The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1936, Page 7

De CASS‘I‘?: 80 HE'LL BE IN MY HAM BEFORE HIS TRUN! WILEY ty Bll.LY PARKER (Copyright, 1936, by The Associated Press) . g After his second world flight Wiley Post turned to stratosphere work seriously and began to as- semble equipment. He used the Winnie Mae simply » because she was the only airplane he possessed, and although not ad- mirably fitted for such specialized duties, she still was in good condi- tion. He felt if he could demon- strate the possibilifies of this type of flying with the relatively an- cient winnie Mae, it would be a fitting crowning achievement for the ship which had served him so taithfuly cn two ‘round-the-world flights. Equipping the ship for hi h alti- tude flying, however. was not simply a matter of goirg out and buying ; necessary accessories. He found that engineers had advanced a lot of theories but actually produced nothing practical. Before Post was ready for his first test flight more than a year had elapsed, and he had used most of the money he obtained from various sources as result of his last world trip. Constructed Suit Wiley realized that while army and navy pilots had made flights to considerable altitudes with only a small bottle of oxygen and an oxygen mask, such flights would never be practicable over long dis- tances due to extreme differences in pressure encountered. The best solution, he knew, would be to seal the entire cabin of the ship and maintain a pressure near- ly that of sea level. This was not practical at the moment due to the » time and expense involved. He approached the problem from the standpoint of a suit into which oxygen could be pumped and which not only would give the pilot suffi- cient oxygen for normal breathing, but also would maintain a body pressure comparable to that near sea level. In designing this suit, Wiley gave to aviation one of the finest con- tributions it has received in many % years. Even though the sealed cabin will make its appearance soon in trans- port planes, such an arrangement would be impracticable for military work, especially in one or: two- seater pursuit planes. With the Post suit, it will be possible for a mili- tary pilot to fly just as high as his ship will take him, at no per- sonal discomfort. The Supercharger If the suit should be punctured during aerial combat, and the pilot is not seriously injured, he either can ‘fly to lower levels or use a parachute without experiencing iil effects, thanks to an arrangement worked out by Post. ‘While Wiley was designing and buflding the suit he also was hav-| ing many other pieces “of @qulp ment constructed to enable the ’ . L i% winnie Mae to reach stratosphere ° heights. Most important of these was a supercharger for the engine which would enable it to develop its sea level horsepower at greater eleva- tions. The supercharger ‘when fin-| ¢ jished was indeed a marvel, for it| enabled the motor (Wasp) of the | ship to develop 450 horsepower at| 50,000 feet. Without it the motor| ¢+ would not have delivered enough power to maintain flight, even at much lower levels. i The controllable pitch propeller, ¢ without which stratosphere flying would have been impossible, already | had been developed. The old fixed pitch propeller would merely slip and spin in the lighter air of the stratosphere. However, new problems crept in as Wiley started his test flights. * He found that, due to reduced pres- sure, the ignition system of the engine would not function at higher levels because the electricity in the ignition cables failed to stay within the insulation of the wires. Dropped Landing Gear With his resourcesfulness, Wiley cooperated in designing an igni- tion system consisting of airtight poxes around the magnetos and y: corresponding flexible tubing the full length of the ignition wires, 4 into which system a mixture of ! oxygen and thin stratospherc air + was pumped so the entire unitjof functioned under . sea. level enrzdl tions. After Wiley had made several B Bv BILLIE DE BECK VE BETTER GO RIGHT UP-STEERS TER BEO, GOOGLE -- YORE EYES AR BUGGIN' OLUT LUKE A TROMPED-ON “TOAD-FROG--- DOCKS TOMORROW \S UNPACKED ! 1 WOULD HAFTA PICK AT by R K POST The public, perhaps, will remember Wiley Post as the man who followed his globe-circling exploits with four futile attempts to span the nation in the substratosphere. him longer for scientific pioneering in this field and the daring flights which provided man with much of In the picture, the undercarria is being dropped at the take-off of one of those daring flights. high flying. promising test flights, Frank Phil- lips of Bartlesville, Okla., who had a group of research engineers per- fecting a fuel for stratosphere use, noted what Post was trying to ac- complish and took him under his wing, from then on financing the project. Wiley originally had planned to try for a new world altitude record for airplanes, and pc:sibly accom- | piished this, aithough it never was | proved. But he realized the limitations of | A TAGELLAV === LIBRARY OWNS OF THE STRATOSPHERE | ANGELL’S Bflm( His Preparatwns Were An Obst(u le-Raco Aviation, however, will remember | is early kmowledge of ge of the Winnie Mae DRUNK CHARGE LEADS TO PEN TER QUIET HIS | Plain MM\ in the Juneau Public Library whici readers wiil find highly an understanding national problems. as a fact rather tion of a high | preserve |n kind of !must be burie LOWIZY ¥ FOTCH TH' VARMINT CUP ‘N' SASSER O YERB TEA NARVES--~ ON SANCTIONS Is Book Pertinent to Present Situation “Feace and the ne of the many books pertinent to of present inter- Writ re aceepling ten by & Briton, tnd 2 the Le tr bility, the book &y em of internati tandpoint of the in m d the ibling G rice do we ¥ v, without k Angell thinks i t we do. He reme r “to mal be possible s the World world s if e not an afe rather t That i £ £ enter the greatest war of history, the uitimate hich, from national defense, we ¢ be to vindicate the prin iple of de- mocracy, to save der 9 the ruthlessness of great m states; to end the Pru rpose are to B ted and regimented socie individual freedom ticularly as expressed in y |tary government. A mi \o.lth gave ~their lives - for lends. We win the war. And then we find that after all dem acy Is mistake; that autocracy is the right government; that liberiy is an illusion, liberalism an out-moded creed; that Preedom, in Mussolini’s phrase, is a ‘stinking corpse that ’; that autocracy. far from being a thing to fight, is a thing to imitate. The thing on behalf of which a million of our youths are the |»hin we now declare to be some- Kadashan May et Three| Years on His 11th Conviction A possible three years in prison the Winnie Mae and felt if he! faces David Kadashan, Hoonah In- ! could arrange to drop the landing Gian, as a result of his arrest by city |pefore the war we now admire.” gear the increased speed from less-, ened weight and air would result in ‘performance suf-| ficient to hang up a record for/ America that would hold for some time. With that idea in mind, Phxlhps‘ sent Wiley and a crew of mechan- ics and engineers to the plant where the ship was manufactured,| and an arrangement was worked | out whereby with the movement| |exander pointed to Kadashan's rec- | of a lever in the cockpit the land- .4 of ten consecutive conyictions ing gear would drop away. . This, of course, made a "belly‘md warned him that the eleventlt | {1anding” necessary, but the dangerywould mean prison. “mvolved did not disturb Wiley since” he knew he could obtain I added performance. Tomerrow—Fiights that “Failed.” GRIDLEY BACK FROM TRIP TO WRANGELL| Ross A. Gridley, State Engineer | Inspector for the PWA, |last night from Wrangell aboard | the Northwestern. five days in Wrangell on pubhc works business. | He reports applieations for street and sewer | !improvemen!,s there have been: com-’ bised into one. in order to expedite| FREEBURN COMPANY | Federal approval. The city sought $6,000 for sewer work and $13,000) lor streets in addition to a WOOOE Th£s has now been put under one docket number as a part of a| 'pmposed $45,000 program. The ap- plication is expected to be filed within two weeks. Mr. Gridley plans to sail on t.he‘ tion as $49,000, and listed its prop- enroute to Washington, ,erties as five claims at Maiden for an indefinite stay on|Bay. near Ketchikan. Victoria, D. C, official business, | el SCHOETTLER TO HAINES 1 A. E. Schoettler, Supemwisor of Vo- cational Education for Alaska, sailed |and James L. PFreeburn. ! on the Northwestern for Haines last | night. He was requested by residents | that section to organize a voca- 1 class there e, — SHOP IN JUNEAU, FIRST! |with being drunk and throwing a | ed to report to the deputy marshal at | ;| Hoonah each month. | mission, returned from Wrangell \Mr Terhune made a brief trip to | Wrangell arrived | sion, Gridley Spent. | Otter, that two separate missioner Earl N. Ohmer while thé !E B. Stanley, President; August | thur Rust. police last night on a charge of being | resistance | drunk and disorderly. i Kadashan was recently charged | bottle at a Hoonah man, and was | convicted here of assault with a dan- ) gerous weapon. He was given a three | year suspended sentence by Judgs George F. Alexander, and was order- In suspending the term, Judge Al- | ‘ on drunk and disorderly eharges, | TERHUNE COMPLETES TRIP ON BUSINESS| Hugh W. Terhune, executive of- ficer of the Alaska Game Com- last night on the Northwestern, in connection with the inventory of the commis- and inspected the two game | the Brown Bear and Sea which are. tied up for the; winter - there. He conferred with Game Co annual | boats, velsel was in Betersburg. INCORPORATES HERE The Freeburn Development Com- pany, a Washington -corporation, has filed articles of incorporation |with the Territorial Auditor’s of- fice. The company named capitaliza+ Directors of the company are | Buschmann, Secretary, and H. Ar- Incorporators in Wash-+ ington included Rust, E. B. Hanley B LEAVES HOSPITAL Arthur Riendeay, who has been confined in St. Ann's for. several weeks, was discharged today and |returned to his home. ~ lan | process, thing we don't want at all. Our |deepest values and ideals have by unnoticed, almost unconscious gradually been abandoned and turned upside down; what be- fore the war we thought good, has become evil; what we then thought (evil has become good: what we hated To which, without pretending to solve the international question, An- gell offers the following individual solution as the only practical one. “In practieal politics it resolves itself into the question of what we are prepared to pay for peace; of beirg able to choose knowingly be- | tween w fof certain t we swrrender in the wav emotional <Ali'~'mcllnns nnd what we get: ous of our purpose and of the pur Poseof organized sociely. swritten mrul\ mpndvrl to everyone present Mediterranean situation. od conclude (hru of being dons The chapter on Le when. that procedure theoretical one and cdome into action, is com- following the hac ————ee - Pcace and the Plain Man’ ,PARTIES PUNDER PREDICTION FO SIX-TICKET RAGE anmmm:\‘ wom page One) at many and varied experiences watching the fall of the card. the break of the play. His tions sometimes e tinged with that exotic originality which is much a part of his individua they never fail to be interest- ing. The Senator be says would not surprised if there were twe ocratic tickets and two Repub- tickets in the field; and he siderable prominence to the Sccialist and tickets. situation might app: lance the dream of sorr had e 1 too candy. Yet, by one meth- it possible 1t if anything, tor of res is Lewis may have unders! the oase IRRE TLABLE ELEMENTS Iin ne ent cam; so many di aign nave and here seen * a place in the realized its aspira ablishing itself as a na- party, there would be more labels in America than in or France tional At least seven of these groups are reputed by their leaders, and by some others, to number their ad- herents in millions: The Democrats who are -gontent to follow Mr. Roosevelt. The Northern Democrats under the current leadership Alfred E. Smith, with Mr. Roosevelt The Southern Democrats who are in revolt against Mr. Roosevelt, and many of whom refused in 1928 to support Mr. Smith, now in process of organization under the lead of Governor Talmadge of Georgia. The Republicans who favor a di- rect, right wing opposition to Mr. | Roesevelt, as represented by the prothatlons of Herbert Hoover. The Republicans who repudiate both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hoov- er, and are gathering together to support Senator Borah. The Democrats and Rvnublxcnn who, of These Fasc1st Leaders May Be Future cht While Mussolini of Italy, Stalin of Russia, and Hit- ler of Germany hold first rank among_ the dictators of the world, five others who are frequently in the headlines, recently characterized by Hitler as “ob- figure as powers in.their respee- tive countries. This group of secondary Fascist Seedave - inaludaa - the fiarv-Col. - Casimir.-de-La . scure Caesars”, Mosley, leader I to| much | + committed, are dissatisfied Rocque, head of France’s Cross of Fire; Sir Oswald tonio Primo de Rivera, son of Spain’s dictator and head of the Swnhh Fascist movement; Gen. Eoin 0'Duffy, organizer of Ireland’s Blue Shirts, and Plinio Salgado, who directs the destinies of the _.Green Shirts in Brazil, ‘ who believe that the tion of the country is the old-age Townsend. The Dem who can see the political Cmmhim The seven g ‘u‘d do not ir \who polled ne: 1932; the only adopt pension plin Prohibitionists, reorganizing with a new zeal for the repeal of repeal; the Farmer- | Labor Party which controls Minne sota; the Pr ve Party which ‘controls Wisconsin; nor the Com- munist, Social-Labor, Liberty, and National parties, all of which en- r2sidential secretary, and he photographers in Press Photo) before the (Acsociated Washingion marriag tered tickets in the election of g 032, ) Altogether, here are 15 groups— r,-.TORY‘ to attract some , most of t up com- 2tions ife il strong en: MAIN CONGRATULATED ON V n strong enough to ve national or: se. R DIVIUIONS hich diy her. Can R n 1936 batwee ny amicable wo Hi Bor the Re ), now that both ders have come out open with their opposing about party reorganization? Will Dr. Townsend or Father Coughlin find it pc ble, in con- sistent development of the princi ples to which each is so strongly to support any Demo- cratic, Republican, Socialist or | other candidate who does not agree iwith them? th views into I PP , P o e bilrircpdn e it vk . L THE HOTFLS . S o0 Ve e~ e Gastineau , Tacoma; S. W. Col- >, Colo.; Ken Edwards, Robert C. Wakelin; Verner W. Main (right), Republican representative-elect from the third Michigan district as the result of a special election, congratu~ lated by Floyd R. Moody (left), third district leader of the Townsend ins, Pa 57" Heinz; M. W. Odom, Juneau; Mrs. C. J. plan, which Main advocated. (Associated Press Photo) tle; C. F. Hoff, Den- & ss and wife, Peters- — o oouieq chair of St. Peter| Chagos, en archepelag in the In- burg; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Smith; ., o poiers at Rome is said to be | dian ocean belonging to Great Brit- Harry G. McCain, Ketchikan; Win-| oo nin. work of the sixth century | »in, exports coconut oi, coconuts, ton J. Jones, Tacoma. v fish. opra, guand and salted by scme experts. | Alaskan — o Petticrew, Wrangell; Charles Waul, Seattle. Zynda 66 Y 9 lt Frank Widigar, Seattle; A. Nor- The Ve bert, Fairbanks. B : | SNECHE SRt Most of us are born with good eyes, X-Ray chiropractic adjustments just as good as our lungs, heart or will remove the cause of your head- 3 ache, asthma, high blood pressure, hmb" Ac, ,Chlldren Grow. cmd lectve rheumatism, etc. Phone 451, 206 college 40% have defective vision. By the time they are 60 years of age 95% Main St. —adv. NTERS 1 ; have defective vision. WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT? ENTERS HOSPITAL Robert DeWitt, A. J. employee, See an Eye Specialist—Improve Lighting entered St. Ann's Hospn.al BETTER LIGHT—BETTER SIGHT $3.75 Table Lamps $3.75 ators [ ] [ ] Alaska Electric Light & Power Go, JUNEAU 6 DOUGLAS 18 CAPITOL CAFE AND BALL ROOM Private Booths Lunches Dancing Every Night THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Qur Services to You Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat ALASKA MEAT CO. FEATURING CARSTEN'S BABY REEF—DIAMOND TC HAMS AND BACON—U. S. Government Inspected of Britain’s Black Shirts; Jose An-