Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1929, Page 7

BRGANLS SPEAD FEARNBESSARAIA Merchants Travel Only in Caravans, With Armed Guards for Attacks. By Cable to The Star. VIENNA, September 26.—According to a telegram from Bucharest, brigand- age in Bessarabia has developed into such a plague that the merchants dare not leave the towns, save in caravans, with an escort of the gendarmerie. Even | this precaution does not always insure safety, for smaller parties, also under escort, are being attacked and robbed in broad daylight. Several merchants setting out from Nacesti in automobiles, accompanied by twn gendarmes, were accosted by three rovers while driving past a wood. After | an exchange of shots the brigands beat THE EVENING STAR, TEST OF FLYING OVERCOMES [Lieut. J. H. Doolittle Makes Successful Experiment in “Blind” Cockpit. {New Apparatus Sponsored by Guggenheim Fund for Aeronautics. By the Associated Press. MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y., September enabled a pilot to rise, fly and land a plane with the cockpit completely cov- ered. Lieut. 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Guggenheim Founda- tion for the Promotion of Aeronautics, Ly | spomsors for the experiments. o 3 il e new instruments upon whici .,,T,‘g:i,g‘:,m;g“;eg;;{d'“; usana has beeD | Lieut, Doolittle relied in his canvas- O e e and anather band in | covered cockpit were an artificial hori- the Sekel district pillaged many au- | Zon, a visual radio receiver and a dell- tomobiles, although a military detach- | cate barometric altimeter. iRt ; | ““The artificial horizon is an instru- @ent constantly patrols the high roads. | i which shows the plane’s lateral TheXetunglens Foop 1319-1321 F Street LIEUT. JAMES H. DOOLITTLE. _ Metropolitan 0695 West 0513 and longitudinal angle to the ground when the real horizon is hidden. The visual radio receiver consists of two vibrating reeds which indicate when the plane is headed directly for its ob- jective and when it is over it. Devia- tion right or left causes one of the reeds to_vibrate more rapidly than the other. 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