Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1930, Page 3

SPEEDY WOMAN FLYERS GET RACE Special Event at National Air Meet Is Planned to An- swer Protests. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 7.—+Woman flyers who want speed will have their chance 8t the Natienal Alr Rac:s here this month. In answer to protests published by several well known woman flyers over the power restrictions placed on planes entered in the two women's derbies ar- Tanged for the meet, Maj. R. W. Schroe- der, contest director, yesterday an- nounced a new race on the program. It will be a free-for-all for women, without limitation as to power, over the same course as the Thompson Trophy race for men, the country's speed classic. The added race will carry a prize of at least $2.500, with a trophy, Mal. Schroeder said. It will be flown around the 5-mile course at Curtiss-Wright- Reynolds - Airport, but, trips around the three pylons as re- quired in the men's race, the women's race probably will be for 18, or 50 miles. Miss Amelia Earhart, transatlantic fiver, is the center of the storm, Maj. Schroeder said. She. with Blanche | Noyes of Cleveland, Mae Hazel of St. President of Vast Central System Won Many Promotions. BECAME A TELEGRAPHER and Close Application Aid Victory. This is the sizth of a series of articles on ‘the boyhood of famous Americans gnd ‘telling how they ‘got their start in BY J. V. FITZ GERALD. Cattaraugus was a railroad town on the Erie line. It was the ambition of most of the boys born and reared there to learn railroading. A conductor in | his natty uniform, an engineer, fireman or mechanic in work-stained overalls, instead of 20)Was & common enough sight to the boys thereabouts. Still it always gave them a ihrill. They hoped to rise that high in the world themselves some day. Patrick E. Crowley shared the ambition of his playmates to become a first-class railroad man. He was born 1n a house near the tracks of the Erie in 1864. His Louis, Ruth Nichols of Rye, N. Y., and | father had worked on the Erie for Elinor Smith of Freeport. N. Y., have | years. snnounced their refusal to compete in the derbies because of power restric- tlons. “Miss Earhart owns a plane powered | with an 800-cubic-inch displacement | motor, which would keep her out,” Maj. Schroeder said. “If she and the others will fly planes allowed, they will be wel- come. But, since they choose not to do 8o, we are including this new race to give them an opportunity to compete.” The two races for women are -the Dixie Derby, which starts August 22 from Washington, D. C., and is limited | to 100-horsepower pianes, and the Pa- cific Derby, starting August 17 from Long Beach, Calif., and limited to 200- horsepower planes. These limitations will not be changed, race officials said. GEN. PATRICK FLIES TO BEDSIDE OF SON Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chair- man of the Public Utilities Commission and formerly chief of the Army Air Corps, flew to Detroit yesterday to the bed- side of his son, Second Lieut. Bream C. Patrick, who was stricken by appendi- eitis while vacationing in Detroit, Mich. Gen Patrick received a telegram at the Distriet Building yesterday and went immediately to Bolling Field, where Lieut. W. A. R. Robertson of the Army Air Corps took him to Detroit on board | an Army ship. Mrs. Patrick, who is on vacation in - Canada, was also notified and is upder- | stood to have left immediately for her | son's bedside. Lieut. Patrick is report- | ed in very serious condition. He was | pg, graduated from West Point last Spring and was assigned to the 6th Field Ar- tiliery, with Feadquarters at Fort Hoyle, Md., near Baltimore. He is the gen- erai’s only son. PECIAL NOTICES. WANT TO HAUL_FULL OR PART to or from New ‘York, Richmond. Boston, | Pittsbureh and all way points: special rates. NATIONAL DELIVERY ASSN.. INC. 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Smith’s Transfer & Storage Co., 1313 You St North 3343, Printing Craftsmen... are at your service for result-getting publicity “The National Capital Press *1210-1212 D St. N.W. * Phone National 0650 BIG RAINS COMING! Is your roof ready? No breaks to let the water in? thini d and tight 9 3rd St. 5.W. District 0933 R |1 He was the station agent at Cattaraugus znd as such was a man of authority and prestige in the little railroad community. . | The youngster knew the language of able to talk. His ears would tell him when the puffing engines were in need of repairs cr overhauling before he was 10 years old. He could tell at a glance the condition of the rolling stock as it passed through Cattaraugus. He was iquisitive and friendly with train crews from the time he was able to get around alone. Inclined to Undersize. He was a wiry youngster, rather on the smallish size. While he played in the fields with the other boys he man- aged to spend much time around the station and in his father's little office. He took particular interest in the work of the train dispatcher. His mind was made up while he was in grammar school that he would seek a father would permit. In those days the generally accepted way to learn the business was to begin young and work that as long as he was so anxious to start railroading he might as well pass up a high school education. Erie in his home town. Each month his pay envelope contained $5. ‘While that wasn't much financial incentive, the youngster was satisfied and proud of being a wage earner. He was learn- ing the business he liked, getting a lot of fun out of it and being paid in the rgain. Getting up at 5:30 in the morning, to work at 7 o'clock and not fin- ishing the day’s tasks until 9 o'clock at night, might not seem sc much fun to boys of the present day. But young Crowley thrived on the hard grind. | His thin legs carried him over many a mile in the course of an average day's work as messenger. ‘Watched Work at Key. and watched the telegraph operator at his work. The thing in the click of the_ fascinate thi 1.0ting his interest, the M&m ;xle.p ami apt pupil. t ety AP full-fledged ope: # ‘Most boys would have gone to bed as soon as they arrived home from such & He was & Crowley. . Bt Do 3 ond technical || t reader of history an l"’lxmk.!el dealing v;lt:l nur%r:hl:m remained up re Omgnt In this way he con- hool was concerned, when ‘course. until he knew than any one else. It wasn't so strange, in view of this, that when he put rapher at the age of 16. Prhe Erie sent him to Custer City, Pa., as telegraph operator. There were only a couple of trains a day at the little way station, but it was a start for the boy. He didn't remain there long. Soon he was transferred to Buffalo and be- came a train dispatcher at an impor- tant point. He continued to be a wide reader of ‘mdbufninl the midnight oil to improve his mind. He worked as hard as ge had done on h's first job. He was Faining "% |a thorough foundation in railroading. | He went. with the New York Central in ARE YOU WISELY SERVED? Wide Reader in Spare Time| abie T ik, Ha s woua sii nim | POST OFFICE DEPT, job on the railroad as soon as his|ment announced yesterday, as the re- your way up. The boy's father thought | greater efficiency. So the lad left school when he was [methods at all the post offices and a 14 years old and went to work as a |uniform collection and delivery sys- mestenger and odd job boy for the |tem. When he wasn’t on the jump he sat = hard day's work as this youngster puv,) mind to it he became an expert wl![-l literature in his spare moments, | '"HE EVENING _STAR, BEING A HANDY BOY WHEN WANTED GAVE START TOPATRICK E. CROWLEY.WHO LOVED RAILROADING PATRICK E. CROWLEY WAS BORN IN THE RAILROAD TOWN OF CATTARAUGUS, AS A SMALL BOY HE WAS INTENSELY IN- TERESTED IN THE WORKINGS OF THE ERIE SYSTEM. 1890 as a train dispatcher. Next he be- | came chief of the department and then chief trainmaster. He was already & man marked for promotion by officials of the road. ‘When he was offered the place of su- | perintendent of the Pennsylvania Divi- sion of the Central System, he refused it at first. He was so modest he didn't think he deserved such an important post. Friends persuaded him to change AS A FULL FLEDGED TELEGRAPI OPERATOR WHEN JUST SIXTEEN. WASHINGTON, > %\ A MESSENGER FOR THE ERIE RAILROAD AND STUDYING AT NIGHT, his mind. He made a notable record in the position. From then on his promotion was steady and sure until he was named president of the vast Central System. His thoroughness in mastering every job as i, came along has paid him and the New York ‘al big dividends. (Copyright, 198 by North American News- per Alliance.) Next—George F. Baker. PLANS NEW SYSTEM Uniform Collection and Distribu- tion for 55 Largest U. 8. Post Offices. By the Associated Press. A new uniform postal collection and distributing system is planned by the Post Office Department for the 55 larg- est post offices in the United States. 1 This action will be taken, the depart- sult of surveys in 19 large cities, begin- ning last September, which have pro- | ducd economies in operation and | The new system already has been in- | augurated in 15 of the cities surveyed. It includes adoption of standardized ‘The results have been achieved, the department said, “without one regular | carrier or clerk being dropped from the pay rolls.” The plan was worked out by Arch Coleman, Assistant Postmaster ' post office inspector. i Cities surveyed were New York, Chi- | cago, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, | Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cincinnati ! Cleveland, Indianapolis, Kansas City, | St. Louis, Louisville, Memphis, Birming- | ham, Atlanta and Jacksonville. i In all but New York, Chicago, Phila- | delphia and Baltimore surveys have | been completed and the new methods of operation are in effect. The survey next will be extended to | cities in the West and then to_addi- tional Eastern cities, including Brook-i . Names of the other cities were not announced. # —_— The weekly cost of living in I ! cit'es of Ausiralia is 321.154‘ m“n‘l General, and William R. Spilman, chief ]| NOVENA OPENS TONIGHT | A novena, held in honor of Our Lady of Prompt Succor, will begin this eve- ning at 8 o'clock at the Ursuline Con- | vent, 519 Fourth street. and will close | on the Feast of the Assumption, Au- gust 15. | Devotional exercises will consist of | the benediction, of and the prayers of the novena. A sermon, delivered by | Rev. John H. Handley, Paulist mis- | sionary, will be given every evening.| ‘The public is invited. | D. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1930. Will Rogers SANTA MONICA, Calif. —1I thought the California papers were exaggerating, as usual, the beat in the East, but I guess the rascals were right, at that. What has the poor farmer done against the Almighty and the Reptiblican adm inistration, that he should deserve all this? If it's not the heat it's the deep snow, if it's not the deought it's the floods, if it's not the boll-weevil it's the tariff, if it's not the chinch-bugs it's Federal Reserve, if it's_not relief he needs awhy it's rain. But there is one pest that he is always free from, the in- come tax. Yours, WILL. ENTERPRISE LEADS Yankee Finishes Second in 37 1-2- Mile Run. VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass., August 7 (#)—The Enterprise sailed by Harold S. Vanderbilt, led the three other candi- dates for the defense of the America’s Cup in a 37%-mile run from Mattapoi- sett yesterday. Yankee finished second, Whirlwind third and Weetamoe last. 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