Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1931, Page 3

FOREST FIRES GAIN INWESTERN AREAS 30,000-Acre Blaze Soreads in North Idaho and Mon- tana Sectors. By the Associated Pres: SPOKANE, Wash., July 29.—A scar- Jet-tinged smoke screen darkened North Idaho and Montana skies today as vhe 80,000-acre Deer Creek fire and several smaller blazes swept along steadily. A thousand men wielded flame-heated shovels and axes in challenge to the Deer Creek fire, largest in the North- west. A favorable wind was aiding them, but they were retreating because the mountainous ccuntry made trench- ln”lmnst impossible. 0 fighters suffered injuries yester- day when a falling tree struck them. A force of 550 men on the northeastern front fell back as the blaze crossed Hell Roaring and Spread Creeks and approached within a few miles of the Canadian_border west of the Yaak River in Montana. ‘Troublesome smaller fires were burn- ing in the Clearwater forest in Idaho, fn timber near Sandpoint, Idaho, and near Missoula, Mont., and in several other areas of the region. Howard Flint, regional forest in- spector, flew over the Deer Creck area and reported wind from the east was helping slow down the fire’s crackling advance through rich stands of pine and larch. Officials estimated 1500 men. were fighting the various fires of Eastern ‘Washington, Northern Idaho and West- ern Montana. e FIRE THREATENS VINEYARDS. Blaze Breaks Out Again Being Bottled im Small California Canyon. SAN FRANCISCO, July 29 (P).— ‘Thyee hundred firefighters today fought & blaze at the base of Mount Diablo, seeking to stop its onrush toward vine- yards and ranches as it burned within three miles of the town of Clayton. Believed controlled and bottled in a small canyon, the fire flamed anew in six places, swept away the remaining tall timber lining each side of Mitchell Canyon and destroyed all buildings of the former picnic park and Summe: resort. FRENCH RESORT THREATENED. NICE, Prance, July 29 (#).—A wall of flame five miles wide and a mile deep was crawling across the finest pine for- ests in Southern France today. It threatened to destroy the mountain re- sort c¢f Thorenc despite the efforts of 2,000 soldiers, firemen and volunteers working night and day. The forest fire has been burning since last Sunday and the famous quart size pine cones rolled blazing down the hill- sides, starting the fire afresh in a hun- dred places every hour. ‘The fire fighters’ most difficult task was driving the peasants out of their docmed homes. Many were removed by force as the flames swept toward their little cottages. Thorenc is 40 miles from here, but the pungent pine smoke ‘was carried across by the wind. FIVE GET COMMISSIONS Army Reserve Corps List Includes | Three First Lieutenants. Commissions in the Army Reserve Corps have been issued by the War De- partment to the following: Ray K. Windnam, 235 Emerson street, as a first lieutenant of Field Artillery: Eber T. Le Gates, 1822 I street, and Henry N. Spottswood, 1523 Allison street, first lieutenants of Infantry; William B. Smith, 2405 Huidekoper place, second lieutenant in the Quar- termaster Corps, and James F. Angier, 239 Maple avenue, Takoma Park, Md., second lieutenant of Coast Artillery. 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MURRAY of Oklahoma is shown with Guardsmen at the Red River toll bridge between Denison, Tex., and Durant, Okla. free bridge paralleling the toll bridge was opened, Murray ordered the guards to relax their vigilance at the toll bridge. defied an injunction to open the toll bridge approach. —A. P. Photo. When a Previously he had SPANISH CABINET VOTE POSTPONED Country Technically Without Ministerial Council as Resignation Given. By the Assoclated Press. MADRID, July 29.—The National Assembly adjourned last night after postponing the vote of confidence on the present provisional government of President Alcala Zamora until today. During _the session the veteran pro- visional President, who has held the reins of power since the monarchy fell, defended his administration in a speech which was frequently interrupted by angry accusations from opposition members. “Your government assassinated work- men!” Rodrigo Soriano and _several Catalonian Deputies shouted when the President referred to the cabinet’s policy in quelling recent labor disorders. Explains Strong Action. After order was restored he explained | that the government was forced to re- sort to strong measures of repression “because of the necessity of avoiding anarchy after two years of inherited economic difficulties.” Until a few minutes before the ses- sion ended it was expected the vote of confidence would be taken, and | checks of the assembly indicated the cabinet would be sustained unless un- foreseen developments occurred. One of the events at today's session was the swearing in of Count Roma- nones, one of Spain’s most prominent Monarchists, as deputy from Guadala- jara. The veteran minister of the old days was present for the first time| and occupied a seat directly in front of the cabinet benches. He said after- ward that he would act only as “a spectator” for a time. Zamora Defends Cabinet. In his address defending the cabinet President Alcala Zamora traced its ac- tivities since the monarchy fell, set- ting out reforms which had been effect- ed in the army, department of public instruction and the judiciary depart- ment. Regarding Spain’s relations with the Vatican he said that the government had answered three papal notes with- out bringing about a rupture and still maintained state supremacy. As the result of the postponement of the vote ofi confidence, Spain last night was left technically without a cabinet, since the provisional govern- ment’s resignation was tendered during the afternoon. The cabinet was remaining in su- thority, however, it was announced, and would do so until after the vote is taken today. Municipal Buildings Burned. SANTANDER, Spain, July 29 (®).— The municipal court and town hall in the City of Polientes were set on last night and destroyed. The flames started just before a government com- mission ‘was to make an inspection. AMY JOHNSON LEAVES MOSCOW FOR SIBERIA d | British Aviatrix, on Way to Tokio From London, Making Flight by Easy Stages. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 29.—Amy John- son, British flyer, who is trying out her speed in a flight from England to ‘Tokio, continued on her way today after refreshing herself with a night's slecp. Moscow was her fourth stop since she and her companion on the journey, Fly- ing Instructor J. Umphreys, left Eng- land Monday. Their first hop was to Berlin. The Berling-Moscow leg was completed in 12 hours, with fuel stops at Kocnigsburg, Germany, and Velikie Luki, Russia. ‘The British airwoman faced perfect weather for the first stages of her flight into Siberia. She flew today to Kazan, where she plans to spend the night. Making the flight in easy stages, with stops on an average of every 500 miles for fuel, the aviatrix expected to reach ‘Tokio five days out of Moscow. She in- tends t> remain in Tokio two weeks and return over the same route to London. ‘The flyers were formally welcomed and given bon voyage by civil aviation officials who have placed all facilities at he route and who were their hosts at a sumptuous private 5 dinner tendered them at their hotel im- mediately after their arrival. o _ GLADIOLUS SHOW OPENS R The eighth annual gladiolus show un- der the auspices of the Takoma Park Herticultt Club opened today and will continue until 9 o'clock tomorrow night. The exhibition will be held in the Takoma Park Branch of the Wash- fl;g'-(‘él Fublic Library, Fifth and Cedar streets. The Gladiolus show committee is com- pcsed of Mrs, H. A. Morrison, chair- man; Miss Marjorie Hansen, J. W. Wel- lington, C. B. Axline, Louis Voelker and Mrs. Paul Carter. The officers of the club are Willlam H. Engiand, president; Fred C. Duehring, secrewary, and C. G. Carr, chairman of the bition Com- mittee. —_———— Tientsin, China, has 40 taxi com- panies. 1! BATTERY OF GUNS ADDED AT PANAMA Defense Strengthened by Group of 14-Inch Rail- way Cannon. | _Strengthening defense of the Panama | | Canal against possible naval attack, the | | United States Army has added a bat- | tery of 14-inch rallway guns capable | of scoring hits on moving ships at 25 miles—the most powerful artillery yet developed for American armed forces. Used to supplement the fixed 16-inch | guns defending the canal, the railway | battery may be hauled from one side of the isthmus to the other. set up and made ready for firing within six hours, | it was learned today. Heretofore, the 14-inch guns at the canal have not been movable. In work- | ing out war games in co-operation with | the fleet, however, it was found advan- | tageous to have a battery of long-range | guns capable of being shifted to the | gmnc of attack, according to Army of- | cers. Fire Is Accurate. Outranging the longest 16-inch bat- | tleship guns in the world by six miles, | | the new railway gun fires with the pre- | cision of a rifle. In recent practice out of 11 shots fired the battery scored | & hit on the forward turret of a| moving target the size of the battle- | ship California 231, miles away. | A development of the 1920 Army gun and the old Navy l4-inch railway gun | that was used in France during the World War, the new piece of artillery | weighs 730,000 pounds with carriage, | has a maximum range of 47.000 yards | with an initial velocity of 3,000 feet per second and a maximum elevation of | 50 degrees, as compared with about 27 degrees in the old gun. TRe new gun traverses without moving its carriage, where as the old pieces had to be mounted on curved track and swung around in order to change direction. Using a projectile weighing 1,200 pounds, it costs Uncle Sam $700 every time this giant is fired. Can Be Hand Operated. Bullt in the carriage is a pows<r plant, consisting of a 125-horsepower engine directly coupled to a 50-kilowatt gener- ator, which furnished power for motors that raise and lower the mount, operate powder and shot cranes, elevate and depress the gun, turn the mount around on its base and furnish air for closing the breech and for blowing the powder gasses out of the gun after firing. All these operations may be done by hand in_case of accident to the power plant. For more accurate firing, the gun re- quires a concrete base, to which it must be boltd and the wheels removed. How- | ever, it may be fired to a limited extent from a field platform which can be in- stalled on any track. Becauge of its heavy weight, in trav- eling the gun and locomotive must be separated by three to eight gondola cars to prevent the two heaviest weights crossing & bridge at the same time, with another gondola behind to protect the overhanging muzzle. Top speed of the gun train is estimated at about 28 miles an hour. Operators ot the three bus lines in | Foochow, China, are asking compensa- tion from the government for the use of their machines when commandeered for the moving of troops during the de- fense of the city. 15th & H Sts,, N. W. ANTIFREEZE PLAN | FOR PLANES FOUND Cornell Physicist Woulti Heat - Wings by Exhaust From Motors. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE. Assoclated Press Science Editor. ITHACA, N. Y., July 20.—Dr. Merit Scott, Cornell physicist, has discovered that enough heat is dissipated by air- plane engines to warm the wings and prevent perils of .ice formations. ‘There is even the possibility of heat- ing the E,ropeller, a part up to now lacking any kind of protection against ice. “There has been a general opinion,” Dr. Scott says, “that the heat Aissi- pated by the aviation engine is insuffi- clent to maintain the necessary ex- posed surfaces of the airplane at or above the freezing point of water at ice-forming temperatures.” That this opinion is mistaken, he found in a year's experiments and cal- culations in a laboratory at Cornell Upiversity department of physics, equipped under a grant from the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. Heat Covered Wings. In a refrigerating wind tunnel he drove glaze, sleet and subcooled water particles against small model plane wings. 1In these wings, along the lea ing edges, were pipes carrying hot air equivalent to the exhaust gases from an aviation engine. The pipes kept the surface of the leading edges above freezing. The heat generated at these edges flowed backward over the wing surfaces. D. C, WEDNESDAY. Husband Killed WIFE EXONERATED IN MATE’S DEATH. MRS. DELL HARBAUGH Of Chicago, who was clearell of blame after her husband was killed during a struggle in which he tried to take a gun from her. She eharged he had broken their “road to happiness” léve pact. —A. P. Photo. SIAM KING AND QUEEN ENTERTAINED AT QUEBEC Couple, Traveling Incognito, Arrive to Be Guests of State Officials. By the Associated Press. QUEBEC, July 29.—Traveling incog- It was pressed down there by the rush |nito as the Prince and Princess Suk- of the air past the wings. It formed a | hodaya, the King and Queen of Siam, heat cushion between the wing surface |accompanied by their royal entoura and the freezing water particles. Back pressure produced upon the engine by using the exhaust gases in this manner, Dr. Scott says, may be re- lieved by discharging the gases into the air at & point on the wing where the pressure is below that of the atmos- phere. “The propeller may also be protected from ice formation,” he states. “This may be accomplished by conducting the hot gases to the interior of a hollow metallic” propeller by a sliding valve and allowing them. to discharge from exit ports near the propeller tips. Although no practical tests of these methods of preventing ice formation | have been made, the practicability and mplicity of these means seem avail- able when occasion necessitates.” Still Layer of Air. Laymen think of air as rushing over a completely bare wing surface. Actually the wing lies in a coat of still air, but it is a microscopically thin coat. The uext layer of air outward is in motion and succeeding layers move with in- creasing velocity. For this reason, Dr. Scott says, if a layer of water on the wing is thin, the air forces tending to blow it off are exceedingly small, even though at an almost infinitesimal distance above there may be a hur- ricane. This results in unexpected antics of water drops. On the leading edge air pressure holds water flat, but as it flows back ovér the wing, it bunches un into rounded droplets. These rush along with the hopping motion of water poured upon a sizzling hot stove. Jamaica expects its 1931 banana ex- ports to reach last year's record figures. LASTIC HOSIERY Fitted Professionally GIBSON’S 917 G St. N.W. Of course, if you must move in the hot- test month of Summer, you must, but there’s a way to go about it cool- ly—and we’d be glad to show you how! Call Metropolitan 1843 for particulars. 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The first message we sent to Gen. Nobile was: “A thousand wireless greetings. Dr. Eckener wants you to come aboard the Graf for a cup of tea.” ‘The invitation was accepted, but the neral has deferred his visit for a ittle while, We were unable to remain near the emmn long because of the atrong cur- ent in the channel and the large ic* floes, which threatened fo do serious damage to the Graf. We landed the hundred weight of mail we carried for her in 13 minutes. Their boat came alongside and into this the mail bags were lowered. All the time we were forozd to keep a sharp lookout for the loes. Although we had looksd forward to seeing the people aboard the Maligin and remaining by for a short time, it was only possible to glve them the'r mail before we were f to rise again. Converse by Radio. Even !hwtg: we were unabBle to talk much with crew of the Russian ice- break:r while we were so close to them, we_kept up a conversation by wireless. ‘The_lan every hour. With the glorious sunshine at midnight and the reflection of the sun rays on the immense fields of ice, we are sailing through a world of daz- 2Zling whiteness. At times we have been unable to so¢ more than a few yards ahead of our ship, owing to the thick white mist. To keep out of danger then we have to rise above the mist. ‘We made the extraordinary discovery that the islands known as Albert Ed- ward and Franz-Joseph Land are not islands at all, but parts of a hugs peninsula. Draw New Chart. We have drawn an entirely new chart of the western half of Franz-Joseph Land. Our geophotometric instruments are functioning splendidly. ‘The first polar bears we saw were near | Cape Flora, the southernmost point of | Franz-Joseph Land, which shone black- | gray beyond the glacirs, with a black- | ground of violet sky at the horizon. As a matter of ract, the vhole group of islands forming Franz-Joseph Land is falsely charted. 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