Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1930, Page 19

LGHTHOLSESNOW | BULT FIRINAND siNavigation Markers Placed| ,.0n Air Route as Well as Seacoast. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON, Aviation. Editor of The Star Light houses have been so long asso- clated with foam-crested seas and < storm-battered coasts that even today 31t comes as a shock to many laymen to learn that there are'in the United States hundreds of light houses that »dever saw any sea—light houses in the xl:nlfdle of peaceful farms or forested ills. ‘The Bureau of Light Houses, Depart- ment of Commerce, up to the past decade was engaged with matters nautical almost exclusively. Today it jsends its engineers into the deserts, plains and mountains to plant their beacons and navigational aids. The Government is charting and establishing guide posts along the coasts of the seas of the air, and these coasts include every square mile of land and water in the count Until you have flown cross-country on A dark and cloudy night you can’t begin to appre- ciate ‘the comfort that comes from an ordinary airways beacon light, set down perhaps in the corner of a pasture lot. When the earth is blotted out by darkness, these beacons, located at intervals of 10 miles along the airways. beckon the pilot along his proper course with long. friendly fingers of light. 1In addition to the beacons. course lights point out the way to the next beacon site and red lights, flashing in code, tell the pilot the number of the beacon and so inform him of his exact location on the airway. Assistance Demonstrated. The manner ‘in which these latest aids to navigation, the light houses of | the air, assist the night pilot was demonstrated to the writer Friday night by William T. Miller, principal airways extension superintendent of the Bureau of Light Houses, Department of Com- | merce, and Frederick R. Neely, chief of the information division, aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce. | ‘The take-off time was set for 7:45 ! o'clock at the Department of Com- merce hangar, Bolling Field. It had | been raining and there still were oc- | casional ljght showers up to a few min- utes before the scheduled time. Pools of water stood around the hangars and on the line. Low clouds trailed long streamers in the night air as they hur- ried up the Atlantic coast to keep some aerial appointment probably off the Newfoundland banks. The Department of Commerce Fair- child cabin monoplane stood out,on the line with red, green and white naviga- tion lights showing. There was a dving glow under the clouds to the West, but darkness was falling fast. Miller waved to a mechanic to “wind her up” and the big Wasp motor coughed and settled into a steady drone. “Let's get going,” %0 _we did. , | Miller took his place at the stick, | waved the mechanic aw: taxied out across the soggy field and took off just | as the last pale ghosts of th: day gulled in their heads over the Western orizon. Only & moment and the plane | was up at cloud level, less than 2000 | feet. The lights of the National Cap- | ital gleamed and washed the low clouds with a lemon-colored glow. Sheet Miller said, and | lightning lit a ruddy fire in a cavern |- of. the clouds off under the left wing. We headed off toward Balitmore, . First 10 Miles Out. { Immediately the first beacon north of Washington, 10 miles 1rom Bolling Pield appeared. Its red marker light blinked “dash-dot-dash” the code for .‘Ls numbered place on the airway. | These beacons on the coastal route are | numbered north from Atlanta, Ga. | They are 10 miles apart and are num- | bered from 1 to 10, starting over again | each 100 miles. The red blinker con-i tinued to flash its code message over and over, a steady little beam of light | pointed a steady fingersalong the airway | and above all the beam of the rotating beacon swung - ceaseless treadmill march under the clouds Though sev- | eral million candle lights are concen- | trated in that narrow beam it often i impossible to see the beam itself, on the direct flash of the light as it swings directly toward the plane. This bo THE SUNDAY } BEACO.NS WHICH GUIDE NIGHT PLANES | | | | One of the wind-driven flashing beacons to guide airmail planes after —Wide World Photo. 1,800 feet a large white mass flowed |a | the right wing under a mass of flufly dark. This one is located near Alexandria, Va. con is located on the edge of a golf course at Landover, Md. | Beyond. 10 miles farther along the | line, ‘blinked the next beacon, two red | dashes and above the sweeping gleam of the beacon. Looking back there | were two beacons, the landing field beacon standing on St. Elizabeth's Hos- pital hill and marking Bolling Field, | and one below Alexandria, Va. near the old King's Highway, on which | George. Washington used to travel from Mount Vernon to Georgetown. The beacon below Alexandria has been the scene of tests by the airways division to determine the performance of a new wind generator to provide current for the lights in isolated areas along the country’s airways. The principal of the wind-driven generator 15 not new. but in this case, for the first time, the current require- | ments have been reduced to a point within the capacity of the generstor. The wind generator keeps storage bat- teries charged and is expected to lower | the operation and maintenance cost | of lights far off the beaten paths. The equipment instelled there is said to re- | quire a change of lamps and the lubri- cation of moving parts only once every | six months and water for the storage | battery but once a year. Weather by Radio. ‘There were four beacons in sight | ahead and behind, a distance of 30} miles in all. Beyond the Landover | beacon, which we now were approach- ing rapidly, was the beacon at Bowie, Md. In a few moments the beacon at | Glenburnie was sighted The clouds were lower, and even at y below, between us and the | ground. Over its edge the beacons blinked and gleamed ahead. Mr. Miller adjusted a pair of headphones over his ears, and we, finding a similar pair each seat, did the same. A voice was speaking amid the crackle of static. “—eceiling, 3,000 feet; visibility four miles; temperature, 57; barometer, 29 point something or other——" the volce | said. It was the hourly weather re- port from Hadley Field, Newark. A few moments later another voice came in with reports on the New York- Cleveland line. We found that the clouds ahead were Jow, less than 1.000 feet in places, and that showers were reported in some localities. Ahead the beacons beamed and twinkled, Bowie beacon was off below | The next beacon ahead had | light blinking. This | cloud. no red marker Bother | the whole interior of the airplane cabin: | | Startled momentarily, Free of showed that it marked.a landing field. It was the arport beacon at Logan Fleld, Baitimore. Scattered Iights on the ground glit- tered through openings in the low scud. Some of the lights flickered and moved, with tiny fans of dull glow ahead of them. They were the headlights of automobiles. A wedge of moving light, followed by a whole string of lights proved to be a Pennsylvania Railroad train on the way from Baltimore to Wash¥gton. Electric Flash Carries. ‘There was a vivid green flash on the ground farther to the right. It lighted | we looked and | saw another flash, like lightning. It as_the sparking of the trolley wheel of Washington, Baltimore and Anna- polis electric train on its overhead wire. | We recalled that Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh, flying through a New Jersey fog, had seen such lights penetrating the mist where all others failed; the re- sult, a new type of fog-penetrating bea- con light for marking airports. The lights of Baltimore by now were spread out along a large section of the horizon ahead. Two beacons flashed from the tops of buildings in the down- town section of the city. A long plume of smoke from an industrial plant was pointed by the flare of street lights. The boundary lights of Logan Field, with red obstruction lights outside their border marking power lines, chimneys and other danger points. stood out to the right. Beyond Baltimore showed the 10-mile beacon at Middle River and | still further ahead the light at Edge- wood Arsenal. | The clouds appeared to be settling | steadily and trailed their filmy skirts | to within a few hundred feet of the ground. A solid mass of cloud ap- peared below, blotting out all trace of the ground beneath. Over the shoul- der of this cloud gleamed the long bank | of light which was Baltimore. Over its other shoulder twinkled the beacon at | Edgewood and on beyond the one at | Aberdeen Proving Ground. Turn Back From Clouds. The radio brought further reports of clouds closing in ahead. The scud thickened below and off under either wing were the foundations of the clouds built up high overhead. Aberdeen slip- ped by and the lights of Havre de Grace came up through the clouds. The plane swung out over the Susquehanna River, banking in a long turn to the lef:. | Under the raised right wing the clouds | were banked thick. No beacons gleamed | today = discovered | rect,” he told the judge. through their masses. We headed back ! for_home. Passing over a little Summer cottage colony a few miles out of Baltimore, now flying quite low, we were picked up by a motor boat searcplight, which sil- vered the wings and the cabin with light. We slid smoothly beyond its range a moment later and were over Baltimore Harbor, with the run- ning lights of ships shining in the stream. Ahead the beacons beckoned us on to Logan Pleld. Once more the boun- ary and obstruction lights appeared below and then, as we passed overhea the whole fleld broke into light as a great floodlight spread a warm and cheery glow over the landing area and smaller lights bathed the hangars. It was a heart-warming sight; friendly | and_inviting. We left Logan behind and after a few moments the great glowing lights went | out leaving us hesding out over the darkened countryside, where occasional | lights marked farm houses of high- ways. Ahead there appeared & row of four green lights, which Miller in- formed us were block signals along the electric railroad line. Glenburnie and Bowie beacons appeared. Ahead the clouds were dropping lower and lower. We were down to few hundred feet and still the trallers from the ‘cloud masses just above streamed away below. One of the bea- cons blinked its last as it became shrouded in white. A mist seemed to rise from the ground to join the mist which dropped from above. Between the clouds, however, the air was clear and the lights gleamed brightly. The lights of Washington, however, disap- peared to the west in a bank of mist.. Clouds Low Over wn.lMIll[toIL Hyattsville and Riverdale were below and to the right. Soon the Eastern Branch could be seen in the reflected glow of the city lights from the low- hanging clouds. The Capitol, bathed flogdlights and with a beacon shin- ::g :ngvlf its dome, was hard by un- der the right wing. The clouds were heavy and almost to the ground over Mount Pleasant and_the row of hills stretching away to Wisconsin avenue. We came low over Potomac Park, on a level with the top of the Washing- ton Monument, now shrouded in cloud. The searchlight from the Powhatan Hotel, turned on the Monument poin, burned dim through the mist. There were many shadows of the Monument cast on the cloud filaments, each larger and more ghostly than the one pre- cedin; Ply%n( up the Potomac at 400 feet, we finally were barely able to make out the great revolving beacon on top of Wardman Park Hotel, with its fixed pencil of light pointing the direction to Bolling Field. Both beacon and marker were shrouded in clouds. An easy swing to the left brought us back to Bolling Field, where the landing floodlights came on and thbe lighted “wind-T” shone brightly. Miller set the wheels down lightly as a feather. It had been demonstrated that a light- house in the middle of a farm is not 50 inappropriate as it might seem; that it is, in fact, one of the great neces- sities of the day in which we live. DRY EVIDENCE TURNS OUT TO BE FLAVORED WATER Prosecutor Withdraws Charge at Trial After Whiffs Are Found to Be Deceptive. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, June 7.—E. Crippen, as- sistant United States district attorney, “first hand” that things are not always what they seem. With a quart of colorless fluid which | smelled like whisky as evidence, Crip- pen was trying to convict Monroe Har- ol possession charge. r“’l‘h‘: ::ln(endnm insisted the evidence was not' whisky. The fruit jar was passed among the jurors and each took a “whiff.” The unanimous verdict was that it smelled like whisky. 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Neighbors said they saw & Chi- | nese wearing a brown suit and & straw | hat run out of the laundry after the | shooting. There were five bullets in Wong's body. | Summoned into_conference by Dis- | trict Attorney Crain and Police Com missioner Mulrooney and warned that | | further outbreaks would lead to whole- sale deportations, the tong leaders agreed to end the disturbances, for | which they blandly disclaimed re- sponsibility. | “'The leaders pledged notify the tong headquarte | cities of the agreement. For reasons generally impenetrable to the Occidental mind, the warfare broke out Wednesday night in Chicago, Bos- | ton and New York. One man was shot and killed here. The aim was no: so good in Chicago and Boston. Thursday morning a hatchet man cut | down & rival tongsman in Newark. | Early Friday morning a Brooklyn | laundryman was killed, and last night | themselves to - in other } NEW YORK, June 7T.—Scarcely was | oF | Mexican Aviator ports th: number of strange Chinese had been noted in the downtown sec- tion, giving rise to “tong war” rumors. Detectives visited a Ninth street res- taurant bullding where a number of the strangers had been reported congregat- ing, but found no suspicious persons in the neighborhood. Superintendent of Police Pratt and ’nspeflnr Shelby have advised the police 0 be on the alert for signs of trouble, following news of shootings In other citfes. ut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad and “Chinese ex- pert” of the police department, was in Chinatown until late Priday night con- ferring with leaders of the On Leong and Hip Sing tongs here. The Chinese residents themsslves evi- denced no concern. 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