Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1937, Page 51

CLIPPER HONORS DOLE RACERS Wreath Is Dropped on Ocean Between San Francisco and Hawaii| for Six Men and One Woman Who Perished in Flights That Ended Tragically in 1927. And yet I cannot reprehend the flight, Or blame th’ attempt presuming so to soar; The mounting venture for a high de- light J .. Did make the honour of the fall the | more. | For who gets wealth, that puts not from the share? | Danger hath honour, great designs | their jame | Giory doth follow, courage goes before; And thought th' event oft answers not the same. Sufice that high attempts have never shame. mean observor, safety keeps, Lives without honour, dies without a name And in eternal darkness ever sleeps. | And therefore . 'tis to me no blot To have attempted, tho' attained thee | not SAMUEL DANIEL, 1 19. By Jack Parker. EN vears ago this month Amer- ica reached eagerly for news- paper extras over a period of several days to read about the latest catastrophes on the first 8nd last San Francisco to Honolulu airplane réce, in which seven ships and 10 lives were lost competing for prize of $25.000 and a second > of $10.000 offered by James D. pineapple king of Hawaii news item of a few days the fact ina t The whom base | of ago ipper | S T lar run between | and China, dropped a| wreath into the sea between San Fran- cisco and Hawall in memory lost awplancs in the ill-fated race | of 1927 | Although one is not informed what | gpot the navigators of the chpper | selected for comm {ce, not having the sma the ships went down, did speaks | eloquently ef deca remote planes and as the story of ghows, t 16, 1927, . Cal Lind- is less than three planes stand | IT IS the mornin at Bayfarm, Oat bergh's flight to Par: months old. ht ready to fly to Hawa maining en- tries of numerous applicants eager | to try for the prize money in spite of | £mall gas capacities in their aerial | craft. One girl and 15 men are ready | fident of reaching | 400 miles away. Instr Navigation? Few knew very much about them. But Lindbergh had found Paris and two Army Air Licuts. Hegenberger had just flown to Haw couldn't they do it? Originally scheduled for A the race has been delayed and poned. On August 9 the pilots of 14 ships met and drew lots for starting posi- tions. On August 10, a Tremaine low wing monoplane crashed and burned, kill- | ing its pilot and its navigator, Lieuts. | George W. D. Covell and Richard S. | Waggener. The day before Lieut. | Covell had drawn number 13 for his starting position. He scratched his and who can say that he 11 The Spirit of Los . & two-engined triplane, dove into San Francisco Bay. James L. Griffen, pilot, Ted Lundgren, r and Law he Angel Los monoplane flown ce, Capt. Arthur V r the city whose of by a British war Rodgers, crashed r name she bore, killing her pilot. A third entry was scratched Two other prospective racers have | withdrawn—the ships unfinished in their factories | The City of Peoria, an Air King | monoplane, has been ruled out, her gas capacity deemed insufficient for the hazardous flight The remaining eight ships and their | erews, checked and passed as fit by | Department of Commerce inspectors | end the Rules Committee of the race, | are lined up in a semi-circle, awaiting the starting signal. In two respects all eight are similar, each is powered by the famous Wright J5 engine and each has on the upper right and lower left wing surface the letters NX fol- lowed by a number. The number is | the ship's identification—the NX the Department of Commerce “interna- | tional experimental” designation— showing that the ships are licensed for this one particular flight In first position in The Oklahoma, @ Travelair monoplane, manned by | Bennett H. Griffen, pilot, and Kenneth | C. Hawkins, navigator. The Pabco | Pacific Flyer, a Breese monoplane, | has a one-man crew—Maj. Livingston | Irving. who has qualified as both pilot and navigator. Golden Eagle | is a Lockheed Vega, with Jack Frost at the controls and Gordon Scott navigating. Miss Doran, named for her pretty 22-year-old school teacher | passenger, Mildred Doran, is a Buhl | biplane with John A. (Augy) Pedlar | as pilot and Lieut. V. R. Knope as ravigator. Aloha. another Breese | monoplane, has a pilot Martin Jensen | and as navigator Capt. Paul Schulter, master of the steamship City of | Nome. Woolaroe, with Arthur | Goebel as pilot and Lieut. William | Davis as navigator, is a Travelair monoplane. The Dallas Spirit s | & Swallow monoplane, flown by Capt. | Willlam P. Erwin with Alvin H. Eichwaldt as navigator. Had Mrs. Erwin, the pilot's wife, been but a year older, The Dallas Spirit too would have had a girl passenger, but under the rules of the race, all occupants of eontesting ships must be at least 21 years old—and Mrs. Erwin is only 20. One minute past noon. A man is holding a checkered flag aloft. He sweeps it downward. The Oklahoma lumbers down the runway, gathers speed and is off out of sight, into the West. Again the checkered flag sweeps down. El Encanto starts down the run disappearing in the great cloud of dust spewed up in her wake. Seconds pass like hours. The dust clears and far to the right of the runway lies El Encanto, her right wing pointing to the heavens, her left wing com- pletely wrecked. Two figures climb out of her and wave. Goddard and Hawkins are okay. A tractor appears | and drags the twisted ship from the feld. A third time the checkered flash | The | broke, of the| sl | The i have won fact equipped with radio was able perished. and The Pabco Pacific Flyer tries her wings, down the runway. Slowly she picks up speed, but not enough speed. Dangerously near the end of the 7,000-foot run, Pilot Irving hits the brakes. TRe ship stops, turns and | taxies back to the starting point. In | rapid sequence the others take off. Sleek Golden Eagle leaves the | ground in less than 3,000 feet. Miss| Dovan, Aloha, Woolaroc and finally The Dallas Spirit speed away The Pabco Pacific Flyer is just getting ready for a second try when | Miss Doran comes back to the field, her engine spitting. Pedlar has dumped most of her heavy load of gasolme into the sea, so she lands | asily and her crew, barely waiting for | her ¢o stop rolling, jump out and start | checking the engine. A little later Dallas Spirit returns, fnbnc’ streaming from her sides. Eichwaldt | tells how, shortly after the take off, | the isinglass window in the floor and how the wind rushing | through had ripped the covering from the ships fuselage. The Oklahoma | comes back. She too has experienced engine trouble The Pabco Pacific Flyer makes an- otlier attempt to get off. Unsuccess- | ful. she withdraws from the race. With | new spark plues in her engine, a fresh | supply of fuel and a cheering word from Pilot Ernest Smith, who last | month made the hazardous crossing | from San Franciso to Hawaii himself, | Doran is off again. The Dallas | Spirit has been repaired and is ready to go. Misfortune strikes again, IUl" she noses over on the take-off and is | damaged. The Oklahoma withdraws, | It is night and four ships are some- where over the Pacific. Early morning ves, but no ships The morning In Hawaii a huge crowd | hers at the airport. Then, 26 hours, | minutes and 33 seconds after leaving California, the Woolaroc ids her journey. Goebel and Davis, grinning from ear to ear, climb out | and ask if they are first. They are ad have reached their goal. In | answer to questions they say they have not seen any of the other shi Mrs. Mart n. eager her husband 1y two hours after the arrival of he comes the Aloha had the For two hours she had v over the sea, waiting skies to clear enough b T to take a reading on the The sun became visible again | just in time. Aloha has landed with only a 20-minute supply of fuel left in her tan| | A story is told about Mrs. Jensen | approaching her husband very much | upset with anxiety when he landed and | saving, “Martin, where the devil have you been?™ The crowd waits in vain for N and Golden Eagle. requested p: n, s Steam- to watch es s liners, Jensen 2 N seas h are still unreported Back at Bayfarm Field, Erwin and Eichwaldt have repaired the Dallas | Spirit and are ready to leave. They have decided to go after the $25,000 offered by William K. Easterbrook for the first aerial crossing from Dallas, Tex., where they originally started their flig] to Hongkong, China. They plan to fly a zigzag course to Hawaii, scarching en route for the | two missing ships. At 2:15 in the | afternoon of August 19 they take off. | At 9:15 that night, when approxi- | nately 690 miles at sea, their radio | s out a message from Eichaldt that they are spinning. Erwin man- | t0 get the ship under control hwaldt explains that the lig nating the instrument panel has Suddently they send the | ‘We are in another spin.” s the final message and a cool one. | adio is silent. The fog and sea | again. Only through the the Dallas Spirit was the world | to know when and how she| that The story of the Dole Race was THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST 15, 1937—PART FOUR. concluded with a news item of Sep- tember 16, 1927. “The steamer Maui is scattering 5,000 floral pieces along the path of the lost airplanes that were bound | front San Francisco to Hawail in the | Dole Race.” Such was the flying contest. Three | ships were destroyed and Covell, Wag- | gener and Rogers killed while prepar- | ing for it. One ship was destroyed trying to start. Three ships were los: at sea and Mildren Doran, Pedlar, | Knope, Scott, Erwin, Eichwaldt were | killed participating in it. Safe Cherry Pie. THE Federal Government has| stepped in to add to the snmy-‘ ment of those who favor cherry pie. Experienced cherry-pie eaters have been familiar with the feeling of ap- prehension lest a luscious cnerry hide | a pit to the detriment of the teeth. Now the Food and Drug Administra- tion has ruled that there can be only one pit per twenty ounces in a stand- ard pack of cherries. With reasonable care, says the Food and Drug Administration, canners can so handle cherries as to get out prac- tically every pit. The best canners | do this, but some have allowed too many pits to go into the cans. Cher- ries with more pits than the 1 to 20 ratio may still be marketed if labeled “partially pitted” and bear the sub. standard legend; thus giving warn ing to pie makers and pie eaters JOURNEY TO NORFOLK AR Autoists May Take Boat. Down Potomac River to Resorts. By James Nevin Miller. ASTERN VIRGINIA has count- less charms for the motorist in search of a pleasant trip of three days or more. Especially is this true of the Summer playground area around Norfolk. The climate has few equals, combining the vigorating salt air of the ocean with the balmy fragrance of Southern pines. Yes, this 1s one of the most de- lightful resort sections of the South, with Cape Henry and Virginia Beach within 20 miles of Norfolk, Seashore State Park and Ocean View within the city limits—only 8 miles north of the downtown section. To the south- west is a famous hunting and fishi rezion, the Dismal Swamp near Suf- folk. The Chesapeake Bay affords unexcelled fishing for spot, trout, flounder and mackerel, and rock, drum and other game fish are caught in the ocean. The Back Bay marshes. where myriads of ducks and geece, quail and shore birds abound, are famous for hunting. In order to locate the major show places and points of historic interest it is suggested that you clip the strip map on this page, prepared especially for The Star by the American Auto- mobile Association. If you go by way of Fredericksburg, Richmond, Wil- liamsburg and Old Point Comfort over routes 1, 2 and 60, the distance to Virginia Beach is about 221 miles. Or, if you travel through Petersburg over routes 1, 460 and 58, your mileage is 232. This latter route leads through Portsmouth and Norfolk. Maybe you'll decide to go to Norfolk by boat and then drive to the various recreation spots in the region. If so, here’s some information that may come in handy A boat carrying your auto free of charge leaves Wash- | ington every night at 6:30 and arrives at Norfolk at 8 the next morning | One way fare per passenger is $3.80. | On Saturdays and Sundays there are | two boats. Only 50 cars may in- be | carried on each, so it is urgent that if youre traveling on the week end you order your auto space well in ad- "rail Blazing Ocean Skyways . . ctch by EA SUGGESTED (Alexandria Q Achland ) o Manover ' u rRT(ihmond 2 N ~ Toan 2 Providence Forge Rowling Green \ Washington Ocean, Sea Food Dinners and Historic Spots Are Diverting. ) N CASE you drive all the way to o interested in here are no sections between | s on route This probably fic for Traffic ely a is slow annoyin the outset of but not ex- , first of 3 Vernon You're now on this until vou reach . 54 miles from Wash- Here vou have your choice good roads to non4, routes Bear in mind that trucks llowed on the latter route. hmond to Old here vou take the ferry, is 83 miles, via Route 60. You land at Willoughby Spit, near Ocean View. You're on 60 and follow it all the way to Virginia Beach, 23 miles from the ferry. The boat ride takes about 25 minutes and there's lovely scenery where the Jones River and the bay come together. A pleasant alternate route is along Route 1 from Richmond to Petersburg, a distance of 23 miles. Route 460 here to Suffo! Norfolk and nond, if you an hour in al ¢ city in the capital and largest Sutfolk ™ TN In order to locate the major toric interest around Norfolk, especially for The Star by the American Automobile Association. Your journey leads through one of the finest resort sections in the South. r show places and points of his- or gite me death.” Points of lude the White House of the Confederacy, Tweifth and Clay streets: Virginia Historical Museum, | 707 East Franklin street, the former clip this strip map. prepared vance. Northbound boats leave Nor- folk every night at 5:45, arriving in | home of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Washington at 7 the next morning. | Richmond National Cemetery, con- Stateroom prices range from 81 to $5. | taining the graves of Union prisoners _ | touring. should be followed for 61 miles from | then Route 58 through | HIGHWAY GU F-3 ARDING: Touring Vacationist Must Be Prepared for Special Dangers Due to Local Cus- toms—Thought Demand. RAMMING the touring desires of the entire year into 14 days of high pressure automotive recreation creates special hazards which can be met safely only with ample forewarning, according to Frederic C. Russell, automotive expert. Statements to this effect, says Mr. Russell, are being offered by those who are struggling for greater highway safety. A summary of the high spots of these hazards is suggested by those who battle for greater highway safety as something which every vacationist should ponder well before taking 10-mile jaunts around town to 1,000- mile tours over mountains, across ex- press highways, through camp trails and into the thick of strange traffic may find themselves sadly unprepared without & working knowledge of the special dangers which must be guarded against. Lack of familiarity with their new environment is the outstanding hazard, but there are many insidious forms of risk which are not apparent even to fairly experienced drivers, This year many thousands of tourists will run on the ragged edge, through | trving to keep up the speed standards set by the latest cars. A car designed to operate normally at 35 may be traveling beyond its braking capacity if forced to keep pace with the 45 and 50 mile gait of the more recent products. | Front wheel watched for b, shimmy should all vacationists who want to travel safely. Older cars are especially prone ’finl)‘ because they are pushed too hard over the road. but also because of wear 1on the king pins, steering connections, wheel bearings and also weakness of the front springs. A car overload will sag at the rear and change the caster setting of the front axle sufficiently to encourage front-wheel wobble or shimmy. [USING a blowout patch in a front i is a ser offense against safety unless this is done in a emer- gency and the driver proceeds at a ferate rate of speed ce the “road tramp.” erous because i Iy ends i le hills” are a constant sotirce of danger to those who are not | familiar with the special hazards of The driver goes down one hill without shifting to second on the theory that the grade is not steep enough to overtax the brakes. Im- mediately following this hill is an- .mher which causes the trouble be- | cause the brakes have not had time | to cool off. Persons who suddenly jump from | up to & higher standard of efficiency in order to meet the local situation, FTER a car has gone a thousand miles over ali kinds of with many sudden speed and 1 braking, it is y hikely | brakes will not be as efficient were at the start. Man occurs as the car is on stretch There also | neglect tire pre | ward run, a form of recklessness that irr.z\' result in a my e most people are in a hurry to get back | If the brakes are adjusted en ro | be sure to seek the maker | service station or at least specialist. It may make m ‘(f) take a shot at an | Some very dangerous apport | front and rear whee | have been made by chanics. Hur country as they n accident the homeward a ten \ the | on u is a common | variably this is due to fai the tour carefully and to c ‘ schedule for each da do the bulk of th end of the day | be to this hazard, not | | time under such | at night there is less moving type s become a factor, | The early | standing tou point of HAND cran | but be sure tha that the spa few turns w t ignition off before g Few motorists seem to realize that | | their internal expanding brakes are different from the external con! ing variety formerly used on most cars. The overheated internal brake becomes less effective. since the dru expand away from the shoes. S denly the brakes are found want if recklessly used. The older type brake usually started binding and not infrequently caused the car to stop in its tracks. { The habits of other drivers are something to consider seriously when touring far from home. It is a fact that in different parts of the country | | people drive by different standards, signal differently and are molded into certain customs through sectionalized | laws and ordinances. to make a left turn looks a about to turn right. In one h town drivers run faster than would be ap- | propriate for the visitor. This i cause the former keep their b if he is There are some | places where the driver who is about | down grade with gas will foll g & set more suitable to gine tempera Keep the e [ clean around the car vent fire. | Many accidents are caused by fuss- | ing with the car on the road | change w to the side of the road around the engine wit ing. Don h | When the ra | Cor of war and those who died on nearby nattlefields. PETERSBURG is well worth a visit Today it is one of the leading to- bacco markets in the country. Its place in history was chiefly won in | 1864-65, when the long siege and the | battle of the Crater took place. Losses in this campaign are estimated as 42000 in Federal killed, wounded and missing, and 25,000 for the Con- THOSE WERE THE HAPPY DAYS! vl E\Oue GARIEN 2087y NELD S ) TR cev: ATS RIGHT ? SoN, THE “REBS ==/ SHOT GENUL BOLL- | OCKS HOSS RIGHT - (i H l 'S FiRsT Hooco AS LATE AND So \"A SN ALWAYS GO A SORT OF DETECTWE KiCK 00T OF T’ N THESORRATY HousEe,604-- H STe NoWs WHERE THE || ASSRASSINATIONNE OF PRES\DENT I [l LINCOLN WAS == CLANNED. \\\\\\\\““ {CEMEMBER =SS ORe? DAMES DUNEAN, E B FORNITORE, CARPETS §R0Gs,Loo o GLASSES AND FAM-] LY BIBLES, B27- 7 SToNW, 2 WAS EVER THUS, CEMEMBER How You USED Yo RON YO GRAND DAD TO BEAR Y00 OVT IN SOME MIRACLLOUS TALE HE HAD TOoLO You oR MAYBE ABOLT SOME ?AtzncE;o#A\z %I_ACE oR s INCIOENT HE REMEMBERED, : TAAY YOO COOLD RARDLY BELIEVE D ~ = — e e Sko - FROM ONOER HIM ANO A GENOL RIGHT IN MY ARMS AND VTOTED O FREORICKSBURG — \ CAUGHT 7 SEL IM ALL TH WAy a ON MY BACK;// SAYS, HE PON BELIEVE IT, NOW ) KETCH STORGEON SEN FEET LONG IN SH EASTERN — INGOLD HART \ - L HimM‘GooT YO0 USED TO ) “Around th’ Town O'Yore.” —BV DiCk Mansfield 1K ARTON KEY, ®)) GeoeriETOR OF ”(3\2(00148, PoRMERLY KNO WA AS WELCKERS, _ REMEMBER VAE JOVIAL 1BART; WHERE VHE NSVIVANTS OF ?‘?MEIZ DAYS WINED ANO DINED AND ‘VHE GASTRONOMIC FAME e " WHO. 4 QENV\VEMBE(ZS WHEN OIL WAS < (SCOVERED @) H ANO Fngo HERE WAS 50 OF WHE TERRAPIN, DucK Ar%g chHAMVASGEuS WKNOWN NNOI S AND EPICORES ¢rom COAS 1o (OASI WHAT DO You REMEMBER % ONSWER TO LAST wseg (RUESTION - SHN PP SoUSA BORN, ONSWER, N WASHINGTOA, D.C.AY 636 ~-G-ST. WH S.E. NEXTWEEKS, AV DOES THE CAPSTONE OF YHE WASH.,MONUMENT WEIGH 2 We me of Pe* nan who f s Cl stree son of the and St. Pa his s | w deta 1\!9‘1 known, the Colonial capital of Virginia is now in process of restora- tion to its appearance during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries You should see there the Raleigh Tav- | ern, the campus of William and Mary College, second oldest college in the United States: the Colonial cap | and Paradise House Old Point Comfort is the site of | Fort Monroe, one of the oldest and most important fortifications in Amer- |ica, commanding the entrance ) | Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads As early as 1609 the place was { | and has been ever ce. In ad | to the fort, the “Point” is of as being one of the nicest Summer re- | sorts in the Old Do ishlendm bathin, | course, boat ments. PFishing is good on Hampton Bar, 1 m Norfo ituated on the Elizabeth River and Hampton Roads, has one of the world's finest harbors. Norfolk and Portsmouth are twin . Eep=- arated only by the Elizabeth River, and connected by ferry and bridge Ferries also connect Norfolk with all important points in the vicinity, in- cluding Newport News, Oid Point Com- fort and Cape Charles on the Eastern Shore. Norfolk and Portsmouth together form one of the most important naval stations in the country. The navy yard is at Portsmouth, the naval base at Norfolk. Trade at Norfolk is princ pally in peanuts, in which the eity leads the world; coal, in which it leads the Nation; tobacco, cornstarch prod- ucts, grain, cotton, oysters and fruis Onme of the world’s largest coaling sta- tions is located here. DURING the Civil War this was the chief naval station of the Confederacy. successfully held against many attacks until 1862, when the city was evacuated. The most cele- brated battle during this period was the naval engagement between the C. 8. 8. Virginia (Merrimac) and the U. B. S. Monitor, fought in Hampton Roads. This was the first conflict be- tween ironclad vessels in the world Each failed to pierce the other's armor, but the Virginia destroyed the U. 8. 8. Congress and the U. S, S. Cumberland and dispersed the re- mainder of the Union fleet. Of special interest here is St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Church street and City Hall avenue, built in 1739. This was one of the few buildings left after the burning of Norfolk in 1776. The visitor may note, in its ivy-clad wall, an embedded cannon ball, fired by the British fleet. Other points of interest include the Norfolk Museum of Ar's and Sciences, in Lee Park, Mowbrsy Arch and Yarmouth street. i