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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
Is DAYS, TIME SET
IN GLOBE C|RCL|NG
SchIee and Brock to Leave
Detroit Tomorrow on
Way to Harbor Grace.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, August ga hope of
circling the globe in the record. smash
ing time of Is days will guide Edward
+. Schlee, president of the Waco Oil
Corporation, and William Brock. his
pilot. when they hop off Monday morn
ing for Curtiss Field, Long Island. en-
route to Harbor Grace. Newfoundland.
tho official starting point.
Edward S. Evans, Detroit manu-
facturer, and Linton Wells, newspa-
per man, using airplanes and other
means of conveyance, completed a
round-the- world trip in 20 days IA
hours and So minutes for the present
record. BY using their plane over the
entire charted court of 20,S45 miles,
Schlee and Brock hope to return to
Harbor Grace in Is days.
Reconditioned, Schlee's Stinson-De-
troiter monoplane, in which Eddie
Stinson recently won the national air
tour, will serve as the flyers vehicle.
The plane has been christened Pride
Of Detroit"
Plane Is Christened.
The flyers plan to leave Curtiss Field
for Harbor Grace Tuesday. From that
point the route lies to London, Stutt-
CART, Belgrade, Constantinople and
Bagdad. Then through Persia the
route swings southwark in loop to
Calcutta, RangoOn and on to Hong
kong. Toxic, the Midway Islands,
Honolulu, San Francisco and thence
eastward through Cheyenne. Chicago
and Detroit would return the plane
to it's starting point.
Trhron nj in c,
more than 1000 miles, face the flyers
The first is from Harbor Grace to
London, the second from Toxic to the
Midway Islands and the last from
Honolulu to San Francisco.
Preparations for the flight have cen
tered largely around providing for
contingencies on these hops. Equip
ment similar to that carried by some
of the Dole Honolulu flyers will be
placed in the Pride Of Detroit.
Special Equipment.
The complete emergency equipment,
weighing ii pounds, contains life
raft and oars, two bottles of air for
initiating the boat. a 15-day supply of
emergency rations, one gallon of
water, condensation water cups, dis
infectants and stimulants, a dozen
flares for drift correction, two flash
lights, six friction ship flares and a
Very pistol for firing red, white and
green rockets.
The gas tanks when empty should
support the plane in the event of a
landing at sea. but the time will be
dependent upon conditions.
Schlee, who Is 80 years old, is mar
ried and has two children. Brock, 81
also Is married.
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MRS. E|CHWALDT
!. SURE SON |SSAFE
Sits in Home, Confident Navi.
!. gator of Dallas Spirit
Will Be Rescued.

OAKLAND, Calf, August 90
While the outside world commented
and speculated, and naval and mer'
camille vessels raced toward a com
pass point in midPacific. a little
gray-haired mother sat in her Hay
ward, Calf, home today, sadly
bravely. confidently repeating Il know
Alvin will be safe at home
She was Mrs. Florence H. Eich'
waldt. mother of Navigator Alvin
II. Eichwaldt. whose dramatic sos
"We're in a tail spin" electrified the
Nation last night and then threw a
Cloak of nervous anxiety about the
nate of the rescue plane, Dallas
Spirit, and its crew, Capt. William L.
Erwin and Eichwaldt.
Mrs. Eichwaldt received the first
word of her sons call for help with
a start. 1T was blow" she said.
and then took off her glasses to
wipe off the tears that persisted in
yelling forth despite her confidence
in the sea-faring son.
How near is the nearest ship"
was the mothers first query. Il know
Alvin will he safe at home. | have
the utmost confidence in my son. He
will he picked up. Alvin is an eX-
Cellent swimmer and if they had time
to get out their life raft and climb
onto il they will be all right They
had plenty of provisions-I know. be
cause / fixed Them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
BEES ROUT PAINTER.
Frantic Home Owner Tries i
Vain to Get Rid of Pests.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DENVER. August 20.-Somewhere
in this city there is happy house
painter Disguised house owner and
an Indignant swarm of bees.
Lately Mrs. Frances Treese called a
painter to paint the roof of her home
and contracted to pay him by the
hour.
The painter encountered a swarm of
bees in the caves Of the house, and
at their buzzing protest he promptly
retreated.
The bees refused to move, and they
also refused to let the painter on the
roof.
Mrs. Treese called police. Then she
called the fire department. Neither
would help her.
In the meantime the painter sought
refuge under a shade tree and famed
himself, while his pay went on.
He grinned happily as the hours
slipped by and he visioned the size of
his check. Mrs. Treese kept telephone
wires warm trying vainly to get help.
At last accounts the bees still were
holding the fort.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
AIR MAIL DELIVERY
TO SHIP DUE TODAY
Navy Pilot Will Try to Drop Sacks
on Ocean Liner
Leviathan.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 20.-The liner
Leviathan sailed today, it's passengers
Eagerly looking forward to witnessing
the first shore-to-ship air mail delivery
ever attempted.
At noon tomorrow, provided present
plans do not go astray, Lieut.. c. III.
Schildauer, U. S. N, will arrive above
the liner 500 miles at sea with water
proof bags of mail.
On sighting the plane the Leviathan
vill reduce speed to knots and
Lieut.. Schildauer will fly parallel with
the ship, lowering the mail bags at
the end of a 500-foot line on a drum.
Members of the liners crew have been
assigned to grasp the mail bags and
cut them free.
A destroyer will accompany the
Leviathan to salvage the mail sacks
should they fall into the sea, and two
cruisers will be stationed along the
planes course in case Of emergency.
The shore-to.ship plane service is
expected to shorten mailing time
across the ocean even more than Clar-
ence Chamberlin recently demon.
strated it could be decreased by ship
to-shore plane service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
EIGHT CITIES ENTER
RACES FOR Upton CUP
Contests for Amateur Yachtsmen
to Be Held at st. Peters
burg, Fla.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, August
2O.-Eight cities are entered in the
Upton Cup races which will be held
here September 3, and S, it was
announced today. by DR.. Fred York
Of st. Petersburg, chairman Of the
Gulf Yachting Association fish class
committee, who is directing the races.
The entries are: Pensacola, Fla:
Mobile, Ala; Biloxi, Miss; Mande.
vile, La; New Orleans. La; Houston.
Tex, and Venice and St. Petersburg,
Fla. About 500 yachtsmen are
expected.
The races are exclusively for anna.
tours, DR.. York announced, and
yachtsmen who have not accepted
money awards for yachting during the
past six years are eligible.
The Eastern Shore Yacht Club of
Mobile tied with st. Petersburg last
year for first place and as a result
the Upton cup remained in possession
Of the Southern Yacht Tub of New
Orleans, trustee for the trophy.
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NOntlnueu from FlfSt PaSe)
sudden activity at dawn. An amateur
radio operator at Luke Field reported
having intercepted a part of a mes
sage from an INDICATED ship stating
that the Dole flight plane Golden
Eagle had been picked up. A few
intercepted saying that the Golden
Eagle was being picked up"
Efforts to confirm or trace the mes
sages were futile. The Luke Field
radio set Is not an official Army sta
ton. 1t is an amateur station built
and operated by men stationed there.
The fourteenth naval district ex.
tended the search today for the miss
ing Dole planes, sending aircraft and
submarines to comb the huge tri-
angular area north of the island of
Hawaii which previously had been
less searched than other regions. Two
patrols of two planes each left the
Pearl Harbor air station before
am. fueled for flights of approximate.
ly 400 miles each.
Hawaiian Area Searched.
One patrol went to Molokai Island
around which they planned to swing
through Pailclo Channel. The second
patrol started for Hama, at the south
eastern tip of Maui Island, from
which they were to return to La.
haina. via Alenuihala Channel, join
ing the first patrol
The planes in each patrol were
ordered to fly about 10 miles apart,
and to send radio reports of their
positions every Is minutes.
The submarine tender Holland and
eight submarines left Pearl Harbor
at am. yesterday to form a line
running southwest from Kaena Point,
northwest Of Oahu Island, to posi-
ton north of Kauai Island, at which
they We're due at o'clock this morn
ing. The remaining submarines avail
able for formation were returning to
Pearl Harbor today from the south
ernmost point of the island of Hawaii.
Two submarines which were de-
tached from formation yesterday to
search channels about Maui Island
were to rejoin the formation north of
Kauai Island. Eight other subma-
rines early today were IS miles north
of Kaena Point, heading northwest
toward the windward side of Kauai
Island.
Bad Crash Feared.
AS result of radio reports last
night that Erwin's plane, the Dallas
Spirit, had gone into a tail spin, re-
covered and tail spinned again, appre.
hension concerning the fate of the
plane was expressed at Pearl Harbor.
1t was pointed out that a plane going
down in a tail spin, particularly when
heavily loaded. crashes badly.
While the Navy was entirely with
out official information of the where
abouts of Erwin and Eichwaldt and
their plane, the flood of rumors be-
came so persistent this afternoon that
Rear Admiral John D. Mcdonald
posted a lookout on the observation
tower at Pearl Harbor with orders to
report all airplanes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
Prize Sea Flights
Decried i'm Protest
By Aero Official
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, August CO.
Carl Wolf1ey. vice president of the
National Aeronautic Association,
today telegraphed William p. Mac
Cracker, Assistant Secretary of
the Department of Commerce, pro-
testing against the staging of fur
Their oceanic air flights for prize
money.
While admitting that the oceanic
flights staged so far have been
wonderful" Wolfiey declared that
the recent Pacific Dole air race
was too disastrous. and he was
convinced present-day equipment
would not justify any further at
tempts to span either the Atlantic
or the Pacific Oceans.
sWOlfey urged the Government
to concentrate it's efforts in the de-
velopment of aviation over the air
routes of the United States.
A copy of the telegram was sent
to Porter II. Adams, president of
the National Aeronautic Associa.
ton, at Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
MOTHER OF ERWIN CALM.
Expresses Confidence i'm Safety When
Told of Lack of News.

DALLAS, Tex. August 20 R.-
Confidence that her son, Capt. Will
liam p. Erwin, is safe, was express
ed today by Mrs. Louise Erwin when
she was told that no news had been
received from her sons Honolulu
bound plane, Dallas Spirit. since the
SOS message radioed out last night
by the plane as it went into tail
spin over the Pacific.
That planes safe" said Mrs. Err
win. I'm just as confident of it as
am of anything in the, world
Mrs. Erwin was at the home here
of her son and his wife. The pilot s
wife, who had planned to accompany
him as far as Honolulu in his Dallas.
to.Hongkong flight. but was barred
because she was under 81 years of
age, was at the bedside Of her
brother at West Collingswood, n. j.
Rev. w. A. Erwin. the father of
the flyer. is en- route to Dallas by au.
tomobile from the family home at
Pawhuska, Okla.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
SMITH SAYS DOLE
RACE WAS MISTAKE
FLYER Calls Honolulu Hops for
$4,000 Stunts
pIores Crashes.

|
SAN FRANCISCO, August 90
The whole Dole air race from the
American mainland to Hawaii was "a
big mistake" Ernest l.. Smith, first
civilian flyer to hop to the islands,
declared today, in commenting upon
the prevailing fear that Capt. w. p
Erwin and A. H.. Eichwaldt may have
fallen into the sea last night.
1T is stunt flying" Smith declared
mot practical with land planes.
land now there are six men and a
girl out there somewhere, battling for
their lives. All for $4,000. 1t isn't
worth it,"
Air Currents Tricky.
Martin Jensen, Honolulu pilot in the
Dole race, was quoted as saying that
his plane went into a tail spin on its
way across the Pacific, and Smith
said he hit treacherous currents at
sea.
Shipping men here who know of
the San Francisco Hawaii route de.
clared today that tricky air currents
have been noted in mid-Pacific, and
that in all probability these were not
charted so as to warn airmen.
Smith was Of the opinion that Err
win might have ripped the covering
of his fuselage again, causing him to
drop into a tall spin.
Remember how the Dallas Spirit
came back after the first take-off, u
Smith said, with the fuselage linen
ripped and fiuttering like rags? It's
wonder she didn't so into a spin
then.
Only One Thing to DO.
1.-THE only reason l can see for that
message speaking of the SOS from
the Dallas Spirit last night that they
were in a tailspin) must have been
the linen. Maybe the fuselage ripped
off again or tail covering, or even the
wings That would throw the ship
out Of control, and mighty suddenly
too.
There isn't anything you can dc
when that happens, except what Err
win did at the airport-bring the ship
down and pray to heaven you bring
it down right side up"
Smith upheld the theory that the
Erwin plane may have dropped SO
close to the water that its radio an.
tenna was dragged off.
I'VE lost ours when we came within
few feet Of the waves and didn't
have another" he said.
Mechanics in Erwin's camp at the
Oakland municipal airport declared
today that Erwin carried one extra
antenna wire with him and that if
EichWaldt could rig it up with q
proper drag weight and the radio set
was not damaged in the tail spins he
should have been able to resume his
messages-that is, provided Erwin re
manned aloft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
This Horse Sits Down.

Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON.-London has horse that
sits down in the roadway when {;
bobby puts up his hand to stop the
traffic. The horse belongs to firm
of coal merchants and draws a load
of coal every day. When the cart
happens to be stopped by a traffic COP
the horse sits down on it's launches
AS soon as the traffic is released 1t
gets up again and goes on. The
owners say he's very intelligent
animal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21

By the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf August 90
Only slight hope for the survival of
Miss Mildred Doran and the six men
missing on the Pacific between San
Francisco and Honolulu was expressed
today by naval authorities following a
test Of rubber life raft similar to
those taken on the airplanes on the
Dole flight and by William p. Erwin
and A. II. Eichwaldt on the Dallas
Spirit.
The test was conducted 80 miles off
Point Iona. Three bluejackets from
the aircraft tender Cannot. Seamen
w. f. Owens, X. A. Lassarn and c. H.
Schnagel, were set adrift in six
foot rubber raft, similar to the RATS
with which the missing airplanes were
equipped.
The primary object of the novel test
was to determine the drift of the raft
for one hour in a 15.mile wind. 1t
determined more. Although smooth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
Tests of Life Raft Show Slight Hope
For z Flyers Forced Down on Pacific

seas prevailed off Point Iona, waves
dashed clear over the raft at times.
necessitating rapid bailing
The three bluejackets were very
cramped in the little raft. They drifed
three-fourths Of mile in the one hour
they were afloat.
officers said the raft was too shall.
low in the water to be affected ma
terially by the ocean current, but
the wind velocity would be a vital
factor.
The fact that Miss Doran, her
pilot, Auggy Pedlar, and Lieut.. Villas
Knope, the navigator of the Michigan
school teachers plane, were forced to
seek safety in the cramped quarters
of the rubber life raft provided they
escaped death in the forced landing.
makes their condition worse than that
of the pilots and navigators of the
other missing planes, officers said.
The bluejackets in today's test said
they were glad to get back to the
Cannot after being adrift an hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
Learns to Drive Car at 81.
al Correspondence of The Star

Special Correspondence of The Star.
BELFAST. - Eighty seven years
young and learns to drive an automo-
bile. That's Isaiah w. Cross of Bel
fast. who now drives his own car, and
recently while on visit to Roxbury
decided to motor down to Cape Coo
just to look the place over.
The trip covered 256 miles, as ne
went to Provincetown, and he made
Il without nlishap or inconvenience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
STREET BIDS APPROVED.

amounting to nearly $4,000, will be
done by the firm of Corson & Gruman
under a bid approved by the Commits
sioners yesterday. The work will be
carried out within the next two
months.
The locations are: South approach to
Highway Bridge, SIS 900: Nichols ave-
nue. southeast, Fourth to Upsal
streets, $4,000; Thirty-eighth street
Suitland road to Alabama avenue, and
Suitland road, Thirty eighth street to
the District line southeast, $4,000;
Twelfth street southwest, E to Water
streets, $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
LIEUT.. KNOPE FATALIST.
Father Does Not Expect to See
Plane Navigator Again.

STEVENS POINT, Wis, August 20
P).-Lieut. Villas Knope, navigator of
the missing plane, Miss Doran, was a
firm fatalist. his father revealed today.
n. J. Knope, the father, who said he
had frequently tried to dissuade his
son from flying only to be met with
the assertion that when his time
came to die" nothing could prevent
st. believes he will never see Villas
rgain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
MACNlDER RESUMES TRIP,
Unhurt in Mishap, Coming Here by
Way of Mitchell Field.

BETHANY. Conn, August 20 up.
-Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secre-
tary Of War. who was unhurt when
his airplane turned over on landing
at Danbury this morning, took the
air again here this afternoon for
Mitchell Field, n. Y.
He was a passenger in a plane pi-
loted by Lieut. Louis N. Eller, Regu-
lar Army instructor for the Connect
cut National Guard.
Mr.. MacNider will continue to
Washington, D. c., in his own plane,
which he had left at Mitchell Field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
ERWIN FAMOUS IN WORLD WAR
AS TERROR OF WESTERN FRONT"
Pilot of Dallas Spirit, With Capt Byrne "
Baucom, Cited for Daring Exploits
Against German Army.

Capt William p. Erwin. pilot of the
Dallas Spirit. shared jointly with
Capt. Byrne V. Baucom. Army Air
Corps, now on duty at Brooks Field.
San Antonio, Tex, the reputation Of
being the terror Of the Western
front" during the war.
With Capt. Baucom, Capt. Erwin
emerged from the war with one of the
most brilliant records obtained by any
American aviator.
The two airmen formed the team of
Erwin and Baucom." Erwin was
the pilot and Baucom the observer.
Their scope of operations. absolutely
fearless and death.defying, became
known to the enemy and they were
feared more by the ground troops
than by any other allied airplane
For their services Erwin and Bau.
com were given the Distinguished
Service Cross with the oak leaf cluster
and the French Croix de Guerre.
These two airmen lived together
slept together and flew and fought to-
gether. They brought down eight en-.
envy planes, according to records of
the Army Air Corps. but shooting
down enemy aircraft was not their
particular object in the war. Their
duty was to harass ground troops,
break up batteries and destroy lines
of communications while flying at the
perilously low altitude of so feet, with
the entire German army shooting anti.
aircraft. machine gun and rifle bullets
at them.
Dove ON Enemy Lines.
Their tactics were to dive down on
their target. at terrific speed. while
Erwin opened fire with both his fixed
guns which fired through the pro
pellor. Then as he pulled up in a
zoom Baucom. standing up in the
back seat, poured steel jacketed bull
lets into the enemy. Invaribly this
had the desired effiect-dead, wounded
and fleeing troops.
ErWin's citation accompanying the
Distinguished Service Cross lauds him
for his "long period Of faithful and
heroic" service in which he "set an in.
spring example of courage and devo
ton to duty to his fellow airmen. He
flew under the worst weather condi.
tons possible and in face of heavy
odds in the Chateau Thierry engage
ments. and repeated his work in the
st. Mihiel offensive.
In the st. Mihiel area he flew as low
as SO feet behind the enemy lines
harassing the troops, and on one oc.
casion twice drove off enemy planes
about to destroy an American observa.
ton balloon. He frequently established
Infantry contact patrols, rendering
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
CHANGES HOP-OFF POINT.
Capt. Hamilton to Fly From Eng
land Instead Of Ireland.

LONDON, August 20 H0.-Capt.
Leslie Hamilton announced today that
he had definitely decided tn start his
Transatlantic flight tn Ottawa from
the Upav0n Airdrorne 40 miles from
bristol. England. instead Of from Dub.
lin. Ireland.
The present intention II himself and
Col. +. r. Minchin. his conpa MON, he
said. Is to hop or next Tuesday morn.
ing. weather permitting.
Capt. Hamilton was in London TO.
. day. He is leaving for Bristol tomor.
row for the final trials.
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great service in this respect, according
to the citation.
on another occasion he and Bau
com attacked "a German battery, i'm
the face of strong fire from the
ground. Diving down almost level with
1t. he dispersed the enemy and shot
and killed Il German officer who was
fleeing on a horse. Then he kept the
German troops in "A dugout until tn"
battery was captured by the Ameri
cans
In the Sedan sector six days before
the armistice was signed he received
! the oak leaf cluster, along with Bau.
com. Against the advice of expert
enced officers he undertook n recon
| naissance flight in order that Baucom
could obtain some information that he
| thought would be Of much assistance
| to the ground forces.
| Flying conditions were almost i'm
possible, but Erwin and Bacum took
off. They flew at ''perilously low alti-
| tudes" and were subjected to steady
| stream Of anti-aircraft, machine gun
and rifle fire. Their plane was riddIed
with bullets. but Erwin pushed on,
| far into enemy territory. Baucnm.
while getting the desired information
along the flight. poured deadly fire
upon the troops"
| Clear Road for Attack.
The lone airplane then attacked a
| detachment Of German soldiers that
| were holding back the advance Of the
| American doughboys, giving a clear
| road to attacking forces. Then engine
| trouble developed and at low alti-
/ tude. Erwin had to land almost straight
| ahead. He displayed great skill as a
| pilot in this maneuver, the citation
said. landing his plane on, field
| filled with rocks. Immediately the two
were attacked by Germans, but with
drawn and smoking pistols. they
| fought their way through to the
| American lines. where Baucom de.
| livered the information, which proved
Of great value.
After the war, Erwin returned to
private life while Baucom remained in
the service. Baucom then took the
| plots course, qualified as pursuit
| pilot and was on duty in Washington
Tor four years up until a few weeks
| ago. when he was sent to Brooks
| Field. In few days he will be trans.
| terred to March Field. Riverside. Calf,
Erwin was not awarded the Dis
| tinguished Service Cross in person
until a year and a half ago. The
| war Department had the coveted
honor for him. but efforts to locate
| his address proved unavailing. Fur.
| Their search brought to light his
| whereabouts and the honors were
! bestowed upon him.