Admiral Fiske Dies In New York at 87; Was Noted Inventor

Retired Officer Predicted In 1926 War Would Break Out in 20 Years

By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 7 —Rear Ad-

miral Bradley Allen Fiske, 87, re-

tired naval officer whose heroism on

the seas was second only to his genius for inventing efficiency de- vices for the warships that sailed them, died last night.

Failing health had caused his con-

finement to his Waldorf-Astoria suite for two months, and for more

than a year he had been unable to leave the hotel. A daughter, Caro- line Harper Fiske, survives.

In the 42-year span of his naval career Admiral Fiske was a com-

bination sailor fighter inventor- strategist. No dreamy-eyed arm-

chair admiral, he foresaw, even be- fore the World War, the value of a

naval air force and fought tooth and nail for it.

It was for the Navy that he in- vented. among other things, the aerial torpedo, the radio-guided tor- pedo plane, the electrically turned battleship turret, an electric range- finder and an electric ammunition hoist.

Invented Telescope Sight. He also invented a naval telescope

night, which has been adopted bv all the navies in the world and which is credited with contributing greatly to the recent improvement In the accuracy of naval gunnery. The torpedo plane has been adopted by all the leading navies.

It was for the Navy, too, that he waged a bitter word-battle with

former Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels, who Bad frowned on his every effort to increase naval strength, over the admiral's conten-

tion in 1915 that the Navy had been reduced “to a wholly Ineffective state.”

Despite his feud with Secretary Daniels, Admiral Fiske. at the time of his retirement in 1916, was gen- erally considered one of the most brilliant officers the Navy ever

produced. A native of Lyons, N. Y.. Admiral

Fiske was graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1874. sec-

ond in' his class, and advanced through successive ranks to that of

rear admiral in 1911.

Cited for “Heroic Conduct.” As navigator of the Petrel in the

battle of Manila he was cited by Admiral Dewey for “heroic con- !

duct” when, using his newly-invented j stadimeter, a supplement to his

range-finder, he stood in an exposed position on the Petrel and calmly took the ranges of the Spanish ships.

At various times he commanded the Minneapolis, the Arkansas and the Tennessee; in 1912 he was in command of the 1st, 3d and 5th

Divisions of the Atlantic Fleet. From 1913 to 1915 he was in Wash- ington as aide for operations, a post corresponding to chief of staff in the

Army. Besides his active service as an

officer and his inventions, on which he obtained more than 60 patents. Admiral Fiske found time to write

many books about the Navy, always urging an adequate air arm.

Planes, he said as long as 10 years ago, would be invaluable in protect- ing the Philippines, whose vulnera-

bility he often had proclaimed. Admiral Fiske served on the San

Francisco during the demonstration in the Rio Janeiro harbor during the 1894 Brazilian insurrection and was active in the early months of

the Filipino campaign and in the bombardments of Paracaque and Malabon.

Predicted War. In 1925, in a letter to Secretary |

of the Navy Wilbur, he called at-

tention to the then-comparative strength of American and Japanese fleets for operation in Far East waters and said that the Japanese and Americans had “taken attitudes that are irreconcilable.''

The following year he told the

Politics Club at Columbia University there would be "increasing proba- bility of a foreign war” in the next 20 years and urged that the United States keep reasonably prepared.

In 1932 he declared that Japan could capture the Philippines be- cause of inadequate protection.

Admiral Fiske wrote several books, Including “The Navy as a Fighting Machine” and “The Art of Fighting.”

Friends said burial probably would be in Arlington Cemetery.

Civilian War Prisoners Exempt From Suits By the Associated Press.

BOISE, Idaho, April 7—Citing Civil War precedent, District Judge Charles F. Koelsch held yesterday a

civilian workman imprisoned by an

enemy in war time cannot be sued for foreclosure of a mortgage, col- lection of a promissory note or di- vorce.

Judge Koelsch’s ruling came in a divorce suit by Bernice Adella Lippy against William H. Lippy, civilian worker on Wake Island, when the Pacific war started. Judge Koelsch said the case must be sus-

pended “until such time as he is freed by his captors or until It is determined definitely that he is dead.”

ADMIRAL BRADLEY ALLEN FISKE.

—4- P. Photo.

Anderson Presses Fight On Union Fees (or Students By the Associated Press.

Representative Anderson, Repub- lican, of California made public yes- terday correspondence with Secre- tary of Labor Perkins, in which he reiterated a demand that school children helping in harvesting and

processing California’s crop not be required to join labor unions.

The Californian also made public a reply to his first demand that children not be required to join unions, in which Secretary Perkins said the A. F. L. had reduced the initiation fee to $2, which would include one month's dues. She added the dues were $1 a month and no worker would have to pay more than $3 for the season.

She inclosed a memorandum from one of the staff reviewing the situa- tion in which it was said Walter F. Dexter, California State super- intendent of schools, had denied he had made statements that the chil- dren would have to join unions be- fore working in processing plants.

Mr. Anderson made public a tele- gram in which the assertion that children would have to join the unions was contained.

Mr. Anderson told the Secretary he was not satisfied with her reply to his protest.

Foundation Selects '1942 American Mother7 By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. April 7 —The Golden Rule Foundation announced yester- day that Mrs. William N. Berry of

Greensboro. N. C.. had been selected as “the American mother of 1942."

Mrs. George Wr. Stark of Detroit was named “associate Amercian mother of 1942.”

Mrs. Berry, 52, has 13 children and is secretary and treasurer of her husband's coal company. One of her sons is in the Army and two in the Navy.

Mrs. Stark is a poet and lecturer and has three children.

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