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2 WIDOW OF WATKINS ACCUSED OF FRAUD Daughter-in-Law of Repre sentative From Louisana Hid Assets, Creditor Says. Concealment of asset? and present ing a 'false and improvable" claim against the estate of her husband. William Kyle Watkins, son of the late John T. Watkins. Representative from Louisiana, are charged agginst Mrs. Bessie V. Wat kips. 2'J2*> first street, in a petition filed today in the District Supreme Court by John Henry Shepherd, who claims to he a creditor of the estate to the extent of sl*.sß2. Justice Hoehling issued a rule on Airs. Watkins to show cause next Friday why she should not make complete disclosure of all the personal assets of the estate. .Husband Found Head. Wilßsrm Kyle Watkins was found dead in his garage January 29. 1923, and his widow took nut letters of ad- [ ministration April .’B. 1923. giving a bond of $3,000. July 8 she filed her final account showing assets of $728.39 and expenditures of equal amount, which latter included a fee of SSOO to Attorney James T. Lloyd, former j president of the Board of Education. ' The widow also presented a claim I against her husband's estat® fori $14,683.25. Through Attorneys George K. Cur- i •is and Peyser. Edelin & Peyser, tfte ] petitioner tells the court that the Ist- i ter claim is "not susceptible of a | proper probate and proof." He ex plains that John T. Watkins, father of the deceased: his son and another man were partners in the Congres sional and Departmental Information and Service Co., prtmeoutins claims against the United ''States and furnishing governmental information. The father, it is said, gave his prom issory notes in a large amount to the Commercial National Bank of Shreve port. La.. with Indorsements said to be by J. Riley Wilson. Representative from Louisiana, and Senator Joseph E. Randall of that State. The notes were discounted and drawn against, but at maturity were dishonored, the court is told. 1 .Says Widow Bought Notes. Shepherd says Mrs. Watkins, the administratrix, purchased these notes at a great discount, as much as 50 ! per cent, and these notes constitute : her claim against her husband's es-., tate. although, it is asserted, her hus- j band received no benefit from the notes. The purchase of these notes were not authorized by the court, it is stated. Referring to the claim of Attorney •L.mes T. Lloyd for SSOO attorney's fee. Mr. Shepherd declares that Mr. Lloyd did" not perform any services for i William Kyle Watkins during his life time. although the claim purports to be for services rendered the adminis tratrix and for the decedent during I his lifetime. Accuses Dead Man. Mr. Shepherd tells the court that I April 4. 1921. William Kyle Watkins! borrowed money from him. and "while : insolvent” used the money to pur-: chase premises 811 K street northeast for $7,500. and took title A> in 1 1 v with his wife. Bessie V. Watkins, with the "intention and purpose to defraud bis creditors." Mrs. "Watkins sold the property after her husband's death for *lo.oon cash. the court is told, and failed to make any accounting of the proceeds as part of the estate of her* husband. The allegation is made that this sale and conversion of the pro ceeds were "in fraud of the creditors of the estate." A claim is also made that at the 1 time of the death of William Kyle Watkins the company of which he j was a partner had claims against the 1 United States totaling SIOO,OOO for ; claimants, on which a contingent fee j was- hased, and which, if successful, would net the company $20,000, of i which the deceased would be entitled j to one-half. Many of these claims i have been recovered, it is stated, since the death of Watkins. The deceased also owned an automobile worth $3,700. : it is stated, of which no return is : made in the account of the .adminis- j tratrix. MAJ. 0. n! SOLBERT j RESIGNS FROM ARMY — ' I* Succeeded on the President's i Military Staff by Col. Sherwood j A. Cheney. Maj. Oscar N’. Solbert. t'orps of En ; rineers. recently relieved from duty ; as assistant military aide to the Presi- , dent, and now temporarily attached to the offire of director of public build- , fngs and puhltc parks of the National , Capital, has resigned his commission in the Army to engage in private pur- j suits, and his resignation was accept ed by the President today to fake effect September 15. Maj. Solbert was succeeded on the 1 military staff of the President a few mohths ago by Col. Sherwood A. Cheney. Corps of Engineers, formerly In command of the Engineer post at Font Humphreys. Vj., and since then | ha-t been in England on leave of ab- i scrtce until a few days ago. when he ; returned to this city. Before he entered on his duties at the White ' House he had served as military at- | • ache at London during the admin! 8 ’ i f ration of Ambassador George Harvey. ! Born in Sweden. January 22. 1885, j he was appointed to the United States I Military Academy in June. 1906. He] wa* a star graduate in the class of June. 1910. and was assigned to the ! Cottps of Engineers, to which he has ! been attached ever since. He was a ! colonel of Engineers in the National ' Army during the World War. and was; awarded the distinguished service • medal for his services. He reached the grade of major in the regular establishment in May. 1920. TWO KILLED BY AIRPLANE Boy Flying to Cure Deafness One of Vietim*. CLEVELAND. O. it- S»| lerr*- „>r 4 (A*), — A 12-year-old ho end a man were killed today when an airplane crashed more than a.tton feet into * Highland Park Cemetery. The plane had been circling above the munici pal golf course and the cemetery when it seemed to develop trouble. The boy. Clifford Davis, was taking th 4 flying cure for deafness, with Capt. W. T>. Smith, private flying instructor. The accident was witnessed by the boy’s parents. Smith and his passenger circled a'Wit for nearly half an hour Ivefore the plane got out of control. • ._— Diplomatic Delations Resumed. VICTORIA. British Columbia. Sep tember 4 (/s>>.— C. H. Branston. consul fort Mexico at Victoria and Vancouver, announced today that Mexico had re sumed-diplomatic relations with Can ’BOBBY JONES AND GUNN j | LEAOING IN FIRST 18 • IN GOLF SEMI-FINALS i (Continued from First Page.) [ green on the third -stopped six inches 1 1 (raw the hole, and they halved in 4». ' Von Elm was trapped badly to the i ! right on the fourth, and barely escaped to the fairway. He sliced ; i his brasaie. while Jones covered the ' 536 yards In f, resting on the edge <»f the green. Von Elm's fourth 1 I crossed the green to a trap, and he' conceded his opponent a birdie 4. t j Bobby was 3 up. They halved the sixth in V, when 1 both missed putt* of less than six feet, j Champion Adds Another. The champion added another at the: ' sixth, with a 3 by a perfect pitch j ‘from a trap tu the right, while Ven ' ; Elm. buried deeply in the sand on ! his tee shot, niblicked across the , green twice and picked up. Jones was I I 4 up. . Von Elm recovered nicely front a hook to the rough on the seventh, but i missed his second putt «f six feet. Jones did the same, however, and it ! was a half in a. Both were on at the eighth from the j j tee and another half in par 3 was j ; the result. Von Elm was within sfx I | inches of dropping his second. j Von Elm gained back a hole with an eagle 3 on the ninth, his spoon drop ping the ball three feet from the pin, Iby far the best shot of the nine. Bob by had a birdie 4 with two putts on the green. Their < a rds: £<»"«& “*»« 4 X 4 4 5 3 5 3 4—35 i •ot Him out * 4 4 7 5 * 5 3 3 43 j Bad Break itir Von Klip. { Jones was just short with his sec-j lond on the tenth, white V«n Kim ! Purely learned. Bobby missed a 6- [ foot putt, which laid his opponent a ! i dead stymie, and they halved in 5. I i It was a hao break for Von Elm. Jones' second on the eleventh went! ; through the crowd behind the green I i and he came out well, but lost the j | hole (t hen Von Elm dropped a 2U-fooi ' | putt for a birdie 3. Jones was 2 tip. ! i Von Eim was hunkered to the left )' j from the twelfth tee and had to chip! to the fairway, while Jones’ brassie! | second was 'io yards short of the! j green. Von Elm reached with his 1 i fourth, bill the hole went to Jones I j with a birdie 4. his chip stopping a j j foot front the cup. Von Elm sank a 35-fool putt for a 1 birdie 2 to win the thirteefuh. while Jones wa* 2d (eel from the cup when ) he expiodeo from a trap on hi* sec * opd. Von Eim again was 2 down. The Californian hooked to the traps i on the fourteenth, while Jones was: 'far to the left, but reached with his i ! inashie. Two putts gave Jones the j • hole with a par 4 and he was 3 up. Roost* to 4. ! Jones gained a lead of 4 by holing I ‘ a 20 foot putt on the fifteenth for a j I birdie 3. Jones was home with an ! | iron on the short sixteenth. Von Elm ! was 2** yards from the green. The I | Californian's chip rolled off and he | I was 1* feet from the pin, and Jones' j putt front 35 feet away stymied him. ] 1 He attempted to chip over and got In [ front of Jones' ball, to halve in 4. j Jones' tee shot on the seventeenth j iwas in a bad He. He lofTed to the edge i tof the green. 50 feet from the pin. 1 I while Von Elm's second was 20 feet j ; front the cup. Each toko two putts I to halve in 4. The home hole was halved in par j i 4. leaving Jones 4 up at the end of : | the morning round, i Their cards: i Jon«. in ... 5 4 1 t } 3 4 4 4—3 H— 71 | ton Elm. in.. 33*38444 4—3?—81 | Gunn Continue* Great Work. j Gpnp continued hi* underpat’ shoot- j j ing of the past several days when he ■ j made the first hole of the morning • ,j with * bjrdie 4. Dick Jones was in a j ; trap from the tee He was down in 8. I ! Gunn 1 up. Both had perfect drives on the »ee- j ; nnd. reaching the green in 2. Gunn i missed a short pun on his fourth , ! stroke. He conceded the hole to Dick, • i and they were all square. I Jones hooked his drive on the third into the rough, while Gunn had a pow i erful tee shot in the middle of the I fairway for a fine approach. Jones i came out of the rough nicely to the; I green's edge. Gunn pitched across j the green, but had a goof He. Barely Missed IH-foot I’ntt. Dick's first putt, a 4t)-footer. missed j i the cup by a few inches. Then Watt ; laid him a stymie. Jones conceded , I the hole when he had to negotiate the j I obstructing ball. Gunn 1 up. i On the long fourth, the Atlanta lad , [ drove into the rough. -lone* made 1 : about 3011 yards io the fairway. Gunn ; chipped out to the front of the green ! and was on in 3. Dick'* brassie shot I found a trap. He came out nicely. J | reaching the green in 3. Watt'* first putt was wide, a* was Dick's. They j halved it in par 5. Gunn 1 up. Gunn almost topped his drive on j the fifth, but a long run gave him 1 la Him approach. Jones had a perfect j 1 drive. His pitch to the green brought I j him an ovation. »be ball stopping dead 8 feet from the pin. Watts• was on in 2. His putt was too heavy, j Jones squared the match by. sinking ! his third for ?r birdie 3. 1 Roth Have Trouble. The short par 3 sixth gave both j ; players trouble. Their tee shots were j in traps flanking the green. Both pitched to the green nicely. Jones overshot on his first putt, sinking hisj second. Gunn lost a chance to win • the hole when he failed to find the j cup with a 4-foot putt- He appeared 1 nervous on the greens. They halved' .the hole in fours and the match re-1 mained all square. I They halved the seventh in par 4. Both were on the edge of the green i )In 2. Jones putted to within 5 inches I (of the hoi*. Gunn's try was even j better, the ball hating about 2 inches from the cup. They went down on J 'their next shots. The match still i was even. •ids la»ad Hark. Gunn s lee shot on the eighth wa*| 20 feet front the pin- Jones drove' ! into the rough. He was on in 2. Hisj i putt was 5 inches short. Gunn holed • J o ut on his third, taking the hole! jand the lead. I up. j I Both had powerful drives on the i 1 ninth, hut they were in traps in front j i of the green on their seconds. Gunn's j I third lifted only a few feet to the top i of the pit. He was on with his fourth. Jones' recovery was pretty, pitching to the green. Gunn’s first putt was 1 short. Dick's fourth overran the i the cup. He sunk hi* fifth, squaring j the match. Their cards: Gunn. 0ut.... 45454443 6 39 ; j Jones, 0ut.... 6455 3 444 5—40 ■ j Jones hooked his second into the ■ rough on the down hill tenth. His i pitch was to within 8 feet of the cup. i Gunn reached the green in 2. His I • first putt was short a foot. He blew ) the chance, the ball rolling wide. Both ! had ss. 1 over par. and they were all ! square. The pur 4 eleventh gave the young Atlantan and his Eastern rival little j trouble. They were op in 2 and needed l 2 putts to get home. I On the difficult 621 -yard twelfth ic.unn found a trap from the tee. while j Dick was on the fairway, giving him }. a good approach shot. Gynn merely | pitched out to a good He. and then ‘used his brassie. to get into another sand hole. Jones' third was to the front of .the green.* Watts reached the green in 5, while Dick wgs on in |4. Gtinn laid hts adversary a half j • stymie. Jones was down In 6. winning ’ tne hole and taking the lead. 1 up. I They halved the short thirteenth In j par 3. They reached the green from 'the tee and each needed 2 putts. Jones J remained 1 up. Gunn outdrove Jones on the four- THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, I), r.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER j 1925. BREAKING OF CAR ' BLAMED FOR CRASH I ' I Strain of Control Section Too] ! - Great for Frame, Rich* i arefaon Says. ! Breaking away of the control wfiep the Navy dirigible Shenandoah j • nosed upward at an agle of about *9 ! (degrees is believed io have been the j : cause of the catastrophe which sent I the giant airship »« the ground. H»v- I ling death and destruction In its I wake, according t« Lieut. W. L, Rich- i lardsen of this city, a survivor, i Lieut. Richardson reported te the Secretary of the Navy today, and ggve Mr. Wilbur first-hand Inform*- i tion «n the catastrophe. IJeut. Rich- j i aid von is a civilian employe of the! Navy Department, en official pho ; tegrapher. and made this trip «a a i member of the United States Naval i Reserve. Scout* lightning Theory. He scouted the idea that the big craft had been hit h.v a bolt of light ning, saying that while the storm was raging be did not hear any thunder or gee any lightning. During ! (he height of the storm he w»» in, his j hunk, shout 299 feet from the rear i m<>st point of the ship. e ! The vessel cruised along at about j i 2.500 feet, he said, and than lurched j | upward to about 7.tHHi feet, coming i down gradually. She then began I ; pitching badly, when suddenly she! ; took another upward dive. It was then that the first crash jeame. Lieut. Richardson expressed ith« opinion that when the ship as sumed this position the strain «f the Icontro! car with its operating comple •mem was to great and threw a stress •on the supporting girder* which they ‘could not stand. • He said that the control car wa* the • first to hreak away, and then the mid jdle portion of the ship broke The: I dash caused by the rending of the' I frame work undoubtedly gave rise to I I the belief that the *htp had ljeen! i struck by lightning, he pointed out. Kau to A (ter-End. I ivhen the Arat crash of the breaking [away of the control car was heard a | gust of wind came down the Internal passages of the ship. All of those in the after-end jumped from their hunks anil went to the rear end. This sec . tion of the vessel, he -said, floated •gradually away like » free balloon and the IS person* confined there made preparations to get to the ground a* ; soon as possible I The first object hit was * clump of I trees, and then the after portion of ;the vessel took to the air again in an • other gust of wind and settled slowly •down. A numbed' of those there were j waiting on an extension ladder and a*! j <oon a* they were close to the ground i I jumped before the big bag settled. Jd«ut. Richardson w'a* injured about • the hand and leg. but not seriously. • As soon as he was sure of the safety •of those in his part of the vessel he j rpshed to the telephone to inform his family here that he was safe. His , was the first information to the de partment In Washington that another accident had been visited on the Nevy. CHAUNCEY HACKETT i DIVORCED IN PARIS ; d**k' •»-!-•< ■- • -a-' Wife, Former Washingtonian, j Freed From Counsel for Anti-Prohibitionists. Pt rh, \ WKItlKi Pr««» PARIS. September 4. —Mrs. Ght un i rev Harkett, formerly Mi3* Katharine : Hennen Jennings of Washington. D. i C. has been granted a divorce by the | Paris court* on grounds of abandon- i nient. The couple were married in 1 Washing*on In May. I*l4. Both gate j Paris addresses for the court record*, j Other divorces granted by the Paris ; 1 courts to Americans were: Mrs. Frederick March, formerly Kate Sessions, from her husband on • grounds of abandonment of the home. 1 [ They were married in Washington. ! D. C.. in 1916. Edward Burtees Everts, a musician. | giving a Paris address, from his wife. ■ formerly Mary Isabel Jamison of St. • Paul. Minn., who let the case go by | i default. They were married al Hough- | I ton, Mich., in 1906^ Ohauncey Hackett is general coun sel for the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. He w*s one ! i of the chief speakers at the sixth con : gress of international prohibition or- j yanizatiuns. held recently in Paris. Mrs. Hackett. who was the daughter . of the late Hennen Jennings and Mrs. ' 'Jennings, made her debut in Wash- i ington a few season* before her mir . riage. She wa* one of the most popu lar hnde of her season, not only among ’ the younger circle* hut also among | the older fi«t. She wgs considered a great beauty and very gracious in her manner. The entertainments given by j Mr. and Mrs. Jerrfifings for their detigh- | i ter were elaborate and frequent. Her j father was one of a group of million- j aire*. including John Hay* Hammond, who made their money in Smith Africa ' [and came to Washington to live. 1 MEXICAN DEPUTY IS SHOT, j MEXICO ClTv‘"september 4 (A*).— ! Deputy IVenceslao Macib last night *hot and probably fatally wounded 1 Deputy Marin Perez in a pistol fight ! in the si reels after the adjournment j of Congress for the night. The fight was the outgrowth of a • : hot debate over agrarian crimes in 1 i the State of Pueble. which President j t'alle* condemned on Tuesday. : t®enth, reaching the front of the ! green from the tee. Hi* second was : IQ feet from the cup. Jones pitched i into a trap to the right of the green- ! His first putt, a thirty-fpoter. was ; within 4 inches of the hole. Gunn i needed 2 putt?, winning the hole and ; squaring the match. Both |n Trouble. The par 4 fifteenth 53 ve both j trouble. They sank for 5~» end still were square. Gunn drove into a ditch to the left of the green on the sixteenth. Jones was on the edge of the putting carpet. Young watte oamt out beautifully, sinking his third for a par. Jones’ short putt was wide and Gunn took tfie lead. 1 »P- The uphill seventeenth held no ter rors for the semi-finalists. Gunn drove *OO yard* to the green's edge. Jones was on in S. 30 feet from the cup. His third rolled to the left, 5 Inches from the cup. Gunn’s first putt was heavy. He sank an eight footer for s birdie * and wgj % up, After powerful drive* on the eight eenth both pitched th*ir seconds tt* the green. Jones sank s 30-foot putt, cutting Gunn’s lead m one hole at the end of the morning round. Their r«rda: SSSVAv:: i i 2! i i i S I=ll=l2 ■_ ' WRECK OF SHENANDOAH IS LAID TO GALE, LOOTERS STRIP SHIP C,hin*, Tarn From Hag in Storm, Ripped Hole, in Cover betting Rush of Air in to Ruckle Frame, Inuuirv Board Finds. - _ <«'oiitinned from Kirs* Pint.) ai f.lii'iiiui Riding in the cure of tht Injured mtn. Chief Runntr Raymond Colt. Uma. Ohio, and Rieger John F. McCarthy, Freehold. X. J.. whose in juries are believed lo he not fatal. Lotting at the scene of the disaster will be prevented today by a detail of 4$ men and a number of officers from Fort Hayes. Ootumbu*. American Le gion men. Salvation Army workers, local constables and the Nubl* County sheriff and his deputies were on the scene yesterday and today, helping ; wherever they could. The Salvation ; Army lassies serv ed coffee and send jwichea toJay aa the work of Invesuigat-1 ing the accident progresses. Warning IVu Needed. Better protaction from the elements must be the goal of further dirigible development as the result of the Hhen j andnah disaster. In the opinion of 4WI C. G. Hall. 1L 8, A., official observer ; aboard the ship. He said he believed 1 she accident was no reflection on the crew. “Better communication might have saved us." he declared. “Scientific men who study the movement of storms might have warned us and aided us in averting the disaster." I Lieut. Comdr. Rosendahl made posi tive denial that the ship was flying too; near the ground and that Its gondolas caught on the treetops. causing the : disaster. Other officers have concur-] ■ted in the assertion that the. ship tvas at an altitude of at least 9.non feet ' iwhen it was struck by the squall, j The survivors were unanlmoua In asserting that the fact the gas oham- ■ : hers were Ailed with helium was all i that prevented an explosion. Reports I that lightning had struck the ship land was partly responsible for the I crash were denied by survivors and ‘ witnesses of the catastrophe. Blamed on Wind. j Officers of the dirigible, explaining . the tragedy, said the ship encoun- I tered a severe windstorm over Cam bridge. strong headwinds holding 'he giant machine almost stationary for •15 minutes, although the engine#! , ware going full speed ahead. , After making more than a dozen vain ; attempts to elude the storm center by | changing their bourse, the ship ap parently nosed its way squarely into the vortex of the squall and was l 'abruptly shot upward for more than: ; 2,40(» feet and then dropped percipl- ! j tately. the ship structure cracking 1 and breaking into three parts under i the tremendous strain. Attached to the forward section I was the control cabin, in which i Lieut. Comdr. Lansdowpe and 12 other officers and men navigating the ship were at’ their posts. This gondola broke away from its mooring, crash | ing to the ground from an altitude of several thousand feet and killing all of ita occupants. Seven others who, were in the foresection of the ship, but not in the control car. drifted; las in a free balloon, landing safely j ; nearly 12 miles away. The main section landed almost ! immediately after the break, only 1 j of the -’3 men who were in it being I killed. , I Plans for burial of the J doah dead went forward with prog • ress today. Coffins are expected to , he ip readiness to ship the bodies to J their designated final resting places I today. Ijtnsdowne Rites at Arlington. The body of Cpmdr, Zachary | Lausdowne, commander of the ill* |fated ship, has been ordered sent to l Washington for hurlal ip Arlington ; National Cemetery alongside Ameri- ( I ca's heroes who have gone before. I Those of others who lost their lives i either have been assigned for burial at their homes or probably will be so assigned. Before daylight the crowds of curious again began swarming to the wreckage ae*ne». By 7 o'clock six I airplanes arrived over the debna ! strewn countryside in efforts to land. ; A heavy fog hung close to earth. 1 making the landing on the hilly | ground more perilous than ever. ! Army trucks, official Army cars and ! Army motor cycles, some of them ; with side cat passengers. arrived j during the night to augment the ' groups finding work to do b#rt *na : there. With the khaWi-cl#d men were naval officers, some of. them 1° blue uniforms, some of them in white. Charge to .See Wreckage. The live survivor*, including Lieut. Comdr. Rosendahl. who spent the night in Caldwell, arose refreshed this morning, saying they had spent s reel ful night. They were awaiting dis patches from Navy Department offi cials. A headquarters wga fitted up in Caldwell Hotel, from where the work of Investigation and Inquiry’ Is being conducted. Farmers around the Shenandoah wreckage scenes began charging ad mission price* to th# ground* this morning. Th«tr scale w*s 36 cents per person or |t for automobiles- Water was being sold at Id cents a glass. Thu body .of Lieut., w. B. aheppard of Washington. P. C., the-last 40 be recovered, was found by two. emgll boys on 1 their ..Way to the wifckage. They at-iimbled over W white climbing over s hedge. Lieuf.' F. E. Masters later Identified the body a* that of gtteppard- Assignment* of bodies of the victims are as follow*: Bigger Ralph T. !t*t fray. te St. Louie, Ua; Machinists / .Mate .lames to Jersey City. -V. .1.: Chief Petty Officer George C. Schnlixer. lo Tuckerton. X. .1.: Chief: Rigger K. P. Allen, lo Si. Isuils. Mo. i SU RVIVORS’ ACCOUNTS. Eighteen Saved From Wreck of Slien andoeh Tell Heroic Stories. b the Associated Preee. PHILADKLPHIA . September 4. j The breakins of a ga* hag over power car No. 3. the aft starboard car of the dirigible Shenandoah, was blamed by some of the survivor# of the wreck for the tragedy testerdav ( In Ohio. When the IS survivor* who came by special car from the scene of the wreck, en route to their home station, arrivad at Phllgdalphia at 7:60 a m j today some of agreed that thl* : accident, in conjunction with the | terrific storm. *»» responsible for I the wreck and Its ensuing loss of life The storm was deacribed by the survivors a* a “Western twister," a ntlnature cyclone. Some of the men said they had been able to see the storm coming, hut that the ship had been powerless to get out of its a ay. Carry Comrades’ Kfleets. As the men trooped from the train si the North Philadelphia station of i the Pennsylvania Railroad to take j another train to Iwkehursi. all of them were carrying heavy hags. "Are they your effects?" some one asked one of the men. pointing to the bags. “No.” he said. “They are th# things that belonged to our comrades who are dead." Richardson Wilson of Louisville. ; Ky., a seaman, second class, listed yesterday as injured, was among the j survivors, unhurt. The IS men came on the train In I charge of L«i*ut. Hendley. The.v were stiff and sore from the leaps they had made from the *l»*hip as ft neared the ground. They were ! grimy and very tired. Few slept either last night or at anytime yes terday. A number of them described how they clung to the outer envelope and the framework and worked their w&y from the top of the airship—pi i most a hundred feet—to a hand hold ’ near the bottom, where they were able 1 when the broken sections of the air ship dropped near the ground to let go and drop 10 or 16 feet to .safety, i “We had to run for our lives.’ Wilson said, "because the portion of the bag in which we were, the upper portion,, wa* rolling, sagging and twisting from side to side.” Dropped ?,tHH» Feel. Several members of the party said (hat not only did the control car fall 1 but that Nos. 4 and 5 power cars fell also a few minutes later. Wilson * said the control car must have drop- I ped off when the dirigihle was J.Oftft | feet in the air. He could not figure | how high they were when the power : cars fell away. Wilson added that he was awakened | by the rolling of the Shenandoah, j “It wa* rolling terrifically for# and aft. up and down." he said. “The ship seemed to plunge dnwp a thou sand feet or so. It wa* a awift, long descent. "Then instantly It was jerked up ward at an angle x*f 46 degrees to about 5.000 feet or perhaps 6,000 feet. I That was when I heard the oiV«h. I knew that we W«re going down, and looked below. I could see that we were dropping fast. T mad# a dying leap for the scaling ! ladder that goes from the cat-walk to the top of the bgg. Other men all around me, up and down the ship were climbing the ladders to get away front the dangerous bottom of the hag. for they all knew that when she struck the tendency would be for the frame to buckle and kill any one who was ntar. "After we gqt up to the top qf the bag we began a terribly difficult job of rlirphing over the outald* of the frame, tearing aw#y portion* of the covering to get a hand grip, and work Ing our way downward and around underneath or nearly underneath. Then we watched for our chance and jumped." Searched for Cabin. Million said that hia duty oh the ship was to do the clerical work, and almost the * minute he fell to the ground he ran Into Lieut. Bosch, who ordered hint Immediately to start a search- for th# control car. It lay quite a distance off across a little valley, he aald. "It wa* a splintered wreck,” said Wilson’ "with manglfd bodies laalde and lying around outside. W# Identi fied 18 of the dead There. Later We found Lieut. Sheppard and Culllnan, who had f<eh separately when the Shenandoah wa* »t|H well up In the air. >io men fell In the two power (car*, .tke* fqMovred the control car to the ground, so Aar as I know. The men 4y«re in the care because every- I body In th* ship hgd been ordered to 1 stand \>y about five minutes before, ibut clamored out and clung to the i framework before th* two power care were ripped away." John >l. Hahn: th*<*dirigible's cook, said he wa# getting breakfast ready when the crash occurred. “It was preceded by a spinning ground of th* i iship from on# of there U'eeiern thrift ier*. It wes airflil. T couldn't hold ilmy feet. Then I dropping. I iclimbed into the upper part of the hag. Ralph Jones and B. O. Hereth j were nea r me. We ivegan climbing down the aide. 1 dldn t see them drop. 1 fell abeut 15 feet, and I’m all twisted and sore." Tells at les( Fight. The survivors went from north Philadelphia by train to the main sta tion in Philadelphia, where they took a subway train to the Delaware diver ferry. After breakfast in Camden, X. .1., the party left for Lakehumr j on a Reading Railroad train at >:l2 > a m and mere dua In Lakehurat at j 10:33 a.m. The aurvlvera attracted little attention in the quick passage j through Philadelphia. Lieut. Thomas €>. Hendiey. who was i in charge of the aurvivor*. walked' with a noticeable Hmp. "1 sprained both legs," he said, “and - ! got some bruiaa* and gashes. but i they don’t amount to much." “I had Just come off watch and had retired to my hammock in th* i rear of the ketl. about 30 fast from the control cabin, when I felt the ship j lurching and plunging. “I'p until that momant the weather ' had bean fine. The moon had been playing hide and seek behind the cloud* in the earlier part of tha night and I was greatly surprised that we [ had run into a atorm. The ship struck an angia of about 1 46 degrees In less than three min 1 ntoa I dressed and tried to make my : way to my control cabin. I .oft Hanging to Girder. “ Before 1 got 5 fe*t from my ham ! mock the ship took e aerie* of nose! dives and was twisted around. I hesitated a momant Than she ascend ed at a terrific rate, traveling almost ! ! vertically. "I noticed that at tha first nose-dive > 1 the air wa# unusually hot and sticky. 1 But after twisting and turning to * I height of about a.Ofht or 6.000 feet, we 1 (struck an unusually cold current *f ! (air. , | “I wa* lifted into the sir with thej | no*# of th# ship, hanging on to a J~*g ment of a girder, which stuck tu of 'the nos# of the ship about 100 .!-•**. j I "After this girder bed bump#.. the tops of several tree*. 1 took a chance and let so." Fred J. Tobin, aviation pitot. Arling ton. Mass., said: “I had just gone down to relieve Gveretf Allen, one of th* dead. I , judge the time was 6:45. but I guess] w# all were mixed up on eur time be cause of the change from *a«tern j standard to central-standard. 1 "Allen was running the elevators. I started to walk toward my station when a xip of wind struck us on one side and another on the other side. The ship wa* forced downward. I tried to make my wav along the keel just as the ship came to an almost vertical position and started to rise very quickly. Before I could climb IS feet more, there was a ripping, hiss ing sound, and the big ship broke In two. Dragged by Ship. ■ “You might realize how fast we . came down when I say that before I could turn my head to see what had happened. I found myself on the top |of a tree. A* I started to climb down, j part of the rigging and wire* caught me ground the waist and arm* *,nd 1 was dragged about i.oflO feet by the ! free end of tbe ship along the roads j and hills. "I Anally managed te free mvaelf. and fell about 6(1 feet. Far several minutes I couldn’t move. I felt a* If nearly every ben# in my body was broken, and I surely wa# tickled to death when 1 got up and found I could walk around.” All Tobin wore wa* a pair of blue overall* and an undershirt. He car ried e small black grip, which, ha said, contained pereonel valuables of men that had h#en klliad. Spoils wood 8. Halliburton of Macon, G».. an assistant enginaar officer on th# Shensndoeh. was in No. 3 gon dola. one of the power car#, His was one of the o#rs that did not fg.ll. "Every man on the eh|p.” he said, “had order* to stand by. Tha order# ware given about four qr five minutes before the crash- W# had been fight ing through the storm for heura and i struck into the very center of it at that point. Men In the after power cars. Nos. 1.-2 and 3. remained at their posts, even after the collapse pf the dirigible and the dropping awav of the control cars and the two ’ forward power cate. They were still at their engines as the broken pgrt of th* dirigible cam* close to the ] ground, touching th# tops of trees and • Hating badly toward th* port aids '1 “Then she rose a little and the after Sower c#rs ware wrenched and twisted ut not torn loose from their fgeten ; l n f» By that time w# understood the completeness of the disaster, and all of th# men in the power car* were climbing above the enginea to get * hand grip of some kind on the frame of t\»e dirigible. 1 “Ae the Shenandoah finally settled the three rear power cars were • twisted and tom aw#y. w# wer# bouiyad around savagely fpr several ’ jnlnmea. We had firs*, struck among the top* of some tree* I ,' Theae slowed up the speed es the airship, or rgtlaer that part *f tha airship in whiel* w# wart riding, and as she bounced down toward the ground some of the men were virtu ; ally thrown efl. others watched their , chance and lapped. It wga haW dark , at the time. Wf couldn’t #•• at enca , that tha no*# of the airship Was , j missing." Oh#rl#a Solar of Indianapolis, ms* , | chintst matt, was ene of the mgn , I carried away in the nose of the slr i { I wa« Just getting gut of mv hunk when we auddenly spun around in it . little cyclone. Th# airship sank and • then houndnd upward and the part ( of the ship In which I was riding • ] broke off. ! "Comdr. Rosendahl wa* with ua I* »»d free-hallooaod It, gradually t getting her down tewarfl the greund DEFEAT OF HYLAN VITAL TO SMITH’S PRESIDENCY HOPE; iContlouMl from First Page.) this fight, he will b« in a. strategic p« i sition either to run for governor again or to make a hid for the United Staten j Senate next year. He i* serving hia third term as governor now and a feurth term might have the. semblance of a perpetual governorship For that reason some of hia friends have talked i of t|»e governor a* a candidal for the ; Senate against Senator 'Him ’ Wads worth. Republican, who must come up j for re-election next year. But this | tglk has dwindled away recently and the discussion of a fourth farm as gov- ■ ernor has Increased. There are sev- i eral reasons for this. In the first place Qov. Smith would I find it easier to win again as gov- j «nor. In all probability, than he would ; to defeat Senator Wadsworth. The political ambitions of the two men so ' far have not clashed. They have been I I peraonally friendly to each other j outside of the political arena. Wads ! worth ia from “up-State." and tie , mouaiv strong in that section, and ! also would poll the full Republican ! strength in Xew York City. Fight Would Be Hard. It mar be that the political exegen j cie* will throw the governor and Sen ator Wadsworth into the senatorial 1 ■ race against each other negt year, j I If they do it will be a great struggle, jlt must be remembered, however, that New York has usually been j j found in the Republican column in national elections, and the election of a United States Senator more nearly approaches a national issue than does i the biennial governorship row. If Gov. Smith has senatorial emhl- j tions it is urged in some quarters he ' might better wait until 1923. when Senator Copeland. Democrat, must i stand for re-election, and enter the race for the nomination. Senator Copeland ha* cast in his lot with Mayer Hylan and William Randolph Hearst in the present fight. Further more, if the governor falls of the •presidential nomination he coyld still have a try at the senatorshlp that v*ar. Outside of the effect which the re sult of the campaign may have on Gov. Smith and the Demecrg/tic or ganization of the State of New York there is nothing in the mayoralty struggle that has national significance. There is no question of the Coolidge administration involved. The issues, outside of the personal ambition* of !Gov. Smith, are all local. It is 30 I years since the Republicans elected! a mayor of New York City on a j straight-out Republican ticket. Seth i Bow was mayor in 1902, but he was a .fusion candidate, and thare have iteen ( other fusion mayors. Republican* Ab« Split, j With sn outstanding candidate to day. a man upon whom *ll the Repuh , licans hgd united, there might be a chance for a Republican victory, with the present split in the Democratic ranks between Hvlan and Walker. But the Republicans are divided, too. | though not so bitterly as the Demo j crals. Frank U. Waterman, a suc cessful business man. is the choice of | the Republican organisation for the | nomination. But William M. Bennett, i who won the Republican nomination [ *n ill! from .lohn P. Mitchel. and .lohn I J- Lyone. formerly Secretary of State ,of Now York, have declared th#m i selves in "at the solicitation of , friends." ! The predictions here today are that I Waterman will win the Republican , nomination and Walker the Demo cratic on September IS. and that they j will fight it out at the polls in X'oveni i her, with poasihiy a third and even a I fourth independent candidate to liven | things up. Senator Walker is chal lenging Mayor Hvlan to say whether. : in the event Walker wins the Demo ! eratic primaries. Hylan will support j the regular Democratic nominee, i Walkti at the same time has asserted hi* willingness to support Hylan if | the latter wins. Walker* purpose is to create the impression ip the minds of the Democratic voters that Hvlan will run as an independent, with the backing of Hearst in the event he loses in the primary. But even should Hylgn run on a j third ticket, it is entirely unlikely he I would he successful either in winning I himeelf or in preventing the election iof Walker. With Waterman. Walker and Hylan ell in th* field election day it is figured that many Republicans would cast their votes for Walker to insure the defeat of Hylan. The underlying struggle for control of New York's Democracy between Gov. Smith on the one hand and Hearst gRd hia followers on the other has been brought into the open through letters written by Hearst to the editor of his newspaper, the New j York American, and hy Gov. Smith ito the same editor. Mr. Heat6l In ' hia communication strongly urges the I re-election of Mayor Hylan and insists that Gov. Smith is a friend of Wall Street, which wishes to defeat Hylan. The governor gives Mr. Hearst the lie and eaya he 1» the greatest burden Mayor Hylan has to stagger under today. ' until we were able to drop loose. I j hurt myself when I fell, hut not seri j ously. No bones were broken.” Ralph Jones. Do* Angeles, avls- I tion machinist * mate, said: j ”1 was in car No. 3. It was about !*:«! Eastern Standard time when I received signal* for full speed. I get the engine running at 1,400 reve ' Union* a minut*. “We were then in the teeth of the Storm and I realized th# commander had decided to go with the storm. Forward, in care numbers 4 end 5, I suddenly heard a ripping noise. We were then caught in the twister The ship first reared qn #ne end and then on the other. Then it made s terrific and sudden descent, Swinging around four or five times. | "f again got the aignala for full speed ahead. The ship suddenly lurched upward. VVe rote to about 1.966 feet, when the Shenandoah, aft er being tossed around and around, •*»|ned to collapse all at once. "The negt thing I knew we struck a hill, and the car I was in caught in the lop of gome trees. 1 slid off on the side of the hiH. I judge 1 dropped about 35 feet. “I laid op my face *o the c#r would not strike me as it skimmed over the hill. It then rose in the air again, and looking around 1 saw two or the othtr man. ope s chief rigger and the other the cook. They were about 5 I yards from me and ley as though [ stunned. In a few minutes they got up end we walked around in efrcles. Kept Propeller Going. "I attribute my escape from death to the following ..in of my Ypstvuction* received when T fin»> was assigned to the thanandoeh—those ware jo keep my propeller* running full speed, i believe thig enabled the section with my car to make a cooperatively gen tle landing.” Th# landing of the tear section of tha Shenandoah after the cracking of thg »hip we* described hy Walter Johnson. Minneapolis chief machin ist* mste. “Tha last section of tha ship, with two of tha car» attached to it. landed an a. hillside.” said Johnsorg “As the cam hit the ground the bag was above us on the slope. At once the tall began swinging ground and bounc ing down the slope. | r When tha car landed l ran up the | hill and eecgped the bag. But many of th* other* jumped from the £* r ' down th# elope. The hag came bounc ing after them. As it asm# toward them some of them dived beneath It and look a chance on It jumping over th#m. I don't know what happened to the others. A a tha tall swung around and deem the slope they must have run away from IF fast enough to **«cgpe.” BUSINESS TO UNITE I TO ADVERTISE CITY I Real Estate Board Starts Move lnvites Trade j Bodies to Co*Oper»te. Instead of forming a new organiza tion for nationally advertising W**h j ington. vgrloua trade hodie* will he ! urged to get behind some on# existing 1 organisation, probably the Convention I Bureau, for such a campaign. It wa* | decided today at a meeting in the office* of the Washington Real Kotete • Boird. j The meeting, which was attended I bv representatives of the Board of i Trade, the Chamber of Commerce, the ! Hotel Men's Association, the Conven tion Bureau and the Realtors' Asso elation, wa* called by the latter body Ito discuss plan* for *uch an adver j Using campaign. i ! The primary object will be to bring j people to Washington in convention*. las tourists or in any other wjy, *n that they can learn to know and love j the lieautie* of the National Capital. ; The meeting this morning wa* ad j journed, subject to call. At the next j session the organization which will Vie I used as the spearhead of the campaign j will be definitely chosen. Among those who attended were: i Robert N. Harper. John A. Petty, ! Thomas E. Jarrell. Martin A. Lee**. ■ A. E. Seymour. lawrenca Mill*. C. B. I-Avigne, Arthur Carr, Ben T. Weh- I *ter, W. C. Miller, John T. Maury. Rufu* 8. Lusk. Jess# Hedges and j Clarence K. Donohoe. ! POLITICS ARE BLAMED FOR SHENANDOAH TRIP LANSDOWNE FEARED (Continued from Fir»t Pag« > purposes of the trip, they said, were to experiment with untrained ground crews and test the new mast erected by Henry Ford at Detroit. <A Washington dispatch to the Xew York World quotes Secretary Wilbur a* saying in regard to Mr*. Lan*- downe's comments: "Comdr. Jan*- ! down* was allowed to chose hi* time, i i Hie judgment was that It would he [safe to make the flight at thi* time | T would not have permitted th# flight | against the judgment or proteat of j Comdr-. lAnsdowne.”! | It wa* learned today that Comdr. i Lansdowne. before starting on the 111- j fated trip, had criticized the water-re ' cover}' system installed a boat six I week* ago and had declared that he j intended having It removed, i Among men who understood th# ' j ship’s construction it was freely pre dicted that the ship could have weath. ' ered the storm with the old system. l-osd at Breaking Point. |j Th# original water system dis i tributed tn# water recovered from 'j exhaust gas of the engine* to ballast ’ j bags scattered throughout the ship to ! counteract the loss in weight from ( gasoline consumption. The new *ve i j tern, installed at section 110. ne* i . i the place where the dirigible is said to have broken, concentrated a great part of the recovered*water in a can vas bag holding three ton* at the spot whtr# the ship broke. Not only is it believed that the new system concentrated too much weight in one part of the *hip. but. in addition, it is believed that th# cutting of one of th# main circular ribs of the ship and an intermediate i j rib for installation of the new system i j resulted in further weakness. The*# i i formed th# main structure of the , 1 ship. > ‘ Th# two ribs, or rings a* they ar« i called In dirigible construction, were reunited by g square connection In > | Stead of the original circular form, • j and this also was criticised by Lieut, i j t'orndr. Unsdownt in private rnn -1 versatjons ju*t hefore departure of • ; the ship. f Lieut, t'orndr. Ijtrtsdown# was on > his first day of his seventeenth year Th the Navy when killed. It wa* to 1 i have been his last flight, as he had t ; been ordered hack to seu duty Ben- I j tember 15. H# and Margaret Ross of ! Washington were married in 1921 i j after a war romance in France, where > I she waa a Red Dross nurse. Two chil dren survive, one hy Comdr. Lan*- 1 downe's previous marriage ! i -Mr*. Hancock Bra re. 1 • Mrs. Joy Bright Hancock was brave j under the second tragedy of this sort •j in her life. Her first husband was killed when the ZR-3 wa* destroyed. She had only recently married Lieut, i Comdr. Louis Hancock, jr., who was ! killed on th* Shenandoah. • On# little girl, th* daughter of .Tame* r ! 'V. Cullinan of Binghamton. X. V. ; 1 was waiting to celebrate her sixth birthday today. She has not been told of her father’* death. Several of the unmarried men who perished were engaged. Secretary Wilbur telegraphed me.* I aages of sympathy to the families of I I the victim*. ! A new water recovery system wa* , recently installed in the Shenandoah i «nd it was necessary to cut two big r . ring# inside the gas bag near the cen ■| ter and rivet them together again. *j " bile there wa* some suggestion that | a weakness developed from this work Lieut. Comdr. T. 8. Boyd, second In 1 command at Lflkefcurst. said that the 1 ship had been carefully inspected and • tested th# day before it* departure. ■ Plena for burial of the victims of 1 the Shenandoah dies star have not vet been completed, it wad said here to day, but it was expected that in ad dttlon to services at the homes es ■ those who l|ved in th* vlcinltv a loim service for all of those who lost their live* would he held at the air station 1 on Sunday or Monda v I 1 ! Survive## Return. I j The 17 surviving member* of the i ; crew arrived at the naval air xtation today and were greeted by more than , j 500 friends and relative* at th# rail t j road station. Four of the men were , ; officers end the rest enlisted men. In i the crowd that awaited them wet# ; many wlv## and parents, who. for the first time aince the disaster, broke down under th# strain and wept. The 1 men were permitted to go to their U home* to rest after their hazardous ad 'l vent ure: ’! Those who returned were: Lieut. [T. C. Henley. Columbia. Tepn.: Lieut. : iJ- B. Anderson, Hvattsville, Md.: Col. j Chalmers O. Hall. United State* Armv i Air Service, jnd Chief Machinist H*j . Ilhurton, Macon. Ga. , Enlisted men—Henry L. Boswell, . Bagdad. Fla.: Jehn J. Hahn. Philsdel phi*. Pa.; James H. Collier, N. J.; Frank L. Peckham, Frnntstone, Md.: Richardson Wilson, Yakima. I Wash.; Ralph Jonea. Los Angsles. . Calif.: Julius Malak Hooversvills, , Pa.: Benjamin Hereth. Pletonia. Nebr.: , Lester K. Coleman. Fort Worth. Tex.; August C. Quernhetm. Lakehfirst. N. ,1.; I<ouis E. AUely. Logan, Ohio; , Frederick J. Tobin, Arlington. Mas*., and Raymond Cole. Lima, Ohio. Mark J. Donovan of Philadelphia also wa* in the party, hut did not com# to Lakehurst, dropping off at hi* home city. Halliburton s»(d that he wa* In the keel of th# ahfp when th# *r**h earn*. The ship broke, h# said, at section 9* and a* faction l#«. the lattor break nc. ctirring near thg water rtHOVgff ay* teas.