The evening world. Newspaper, October 17, 1922, Page 4

Lieut. Maughan Amazes Timers With Terrific Burst of Speed.and Sets New World Record. MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Oct. 17% {Associated Press).—Travelling at ®/ there ts no limit to the speed that}MRS. HARDING MAY GO grea ny human being|can be attained tn the alr, TAG” shear Maughan made the record- breaking flight in the same plane he won the Pulitzer ever before attained, Lieut. RL. Maughan, a United States Army pilot,| with which Das a net new world’s airplane speed | trophy race on Saturday. Teoord by ooveriag <a one-kilometre| chine ie a Curtiss army biplane, Dow: | oa of the White House & bun ing said’in it about H ~ alow in| ing said’in it about permits, ered with a Curtiss 400-horse power able or otherwise, and that inferen- course at the rate of 248.5 miles an engine. St. Augustine, Fia., may be selected as] bi0 oF | : hour. After setting the new record, Lieut.| a winter home for Mra. Harding, wite of | UY MRREy onal that The record was made during official) Maughan continued his Might to show] the President, It fs expected that Mre Government tests of speed planes that| that the tremendous pace could be] tarding, who ts gradually recovering On four laps he was participa ce from her recent flIness, will leave Wash-| able ASE ticipated in the national alr races) vied at the rate of 282.22 miles an uate TaN Ne Coast lider cahate abl r a long-term right at Selfridge Fielt Inst week and wast ious, and his average for elght lapa| VE" Am ine ee SAR aa Glectrically timed by officers from] was 229 miles an hour. about the middle of December. McCook Field. flight were astounded. The demon- ARMY DIRIGIBLE ritti a ¢ me into further sharp collision with EXPLODES WITH Ileavy Death Toll in Avia- Nomination, ” 43 Woe ATLANTA, Oct. 17 (Asnoclated Press) law clearly gives it coms tion Accidents. -Under cloudy skles and with rain fal | hensive power over the whole transit RE ON BOARD Destruction by fire of the army dir-| {ng in several aections Georgians voted aitua on, Including buses and track- 4.9 Piel Ded % shatie less trolleys, and that, Commissioner igible C-2 Brdoks Wicld to-day] to-day Inn special Democratle ry ee ee en ee nat nota adele eg 5s ad (Continued.) the hissing of gas. There must have been another rent in the bag, for the force of the egcaping gas threw me violently to the floor, “I rosé to run but had taken no more than three steps when I was again hurled to the floor, Then came the explosion. I was knocked down by some one running from the scene. ‘The big bag was a mass of flames. We ran out in front of the hangar. All of the others must have gotten away from the bag before the explo- sion came, although many were hurt in jumping or being hurled to the floor. “Pandemonium reigned among the Lieut. Hull, forty-two; on Jan. 1; 1921, the R-34, which made two transatlantic voy: /FATT OF PLANE IN CITY ages in 1919, was wrecked in a gale at Howden, England. Other airship accidents included in| pteng. Ball Drops 500 Feet in san aviation history are: Loss of ten lives when a dirlgible fell in flames into the Ilinols Trust and | Walter A. Ball, twenty-seven, stationed Savings Bank at Chicago. July 15, 1919—British airship NS-11 fat 9.10 o'clock this morning when his fell into the North Sea with a loss /airplane fell 500 feet. of twelve lives, after being struck by maintained. Examination of the machine after Aeronautical engineers and army|the flight disclosed that it was in] the strain the President has been under ‘and: navy officers who witnessed the| perfect condition and that nothing in] during the industrial crisis and the sub- the nature of a trick flight figured In] sequent fIlness of Mra, Harding he also stration, they declared, proved that] the record performance. MANY AIRSHIPS HAVE BEEN LOST marks the fourth spectacular loss of a] to nominate a successor to the late big airship within less than two yearsr On Feb. 21 the Ri ; 2 Hampton Roads; on Aug. °24, 1921) oiomas W. Hardwick, Seaborn Wright, the ZR-2, built in England for the| 5.4.5 R, Cooper and Waiter United States, burst into flames over] made last minute claims of the support England, with a death toll of] of the “loyal fifty thousand followers of hundreds of spectators who were at/lightning. the field, but army officers and en- Usted men quickly rushed the more seriously injured to the emergency dressing station at the field." WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Destruc- following the at Hampton Roads several months ago of the giant airship Roma, is ex- pected by Air Service officials here to. renew the agitation for develop- ment of non-combustible helinm ges » for use in all Government lighter- than-air ships. . While no official report on the acci- at San Antoniothad been re- ested, oMcers, said it was evident that the | ruction of, the C-2 was due to the use of hydrogen, as was the case with the Roma. 4 The C-2 “meastfell 192 feet in length, 64 feet wide and 6' high, the bag having a capacity of 172,000 cubic feet of gas. She was propelled dy, two 150-horeepower Wright mo- torg ‘and normally carreid a crew of six officers and men, Her speed was rated at 65 miles an hour. Shé was built at a cost of approxi- mately $70,000. When the “'blimp" left her home station at Langley Field, ‘Virgin: on her recent trip’ to the Pacific » there was no intention to. establish new records for speed or endurance: on the way across the con- tinent’ or dn the return, trip which endedi to-day at San Antonio, The Purpose of the transcontinental flight was to survey airship routes, to photo- graph airways for the information of aviators and to give practice to her crew in long distance ‘cross-country In advance of official reports, Major Gen. Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service, prepared immediately to or- der.an inquiry by a board of com- petent officers to determine the cause of the acéident and fix responsibility AUTUMN TAILORMADES ‘The model shown is one of a J selection of Special- Tailormades for the Season. Superior Silke, 6°50 Up ‘ Dimities, Cottons, etc. 2:78 up RIDING SHIRTS ‘GOLF SHIRTS SPORT SHirTs FLANNEL SHIRTS June 20, 1914—Alrship and airplane] anq it crashed at the intersection of t collided at Vienna, killing aine, tered 8. Sept. 1918—Zeppelin L-1 de- residing here. fA\ THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, ‘OCTOBER groomed for a transatlantic toyage, exploded at Atlantic City, killing five Besides the Zeppelins 1 and Count Zeppelin lost four other great dirigibles in accidents—Zeppelins and 6 and Deutschlands 1 and 2. ss (Continued.) TO FLORIDA FOR WINTER Bangalow at St. A The ma- ered for Ho! ne Con Administration oMfelals feel that with is much in need of a rest. PRIMARY IN GEORGIA Four Candidates Seek Senatorship United States Senator Thomas 1, Wat- son. Each of the four candidates—Gov. a blew up over F. George— “Watson.” KILLS ARMY PILOT July 21, 1919— Antonio Highway. 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The Transit Commission and the Board of Estimate, which met with bright hopes of a compromise, to agree; indeed, most violently dfs- agreed, and when the meeting ad- journed late yesterday, to meet again Nov. 9, this was the situations The city will refuse to approve any route or to appropriate any * money for subways laid down by the Transfst® Commission unless Pulitzer Prize Winner Flies [223° ~*~ <IPITY BUS OWNERS” ~ More Than 4 Miles a Minute}: 3:20 ee TOBE SOUGHTIN TRANSIT INQUIRY although that code of laws contains . the most elabdrate, prov WASHINGTON, D, C., Oct. 17.—In-| granting franchires yet there is noth revoe jons nalt Commission denies the] reached its climax at a hearing on the} rose above the cli astimate that a franchise right gives a vested] the ‘Transit Commission which sought|the corridors outside. it {s] the approval of the Board. -| right, The contract provisions, pointed out, can provide for « termin- ation of a right at any’ time at the| Mayor Hylap and Mr. McAneny had|for @ decision, for both sides hung unqualified discretion of the public] indulged in dulcet words that seemed | stimly to their position, sparring only thermer, authorities, This, {t is further pointed| to sbell co-operation and final agree-| to throw the other in a bad hight. out, has been done in New York. In placing buses under the super- ” vision of Commidsioner Whalen of the| announced he had said all he intended TO FILL WATSON’S SEAT Department of Plant and Structures, ig bso 4 the Board of Estimate is likely to] ent ut the renewal of the discussion. ransit Commission which holds} Manhattan, Bronx and Richmond, all for failed they provide for municipal opera- | who appeared ‘yesterday favored thé ton, ‘Transit Commission’s plan for ‘the +The Transit Commission will re- | crosstown subway and urged that it fuse to approve the Mayor's plan | ‘be approved at once and construction for transit, or any similar plan started. providing for municipal operation This seemed to. come asa shock to on the ground that to do so would the Board of Estimate. 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