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vol.. XXV. NO. 203
' FRANC'S FALL STIRS
KEENER INTEREST IN
• REPARATIONS MEET
U. S. Experts, Working With
’ Full Moral Support of Gov-
ernment) Closely Watched
; by President
•-
_ BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924.)
• WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Eu-
rope’s economic future, and particu
larly the drop in the value of the
French franc, is occasioning much
• more concern here than appears on
the surface.
President Coolidge has gone out
* of his way several times to make
it clear that Owen D. Young, Charles
G. Dawes, and Hery M. Robinson,
who are serving as expert advisers
to the reparations commission, have
* no official connection ’with the Unit
ed States government, but the pur
pose of that declaration is merely
to prevent the Hiram Johnsons and
Medill McCormicks from charging
that the American government .is
meddling in Europe once more.
The truth is that all three of the
experts are working abroad with the
4 full moral support of the United
States government and that their un
official status is regarded on the
other side of the Atlantic as simply
.a technicality.
The greatest interest prevails here
in what Messrs. Dawes. Young and
Robinson are doing and may do. It
is no exaggeration to say that the
government here has so much confi
dence in the ability of these three
' men that it is hoping the entire rep
aration problem may be solved ulti
mately as a result of their efforts.
■ Owen Young is an intimate friend
of President Coolidge. The President
has unlimited confidence in Mr.
Young’s judgement. When Mr. Cool
idge entered the White House, one
of his first talks on foreign affairs
was with Mr. Young, who had just
returned from a trip to Europe.
* What Owen Young says will have
all the weight of an official recom
mendation whenever it is made.
Unofficial Status An Asset
It is important to bring out this
relationship because the denial of
official connection is intended for
home consumption and is of course,
literally true because the govern
ment’s interest in the mission of the
three experts is as great, if not
greater, than it would be if the mis
efon were official.
For one thing neither the presi
dent nor Secretary of State Hughes
, » arc sending instructions to the three
experts. They are working inde
pently. The chances are that if
they had been officially appointed
the government here would have felt
» a measure of responsibility for every
move made and every statement ut
tered. As it is the experts are free
to express themselves —and Mr.
Dawes already has done so—in a
fashion that is unrestrained by diplo
matic eitquette or governmental in
struction.
Everything that the three Amcri
k can experts do is, of course, official
ly reported by Colonel John A. Lo
gan, who represents the United
States government in the capacity
of “observer” at the reparations com
mission meetings. He has an office
with the delegates from other coun
a tries and has at his command all the
data which the other nations hav®
collected with respect to reparations.
Since his business is to report to the
department of state on all things
tappening in the offices of the re
, fcparations commission, he reports in
, 'wthe natural course on the work of
*£vx'tle American experts. He also
<. at their disposal any “infor
) mation” he may get either from
Washington or elsewhere.
The arrangement is on the whole
unusual and unprecendented but it
is due entirely to the character of
campaign launched on Senators
Hiram Johnson and McCormick
when the idea of an investigating
commission with American experts
4 on it was first broached.
Denies Meddling Charge
Mr. Coolidge has found it necessary
to spread again a denial that • the
United States plans further partici
pation in European affairs. He does
not understand that America is par
ticipating at the moment in Eu
rope’s problems. So far as the gov-
* ernment is concerned, it is a helpful
and collateral influence only in the
settlement of what it regards pri
marily as a business and economic
problem.
t The fall in the value of the French
franc has stimulated the theory that
France now will be more tractable
in considering the economic rather
. than the political phases of the rep
» K arations controversy. While this
kind of a development would be wel
comed, the depreciation in French
currency has, on the other hand,
caused some uneasiness. Knowing
the relationship of all the curren
cies of Europe to each other, the
* fear is growing that a collapse of
foreign exchange may bring a cur
tailment in purchases from America
on the part of Europe and adversely
affect America’s economic situation,
especially as the next pesidentia’.
campaign approaches.
•f Conversely, an early settlement of
tile reparations question would be
expected to start foreign exchange
' upward, and bring increased buying
from American producers.
The three experts may be techni
cally “unofficial,” but they have it
their hands an infleunce- which
keeps the American government
very close to their work and exceed,
ingiy anxious for their success. No
mission, unofficial or official, in re
cent years has developed so much
real importance in government cir
cles here.
School Girl Killed
In Path of Auto
LAKELAND. Fla.. .lan. 17.—Max
ine Elliott Cobb, eight years old.
died Tuesday night as a result of be
ing struck by an automobile. She
was buried Wednesday. S. W. Ziegler,
of Lakeland, who was driving the
car, was given a preliminary hear
* Ing at Bartow today and placed un
der $5,000 on a charge of manslaugh
ter. According to witnesses, the girl
stepped from i school bus in front
of Mr. Zeigler s rapidly moving ma
chine.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
LOS ANGELES. —Mabel Normand
is removed from hospital to her
home.
NEW YORK.—The Baldwin gov
ernment will resign next Tuesday,
London dispatch says.
OKLAHOMA ClTY.—Oklahoma
state senate with one dissenting vote
indorses 18th amendment.
WASHINGTON.—Tug is reported
standing by the United States cruiser
Tacoma aground on reef, sixteen
miles from Vera Cruz.
ROME—Richard Washburn Child,
American ambassador, is received
by King Victor Emmanuel in fare
well audience.
ROME.—The Banca Italiana de.
Credito E Valori, with deposits of
75.000,000 lire and 87 branches in
Italy, closed its doors.
WASHINGTON. Woodrow Wil
son tells Chairman Hull, of Demo
cratic national committee, that he is
glad convention was given to New
York.
TAMPICO, Mexico.—Blockade of
port of Tampico, which Adolfo de la
Huerta, revolutionary leader, said’
would begin, does not become effec
tive. •
MOSCOW. —The federal confer
ence of communist party begins
series of meetings which include ses
sions of Russian Soviet congress and
federation soviet congress.
WASHINGTON.—George B. Chris
tian, secretary to late President War
ren G. Hard.ng, will become member
of federal trade commission by ap
pointment of President Coolidge.
STUTTGART, Ark—R. A. Barry,
editor of Free Press, weekly news
paper, files suit for $13,000 damages
as a result of recent invasion of his
newspaper plant by group of un
masked men.
LAKEHURST, N. J.—The navy
dirigible Shenandoah, which ' broke
from her moorings at Lakehurst, N.
J., WednesdajY is brought safely to
the ground at Lakehurst at 3:20
Thursday morning.
CHICAGO.—A petition 23 miles
long and containing 2,086,764 names,
asking for release of Lieutenant D.
H. Griffis, now in German jail for
attempting to kidnap Grover Cleve
land Bergdoll, is prepared.
NEW YORK.—Dr. A. R. Dochez,
assistant professor at College of Phy
sicians and ’Surgeons at Columbia,
announces discovery of serum for
scarlet fever, but carefully refrains
from declaring that serum is a defi
nite cure.
WASHINGTON. Governor Pin
chot, of Pennsylvania, declares to
Anti-Saloon league convention at
Washington that failure of federal
government to do its plain duty un
der prohibition laws is chief cause
of lawlessness in this country.
WASHINGTON. Senator Cara
way Democrat, Arkansas, in his at
tack on Albert B. Fall in connection
with lease of Teapot Dome naval oil
reserve to Sinclair interests says “it
is the first time in the history of
America —so far as I know—that a
cabinet officer betrayed the high trust
imposed in him.”
WASHINGTON. Prohibition
Commissioner Haynes criticizes Gov
ernor Pinchot’s attack on federal
prohibition enforcement and says
that Pinchot has possibly mistaken
ly assumed Pennsylvania's failure to
enforce the law to be typical of the
nation.
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] CRIPPLE CREEK, Col—W. L.
I (Lase) Fyffe, picturesque prospector,
' estimated to have made and squand
' ered $15,000,000. dies.
EMPORIA, Kans.—Mayor J. E.
■ Hawkins is arrested on charge of
j violating election laws in failing to
' file an expense account.
I- PARIS. —League of Nations is
| sues invitations for the first inter-
I national opium conference, to be
held at Geneva, November 3.
CHICAGO —Fire losses in Chica
go in 1923 were $5,773,104, which
was $1,838,036 less than in 1922,
Fire Marshal Buckley reports.
WASHINGTON. Treasury offi
i cials order investigation of liquor
. pearance of large quantity of liquor
from customs warehouses in Detroit.
LONDON. Frank B. Kellogg,
American ambassador, visits prince
of wales and afterwards lunches
with King George and Queen Mary
at Buckingham palace.
WASHINGTON. Secretary
Weeks receives offer from three
■ southern power companies for fifty
year lease of Muscle Shoals’ project
proposing $100,000,000 rentals for
the fifty years.
MEXICO CITY. Negotiations
are on foot for loan of $100,000,000
to Mexican government to be deliver
ed in four installments of $25,000,-
000 each, the Ex Celsior states.
SAN FRANCISCO.—A central or
ganization of members of Jewish
faith is formed to suppress fake con
gregations and psuedo rabbis whose
only purpose is to profit in abuse
of sacramental wine privileges.
LOUISVILLE.—SaIe of the Louis
ville Herald, one of Shaffer group
of newspapers, to James B. Brown,
of Louisville, president of National
Bank of Kentucky and member of
state tax commission, is announced
PEKIN. Lao Yang-Jen, noto
rious bandit, whose men fatally
wounded Professor Bernard Hoff
and kidnaped Mrs. Julian Klien,
American missionaries, has been kill
ed in battle, foreign office has been
advised. .
NEW ORLEANS.—UIbert B. Fall,
at New Orleans, disavows charges
linking his name with the leasing
of navy oil lands to Sinclair inter
ests and denies he has been hiding
since the congressional investigation
got under way.
WASHINGTON—Senate special
committee will start inquiry Monday
into Bok peace plan under resolu
tion of Senator Reed, Missouri, pro
posing investigation into general
propaganda designed to influence
congress.
COLUMBIA, Mo.—David Sarnoff.
vice president and general manager|
of Radio Corporation of America.!
sends message to IWAKI station. I
Japan, and received answer by tele-j
phone, message travelling 14,000'
miles in one minute. 45 second.
WASHINGTON—State depart-'
ment announces that it favors grant- |
ing permission for detachment of
Mexican federal troops to pass from
Naco, Ariz., and New Mexico to a
point in Texas, where they will re
enter Mexico for service against the
revolutionists.
Sought More Than a Year,
Returns to Claim Sonus
DENVER, Col., Jan. 17.—Nathan I
Lloyd, for- .rly of Santiago, Chile. I
for whom a world-wide search was .
instituted nearly a year ago, appear- ■
ed at the office of Governor Swget
this afternoon, with a clipping of an
Associated Press story about the
search and asked that he be directed
to persons who have been seeking
him in order to pay him about $3,-
000 bonus on a contract he executed
while living in Chile.
ICOLLECTION DF TAX
ON Cl® TO STICK
PENDING COURT WAR
Judge Bell Approves Order
Giving Dealers Option of
Bond for Payment in Case
Law Is Held Valid
Collection of the 10 per cent tax
upon retail sales of cigars and cigar
ettes will go forward pending the ap _
peal to the Georgia supreme court,
it was decided Thursday morning at
a conference of attorneys represent
ing the state and the twenty-five
dealers who are attacking the consti
tutionality of the law.
The new law is to be strictly en
forced by the state. Governor Wal
ker announced Thursday.
“Since the superior court has
heard the case brought against the
cigar and cigarette tax law, and
has sustained the validity of that
law, it is but proper that the deal
ers in the state be put on notice
that the law will now be rigidly en
forced,” the governor declared.
“The machinery for the enforce
ment of this law has been organized
and is ready to be put into opera
tion.”
Judge George Bell, who on Wed
nesday afternoon held that the to
bacco tax law is constitutional, indi
cated his approval of an order pro
viding that the dealers must pur
chase the stamps and affix them to
packages, or else buy the stamps and
furnish bond for payment therefor,
in case the law is held valid by the
higher court.
In rendering his decision from the
bench, orally, Judge Bell held that
the arguments and decisions cited
did not, in his opinion, operate to
nullify the act, which was passed at
the last session of the legislature.
Dealers who pay cash for the
stamps will be given receipts for
their money', and if the law is held
unconstitutional, their funds will
be returned. Judge Bell anonunced
that he would sign the order Friday
morning, after it has been prepared
by Attorney General Napier .and
Albert Howell, of the firm of Dorsey,
Brewster, Howell & Heyman, chief
counsel for the protesting tobacco
dealers.
Under the terms of the order, as
agreed upon, it was pointed out that
no method has been devised for re
funding the tax money to the tobac
co sales patrons, in the event the
law is declared unconstitutional.
Alimony Award for
Lanier’s Bride Upheld
By the Supreme Court
The Georgia supreme court Thurs
day affirmed the judgment of the
Bibb superior court in awarding S4O
a month alimony and $l5O attorney
fees to Mrs. Peggy Lanier, the wife
of Sidney Lanier, HI.
The supreme court upholds the
decision of the Bibb court that
Lanier “is a competent soda water
clerk” and capable of earning $l5O
a month.
The record says Mrs. Lanier tes
tified that she had no money and
is supported by her cousin and
mother. She also stated that before
their marriage, Lanier told her he
had saved up $2,000; and that his
father was wealthy, owning 90
nouses in Macon, and probably would
allow them to of the houses
for a home.
“Judging from his appearance, he
ought to be able to earn $250 per
month,” Mrs. Lanier testified.
The supreme court points out that
there was testimony introduced to
indicate that Lanier was in feeble 1
health and without substantial earn- !
mg capacity, and additional testi-!
mony indicating that Lanier was '
disposed to disregard the marriage
and all marital responsibilities.
“It was the duty of the trial judge
to pass on all this conflicting evi
dence and render such judgment as
would be appropriate under the facts
in th? case. Ihe evidence authorized
the finding for temporary alimony
and attorneys fees, and the amounts
were not excessive,” the opinion
states. '-J
The Laniersrcwere married in At
lanta on Sunday night after the
Georgia-Auburn football game at Co
lumbus in November, 1922. Dr. La
nier, the father of Sidney Lanier 111,
contended his son. was not able to i
support a wife or’ to pay alimony
and suit was filed in the Bibb court I
on a basis of non-support.
After the hearing on alimony
charges in Macon, it was stated by
Mr. and Mrs. Lanier that they had
become reconciled and would take
up their residence in Atlanta. Mr.
Lanier is understood to have ob
tained employment in Atlanta and
is said to be residing here with his
wife.
Firpo Wrecked Her
Furniture, Woman
Says in Damage Suit
NEW YORK. Jan. 17.—Luis Angel
Firpo might have won the world’s
heavyweight championship from Jack
Dempsey if he had treated the title
holder as roughly as he did her furni
ture, Mrs. Mildred Swartzlander as
serted today after being awarded
SSOO damages in a municipal court
suit against the pugilist.
According to Mrs. Swartzlander.
(he "wild bull of the Pampas" leased
her West 94th street apartment for
six months, during which time she
charges chair and table legs were i
broken, upholstery ruined and ot-her I
articles marred.
She also asserted that Fiipo dis
dained modern custom by taking i
ihe mattress from his bed and sleep-j
ing upon it on the floor.
Mayor of Stillmore
Held for Conspiracy
Under Prohibition Law
SAVANNAH. Ga.. Jan. 17.—E. A.
Edinfield, mayor of Stillmore. Ga..
was arrested Wednesday by federal
officers charged with conspiracy.
He was brought to Savannah. It is
alleged he hn« been interested in
some liquor deals.
MY, OH, MY! ISN’T HE THE PLAYFUL RASCAL?
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SENATOR DIAL HITS
PUN OF ESTIMATING
0. S. COTTON CROP
. I
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Methods j
used by the census bureau in esti
mating the cotton crop Were criti
cised in the senate today by Senator
Dial, Democi'at, South Carolina, who
asserted the recent report was
“packed” by the addition in one
item of 250,000 bales, under the title
of “city crop.”
“I thought this meant cotton
grown in city gardens and back
yards,” said Senator Dial, “but 1
find it refers to samples taken
from already counted bales. This I
should be deducted rather than!
added because the collection of sam- 1
pies can never be .sold as first-class!
cotton. I hope it will not be neces-:
sary to pass legislation in the form
of an injunction to force a cessation
of these practices.”
Senator Trammell, Democrat, Flor
ida, said he had similar objection
against estimates which are made
annually of citrus fruit crops.
Georgia’s Committee
Members Undecided on
McAdoo’s Candidacy
BY THEODORE .TILLER
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Clark-
Howell, Democratic national commit
teeman from Georgia, and Mrs. R. I.
Mclntyre, national committeewornan
from that state, were classed as “un
decidttl” or “unwilling to say” in a
presidential candidate poll conducted
here by McAdoo headquarters, which
made public Wednesday afternoon
the result of the poll sob wing 52
members ,of the national committee
for McAdoo.
The poll showed 25 undecided, four
for Davis, of West Virginia, and oth
ers scattered among various prospec
tive candidates. About ninety of the
106 committee members -rere polled,
according to the McAdoo headquar
ters.
Cleveland Woman
Confesses Poisoning
Husband for $2,0001
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 17.
Mrs. Fannie Colavito confessed to
day, according to detectives to hav
ing poisoned her husband, Anthony
Colavito, nearly four years ago be
cause she was in love with another >
man and wanted her husband's $2,-1
000 life insurance.
Mrs. Colavito was arrested cn a
charge of having administered pois
on to Dan Kaber, Lake Wood pub
lisher, before he was stabbed to
death by two hired assassins a few [
years ago, but was acquitted on the !
charge and moved to Youngstown j
shortly after her trial.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR SATURDAY
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland
and Virginia: Fair.
North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia’• Partly cloudy.
Florida: Cloudy, probably rain in
south portion.
Extreme northwest Florida. Ala
bama and Mississippi: Cloudy, un
settled and warmer.
Tennessee: Cloudy and warmer in
west portion.
Kentucky: Cloudy and warmer.
Louisiana: Unsettled, probably
rain in east portion.
Arkansas: Unsettled, local rains.
Oklahoma: Partly cloudy to
cloudy, snow flurries; colder.
East Texas: Partly cloudy to
cloudy, probably occasional rain;
colder in northwest portion.
West Texas: Partly cloudy to
cloudy: probably snow in the pan
handle; colder.
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, January 19, 1924
NORTHERN INDUSTRIAL HEADS
PROMISE RELIEF TO SOUTH IN
STOPPING NEGRO MIGRATION
U. S. Chamber of Commerce)
Eastern Division) Meets at
Philadelphia—Labor Prob
lems Discussed in Detail .
BY J. C. ROYLE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924.)'
NEW YORK, Jan. 17. —Hope was
held out today to the planters and
manufacturers of the south that
some method of checking the negro
migration might be worked out
through the co-operation of indus
trial leaders' in the north. Repre
sentatives of industry, commerce
and finance from 17 eastern and
southeastern slates, gathered at the
meeting of the eastern division of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States at Philadelphia, will
try and work out some solution of
the problem.
The southern representatives told
the gathering just what effect the
desertion of the south by negroes
had had on agriculture and industry.
They pointed out that the world
probably would face a shortage of
cotton before the 1924 crop is gath
ered. Yet the south will not be able
to plant and cultivate the acreage
the situation demands because of
the absorption of negro labor in the
north.
Some of the northern manufactur
ers expressed themselves as uncon
vinced that the advent of the
negroes in the north bad supplied
the need existing for additions to
Florida Attorney Is
Flogged and Robbed;
Blames Political Foes
TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 17.—County of
ficials today were investigating
statements made to them by E. P.
Martin, Plant City attorney and
former solicitor of this (Hills
borough) county, that he was seized
by a gang of ten men at his home
last night, taken in an automobile
to a lonely spot a mile from town
and painfully beaten.
He was saved from a more severe
flogging, he said, by the appearance
of another automobile which fright
ened off the mob after members had
taken sll in currency and a diamo..d
ring worth S2OO.
Mr. Martin stated that he knew
three members of the party, and
would recognize others if he saw
them, as none wore masks. He de
clared the men alleged that he had
mistreated his wife. He denied the
charge and expressed the belief that
the lashing’ was administered at the
instigation of political enemies.
This is the third of a' series of
floggings that have taken place in
this county in the last three months
The first was staged last Hallowe’en
night when Leo Isaacs and two
other case owners were taken to the
woods and beaten by masked mobs.
They were given letters signed “Que
Que Que,” instructing them to obey
the prohibition laws. Isaacs died o£
heart disease on Tuesday last.
The second raid was carried out
on the night of January 4 when
Bert M. Banker, owner, and E. H.
Gelson, steward, of the Green Lan
tern. a road house, were severely
whipped and their establishment de
stroyed by fire by a masked bend
of 50 men. County Solicitor Givens
stated today that he expected 1°
charge the county grand jury in
this case Saturday.
Lansing T. Smith
Anniston Postmaster
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Ap
pointment of Lansing T. Smith as
acting postmaster of Anniston, Ala.,
was announced today by the post
office department.
the ranks of labor there. The qual
ifications of European immigrants
’ for both sections also was discuss
ed and it is hoped some definite
■ policy may be arrived at which will
bring additional benefits to both sec
tions.
This possibility was heightened by
reports that where lay-offs had taken
place in Pennsylvania and other
northern states, mills and factories,
the negroes had been the first re
‘ lease 4 and that in many cases they
1 had not afterward sough: employ
ment, preferring to remain idle dur
' in the cold weather or go south for
the winter. More than 100,000
negroes have moved to Illinois in the
last year and many of these now are
reported to be idle.
In the'St. Louis district, which
; also has been the destination of thou
sands of negro workers, there is a
decrease in employment but state
road work and the continuation of
• building activities are expected to
absorb practically unskilled labor
‘ surplus.
The effect of the situation as it
1 stands today is cleaCy shown by the
definite understanding between
■ bankers and planters in southern
Georgia that only so much acreage
will be planted to cotton as can be
' intensively cultivated with the negro
labor at hand.
The south now is exceedingly well
supplied with skilled artisans in the
building trades. Many have gone so
far south as Florida for the winter,
as the building activity in that ter
ritory will enable them to escape
cold weather and at the same time
to earn good wages.
John W. Gates Heiress
Denies Any Attempt
To Extort $400,000
ST. CHARLES, 111., Jan. 17.—Mrs.
! Dellora Angell Norris, heiress to the
| John W. Gates millions, today,
through an employe, declared abso
i lutely without foundation reports
! that she had received an extortion
I letter threatening to kidnap her
month-old daughter unless $-100,000'
was paid the writer. The police and
postal Inspectors and relatives of
Mrs. Norris likewise said they never
had heard of such a letter.
Below-Zero Weather
Again Grips Chicago;
Four Dead as Result
CHICAGO, Jan. 17.—Chicago had
its second taste of the winter of sub- ■
zero weather today, with the ther
mometers in the city registering five
below and close to 10 below in neigh
boring suburbs and towns. Forecasts
promised no relief until tomorrow,
when moderating westerly winds
were expected to dispel the icy
blasts from the northwest.
Four deaths resulted from yester
day’s snow and ice.
Severe Earth Shock
In Alaska Peninsula
Rips Volcano’s Edge
STEAMSHIP LA TOUCHE, Via St. '
Paul Island, Alaska, Jan. 17.—(8y I
the Associated Press.) —The inhabi- i
tants of Belkofsky and vicinity, re
ported that a severe earthquake oc
curred at 10:50 Tuesday morning.
The southern edge of Pavlof volcano
blew off. Belkofsky is on the Alaska
peninsula. St. Paul Island is one of
the Pribilof islands.
The shock lasted seven minutes. I
Pavlof since the edge blew off has 1
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RUNAWAY AIRSHIP !
RETURNS IN SAFETY
AFTER ROUGH TRIP
Shenandoah’s Nose Torn
Away With Mooring Gear,
but She Weathers Seventy-,
Mile Wind
LAKEHURST. N. J., Jan. 17.—(Ej
the Associated Press). —The Shenan
doah, largest airship in the world,
poked her nose into her hangar at
the naval air station at 4:24 o’clock
this morning atter completing the
most remarkable flight a ship of her
type ever macle. She was buffeted by
a wind that blew at 72 miles an houi
at times.
This gale twisted the giant craft
from her towering mooring mast at
6:52 o’clock last night afid swept her
up the Atlantic coast to Staten Is
land, New York City, where Captain
Anton Heinen, in command when j
she broke away, turned her nose in
to the teeth of the storm and
maneuvered her back to her home \
port.
Not a man in her-crew of 22 was
injured. They took it as a joke. 9
The ship herself lay in her hangar .
like a naughty school boy whose
truancy had brought him ill-luck, her
nose was battered and she wa£ some
what scratched. A hasty inspection <
showed that her front castells, or
B as bags, had collapsed when she
was torn away by the wind; the cov
ering of her upper fin had been
stripped off wrapped around the
rudder, making the craft exceeding
ly difficult to steer, while there was ’
sligi t carnage to her outer covering,
‘he material being rent nearly up to
her nose.
Best Skip of Her Type
Captain Heinen, who had seen the
Shenandoah built, and who had tried
out more than 100 other aircraft on
their maiden voyages, said after he
had landed that without a doubt the
navy craft was the strongest con
structed ship of her type ever made.
“I do not believe any other ship
in which I have flown would have
successfully gone through the gale
she did last night,” he said. “There
is .not a bit of doubt but what she
will successfully complete her polar
region flignt planned for next month.
We will not likely experience such a
terrific storm as was raging along
the Atlantic coast yesterday. If we
do we can easily enough run arouna
iL ’ ( . ’ I
“We had the ship under perfect
contra! within five minutes after the
nose cap was torn off. We rose 500
feet and continued moving at that
elevation until We reached the coast
lear Summit, N. J., when we went
up to about 1,200 feet. » ||
“The f’ying conditions were un
favorable, as it was raining hard.
However, when we reached New-
York the weather cleared A.nd wS
found we had reached the port side ; Y
lof the storm. We headed out over
I Staten Island and thenceforth nosed
the ship against a 25-mile wind and
flew to Perth Amboy.
Merely Bode With Wind
“From there we drifted to a point
over Keyport and then nosed the
ship into the wind again until we
reached Freehold. From there to
Lakehurst we rode with the wind.”
When the craft broke loose last
night there was a furore of excite
ment at the station. She had been
moored to the 165-foot mast which
was built in the shape of the Eiffel
tower in Paris, and was undergoing
a ten-day test of her actions in such
a position in preparation for a flight
to the North Pole. Eight minutes
more and she would have been fast
to the mast exactly four days.
Captain F. R. McCrary, comman
dant of the station, *ind Commander
R. D. Weyerbacher, who designed
her, had just descended from aboard
the ship, byway of the mast, and
gone to dinner. Suddenly there
came a crash. Officers and enlisted
men rushed from barracks in va
rious degrees of uniforms just in
time to see the Shenandoah lurch
from side to side, then gradually
ascend, sending down a shower of
fragments of hqr torn-out rigging.
Help Impossible
Help was impossible. At that
time the wind was blowing from the
southeast at about sixty or sixty-five
miles an hour. There was some
consolation in the fact that the gale
would carry the craft inland instead
of eastward to the se».
There was a rush to the top of
the mast to determine if possible
what damage had been done. There
it was found that the metal nose
cap into which converged the craft's
entire framework had .been torn
away and left dangling on the mast.
The radio set on the Shenandoah
had been out of working order dur
ing the day and no word came for
an hour. Telephone and telegraph
wires about Lakehurst -had been
blown down by the storm and offi
cers could get no information as to
the ship's whereabouts.
Then after an hour's anxious
waiting there came through the air
this message: / ' ■
“Everything all right. We will
ride out the storm.”
DOUBT AS TO POLAR FLIGHT
DISPELLED BY INCIDENT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—Naval
officers who have had doubts about
using the great dirigible Shenan
doah for the projected polar flight
appeared Io be completely converted
today by the performance of the big
ship in riding out last night’s gale J
after being torn from her mooring fl
mast at Lakehurst.
Secretary Denby telegraphed his
congratulations to the crew of ths fl
Shenandoah who brought her back fll|
in safety. Mrs. Denby sent her fl|
congratulations. fl|
The secretary also issued a formal
statement outlining what was known fl
so far at the navy department of fl
the incident. He concluded with a fl
paragraph disclosing the determina* fl
tion of the navy department to get ■
the Shenandoah ready promptly for I
the polar expedition she is to make
this summer.
“From all our information,”
U rJ'V ' may be asserted
fJnt t) lPre
ly 3 pocojbiiitv that this ship
r-nrnnc’Ai- j n l lPf Arctic expedit inn
already met iucces.-fuly.” .