Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1935, Page 47

Prospective Buyers’ Poll Bodes Well for 1935 Auto Literary Digest Vote Encouraging—D. C. Pur- chases Should Be Aided by Show and Road Convention. BY G. ADAM S HOWARD. crease in motor car buying, but 1935 will see new records reached if the results of a recent poll, conducted by the Literary Digest, proves correct. Ac- I AST year showed a great in cording to . mates, all indications point to a motor trade. And if this be so, this poll, eliminating guesses and theoretical esti- real return of prosperity to the the return to good business in dependent and affiliated trades greatly will be enhanced. Othe’;he legest put its testing machinery in motion to find out the probable motor car sales of 1935. These findings, now re- leased, are creating jubilation among manufacturers, dealers and sales managers. million subscribers. The Digest made the investigation among its Names were selected impartially and with careful geographical balance. Methods of selection were, in fact, identical with those used by the Digest in conducting its na- tional polls. “A trial balloon,” as the Automo- tive Daily News expresses it, has been sent aloft with postal card question- naires. The aim was to ascertain how many motor cars would be bought by Digest subscribers next year. “Do you intend to buy a motor car in 1935?" was one of the questions asked. An- swers have been separated between those who say they will positively buy & new car and those who say maybe. Response Very Large. The response has been exceptionlly large. Forty-eight per cent of those addressed answer “Yes” or “No.” This is an almost record-breaking percent- age of replies says the Digest. 1t indicates live reader interest in the business prospect for 1935 for the letter said: “All of us in business or the pro- fessions, you as well as ourselves, are very much interested in the possi- bilities of 1935. None of us wants to be too optimistic or pessimistic. It is, therefore, a very good time to get | the facts.” With 25 years’ experience with its polis the Digest's test samplings show | remarkably accurate indications of the entire vote. | In this investigation 30 per cent reply that they will buy a car in 1935. | The Digest applying this percentage | to its million circulation finds that | its families will buy 292,866 new cars | next year. If those who say “we may buy” is added to the total number it | amounts to 322,810 cars. This means that new 1935 models will roll up to one out of every three Digest homes. What kind of cars do Digest read- ers own? To answer this query the Digest's test went into the question of price range—“What price class?” was asked. Here are the figures: 645,800 or 65 | per cent are owners of cars in the | $1,000 and under class; 269,663 or 275 per cent are owners of cars in | the $1,000 to $2,000 class; 74,630 or | 7.5 per cent are owners of cars in | the $2,000 and over class. | The Digest did not ask the question | “What price car will you buy?” As- | suming that buyers of new cars will buy cars in their present price class we find that 1,000,000 Digest families will buy in 1935: 190,362 cars costing less than $1,000; 79,073 cars costing from $1,000 to $2,000; 23,431 cars costing more than $2,000. Here is a total of 292,866 cars, If a very conservative average f. o. b. price of $700 is assumed we have total sales amounting to $205,006,200. Many Buyers Seen. ‘This preview of 1935's sales oppor- tunity staged by the Digest gives the picture of a very large and con- siderable group of buyers. Its fur- ther significance lies in its promise of Nation-wide activity in the auto- motive industry, which carries with it increased production and prosperity for the many contributing industries such as steel, tires, oils, etc. The Digest is certain that its figure of 30 per cent new buyers is a reason- able and sound indication of its home and family market for passenger cars. This poll was designed to cover only the home market for pleasure cars. The above figures do not include car or truck purchases for business use. The Automobile Chamber of Com- merce estimates the total output of motor vehicles in 1935 will be 3,- 500,000. Washington residents may get doubly motor-minded this month with the annual automobile show coming here at the Auditorium next Saturday and the American Road Builders’ Convention at the Willard Jan- uary 22-25. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of highways of the District of Columbia and president of the A. R. B. A., makes the following announcement in con- nection with the convention and high- way exhibit: Speakers at the opening session on | ‘Tuesday afternoon will include Melvin C. Hazen, president, Board of Com- missioners of the District of Columbia; Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona, Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the | program will include a buffet supper ter Carriers’ Association, and “A Planned National Highway Program,” by B. H. Markham, director, Ameri- can Petroleum Institute. A pan-American reception will be held Wednesday evening with J. L. Gonzalez, director general, Mexican Highway Commission, presiding. Welcome By Sultan. Dan 1. Sultan, Engineer Commis- sioner, District of Columbia, will give the address of welcome. *“Touring Possibilities of Mexico” will be pre- sented by Jose Rivera R., advisory en- gineer and secretary, Mexican Auto- mobile Association; “The Pan-Amer- ican Highway in Mexico” by William Harrison Furlong, San Antonio Cham- ber of Commerce; “International Road Celebration Marking Opening of High- way Communication Between the United States and Mexico,” by Kent E. Keller, United States Representative from Illinois, and “Highways of Friendship,” by L. S. Rowe, director general, Pan-American Union. This and dancing. Simultaneously with the general convention sessions there will be meet- ings of the city officials’, county offi- cials’, highway contractors’ and manu- facturers’ divisions. The highway equipment and materials exhibit will be open for inspection during the en- tire week. The annual banquet will be held at the Willard Hotel on Thursday eve- ning. at which time several speakers of national prominence in highway affairs will make presentations. The keynote of the convention will be (1) the continuation of an ade- quate and economic highway and street program; (2) the use of gaso- line taxes and motor license fees (highway revenues) for highway pur- poses; and (3) the continuation of appropriations by the Federal Gov- ernment for streets and highways. SCHOOL OF RELIGION COURSES ANNOUNCED Second Semester to Open at! Y. M. C. A. Tomorrow—De Gast | to Address Ministers. The School of Religion of the Y. M. C. A. will open for the second | semester tomorrow at 7:15 pm. Classes will be given in “A Study of the Pupil,” “New Testament,” “The Message and Program of the Christian Religion,” “The Curriculum of Re- ligious Education” and “Dramatiza- tion and Pageantry.” Leonard W. De Gast, general secre- tary, Y. M. C. A, will speak to the Presbyterian Ministers’ Association tomorrow at 11 a.m. on “Youth in This Changing World.” The newly organized Dramatic | Club will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. in room 219, Central Y. M. C. A. A rehearsal of the Glee Club will be held in room 218 of the Y. M. C. A. at 8 p.m.,, and the Character Develop- ment Forum will meet at the same hour in room 103. The weekly Y. M. C. A. staff con- ference will be held at 8 a.m. Thurs- day. Elwood Street, director of the Board of Public Welfare, will speak at 9 am. on “Recent Trends in Social Work.” Fred L. Dawson will lead the devotional service at 11 am. The luncheon of the ¥'s Men's Club will be held at Olmsted’s Grill at 12:15 pm. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 6, 1935—PART FOUR. T DOWN THE ROAD—Recollections. Ty YOU FSPARE 0l (¢ T i = —By FRANK BECK R HEY, JIM! i PUSH ' THE GAS WAGON "SERVICE] IN THR S GOOD OLD DAYS. © 1955 w.yreigunE. n<. . Tell . Worthy of scorn. . Couch. . Gum arabic. . Efflux. . Brute. . Evident. . One card of a suit. . Liquor. . Wrath. . Lamprey fisherman. . God of the hearth. . Exemplar. A . Resinous substance. . Heating apparatus. . Conjunction. . Horizontal band across the mid- dle of a shield. . Prickly envelope of a fruit. . Party. . Networks, . Across. . Heap. . Nostrils. AUTO SHOW United States Bureau of Public Roads; Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and vice chairman of the National Resources Board, and Arthur ‘W. Brandt, commissioner of highways of New York and president of the American Association of State High- way Officials. Subjects to Be Presented. Subjects to be presented will be: “Address of Welcome,” “A Highway Message,” “Broadening the Highway Program,” “Advance Planning” and “Continuation of an Adequate and Economic Highway Program.” Capt. w/hitehurst will preside. The general technical session on Wednesday afternoon will have on the speakers’ platform E. W. James, United States Bureau of Public Roads; H. F. Clemmer, engineer of materials, District of Columbia; C. N. Conner, United States Bureau of Public Roads; ‘W. T. Chevalier, vice president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.; J. F. Seiler, American Wood Preservers’ As- sociation; Edwin W. Ely, Bureau of Standards of the United States De- partment of Commerce, and A. B. Barber, Chamber of Commerce of the United States. The following subjects will be pre- sented: “Indicated Needs in Grade Crossing Elimination,” “Latest Devel- opments in Secondary Road Sur- faces,” “Economic Waste in Substi- tuting Hand Labor for Modern Ma- chinery,” “Timber Bridge Structures —Their Economy, Safety and Utility,” “Simplified Practices as a Tool for the Road Builder” and “The High- way Industry’s Responsibiilty for Traffic Safety.” The closing open session will be held on Thursday afternon with T. H. Cutler, chief engineer of the Mis- souri State Highway Department, pre- siding. “Highway Work as a Means of Relieving Unemployment” will be presented by Harry L. Hopkins, ad- ministrator Federal Emergency Relief Administration; “Highway Progress,” by Wilburn Cartwright, United States Representative from Oklahoma; “Conservation of Gas Tax and Motor Vehicle License Revenues for High- ways,” by Charles M. Upham, engi- neer-director, American Road Build- ers’ Association; “Roads and Rural Letter Carrier,” by Willlam G. Arm- . strong, president, National Rural Let- & LISTEN EXPEDIENT EVIDENT FIERCE FROWZY Find a synonym for each of the above words. Write the new word to the left of the given word. If the puzzle is solved correctly the first letters of the new words will spell the trade name of one of the 21 automobiles shown in the list below, to be exhibited at the fifteenth annual Automobile Show of Washington, D. C., from January 12 tp 19, 1935, inclusive, at the Washington Auditorium, Nineteenth and E streets northwest, under the auspices of the Washington Automotive Trade Association, who with the co- operation of The Evening Star, is conducting this contest. De Soto Dodge Ford Hudson ‘Hupmobile Auburn Buick Cadillac Chevrolet Chrysler La Fayette La Salle Lincoln Nash ©Oldsmobile willys Packard Plymouth Pontiac Studehaker Terraplane The first puzzle appeared on December 18, 1934. The last puzzle will appear on January 7, 1935. The puzzles that have appeared prior to this one may be studied from the files in the business office of The Evening Star. Solve each puzzle and, not earlier than January 8, 1935, but not later than midnight January 9, 1935, mail or deliver ALL the solutions, with a reason of not more than 20 words as to why an automobile show should be | held every year in Washington, D. C., to the Washington Automotive Trade Association, 1427 Eye street northwest. It is not necessary to send in the actual puzzles, but it is corapulsory that the entries show the synonyms, i. e., the new words. The synonyms will not be given out of published and no entries will be returned. Officials of the Washington Automotive Trade Association, whose decisions will be final, will act as judges and, based on correctness, neatness and the manner in which the solutions are submitted, as well as the reason for holding an automobile show, will award prizes totaling $100 and 100 tickets to the Auto Show, as follows: First prize, $50 and 12 tickets; second prize, $25 and 8 tickets; third prize, $10 and 6 tickets; fourth prize, $5 and 4 tickets; 10 prizes of $1 each and 2 tickets; 25 priZes of 2 tickets each. In case of ties, duplicate prizes will be awarded. ‘Winners Star on Sunday, January 13. 1935. will be annoynced in the Auto Show section of The Evening | Questions should be addressed to the ! Washington Automotive Trade Association. ', . Mineral spring. . 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Card game. 3. Dormant. 4. Unit. 5. Prong. 6. Corroded. 7. Merit. Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle. JAINIAC] ARIGIOIETS ] A Mo AN T LIACOEN MY ] DImI=— 1> AL VIOl ’I[fl Zimmpp>N o m) (POOZP>IN] @ Rl SEN] AMIT NERETIAIL] TESMSTEER = £ = . Arabian ruler. . Sped. . Fireplace. . Spanish sitting rooms. . Roman roads. . Whit. . Appear enlarged. . Exalt. . Provide food. . Dye indigo. . Pinch. Larger. . Royal residence. . Chooses. . Card game. . Sufficient. . Passage. . Day of week. . Grand. . Wooden shoe. . South American river. . Always. . Repeater. . Woman under religious vows. . Gentle breeze. . Permission. . Clear. . City in Nevada. . Drug of celery family. . Pertaining to robbery on the high seas. . Widespread. . Strike out. . Festival. . Flat, circular plate. . Incense. Tllustrate. . Strips of hair. . Feather in the third row. . Famous. . Squeeze. . Sward. . Pertaining to birth. . Open: poet. . Systematizes by classes. . Ministers. . Except. Sea eagle. . Trampled. 2. Scandinavian myth. . Raised platform. . Muscle. . Fourscore. . Image. s Irish foot soldier. . Decline. . Fly upward. . Mortal. . Glance. . Caprice. . Allotment. . Rained icy particles. . Contrived. . Inner wail of a ditch: Rodent. . Decorated. . Tune. Metal. . Spanish coin. 129. Variegate. 130. Retrograde. 132. Dilatory. 134. Gum resin. 135. Cuirass: var. 136. River of Damascus. 138. Grave. 141. Kind of robber. 142. Distribute. 144. Measure. 145. Anger: collog. 148. Spigot. 150. Cover. 151. Make lace. 153. Shred. Fort. Automotive Briefs Sol Stern, president of the Mid- City Auto Co., De Soto and Plymouth dealers at 1711 Fourteenth street northwest, announces the appoint- ment of William McGuire as sales Manager for his company. McGuire is well known to the public and trade of Washington, having held various officials positions in the automobile business here . B F-3 HELPFUL HINTSFURfiGrCeat Strides in Speed hange Airlines’ Policies Ships Now Are Considered Fast Enough for Service and Companies Turn to Other Improvements. MILADY'S DRIVING Winter Inspection of Car Should Include Checking Hose Connection. BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. UDGING by the way some people drive too many of them are going by the law of averages. One of the detalls of Winter in- spection of the car is checking the hose connections for the hot-water heater to make sure they are not chaf- ing against any sharp points around the motor. Frequently these hose pipes are found rubbing against the top of a spark plug or cutting on some sharp edge of a motor accessory. If a hose springs a leak there will not only be loss of anti-freeze but serious overheating of the motor until the leak is detected and checked. Sounds strange, but if you are in the habit of locking your car when lesving it in public garages or on parking lots you can expect to have more trouble keeping the headlights properly focused. In moving around locked cars attendants have a habit of pushing on the headlights. Not only does misdirected light endanger you by blinding approaching drivers but it cuts down your own visibility of the road. Car owners who are puzzled over the problem of difficult starting in cold weather need to be reminded that nothing aids a start like a good valve- grinding job. Tight-seating valves raise compression. Since there is no valve stickage every cylinder holds its charge of fuel and confines all of this charge, when ignited, to the piston top. Modern valve jobs are so exten- sive they are really a motor tune-up. Plugs are cieaned and points spaced. Carbon deposits are removed and breaker points checked. All of which suggests that a trip to the service sta- tion is the real start of starting. Among your New Year resolutions why not add a few that may help to make motoring safer? most timely vows is avoid overtaxing the car’s braking system. Most of the brake trouble these days is caused by extravagant stopping. The excessive heat caused by abrupt stopping tends to warp the brake drums. When this happens there is no possibility of obtaining a safe or satisfactory ad- justment, resulting in uneven wear on the lining, bald tires and danger. Try to remember that for 99 stops out of every 100 half the car’s braking power will be adequate. Because it has been a comparatively simple matter .o flatten out dents in fenders many women still Lelieve that if they are careless backing into a parking space they can have the | damage erased before some one else in the household finds it out and exercises some sarcasm. The new fenders are not so easily repaired. More time is required to reshape and finish them because of more com- plicated construction and the trend toward color that matches the car's body. Carelessness in driving these days will make a bigger dent in your pocketbook. One of the most dangerous things to do in driving through the city is | to swing over and abreast of another car when stopping for a red traffic light. Should another car behind hap- pen to strike your car the latter may be pushed across the white line and perhaps into a pedestrain. that he is getting to be quite a con- noisseur of cars. Last year he saved the family a lot of money by making | adjustments to the brakes and car- buretor, not to mention keeping the ignition in efficient condition. This year the family has a new car and Junior hasn't been quite so success- | ful because he hasn't been able to keep abreast of the changes in de- sign. Other juniors take note. When he tackled the carbuetor he thought the two adjustments were for low and high speed mixtures. Instead they were two low-speed adjustments, one for each half of the dual carburetor. All of which explains why his mother was a half hour late for luncheon. If the gears become a bit noisy during shifting while you are on a long trip some day during the Winter, don’'t jump to the conclusion that your driving is in need of brushing up. The unexpected turn of affairs will probably be caused by thinming iout of the lighter lubricant used in the gears during cold weather. Some oil men contend that light lubricants do not burn off any more freely in a motor than heavier oils, taking into consideration the actual amount of lubricants provided. It is a subject motor experts like to mull over, but they are agreed on one point. The consensus is that lighter oils should be used in the Winter re- gardless of whether or not they seem economical, for in cold weather their most important function is to pro- vide adequate oiling when motor parts are chilled and when longer-lasting oils would not flow quickly enough to protect these parts. If the garage is wired for elec-| tricity there’s no need to put up with hard starting and all the extra wear on the motor that accompanies the warming up period. Not only does the market offer battery boosters but also motor warmers. The former give the battery a charge every time the car is garaged; the latter keeps the cooling system warm as the car stands. With one device there are three heat- ing speeds somewhat like an elec- tric heating pad. If the car is well protected with anti-freeze and merely an easy start is. required this heater can be switched on a short while be- fore the car is to be used. e More Bananas Shipped. Banana shipments from Jamaica in 1934 were 40 per cent above those of 1933. Ferry Discontinued Between Harborton and Deltaville, Va. The Deltaville-Harborton, Va., ferry, across Chesapeake Bay, has’ discontinued operations in- definitely, according to a bulle- tin issued this week by the American Automobile Associa- tion. This is the only change in the road condition report within a 100-mile radius of Washington. ‘The Washington office of the A. A. A, which supplies infor- mation on this area each Sunday to The Star, calls attention to the fact that weather permits little construction work on roads in Winter, and therefore few + | changes in conditions occur each week. One of the| Junior goes to high school and feels | BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON, giving direct service to areas in which are concentrated nearly 54,000,000 persons, or 43 per cent of the Nation's ! S THE new year begins, United States air transport lines, population, have established new high-spéed schedules and are seeking to coasolidate the phenomenal gains of ths past year. There is a belief in the min ds of many in the industry that, while 1935 will not bring such gereral increases in air transport speeds as were witnessed during 1934, there will be important progress in other directions. With the establishment of overnight service across the United States, so that a business man may span the Nation without loss If this belief is justified by events during the early months of 1935, in the opinion of leaders of the industry, it will mean that the factor of obso- lescences will become less important; that aircraft will remain in service for longer periods and that the resulting economies can be applied to improve- ments in other directions. Transport airplanes of increased size are regarded as probable on the main air routes of the country, with improvement in comfort and safety 8s primary considerations. It also is regarded as likely there will be a greater specialization in types of air- craft, with high-speed, high-altitude airplanes of great range on the long arteries of trade and planes of smaller capacity and probably greater economy of operation on the short feeder lines. Airlines Step Up Schedules. Flying time has been reduced ap- proximately 1 hour on the Central Airlines route between Washington and Detroit, by way of Cleveland, Akron and Pittsburgh, as a result of replacement of former flying equip- ment with tri-motored Fords. Fly- ing persopnel has been increased. Under the new schedules, three round trips a day are flown and di- rect connections are made with other airlines at Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit. American Airlines is planning a high-speed sleeping plane service be- tween Washington and Los Angeles by the Southern transcontinental route, it is understood. No official plans have been announced. It is understood, however, that the Douglas transports which are to be used will make stops only at Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., and Dallas and Fort Worth, Tex., en route to the coast. Total elapsed time between Wash- ington and Los Angeles is to be 16 hours and 15 minutes. The planes will be set up for night travel and passengers may get 10 hours of sleep in full-length berths during the trip. All New York-Los | Angeles planes in the future will be routed through Washington, according to plans of the line Pennsylvania Airlines has taken delivery of the first of a fleet of 3- mile-a-minute Boeing _transports, which are to go into service January 8 between Washington and Detroit, making direct connections with the four major airline systems of the country. The new ships replace tri- motored Ford transport planes. New Ratings Planned. A new system of airport classifica- tion, under which only airports serv- ing scheduled interstate airlines will | be examined for compliance with Fed- eral requirements, has been put into effect by the Bureau of Air Com- | merce. The airports which are able to meet requirements will be rated as ransport airports and airlines will be authorized by the bureau to oper- ate only from those airports which have met the requirements and been so rated. Exceptions will be made | in cases of emergency or in instances | where the Bureau of Air Commerce grants waivers permitting the use of an unrated airport. In the past efforts have been made to rate all airports meeting certain minimum requirements which vol- untarily requested such ratings. “This system,” it was explained by Eugene L. Vidal, director of air com- merce, “was appropriate and valuable when adopted several years ago when there were only a few airports and there was little basis for predictions as to what future developments in aeronautics would make necessary in airport design and construction. Safety to Be Stressed. “Now, with many more airports, and with more standardization in establishment and maintenance of ilanding facilities, it is necessary for the Federal Government to confine examinations of landing areas and | equipment to those airports directly concerned with scheduled airline op- erations. Requirements for those air- ports will involve only those features directly linked with safety of flight, and the examinations will simply de- termine eligibility for the T classifi- cation.” The transport classification is to be based upon the adequacy and safety of the landing area for the types of aircraft actually used in scheduled operations at the field in | question. Primary requirements are that the airport shall be large enough and have sufficient freedom from sur- rounding obstacles to permit aircraft {of the types used at that particular {airport to land and take off safely |into wind from any direction. Field dimensions and obstructions are to be checked and measured in | each case prior to the issuance of | any rating. The Bureau of Air | Commerce also will require that the ground be firm and stable, with arti- ficial drainage provided where neces- sary, or that hard-surfaced runways be provided. The bureau will spe- cify minimum length and width of runways and the maximum permis- sible variation in grade. Where neces- sary, it will require removal of dan- gerous obstructions. If night opera- tions are contemplated, necessary lighting will be specified. Los Angeles Fit. Eleven years old, the veteran, U. S. S. Los Angeles, recently recon- ditioned at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J, for experimental work in ground handling, is pro- nounced still in good structural con- dition. ‘The Los Angeles, for reasons of economy, was placed out of commis- sion June 30, 1932, and had been kept more than a year and a half in dead storage at Lakehurst. Re- conditioning and inflation was com- pleted last month and went into use for experimental and training work. She first was used in drills for stationing of ground .crews and for fitting and dock trials of all me- chanical handling gear. It was the first actual ship-handling instruction received by many of the new per- sonnel at Lakehurst. Since the first drills she has been used for tests of the mobile towing and mooring equipment. In one test she was towed to the mooring-out circle and connected up for riding out in the open. All facilities were tried, the ship remaining out for about six hours. She was docked in a cross-hangar wind successfully. of a single business day, there is no longer the pressing economic need for higher cruising speeds which was felt a year ago. That indicates that there probably will not be a general effort through- out the industry to attain greater speeds unless they can be obtained without increasing operating costs. | Authority for present use of the Los Angeles restricts the ship to non-flight status, although she actually is in & condition capable of flight. It is planned to moor the ship out for ex- tended periods at the mooring mast to demonstrate the ability of a moored airship to withstand a wide variet; of weather conditions. It also is planned to install a num- ber of instruments for the collection of data as to loads imposed on an airship strucure by various wind and weather conditions. The old airship has not been placed in commission. Brazilian Cut-Off Surveyed. Announcement that a new “empire- building airway” bisecting Brazil and cutting hundreds of miles off the in- ternational airways between the United State and lower South America has been surveyed. is made in a spe- cial dispatch received from Rio de Janiero. The projected route, which would eliminate flying the long coastal route around the Brazilian “hump,” would |open a great interior area of Brazil, rich in agricultural and mineral re- sources. It would bring the northern- most provinces of Brazil, now 19 days distant from Rio de Janiero by sur- face transportation, within a single day of the Brazilian capital and at the same time would provide a much faster route direct to Rio and the markets of Southern Brazil, Eastern Uruguay and Argentina. The new route, aecording to the Brazilian dispatch, has been surveyed by Pan-American Airways, in co- operation with Brazilian authorities. The route would open to Pan-Amer- ican an area not even remotely ap- proached by its rival European air- lines and would give United States foreign air transportation a decided advantage on the South American east coast. The survey was made in a Pan- American Airways airplane in charge of K. M. Blotner, survey engineer, | with Capt. H. L. Turner as pilot. This ship now is in Para after negotiating | the first inland passage by an air | transport plane between Rio and the distant Amazon River, a project which has been given a great deal of study | by Pan-American Airways and the | Brazilian government since 1930. The 4aerial survey followed a ground ex- | ploration trip made in 1931 by an expedition in charge of Blotner and Maj. Lysias Rodriquez of the Brazilian government. From the findings of the pioneer {ground expedition and subsequent | studies by the airline and the govern- | ment, the first authoritative maps of | the region were drawn and used as a | basis for the flight survey. The ground and flight expeditions | succeeded in exploding the time-hon- ored belief that interior Brazil was a maze of jungle, inhabited only by sav ages, according to the dispatch. The area, it was found, contains valuable farm and pasture lands and is for the most part rolling, open country. Great navigable streams extend through the | area. | It is understood plans are being made for construction of an airway “lhmugh the area by Pan-American Airways in co-operation with the Bra- | zilian government. Great Circle Chart Issued. Plotting of cross-country flights with the greatest possible accuracy is made easier with a new type of “great cir- cle” chart of the United States which has been printed by the Coast and Geodetic Survey for the Bureau of Air Commerce. The ordinary type of map, on the so-called Lambert projection, is not suitable for the easy plotting of a great circle course, the shortest pos- sible distance between two points on the earth's surface, because it is not a | true representation of the curved sur- face of the earth. “On the new map,” the Bureau ot Air Commerce explained, “any straight line is a great circle on the earth. A line between any two distant points on the new map may be transferred to any other type of map by means of the places through which it passes.” The great circle chart is based on the gnomic projection and is said to be the solution to many problems of the distance flyer who wishes to travel from point to point over the shortest path, The chart is as simple as pos- sible, showing State boundaries, the largest rivers, principal cities and im- portant airports in their correct geo- graphic paositions. “This map,” it was explained, “will }have a special appeal to airline execu- tives planning the reduction of flying time of air transports over the length and breadth of the country. It will be | of undoubted value in the air defense |of the country, as it can be used to determine quickly the proper line of flight for a fleet of airplanes to any desired point when rapid mobilization is necessary. — Motor Boats Jar Venice. Fears that the appearance of motor boats in the canals of Venice, Italy, would injure the buildings have been realized. Venice is bullt on piles, and a committee of architects has found that the pounding of the waves made by the “put-put” boats has weakened the piling. At least $5,000,000 will be required to repair the damage al- ready done, and immediate action is necessary to save many of the beauti- ful buildings from collapse. Prison to Provide Warmth. Rather than let the new heatin? system in the prison go to waste, people of the little Danish island of Samso will make it a rule to refuse to pay fines and go to prison instead. The old system, installed in 1860, has been replaced by a modern one. The citizens have just learned that the prison never had more than two prisoners at a time and the new heating plant was really an uncalled- for luxury. Speedometer Service We Repair All Makes CREEL BROTHERS 1811 14m ST.NW.-**DEcarua 4220