Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1931, Page 51

Aviation BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. NOTHER effort to obtain from Congress legislation for estab- lishment of a public-owned air- port for the National Capital appears probable. Though the Capital's airport status has been im- proved tremendously by’ the building program of the past year at Washing- ton-Hoover Afrport, the problem has not been solved for all time by any means. . Those who established the present air terminal flield at the south end of Highway Bridge have made it possible for the Capital to take its place on the aeronautical map of the country. Un- til that airport was put into suitable condition, by private capital, this city had no air transport service. Today it is one of the world's best served cities in this respect. The new airport organization was greatly strengthened by the recent op- erating agreement reached between of- ficials of Washington Airport and Hoover Field, which has elimipated dis- astrous competition and made possible real progress. Officials of the fields, which still are physically separated by Military road, are expected to seek from the Government authorization to close the roadway between the flelds, and thus improve the runway system, in- creasing the margin of safety and making possible the use of all portions | of the two fields. Completion of the Arlington Memorial Bridge and the Mount Vernon Boule- vard projects will make this portion of the Military road unnecessary, and even though the Military\road were to be closed in advance of the completion | of these projects, traffic still could be handled around the field area by way | of Columbia pike, airport officials con- | tend. Another safety measure sought by airport officials is the removal of over- head wires along the United States Route 1, or the Washington-Alexandria road, adjoining the field. Whatever steps may be needed to bring this desir- able improvement about should be taken with the least possible delay. and poles not only are a potential source of hazard, but they will be a most un- sightly feature if permitted to stand when the Federal program of improve- ment in that vicinity is completed. Need for Public Ownership. During the recent conference on uni- form State, county and municipal aero- nautical legislation, held in this city, national experts presented information inting directly to the urgent necessity ?:r establishment of a public-owned air- port for Washington. A There is grave danger, they pointed out, that privately owned airports in desirable locations close to the down- town section of the cities they serve may be forced out of existence by increasing land values and increasing taxes, which make them more valuable for purposes of rsa;bdh‘ision than for operation as air- ports. At the same time sites near the city which may be suitable for airport pur- poses are being built up. The city which relies entirely upon privately owned air- | ports thus may find itself in the em- | barrassing position in the not far dis- tant future not only of losing its pri- vately owned landing fields but of hav- lost all the sites which may be de- veloped for a 3 To those whd™argue it Government has no business going into the airport field for transportation terminal pur- poses it was pointed out by speakers Tepresenting the various State govern- menis at the conference that modern transportation of every type is vital to the life of any city. Government has set aside )ands for railroad rights of way and terminals. Government has provided, at its own expense, for ships and water-borne . Government has laid out great highway systems. Government built canals. Every form of transportation has been aided by Government, and air transpor- tation can not be made an exception if the public interests are to be.served. The city which discourages or which re- fuses to encourage air transport develop- ment, they said, is going to suffer, re- gardless of what scoffers may say i The {‘ut that Washington-Hoover ‘ap) Airport is serving ly today does not mean that there is 1o longer any nead !ornl:rmdeve - . "harged u:mec-w';- tal's welfare have a direct responsibi] in this respect which some day must be mcfi.t ;{'h‘: ml:urmth:edehy the more xm mbmw“o g to satisfy this Multiple Airports Needed. An argument in favor of more than | & single llrgort for large i found in the preliminary report, just | submitted, of a Committee on Alrport Traffic*Control organized by the aero- nautics branch, Department of Com- This committee points out that problems of terminals are among g most difficult encountered by those en- | gaged in the development of transpor- tation by steamship, railroad and mo- tor vehicle. Though basic equipment s have been refined and , the terminals still bristle :}:&hh liihl}icu‘let and costly problems, | c] eaten to become more rather tl:;n to diminish. 2 i Tis are no exception to ti Tule, the committee loundp. ‘They lohr: ‘the bottlenecks of air transportation,” the committee said. As time goes on and the aerial carrying of passengers, mail and merchandise increases the accurate control of air traffic on and in the vicinity of airports will be a basic necessity, it was stated in the report. Time studies of airport trafic flow, made by the committee in this country and abroad, indicate that one airport cannot safely handle mych more than | 25 airplane movements per hour. If | traffic could be distributed so that there | Were no more than 25 arrivals and de- | ’ partures per hour this rate could be maintained throughout, the 24 hours of the day. There are certain to be peak | load periods, however, and even today during such’ periods it is not unusual for planes to be kept in the air circling the port for as much as 15 minutes or ving the signal tc This, the committee dfc]garcd. '.)) & condition which is adding materiall; to transport operating costs, in addition to slowing up and restricting operations, The findings of the committee i this respect seem to be evidence that | the city which fails to provide ade- g\:;leten:clrpod 1;: ii‘lfl“m to meet its fu- | s ely to be embarrasse because of its oversight. - “Nypwac” Flies 17,000, During the first four months of op- eration between the National Capital and New York. ending January 1, the New York, Philadelphia & Was| n Airway Corporation has carried a total of 17,052 passengers and its planes have flown a total of 430,700 miles, or some 18 times around the earth at the Equator. | During the four months, according | to reports of company officials, the | operating efficiency of the line was 100 per cent from a mechapical stand- point—there having heen no trips in- completed because of mechanical trou- | bles. During the four months there | were but two mechanical failures in | the afr and in each case the plane | continued to a regular landing fleld | along the route. Frequently schedules | have been completed with one of the | three engines on the planes out of op- | eration. In more than 10,000 land- .mm"e have been no more serious ulties than two flat tires. ever, a total of 116,000 miles were flown out of the total of 124,000 miles | scheduled, the efficiency rating for the | month, the lowest since service was started, 94 | world has ever seen, its total voiume be- ‘The wires | con quate airport facilities close to the New York business area. More ngers were flown during September, the opening month of oper- ations, than d any of suc- ceeding months. This was dpe to the novelty of the new service in part and in part to almost perfect weather throughout the month. The September total was 5,109 passengers. In Octo- ber the weather was less favorable and 14,422 passengers were carried. Many days of' fog and bad weather were en- countered: in November and the pas- senger total fell to 3,243+ Last month, however, showed a substantial increase, 4,278 passengers having been flown. This increase, amounting to 1,179 pas- sengers or 38.2 per cent .as compared with November, was due largely to a | lower round-trip rate which became ef- fective November 24. ZR-4 Shows Progress. The dawn of the new year found construction of the duralumin frame- work of the U. S. S. Akron or ZR-4, glant Navy airship now under contract at Akron, Ohid, well along toward com- pletion, according to reports received here. '!ale 76-foot cone-shaped nose had just been raised into position, the control car taken from the fabricating plant to the construction dock for at- taching to the ship and the tenth of the 12 main frames was about to be hoisted into place. With the hose in place, the skeleton of the great ship measures 615 feet in length. With the tenth frame added, the skeleton will be 685 feet long, leav- ing 100 feet to be put into position. The airship is to be by far the largest the ing that of the Los Angeles and the Graf Zeppelin combined. ‘The control car is being installed well toward the nose of the big ship, pro- jecting below the streamline. It is be- ing bullt in as an integral part of the structure. In this room the captain and his staff will be stationed. It will in all known modern devices for nat tion and control. The radio cabin and commanding officer’s quarters will be inside the hull directly over the control car. One of the 1,000,000 cubic-foot gas cells which will contain the lifting gas was completed and tested several weeks ago and three more of the large cells now are being made. The fabric for covering the ship is being manufactured and the placing of the covering is about to be installed, beginning at the nose. Electriclans now are busy wiring the ship for the power and lighting plants and work on the elevator and rudder fins is well under way. One of the nsmission to be used power trai in transmit power from the engines inside the hull to the universally jointed propellers outside now is undergoing & 300-hour test, which may continue to gear. test. Each of the eight Maybach engines has been thoroughly tested. now- being made indicates completion of the new air giant for its initial flight in the early Summer. “Flight Tutor” Improved. The Army Air now is using an improved type of “fight tutor,” handles just like an airplane e | P27, ITHE SUNDAY The Deils Pulpit on Kentucky River near Camp Nelson STAR, WASHINGTON, rthwest of Lexi i xdo:me. It gm':iggmhfi a spri women and thirfeen girls faced water toa. of pioneers day battle with Indians in August 1782. D. O, JANUARY 4, 1 1 twelve . h in carrying in a three ploneer 931 ———I:;ERT FOUR. (Title resistered U. 8. Patent Office.) ?fi E}fi}c hfi;}farnians aver thatthis DII;‘CA fitd m'::rxortel spring on the main toadway. Be that as it may, either spring is smour.ldcd by historic oy S Station sprin, barmyard ingtcai -1 acters 1o be fouid in A Ke —BY JAMES W. BROOKS. ; {hree ni les south of ’E:x}m one the Lane. Allen road 5 called "Scarlet Gate”. Here James Lanie Allen, one of the South’s most giffed writers, spent many days in weéaving webs of' !mdg[rgg&og :éwrfii:cem and char- oo i@;hmla}‘a and other novels inspined (Sketches by Calvin A. Fader.) 21 05,68 and one. nile blue grass - region. With the arrival of the new year, the National Guard of the District of Co- lumbia found itself without a Regular Army officer assigned here as adjutant general. Lieut. gol. Frederick H. Smith was ordered relleved by the War De- partment and went to Fort Monroe, Va., to take a special refresher course for general and field officers at the Coast Artillery School there. is understood, will take about three months, and following its completion he will proceed tqgFort McClellan, at An- nistan, Ala., t0 assume command of a Coast Artillery regiment. Incidentally, it was said that this is the post at which the 29th Division troops, of which the local Guard was a part, trained for their service in the World War. Pending the assignment by the War Department of another officer here, Lieut. Col. Peyton G. Nevitt, assistant adjutant general, will carry on the af- fairs of the office. It was said that no indication has been received here of the selection of the new adjutant general. Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, command- ing the local Militia brigade, and other officers of the local Guard last week tendered Col. Smith a dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel. The following Regular Militia officers: Maj. Gen. John W. Gulick, chief of Coast Artillery; Maj. Frank C. Scofield, instructor, 260! Coast Artillery, and First Lieut. John C. Wade, instructor of the 121st Engl- neers. Col. Elliott, also assigned to the local Guard as instructor, was out of Smith with the local Guard, and the latter was presented with a fitted trav- eling bag on behalf of the officers. Maj. Walter W. Burns, commanding the 260th Coast Artillery, has filed an application for permission to attend the anti-aircraft course at the Coast il- lery School at Fort Monroe, Va., for a period of eight weeks, beginning to- mOrrow, Preparations are being made in the 121st Engineer Regiment for the estab- lishment of a school of lithography as of the instruction system of the Militia. The school will be under larger and more comfortable eockntt new system of electric contacts that will not overheat and an improved tele- phone system. The tutor is used to d in flight. More than 40 graduates of the United States Military Academy recently were put h a course of instruction on the tutor. They made an initial “flight” in the tutor to accustom them to the machine and the use of its controls. Each student then made at lzast four more trips, the first devoted to banks, the second to gentle and medium banks, the third to a review of the banks and to climbing and gliding turns and the fourth to acrobatics for recovery from unusual itions. By a comparison of the ratings made by the students in the tutor with their retings in actual flying training it is expected that the true value of the flight tutor may be determined. It is anticipated, however, that the device not only will aid the Air Corps in de- termining the ability of prospective stu- dents but also will lessen the time re- quired for a student to reach the-solo stage. National Conference Planned. The Aeronautics Branch, Department o Commerce, is planning a national conference on the marking of obstruc- tions to air navigation. The conference 1s to be held hers on a date yet to be announced. : Particular attention is to be given to regulations governing the establ ent and certification of aeronautical lights, as well as to the subject of methods of marking obstructions. Invitations to assign delegates to the conference have been sent by the de- partment to national associations deal- ing with electric lighting, electrical manufacturing, gas lightin, electric _ railwi radio engineering, illuminating engineering, telephones, electric power transmission, telegraphy, | air transport operations, aerial service | operations, flying schools, airports and to the Post Office Department airmail division, the Army Air Corps and the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. Repre- entatives from the airways division, aercnautic and development service and licensing and inspection service of the aeronautics branch will be present. Several matters of vital importance to the membership of the District of Columbia Air Legion, local private flying club, will be discussed and put to a vote at a meeting tomorrow night at 9 o'clock at the Legion heaquarters, 1319 P street. Chief among these itenis will be an amendment to the by-laws to provide for a solo bond of $50, to be required of all solo members and of all future solo members on or before their first solo flight. Membership in the glider unit of the Legion is building up and the unit now has two gliders, in which members expect to put in a good deal of flying time as glider flying time goes) dur- ing the Winter and Spring. | Amalgamation of two spinning com- panies in Japan gives th> new organi- zation control of 15848 looms, and makes it the largest company in industry. Reductions HUPMOBILE Free Wheeling MOTT MOTORS, Inc. 1520 14th St. N.W. Dec. 4341 him | Capt. Clarence S. Shields, the | ter to each member of the direction of First Lieut. T. A. Riley and First Lieut. Thomas J. Fitzgerald. All drills of organizations of the local Guard were suspended last weck, it was announced at brigade headquarters. Praising the work of the members of bis unit during the year just closed, , commanding eers, sent a let- his command, in which he summed up the unit’s accom- Company E, 121st. last | Plishments, as follow: Company E gas the only ‘company in the regiment to have 100 per ul”l’t‘og“-! personnel present at the annual Federal inspection in 1930. It won the field meet at camp—in fact, it has never lost a meet. It qualified more mep with rifle than any other company in the local Guard. Its ordnance inspection report was rated “excellent.” ts rifle team won the championship of the entire District National Guard, h the fine shooting ability of Lieut. William R. Lane, Sergt. Harry B. Parsons, Eeé{t. Henry M. Boudinot, Pvts, (First Class) Milton Kurland, Gil- bert L, Johnson and Edward A. Fin- layson. Its basket ball team is making great strides, captained by Sergt. Walter W. Keyser. Its automatic rifle team, composed of First Sergt. William D. Putnam and Staff Sergt. Baxter Smith, won the championship auto rifle match. Its pistol t2am also came out on top, through the efforts of Shields, Parsons and Andrus. ndrus. “Let us not only maintain our envi- able reputation,” says the letter, “but strive for greater accomplishments dur- ing the coming year. “Let us resolve to attend more drills and to urge others to attend, dnd to bring in immediately recruits who can attend drills, so that our attendance re- port for 1931 may De listed as an ac- complishment.” Efficlency reports_for all officers of the Guard are to be in the adjutant general’s office before January 15. The reports cover the calendar year. All commissioned officers who have not been examined physically for appoint- ment or promotion during the last calendar year have been directed to report to’ the medical officer of the Guard for such examination. on these examinations also must by January 15. First Lieut. Willard L. Hammer, Head- quarters Detachment, 29th Division Spe- cial Troops, has been ordered trans- ferred to the unassigned list, pending acceptance of his resignation. be in transferred from the active to the re-. for the reasons given: ‘Temporary removal from the Dis- trict: Pvts. Zillard H. White, and Mar- tin L. Bray, jr., both of Battery B, 2G0th Coast_Artillery, and John, C. Harvey, 29th Division Military Police Company. Business interference with the per- formance of military duty: Pvts. Edward District National Guard This, it | Army officers also were guests of the | town. Officers lauded the service of Col. | Reports | ‘The following have been ordered i serve lists of their respective commands, | B. McConnell, Gayle E. Barr and Joseph | Furr, ail gt Baitery B, 260th Coast | Artiliery. | Educational interference with _the performance of military duty: Pvts. Lester C. McCleary and John C. White, | both 'of Battery B, 260th Coast Artillery. | e | Corp. Ira E. Ryan, Company D, 121st | | Engineers, has been ordered reduced to the grade of private, upon recommenda- | tion of the company commander. Pvt. | (Pirst Class) Gerome Delisi has been | ordered promoted to corporal in the | same command. Pvt. John H. Howard, Headquarters Detachment, 29th Division, and Pvt. Charles H. Clum, on the reserve list of the 29th Division Military Police Company, have been ordered honor- ably discharged on account of removal from the city. \ Pvt. Lockeley V. Adams, Medical De- partment Detachment, 260th Coast Plans are being formulated for the establishment in the armory of the 1st | Battalion, United States Naval Reserve | of the District of Columbia, of a sec- |tion of the Volunteer Communication Reserve, a branch of the Reserve which is composed of men primarily interest- ed in radio and mostly amateur radio operators. This force has made great strides throughout the country, and de- | tailed plans have been made by the Navy Department for building up a | force of men for use in running the naval communications in time of emer- gency. Regular code broadcasts are! hel throughout the country in the various naval districts for the purpose of train- | ing the men thoroughly in the methods of handling naval traffic. It was announced that Clark A. Briggs has been appointed lieutenant in the Communications Reserve, and he is to be placed in charge of the com- munications work at the local armory. In preparation for the training activi-| tles a large radio shack is being built | on the second floor of the armory, where | the large amount of equipment may be | stored and in which the operators may | work during the drill periods. Al- though this branch of the Reserve is not required to put in a weekly drill, the same as the Fleet Recserve men, nevertheless it was indicated that it was probable that certain of the men would be urged to attend the regular drills for the purpose of training Fleet Reservists detalled for radio duty. ‘The Navy Department for some time has been urging greater co-operation between the flect and communications branches, to the end that the Radio Service may be improved, some fault having been found during past inspec- |tions with the small amount of train- ing which the ficet radio men had. It is believed that with the establishment of the radio headquarters in the local armory much benefit will be obtained by both branches of the Reserve. The value cf a force well trained in com- munications work is said to be very important in time of a national emer- gency. Following the construction of the shack and the active assumption of the work by the newly commissioned officer, |it is probable that radio communica- | tions, “including the training of naval operators, will be an important part of | the weekly school system which has | been inaugurated by the local Fleet Re- serve officers. In connection with the training ac- tivities of the local Reserve it was a nounced that a large amount of equip- ment which has been taken off destroy- ers now in rescrve at the Philadelphia Navy Yard by a crew of shipkeepers, sent from here for the purpose, ar- rived, and a force of men is engaged in preparing it for installation. It includes apparatus usually found on the bridges of destroyers, and will be valuable in training the men, as under the plans now formulated the local contingent| will be assigned to destroyer duty. A large amount of material for other training work, includiing pumps and machinery for the instruction of the engine and fire room forces, also has been received and will be installed un- der the direction of Lieut. Comdr. Wal- ter C. Lockhart, chief enginecr of the | local battallon. | It Wwas also announced that the new gun to be used for training purposes be received and installed next ok. 1t is of the 3-inch type, and| will be erected in the armory. Much of the equipment now being installed was | | neezed because of the removal from the | city of the training ship Upshur. How- er, another ship, assigned to the 5th Naval District and a unit in the newly formed Reserve Tr: Squadron, is expected to spend part of its time here, 80 that the men will be able to put in the finishing touches of their training al her. remainder of the ves- |luum organizations in the Hampton | | | i { Autocrat Motor Oil is richer in oiliness— gives a stronger protecting film—a tre- mendously strong, toughened piston ring seal—smoother motor perfermancs— greater power—longer life— more mileage. Roads District. No information You will drive longer upon AUTOCRAT than you have ever dared to drive upon any other oil, and it drains from the crankcase with all the “look” and “feel” of an oil that has gone hardly 100 miles. AUTOCRAT—THE OIL THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHERS. Beware of Substitutes Try Autocrat the mext time you need oil, and judge its advantages for yourself. At the Better Dealers Rl BAYERSON OIL WORKS, COLUMBIA 5228 | the board in the event d}om at the time. Artillery, has been ordered transferred | to the Headquarters Detachment, 29th Division. Pvt. Frank Beckert, Medical Depart- ment Detachment, 121st Engineers, has | been ordered transferred to the re- | serve list of that command because of | business interference with the per- formance of military duty, while Pyt Edgar L. Howard, jr.. Headquarters De tachment, 29th Division, goes to the reserve list because of educational in- terference with the performance of mil- itary duty. Pvt. Herbert L. Howard, jr. 20th Division Military Police Company, has the Guard. | The interorganization rifle competi tions preparatory to the firing of the | chief of the Militia Bureau's indoor | rifle team match will be started this | month. The preliminaries will be fired for the purpose of selecting a team to represent the regiment, battalion or separate organization in the final | matches which are to be fired next | month in competition with other Guard | organizations throughout the country. | D. C. Naval Reserve || been received here of the probable-time of the arrival of the training vessel. Officers ,and men of the local bat- talion now are looking ferward to the annual inspection, and are making plans to do as much as possible to raise their ratings this year when the Naval | Inspection Board arrivess They have | several months in which to prepare for this important annual task, and much | of the work of installing equipment is for the purpose of fitting out the armory | o that ships drills can be staged for ! that the de- stroyer happens to be at Hampton The following enlisted in the local| bagalion during the week and were assigned to divisions: Frank R. Gess- ford, 3300 Eighteenth street northeast, fireman, third class, 2d Fleet Division; Melvin E. Cross, 3214 Brot) place | southeast, seaman, seco! 1st | Fleet, Division; Wiillam E. Bender, jr., 335 C street northeast, seaman, second | class, 3d Fleei Division; Benjamin H. Hall, 204 O street northeast, scaman, | second cless, 3d Fleet Division, and| Benard Stasulll, 625 Fifteenth street northeast, seaman, second class, 3d Fleet Division. ent that the | There were reports ¢ | annual meeting here of the naval and | Naval' Reserve officers on active duty) with ve organizations might be| suspended this year, probably due to| the lack of funds, as it requires a con- | siderable amount_to call these office to Washington. These conferences havs been held annually in January for a| number of years, usually at the time of | e annual convention of the United | States Naval Reserve Officers’ Associa- | tion. The conferences have been con- sidered rather important as bringing | the officers dealing with the Reserve in | the field in close contact with those at| the Navy Department charged with the | duty of directing ‘he affairs of ®his| branch of the service. Last year, in| addition to those ordered here for the| large number atiended at rse. | In speaking cf the conference in his| annual report Admiral Upham said that it provided an opportunity for an in- terchange of ideas between the admin- lszxc'utlve officers in the bureau and| those stationed in the field; it pro-| vided contact between officers of the| Regular Navy and those of the Reserve. | A number of very important questions | were discusszd, and the bureau believes | that the small expenditure involved was | more than justified by the return to the | Government, owing to a greater dis-| semination of information and the re- | duction of difficultics of administering | the Reserve. Reserve officers greatly appreciate the privilege and oppartu- nity of presenting their point of view, he said. N Difficulties in the way of providing for the promoiion of special service | officers of the Reserve was one of the| important questicns given consideratior at the conference, and it was the con clusion of the department that it is not | possible to define definitely the civilian qualifications for promotion, but rather they would have to be passed on in each individual case. 1t was pointed out that the Bureau of Navigation is unable to require special service officers to perform training duty as a prerequisite to their promotion, suecifically exempted by law. Howsver, upon their own request they will be given a period of training duty for this pur- pose, with pay if funds are available or without pay if no funds afe available THE GREATER HUDSON 8 ‘The Sergt. Jasper Unit entertained 25 children of veterans at a Christmas rty December 23 at the Thomson School, when Santa Claus presented them with toys and baskets of food. Russell W. son gave piano selec- tions, Freda Wo.{ a vocel solo and Doris Rosedale an exhibition of clas- | been ordered honorably discharged from | sical dancing. The unit also distributed boxes to the disabled veterans at Mount Also Hospital. The regular monthly meeting will be held January 7. One of the most interesting phases of the 1931 markmanship program of the American Legion will be the Na- tional Postal Team Match for posses- sion of the Paul V. McNutt trophy. Plans for the match are outlined in a bulletin sent:out from-national head- quarters By Frank J. Schneller of Neenah, Wis, natiohal markmanship director. ‘The teams will be composed of six shooters, one alternate and captain, all members of the Legion post which sponsors the team. The department championship post team will be selected on or before February 10 by compara- tive score, elimination matches or series of competitions, as the depart- ment markmanship chairman may di- rect. Members of a team entered in any department elimination match cannot be changed or substituted in a later department or the national mateh except in event of death, dis- ability or removal from department. No Legionnaire can shoot on more|O’ than one team. during one season's competiiton. 2 Not later than February 15 the de- partment chairman will report to the national director the department cham- pionship team by name, home station, number, pames of competitors, and will accompany same with certificate of eligibility of each member of the team. He also will report by name and location the teams which engaged in the elimination matches. The na- tional match will be fired on the home range of each department champion- ship team on February 28. Permission to shoot on March 1 may be obtained if Saturiay is inconvenient, accordin to the bulletin. Immediately after the conclusion of the shoot the total score will be telegraphed, and on March 1 targets, . properly signed, and score of each competitor by individual stage and total score will be mailed to the national director. A commissioned officer of the United States Army, National Guard serves o be 50 feet, in prone, Tw The official N. R. A. y targets will be used, two shots on each of the five record targets at each stage. The arms and ammu- nition rule provide for any .22-caliber, metallic sights The Paul V. McNutt National Postal Rifle Match Trophy gees to the win- ning team for one year. The American Legion and N. R. A. will provide medals for the first, second and third teams. National Rifle Association rules and regulations will govern in all respects, the bulletin said, but N. R. A. mem- bership is not a condition precedent to participation in this match. The . R. A. has scheduled several indi- vidual and team matches, indoor and outdoor, 22 and 30 caliber, for Legion- naire N. R. A. members. Information and targets may be had by writing secretary, N. R. A, Barr Building, ‘Washington, D. C. ‘The American Legion Fidac Rifle Team won first place in the 1930 In- ternational Rifle Match sponsored by Fidac, according to information re- celved. at national headquarters. The American Legion team scored 1948 points out of a possible 2,000. Belgium | was second with 1,687 and France third with 1,659. The American team was composed of the following: J. A. Wilners, Harris- burg, Pa.; R. E. Louden, Butler, Pa; J. A. Noxon, Yonkers, N. Y.; A. F. Goldsborough, Pasadena, Calil.; Thur- man Randle, Fort Worth, Tex.; Reed, Bellefontaine, Ohio; Clark W. Otto, Louisville, Ky.; J. P. Woolshlager, Castorland, N. Y.; A. J, Yearsley, Piqua, Ohio, and O. M. Schriver, Washing- ton, D. C. e An official letter of invitation has been tehed through the State De- partmen invlulplf the Prince of Wales to attend the National Convention of the American I.e‘rlh:n in ber, as Legion’s distin- guest. The invitation was llfin:d by National Comdr. Ralph T. Neil, after conversations had with Sir Ronald_Lindsay, the ish bassador. It will be prince in person by Aml G. Dawes, himself a Legionnaire. Salon Departmental, No. 14, des Huit Chapeaux et Quarante Femmes cele- brated the Christmas season as host- esses at a party December 26 for 25 children of World War veterans, most of whom were orphans, at the home of Chairman Roberta Fawcett. Santa Claus presented the children with toys, games were played and refreshments were served. Baskets of fruit were given the mothers to take home with 8 | them. A number of the partners were visitors. Le Chapeau Carolyn Herman extended Christmas greetings to the children. The social meeting of the society will be neld Jenuary 7 at the home of Part- ner Mabel’Staub. A Christmas party was held by the Vincent B. Costello Unit, No. 15, on De- cember 23 at the Immaculate Concep- tion Hall. Ten families were given bas- kets and 60 children of needy veterans .| were given a real Santa Claus party. A program consisting of a clown and a troup of Boy Scouts put on two boxing bouts and gave an_exhibition of their skill in bugle calls. Father Hurney, post chaplain, gave a brief talk. ‘Toys were distributed by Santa Claus, assisted by members of the unit.. ‘The next regular meeting will be Jan- uary 6 at the Cairo Hotel. In connection with the/ “Past Com- Detroit. next | patie mander’s Night” next Tuesday, of George Washington Post, No. 1, on which occasion two past commanders of the post will be presented with past commander’s, jewels, Past Department and Past Post Comdr. John Lewis Smith and Commander William E. Porter visited Naval Hospital Christ~ mas eve and presented a past coma mander’s jewel to Past Comdr. Paul V. Collins, who is serfously ill in that In- stitution. In view of his illness he will be unable to attend the affair on Jan< uary 6. All arrangements have been come pleted for the event which is the first ever to be held by the post. The past has lost two of itf past commanders since it was organized March 7, 1919— E. Lester Jones, who was the first post and first department commander in the American Legion, and Charles B. Han= ford. One other past commander, Charles J. Painter, sailed two weeks ago to assume a new assignment with the United States Veterans' Bureau in Mantla, Philippine Islands. The other past commanders will be present next Tuesday night and welcome members of the post and ipate in the - gram being arranged for that nighf Chairman Edward H. Hale of the department ball committee announced on occasion of the meeting of the com- mittee Tuesday evening the fol list of box holders: Representative Hanna McCormick, Mrs. Constance C. Williams, Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State; A. W. Mellon, Secretary of Treasury; Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Daughters of American Revolution, Senator John B. Kendrick, Senator F. C. Wolcott, Ruth Pratt Bu‘ker, Arthur T. Tyrer and Eleanor Tson. Additional patrons and _patronesses are Mrs. Robert Whitney Il!pl:fle. Mrs, Demarest Lloyd, Mrs. Jess W. Nichol- son and Mrs. Ghristian Heurich, ‘The advisory council of U. 8. 8. Jacoh Jones Post, No. 2, ith Quinn, 1262 Twenty-first street. A Christmas Legend. Quaint -and curious are some of old monkish stories about the Christmas. 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