Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1937, Page 4

A—4 wxs BLAST INDICATED INPLANE DIHSTE Study of Parts of Wreckage Points to Explosion—In- vestigators Named. By the Associated Press. The naval commandant in the Ca- nal Zone reported to Washington to- day there was evidence indicating an explosion occurred aboard the Pan- American-Grace airliner which crash- ed into the sea off Panama. The official Navy dispatch said an examination of parts of the plane’s wreckage towed to the Coco Solo naval base indicated the plane struck the surface of the water at high speed and broke into small parts. “Evidence of fire found on part of the wreckage,” the message said, “in- dicates there was an explosion in the plane at the time of the crash.” The message added that the vy still was continuing its search by airplane and surface vessels for possible sur- vivors among the 14 persons aboard the airliner. """ Investigators Named. 8oon after receipt of the message frofp Panama by the Navy, the Com- merce Department named an investi- gatlon board to conduct open hearings onfthe accident Its members are Mifler C. Foster, assistant to Assistant Searetary J. Monroe Johnson, chair- mad; E. L. Yuravich, chief of foreign airfine inspection, and Roy Keeley, air- line inspector ey will be assisted by ‘various technical advisers of the Army and Navy M notifying board members of their sppointment, Assistant Secretary Johnson iss the following direc- tions “You will ¢ uct a public hearing at Such time and at such places as you may deem practical and do every- thing reasonable and necessary to ob- | tain all the available information re- lating to the cause or causes of this aceident ar same as prompily as possible.” The Commerce Depa said the Stgte Department was notifving for- eign governments whose territory must be.visited by the board HUNT CONTINUES. Naval Flyers and Destroyers Search o for Craft. CRISTOBAL, C 1 4 (®) —Two squadro: reipforced a the waters the fusela ntensi r miles west of Colo of a wrecked Pi Tied death Reports that ftself had bee founded today cated Assist 14 person ne's fuselage d proed un- debris was lo- strovers and ee s, the planes concentrated on an area : les square. There they hoped to locate the remains of the Sikorsky amphibian peared as it neared the end of a flight from Guayaq Ecuador. In the neighborhood of the hunt the depth of the water varies from 30 to 200 fathoms. Naval officers dicated that if the fuselage lay the deeper water it would be almost impossible to salvage. No Sign of Passengers. The grim search from the sky and the surface of the sea has as yet un- covered no evidence ti any of the petsons aboard the plane survived what Pprobably was the gr t plane dis ers Babbit and Taylor and the submarines, from the Coco 8alo Naval Station, kept a vigil During earlier stages of the hunt which has covered 10,000 square miles alfeady, the submarines S-43 and S- 46 gathered mute reminders of sud- den death. They recovered an uninflated rub- ber life raft, two water-logged bundles of'mail, a container of ice cream, part of'a wing, an engine casing and two life preservers still in their cases. ! Debris Picked Up Yesterday. Fhe floating debris was picked up late yesterday. The last heard of the latge 15-passenger planc was Pilot Stephen Dunn's radio report about midnight Monday that he was circling dofn through “soupy” skies to find bester visibility en the search for the missing aifliner was at its height yesterday a message was flashed from one of the 7Bhip badly damaged with no signs of ssurvivors.” Bits of wreckage were picked up 20 mies west of Cristobal, destination of the amphibian, and junction point for caffnection with the regular Pan- American clipper service along the eagtern coasts of the Americas. Hepded Toward Clipper Connection, e plane had flown about 850 miles along the Pacific Coast Eqyador and Columbiz, due north toward a clipper connection scheduled f0f) 6 am. rday. TFhomas F. Jardine, central division Euperintendent for Panagra, remained orione of the searching destroyers. The Navy said the search for bodies of the passengers and crew would be cofitinued today with Navy planes re- Jolning the search. Twenty-two naval aiferaft and all available Panagra ships took part in the tragic quest yesterday. Jhe Pan - American clipper which was to have picked up the passengers for its flight northward to Miami, Fla., caniceled its day's schedule yesterday and joined the hunt. Salvage Crews Dispatched. Salvage crews were dispatched to grepple for the sunken hulk of the luxury airliner. It was possible that | thg bodies of all those aboard were | st imprisoned in the long, boat- AMERICAN © HOT WATER RADIATOR CO. HEAT 289 COMPLETELY INSTALLED IN 6 ROOMS Written Guarantes NO MONEY DOWN Up to 5 Years to Pay Minimum Rates 1st Payment Oct. e @bove price includes new Arco Ideal iler. 8 Radiators. 300 ft, Radiation. rger Plants Propertionately Priced DELCO OIL BURNERS Estimates Free. Day or Night “ROYAL HEATING CO. §07 15th St. N.W. Natl. 3803 "= Night and Sun.. AD. 8520 make due report of the, disap- | of | ! THE EVENING TAR, WASHINGTON Passengers on Lost Airliner Zone. Los Angeles. | Mrs. Amy Levering, wife of W. K. Levering, Pan-American engineer stationed at Lima, Peru, and their two children, Jessie Mary and James Walter, were among the passengers on the Pan-American-Grace plane found crashed yesterday in Mosquito Gulf, near Christobal, Canal They are shown in the last family photograph taken. Mrs. Levering was on the way to —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. |like hull of the twin-motored ship. | It was also possible that the ship ! had been demolished in the impact on the open water, on the northern | | side of Panama. CLASH IN SENATE. McCarran Cites Need for New Regu- lations. By the Associated Press The crash of the Pan-American- Grace Awrways flying boat off Panama { led to a clash in the Senate yesterday. Senator McCarran, Democrat, of Ne- vada said “America must awaken to the need” of new regulations for air commerce. He urged quick enactmeny | of bills he introduced to center (‘Ontrol{‘ | of rates and safety measures in the | Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, of the Senate Post Office Committee quickly asserted that the | | rate control proposal would “do more to bring disaster to the airmail and other branches of aviation than any bill ever proposed.” He contended it would “destroy the built up under operation of the neil” by the Post Office Depart- nt After Senator Copeland. Democrat, of New York, urged that judgment be reserved on the cause of the acci- dent. McCarran said nothing he said should be construed as criticism of Pan-American Airways. Anderson (Continued From First Page.) m gir! the Receiving Home proper place for her.” Police had placed Doris in the home pending arrival of the mother. Assurance to Court. Richards assured the court the girl would be turned over to Mrs. Ander- son if she proved her right to cus- tody. Assistant Corporation Counsel T. Gillespie Walsh, representing District authorities, said Anderson had violated California law by kidnaping the child ar that the Maryland police had turned her over to Washington au- thorities “Would you consider it your duty to 20 to New York and bring a child to Washington?" Justice Proctor inquired of Walsh. The attorney said he would. “By what authority of law did the police of the District inject themselves into this matter and by what au- did the Maryland police de- the child over?” demanded tie judge. “Who is kidnaping this chila? | It seems to me the police of the Dis- | trict acted entirely outside their au- | thority.” is not a | | | Effect of Ruling. Attorneys said Justice Proctor’s rul- | ing made unnecessary a scheduled hearing this afternoon before Judze Fay Bentley of Juvenile Court to de- termine custody of the baby. | Mrs. Anderson is said to have been | awarded custody of the child in Cali- | fornia. Dissatisfied with the situa- | tion, however, the father took his | daughter and came to Washington Anderson, meanwhile is free under $500 bond pending appearance on August 31, when he will resist extradi- tion to California. He was employed as a linoleum layer by a downtown firm at the time of his arrest last week. He is an electrical engineer by profession and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. [ JOE HIGH *INCORPORATED" I'oUR PLUMBER’ ‘TROPICS EXPLORER TELLS HOW TO KEEP CoOOL! Mr. Robert Shippee, famous tropics explor- er, says: “Ex- ploring un- charted jungle wastes takes vi- tality out of me that only tea replaces. The torrid heat and the terrible humidity of equatorial cli- mate saps & man’s vitality to the |bone. I'm keen about the way tea | makes me cool and keeps me cool.” The difference between tea and | other so-called cooling drinks is this: | Tea does more than merely quench thirst. Tea actually LOWERS the body temperature. Its cooling effect is more LASTING. Turn toiced tea today for coolness and DELICIOUS taste. To get real VITALITY and the full flavor of tea, select a good brand of Orange Pekoe that comes from India, Ceylon, and Java-Sumatra. Policeman’s Report) Clears Up Mystery Of Missing Pants Although Policeman Edwin B. Cran- dall has located the trousers of his uniform, he begged to report today that he is ready and willing to spend $7.15 for a new pair In his statement to Capt. Richard H. Mansfield of No. 9 precinct Cran- dall set forth that at 10 am. Monday he took the trousers in question to a tailor to be pressed ‘The officer returned for the garment yesterday afternoon, he reported, only | to learn it was missing. He pressed | the tailor for an explanation. (No | pun intended.) | Further investigation revealed the serge trousers had been dispatched by mistake to a man in nearby Virginia “He was buried in them," concluded Crandall's report. WOMAN, 25, FOUND DEAD IN BED BY 2 SISTERS | Miss Rebecca White Jenkins, 25 was found dead in bed at 5 am. to- day by her two sisters, who shared with her a two-room apartment in the Cavalier Hotel, 3500 Fourteenth street. Death apparently was caused by an overdose of sleeping powders. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald id he understood the woman, who | was a registered nurse, had been in ill health for some time and had re- | cently received treatment at a san- | itarium in Richmond, Va. An empty | bottle. which had contained the| powders was found at her bedside. | Dr. MacDonald quoted the two sisters, Thelma and Elizabeth Jenkins, | as saying they had not been con- | cerned over the nurse as she lay in | ITALY TAKES LEAD IN AVIATION MARKS Increases Total From 26 to 45 to Forge Ahead of the United States. The dramatic rise of Italy and Rus- sia in the fleld of international avia- tion records during the past year has toppled the United States from its po- sition of world leadership, it was an- nounced today by the National Aero- nautic Association. During the past year Italy has in- creased its total of world aviation rec- ords from 26 to 45 and third place to first among the nations 1as gone from of the world in aviation supremacy. The Soviet Union during the same period has forged aheac from a single record to 15. topping its achievement by capturing one of the four coveted “major” records by virtue of the re- cent flight over the North Pole, which established a new all-time non-stop distance record of approximately 6.240 miles The standing by nations today s Ttaly. 45: United States, 43; France 35: U. S. 8. R. 15. Germany. 14. and Great Britain, 4, it was announced by Charles F. Horner, president of the N. A A Nicknames Recorded. ALBANY. N. Y., August 4 (#) —Tt would be easier to track down crim- inals 1f police knew their nicknames, State Correction Commissioner Ed- ward P. Mulrooney believes, so he has ordered New York prison officials to record them. “We've filed aliases for years,” D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST PAINTERS STRIE PROBE LAUNCHED Rate of Pay and Work Precedents Specific Points at Issue. Launched by a request from Repre- sentative Virginia Jenckes of Indiana for “full information” on the contro- versy, the Department of Labor’s hear- ing on the dispute between union painters and the procurement division of the Treesury Depariment was be- gun today. Witnesses told Referee Carl Sched- ler the principal points at issue are: 1. Whether laborers on painting jobs should be permitted to do such work as moving scaffolding, cleaning paint spots and placing protecting cloths on furniture at a rate of pay less than the scale for painters 2. Whether painters are entitled to double pay for any work done in ex- cess of seven hours a day for five days a week. Declaring she is vitally interested in the causes underlying the recent city-wide strike of union painters working on Government buildings, Mrs. Jenckes asked Schedler to have the record of the hearing printed for the information of members of Con- gress interested in preserving indus- trial peace in the District. Specifically, she requested answers to the follow- ing questions Was Local No. 368 of the Broth- erhood of Painters actually picketing the Government of the United States or the contractors working on Govern- | ment buildings? This was answered by Bryce P. Holcombe, business agent | for the painters, who said the strike was against the contractors Are the members of Local 368 itin- erant painters or permanent residents | of the District? Have the contractors affected by the | strike ever refused to sign contracts | with organized labor? | payers of the District? Schedler assured her the desired information would be supplied The controversy concerning the alleged use of laborers to do painting work arose out of contracts for painting the City Post Office. Albert W. Longacre, Procurement Division inspector on that job, said 22 painters |and 7 laborers were employed there He said the laborers were not per- mitted to do any painting but did assist in covering furniture, moving scaffolds and cleaning floors. He said some laborers had been em- ploved for these duties on virtually every job he had been connected with This was denied by Holcombe, who contended work of that nature was part of a painter’s duty and had al- ways been so treated in the District Several other witnesses were called to corroborate Holcombe's testimony. W. E. Reynolds. assistant director of | procurement, said the sole interest of the Procurement Division was to se- cure from the Labor Department a ruling defining the duties of painters and whether they should be paid dou- | ble time for the extra hour if they | worked eight instead of seven hours | & day. | Holcombe said he thought the Pro- curement Division was prejudiced | against local painters and that the | painters’ strike would have been avert- | bed during the early part of the Mulrooney said, “but this is the first | ed if procurement officials had been evening, believing her to be asleep. An autopsy was to be performed to- | day. I THE NEW A«P Sgft /wis/ BREAD 1S BETTER official records. The nickname should help police everywhere.” list IN EVERY WAY! We’re proud of the new A&P Soft Twist Loaf and hope you’ve tried it! Isn’t it the tastiest, creamiest bread you’ve ever eaten? Certainly it’s the finest we've ever made. 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