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In Good Health GOLD.

Bettor Business Ads.

No "Back to Natur?."

Th? Air Disaster.

_By ARTHUR BRISBANE.-?

(Copirlim. iati >

It is said In ancient Jewish

writings that what yea give

In health is GOLD, in sickness

SILVER, after death LEAD.

Jews that have found wealth

and freedom in America, and

that have contributed so much

to the prosperity of America,

ar? now demonstrating their

belief that GOLD is the thing

to give.

Fourteen millions of dollars

are needed, and fourteen mil

lions of dollars unquestionably

will be RAISED to help hun

dreds of thousands of Jewish

war victims in Europe.

Chicago has already given

two million dollars. Philadel

phia in one week contributed

one million dollars. New Tork

city on the opening day of the

?campaign contributed s million

dollars.

In Eastern Europe hundreds

of thousands of pitiful, thin

little hands are stretched out

empty, hundreds of thousands

of miserable mothers walk the

weary roads, homeless. There

is not a human being, however

cold, but would empty his

pockets if he could actually

SEE that horrible misery.

It takes little imagination to

see it, and to give.

Next to the ability of Jews,

their charity is the best answer

to ?envious ?critics. They gave more

than their share to all charities

in war?Red Cross, Y. M. C. ?.,

Salvation Army, Knights of Co

lumbus. They have slresdy given

forty-seven million dollars to

help their co-religionists abroad.

Now they will give fourteen mil

lions more. When they start to

raise money they RAISE it

Directors of the Better Busi

ness Association are gathered in

St. Louis. Part of their work Is

to "make advertising honest,"

That's important, but more im

portant is to make advertising

effective.

What is not honest in advertis

ing falls of its own weight snd

di*S.

The main thing is to mske ad

vertising command the attention

of the reader.

Many in their advertising re

mind you of a man whispering

in a great crowd to attract at

tention. You must make every

body KNOW that you are ad

vertising. You need not necessar

ily use big type to do it.

But you must, in successful ad

vertising as in everything else,

COMMAND attention. For the

one that COMMANDS there is

always plenty of business.

"Back to nature and primitive

life," sounds pretty, in JEAN

JACQUES ROUSSEAU, but

from history of past centuries,

and from DOUKHOBORS in

British Columbia today, you

learn that "Back to nature"

means hack to brutality and sav

agery.

The Doukhobors, who call

themselves "CHRISTIAN COM

MUNITY OF UNIVERSAL

BROTHERHOOD," don't like

taxation and want to roam.

Their leader, Peter Veregin,

announces that to simplify

their wsnderings, they will

drown the young, the very old,

the infirm. +*

Civilization is a complicated

Institution. And there is no

simplifying it, for the present,

without reverting to savagery.

The news of the airship dis

aster in Hampton Roads yester

day fills the country with hor

ror, but feust not discourage.

The remedy is to get the

right airship, msde the right

way. We tried an English ma

chine, it fell and killed our

men in England. An Italian

machine?not fairly tried, as

we took out Italian engines

and put in our own?exploded

with loss of life yesterday.

Flying machines of all kinds

must serve this country. The

right kind must be found.

Try now whet the Germans

can ao. They apparently have

been able to manufacture air

ships that go out and come

back.

Hiram Johnson of California

wants to know what you will

?ant to know?why England

may fortify her distant portes

sions at Singapore, while the

United States is forbidden to

fortify the Philippines and

Guam?

We interfere in no way with

Japan's fortification in the

FAR EAST. Why do we allow

Japan and England to dictate

what we shall do with our FAR

EAST&&N poessssisosT

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nicht; temperature above

reealag. Thursday showers,

fresh sooth winds.

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FINAL EDITION

NUMBER 12,171. ?^^'*?'*^.?^.?** WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUABY 22, 1922.

'??torno? al WeaelaseaB. D. O

MAI*?

THREE CENTS EVERYWHERE.

ROMA

FIXED

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Airship Crash Due To Faulty Stabilizers

SANDS BELIEVED FOUND

Airship Disaster As

Seen by Artist

Huge Roma Crashing to

Ground And Bursting

Into Inferno of Flame.

SUSPECT

JAILED AT

North Carolina Authorities

Await Identification From

Los Angeles.

CONCORD. N. C. Feb. 22.?A

man whom local police authorities

suspect of beinpr Edward F. Sands,

the missing valet in the Taylor

murder case, is held without bail

in the .ail here today, while ad

vices are awaited from Los An

geles.

Ssys II????? HiH>Ukr*'i*-r. jl

The man Rave hie name to chief ot,

Police Talbert aa Harvey H. Adame.

He said he was a bookkeeper and

accountant, and that hla home was

in Richmond, Va., although he ad

mitted he had not been In Richmond

for tome time. When arrested, he

?aid he was on hi? way to Mt. Holly.

N. C, to try to ?et work as un ac

countant with a construction firm.

"We believe he Is the man." Thief

of Police Talbert told the Inter

national News Service.

The suspect le about five feet

eight lnchee in height, and weighs

well over 200 pounds. lie has a

?car on the left cheek, one under

the chin and another on the left

shoulder. He hns brown hair, blue

eyes, and apparently is about forty

year? old. He la well dressed.

Denies He's Sands.

Adams Indignantly denied that he

is Sands. Chief Talbert said, how

ever, that during a long grilling he

revealed himself as toeing familiar

with the moving picture business

and with the movie colony in Cali

fornia, although he denied ever hav

ing been there.

The arrest was made by the chief

of police himself In a local cafe

where the man had ordered a meal.

The suspect was arreeted within

ten minutes after he had arrived

In Concord. Ho told Chief of

Police Talbert he reached Salisbury,

N. C, yesterday in a box car and

then proceeded to Concord In com

pany with a traveling salesman.

Description? of Sinde, according

to Talbert, tally closely with the

man under arrest. Old scars, Tal

bert said, bear a strong resemblance

to those noted In descriptions of

Sands sent out from Los Angeles.

Sys He Knows Slayer.

DETROIT, Feb. 22.?Declaring he

was In Dos Angelea the night of

the William Desmond Taylor mur

der and that he knows and will dis

close the Identity of Taylor's slay

er, Harry N. Fields, confessed

"doper" and convicted forger, to

day made a statement In which he

told Chief Edward H. Fox his de

tailed movements the week of the

crime.

Fields was arrested for the De

troit police in Buffalo, N. Y., Febru

ary ? and returned here for trial on

a forgery charge. He was convict

ed before Judge Marsh on Febru

ary 11 and remanded to the county

Jail for sentence.

Other ????? of the Taylor murder

on Page 3, Col. 4.

WILL NOT O. kTcICARETTE

SMOKERS AS TEACHERS

HOLLAND. Mich.. Feb. 22?De

claring that cigarette smoking lower?

the mentality of youths from 10 to

16 per cent, according to actual ex

periments. Dr. John R. Nykerk, dean

of Hope College, In an order made

public today, announces that no stu

dent who ?mokes cigarettes will be

recommend?Nl by the faculty as a

teacher In high schools and acad

emics.

"No Hope man shall be guilty of

communicating the filthy habit by

example to his pupils," Dr. Nykerk

declared.

FIND $100,000 IN BOOZE

IN REDISTILLING PLANT

NEW TORK. Feb. J2.?Federal

prohibition agents raided a big dis

tillery for the conversion of de

natured alcohol, seizing more than

$100,000 worth of ?pirita and arrcat

Jac three nua.

Inquiry Wlil Go Deep Into For?

eign Construction Of

Dirigibles.

Bjr I nt irrational News Herrlee.

A searching investigation into

th Roma disaster, which cost near

ly two-score lives, is already under

way.

The Roma investigation prob

ably will go far deeper than the

mere ascertainment of the <**au*-e.s

of th** fatali crash. Appalled by

the 'scries vt terrible accident? tu?

aircraft recently, particularly thi?

lighter than-air type of the Roma,

officers of the army and navy air

service said the probe would go

into the fundamentals of lighter

than air construction.

Like /.It ? ?Trash.

Air service officer? were quick

to point out today that the ZR-2

?nil the Itnmi disasters were not

dissimilar. In the ?aee of the ZR-2

it was faulty construction, which

caused the hiifr?? ship to buckle and

fall. In the case of the Roma, it

was presumably the same faulty

construction which caused one of

the elevators to slip and throw the

ship out of control.

The twin disasters to the great

dirigibles, both of foreign design

and manufacture, caused air serv

ice officers to seriously question

today the advisability of further

dealing with foreign types of these

ships. The Roma was of Italian

construction and the ZR-2 of Brit

ish. Both had been purchased by

this Government.

The Navy is particularly Interest

ed because It Is now negotiating

for a German Zeppelin of the most

advanced type to be built in Ger

many under American supervision.

Work hHS not actually b??en begun

on the new ship yet because of a

hitch In the financial arrangements.

Propose Helium Gss.

One result of the Norfqlk disas

ter, air service experts asserted to

day, would be to advance the use

of helium gas, supposedly non-in

flammable. The Roma, so far as

is now known, was filled with or

dinary hydrogen gas, and officers

said If helium had been used the

disaster undoubtedly would not

have reached the proportlonss It did.

The first explosion which followed

the crash of the big ship was pre

sumably caused by the ship's ?com

ing In f*ontract with the high ten

sion electric wires. The use of he

lium gas, they believed, would have

prevented the explosion and if not

preventing the fire, at least would

have lessened Its magnitude and

terror.

The Roma catastrophe threw an

atmosphere of gloom about both

War and Navy Departments today.

The thirty-odd victims of the crash

were well-known In Washington,

having made frequent trips to the

Capital from the army base at Lang

ley Field.

GENOA PARLEY EXPECTED

TO BE SET FOR MARCH 23

LONDON, Feb. 22?The Interna

tional economic conference at Genoa

will be postponed from March 8 to

March 23, according to opinion ex

pressed today In Downing street.

Premier Lloyd Oeorge Is expected

to go to Paris on Saturday to confer

with Premier Poincar?.

ROME, Feb. 22?The formal re

quest of France for postponement of

the Genoa conference has been

pigeonholed by the foreign office

pending formation of a new cabinet.

BRITAIN HALTS SHIP WORK,

AWAITING TREATY O. K.

LONDON. Feb. 22.?Lieut. Col. L.

C. Amery, speaking for the govern

ment, announced tn the House of

Commons this afternoon that the

admiralty will not lay down the

keels of |jhe proponed four new

super hood dreadnoughts unless one

of the powers signatory to the

Washington naval treaty falla te

riujujr. au

FAILED, PILOT

OF

Lieut B. G. Burt, in Charge,

?Declares Ship Repeatedly

Refused to Respond.

NORFOLK, Va.. Feb. 22.?Lieut.

Byron O. Burt, elevating pilot on

the Ill-fated Roma, and the only

active flight control officer to ?ur

vive the disaster, today blamed the

crash on the failure of control in

strument? to operate. He told the

International New? Service that the

?hip refused to respond to the

elevating controls while 600 feet In

the air and dove head first Into the

ground at an angle of forty-five

degrees.

"I noticed that soon after we left

Langley Field the ship was having

trouble In keeping her head up,"

Burt said. "I tried the control? re

peatedly, but ?he maneuvered very

badly. While above the army sup

ply base, the elevatore failed en

tirely to respond to the controls. I

called attention to thla unusual pre

dicament and then noticed that the

ship waa falling by the head.

"I couldn't understand it. I

threw the control levers far over

and ordinarily the Roma should

have noaed up In the air, but ?he

continued to settle. We went down

and down and aa we neared the

earth, the men realised that we

were gonlg to crash. They became

panic ?trlcken.

"A few, I think, leaped over the

side?one dove with a parachute.

I heard later that lt failed to open.

"I remained at the controls ?till

trying to nose her up, but aa we

neared the ground, the envelope

?truck the overhead electric wire?

paralleling the road into camp.

The next instant wa atruck, noae

first. The bag seemed to roll over

a? ?he ?ettled on tbe ground. I

was thrown Into a ditch that ran

across the field. That instant,

terrible explosion waa followed by

?.-raping gusts ???-sene.

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Roma's Casualty List

Bj International New? Servie?.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 22.?The official casualty

list of the crash of the semi-rigid dirigible Roma, issued to

day at the temporary morgue, was as follows:

DEAD.

Maj. John G. Thornell, married, Sidney, Iowa.

Maj. Walter W. Vantsmeier, married, Freeport, 111.

Capt. Dale Mabry, single, Tampa, Fla.

Capt. Frederick J. Durrschmidt, single, Derby, Conn.

Capt. Oeorge B. Watts, In di an ola, Miss..

Capt. Allen T. McFarland, single, Indianapolis, Ind.

First Lieut. John R. Hall, married, King-ville, Mo.

First Lieut. Wallace C. Burns, married, Brandon,

Miss.

First Lieut. Wallace C. Cu minings, married, Spring

field, Tenn.

First Lieut. William E. Riley, married, New York.

First Lieut. Clifford E. Smythe, married, Chicago.

First Lieut. Ambrose V. Clinton, married, Savannah,

6a.

First Lieut. Harold ?. H ine, single, Bridgeport,

Conn.

Civilian Walter W. Stryker, Dayton, Ohio.

Civilian Robert J. Hanson, Dayton, Ohio.

Civilian William O'Loughlin, Dayton, Ohio.

Civilian-Hartigan, Dayton, Ohio, or Cressie R.

Merriman, Mitchell Field, N. Y.

Civilian Charles M. Schulenburg, Dayton, Ohio.

Master Sergt. Roger C. McNally, Philadelphia.

Master Sergt. James Murray, New York.

Master Sergt. Homer Gorby, Raymond City, W. Va.

Technical Sergt. Lee M. Harris, Langley Field, Va.

Staff Sergt. Louis Hillard, Cold Water, Kan.

Staff Sergt. Marion J. Beali, La Plata, Mo.

Sergt Thomas A. Yarborough, Selma, Ala,

.-.._, - (Continue^ on Page 2, Celoma 3.)

By International News Servie?.

NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 22.?Maj. Gen. Mason M. Pat

rick, chief of the army air service, today informed the

International News Service that his preliminary investi

gation had shown that the crash of the Roma was due

to faulty elevating control. He termed the disaster a

"great blow to the air service."

"I bave directed a very thorough investigation to de

termine, if possible, the cause of the terrible disaster,

said General Patrick. "The information at hand indi

cates that some accident occurred to the control which

regulated the ?altitude of the Roma ?and that she came

down striking high tension electric wires, which caused

the fire. There was no explosion and no fire when the

ship was in the air.

y??. Board Taking Testimony.

- "The board of officers is now taking testimony and

will report to me as soon as possible their conclusions.

Everything possible is being done for the families of the

men who lost their lives and for the comfort of tbe

men who were saved."

Lieut. Col. Arthur G. Fisher, acting commander of

the army air base at Lang-ley Field, made the following

announcement:

"The cause of the crash of the Roma was due to fail

ure of the controls to function. The trouble developed

at an altitude of 600 feet and pilots of the ship were

unable to prevent its descent.. The bag caught fire fol

lowing an explosion caused by contact with a 2,500-volt

transit line.. The large number of casualties was due to

the explosion and resultant fire.. Otherwise, a much

larger number would have escaped serious injury."

By WILLIAMH?TCHINSON.

International News Service.

ARMY SUPPLY BASE, HAMPTON ROADS, Va.,

Feb. 22.?A charred skeleton of twisted metal, splashed

with bits of frayed cloth, today marked the spot where

thirty-four American army airmen died in the crash of

the semi-rigid Roma, yesterday afternoon.

While three concurrent investigations were being

rushed by army officials, fellow ?airmen honored their

dead as crusaders of the sky who were suddenly over

taken bv a fickle fate.

2 DISTRICT MEN

Major Reardon and Walter A.

McNair Only Washingtonians

on Fatal Flight.

Two member? of the ill-fated air

?hip Roma were Washlngtonian?

Neither wa? killed, although both

were seriously lnjurwl. They are:

Major John D. Reardon and Walter

A. McNair. of the Bureau of Stand

ard?.

Reports from Norfclk this morning

stated that, although each of them

had b?*en Injured, that they would

both recover.

Major Reardon. according to th?

meager reports thHt reached Wash

ington today, suffered sever? shock '

and a fractured leg. The extent of

McNalr's Injurie? were not stated In

the early dispatches.

McNair was aboard the ship to

make test? on an airspeed indicator.

He Is assistant physicist at the Bu

reau of Standards, and Is, together

with several of his bureau sssoclate?.

Interested In the development of the

Indicator.

He la the son of F. W. McNair.

preaident of the Michigan College of

Mine?, and had been employed nt th?

Bureau of Standard? for about on*

year. He Uvea at 3?0S Newark atreet.

There are eleven survivors

of the crash and the terrific

fire that made a funeral

pyre of the trapped airmen.

Those of the survivors able

to talk today blamed the

catastrophe on broken sta

bilization controls and a

Liberty motor that "went

dead." The Roma was

making its first test flight

after Liberty motors had re

placed the original Italian

engines.

Out of the maze of count

er stories, it was apparent

today that the crew and pas

sengers of the Roma for the

most part "never had a

chance to escape." Trapped

beneath the falling envelope

of the bag, they were blast

ed into blackened, shriveled

corpses in the first great

explosion that followed the

crash.

Dived From Cabins.

The handful who escaped

either dived from the cabins

just before the crash or else

landed in deep gulleys that

criss-crossed the field on