Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1931, Page 5

LAREHURSTGREES DRGBLE ARRON New U. S. Navy Airship Makes Flight to Home Port From Ohio Birthplace. By the Assoclated Press. NAVAL AIR STATION, LAKE- HURST, N. J, October 22.—Slipping through a dark-clouded sky, the Navy dirigible Akron rode into her home port today and nosed down to her mooring mast at 6:3¢ am. (Eastern standard time). Only a small crowd braved the wind- swept landing field to greet the latest queen of the air. At 1:45 am., when the Akron first hovered over the land- ing field, her riding lights blinking red and green, a handful of spectators were on hand to watch her cruise in wide circles while she waited the dawn. Landing Preparations Start. It was still dark, with the faintest streaks of light, when the ship's landing crew, 75 strong, turned out and the actual landing preparations started. Fifteen minutes later smoke bs were set off on the landing field, cur- taining the sandy stretch with a low- lined blanket of white. to indicate the direction of the air currents to the crew of the ship At 6:14 the first landing line fell from the Akron's blunt nose. Two other lines dropped a moment later and the ground crew drew her t> the moorirg mast. Dr. Hugo Eckener, the Graf Zeppelin commander, looked on. The breeze had died down and the sun rising behind the dirigible splashed the shimmering fabric of her tail with faint gold. Not Berthed Immediately. Contrary to the Navy's original plan, their newest recruit, which will become an official ship of the line on Navy day, October 27, was not berthed immedi- ately. She-remained on the fleld, with Lieut. Comdr. Charles E. Rosendahl, her skipper, and his crew aboard her. Finally, at 8:35, the giant air liner was docked. Her huge fin grazed the top of the hangar entrance as she was walked in. Comdr. Rosendahl and Dr. Eckener chatted while the $5375000 air leviathan was being berthed. It took 15 minutes from the time the tail of the Akron was lashed to its iron cradle on the mooring field until the ship was entirely in the hangar. Los Angeles Rests Nearby, Alongside the Akron in the 800-foot hangar the Los Angeles rests, dwarfed by her new sister ship. The Los Angeles requires only 656 feet of the hangar's space, while the Akron cov- ered all but 15 of the 800 feet when she was_berthed. The Akron took 8 hours and 25 min- utes to come from Akron, Ohio, her birthplace. A dozen Navy planes escorted the air- ship into the field, then skirted away to give her room to berth. MICHIGAN U. ALUMNI WILL HOLD SMOKER Session Saturday Night to Hear Newspaper Men Discuss Conditions. The University of Michigan Alumni Association of Washington is to open its Winter season with a smoker at the University Club Saturday evening. The smoker is the first of a series sponsored by the various professional groups. { The affair Saturday will be “News- paper night,” with newspaper men who are graduates of the university speak ing. They include Jay G. Hayden, cor- respondent of the Detroit News and president of the Gridiron Club, who will discuss the foreig: situation; Laurence ‘Todd of the Feder2ted Press; Nathan Robertson of the Associated Press, and Delbert Clark of the United Press. Mar- tin Codel, radio writer of the McClure Newspaper Syndicate; Willlam Kirby of the United Press, and Parke Engel of the Dallas News and Evening Journal will lead in open forum discussions. Mark Foote, correspondent of the Booth Newspaper Syndicate and presi- dent of the club, will be toastmaster. ‘The club will hold noon luncheons at the University Club on the first, second and third Mondays of each month, be- ginning November 2. PLAN NAVY DAY FETE ABOARD CONSTITUTION Navy League of U. 8. Sponsors Program to Be Broadcast. Adams and Ritchie to Speak. A special Navy Day program is to be broadcast Tuesday night from the fa. mous old United States frigate, Con- stitution, now lying in Baltimore Harbor. Charles Francis Adams, Secretaryof the Navy; Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Mary- land, and Rear Admiral Willlam §S. Benson, retired, are to speak. The pro- gram was arranged by the Navy League of the United States and is scheduled to start at 10 o'clock. It is to be broad- cast over the National Broadcasting Co. network. ‘The ceremonies will open in Wash- ington_with music by the United States Navy Band, directed by Lieut. Charles Benter, After the music, the program will be switched to the Constitution in Baltimore, where the addresses will be made, ‘The program will close with music, switching from Baltimore to the Madi- #on Square Garden in New York, where a massed band will broadcast, and then to Washington, where the Navy Band will play “The Star Spangled Banner.” SOCIETY PLANS DANCE New Yor; State Group to Open Fall Season on Halloween. ‘The New York State Society of ‘Washington will open its social season Halloween night, with a dance in the ballroom of the New Shoreham Hotel. £ostuming will be optional. Prizes will ~: awarded winners in a novelty dance to_be introduced during the evening. >rs. Lemar Harris is chairman of the Reception Committee, assisted by Mrs. William A. Carr and Miss Flor- ence Adams. F. W. Krichelt heads the Floor Committee; Mrs. C. F. Hammer- ly, Entertainment Committee, and Maurice Sends, Membership Commit- tee. Reservations may be secured through the secretary, George A. ‘Winkle, 4628 Fourth street, or at the oor. UNUSUAL REQUEST Physician’s Will Directs His Body Be Laid on Right Side. DES MOINES, Iowa, October 22 (#). —Dr, Oscar W. Lowery, 86-year-old physician, who died here Sunday, made &n_unusual request in his will. ‘The will, filed for probate, directed: “In case of death, dress me in warm ‘underclothes and in my dress suit, turn &ny body slightly to the right side, ace in the same direction.” - THE EVENING Akron Proves Airworthiness Giant Navy Airship Comes Through Severe Struc- tural Tests With Fewer “Bugs” Than Was Expected—Climbed Eight Feet Per Second. ‘The alrworthiness and new structural features of the U. 8. B. Akron are de- scribed by Dr. Karl Anstein, who de- signed the ship, in the following inter- view with R. A. Buner, Associated Press staff writer. Dr. Arnsteln has bullt 70 Zeppelins. BY DR. KARL ARNSTEIN, As Interviewed by R. A. Bruner, (Copyrighted by the Assoclated Press, 1931.) AKRON, Ohfo, October 22.— The| U. 6. 8. Akron, accepted yesterday by | the Navy, is an airworthy ship. That much we know from the test flights Jjust completed. When the tests for strength were made in the dock before the trial flights, the ship was loaded down with tons of weight, until it seemed as though we were deliberately trying to break its back. In the air it was made | to dive and climb at speeds deemed dangerous in former practice. Some 40 men were on duty during the tests, watching at every section of the ship for any sign of strain or snap- ping wires or loosening rivets. The ship met the test magnificently. Naval specifications under which the | ship was built called for it to demon- | strate a rate of climb of six meters A second. That is_approximately 1,200 feet a minute. The ordinary office building elevator ascends at about 249 fcet a minute. while the Empire State elevators, the fastest in the world, have a rated speed of 1200 feet—the rate of climb prescribed ior the Akron. | Driven upward at an angle of some | 12 degrees, to pressure height and be- yond, the ship easily made its required | six meters, seven meters, then eight | meters per second and more, the | structure absorbing a pressure from the | distended gas cells greater than any former ship has taken. Weight Must Be Saved. | Theoretically an _airship could be | bullt as strong as a bridge or a concrete | building. But surplus strength can be built only at the expense of weight. 1And an airship must fly. The problem of the Navy and the Goodyear-Zeppelin designers was to build a ship which in every particular would meet the stresses it might en- counter in the roughest flight. The prcblem of maximum strength and minimum weight is ever present in airship building. The trick is to effect a nice balance between the two, then to check by meticulous tests, to see how closely you have hit it—and to resolve every doubt in favor of strength. No airship was ever tested out with such scientific precision, from stem to stern, top side to keel, the interior of the ship was literally dotted with |curious gauges and recording instru- ments, many of them specially designed for this purpose. Even the seismograph, used for detecting earthquakes, was | utilized to measure vibration. | The science of aerodynamics is still | new. It was unknown when Count Zeppelin built his early ships. Wind tunnels have furnished valuable data, but no wind tunnel can compare with the supreme proving ground of the air itself, with & full sized ship, fighting its way through varying air turbulences and calms, gusts and storms. The eight engines of the Akron, flanking the two sides of the ship, are mounted in line, 74 feet apart. Even at that spacing, the rear propeliers will be somewhat affected by the slipstream of those forward. How much? With the propellers of the first and third engines turning clockwise, the second and fourth turning counter- clockwise, with graduated pitch of the blades, our researches indicated a mini- mum of slippage. We knew that an airship, utilizing dynamic forces resultant from its spees and the angle flown, will carry more than it can lift by the buoyancy of the gas alone. Wartime commanders with one or more gas cells losing gas badly from ac- cident or shell holes, or even completely deflated, have brought their ships safely in, Aboard the Akron this dynamic lift was exactly measured. The ship was sent to pressure height (the altitude at which the helium expends until it com- pletely fills the cells), then deliberately driven still higher at a sharp inclina- tion for stated periods,—valving gas as it climbed, making the ship successive- 1y two tons heavy, five tons, seven tons —leveling off finally at 6,000 feet with a load of 22,000 pounds more than it | could lift—then dropping 11 tons of water ballast into Lake Erie to check the accuracy of the calculations. We expected to find “bugs” in tre | ship. Automobile makers have built millions of cars, but even with this wealth of experience, they test a new | model out for weeks, finding and elimi- | nating “bugs” before they market it. There have been less than 200 air- ships built in the world and the Akron was nearly twice the size of the Graf | Zeppelin and included features never before incorporated in airships. There have been “bugs” in the Akron, but none of them serious and fewer than | expected. Gears Proved Problem. In any test period one is apt to think more about the “bugs” than the fea- tures which work. The Maybach mo- tors again demonstrated their reliabil- ity and endurance. The gear makers had a real job. The power the engines develop has to be transmitted through an 18-foot shaft, then turned at right angles to drive the propellers. Seven of the eight gears were built in Amer- ica, one in Germany. They have de- livered power to the propellers with al- most no loss of efficiency. The airplanes the Akron is to carry inside its hull have not been installed, HOLDS LIFE GENERATED SPONTANEOUSLY BY SUN Northwestern U. Dean Believes Great Heat Rays Stimulated Chemical Groups. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 22.—A theory that life was generated spontaneously by rays from “a sun far hotter than it is today" was expounded by Dean Irving S. Cutter of Northwestern University School of Medicine last night. Speaking before a clmrus group on its origin, Dean Cutter said that in his opinion modern science would not suc- ceed in reproducing life synthetically in the laboratory. “We can visualize the stupendous forces, radio-chemical in character, acting upon new-born chemical groups he said. “‘Just such forces—radio activ- ity of high degree and powerful ultra- violet rays—can explain chemical com- binations now denied the hand of man.” As the earth cooled, radio activity lessened and so ultra-violet light from the sun decreased, Dr. Cutter theorized, with life taking unto itself its own con- tinuance. . SIGNS MOVIE CONTRACT Ethel Barrymore’s Son Seeks to Follow Footsteps of Uncles, HOLLYWOOD, Calif., October 22— Samuel Barrymore Colt, 21, son of | Ethel Barrymore, yesterday signed a moving picture contract by which he | will undertake to follow in the foot- | steps of his illustrious uncles, John and Lionel Barrymore. Colt, whose stage experience bey three years ago, when he played in a stock company in Rochester, N. Y., said he came here quietly, determined to but the doors to the great T-shaped opening, for the planes, 50 feet wide, 38 feet deep, were opened in flight and the alr whistled past underneath, but did not blow into the interior. We could almost forget we had gas cells in the ship, so little trouble have they given in the dock or in the air, although the largest single cell alone is 40 per cent the size of the entire Los Angeles. In the climbing and diving tests air circulation and densities were care- fully watched. If the ship was com- pletely sealed and sent up into the more rarified atmosphere of 6,000 feet the interior pressure would cause severe strain on the outer cover. Openings had been planned so that the air pres- sure would equalize itself immediately inside and out. This worked satis- factorily. The swivelling feature of the pro- pellers promised a very important con- tribution to airship handling, since it would permit the ship to be forced upward or downward without dropping ballast or valving gas in landing or take-off. On one flight the ship took off 12,000 pounds heavy, on another landed 12,000 pounds light. The control surfaces have given the ship a higher degree of stability and control than former ships. There was some concern about vibra- tion, with engines mounted inside the ship This has been much less than expected. Communication within the ship has been satisfactory and instru- ments have worked as expected. STAR, WASHINGTON, BETTER BUSINESS REPORTED IN EAST Concrete Examples of Im- provement Show Advertising Has Been Kept Up. BY VICTOR EUBANK. Associated Press Financial Writer, NEW YORK, October 22.—Brighten- ing of the business horizon, at least in |a number of lines that might be listed |as “specialties,” is reported from vari- | ous industrial spots along the Atlantic | seaboara, Among several concerns that cited | good if not “booming” sales, it was noted that advertising, instead of being | cut, either had been sustained at previ- ous levels or increased materially. ‘The Burnham & Morrill Co. of Port- land, one of the largest canning com- panies of Maine, reported it has had no | slack season thus far; has kept its full |force at work and even put on addi- | tional employes. Also it has maintained an extensive advertising campaign, Many Businesses Increase. In the textile end the Premier Silk | 2111l Corporation of New Bedford, Mass., | recently opened a new 48-loom unit and cxpects to install another 24 looms soon. | At Lewiston, Me., the Chamber of Com- merce said the Bates Manufacturing Co, makers of bedspreads, was operat- HURSDAY, ing with 40 per cent more employes than last year at this time. Another Lewiston firm, the M. C. Stone Co., shirt makers, doubled its previous pro- duction, en! g its plant and ma- chinery and adding 200 more employes to its force. The Lynn, Mass, Chamber of Com- merce recorded the establishment of two | new shoe companies while the Boston chamber announced that a manufactur- er of women's shoes had added 5,000 square feet of floor space to its factory and put on 80 additional employes. Prom Lawrence, Mass, it was an-| nounced the Bolta Rubber Co. had pur- chased an additional mill and would add 250 employes to its present staff. The American Electro Metal Manufac- turing Co. stated its business was great- sr fof each month of 1931 than for Employing More People. The Perin Walsh Co. of Boston, manufacturers of truck bodies gnd equipment, recently increased its work- ing force and expected to move into quarters providing twice its former space. In the fleld of radio the Bos- ton chamber found that the Short Wave & Television Co. planned to lease additional space and increase the num- ber of its employes from 25 to 200. ‘The Warren Telecron Co. of Ashland, Mass., announced that by increasing its advertising appropriation it was neces- sary to employ several hundred addi- tional workers for a night shift in or- der to keep up with its increased busi- ness. At Bristol, Conn., two brass com- panies stated business compared well with last year, although not equaling that of 1929. The Sessions Foundrv Co. here is working four days a week:| in some departments and expects to increase to five if the present business | activity in its line continues, The Bristol Brass Corporation has found conditions steadily improving since July. | The hat manufacturers of Norwalk, Conn., apparently have joined the ranks of the optimists. The Cavanagh- Dobbs Co. announeced a substantial in- OCTOBER 29 1931. crease in business and its officials be- lieve that conditions are on the mend. operations had consistently main- tained a level only a little below normal and two concerns have been able to move intp larger plants to. increase quantity production. Improvement in South. On the South Coast improving con- ditions were found in several places. The Virginia Electric & Power Co., | which serves a large section of the State, including Richmond and Nor- folk, has found from its ledger sheet that the recent Summer months' con- sumption of power exceeded in volume the consumption in any similar period of the company's history. This was attributed ,to the increased use of electrical comforts and con- veniences in the home. The company has made no curtailment of its forces and has not reduced wages. At the same time the Federal Re- serve Bank at Richmond reported trade in department stores of the fifth dis- trict was practically normal, from the standpoint of volume, although there was a degline in sales in dollars and cents. ——e OPTIMISTS CELEBRATE International Day Observed by ‘Washington Club. “Optimist International day” was celebrated yesterday by the Washington Optimist Club, meeting in the Hamil- ton Hotel. 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