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U. S. Wm Race
British Fliers
Across Pacific
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English Official Adraats That
Both Governments Are
Hurrying Plans for the
Greatest Contest of All
$636.000 for Our Planes
Date of Flight Now Depends
Solely on Speed Attained
in Building the Machines
The governments of the United
5'tates and Great Britain will engage
in the greatest air race in history with?
in the next twelvc months. It is to be
n race for first honors across the Pa?
cific Ocean, the only waterway in tho
world yet. to be conquered by man's
r.ewest form of transportation.
This fact was confirmed yesterday,
despite the qualificd denial by Secre?
tary of the Navy Daniels that tho new
giant naval seaplanes woro being de
si?ncd for the trans-Pacific flight. Not
only are. the two giant naval seaplanes
cctually designed, but the naval ex?
perts have figured a close estimato as
to the actual cost of construction. This,
The Tribune learned yesterday, was
$318,000 for oach of tha two hugo tri
planes?a total cost of $636,000.
The tlate of the great race will de
pend entirely upon the length of time
it. will take to complete the p'ans that
both nations have designed. At the
present time the race is confined to
speed in construction.
Air Commodcre L. E. O. Charlton,
air attach6 at the Pritish Embassy in
>\ashington, admitted here yesterday
that Great Britain is planning to fly
ov-:r the Paciiic.
"I have requested the British Air
Mmstry," he said, "to make an official
announcement regarding England's plan
to race the United States Navy across
the Pacific. I know that the J/acific
will be fiown very soon now, but in
view of Secretary Daniel's denial of
any such plans ! cannot speak officialiy.
x am waiting for the Navy Department
to make known its official plans for this
flight. Then I hope to announce Bri?
tain s plan. Tn-:s will be the greatest
race of al!."
Lieutenant Commander P. N. L. Bel
linger, who coniniandoei the N. C._1
in the epoe-hal flight acros the Atlantic
also discussed tho Puchic flight projccc
yesterday. '-Ihe fiying boats the navy
is building will be nme-motored ships
of ?bout HO-foot. wing span," he said
and could easily fly the Pacific as
stated. fhey probably will be triplanes
with the under wing sliorter than the
upper two.
"We who took part in the Atlantic
flight want to fly the Pacific, but I
dont know pn?onally of the plans
which the Navy Department has pre
Kared in this respect. Commander
Id.-Aers is m the East on leave of ab
sence. He is second in command. of
nnvnl aviation on the Pacific coant.
"The practical value of these giant
flying boats', which, so far ?s we know,
are the largest being built in the world,
is that they will operate with the At?
lantic and Pacific flcets, and are being
designcd to, serve aa the quickest pos?
sible means of communication between
the United States and its Pacific poe
sessions, both Hawaii and the Philip
pinen.
"Personally. I think the nnnounce
mcnt of a navy trnns-Pacific flight a
bit premature, because it will take us
until next winter to build these ma?
chines. The designs have been com
pleted. The navy desires to finish its
job and circumnavigate the world. The
job will not be completed until we
cross the Pa-ciflc."
Dctaila of Construction
More details of the giant. craft were
obtained yesterday. The lifting capa
city of the giant triplane wings will
be ten pounds a square inch, which
aeronautical experts state is the ulti
mate in lifting cfflciency for large fly?
ing craft.
Each of the new giants will have to
carry upward of 40,000 pounds of gnso
line, or approximately 6.700 gallons.
This will bc practically two-thirds of
the total weight of the mammoth sea
planes.
The hulls are so designed that they
will be able to land upon the roughest
I seas yet oncountered. The strengthen
i ing of the hulls is based upon the
lessons gained in the trans-Atlantic
flight, when tlie NC-8 alighted during a
j fog and was afloat ln n damaged eon?
dition ncarly two days before making
j Ponta Delgada, in the Azores. It is
also probable that tho. hulls will be
: equipped with mn.rine screws to propel
the seaphino3 when it is desired to
move through the water.
Change in State Income
Tax Law Made by Senate I
Exemptions to Non-Residents
and Exchange of Informa?
tion Approved
ALBANY, March 0.?The Senate to?
day passed the bill introduced by Sen?
ator Frederick M. Davenport, chair
j man of the Joint Legislative Taxation
S Commission, to amend the state in
I come tax law rolative to the provisions
I that were held unconstitutional by tho
United States Supreme Court.
The bill would allow to non-resident
j taxpayers the same exemptions, in pro
portion to the amount of their in
comes earned within the state, as aro
! allowed residents. In the original in
j come tax law to oxemptions were al
i lowed to non-residents.
Another amendment to the income
; tax law waa passed which was designed
j to permit the Comptroller to furnish
! information to Federal officers or of
j licers of other states with respuct to
i personal incomes in New York State
, provided similar information is fur
I niahed the Comptroller of the State of
j New York.
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| Bay State Bill to End Death
Penahy Favorably Reported
BOSTON, March 9.?For the flrst time
I in the history of the state the joint
j Judiciary Committeo of the Legislature
to-day voted to report favorably a
measure to abolish capital punishment.
There was but one recorded dissenter,
Lalthough three other members reserved
their rights.
FordOffersto
Build Zeppelin
On Approval
Ready to Erect $1,000,000
Plant and Gonstruct 'Rig
ids' for U. S.; Payment To
Be Made on Acceptance
One Ordered of British
English Experimenting at
Expense of Americans,
*P Protest Made Here
By Theodore M. Knappen
Front Th? Tribuns's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 9.?Members
of the House Naval Affairs Committee
type recently completed German rights,
appearing in "The Army and Navy
Journal" that Henry Ford, in order to
start the rigid dirigiblo industry and
transporation in the United States, had
offered to erect a plant at Detroit and
build one ship for the government on
order, payment for the ship not to be
made until trial and acceptance. It is
stated that Mr. Ford asked no assur
ances of future orders, and made no
provision for any form of amortization
of the initial cost of the plant in the
price of tho first dirigible. He is will?
ing to take the chances on future gov?
ernment orders and commercial ordsrs,
onco it is demonstrated that ships of
tho Zeppelin type can be successfully
built in tho Unit?d States.
The offer virtually was made last
summer, but in December W. B. Mayo,
chief engineer of tho Ford company,
came to Washington and laid his plan3
and projeet before the general board of
th* navy, and since then Secretary
Daniels tyid Mr. Ford have personally
discussed them. No mention of the
matter has been made so far in the ex
haustive hearings on naval appropri
ations before the House Naval Affairs
Committee.
England Builds Airship
At the same time a "ri^-id"' is now
building for the navy in England at
a cost of several miilion dollars, and
the Navy Department its-jlf is uneJer
taking to erect one at Philadelphia
nnd Lakehurst, N. J. The former will
not be dclivered before the summer
of 1921, according to aeronautical ex?
perts, who asscrt that tho British have
not yet learned the art oT construct
ing Zeppelins, and thaL the building
ship is already hopelessly outclasseci
by completed German ships. Tho navy
itself, ii. is charged, is not much bet?
ter equipped for building rigid air
ships than the British and will be
lucky if it completes its enterprise by
1922. The navy had one opportunity
to buy one of the latest German ships
for a fraction of what is being paid
?"or tho ship that is being built in Eng?
land for use as a model, together with
a full set of plans.
Concerning the Ford offer, however.
there is marked divergence of opinion
between one naval group, which desire*
to have the navy do all the first build?
ing itself, and another group which is
confldent that little progress will be
made ln dirigiblo building in this couh
try unless private capital and enter
pnse are invoked.
The latter group has little confldence
in the navy's building,projeet. But
whether it be successful or unsucccsful
in itself, it will have the defect, they
say, of doing nothing toward building
up the aeronautical industry in this
country in a phaso in which it is at
presont totally deficleht. They see in
the Ford offer the right kind of a start
both for the navy and commercial aero
nantics, an they aro confldent that Ford
will give tho navy a better ship than it
can import from Engiand or build it?
self, and that it will be followed by
the building of ships on private account
which would bo of great utility in time
of peace and easily convertcd to mili?
tary purposes in war.
It fs reported that the Ford company
planned to buy, dissemble and bring to
Detroit as a pattern one. of the latest
tye recently completed German rigids,
at a cont of something under $1,000,
000, and had mado all the necessary ar
rangements, financial and otherwise, to
do so, having its representative on the
ground in Germany. Tho piant in
which to build the air monstcrs would
cost $1,000,000.
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4AntP Barred,
W. Va. Liliely to
Ratify Suffrage
'Contlnu.d from paao ont
ter of conscience." The Senator insisted
that his action in this instance was not
to bo taken as indicative of a change of
heart on the suffrage question itself.
Tho Senate's action makes Senator
Montgomery ineligible to vote penel
ing receipt from tho Governor of the
letter of rcsignation.
Anti-ratification Senators nnnounced
to-nlght that they would make an at?
tempt to-morrow afternoon to unseat
Senator Raymond Dodson, of Spencer,
Roane County, who, they insist, has
moved out of his district and is now
} resident of Charleston. He is in the
law business here and is listed in the
city directory as maintaining his resi?
dence on Dunbar Street, this city.
Unless the proposed move to upaet
Senator Doason s successful, Senator
Bloch will swing West Virginia into
the suffrage column. In case Senator
Dodson is ousted Senator Bloch's vote
will merely bring about, another tie
and ratification will be impossihle.
Anti-suffrage leaders said to-night
that if the amendment is rntiiied they
will contest it in the hghest courts "as
the result of the high handed juggUng
of the Senate ruies and regulations by
suffrage Senators." They added that an
injunction would be sought immedi?
ately to prevent the enforcement of
the Federal Amendment in this state
should it be ratified.
Sprcfcil m*t)a.tch fo The Tribuns >
CINCINNATI, March 9. ?Senator
Jesse A. Bloch, of West Virginia,
caught the 7 o'clock Chesapeako &
Ohio train for Charleston to-night
after a rncc from Chicago on the
"G. O. P. $5,000 Special." He arrived
here at 6:08 p. m., six honrs and eight
minutes after leaving Chicago.
"I'm glad now that Mrs. Bloch oTj
jected to the air trip," the Senator
said, smilingly. "Here I am, safely
started on the last lap."
Senator Bloch was accompanied by
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Socialists to Nominate Debs
For President Here on May 8
CHICAGO. March 9.?The Socialist
party will hold Its first Presidential
nominatlng convention since 1912 in
New York City May 8, the national
executlva committee decided here to?
day.
Eugene V. Debs, now a prisoner in
Atlanta pcnltontiary for violation of
the espionage law, Is the only candi?
date in tho fleld for the nomination.
National commltteemen report a "wide
spread and insistont demand" for his
nomination.
An attempt to free Dehs anel to ob?
tain amnesty for all political offenders
I will be made Aprll 13 in Washington,
I members of tho committee announced.
The plan will include a large parade
and an effort to get an interview with
I the President. Debs is serving a ten
year sentonce.
If Debs is nominated and hc ia still
in prison tho Vice-Proaidential and
other candidates will mako the cam
i paign for him. Scott Nearing and Jean
! Longuet, formet Socialist, Deputy of
France, editor of "Le Populairo" and a
! grandson of Karl Marx, havo been en
Virgil Highland, Republican national
conVmitteeman from West Virginia.
Speoial Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, March 9.?Senator Jesso
A. Bloch, of West Virginia, ruahed
through Chicago to-day in hirs trans
continenf.al dash to win the fight for
woman suffrage in his home state. Per
J spiring and worried, encountering many
j obstac.es, fighting his way through
' nowspaper reporters anel photograph
i ers, the Senator persisted on hia way
l to Charleston.
j When Senator and Mrs. Bloch arrived
| in Chicago from San Francisco on the
: Santa F6 at 11:30 this morning the
j Senator had the choice of an airplane
, or a special train on tho Big Four to
Cincinnati,
He probably would have taken the
airplane, but Mrs. Bloch said "no," and,
being a good husband, the Senator
obeyed. So he dashed away from the
! Dearborn station to the Park Row sta?
tion in a taxi and hastened away on
the special at noon, thirty minutes
after his arrival. The airplane wait
ing at Ashburn Field was hauled into
| the hangar and its pilot, Richard Bork
I land, disappointedly went home. Mrs.
I Bloch rested at the Hotel LaSalle this
afternoon and was to start for her
I home rn^Wjjjeeling, W. Va., to-night.
gaged to assist in tho campaign, ac?
cording to Otto F. Branstottor, na?
tional secretary.
An effort will be made to enlist the
"radical and progressive clemcnt" of
the Amorican Federation of Labor in
tlie Socialist campaicn. it. was an?
nounced. Invitations to send delegates
to the Socialist convention aro to be
sont to the United Min?j Workers,
Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Inter?
national Ladies' Garment Workers, Fur
riers, Machinists and tho Women's
Circle.
James O'Neal, of New York City, told
tho committee the catje of the five de
potied Socialist Assemblymen in New
York City would not be settled on ita
merits, but solely on tho grounds of
political expediency. The fight, he
said, had developed into a tug-of-war
between up-state and down-statc polit?
ical machines.
"The issue will be decided privately
.in tho councils of tho Republican
party," he nsserted.
A committee was appointed to take
advantago of the opportunities for
propaganda to be offered by the out
come of the trial.
(That Number Will Go as Dele?
gates to San Francisco
The Tammany leaders, at the sug
j gestion of Charles F. Murphy, have
| treated the women of the Tammany or
! ganization with unexpected generosity
j in the mattcr of sending women delc
j gates to San Francisco, having given
I the women five of the tvventy-four dele
! gates. Mrs. Benjarnin Hoffman, wife
i of Judge Hoffman of the Municipal
; District Court, goes from the 12th;
! Mrs. Mariha Byrne, from the 12th;
I Mrs. N. Taylor Phillips, from the 17th;
j Mrs. Lillian B. Sire, from the 19th,
i and Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby, from
| the 21st. The offlcial list follows:
11th?Daniel J. Riordan, James H.
Clark.
! 12th?John F. Ahearn, Rebecca Hoff
! man.
| 13th?George Gordon Battle, Her
| man A. Metz.
14th?Thomas F. Smith, Edward G.
Murray.
16th?Richard Fitzpatrick, Martha
I Byrne.
16th?Charles F. Murphy, Lewi3
; Nixon.
17th?Jeremiah T. Mahoney, Rosalio
' S. Phillips.
18tb?-W. Bourke Cockran, Pbilip J.
Brltt.
19th?Samuel Marx, Lillian R. Sire.
20th?-Nathan Straus, Salvators A.
Cotillo. _, , ?
2istr-Walter F. Burns, Bertie F.
Crosby. , _,
22d?Morgan J. O'Brien, James F.
Geraghty.
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Wood Not To Be Candidate
In the California Primary
LOS ANGELES. Calif.. March 9.?The
name of Mnjor General Leonard Wood
will not be entered in the California!
primary election as candidate for the1
Republican Presidential, nomination,
according to a telegram from the na?
tional chairman of the Wood commit?
tee, made oublic to-day by the secre?
tary of the local Wood club.
"it is our decision that Gcnera'
Wood's name not be entered at the
prim,aries," the telegram said.
Bryan Opjgose^JHfiuilj
Against Senator's CaadiiW|
cause He Voted UW**
LINCOLN, Neb., Mareh 9^
tion to Senator G. M. KiteW?h
candidate for the Democratic t*L*\
tia! nomination wag exprci^^N
iam Jennings Bryan in ? JZ
made public here to-day |T
brother, Charles W. Bryaa.
Mr. Bryan announced that if .1 '
delegate to the Democratic w3*i
Convention he will not vote f?? ^
Hitchcock. "If the state iiJEjN
him." he declared, "I rtiu J5N
alternate to vote in mv ?i?? ???*?
alternate to vote in my pl?ce?
Among the reasor.<j Kiven j j* 1
position to Senator Hitchcock l~?i
he voted against submiggjon 0f??S(
eral prohibit'on and wom., *g|
amendments and had opposed 2?J
rency bill passed during Pregi/. V
son'.? first administration *i
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