Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1931, Page 6

“PLANELIE RVALS Conviction That Air Travel Is Practical Is Growing Among Executives. * @pecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, August 22—At a time when “the plight of the railroads” is & leading topic of discussion through- out the land, evidence is accumulating | that American railroad executives are ‘becoming convinced of the practicability and permanency of air travel in the general transportation picture. Some of the biggest railrond systems | now have large holdings in the air | lines and are adding to them steadily. | There are a few railroad financiers who | still will not admit that air trans- portation is destined to make heavy inroads in rail travel, but they are in the minority. | ‘Where ihe wir lines parallel the rail | gtems, the executives are \keeping & :me check on their own patronage and | are watching every move being made | on the Nation's skyways. They are| preparing to cope with the situation | whenever it becomes acute. Some are | even considering the establishment of | their own lines and others already are trying the experiment. Rivals Speed Up Railroads. Afr travel admittedly has speeded up gurface transportation wherever the lines are paralleled by plane systems, and some railroad officials admit that the introduction of air travel in their tmmediate field has increased their traffic and forced them to put on finer, faster trains and to increase their daily schedule by sdditional trains. The taste of fast air travel created a desire to go faster by train, hence the rail- roads were able to put on these extra- fare trains and obtain the patronage | without difficulty. | Pennsylvania road has I 1 h;ll:l;n in Transcontinental and W';S | ern Afr, Inc., the “Lindbergh line” that parallels its system across the econti- | nent. The raiiroad system also is affili~ ated with the Ludington Line, which T between New | ‘ork and Wi delphia. express e e | departure of planes from New York and Washington every hour. Gen. W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pemn- Railroad, from the has W. J Tlinois Central and Union Pacific, is also e director of American Airways, spans the continent from At- lanta to the Pacific, operates lines in Alaska and has a network that stretches from the Great Lakes to the Guif of Mexico. Rail Head Studies Afr Lise. nisante ot ‘the sl Gangport. poe. ice al pos- mmm the Boston & Msaine and the Maine Central. They are co-op- erating Pan-American Airways their g?.i?h ‘world’s greatest cities are London, with 8,202,818 inhabitants; New York, with 6,981,927 B,ef!’.m, with 4,332,034, and SALTZ BROTHERS LIGHTWEIGHT FELTS Felted by Schoble SALTZ BROTHERS INAVY TO STAY SHORT THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Bright Hature Seen for “Baby” Stars | HERE ARE WHREE THOUGHT DESTINED FOR SCBEEN LEADS. E e e e e ] ERE are 3 of the 13 young women the Wampes, a publicity men's organization, thinks are destined for screen stardom. Selection was made from the countless hopefuls who flock to the film eapital in Hollywood. Upper left is Marian Marsh, from Trinidad Island; Prances Dee of Los Angeles is in the center and on the right is Joan Blondell of New York. ~—A. P. Phoios, DITCH WORK FOR THOUSANDS _ SPONSORED BY CLEVELAND C. C. H i \OF WARRANT OFFICERS i‘l‘orty-tme Vacancies Cqunmot Be Filled Until Next Year, Says Navigation Bureau. ‘The Navy is short 41 warrant officers, but the Bureau of Navigation, Navy | revealed yesterda; this condition can not be corrected until the fiseal year 1833, adding that “in the meantime, vacancies both ashare and afloat will exist.” Plan! Offered Hoover Committee as Aiding Jobleu, While Removing Hazards and Helping .Highways. | low as 5 cents a foot, the chamber sald. ‘The engineering requirements are simple, and the plan is one which tile | could be put in operation with aimost | where to fmprove k. no delay. A ‘total of 1455 wasrant offcers 15 | Jon the life of the roads and to ¢limi- ham! imed b iny now allowed, the bureacy asserted, While | nate ome of the most serious of All raf- | th et mimier Clalmed by grading over 4 T “burean piass to_ represent o | 1 20 the PRRREER | o gt R b s g o Presentin; 1de o ways cou present status of |, reRTCRE T ed in many parts e Snihons ecimation of B-sook e e e i, |Of the Nation, the chamber already Phe Nife of the highway. 1t sasd, would ok e recom; for the cost of the filling-in 11,496," an announcement from the bu- oy o In addition, the chamber emphasized ials adopt it shortly through- | the desirability of removing ditches be. out the Stale. | cause are the contributing cause ‘The chamber indorsed the measure of many uhhl‘:cgledmn,h st 0 8 as * ," | _The plan en subm! 24 D . T iages |and one in which the public would |chamber to President Hoover's Un obtain & value proportionate to the ex- | ployment Committee to the Ohlo high- | penditu | way department and to the Cuyahoga The plan is unusual in that almost County commissioners. 1325 / ANY | | GROSNER’S Choice of the House ‘message | ir ship stating that they | bore characters, and they were | 'let oé“ D, €. VOLUN DESCRBES RESEARGH AT .U Work of Faculty and Students for Last Ten Years Told in 200-Page Book. | Listing more than 3,000 subjects, com- prising the work of professors and stu- dents for the last 10 a 200 page volume, ehtitled “A of Re- search at the Catholic University,” has Jjust been published under th? editorship of Dr. Maurice 8. Sheehy, director of the survey council of the Catholic Uni- versity of America. Four schools of the university are credited with this work; the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Canon Law, the School of Sacred Sciences and the School of Law. Dur- ing the decade of which the volume treats, 436 books have been by members of the university staff. Other contributions totaling 2,568 have lengthened the list of the university's additions to and intergretations of cur- rent knowledge. - ‘The volume has been prepared as a means of acquainting American scholars with the work of the university. That the institution is not exclusively a theo- logical seminary, as is often presumed, is evidenced by the variety of the re- search projects credited to its staff in the last decade. ‘The board of trustees recently de- veloped an expansion program for the university which, when realized, will permit the establishment of new de- partments and an” increase in the field of )gruluu;e t:ll;udy, any o research projects have been practical in mture,"l"m United States Government attributes the eradi- cation_of the Mediterranean fruit fy from Florida to the researches of the | Rev. Dr. Hugh O'Neill of the university. The Langley experiments; which pre- pared the way for the development of aeronautics, wepe performed in con- nection witl. m.mbers of the Catholic University faculty. The chemical labo~ ratories of the university were placed at the disposal of the Government dur- | ing the War, and it was in them that the discovery of “Lewisite,” a gas with qualities superior to “mustard offensive weapon in ¢l was made. " a8 an ‘warfare, g | Army Orders I Maj. Rolanid M. Hollock, Jut Advo- cate General's Department, at tsin, | China, has been ordered to San Fran- |cisco; Maj. M. A. St. Peter, Medical Corps, from Fort Omaha, Nebr., to Honolulu, Hawall; Maj. K. M. Infantry, from New York City to Ruf |land, Vt.; Maj. 8. G. Wilder, Infantry, | from Hawaii to San PFrancisco; Capt. | and aviation equipment; Lieut. Wendell | A. Weller, Medical Corps, from the | Army Medical Center, this city, to Fort | Benjamin Harrison, Ind. Medical off- | cers’ stationed at Pari have | been assigned to other stations as fol- |lows: Maj. 8. M. Corbett, Fort |N. C; Maj. Albert W. Kenner, Foit Banks, Mass; Maj. C. L. Maxweli, Fort Leavenworth, Kans, and Ma). G. C. | Beach, jr. Fort Sam Houston, Te: | Capt. Bugene H. Tilton, Infantry, on |duty with the Louisiana National | Guard. has been transferred to Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; the President has accepted the resignation of Eecond Lieut. Philip Van Dick, Infantry, at Portland, Oreg.; Contract Surgeon Lyle P. Hansbrough has been assigned to %utv Int the Quartermaster Depot, Front oyal, V F STREET Starting Tomorrow morning at 8 and until every one is sold - - Remaining Spring KUPPENHEIMER & GROSNER SUIT OR TOPCOAT ) 4705 1341 F .. N.W. Sold as high as %65 Alterations at Cost CROSNERYS 1325 F STREET UST 23, 1931—PART ONM. 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