Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1931, Page 28

B—12 ANERIGANS TONAP IELAND AIR ROUTE Aviation Comipany President Reveals Plan to Continue Cramer’s Fatal Study. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON, Aviation Editor of The Star. MUNICIPAL AIRPOKT, Uieveland, | Ohio., September 4—Tae work of | estabiishing air transport service across the Atantic Ocean by way of Canada, Greenlend and Iceland to Denmark, & | dream for which Parker D. “Shorty” | Cramer, gave up years of study and finally his life, will b continued in the face of all the obstac'es the northland | can tarow in the path of human | progress, it was reveal'd here by EGwin | G. Thompson, president of Transameri- | can Airways, which fostered the Cramer expedition. Next January an expedition will be | gent out with iwo airplanes to make a| thorough enginecring study of the route | to be covered, parts of it over the most | barren and forbidden country in the | world. The route to tudy, of which Cramer devoted the last three years of s lif2 and which final'y cost him his life a few woeks ago when he was lest after leaving Iceland, possesses the ad- vantage of being the shortest between | the two continents and one on which the longest over water hop is 500. | Will Continue Cramer Study. Thompson revealad that Cramer’s studies have been so thorough tact he | gained recognition among explorers be- fore his death as one of the world's best | the informed men on conditions on i Greenland ice cap in the wilds on| Northeastern Canada and Baffin Land. | The rosults of his work are to be use in the difficult and dangarous pioneering | work which it is anticipated eventually will cut travel time between the United | States and Europe to two days. | The expedition probably will be led | by “Eddic” Preston, the pilot who took | up the Cramer trail shortly afier h's death and who has just been recalied to Detroit from the Northern Canada | leg of the route until preparations are completed for the beginning of the engincering study, which promises to | rank as one cf the outstanding pieces | of aviation pioneering. | One of tie pianes will carry sufficlent- | 1y powerful radio equinment to pene- trate the “curtain” of the Northern Lights which blocks radio waves in | the extreme northern latiiudes. The! other will carry supplies for the expedi- tion, dividing the load which over- | burdened Cramer’s plane. . Glover Backs Plan. | The studies will cover the location of landing fields, radio stations, caches of fuel and supplics, meteorological conditions and other details preliminary | to the actual beginning of service. | The survey is heartily aporoved by | W. Irving Glover, Assstant Postmaster General 1n charge of the air mail, who has been one of the warmest sup- porters of the plan, Mr. Thompson revealed | Preliminary study of the route re- veals many interesting and hitherto | little known facts concerning condi- | tions in Greenland and Iceland and along the route. Greenland, it was revealed, is the only place in the world where an aviator always can find a tail wind, no matter in what direction he is fly- | ing. This is due to the mighty ‘ce cap which covers all but the coast lincs of the country. The ice cap chills the | air, which drops and flows in all direc- tions toward the sea. Above the layer | of air which flows outward in all direc- | tions from the center of the cap is an| inrushing layer of air drawn in to re-| place the outtushing lower layer. Cross- | ing Greenland from west to east, Mr. | Thompson said, the pilot comes in high, | in the inrushing upper layer. Passing | the center, he drops into the cold lower | layer, which is blowing eastward to the | sea. From east to west he comes in | high and then drops into the cold lower | westward current. Will Use Eskimo Mechanies. ‘The east coast of Greenland. where large stores of gasoline and fuel oil have been cached in preparation for the January expedition, is utterly barren and virtually uninhabited. The tin: scttlement of Angmagsalik, the farthes nortn point on the route, the survey | party will cover next Winter. It was settled by a small pa:ty sent from the more hospitable western coast, but con- tains only two white men. Supplies | can be sent there only once a year and | at that time stores must be accumnlated | to supply the transport planes for 12 months of operations. Eskimo_mechanics will ba used. The Eskimo, Thompson said, make good mechanics, their hard environment teaching them ingenuity and the art of making the best possible use of the tools that come to hand. Angmagsalik will be the division point at which change will be made from land planes to seaplanes. Land planes will operate on the route west from Angmagsalik ;:ndL Diesel-powered seaplanes to the st On parts of the route landing run- ways must be blasted out of solid stone. On the ice cap innumerable natural ]an{;img areas are available, Thompson said. The survey will enlist the support of | officers of the Army and Navy who are | familiar with conditions there and com- | plete preliminary reports have been submitted to officers of both services, it was revealed. ! S S | Mrs. Stevens Heckscher cof Strafford, | a rise in temperature from one to t ‘SONNY' WHITNEY'S ENGAGEMENT TO GLADYS HOPKINS ANNOUNCED Niece of Marquise de Polig-| nac Has Been at Saratoga With Turfman. Bride-to-Be Prominent Phila- delphia Horsewoman, Liv- ing at Strafford, Pa. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, Scpiember 4 —The en- gagement of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Son- ny) Whitney to Miss Gladys Crosby | Hopkins of Sirafford, Pa., and New Yerk, 15 announced. Miss Hopkins is the cdaughter of the | late Mark Hopkins, jr., of Boston and Pa. She is the niece of th> Marquisz de Polignec of Paris. She hes been at- tending tie races at Saratoga with ‘Whitney. Mr. Whitney, who 15 32, is a promi- nent turfman, having tnken over the interests of his father, the late Harry Payne Whitney. His firct wife was Miss Marie C. Norton, now Mrs. W. Averill Harriman, whom ke m°rried in 023, They were divorced in Reno in 162! Sonny Whitney, like his cousin Jock (John Hay Whitney). polo_player and also & turfman, is taking a Philadelphia | horsewoman for his bride. Jock mar- ried Mery Elizabeth Aitemus. They also have been at Saratoga during the cur- rent season. MANSANESE USED 10 TREAT CANGER Philadelphia Clinician Re- | ports Ministering Mestal With Lead. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Scptember 4.—Discov- ery that manganese combined wih lead is useful in treztment of cancer is reported in a special supplcment of the | American Journal of Cancer, out today. Mixing manganese with lead pre- vents the lead from poisoning the can- or patient. Lead was hailed a few years 2go as a possible relief for can- cer, but it failed because it killed pa- tients about as rapidly as it destroyed cancer cells. Manganese is a grayish-white metal- lic element, recently identified as do- sirable in human_diet in very small quantities. Its lack in rat food was re- ported at Johns Hopkins Univers:ty last Spring as depriving female rodents of | their “mother lov { Report Is Preliminary. The manganese-cancer _experiments are reported by Willlam H. Kraemer. | M. D., of the tumor clinic of Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. His account is; brief, and he states that it is “prelimi-, nary.” He credits Dr. Hamilton Brad- shaw, consulting chemist of the tumor clinic, with suggesting the manganese. Present experiments began in 1929 with rats. They have been extended to human cancer sufferers, 25 of whem have been treatzd. The actual amounts of metal in the dosage are four-tenths | of 1 per cent of lead and four-thou- sandths of 1 per cent of manganesc.! They are given in the form of man- gancse phosphate and colloidal lead | phosphate. ! “The outstanding feature of the new lead-manganese preparation,” writes Dr. Kraemer, “is that it is well tolerated by the patient, enabling us to introduce in- travenously 200 milligrams daily until the total of 600 milligrams is reached. The patient is confined to bed during the entire period of lead administration. ‘The reaction consists of a marked ¢! ree degrees, some nausea and a return cf all_symptoms to normal within four | hours. | Cancer Not Old-Age Disease. H. Gideon Wells of the Otho S. A.| Sprague Memorial Institute of th2 University of Chicago, says: “Cancer is not essentially a discase of old age, dependent on senescence of | tissues, but a disease of long irritated | tissues, the necessary duration of irri- tation being seldom reached in the first | half of life. | “Taking all the evidence it seems fm- | possible to escape the conclusion that | the occurrencs of cancer in both ani- | mals and man is influenced by heredity, | and it seems most probable that the | hereditary influence is an extremely im- | portent one.” While not “denying the possibility | that there is a real increase in cancer | in people of cancer age” Dr. Wells | points out that the seeming rapid spread | of this disease may be accounted for in | the increased longevity of the high! civilized peoples. Thoy now have di: tinctly more opportunity to develop can- cer. Better medical diagnosis and re- porting facilities also increase the czn- cer count. 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TORONTO, Ontario, September &.— Victor Desautels, manager of St. Hilda's British Band, today charged officials | of the American Federation of Mu- sicians with making impossible the band's proposed tour of the United States. The band is here filling an engage- ment_which, he asserted, is subject to interference from the American Mu- sicians Organization. “I Fave a letter from John Webber, president of the federation, stating that they will not permit a British band | to play United States engagements,” he said. | “We cannot enter a single theater | in the United States because the stage hands, electriclans and other employes | would walk out. “Here in Canada the musicians’ union is controlled from the United States headquarters. ~ We cannot play theater in Toronto to fullfil an en gagement without encountering opposi tion. It is a crime that British sub jects mav not present a performance in a British dominion without inter- ference from a foreign body." Claiming that the metal is causing electroiytic action and interfering with the mechanism of ships, port authorities of Malaga, Spain, have asked the mayor to remove from the water the bronze atue of the Marquis de Larios, which was thrown into the harbor at the be- ginning of the revolution. | STAR. WASHIN BELIEVE WOMAN POWERS' VICTIM Chicago Police Probe Disap- pearance of Second Park Ridge Resident. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 4.—As friends and neighbors <f Mrs. Asta Buick Eicter in suburban Park Ridge were preparing for the funeral tomorrow of the widow and her three children who were slain in Clerksburg, W. Va., the Chicago Detestive Bureau was today investigating the report of the disap- pearance of ancther Park Ridgs woman. She is Mrs. Anna Purcell, also known as Mrs. Anne Boehle,. who, mistrusting banks, was r-puted to have carried a considerable sum of money sewed in the scams of her dresses. Two letters sent to Chief of Detectives Jchn Nor- ton by an unidentified writer said Mrs. Purcell might have been a victim of Harry F. Powers, who confessed to the slaying of Mrs. Eicher and her children. Tho letiers s:id that Mrs. Purcell vanished from Park Ridge in 1929 after she had corresponded with an uniden- tified man with the objoct cf matri- mony. Chief Norton said he bslieved that Powers might have lured Mrs. Purcell away from the home where she worked, killed h<r and, efter taking the money, disposed of the bady. The b:dies of Mrs. Eicher and her three children were cremated yesterday and the remains wsre forwarded to Chi- cago. The funeral will be held tomor- row in the suburb's largest theater. Rev. Walter D. Spangler of the Eng- lish Lutheran Church will preside. POWERS' CELL CHANGED. Placed in Separate Compartment as Prisoners Complain. CLARKSBURG, W. Va., September 4 (#).—Shunned by fellow prisoners, Harry F. 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Gillis yestercay petitioned the Wayne County Circult Court for permission to file quo warranto proceedings to dissolve the American Friendship Soclety. A hear- ing on the petition was set by Judge Homer Ferguson for tod: Gillis charged in his petition that “at least seven murders were committed as a result of correspondence under aus- pices of the society,” and that the so- ciety is controlled by Olga Plater and Albert B. Plater “for their own pe- cuniary gain,” although it was incor- porated under the laws of Michigan “not for profit.” It was through this society that Harry F. Powers became acquainted with th: two women he has confessed to slaying in Clarksburg, W. Va., 2long with three children of one of them. Arnold F. 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