Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-17

greatly superior numbers Of enemy
planes. Lieut.. BisselI observing a
| plane attacked by eight of the en-
| emey, dived into their midst, de-
| stroying one plane, whereupon he
was set upon by three enemy
| Fokkers. one of which he shot down,
| driving the remaining planes to
| their own lines. His own plane was
| so badly crippled as to be beyond
| repair. The outstanding bravery
| displayed by Lieut.. Bissel greatly
! inspired the members of his squad
| rom
Lieut. David r. Stinson. chief of
, photo section No. g. has been trans
! ferred to MiddletoWn, y. y, for duty.
Lieut.. Stinson has been Photographic
officer here for several months and
has shot pictures of everything in
and about Washington. He will be
succeeded by Lieut.. Arnold. who
comes here from Montgomery. Ala.
Naval Air station.
/ The naval air station at Anacostia
viii soon take on the appearance of
a training camp when training begins
, Tor the Schneider cup race to be held
I in England the latter part of Septem-
| Der. and for the Pulitzer race to be
! held in st. Louis October ].
! The following pilots have been Sc
/ lected to represent the Navy in these
y
| w. Gorton, Lieut.. RutIedge Irvine and
! Lieut.. David RittenhouSe Lieut. F..
! w. Weed will go to England with the
! above team and will be in charge of
! all arrangements for the Navy's par
( ticipation in the races. Training for
! the Schneider cup race will be in fast
| types of service Seaplanes. Shortly
! before the team is to leave for abroad
! the pilots who are entered in the race
! will go to Philadelphia. where they
2 l.
/ are TO be taken abroad for the race
! The team and planes will leave this
| country for England August 20. in
! order TO afford ample opportunity for
! the pilots to accustom themselves &c
! the conditions over the course.
| While the Schneider cup team is
! training at Anacostia. Lieuts. H. j
! Brow, United States Navy, and l.. H
! SanderSon, United States Marine
! Corps. and Ensign a. J. Williams will
/ be training for the Pulitzer contest
! These officers, who all had expert
| ence in the race at Detroit last wear
! are expected to carry the Navy stand
| ard to victory in st. Louis.
Much of the week has been spent
! fy the personnel of the station in
! getting back to its stride" which
| was completely abandoned when the
! Ancient Arabic Order. Mobiles of the
! Mystic Shrine. swept over the CITY
u -
! its duties did not permit the assimi-
! latiOn of additional planes and their
/ pilots. Also the station took the ZEN.
| tire city of WATERFOWL. " Y, repre-.
! scented here by Media Temple, in the
! air for hops over the river 1t is
! estimated that in all about 3Or
/ Shriners. their families and friends
! were whiZZed through the atmos-
! phere. In appreciation of this. Media
! Temple sent its band over to the sta.
) ton and every one aboard was enter.
! tanned for more than an hour. Chic
/ Petty Officer Demshock. assisted bN
S: ii. Quarre1s. former lieutenant. hat
! the bulk of the taxi service.
! Lieut.. F. w. Mead. of the bureau
! piloted the DIT, Douglas torpedo plane
TO Hampton Roads Thursday as a test
! preparatory to putting it into daily
! operation between the station anC
. that point. The DIT is equipped with
| latest improvements and daily flights
on this air line are designed to bea
out any defects in this type of air.
! craft.
! Work of knocking down the Nt,-4
! the f1rSt aircraft to cross the Atlantic
ocean. and which has been on exhi.
! hition at the base of the Washington
! Monument was begun Thursday un.
I der the direction of Boatswain Deit.
| fich, whose men assembled the huge
! plane for the benefit of the Shriuers
! The parts will be taken to the Wash.
! lneton navy yard and ultimately the
| NC VIII f1nd its way into the Smith
| sonian Institution.
| Lieut.. Galloway of the station anG
Lieut.. Shoemaker of the bureau flew
| to New York in DeHaviland planf
! Tuesday and remained there seyerar
| days.