Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1935, Page 13

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AR SESSON I | TOBREAKRECORD Research Conference Pro- gram Will Cover Two Days for First Time. Aeronautical engineering progress will be revealed to the largest gather- ing of aviation leaders in the history of Federal aviation research at the Tenth Annual Aircraft Engmeerlng! Research Conference at Langley Fleld, | Va., Wednesday. | Despite the fact all Army and Navy | aviation engineers have been sepa- | rated from the party, the capacity of the Washington-Norfolk steamship on | which the party will travel to Langley Field already has been exceeded and accommodations at the Langley Me- morial Laboratories have been ex- hausted, it was announced last night by the National Advisory Committee | for Aeronautics. For the benefit of the Army and Navy aviation engineers who have been barred from the Wednesday demonstration, the program is to be |’ repeated Thursday. Many to Fly to Scene. ‘The main party will leave Washing- ton at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday aboard the Norfolk and Washington steamer and will repurn to Washington at 7 am. Thursday. Scores of famous pilots and aircraft designers and builders, how- ever, will fly directly to Langley Field, joining the party there. Among those who already have | made reservations for the annual dem- onstrations are Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh, Maj. James H. Doolittle, Clar- | ence Chamberlin, Juan Trippe, Vin- cent Bendix, Glenn L. Martin, Charles L. Lawrence, Thomas A. Morgan, Guy Vaughn, Harold F. Pitcairn, Igor Si- korsky, Dr. Joseph S. Ames, David W. Taylor, Charles G. Abbot, Lyman J. Briggs, Maj. Gen. Benjmain D. Foulois, | Willis R. Gregg, Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, Eugene L. Vidal, Edward P. ‘Warner, Comdr. R. D. Weyerbacher, Orville Wright, G. M. Bellanca. Col. | Edward V. Rickenbacher, C. R. Smith | and Grover Loening. | The conference is intended to afford the representatives of the aircraft in- dustry an opportunity to receive first- hand reports of progress in aero- nautical research in the N. A. C. A. laboratories and to witness demonstra- tions of the special equipment and re- search methods employed. Research Ideas Sought. The conference also is intended to enable the committee to receive the: suggestions of the industry as to re- search problems of particular import- ance at the present time. | The new free-spinning wind tunnel, | in which scale models of airplanes may | be put into spins for purposes of scien- | tific study, will be one of the new in- stallations demonstrated for the first time. The remodeled Weick airplane, con- structed for the Bureau of Air Com- merce in connection with its program to provide airplanes suitable for use by the average layman, will be mount- ed in the full scale tunnel for dem- stration. Ve are sending out word to the v that no more reservations can .” it was explained by John F. Victory, secretary of the N. A. C. A,, Jast night. “There are accommoda- tions on the steamer for only 250 per- | sons, and we have 255 already sched- uled to go and a waiting list. There are approximately 160 officers of the | Army and Navy scheduled to go to Langley Field on Thursday.” | KING’S FORCES QUELL | REBEL TRIBES IN IRAQ Ruler Makes Ceremonial Entry Into Rumaitha, Accompanied by Conquered Chiefs. By the Associated Press. BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 18.—King Ghazi's army, triumphant over rebels in the Middle Euphrates, made a cer- emonial entry into Rumaitha today, accompanied by the rebellious tribes- men who bowed to the superior force of the government troops. The government quickly quieted the district and already has repaired rail- way and communication lines which had been cut between Baghdad and Basra. King Ghazi, who had been faced with the most serious crisis of his regime, acted quickly and vigorously. Special tribunals were appointed to deal with the rebels after martial law was decreed in the district. 222222 % % % 22 O % 72 2 L THE SUNDAY Nature Provides Good Start For U. S. Shelter-Belt Project By the Assoclated Press. KANSAS CITY, May 18.—Warm, wet Spring has smiled on the Govern- ment’s initial venture in the shelter- belt tree planting and the approximate half-million trees planted in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma this year are growing. Planting has,been completed in all three States and officials in their charge were jubllant today as alter- nate rains and warm days sent them off to a flying start. 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Twenty-four :;fl:‘ of the shelter belt strips, 10 ‘wide, or 480 acres of trees, were planted this year. Scott also planted 115 acres of wood lots in communities adjacent to shelter bel strips and planted tree seeds on 90 acres of leased land. In all, some 260,800 trees ‘were set in the ground this Spring. Gift Crowds Crack Palace. Ceilings in some of the rooms at St. James’ Palace in Englacd have shown alarming cracks lately. Experts de- cided that there was danger of their collapsing, and investigations showed that the trcuble was caused by the im- mense crowds who went to see the wedding presents of the Duke and Duchess of Kent in the state rooms above. The floors have been strength- ened with steel. girders. venience. POPE WILL INVITE DISSENTERS’ RETURN Appeal to Be Made at Canoniza- tion Rites Before Crowd of 50,000. By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, May, 18.—Pope Plus is expected to invite dissenters to retwn to the Roman Catholic faith tomorrow at the canonization in St. Peter's of Blessed Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher, who lost their heads because they opposed Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn. | Prelates said the Pope would ask | all churches which had left the faith D. C.' MAY -19, -1935—PART ONE. to return to the “one fold of the One | Shepherd.” .., Tens of thousands of pligrims have received tickets for the éfnonization. Many special trains have poured Eng- lish pllgrims into Rome and hundreds of others have come from the United States and Canada. A crowd equal to the capacity one of Easter, when more than 50,000 per- sons jammed St. Peter's, is- expected to watch Pope Pius canonize the two Englishmen, who were executed 400 years ago this year. B Msgr. F. F. Connor and Father Russell J. Guccione of the Rockford, Ill, diocese will partictpate in the papal procession. German Cousul Drops Dead. 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