The Washington herald., 1921-05-31
Officers B o dy win Be
Given Military
Honors.
RITES FOR MILLER
TOMORROW, 8 p. N.
Gen. Mitchell Urges Need
of National Air
Policy.

The first of the funerals Of the
seven who lost their Lives in the air
plane crash late Saturday at Nor
gantown- Nd that Of Lieut. Stanley
NJ Ames- pilot of the atrshfp. wiu be
held this Afternoon at O'Clock a.
St Johns church Two months ago.
the day before Easter. In the sau,e
church Lieut. Ames walked up the
sisIes to the zrtzr. The occasion
then was his wedding Fun military
honors VIII be accorded the BODY.
which VIII be Transported on a czis-
son from the walter Reed hospital
70 the church and thence To Airing
ton National cemetery. where inter
ment VIII take place The Rev E.
s. Dunlap viii orncizte-
Mmer's FureraI Tonerrow.
Tomorrow at 2 O'Clock. at the
same church. the funeral Of Lieut..
Col. Archie Miller VIII be held. Fun
arrangements for the funeral WIN
be made today. II Is expected thar
the entire personnel Of Boiling field.
TO which Col Miller was attached.
whl attend Interment' VIII be in
the Arlington national cemetery.
The funeral Of Sergt Richard c
Blumenkrsntz will be held with fun
military honors tomorrow at II a
m A brother Of Sergt BIumen-
krantz is attached 70 the service At
Boiling feld- A sister also resides
In Washinton. Interment will also
be at Arlington
Mrs. A G. Batchelder arrived YES
terday from jackson Mich, to claim
the body of her husband Funeral
services Of Mr.. Bachelor will be
held at Gawler's undertaking par
lors, tomorrow morning at IL
o'clock. DIT. L. s r. Pierce Of the
Unitarian church. will oflciate. The
body will then be taken TO BursIo
and placed IN receiving vault
Cense1y's Body sent Home.
The body OF former Representa-
tive Maurice Connolly was sent last
night, accompanied by President
keyes of the Curtiss Aeroplane cor
~ ANbAANtH lONds NneFe
two sisters OF Maj Connolly reside.
As soon as the necessary certin-
Gates required for the transporta-
tion OF corpses through the states
are obtained. the body of Lieut.
Cleveland W. McDermott will be for
warded 10 his brother at Syracuse,
\. Y. and that Of Lieut.. John NJ.
Pennywel to his father at Silver
City. y. Mex
board of inquiry. consisting Of
Capt. W. r. Ocker. Lieut.. Paul 7.
wilkins and Lieut.. L. NJ. Wolf. all
OF Boiling field. which investigated
the accident yesterday. will report
to the war department today eN-
oneratinS Lieut.. Ames from any
responsibility for the fatality. The
board attributes the collapse 70 the
storm and asserts that il was un-
avoidable.
Saw Plnne seek Landing.
An eyewitness Of the crash. Lieut.
A NJ. Hunnimsnn. of the Dragon
naval station. near Morgantown.
Nd. attributed the accident 70 a
lack Of lift" Il stood a quarter
Of a mile from where the plane
dived into the earth" he said, and
watched Lieut.. Ames vainly seek a
safe landing spot as his plane with
its six passengers staggered drunk
emily through the storm bufeted
area"
Brig. Gen. Mitchell. active head
of the air service. yesterday de-
clared that the tragedy eNempii-
fes the necessity Of a national or
ganization Of aviation" We must
develop a national air policy" said
the general
Urges single Departneut.
To minimize such accidents in the
future. Gen. Mitchell urged the CEN
tralization Of all the air services
into one department He charged
that with present conditions of
''unco-ordination," red tape frus-
trated the introduction. OF improve
ments. A unified sir service could
provide among other things for
hourly weather reports to be sent
by wireless to all airships. Such
service. the general. declared.
would have informed Lieut.. Ames
Of the movement Of the storm and
possibly prevented the collapse.
Air men should have charge of
airnlane activities" declared the
general Very few Of the army
men ever 60 up in an airship. he
said.
At Mercy of Great Powers.
The present condition of the
United States air force is such, de-
clared the general. that we are at
the mercy Of Great Britain or any
other Of the great powers. Great
Britain could send to our Atlantic
coast 400 planes within seven days
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