Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1930, Page 5

BLIND FLYING AID TOBESHOWNHERE “Flight integrator” Invented by Army Officers, Who Seek Patents. Final demonstrations of a “flight in- tegrator,” which it is claimed, robs “blind flying” of its terrors, probably | will be made here tomorrow morning prior to the arrival from New York of the Southern Cross and its heroic crew. 1 The integrator, designed by two| Army officers, is intended to replace | many of the standard flight instru-| ments for blind flying purposes, giving | the pilot only a single unit, without | dials or numerals, to watch. It is| mounted in a Douglas O-2-K observa- tion plane which was flown here from Kelly Pield, Tex., by the two officers. The instrument is the invention of Capt. William C. Ocker, one of the| country's pioneer advocates of instru- | ment flying to overcome the hazards of | fog, and Lieut. Carl J. Crane. Details Are Withheld. Details of the “integrator” are not being made public by the two officers | until their application for patents on the device, now pending, have been acted upon. Essentlaliy, however, the device consists of a small airplane mounted over a Tepresentation of ground and sky, 5o that the pilot sees before him what appears to be a pic- ture of the nose of his own plane and a typical landscape. The small airplane responds to the controls just as does his own plane, gyroscopic stabilizers be- ing used to maintain correct relation- ship with the earth. The small plane shows the pilot at a glance whether he is climbing or diving, whether the wings are level, or whether he is turn- 8. ‘The single instrument, therefore, ‘without the use of a single dial, pointer or indicator which must be read, un- derstood and interpreted by the pilot, takes the place of the standard bank and turn indicator, rate of climb indi- cator and, to a minor extent, the com- pass. Capt. Ocker flew the plane all the way to the National Capital from Kelly Field during the past week from a cov- ered cockpit which gave him no view of the outside world. Lieut. Crane, at | dual controls in the rear cockpit, was available for emergencies. Capt. Ocker's worst difficulty was in | roundings and praised O. P. and M. J. maintaining the proper course, since there was no way of seeing the earth and measuring the effects of wind drift and the changes in wind direction and veloeity. The use of the radio beacon would completely overcome this diffi- culty, however, he pointed out, and ‘would overcome the last serious diffi- culty in connection with blind flying, though the problems of landing in a fog =till remain untouched by the new instrument. Got Wind Drift Advice, During the longer legs of the trip Lieut. Crane advised Capt. Ocker of wind drift, all other details of the trip being handled by Capt. Ocker from his shut-in cockpit. From Scott Fleld, IIl., to Dayton, Ohio, however, Lieut. Crane | sent no word at all and Capt. Ocker flew the distance without any aid other than the instruments before him. “I checked the exact course he fol- lowed on a map,” Lieut. Crane sald, “and while he veered from side to side | of the course at times, he was within 15 miles of his goal at the end of the trip and well within sight of the field.” ‘The iIntegrator has been inspected at Bolling Field by ranking officers of the Ailr Corps. The plane will be flown to Mitchel Pield, N. Y., tomorrow or Tues- day and Capt. Ocker and Lieut. Crane then will return to Kelly Field, their home station. ITALY WAR BUDGET GIVEN GREAT BOOST Mussolini Points With Alarm to French Fortification of Frontier. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, June 28—Citing French preparations for fortifying the Alps along the Italian frontier, the Fascist government today took steps to increase | Italy’s war budget by more than $26,- | 000,000. | Under the presidency of Premier Mussolini the council of ministers al- | lotted for the fiscal year 1930-31 a sup- | plement of 300,000,000 lire to the army | budget, of 100,000,000 lire to the navy | budget, of 80,000,000 lire to the avia- tion budget and of 20,000,000 lire to the black-shirt militia budget. This makes available for the equip- ping and arming Italy’s forces next year | the total of half a billion lire, which is more than $26,000,000. To raise this great sum the Duce | chiefly recommended raising the tax on | exchange transactions. The council adopting the idea, planned to devise a method of enforcing and - collecting the money from the affected firms. ‘The possibility of further increases in the Italian defense budget was en- visaged in the decision to leave the in- crease for years subsequent to 1930-31 undetermined. “Several problems inherent in the na- tional defense” were said in an official communique to have been discussed by the council. It was specifically stated that Italy was increasing her war ex- glendltm‘es because of France's activity fortifying her Italian frontier. KENTUCKY ROAD SOLD and - Ohio Acquires Dawkins Lumber Co. Property. ASHLAND, Ky. June 28 (#).—The Dawkins Lumber Co. of Ashland today sold to the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail- road the Big Sandy and Kentucky River Line, a 26-mile road connecting Dawkins, on the Chesapeake & Ohio, with Carver, in Knott County. The purchase price was not an- nounced. The road just purchased taps & rich region of coal, oil and gas de- Chesapeake | Scots Hold Memorial Services in CAPT. WILLIAM C. OCKER. —Star Staff Photo. CLEVELAND OPENS GREAT TERMINAL 2,500 Attend Dinner Marking | $220,000,000 Project Development. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 28— ‘Twenty-five hundred guests sat at 250 tables in the concourse of Cleveland's new Union Terminal and multiple sky- scraper development today and feasted to its success. As one speaker after another, rail- road magnates and nationally promi- nent business leaders, prognosticated the important effect the development | would have on Cleveland and its sur- Van Sweringen of Cieveland for the'r vision in bringing the development to completion. The brothers were con- spicuously absent from the celebration. They strictly conformed to their rule of never appearing in & public gathering. As_the luncheon ended the guests boarded trains, pulled by the new elec- tric locomotives, and viewed the ramifi- cations of the $220,000.000 project. They were given a many angied view | of the Union Terminal group of sky- scrapers, with ‘the 52-story terminal tower building on the square as its nucleus, surrounded by a network of broad streets and the new 18-story Builders’ Exchange, Midland Bank and Medical Arts Building. They down the deep excavation where will| arise the 12-story Higbee Co. depart- | ment store and had pointed out to| them the spaces for a new $5.000,000 Federal building and an enlarged Cleve- land Hotel. Principally among the speakers at| the luncheon gathering were Julius Barnes, chairman of the board of the United States Chamber of Commerce; Newton D. Baker of Cleveland, former Secretary of War; Patrick E. Crowley, president of the New York Central Railroad: W. L. Ross, president of the Nickle Plate Railroad: all city officials and officers of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, who gave the luncheon, FUGITIVE IS KILLED BY POSSE IN TEXAS Colored Man Was Wanted for Shooting Employer and Wife After Quarrel. By the Assoclated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., June 28.—Less than an hour after he had shot and seriously wouhded Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Eggar of Round Rock, near here, son, colored, was shot posse today. Mr. in a hospital a leorgetown, Tex., but ;h!l;‘ wounds were not expected to prove atal. ‘The shooting was said to have fol- lowed an argument over the payment of wages to Robertson by Eggar. The colored man was shot by two members of a posse estimated at 150, who took up the search immediately after the Eggars were wounded. He had attempted to flee from Round Rock but was intercepted along the road to Aus- tin and killed instantly. Eggar and his wife were shot shortly before noon in their residence in the presence of their 14-year-old daughter, Willie Mae. Immediately following the shooting the girl ran to a neighbor's residence and spread the alarm. Eggar was shot in the head and breast with bird shot from a shotgun. Attending physicians stated he prob- ably would lose the sight of his right eye. Mrs. Eggar was shot in the right breast and side. o REMEMBER B.URNS’ BIRTH Central Park for Poet. NEW YORK, June 28 (#).—Several hundred Scots today attended cere- monies commemorating the birth of Robert Burns held in Central Park, under the auspices of the Robert Burns Memorial Association of America. - A letter of greeting on the occasion from President Hoover said: “You do well, in your memorial to Robert Burns, to stress his aspirations toward the time when ‘man to man the worl’ o'er, shall brothers be.'” Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambas- sador to the United States, wrote that statesmen of all countries, “Are en- deavoring to carry the poet's precepts into practice and the onward march of. posits in Magotfin, Breathitt and Knott Counties. . civilization depends on their success.” 3—Branches—3 | Club for Russell Owen, reporter of the peered | EU BYRDINNEW YORK AFTER BOSTON TRIP Explorer Praises Cameramen | at Luncheon in Their Honor. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 28.—Rear Admiral | Richard E. Byrd returned today from | Boston, where yesterday he was given | enthusiastic greeting, and was honor guest with others of his expedition at a luncheon. ‘The luncheon was given by Para- mount-Publix Corporation to the two cameramen who made the pictorial rec- ord of the Antarctic adventure, the photographers, Willard Van Der Veer and Joseph T. Rucker. were seated on the dias with the admiral, but let the pictures do their talking for them. ‘The admiral gave warm praise to them, pointing out that much of their work was done in temperatures of from 50 to 60 degrees below zero. He said the final record was a true picture of the expedition’s work. He had feared the picture would be overdramatized, but was glad to find that, if anything, it was underdramatized. ‘Tonight the admiral was invited to the dinner given by the New York Press expedition. ‘Tomorrow will be his own to spend as | g;, he sees fit. Monday he will attend a luncheon of his collége fraternity— Kappa Alpha—and that night will be est at a dinner given by the New York Athletic Club in his honor. Tuesday he goes to Philadelphia for a civic reception. = France will appropriate $432,000 to & BYRD CHRONICLES HONORED AT DINNER Russell - Owen Praised by Journalistic Leaders for Expedition Stories. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 28.—Russell Owen, New York Times reporter who spent nearly two years with Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's expedition to Ant- arctica and won the Pulitzer prize for outstanding reportorial work in 1929, was the guest of honor tonight at a dinner given by th: newspaper club of New York. Admiral Byrd, Bert Balchen and other members of the expedition at- tended, as did Squadron Leader Charles Kingsford-8mith and his three com- panions of the Atlantic flight of the Southern Cross. Charles S. Hand, for- mer newspaperman, who is New York's commissioner of sanitation, was toastmaster, and speakers inciuded Floyd Gibbons and Adolph 8. Ochs, publisher of the Times. » Kent Cooper, general manger of the Assoclated Press, was the principal speaker. He compared Owen's assign- ment with that of Henry M. Stanley, who, 60 years ago, was sent into Africa by the New York Herald ‘o find the explorer, Livingston. Like Stanley's, Owen's name “‘will be perpetuated in the future histories of journalism of America,” Mr. Cooper predicted. Although Mr. Cooper sald that count- less newspapermen would have “een glad of the chance to do what Owen did, although they might mot have done 50 well, Owen modestly replied that he thought some of his colleagues might have done better. Owen described the difficulties of . There were some In the ex- pedition, he said, who not only did not think “the pen was mightier than the sword,” but “were perfectly certain it was not in the same class with the snow shovel.” “I am not one of those strong, silent men who do things well with & snow shovel,” hé added. The menu, which included such items as “petite sea elephant soup,” “supreme of killer whale in Ross barrier jelly” and other dishes with an Arctic flavor, was printed in & four-page booklet. On | the cover, beneath the words “welcome home, Russ,” was a cartoon of Owen in | his South Pole outfit climbing a rope with a typewriter dangling from a strap. | Tributes from John D. Rockefeller, jr.: Fdsel B. Ford and Will Rogers were printed in the booklet. KILLER ADJUDGED INSANE “Texas Jim" Baker, at Sing Sing, Contessed Many Crimes. that xas Ji Baker, convicted murder after he admitted nine slaying: psychiatrists and transferred to Dan- nemora State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. Baker, after his arrest for the killing of Henry Gaw, & night wgtchman at the Guggenheim Brothers' laboratory French Parjs-Orleans railway for hydro- electric work in the Dordogne Valiey. in New York, confessed many other slayings. ladder from the bottom of the world | OSSINING, N. Y., June 28 (#)—Sing | prison officials announced today | had been adjudged insane by prison | BALCHEN WAS ‘ALL-AROUND MAN' OF BYRD EXPEDITION, GOULD SAYS Declares Norwegian Pilot ““Can Do More Things” Than Any One. Geologist, Second in Com- mand of Party, to Be Wed Within Week. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, June 28.—The “all-around man” of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s South Pole expedition, in the estimation of Dr. Laurence Gould, as- soclate professor of geology at the Uni- versity of Michigan and second in com- mand of the expedition, was Bernt Balchen, slow-spoken, quiet Norweglan aviator, who piloted Byrd on his flight over the Pole. “If 1 were to go on a two-man ex- pedition into the polar regions, or any other place, I would want Bernt Bal- chen as a companion above any man I have known,” Gould said today. *He can do more things, and do them well, than any man I know. He was with me on one flight to the Rockefeller Mountains when we were marooned in a heavy wind. He was such an able person that I did not worry at al ‘The polar winds, Prof. Gould said, were extraordinary. At one time, when he and Balchen were attempting to save the marooned plane, a gust of wind swept the two men while they were clinging to struts of the plane. “The blew me into a_horizontal position and held me there for several seconds,” Gould sald. One of the sensations of 74-degrees- below-zero weather is hearing one’s breath freeze, Gould related. “Hearing one's breath freeze is & BERNT BALCHEN. pleasant sound,” he said. “It sounds, as nearly as I can describe it, somewhat lllq‘5 the rustling of silk.” Gould said the’ mean annual temperature of the polar region during the stay of the ex- pedition was around 14 degrees below zero. ‘The high point of the trip for the University of Michigan man was the discovery in a cache of stones on Mount Betty of the records of Roald Amund- sen, placed there when the explorer was returning from an exploration of the South Polar regions. : Prof. Gould, before leaving for New York to complete records of the expe- dition, will be married to Miss Mara- garet Rice. They plan a quiet home wedding within a week. Miss Rice first met Prof. Gould when she, as a fresh- man at the university, took a course in geology under his teaching. 25-YEAR VACATION ENDS FOR HUSBAND IN OHIO| Judge Puts Man to Work With 30- | Day Jail Sentence and Two Fines. By the Associated Press. | COLUMBUS, Ohlo, June 28.—Joseph | Baker will long remember this date, for it brought to & conclusion his vacation | of 25 years. For a quarter of a century, Baker, aged 49 years, has not worked, relatives ! testified "in court today. Baker was| haled before the bar on a vagrancy charge, lodged by a sister. Ater hear- | ing of the extended vacation, Judge Joseph Clifford decided to put Baker to | work. He was given the maximum sen- | tence—30 days in the work house, $50 | fine for vagrancy and $100 for intoxi- | cation, Parisian Fashionables at Polo. | PARIS, June 28 (#).—Society women | of international identity shared honors with the professional mannequins at the Bagatelle Polo Grounds today, the climax in exclusiveness of the Gur.deL Semaine. Beautiful costumes were worn, and | many celebrated men and women 0(‘ social register qualifications took tea under the trees during the game. | | | Work on the 900-mile long distance telephpne system connecting the large cities in the Province of Shantung, | China, has just been started. JAMBOREE WELCOMES BYRD’S BOY SCOUT HOME Special Performance Staged in Erie for Return of Paul Siple, Mem- ber of Expedition. By the Assoclated Pr ERIE, Pa, Ju 28.—The Erie Stadium was filled today with spec- tators of a big Boy Scout jamboree which was part of the welcome home celebration in honbr of Paul A. 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