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tion or distance in seapiane flying. The greatness of the feat, it was said, © fies in the fact that it was entirely overseas. f: On last April 25 Lieut. Commander H. B. Grow pfloted the navy Seaplane F-5 for twenty hours and ten minutes’ continuous flight in the vidinity.of Hampton Roads, Va., covering a total of 1,250 miles, the wind velocity averaging twenty to thirty miles per hour throughout the tine ame of the flight, The F-5, however, circled around in the region of the air in her endurance test. NICATION LOST FOR TIME. After the flyers passed out of range of the Atlantic Coast radio sta- early this morning communication with the Navy Department prac- was severed for a time, The only message coming through be- tween 4.30 and 8 A, M, was passed castward by the station ships to the destroyer Melville at Ponta Delgada and cabled here. The planes then had passed the destroyer Cowell, the fourtcenth station ship, located ap- proximately 750 miles from Trepassey, or more than half way across to the Azores. When the seaplanes passed over station ship No. 13, al 2.36 A, M., they were flying in close formation. From the time the aerial voyagers left Trepassey Bay, siortly after 6 @’clock last night, until they had passed destroyer No. 13, more than 600 miles out, radio stations on this coast were able to trace their prog- tem by intercepted radio messages. By this means the powerful Goy- ernment station at Bar Harbor, Me., kept the Navy Department “watch party” constantly informed regard: ig the expedition for more than eight * Althouga the radio apparatus on board the seaplanes was only de- Signed for a radius of about 250 miles, the Maine station intercepted messages exchanged between the planes when they Were more than 1,200 miles distant, This was declared by expert radio officers at the depart-| ment to -be one of the most surprising features of the epochal under- When the flight was planned it was not expected that the stations oni this side would be able to hear Commander Towers’s messages after his squadron was 200 miles at sea. ‘ ment to-day, sald the three transatlantic planes carried 1,630 gallous of gasoline cach when they made the start for the Azores, The NC and the NC-1 carried their full crews of six men eact, bul) the NC-3, flagship, carried only five men, Lieut, Brazton Rhodes having been left behind. With Rhodes aboard, the message said, the NC3 would have cartied an excess of 185 over either of the other planes. NC-4 ALIGHTS TWO HOURS AFTER SIGHTING LAND NC-3, Behind Others, Reported by Destroyer Trying Hard to Catch Up. PONTA DELGADA, Azores, May 17 (United Press) —The sea- plane NC-4 has landed at Horta on the Island off Fayal of the Azores group. +The landing was accomplished at 9.25 A. M., New York time. . Horta is about 160 miles from the American base at Ponta Delgada. The NC-4 first sighted land at Flores, the westernmost of the Azores. The. NC-1 was then close behind. : Wireless messages to the U. S. S, Melville, the seaplane motiver ~ Ai said land was sighted at 7.35 o'clock this morning (New York The NC-3, carrying Commander Towers, leader of the air expedition or yatg behind, but passed the destroyer Craven, station No, 18, at A radio from the Craven said the NC-3 was going at teriffic evidently trying to catch up. = fer tee ge Flores 's 320 miles from Ponta Delgada, It was estimated that the tg hurtling through the air at a speed approximating 95 miles CROWDS AT PONTA DELGADA FOR ARRIVAL OF FLYERS American Nava! Officials Remain Up All Night to Get Reports of Scaplanes’ Progress. PUNTA DELGADA, Axores, May M—The news from the oncom-|™alned up all night to receive reports ing American seaplancs brought in- |or the seaplanes’ progress. ‘The wire- ie a atlantic flight to ein rehtlosog splendidly throughout the terest L. ours, & high pitch thts morning. Small} stationy edn aberrey eae te Knots of people gathered on the wat-| Navy to refrain from interfering with Messages regarding the fight, erfront shortly after daybreak to Hig thet avai, and an toe day, oro-| NEWS 1S WONDERFUL,’ SAYS WIFE OF COMMANDER OF TRANS-OCEAN FLIGHT gressed the crowd rapidly increased. ‘The section of the harbor where the Navy Department Relays Bulletins on Progress to Home of paanes were to be moored was cleared Mrs, Towers, of all craft to permit of a safe land- ing. Two destroyers were ready to amsist the planes if they alighted qutside the breakwater, The city here was in gala drens, Admiral Jackson had invited the high civil officials to view the arrival WASHINGTON, May 17. @ the Gyers from one of the Ameri- RS, JOHN H. TOWERS, oan wer craft stationed here. wife of Commander Tow- ‘The departure of the seaplanes ers, is receiving hourly from ‘Trepassey was first reported| Dulletims through the Navy De- There at 11.44 o'clock last night, when| Parment at her home in this city the torpede bost tender Melville re-| ‘fom the daring naval avintor who js in charge of the trans- atlantic Might. “The news is wonderful,” she ald to-day, The Navy Department ts re- ceiving bulletins by radio and eutved a wircless message reading, _ “Planes in fight.” ‘This information, which was rap- féty circulated about the city, caused mruch animation in American naval * Readquarters, which was besieged with inquiries regarding the flight.| communicating the to Mra. The flood of questions poured in upon| Towers at her home, ie amt headquarters continued through-| 19th Strect, So perfect are ar- oat the night, rangements that the Towers An hour after the announcement of the start o definite statement of the time of the departure wae received. further came in until 8. ‘when the N-C § reported having gtation No, 7, %0 miles from home is advised in less than two hours after the original message ptarts from the radio towers on the station ships along the sea route, 7 “The fight t# everything that my husband .could have hoped for," eaid Mre, Towers, “They are, I am pure, making as good A belated report from Trepassey Bay, received at the Navy Depart! ‘NAVY PLANE NC-4 FIRST TO REACH AZORES | i | | Toll Famed me <6, an me) me NAVY GAPTURES ESE ELCOES AVIATION LAUREL BY TODAY'S FLIGHT Major Macauley’s Non-Stop | Trip of 1,000 Miles Probably Nearest Approach to It. In the records, officia) and unoffi- cla), of aviation there is no feat to challenga the one accomplished to- day, The laurels of the army are captured by the n ‘The perform- ance of Major T. C. Macauley, U. 8. A, in making @ non-stop Might from Fort Worth, Teg to Souther Field, Ga,, a distance of 1,000 miles, in six hours and fifty-seven minutes, is probably the nearest approach to the triumph of to-day. It is necessary to use the word “probably” because many of the mar- velous air stunts accomplished dur- ing the great war have not yet been properly authenticated. Some of them never can be authenticated be- cause the aviators died too soon, No records have been accepted oy the International Aeronautical Fed- eration since the war began. And stunts like the one eagly in the war, when a French aviator undertook to fly from France to Russia across Ger- many, and almost accomplished it, are matters of incomplete informa- tion There have been many long flights. The Italian poet, d’Annunazio, flew from Rome to Paris on Sept. 17, 1918. Katherine Stinson flew from Chicago to Binghamton, 783 miles, without 4 mop—but #ne failed in her main pur- | pose, which was @ non-stop Might trom Chicago to New York. That trick, too, was acodmplished | only a month ago by Capt. &. F. White, U, B A, who n it from Ashburn Field, Chicago, to Mineola, L. 1, in idx hours and fifty minutes, without & stop, and carrying one passenger, whe was his mechanician, The tight of Major Macaulay was a part of a cross conHnent cruise which he accomplished With only four stops, covering a distance of 2,600 miles in 19 hours of actual flight. He flew from Ban Diego, California, to Fort Worth, Tex. 1,800 miles, two stops, ten hours flying time—then from Fort Worth duther Field, Ga., and then & short loop to Jacksonville. There is one “estimated” compares well with to-day ments, so far as the m flight i concerned. This was April, at Hampton Roads naval base, achieve- twen' in circles and covering, it is figured, | 1,850 milos. only on time In air and an estimated speed ra Throug' were flights of considerable length their len, weather, Joop was achieved by W. T. Camphell, who did it 151 times without landing, ‘This was at Dallas last November. Now look beck a bit Wrights astonished the world with a fight of twelve seconds. caused mi a “previously announced fieht—th could fly when he said he would, Ble And feat that anics of in where a pjane remained in the air for hours and ten’ minues, flying But that figure ts based te. hout the war period there such as from Paris to London, but the remarkable feature of these was not h but the fact that they were made regularly in all kinds of The world record for looping the In 1903 the In 1908 & new sensation by e wonder being that a man riot crossed the Wnglish Channel in in 1912 Fowler made his famous cross-continent fiight—taking 161 daya, whe Mn ), 8. "il \ 4d ant “NG 4 and WW eomMaNDER TS OWN SOLDIERS PAADEN HOBOKEN (Continued from First Page.) oat and the Mayors of Newark and Bayonne had still others. ery boat had a band and no band ted any other band, Therefore | re the air was full of a dozen tunes at the same time, | ‘Phe wildest welcome was for the | boys of Companies L and M are the ones who live in Hoboken and could almost step from the stip into their homes, Instead of that however, their homes did the step- ping. The boys were bombarded with enough cigarettes and candy to make them sicker than they were during| the storm at sea—which is some sick. | Permission has been granted by the military authorities for the Jersey boys to have a parade and good time before they are sent to camp, ‘The| soldiers will be put through the de- lousing process and handed over to} the city of Hoboken at 7 o'clock to-night, when they will meet their mothers and fathers, sisters and sweethearts, At & o'clock the parade will start, headed by Mayor Griffin and the City Commissioners, | The City Hall and other public buildings are decorated and all Ho- boken is a blaze of color in honor of the return of her heroes, The big restaurant in the ferry house of the D. L. & W, is alao decorated, and it will be there at 9 ‘o'clock that the troops will sit down to the best din- ner they have had since crossing the ocean, From ten to midnight the boys and their families and friends will be treated to the best vaudeville show Hoboken can produce, all theatres contributing. Between the vaudeville numbers there will be dancing, and at mid- night the boys may go home or wherever else they want to go and at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning will march ack to the pier and from there be sent to camp for demobili- zation Included among the troops on the Mount Vernon were the 1324 Infantry (lesa 43 officers), 58 officers and 3,284 enlisted men; Machine uGn oat- talion, complet officers and 365 enitsted men; h Machine Gun Battaiion, complete, 22 officers and 6% enlisted men; 8$d Division Head- quarters, Headquarters Troop and Railhead Detachment, 21 officers and 498 enlisted men; 108th Mobile Ord- nance Repair Shop, 1 officer and 65 enlisted men; Special Casual Com- They = Read DANIELS IS BACK: ENTHUSASTIC OVER CROS-SEA FIGHT (Continued From First Page.) Li @m A | (Continued From First Page.) the United States need not fear land- IR IN LONG FLIGHT TO AZORI |LOG. OF OCEAN FLIGHT y He comes back with |. LATEST REPORTS WASHINGTON, May 17.—Following is the log of the seaplanes in their later stages: , BAB A, M, (Washington time)—NC-4 passed station ship No. bout 109 miles from Corvo Island (Destroyer Craven), 2.98 A, M—NC-B passed station ship 18 (Destroyer Bush). 6.14 A, M.—NO+1 passed station ship 15. r 617 A. M—NCol passed station ship 16. 5.15 A. M.—NC-8 reported off course between station ships 17 and 18, about 100 miles from Horta. 785 A. M.—NC-4 sighted land. 8.10 A. M.—NC-4 passed station ship 22, 150 miles from Horta. 9.20 A. M.—NO-4 arrived at Horta, EARLIEST REPORTS The log of the earlier stages of the trip as reported to thes | Navy Department follows: 8.15—From U. & 8 Prairies wa “NO-8 started 6.065 NC-4, 6,073 NC+L 6.85—From U. 8. S. Aroostook: “All planes left Trepassey at 6.09.” 1144—From Prairie: “All seaplanes passed Station Six, 02.06. G, M. T. (Greenwich mean time.) 11.50—Prom Prairie (delayed): “Planes passed Station Three, NCI passed at 24.08 G, M. T. Last plane passed at 00.15." 12.24 A, M—From Radio Station at Bar Harbors “12.10 A, M. NC-4 sending on 450 (metres radio wave length) says ‘Passed 414. Signals very weak.” 1286—From Radio Station at Bar Harbor: “At 12.26 A. M, heard NC-4 tell VCE (Cape Race) ‘radio interference, fo ahead again.’ At 12.97 A, M, heard NC-1 call nine and say ‘Answer.’” 12.65 (delayed)—From Prairie: “Planes passed Station Two 28.83 G. M. T, 2.02 A, M.—From Ponto Delgado, Azoress: “Rush from Melville seaplane tender, near Azores): ‘NC-8 passed Station Seven at 58 G. M. 12.58 A. M.) Signed Wortman () 1 Ofticer).” 2.80 A. M.—Cable from U. 8. 8. Melville at Ponto Delgado, Azores: NC+4 passed Station Eight at 08.29 G. M. T. All three planes passed Station Eight at 08.50 G. M. T.” 285 A. M—From U, 8. S. Melville: “NC-8 passed Station Nine 04.10 G. M. T.” At 8.06 A. M, a message from the Naval Radio Station at Bar Har- bor reported picking up a message from NC-4 to the Cape Race Station saying it had “passed Station Ten about 12.50 this morning. Passed Station Eleven aboat 1.15, and was then nearly to Station Twelve.” 8.05 A. M-—From Naval Radio Station at Bar Harbor: “At 147 A. M. intercepted message NC-4 to NC-1: ‘Answer. At 1.86 intercepted similar message NC-8 to NC-1. At 1.35 picked up message to Cape Race from NC-4: ‘Passed Ten about 4.50 G. M. T. Passed Eleven about 6.15 G. M. T. Now nearly to Twelve. Thought you had lost me.’ At 140 intercepted following to Cape Race from NO 41 ‘Great, old man. See you later’ At 1.41, to NC-8 from NC-1: ‘Answer. Have message for you. At 3.43, to NC-8 from NC-1s ‘Answer.’ Same at 1.45, at 148 and 1.50. At 1.51, to (Station Ship) No. 11 from NC-1: ‘Please give me velocity and direction of wind, miles perhour and in true degrees.’ Ate 1.52 from NC-1 to Eleven: ‘Received, thanks.’” 8.15 A. M-SBar Harbor reported: “Intereepted at 158 from NC-4 te (Station Ship) Twelve: ‘Make Vs. (very light signals) so I can tell if you are near’ At 1.54, NC-1 to Eleven: ‘That made 15 miles, 300 true’ (referring to request about wind), At 1.56: NC-1 te - Eleven: ‘Kecelved, o k., finished.” f (Navy offielals said the messages then being intercepted by the Bar Harbor station were from a distance of twelve hundred miles, break- * ing all records for such a small sending wireless set as the NC boats © were carrying.) 1 At 8.25 A. M. a message from Bar Harbor Radio Station said: “A message intercepted at 2.36 from NC-1 to NC-8 said: ‘We have Just passed (Station Ship) Thirteen, Have you heard anything?” At 3.26 A. M. Bar Harbor reported: “At 2.16 intercepted a message to Cape Race from NC-4s ‘Recelved your signal, Thanks.’ At 2.21, to Cape Race from NC-1: ‘What ship or station is that? Here all well and in commercial radio communication, Good morning, Cape Race, from NC-1 At 2.20, to NC-8 from NC-1: ‘Was that youl At 2.80, from NC-1 to NC-Ss ‘In that five or six twenty-seven! (probably refers to Green- wich mean time.) ‘At 897 Bar Harbor reported: “At 2.86: ‘NC-1—Have you heard anything No. 31 We have just passed (Station Ship) Thirteen.’ ” ‘At 8.56 A, M. Bar Harbor reported: “Last heard of seaplanes at 8.21 A. M. and signals are geting weaker. Freak work may avail Itself early in morning and probabilities are we may hear seaplancs until six A. ML” ‘The following cablegram from the U. 8. 8. Melville, transatlantic flight station ship at Ponto Delgada, Azores, was recelved at the Navy a! Department at 420 o'clock this morning: * “The NC-4 passed Station Ship No, 14 at 07.06 G. M. T. (8.06 Wash- ington time).” (The Fourteenth Station Ship is the U. 8. S. Cowell, located more than 750 miles distant from Trepassey Bay. Communication no longer was posstble by way of Atlantic Coast radio stations and messages re- garding the progress of the seaplanes were being relayed to the Azores and from there cabled to the Navy Department over # special cable.) At 5.56 A. M. a cable message from the U. 8. 8. Columbia, at Horta, Azores, saidt “NOr1 passed Station 18 at 07.18 G. M. T.” eS board side and cave in two of her plates just above the waterline. Commander Perry of the Gloucester, which was shipping no water, im- mediately placed a launch at the dis- posal of the secretary to the Secretary and Britton, Wroat, Cooper, Hawks and the reporters beat the Mount Ver- non to the pler, tipo SPECIAL NOTICES, HORLICK’S THE ORIGINAL Pg! MALTED MILK imitations and ct DIED: ORAMER.—FRIEDA. panies Nos, 845, 647 and 88; Brest Convalescent Detachments Now, 239 to %43 inclusive, 634 enlisted men, all tick or wounded; 18 casual officers, On the Mount Vernon also wero Major Gen, George Bell, jr., command- ing the 634 Division, and Major Gen. Clarence C. Williams, casual. A delegation of about 200 persons from Ulinols went down the bay to welcome the troops on the Meunt Vernon, Prominent among these were Gov, Lowden of Illinois and Senator Medill McCormick. As the transport hove in sight the por cies swarres rund it. a f peared 0) surrounded by his staff, and eadeed 8 preat ovallon, tons, 68 per cent. of the total ship tonnage, Since the armistice was signed, the larmy has discharged 109,527 officers and 1,991,502—a totel of 2,101,0 Gen, Marod waid, | GEN. MARCH ANNOUNCES Of This $2,069,000,000 Represent- tures—Army Spent 14 Billions. WASHINGTON, May 11. A penditures totaled $23,- 863,000,000, Gen, March, been considering and planning it for Of this $2,069,000,000 represented | two eats said cll seca i normal Government expenditures | that the vessels of the German battle rie war costs. Of this $14,000,- | fleet should be destroyed. 000,000 was spegt by the arm: ae he said. “This is Admiral Bensoi opinion and it appeared to be the con- “Ther® is no reason why the United GOES 10 THE TH States should take these vessels. We . ‘ 1 would not fit them and by the time they were rebuilt they would be obso- ADVANCED 45 MILES See rsvp ot un tur wo ‘ Europe, Mr. Daniels said, was “to er learn everything that the war has party also visited most of the im- portant battlefields in France, Bel- ing of a large enemy force on her| rirgt hand information of the best shores, Chief of Staff! March 814.| toreign opinion as to technical naval América’s feat in sending the A. B. F. under the sea and in the air.” The and shows the impossibility of quick} osu i he mobilization of troops and shibs for @ nae pines, Sotaee. Say trip overseas to an enemy shore, division returned on the Mount Ver- for troop ships was thirty-five days! non with the Secretary, Gen, Bell five days more than a pre-war esti- | é ‘old Mr. Daniels that thi mate, Cargo ships took seventy-five : ie wae (she Generals have told him that of their A War Department statement prior! givisions, Mr. Daniels said, and he to the European war had estimated ¥ es with every on: A |that Germany could land 887,000 men| "iy" ary ape Of them March said, and could land an ad-| American Army, and the first thing I ditional 446,000 in the next thirty-| shall do when I reach Washington js one days, with 176,000 horses and] to call up Secretary Baker and tell France, it had been estimated, could land 404,000 men in a Hke|the army is as worthy of the coun- pertod, Japan 238,000 and Austria|try’s gratitude as is the navy, That ‘This, Gen, March said, the war had shown to be ap absolute impossibility.| _ With the Sectetary were Admiral Wether ships nor troops. he. sald, | Robert 8, Griffin, Chief of the Bureau War Department estimates made be-| w, Taylor, Chief of the Bureau of fore the war as to the possibility of| ,.) i " Construction and Repair: Admiral i hores, landing enemy troops on our shores.) raipn Earle, Chief of the Bureau of perience of this country {n mobilizing ebips, Gen. March stated, proved this.| aide to the Secretary ‘When the United States entered the] phe Mount Vernon was the Kron- trfoop fleet totalling ten vessels, with|Pringessin Cecile when it was in- a combined capacity of 10,830 men. Between April 6 and September 1,| days of the war. The first man to greet the, Becre- On ‘April 6, 1917, he said, the total]... Geanane ‘was nothing, as the ten| ty Whee the Mount Vernon Gooked ships of the original transport fleet Britton, his private secretary, who ing Apri mate map wee carried, over, had had the U, 8, 8. Gloucester seas by these vessela—only one o} which later remained in regular} 0Umped and somewhat injured under | In May 1,083 men were transported; |the Mount Vernon some distance in June 12, 261 (using commercial ‘bor. |i eee eli); in duly f457; 40 Avge | ome eon ‘The trip of Britton and the Glouces- ‘a total of 39,002 men. On the day the armistice wus signed the Unted States commanded 390,- | Secretary, but the Mount Vernon ts In the Army service and there appearnd ling the Leviathan and other t mix-up in signals, ‘The ran ed ships, ‘These and others added | rovsce con oy rip mera later, transported from Fra tween November 11 and the first of | Gloucester drew up and the comman- April 717,486 men. The total of} der of the Mount Vernon, with Ho- TAD Apri 1 was 626,000 dendweight | Poke 80 near, declined to sop, ton and his companions the army tug Gen, Joseph HE. Johnston chose just this time to back into the Gloucester, | TO U. S., $23,363,000,000, ed Normal Government Expendi- MERICA’S actual war ex- any spirit of competition, We had Chief of Staff, announced to-day. Laat Phere 4 ‘ Secretary Daniels is of the opinion and —$31,294,000,000 represented e oe ike Given bata “It would be a great moral lesson,” | sensus of navy opinion overseas, could not use them. Our ammunition lete.” | taught in relation to the navy.” His gium and Italy. Mi 1 “ sea, cvapeass ‘ba ipelds ie: ugpeetedented,| Cor Dearne or eon Five thousand men of Gen, Bel The quickest possible round trip ee “finest division in t o a4 est division in the army.” All the ge our shorse in sixtesn days, Gen.| , © ane off my hat.” he ssid, “to the equipment and food for three months.| nim that my trip convinced me that 180,000, is the acme of appreciation.” could be mobilized so rapidly, All| of Steam Engineering; Admiral David he sald, were erroneous, The ex- Ordnance, and Capt. Percy W. Foote, war, he said, this country had a terned at Bar Harbor in the early 1917, this fleet increased to 46,000 tons. at Pier 1, Hoboken, was Edward E. were not mobilized until May 1, Dur- | transport service. him in a vain attempt to get aboard ‘ust 5,458 and'in September 14,813— ter was made at the suggestion of the |000 deadweight tons in ships, includ- Vernon was weighing anchor when the cargo ships converted into troop ships To add to the discomfture of Brit- etrike her #Lout apaidebip om the Btag> at desl Ai tas Sic as CATHOLIGS WON'T TAKE PART IN WORLD CHURCH CONGRESS ROME, May 17—-Pope Benedict, who yesterday received visiting clersy- men of the Protestant Eplecopal Church in the United States, told them it was not possible for.the Catholic church to take paré in the propused rld church conference. The Pope aid that as “successor to St, Pi Bervices at the CAMPBELL PUNDRAL CHURCH, Broadway and 66th a#t., Sum- day, at 3 P.M. PERSONETTE.—SOPHIA. Bervices at the CAMPBELL FUNERAL CHURCH, Broadway and 66th st. sum Gay, 2.30 o'clock. LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS, added that the teach! of the Catholic church unity of the visible church known to every one and, therefore, !t would not be possjble for the Catholic Yan “Lest ond eres vartieed in The World or re te “Lost and Found Boreas,” Roo: ‘The Pope explained that he is no 1 Usted wise wished to disapprove of the participation in the conference of those who are not patted to the chair P ation issued a note ro- gretting that the Ro Catholic ihe world not be re! web mM ] oa carence gules y e reat stondoms prom- ined to'sarapaiain