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DAY STAR, W‘\SITINGTOI‘%. D. €., JULY 31, 1921—PART 1. - ~ | HISTORY OF FLYING &% %:eROUCR BivotkaT Tiakey THE SU — ) JUNALUSKA PLANT | VIRGINIA EXPECTS N MAY BE DEBT FREE § i3 S0 o | Couthern Methodists Start |5 Preparations for Jubilea 1 ) Meeting Next Year. ‘ B b CALUSKA, 2 N. C., July that the “unprecedented | peosperity” upon which the ! hern Assembly has n result soon in he debt of approximate- its property here, scat was expressed at a board of commission of the assemb transier the en s advanced that this plished in time > plant to the Meth- | list Episcopal Church South at the »xt genera rence. So optimis - wers the commissioners on this that they fixed a day in Au 928, as a tentative date meeting to celebrate the v wor a tubiloa on he debt, it was said, has hampered ssembly’s work and hitherta pre- | ceeptance of the property by conference as a connee- | oc | Kuin | Kemnetn 1 chani BOARD OF EDUCATIO EES NAY ividence of Prosperity. Approval of several forward-looking cts by the hoard today was to as an indication of the | »sperity of the assembly. | These included proposals to give each | of the 14 active bishops of the church | L building lot at Lake Junaluska and | co 'I' lishment here of a biblical semi- | MmIT wry The first was suggested by Raiph | Nollner, general superintendent of | President Carusi Mak embly, as a means of providing | r a Summer home on the a ] A committee W hoard of commi plans for the proposed it had heen favorably di institution, which would be controll and operated by the church ax a cial school for special cases, was posed for the benefit of candi inistry and ministers who to meet entrance ments in_standard Methodist tions of learning because of educational advantages Courses in English, Bible, churca history and doctrine, Methodist nolity, hymnody and other phases of denom- inational education would be provided | 3 in the seminary under the present plan. n E the a s Public Lis | of Appointees for Co unds, nted by the ine Year. to formulate -, announc promin lems of The roste it Finance Hayden J le Li sla rman; Women May Build Arch b m‘:‘ The board of commi: < 0| gan; pe d with approval plans of the Juna- | cj, Woman’s Club to build an arch- approach to the assembl) for which an effort now ade se the nhecessar) Mrs. J. A. Bullock of Mont president of the club, has set August 4 as “rock day,” when each man, woman and child is expected to bring a native rock or stone to be used | in_the arch. The report of General Supt. Nollner, | completing his first term at that post, was approved by the board. President John R. Pepper of Mem- phis presided at today’s meeting, and these commissioners were present: A. Cole, Charlotte, N. (;, }E. L.Dnrlown. Asheville, N. C.; W. P. Few, Durham, & Q )2 D. Jackson, Tampa, Fla., and | Hospital Monday. J. Sloan, Waynesville, N. C. | Special Dispatch to The Star. e FREDERICK, d., July 30 —Co- CO-ORDINATION NEAR Vit i e o FOR TWO COLLEGES Erskine and Woman’s Institution nerstones of the new udditions to th “ity Hospital and nurses’ home h of Due West Are Involved in Progressing Work. h Jusk: ings, 2tt Learnc lodgkins, and playzrc rman m;_community A e W. Hodgkins, | chairman; Lillian Y. Herron, Mary A. MeNeilly ‘complaints and appe Hayden Johnson, chiirman: M Hodgkins and H. Barrett Le | equipment, H. ¥a {man: Marie W. } Bennett; athletics F. I A Bennett, MeNeill, Hen | use of buildir being funds. gomer TWO STONES TO BE LAID. onday evening. Two w are ng added to the ho: through tions by Jo. seph D. . Shank and the nurses’ home addition will be known as the Thomas Johnson Me morial, president and chief sur | stitution for many yeu be- eon of the in- By the Associated Press DUE WEST, S. C, July 30.—Co- ordination of Erskine College and the | has hands while many 1 -rs are looking for positions. | s | FRAN by lightnin, two d from Ceremonies Arranged for Frederick he Gove: airplanes to f and survey the si Volunteers in | Trinity and Klam been mustered to fi ngers have sent ! tional fire f One of th uat out a tribute to Thomas Johnson, | ction. live from eigit hos Woman's College of Due West i receiving attention at the hands of committee appointed by the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of the South, to work out the details of the plan. 5 Both institutions are controlled by the A. R. P. Synod. Until the last meeting of the synod, these colleges were operated as separate entities. Two meetings have been held by the | committee in carrying out the man date of the synod to work out a plan of co-ordination. Details of the | rangement are now in a formative state and another meeting of the com mittee is to be held in the near | future to discuss more detai Erskine College is co-educational. Both institutions draw students | Mrom over the South, which congtitutes | the bounds of the A. R. P. Synod. | The committee on co-ordination con- | sists of J. H. Marion, Chester, 8. €., N. E. Smith, York 1. Oates, Columbia, | G. Parkinson, Du president of E > i Rev. R. | Robinson, president of the Woman's R. Youns, Anderson, H. White, | Chester, S | BUD STILLMAN AND BRIDE | TO SAIL ABROAD TONIGHT | Visas Obtained on Passports as| Couple Try to Evade News | and Photo Men. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July rs. James A. (“Bud”) Stillmat their honeymoon, ventured the partment of a friend Hotel Shelton today long enov visas on the passports ke them abroad on s tomorrow night. ! | king an encounte with photog- | raphers and reporters, the couple suc- | v hed the o e of 1hl-} ¥rench consulate, but not so successful their return flight At the Shelton they were met by a large and inquisitive group of news and plicture gatherers, to whom both obligingly smiled. They were photo aphed thus, smiling, but there hing said for the reporters. rme Len Wilson, la of d Anse, Quebec, was dressed in wered chiffon, white felt hat e slippers and stockings TOURNAMENT DAY SET. Suitland, Md., to Be Scene of Church Benefit Saturday. al Dispatch to The Star. SUITLAND, Md., Jul nity Hall groun scene next Saturday first annual tournam ¢ St. Francis Xa le Mission. Tilting 30 o'clock and vic be awarded prizes of §4 30.—Mr | here out of | at the | h to} that | the To his estate at South | ng out to his enginec e has a mus By the A IS Suitlar ill be the noon of t nt for the er and Forest- | should be will in_at| There is somet us riders will | time at his bi $30, $20 and |n An old windr i wneicnt shri est Comr bene- operty an 1 bhe station radio exper mental et in operation B, And n colonel purpx land | “help along ay " with th ved { lishment of a great airport on his e tate, The project will involve fill will marshal and be Robert Lusby and ges will be Geor osier, J. y Lusby des will e Pumphrey Von Osterm Bland and y. A Mar: fried chicken dinner will be s from 2 to § pan. in the basement of the hall and the queen of love and heauty will be crowned by the win-[leveling 1wo large swamps, « ning knight at the bull that starts' two asphalt roads hundreds of y at § o'elocit, “in length {\'t\ Huilding new -re wwds Col. E. . R, a shor Morgan (below their ers of me Ksmits n of the masthe recked whaler 1 providing ligh Doesn't matter colonel hted 1 want to wiation nd all to help them may Col. Green's name | amiliar o thousands powerful station tl pre s brought phone wire from r next yea hY st cvemtug e Wi what we | take form | of Alfred F CH uil URCH LINE | study 3 to purc Was will for: ter, | today the by new, commut wsoned Th on fare, but | by the refund | s will be cal- be- it rating fi | Cut Balloon to Get 1 Mackintosh, Prison s Protects Him Now for a striets the b 168 MOSCOW, h, @ Prees July 30, hich garn e Seeking re wmath district 0 1tory wveys, for 70y the cut ar oute > balloon, protect him next to ten vears v pecimens Wil Lo reach rain for COL. GREEN HAS RADIO STATION, MARINE MUSEUM " AND OLD WINDMILL ON ESTATE—-PLANS AIRPORT | | port, which he is shown (upper left) 1 ope ed by Gordon Maclntosh (right) and ) ) the and an th litehoat | 8! hangars with driven th iring to heat the pro- sat loudspeake property may be seen ntennae-—orientable an d intheexperimental broad- ort-wave station. Here wintosh, operator em- wusetts Institute 1 Shirley L. Da ent expert, have de- vertical antenna is t distance in The experi- an oper: ' ck omobiles Te 1 changing 1 an de s from On the same ngo radio trouble | enn: in ever » all I can te do is to|Col. 1t do_this | termined b 3 | cond f what S ransmission. talk regularly w as he throug s radio | tt tele- | Mo very | crete thygestate are now e as whaling days, mounted on a great ¢on- 4 musewm of ancient | to be 1 [of h | cient | successful type | aerodrome, | dispute | till | | chine in | | broken man. | of being the fi | tior TRACED IN EXHIBIT Smrithsonian Models andi Hanchook Show Principle ! Dates to 400 B. C. | prin- | not | inds | The ciple of iirplane, or rather the mechanical flight, did suddenly from the 1 Wright brothe of Samuel v. but ha history which | back before the Christian | the Lang ext ern The history of ni has been rec ithsonian Institution exhibit | ins a model of a fiying out by Leonardo da Garber, sistn fonal Museum, has | handhook f avi m which traces the m v much farther back 15 natural that man’ rded 1chine r flying have been an imitation bird of farentum, who lived BC., & repu to have wooden bivd, about the pigeon, which propelled 50 feet by the use of “cthereal Perhaps this medivm was compr air no one knows. In a Archytas’ principle was probat dod deal sounde than that of his medieval su s who id to have planned an elaborate aerial chariot which was to contain a ma net in i roof body f iron in its floor. The attraction of the ma net for the iron was Ssupposed © this impossible’ carriage. Da Vinei Pior the first desi 1 principles is to Leonardo da sman, engineer and made an exhaustive and designed a h, how- A ©-foot model n has been con- heavier-than-air | nstructed in a | urator Justiss development the It it first should chytas about 4 made size of a| somé air 1 it a one to Credit hodying o the handhoo! artist, stat philosopher of bir wing-flappin, w Pa Vinel With the mechanics luced in the s made practi amuel Henson patented a huge aireraft whic feet in spread and by a 20-horsepower two 20-foot, 6 With the ellow, Henson o models dev but poor suce and interest disheartened him and he emigrated to Texas. His ideas. however, contained many featur later adopted. Stringlellow mentir He in the am engines incorporate similar to huilt 10-foot plane, ¢ own engi 1 next gliders, one of 200-foot 1895-96 Octavo Chanute's biplane glid 96 proved so effic g n contributed to the later the Wright brothers Contribution of Langiey. for em- ven by Vinei developments iineteenth cen- s step 0 to be | steam bladed John powered en propelle Stringf lack of continued was particularly efli- construction of small and one of these he in small airc those which Henson he Smithsc i model of rrying one of Strin experi The Lilien collection s gliders of some which he used in n, The man ‘who rtion the soun the applic e to modern avi- scientific principles tion of which it has chieved succ however, W amuel Pierpont Langley, third se. tary of the Smithsonian Institution ‘In_1887.” says the handbook, ommenced a series of tests wit wvier-than-air machines to de ne the reaction of various when operated in the air him in his caleulations he constructed a huge whirling arm, upon the outer end of which he suspended his acro- foils and studied their action when swung around in the wind. From he developed a type of which he called an” aero- Many aerodromes were , each differing in some respect its predecessors. Most of his hines were operated by rubber bands. but after evolving a of wing and frame determined to construct a larger to be powered with s small steam engine. The result was a machine with tandom sin faces, 14 feet in span, weighir s, and operated by a one ine. After several d with little 5. now shown was finally evolved.” of the epoch-making this machine under its own for a distance of three-qua of a_mile over the Potomac on | 6, 1896, is now too well known | to need repe 01 It proved bevond | the feasibility of flight in | | | m early 1 rorse- N seum, heavier-than-air machines under With the outbreak of the war with 93 the possibility that an | 1d be of use to the Army induc . Langley to construct a man- plane. ~ The \ De- partment allotted him $50.000 for this The necessity of developing light, high-powered ‘gasoline engine for the plane delayed the ¢ 1903. In that year two attempts | made to launch the aerodrome from the top of a houseboat, but on each ision the launching mechan sm failed to properly place the m: the air and it was preci tated into the water. The public skeptical and Langley's funds w exhausted, so further trials were not de. He' died ew years later, a a Langley s Justified. 1914 Glenn H. Curt Y.. fitted hydroplane | ats to La plane so that it| yuld be launched from the water in- 1 of be g pulted from a eboat. When tested, the machine rose into the air and flew, provir that Langley’s ideas were sound and his_construetion correct. tut Lansley's second followed within nine d »ss of the Wright brothe 3 they flew their twin- lered hiplane nearly a minute, for themselves the distin m rst in the history nsport A man in a heavier. chine flown under its own n mondsport, Ham. failure by the s At Kitty ainin; world to tr: than-air n powe P fected over ried 1908 the Wrights had so far their plane that it flew n hour at Fort Myer, Va passenger and made rounc ourneys from city to city United States Army purchased ne, thus becoming the fi Govern. nt to own and operate an aireraft, flown by the Signa veral years. It now part of the Museum collec- this Corps makes Thereafter, as all the world know the development of aviation w nd the number of models Smithsonian collection representative of various stages of developoment or of great achievements The handbook mentions a model r to the one with which Cur- stured the European Rheims cup in 1909, | Fighting Planes Shown. Fighting planes of all nations pre wced during the war are w | resented in the Smithsonian exhibit, | 1vs the handbook. ! The post-war planes in the Smith- sonian group commemorate some of America’s greatest achievements in the air. The hull of the NC-4 is there, first airplane to complete the tra tlantic flight. This type plane begun during the latter days of the war and was meant to be able to fly -the - Atlantic ygzder»sits -own _powe! State t nomination for rir At only ro « e It is hoped that in tim feet 2 building cap: e the the ploneering piane, ine of made Smith four which De 000-mile rou huge non- 1t in d fiight, which took piace and the racing plane which Schneider race 4 of over The origir 1921, which velopme vertically, Smithson plane e in ma forms collection Uls0 part In re is the the first ted in 2 effort already im planes on exi n it is hoped that world fa planes Lindbergh's Spi st. Loui will be added. CATALINA YIELDS RECORD BROAD-BILL SWORDFISH|! Erother of Zane Grey Uses Reel in 4 1-4-Hour Battle With 588 1-2-Pounder. sword- at. T C, list , brother of and sportsman shed 58812 pounds, 6% s more than the previous re it by Zane Gre nd 1 4%-hour battle I t broad-hill was the angl rded. hauled abohrd with block and here o) hir he th tackle s made wit feet 1 inch in le feet in girth and had a sword of inches. WCRLD GRAY TO CATS, SCIENTIST ASSERTS | Declares Experiments Show Dogs and Raccoons Also Lack Color Perception. By Sience LINCOL colortul red At . of Nebi ¥, who h with the color s ing animals. Dog lack color perceptiol nizht-proy the animals 1 that when they could come up and When in brig were su the ituted for t bow hues, the animals ed no change in the dinner signals The dog, a fox terrier, was quic to learn, the cat next, and the racc the slowest of all differ brillia wpparently not on Fair Grounds Extended. FREDERICK, Md., July 20, a has been added to County Agricultine nd will be used for I for the annual ind nec the grounds to a » crowd: The 1 about 170 acres, DUCATIONAL. QUT OF TOWX “The SWAVELY School For a quarter of a century the Swavely School has been prepar- ing boys for entrance into the leading colleges and universities The boy’s progress in each subject is carefully watched. Ilis masters are always available to give him extra help on any difficult lesson Swavely graduates hold a brilliant record in college. About t now consists of An experienced facuity is In ac cord with the educational trend of the times. Small classes. One hour from Washington, in histor- ical section of Virginia. 65-acre ampus. Horseback riding. Ath- ietics that develop spirit of fair play and sportsmanship. Write for catalogue. E. Swavely, Headmaster Box 57-D Manassas, Va. om- | time | the | Channel | diator | || ight | QET PRUAR Voting of Democrats Tues- day May Be Heaviest in Northern Counties. ecial Dispateh to The RICHMOND, Va cratic thro s held Tu nd few « ths Hec Delegates and other offices, ies near Washingtor vot g > heat ing to keep ome hecue, candi each to mw merous : treasu is oppe Guy 1 oppol i ich has {for much untow | ment—local, State In most of the sentir il ba Chamberlin Plane Changed Because lyer Can’t Swim . A Commonwealth was advanc sons for plans for m the Lev istead of plane in whict Seiise ~ 3 [ #eresesessrecsersnsiisress National School Fine & Applied Art FELIX MAHONY, Director Interior Decoration, Costume De- sign, Commercial Art, Posters, Color, Dynamic Symmetry Catalog Connecticut Avenue & M Main 1760 amber- plane wind motor 1 him on his e plane w Leviatha tuned up to yoard the be BROADCASTERS WARNED | OF DEVIATION PENALTY Some New York Stations Ordered | to Show Cause Why Licenses | Chould Be Continued. Shorthand, the Kiiown for 11s THOROUGH. Bovd Graduates | in the best oomtions Mak tion TODAY for tha new lass had repeated- | * floors. 1348 "G St. N.W. the wave lensth | ¢"REDUCED SUMME! by the Federal|| poR/ALL LANGUAGES = 0. H. Caldwell, | ~ = . the New || Native teachers. AT metond, ed com- | vidual' ind ation | them to show cause | which expire Au- | s not be discontinued ymmunication from the com- to the station radio oper- calls attention to_the Federal | Commission’s order, effective | April 28 last, which states that one- | half kiloeycle is the extreme devia- tion from authorized frequenocy. | . mes the offending sta-! ions will he r~de public Monday, | the commissio: aid. | imilar_tes 1 be conducted in | ton, Baltimo rd Washington western York State in| r_future, Caldwell said. | DUCATIONAL. York distrd from to them Comr to . 48 Years £ W § Géfirée VWashinglon UniversityLawSchool Class A, American Bar Association. Member Association of American Law Schools. Second Summer Session July 28-September 10 STOCKTON HALL 720 20th St. W. 1640 w New Mr. AMERICAN UNIVERSITY School of the Political Sciences A senior college with courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Political Science (B. P. S.) and of Bachelor of Science (B. S.) in Commerce. Special co ourses in preparation for the Foreign Service examina- nd for fove gn trade positions. Pre-legal course. Course in preparation for the C. P. A. examination. Among the bjects in svhich courses will be given during the college year 19 , are the following: nternational Law (3 Courses). Soctal Feonomics. Laiw. Economics. Law. anced Economie Theory. hy of Commerce. Industries and Resources of the United States with Furope. with Latin Amertea, with the Far ' [ ¢ His Roman Law american Dinlomatie History Eurovean Divlomatic History imatic History of Latin ymatic v of the 3 rnational Finance Cornoration Law and Procedure. Federal Taxation Documents Used in Foreizn Trade ceountaney. Transoortation nment Amants, lontal Government I he siven in ale af the followin Polish Russiar entary and 24 ny Tan German nd_further particu Telephone Maln — fddress the Registrar. 1901 F St.oN.W.. ., During the months of June July and August the Director of the School. Ur Aibert 1. Putniey, miay be consulted by prospective students at his offive, 1007 N siho following hours: Tuesdays 4.6 PM.- Thursdavs 13-1 PM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL (Inccrporated by Special Act of Congress) 58th YEAR OPENS SEPT. 30, 1927—6:30 P.M. Undergraduate Department . Standard three-year course of American and English Common Law leading to degrees of LL.B. and J.D. Three-year course consisting primarily of Roman and Modern ivil Law, designed especially for Latin-American students, lead- g to degree of B.C.L. 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