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WEATHER.
(U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Showers this afternoon, clearing to
night: tomorrow fair, not much
change in temperature.
Temperatures: Highest, So, at 2:30
pm. yesterday; lowest. 67. at 5:10 a.m.
today. Full report on page 7.
Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30
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SHENANDOAH TORN TO PIECES IN GALE; 14 KILLED
SHIP FLUTTERS DOWN
IN 3 PARTS OVER OHIO;
LANSDOWNE VICTIM
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Commander and Aides Crushed
to Death in Control Cabin.
Sections Far Apart.
RIDE ON FRAGMENT OF AIR GIANT
IS DESCRIBED BY SURVIVOR
Dirigible Is Caught by Dreaded “Line
Squall” and Heroic Attempts of
Crew to Escape Fail.
I*T th* Associated Pres*.
( AI.DW ELL, Ohio, September 3. —The gfiant dirigible Shen-;
andoah is no more. It went down in three pieces here early today |
and killed its commander. Lieut. Comdr. Zachary Lansdowne, and |
13 of the officers and men making up her crew.
Other officers killed were Lieut. Comdr. Louis Hancock. Lieut.
J- B. Lawrence, Lieut. A. R. Houghton; Lieut. (Junior tirade) j
K. \\ . Sheppard of Washington.
The airship struck a line squall— : a variety of storm most feared
by airmen—shortly after 5 o’clock this morning near this Noble
County village while traveling at an altitude of 3.000 feet, en route
from Lakehurst, N. L. to the West.
There was no explosion. The big ship simply met winds of a
strength which it was unable to combat. After encountering the
storm at the high altitude the ship headed heavenward to an alti
tude of approximately 5,000 feet, when it suddenly came down
again and broke into three pieces. One piece, 450 feet or more in
length, fell in a field about 1 ]/ 2 miles from Ava. The control
compartment, in which the commander and navigating crew were
riding, fell 50 feet away, and the third section, 150 feet long,
drifted through the air like a free balloon for 12 miles, landing
near Sharon, Noble County.
MOST OF DEAD IN CONTROL CABIN.
Most of the dead were found in the tangled wreckage of the
control cabin, where a full cre\v was on duty, attempting to ride
out the buffeting winds which resulted in the complete destruction
of the giant of the air.
Ambulances and other conveyances which carried persons and
others to the scene immediately following the accident were trans
porting the dead and injured to nearby towns. Those who met
death in the unsuccessful fight against the elements were taken
to Belle Valley, while the injured were scattered in the various
hospitals of the community.
The story of the disaster is one of heroism of the crew, pioneers
in the interest of the development of lighter-than-air transporta
tion. It is best told bv Col. C. G. Hall, United States Army ob
server aboard the ill-fated ship.
“We were traveling west at an altitude of about 3,000 feet
when we encountered a storm,” Col. Hall said in describing the
accident. “By changing our course a dozen or more times we
dodged it, only to encounter the line squall, which sent us to an
altitude of 5,500 feet before we realized what had happened.
SAVED BY CLUTCHING GIRDER.
“We opened the valves to let out gas and lowered the ship
and were drawing away from the storm at a 50-mile-per-hour
rate, when the storm enveloped us and broke the ship into three
pieces. T exclaimed to Comdr. Lansdowne: ‘Every one heat it.’
When the crash came 1 was on the ladder leading from the control
cabin to the rear portion of the ship. As 1 started to fall I
clutched a girder, to which I hung suspended, finally swinging
mv bodv over it and crawling 40 or 50 feet back into the ship.”
When he reached the ship proper, Col. Hall said, he found other
members of the crew preparing to open the valves in order to
bring about a descent. Here he found Lieut. Roland G. Mayer,
loading officer, and Lieut. J. B. Anderson, aerologist. The latter.
Col. Hall said, had made his way to the rear on the cat walk. All
three descended safely.
Ship Couldn’t Survive.
Col. Hall said the catastrophe was
In no way attributable to any defect
in the ship. Meteorological advices,
warning the navigators of the storm
would have saved the ship, he said.
Since there were no meteorological
stations in the vicinity, however, these
advices were not available.
At the time of the crash. Hall
said, four of the six engines which
propelled the air monster were going
full speed. The craft simply met air
currents which she could not survive.
Col. Hall voiced high praise for the
Navy crew of the dirigible. Even
immediately after the crash, he said,
the crew's behavior was remarkable.
Each man took the situation quietly,
deporting himself as if he were on a
free balloon and attempting to bring
the craft to the ground in the best)
possible.
Ir, all there were eight men who |
made the perilous ride on the portion !
of the ship on which Col. Hall found J
himself. It drifted for the better part
of a half hour and covered a dis
tance of 10 miles or more before
coming to earth.
News Spread Quickly.
intense excitment prevail*•" in the
mining community where the ship
fell. In an almost unbelievable short
time news of the disaster had spread
over the entire countryside, and roads
were black with automobiles carry
ing doctors, undertakers, officials and
the morbidly curious to the points
where the various portions of the ship
fell.
Each portion of the ship -as com
pletely wrecked by the impact with
the ground and early arriving souve
nir hunters were making off with
bits of the bag. splinters of wood
and other portions of the mechanism.
A volunteer guard Anally was thrown
around the debris and a request wired
to Columbus for 50 men and 3 officers
for guard duty.
At Belle Valley, where the bodies
of the dead were being assembled
under direction of Lfeut. Comdr.
Charles R. Rosendahl. grief prevailed.
Villagers, the drab routine of their
’ existence interrupted, stood about aJ
catastroph. Soon after word of the i
disaster reached here the local Amer
ican Legion post sent out a guard of
honor and the veterans stood watch
over the room in which the bodies
were taken.
Due to the early hour at which the
accident occurred, there were few, if
any, who witnessed the breaking up
of the great craft. Alarm Arst was
taken when the ship, reported over
Wheeling at 1:45 a.m., was not seen
over points farther westward on her
course.
Radio Operator at Post.
; Desperate efforts were made to lo
cate her, bu tto no avail, and the last
word known to have come from her
crew was a cryptic radio message
picked up by the wireless operator
at Fort Hayes. Columbus, which said
j only “I am losing my seat.”
(Shortly afterward word was receiv
ed here that a portion of the dirigible
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Shades of Musketeers Lead Italians
To Duels; One Fought, Others Fizzle
By the Associated Press.
VIARBGGIO, Italy, September
3.—The shades of D'Artagnan and
his duel-loving musketeer compan
ions seemingly are beckoning to
the field of honor persons of this
ordinarily peaceful town who have
quarrels of a nature that require
settlement through feats at arms.
So strong has been the revival here
of the tradition of the duel that
recently within a single day one
combat was successfully carried
out and three other meetings were
arranged.
Count Visconti di Modrone and
Baron di CollaJto crossed sabers to
settle a personal difference, the na
ture of which is shrouded in mys
tery. Titled personages seconded
both men. Aldo Nadi, fencing
champion of Italy, was master of
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Dead and Injured
j In Airship Disaster j
i By the Associated Press.
CALIHVELL, Ohio, September 3.
I The following is :t list of the dead
| in the Shenandoah disaster:
Comdr. Zachary Gansdowne, Green*
j ville, Ohio.
Lieut. Comdr. I.ouis Hancock,
I Austin, Tex., executive officer.
Lieut. .1. B. Lawrence, St. Paul,
Minn., watch officer.
Lieut. A. U. Houghton, Alston,
Mass., watch officer.
George C. Sclmitzer, Tuckerton, N.
J., t hies radio man.
James A. Moore, jr.. Savannah, Ga.,
aviation machinist mate, first elass.
Everett P. Allen, Omaha, Nebr.,
aviation ehief rigger.
Ralph T. Joft'ray, St. Louis, Mo.,
aviation rigger.
Bartholomew B. O’Sullivan. Lowell.
Mass., aviation machinist mate, first
class.
William 11. Spratley, Venice, 111.,
machinist mate, first elass.
Charles S. Broom, Toms River, X.
•J., aviation machinist mate, first class.
Celestino I*. Maizueo, Murray Hill,
! X’. J., aviation machinist mate.
James W. Cuiiinan, Binghamton, N.
j J., aviation pilot.
Lieut. E. W. Sheppard, Washington,
! D. C., engineer officer.
Seriously injured:
John K. McCarthy. Freehold, X T . J.,
| aviation chief rigger.
Gunner Raymond Cole, Lima, Ohio.
LOSS OF DIRIGIBLE
i IS BLOW TO NAVY
i
Will Handicap Efforts to
Build Up Aviation in
Service.
By the Associated Press.
From fragments of Information
brought In from many sources the
Navy Department sadly sought today
to piece out the story of a tragedy
whose full Import cannot yet be as
sessed.
Coming immediately behind the
disappearance in mid-Faciftc of the
naval plane PX-9 No. 1, in her at
tempt to fly to Hawaii, the loss of the
Shenandoah cast a shadow of un
certainty over the hopes of those
naval officers who have endeavored
to build upon practical lines the serv
ice of naval aviation.
The Shenandoah was the only mili
tary dirigible in the possession of the
United States Government. She was
built upon lines of safety accepted
as entirely modern, and had been a
rock of solid reliance upon which air
officers had built up their expecta
tions of developing comprehensively
the lighter-than-air model of naval
aircraft. The most sanguine of the
dirigible enthusiasts conceded today
that her loss would greatly handicap
them in asking Congress for further
appropriations for craft of that type.
One Blimp I-est.
Since the cruiser Los Angeles can
not be used for military purposes, j
the Navy has left only one lighter
than-air ship— n non-rjgid blimp now |
laid up at Lakehurst. N. J.
The Shenandoah was the first rigid
airship to be lost by the Navy.
The ZR-2. which broke in two
over Hull, England, on August 24.
1921, with the loss of 44 lives, still
was in the possession of the British,
who constructed her. and had not
been accepted by the United States
when she was lost.
In the case of the ZR-2 it was
found that structural weaknesses
were inherent in the craft due to
efforts to develope one that would
go faster, higher and with a greater
load than the German Zeppelins.
The Shenandoah was built more
along the lines of the German Zep
pelin, but the bumps and severe
eddies encountered in the storm early
today subjected her also to stresses
which must have developed more
hitherto unsuspected inherent defect.
Relief Is Rushed.
Eve.ry effort was made here to rush
relief to the shipwrecked crew.
Aircraft at the station,
the nearest machines in the naval
service to the scene of disaster,
were ordered to stand by, ready on
notice to start for Ohio] with phy
sicians, medicine supplies and emer
gency relief materials. Navy recruit
ing officers at interior points were
given similar instructions, and the
officer in charge at ttsburgh. Pa.,
was ordered to proc ! immediately
to Ava.
Maj. Gen. Patrick, chief of the
Army Air Service, called at the Navy
Air Service headquarters, volunteer
ing to "give everything the Army
has” to the sister service. Gen. Pat-1
rick said planes, doctors and any |
needed supplies the Army had would t
be rushed to Ava as soon as the j
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ceremonies. In the first assault
Visconti’s blade slashed Collalto's
right forearm. The surgeons
agreed the wound was not serious
and the duel proceeded. In an
other assault Collalto again felt
the saber of his opponent, which
opened his right elbow. This dem
onstrated tc the Judges Collalto's
inferiority, and the bout was
stopped. Sabers were put away,
, the duelists embraced, animated
conversation broke the previous
! dignified silence. Honor had been
satisfied.
The three other challenges which
followed upon the Visconti-Collalto
setto did not get beyond the stage i
of argument by the various sec
onds, who amicably arranged the
disputes without having their re
spective principals test the swords
manship of their opponents.
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E. R. STETTINIUS
DIES IN NEW YORK
Morgan Partner Was Muni
tion Buyer for France and
Britain During World War.
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, September 3. —Ed-
ward R. Stettinius. a partner in the
banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.,
died at his home in Locust Valley
early today.
He had been in ill health for sev
eral years. In 1923 he underwent
an operation for the removal of an
abdominal abscess, and in February
of this year he was under treatment
again at a hospital for stomach
trouble.
Mr. Stettinius was taken ill again
a few weeks ago, but it was not be
lieved at first that his illness was
of a serious nature. Yesterday, how
ever, it became known that his con
dition was critical. The cause of
death, which occurred at 3 a.m., was
announced as embolism, a blood clot
on the brain.
The offices of .T. P. Morgan & Co. j
were closed today, except for the j
transaction of urgent routine btisi- 1
| ness.
j Was Buyer for Two Nations.
j Mr. Stettinius. through his opera
tions as purchasing agent of the Brit- ;
I Ish and French governments for muni- I
■ tlons and materials in the United ;
' States prior to our entrance into the
! war. gained the unique distinction of
having performed the largest transac
tions in the history of all business.
Although the exact volume of these
purchases has never been revealed, it
is known that they ran into the bil
lions of dollars.
He inherited his interest in business
from his father, who founded one of
the first insurance companies in the
West in the middle of the last century.
He was soon recognized as a genius
and stood in the first group of leaders
who practiced and conducted modern
American industry. The guiding prin
ciple of his business life, as described
by his associates, was the belief that
a business transaction that did not
benefit both parties participating in it
was bad business.
He was born in St. Louis in 1865 and
educated at St. Louis University, with
special courses of instruction in
l France. After a brief experience in
business at St. Louis, he moved to
Chicago, where his career began.
He early associated himself with the
Sterling Co., which he later reorgan -
(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.)
4
Syrians Massacre
French Garrison
In Fort at Suedia
By the Associated Presm.
LONDON, September 3. —The
Kvening News correspondent at ■
Jerusalem says it is unofficially re
ported that the French fortress at
Suedia has been captured by the
rebel tribesmen and the garrison
ma ssacred.
French airplanes afterward de
molished the town with bombs, said
the report.
Recent official advices from Gen. |
Sarrail. French high commissioner J
in Syria, told of the bombing of j
Suedia by French airmen. It was
stated at that time in official cir
cles in Paris that the citadel, or !
fortress, of the town still was held i
by the French, the rebels having j
occupied only the residential part. !
.
LANSDOWNE HAD ORDERS
TO RETURN TO SEA DUTY
Shenandoah's Commander Was to
Relinquish Big: Dirigible Sep
tember 15. It Is Understood.
| By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September 3.—Com dr.
Zachary Lansdowne. killed on the !
Shenandoah today, is understood to i
have told his friends several days ago j
that he expected to be relieved of his I
command of the airship after the Mid- j
i western trip, to return to sea duty on i
September 15. The order for his trans- j
fer to sea duty was said to have j
reached him about a week ago.
The order for his transference to'
sea duty was received with general re-1
gret at Lakehurst, N. J., where
Comdr. Lansdowne had taken the !
keenest interest in the Shenandoah, j
The commander was said to have look- i
ed forward with great pleasure to the '
trip of the Shenandoah to the middle j
section of the country.
MINE SWEEPER SINKS.
British Vessel Hits Rock Off Van
' couver—Crew Saved.
VICTORIA, British Columbia. Sep
tember 3 (A 3 ). —H. M. S. Armentieres,
a mine sweeper from the Canadian
naval base at Esquimalt, struck a
ro~k and sank at noon yesterday in
Pipesteam Inlet, Barkley Sound, on
, the west coast of Vancouver Island.
AH the crew reached shore sarei>.
but the vessel is completely sub
merged.
U. S. MINE CONTROL
MOVE IRKS LEWIS
Union Leader Scores Pro
posal, Laid to Hammond,
for Congress Action.
By th* Associated Pres*,
j PHILADELPHIA, September 3. j
| Anthracite miners believe the push !
they say John Hays Hammond, j
chairman of the United States Coal j
! Commission in 1923. is trying to give j
| the hard coal question, would take
j it into the halls of Congress freight
| ed with the burden of soft coal.
I John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, in
dealing along this line with recent
conferences between Mr. Hammond
and President Coolidge at Swamp
scott. issued a statement here last
night which is being reread today
with special care for any interlinear
meanings it might contain.
Mr. Lewis, openly avowing a con
viction that the present anthracite |
suspension of 148,000 mine workers j
had now been brought "into the !
realm of political equations.” said:
I "Responsibility for the talk about
I nationalization lies with Mr. John
Hays Hammond, who. according to
Swampscott dispatches, has been
l haunting the lawns of White Court,
j pestering the President ,to breathe
j life into the recommendations of
Hammond's defunct coal commission.
I “It is Mr. Hammond, and not the
United Mine Workers, who proposes
I that the Federal administration shall
cast overboard its policy of non-inter
ference with business. It is Mr. Ham
(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.)
I
Mrs. Gardeners Brain, Fine Specimen,
To Be Compared With Professor’s
By the Associated Press.
ITHACA. N. Y., September 3.—The
brain of Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gard
ener, left to the Cornell Brain As
sociation, arrived yesterday at the
Cornell College of Medicine from the
hospital in Washington, D. C. f where
it had been removed at her death
several weeks ago.
Dr. James W. Papez pronounced
the organ to be an excellent specimen,
normal, well proportioned and excel
lfntly preserved. The brain weighs
(A 3 ! Mean* Associated Press. TWO CENTS.
FRANCE PICKS DEBT!
BOARD PERSONNEL:
CAILLAUX AT HEAD
Four Senators, Four Depu
ties and Two Bankers
Named by Paris Cabinet.
FAMOUS BANKER, SIMON, ,
ONE OF COMMISSIONERS!
Will Sail for U. S. on September
16—"Gentlemen's Offer" Receives
Approval of French Government.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, September 3. —The French
cabinet today named the debt commis
sion which is to go to Washington
under the leadership of Finance Min
ister Caillaux. The commission will
consist of four senators, four deputies
and two bankers.
The personnel of the commission is:
Senators Berenger. Chapsal, Dausset
and Dupuy: Deputies Auriol. Lamou
reux. Bokanowski and De Chambrun;
the banker. Simon (Maurice Simon Is
controller of the French treasury), and
j the finance ministry ex|>ert, Andre
j Moreau-Neret.
The cabinet approved M. CaJllaux's
proposed "gentlemen's offer" to Amer
ica and adopted his and Foreign Min
ister Briand s recommendations as to
the personnel of the commission.
Publisher in Party.
The party, which will sail with M. 1
Caillaux on the liner Paris, leaving
| tor New York September 16. Includes
| the outstanding financial authorities!
in Parliament, and M. Simon is one
of the most competent banking ex
perts in France. Paul Dupuy of the
senatorial section of the commission is
the owner of the Petit Parlsien, the j
i most widely circulated newspaper In
: France. His wife was formerly Helen
i Brown, an American girl.
Marquis Pierre de Chambrun, in go- j
lng to America with the debt romniis- .
sion, will be, so to speak, going home, j
Although of French descent, he is j
American by adoption, as Congress !
has conferred American citizenship on
I him along with his brothers and other j
descendants of the Marquis de Lafa- i
yette.
Marquis “Coming Home.”
Marquis de Chambrun lived in "Wash
ington in his youth. His brothers.
Jacques, who is a general in the
French army, commanding a district
in Morocco, and Charles, who is French
minister to Athens, were both born in
Washington.
Marquis de Chambrun and his next
younger brother both were married in
the United States. The marquis is one
of the rare persons boasting an au
thentic double citizenship, and one of
the few Americans of noble birth. He
was a member of the Joffre-Viviani
j mission to the United States when the
; first war loans were made to France,
j He is a member of the group of Left
J Republicans in the Chamber of Depu
[ ties.
Prague Mission Coming.
! PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Septem
j her 3 (A s ).—The Czechoslovak debt
j mission plans to sail for the United
I States the end of September.
The Czechoslovak legation at Wash
irigton early in July informed the
I State Department that its government i
| had formally acknowledged the debt I
| obligation to the United States. The |
j Czechoslovak reconstruction debt is
about $80,000,000, and $11,000,000 Is
due for expenses for transportation of
Czechoslovak troops from Siberia to
Czechoslovakia in 1919-20.
500 FAMILIES LEFT
DESTITUTE IN FLOOD
Water Racing Through El Paso
Streets as Troops Fight
Torrent.
By the Associated Fress.
EL PASO. Tex., September 3.—Five
j hundred families* in South El Paso
j and three suburban additions are
homeless in the w r orst flood ex
perienced here since 1897. Damage
is estimated at $400,000.
Water is racing through streets in
lower El Paso as a result of a canal
break which occurred late last night?'
Infantry and Cavalry contingents
from Fort Bliss are patrolling the
streets and aiding in strengthening
dikes. The Red Cross is providing j
shelter for the homeless.
Although the crest of the floor
reached here early today, the flow is
expected to be maintained through
out the day.
1,150 prams, exactly the same Weight j
as that of the brain of Dr. Burt G. j
Wilder, Cornell scientist, which was |
added to the collection upon his death :
last January.
The two brains will be studied side
by side to prove or refute the theory,-
in which Mrs. Gardener was so inter
ested during her lifetime, that wom
an's mental capacity is potentially
equal to man’s.
Mrs. Gardener was a member of the
United States Civil Service Commis
sion.
“From Press to Home
Within the Hour"
The Star’s carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Yesterday’s Circulation, 92,713
PN-9 HUNT FUTILE,
BUT RODGERS’SKILL
LESSENSFEARFDRS
No Word Received of Lost
Plane From Craft Scour
ing Pacific.
SEARCH WILL CONTINUE;
ONE RAY OF HOPE FOUND
Gasoline Drums Capable of Keep
ing Aircraft Afloat, in Ex
perts’ Opinion.
Secretary Wilbur today ordered
the proposed San Francisco-Hawaii
flight of the naval plane PB-1
postponed indefinitely.
By tb#- Aesocinted Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. September 3.
Search for the missing naval seaplane
PN-9 No. 1 and crew, which dis
appeared in mid-Pacific Tuesday after
noon after riding along on the high
’ hope of reaching Honolulu on a
j record-breaking flight, continued today
after overnight reports to naval head
quarters from searching surface and
: air craft brought only routine mes
| sages of the continuing search.
Without word upon which to allay
| fear that the missing plane and its
i crew of four men might not be found.
I naval officers today had explored the
j field of conjecture in surmising what
| happened after the plane was forced
j down by lack of fuel.
The most favorable theory advanced
was that the plane had made a suc
j cessful landing in the ocean less Than
i 300 miles off the Hawaiian coast at
1:45 Tuesday, drifted out of the search
area and was beached on some
j abandoned island point,
i The Navy withdrew from further
j attempts to make a non-stop flight to
i Honolulu from San Francisco when
1 announcement was made here yester
day abandoning the projected take-off
of the huge PB No. 1. which was
I scheduled to start for Honolulu today,
j One hundred and fifty drums of
5 gasoline were landed at Lahaina. the
i island base, from which the air forces
! were under orders to conduct the
! search of the area in which the big
I seaplane disappeared.
, Empty gasoline tanks, which prob
ably caused the plane's crew to de
spair of reaching Honolulu, became
their hope of rescue when the craft
was forced down. It was estimated
by the plane builder that buoyancy
of the empty gasoline tanks would
be sufficient to float 10.855 pounds
on the water, the weight of the
plane without fuel.
The missing PN-9, No. 1. was in the
air about 23 hours when it dropped
out of sight.
The skill of Comdr. John Rodgers,
in charge of the craft, caused Navy
officials here to remain hopeful that
the missing commander anil crew
were still alive.
NAVY COUNTS ON RODGERS.
Officers Say Flight Chief Can Brinq
Crew Through Safely.
HONOLULU, September 3 G4 3 ).
Confidence of Navy officers here in
Comdr. John Rodgers continued un
shaken last night as darkness su
reeded day and the Navy plane PN-9.
No. 1. remained unaccounted for.
“Comdr. John will bring her
I through.” it was declared, as th
commander of the missing plane wa
! praised for his resourcefulness, ah:
ity and courage exhibited when hr
was in charge of the Pearl Harbor
Air Station here.
Aside from that personal element,
the situation brought about by the
sudden ending, through lack of fuel,
of the attempted non-stop seaplane
flight from San Francisco to Peari
! Harbor was not a happy one.
| The PN-9 No. 1 left San Francisco
iat 2:55 p.m. Monday, Pacific time. She
flew safely through the night, but
Tuesday morning ran into high winds,
which held her back and forced an ex
travagant use of gasoline to push on
Then she ran into rain, which kept the
ships previously stationed to protec'
the seaplane from seeing her. and.
finally, her gasoline gone, was forced
into the ocean after she had signaled
her passing of the U. S. S. Aroostook.
1,800 miles from the California coast.
That was about 1:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Silence Surrounds Plane.
Silence since has surrounded the
seaplane.
From daybreak to dusk today all
available ships, of all types, joined in
seeking the seaplane in an ocean area
of some hundred square miles north
eastward of the Island of Maui. Tk-a
faster ships went around tn ever*re
| ducing circles, starting with a circum
ference of nearly 200 miles, reducing
to one of 35 miles. Navy officers de
clared they would not abandon hope of
rescue until "every drop of water in
! that area has been searched over.”
; When forced down the aviators had
been in the air more than 23 hours,
and if they were still alive last night
they must have been very uncomfort
able, bobbing about in a heavy sea in
an unstable craft much less comfort
an unstanie crart muen less comion
able than an open boat; probably with
out sleep and almost without food.
The searching airplanes were forced
to retire with the coming of darkness,
and even the patrolling submarines
slipped back to a meridian closer to
the protecting Islands, but the aircraft
tenders and the destroyer Farragut
! continued their hunt, cutting through
| the shadows with their searchlights.
*
Tchitcherin to Resign.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily Sews.
STOCKHOLM. September 3.—The
newspaper Stockholm Tidningen has
received confirmation of the report
that Georges Tchicherin is resigning
as Russian minister of foreign affairs,
owing to ill health.
(Copyright. 1925. by Chicwo Dally Kew» Oe.)