Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1924, Page 41

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SCOUTS DEATHRAY'S |NIGHT AND DAY AIR MAIL SERVICE ACROSS CONTINENT STARTS JUNE 1, ON 32 AND 34 HOUR SCHEDULE POWER T0 END WAR Berlin Savant Doubts Boast That Mathews' Product Can Stop Electric Magneto. CITES GERMANY'S SUCCESSES Awaits Receipt of U. §. Helium. To Continue Experiments. BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. Star and the Chicago Daily News. Coprright. 1924 BERLIN, June 14 ‘1 don’t in these rays in the present tion of thing: Such is the opinion of Prof. Walter Nernst, head of the physical chemical institute of Berlin University and Nobe! prize winner in chemistry:in 1920, in regard to the “death ray.” Questioned today by a former pupil, Nernst expressed his skepticism over the supposed claim of Grindell Mathews that his ray could paralyze the functioning of an electric mag- neto and thus prevent flying. Prof. Nernst believes that such waves could only be applied as a result of long development in physies which today is non-existent Hence he re- Fards as incredible that the Mathews ray can today influence in any way the prevention or the car- rying out of wars Synthetic giycerin, taking nitro- Een from the air and artificial leath- er were ar Ereazest German contribution neo during war. By Radio ta The believe condi- Amerien discoveries have been lost in 18 such_a long war, said Prof. Nernst. “Without jts war development flving would not be nearly so far advanced. Gas war- fare marked a very important step, in that some wars, colonial, etc., have become imposs thereby “The eves of the world now are directed on the Zeppelin which short- ly will undertake an ocean flight from Friedrichshafen. Let us hope that all goes well. but, in my opinion, the future of flying depends, not on lighter-than-air ships, but upon air- planes.” Asked about irships, Prof This is an entirely Americans have promised me a ample of helium. but it has not a ed 1 have already made peac with ica Americans treated me during the war me from scientific societies. thing to do since their icist, Millikin, was my gen and published his first book with me. But I pardoned Americans for the help they have siven German science and scientists.” GERMANY FINDS HIGH PRICES UNPROFITABLE Merchants Say Taxes Take Re- turns—Farmers Complain—Lux- ury Purchases Drop. By the Associated Presa. BREMEN., June 14.—"Who gets the money is the question the average German is asking in connection with the high prices now charged for all sorts of commodities. Food prices and the ocost of ordinary clothing range all the way from 2 to 200 per cent above pre-war figures. Still, the farmers contend they are unable to make eds meet because of the low prices paid for their products and the sharp competition they have from foreign foods. especially bread- stuffs. Merchants and middlemen in- st their taxes, interest and expenses are so high that they are merely making a living. Railway fares, theater and mbving picture admission pricea hotel rooms and meals in restaurants and cafes of all classes range from 25 to 100 per cent higher than in France. and are far above the Swiss, Austrian and Italian rates. But enough persons manage raise the money to keep business Zoing. lLuxury shops are pretty hard hit Fine gowns and hats are not hought in large numbers, and tailors who ask $75 for men's suits which oan be bought for $50 in London are not finding many buyers. (German business is clearly not on a healthy basis. Interest rates are so high and uncertain that manufactur- ers and merchants are unable to fig- nee c s definitely. In their efforts to pla; safe they have advanced prices to a point that checks normal buying. Expert metal workers, who are paid 25 cents an hour. cannot nunderstand why commodities have advanced out of all proportion to the increase in their wages. Clerks and government emploves are similarly puzzled, and without money to buy anything but absolute necessities. Forgives x. “Without th rmans wou r no onc saw helium-filied Ameri- Nernst said different mat- Am d to i MOROCCAN ROBIN HOOD, WORLD FAMED, RETIRES Raisuli, Kidnaper of Notables of Many Nations, Once International Issue, Leads Quiet Life. By the Associated Press. TANGTER, Morocco, June 14.—Raisuli the Robin Hood of Morocco, who «pired John Hi “Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead,” which provoked wild ap- plause in the Republican national con- vention at Chicago twenty years ago, has ceased to be a great intermational jscue. He has become almost a legend. Raisuli has quit kidnaping prom- inent Englishmen and Americans for ransom, and is living in retirement at Tazrut, in the heart of Morocco. sur- rounded by faithful followers whom he supports from the proceeds of his years of brigandage and the funds Germany supplied to him for the purpose of keeping the anti-French native tribes in a state of ferment during the great war. Tan Perdicaris. the wealthy American whom Raisuli kidnaped from his viila in Tangier and carried into the Atias Mountains, died in _the United States teveral vears ago. Sir Harrs Maclean, the English chief of the ‘sultan’s body- zuard, whom Raisuli kidnaped and held prisoner for seven months, has heen forzotten by newspaper readers. But Raisuli is such a picturesque figure that even in retirement he is not forgot- en There are frequent rumors that former bandit may be induced to enter the movies. Foreign women make pil- grimages to Tazrut in the hope of see- ing 3 sheik in real life. Political differences between Spain. France, England and Germany as to which should have the whip hand in directing Moroccan affairs played into Raisul’s hands. He was clever enough to capitalize the international rows, and because of his great influence with the mountain tribes has m: to es- acoe death, ROGERS OPTIMISTS’ HEAD New York Member Elected at In- ternational Body’s Session. MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 14.—Sher- man Rogers of New York City was elect- ed president of the International Opti- mists this afternoon. and Houston, Tex., was &elected for the 1925 convention, winning over Lexington, Kr. St. Louis was selected as next vear's headquarters for the Optimists' international. Other officers elected are: First vice president, Leo F. Nohl. Milwaukee : sec- ond vics Dresident Charles B Kern. T.a Fayette. Ind.; © ice president H. O. Henderson, Long_Beach, Calif.; fourth vice president, Roland A Mo Crady, Pittsburgh. Pa- in- the | They | the | | | Tests Prove Innovation in Commercial Flying | ; Is Practical. | WIDE AREA SERVED ON 2,600-MILE ROUTE Rates to Range From 8 to 24 Cents Per Ounce, According to Zone. Tuesday morning, July 1, the United States government. through the Post Ofice Department, will take the big- gest stride forward in the history of cemmercial aviation in the world, At 10 o'clock, eastern time, an air- mail plane will rise from Hazelaurst Field, Long Island, and fly west. At 6 o'clock, Pacific time, another plane |of the service will jeave *he Presidio, | California, with its nose pointed east, |inaugurating the permancai trans-| | continental air-mail route, which in-i | volves continuous day and night fiy- | ing. and will insure delivery of mail | at either New York or San Francisco in from thirty-two thirty-four | |hours after it has been dispatched at each end of the contineat. Tests Proved Feasibility. vear ago the air-mail division i continental A conducted a series of trar day and night flights determine the feasibility of such a parmanent operation. The results were excellent, and the reward is permission to add this latest discovery of exped:ting mail to the program of the depar: ment. ) = Residents and firms of New York and San Francisco and of points along this 2,680-mile delivery route will re- ceive the maximum results of the new service, but cities and towns within a wide radius of these principal sta- tions will share in the many henefi's to be derived from the airpiane’s lat- est_contribution to commoree For example, should a Washing- tonian desire to send a letter to San Prancisco that letter wiil be elig.ble for transportation via airplane, and ir it is in the post office 10t later than |11:30 p.m. it will be on its way west [in the air shortly after 10 o'clock the next day. The letter will be sent to New York on a mail train that night and taken to the field the following morning. Twenty-four Cents an Ounce. Because it is going to San Fran- cisco, it will have to bear 24 cents in postage for each ounce or fraction thereof, as California is in the th.rd zone, as determined from Washington. The second zone lies between Chjicago and Cheyenne, and the postage rate is 16 cents from either the east or west coast, while the first zone s bounded by New York and Chicago, and the charge is § cents. 1f a Wash. ingtonian has a letter r some point in Missouri, it will be carried by a mail either from New York or Cleve- land (reaching both places hy train) to Chicago, where it again will be put on the ground for railroad transpor- tation to its dz>ination Officials of the Post Office Depart- ment emphaSize that there is no need in sending a letter from Washngton to a_nearby place in the east, such as Harrisburg, Pa., because a train could carry it to that place before the letter could reach the plane. Train Routing Planned. A plan for routing the airplane mail by train after it is taken from the airplane is now being worked out. No additional chargs will be made, the zone rate carrving it to the addressee. The sections of the country to be served by this airway across the cortinent, as determined to date, and the air-mail route cities to which mail will be dispatched for further transportation by rail follow: Westbound—TIllinois, iowa (except lowa City), Kansas, Minnesota, Mis. souri, Wisconsin, from Chicago; Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Montana, Nevada (ex- cept Elks.. from Salt Lake City; Cali- fornia and transpacific. foreign. from San Fransisco; Colorado and Wyoming U. S. SURVEY EXPLORING UNCHARTED ARCTIC AREA Party of Geologists to Inspect an Unknown Territory Embracing 35,000 Square Miles. NENANA, Alaska, June 14.—The unknown Arctic region between the Colville and Porcupine rivers, where Dr. Philip §. Smith has led a party of the United States geological survey on a perilous mission in exploration, is the locale of strange tales, spread among fur traders and gold hunters by the native Eskimos and Indians. The territory which the Smith party has gone to investigate and chart appears on the maps largely as a blank space. Certain rivers, like the Colville, never have been traced to their headwaters, and what in the way of topography and resources lies within an area of 35,000 square miles has been a matter of conjecture. Reports have trickled out of the polar basin that great lakes of oil were to be found in this wilderness. But the Eskimos and Indians teil stranger stories. They say the land is haunted by welrd beasts, some of such immense stature that they leave tracks as large as dinner platas. It is said that no Indian can be per- suaded to penetrate the region, even though tempted by the promise of abundant fur. The lore has it that there are great areas of hot springs, where the snow never falls and the treams never freeze. Some of the more credulous of the Center—Transcontinental plane taking off. Upper left—Air mail box. Upper right— . Egge. tendent of alr mail service. Lower left—Second Assistant Post- master General Paul Hendersom, In charge of air mail. Lewer right—Type of beacon sta- tioned at every three miles for might fiying. air mail | perin- (except Rawlins), Rock Springs, from Cheyenpe; Indiana, Michigan (except Bryan) from Cleveland: N (except 0), Carson City. Tonopah, Goldfield and Virginia City, from Reno: South Dakota, m Omaha. ‘Eastbound—tConnecticut, Delaware Maine, Maryland. Massachus>tts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, North Caro- lina. Rhode Island. South Carolina, Virginia. Vermont and _transatian- | tic, foreign. from New York: Indiana. Tennessee. Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky Wisconsin and outhern not mentioned herewith from Chicago; Colo- rado and Wyoming (except Rock Springs). from Cheyenne : Idaho, Mon- tana. Utah, from Salt Lake Cits; lowa (except lowa City Kans: Minnesota., Missouri, Nebrasl (except North Platte). South Dakota, from Omaha; New York (except New York City Brooklyn. Long Island and Staten Jand), Ohio . (except Bryan). « vania (except Bellefonte) and West Vir- ginia, from Cleveland ; Nevada (except Elko). from Reno. Night Fiying Is Featare. The air raail service has flown the continent for several vears with suc- cess, but it was realized tnat greater accomplishments could be mads by fiving at night. Therefore, the night fiving section of the present schedule and route is the outstandinz feature of the entire scheme of carrving i1 from ocean 10 Ocean ‘n . COMPAra. tively few hours A broad belt in the center United ates is the the route. but by a sp. lighting it will obviate any danger to pilot or plane in the event of & forced landing, it is oeiieved. Be- tween Cleveland and Rock Springs, Wyo.. a large number of acons have been established. Gong west, however, the pilot will en~ounted darkness between Chicago ard lowa City. and it_will not be dawn until he reaches Cheyenne. Tne situation is exactly reversed for the pilot fiving east. “Three classes of lights will guide the two who pass in the night. First, there are 500,000,000 candle- power beacon and flood lights. visible for 100 miles, at all regular landing fields and scheduled stops in thi area, which are Jowa City, Oma North Platte and Cheyennc: second, 000,000 candle-power revolving bea- con lights at every emergency field, numbering 54, and 5.000 candle power routing beacons flashing iights cvery three miles, totaling 273. The testa last year demonstrated that wouid be difficult for an experien pilot to fly off his course with the fore- going lighting system in ful. opera tion. The gap between nigat and day has been bridged Fourteen Planes Used. Fourteen ships and an equal num- ber of navigators will be used the first and all succeeding days in mak- ing the transcontinental journey, io lessen the wear and tear on the planes and lighten the work of the pilots. Flying from easi to west, the plane and pilot that leaves Long Island will end the first leg of the journey at Cleveland, whnere th: mail will be turned over to another plane and pilot. This ship will fly to Omaha, where a plane will be wait- ing to take the mail to Cheyenne An entirely new outfit will take off at Cheyenne with the orginal New York mail and that whizh has been added to it along the route and make the next lap to Rock Springs, Wyo. The fifth lap will be to Salt Lake City the sixth to Reno, Nev., and ihe last to San Francisco. This westbound fre of t PUPILS “RULE” IN PRAGUE Hold Session of Parliament Czech Chamber. PRAGUE, June 14.—While the dep- uties of the Prague Parliament re- cently were away on vacation, the school children of Czechoslovakia took possession of the chamber one afternoon and held a parliamentary session of their own. The school children throughout the republic, numbering about 250,000. had appointed one delegate irom each hundred schools to represent them at the session, which was held under the auspices of the govern- ment. In the presence of the presi- dent of the republic, Dr. Masarvk; Dr. Benes and all the other ministers, the children discussed questions of a moral or humanitarian order They also made an incursion into the do- main of current politics, for they appealed to their seniors present in the public galleries to do everything to_preserve peace. The general impression was that the success of the function and the excellence of the speeches made bore a happy testimony to the good work done by Mlle. Masaryk in the popular ‘e::c:uon campaign she has under- en. —_— white men, linking the tales with their scientific reading, contend that there still may lork in’ the far north in | min Eenuari | schedule has been arraaged to con- sume thirty-four hours and forty-five as follows: New York. 10 Bellefonte, 12:40 310 p. Bryan central time: Ch 6:30 0. Omaha, 12:20 a.m.: Nort mountain i Cheyenne 7:30: Rock Springs, Pacific R2no, am pm Oh castern Cleve- 4:15, time,; Trip in Thirty-two Hoors. | Planes leaving east will make the | total distance in more than two hours | less time—thirty_two hours and five | The schedule for the east- bound trip, which, like the west- bound. is only for the summer months, follows . “rancisco, 6 am., Pacific Elko, 11; a1t Laks mountain time: < : Chevenme, 7:15; 5. central time: lowa City, 5:10 Bryan, %:45; Cleveland p.m. castern time; Bellefonte ana arrive New York 3:05 p.m ern time. Pilots have been instructed to ob- serve schedule to the minute. If a good wind on the ship's tail carri it into a station ahead of time plane must sit on the ground until the minute designated for it to leave. Provision also has been made for an allowance of five hours on the sched- ule which could be credited to severe storms, fogs or motor troub The planes to be flown « route are remodeled De obtained from the Army. This type of plane is known as the “old reli- able” of the servic Originally -t was a two-seater and equipped for light bombing, photographic and r- connaissance work. Air mail °ngi- neers made about 200 improvements to suit _the ship for this specific ser: ice. Betteen the twelve-cylinder, 400-horse-power Liberty motor and the large gasoline tank is a sneciaily built compartment tor carrving sev- eral hundred pounds of mail. Behind the gasoline tank is the pilot's seat. Cratt Carry Lights. Large headlights are located on the wings (o enable the pilot to land in a dark field, and small wing and tail lights also are carried io prevent collisions at night. The planes have an average speed of from 110 te 120 miles an hour. Second Assistant Postmaster Gon- eral Paul Henderson is in direct charge of the air mail service. and has been an ardent aviation enthusi- ast ever since he took office. He is credited with the statement that he would part with $5.000 in order to make the first trip of the transcomti- nental mail route, but lack i accom- modations aboard will prevent this depletion of his bank account. He is anxiously watching the new plan and its reception by the public, It is impossible to forecast ihe reve. nue which may be derived from the service. and no sound estimate may be made as to the volume of mail which will be offered for transport, he declares, adding: “Only the experience of several months will give us the figures upon which to base a statemen‘ as to the probable income. With the service established, it is necessary that the public be ‘made aware of its reli- ability. its regularity and of its ad- vantages.” C. F. Egge is the genaral superin- tendent of the service, with head- quarters here. Platte 2:05 am.; _—_—nmnn U. S. SCHOOL IS NEUTRAL ZONE IN MEXICO REVOLT Institution in Mexico City Is Har- morious Meeting Ground for Members of Both Factions. MEXICO CITY, June 14—Through- out the greater part of the recent revolution, the American School in Mexico City was a real neutral zone, for scions of many of the opposing political figures attended classes there in complete harmony. Among them were sons of Presi- dent Obregon, Adolfo de la Huer the ' revolutionary leader: Alberts Pani, secretary of the treasary: Aaron Saenz, foreign minister; Gen. Francisco Serrano, secretary of war, and Dr. Jose Vasconcelos, mini: of ‘public instruction. e Why He Went Faster. From Judge. A Swede purchased an automobile and was seen driving down the street about sixty miles an hour.- A police- man yelled at him to stop, but in- stead of slowing up the Swede in- creased his speed. When the officer finally caught up with him he roared: “Why didn't you stop? Didn't you hear me holler back there?" remnants of the mastadon herds that have left their bones and ivory in almost _every stream bordering the lower Yukon River. Seemingly unconcerned,-the Swede replied: : “Oh, vas dat vou dat velled? I the new | Havilands | JUNE W. VIRGINIA MINE UNION DISTRICT PUT UNDER BAN Autonomy of No. 17 Suspended and Lewis Names Ohio Man to Assume Charge. By the Associated Press. J INDIANAPOLIS June 14.—The au- tonomy of district No. 17 of the Unite ul Mine Workers of America, whi 15, 1 924—PART 1. cludes practically all of West Virginia, was suspended by the international executive board of the union here to- day, and Perey Tetlow of Ohio was named head of the district by John L. Lewis, international president of the minera. Headquarters of Tetlow will be estab- lished in Charleston, W. Va., and he an- nounced that Van A. Bittner of Pitts- burgh, international _ representative would be placed in charge of the north ern part of the district, with headouar- ters at Fairmont. The order is <ffective June 16. That policies of the international 41 D. C. MEN COMMISSIONED:. Three more residents of have been commissioned b: Department in the Officers’ Corps of the Army. They are Ralph |B of 3929 Jenifer street, a first lleutenant in the Signal Corps; | Harry F. Davies, 1920 § street, as_h first leutenant ir the Medical Corpgy |and Darrell F. L. Kull of 2805 26th strect northeast, as a second lieutss- nt in the Signal have not been applied and enforced with sufficient vigor in district No. 17 is given as the reason for the suspension. It was also explained that all of the district and subdistrict officers of the union in West Virginia appeared before the executive board and filed a petition asking that the international union as- sume charge. 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