The evening world. Newspaper, May 19, 1919, Page 2

RR EE——————E i pihamardh “MONDAS DIAGRAM OF HAWKER'S PLANE. WITH 1 ITS PILOT meyer tested in flight, may have failed just as a similar set ae wet by burn- ing out during a trial trip. Capt. Raynham inquired several times during the night for news ot SP hile fival and expressed the hope that Hawker and Grieve would attai iy ele objective. The pilot of the Martinsyde machine and his navigator, Capt. C a Morgan, sustained. painful injuries when their plane was kid yesterday in an attempt to take the ait in answer th Hawker's challenge Capl. Raynham was Saway from his hangar, but Capt. Morgan was {to join in the flight. Ne to drive his automobil more serfously . his face bearing three deep cuts which required several stitches to close, A successful flight by Hawker will not mark the last of the trans- Vice Admiral Mark Kerr | before returning last night to Harbor Glace, where, the giant Handley- Patlaniic attempis to be made from this port. Page planes are being assembled, said that his expedition would make “ead trip in the interests of science if denied the chance to be the first. en) Cees _ HAWKER STARTED IN WEATHER THAT DETERRED HIM BEFORE Martinsyde Plane Out of Race After Wreck in Attempting “Hop.” * mr. JOHN'S, N. F., May 19—The ‘Magtinayde plane, which crashed in ’ to get away on the trans- Might om the heels of the yesterday, is practically « wreck. Examination of the damage to-day showed that the machine is of+the running for the trangat- prize. Frederick Raynbam and Major its handlers, were slightly injured when the Martinsyde took « Give after Jumping ten feet from ‘Gneven turf in an effort to start. ‘Harry Hawker, the Australian and his navigator, Lieut. Com- Mackenzie Grieve of the navy, shot away In'> the east ‘their transatlantic attempt at 1.51 M. (New York time) Sunday. For weeks Hawker and Grieve had ‘waiting for favorable weather. qonditions yesterday were not than they have been frequently that six weeks, but Hawker determined to start and make eleventh hour dash to beat the seaplanes to Europe. Halt an hour before jumping off, Sopwith was rolled out upon the ‘Lees than 50 persons witnessed getaway. Hawker carefully the machine, Then he and chatted a fow minutes with ‘friends, shook hands and climbed their seats. They talked in low then Hawker gave the signal, & white handkerchief to his ‘The engine started with a roar, and /iittle machine went bouncing the field. It bounded and wob- 300 yards, then rose splendidly, jurmed eastward at an altitude of 500 feet and rushed seaward, ily climbing. Rapidly dwindling, the plane hum- high over the camp of the Mar- ‘de people, who were making vig- | rows efforts to get started and make jt @ race. When he had passed the shore line, awker touched an automatic re- jease and the entire running gear of his machine tumbled into the wea, A shout went up from the little knot of spectators at thia sight. Jt meant Hawker was definitely confmitted to his desperate enterprise, He could not come down without smashing bis machine, or plunging jt into the water, Morgan and Rayrham saw the running gear drop, and made more haste to get started. Shortly afterward their plane was a wreck. Five minutes after the Sopwith passed the shore line it dwindied from sight of the waters on Signal Hill, 600 feet above sen level. The shortest route from Newfound- Jand to Ireland is 1,800 miles, but the one Hawker proposed to follow is 2,600 miles. ‘There were no boats sta- tioned to guide him, the airplane had but one motor and one propeller and nothing to keep it from quickly sink ing if it descended to the surface. LISBON READY TO WELCOME NC-4 ON ARRIVAL THERE} s: Portuguese Planes Will Meet Ameri- can Machine at Sea and Escort It In. LISBON, May 19.—Word of the de- parture from the Azorés of the 4 is eagerly awaited and @ vigil will be matntainod Along the entire coast ge soon as the seaplane gets under way, Portuguese hydroplanes will meet the machine at sea and sirens in the harbor will spread the news through- Out the capital as soon Ht te sighted, All high officials of the ver members of the diplomatic rps other distinguished personages witness the arrival ab: ‘'d the ¢ Rochester. A reception will be held aboard th Rochester for the airmen, The Apos. tolie Nuncio will give hanks for thelr safety A banquet is being arranged ay the Aero Club of Portugal. Phe Portuguese Government witl decorate the flyers with one of the highest orders of the republic and will ulxer injured, Tonren Can im INetAnrTLY Mecr Aoto Prom eu ote "Seay Teweon <2 ene DiAGR Am OF HORTA, Press) picked up by the steamer Ionia ‘Sat- urday afternoon, after they had been tossed about in the water for five hours in their damaged plane, Ali the members were fatigued and suffering from seasickness when picked up. The plane is almost a total wreck. Lieut. Commander P, N. lL. Hel linger, the commander of the NC-1 gave out the following statement to- Ja “The NC-1 was the last plane to take the air at Trepassey, doing #0 at 10.10 P.M. Friday (Greenwich time). We proceeded on the course, being guided by the smoke and searchlights from the destroyers and the @tar shells they sent up, After passing most of the station ships, we did not meet with any trouble until we got into for at 11.10 A. M, Sat- urday, when we were near 6tation 15. After being in the fog for some time lighted on the water at 1.10 P. M : @ataréay, “We kept to our course until we struck the fog when we lost our bear- ings. We deemed it advisable to head Into the wind toward land to get our bearings before proceeding. We were then flying about 3,000 feet up. We dropped to fifty feet in ofder to sight water and found that the wind was in a different direction on the surface bf the water than it and also that dense at the lower altitude May 19 (Associated The crew of the NC-1 wa was above mor which was rough and choppy with heavy swells, The strong wind continued until we were picked up. “At 6 P.M, (Greenwich time) we sighted the masts of the lonta on its way to Payal and Gibratar above the horizon, We were unable the hull of the Ionia and as she did not have wireless we were unable to communicate, with her, We, there- started taxing toward her, to see MOTOR GASOLINE Every drop pure, ee en quick-burnin: and packe with power. See Frida *s issue of The New Y ‘ork Evening World for a list of dealers who display the Socony Si; ign. the fog was) We made a good landing. on the) MAW KeRS mAcuN COMMANDER BELLINGER’S STORY OF WRECK OF NC-1 Forced by Fog to Descend, He and the Crew Drifted for Five Hours Before Rescue. About this time the fonia sighted us @ boat which picked as Our Dosition when up was latitude 39 north: longitude We tried | tow lines of the Ionia broke and we were and lowered up at 6.20 P. M. we were picked degrees §8 minutes 30 degrees 15 minutes west to salvage the plane, but the forced to give up the attempt “We were resoued with because the small bo: was tossed about like a cork. us were seasick, otherwise we did not suffer. “We sent out 8. O. 8. calls after Janding but the radio sending radius was only fifty miles on the surface of the water, intercepted stroyers. messhges between ¢ We last heard the rad COMMANDER TOWERS’ WIFE. | SHOWING KEEN ANXIETY AS SHE WAITS NEWS OF FLYER Finds Little Assurance in Unofficial Reports About Rescue by U. S. Warship. (Speciat to The Wrening World.) WASHINGTON, May 19. ITH deep emotion in her W voice, Mrs, John H, Tow- ers, wife of Licut, Com- mander Towers of the NC: manifested the keen anxlety sh is beginning to feel over the safety of her husband, when. seen by an Pvening World represen- | tative this morning at he home, “I bave had no word through the Navy Department that would indicate my husband and his crew have been found,” she said “as the tears gathered in her eyes. | “I do not feel any assurance from the unofficial reports that the NC-3 had been rescued by the crew of the cruiser Columbia, be- cause I am afraid this report grows out of the rescue of the NC-1 by the Columbia, The re- Ports of stormy weather off the Azores also are very disturbing. I can only hope for the best.” Mrs, Towers kept an all night vigil, prepared to receive good or bad news over the telephone from the Navy Department. The wife of the daring young naval aviator was formerly Mi Lilly Carstairs of Philadelphi ‘They were married while Towers Was an assistant naval attache at London in 1915 and they have one child, CHALONER AS TRIAL OPENS Tells of Relationship to Stuyvesant Families and Re- views E. "New York art patrons are they are cracked up to be,"’ ucation said afternoon of his against the following the $100,000 ew York decision by libel Evening Judge that he was menta!ly competent to tes tity Ohalone to the Astor and Stuyvesant of five He then spoke of the Chalenor Foundation which he was in this connectio New York art patrons Proceeding to his exper ous to his incarceration. Dr. Starr, an occulta, him things which he while in a trance, ELEVEN FAMILIES EVICTED that ex previ alienist, posing as an Eleven families were from the apartment houses at No {to 836 East 126th Street, whe jstrike i in progress. Furniture rly a story high in front of the s, Only one famliy had arranged this afternoon to have a van rer its} | belongings. Other strikers are arranging to shelter the evic! nts, Mattresses ing floors and the evicted families will sleep in other in the buildings. ‘The owned by Mra, Rose charges the ule @ soviet rule in her house, Rudinsky, who difficulty of the tonla | All of While awaiting rescue we | the CRITICIZES ART PATRONS Astor and not all John Armstrong Chaloner at the opening this suit Post, Hand firm told of hia relationship families and reviewed his education from the age Prine established and it] he criticized | Chalenor said had used as testimony against} such @ had said and done AS RESULT OF RENT STRIKE) "*"* “SS evicted to-day | @ rent was re be- tenants are trying to ineti- ’ at 9:15 o'clock Saturday morning. “If the fog had not we could have continued to Ponta Delgada, Our engines worked splen didly throughout. The average alti- tude of the flight was between 590 and 8,500 feet,’ Commander SBellinger and the others of his crew, who are on board Columbia, were much refreshed y after thelr harrowing exporl- | WILSON TELLS WOMI WOMEN HE GANT GHANGE TREATY Telegraphs His Sympathy’ to Zurich Conference, but Says Difficulties Bar Modification, ZURICH, May 19.—Miss Jane Addams of Chicago yesterday read at the Women’ international Conference for Permanent Peace in session here a repiy to an address gent to President Wilson at Paris relative to modification of the terms of peace, Mr. Wilson wroti Your message appeals both to my in- tellect and heart and I sincerely desire that means may be found te comply with It, although the prospects are far from reassuring because of the immense practical difficult Anawering a suggestion by British delegates that the American delegation at the Peace Conference secure her ap- polntment as a member of the Council of the League of Nations, Miss Addams said; “Such a scheme cannot be re: ized, for in America at the present day none is more detested than the pacift,” DEMOBILIZATION DISCUSSED BY WILSON AND PERSHING Gen, Bliss Returns to Paris From Inspection of the Rhine District. PARIS, May 19.—Gen, Tasker Bliss, American representative on the Supreme War Council, returned to Paris to-day from an inspection of the Rhine district, Details of the final demobilization of the American expeditionary ‘force were | discussed to-day by Gen, Pershing and President Wilson, The American Com- mander-in-Chief took luncheon with th President at the Executive's Paris resi denee. Renewal of the American headquar- ters at Chaumont Is already under way, BASES HOPE IN ALIENIST } TO FREE WRIGHT OF MURDER RIVERHPAD, L, 1, May 19.-—The trial of William W. Wright for fi, degree murder, opened to-day befored Justice J. Addison Young in the Suf- folk County Supreme Court, Wright who is sixty-five years old, and a well known Brooklyn detective, ls charge! with shooting and killing Smith W Conklin, a wealthy rea tate dealer, in the latter's office in Patchogue oA Jan, 29. Wright is said to have later attempted suicide by shooting. Judge Young granted permission to wiand Miles, attorney, to retain Dr Smith Ely Jel! of No, 64 West 56th Street, Manhattan, to continue aminations of the defendant. In | Jellitfe says “Wright was in mental condition at the time of the crime that he did not know the nature or quality of the act he was do- ing or know that it was right or wrong.” 7 Half of the 200 been “so _thiok his es »| port, Dr. talesmen summoned court opened. WASHINGTON, May 19.—R, |Cholmeley-Jones, until recently « | Colonel in the army's war risk in- surance on in France and former ly a New York business man, to-day became direvtor of the War Risk In- surance Bureau, succeeding Colone! Henry D, Lindsley, who retired after charging the treasury with Interfer- j ence In details of bureau management, apartments apartments are Swift & Company's entes > Fork Olty for May UT averaged "as fall veer. 2.08 cone ver pound.——Adve, HAWKER USES TYPE OF PLANE THAT WON BRITISH VICTORIES It's a Two-Seated Sopwith, Equipped With a Rolls Royce Engine of 375 Horse Power. The Hawker, Which Harry G. Australian aviator, the Atlantic with Commander MeKengie Grieve, as navigator, Is a Sopwith dt type with which the “British gained most of their success in fight- Wee It {s a two-seated airplane, equipped mochine in the started across Lieut. RN. the ing on the tern front . with a Rolls-Royce Eagle engine of 375 horse power, less than that of one of the four Liberty motors with which the NC boats were equipped ‘The machine made its frst flight April 10, when it was taken at an altitude of 4,000 feet the city of St. John's, and stayed in the about half an hour. The capacity of the fuel tanks was 350 gallons when fully loaded and the tanks were structed with a view to providing buoyancy for the plane when emptied, in the event that Hawker had to alight on the water. If compelled to descend with the fuel tanks full, Hawker planned to pump gasoline out and float until rescued, | Otherwise, he said, the machine could last int» sea only a few hours, | Another feature of the Sopwith was the detachable undercarriage with | which it was equipped. This the pilot | ntended to drop whil@ at sea to lighten his machine and enable him to| reach greater altitude if desirable ‘Tie feat it was planned to accomp- lish when about 100 miles at sea, If done it meant that the machine could not alight either on land or water without “crashing.” One “crash” would mean the end of the trans- Atlantic fight for Hawker The machine carried a receiving wireless set, enabling the aviators to pick up signals from ships at sea and in that way aid them in calculating their course, their navigating equip- ment being admittedly far inferior to those carried on the NC boats. For navigation, Lieut. Commander Grieve-maid, he would rely almost en- y on sextant and the instruments used on and sailing ships. The sextant, he said, cannot be de- pended upon to give precise results| when the horizon is made uncertain | by the altitude of the plane. He said that he and Hawker hoped to make with it the best they could, with such chance ald as they might get from ships. When Hawker weeks ago that he was ready to start at the first favorable opportunity for the $50,000 prize offered by the Lon- don Daily Mall for a transatlant fight, the Newfoundland Postmast General gave Hawker a pouch con- taining despatches to King Geo CED DIED. BLOCK, WILLIAM, CAMPBELL FUNERAL CHURCH sor- Broadway, 66th «#., Monday over con. compass, steamers out announced — six vices. 2 o'clock. PERSONETTE.—SOPHIA, Bervices et the CAMPBELL FUNERAL 10 Broadway, Hoon 00d er, Marshal Hawker offered to carry private mail for $500 an ounce, but there customers. Just what speed he hoped to make known only to the aviator, chine proved a speed capacity of 100 miles an hour in the trials, but it 1s tended to put his engines ax speed would entail. James Hamilton of Rattlesnake He sald Briday went down to the river, himself on snails HELP WANTED—MALE.. By nloom 10-8, do FRIENDS WAIT 10 GREET HAWKER AT BROOKLANDS Flyer's Wife and Daughter Among Throng Flocking to English Landing Site RROOKLANDS, nd, (Associated Press). — The reports received this afternoon that Harry G. Hawker, who flew from New- foundiand yesterday in his op. with airpl had been sighted off Ire- land were received with the greatest the flight to the Irish coast was | am here, where the Sopwith His ma- 8 are located. Hawker's would succeed in his transat- are: ke steainc flight that as soon as his de tenance of this ure was announced arran were made for his ption. Mrs. Hawker, wife of the aviator her daughter, were among the many who came to Brooklands this afternoon in anticipation of welcoming him, as it was known to Mrs. Hawker that her intended to make ¢ tly for May “19 were no t were friends onsidered prot that he 80 86 Ai ments we DAY IA ARIKANSAS, Benton (Ark.) 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