10

'A—10 = ROOSEVELT VIEWS NATION'S AIR FORGE Entire Atlantic Seaboard De- i fense Unit Pass Before New Chief. As Franklin D. Roosevelt was being fnducted into the highest office in the land this afternoon squadrcn upon squadron of the Nation's fighting air- planes, composing the entire air de- fensive force of the Atlantic seaboard, began taking off to pass in review at 3/ o'clock before the new Commander in | Chief of the Army and Navy. Six squadrons of pursuit and bom- bardment planes, composing the 2d Bombardment Wing, left Langley Field, Hampton, Va., at just about the time the President-elect was taking the oath of office for the 110-mile flight to the National Capital. A half hour or so Jater orders called for the taking off in order of speed of four squadrons of scouting, fighter and transport planes of the air force of the Marine Carps East Coast Expeditionary Force at Quantico, Va. The giant U. S. S. Akron and an Army dirigible were in the air long be- | fore the inaugural ceremonies began, ! with orders to participate in the great- est aerial demonstration, with one ex- ception, the National Capital has seen. ‘The only time the Capital has seen a greater aviation force than that which is on the way here today was two years ago, when the Army Air Corps massed the 1st Air Division for maneuvers and exercises lasting for more than two ‘weeks. Brings New Squadron. ‘The massing of the air defensive forces of the East Coast brings to Wash- ington for the first time the newly or- ganized 2d Bombardment Wing at Lang- Jey Field. Though detachments of the wing have been seen here from time to time, the whole wing never before has appeared as a unit away from its home | field. The wing, as is the case with all combat wings of the Air Corps, is com- posed of two groups, in this case the 2d Bombardment Group and the 8th Pursuit Group. ‘The Marines will send four squadrons, two of scouting planes and one each of fighters and multi-motored transports. In the combined Army-Marine Air Force will be a number of noted com- | bat pilots, some fresh from the Nicara- guan campaign, and several of the most famous of the World War squadrons, in- cluding the first to bomb an enemy and one of the first to reach France. Capt. Albert W. Stevens, Army Air Corps, one of the world’s foremost aerial photog- raphers and hero of a score of famous exploits, will fly over the Capital making | an official photographic record of the inaugural parade in the air and on the ground. The squadrons will take off from their home fields on a time schedule Which is calculated to put them in the vicinity of the Capital about & half hour before they are to pass in review. They will | be organized into review formations at | rendezvous points several miles from the Capital, the Army planes over Alexan- ! dria, Va., and the Marines above the upper Anacostia River. As they appear from the east above the Capitol, the roaring column of more than 100 planes will be led by a three- plane formation of Army command | planes flown by Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. | Foulois, chief of the Army Air Corps and air marshal of the review, and two members of his staff. Col. Culver to Follow. Behind this V-shaped three-plane formation will fly the plane of Col. C. Culver, senior pilot in the Nation’s m: tary air forces in point of age and com- manding officer of the 2d Bombardment, | ‘Wing. He will be followed by the tiny single-seater pursuit plane of Maj, B. Q. Jones, commanding the 8th Pursuit Group, and the three crack pursuit squadrons of the group, equipped with the latest type Boeing single-seater pursuit planes, capable of speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour, The pursuit squadrons will be fol- lowed by the command plane of Maj. H. A. Dargue, one of the leading vei- erans of Army aviation, who is in com- mand of the 2d Bombargment Group. The three famous bombardment squad- rons of the group, all of which bear the honors of brilliant battle service in France, will follow in review formation, The three squadrons are equipped with twin-motored Keystone bombers. The Marine Squadrons, following the Army’'s 75-plane force, will be led by Lieut. Col. Ralph E. Rowell, former commander of the Marine air force which operated so successfully against insurrectionists in Nicaragua. Two of his squadrons, VO-7, observation, and VF-9, fighter, are fresh from Nicaragua, after a record-making Cross-country flight to Washington from the Latin- American country. Inaugural visitors with sharp eyes or field glasses may be able to distinguish the insignia of the noted Army squad- Tons as they pass overhead. All Army planes are painted khaki, with chrome yellow wings and the lettering “U. S. Army” in large black characters on the under side of the lower wings. The bombers carry their squadron insignia ainted on the nose, and the pursuiters | ficial advisers. President Is THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 4 1933. IROOSEVELT “MIXED" CABINET | SHARES INAUGURATION HONOR Surrounded Today for First Time By Entire Group of Advisers on Arrival of Miss Frances Perkins. Sharing second honors in the pub- licity that beat upon the incoming | Chief Executive and Vice President to- day were the nine men and a solitary woman—the first “mixed” cabinet in the history of the Government—who are to comprise President Roosevelt's official family for the next four years— or_maybe longer. With the last moment selection of | Homer Cummings of Connecticut to serve temporarily as Attorney General and the belated arrival last night of Miss Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in an American cabinet, Mr. Roosevelt was surrounded today for the first time by the entire group of his of- Miss Perkins, who fills the Labor portfolio, had postponed her departure from New York to wind up her affairs as State Labor commissioner, and was the last of the new cabinet cfficers to arrive in Washington. Her associates, already here—par- ticularly those who are making their initial bow in official life—passed a busy day and night conferring on new official duties, receiving friends and visit- ing delegations. Weary but filled with determination, they were astir early to- day. prepared to take their prominent parts in the inauguration of a new President, and almost before they were aware of it were caught in the whirl of preliminary events. 0ld Story to Some. To some of the new cabinet officers, veterans in public life, today's auspicious inaugural ceremonies was an old story with & new chapter added. Others among them, scarcely known even now in Washington, found their participa- tion a new and entirely novel experi- ence. . ‘With all the glamor and tense ex- citement attending the ushering in of a new Democratic era, however, there still hung over the incoming President and his cabinet the gloom spread by the recent tragic death of Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, which necessi- tated the hurried appointment of an- other Attorney General. Monday, after the 10 cabinet members take their for- mal oaths of office, they will attend in a body, with other high officials, the state funeral of the late Senator. Official Washington has had an op- portunity during the past few days to become fairly familiar with at least one of the new cabinet members—Wil- liam H. Woodin of New York, who is to become Secretarfy of the Treasury. Senator Cordell Hull, who succeeds Henry L. Stimson as Secretary of State, has been in daily conference at the State Department since his appoint- | ment. As a member of Congress from | | Tennessee and as a Democratic leader, | he has been a familiar, though not | heretofore conspicucus figure in Wash- ingten. So also the veteran Senator Claude A. Swanson of Virginia, the newly ap- pointed Secretary of the Navy, is even more familiar to Washingtonians. An- other, ‘almost equally well known is Daniel A. Roper of South Carolina and Washington, who held two positions of trust in the former Wilson administra- tion. Cummings Familiar Here. It was on the less well known mem- ( bers of the Cabinet—Henry A. Wallace | of Jowa, Secretary of Agriculture; George H. Dern of Utah, former Gov- ernor, who is to assume the post of | Secretary of War; Miss Perkins, and Harold Ickes of Chicago, who is to be | Secretary of the Interior—that public | interest and attention largely focused | today. Mr. Cummings, by reason of his affiliations with Democratic party management, is familiar to official ‘Washington, but the average citizen gazed upon him today for the first time. James A. Farley of New York, the new Postmaster General, is known to a host as the official dispenser of pa- tronage. He was the busiest of all, and last night his headquarters at the Mayflower Hotel was crowded with the faithful. Mr. Ickes, the Progressive, who will succeed Ray Lyman Wilbur as Secre- tary of Interior, paid a courtesy call on his predecessor yesterday. afterncon, and at the same time renewed old ties with Joseph M. Dixon, Assistant Secretary of Interior, with whom he fought for the cause of another Roosevelt—Theodore— a score of years ago. In that campaign, in which Roose- velt headed the Bull Moose ticke:, again to seek the presidency, Dixon was his manager, and Ickes a valued lieutenant. ‘When Mr. Ickes reached the Interior Department, Secretary Wilbur was bid- ding farewell to the employes, a block- long line of whom were filing into his office. Confronted by the crowd, Mr. Ickes went up to an attendant, whispered an introduction, explaining “I want to say ‘Howdy’ to Mr. Wilbur—not good- bye—suppose I slip into this ante- room until the rush is over.” To Be on Job Early Monday. It was there that the two men later met. r. Wilbur expressed the opinion ave their insignia on the side of the fuselage just back of the pilot’s cockpit, Insignia of the Bombers. The bomber squadrons display the following insignia: 20th Bombardment Squadron, a pirate holding a hand grenade in his hand. 49th Bombardment Squadron, a snarl- ing wolf’s head with slavering jaws. 96th Bombardment Squadron, Me- phistopheles, against a triangular back- ground, holding a bomb in his right hand and thumbing his nose derisively with the left. The pursuiters are marked as follows: 33d Pursuit Squadron, the conven- tional Army insignia, no squadron in- signia having yet been approved, as this squadron has just been reconstituted after being out of active service since the war. 35th Pursuit Squadron, a crouching black panther against an oval back- ground. 36th Pursuit Squadron, the famous | “Flying Fiend” insignia, showing the head of a fiend, with staring eyes and dripping tongue against an orange and blue background. The fiend wears a blue helmet, with white aviation goggles Pushed back on his forehead, Only one of the Marine squadrons bears * distinctive squadron insignia. ‘This is VO-6, the “Acey Deucey” squad- ron, named for a famous Navy pastime, which bears an insignia much like a backgammon board on the fuselage sides. All of the Marine planes bear the lettering, “U. S. Marines” in black on the under side of the wings and the Marine globe and anchor insignia on the sides of the fuselage. The planes are silver with chrome-yellow and silver wings. Multi-Motored Planes. ‘The two Marine observation squad- rons are equipped with Curtiss O-2C1 two-seater observation planes and the fighter squadron with Boeing F4B-4 single-seater fighters similar to the Army pursuit planes. The transport squadron will be composed of multi- motored transport planes. The Marine force will number 30 planes, the fighter squadron having two divisions of six planes each, one of the observation squadrons five planes and the other nine planes and the transport squadron four tri-motored Ford trans- rts. oAl Army and Marine squadrons wil come from their home stations and fly in the parade in review without landing and probably all will continue back to SPOILED ALL RIGHT, DEAR~LET’S LEAVE B YOU MUST SEE THE DOCTOR ABOUT.THAT COUGH TO PERTUSSIN CERTAINLY WORKS QUICKLY/ VVM you “catch cold,” the natural molsture in your throat dries up. Tickling, irritation, coughing set in. Avold “rem- edies” containing drugs which merely their stations without landing, unless unusual weather conditions should make it _necessary for some of the shorter- xadge planes to refuel, in which case land at Bolling Field or the & Rt BT “Y“Hnlfllrm 3 deaden the nerves, don’t correct the cause. PERTUSSIN opens the throat glands, stimulates the flow of natural throat mols- that the Chicago attorney would find the work interesting, and was told by Mr. Ickes that he proposed to be an the job early Monday. “I like these offices and the outlook immensely,” said the Chicagoan. as he gazed out of the window which com- mands a view of the Potomac. Mr. Wilbur told the incoming Sec- retary that he is returning to his home in_California tonight. Mr. Wallace, who takes over the de- partment, which his late father headed in the Harding administration, also visited the scene of his new duties, fol- lowing his arrival in the afternoon. ‘When he posed for photographers they remarked that his shaggy eyebrows would cast a shadow on the pictures and he laughingly agreed to trim them before he takes his oath Monday. Arriving on the train with Mr. Roose- velt Thursday night, Gov. Dern called at the War Department soon after the final Hoover cabinet meeting. He spent 2 pleasant hour with the retiring Sec- retary of War, the genial Patrick H. Hurley, and learned much during that time of the new problems he is soon to tackle. As a mining engineer, the long-standing and controversial issue of Muscle Shoals, which is destined to be revived, interested him greatly. That great power project is under the super- vision of the War Department. Begs to Be Excused. Gov. Dern—for he still goes by that title—went unaccompanied to the War Department. When he left it was in such haste that he had no time to spend with newspaper men who had vainly waited to interview him. Waving a sheath of telegrams and papers, he begzed to be excused. At the Capitol today the new cabi- net members and their wives will be among the most interested of the small, select group in the presidential stand when Mr. Roosevelt takes the pre- scribed oath of office. From the presi- dential reviewing stand. after Juncheon at the White House, they will review the magnificence of the first Demo- cratic inaugural parade in 16 years. All will be there in comfortable seats except Postmaster General Farley—at the beginning, at least—for he is to head the 30 visiting Governors in the second division of the parade. Georgia Governor’s Arrival Resembles Miniature Parade It took a line of cars a block long to hold the Governor of Georgia and his staff when they arrived here yesterday. And as Gov. Eugene Talmadge and his “colonels” passed up Pennsylvania avenue to the Ra- leigh Hotel from the Union Sta- tion, the procession of cars re- sembled a miniature parade. ‘While hotel officials looked on askance, automobile after auto- mobile discharged its passengers —the Governor, his immediate aides and then the *“colonels,” all nattily attired in Army slacks. “Say,” asked one hotel man, “how many colonels does a Gov- ernor have anyway?” ‘When the complete staff finally had entered the hotel, it took the Raleigh's largest reception room to hold them. . DEMOCRATS CROWD MAYFLOWER LOBBY Sombreros and Silk Hats Mix as 0Id Friends Greet Each Other Again. Broad sombreros and high silk hats mingled in the spacious lobby of the Mayflower Hotel last night as Demo- crats gathered from far and near to await the new deal today. The scene was reminiscent of a fra- ternity reunion as old friends greeted each other for the first time in years. ped the latest bits of gossip and eagerly sought for more. Every now and then as some celebrity crossed the lobby the hum of conversation died out as hun- dreds of eyes swung in his direction. Early in the evening James A. Farley, who takes over the Postmaster General- s!hlp today, came in and hurried up- stairs, An elderly woman nudged one of her | friends. “Look,” she confided, “there goes Jim Farley. I made him what he is today.” Another woman, handsomely attired in an evening gown and velvet wrap, walked up to some friends. With her was a gentleman in full dress, a bit | confused, but happy. Shows Neck of Bottle. ‘Throwing back her cloak, the woman showed her friends the neck of a quart bottle. “I had to take it away from him,” she said, nodding toward her | escort. “He’s drunk half of it already.” | _ Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, reputedly the Senate’s best, Gathered in small groups, they swap-| ing | any constructive suggestions to offer. dressed member, moved among the throng, greeting friends at every turn. He appeared to be enjoying the free and easy manner of the crowd, strange- ly suggestive of the Democratic throng that gathered in Washington just 100 years ago on the eve of Gen. Jackson's inauguration. ‘Two of the President's tall sons, John and Franklin, j ‘were present, and KAk kA ek kk ¥ INAUGURAL X DINNER— DANCE Spend This Evening With the Stars of Stage, Screen and Radio WILLARD HOTEL GRAND BALL ROOM » | Geo. Gaul Official Inaugural 1% Ball Orchestra * 9 4 e Fe de d ok ok dok XX XRNNNNN (X x | X “Broadway Floor Show” Dinner Served 7 to 9 XXEX X $4.50 per Person including tax *‘ 4 Ticket Sale at Brentanc's: - * Book Store and * ‘i o Willard Hotel »* 3k ok ke ke keok kokokok ® AFTER THE INAUGURATION — VISIT NEW YORK— Stop at the Smart HOTEL NEW YORKER @ There'll be a whole trainload of smart people bound for New York tonight. Come with them to the comfort and conve- nience of NewYork’s leading hotel, the 43 story New Yorker. You are now only four hours, by train, from the Hotel New Yorker—located in the very heart of New York— near theatres, shops, sights! Round outyour Washington trip with a taste of the thrills of Broadway. 2500 ROOMS $3'¢£qu York and its Soites from $8 up | NEW Yorker. See the hits of the theatre season. Don’t miss visiting glamorous New greatest hotel —the famous Private tunnel from Pennsylvania Station. HOTEL NEW YORKER 34th Street at 8th Avenue, New York - Ralph Hilz,.Pmideu SPUD MENTHOL-COOLED CIGARETTES their appearance caused something bor- dering on a commotion amol the younfi‘demam Mrs. Roosevelt was not , having left the hotel earlier in the evening to make a radio talk. One of the early visitors was Homer , who will become Attorney General in the new cabinet as a result % the death of Senator Thomas J. critical velt administration. Prohibition Live Topic. Prohibition was one of the live topics. The opinion that the eighteenth amend- ment is doomed was freely ex) and no one was heard to dispute it. One man, however, pointed out that legalization of liquor may be accom- ed by as many evils as are now d at the door of prohibition. “For my part,” he said, “I'm almost | afraid to see it come back. Too much | drinking can hurt a lot in times like | these.” One man, in a “ten-gallon” hat, wan- dered morosely around the lobby, chew- the end of a cigar. His particular interest, apparently, was in the plight of the farmers. “Something,” he said, | = to be done for the farmer or| the situation is hopeless. They are, ready to give up in despair. Gov. Roosevelt is their last hope. If he can't help them I don't know what they’ll do.” Another favorite theme was the bank- ing crisis. All were agreed that some- thfn' had to be done, but no one had Apparently they Were entirely willing fo leave this detall in the hands of Mr. velt. Topies of Talk Vary Little. ‘The tariff, war debts, inflation—these and innumerable other weighty matters were debated pro and con, some intel- ligently and sonte otherwise. The com- | position of the crowd changed as some became tired and left, making room for new arrivals, but the topics of conversa- tion varied but little. | Meanwhile, in a quiet room seven | floors above the noisy lobby the man 0s¢ name Was On every tongue sat working over his inaugural address. He knew that in a few short hours he must take over the direction of the Nation’s inies in one of its most critical times. ‘To him the estions of his volun- tary advisers below were meaningless. ‘The colorful eantry of the thron assembled to acclaim him might as wel have been in some foreign land. INAU on the REGULAR ticket Pipe as a Protection. There are two new novelties in the line of tobacco pipes. The first one merely has the appearance of a pipe but in reality it is a pistol. The bowl is the butt and the stem is the barrel. A button on the stem is the trigger. Tha person making use of one of these has the means of protecting himself against p——— the operations of thieves and hold-up men when he appears to be merely carrying a pipe. The other pipe has a jolnted stem. It breaks in the middle for cleaning but the two parts can never become entirely separated. 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