Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1935, Page 64

" F-8 VACATION ROA L Outstanding Production Record Is Seen for Autos First Half of Year to Go Well Over 2,000,060 Mark—Bright Future Seen in Many Fields. P companies had built and presu year than their plants were abl 12 months of 1934. Several other to exceed all of 1934 production 1s completed. velo the In the list so far are Dodge, Oldsmobile, and De Soto. Graham and Nash During the five months the industry 8s a whole has built 1,988,637 units, sccording to official estimate. This | was a 35 per cent increase over thei eame period of 1934, when the total reached 1,475,965. Detailed comparison of this year with the same months of 1934 follows: 1934, 162,570 238,827 352,614 371,338 350,616 1935. veer. 303,424 353,813 451,809 501,837 377,754 1,988,637 1,475,965 With indications that manufactur- | ing volume will be sustained well| into July for many companies, it is| evident that the aggregate for the first half of the year will go well above | 2,000,000 and establish a substantial basis for predictions that 1935 may | prove better than a 4,000,000-car year. ‘While the lowest-priced makes—in- cluding the “Big Three,” Ford, Chev- rolet and Plymouth—have recorded heavy increases in production, the makes mentioned previously repre- sent medium-priced value, and, during | the depression years. were less in de- mand. Their “comeback” is regarded as signifying a brighter future for their price class. ] Diesel-powered vehicles continue to occupy factory engineering depar$- ments. The immediate future for the | Diesel power plants is in the commer- cial vehicle field, where operators of large fleets are eager to cut down oper- ating costs through substitution of fuel oil for gasoline. - The possibilities are being studied in the light of interest shown in this vear's international motor show in | Berlin. In this show, it has been said that more than 90 per cent of the trucks and busses exhibited were Die- | gel-equipped, in addition to fire en- gines, ambulances, tractors, mail vans, field kitchens, rail, cars and service wagons. Diesel use in passenger car opera- | tion still appears to be a matter of ultimate development, although there; promises to be international rivalry for speed achievements. This first be- | came evident in recent trials of two demonstration cars at Daytona Beach, January February ... March Fla. In the first one, Dave Evans, driving | a “Waukesha” of racing structure, did | 125.065 miles an hour on the beach | course and bettered a mark of 120.33 | miles per hour made by Capt. G. E. T. | Eyston on a French track. The Evans record in turn was beaten by “Wild | Bill” Cummings, A. A. A. champion pilot, who drove a Cummings-Diesel at | 137.195 miles per hour. Capt. Eyston has arranged to cross the ocean this Summer in an attempt to outdo the Cummings-Diesel per- formance. He will use the dry lake | desert course at Salduro, Utah. He | ropean cars are capable of doing. | The makers of France and Italy are | be raised by public subscription. By G. Adams Howard. REVAILING activity in the automobile factories has de- d an outstanding production record, according to orth American Newspaper Alliance. Up to the end of May, or within a few days beyond it, no fewer than five mably shipped more cars this e to produce during the entire makers also are almost certain when the first half of the year Pontiac, Packard are close to the objective. stand, covering stock car marks from a flying start up to 2,000 miles and 24 hours. Before such trials are made offi- cials of the Contest Board of the American Automobile Association block out circular courses of 10 miles or more in circumference and on these the cars are required to show their endurance against time. The timing recently has been modernized by the use of the “electric eye.” This device allows a continuous current to flow througii it, interrupted only by the passage of & car which breaks a light beam registering on stop watches for each lap. An additional reason for the speed | invasion by the British pilots is seen | in the fact that nowhere in Europe | is there a course where conditions allow modern high-peak performance. In England the Brooklands track has been used and in France a course at Monthlery, but limitations of both prevent the ultimate in what the Eu- Over there the belief is that the cars of other countries may . be sent over here soon to demonstrate top speed and power for the record books. known to be watching developments. In February of this year a subsidy for builders and drivers was sponsored by the French government. It is to Anticipating that tourist traffic di- | rectly from the East into the North- | west this year will shatter all previous records, the American Automobile Association, through its National | Touring Bureau, is now engaged in | making special surveys and reports on the new and improved motor routes leading into this section of the coun- try, the national motoring body an- nounced today. Co-operating closely with its affil- | iated motor clubs and the Pacific Northwest Tourist Association, formed | for the purpose of encouraging travel to the Northwest over transconti- nental motor routes, bus lines and | railroads, the A. A. A. will make a ! careful study of the Northwestern ! road system and its Eastern connec- | tions. | Particular attention will be paid | to the new Northern transcontinental | route resulting from the recent com- pletion of highway No. 10 across Mon- tana, which offers a direct finished route from Chicago through Minne- apolis, Min.; Fargo and Bismarck, N. Dak.; Billings and Helena, Mont., to Spokane, Seattle and Portland, and which is expected to bring a large number of motor vacationists direct | from tourist-origin points in the East | to the Northwestern playgrounds. The | chief “pathfinder” of the A. A. A. will spend some weeks covering every | main highway in the Northwest. The information prepared from these surveys will be distributed to THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON DOWN THE ROAD—REAL SERVICE. THIS LIVE. 15 THE SUPER SERVICE STATION, MR. JONES . THERE'S A TOURIST WITH A MOB OF KIDS HERE INQUIRING WHERE ‘YOU AS YOU ARE ONE OF OUR REGULAR CUSTOMERS WE WANT TO PROTECT YOU, SO WHAT'LL 1 TELL HM T Dt DS BECKON MOTORISTS : —By FRANK BECK VETERANS HOLD MEMORIAL RITES D. C. Department, Spanish War Veterans, Pays Tribute to Dead. MEETINGS THIS WEEK, Camps. Monday—Col. John Jacob As- tor, Stanley Hall, United States Soidiers’ Home. Wednesday—Gen. M. Emmett Urell, Pythian Temple. Auxiliaries. | Monday — Admiral George Dewey Naval, Northeast Masonic Temple. Wednesday—Gen. M. Emmett Urell. Pythian Temple. brook of Ohio was mustered in by Department Comdr. Tom D. Binckley. He had been elected to membership by Newark Camp of the Department of Ohio. The next meeting will be on June 25. Comdr. Charles D. Long presided at the last meeting of Richard J. Harden Camp. The death of William C. Flannery was reported. John A. Chisholm spoke on the des- ecration of Memorial day at Arlington National Cemetery, with horse shows sponsored by the United Stats Gov- ernment. The next meeting will be held July 18. Comdr. James B. O'Connor presided at the last meeting of Admiral George Dewey Naval Camp. at the last meeting of Admiral George | Dewey Naval Auxiliary. | Dept. President Catherine Dintler, | Chief of Staff Margaret Burns, Na- | tional Musician Gretta Ludwig an | were guests. Friday—Gen. Henry W. Law- ton, 930 H street. of Tolumbia Department, Spanish War Veterans, were held Priday night at the Department of Commerce Building, when Representative U. S. Guyer of Kansas made the principal address, Col. James S. Pettit Camp met, with Comdr. Calvin B. Lucas presiding. Representative William A. Ash- Memorial services of the District | | Col. John Jacob Astor Auxiliary met | with President Cecilia Fitzgerald pre- | siding. | ‘The last meeting of Gen. Henry W. Lawton Auxiliary was conducted by President Lora Hill, Department Presi- | dent Catherine Dintler with members of her staff, were guests. Col. James S. Pettit Auxiliary met with President Ethel Finn presiding. | President Gertrude Stoll was in the | chair at the meeting of Gen. Nelson | | A. Miles Auxiliary, Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp met with | Comdr, Willlam G. Stirk in the chair. | President Carrie Flaherty presided | | presidents of the various auxiliaries | PILGRIMAGE TODAY BY ODD FELLOWS | Tribute to Unknown Soldier Will Be Second Annual Observance. JUNE 16, 1935—PART FOUR. AVIATION NEWS Air Commerceto Complete| Alr Commerce to Complete L UCETAN Federal Bureau Is Dissatisfied With Condi- tions at Airport durig the last week, ready to go ahead with Althou, satisfied there as a of the e: to lessen air transport dela; ing system. The first unit, com outside the airport proper, mar main runway, The contact lights, which will re- quire approximately five days for in- shining through heavy cover glasses set flush with the runway surface. The final unit of the instrument landing system, the radio units which constitute the heart of the system, have not yet been shipped from the Army Air Corps Materiel Division base at Wright Field, Ohio. The radio eequipment will include two transmit- ters and two marker beacon transmit- | ters operating in pairs, one to be lo- cated 1,500 feet from the airport boun- dary and the other 2 miles away. The radio units are being prepared by the Army Air Corps and are of the type developed by the Materiel Division under direction of Capt. Albert F. Hagenberger, Air Corps instrument fiying expert, for use in the Army blind landing work. No date for delivery of | _‘The Independent Order of Odi | Fellows of the District of Columbia, | assisted by members of the order fr | Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, N Jersey and Delaware, will conduct the ‘Mcond annual pilgrimage to the Tomb of the Unknewn Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery today at 3 o'clock. | Every branch of the order in the District will participate. The ban- Some of the out-of-town delegations will come here by special train. A Reception Committee, composed of the Patriarchs Militant of Canton Wash- ington will receive them at the Union Station, A committee composed of noble grands and vice grands will be at Odd Pellows’ Temple on Seventh street all day to act as a Reception Committee. Following the pilgrimage there will be a buffet supper at the | temple. Members will assemble at the Fort Myer gate at 2:30 o'clock to march to | the tomb. Representative William A. | Pittinger of Minnesota, grand sire of | the Odd Fellows, will make the ad- dress at the tomb. Deputy*Grand | Sire Parke P. Deans of Virginia will also attend. Members of the order and its { branches will have a trip down the ning at 8:30 o'clock. Potomac River next Wednesday eve- | d | the units has been set, but they are expected soon, and since little time will | be required to set them up the entire system should be ready for operation | within a few days after the sets arrive. Service testing of the equipment and training of the transport pilots oper- ating from Washington Airport is to begin as soon as the equipment is ready |and the world’s first regular com- mercial instrument landing operations ners of the lodges will be carried. | should be in progress here before the | | Summer is far advanced. Consideration of the House District Committee bill providing for creation of a Federal commission to select an airport site for Washington and a per- manent commission to establish and maintain an airport was blocked in the House last Monday. The bill was laid aside when Repre- sentative Howard W. Smith of Virginia raised a point of no quorum and the | House adjourned. Judge Smith is the author of a pending bill providing for construction of a model airport on the Gravelly Point site. Representative Allard H. Gasque of South Carolina during the past week reintroduced his bill providing for an airport on the | Benning race track site. | first was introduced by Mr. Gasque in February, 1927, and has been reintro- duced during each succeeding session of Congress. With the House apparently dead- locked for the time being, efforts are being made by proponents of local air: port legislation to spur the Senate son Gravelly Point bill. that if the Senate can be prevailed upon to pass this bill, House opposi- tion to Gravelly Point may be over- come and the bill fammed through the lower body before adjournment. Conducting of surprise radio check- Project. By Joseph S. Edgerton. ITH hopes for enactment of any permanent local airport ‘ N ; legislation virtually killed by developments in the House tion of instrument landing equipment at Washington Airport. the Department of Commerce is very much dis- th conditions at the local airport, it has been decided to go through with the so-called “blind landing” installation rimental program, which is intended and danger due to thick weather. Contact lights, which will outline the main runway at Wash- | ington Airport, have been received and will be installed before the erid of this week by Department of Commerce engineers, completing the second of three units of the proposed blind land- stallation, will be buried in the ground. | | 4,000-mile route from San Francisco | This bill | District Committee to act on the Gib- | but Will Finish the Bureau of Air Commerce is the second phase of its installa- IN MARINE CORPS Vacancy Question Raised by Promotion of Brigadier to Major General. The promotion of one brigadier to major general of the Marine Corps line still leaves the question as to which colonel of the line will be | eligible for promotion to the grade of brigadier general. Col. James | Tyler Buttrick was choice of the last | selection board and automatically suc- ceeds to the vacancy in the grade of brigadier general, but as it Has been sed of powerful approach lights ing the line of approach to the ave been installed. | variety of conditions, Take-off time, | set for last Monday, found uniformly | good conditions prevailing along the | to the Midway Islands, a stride the | international date line almost exactly | in the center of the Pacific Ocean. | The clipper was held up until Wed- | nesday for less favorable conditions, | including contrasting areas of high | and low pressure and possibly some | rain and heavy clouds, to impose a | real test on the big 42,000-pound | flying boat and its crew of six | On the first flight the clipper flew { 2,410 miles, from California to Hawali, in 18 hours 39 minutes on April 16- 17. The flight covered the Great Cir- cle course and south of this area in the 4,000 to 6,000 foot altiude zone. | On the return flight, April 22-23, the big ship was held in the 6,000-8.000 foot zone from the Mercator course through the Great Circle route and | north. | The Midway Island flight, first ven- ture for a commercial aircraft west of Hawaii, represents a continuation | of the exploratory and research work | for the trans-Pacific service. It calls | for a continuation of the flight train- ing and engineering projects initiated on the first flight. ‘The flight personnel for the second | expedition is the same as for the first, | including Edwin C. Musick, captain and chief pilot;: R. O. D. Sullivan, first officer: Victor A. Wright. engi- neering officer; Prederick J. Noonan, navigation officer; W. T. Jarboe, jr., radio officer, and Harry A. Canaday, junior flight officer. | To this ecrew Pan-American Air- ways has assigned three separate mis- sions for the Midway Island flight: Pirst, training—to perfect co-ordina- | tion in ocean flying transport routine of flight and ground crews at Califor- nia, Hawaii and Midway stations. | Second, engineering—to collect data of a technical nature concerning op- | | eration and navigation of long-range | aireraft under various conditions, at different altitudes and speeds, for verification of specialized long-range operating auxiliary mechanical engine | and airplane equipment developed es- pecially for the purpose. Third, ex- ploratory—to acquaint the flight crew with course characteristics of the two initial stages of the trans-Pacific| route, have been among the wildest spots on earth. These little-known islands of white coral sand and thick scrub were havens for great flocks of wild birds, | especially for penguinlike goonies, a species of. albatross. | " The Midways are at the northern (end of the Hawaiian archipelago and the policy of the department to have a list of eligible officers in reserve | for emergency promotion and as the | selection board is not due to meet | until next January, unless by special order of the Secretary of the Navy, the department is confronted with | an unforseen problem. Brig. Gen. Frederic Leison Bradman will assume duty here July 1 as presi- dent of the Marine Examining Board. | Maj. Gen. John H. Russell, recently | ordered him from the San Diego base to board duty and in furtherance of a general shift of the higher officers of the corps, Maj. Gen. Charles H. Lyman, in addition to being in direct command of the fleet Marine force, | is assigned additional duty as com- mander of the Quantico base. In this connection it is stated the wishes of the General Board of the Navy | will have been met in the event that it is desired to detail another officer to specialize only with the task of commanding the fleet unit. this in furtherance of keeping said mobile unit at all times intact. Col. John Colt Beaumont and Col. | Presley Marion Rixey are two of the colonels of the line, who. in addition to Col. Frank Edgar Evans, are to be considered by the department for promotion. William Vogt, sergeant, retired, who served aboard the Olympia under the | late Admiral Dewey, during the Bat- tle of Manila Bay. hopes to board that vessel again when it arrives here for permanent station as a historical relic of bygone days in the naval service Vogt is a guard in the State, War and Navy Building. He served 30 years in the corps. Secretary of the Navy Swanson has | honored two deceased officers of the corps in assigning names to 2 of the 14 destroyers authorized by act of Congress March 27, 1934¢. DD No. 384 Dunlap, in honor of the late Brig. Gen. Robert . H. Dunldp. born December 22, 1879. at Washington, D. C, who lost his life in Prance while heroically attempting to save |a peasant woman from death by landslide. | DD No. 390 Ralph Talbot, in honor of the late Second Lieut. Ralph Tal- bot, who won renown in France in the corps’ aviation branch and who won the. Naval Medal of Honor. He later lost his life in an aerial accident October 25, 1918. It is hoped ! The Midway Islands for centuries | 1 The | the A. A. A’s 839 affiliated clubs, and | these ciubs in turn will relay it to | members planning to take vacation | trips and use it as a basis for local is to drive a British-built Diesel. Evans, it is stated, has taken out an A. A A sanction for a second attempt, ups on all scheduled airline transport | the group is composed of three tiny flights to determine just how effective | islands, the longest only 13, miles in are present radio communications | length, surrounded by a coral barrier | which also is to be made on one of | the desert courses. Speed as an index of motor car en- | durance promises a new Summer sea- | gon of activity in the Far West. The scenes of operations will be the dry | lake or flat desert areas of"Utah and California. | According to advices from England, three noted British drivers, bringing | with them cars specially built, are to invade America in quest of speed | echievements which it is hoped will | enhance the prestige of Britain as & producer of automobiles. First will come John Cobb, sports- man, who will use a Railton-Napier car equipped with a Napier-Lion en- gine of the aero type, to try for a 24- hour record now credited to a Plerce- Arrow driven by Ab Jenkins. Following Cobb, according to plans, Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of the world's maximum land speed mark of 276.59 miles an hour, will return to this country for a second visit this year. In the Spring he was at Day- tona Beach, Fla., and, in his famous “Bluebird,” with its Rollys-Royce en- gine, he ran approximately 4 miles an hour faster than he did in a 1934 trial over the same course. The third British pilot who plans to cross the Atlantic is Capt. G. E. T. Eyston, whose intention it is to try to better a one-hour record now credited to Hans von Stuck, German driver, who used a German auto-union car to set a mark of 134.9 miles an hour. Eyston also has his eye on top epeed for Diesels. This record belongs to America through a performance of Bill Cummings at Daytona this Spring. In an oil-burning racer built by the Cummins (C. Q.) Engine Co. of Columbus, Ind., he did 137.185 miles an hour. For Diesel trials, Eyston intends to bring out a fast job powered with a 130-horsepower en- gine built by the Associated Equip- ment Co, of England. All three Britons plan to take cars and crews of mechanics to Salduro, Utah, where there is a flat, hard-sur- faced desert area suitable for their trials. It is reached by way of Salt Lake City and Wendover, Utah. For Campbell, who needs a long straight- away, it provides a 12-mile stretch, on which he hopes to cut locse at any time he desires without being subject to the uncertainties of wind and ocean tides, as he has been during Florida beach trials. His objective is 300 miles an hour. Cobb and his Railton-Napier are scheduled to reach New York around July 3. Reid A. Railton, British en- gineer, also designed the Campbell “Bluebird.” In the desert expanses of the West there are three vast and perfectly level prehistoric lake beds that have been .used for motor car trials dur- ing the last three years. One is at Balduro. There is & second at Bon- neville, Utah, and & third at Muroc Lake, Calif. For trials of Ameri- can cars all three have been used at various times for different makes. The most recent was made at Muroc in April, when a Hudson sedan estab- lished 35 new closed car marks. In August of last year Chrysler and De Soto closed cars were taken to Bonn: Chrysler, 69 records still 4 sent. ‘,point to the conclusion that | Amity Hall, Pa., and Newport, is com- stories, “The Northwest, with its greatly expanded system of excellent high- ways, is on the eve of a tremendous tourist development period,” declared Ernest N. Smith, executive vice presi- | dent of the A. A. A, who has recently returned from a visit to the section. “Travel generally is expanding by leaps and bounds, and all indications the Northwest will be one of the areas that will benefit most from the current impetus of what is in reality a world-wide travel movement.” REPORTS ON ROADS Recent bulletins of the Washington office of the American Automobile Association list these changes in road conditions within a 100-mile radius of ‘Washington: U. 8. 22—Construction between pleted. Panorama-Swift Rua Gap: Skyline Drive being surfaced. Work- ing on one-half width of road in one- mile sections, some one-way traffic. U. 8. 15—Scarifying between Gor- donsville, Va., and Boswells Tavern. U. S. 17—Scarifying between Port Royal, Va., and Tappahannock. U. 8. 29—Construction south of Culpepér, Va., short section rough and part of new road being oiled, passable without trouble. NATIONAL UNION Meetings this week: Monday, Potomac Council, Pythian Temple. Central Council, Woodmen of the World Hall. 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Should the plan be put into effect, the Department of Commerce, un- | known to any airline operator, would designate a “zero hour” for the test. At that time Government radio engi- neers, using either the ground radio stations of the various airlines or the airway radio stations of the Bureau of Air Commerce, would call upon every | pilot. then in the air on a scheduled transport flight for a special report containing data pertinent to the test. Each airplane would be given a rating. If no communication could be established, the airplane would draw a zero rating, with a resulting Federal investigation to determine why it was out of communication. Grades would be given, based upon the efficiency of the airplane personnel in responding to the check and a detailed report would be made on static and other conditions which might interfere with communication between airplane and ground. The radio check plan would seem to be dictated by sound common sense. More and more reliance is being placed by the air transport industry upon radio aids to navigation and if the radio blind landing system is to go into effect. radio failure may become a matter of life-and-death importance. If airplane radio is subject to static or other ddbnditions which render it useless even at infrequent intervals, it obviously would be a risky business to rely solely upon radio to get a trans- port airplane to the ground safely in fog or thick weather. Before instru- ment landings can be depended upon in regular service radio must be well- nigh infallible. The radio check-up would give a positive indication of the effectiveness of airline radio under actual service conditions. Aircraft radio unques- tionably is open to improvement and the check-up may serve to reveal shortcomings in common to all air- lines which may be eliminated through concerted effort. The check-up would seem to be in the interest of public safety. It may very well prove embarrassing and may seem temporarily harmful to the of some of our domestic air- upon the problems of communications. The second Pacific flight of the | forming a lagoon. The group was un- | known until 75 years ago. when it was claimed for the United States by | | Capt. C. W. Brooks. The first hydro- graphic survey of the group was made in 1900 by the United States, and three years later the islands became | | & relay station for a_communications | cable from the Far East. Since the arrival of the Pan-Ameri- can steamer North Haven, on April | 12, nearly half of Sand Island, largest | of the group, has been made over, | | The jyngle has been cleared, roads | laid, wells dug, windmills and 14| | buildings erected, a power plant and | refrigerating plant instailed and three radio stations, including radio com- pass, constructed. | More than 2,000 tons of construc- | | tion materials and supplies have been | put ashore at Midway, ircluding stores | | of gasoline and oil for the big clipper planes, and deserted Midway soon will | | become tive key station of an aerial | | highway between the hemispheres. Plans for & mammoth flying boat | with & wing span of 400 feet and | an overall length of 200 feet, for use | in trans-Atlantic air transport service, are being drawn at the Sikorsky plant, | which produced the Pan-American | Airways flving boats for Pacific serv- | ice, according to Igor Sikorsky. ‘The new ship will weigh approxi- mately three times as much as the Brazilian clipper and iis sister ships, designed to cross the Pacific, Mr. Sikorsky explained in an article writ- ten by him for the July issue of the magazine, Esquire. Mr. Sikcrsky predicted that in less than a year hig seaplane: will be fly- ing across the Atlantic with mail and passengers. 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