Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1929, Page 12

KINKADE SPEAKS ON EXPERIENCES ‘Father and His Three Chil- Tc'ls How He Felt After Ap- proving Pianes for Haz- ardous Flights. His experiences in sending famous ilots off on flights where their lives de- pended upon his word that their motors were in perfeot condition were described | by T. H. “Doc” Kinkade, one of the | country’s mest noted aviation motor ex- | last night before | members of the Washington section of ¢ of Automotive Engineers at | necting in the City Club. | the hardest words I ever had | to speak were those which sent Comdr. | Richard E. Byrd and the late Floyd | Bennett off for the North Pole," Kin- kade said. “Their lives depended upon the ability of their motors to take them over the trackless, frozen wastes and bring them back. I certainly felt mis- erable when they flew away from our base—wondering whether I had forgot- ten anything or whether there was any- thing that might not have been made Just a little bit better. Elated by Safe Return. “The sweetest music I ever heard in my life was the hum of those motors when the plane came back to Spitzber- gen after 16 hours of continuous flight in sub-zero temperatures.” Kinkade spoke the word which sent Col. Charles A. Lindbergh off behind his single motor on the flight from New |of Ben Foreman of Allendale, York to Paris. When Comdr. Byrd made his transatlantic hop he left only after he had received a motor O. K. from Mr. Kinkade. Kinkade said he once was sent into the Red Lake wilderness of Canada to repair the motor of a plane which had landed on a wilderness stream, where the pilot attempted a motor overhaul and couldn’t get going again. Four Days of Hard Going. “It took four days of hard going be- hind an Indian guide from Winnipeg to get to the plane,” the speaker said, “but it took only 90 minutes to fly back after the motor was reassembled.” ‘The speaker described to the en- gineers the technical features of the inspection of aircraft engines in pro- duction. At least four separate and thorough inspections are made of every part of the motors by reliable manufac- turers before the motors leave the plants, he said. Every metal casting is examined for exterior defects and is analyzed chemically for quality, he said. At each step in the manufacture of parts and motors inspectors go over each part. The completed motors are subjected to running tests on the blocks and are then torn down and each part inspected individually before the motor is reassembled, given a final block test, and sent out. NAVY POLICY HIT BY S-4 PROBERS Subcommittee Report Urges “More Liberal” Safety and Salvage Funds. By the Assoclated Press. Adoption of a “more liberal policy” to- ‘ward supply funds necessary to install safety and salvage devices on undersea craft was recommended to the Senate yesterday in a report of a subcommittee which investigated the sinking of the submarine S-4. ‘The report criticized the Navy De- partment for not availing “itself of the services of the Navy Consulting Board, consisting of some of the greatest en- gineers and scientists in the world, as much as it should have.” It recom- mended that the board meet more fre- quently, declaring if it had “instead of meeting only once a year, more life- saving and salvage devices could have been developed. “This has been shown,” the report said, “by the results of what has been accomplished since the accident.” The 8-4 sank off Cape Cod December 17, 1927, and 40 members of its crew were lost in a collision with the Coast Guard destroyer Paulding. The report pointed out that a board of technical experts, appointed by Sec- retary Wilbur in June, found that the “most frequent cause of foundering is collision,” and recommended adoption of four masthead lights, or some “equally distinctive” night mark for submarines, and that the question be placed before the International Confer- ence on Safety of Life at Sea to be held in London probably in April. “When the question of human life is at stake” the report declared, “the question of cost should not be con- sidered.” Germans have invented a quartz lamp to produce ultraviolet ravs fcr detecting frauds in precious stones, woolen fabrics and psper money and documents. [ IONITEL ton Hotel “‘F' & Entrance FREE! FirfChe Subject MASTHA “OVERCOMING —YOUR— PERSONALITY HANDICAPS” Music Pictures STOMACH UPSET Get at the real cause. That's what thousands of stomach suf- ferers are doing now. 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LINCOLNTON, Ga., February 28— Six bodles had been recovered at noon today from a creek near here Into| which two and possibly three automo- | biles plunged last night after flood | waters had washed out a highway bridge. In addition to the bodies of Fred McWhorter and his three chil-| dren, recovered this morning, the body S0, and that of a man believed to be a Mr. Barrett of Grovetown, Ga. were re moved later in the day. Search for other bodies continued. The Ocmulgee River, flowing a mile wide only four blocks from the busi- ness section of Macon, had reached a stage of 25.8 feet at 8 a.m. today, 7.8 feet above flood stage. The stream ripped and slashed at levees and em- bankments and threatened to wash away Central City Park. Although there | was little apparent danger to downtown ' THE EVENING Macon, many persons were forced to evacuate their homes in the East Ma- con lowlands when flood waters swirled about the streets and fields. Rainfall for the last 40 hours in Macon and vicinity had totalled 7.09 | inches at 8 a.m. today, the Weather | Burcau reported. Clearing skies gave | some indica f relief during the morninz, however Other parts of the cuffering from th Tug v Oconee River continued its Milledgeville was marooned by wollen waters. Highways, with the seneral exception of those well paved, are reported impassable, and raflroads |are having trouble maintaining sche. dules, The tracks of the Southern Rail- way between Macon and Atlanta were under a foot or more of water where | they parallel the Ocmulgee, and_trains | were being re-routed over the Central of Georgia tracks. In Central City Park here workmen Jabored throughout the night and early | morning placing sandbags on the levees | to keep out the raging waters, which | were said to be growing more threaten- ing every hour. OHIO RIVER RECTDES. Damage is Reported as Menace Abates. EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, February 28 (#)—The East Liverpool district es- caped damage from the swollen Ohio River today when the stream began re- ceding after eoming within 3 feet of flood stage. The Ohio reached a crest of 30.1 feet. Flood stage is 33 feet. Although the rising waters approached the first floors of houses in lowlands, No Serious STAR., WASHINGTON, | Express Co. D. €., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929, occupants of homes in those gistricts | around East Liverpool and Wellsville, Ohio; Smiths Ferry, Pa., and Congo, W. Va., were not forced to vacate. No serious damage occurred. The Tuscarawas River, which had reached | gospital Fires at Mm,m,‘; Mioh:, | and waters to fy Mo Eake Ko its highest point in Stark and Tu carawas Counties since 1913 and me! aced a section of Dover, also was here over the State ed their bank ill were RAILWAYS TAKE OVER EXPRESS FIRM TONIGHT Business Will Be Known in Fu- ture as Railway Express Agency, Inc. D the Associated Press. CHICAGO. 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