Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1929, Page 3

PEAK AND [GE ARM 10 GUIDE BOWLER Berlin-Bound Plane Expected to Have No Trouble Find- ing Next Base. - BY WILLIAM S. CLARKSON. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, July 13.—When the fiyers on the 'Untin’ Bowler reach the Green- land coast, taking a course across Davis Strait from Capt Walsingham on Baffin ! Island, they should have no difficulty in locating the Mount Evans Weather Observatory, near which a supply of fuel and men to aid in tanking it are walting. ‘Two striking landmarks which can hardly be.missed unless unusual fogs revail will guide them. One is Mount ingo, 4,000 feet above sea level. This peak, which is about 40 miles inland and some 30 miles northwest of the cb- servatory, can ordinarily be seen from far out in the strait. It is higher by 1,000 feet than the surrounding terri- tory. The second guide is a great arm of the inland ice cap which comes down to the strait. It is located just south of the Hondre Strom Fjord, which leads about 100 miles inland in a northeast- erly direction to the main body of icg. ‘With fair visibility conditions this ice arm is the most prominent feature of - the topography for a long distance, and is said to be visible for 100 miles at sea. Course Easy to Find. 1f the Bowler’s pilot, Robert Gast, | first, sights the ice arm and then gets view of Mount Pingo he has only to drive a short distance between the two places and then turn south to find the fiord at the northern side of the tongue of ice. No difficulty is expected in doing this. It is rare that fogs heavy enough to interfere with vision occur north of the ice arm, as the prevailing winds from the south precipitate their mois- ture on the frozen expanse and are consequently dry when they pass north of the Hondre Strom Fjord. Mount Evans has in the course of a year only about seven inches of precipitation. The observatory itself is on a height of about 1,300 feet, and is about three miles from the fjord and 20 miles from the central ice fields. The crew's supplies and the welcoming party, how- ever, are at Camp Lloyd at the edge of the water. The floating ice which menaced the Bowler at Cape Chidley is ® peril from which they will be free At the conclusion of their next hop. The temperature probably will be | around 50 degrees. No difficulty should be found in €hoosing a suitable time for a take-off to Iceland. Most of the scientific interest in the trip is centered on the trip across the central ice, which has never yet been crossed by plane. A few explor- ers, notably Nansen and Peary, have climbed over the ice on foot. The last :,nmulng u(';s mxaded by Dr.u!}(lnuk Ras- ussen, Greenland’s Danish explor 1n 1916, - Conditions Are Uncertain. Conditions in the interior at any ! given time are a mattor of specul tion. Despite the mildness of the Sum- mer climate on the coastal plane, tem- peratures as low as 60 below zero have been found on the heights. It is un- likely, however, that the flyers will have to undergo such extreme cold for more than a short time. And, except for a harrow area of crevasses and fissures near the ice-free plain, the surface of the cap is as smooth as a baliroom floor. ‘The 'Untin’ Bowler must climb to a height of more than 8,000 feet to get over the dome. The crew will be as- sisted by the winds if they can go a few feet higher than this with their 1ull load of gasoline. The winds at the surface of the ice move constantly out- ward. At higher levels, as Prof. Wil- liam H. Hobbs demonstrated by many experiments at Mount Evans, they con- stantly flow inward. Going high after their take-off on the west coast, the fiyers can have a tail wind to the cen- ter and then can drop a few thousand feet and have the same help to the eastern coast and well out into the sea on the crossing to Iceland. (Copyright, 1929.) ENDURANCE FLYERS START “CASHING IN” Mendell and Reinhart, Given $5,000 and Plane, Rehearse for Stage Appearance. B the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 13—L. W. Mendell and R. B. Reinhart began cash- ing in without delay today on the notoriety gained in their record-break- ing endurance flght which ended yes- terday at Culver City after 10Y days in the air. Announcement was made that the aviators would appear on vaudeville stages in Los Angeles and San Fran- cisco. The men immediately began re- hearsing for their first stage appearance here this afternoon. Besides the vaudeville contract, the fiyers profited to the extent of about ;i':nt:a in cash and a new, cabin air- PLANE TESTING MOTOR PASSES TWELFTH HOUR No Effort Will Be Made to Break Endurance Record With Air- Cooled Engine. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, July 13.—A specially equipped cabin monoplane, which took the air at 7:17 a.m. for a refueling en- durance flight to test an air-cooled motor, tonight had passed the first 12 hours In the air uneventfully. About noon the refueling plane de- livered sandwiches and water to the ruou. The first refueling was made ate today. The plane is equipped with & 276-gallon tank. Dale Jackson, bar- rel-roll champion, and Forest O'Brine, a test pilot for the aircraft company sponsoring the flight, are piloting the plane. No limit has been placed on the time the plane may be kept aloft, but no effort to break the refueling endur- ance record is planned. SPECIAL NOTICES. MOVING. Get our return-load rates. 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Lewis A.| Yancey and Roger Q. Williams, Ameri- | can transatlantic fiyers, today followed with intense interest the attempted transatlantic flights of the French and Polish aviators. The Americans ex- pressed’ the belief that both airpianes would make the crossing. Yancey told the Associated Press cor- respondent this afternoon that trans- atlantic flights from New York to Europe would be made without much | difficulty in a few years at an altitude | of 30,000 feet. i Predicts Great Speeds. | He said his prediction was based on | observations that he and Williams had made during their crossing from Old Orchard, Me., to Santander and Rome and before they had started. These observations are being forwarced to the United States Weather Bureau at Washington. ‘Yancey thought that airplanes for this service would be spscially equipped with cabins capable of maintaining oxygen for breathing at such an alti- tude. They would also have variable propellers capable of lifting the plane to such an altitude. * “Our oigervations and those of the ‘Weather Bureau show that at an ex- treme height of -25,000 to 30,000 feet there is always a wind of great strength from America to Europe, while at the surface of the sea there is little wind,” Yancey said. “If an airplane could therefore main- tain this hefght it would require no more horsepower than the Pathfinder had and less fuel and would be able to reach home and far beyond. “There is little doubt that a spesd of several hundred miles an hour could be reached, an airplane would be prac- tically blown across the Atlantic. Flyers Late for Appointmients. “On the other hand, a plane going to America would have to keep as close as possible to the surface of the ocean.” ‘Yancey said that when he returned to America he would confer in detail with the Weather Bureau about this develop- ment. He recalled that the Pathfinder had flown at a comparatively great al- titude for transatlantic fiyers, from 6,000 tb 12,000 feet. ‘Williams took the Pathfinder into the air this afternoon. Williams after over- hauling the ship took l;vznl»uvlhf't‘lo‘n officers as passengers for an ur’s flight. When he brought the Pathfinder down, ‘'he declared it was in perfect con- dition for its flight tomorrow over Rome. ‘The aviators continued to be amus- ingly late in their appointments. Both fiyers were to have attended a recep- tlon of the Foreign Press Assoclation at 5 p.m., but Yancey appeared 40 min- utes late and Williams 10 minutes after him. They were then half an hour late for a reception at the Littorio Pal- ace by the Fascist party, at which the chief members of the Italian govern- ment were present. + SWEDISH PLA.NE POISED - FOR LAST LEG OF TRIP Ahrenberg Ready to Leave Ivigtut, > Greenland, for 'Goal in United States. By the Associated Press.” OTTAWA, Ontario, July 13.—The de- partment of marine and fisheries today received a message saying Capt. Albin Ahrenberg, Swedish airman attempting a flight from Stackholm to New York, would “probably” take off “this after- noon or wnlf.l:t" from Ivigtut, Green- 1and, on the last leg of his journey. HAT SERVES AS HELMET. Minded Girls, _PARIS (#)—For the convenience of air travelers, a milliner has L3 tion helmet and a felt hat with a brim. ‘The helmet is bonnet sha) with S Bt~ Over 1t goks 3. Tl hat with ot. T a slash in the which {exactly a month ago. PLANE RACE TO U. S. ABANDONED WHEN RIVALS TURN BACK (Continued From First Page) Jean Assolant, Rene Lefevre and "Armeno Lotti, who crcssed from New Yirk and landed on the coast of Spain Coste had prom- ised to tip them off before his start and they were roused out of bed a little ter midnight. Mme. Assolant, \1e American gir] who | was married to her French aviator | husband a day or two before his de- | parture for Europe, 2iso went to Le | Bourget. She specializes In 13 as a lucky number and tnerefore was sure that both the Ouesticn Mark and the Marshal Pilsudsii would succeed in reaching New York. It was on the Thirteenth of June that her husband and his companions flew eastward from Old Orchard. SCANTILY CLAD WOMEN EJECTED FROM CHURCH Moral Sin and National Shame to Be Half Naked in House of God, Says Czecho Priest. BRATISLAVA, Czechoslovakia (#).— At recent services here Father Hidwegy, pastor of the leading Roman Catholic Church, excoriated his women and girl parishoners for wearing short skirts and low necks, bobbing their hair and roug- ing their lips. Then he ejected them forcibly one by one from the church. “It is a mortal sin and a national shame for you half-naked women,” he shouted from the chancel, “to pros- trate yourselves before the Holy of Holies on the pretense of seeking spiritual ald and forgiveness for your sins. You don't deserve to sit in the House of God.” ST s MUSEUM GIVEN TO U. S. AS MEMORIAL TO GIRL Californian Donates Tract and Buildings in Park in Memory of Daughter. N, Calif. (#)-—A museum has been presented the United States in_memory of a California girl. It is in the Lassen Volcanic National Park and is the gift of B. F. Loomis of Anderson, as a memorial to his daugh- ter, Mae. The gift also includes 40 acres of land and a selsmograph build- ing made of all varieties of lava. The museum is constructed of softly tinted native stone and reinforced con- crete. The only wood is in the window frames and the bronze covered door. ‘The main building is devoted. chiefly to volcanic exhibits ' including a photo- graphic history of. Lassen Peak and its recent eruptions. The selsmograph was installed by the Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior. e e Australia Fights Drug Trade. SYDNEY (P).—Police of this Aus- tralian city are struggling with gangs of drug addicts and vendors. The fllicit trade in narcotics has increased greatly of late, and in their efforts to run down the leaders of the gangs the police have arrested a number of physicians. Note This Fact— EVERFRESH IS a Better Cifratc of ‘Magnesia | Lower: The Question Mark. plane —Assoclated Press Photos. FARY TOTRY TO CUT U3.AIRSPEED MARK | Flyer Is Ready for Attempt to Lower Record for Cross- Country Round-Trip. By the Associated Press. | LOS ANGELES, July 13—A mew) speed dash by alr across the Nation,| aimed at cutting four hours from the | round trip fight between Los Angeles and New York. was primed for a start from here at 12:01 a.m. Sunday (Pacific Coast. time) by Herbert J. Fahy. hohur] of the unofficial solo endurance flight record. Fahy's hop. in preparation for several weeks, will be made in a monoplane dubbed the “Black Hornet.” A 525- horsepower motor will carry the ship and its load of 600 galions of gasoline and 26 gailons of oil. The flight will be on the great circle route, passing over Wichita, Kans.. St. Louis, Colum- bus, Ohio, and Pittsburgh. Hawks Now Holds Record. ‘The present record of 36 hours 38 minutes 48 seconds was hung up a few weeks ago by Capt. Prank Hawks of Angeles, who also set the Los Angeles-New York time of 17:36:16. and the New York-Los Angeles record of 19:10:32. Like Hawks, Fahy will stop for a refueling at the half-way mark in his voyage—New York—and he plans to start westward immediately afterward in a nonstop flight to Los Angeles. To Stay in Gotham 1 Hour. He has set his flying time from Los Angeles to New York as 15 hours and the return trip as 17 hours. Ever- present head winds on the westward trip necessitates a longer flight over the 2,506-mile course. The fiyer plans to remain in New York one hour. ‘Weather reports today indicate storms in the Midwest, but Fahy believed these would not endanger his attempt. The plane has a top speed of 205 miles an hour, compared to Hawks’ ship, which made 180 miles an hour with a wide-open_throttle. If the flight is successful, it was an- nounced, the group.backing Fahy would consider establishment of a fast cross- country air express line. WE LOAN MONEY ON REAL ESTATE J. C. Hoover Co. 1112 New York Avenue | are some engineers, however, who deny REFUELING IN AIR 10 SOLVE FLIGHTS ‘Observers Certain Ocean Planes Can Now Take Off With Safety. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. Special Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, July 13.—While East- ern public opinion is-generally critical flight, as- contributing nothing to aero- flight, as contributing nothing to areo- nautical sclence, aviation experts and technicians disagree. They conclude | that these endurance flights have re- | duced transatlantic flying mainly to a problem of fuel load, and $hat the two “tough hombres,” pln-mlnil to spend th‘e;r old age in the air, have solved this. Let a transatlantic rllne get off the ground with a light load of gas, and then take on the rest of its load while in fiight, say the experts. Heavy Load Great Obstacle. It was this startIng obstacle of heavy gas tanks which wrecked Rene Fonck, magnificent fiyer with a magnificent plane, and it was the necessity of jet- tisoning part of the gas at the take-off which landed Willlams and Yancey in Spain, instead of Rome. It is agreed here that had the latter two fiyers filled up their tanks by refueling in the air, after their ascent in Maine, they would have hit their target. From the expert viewpoint, trans- oceanic flying still is in the stunt cate- gory, and sporting rather than scientific considerations are uppermost in the discussion. However, the purely com- mercial wing of the industry is keenly alert to the possibilities of safe ocean crossing, and it regards the refueling achievement as one of the most definite contributions to air progress during the last year. Engine and wing design has hit the limits of the original lift, with the | full gas load, rather than of sustaining power while in the air. Where flights of any considerable distance have been involved, the range and pay load fac- tors have been heavily cut by this ter- rific hurdle at the start. With the ros— sibility of rising with a light fuel load | and tllln, on the rest in the air, tech- nique shifts primarily to sustaining power, and this can be greatly in- | creased. Problem Is One of Fuel. Mandell and Reinhart, the Culver City fiyers, traversing a distance equal | to the established air route around the | world, have proved that the problem of sustained flight is one of fuel, rather han endurance of the engine. There t that the flyers have established any- thing not already known. They insist that the staying power of the engine could have been, and, in fact, has been, quite as thoroughly demonstrated by running it on a block. There are others who maintain that only in actual flight, involving all factors of stress and strain and vary- ing weather conditions, can satisfactory tests be made, and for this reason they find the Culver City achievement highly important. But, regardless of the shown that there is enough vitality in an airplane engine to challenge human endurance and that longer sojourns in the air, over land and water, depend mainly on giving the engine something | Culver Flight Called Last. | Army officers, who ploneered the re- | fueling system, are of the opinion that | the methods are still primitive and that vast progress will be made in safe and expeditious air deliveries of fuel. The refueling achievements have come swift- | ly, but it is believed here that the Culver City flight will be the last of the endurance contests. The data are now all out in the open and if young ist_on ving whi new Tiling, fixtures. evers- PENN IMPROVEMENT GELECTRIC €O SlI- 7% St., NW. scientific value of the flight, it has been | || to feed upon. i D. C. MAN FACES FEDERAL CHARGES Warrants Accuse J. L. Dade Under Mann Act and of Having Stolen Property. Epeclal Dispatch to The Star. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 13.—The Fed- eral Government today broke up the vacation tour of Frederick Arthur Craw- ford, self-styled wealthy Washington real estate dealer, and his friend, John L. Dade, also of Washington, who were arrested here Thursday night in com- pany with a woman who posed as Dade’s wife. Federal warrants charging conspiracy to violate the Mann act were issued against Dade and the woman, who now admits she is Mrs. Blanche Ochillree, 29 years old, wife of an Indianapolis insurance agent. A second warrant was issued against Dade, charging him with possess.on of stolen Government property, an Army pistol, which he asserted he bought from a Marine. No charge has been lodged against Crawford, but he is still held for investigation. Also held are his $1,950 bank roll and two pearl necklaces and other jewelry which he values in excess of $27,000. Dade left his wife in Washington. A telegram from Mrs. Dade helped to re- vfi:l dthe identity of Dade’s woman friend. Mrs. Mamie Dade, wife of John L. Dade, declared at her home here yester- day that she had informed St. Louis police_that the woman who posed as Mrs. Dade in St. Louis was an_impostor. kers and keeping themselves awake for two weeks up in the air, it will be for no particularly useful purpose. Seth Low, president of Roosevelt Field, Inc., sald today that the possi- bility of prefacing an ocean take-off by refueling in the air seemed entirely | practical and should add greatly to the chances of the plane reaching its g “But,” he added, personally di approve of dangerous stunt flights, in- cluding efforts to cross the Atlantic in single-motored planes. The effort should be made only in a multi-motored ship. But, as transoceanic flying be- comes more dependable, the refueling system, as it has been demonstrated, will, ot course, be of great value.” (Copyright, 1929.) By living on private yachts moored on the River Thames, near Westmin- ster, England, many people, it has just been discovered, are escaping payment of rent, taxes and house duty because their craft requires only a mooring fee of $15 OIL FIND ENRICHES UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS About $12,000,000 in Royalties Already Collected From Pro- ducing Wells. AUSTIN, Tex., (#).—Discovery of ol on lands owned by the University of 'Texas has made it one of the country’s wealthiest schools. Approximately $12,000,000 in royalties already has been collected from pro- ducing wells in Western Texas. It is estimated the sum eventually will reach $20,000,000. Several new buildings now under con- struction on the Austin campus will be paid for by income from royalties. They are replacing shacks built when the university was not so prosperous. Under. the State constitution the uni- versity cannot spend any of the prin- cipal, which mpst be retained as a permanent fund. Income from the principal, however,. provides the school with considerable “pocket change.” EDITOR FORTY YEARS MARKS ANNIVERSARY R. C. Rivers of North Carolina Re-| calls Days When He Composed | Stories at Type Case. By the Associated Press. BOONE, N. C,, July 12—T C. Rivers, veteran publisher of th. Watauga Democrat, celebrated his fori'eth anni- | versaxy as editor and publishcr of the | paper July 4. Mr. Rivers, who still actively engages in the work, recalled musingly the days when a country newspaper editor was everything from printer’s devil to pub. . In his first years on the Demo- he recounted, he was often so rushed that he had no time to write stores but composed them directly into type. His light would be an old oil lamp perched atop the type case. He not only would set the type, but would run the press and distribute the paper. He still proudly exhibits his old Washington press in his plant and uses it for a proof press though his place is now equipped with linotype, power | press and stereotyping machine. INSTl:fUTE TO BE HELD. CHAPEL HILL, N. C,, July 12 (#)— The annual Summer institute of the University of North Carolina for the State Parent-Teacher Association mem- bers, will be held here August 5-10. Mrs. Charles E. Rowe, fleld repre. sentative of the national Parent- Teacher Congress, will be in charge of the class instruction and she will be assisted by Mrs. Marion M. Miller, national representative of the Child | Study on of America. 3 BUTLER PROMOTED IN MARINE CORPS Peppery Soldier of Philadel- phia Fame Becomes Major General. By the Associated Press. Smedley D. Butler—whose pepperf career has been featured by adventuref as a Marine and as erstwhile directof of public safety in Philadelphia—is now a major general. President Hoover approved his pro- motion from brigadier general of the Marine Corps yesterday on the recom- mendation of Secretary Adams. He is the youngest general officer of the corps. celebrating his Jforty-eighth birthday anniversary July 30. Butler's first rank was that of a volunteer second lieutenant during the Spanish-American War. He now com- mands the Marines at Quantico, Va. which post he will retain. The promo- | tion was to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Maj. Gen. Ell K. Cole. Maj. Gen. Logan Feland suc- ceeded the latter as commandant of the Marine forces on the Pacific. Gen. Butler's rank as brigadier was taken by Col. John T. Myers, president of the Marine Corps Examining and Retiring Board. Both promoted officers have long and distinguished records in action. Butler wears two Congressional Medals of Honor as well as both Army and Navy Distinguished Service Medals and many decorations from foreign powers. Ho has taken part in virtually every Ma- rine expedition since the Spanish« American War. Gen. Myers, who is president of the Marine Corps Examining and Retiring Board, is 58 years old. He was ad- vanced twice for heroic conduct in bat- tle. He took part in the Boxer up- rising and during the World War served with the Atlantic Fleet. Gen. Butler was promoted to captain for heroism in the Boxer campaign in China. Since then he has served in the Philippines, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Mexico, Haiti, Santo Domingo, and again in China— where he commanded the latest Marine expeditionary force. Not the least spectacular incident in his career was his command of the Philadelphia police force as director of public safety in 1925. He undertook “to clean up” the city while on leave from the Marine Corps and was dis- missed after. he had declined a request by the mayor that he resign. “The Marines can take care of me,” he sald after the dismissal, “and I'd rather be in the Marine Corps than 1 00 cities like Philadelphi Announcing the Opening of. BEeacH SEvERN BripcE NORTH END OF SEVERN RIVER BRIDGE, ANNAPOLIS BOULEVARD, ANNAPOLIS, MD. 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