Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1932, Page 53

AVIA BY JOSEPH S. NLESS the Senate chooses to override the House, which seems exceedingly unlikely, the P have to get along during the coming fiscal year with Sl 000,000 less for domestic airmail year. Mca:!rgis year the department has lines for flying airmail within the e d $7,000000 for foreign airmail service. United States an by the House, domestic airmail, $7.000,000. o The reduction in the domest absorbed by cutting again the rate: have been cut twice January 1 of this year, amounting Should the Postmaster General de- | cide that the contractors cannot ab- | sorb the $1,000,000 loss without run- ing the risk of a financial smash, it may become necessary to curtail some of the existing airmail service. In any event, the Post Office Department has decided, there will be reductions in the rate of pay to airmail contractors as rapidly and as often as they are able to stand reduction without disastrous results. Should there be a possibility of reductions which will ve more than $1,000,000, the department may apply the excess to increased services. Dlgdr'lhe there can be no expansion of airmail service during the coming fiscal year. The Postmaster General has promised the worried airmail contractors that he will not permit their rates of pay to be cut to a point which will ruin them financially. Rather than permit such drastic cuts he will curtail service, he said. Discussing this feature with members of the House Appropriations Commit- tee, the Postmaster General explained thet when the new April cost sheets comae in from the contractors he will be able to learn whether they can li®: within the $19,000,000 appropriation. Reduced Service Considered. “If they cannot,” he said, “I will have to cut off some service this next year; we will have to fly fewer miles, because I am not going to make them do business at a loss and let their e?uipment run down, breaking up their pianes and losing their pilots, losing the mail and bringing the whole thing into disrepute.” Should reduction of service become necessary, the Post Office Department has indicated, the reduction will begin with night airmail service, which is the most expensive to operate, even though this type of service is of great- est value to the mailing public. United States airmail planes now are averag- ing more than 40,000 miles of flying each night, as ainst 82,000 miles during the hours of daylight each day. It will not be the policy of the Post Office Department to cut out complete- Jy any of the night airmail lines, but rather to reduce the frequency of schedules, it has been stated. The attitude of the contract airmail rators toward the reduction of the Shmeil appropriations i expressed by Thomas B. Doe, president of Eastern Ajr Transport, one of the so-called “Big | Four” air transport lines which hold 90 per cent of all the Government's airmail contracts. Doe likens the airmail structure now being built up in the United States to a house. The efforts of the inde- pendent operators to break into the contract airmail field at greatly reduced rates of pay, he says, is like putting up a tent instead of a house in order to save money. Full Equipment Required. “If we are going to build real transportation companies for mail, pas- sengers and express, with real vaiue in clg of wnr,‘;gcngg‘yboe said in a ndxc: address a 5. ago, “‘we can' 2ord to 61t tnicss we have all of the. equipment ‘and facilities that make for safety, comfort and dependability.” Referring to the action of the House in slashing the domestic airmail ap- propriation, Capt, Doe declared that this action was “a mistake,” explaining that “if we don’t finish the house and paint it, we are not practicing econ- omy. “The best economy,” he continued, “would be to increase the appropriation and hasten the day when ain a profit to the Post Office Department. It is showing & profit to the country as a whole. The Post Office loss is mot $2¢,000,000, as the canceled stamps amount to from $12,000,000 to $14,000,000.” In concluding his radio remarks, the new appropriation bill con 0.00€ the foreign airmail appropriation remaining at during the pas | existing today make necessary the im- | TION EDGERTON. ost Office Department is going to service than during the current| $20,000,000 with which to pay the| boundaries of the As passed tains $19.000.000 for ic airmail appropriation may be s of pay to contractors. The rates st year, the last slash, effective on 10 per cent. R indicative of the attitude of the leading airmail companies, Capt. Doe said “And don't overlook the fact that trans- portation is the most important indus- try we have. We have put about $100,- 000,000,000 into railroads, steamships, rivers and harbors and good roads, all for transportation, and here we are now | building the most modern of transpor- | tation companies, and it is only an in- | cident in taking the steps necessary Lo insure our national safety.” Airship Bill Urged. Urging that Congress pass as quickly as possible the pending merchant air- | ship bill, the Aeronsutical Chamber of Commerce, national trade body of the | aviation industry, declared that such legislation is necessary for proper ex- pansion of American air transport and foreign trade In announcing that the chamber had | voted to support the bill, Charles L.; Lawrance, president of the body, ex- pressed bellef that economic conditions | mediate passage of the measure if | American air transport services are to | reach their full development “We regard this legislation as a con- structive n.ef toward the extension of | American air transport and airmatl business overseas to parallel the natural Toute of our foreign trade,” Mr. Law- rance said. “The legislation embraced in the mer- chant airship act, if enacted now, will g:rmn American citizens to participate B the evoluflc;z‘: of th; imi y rtant mnlm of transportation and will reserve for them a fair share of our future over- seas alr commerce. The helium re-| sources of this country give American | operators & potential advantage which is now ready to be utilized.” Growth Would Follow. It is the belief of members of the chamber, Mr. Lawrance said, that American industry, with the encourage- ment of the merchant airship act, “will accept the risks incident to &I:unr op- eration because assured of protec- | tion of laws similar to those now con- | trolling shipping ventures, and because, | if technically successful in maintaining scheduled flights, mail revenue at least may be counted on.” | The history of transport by airplane. | Mr. Lawrance pointed out, shows that | passenger and express revenue has been slow to develop, and that without the support of mail revenue growth of the American air transport system to its | present proportions virtually would have | been impossible. | Hearings on the Crosser merchant | airship bill, advocated by the Aeronau- tical Chamber, were begun Thursday before the House Committee on Inter- state and Foreign Commerce, which is expected to reach a vote on the meas- ure during the coming week. The Crosser bill is successor to the McNary-Parker bill of the last Con- gress, hearings en which drew together leading airship experts from all parts of the world, among them Dr. Hugo Ecke- ner, Lieut. Comdr, Jerome Hunsacker, Navy airship chiefs and heads of the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation. Sir Hubert Wilkins also was numbered among the many witnesses Who sup- the measure. Would Provide Safeguards. The merchant airship act would sur- round international airship traffic with the legal safeguards afforded the mer- chant marine service and would permit the Post Office Department to contract for the carrying of its ocean mail by airship on the same rate basis now ap- plied to steamship mail contracts, the rate being based upon speed. Passage of the act would result in immediate development of international airship service across the Atlantic, with which are taken in the industry to be ticipating. Germany now is building a ANNOUNCING the appointment of WASHINGTON JOURNEVED PROM VORKTOWN TO THE NEWBURGH HEADQUARTERDS ATH BED OF HIS STEDSON, JACK {0 CUSTI6 IN NEW KENT COUNTY, VIRGINW. ALTHOUGH YORKTOWN MARKED THE VIRIAL END.y; OF THE REVOLUTION, IT WA® NOT ONTIL TWO YEARS LATER THAT HOSTILITIE® CAME To ¢ AN OFFICIAL CLOSE. DURING THE WINTER AFTER YORKTOWN HE WAS BACK. IN NEW YORK. WITH HEADQUARTERS AT NEWBURGH . HE FELT NO LESSENING OF WIS RESPONSIBILITIES. ON ONE OCCAGSION MUTINY THEEATEMED. CALLING IS TROOPS TOGETHER, HE FAILED TO READ THE NOTES HE HAD PREPARED AND AID, MEN, | WAVE GEOWN GRAY AND AM NOW ALMOST BLIND IN THE SERVICE OF MY COUNTRY . NEEOLESS To SAY THE MUTINY ENOED. L By James W. Brooks a8 Copyright 1930 by Jumes W. Brooks All Rights Reserved L gEe@e® 538888 nggeamn = T oy —_— Historically Correct Sketches By CALVIN FADER THE WAR HAVING FINALLY ENDED, WASHINGTON BADE HIS OFFICERB FAREWELL AT FAUNCE'S TAVERN N NEW YORK. IN A SCENE SINCE IMMORTALIZED IN WORD AND PICTURE, WASHINGTON TENDERLY EMBRACED THOSE BATTLE SCARRED VETERANS, T"EY LATER BADE HIM GODSPEED AT THE DOCK AS HE LEFT FOR. ANNAROLIS. 1;![1[ IN THE STATE HOUSE HE RESIGNED HIS COMMISSION . ON DECEMBER Z3, 1783 AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE AMERICAN ARMY, AND THEN— MOUNT VERNON. 7,000,000-cublc-foot airship as successor to the Graf Zeppelin to engage in this business. The new German gisnt will be the largest airship in the world, ex- ceeding by s half mfil\cn cubic feet the U. 8. B. Akron and its sister ship, the U. 5. 8. Macon, now under construction at_Akron, Ohlo. If the bill is enacted, American air- ship interests will follow the Macon with the first of several giant commer- cial airships, the first of which will be used, with the German ship, in establishment of weekly transstiantic service. Engineers have been stud for two years the location of the site for the American international airship terminal and have narrowed their search to four sites, one of which is at Hybla Valley, near Alexandria, Va. The others are near Petersburg, Va.: Baltimore, Md., and Phila Enactment of the merchant airship bill would result in early ds tion of the final site and commens construction program which would give the United States one of the world's finest airship terminals. New Plane Is Tested. Observation airplanes, which since the World-War have been much slower than combat types, now are being speeded up until they can step along in the fastest company. Among the latest of a number of fast new Arm: YD has reached the stage of service trial in the observation 3 The YO-40 embodies many departures from standard practice and the plane is an interesting addition to the ranks of newcomers in the Army fighting squadrons which are revolutionizing American combat aviation. ‘The new Curtiss is a sesquiplane or “plane and & half” type, having a high monoplane wing as the main lifting surface, with & stub lower wing, which serves not only to increase the lift, but to house the landing gear, which is re- tractable in flight. The YO-40, now on final test at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, home of the materiel division of the Air Corps, embodies the latest method of metal construction. It is powered with a Wright “Cyclone” engine. Among the fast new observation types tested by the Army are several biplanes, a bi- motored “flying wing,” a high-wing “parasol” monoplane and a “gull wing” type. Aviation Meetings Planned. National meetings of three of the country’s organigations affili- ated with aeronautics are to be held in conneetion with the National Aircraft Show of 1932 at Detroit, 2 to 10. ‘The associations sched: to meet are the aviation section of the Society of /Automotive Engineers, the National Association of State Avistion Officials and the = Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, Qne ot two ad- ditional organizations wlso have made tentative plans for meetings at Detroit. The 1932 show is to ineludé exhibits from nearly 100 manufacturers of air- craft and accessories, A alrline will be operated throughout period ilots and planes of of the show over an int route of 60 miles, v.h:1 country’s leading airlines taking part, The board of control in charge of the show this year is headed by mlf Cooper and includes Luther K, Bell, gemeral manager of the Aefonsutical Alreraft sport Corporation; Charles 8. “Casey” Jones, Curtiss Wright Corpo- SEMMES MOTOR COMPANY, INC. 1214 New Heompshive Ave., N. W. DODGE BRATHERS DEALER v« WASHINGTON Iphia. | ent of 8| o501 3,021,674 miles of flying and one We toke pleasure in announcing the appointment of The Semmes Motor Company, Inc. as dealer In Washington. This company will sell and service the dependable Dodge line, comprising the new Dodge $ix ond Bight with Moat- Ing Powes, Awtomatie Cletch, Silent Geor Selector and Free Wheeling . .. Dodge Trueks, School Buses and Taxicabs . . . and the Plymouth with Float- ing Power and Free Wheeling =—the quality car of the lowest- priced field. It will be the ambition of The Semmes Motor Company, Inc. to outdo even their previous best in service for Dodge and Plymouth owners.Expert personnel and vnexcelled servicing equip- ment assure both car ond truck owners of the best work ot the low- est prices. We feel confident that this expe- rienced, forward-looking dealer will add many thousands of friends to the already large group that both Dodge and Plymouth cars have made in this territory. THE TREW MOTOR CO. 15091511 14th St,, N. W. WASHINGTON \ ration, and Edward G. Macauley, Pack- | ard Motor Car Co. aviation division. i Every once in a while you hear some one say that the trouble with an -ur.‘ plane accident s that it is almost certain to be serious. ! “Jt’s not llke running off the road | or being in a railroad wreck” such | sons say. “If anything goes wrong B airplane, it’s curtains.” Just how mistaken any such notion | may be is revealed in the latest of the Department of Commerce semi-annual reports of accidents on the scheduled air transport lines = During the last six months’ of 1931, the report shows, there were 65 acci- dents on the air transport lines. Only nine of the 65 however, resulted in| fatalities. In all, there were 206 per- | sons involved in these accidents, and of the 206, 140 escaped with no injuries whatever. There were 24 deaths, 17 of those killed being passengers, There was one fatal accident for passenger killed for each 4,262,746 pas- senger-miles traveled; which, it is ex- plained, means that & single passenger would have to travel four and a quarter million miles before having an opportunity to get himself killed in an airplane accident, on the ratio of the performance for the final half of last year, Hostess Plan Year Old. One year 8go the newest vocation for women was established on the East Coast, that of air hostess. The plan | i uted as an experiment, apparently has come to occupy & permanent place in_air transportation During the year three senior hos- | tesses have flown more than 100.000 miles each and the seven flying hos- tesses have averaged 97,142 miles each The girls all say that they are “wild" | about their jobs. They have to be; | nearly 10,000 applications have been | received for the 10 places. | “We are proud of our hostesses and the record they have made in their | first year,” said Mrs. Anne Porter Cul- lum, " chief hostess for Eastern Air Transport. “Undoubtedly they have Beyondwords .. is th Milady’s Motoring BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. Today's woman is less nervous at the wheel and also less ruffied. It is said by some who claim to have tests to back their conclusions that the verage woman cannot operate the rake pedal with a pressure of more than 85 pounds. A man can press up to 250. When it is considered that many a quick stop calls for a pedal pressure of 150 pounds or thereabouts all sorts of conclusions can be drawn from these statements. An afterthought suggests the possi- bility that women often are unable to press the pedal properly because the seat is back too far. The adjustable done more to convert women to air travel than anything else.” The senior flying hostesses are Miss Beulsh Unruh, who flew 138,000 miles in the year; Miss Madeline Moon, 118,- 800 miies, and Miss Marion Cook, 108, 600 miles. Miss Unruh is a pilot, hold- ing & limited commercial license. Miss Moon, daughter of an Army chaplain, formerly was an art instructor, and Miss Cook was a school teacher. The other flying hostesses are Miss Rita Brady, Miss Anne De Priest, Miss Carrie De Priest, Miss Doris Frost, Miss Gertrude Van Hoven, Miss Alice West and Miss Helen M. Kymer. Miss Edwina Davis, senior ground hostess, is stationed ' at Washington-Hoover Airport. Miss Katerine Turner is air- port hostess at Atlanta and Mrs. Susan Garber airport hostess at Richmond. It is the duty of the hostesses to greet passengers. see that they are made comfortable during the flight, distribute reading matter and cigar- ettes, serve light meals and refresh- ments aloft, supply information and answer questions and otherwise min- ister to the desires of the passengers. seat cushion is helping indirectly to | make stopping more certain Just one of the detailed improve- ments in the newer cars is the absence of those painfully low seat cushions. Looking back over the development of the automobile we realize that these have been largely an attempt to make a high car look and seem lower. Now that the chassis and body are down where they belong the cushions are back to normal. More good news for those ladies who regularly shun low chairs. There is an unwritten rule in driving | that if you can't check a skid imme- diately the next best thing to do is to do nothing but sit and wait. Many a driver has made matters worse by try- ing to do a lot of things while the car was in process of swinging around. Then there is the woman who lamented the fact that she could not even pull | her hat down over her face to prevent ‘V injury from flying glass. The man who | told her of this plan recently went into |a skid and found he forgot all about | his hat. He was provident enough, | however, to keep his Feaa, Not every one who toots his horn is trying to get by or show off. No one knows this better than the woman who was halted by a traffic officer for driv- ing without the lights switched on. Her husband had been following her—and tooting his horn—for a mile. | Watch these silent motors when you garage the car for the night. A woman | of many years' experience at the wheel | thought she had switched off the igni- tion, closed the garage doors and could | just barely get to the small door lead- ing to the house before carbon mon- oxide fumes started to threaten her. She could have told whether or not motor was running by & glance at the ammeter, whose pointer flickers while | the engine idles. This week. in our study of the new | features of the new | timely topic of improved brake drums |to be considered. For years engineers | have been trying all sorts of ways to make brakes more powerful and better | equalized, overlooking the fact that the |drums have been heating, expanding, | contracting and warping. of the brakes will produce even results. The new drums are of various varie- ties. One car features the use of mo- Iybdenum steel. Another shows drums Regardless of the method employed, the new drums stay in shape and help pro- vide the sort of braking you can rely upon. | new era of safety. Women who insist on what appear to be the frills of automobile trim usually have good reasons for doing so. Fen- der lights, for instance, may seem like something one could 'easily dispense with, but you can't convince one expe- rienced woman driver that her car is complete without them. When one of the headlights burned out she avoided an official call-down and ible arrest by switching to the auxiliary lighting equipment, Incidentally, if caught with a dead tail light, it is possible to ride the brake Pedll just enough to keep the stop- light signal burning. This is a matter of safety when you see through the rear-view mirror that there are cars behind. Many of the new cars are equi) with reflector glass in the tail- light lens., Replacing the present lens with this sort of glass is excellent pro- tection against possible trouble. If you have ever tooted your horn when 8 child has darted out in front of the car, and the warning was not loud enough to be effective, you will be in- A warped | drum is a source of unceasing worry | because no amount of careful adjusting | with cast iron liners and steel exterior. | Drums are beating their way into the | terested in the new gadget that boosts | | | the horn's volume. A woman who has | had her car equipped in this manner was told that under the new system the current through the horn-botton cir- cuit merely moves a magnet which | closes a circuit running direct from the battery to the horn. Improvement in tone and volume—and in responsive- | ness—has already saved her a couple of narrow escapes. TAX INCREASE DESCRIBED Motorists Will Pay $2 Per Annum, Bays A. M. A. Motorists of the country will pay approximately $94,000,000 annually to the Federal Government, under the terms of the new Federal tax bill, according to announcement of the American Motorists’ Association. The bill, presented to Congress last wesk, will probably be enacted into law with- in the next 60 days. “The 2% per cent sales tax. which applies to gasoline, will net the Federal Government approximately $26.000,000. Lubricating oils, carrying a 4-cent-per- gallon tax, will yleld another $25.000,- 000. These two items, totaling $51,000,- 000, mean an average tax of about $2 per annum, to the 26,000,000 motor- ists_of the country.” it is pointed out by Thomas J. Keefe, general manager of the A. M. A. ON MANY CARS Clock-Type Speedometer in Wide Use This Year. ‘The “clock” type speedometer, which first made its appearance two years ago, is this year on many of the 1932 cars. | The speedometer has a clocklike ap- pearance and is instantly read by merely glancing at the position of the pointer, or hand. a4 e ensation you feel in a CHRYSLER aosth Patented FLOATING POWER New Chrysler Eight Sedan $1475 125-dmch wheslbast; 100 bersspower IS ANY CAR UP-TO-DATE Pictures cannot. You simply have to get into s new Chrysler—and ride—to realize what Chrysler has done to automobile performance. The engines of the new Chryslers are mounted in an entirely new way —a patented new way, called Floating Power — and the results are aimost too marvelous to beliove. You cannot imagine what Floating Power does to Chrysler performance. Only & ride tells the story — the story of the smoothest and most effortless performance ever achieved in a motor car. Besides Floating Power there are many other great advantages: 2 new Automatic Clutch, a Silent Gear Selector and an entirely separate Executive Office and Service 161222 U St. N.W. : 1612-22 U St. N.W. Skinker Motor Co., 1216 20th St. N.W. Free Wheeling unit. You don’t have to touch the clutch pedal and you cannot clash the gears. New patented Oilite Squeak-Proof Springs in the Eights are another great advance. They never squeak, mever need lubrication, Great engineering—great results—greet cars. There are four new lnes of Chryslers — 19 body models—$865 to $3595—a model meet- ing every need and desire. A mew Chrysler Six, 5 body models, 3885 to $935 (Aute- matic Clutch and Oilite Squeak-Proof Springs on all Sixer at slight extra cost); @ mew Chrysler Eight, 5 body medels, $1435 to $1695; @ mew Chrysier Imperial Eight, 3 body models, $1925 to $2195; & mew Chrysler Imperial Customs Bight, 6 body models, $2895 1o $3595, f. . b. factery. Sedans, §20; all 3- passonger DISTRIBUTORS 4 New Car Salesrooms 1321-23 14th St. N.W. WITHOUT — FLOATING POWER —AUTOMATIC CLUTCH —FREE WHEELING — SILENT GEAR SELECTOR—OILITE SQUEAK-PROO¥ SPRINGS—HYDRAULIC BRAKES—CENTRS. FUSE BRAKE DRUMS —ALL-STHHL BODY - | DOUBLE-DROP GIRDER-TRUSS FRAME : DUPLATE SAFETY PLATE GLASS stenderd en Castess Eights. Obtainable on Six and Eight Sedans, §17.50; ou Imperial Compes, $3.50. Clossd models wived for PHILCO-TRANSITONE RADIO H. B. Leary, Jr., & Bros. Used Cor Salesrooms 1321-23 14th St. N.-W. Vassar Motor Co., 10th and H Sts. N.E. OTHER DEALERS