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| them to see through the fog and tht
| biz seaplane probably struck the water
before any one on board was aware Of
| Its nearness. The injuries their ship
received are such as might have beer
| sustained by the big seaplane hitting the
water nose FIRST on a slight sla mt down.
ward instead Of "fattening out" and
dropping the stern of her hull into the
water first.
The Navy Department momentarily ex.
poets a report from Commander Bel
linger explaining the circumstances con-
corning the cause of the injuries to his
craft which compelled her abandonment
There is possibility that the damage
was done by the sea. but at the time he
landed the water was calm.
The log of the day at the bureau OF
communication shows the following mes.
sages received:
Received s 50 A. NJ. Admiral jackson
Following received from NC-4
Weather conditions unfavorable. VIII
not attempt flight this morning q 81
a. NJ. Washington time)."
Received 81 A. NJ. Punta Delgada
Admiral Jackson:
No information regarding NC.3
Have directed destroyers east Of 16 &c
search and repoT."
Tioil AuliiiThl hIdpp' AT IL 90 L. M.
May is. London:
Following received from British Air
Ministry: The Air Council request that
you Will communicate to the United
States Navy Department their congratu.
lations on the successful flight of the
three navy seaplanes from America &c
the Azores and their good wishes for
the successful completion of the trans.
atlantic flight"
Received 1855 P. NJ. Ponta Delgada
Admiral Jackson:
Following received from L. g. s.
Harding; Report plane NC-l broken
lower planes badly damaged. Pontoor
missing. Boat floating high. No seri.
Gus damage apparent. Fairfax will tow
to Horta as soon as practicable, depend.
ing on state of sea. 1873 @. NJ. T. (7:5l
A. NJ Washington time).' 6 A. NJ
Washington time)."
Received AIS A. NJ, Ponta Delgada,
from Rear Admiral Jackson:
Present weather conditions: West
erly gale; sky overcast; visibility, eight
miles; sea rough. Forecast: Continuous
strong southwesterly or westerly winds
to-day. becoming westerly to northwest
erly and diminishing In velocity Sum
day night or early Monday morning"
Received at 4:17 =. NJ. Ponta Del
gada, Admiral jackson:
IAN available destroyers Joining
scouting line north from Corvo, scouting
TO westward. Columbia directing scout
ing line. Texas and Florida have been
ordered TO join search for NC-3."
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FLIERS' GREAT FEAT
PRAISED BY BRITONS
Continued from First Page.

over the condition Of the Liberty motors
| in the American planes after their Sc
| we're effort. and many are the discus
sions as TO whether they will be able to
| carry the heavy planes on to Lisbon. A
tremendous welcome awaits the Ameri-
cans when they land at Plymouth, al
though they are not expected there be-
| fore Tuesday at the earliest.
All the London Saturday evening pa
pers announced the landing OF the Amer
lean plane NC-4 in streamer heads, such
ms Splendid Performance" Great
Air Success" Brilliant Atlantic Flight"
&C. Great emphasis is laid on the fact
that the American naval officials did ali
in their power to help the fiiers.
Organization Secret OF Success.
Holt Thomas, a leading aircraft man
ufacturer, declared that organization
was responsible for the success Of the
American naval fliers in reaching the
Azores.
II had the pleasure OF winning the
first Dolly Mail prize for a fight from
London to Manchester" he said. That
flight. ten years ago. was made possible
by organization but there Is great dim
Guilty In organizing for a sea flight. Our
Admiralty doesn't help our hiers enough
to enable them to cross the Atlantic
safely.
The British airmen who went to
Newfoundland are entitled to world OF
credit. They are undertaking something
that refused to consider without aid
from the Admiralty. asked our Govern-
ment officials whether they intended to
aid the enterprise and suggested that
they place the captured German SUBJ
marines along the way. This request
was refused. Apparently our Govern
ment never considered this an interna-
tional event. holding that the expense
involved would not be justified.
The American Government. on the
contrary, apparently believes that cross
ing the Atlantic with airplanes is a feat
worthy Of all possible aid"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-19
STANLEY TO FACE
CONTEST FOR SEAL
NsU Kentucky Senator De
MES Irregularities.
Special Despatch 10 TEE srx

LEXINGTON, Ky, May 1s.-When A
o. Stanley. Democrat, who resigned Al
Governor last night to become Unite,
States Senator from Kentucky, arrive,
in Washington tomorrow to take hi,
seat he may fnd his place contested
1t is stated tonight il informatIo,
from sources considered trustwor;n,
that move will be made to have hin
seat declared vacant because of aller.,
Irregularities committed during the on.
Grafton of the draft laws during stan.
ley's race for the Senate by which h,
was benefited. It is asserted tina,
statements have been prepared and vii
be submitted at Washington shovinl
that army draft boards manipulated foi
Stanley's political gain and that immu
nifty from the operation Of the draf, Law
was promised TO sons OF certain prom,
nent families in return for support
1t is also stated that Stanley's pardo,
record may be attacked. Stanley, wher
informed of possible contest, said h,
had no knowledge OF anything thai
might be used against him and that h
had never done anything in Office tina
was in any way irregular.
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chimes are concerned, the flight r,,,-
life or death, as there is no chain n, A.
strcyers to pick them up IL thew nv,
with an accident "e'
j. A. Whitehead, managing dIr.o,.
OF the Whitehead Aircraft Cornrsso
says that Irrespective of nationall,v ~
great feat of crossing nearly 400 nil.
of open sea marks a tremendous ne,
In the progress Of aviation. The Aroo.
leans, he says, had the ADVANTAGE =, |.
patrolled course and, therefore. the ~
liabilities Of life and death did nor o p,o
into their calculations as they r,v,
with the British aviators. ''
The American Night was a good n,
In the opinion OF Col. V. l.. Hendersor
a pilot and member of the House ~
Commons for Glasgow, but with a fra,
of destroyers was comparatively eos,
added: !"
at makes one sad that DIR 49,,
should have SO little practical sss.,
ance from the Air Ministry. Even N,
Americans admit that our men are a,
good as theirs. There is no doubt ,ba
our machines are better"
G. Hold Thomas, an AUTHORITY a,
aeronautics, and who was identifo,
with several flying feats some ye..
ago. attributes the American success :,
Organization" and national effor,
He added that criticism of the ADM
rally Is not helping the British conts,
tants. He said his suggestion that IA
stroyers or even captured German snh
marines be placed along the route from
Newfoundland to ireland met with N,
response: The expense is too enor.
NOUS"
Mrs. Hawker, wife of Harry HAWKE,
the Australian aviator. said "Our how,
have had no help at all Even ii,
weather reports are unsatisfactory
Still, l believe we shall be hrst."
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FRENCH PAY HIGH TRIBUTE
Louis Bleriot. Aviator. Stalls Ex-
plot brilliant"

PARIS, May 1s-All the newspapers
pay warm tribute to the feat of the
American seaplanes in flying across the
Atlantic and say that May II marks one
Of the great events in the history OF the
world.
Louis Bleriot in the Excelsior recalls
his flight across the English Channel of
ten years ago. He said his fight at that
time was deemed an extraordinary per-
Torrance, but that it was insignificant
with the brilliant exploit OF
the American naval officers He de-
clares that none better than he Is able
TO appreciate the measure OF their Prov
esse and says he Is glad to see the
Americans suoceed.
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u. S. FLIERS LAUDED
BY NOTED BRITONS
Claude Grahame-White and
Others Applaud Feat.
By rae Associated Pres.

LONDON, May 1S.-Claude Grahame-
White, the aviator. although not I'M
duly surprised that the Americans sue
ceeded in crossing the most dangerous
part of the transatlantic flight, says he
Is thoroughly delighted with the great
enterprise shown. He says the flight is
an object lesson to the British author
tiles because, as far as the British ma
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Wireless Experts Puzzled.

A disconcertlng phase OF the situation
Is that even though the NC-3 did leave
behind her at Trepassey Bay her wire
less equipment for sending on the sur
face of the water 1t would seem probable
that Lieutenant Commander Lavender,
one OF the navy's most expert radio men.
would have been able to rig up from the
apparatus he had on hand for sending in
the air wireless sufficiently strong to
attract the attention of one Of the many
destroyers zigzagging back and forth
about the islands. The heavy seas. OF
course, may have prevented the under
taking. or may have damaged the wire
less for use while in the air beyond re-
pair.
Another explanation OF the failure OF
the destroyers to locate or hear the
NC-3 calling may be the fact that she
Is far from the position west Of the
Azores where they are searching. The
last news of the NC-3 was that she had
landed because she had lost her bear
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Descend TO Find Bearings.

Both Commander Towers and Com
mander Bellinger, following the NC-4,
and missing one or more links in the
chain OF destroyers. descended to the
water with the intention of finding their
bearings before proceeding further into
the fog. At that time. their messages
indicate. they were in good condition and
were not lacking in gssolene.
1t seems probable that the NC-1 re-
ceived the damages reported by wireless,
including a broken wing. in descending
to the water. Her pilots. Lieut. Com
marder NJ A. Mitscher and Lieut.. l.. T.
BARN. are noted among naval pilots for
their skill. but no skill would enable
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ings. II SCENE likely that Commander
Towers would fly on after the fog had
lifted somewhat, as it did in the after
noon. He may have gone even further
on his course in his efforts to regain it.
This would explain why no radio call
for help has been heard by the searching
destroyers.
The misfortunes which overlook the
NC-o and the NC-1 were due entirely
to the unexpected fog which shrouded
the Azores when the great seaplanes
triumphanuy approached their destina-
ton after safely flying through the
night at ninety miles an hour.
Comma nder Towers had anticipated
fog. contrary winds and poor weather
generally about Newfoundland, but not
around the Azores. He had said before
the start from Rockaway that the cru
cial time in the entire flight from Rock
away to Plymouth were the first few
hours after leaving Trepassey Bay. The
planes. heavily loaded. would have to
fly through the zone Of bad weather and
low visibility, and might easily lose
their way along the chain OF destroyers.
and be compelled to land or return to
Trepassey.
BY a queer chance the weather was
perfect in the region around Newfound-
land and continued perfect as the planes
sho; through the night, their progress
being reported as regularly as clock
work as they passed easily link by link
along the destroyer chain. Then. within
a few hundred miles of the Azores the
seaplanes encountered the unlocked for
fog.
Man has not yet perfected device
whereby an aviator may retain his sense
of direction and complete equilibrium
in fog. The pilot cannot keep his ship
on an even keel. and may fall into a
side slip or dive before he realizes he is
or the horizontal The NC-4, Com
mander Reads craft. is known to have
risen about the strata OF fog and to
have got a glimpse of an island from
a height OF more than 5000 feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
TUlRPENTINEs FARMING TN THE SOUTFEAST-S

they are now cutting down the dead trees and blasting out the stumps ana roots and heating the wood in retorts to extract the turpentine and rosfn. The gum of the pine seems to be practically indestructible and toaay one of the chief exports of New zealand is from the gum of the kauri trees which died centuries ago. The wood has long since disappeared, but chunks of pure. clear amber-like gum are still dug from the swamps and sent to the markets.
 But first let us visit a turpentine >tarm Getting out the turpentine is known as turpentine farming. A tur- pentine farm is a forest of pine trees each of which has been so cut and scared that the sap oozes out so that it can be collected for the making of turpentine. There are farms of this kind all along our south Atlantic and gulf coast 4 single farm has thousands of trees. and where tapped long white scars run from the roots up to the height of your waist If you observe close ly you will see that a hole or box has been cut out in each tree at the foot of the scars, and that the gum and sap is oozing out and running down into the box
 The trees are not large around They are perfectly straight, and often so tall that they reach the height of an eight-story house before their branches
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05

begin. There is but little underhrush, and we walk through the woods on a carpet of fallen pine needles. or on the wiregrass. so called from it's leaves. which look ike pieces of wire.
 AS we go on we see the men scarring the trees and making boxes in their trunks near the roots. The size of a turpentine farm is known by the number of boxes. Ten thousand five hundred boxes make what is called a crop. There are turpentine farms which have millions of boxes, and on which it takes hundreds of negroes to prepare the trees and gather the sap. The cutting of the boxes is done in No- vember or December. The men labor und- CT an overseer, in gangs. and they are paid so much for each box that is cut Some of the best men can earn from S6 to & a day. Two men usually work to- gether and it is best to have right handed man and a ft-handed man on the same tree Each box will hold from pint to a quart of the sap.
 When the sap rises in the spring 1t oozes out of the scared surface and runs down into the boxes. Every few days the boxes fill up and men come along and scoop out the gum. Each has keg with him and empties the sap into it as he goes from tree to tree. When his keg is full he puts it into a barrel and in, this it is hauled to the turpentine diStillery Gathering
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
BEGGED ARM|ST|CE ID AVOID DISASTER Allied Offensive by 600,000 Men Was to Have Begun
 on November 12
By AssoeiateA Prsss

Paris, January 4.-(Havas )-Germany hurried to request the armistice when she saw that new allied offensive was to be launched on the Lorraine front ori November F by eo0,ooo men under com mand of General De Castelnau, says the Excelsior
 American and French troops, 1t says, were concentrated on the front between Briey and Chateau Salins. They were supported by 5000 guns of all calibres and had 900 tanks available on a front of about 45 miles. Duke Albrecht of Wurt- tenn berg, the German commander on this front, had available only 25 divisions of inferior fighting quality. These divisions contained approximately 16o000 men. He had only 1000 guns This allied attack, the Excelsior continues, would have car ried the war into annexed Lorraine and into Rhenish Prussia, threatening to cut off the German army in Belgium and in Ardennes from it's base. German gen. eral headquarters, realizing that the divi- sions on other sectors were exhausted and that it's forces were demoralized and worn out averted catastrophe by plead ing for an armstice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05

In addition to the saving of the turpen- tine, rosin and oil from this dead wood is also the profit that accrues from clearing the ground for the farmers. There are millions of acres of cutover land in the south that would be of value just now if they were ready for the blow About Brunswick contracts have been made with the owners of such lands by which the turpentine makers take out all the stumps and roots. dead trees and logs. and live trees as we'll if the man will permit. free of charge. There Is no cost for stump pullers labor or dynamite. The only ray the turpentine makers get is the material they take out and haul away to the railroad.
 In clearing land in this way the work is done by large force of men who work in three gangs. The first gang bores holes in the stumps below the level of the ground. They use drills operated by an electric current generated by means of q gasoline engine on a wagon. The elee- trictty is carried to the drllers by means of long lines of copper wire The second gang follows the drillers and inserts sticks of dynamite or blasting powder into the holes. It also puts in the fuses and lights them, Following the explo- sions the third gang comes along and gathers up the splntered pieces of stumps and rents which have been thrown high into the air and scattered around.
 In this way thousands of acres of land have been cleared and put into cuitiva- tion and within the next few years hun dreds of thousands of acres more will be fitted for the ploy free of charge to the owners. Nowhere else in the United States is the land being cleared of stunps in this way, and at the same time at a profit to the men doing the clearing.
 Copyright. 1919. by Frank G. Carpenter9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
WHITBY WELL KNOWN

J. Il. Whitby. the white man who wa. louhd mangled by the cars near the Iermlnal station in Birmingham last week. was well known here. He was known 10 the police of this city, who re- call that some weeks age he made com plant to them that he was being mo. tested by two men, and also that he had been robbed; warrants were sworn out by him for the two men. At the trial the men were discharged, there pe,ng a lack or evidence to sustain the charges that had been preferred. Later these men are alleged to have said that thev would prosecute Whitby for false arrest and 1t is also alleged that they made threats to do him bodily harm.
 The local department has communi cated the information as above related together With the names of the men, to the Birmingham authorities in that fi, may serve them in their investigation of Whitbys death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
SPANISH INFLUENZA MORE DEADLY
 THAN WAR
Said That Epidemic Cost More Lives Than American Loss in Battle. Danger Not Over. Great Care
 Necessary to P<evens Further Oukbreak

The appalling ravages of Spanish In- f1uenza in this country are perhaps best jrealized by the statement recently made that more deaths have resulted in little f-@ore than month from this disease chan through our whole eighteen months participation ir the battles of
 Our greatest danger now, declare au- thorieies. is the great American tend peril peri is over. % Competent st tt authorities claim the coming of cold weather is very apt to bring a. return of this dis ease and there should be no let-up throughout the winter months of the following easily observed precautions, remembering that influenza Is far easier
 Influenza is 8 crowd disease. Avoid crowds as much as possible. Influenza germs spread when Ignorant or careless persons sneeze or cough without using a handkerchief. Cover up each cough or sneeze. Do not spit on the floor. side xaod the tn se ears or 9p69 and roller towels in public places. Breathe some reliable germicidal and ant1Septtc air to destroy the germs that throat.
 Remember. no safer precaution this manner than to get from the near est drug store a complete Hyomei Out fit consisting of bottle of the Pure oil or Hyomel and a little veSt-pocket hard ffupDer lnhallng device. into which a shOuiu carry tnlS Inhaler about with you during the day and each half hour or so put 1t in your mouth and draw neep preaths of its pure, healing, germ Killing air into the passages of your nose, throat and lungs
 By destroying germs before they act ualiy begin work in your blood, you may make yourself practically immune All these suggestions about Spanish ventlon of colds. catarrh of nose and throat, bronchitis and even pneumonia Don't become careless. Do your part Keep the germs away You may save yourself a serious illness and the ioss of several weeks wOrk-Adv ~SSS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05

ship building and for use in soap and other manufactures of varions kinds.
 The new methods of getting turpen- tine and rosin from the dead trees. stumps and roots may be seen almost anywhere between Savannah and Jack sonville. About 50 miles from Bruns- wick. Ga, there are fields near the rail- roads from where you can see them making turpentine in this way as you ride by on the cars. You hear the explosions of dynamitins the stumps I and see cluods of smoke and dirt, stumps, roots and even whole trees fly ing into the air. Teams of mules, drlven by negroes, move about through the rough ground after the explosion. and the pieces of wood blown up are thrown into carts and wagons and , hauled to the sidetracks of the rail roads They are there loaded upon ears for shipment by trainload to the Brunswick distillery.
 The work of getting the gum out of the dead wood is done by a secret . process, for which patented ma ehinery is used My information con- corning it is from MT. Albert NJ smith, secretary of the board of | trade at Brunswick. Ga. It is known i as the Yaryan process and is in sue cessful operation in Brunswick and
 
 large plants which use somewhat similar processes in Pensacola and Jacksonville, Fla
 The establishment in Brunswick covers something like S0-odd acres It consists of a power plant, extrac- tors, refineries, cooperage shops where the barrels are made. foundry and machine shops, and many big 1 tanks in which the turpentine is stored. The dead pine wood comes in by the trainloads and 1t goes direct To the dfstillery or it may be to the woodward. where several acres are piled high with the surplus stock to be used in case the trains are delayed The wood is thrown from the cars onto an endless chain conveyor and carried to the third story of a building. Here 1t is taken off by negroes who trim it into such shape that it can be thrown into the hoppers which carry it to the hogs. The hogs are the grinding ma chimes; they are of steel and are driven by electricity generated by steam tur- olnes. They grind the wood to a pulp so that when it falls out below it looks much like a new breakfast food constant stream of this stuff pours out of each hog. onto belt conveyor. which carries 1t to the top of the building, where the extraction of turpentine Is done. It is there dropped into great bins from which 1t falls into enormous tanks of superheated steam, each of which holds about 100000 gallons. The tanks are bigger around than the boiler of a railway locomotive, and about as tall as three-story house. The steam ex- tracts the turpentine, rosin and pine oil. and by additional refining more rosn. pine oil and tar are obtained. The way of applying the steam is secret, as are also the methods of another com pany nearby, which splits up the waste so that nearly 70 different products of value in commerce and the arts are ob- tained from it.
 In these factories the work must be carefully done. The materials are highly inflammatory and there is constant dan