Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1928, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1928 BOARD OF TRADE " TOELECT OFFICERS Ten Directors to Be Chosen Thursday—Eleven Are Nominated. Election of members of the Washing- ton Board of Trade to fill 10 vacancies on the board of directors created by the expiration of the terms of a third of the incumbents will be held Thurs- day evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Wil- lard Hotel, Rovert J. Cottrell, executive | —— Timing Systems Used Abroad secretary of the board, announced to- | Officers are to be clected the follow- ag week at a special meeting ot the board. E. C. Graham. retiring pr dent of the board. will preside Thurs- be principal speaker, out- tvities of the trade bod ar, Other present rd are W. W. Everett president: E. J. Murphy, sec- president; Ben T. Webster, J. Harry Cunningham, nburg. gen- Strunk, Federal American | Nationa) B orge B. Farquhar, life insurance bus G en T, Webster. member of Boss & Phelps; John Saul, secretary B. F. . 'Shinn, aito aiser: Jesse Lea, North real estate . David M Morris, ’fli.\“!gl‘Y‘ I merica in : A ctch, real estate and insurance. and Alexander Wolf. attol V. E Members of the boa: expire this month are ) ¥ Mr. Webster, Mr. Shir Lee, P whose terms Farquhar. Mr. Leetch. Mr. W e Stephen Kramer and Wall . The last three are not eligible for re-election, as they have served two u‘t\r:cmbcls of the board who will re- main in office for another year are Harry Blake, Mr. Brandenburg, Charles ¥F. Crane, John Joy Edson, Mr. Everett, C. J. Gockler, Ralph W. Lee, George Miller, George W. Offutt, jr.. Francis R. Weller, Paul B. Cromelin, Mr. Cun- ningham, Mr. Graham. Thomas E. Jar- rell, W. W. Ross, Mr. Murphy, ‘Theodore 'W. Noyes, Samuel J. Prescott and Odell S. Smith. THEATER HEAD CHARGED IN BENEFIT SUNDAY SHOW Manager to Face Court on Blue Law Count—Hospital Aided by Two Performances. Br the Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April 9.— ¥ Charity clashed with Sun blue laws here vesterday and came out ahead for the moment, but the blue laws will have their inning in court today, when the manager of a motion picture house appears to face charges for giving two performances yesterday for the benefit of the Arkansas Crippled Children’s Hospital Over the protest of the Little Rock Ministerial Alliance and after warnings from city and county authorities that it would be a tion of city and State Jaws, the theafer held two shows with “packed houses at both. Ed Rowley, manager of the theater, :hn:umtredwemmmdnymtue O TN AT "y rges. prohibit Sunday motion pictures to ‘which admission is charged. WRONG PERSON NAMED. Former Postmistress Wrote to Post- master Who Killed Self. ATLANTA, April § (#).—An Atlanta story Saturday night carrying the ‘statement of Ben. J. Davis colored Re- publican national committeeman from ‘Georgia, denying charges that the State Republican organization had solicited money from postmasters in exchange for patronage erroneously stated that Mrs. Sallie P. Lang, former postmistress &t White Oak, had written Davis. That portion of the dispatch should have read that she wrote L. S. Peterson, post- % master at Douglas, who committed sui- cide last Sunday. The Associated Press s glad to correct this error. & 4 4 LU A PR b . L, S Wy B e 1 WO N ory W TEE | reported accomplished mainly by minor | certainly not in Both city and State laws' AERO EXPERTS HELD SKEPTICAL |CATHOLIC DAUGHTER OF ITALIAN AIR | Are Criticized by For- I mer Army Aviator. “Loose Practice” May Deter | World Competition, I Joyce Asserts. ; I By the Associated Press. Temple Joyce, a representative of the | ¢ ht Corporation, declared | C nce Vi m a staten to the Associated Prtnu‘ oday that much doubt exists among American ion forces in France | eported speed of recently made air| ords in Italy Mr who was a major in the American Av Forces in France during the World War, made the state- | ences here with a n racing pilots and ngineers. dity with wh been successively broken, to three new records in ¢ months, though possi- ns very improbable when an ap- fon of the engineering problems olved is taken into consideration,” said. Timing Methods Scored. Joyee. ment after ¢ number of Ame h these rec- Aviation enthusiasts in this country he added. based their doubt on what they term the antiquated method used ¥ to time the speed of the racing lts in_an_unusual discrepancy between the maximum and average speeds over the three-kilo- ter course “We cannot believe that Maj. De Ber- 1 a poor pilot as to cause bs ago one world record was reported as being 297 miles an hour, and recently another of 317 miles was reported. showing, Joyce pointed out, that 20 miles an hour was added to an | already existing ship and engine in this short time. The speed increase was | engine and plane modifications and lving new designs, “so far as we know.” he continued, adding that increasing the speed of an already | existing plane four or five miles an hour is quite an engineering accomplishment. | “When this question of speed per-| formance is proposed, we naturally turn | to a close scrutiny of the methods which | govern the timing arrangements,” he said. The “loop system” used by the Ttalians, he added, merely requires the use of stop watches guaged to measure time only to one-tenth of a second, and | know SPEED METHODS TEMPLE JOYCE. that in a speed test. both from a physi- cal and psychological standpoint, an error in the records of about 11 miles an_hour is possible The Ttallan method. which is author- Federation Aeronautique Internationale, “violates a fundamental principle,” Mr. Joyce claimed, as “the time must never be averaged over a speed course, but velocities must be craged to get anything like accurate ized by the averaging time and any result they “This loose prac- The cost Italians are get practically ant,” he continued. tice may stultify competition of exneriments neces increases in speed fairne: to all concerned, one should without doubt that any records claimed were accurately timed.” The stop-watch system was discard- ed in America seven years ago for an electrical device which measures the speed to one-hundredth of a second. 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