Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1936, Page 5

GREAT WAR GAME PLANNED ON COAST Detachment From Quantico to Join Big Maneuvers Next Year. By uee Associated Press. ¥ THE EVENING STAl%, WASHINGTON, D. C, Just Before Ocean Hop BLANTON EXPLAINS LOS ANGELES, Sepm 3.—The greatest military and naval force ever assembled in Pacific Coast maneuvers will stage a spectacular war game off Southern California early next year. }Tht entire United States fléet: of some 150 ships, two brigades of FARLEY MESSAGE Letter Says Son of Repre- sentative of Indiana Sent Indorsement. By the Associated Press. ABILENE, Tex., September 3.— Representative Thomas L. Blanton yesterday announced receipt of a let- ter explaining the “James A. Farley" telegram which created an election mystery on the day of the Democratic run-off primary, in which Blanton was defeated for renomination. Blanton sald the letter was from THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1936. FRIDAY CLEARANCE TOMORROW 9:15 AM. TO 6 P.M. AT F YOU believe in real ECONOMY, you have the opportunity to exercise your buying wisdom now!! It will be a long time before you can duplicate the values offered in these Annual Advance Sales. And this sweep- ing, store-wide Odds and Ends Sale is held only because Raleigh has a firm and inflexible policy of closing out all merchandise before each new season. That's why THE RALEIGH HABERDASHER BIG SAVINGS IN THE Odds & Ends Marines and Army troops aggregat- such deep and drastic reductions are pouible at this ing a force of 4,000, the Navy's 400 sircraft, and scores of Army fighting aircraft ffom the first wing, General Headquarters Air Force, will join in the training operations. Center of this theater of war will be San Clemente Island, 58 miles off the coast southwest of Los Angeles, regarded as a key point in defense of the nation against a West.rn in- vader. A simulated “invasion” will be a part of the games. Base Built on Isle. The island was taken over by the Navy Department this year and ex- tensively developed. A huge aviation station for testing bombs has been established at Wilson Cove. . Barracks have been erected as well as a steel ier. i The island, once a haunt of lobster fishermen and quail and goat hunt- ers, is the central training base of what the Navy designates the San Clemente naval drill grounds. Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn, eommander in chief of the United States Fleet, announced the war games would be staged between Janu- ary 27 and March 25. Quantico Men to Go. This year the 2d Brigade of Ma- rines stationed at San Diego will be reinforced by some 1,200 officers and men of the Ist Brigade, who wil come here aboard the battleshios Ar- kansas and Wyoming from Quantico, Va. Brig. Gen. Douglas C. McDougal will command the Marine force. Army forces participating will be un- der direction of Maj. Gen. George S. Simonds, commanding general of the 9th Corps Area. Brig. Gen. Delos C. Emmons will command the first wing aircraft from March and Hamilton Fields, includ- ing for the first time in joint Army- Navy operations the Army’s new at- tack planes. PAUGHTERS OF AMERICA NAME OFFICERS TODAY | " Josephine Herbert Expected to Succeed Maude Wine as State Councilor. ‘The fortieth annual State conven- tion of the District Daughters of America, meeting at the Raleigh Hotel, today was electing officers preliminary to the public installation ceremony tonight which will close the two-day | Eession, Josephine Herbert, Council No. 5, was virtually assured election as State councilor to succeed Maude A. Wine. Other nominees were: Ovellia flidgway, No. 12, associate councilor; Viola Henley, No. 20, vice councilor; Edna H. Gaither, No. 21, associate vige councilor; Ruth Warren, No. 26, conductor; Edna Hayward, No. 18, warden; Nicie Payton, No. 13, Grace | Roberts, No. 9, Clara Owens, No. 19, Ella Smith, No. 14, Marie Stephenson, Ho. 8, and Beatrice Hart, No. 27, inside | sentinel; Ethel Windsor, No. 10, Clara | Piaec, No. 15, and Laura Milbourne, Tio. 17, outside sentinel; Harriet Fair- | e!l, No. 1, and Katie Baum, No. 3, trustee; Grace Ricketts, No. 1, Rosa (Vells, No. 9, Deborah Streitberger, tio. 24, Helen Luckett, No. 16, Maude Wine, No. 25, and Viola Frazier, No. 19, national representatives. CAPITAL MAN OBJECT OF $3 EXTORTION TRY Ldward Bryant, Uncle of W. R. Nece Indicted in Note Threat. A threatening letter demanding $3 on pain of revealing family secrets yesulted today in the indictment of Edward Bryant in Reading, Pa., by a Federal grand jury, according to an 4issociated Press dispatch. William R. Nece, 1344 Nicholson evenue, Bryant’s nephew, was the re- cipient of the notes, one a letter and another a post card. Not appreciat- ing the tenor of the threats and un- efraid of any revelations his uncle might make, Nece, an employe of the Capital Wall Paper Co., turned them over to postal authorities and the in- dictment followed. —_— Italy’s proposed black army of 100,000 in Africa will be the largest native army on the Continent. AUTO @)ANS muker ¥ 12 months o Harry Richman, left, and Dick Merrill, as theydmgde final plans fnr the ocean flxght. hoto. & s Merrill (Continued From Pirst Page.) into a steep nose dive. We both were thrown out of our seats. “That certainly was a scare. “We had to struggle hard for a minute or | two to regain control. It seemed an age before we did. Couldn’t See Ireland. “Five hundred miles off Ireland, w2 hit a bad rain squall. It was then that | our radio was messed up. We had | been talking by radio to New York when, all of & sudden, I found nothing was happening. Later on we couldn't see Ireland and that threw us off, so we started circling about to find out where we were. “We circled about an hour and a half and that used up the gas. The ceiling was low and all the places around here where we could have made a landing were full of cattle— you know, cows and sheep. “In the end we picked a field where there were only three cows. Those cows were certainly ladylike and had good manners, for they trotted off nicely as we came down and nobody minded.” Asked about Merrill, who had stayed by the plane, Richman said: “Oh, he’s fine. He's lying in the grass looking at the cows.” Dashes Back to Await Gas. Richman would not commit himself as to the time of the return hop, say- ing: “We'll have to see what the weather report says.” Informed new gasoline supplies were en route for his plane, he dashed back to the field to be ready for it. Back at Croydon Capt. Jimmy (Town, Canmadian friend of Merrill, who had been looking for the flyers to lead them into port, loaded 100 gal- lons of petrol in two-gallon tins into | his plane and took off for Bristol, just as another plane piloted by Capt. Leslie Jackson left with 50 gallons in an attempt to land beside the Lady Peace, To Refuel Twice. The trans-Atlantic plane will be given the 50 gallons and then flown to Bristol to take on the additional supply for the rest of the flight to | Croydon. The wings of the plane were loaded with 40,000 table tennis balls to pro- vide buoyancy in event it was forced down at sea. Word from London was that customs officials debated whether the balls would be subject to duty. It was decided finally not to levy the 25 per cent duty on ‘“sports requis- ites,” unless Richman elects to auto- graph and sell them. Take-off Nearly Perfect. Merrill, veteran airmail and trans- port pilot, was at the controls as the big ship, equipped with a 1,000-horse- power engine, roared away from Floyd Bennett Field at 3:37 p.m. yesterday. Merrill warmed up the motor care- fully before opening it up on the 4,000~ foot runway across the field into the wind. A sudden gust, just as the ship lifted from the ground, threatened disaster, but with precision Merrill righted the craft and it rose gently If You Suffer Kidney '.l‘rouble You can assist kidneys to normal funetion- ing by following the health resort method at home. Drink Mountain Valley Mineral Water direct from famous Hot Springs, Arkansas. Endorsed by physicians for ever 30 years. Phone for booklet. Mountain Valley Mineral Water Met. 1062, 1105 K St. ROWERS Save 20%. No co- r more to pay!' _PERSONAL LOANS for all purposes—Only 2 co-makers—No colla Iny one. may apply teral! Baooklet explains., The CITY Bank 9th and Mass. Ave. N.W. @ Sth and East Cipitol Sts. @ 3608 Georgia Ave, N.W, @ 8th and G Sts. S.E. @ 10th and Pa. Ave. @ 3401 Conn. Ave. N. skyward with its heavy burden of 1,000 gallons of gasoline. Richman manned the two-way wireless communications system with which the flyers kept in constant touch with Eagtern Air Lines receivers at | Newark, N. J.; Jacksonville and New Orleans throughout their trip. | The first radio message was re- ceived at Newark an hour and 23 minutes after the take-off. “Flying 6,000 feet, 252 miles out | from Floyd Bennett Field, over Cape ! Ann. Everything O. K.,” Richman | said. It was midnight when they first the half-way mark in their journey. They were flying “blind” at about 10,~ 000 feet. “The sun’s coming up,” Richman reported. Then, at 6:30 am., Eastern Air Lines officials said they believed a record for radio telephoning from an airplane had been set when the Jack- sonville office of the airline convemed with Richman, 3,052 miles away. ‘The conversation came through perfectly. Richman said the fiyers were at 10,000 feet and 150 miles off the coast of Ireland. He added they had just lunched on tea and sand- wiches. A new type of radio directional com- pass, never before used outside the United States, is one of the main fea- tures of the equipment of Lady Peace. It is a combination directional gyro, { artificial horizon and two-way radio telephone obtained from the Vincent | Bendix aeronautical interests. With it Merrill and Richman were able to tune in on any radio station, broad- casting on any wave length from 200 to 1,500 kilocycles, and to see a light flash on the instrument board, point- ing out the direction of that station.’ The instrument also shows the di- rections of any two or three stations, thereby permitting the flyers to deter- mine their exact position in a matter of seconds. Merrill is on an extended vacation from the Air Lines. Richman said he wanted to make the trip “just for the sport of it.” He bought the plane in Los Angeles in July. He and Merrill flew it to New York in August. The night club entertainer himself holds a transport pilot's license and has been flying as an. amateur for about nine years. Merrill flew to South America early | this year on an expedition aimed at | rescuing Lincoln Ellsworth, explorer, ate, and by 1 am. they were passing | Thain Farley, son of Representative James I. Farley, Democrat of Indiana. He said the letter avowed authorship of a telegram received by the Reperter- News August 21—the night before the primary—urging Blanton’s renomi- nation and signed “Hon. James A. Farley.” ‘Wanted to Help, Thain Farley wrote Blanton that on the night before the Texas primary he went to the Roosevelt Hotel in Washington, D. C., with friends. He was quoted by Blanton as saying the group heard an announcement which said: “Tomorrow is the day to keep your fingers crossed, for our friend, Tom Blanton, may be defeated, we hope.” “I wanted to do something to help,” Blanton said young Farley wrote. “I left and went to the House Office Building and called you by long distance and I remember the connection was bad, but I thought that you understood who I was and what I wanted to do. When you mentioned the Reporter-News, I said I would wire them. The House West ern Union was closed, so I called the telephone operator and told her I wanted to send a message, which I did, and lnld her to charge it to my father, * Action Is Regretted. “I feel very bad about it all and assure you that I thought the mes- sage would go through as Hon. James I. Farley, M. C. I have admired you for many years * - called you and sent the wire, hoping it would be of help, and if I did any harm to you in the eiection I hope that some day I can repay the dam- age. I hope that this will clear up the matter and I intended to see both you and Mr. James A. Farley when you came to Washington and apologize for a good intention that miscarred through no fault of mine. The close similarity of names is the only reason for the error.” Must Aid Stranger. Handed over to foster parents when a baby, a resident of London, Eng- land, who never saw his father, has been ordered to pay toward the gup- port of his parent now on public relief. Waterless Cleaner i -.GII. 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