Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1935, Page 6

VAR CANES PLANE CRASH KILLS S 6P7, Calling Surface Craft to Rescue of Other Ship, Flunges Into Sea. ___(Continued From First Page.) formation of the fleet at 7 pm. An hour and 12 minutes later the 6-P-10 | lost the power of one engine and was | forced to land on the big ocean swells. | Then the 6-P-7 left the squadron and started circling over her disabled sistership, sending radio signals so | nearby ships could use her calls as a direction finder and proceed to the ajd of the disabled craft. Crashed With Terrific Force. For 48 minutes the 6-P-7 circled | around, having notified the destroyer Breese and the cruiser Raleigh that the 6-P-10 was down and leaking. Apparently while cruising the 6-P-7 | cut down her speed and had to fly | close to the ocean's surface as the night darkened. Apparently it suddenly went into a spin and dove into the ocean with a terrific crash as evidenced by the shat- tered wreckage found later. Its last message was sent at 9 pm., indicating she crashed into the ocean & short time later. ‘The Breese and the Raleigh reached the scene at 10:30 p.m. and took the 6-P-10 in tow. They had no fears about her sistercraft, assuming she had returned to her Midway base. | A short time later it was learned | the 6-P-7 was missing and the search | by surface craft of both the Black | and White Fleets was immediately | ordered as the war games were tem- | porarily forgotten. Searchlights Stab Night. i The White Fleet, en route through | the area, gave up its cover of darkened ships and secrecy which had been the | practice throughout the six weeks’ maneuvers, and stabbed the night with the glaring beams of searchlights. | Alrcraft were ordered by Admiral ! Joseph M. Reese, commander in chief | of the United States fleet and umpire of the war games, to take up the search at dawn. Officers sald the wreckage clearly indicated the entire crew died with- | out knowing they crashed. | Monday a similar tragedy was nar- rowly averted when another giant patrol sank. The craft became dis- | abled 90 miles north of Midway Island, western landmark of the naval maneuvers, but succeeded in coming down safely near her tender, the minelayer Montgomery. The | minelayer rescued the crew of six just before the plane sank. | Battle Lacks Thrills. The crucial battle of the maneuvers between the Black and White fleets was fought at dawn Wednesday, a few miles off Midway. Throughout the night destroyers carried out dev- astating torpedo attacks, but the main engagement, although it was the first to start at dawn in the his- tory of the maneuvers, lacked the greatest spectacular thrills and the much anticipated power of the air- ctaft, which did not participate. After the battle and the fruitless search for the doomed airmen, the | fleet turned toward Hawaii, where it will arrive Saturday and Sunday. Forty patrol planes begin the re- turn flight from Midway to Hawaii ‘Thursday, stopping en route at French Frigate Shoals. ENGINE TROUBLE BLAMED, Officers Here Voice Private Belief in Crash. By the Associated Press. Expressing privately the belief that | engine trouble was responsible for the crash of the 6P7 in the Pacific, with the loss of six lives, Navy officers Naval the DANGER Germ-Infested Ru “ g ; LIEUT. HARRY .A. BRANDENBURGER. —A. P. Photo. today asserted it was the first Navy flying boat casualty in at least 10 years, At the same time they disclosed that seaplanes of the 6P7 type usually carried a crew of only five men. They said they did not know why six were aboard the ship when it crashed. Secrecy Lifted by Tragedy. The accident marked the second | time since the war games started | three weeks ago that the Navy par- | tially has lifted the shield of secrecy | that has guarded the maneuvers to | report tragedy. Maintaining war-time conditions were necessary to determine the ef- fectiveness of two rival fleets in| solving American defense problems, | the Navy has clamped a strict censor- | ship on all but the most minor move- | ments of the “combatants.” | Col. Henry L. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1s now with | the fleet, awaiting what is expected | to be the most spectacular phase of the war games. Admiral William | H. Standley, chief of operations, will sail shortly from San Diego. | Officials estimated the cost of the maneuvers, over and above routine | operations expenses, at $195,000, the price of 250,000 extra barrels of fuel ofl. EDUCATIONAL. 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ABOARD BATTLESHIP PENN- SYLVANIA, With United States Fleet in Mid-Pacific Maneuvers, May 23.—Amazing strategical op- erations of the United States Fleet in its 1935 war games were topped by Vice Admiral Harris Laning's bril- liant maneuvering of his White Fleet. Over a circuitous 1400-mile route he led his powerful high seas battle fleet from Pearl Harbor to forlorn Midway Island, shaking off submarines and shrewdly avoiding day and night bombing patrols. By thus escaping the vigilant air and underwater eyes of Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn's Black Fleet he kept the position of his own forces secret until he was under the lee of Midway Island, his objective. Rear Admiral H. E. Lackey, com- | manding the cruiser division, made a sensational night raid over Midway with 12 seaplanes catapulted from cruisers. Under cover of darkness they took the giant air bombers of the “enemy” by surprise. Bombing the anchored air fleet, they theoreti- lly destroyed 12 bombers. 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