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FALL’S DELAY PLEA
SET FOR THURSDAY
Justice Bailey’s Hearing ol
Motion May Indicate
Venue Change.
Justice Jennings Bailey of the Dis
trict Supreme Court will hear Thurs
day afternoon a motion on behalf of
Albert B. Pall, former Secretary of the
Interior, for a postponement of the re
trial of the Pall-Sin clair conspiracy
case, which is scheduled for April 2,
Attorney William E. La hey, local coun
sel for Fall, will present a number of
affidavits of physicians of El Paso. Tex.
concerning the illness of the former
Secretary. It anil be claimed that Fall's
life would be jeopardized if he were
required to come to Washington at
that time.
No intimation has been made as to
a hat action counsel for Harry F. Sin
clair. the co-defendant. will take in
, reference to the retrial. Special Gov
ernment counsel in the oil cases have
announced their intention of asking
the court to proceed with the trial
ags.ns; Sinclair alone should Fall s ill
ness interfere aith his presence.
The setting of the motion before
Justice Bailey would indicate that in
the event a retrial is ordered for April
2 that he will preside instead of Jus
tice Siddons. who presided at the for
mer trial which resulted November 2 in
a mistrial, and a ho heard the contempt
proceedings against Sinclair and his
associates, resulting in their conviction
February 21.
VOTERS' LEAGUE PLANNED
AMONG S. W. U. STUDENTS
Meeting Called for Organization in
Corcoran Hall
Thursday.
The Nation-wide program of the Na
* tienal League of Women Voters to
organize groups in colleges and universi
ties will be put into practice locally
with the organization here of a new
voters’ league at George Washington
University Thursday evening at a meet
ing to be held at 8 o'clock in Corcoran
Hail.
The actual work of organization in
the new league is being carried out by
the new voters' committee of the Vote
less District of Columbia League, with
Miss Muriel Fritz as chairman. Miss
Gertrude Ely, counselor for the national,
will speak on "What College Leagues
Can Do.”
Miss Fritz's committee includes Miss
Julia Margaret Hicks. Miss Ethel M.
Smith. Mrs. Harry Hull and Miss
Catherine Mcßevnoids. Speakers who !
have appeared before classes at the I
university during the week to interest j
the students in the movement are Mrs. 1
Robert Whitney Imbrie. Miss Smith, j
Mrs. John. M. Hager and Miss Fritz
STORM HITS CAUCASIA.
Tout Men and Many Cattle Perish
in Two-Day Snowfall.
NACHACHTALA, Caucasia. March 20
CA s ) —Pour men and many cattle per
ished in a heavy snowstorm near
Aiariatinsk. The storm has raged for
two days throughout Caucasia. It has
destroyed telegraph and telephone lines,
blocked mountain paths and Isolated
many villages.
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•a*d nartner*b'ti will lie aittled t*r the re
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The National Capital Pres#
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WORKING CLASSES OF RUSSIA
PAID MORE THAN OFFICIALS
f Laboring Man Often Receives More Pay for
I Less Hours Than Heads of Govern
ment —Changes Frequent.
Note.—This i* the second of 10
arti< les bj Mr. Dreiser, famous novelist
and author of Wo Anteri«‘;nt Tragedy."
in «hi<h he sets forth whst at»|»e.vrs to
■ j him the trcml and bad featmes of Soviet
- | rule in Russia He returned recently after
• ll weeks of observation in that country.
Th< Star mesent* this series in the oon
■ , vu non that there is deep imhlic inleresi
n the Russian situation, without in am
j wav ideijtifyimr itself with the opinion*
expressed bv the writer
j BV THEODORE DREISER.
It Is so «*Rsy to stzy in Moscow, read
5 data concerning the rapid and helpful
' i development of the communistic system
t I in Russia tas furnished by the officials
i and theoreticians' and interview the
1 ! latter and take their picture of what
j is. But it is quite another matter to
travel over the great empire and see
' j for oneself.
Temperamentally. I am in favor of
’ any government which promises the
greatest happiness to the greatest num
ber. That is why it was not difficult
for the American Communist organi
! ration, once it had procured an official
invitation for me from the Soviet gov
ernment. to persuade me to visit Russia
even in the dead of Winter, its most
trying period.
And once there, the same leaning
: took me out of Moscow and Leningrad.
| where mainly at this time the official
Soviet or Communistic propaganda cen
ters. into such far inland cities and out-
I lying regions as Perm. Novosebirsk,
Novgorod and again southward from
Moscow to Kiev. Kharkoff, Stalin. Ros
tov. Ttflis. Baku. Batoum and all the
region bordering on the Black Sea bc
| tween Batoum and Odessa.
Conversion Fails.
Well, was I impressed? Very much.
Have I been converted to Communism?
No, not to the brand operating in Rus
i sia at this time. Os course, all official
Communists explain to you that true
communism has not yet arrived, that
; the dictum of Marx, the father of the
present experiment, "from each accord
ing to his ability: to each according to
his need." is something to be approxi
mated. not necessarily achieved.
And why not? Is it all wrong? Far
j from its being all wrong. I consider
many of its aspects and developments
to be very much right and progressive,
and. if it were in my power to do, I
would immediately dispatch to Russia
as large a number as possible of pre
sent-day enthusiasts for things as they
are from America. England. France and
; Germany, in politics and out, that they
might observe for themselves and come
to understand that something besides
unlimited private rights for the strong
and capable, their privileges, pleasures,
l etc., is possible, and not only possible.
| but actually, in existence, and. with :
; modifications, likely to endure in Russia.
One of the things they would have -
j to look upon, which would cause many :
j to return in high dudgeon, vowing that
Russia is upside down, would be the
enjoyment by labor of a maximum of
consideration or privileges consistent
with the economic success of the coun
try as a whole—enjoyment, for instance,
of the shortest possible hours consistent
with a national welfare based on the
labor of all. a voice in the labor regu
lations of the industry of which the
worker is a part, of not only adequate,
but special food, special housing, special
sanitation, special rest and entertain
ment, special education and opportunity j
to Improve himself in every way.
CMnpetltkm Withdrawn.
I. myself, ordinarily most sympathetic
ally inclined toward the underdog and
the minor individual everywhere, was
inclined, and still am. to decide that a
little too much was being done for labor,
too little for the brains necessary to
direct it, that labor was getting an un
due share of the fruits of the land, and
I that the elimination of the old-time
i creative or constructive business man,
j with all that his self-interest and con
] sequent industry, ingenunity, etc., im
| ply. was likely to result in a kind of
? slowness or seeming indifference or
! quiescence which one might expect in
a society from which the urge and tang
I of competition had been extracted.
And as one goes about any city or
i town apart from Moscow, in which i
naturally center most of the political i
and official, if not exactly mental, op- !
portunities of the country, there is just :
this ease or slowness, not to say indlf- j
Terence, which would indicate the ab- j
sence of that old-time zest or filip the j
hope of advancement or the fear of
failure provided.
i In fact, a few thoughts that then :
and there troubled me still do—that ;
is to say, that without commercial and ;
! political captaincy of a very high order 1
j so vast a problem as the feeding, cloth- j
ing. housing, education and pleasuring !
i of 150.000.000 persons is not likely to
come off; that to make people work 1
hard and intelligently requires some
thing more than the Marxian slogan.
"All for one and one for all." For can !
man be made to work as enthusiastical- i
ly for others aa for himself? And, if
not. can such a huge communistic ex- i
j pertinent as this be made to go? The
Communists say yes, of course. The
materialists of a Darwinian turn say
| no, that the temperament of man is
naturally greedy, cruel, this. that. Un
less his evil heart is taken into con
sideration any society or organism
will fall.
Religion* Nucreed.
But, then, my personal answer to that
i is that Christianity, as an economic
theory is certainly unaound, and yet
> look at It! And surely, Islamism has
nothing to commend it, mentally or
economically Yet It has endured for
how long now? Over a thousand years.
And there are those who wi)’. say of
other religions that each is Drastically
fain* puerile or insane, yet as organ
isms, theories of personal government,
, eaeh has succeeded.
Hence, why not Com nunUm? For
decidedly, there exists Ir. Russia at this
hour something akin to this very thing,
a semi-religious semi-moral theory
parading as an economic truth "One
for all and all for one ” Down with
the individualist the capitalist, the
1 merchant, the trader Out with any one
who necks a single grain more of power,
distinction, profit from the body poli
tic. than any other Let all work in
, harmony, and relatively tor the same
■ ; limited reward As Marx writes it:
Prom each according to his ability, to
! each according to his need "
But as you and I migni say, that is
madness Who under heaven is to de
termine ihe ability of each, who fix his
need and hen/*- reward? Is Edison to
| receive the same as a swineherd?
tin* kefelier no more than w»steel-nud
dier? Well in Russia at this hour
something iike that is In existence
M fetalm voice and directing spirit
of the present Communist central com
mittee which is the directing spirit of
sii of trie Bov lets and unions iri Russia,
receives for himself 226 rubles a
month, shoot SIOO plus three looms
in the Kremlin now the seat of the
ptiruipai government officials of ftu&sla
And M TtWcherln Hie minister of
foreign affairs, no more
Workers Earning More.
Lunacharsky, the minister of edtica
-1 tion with perhaps as great a power tor
U'fiti nr evil as any man In Russia,
sin»e he controls and • necks ait the
! sources of education schools, courses,
nooks newspapers, motion pictures the
stage tne idurational program* of the
! radio receive* no more
in fart. I could find no one In any
lilyn position w tut received a penny
!l more although for marry of them. 111
• oottMtiou with their offir lal duties are
j hr roughed a car or rare, a secretary or
» two or ten or twenty; sn apartment,
,u special means end equipment tor Iran*
THE EVENING STAR. WASHING TON, P, C„ TUESDAY, MARCH l^ s -
i portatlon. but all incidental to thrlr
! labors, of course.
Yet among the commonest workers I
could not find any who were making
less than 50 rubles, and thousands
upon thousands who were receiving 150.
175, 200 and 225. or more. Every mine
worker at the bank-head, the man with
the pick and gas mask, receives 250
rubles, and In addition special cloth
ing and special food and works only 6
, hours a day as against Stalin’s 12 or 18.
Scarcely a skilled worker of any kind
1 machinist, engineer, conductor, elec
i trician. plumber, bricklayer, carpenter.
5 but receives 150 to 200 rubles. Actors.
, producers, singers, dancers, connected
with the official stage of Russia, which
L is. roughly, the only theater, often re
j ceive more, some actors, ballet dancers
, ; and singers as high as 600 rubles a
month. Perhaps because unlike so many
others, they can leave Russia and suc
f ceed elsewhere.
• And yet In the main the economic
plan of the leaders is not. so much for
a minimum as for an average return
or wage, which is to be always the best
J , that can be done under the circum
i stances. Later on. as things grow bet
| ter. wages are to be increased, not for
any one class, as classes are to be
done away with, but for everybody.
And there is never to be any great dif
ference in wages. Just enough to make
exceptional merit and exceptional skill
1 comfortable according to their needs,
but never luxurious as contrasted with
the state of any other. In short, there
is to be no luxury which any worker
I with the taste for it cannot literally
aspire to out of wages, which, as near
as possible, are to be the equivalent of
the best..
Distinction Persist*.
A queer doctrine truly, as we West
erners see it. and yet., once you are in
Russia comprehensible after a fashion,
though never logical as life goes. For
try as you will, even there, you cannot
quite conceive how people are to be
made equal In significance however
equal they may be made In means, and
it is just this mental or temperamental
significance which makes all the dif
ference in people, money to the contrary
notwithstanding.
For now here we are in Moscow, let
us say. And here comes a street cleaner,
or a hotel porter, or a droschky driver,
or the manager of a small store for
the government. And ne may be as
well, or as poorly, dressed as Mr. Staltn
or Mr. Bukharin, and paid as much.
And his rights and privileges under the
new system are the same as those of
any other. Eut does all this make him
In your eyes, or mind, or those of any
discriminating Russian of any mental
rank whatsoever, the equivalent of any
i of the really significant people in Rus
! sla? Try to think it! Or go there and
try to see or feel it! It is not so!
Orders, hierarchies and powers, how
ever completely stripped of financial
significance, have not disappeared. A
learned doctor is still a learned doctor,
and kowtowed to as such. A scientist,
ditto. A statesman the same. Try to
see Mr. Stalin. Mr. Lunacharsky. Mr.
Rykov. Mr. This. Mr. That of the reign
ing powers! Or seek an’ introduction to
one of the directors of the great thea
ters, the Btate moving picture organi
zations. the directors of libraries, uni
versities or any poet or writer of fame!
You will find what I found, and exactly
what you will find anywhere, that, com
i muntsm or no communism, it is brain,
;or cunning, or both, that mysterious
something called ability or personality,
that makes all the difference in Russia
between one who is respected and one
whcffts not. one who is sought after and
one who is not, one who is in authority
and one who is not. A man who is
mentally fitted to be a street cleaner t«
a street cleaner. And a man who is
wise enough to be a leader is a leader, i
Claim* Are Dented.
Yet. according to all of the Com- t
munlst leaders with whom you talk,
there are to be no classes. There is to
exist only a classless society, equal
financially and in every other way. But
look about you. and with one exception
there are all of the classes you have
ever known, professional, scientific, so
cial. The only one that appears to be
; missing is the monied class. And even !
i there you are likely to find its equlva- |
! lent, moneyless, to be sure, but still in ;
possession of the one thing Its former ;
! wealth represented—power and position.
In Moscow one heard so much of this!
remarkable economic system being care- j
fully worked out among all of the 167 j
nationalities of the immense commune |
And that it was working, everywhere in
; Russia.
But then 1 went further, to be con- I
fronted by certain Indisputable facts J
Among these, for Instance, that the;
! major portion of the population is in,
poor if not insufficient clothing, thai
j there is not any too much heat, also ;
: inadequate, and certainly from a West- !
em point of view, uncomfortable trans- 1
! portatlon for the masses; no furniture |
anywhere worthy of the name; Insuffi
cient, if not expensive, and certainly j
; not comfortable housing; very few pub-;
1 Uc roads, few modern vehicles, such as j
| busses, automobiles or trucks; not enough I
schools as yet. not enough places of
amusement, all forms of commodities,
from bread and tea, meat and grain,
down to clothing and utensils, of the
simplest and only the most necessary
kind, high in cost and poor in quality;
; unempolyment still great < 200.000 In
; Moscow. 160,000 in Leningrad, and other
| cities In proportion); beggars, in Lenin
grad. Moscow and other cities; prosti
tution among women of the old order
, either unequipped or unwilling to meet
the new conditions
Constant Change* Noted.
But then, as 1 reflected, the world
should remember that the technique
of so great a thing as a Communistic
state is something still to be learned
* and It is being studied hourly in Russia.
"Last, year <or in 1925. or ’24, or ’23 >
we did so and so, but we found it
wouldn't do It was too expensive. It
conflicted with such and such a thing,
and so we changed It.”
It Is not enough that the govern
ment should take over the railroads,
post office, telegraph, public roads,
land, house*, stores, manufactories, but
{it must manage them in such away
i as to avoid waste, make a profit, keep
i. one industry from conflicting with
| another, and still sell to the lndl
>! vidua! at such a price that he will
never be charged too much nor favored
i so much that hi* healthy personal
• Industry and Interest will be stultified
' Truly, it 1* an enormous problem
» One meets with Its various facet* and
1 angles on every hand. Is there not
■ waste here, graft there? How prevent
’ this, manage that, from bakery to
! taxi, from candy store to railroad? And
- j yet, when you begin to look Into
- | things, you do find waste and graft
■; <I can furnish a long list of Investiga
tions and exposures), a« well as a,
1 : series of checks and balances quite
| reasonably devised
Ho and so most report to so and so;
. one venture can complain of and in
vestigate another venture, The great
industries and organizations are con
trasted by service, profit and popula
, Hon dealt with It a leather company
r , in Ode**# does not do as well as a
leather company in Novfwebtrsk the
f | question arises why ?
' * And always, everywhere, an official
• investigator may enter call for the
t ; books Interview the workers and man
! ager. discharge, promote, order changes
y 1 In expendltines, reduction*, or. should
y j the whole industry seem unwise, or
i persistently unpioffiable. abolish it en
rl i tidy And from this decision there
l Is no appeal.
it t,un n. i,t I (CIS in «it ,iitittirt»» Notiii
<i -ii Aibsavs i
LONE EAGLE RECEIVES PEACE AWARD
1
f ’ if
mm &|feayjjgy
Presentation to Col. Charles Lindbergh of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s
! $25,000 award In recognition of his service to peace, in New York yesterday. Pic-
I tnre shows Norman H. Davis, president of the association, and Lindbergh with
the bronze medal the latter also received.
BODIES ON S-4 GUARD SECRET
OF HOW DEATH CAME TO THEM
(Continued from First Page.)
happened down there in the dark and
the cold, when for 72 hours men were
breathing, and talking—and thinking:
all of that is a mystery of the sea. and
the sea does not tell its secrets.
Pies Grasping I-adder.
One man died clasping the rail of the
torpedo room ladder that leads 10 or
15 feet up to the torpedo room hatch
and the gun deck above.* He was fully
dressed, the only one of the five enlisted
men who wore shoes. Four of the other
men died in their clothes. Three of
them were bare-footed, one of them
i had an Arctic overshoe on one foot.
I One of them gripped the hand of an-
I other with his right hand. Lieut. Fitch
was probably out of his bunk, possibly
lying on the deck, tapping out the sig
nals which ceased with his final “All's
well!" He was identified by his class
ring and his rifle team sweater that he
wore at Annapolis, and which bore the
numerals of his class,' 1923. His cap
was under his head.
Four of the men were clad in their
submarine clothes, but. another wore only
his upper clothing. Blankets and bunks
indicated that when death took them
they were sitting and lying still in their
bunks, probably obeying the command
of their oflicer thus to conserve the pure
air. But the oxygen tAnk valve was
tight shut. The tank still contained its
normal supply of oxygen, so that when
the salvage officers went below yester
day and turned , the valve the oxygen
whistled as it escaped. The gas maskv
had been taken out of their canvas
cases, but they had not been used.
Door Wedged Shat.
The door leading to the battery room
was dogged down tight. The dogs had
been hammered down with a leaden
maul, found nearby, and a large, heavy
pinchbar. In the door, the glass-cov
ered port evidently had been leaking,
for it had been covered over with a
piece of rubber. The S. C. gear was
shipped, and the stethoscope had been
taken off. indicating that the doomed
men in the torpedo room expected that
they would receive fresh air through
this tube. The 8 C. tube runs ver
tically from the torpedo mom to the
torpedo deck above and is a listening
! device, with a stethoscope in the tor
; pedo room. The stethoscope had been
• removed by the prisoners before those
1 attempting a rescue had been able to
| connect an air hose to the part that
' protrudes on deck. This indicated that
Lieut. Fitch knew where to expect fresh
air. if any was to come, but he died be
fore the connection was made.
No attempt had been made to escape
through the torpedo tubes. In fact, the
only sign that there was any attempt
ito escape at all was left by the man
who still clasped in death th» rail of
I the torpedo room ladder. That, and the
| marks left by }Jeut. Fitch's signaling
hammer—small spots where the paint
had been worn off—the removal of the
stethoscope from the 8. C. tube and the
double-barred door to the battery room
with the rubbef. over the deadlight,
were the only pointers by those who
died to tell of thtlr last struggle with
I death.
Details Are Meager.
i And from these meaner details, what
1 is there known of; what went on In the
I torpedo room aft«r the sharp prow of
I the Paulding gashed its ugly hole
i through the wall, or the adjoining bat
. tery room, tore awas a great section of
' the wooden deck, above and with the
i crash of steel against steel went sliding
I over the top of the sub so that the
! doomed boat keeled far over to port?
j There must have been time to evac
uate the battery room before the crash.
And in the control room, the motor
controls were set at "stop. ’ Lieut.
Fitch and his men in the torpedo room
must have received enough warning of
the collision to enable them to close the
battery room door. Then, possibly after
the rending crash and the sudden de
scent of the sub, they managed to make
It more secure by pounding down the
dogs. These were emergency measures.
There must have been time to take
them, for they could not have been
taken after the water gushed through
the great hole In the battery room side.
Four of the men must have been
asleep or lying In their bunks. The
fifth, and Lieut. Fitch, were clothed
and probably on their feet. For 72
hours after the crash the hammer
signals were heard Some of the men
may have lived—all of them, possibly—
long after the last signal. But four of
them never put on their shoes. One
of them never dressed. They were
probably told to lie still that on lying
still and making the air last, depended
their only chance for rescue. The gas
masks were made ready. But there
seemed no occasion to use them. Nor
was the oxygen used, with the tank
standing filled and ready. Why? No
man can tell. Possibly the oxygen was
being conserved until the last hours,
and when those hours rolled around
no man was strong enough to reach
the oxygen valve Possibly there was
a leakage of chlorine gas through the
bulkheads from the battery room that
made death sudden. But no signs of
this were found And If there had been
gas, why were the gas masks still un
i! used, sfter being taken from their
cases?
Catching at Ntraws.
What of the man who clasped In
death the hand of another man?
< Did they lie there In the dark, these
two holding to each other with some
unspoken thought of going out to
gether? Or did one of them grasp
the other, as a dying mart catches at
a straw? And what of the man with
his boots on, holding to the rail of the
torpedo-room ladder? Khali we picture
him frantic, with those shout him stilled
in death, making one last move to
break away another man catching *1
a straw?
I But those are things that can not
t Ire answered, It Is best to think of
ilvMe six men dying like sailors, doing
i what they had been told to do. un*
I questioning and reporting, at the last,
"All's well"
When the members of lbe lamid of
! inquiry went Into the submarine yes
terday afternoon, after she had been
put In dry d.Mk, they found three
holies of waht above tile torpedo
! room floor plates. The room had been
flooded before, and everything was en-
I cased In a coating of mud. The tor
• ; pedo room was in better condition than
other parts of the Interior of the sub-
I marine. In other compartments the
I water had left not only a thick coat
i ing of mud and silt, but oil covered
! everything, as if spread by a brush.
1 There was some debris, and there was
some wreckage, so that progress through
1 the hull was slow and difficult. The
torpedo room was a chamber of hor
-1 | rors, and the officers spent little time
; there, postponing a more thorough in
spection until the bodies had been re
-1 moved, which was accomplished at 8
• o'clock last night. The rather super
' ftstal inspection made yesterday dls
-1 i closed what has been recounted. There
was no paper or written messages
I found. It is extremely doubtful if any
; j will be found, though the possibility,
| -of course, remains.
■ | Two More Bodies Found.
' Leaving the torpedo room, the In
vestigators made their way into the
other compartments, in search of the
two other bodies which could not be
1 found by the divers when they re
moved 32 of them while the suDmarine
lay on the bottom. One man was
found wedged against the starboard
engine clutch. Another was found. ■■
some hours later, outboard of the port
air compressor in the motor room. Both j
bodies wer6 clothed and their positions 1
indicated that they had been washed j
where they were by the inrushing water. ;
The clock in the control room was
stopped at 3:34 (the ship sank at 3:37)
and in the control room, the main mo- j
lor control w*as set at "Stop” with the i
portable lights set at "Off." A reading ;
of the master gyroscopes was taken and
a five-dollar bill was picked up out of
the muddy silt. Today and for several ;
days, however, the inspection will be
continued, and during this time only
members of the board of inquiry will
be allowed to go aboard. They have
been given a list of 170 detailed in
structions of what to look for in the
i submarine. They are to make a thor
ough study of the radio log. ship's log.
! quartermaster's notebook, standardiza
j tion records, none of which has yet
! been found, and then check on other
details listed for each compartment
The submarine was making stand
ardization twits when she was struck,
and an electric cable ran from the pro
peller shafts In the engine room to a
I counter in the control room, where a
! device recorded the number of revolu
i tions per mlnuie of the engines. This
j cable, or cables, stretched through the
! doors between the compartments, so
: that the doors could not be shut unless
the cable was cut. The investigators
have been ordered to determine wheth
er the cables were cut, and how they
were cut and what instruments were
used to cut them. A diver noted when
the submarine lay on the bottom that
I blueprints and a blanket were Jammed
! in the flapper valves at frame 72, in
i the submarine. The investigators have
i been ordered to seek the reason for
this. Some of them expressed the be
i lief that thev had been merely washed
in there by the water. AU of the ques
’ tions to be answered have been framed
with the idea of developing every pos
sible clue to what happened immedi
ately before and after the collision.
Rudder May Have Jammed.
The position of the stern planes, or
, horizontal rudders, indicates that the
sub was coming up, but their deflec
tion is much greater than the bow
planes, and one of the bow rudders is
set at a different angle from the other.
As the rudders on both sides of the sub
work as a unit, it is possible that the
collision may have Jammed the rudder
gear. One officer advanced the theory
that the natural thing to do on sight
ing the Paulding so close at hand would
have been to dive But the position
of the rudders indicates that no at
tempt was made to go under the Pauld
ing
The wound left by the Paulding;
gives a graphic illustration of the force
of the collision, The hole on the star- j
board side of the S-4 Is perhaps 20 ;
I feet or so forward of the winning I
i tower. The Paulding rammed part of!
| her keel into this hole and left it j
I ■ there, so it projects outside and sticks i
I I through and about 3 feet into the !
|! battery room. The hole on the out
| side of the hull Is large and jagged,
and on the inside of the battery room
I ■ there Is an opening about 12 inches
; 1 high -and 3 feet long. The keel pro- !
; j Jects into the battery room, pointing
| aft at an angle of about 30 degrees, just j
' j under tlie main ballast tank,
j i After tne Paulding struck and left a
i part of her keel sticking through the
[ j side, she oassed over the gun deck, tak-
II Ing with ner a great slice of the heavy
' I wood deck planking and twisting the '
‘ i 4-Inch cun at right angles. The mount- 1
’ j mg of tne gun was so badly twisted and
• | torn that the gun was hoisted off the
: : submarine as s<*on as she was in dry
j dock, to avoid the danger if U« falling
1 j loose.
JI The position of the hole in the side of
' | the sub and the torn deck amt super-
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UNDY RECEIVES i
AWARD OF HONOR;
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Wilson Medal for Achieve- J
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j B.v the AMoWated Pres*.
NEW YORK, March 20.—The name
|of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh today
1 stood linked with those of Viscount
Cecil and Ellhu Root as one whose con
tribution to the cause of International ;
peace and understanding had been rec- I
ognizcd as worthy of the Woodrow
Wilson award.
The award, consisting of a bronze |
medal 12 inches in diameter, and $25.- j
000, was presented by the Woodrow j
Wilson Foundation at a dinner at the ;
Hotel Astor last night attended by no- .
tables in many fields.
The award was presented to Viscount |
; Cecil of England in 1924 for his serv- j
ices to the League of Nations and to |
Mr. Root in 1926 for his part in the j
1 establishment of the World Court
Col. Lindbergh in his speech of ac- j
ceptance paid tribute to the achieve- j
ments of President Wilson, "a man.” ;
he said, "who was always at the head j
of progress and peace, and yet who j
structure above it shows that had the ;
: s-4 been 2 or 3 feet lower down in the \
water the damage from the Paulding j
might not have been serious. Had she
been 10 or 12 feet lower, she would ,
probably have escaped unscathed. She .
could not have sighted the Paulding far
away, for if she had seen her a minute
or so earlier the collision might have \
been avoided. Something of importance
may be learned from the bearing of the
two periscopes. But the blow of the ;
Paulding may have so disarranged them .
that their position now will be of little
value.
The after periscope was Jammed down
in its housing, so that any one looking
through it now must lie down on the j
deck to get a view. This periscope Is set !
about four points on the starboard bow, |
1 which would have been toward the ap
proaching Paulding. The forward peri
-1 scope Is set nearly dead ahead, just a
' little to starboard.
The board of inquiry members who
jammed their way, bundled as they
were in bulkv oilskins, through the nar
row hatch into the torpedo room yes
i terday. had a hard time getting down.
Later they constantly reported through
the telephone carried with them the
difficulty of moving about in the other
i compartments. How the divers, working
! 102 feet under the surface of the water.
! managed to cut off part of the conning
tower to get into the submarine and
remove 32 bodies is impossible for the
| layman to understand. But their feat j
j stands for itself.
To Determine Facts.
Capt. J. D. Willson, senior member
of the board of inquiry, said yesterday .
j that his investigations will be confined
: to determining the bare farts and that
no attempt will be made to draw con
| elusions from them. The findings of
this board will be forwarded to Rear
j Admiral Philip Andrews, commandant
of the navy yard, who will send them
I to Washington or place them before the
! board which investigated the subma
i rine's sinking. At some later day. there |
! may be an attempt to piece together i
| the facts in a manner that will give a ;
partially accurate attempt of what hap
! pened on the submarine before and
I after the accident.
Meanwhile, with the gaunt, wounded
hull of the S-4 lying in dry dock, the
Navy’s board of inspection and survey
from Washington will visit the S-4 and
determine upon whether she is to be
scrapped or reconditioned. A rough es
timate of the cost of reconditioning her
The navy yard now is dosed to vis
itors. but it should be opened to all.
after the inspection work is concluded,
and the hull of the S-4 left exposed to
the view and the study of the well in
tentloned persons who. during the days
immediately following her tragic sink
ing. sent thousands of suggestions to
the Navy Department about how the
rescue of her occupants could be effect
ed. A slight examination of the wreck
itself and a child's understanding of
the difficult and heartbreaking work
that went into raising this mass of steel
from the bottom of the sea would suf
fice to show the futility of such sug
gestions and their utter waste of words.
Those who go down to the sea in
submarines go with death standing on
the bridge When death takes the con
trols. there is little left for men to do
unless, like Lieut. Fitch, they send out
as a partin word. "All's well!’*
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was able to successfully lead his Na
tion through the greatest war In his
tory when peace was no longer possl-'
ble. and after that war to bring this'
country back to his high ideals.”
Switching to aviation, Col. Lindbergh
expressed the belief that aviation would
play a large part in the betterment of
world understanding. Just as this coun
try was brought closer together and the i
union made possible by the railroad
and cemented by the gasoline engine,
he said, aviation would In the future .
bring nations together.
"It is my hope,” he added "that with-1
In the next few months we will have
air liners operating from the United
States down through the Caribbean
area to South America.” *
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