Evening star., 1934-11-11

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rigid airship since the U. S. S. Ma
/ con left for the Pacific Coast many
months ago. Lakehurst is expected
/ to resume full activities next Summer
I when DR.. Hugo Eckener expects to
begin regular demonstration trans
port service between Germany and
the United States with the worlds
/ largest airship, the new LZ-l2o. now
nearing completion at Friedrichshafen.
Parks Among Sharks.
| The courage of Navy enlisted man
who volunteered to park himself in
frail rubber life raft in shark in
tested waters so that his seat would be
available for rescue work, made pos
sible the saving of the life of the
victim of a recent seaplane accident in
| Cuban waters.
/ Lieut.. Henry B. TWohy Of the Avia-
ton Unit Of the u. S. S. Minneapolis
was making a routine training flight
with J. N. Achuff, aviation machinists'
mate, as passenger. when he sighted
two wrecked seaplanes at sea about 30
miles from Guantanamo Bay. Land
ing alongside, Twohy found the crews
of the planes able to shift for them
selves until they could be rescued, ex-
cept for one man who had been seri-
ously injured.
Twohy was flying two-seater and,
with his passenger aboard, had no
room for the injured man. Achuf
Immediately volunteered. although he
could not swim, to initiate the planes
rubber life raft and remain in it
among the sharks until Twohy could
carry the injured man ashore and
come back for him.
The prompt action and initiative Of
Lieut.. Twohy and the willingness with
which Achuff faced an extremely un-
pleasant predicament are most COM
menda BILE" said the report to the Navy
Department.
Cruise Changes Due.
Several changes are scheduled to be
made in arrangements for the nett
active duty cruise of VN-6R, local Ma
val Reserve Aviation unit. One of
the most welcome to the enlisted men
who in the past have had to take their
turns peeling spuds and policing the
gallery is that there will be mess cooks
on hand to do all the work in the gal
ley and possibly the cleaning Of COM
partments as well.
The advent of the cooks is hailed as
an unmixed blessing by the men of the
unit. The relief from the bug-bear
of galley duty will permit every man
in the squadron to devote his entire
time to the aviation duties to which
he is assigned. The result will be more
actual training for the men during the
all-too-short two weeks of active duty
and material tightening of the work
Plans also are being made to divide
the squadron into two sections and
have them 90 to the barracks for a
hot meal at noon. In the past while
at the Cape May. N J.. training base.
the men at noon have been fed sand
wiches which many of them admit
were pretty terrible" officers of
VN-6R probably will have to continue
on the noon-day sandwich diet next
year. however. it was indicated.
The new class assignments, made in
January, will be maintained until the
training cruise to Cape May. which
probably will be in July. The classes
which the men of the unit attend
will determine the work to which they
will be assigned on the cruise. This
Arrangement is expected to give the
men six months of training in the
work they will be expected to perform
at Cape May and is expected to result
in higher personnel efficiency than
ever before.