Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1933, Page 10

THE EVENING NEW WAR PLANES || O1d Letters History Side Light ABINGDON POSTMASTER'S EPISTLES TELL OF 1844. T0 JOIN IN TRIALS Sensational Fighting Craft to Be Used in Combat Maneuvers. Some of the most sensational new fighting planes the world has seen will | be involved in field combat trials or- dered yesterday by the War Depart- ment to be held at Camp Knox, Ky., May 15-27 to assist in the determina- tion of future policies and training Pprograms necessary to meet the require- ments of recent advances in mlitary aviation and anti-aircraft weapons. The Air Corps will employ a total of about 113 airplanes in the exercises, including 23 bombardment, 18 attack, 21 cbservation, 45 pursuit and 6 trans- port, calling upon fields from Virginia to California and from Texas to Michigan to furnish the cream of the Nation's fighting ar force. Defense to Be Improved. ‘The purposes of the exercises will be' to develop the tactics and technique of anti-aircraft ortillery defense against aerial attack, with and without the co- operation of pursuit aviation; to inves- tigate the use of a distant intelligence net in co-operation with Air Corps units assigned to defense mission; to test and develop tactics, technique and cquipment of the Air Corps, and to test and develop tactics and technique of the use of smoke in the attack on ground forces and targets by aircraft. In addition to the great air force in- volved. the War Department will em- ploy in these exercises three anti-air- craft Coast Artillery regiments from New York, Illinois and Alabama, a sig- nal company, troops of the 5th Corps Area and Reserve aviation units. All Reserve officers from all parts of the United States have been invited to witness the exercises, though they will be required to pay their own expenses. Maj. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley, commanding the 5th Corps Area, has been placed in charge of the exercises. For the purposes of the exercises the air and ground combat forces involved will be divided into two opposing forces, one composed of attacking aviatior under command- of Brig. Gen. Heni C. Pratt, assistant chief of the Arm; Air Corps, and the other, under com- mand of Brig. Gen. Julian R. Lindsey, Fort Knox, composed of defending aviation, the anti-aircraft forces, and other ground trcops. Meeting Set April 5. ‘The first force is to assemble April 5 | at Patterson Field, Ohio, for training, and the other about April 24 at Fort Knox. The exercises are to bring into plsyi all the modern weapcns of aerial of- fense and anti-aircraft defense, includ- ing the chemical warfare service. A radio, telephone and telegraph intelli- gence net extending from Louisville to Cincinnati and spreading for many miles north and south of the Ohio | Riv 1 be established as part of the ! anti-aircraft _defe: and will presage | the use wh must be made of the | communica facilitics of the Nation in_time of w The exercises are to be conducted in the regular training time of the troops invclved and on regularly alloted funds, it was explaincd. The results are ex- pected to be of great importance to | the chiefs cf all branches of the Army | and may have far-reaching conse- | queces in the future development of air and ground equipment and training, the War Department explained. They will be among the greatest joint air and ground combat exercises in world avia- tion peace-time history, LEHMAN DOUBTS BEER WILL OUST SPEAKEASY Illegal Places Can Be Routed From New York State Cnly by Repeal, He Says. By the Assoctated Press. ALBANY, N. Y, Herbet H. Lehm: that he dces not of his b; [ March 28.—Gov. | declared yesterdayv e the enactmont control of beer will | s cut cf business. | * Gov. Lehman said, | “nothing Crive the spezksasies out of bus. sive the repeal of the| eightecnth amendment ” The Governor made his statement in answer to pubiished reports that the | State was rlanning to drive against | speakeasies and that in this eonnection | the bill for beer contrcl would serve in some meacure as a State enforcement act “There is no intention of the State’s setting up a :eparate enforcement agency,” Gov. Lehman said. “The enforccment cf this law, like all other laws, will be in the hands cf the local police cffi i New York ad no State Gage act w aled by the tion enfcrcement act since the ture in 1923. STORES $4 Gimbel Bros., Inc, Reports Net Loss for Fiscal Year. NEW YORK, March 28 (#).—Gimbel ! Bros., Inc., oprators of three depari- ment stor>s in New York and one each in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Mil- ‘waukee, reported a net loss of $4.459,053 for the year ended January 31, 1933. Net sales were $72,196,485, the total volume of sales showing a decrease of 26.31 per cent from last year. ‘The balance sheet shows no bank indebtedness and current assets of $21,- 05,542, including $6,702,898 in cash. Mouth-Wash Costs Cut in HALF! Vicks new Antiseptic does/\ everything that any mouth-wash or gargle can and should do...at half the cost! THE PROOF is actual use. To fur- nish this proof, 5 million bottles in a special trial size were supplied to drug- gists. .. below cost...a 25c value for 10c. The demand has been enormous. If your druggist is already out, get the regular 10-ounce 8ize . . . & 75¢ value for only 35c. Use it one week. If you are not delighted with its quality « .. and amazing economy . . . return unused portion to your druggist and get your money back. [ V/ICKS A VORATONE ¢ BY MAKERS OF VICKS VAPORUS NTISEPTIC o prohibi- Legis Mullan- | 45 e} 9,058 OUT A AT A i o2 s C. L/ o ol Three of a series of letters written by James K. Gibson, postmaster at Abingdcn, Va., in President Tyler's time, to his brother, Charles C. Gibson, traveling in the South, recently discovered in the home of Alexander R. Preston, ‘Washington resident. Their contents throw light on the condition of the country | at that period. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. ! CURIOUS sidelight on com- munity life in Virginia during the administration of John Tyler is afforded by a series of letters recently . Their period is 1844 and they ritten by James K. Gibson, post- master _at Abingdon, Washington County, Va., to his brother, Charles C. Gibson, an invalid traveling for his health in the South. Faded and yellow, their ink turned brown, they bear the postmester’s frank as evidence of their right to go through the mails gratis. Some have the word “Free” stamped on their face. All are double-size sheets of correspondence pa- per, folded six times and sealed with red or pink wax. The postmark of Abingdon appears in red, denoting its function as the sending office, while that of St. Augus- discovered | among the papers of a Washington —Star Staff Photo. tine, Fla, occurs in black as the re- ceiving or forwarding office. A few of the letters are addressed to Augusta, Ga., but do not bear the postmark of that m Dates of Epistles. There are eight epistles in the collec- tion. Their dates are February 9, Feb- ruary 14, February 23, February 25, February 26, March 20, March 27 and April 8. From the context it appears that Charles Gibson is an attorney or law officer of the State. He has been cobliged to leave his aff2irs in the hands of his brother, the postmaster. The latter is attempting to collect a series of debts due and overdue. He is remorseless in his pursuit of the debtcrs. 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But the principal con- teats of the letters ‘are personal and financial in’ character, not political. Claims and suits are mentioned again | and again in detail and in the forth- right manner of a professional collec- tor. The debtors owe, and he means that they shall pay promptly and to the full. One man, he writes, wishes to give him only $80 on account. “I made him pay $100,” he says. Another man is so deeply involved that it is likely that he will lose his farm. Does Brother Charles want it? If so, he might be able “to make an arrangement.” The whole picture is one of distress for ready cash, a phase of the depression which begen in 1837 and had not yet been liquidated. Experiences of John. Meanwhile, John, the small son of Charles, is learning to spell in two | syllables and “soon will be in three.” When he comes to town to visit the postmaster he is presented with some marbles. He cuts his foot with a hatchet, and his grandmother is very much concerned about the injury. 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