Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1935, Page 11

ARMY'S CONVOY TEST IS LAUDED 6,000 Guardsmen Converge at Pine Camp With 15,000 on Way. By the Associated Press. PINE CAMP, N. Y., August 17— An oid Indian fighter sat at his desk at 1st Army headquarters in an old mill house today and directed the movement of the greatest body of troops ever assembled by a peace- time American Army. Col. J. R. R. Hannay, quartermaster of the 1st Army, expressed himself as “more than satisfied” with the movement that today brought 6,000 National Guardsmen here for the 1st Army war games and started 15,000 more on their way. During the day Col. Hannay, who has seen Army transport change from the covered wagon to the 65-mile-an- hour squad car, inaugurated a system for the movement of troops in con- voy by radlio-controlled taxicabs. Weather Extremely Warm. While this radio-controlled convoy was bringing 750 men the 250 miles across Western New York in 12 hours, troop trains and motor convoys | from other sections of the East were | disgorging thousands of Guardsmen into the hottest day Pine Camp has had this Summer. Gritty and dirty from the heat of travel, they poured out of rail coaches, motor cars and trucks into the greater heat of scorched grass plainland nnd withered pine stumps. ‘They formed their companies lnd batteries and set about the task of building a city until black darkness forced them to rest. Troops arrived from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and New York. New Jersey's troops were on the | march dnd bivouaced for the night at New York cities. More to Arrive Today. Other troops will arrive by train today from New Jersey, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. “The movement of troops and sup- | plies was the first major portion of | the problems to be solved by this maneuver and training period,” Col. Hlnnay said. “It is the greatest peace time move- ment of troops this Army has ever | handled both by motor and by train. And we are more than satisfled with the results,” he added. “The motor convoy movement was | designed to test the mobility and practicability of the Army’s mechan- | ized transport equipment. “The rail movement was designed to test the capacity of Eastern rail- roads to respond to the needs of the Army in the initial stages of a great national emergency Col. that the radio-convoy from Buffalo beat even the Army’'s most optimistic | schedules by two hours. May Adopt Motor Convoys. On the successful use of the radio | control cars, deemed practical oy Army experts because of previous small tests, may depend the adoption of .he method throughout the Army, strengthening the essential trans- portation and supply work. On the motor march today from Buffalo, a conglomerate column of taxicabs and trucks was controlled by one man, the convoy commander, Capt. H. L. Zeller. Riding in one radio car, he was in constant contact | with his control officers in three others scattered throughout the column. 15,000 CONVERGE IN VALLEYS. Pennsylvania and Maryland Men Set Up Peace-time Base. INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa., August 17 (#).—Soldier towns of khaki canvas | rose like magic in the rolling valleys of the Blue Mountains today as 15,000 National Guardsmen from Pennsyl- vania and Maryland arrived to join regular troops of the 3d Corps for two ‘weeks’ training. Young men and leaders from all activities of civilian life—and even some of the unemployed—moved into broad valleys about 20 miles east of the capital and set up homes and workshops of the greatest peace-time concentration of troops in Pennsyl- vania. With New England and New Jersey | Sem—— Guardsmen and Regular Army units encamped at Pine Valley, N. Y., troops of the 3d Corps Area—Regulars and National Guardsmen of Pennsylvania and Maryland—will comprise the most extensive military maneuver in the Nation since 1916. . Relief Work Studied. South Africa is endeavoring to check the overlapping of government and provineial poor-relief activities. Tlve character of a com Hannay pointed to the fact| (right) were passengers. STAR, WASHINGTON, Group involved in spectacular airplane incident at Cleveland late yesterday. ( had flown a plane before, but he piloted the one shown above for 40 minutes while Dick Field (center), regular pilot, hung headfirst, hooked a dangling wheel with a rope weighted down by a fire extinguisher, and made repairs to prevent a crash. Field is shown holding the extinguisher. Don Long, the Estelle Carrel and Jack Baldwin —Copyright. A, P. Wirepheto. FIRE BALLS. AMES MANLEY, a vacationer | here from the North Woods of | J Michigan, who insists he is not a candidate for membership in the Liars’ Club, tells that in forest | areas of Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota porcupines are feared not so much for their prickly quills but for their inflammability. The quills of porcupines, he says, | flare “like ceiluloid when ignited. If trapped in burning areas, the roly- poly little animals may become balls |of fire darting into the Jnderbruih‘ ‘and spreading disaster over wide | | territories. Despite the amused skepticism of | | his Washington audience, he further | insisted he personally witnessed a | blazing porky cross a fire lane and | start flames in a large area previously unaffected. IMPATIENT. Patrolmen riding police scout cars get an occasional smile out of the calls that come out to them. All afternoon was spent the other day looking for a man who was reported over the radio to have escaped from the Trafic Bureau and was wanted on a larceny charge. It later was found he came in with a trafic ticket and walked out when he did not get waited on soon enough. UNHAPPY ENDING. A YOUNG Washington girl with a job as secretary in one of the | Government's temporary agencies was m.nmng the pages of a New York | paper one day last week when she spotted an advertisement which stated that some one in Jamaica wanted & secretary. The young thing sat right down and wrote to the newspaper box for the position. She stated her qualifi- cations, said that she had a speaking knowledge of Spanish and was abso- lutely unfettered when it came to traveling. Next day, still very “thrilled,” she told a man in her office about her good fortune. “Young lndy " the man asked dis- xusted.ly “ WILL YOU LE T Us EXPLAIN WHY LIAM Do mot rely on natural draft? 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Terms at George’s YEARS Plane (Continued From Pirst Page.) screw it.tight, so he told Long and | the other passengers, Miss Estelle Carrel, 18, and Jack Baldwin, 19, to pull with all their strength on the rope. | Pield explained to them that he had attached the rope to th® wheel's strut and that their combined tugging would be necessary to keep it in place —if it could be kept in place. “I'll take the plane down,” Field “If it doesn't bounce, we're all set.” ‘s The plane didn't bounce and the ambulance and fire truck and the spectators went away. “It was all in the day's work,” Pield told airport attaches. “But was I scared? Say, what do you think? If that kid hadn’t done such a beauti- ful job of piloting——well.” Some one asked Long how it felt to be a pilot. 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