Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1924, Page 3

GARAGES T0 SOLVE PARKING PROBLEM Snowden Ashford Discusses Avenue for Investment of Private Capital. To the Editor of The Star During the week the District au- thorities have had under considera- tion several proposals for relief of the auto parking in the business and congested sections of the city. The suggestions include the conversion of Franklin Square into a parking area; the widening of roadways on certain streets on the outskirts of the congested for center roadway parking; the moving-in of the curbs on business streets and the construc- tion of municipally owned garages. The proposed destruction of our parks and with prompt and vig orous denunciation as a cure more to dreaded than the disease. Such a plan would afford relief in any way commensurate with the sacrifice, the total area of the park men- tioned for the initial slaughter is but 208,800 square feet, which would accommodate about 990 cars, or less than on enth of the number now praked daily within three squares of the park. Condemns Center Roadway Plan. The center roadway parking only prolongs the agony of beating the other fellow to the open car space, and when realize that even with double rows of ca not more than 110 cars can be parked in the length of the average frontage of a square, it is not hard to sge that nearly all the streets surrounding the congested business district would be required to give any appreciable relief. The moving-in of the curbs on bus- iness streets is a_great benefit to moving vehicles and benefits the bus- iness houses fronting the street, but should not be considered as a parking expedient except for patrons enter- ing and leaving such stores, business places or banks. Feasible Solution Discussed. ‘The fourth suggestion for munici Ppally owned garages is the only one which offers a solutibn of the real and pres parked car off the street. to mind an_article published Baltimore News on June 9, 1924, wherein the writer, J. C. Distler, put the parking garage in the class with railroad terminals, docks and street car barns and other public utilities. There is not much Justification for the individual who parks or stores his private car on the public highway as there would be for the street car company to avoid the expense of a car barn and park its street cars on the road- unicipally owned ga- Tage or garages, for it will require several, raises the question of the Bovernment embarking in a lucrative business and reports from Detroit and St. Louis, where such garages have been constructed by private cap- ital, show that they pay better than office buildings and apartment houses of the same size and floor area. Seex Embarrassment as Result. If the city undertook to supply such accommodations it would r likely result in embarrassment all demands could not be met out enormous outlay and no ination could be is offered at the expense of the tax- payer, and the privilege probably would be abused as is now done in the all-day and all-night parking on the stree iring the past vear some of the artment stores in the Middle West ve erected garagi and they have been a great succe: Letters from the proprietors speak most enthusi- asticall of the satisfaction of the storekeepers and their patrons with these parking and shopping ga- rage moving from the conges section to a site area, trees met not in the as with- discrim- -d a mile uptown. This s a questionable expedient, for . if others follow it means the shifting of the shopping district, which will up- Set real estate values, and in the near future the parking problems “up- town” will be nearly as bad as in the shopping district from which they moved Bux Plan by Department Store. A department store in this city has| an tried the auto-hus experiment from_its of running store to a point nearer the residential district, where | vatrons may park their own cars for a time and “take the bus” to the store. This shows a desire to afford some accommodation for their patrons who cannot find parking space near the store, but this, too, is not a solution of the problem, buf only a palliative, and the entire expense comes out of the profit of the store Neither of these schemes affords re- lief to the public or help in getting the cars off the streets. Wherever You may park your car on the streets You probably will be in front of some establishment where you will inter- fere with its business and conven- ience, and vour car is rapidly depre- ciated by the effects of the weather, and it is subjected to theft and dam- age. The enterprising stores of the Mid- dle West and a Boston firm have the only solution. 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A St. Louis firm has written to me that its shopping garage has not only at- tracted patronage and afforded ac- commodation for its patrons, but that the fees for parking and looking after the cars of others than their custo- mers pay all expense of the service rendered to their store patrons, and in addition the night parking of busi- ness vehicles and theater patrons brings in a tidy income. Ildeal Parking Garage. The ideal parking garage is so ar- ranged that a steady stream of autos may entér and pass up inclined planes on ‘an easy rise of half a story at a time, and even to the roof. Certain precautions are taken to prevent col- lisions, and in ascending or descend- ing the driver can see the floor level | above and below him. On account of the uses of these buildings and the type of construction and finish, there is no other kind of building which will afford as much income and at the same time help so much to relieve the congestion in the downtown section of the city. The first department store or combination of stores and merchants to establish such garages in the shopping district Will receive the blessings of the pub- lic, the good wishes of the proprietors of ' theaters and smaller stores and the gratitude of the occupants of of- fice buildings in the neighborhood. SNOWDEN ASHFORD. | CANDIDATES’ TALKS TO PUSH. CAMPAIGN AHEAD THIS WEEK (Continued from First Page.) in West Virginia. | gage truck there, he expressed his about the election of Bryan or Wheeler to the presidency, some of the Republicans in the House would cast their votes for John W. Davis— Mounting a bag- | or that some of the Democrats might be willing to vote for Coolidge rather than face the possibility of the election | of Wheeler. The Progressives point out that 12 years ago the Bull Moose Party was | Second in the number of electoral votes cast and the Republicans were third. Deadlock Held Certain. It must be remembered that it the present Congress which will vote on the three highest candidates for the presidency if the election is thrown into the House—not the Con- gress which will be elected in No- vember. For that reason it is eas to figure just where the delegal States would stand on the mat- |t Sach State would have but a ngle vote, no matter how many | Representatives it had in the House. |In the Senate the vote would be by individual Senators and not by States. In the present House 23 States have |a majority of ~Republicans in _their delogations and 20 have a majority of Democrats, while in five of the States the delegations are equally di- vided between Republicans and Democrats. Two, or perhaps more, 1‘4\{ the States which have ostensibly ! Republican majorities in the House, are supporters of the La Follette: Wheeler ticket. though they are called | Republicans, and they might well throw their vote to La Follette and | Wheeler. But the deadlock is cer- | tain in the House, it is figured. ‘Warning To Be Given, Many Republican speakers, in addi tion to Senator Lodge, will stress the need of keeping the election out of the House, and that Coolidge should be given a majority of the electoral | votes. Many of the Democrats also | are opposed to having the election into the House—though un- der the Lodge hypothesis, they would | have a better chance of having a Democrat in the White House the | next four vears than would the Re- | publicans should the election go to Congress. Chairman suggestion that a Co non-partisan organization formed, said last night: “While_in New York at our headquarters, my attention was called to the very considerable | number of men and women afliliated | with opposing parties who were sym- | pathetic with President Coolidge, who _expressed an intention of voting for him in November. Personally, I had also received and am receiving letters and messages of a similar aracter. “New York headquarters advised | me_that they hear that in New York | and New Jersey the movement is par- ticularly large, not only in the cities | down State, but up State as well. 1n | Chicago and in centers in Illinois and Indiana the movement was also called to my attention. is pthrown discussing his| Coolidge-Dawes would be Butler, and Chicazo Dissatisfaction Is Reported. “They say that the men and wom- en who are leaving their party fold to support our presidential ticket say they are taking this step because of their appreciation of the sincerity and honesty of the Coolidge adminis- tration. Some of them have also ad- mitted a slight dissatisfaction with their own party leadership. “In certain cases they have an- nounced their intention of also vot- ing for certain local Republican can- didates, but this is not genoral. 1In the great majority of their communi- cations they refer only to their tentions as regard the prisidential ticket. “The curtailment of Government ex- penses, the solid support being given to the forwarding of the Dawes plan for Europe are among the many rea- sons cited for this determination. Underneath all, however, is thz con- | fidence in the President and his judg- ment, the same feeling which zave to him a nation-wide sweep in the Re- publican primary. There have been a few letters in which the men have set forth that considering what has been accomplished in the adjustment of our own conditions under the Re- publican administration, they have the belief this is not the tims to change horses in midstream. “The conduct of this movement and its scope will, of course, be deter- mined by the men and women in_all parts of the country who have origi- nated the idea.” . VIRGINIA LAWYER HELD UNDER NARCOTICS LAW John L. Jeffries of Culpeper Gives Bond and Is Taken to Sani- tarium in Staunton. John L. Jeffries, atéorney-at-law of Culpeper, Va., and member of a well known Virginia family, was ar- raigned before United States. Com- missioner J. Bosley Phillips at Alex- andria yesterday on charges of vio- lation of the Harrison anti-narcotic act. J. W. MacDonald, federal narcotic agent, who was the arresting officer. said that Jeffries had confessed to entering a drug store in Charlottes- ville twice and stealing narcotics and to entering another drug store in Alexandria and also taking narcoties. Jeffries turned over to Ageént Mac- Donald approximately $100 worth of morphine. Jeffries wase released on $1,000 bond to appear at the September term of the circuit court. Col. MeChesnew Jeffries, brother of the prisoner, fur- nished the bond, and it was learned that immediately after te arrraign- ment Jeffries was taken to a sani- tarium at Staunton, Va., for treatment. . R W. B. Wilson to Speak. William B. Wilson, former Secre- tary of Labor, will be the principal speaker before the National Demo- cratic Club in the Shoreham Hotel Tuesday evening. - The only formalities required to secure a divorce in Japan consist of the man and wife informing the mag- istrate that such & step is contem- plated. PROGRESS OF WORLD FLIGHT DEPENDS ON ICE IN ARCTIC | Aviators May Be Forced to Fly From Iceland to Southern Greenland Without Refueling, Due to Blocked Harbor. BY LIEUT. R. J. BROWN, JR. Chairman, World-Flight Committee. When the world flyers had reached Scapa Flow, they again found them- selves surrounded by conditions which reminded them of their ex- periences in passing up the Alaskan coast from Seattle before the cross- ing of the Pacific. For two days heavy blankets of fog obscured the ocean, and it was impossible for them to make the rapid flight to Iceland that they had anticipated. On Saturday, August 2, all of the ships guarding the path which would be taken by the world fiyers from Kirkwall to Iceland reported excel- lent flying conditions, and Lieut Smith and his comrades made ready for the 550-mile dash across the stormy North Atlantic. Lieuts. Wade and Nelson had no difficulty in ge! tng off the water, but Lieut. Smith, on account of his heavily loaded ship, did have some trouble, though he succeeded after several frials in get- ting into the air. The three airplancs had traveled scarcely more than miles before they ran into h 3 banks of fog which had rolled in from the sea, making it impossible for them to see each other. Lieuts, Smith and Wade, thinking this con- dition a general one, turned their ships about and headed back to their base on Scapa Flow; Lieut. Nelson, in the absence of a signal from Smith, continued through the fog, relying upon his compass, hoping that he would soon fly out of it, which for- tunately he was able to do, the con- dition, as it chanced, being only local and lasting 20 minufes. After he had succeeded in clearing the fog he looked around for his companions. thinking they had either preceded him or were following him, so he con- tinued his course to Iceland. Mennage Krom Ship. While half way between the Ork- neys and the Faroes, Nelson picked up the destrover Billingsley, and by this time, much concerned about Wade and Smith, he decided to con- firm his conviction that they had re- turned to Scapa Flow. He according- 1y dropped a message on_the deck of the Billingsley, asking her to blow her whistle if the other ships had not passed. On receiving one blast from the whistle of the destroyer, Nelson continued on his way to Iceland, where he landed after about seven and one-half hours in the air. It is particularly significant that Nelson, a Scandinavian-American, should bring to this land of the Vikings their first visitation of aircraft, While Nelson waited in the little harbor of Hornafiord Wade and Smith, discons®late over their failure to fly’ to Iceland, prepared to make the jump the next day. Wade Forced Down. On Saturday, August 3, the Chicago and the Boston took off for Iceland When about 130 miles north of Kirk- wall Lieut. Wade was forced to land, due to a broken oil pump, After he had landed Lieut. Smith, the flight commander, circled over him in an endeavor to find out what the trouble was, and after a series of signals learned from Wade that his motor permanently disabled and that without help it would be impossible for him to proceed. Smith started in the direction of Thorshavn, in the Faroe Islands, where he intended to land and prevail upon vessels in that harbor to go to the assistance of Wade, and further, to communicate the news of Wade's plight to the ves- els of the United States Navy which were patrolling these waters. Before arriving at Thorshavn, however, he sighted the Billingsley, and after communicating to her Wade's exact NAVY PATROL TO STAY WITH WORLD FLYERS (Continued from First Pag at its moorings teeth of a gale, Boilers were fired, awaiting the signal to put to sea if dragging an- chors threatened to smash the ships on nearby rocks. Searchlights played through the rain on the rock head- lands, while anxious officers peered from the bridge to note the slightest change in the position of the anchor cables. The Lawrence finally was forced to proceed farther out to sea after riding out most of the storm. last night in the The approach of the fiyers is the | one exciting topic of bored ward- rooms and crew m es, and the feel. ing of confidence in the success of the flight goes up and down with the barometer. Lieut. A. H. Thiessen, Army weather expert, is sending daily re- ports to the cruiser Milwaukee, and the weather certainly can be pre- dicted for the eight hours required for the flight from Ivigtut to Indian Harbor. Given a fair day, the flyers can hardly mies the ice tickler at Hamilton Inlet, an unmistakable landmark from the air and visible through low-lying clouds if the sun is shining. The most disturbing element is that the longer the flight is delayed the more chance there is of weather set- ting in which will make the hop from Greenland impossible this year. ITALIAN AT HOUTON BAY. Aviator Following Americans Then Takes Off for Stromness. By the Associated Pres KIRKWALL, Scotland, August 9.— Lieut. Locatelli, the Italian airman who is flying in the wake of the American world flyers, arrived at Houton Bay, Kirkwall, from Brough, England, at 6:30 o'clock tonight. He remained here an hour and a half and then took off for Stromness, about 15 miles west of Kirkwall. WILL REOPEN FACTORY. Harvester Concern Near Moscow to Operate Again. MOSCOW, August 9.—The factory at Liouberetzky, near Moscow, belong- ing to the International Harvester Company, will resume work in the near futute. The decision to begin operations again was taken by the supreme economic council, - which assigned 1,000,000 gold rubles for re- establishment and credit of an equal sum for materials. Headquarters! MARGUERITE Girdle Shop 1109 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. STUDEBAKER Just Drive It; That's All location and seeing her start to his rescue, he continued to Iceland before his fuel became exhausted. When the Billingsley learned of Wade's dilemna the news was broad- cast to all the vessels in that vicinity. After drifting in a rough sea for four hours the world cruiser Boston was first sighted by an English trawler, which immediately went to his assist- ance. The Billingsley, which had been steaming under forced draft to his ssistance soon picked up both Wade and the trawler, and relieved the British ship of its charge. A high sea was running at this time and, while it was impossible to haul the ‘world cruiser Boston aboard the destroyer, a tow-line was rigged and the destroyer started towing the airplane to the Faroe Islands, where it was hoped she could be repaired in order that she could join the flight. Sinks Near Shore. The cruiser Richmond soon joined the Billingsley and due to the heavy swells did not dare take the Boston board for fear of totally demolish- ing her. It was, therefore, decided to attempt to tow her into the Faroe Islands. The stanch world cruiser withstood the battering of the huge swells of the North Atlantic for more than eight hours, and only succumbed and sank when within 8 miles_of a harbor in the Faroes, and with her Wade and Ogden's hopes for contin- uing their gallant flight across the Atlantic. Wade faces this culminat- ing misfortune with the same quiet courage and fortitude with which has confronted the 20,000 miles of his trials and hardships which have gone before. It is particularly unfortunate that with success so nearly at hand, such an accident, which could in no way hove been foresecn or have been guarded against, should dash the hopes of Licut. Wads The War Department is unwilling that this officer should thus be pre- vented from completing the flight as a result of conditions over which he had no control, and is arranging to have an airplane identically like the Boston meet him at Pictou, Nova Scotia, where he will rejoin his com- panions and continue with them to Seattle, the terminus or the round- the-world flight. Lieut. George Mc- Donald and Lieut. Victor Bertrandias are fiying the world cruiser Boston IT from Langley Field, Hampton, Va., to | Pictou, Nova Scotia, where she will be turned over to Lieuts. Wade and Ogden. These officers are now on board the cruiser Richmond, which wlil arrive at Pictou at the same time that Lieuts. Smith and Nelson will land with the world cruisers Chicago and New Orleans. Lieuts. Smith and Nelson are now in Reyjavik, Iceland, the capital, after a flight*of 4 hcurs and 50 min- utes against heavy winds from Hfn Hornafiord. They are awaiting re- ports of favorable ice conditions in the harhor of Angmagsalik before ning their trip to Greenland. Gertrud Bask, the supply ship, which has been sent into Angmaksa- with the round-the-world sup- plies, has been trying .o pierce the ice belt which lays off that harbor. The supply ship has been unable to get within_more than 10 miles of the harbor for the last three days on account of the heavy ice which blocks its passage. If the condition is not improved within a few days the plan to land in Angmagsalik will have to be abandoned, and it may b necessary to fly the entire distanc of 750 miles from Beykjavik to the southern end of Greenland without stopping The cruisers Raleigh and Richmond are now in the Danish Straits wait- ing to assist the flight in its cross ing to Greenland and to establish an emergency base further south on the coa of Greenland if such a | course becomes necessar: LIQUOR PLANT SMASHED IN NEARBY MARYLAND Constables and prohibition agents last night broke up a wholesale manufacturing plant for corn liquor on the Matthews farm at Meadows, Md.. but made no arrests he confiscated items included a 600-gallon still, a 40-horsepower steam boiler, 1,000 pounds of sugar, 800 pounds of corn meal, two 100- pound bags of hops and 3,000 gations of mash. 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He as- sailed the common view which holds his country responsible for every ap- pearance of resistance to innovation, “as if Europe were a theater of marionettes of which France holds all the strings.” Repeating that no plan for Ku- rope’s reconstruction could be rested on the sole basls of economic neces- M. Aubert stated that prosper- is returning to Kurope and that $ people have recovered their peace of mind and settled down to work because national aspirations have been satisfied. According to the fig- ures, he added, unemployment is on the decline and the excess of exports over imports has increased. In France during the first four months of 1924, he said, this excess reached 1,483,000,000 francs. At the open conference on dis- armament this morning Rear Ad- miral W. L. Rodgers attacked the American draft of the treaty of dis- armament and security which has just been outlined by one of its au- thors, Prof. J. T. Shotwell of Colum- bia University, on the ground that it s based on an assumption that all the peoples of the world are ani- mated by the same abhorrence of war as Dr. Shotwell. “I do_not suppose” said the ad- miral, “that the United States wiil desire war before her population reaches 200,000,000, but after that, if there remains any manhood in our race of mixed descendants, they will assuredly do so to keep their place in the world.” WOMAN’S SUIT SETTLED. Mrs. F. P. Gill Said to Have Charged Breach of Promise. CHICAGO, August 9—The suit filed here recently by Mrs. Florenc Powell Gill, Buffalo, N. Y., society woman, against George C. Priestly, wealthy Philadelphian, has been set- tled out of court, attorneys for Mrs. | Gill and Priestly announced today in a joint statement Details of the suit were not made public_and attorneys in their state- ment did not do so, but when the suit was filed last July 19 it was indi- cated it was a breach of promise ac- tion. Priestly, who was here at the time, denied that he had ever asked Mrs. Gill to marry him, o Tractor Tram Car Pays. NEWARK, N. J., August 9.—New- ark's tractor-drawn tram car, which operates between Broad street and the new public market, was declared a success today after one week's operation on a one-cent fare. Run ning over a trackless asphalt pave- ment for a distance of 800 feet, which is the shortest route of any trans- portation company known to local traffic officials, the tram car has car- ried as many as §,000 passengers in a day s The Triangle of I —between Connecticut Ave.,, M Road (Cathedral Ave.). Six Zoned and restricted against munity houses. 7 built and under construction. 1924—PART 1 DESIGNER OF AIRPLANE SHARES IN HONORS FOR WORLD FLIGHT Donald Douglas Held Real Genius in Craft * Fashioning. Has Modest Factory With 70 Workers in Cdlifornia. (Coprright, 1924, in U. 8. and Great Britain and Canada by North American Newspaper Alliance. All rights reserved.) Twenty years ago when the Wright brothers were tinkering with the ridiculous contraption that they in- sisted would fly over the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, N. C, the best kite fiyer in Brooklyn was young Don Douglas. He was only a youngster of 11 then, but his former playmates still declare that the kites Don Doug- las built would fly higher and steadier than those of any other youngster on Long Island. But Don Douglas was the last boy in the world to brag of his kite-making ability. Today, while the limelight of world publicity is focused on the pilots in the around-the-world flight, this former Brooklyn kite flyer is content to rest in obscurity at a modest air- plane factory in Santa Monica, Calif. He is as modest as when he was mak- ing the best kites in Brooklyn. Shares Flight Honors. Yet certainly sharing honors with the indomitable pilots of the famous flight is the designer of the planes they fly, Donald Wills Dougla: The around-the-world flight may be described as wholly a feat of “mid- dle-aged youth.” For the average age of the leading figures in the re- markable drama of circling th on wings is exactly 31. There are just two factors in this miracle of globe girdling—the pilots and the plan Much has been writ- ten of the pilots, little is known of the designer of the planes, Young Donald Douglas secured an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis after he h'ad been grad ed from the New York public schools. But mighty ships of steel did not appeal to his tmagination. He visioned the supe- riority of winged craft even then. Upon graduation he enrolled in the Massuchusetts Institute of Technology to study aeronautics. In 1914 he was graduated with the degree of bache- lor of &cicnce. Young Douglas proved 50 earnest a student at the technical school that he was asked to remain as an assistant professor in the science l{({]{l rodynamics, which he did until Helped on Martin Bombers, It was about that time that Glenn world | L. Martin was having visions of giant | bombing craft carrying tons of bombs He enlisted the services of the boy professor from Massachusetts. As chief engineer of the Martin factory in Los Angeles, young Douglas dem- onstrated such ability that when th United States entered the war in 191 he was selected above all others as the chief civilian aeronautical engi- neer of the Signal Corps of the Army. He was then but 25 vears of age. European airplane designers had made great progress in those early years of the war. They wanted Amer- ican planes built after their own models. Young Douglas believed in the superiority of American designed air planes. He returned to his post as chief engineer of the Glenn L. Martin factory. 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[ Sept. 1 Building Building IiIIIIIIlIIlI|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIfllIIIIIlllllllllllillll F-ummnmmn||||m||uum|||u | | | | | DONALD WILLS DOUGLAS. Thi The learn f; to be c sioners 000. A likely I th necessa the remain sioners of supy ori Last, pared When various types of planes were being considered for the proposed non- stop a ve that prefe signe lands that Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, while the transcontinental auspic have the foreign machine, At the best plane available for the | fight Ther: Dou; s choice of the aerohautic authori- fact, avy ear, finem Eu littled main not | where the c Arctic minu: and Performance critics. and stood the emarkable the capacit d two more | stopping for refueling. thing n to be transcontinental flight, more than ar ago, friends of Douglas urged | his torpedo plane be selected in rence to the transport plane de- d by Fokker, the brilliant Nether- acronautic’ engineer. The fact Douglas was under contract to the submit ing to mental estimat to Con As flight was under the of the Army Air Service, may been a factor in the selection of to the ask, th original Won in Competition. any rate, when the Army desired world it considered all types and makes week to what extent, if any tative estimates for next year will have The tentative figures of the Co; has been forthcoming, and $26,000,000 granted soon ceive word from the DISTRICT PREPARES FOR CUT IN BUDGET Commissioners May Learn s Week Financial Out- look for Next Year. Distri: rom the Commissioners Budget Bureau may this the ten- ut. i for next vear aggregate $36,500,- Ithough no definite information it is believed that ve to be total may reduced. ¢ budget officials do find to order curtailment of ginal estimates, there will still the possibility of the Commi being to submit st lemental was done a it ry a ity aliowed a items, a year ago. the heads summer city preliminary budget than $32,000,000. This had trimmed to between $25.000,000 but the Budget Bureau heads permission to pre- a some= more the supplemental $7,000.000. Some of these supple- items were finally inserted in the es before transmitted city requests amount they were gress. officials re- Bureau as allowed to of their the District as amount they ey will begin a restud figures e was really no co etition. The las world cruiser the unani- And_the world cruiser was, jcan b the Douglas torpedo plane of the with interchangeable landing wheels or pontoons, and other re- rents ropean in and their aeronautic authorities be- the American machine. They tained that airplane design had vet reached a state of perfection metals and ics could stand ‘omparatively sudden changes from blizzards, with gales and zero- temperatures, to the monsoons burning heat of the Asiatic deserts. Has Silenced Crities. has silenced these steel-tubing framework fabric wings bird m. Dona ing, m to flight. direct Roman the direct tive m: the bu The wood gaff. | enera | respon He v Charlo The plant recentl to ries | duetion have ingenuity is displayed of the planes for oil and water, weighing tons. Even the wings are as storage reservoirs for emergency the planes could than 2,000 miles without With an air gasoline San In —The Way to Better Cooking ETTER COOKING from uncertainties cooking that is done in co is a that is clean and permits clean surround- ings—cooking that is economical and that prevents shrinkage while retaining the fin- est flavor and the whole food value of each dish. These are the characteristics of Cooking Electrically. You will enjoy cooking on an llectric Range—it is safer—cleaner—bet- ter—easier—cooler and che various models, at $75 up—EASY TERMS. Potomac Electric Appliance Co., 14th and C Streets N. (Potomac Electric Powe.r Company Bldg.) speed of 100 landing. pontoons world cruisers a the, Annapolis concern him only only "plane a week—26 airg les an hour the planes slowed down to 35 miles for Both the wheel landing gear h demonstrated practicability. The Douglas e in truth wonderful achine; 1d Doug odest. He quiet, unassum- leaves the limelight pilots on the remarkable He is of aver height, with brown e square chin and nose. He has the bearing of graduate and speaks to the point. His is the inven ind, easily distinguished from siness mind. usiness details slightly and he the poorest cor- aviation industry. in 1916 to 1y dent rated in_the was married tte Og. Doug! oved from fonica. Th 0 emploves wnd the pr \ capacity is but half an air- lanes a year modest It wa Angele roll car factor a T ta M pay £ 1] =t cooking freed s to results— mfort—cooking aper. 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