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District Troops Ready
To Defend Railhead
In War Games
260th Coast Artillery
Prepares for 'Attack'
Next Week
J Bv ROBERT A. ERWIN,
* Star Stall Correspondent.
MANASSAS, Va., Aug. 7.—Spread
out in triangular formation over an
area of several square miles, the 260th
Field Artillery of the District Na
tional Guard was all set today to
defend the 29th Division railhead at
Gainesville, Va., from “enemy” at
tacks.
The attack won't come until next
week, and it will be from the Regular
Army's provisional division. The di
vision's first and biggest job, how
ever. will be to find the 260th Coast
Artillery.
While headquarters has been es
• tablished in the open spaces on
highway No. 211 above Gainesville,
where “enemy” aviators can recog
1» nize anti-aircraft units without dif
ficulty, there are numerous gun em
placements in heavily wooded areas
where the eyes of aviation cannot
penetrate.
Under the setup outlined by Lt.
Col. Leroy S. Mann, executive officer
« of the 260th under Col. Walter W.
Burns, there is a gun battery at each
of the triangle's three points, with a
machine gun battery defending each
gun unit. The machine gunners will
direct their fire against “enemy”
planes trying to lay smoke screens
that wouid make the gun batteries
Useless in real combat.
Searchlights Recently Issued.
On the outer fringes of each area
• re the powerful searchlights re
cently issued to the 260th as part of
the regiment's modernized equip
» ment. Troopers manning the search
lights will have the job of spotting
enemy planes in the sky.
When the 3rd Corps Area phase
of the first Army maneuvers actual
ly get under way next Sunday for a
continuous four-day period, the ma
chine gunners will depend somewhat
on the weather. One of the three
machine batteries will be posted
'out front." according to the di
rection from which the wind will be
coming, bringing w-ith it enemy
planes.
„ The 260th’s weapons include 37
millimeter guns, firing 10 shots a
clip at the rate of 120 a minute. The
^ regiment's emplacements are located
both north and south of Gainesville.
All modern means of communica
tion for an Army camp were func
tioning today in the area of the 29tn
! Division, embracing the District.
Maryland. Virginia and part of the
Pennsylvania National Guards.
There were telephone lines, tele
< type machines, telegraph instru
ments and radio outfits, fast motor
cycles and foot messengers all doing
their part in the two week's ma
neuver that is testing the defense
forces in this section of the At
lantic seaboard.
Wire Crew Busy.
Capt. Louis Philhower, Norfolk.
Va.. commander of the 29th Signal
Company, said that 20 miles of tele
phone wire were laid by his men
from 10 am. to 3 p.m. Sunday, with
, from 75 to 100 miles to be laid by
the time camp is fully established,
j The signal company already has es
i tablished a reputation for speed and
precision and previously has won
the approval of Regular Army in
spectors for its work.
For the first time the military
lines are in direct contact with com
mercial telephone lines, thus per
mitting long-distance telephone calls
in and out of any headquarters in
the camp area. Four District Guard
units are encamped here, the Coast
• Artillery, the 121st Engineers, the
29th Divisional Special Troops and
the 10th Quartermasters.
1 When the big push begins next
Sunday, pitting the 28th and 29th
National Guard Divisions against the
Regular Army’s provisional division
of 5.500 men of a newly motorized
force. Maj. G^n. Milton A. Reckord
* of the 29th will be able to pick up
a telephone wherever he stops.
The District Guardsmen and other
units of the 29th headed today into
a busy week of training and test
warfare between battalions. The
121st Engineers, commanded by Col.
John W. Oehmann, will hold a
regimental assembly Wednesday.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, com
mander of the District Guard, and
District Commissioners Melvin C.
Hazen and David McCoach, jr., will
come to the Bull Run battlefield
* area, where the troops are encamped.
Friday night for the annual officers’
dinner of the engineer regiment.
They are scheduled to spend the
right in camp.
lesi Bailie Tuesday.
Battalions selected from the 1st
and the 5th Maryland Infantries
Will clash Tuesday in a test battle.
The 29th Division special troops
took advantage of their newly in
stalled shower baths Sunday for the
first bath since they settled into
camp Saturday morning and after
* noon.
The District troopers, numbering
about 1.500 officers and men found a
It heavy fog overhanging the maneuver
area when they turned out of their
camp cots for a 7 o'clock Sunday
morning breakfast, served an hour
later than during the week. Later in
the day, the weather turned warm.
Despite the sun, however, special
details labored the day, establishing
message centers, setting up telephone
and electric light wires, digging
drainage ditches around the tents
and erecting flagpoles.
One of the poles was put up on
“Division Hill,” as 29th headquarters
is known, in front of Gen. Reckord's
tent.
Twenty-ninth Division Military
Police, under Capt. Donald Falk,
established one-way streets in sev
eral camp areas to avoid traffic con
gestion and to assure greater degree
of safety for the men.
stair Officers Meet Daily.
In addition to the District units
the following regiments are here as
part of the 29th Division troops;
Ninety-first Brigade Headquarters
and 1st Virginia Infantry, 116th In
fantry, Virginia; 58th Brigade Head
quarters and 1st Maryland Infantry,
64th Field Artillery Brigade Head
quarters and 110th Maryland In
fantry, 111th Field Artillery, Mary
land; 76th Field Artillery, Pennsyl
vania, and the 104th Medical Regi
ment, Maryland. All of them are
National Guard regiments.
Meanwhile, staff officers are meet
_ Ing daily in the 28th and 29th Divi
m idons and in the 3d Corps Area
headquarters at Manassas to com
plete arrangements for the four-day
maneuver next week. Maj. Gen.
Junes K. Parsons, commander of the
Corps, will direct the two divi
sions which comprise the 3d Corps
PRAYER BEFORE “BATTLE”—The 29th Division, encamped near Bull Run, Va., took time out
yesterday in its maneuvers for prayer. The soldiers are gathered before Linton Hall Academy,
at Bristow, to hear mass celebrated by Father Widmer of All Saints’ Church, Manassas.
area, and will be known as
the "Blues.” Brig. Gen. Maxwell
Murray of the Regular Army will
bring in the invading provisional
division known as the "Blacks.”
Maj. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, com
mander of the First Army, is sched
uled to arrive here later this week
to view the 3d Corps phase of the
maneuver.
Gen. Reckord will entertain with
a buffet supper in honor of Gen.
Parsons Tuesday at 6 p.m. at his
headquarters, with the field officers
of the division also serving as hosts.
Members of the staffs of Gen. Par
sons and Gen. Edward Martin, com
mander of the 28th, and 25 officers
of the National Guard Bureau of
the War Department will be among
the guests.
Mondell
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er Cannon's powers, and he fought
the Bull Moose candidancy of Theo
dore Roosevelt in 1912.
Mr. Mondell was born in St. Louis
on November 6, 1860—the day Linc
oln was elected President. Or
phaned at the age of 7, he was
adopted by a Congregational min
ister named Upton and went to live
with the family at Monona, Iowa.
Later the Uptons took up a home
stead in the northwestern part of
the State, 100 miles from a rail
road. and young Mondell pioneered
there until he was 17. During boy
hood he had been able to attend
country school only three months
each winter, but his guardian had
an extensive library, from which the
youth obtained the rudiments of a
liberal education.
At 18 he struck out for himself.
After a year of odd jobs in Chicago
he went to Denver on money he had
saved. For eight years he worked on
engineering and construction proj
ects. In 1887 he was sent to North
eastern Wyoming in charge of ex
tensive railroad and mining devel
opments He was credited with be
ing instrumental in the discovery of
bituminous Aal in that region and
the opening of the Cambria mines.
He superintended laying out the
town of Newcastle, which became
his permanent home. He was its
first Mayor.
Candidate for Senate.
Mr. Mondell served several terms
in the Wyoming Legislature, be
coming president of the State Sen
ate. He Was Republican candidate
for United States Senator, but a
deadlock in the Legislature pre
vented his election. In 1894 he ran
for Governor, but withdrew to be
come Republican nominee for Rep
resentative at large in Congress.
Aafter serving one term in the Na
tional House he was defeated in the
free silver campaign of 1896. He
was returned to Congress at the
next election and served continu
ously from 1898 to 1923.
Instead of seeking re-election in
1922, he ran for the Senate, but was
defeated by Senator Kendrick, a
Democrat.
During the 66th Congress, in the
middle of President Wilson's second
term, Mr. Mondell was made Repub
lican leader of the House, which
then had a majority. His choice
was the result of the bitter speaker
ship fight in which Frederick H.
Gillett of Massachusetts defeated
James R. Mann of Illinois. Mr.
Mondell was re-elected majority
leader of the 67th Congress and di
rected House legislation during the
Hardine administration
Refused Cabinet Post.
At the time he left Congress, in
1923. Mr. Mondell confided to friends
that President Harding had offered
to make him either Ambassador to
Japan or Governor of Puerto Rico,
but he had declined. He also was
reported to have refused a cabinet
appointment to enter private law
practice.
Mr. Mondell did not study law
until he became a member of Con
gress. He attended night school
here and was awarded his degree
by George Washington University
in 1921. He then was admitted to
practice in Wyoming and later in
the District of Columbia.
He was a delegate to many Re
publican national conventions and
presided as permanent chairman at
the Chicago convention in Cleve
land which nominated President
Coolidge to serve a full term in the
office to which he had succeeded on
the death of President Harding.
As a member of the House, Mr
Mondell advocated woman suffrage
and sponsored homestead, recla
mation and other measures of in
terest to the West.
He was president of the Dry
Farming Congress from 1910 to 1915
He was a 33rd degree Mason. In
recent years he had maintained law
offices in the Investment Building
Discovery of Spy Ring
Announced in Bulgaria
By the Associated Press.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 7.—Discov
ery of a large spy ring here and the
arrest of two alleged leaders was an
nounced today by police.
One of the men, whose name was
kept secret, was said to be a TurK
The other was listed as Vassi]
ShanofT, a Bulgarian and a stall
member of the Sofia newspaper
Zora.
Both men face the death penalty
if convicted.
»Tobacco raised in Shantung Prov
ince of China this year will weigh
over 40,000,000 pounds.
U. S. Athletes Victors
Before 60,000 in
International Meet
Watson, Beetham and
Jeffrey Are Winners;
Rideout Fourth in Mile
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 7.—Bouncing Billy
Watson's glittering double in the
broad jump and shotput gave the
United States decisive victory in
an international track and field
meet before 60.000 spectators to
day.
The United States team scored 54
points to Great Britain's 41. Ger
many was third with 25, Italy fourth
with 16 and Sweden fifth with 15.
Watson, big University of Michi
gan Negro, won the shotput with a
heave of 52 feet 8 inches, breaking
ihe British record by 3 inches: then
slouched over to the jumping pit
and won the broad jump with a
leap of 24 feet 6 inches.
These signal triumphs and George
Varoffs vault of 13 feet 6 inches
j to win the pole vault overcame
Britain's lead and won the day for
the United States.
Charlie Beetham. former Ohio
State star, won the 880-yard run in
1:52.3. Beethams victory was a
sensational one. He was sixth in the
field of seven as they entered the
back stretch. Charlie quickly over
hauled the leaders and went on to
win by 5 yards over W. Brandscheid
of Germany. B. Andersson of Sweden
was another yard back in third
> place.
iwo .norp u. a. »H ivnra.
Two more American victories fol
lowed in quick order. Clyde Jeffrey
of Stanford sped past his field in
the last 25 yards to win the 100-yard
dash in 0:9 8 seconds and Roy Coch
ran of Indiana came within one
tenth second of cracking the world's
record when he won the 440-yard
hurdles in 0:52.7 seconds.
Jeffrey, slow to get underway,
finished a foot in front of A. W.
Sweeney of Great Britain, who in
turn had inches on his teammate,
C. B. Holmes.
Despite a track made heavy by
early morning rains, Cochran drew
steadily ahead of his rivals on the
back stretch and won by three
yards over F. Hoelling of Germany.
He broke the British record by
three-tenths of a second.
Rideout Fourth in Mile.
Denis Pell, Sydney Wooderson’s
perrenial shadow, came into his own
when he whipped a strong field in
the mile race.
Pell was clocked in the slow time
of 4:15.2 as Blaine Rideout, Amer
ica's 1.500-meter champion, finished
fourth. Wooderson, whose bumping
incident with Rideout in the Prince
ton mile in June stirred the track
world, didn't compete because of an
injured leg.
Rideout, after running w'ell for
three-quarters, was thrown wide
when he tried to pass Pell. This
incident, faintly reminiscent of
Rideout's recent brush with Wood
erson. brought forth a storm of
booing, but Rideout himself didn't
know why.
"I was just thrown wide when I
frinrl tr\ nocc ” 1J t<r
heard them booing but I can't figure
out why. When I got on the last
lap I tightened up. something that
never happened to me before. How
ever, Pell ran a fine race and I
don’t want to take anything from
him.”
Taisto Maki. newest of Finland's
line of great distance runners, won
the 3-mile run in 13 minutes 59.4
seconds for a new British record.
Alexis Csaplar of Hungary was sec
ond and Nilsson of Sweden third.
Ray Schwartzkopf, United States
representative from the University
of Michigan, was last from the out
set and plodded home a good 220
yards behind the Finn.
Maki's time bettered the British
record of 14:09.2, set by another
Finn, Lauri Ldhtlnen.
Jeffrey completed the first double
of the day when he galloped to an
easy victory in the 220-yard dash,
winning in the slow time of 21.8,
six-tenths of a second off the Brit
ish record. Running around a curve,
the young American took the lead
about 80 yards from the finish and
breezed home two yards ahead of
Britain's Sweeney, who also was
second in the century.
luscs uy mcnes.
Despite a fine effort on the flat
after he had cleared the last hurdle,
Joe Batiste, Tucson, Ariz., colored
schoolboy, was beaten by inches in
the 120-yard high hurdles by Ernest
Lidman of Sweden. Batiste really
lost at the fourth hurdle when he
failed to recover his stride after
clearing the obstacle. Lidman's
time of 14.4 equalled the British
record set by America’s Forrest
Towns in 1936.
Watson could do no better than
third in the discus as Karl Wotapek
of Germany won with a toss of
160 feet 3 Vi inches. But Les Steers
of San Francisco’s Olympic Club
put the United States back on the
victory trail by winning the high
jump.
Steer cleared the bar at 6 feet 6
inches, 3 inches higher than H.
Martens of Germany. Batiste was
awarded third because of a fewer
number of misses though he actu
ally tied with J. L. Newman of Great
Britain at 6 feet 2 inches.
’ Tokio. Japan, has started a C?*sade
Building Contractors
To Meet A.F.L. Chiefs
On Future Relations
'Labor Peace' Among
Topics for Council
Sessions
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. Aug. 7.—
Coincident with a C. I. O. drive to
organize new unions of building
trades workers, representatives of
building contractors made plans to
day for a labor relations meeting
with chieftains of the American
Federation of Labor.
At the same time A. F. L. officials
are talking with representatives of
| the Associated General Contractors
| of America. Inc., the A. F. L. Execu
; tive Council will be discussing "the
,C. I.O. threat to invade knd raid the
building trades unions of the A. F. L.
and the effects of such a drive on
( the prospects for labor peace.”
Meeting Tomorrow.
Edw'ard J. Harding, managing di
rector of the contractors’ group,
said the labor-management meeting,
which starts tomorrow, would seek
to establish "a permanent means
whereby disputes may be avoided or
quickly and amicably settle with
out delay to projects under con
struction.”
The A. F. L. Executive Council
is here for a two weeks' session,
during which it will discuss an eight
point program and draft a report
for the Federation's convention in
. October.
The first point on the program is
[ “labor peace." of which an A. F. L.
statement said:
“Peace negotiations between the
A. F. L. and the C. I. O. committees
appointed at the request of President
Roosevelt are now in a state of sus
pension. They were postponed at
the request of John L. Lewis (head
of the C. I. O.i, who informed the
American Federation of Labor Com
mittee he would notify it when his
committee was ready to meet again.
No word has come to the American
Federation of Labor Committe from
Mr. Lewis since then except his
public pronouncement that ‘peace is
impossible’."
Other Major Topics.
Among otner major topics on the
council's program are a study of
legislative records of members of
Congress and indorsement of those
"worthy of labor's support”; a study
of what the A. F. L. statement de
scribes as “symptorhs of a reaction
ary wave resulting from public an
tipathy to the C. I. O., and how this
* * * has affected labor legislation
in the States and in Congress"; and
a study of methods for restoring em
ployment in private industry and for
overhauling the national relief set
up.
First Army Converging
For Biggest War Games
Bj the Associated Press.
PLATTSBURG. N. Y.. Aug. 7.—
The advance command of the 1st
Army established headquarters at
this military outpost today in prep
aration for the largest peacetime
troop maneuvers in American his
tory.
Under command of Col. Ulysses S.
Grant, III, 1st Army chief of staff,
the headquarters will operate as the
command post during the war games
beginning Sunday. Maj. Gen. Hugh
A. Drum, commander of the 1st
Army, is expected later this week.
Gen. Drum will direct operations
when Eastern forces attempt to
repell a mythical enemy which has
landed on the New England coast
and is sweeping inward. The maneu
vers continue until August 27.
Meanwhile, others of the 50,000
troops in the games converged on
this outpost. The 165 Regular Army
officers who will umpire arrived Sat
urday.
The 7th Calvary Brigade, Uncle
Sam’s only completely mechanized
fighting force, camped at Rochester's
municipal airport last night in their
1,020-mile trek from Fort Knox, Ky.
Commanded by Brig. Gen. Adna
R. Chaffee, 2.300 officers and men
made the trip yesterday from Erie,
Pa. Today they planned to move
on to Pine Camp, near Watertown.
Grenada is encouraging the use
of air-conditioning machines.
Going away? See that your
glosses are in good order be
fore you start, better yet,
take along an extra pair.
You can not find an Op
tometrist everywhere.
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Optometrists
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Lay off that soup, soldier! Pvt. G. A. Eanes, headquarters
battery and combat train, 2d Battalion, 111th F. A., Virginia
National Guard, will have to wait for his food. The man with
the broom is Sergt. N. M. Bowman, cook for the 29th Division.
—A. P. Photos.
Congress !
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lation and restore constitutional
processes in national administra
tion." ' !
Cites New Trend Facts.
Representative Martin listed 14
accomplishments which he said
testified “to sincere Republican co
operation with the real Democrats
in the fight to save America from
the New Deal."
They were: A “beginning” to
ward economy, rejection of the lend
ing program and of an increase in
the national debt limit, defeat of ef
forts to “pledge American involve
ment in European power politics.”
tax revision, social security revision,
limitation of “subsidized Govern
ment competition with private en
terprise.” passage of the Hatch bill,
"exposure” of politics in the W. P
A., curbs on alien Communism and
Fascism, retention of a congres
sional check on Government reor
ganization. investigation of the
Labor Board, a House Republican i
survey on the President's emergency
powers, attempts to return monetary
powers to Congress and advocacy of
a congressional inquiry into the re
ciprocal trade program.
Senator Barkley, on the other
hand, described as major admin-;
iaiiuiiuu ttuuumpu.Miiiif 11U5 passage
of the Government reorganization'
bill, extension of the President's
monetary powers, adoption of the
defense program, additional farm
aid legislation, and revision of the
tax structure, including postpone
ment of scheduled increases in old
age insurance taxes.
Representative Martin's statement
was regarded as the start of a Re
publican drive in preparation for
, the next session of Congress and the
1 1940 election. He will speak August
26 at Dexter. Me., opening that
State's political campaign.
Democrats Optimistic.
Democratic lieutenants, however,
expressed optimism over their party's
chances in next year's election.
Chairman Drewrv, Democrat, of
; Virginia, of the Democratic Con
gressional Campaign Committee said
he believed the party split on legis
lative issues would not have serious
political repercussions.
Representative Drewry disclosed
that his committee met shortly be
; fore adjournment to review the po
litical picture, and added:
“We are very well satisfied, and
ready to enter the campaign full of
vim and fight.”
Saturday’s closing session of Con
gress was something of an anti
climax to the seven months of Dick
ering and turbulence. With little
opposition, the final deficiency ap
propriation bill—including $119,000 -
000 for commodity credit loans—was
I— ■
pnacted, and broad revisions of the
social security program were ap
proved.
Senator Pepper, Democrat, of
Florida created a brief flurry in the
Senate with a speech charging that
"an unholy alliance in and out of
Congress" had sought to wreck tne !
New Deal legislative program. Sen
ator Bailey, Democrat, of North1
Carolina called the speech "coward
ly and mendacious," but the ad
journment gavel fell at 6:35 p.m.
before debate could become general.
Woman Shot to Death;
Man Badly Wounded
Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, colored, 23,
was dead today and Samuel Barnett,
also colored, was in Freedman's Hos
pital with serious gunshot wounds
following a shooting in front of an
Upper Marlboro. Md., roadhouse
late Saturday night.
The woman's husband, Frank Ford,
25, is being held in the Prince
Georges County Jail on a charge of
murder.
Police said Ford told them he in
tended to shoot only Barnett because
"he pushed my wife." but several
bullets went wild and struck his wile.
Theaters
(Continued From First Page.)
did not anticipate the suit to come
to court before the November term.
Distributors Defendants.
Mr. Kirchgraber said the de
fendant exhibitors were: Schine
Chain Theaters, Inc.; Schine Cir
cuit, Inc., Schine Theatrical Co.,
Inc., Schine Enterprises Corp.,
Schine Chain Theaters of Ohio.
Inc.; Schin" Lexington Corp. and
Chesapeake Theaters Corp., J. Myer
Schine. Louis W. Schine and John
A. May.
The distributors named as de
fendants were: Loews, Inc.: Radio
Keith-Orpheum Corp., Universal
Pictures Co.. Inc.; Universal Film
Exchanges. Inc.; Twentieth Cen
turv-Fox Film Corp.. United Artists
Corp.. Columbia Pictures Corp.,
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.: Vita
graph. Inc., Paramount Pictures.
Inc., and Paramount Film Distrib
uting Corp.
—
In volume 1 of Nietzsche's “The
Will to Power," the author says.
"What a blessing the Jew is among
Germans."
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You'll find it most economicol to
paint with Devoe's 2-Coat Paint.
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Congress Pension
Action Forces Special 1
Assembly Session
Bt the Associated Press.
HIGHLAND PARK, 111., Aug.
7.—Gov. Henry Horner an
nounced last night he would call
a special session of the Illinois
Legislature to pass, again an
old age pension bill he vetoed
last Thursday night. He did
not state a date.
The Governor vetoed the bill
increasing maximum monthly
pensions from $30 to $40 be
cause at that time Congress had
not approved amendments rais
ing Federal contributions from
$15 to $20 monthly. Two days I j
after the Hornor veto, Congress
passed the pension increase
amendments.
In his veto message, filed a
few hours before the 10-day
constitutional deadline for ac
tion on bills, Gov. Horner said
he killed the bill "with great re
luctance.”
I-1
Georgetown Student Shot
Toying With Small Pistol
Anarew jacKson. lo-.vear-oia
Georgetown University student, was
given a good chance to recover to- j
day at Walter Reed Hospital, where
ne is d e 1 n g
treated for a
bullet wound in
flicted accident
ally in his home
at 1825 New
Hampshire ave
nue N.W.
The youth,
who has a small
c o 11 e c tion of
guns, was toying
with a ,22-cali- j
ber pistol last
night when the
gun went off.
His father, Capt.
Anorfw j»rn««n. x nomas j. Jack
son, U. S. A. (retired), was in the
room at the time of the accidem.
The bullet struck the boy in his
chest just above the heart, was de
flected by a bone to his shoulder,
then to his arm. It wras thought to
be lodged above the elbow.
Young Jackson completed his first
year's study in the Georgetown Uni
versity Foreign Service School this
June.
U. S. S. New York on Way
To Norfolk With Middies
By the Associated Press.
PORTLAND. Me., Aug. 7.—The
battleship New York, ending a week's
visit here, hauled anchor today and
proceeded to Norfolk, Va„ with her
complement of 1.183 officers. Naval
Academy students and enlisted men.
The New York, flagship of the
Atlantic Squadron, in command of
Rear Admiral Alfred W. Johnson,
will join, en route, the battleships
Texas and Arkansas, other vessels
carrying Annapolis midshipmen on
their annual summer cruise.
Navy launches and private boats
were worked overtime yesterday tak
ing an estimated 2.230 visitors out to
the New York at the harbor en
trance here, raising to approximately
10.000 the number who visited the
"battle wagon" during its stop here.
Two From D. C. Finish
At Randolph Field Soon
To Washington cadets are among
those scheduled to complete the
Army's basic training course this
month at Randolph Field, Tex., the
"West Point of
the Air.”
They are Don
ald E. Wilburn,
1412 Chapin
street N.W.. and
Harry Lee
Waesche, 7005
Rolling road,
Chevy Chase,
Md.. son of Ad
miral Russell R.
Waesche of the
Cost Guard.
The cadets be
gan their avia
tion training at
Randolph Field
D. E. Wilburn.
last Marcn, completed their pri
mary training on May 25 and are
scheduled to finish the basic course
about August 25. After that they
ferred to Kelly
Field, Tex., for
three months’
advanced train
ing before being
awarded their
wings.
During the pri
mary stage the
cadets are re
quired to com
plete 25 hours of
dual flying and
40 hours of solo
flying, using me
dium - powered
biplanes. In their
H. L. Watftcht.
current training they are using 400
horsepower low-wing monoplane*
and are receiving instruction in
night and blind flying.
Aerial acrobatics are part of the
basic course, which consists of 50
hours of solo flying and 25 hours of
dual flying. Upon graduation from
Kelly Field the cadets are commis
sioned second lieutenants in the
Army Reserve.
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