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i, | } Caen FLIES Fro TREPassey AY 6.07 P.14- MEW YORK TIME ected Da te D, WE COMPLETE MAP OF FLIGHT FROM TREPASS<Y | DNESDAY, MAY 28, 1919. ; PASSEOAT = 54 READ, COLUMBUS OF THE AIR “NEVER STARTED ANYTHING THAT HE COULDN'T FINISH” poiotee? First Cross-Ocean Flyer Typi- cal American, With Square Jaws and a Smile. 18, was almost as good an example of simple, concise reporting as was tne report of Hawker sent by wireless two days ago to the London Daily Mail. In ull his narrative, Lieut. Commander Read used the personal pronoun but twice, | Fre occured the expres- es Sp tcrarp | Slon “we decided” to do this, thi GIVES CREW CREDIT, |the other. It was pliuin trom his mes- sage that he regaras his erew of five as sharers of whatever credit that rue to the unprecedented feat mssing Che ocean in « flying ma- Wouid Talk of Nothing But) ™» is k ing Prepara- | chine His Work During Prepara | ‘Albert Cushing Read was born at tion for Flight. |} Lyme, New Hampshire, a little town : on the Connecticut River, It was for-| tuitous indeed that bis parents de- cided to give him the name of Cush which ix closely associated the glorious record of the United} States Navy. And it n be more | than ac that one of the de stroyers stationed near the European coast yesterday to lend him ald in case he should be forced to alight on the ocean is named the Cushing. The future pioneer in transatlant\< By Martin Green. Lieut. Commander Albert Cushing Read, the skipper of the NC-4 and Christopher Columbus of the air, is 4 typical officer of the American Navy He is but two months over thirty-two years of age. A look at his photo- The N.C-4 RECORD OF NC-4 ON FLIGHT FROM ROCKAWAY TO LISBON Read’s Plane, Crippled at Outset, Slowed Up Only on One Leg. raph reveals @ lot of the inside of) air navigation attended the public the story of his fight. school at Lyme until his people moved He has the typical American tace, | Gown Into Massechiatia, He at- ended the ie and high sche square jaw, straight, firm mouth,| hia new home. until he was sixteen wide forehea rious eyes-and Ken-| years old when he re ed an ap erous ears. Readers of the newspaper| ointment to the Naval Academy a have doubtless noted that Hawker and | 4)7apolis. : byte saa oes that Hawker and)" He was graduated with honors, and the other English aviators who es-/as an Ensign saw a lot of service on sayed or are about to essay the trang- | various battleships and cruisers. In atlantic flight are generally phovo- 1008 he was sent to the Pacific Sta- graphed smiling. Seldom does a {OM Serving there until 1911, when he was ordered home from Nagasaki, apan, In July, 1915, when the navy ‘an to pay some attention to avia- tion, he was sent to the aeronautic station at Pensacola, Fla., for instruc- photograph of a smiling American of- fc * appear—except when he is photo- graphed off duty. It was said of our officers and soldiers in France by the tion in aviation. At that time he soldiers of other nations who saw held the rank of Lieutenant. them going into batt in May, 1916, he was detached from 7) . the aviation service and sent to toe e A ericans, he! oes e ad Th fe Americans, thelr fw are" patileship North Carol but he was frozen. dered back to air work in Lieut. Commander Read's smile is| June, 1917, when he was p in generous and intectious, but when he | Charge of the aviation station at Bay saerasg 4 Shore, L. a Lieutenant 13 on a job he doesn't smile much. Gomm Mteeacencley He kereed He probably smiled expansively when at sevaral naval air stations, including he alighted in Lisbon Harbor those at Rockaway Beach, Montauk, night, but it is a pretty safe bet that his features were set all the WWY MODESTY IMPELS HIM TO “FADE across from the Azores. IN THE BACKGROUND.” This young officer who, after an al-| Waive stationed on Long Island dur. most heart-breaking surt, finally |ing ur he was in charge of @ achieved the honor of guiding the , number nportant tactical air man- frst aeroplane to cross the Atluutic, | ° uvres und made imany Sights off ele while German suomarines men- never figured in the public prints be- | aced the co In March of this year fore he was assigned to the command |he way selected to command one of of the NC-4, The files of The World, , the t NC planes in the transatlan- ie Might and joined Commander Jobn Henry Towers of the NC-3 and Lieut. Commander Patrivk Nelson Lynch Bellinger at Rockaway, from the date of his virth, March 29, | 1887, down to a few weeks ago, con- tain no reference to Albert Cushing Read, The reporters who were as-| As heretofore stated, he was there signed to Rockaway during the prep- | considerable time before the report: Vers got wack of him. # ability to aration for the flight of the NC's (re Mor crete et ind was 7 never saw Licut, Commander Read | to ig inherently modest and \o-dn until he Was unexpectedly placed in| (nds this, one of che most retiring command of the station one day by | of officers, the most talked of man ins cs “i the world the absence of the ranking officers, [MP WOM Os nger Rewd ia married READ CONVINCED REPORTERS (and futher of a child. Hig wif HE WAS LIVE WIRE. liv n Washington, During t He received the reporters that day |time the NC-4 was storm bound at je seoRIvER Che ren Chatham, hundreds of miles behind in his office. They found a rather|tne NC-{ and the NC-3, Mrs. Read| sl¥%ht man wearing a gray sw frequently said she was certain hel nd eventually cro and a pair of greasy uniform | ¥oul cata up a |the ocea trousers, He had been working on|*BA peeen., i ane said, “doenn't the engines of the NC-4, His an-jstart anything he can’t finish.” swers to questions were so clear,| Lieut. Commander Read, himself a lightweight, had a lighter crew than scinct and decisive t the re- succinct and decisive that the reo | in. other flying boats, The énly big porters talked about him when they 6 orters talked abovir judgment was| man in his command was Pilot Lient That'here was a live wire. After that|W. Hinton, who \s a year younger tt ier of their days wus complete |than Lieut ymander Read. Lieut Unless thoy paid @ visit to the soft; Hinton wa hin way up from, the voiced, ihe litle officer who was nted man. Ho, gained always alatle but refused to. talk ‘ en in March about anything but the work in &n¢ nnointed Tleutenant, junior hand 3 ‘A quulity in| Lieut, Commander a Rend'chat’ impresved the reporters | weight Aviater Walte Word for was b's thoroughness and the calm ten Flak Noliberaton with » he went : th witch he went! DAYTON. O. May 28—Howard | puee whieh he finished them, | Rinehart, chief experimental avistor ted) rot appear to be in a harry |for th ayton-Wright Airplane $1 ybudy around him hustled | Gompuny of this city, 18 awaiting ai- Pee iden him copied his company before he puts the final touches on his plane for an attempt +i test of Lieut, Commander to ero: ctanti: Alone in a Ge nerve came when he Was jay Neue ety Date mans of mW Misi the ype made here and flown in naval bixe~ te which he had form: rly jong Ainerican aviators. Rine= been at becuse Of enkie nary hes made important fights, one troublé, (f did not tue him and his of 4, st being a non-stop flight crew lous to repair the hes Due Ge eae raT Dp pons weather conditions held him at sae i ttham for a week, He was his ; eeeater, there and could have Makes the First Fiteht Ipto Yoo Siaricd aty time he desired, but, al- weulte Valley. ch het knew the NC-t and’ the’ yOsmMITE, Cal, May 28—'Tho Heat Ne-3 might start at any time for the aie ovne aight into Yosemite Valley ‘Trepassey Bay, he did » jump for Newfoundland wa Fira acc fot make »mplished yesterday he Was satisfied that he could Lieut Janes Stephen Wrull, flight ao, it. ‘Chis was chaiacteristic of commander at Mather Bield, flying the man, from Merced, California. Rising to. an alt tude of 11,090 feet, Lieut, Krull SHOWED HE WANTED TO GIVE compjoied the eiehty-mile Might into HIS CREW FULL CREDIT. the ,bvart of the Sierra Nevada (Lieut, Commander Rear's account of Moline in one hour and five min- his voyhge from Trepassey Bay to the ulis. The plans are # return dight ‘Azores, cabled to The World on May \ x ved to-day, arden City and Port Washington, | A scended off Cape Cod on its first leg an, estimate of the distance to that point is made. SUMMARY of the progress of the NC-4 since she sailed out from Rockaway Beach May 8 is appended. reckoned in nautical miles, 60 nautical miles making 69 land miles. As the position in which Lieut. Commander Read's plane de- not been published His low rate of of the trip hi The miles and speed are THE PLANE THAT DID IT; ITS COMMANDER AND HIS WIFE)SUFS FOR $150,000 TO AFTER SHE GAVE UP ROUGE AND LIQUOR Young Actress Says Clinton MacKenzie Agreed to Main- tain Her for Life. Inona Morris, the twenty-three year old actress who is suing Clinton Mac- Kengle, wealthy architect of Oyster Bay, for $150,000 because, she alleges, he refused to maintain her for life Jafter she had signed the pledge and given up face powder and rouge gnd her Broadway friends, to-day re- cived a aot k from Supreme Court | Justice Tierney. The young woman tried to compel MacKenzie to face an examination be- trial to obtain evidence to ald her in prosecuting the action. Tierney refused to order the examina- tion because Miss Morris did not give her address to the court and showed no honest intention of using Mac- Kenzie’s testimony to prove her case. Miss Morriy alleges that after MacKenzie toid her of his great wealth he asked for her companion- she charged, he made her promise to abstain from drinking intoxicants, the use of face powders, rouge and cos- tics, and from frequenting Broad- In August, 1917, she Justice | ship and society, but as a Leen onegred 80th Division, including troops from Vite ginia, West Virginia, New York an@ Western Pennsylvania, arrived here to diy aboard the transport Zeppelin from Brest. More than 4,000 men and offte cers were aboard. Major Gen, Adelbert Cronkite, who commanded the division in France, was in command of the troops. sonar CLEAN-UP DATES FIXED. Mayor and Officials Choose Jane 23 te duly 6 As the result of a conference ber tween the Mayor and the heads of de partments yesterday ft was announced that the annual “Clean Up" campaign of two weeks for the city would begim | June 22 Om that Sunday clergymen wil be aaked to urge their conj tions to Udy up their homes, yar neighborhoods. The Board of Education haa ay to exploit the campaign in the scl The Boy Scouts will be mobilized to HU sHaks “NONE 80 GOOD” The elegance of Hurley Low Shoe models is the combina- tion of graceful designing and the best leathers obtainable, ex] and perfection shoemaking of . finish. With such a high standard of quality, speed on that day was due to overheated engines. AL BENT CREEK! &. be Mpeg) gel ag pe done Fhe i Date Course Burt arrival, tm Knott HLM. Hour, |Who Guccessfully Pil he NC-4 ‘ OF Eat pate to May 8 Rockaway to Chatham..10.04AM (Crippled. anger eet eA tert is Mrs. A.G. Reap. Jat that rate for the rest of hee life May 14—Chatham to Halifax..... 9.05AM 1.15PM 840 4:10 85 provide for her. May 15—slulifax to Trepassey.... 9.52AM 5.37Pal 461 8 45 68 ‘ ‘ | “1 have been and still am ready to May 16-17—Trepussey to Horta..... 6.07PM 925AM 1,200 15 18 81.7 the 155th Brigade, was also on the| continue living up to my part of the May 20—Horta to Ponta Delgada. 5.40 AM 10.24AM — 160 1 44 88 Bact Penle agreement.” the young woman stated May 27—Pontu Delguda to Lisbon, 6.18AM 4.01 PM 800 9 43 82.2 | The cruiser Huntington docked at|in affidavits presented to the court . ’ Pier 16, Hoboken, with 2,004 me ‘+ Have Kept ‘my pledges since the FLYING TIME FROM NEWFOUNDLAND TO PORTUGAL, 2,150 | MILES, 26 HOURS AND 45 MINUTES, | DRAPED BEAUTY FLEES BANK Olive-Skinned Damsel Asks Gold in| Wheatley Hills Girl, Freed of Man- slaughter Charges in Auto Ac- Exchange for Bills, but Latter Deftly Disappear. very policeman at Coney Island to-d. on the watch) for @ beautiful, olive-skinned girl of twenty years who| |drapes the tradition: robes of a syDay | | |wbout her plump body. She has @ be: witching smile, but can speak few| |words of English. | Yesterday afternoon this girl ap: proached the window of the paying |teller of the Bank of Coney Island, In her hand she he $500 Dill, ‘Thurston |Burgmeyer, behind the barred window, | her coming you would give she asked, | Burem r counted out change fn $5 and $10 bills, The girl counted the bills, | hesits then, pointing to the gold| trinkets dangling from her neck, asked | for gold. M while, Burgmeyer saw the maid |slip a few Dilla from beneath the bottom | jot the “deck to her bosom. When asked to return the bills, the girl start- ed 4 general rumpus. George A. Mall- Jley, the Vice President, took ‘a hand. T pon the girl abstracted the miss- \ing bills from her waist, threw them in Ph | bills?’ ase, me small \the face of Burg rund fled. Two hours later the rns Detective Agency telephoned the bank to be o the lookout for two swindiers who the same game, They have ccessftul hauls in Ridgewood, N in Manhattan, it Is eald, “MRS, PRESTON IS ELECTED ANTI-SUTFRAGIST OFFICER | lw ildow of Former President Cleve- | land First Vice President of | Jersey Association, | Mre. Thomas ton of Princeton, N. J., widow of ent Grover Cleve- land, was elecied First Vice-Prea lot the New Jersey Association Opposed to Suffrage for Women at the ong: s tenth annual meeting at Newark laa- to-day ou r offivers elected were: — Presi- Curroll P, Bassett of Sum- wding Secretary, Mrs, John of South Orange; Corre- Secretary, Mrs. A. PB, Me= Murtrie of Bo: N. J. and Treas- urer, Mrs, H Coe ‘of Newark, Seventeen Vive-Presidents _ we chasen, including: Second Vice-Pre dent, M jarrett A. Hobart, widow of dent, mt: Re Q. Bo: sponding N /EDITH MORTIMER TO WED AS CLERK SCENTS SWINDLE) COUNT DI ZOPPOLA OF ITALY cident, Marries June 21 The engagement was ann day of Miss Edith Mur Wheatley Hills girl, who was ner, ly acquitted on a charge of |slaughter growing out of the killing of two men in an automobile accident in Long Island City, and Count Mano bi place Saturday, June 21, at the Mor- timer country home at Roslyn. Both Miss Mortimer and the Count Count Army are twenty-eight years Di Zoppola was in the Italian d toe rich ent- man- 9 wedding will take the 366th Infantry American) Division, of the 89th with Co pani TROOPS IN TO-DAY ect and I am | agreement went into rrangement, but ready to resume the rfendant is not.” K, L and M missing, The division! Kenzie has an office at No. 82 r Street. His country estate at fought in the Meuse-Argonne cam-~| ¢ aigr Bay is one of the finest on paign and at St. Mihiel and has been {be North Shore of Long Island. The in Trieves with the Army of Ovcupa-| young woman's Cees has ihe { tio ce the atic n given, although in papers file poe Ley hea sipsycby said MacKenzie maintained her Company A holds the record for) {nh gparunenta at No, 312 West 48th ——— | Congressional medals, having had) and >) 263 West 45th Streets. Three Ships Bring Vanguard Of |three awarded to its members, Tw: of the awards were posthumous. The Soldiers Here—Seven Ships Are Due. of Lieut, Col, Rudolph E. the Regular Army The 314th Machine Gun Battalion, {in command of Major 8, J. Taylor of Pittsburgh, of the T9th Division, were among the troops on the Edward Luckenbach. There were in all eight officers and 647 men. They went into action Sept. 26 and fought in Malin- jcourt, St. Mihlel and tho Meus gonne, their casualtios being On the voyage the Luckenbach, on the morning of May 17, sighted the NC-4 nearing the Azores and the wol- diers gave mighty « What was Smyzer of The vanguard of transports due in New York to-day with a total of 16,540 American soldiers arrived at dawn, the first to dock being the Ed- | ward Luckenbach, from St, Nazaire, with 2,267 men, the Santa Bordeaux, men, cruiser Huntington with 2,024 of the 356th Infantry. Both ships went to} Pier 6, Bush Terminal. Paula from and the with 2,155 rs, On the Luckenbach were the 311th before the war broke out. He joined | 59, thought to be the wreck of-one of the Italian Aviation Corps wad. is| ic Artillery (less detachment ofthe svaplanes was sighted later and still connected with it, He came to| cers), 314ch Machine Gun Bat-|the transport went fifty miles out of America on a visit last fall, remain. |talion (less detachment of officers), her course to discover that the object ing here about five months. He then] a casual company from Ohio and two | ¥#8 # derelict. went back to Italy and is exptcted | special casual companies. The four other transports due t back in America next week. day, with the troops they carry, are DOCTOR ACTS AS BUILDER Garrett A, Hobart, who was Vice: Preal- dent of the United States: Third V.ce- ident, Mrs. EB. Yarde Breese of morristowl, ana Bourth Vice-President, Aire. John K. On the Paula were the 321st Field Artiliery Detachments of Battery «2, Kroonland, St. Nazaire, 3,871 men, including 78th Division Headquarters 20th Engineers Headquarters and|@nd Motor Transport Detachment, OF HIS OWN HOSPITAL Medical Detachments $4 BattAlion, Toth Division Headquarters Troop, Headquarters and Medical Detach. | 70‘ seve laa erga ees —_—— ments -of 8th Battalion, 7th, 16th, seepage grees eens af Gedney Jenks Institution Opened to] 17th and 18th Contpany; 155th In. | ComPAnInN Ul iO te te tury dete ; fantry Brigade Headquarters, 309th | tach cy Head ‘ Residents of Hastings-on- . tachment, Train Headquarters Con Residents of Hastings-on: Infantry Headquarters and Medical| pany, Companics A to F, inclusiv Hudson, Detachments 3d Battalion, Companies | 9th and 109th Mobile Ordnance & HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, May %—|D, 1 K, L and M. Shon tou pene se ipo Literally constructed by Its founder’ Eight officers and 1,066 men com-|B and D; 304th Train Headquarters J prised th tin f the 09th I) 1 , k ised the contingent of the 309th In-| 37th and 18th Companies, 2d Regi- own hands, and with his own money, apy eae wa money.) tantry on the Santa Paula, the major-|ment Air Service Mechanics, 648th the Dr, Gedney Jenks Hospital was] ity of then New Jersey men, Capt. | AePO Squadron, 316th Infantry Head- opened to residents of this village to-| ). : : : quart 4d Battalion Sanitary De- ay Frank L, Sanders of Company L is @| tachments. Co nies L and M, aod ‘Three years ago when Dr, Jenks| NeW York man whose bome is at No. | Detach: of Company K; 1,101st Magid dhe i nent for a howpital in| 400 West 118th Street, He says the) Spee: (usual Company pe opposition from persons whom he| at Arras with the British’ and fought ipany A, 310th Infantry Field harged were inspired by political mo-| right through with scant relief. nd Staff, Headquarters and Sut y tives. He thereupon proceeded to build] ‘They vere with the 78th (Lightning) Company, Headquarters Ist ard his own structure Division at St. Mihlel and in the |{attallons, Medical Detact Sant- Dr, Jenks was recalled from overaeus tary Detachment Ist and 24 Battal Meuse-Argonne drive and d o an ee nce service during the war by residents of " ions, OM panies heed o, NA CIUEY tho willaae, who petitioned for hin noe | Feached La Chalade’ when the arimis- | a1ith Infantry Detachment, 312th In- lease on the ground they were without | ce Was signed. Private Albert Der- Detechment, one — casnal & physician in the community agauis of No, ov2 Fitth Avenue, As- FO ration re on aan —<—- bury Park, came home wearing the DATiatine nh 4k TOMRtoR. rmer Sergeant Dead of ¢ D. 8. C,, the Cross of War and Mili eld and Steff 1s) Battalion George Siet formerly « sergeant| tary Mgdal of France. With two men | quarters Me al Detachment 27th Division, was found dead of| he captured four machine guns and |qarters Suvoik ant Much ne his home at No. 98 Bryant Ave-| took tourtwen prisvuers iu Uae At | ona mie Hn Aaatinaniae nue, Winfield, t night, He was re-|gonne and made tae Germans lug) Gane ¥ 1x. 1.920 men cently discharged from an army hospital| their own guns into tae American nding 22 lands after being treated for wounds and shell | jines. tfoadanart tnt Pat shock, His brother told the police the | 1°” J leatian Hen ane Madina 9 sergeant had been disappointed in find-| <8 Gen. Otto Rosenbaum, with jsacnments, W ia) ol ny dag employmenl tive officers and bwealy-\avee wen Of Companies A, B, C, B, G, I and K. regiment came home under command | MISSING GIRL LOCATED. | Mildred Reed moth CALDWELL, Mildred Ri haw ‘s Home. N J. May 2%,—Miss . twenty, daughter of Mr, In at Grand. and Mrs, Thomas Reed of Roseland, who has ben missing fr Jnnt m her home since when she was of Russell Van was located last Saturday evening, tomobile tald wel rents received a telephone mes- , Mrs, Arthur da County, N. ¥. home ¢ Jones, nt Ite 80TH DIVISION BACK. Ha Absolute comfort in Our beautiful Cordovan are made possible by using only best leathers, being treated by Hurleyized secret which prices ogra ripe yrroay Arse, taining its rich lustre to the end. 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