Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1936, Page 24

SIX NAVY PLANES WILL FLY PACIFIC New Patrol Craft Will Be Delivered Next Month to Hawaii. A flight of six new PBY-1 planes, the latest naval patrol type, is being planned from the West Coast to Pearl Harbor, T. H., next month. This program is in keeping with the Navy Department’s plan to de- liver new ships to the various naval units concerned, serving the twofold purpose of practice flights and put- ting the equipment to its first real service test. Officials said the PBY-1 is & cralt of the flying boat type and was con- atructed at the plant of the Consoli- dated Aircraft Corp. at Santa Monica, Calif., where the naval airmen from the fleet have opportunity to watch the developments. Desirable changes can thus be made first hand. The new patrol craft is a monoplane, 18'2 feet high, with a wing spread of 104 feet, and is 63 feet, 6!2 inches in length. Two Pratt & Whitney engines supply the motive power. Wing Tip Floats. The wing tip floats at the end of each wing are a special feature of the new plane. When in flight in the air these wing tip floats become part of the wing proper and can be lowerd to balance the ship on the water, in taking off and alighting. This char. acteristic is credited with cutting down wind resistance and speeding up the craft. The new ships will replace obso- lescent types at the Fleet Air Base, Pearl Harbor, T. H, which is near Honolulu. The PBY-1 is the structural de- scendant of the XP3Y-1, which was given thorough tests at the Naval Air Station at Norfolk, Va. Patrol plans squadrons of the Base Force on the Pacific Coast have likewise put the craft through its paces. Recent Navy Flights. Comdr. Knefler McGinnis, who used to command the Naval Air Station at Anacostia, With a crew of six flew the pioneer plane of this type from Norfolk to Coco Solo in the Panama Canal Zone and thence to Acapulco, Mexico, and San Prancisco, both fiights being non-stop. | This feat of Comdr. McGinnis, offi- ¢lals of the Bureau of Aeronautics re- | called yesterday, broke two world rec- ords—non-stop broken line distance | and non-stop distance. | previously has pioneered | ing the way for the later establish- | ment of regular civilian air service | across the Pacific by Pan-American Alrways. PERTINAX WILL OPEN TOWN HALL TONIGHT| French Foreign Expert to Speak on “Can European Peace Be Saved” at Shoreham. Andre Geraud, foreign editor and political correspondent of L'Echo de Paris, leading nationalist newspaper of France, to- night will open the third season of the Town Hall of Washington at the Shoreham Hotel at 8 o’clock. Geraud, who writes under the pen name of Per- tinax, is generally recognized as a leading political commentator. He has served the Echo de Paris for nearly 30 years, starting as the newspaper’s London correspondent. Pertinax. spondent. Geraud has “covered” numerous important events, including the found- ing of the League of Nations, the Washington Naval Conference, the two reparation conferences in Paris and the final reparations conference | ot Lausanne in 1932. His subject for tonight's session is “Can European Peace Be Saved?” Members of the panel include Father | Edmund A. Walsh, regent of the| Georgetown University School of | Foreign Service; Dr. Grace Hadley | Beardsley, lecturer on foreign affairs at QGoucher College; Constantine Brown, foreign news writer for The | Star, and Raymond Clapper, news | commentator of the Scripps Howard newspapers. Boy, 14, Trails Convict Until Guards Come Brandishes Pitchfork to Intimidate Flee- ing Man. BY the Associated Press. LONDON, Ohlo, November 14—A 14-year-old boy, raking leaves at sl cemetery, dropped his rake todsy,| picked up a pitchfork, and for two| hours played a game of hare and hounds with an escaping convict from the State Prison farm here. Cornering the convict, John Wilson, 38, of Hamilton County, in a corn- fleld, the lad, Max Weimer, stood guard on a fence post until guards came and relieved him of his quarry. For his work Farm Supt. T. C. Jen- kins wrote a check for an undisclosed sum and took him to the officers’ mess hall for a man's dinner. Scared? “Naw, I wasn't scared,” said the boy. ;M do it over again if I had my pitch- | ork.” Wilson, sentenced September, 1935, to one to seven years of housebreak- Ing, tried to escape, Jenkins said, be- cause his parole request was refused last month. % Young Weimer, 4 feet 8 inches tall and 'atlh!nl 81 pounds, is the son of thicket, and down and cross & high- way. + “Get out of here,” shouted Wilson, picking up stones and throwing them. “You can’t hurt me,” replied the lad, “I've got a pitchfork.” He waved the weapon. This went on for an hour. About 2 miles from the prison farm, Wilson hid in a corn- fleld. 80 Max, spotting him, just waited on the fence until a guard came along. S ) - Skiers Prepare for Snow “Dry” Practice Trains D. C. Enthusiasts to Conquer Mrs. William W. Davies, wife of the vice president of the Washington Ski Cludb, taking a dry course in skiing. She is a novice at the sport, while her h in Germany. thusiasts gathered at East- W ern High School gym- nasium Friday and Saturday nights —_— THOUT & snowflake in sight, Washington ski en- | for a dry course in skiing, preparing for conquest of the slopes of the Al- leghanies and Blue Ridges this Winter. A great deal of tearing about on ball-bearing skis and turning and leaping in midair, under the super- vision of Douglas M. Burckett, ski expert from Boston, was designed to prepare District of Columbia knees for a sport that has attained popu- | larity all over the United States in the past few years. With 75 men and women reporting for the dry course, offered to mem- bers of the Potomac Appalachian | Trail Club, the Washington Ski Club and the Maryland Mountain Club, it is predicted that skiing will reach the same proportions around Washington as it has in New England. There ski trains depart from every station each | eXtremely hazardous sport by featur- Winter Sunday morning, bearing thou- sands of persons in becoming cos- tumes and thousands of feet of vai nished hickory to mountains undis- turbed except by other skis and skiers. First Snow Train Last January, Last January the first snow train left Washington with 20 aboard, mostly novices at the runner mode of transportation, bound for Gienco, Pa, 168 miles away, according to Waldo Holden, newly elected presi- dent of the Washington Ski Club. By the end of the season, in March, the weekly jaunts had twice included more than 100 ski-trippers, and he imagines that the snow train this Winter will carry several hundred since viewing the turnout for the dry courses Friday and Saturday. In that event the railroad is willing to use a four-hour train, rather than the five- | hour one run early this year. Leaving at 8:15 a.m.,, the snow train | reaches its desunmon at noon, and | those aboard may try their skill in | Ideal skiing country until dark, when | the train returns. Holden, who came from New Eng- land and learned to manage skis in an expert fashion there, says he has never seen nicer skiing territory than that around Glenco. The club sent out an airplane last Winter to ex- | amine trail possibilities from the air and decided upon Glenco. Sixty Dis- .| trict skiers spent the night of Wash- ington’s birthday at Glenco, put up by the few residents of the community, who are said to be exceedingly hos- pitable. Thiz season the ski train will proceed over the top to Myersdale, Pa, where there is a hotel to ac- commodate persons wishing to remain overnight. Holden points out that the skiing season around Washington is about four months long. Fewer early-season spills will be taken by Washington skiers because | was given by Dartmouth Coilege and | Scandinavian communities in North- | down mountain slopes, may be rented Mountains. usband is known as a ski expert of exercises and practice turns shown by Bruckett this week end. So wide- spread is the skiing rage that New York and New England department stores have in some cases erected slides—felt covered with borax—so that customers may try out equipment. Skiing schools are springing up every- where. There were 60,000 pairs of skis sold in New York last season and 30,000 in Boston, he says, the ski makers finally announcing that they could fill no more orders until Fall. The mysteries of slalom racing, the crouch, stem turns, stem Christianas and swing jump turns were explained and illustrated Friday night by Burck- ett with the aid of slow-motion movies. It is a sport, he says, that any one may enjoy, although most experts have started as children, All is not jumping that is skiing, Burckett adds. News reels have given the ‘public the impression that it is an ing pictorial competitive leapi whereas every one may manage wme degree of dexterity. « Dartmouth Aided Sport. Impetus to skiing in New England ern New Hampshire, Bruckett told his audience, and the snow train idea originated about six years ago. Today more than 1,000 skiers leave Boston every Winter Sunday morning. An equipment car is usually attached, so that whatever is needed for sliding or bought. Some skiing sections have become so popular that one-way traf- fic, marked by flags, is necessary to avoid crashes. .[ Although the Appalachian Mountain Club, of which Burckett was formerly chairman of the skiing division, hn | done & good deal toward cleax slopes and trails of brush and mcn, | and marking them, the C. C. C, has, | in the past few years, done more. Every old farmhouse takes skiing guests, and New England hotels expect in the fu- ture to make more money in Winter than in Summer. ‘The Washington Ski Club plans to | amliate with the Eastern Amateur Ski Association, which has about 86 clubs and three or four thousand members, 0 that its own skiers may be classi- fied and eligible for competition. Its primary ‘purpose, however, is to give days of fun to those who like cross- country skiing. Leaders in the trail club present Fri- day were Myron H. Avery, president, and Harold Leich and Dr. F. J. Schairer, expert skiers. ‘The Excur- sions’ Committee of the club is plan- | ning a system of trails through the | Blue Ridge Mountains and may erect |a pine needle course in the Shenan- NAVAL AVIATION FAGILITIES ASKED Admiral Cook Urges Increase in Personnel, Suitable Tenders, in Report. Increases in naval personnel, sult- able tenders for patrol planes and ade- quate shore facilities are among the recommendations made to Becretary Swanson yesterday by Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cooke, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, in his annual report asking for more planes. The naval air chief’s recommenda~ tions ‘were: ¥ “l. Made immediate ‘provision of necessary increases in facilities at shore stations as required by the in- creases in number of fleet aircraft, “2. Seek adequate funds for the rapid development of the naval air station at Alameda, Calif. “3. Provide new aircraft of the best possible performance in sufficient num- bers to (a) replace obsolescence and crash loss, (b) increase total number of naval aircraft in accordance with treaty navy program. “4. Provide an adequate number of suitable tenders for patrol planes. “5. Continue improvement in per- formance of aircraft by a well-consid- ered experimental program. “6. Make provision for adequate housing for married Navy personnel at- tached to the Fleet Air Base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone. “7. Provide required increases in naval personnel. “8. Assign the Langley to Aircraft Base Force to help meet the immediate need for seaplane tenders. “9. Previous recommendations made by this bureau regarding lighter-than- air development are now in the ds of the secretary, and pending final de- cision in the premises, no further rec- ommendations will be made.” Admiral Cook told the secretary “the provision of the supporting shore facilities for these (new) aircraft has not kept pace with the aircraft expnn sion program.” Pointing to achievements afloat, he said the measure of success attending efforts to keep the air forces in readi- ness for war “may be judged by the highly satisfactory manner in which fleet aircraft have continued to carry out their duties in the fleet.” He de- clared competition has buen fostered in the alrcraft industry in “bringing out advanced experimental models of aircraft and at this time the bureau has available for procurement in quan- tity one or more models in each class with improved performance.” BOY, 7, BADLY HURT WHEN HIT BY TRUCK Robert Hembry Suffers Fractured Skull—Three Others Also Injured. A "-year-old colored boy, Robert Hembry, 926 Florida avenue, was criti- cally injured last night when he was struck by a laundry truck in the 900 block of V street. At Garfleld Hospital he was found to be suffering from a fractured skull and internal injuries. The truck, police said, was operated by Henry Hallman, 1023 Eighth street. Three other persons were injured in traffic, two of them perhaps seriously. Wwilliam E. Greet, 19, of 107 D street northeast, was taken to Emer- gency with severe head injuries after his automobile was in collision with another at Fourteenth street and Con- stitution avenue. The other driver, Beverly M.-Leach, 43, of 1114 East Capitol street, was treated at Emergency for minor in- Jjuries. Great-Granddaughter of Grant| To Wed Capt. Dade Griffiths Miss Edith Grant, 28, lormer Wash- ingtonian and great-granddaughter of President Grant, will be married soon to Capt. David Wood Griffiths, U. 8. Army, of Washington. ‘They were issued a marriage license today at-the Municipal Building in New York City. Miss Grant's address ‘was given as Governors Island, where she has lived with her father, Col. Ulysses,Grant, 3¢, now stationed there. Capt. Griffiths’' address on the mar- riage application was given as First street northwest, Washington. He gave his age as 40. His first wife died in 1934. The wedding, according to an Asso- ciated Press dispatch from New York. is to take place shortly on Goveraors Island. Miss Grant's mother is the former Edith Root, daughter of the late Elihu FUNERAL SE;I" TUESDAY FOR ALBERT J. EILBECK Resident of Capital for 25 Years ‘Will Bé Buried in Arling- ton Cemetery. Albert J. Eilbeck, 45, died Friday at his home, 1345 Taylor street, after a long illness. A native of Cumberland, Md., Mr. Eilbeck moved here 25 years ago. He was a member of the Masonic Order, the Junior Orderyof American Mechanics and the American Legion. 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