Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1935, Page 15

THE _SUNDAY - STAR, WASHINGTON; D. €, AUGUST 25, -1935—PART ONE. * A—18 Wfi DR, PAUL MPNALLY - BACKINCAPITAL Georgetown U, Astronomer : Attended Paris Meet of International Union. Dr. Pau! A. McNally, 8. J., director of the Georgetown University Astro- | nomical Observatory, returned to Washington last week from Europe, where he attended the Paris sessions of the International Astronomical Union and was granted a private audi- ence with Pope Pius XI in Rome. Elected to membership in the union last Spring, the Georgetown astrono- mer had the hon- or of being the| § first American| priest and the| first American Jesuit ever to be admitted to this| famous and se- lect group of scientists. Com- | prising the ablest | astronomers of many countries, | the urion itself | initiates the elec- | tion of a new member and then only in recognition of some outstand- ing achievement. Trolley C Quaint Incidents Dr. McNally. Eclipse Pictures Were Best. a half century ago. Dr. McNally's election was based on | the results obtainec by the George- | town University expedition which he| headed in 1933 to study the total eclipse of the sun visible in Maine. | His photographs of the eclipse were regarded as the finest taken by any BY WILLIAM S. ODLIN. N THE midst of vigorous efforts to combat encroachment of its field by motor vehicles, the Amer- ican trolley is celebrating its Here is “the Daft,” America’s first electric street car, which blazed the trail for trolley transportation just It was in reality an electric iocomotive, the passenger car being a trailer. photograph was taken near Baltimore on the raiis over which the pioneer ran, elebrates Golden Jubilee of Middle 80s Recalled by Member of Pioneer Crew. This historic The morning after the new electric | foot a wheel that ran on the third | | car was put into operation one of the | rail to catci the electriciy was raised | Baltimore newspapers carried the fol- | from the rail. lowing story: “Cows, hors “The electric motor pn the Hamp- | were shocked by , dogs and children | that third rail affair, | MECHANIZED FORCE ROUTS BLUE" ARMY “Red” Commander Employs Tanks and Cavalry Squad Cars Against Enemy. BY tho Associated Press. PINE CAMP, N. Y, August 24— Troops of the Regular Army brought America’s most modern machines of death into the front lines of battle today and routed a strongly entrenched “enemy.” The 1st Division of the “Red” Army, maneuvering here in the coun- try's great war games, threw fast light tanks, speedy armored Cavalry squad cars and screens of Artillery and airplane smoke into action. This combination of mechanized terror cracked the “Blue” Army's now his- toric salient at “Hill 300" and “Hell’s Corner” east of Sterlingville. Speed Is Keynote. Speed was the keynote Before the 2d Corps started its drive against the enemy. Maj. Gen. Lucius R. Holbrook, corps com- mander, stressed the importance of speed in action. | “Today the foremost problem facing | the American Army,” he said, “is one | of speed. “We must have to deal rather with the time element than the element of distance.” | Gen. Holbrook emphasized that in modern warfare no element can ever again be sure of its security, since | motorized and mechanized divisions | can cover distances now in an hour | that formerly would have taken days. | ¢as just this theory of modern in war that Gen. Holbrook | demonstrated with his motorized and mechanized forces in the two days’ engagement fought here as training for 36,000 Regular and National Guard soldiers from Eastern States. Smoke Plays Part. Smoke drove the first wedge into the “Blue” Army today, initiating the movement that finally cracked the line. Then came five of the Army's 1atest land cruisers—three new Christy medium tanks and two ordnance tanks still in the process of experimental development. All five are capable of a speeC of 35 miles an hour across even the rough terrsin of the north country in which they were operating. The two experimental weapons moved ahead at an unclocked speed seem- ingly far in excess of that of the fast Christys. Operating’ to their flank, keeping the roads clear for immediate move- ment of motorized troops, were pa- trols of mechanized Cavalry, wicked looking machine gun carriers moving on half tracks and bathtub-like squad cars, armored against rifle fire and carrying three machine guns and a tommy gun. | While the “Blues” gasped under the acrid smoke laid by planes, the | tanks rolled back the east flank to meet the west flank being pushed back | by the 44th New York and New Jer- | sey. This steam roller movement | forced the New England troops, over: whelmed by superior numbers and | mechanized equipment, to retreat gen- | erally along the line. Troops Attack at Dawn. The attack was launched at dawn and the rising sun cast spangled bands of light through the enveloping clouds. | With visibility cut to no more than 4 feet, lank forms unidentifiable | as friend or foe loomed out of the| murk, staggering, gasping and chok- | ing from the bite of the bitter fog. Handerkerchiefs were improvised into gas masks that failed to ward off the penetrating smoke. Cars crept at snail’s pace along the high- ways and residents of Sterlingville jumped up from their breakfast tables to close doors and windows. ‘The tanks moved in formation, con- troled by radio from their commander in the center of the line. Speeding over the uneven ground, they crashed | down small trees and underbrush, ran | roughshod over fence wire and ap- | peared on top of machine gun nests | 80 suddenly that the gunners could only piek up their guns and flee with them in their arms. Dog Bite Kills Man. PARSONS, Kans., August 24 (P).—| A police dog’s bite was fatal today to Earl Simmons. 38, Altamont, Kans., produce dealer. Simmons died in a hospital here of blood poisoning tmzi developed after he was bitten Tuesday | while helping a neighbor ““hl chickens. DIVERS SEEK BODIES AUBURN, Calif., August 24 (#).— Ear] (Bud) Kfrball was charged with the murder of James C. Kennett, sr., today as a diver sought bodies of pos- sible other victims in a flodded mine shaft near his emigrant gap cabin. Kimball, alias Cramer, allegedly has confessed claying Kennett and John Thomas Mangar: throwing their bodies into the mine. Both have been re- covered. The young itinerant trapper boasted after his arrest that he had killed 25 by later denied it Avistocrats of Eyewear Democratic ally Priced of the expeditions of that year and among the finest pictures of any eclipse, Requests for copies were re- ceived at Georgetown from observa- tories throughout the world. The international union, compris- golden jubilee. It was just 50 years ago that the pioneer electric street car was unveiled one bright Summer morning before the amazed citizens of Baltimore and began its painful 12- mile-an-hour maiden voyage over the den Railroad made about 20 trips ye | terday afternoon from the Hunting- | don avenue stables to Mount Vernon, | a distance of about 1'; miles. The | speed was 12 miles an hour. The but not as many fatally as you might expecl. More often the animal scam- pered away frightened. “A motor car was separate from the car the people rode in. At each end motor drew after it one of the large| of @he line there was a cross-over fng various commissions, Will meet |DUMPy Tight of way of the then Baltl» next year in Oslo, Sweden. Dr. Mc- | more Union Passenger Railway. Nally reported great interest being| Despite gloomy forebodings of the taken in the solar eclipse which will | populace in general the car (named be visible next June in parts of “The Daft,” in honor of its inventor) Russia, Siberia and northern Japan.| was a success. To modern eyes, Georgetown University, it is. under- | growing accustomed to the sleek, etood, is considering the advisability | stream-lined high-speed trolley of to- of sending out another expeditior, its | day, the first trolley is apt to seem first of this kind having met with such | just another antiquity, but the gratifying success. Dr. McNally was |thoughtful accord it all pioneers merit. Catonsville cars loaded with people.| where the motor car would slide Mr. Daft, the inventor, was at the|around and couple on the other erd helm during the trips and supervised | of the passenger car. everything. Both he and Mr. Robbins, | ,, e i witl ss.” | v b the success. | deep. When we were forced by deep Huge Industry Today. | snows to stop the cars we put horse How far the American trolley has | busses in service to haul passengers. traveled since those days may be| Deeply conscious of its distinction as gleaned from statistics on the great|the hirthplace of the electric street industry that has grown from that ex- | car, as well as of “The Star Spangled given a place on the commission deal- ing with solar eclipse, one of the most important groups of the union. The commission gave considerable atten- tion to the forthcoming eclipse which will attract astronomers from all sections of the world. Visits Rome en Route Home. Homeward bound, Dr. McNally went to Rome on a visit and was a guest 8t Castel Gondolfo, the papal Sum- | It was there he was given | mer home. a private audience with Pope Pius. In keeping with his interest in the sciences, Dr. McNally said, Pope Pius has given the Vatican Observatory a whole section of Castel Gondolfo. He has likewise contributed gener- ously to the erection of new telescopic | instrumenis and astrophysical lab- oratories. The director of the Vatican Ob- servatory is Rev. J. J. Stein, a Jesuit who ,at one time was stationed at| Georgetown University. His prede- | cessor, the late Rev. John Hagen, also a Jesuit, was one of the most famous of all the Vatican astronomers. Be- fore going to Rome Father Hagen also had been stationed for a number of years at the Georgetown Observatory. He died about six years ago. Because of these close contacts Pope Pius has always taken a personal interest in scientific pursuits at Georgetown. BOAT TRIP PLANNED Wyoming Society Will Take River Cruise Sept. 5. | The Wyoming Society of Washing- | ton will hold a boat cruise on the steamer Potomac September 5. This| will be the first of a series of xc!ivl-l ties planned by the group, it was said. |In the early part of last Spring the | The Daft was really an electric locomotive and trailer affair, drawing its power from a third rail. The first completely equipped overhead trolley | line was in Richmond two years, later, | but the Baltimore experiment founded | horse car out. It was the beginning by electricity in any form. Heralded July 11, 1885. The epochil event was heralded by an article in the Electrical World in its issue of July 11, 1885, headed “The Daft Electric Railway at Baltimore.” The story said: “It can be safely stated that the first bona fide business transaction in this country where an electric motor for a street railway was ordered, man- ufactured and delivered, was com- pleted within the last few months. | Baltimore Union Passenger R.uilway‘, Co., hearing of the rapid progress of | the Daft Electric Light Co. with their system of electrical railropd. thting and wishing t0 increase their" ing | periment. These show that today 000,000,000 passengers annually, de- spite automobile competition. There are 706 companies operating more | than 31, - : [y e hat eventusily) Dilshedjthsl| o nn 51000 miles of Grack, giving em ployment fo about 182,000 persons. | The annual y | of commercial operation of street cars | pay roll in 1932 was in excess of $182,000.000 and net operat- Ing income was $83,086,000. Joe Evoy of Baltimore, recently a on this Hampden line, and his recol- lections of those pioneer days in pub- lic transit are salty and enlightening. He says: the track. There was a plunger in the floor of the motor car and when the motorman pressed this down with his Scout Camp Invites Mrs. Roosevelt to Inspect ‘Oxmobile’ capacity, investigafed the matter. Satisfied with the completeness of the system, an order was at once given| to construct two mators and equip | the Hampden branch of their lines.” | The Baltimore . Union Passenger Railway Co. was one of several lines | operating in the Monumental City at | that time. It was not until nearly 15 | years later that all the competing trolley lines in Baltimore were merged in one company covering the entire city. | This Baltimore Union Passenger Railway, which operated the first electric motor, covered 25 miles of roads and its chief motive power at that time consisted of 400 horses. The Hampden branch,.on which the first electric motor was used, was 2 By the Associated Press. CHESAPEAKE BEACH, Md, August 24.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the President, has been invited to Camp Roose- velt, the Boy Scout Summer camp 4 miles south of here, to view the “oxmobile” tomarrow, The “oxmobile” is the body of an old oxcart mounted on an automobile chassis. It was re- cently used to carry letters from Western Governors to the White House, The annual Boy Scout circus will be held at the camp Thursday and the annual banquet will mark the closing of the camp next Saturday night. electric street cars are carrying 10,- | Washington visitor, was a conductor | “The third rail was in the center of | | Banner,” Baltimore is appropriately event, while the little Daft electric car sinks the mists of the past. Digs Up 22-Inch Angleworm. | COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho #).— } The worm has moved up alongside the fish as the subject for tall tales. H. H. Campbell, high school princi- pal, reported digging up a 22-inch angleworm in his garden. Friends declared stanchly Campbell wasn't stretching either the worm or the story. Hot - Water Heat marking the fiftieth anniversary of the | farther and farther into | American Radiator- Co. Plant COMPLETELY INSTALLED IN SIX ROOMS Written Guarantee NO MONEY DOWN Up to 7 Years te Pay Free Estimates First Payment Day or Night October Above price includes lfl-?u Red Jacket Boile: Radial 00 feet Radiation —Ineiuding Automatic Draft Cont Larger Plants Proportionately Prices Grad 907 15th N.W. Night and Su: Senators, Representatives and sev- | miles long and ran through the vil- eral Government officials have been | lages of Hampden, Mount Vernon and invited as guests of honor for the ride | Woodberry, where there were about down the Potomac River. 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