Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1930, Page 11

ARWAY LGHTIG PROCRAN SPEEDED 3,000 Additional Miles Au- thorized Next Year, Bring- ing Total to 17,500 Miles. Upon completion of the program for the lighting of 3,000 additional miles of airway already authorized for the next fiscal year there will be a total of 17500 miles of Federally lighted air- | DeP® | avs suitable for aircraft operation in | $,f"Constitute the airway, and which | STORY POOR BOND the United States. it was announced today by Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. cluded in the program for the year beginning July 1 are provisions for lishing 20 additional airway radio stations to broadcast weather informa- tion to pilots in flight on an hourl basis, bringing the total number of sta- tions in operation to 65, Mr. Young said. - Telephone System Extended. The system of collecting current weather information along the airway by the use of automatic telegraph type- writers will be extended to 8,500 miles, nd the radio beacon service will be developed to a point where 50 per cen of the lighted airways will be so equ d. program of the Department of Commerce is completed,” Mr. Young said, “there will scarcely be & square mile of area in the United States where fiying is a regular activity that a pilot cannot receive hourly radio broadcasts of weather information in flights, whether during the day or night. knowledge of weather conditions to be encountered, with the possible excep- tion of a report on conditions at his destination, the weather broadcasting service on the airways is an extremely important development, and should contribute in a large measure to the de- crease in accidents due to weather. May Be Used by All Flyers. “The airways, as established by the Department of Commerce. are for the use of every pilot and plane, regardless | of the nature of their activities. Unlike ailroad rights of wi any number of | air transport lines may operate over & rtment of Commerce airway, an all are at liberty to utilize the facilities | are established in the interest of safety | and reliability.” | QUALIFIES AS CANDIDATE Former Gov. McMillan to Run for Junior Senate Term. NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 10 (&). Former Gov. Benton McMillin of Nas| ville qualified late yesterday as a can- didate for the Democratic nomination | for junior United States Senator for| he short term from November 4 to | March 4, 1931, His opponents are Sen- | ator Wilitlam E. Brock, incumbent, and Dr. John R. Neal of Knoxvill When it is recalled that but a few years | ago a pilot fylng cross-country had no | d | THE EV G STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, TUESDAY, PEDESTRIAN DODGES CAR, PAYS FINE FOR BREAKING WINDSHIELD Penalty Is Met Philosophically, for It's Worth $5 to Be Alive. By the Associated Press. longer life, Murphy's arm flew up, and CHICAGO, June 10.—Johnny Murphy, a pedestrian, will try not to get in the way of automobiles after this. liards windshield. Williard had him arrested. “It was an unprovoked attack,” he ‘With Mrs. Murphy, he was walking. | told Judge Erickson vesterday. “It is | He heard a honk-honk and stepped | getting so a person can't drive without | quickly back from the curb. A little | having trouble with persons on foot.” more and he would have been hit by| The court fined Murphy $5. Murphy | H. H. Willlard's automobile. paid, philosophically. He figured it was | In his sudden leap in the interests of | worth that much to be alive. | = MANUFACTURER DIES Arthur James Cumnock, 63, pires at Home, in New York. NEW ORK, June 10 (#).—Arthur | James Cumnock, wholesale dry goods merchant and textile manufacturer, died at his_home here Sunday at the age of 63. He graduated from Harvard in 1891, where he was noted as a foot ball player. He was captain of the varsity teams both in his junior and senior years. He was president and director of the | Catlin Ferish Co., New York, wholesale dry goods firm; president of the Amer- jcan Spinning , the Catlin Yarn Co., the Florence Mills and director in many other concerns. | Police Hold Sea Captain in Spite Ex- of Tale of Huge Legacy. PORTLAND, Oreg, June 10 (#).— Louis Swanck, 50-year-old Tacoma sea captain and janitor, was in jail here yesterday with the knowledge that the tale of $100,000 estate cannot be offered successfully in lieu of $500 bond. So his trip to Hamburg to claim his self-proclaimed bequest is temporarily halted, while Mrs. Swanck considers the advisability of dismissing charges of non-support. Swanck was arrested when the ship on which he is working his way 1: Hamburg reached Portland yester- ow Prices ON PACKARD the umbrella in it punctured the Wil- | PORTES GIL DENIES MORONES’ CHARGES Former Secretary of Industry Had Accused Him of Plot to Kill Ortiz Rubio. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, June 10.—Former | President Emilio Portes Gil today char- acterized as absurd charges of Luis Morones, who was secretary of indus- try, commerce and labor in the Calles cabinet at the time of Gen. Alvaro Ob- regon’s assassination, that he had plotted the death of President Ortiz Rubic. Portes Gil added that Morones, who was forced into exile after Gen. Obregon's death, was merely trying to stir up trouble Morones, speaking last night before the assembly of the Nationalist Revo- lutionary Alliance, declared that em- issaries of Portes Gil agitated Com- munists in Los Angeles to plot the death of Ortiz Rubio when he planned to visit there. The Los Angeles police, discov- ering the plot, were said to have caused the State Department to bring about cancellation of the visit on that ac- count. After the cancellation, Communists of Los Angeles demonstrated before the Mexican consulate. On some of those |arrested, the speaker declared, the po- lice found credentials from the Mexican interior department. He charged also that Portes Gil at present is trying to get control of Congress and the cabinet, STANDARD EIGHTS 5-PASSENGER SEDAN NOW 2085 . [AT THE FACTORY] UR HUNDRED DOLLARS, nearly 20% off the old price, is the amount Packard has reduced the entire Standard Eight line of eleven beautiful and distinguished models. Think what that means! It means that the Packard Standard Eight 5.passenger Sedan, for example, now costs but #2085 at the factory. 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