Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1935, Page 60

F—10 SCHOOL DAYS Need of Child Protection Proveq b_y Recent Deaths Extra Driving Caution and Education for| School Youngsters Held Necessary. Industri By G. Adams Howard. HE recent deaths of two small boys killed by trucks should impress every one with the necessity i § to and from school than ever before. extra cautious during these hours of precaution is not sufficient. Children, full of youth and impet- uosity, do not do the expected thing. Motorists must try to anticipate them. To do this, one must drive slowly and carefully wherever they are present. A suggestion has been made along this line to have signs indicating school zcues a block away from the actual intersection where the schools are located. This change, it is pointed out, would give the motorist more time to be on the lookout before he actually entered the school zone. This might be accomplished by police standards or the marking of the street itself with paint. The plan is worthy of consideration. A constaut education for school children at home and at school is needed as a further safety step. Parents and teachers cannot spend a little time more valuably than teach- ing the youngsters what and what not to do on the city’s thoroughfares. Protect the school children! Xk Things are happening in automotive circles. The industry is well on its way to annual changes. These are coming earlier this year. According to Consolidated News Features the long-heralded stock car with a Diesel engine probably will be on the market before 1936 under the Auburn trade mark. Reports from the headquarters of the Cord and Auburn interests at Au- burn, Ind, indicate the new auto- mobile is about ready for production. No indication has been given, however, about the probable price. The Diesel motors will be supplied by the Cummins Engine Co, with factories at Columbus, Ind. Diesel power units for commercial trucks, railway locomotives, motor busses and power units for rural homes already are being manufactured there. Engineers for many years have been predicting the advent of a Diesel unit for passenger cars. Such an engine, using unrefined oil for fuel, offers ad- vantages in economy. In the gasoline engine vaporized gasoline is forced into the cylinder chamber, where it is exploded by a spark obtained from the ignition system. The explosion forces a piston down, supplying the motive force. The Diesel engine needs no ignition system. Heat is generated first. Air is forced into the cylinder chamber and the piston compresses the air to approximately 500 pounds per square inch. This raises the temperature of the air to about 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. At this point the fuel oil is in- Jected. The oil burns, expanding the gas and forcing the piston down, sup- plying the motive power. The Auburn interests pioneered with the front drive in putting the Cord automobile on the market. The venture was none too successful, how- ever, as the car could not be brought into a price class that would appeal to a large number of buyers. Price may also be an important factor in the success or failure of a Diesel- powered car. ¥ ok k& While Auburn is making plans for & car with new power effects, another company is planning a comeback with another unconventional motor unit. ‘This involves the return to the manu- facturing field of Franklin motors, wth its air-cooled engine. Dallas ‘' E. Winslow, Detroit re- frigeration magnate, has obtained an interest in the Franklin factory. By a deal with the Doman-Marks Engine Co. of Amesbury, Mass., rights have been obtained to an eight-cylinder, air-cooled passenger car motor, about which engineers are enthusiastic. This new motor has been under de- velopment since the formation of the Doman-Marks Engine Co. two years ago. According to John E. Williams, Franklin executive, the motor this Summer “completed over 25,000 miles of rigorous road performance, in ad- dition to extensive laboratory testing.” Franklin was previously identified with the air-cooled engine. The company, with headjuarters at Syra- cuse, N. Y, was unable to weather the depression, however. tion of new capital and new blood will be watched in Detroit with con- siderable interest. in view of Winslow’s connection. that some effort will be made to tie in with an air-cooled refrigeration proj- ect to supplement the automobile ac- tivities of the company. At the same time that new plans are in the making for passenger cars, | the White Motor Co. comes along | with an announcement of a series of streamlined trucks. The company ex- pects to put between 15,000 and 20,000 of the new line on the road during the next 12 months. The streamline design for the trucks was made by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky. famous | industrial stylist, whose assistance is frequently sought by the automobile engineers. % kN ‘The North American Newspaper Alliance furnishes other comment of interest in the industry. Looking toward 1936, both Detroit and Cleveland have been centers of automotive interest 1ast week. In the Detroit area previews of new Dodge and Buick lines of cars were given be- fore dealer assemblies. With the assembly lines of 10 fac- tories closed for change-over, the pre- views are to continue preparatory to the opening of the autemobile show season in New York November 2. In Cleveland, the national machine tool show continued and with it there was conducted a production session of the Society of Automotive Engi- | neers. Before the S. A. E. assembly, William B. Stout, president of the organization and an active proponent of rear-engine cars, talked about the effect that the introduction of cars with motors in the rear may have on sutomotivé manufacturing. In the light of Edsel Ford's recent statement that rear-engine designs are to be the next big developmnt in the industry, Mr. Stout’s reiteration of arguments favoring rear-engine de- sign gained added interest. In his talk he also took into account a pres- ent trend toward decentralization in manufacture which is being followed of children regarding street safety. Schools open tomorrow and more children will be on thetr way B The injec- | It is expected here, | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, < al News. of alert driving and proper education Drivers of all automobiles must be ’, 7 transit and recess periods. Ordinary 7/: ////, 77 by both General Motors and the Ford ( v Motor Co. ;}fi * % % X The growth of resistance welding in the manufacture of automobiles was brought to the attention of the engineers by J. A. Weiger of P. R. Mallory & Co., Inc. This type of welding came to the front about 10 years ago. It has five subdivisions— spot welding, flash butt weiding, elec- trical upsetting, seam welding and projection welding. On one of the popular cars today, according to Mr. Weiger, the total of resistance welds on combined body and chassis is 3,240. This same manufacturer a few years ago had only 1,339 resistance welds. Resistance welding makes possible the uniting of forgings and stampings into integral parts of strength, light- ness and symmetry at a speed un- equaled py any known process. The result has been motor cars in which | practically no castings are used ex- cept in the power plant. ACROSS. . Seal. 7. Downright. . Exchange: collog. . Molder. . On land. . Italian coins. . 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Always he presented the ap- ‘pearance and manners of a gentle- | man of quality, and every man in the bureau when discussing the Adams case makes the remark that Adams also had some unfailing charm by | which he could attract and employ the aid of women. These women Adams used were also of a genteel | type and faithful to him even when he was in his worst plights. It was a woman who interceded for Adams when he was first serving a prison term in Atlanta for counterfeiting and prevailed upon officials until he was transferred to Fort Wadsworth. Adams soon made an escape from there and took up his work of making bad money again. He was taken again by agents but escaped even before he was put | in prison. This happened on the day he was riding in t* > police wagon in | company with a woman accomplice, & | man named Stadig and other prison- | ers. Both Stadig and Adams were | handcuffed. Since Adams was about | to be parted from his woman friend, the officers granted him the favor of permitting her to sit upon his lap. Suddenly the police car made a swerve to avoid colliding with an automobile, | the woman reached into the cuff of Adams’ trousers, unlocked his and Stadig’s handcuffs and the two men made their getaway. More spurious money, bearing the appearance of Adams’ work, soon appeared, particu- larly in Chicago. Agents soon located a woman known to be an associate of Adams. They followed her one day when she left her hotel in a cab. A short distance away she got out of the cab and transferred to an auto- mobile driven by a man whom the | agents thought looked like Adams. | Adams must have by some intuitive | feeling known agents were following them. He stepped on the gas and sped through red lights and other traffic signals, skidding in the snow | and slush and leading the agents in a | wild chase down Chicago’s most active | business street. Agents dared not | shoot here and Adams escaped them. They later found ti® car he had been driving deserted on the street. The Chicago bureau broadcast descriptions of Adams and his companion. Finally, | in a small town five miles outside of Milwaukee, Wis.,, a village policeman recognized him from the broadcast description, stopped his car and ordered him under arrest. Adams, instead, jumped from the car and started on a run. The officer fired twice and threatened to shoot to kill before Adams stopped. Back in Chi- cago he was sentenced to 10 years. A special squad was organized by | . Red clover, 103. Contends. |104. Last. 105. Platform inan amphitheater. Spirited. Contests. An English- man. Rigging. Cakes. Sheepskin leather. 1107 | 100. | 110. 116. 120. | 121. 125. The office of the third hour. Gathers. | Feminine name. Abound. A month, Essence. The knave of clubs. Boresome. A dupe. A negative, Electrical unit. Persia. 141. Swards. 142. Resuscitate. 95. 97. 140. 99. 100. 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IN THE MATCH, C., SEPTEMBER 22, DEMAND CAUTIOUS CES HER HOME. 1935—PART FOUR. CVENFOR WOWEN 'Adjustments and RepLace-j ments Often Needed After | Long Use of Car. BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. It’s a pity when the filling station attendant takes so much trouble to wipe the windshield clean that some drivers have such difficulty seeing | safety through it. When a motorist spends $20 having a lot of electrical work done on her | car and then discovers that the en- gine hesitated merely because the acceleration pump of the carburetor was sticking, she is likely to assume that she wasted her money on “service detouring.” She ought to know better, however, for with the mileage modern | owners put on their cars almost any- thing in-the way of a replacement or adjustment really is needed. 1 know from personal experience that I have often run into the buds of trouble-by going all around the car looking for the cause of some elusive ailment. Sometimes failure to find a | remedy right off the bat is good in- | surance against future trouble, Close on the heels of the announce- | ment of a radio set especially fash- ioned for farm tractors comes news of the new all-metal radio tubes which are said to make car radio much more satisfactory. This not being enough | for a public that is always ready for | | something new and better, one of the | | leading spark plug companies has put | built-in suppressors. The resistor units can be removed and cleaned. Inci- | normally good and try the set with | the engine switched off. If the noise comes in as soon as the engine is| started be sure to-have your service man consider possible interference | | from the generator cut-out. Tempest. 1106. A tefted bed Wool fabrics. '108. Ingredients. Unit of work. 109. Two-wheelel Delightful vehicles places. Dock posts. Rain and Steam. SNOW. A constella- Dinner course tion. However: Disease of simp. sp. fowls. One of a Meal party. Charm. Copper cent. Indentation on Pant | the face. Combining | 119. Petition. form for oil. |121. Pamper. Exigency. |122. A dog. Inferior deity. 123. An action at Swell. law. Superior. | 124. Violence. Adore. | 127. Idiot. Land meas- 129. Step. ures 1132. Angered: obs. Clothed in fur. 133. Gray striped Suitable. shavl. Shakespearean 135. Air carrier: character. collog. Trib2. 136 Existed: poet. Area onapar- 139. Feminine rot’s bill. names. Obligations. Creek in the Fat. Shetland Is- Spoken. lands. 65. 68 69. - 110. 112 114. 0. 1. 4. 115. 116. 1117 118. 6. 78. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. | | | | | | 1 90. 91 | 92. 93. 96. 98. 143 101 1104. Chief Moran to run down a ring of | spurious money-makers, cornered in a four-room bungalow on the road to Mohonk, N. Y., August 2. The Secret Service is particularly pleased over this arrest, not only because it Was | nately clever man. the breaking up of what they called | Equardo de Shelley, a graduate of the “the most complete counterfeiting | College of Albert le Grande, skilled in | | plant ever found in the East,” but also | painting, sculpture and chemistry. De | | because it involved the making of | Shelley set up a shop of arts in an ob- | | bogus $1 bills, which are considered | scure west side studio with Leon Gross- | the most troublesome of counterfeit man, a native of Bucharest. He sent | bills. They are so easily passea with- | to France for paper, searched Man- out being suspected. According to | hattan for days to find the metals for Peter A. Rubano, head of the special his plates, treated printed notes with detail of United States Secret Service, } a blackened brush to give them an ap- who tracked Albania, Ravone and |pearance of age, worked out the num- Coppola after two months of tedious | bers of the notes to conform with rules | | trailing, $5,000 worth of these bogusof the Bank of France, even treated dollars had been circulated about New | his creations with a chemical formula York each week, with a total amount 5o they would balk the co'n test of of $150,000 in circulation. About 301pa,551ng a silver coin across the note | passers have been arrested by the au- | to test its genuineness. He rinted thorities in the last few weeks. Ra- | notes equivalent to a total of $100,- | vone, one of the three found in the | 000. Agents watched for him at bank- act of making the money, told agents | jng houses. Finally, one day they ) ; : enough perfect to deceive the most | for bad coins, don't expect to see lead | letter is linked with the serigl number: | shrewd New York bankers began ap- | quarters or zinc dimes, for the makers | Take out any bill, divide the serial pearing, agents knew they had before | of currently simulated coins try to | number (the large and lengthy figure) them the task of finding an inordi- | match the alloys of the United States | by 6 and you will find that the re- He was Luis| Government, using a high percentage | mainder is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 0. Now of silver content. Cases have been |look at the check letter and you will discovered where imitations carried | see that if the remainder was 1 the more than the amount of silver re- | check letter will be either A or G; if quired by real coins. You might keep | the remainder was 2 the check letter in mind this simple test for deter- will be B or H; if 3, C or I; if 4, D mining whether the coin is good or [ or J; if 5, E or K; if 0, F or L. This bad: Mix 24 grains nitrate of silver, | will always work out thus because 30 drops nitric acid, 1 ounce water. | numbering is so arranged to bm_:g A drop of this preparation (it is best | this result. Counterfeiters often slip to place it as near as possible to|up here, and it is only by chance the edge) will have no effect on a | that they can happen on the correct genuine coin, while it can be plainly | back plate number, front plate num- seen on the worthless one. Heavily | ber and check-letters, all of which go | tests. that he wa. an exbootlegger and joined the counterfeiting racket “because of fhnrd times.” Agents picked up the ! trail of the three men through their habit of coming to the city on week |ends for materials. They followed | them when they started back and | after some difficulty found the hide- jout in the woods. For two days and two nights agents lay in the woods, observing the gang printing the money. Those woods, the agents afterward learned, are infested with copperheads |and rattlesnakes, which, fortunately, | did not molest the agents. When the agents entered the bungalow, with | pistols drawn, they found 502 com- | plete bills and others partly printed. However, they found materials suffi- cient for printing a million $. bills. The small number of complete bills was accounted for by the fact that the ring printed money only on orders and that they sold the money in bulk to the leaders of the passers at from 15 { cents to 35 cents on the dollar. ! MUCH counterfeit money has been | passed in Europe, where, because of the many tourists, it is readily ac- cepted without questioning. However, to the contrary, the ordinary American would just naturally be dubious of acepting any kind of foreign money. Thus, when counterfeit 1,000-franc French bank notes that were near took him at the window of a bank with complete evidence. De Shelley | was released on $2,500 bail and then sailed for Cuba. To Cuba the agents trailed him. In Atlanta he was then jailed and, upon release, in 1934, was d.ported. De Shelley was bold, he told them they could never stop him— he'd be back, he said. He needed money badly to pay off losses of his mother at Monte Carlo and. secondly, needed $20,000 to enter the Cuban Aviation Corps where one has to buy his own airplane. De Shelley was true to his word and soon after turned |up in Key West. This was in March |of this year. The T-Men, as the | Secret Service operatives of the ‘freas- ury are called. soon traced bogus 50- | cent pieces to De Shelley. Agents de- | cided this time he was working with a | |gang. Circulation of bad coins was| widespread in Florida and Georgia; | | as the headquarters. Finallv, agents| swooped down and crashed the whole | ring, along with De Shelley, who was | given six years in the Federal Peni- tentiary at Atlanta. ILLEGI'I'!MATE coins also show an increase in the United States. From the $21,000 taken in the fiscal year of 1928, the figure grew to $77,000 by June 31 of this year. If you want to h‘m the lookout | Key West and Atlanta were suspected w' O plated coins should be scraped lightly before applying the test liquid. Agents for the secret service are selected from lists of those applicants who have passed the civil service Qualifications for eligibility to take the examinations are that the man either have experience in in- vestigation work (service as a police- man not considered as investigating experience) or that he be a lawyer. Since the Government is practically the only organization in which to obtain investigation experience, most of the agents are lawyers. Agents advance to the position of agent in charge on the merits of performance of duties. ‘When questioned as to how he could detect a false bill, Mr. Murphy said it was a matter of knowing what the genuine looked like, just as one who knows art can readily distinguish a true work of Rembrandt from a copy. He admitted, though, that some- times it takes close examinatior. for an expert to detect a false bill. NE method that is employed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in its work of making money has proved a stumbling block for counterfeiters. This is the “check- letter” system. On the face of every bill you will see a small letter in the upper left-hand corner and again in the lower right-hand corner beside the plate number (United States bills are made 12 to a plate and the plates are numbered 1 to 12, for convenience in printing). Note how the check- . | on one bill. A Many persons make the mistake of depending on a list of serial numbers for protection against spurious money. | In fact, a regular fraud game has been worked up by swindlers who sell cards that are alleged to bear the serial numbers of all counterfeit bills, and these cards are supposed to have had Government approval. The whole idea is silly and useless, since many times counterfeits bear the same serial numbers as the genuine, Here are some pointers if you hope to learn to recognize counterfeit bills by sight: Take out a genuine bill, note the fine lines, the excellent en- graving, the clearness of the eyes in the portrait, the fine detail of hair or beard, the proper demarcation. of ar- | ticles of clothing and a general merg- ing of the portrait into the back- ground. Mr. Murphy compared the | appearance of the portrait on real and imitation money to the appearance of calling cards that are engraved or simply printed. The bad portraits and the merely printed names on the cards both have a “surface” look. Some- times the tell-tale mark is in the scroll work on the borders of bills. This work is placed there by a geo- metric machine which, once started, proceeds on its own way s. that even the operator of it cannot determine what design it will produce. If scroll work is smeared or out of focus, be- ware! Watch the back of the bills, too, for more scroll work is used here than on the face and fakers seldom take pains with the backs, I In spite of endless improvements 1n1 | engine design, still are entirely too sensitive to damp- ness. Allow a little moisture to col- lect on the tops of the spark plugs, or on the distributor, and there is prolonged starting delay. In a heavy rain the only way to start some of these engines is to tow their cars to | the garage. Pushing them with an- other car is no certain help, since the trouble is one of trying t° dry off the ignition, not of cranking speed. ‘ A bicycle pump is handy for blow- |ing water from the recessed parts of | the cylinder head around the plugs. | The rest can be dried off with the | aid of cloths or absorbent paper. Fre- | quently it is necessary to remove the | distributor head and dry out the inside. As a convenience to owners who are facing this sort of trouble, one accessory company has just an- nounced a new kind of liquid which, | when sprayed on the damp or wet ! ignition parts, dries them immediately. Courtesy signaling seems to be gain- ing heaiway and, while it is com- mendable, I should like to warn against taking it too seriously. Re- cently a woman driver was given a signal to pass around a large truck She started to pass, then hesitated. A moment later a transcontinental bus came tearing down the road. After overtaking a car on a curve |a very thoughtful chap waved to me | to come on, indicating that the road- way was clear. Being skeptical of | courtesy signaling, I decided to bide | my time and take no chances. The road was clear so far as he was con- | cerned, but I figured he was signaling from a point too far ahead. Any one might have come out of a driveway | to block my path and make me legally responsible for anything that hap- | pened. Several women have complained re- cently regarding their inability to get away as fast in traffic as do some of | jamin King, | planes, | their friends. They seem to feel there | | must be something wrong with their |cars and possibly with their way of | handling the controls. The truth is there is considerable difference in the way various makes and models of cars shift. Some transmissions are fast, some slow. In fact, unless shifts are made quickly some transmissions are extremely hard to shift without mak- ng a racket. Quick shifting is a re- markable aid to speedy get-away. Those tires you have used all Sum- | mer may be worn largely because of | the service they gave, but some of | this wear may be a direct result of ‘!'msfllignment of the front wheels. It is wise policy to have the wheels checked over carefully before invest- ing in new tires—if you want them to stay new. Compression is the secret of power |in an engine, but since it is some- | thing which cannot be seen or han- dled like mechanical parts of the car, | & mental idea of it. | is simple enough. When a piston is going down on | the first of its cycle of four strokes it sucks in a mixture of gas and air. Next it moves upward and compresses this mixture to about one-fifth of its | original volume. The mixture is then {under compression and its pressure, measured in pounds per square inch, is the compression of the particular cylinder at the particular time. This compression is higher if the original Yet compression higher pressure, as where the car is operated at sea level. Its compression is increased by any change in the engine which forces the original mix- ture to be packed into a smaller space. If the compressed gas mixture occu- pies one-fifth of the space it takes up when first admitted to the cylin- | der, the compression is said to be 5 to 1. Many engines now are 6 tc 1. Racing car engines run up much high- er than this. Compression, however, will not be up to standard if gas | leaks out during the compressing. | Thus for best results the rings, valves {and lubricant must be right at all | times. 0dd Fellows. Chief Patriarch Karl N. Bretz- felder requests all patriarchs of Fred D. Stuart Encampment to attend the degree to be conferred on Ralph Johnson, Andrew Episcopo, Roy Best' and Charles Merman tomorrow eve- ning at Mount Nebo Encampment in Qdd Fellows’ Temple. Esther Rebekah Lodge will meet tomorrow at 8 pam. All Record Total of 45 Marks H Be Overtaken Easil DRIVING : AVIATION <« USEFUL AUTOTIPS |U- S. Hopes to Dominate s in Aviation eld in America Could ¥, Industry Is Told By National Aeronautics Association. By Joseph S. Edgerton. records, the National Aeronautical in furtherance of its campaign to puted world leadership in the air. This country now is in first plas l T IS possible for the United States to hold 100 of the existing world aviation Association has informed the industry put the Nation in a position of undis- ce, with a total of 45 records, but the margin is too close for comfort. and the United States could be pushed back into second place again overnight, ac- cording to N. A. A. officials. There are at least 60 existing world records, most of them now held by France, which could be taken easily by this country with present aircraft, according to William R. Eynart, secretary of the N. A. A. Contest Board. Since August 1, 1934, the United States has increased its world avia- ticn record holdings from 20 to 45. | Fifteen of these new records have been added largely through the ef- forts of the National Aeronautical Association, which some time ago sounded a call to American aviation to regain its lost world leadership. None of the new American records are of the “freak” type, but are all in- dications of the solid worth of Amer- ican aircraft and of the high perform- ance standards now exacted by the in- dustry from its aircraft designers, it | is claimed. Load Records Captured. The real American advance toward leadership began when Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Capt. Bois Sergievs! and Edwin C. Musick pushed the Sikorsky S. 42, now in trans-Pacifi c |on the market a line of plugs with | fervice for Pan-American Airwa to 10 world records for speed and dis- | tance with loads. D. W. Tomlinson dentally, to check your radio set for | in the T. W, A. pioneer Douglass added causes of noise, take the car iu a park | [ine more records flying over the or some open place where reception 15 | Weshington-New York-Norfolk course. Other records were captured by Ben- local sportsman pilot; Lieut. Comdr. Stone and Lieut. Burke, Coast Guard; Helen McCloskey, Art Chester and Maxine Bennett. Enyart voiced the opinion that either the Vultee or the Beechcraft can better the world speed records for 1,000 many modern motors | kilometers both with and without load. Although the 100-kilometer speed rec- ord has been moved up recently by France, Enyart contends either Ro ‘Turner's racer or the Wedell-Will = could better the new mar! With the help of high-altitude superchargers of recent development some of the new American transport planes should be able to return at least four and possibly eight altitude | records with load, Enyart said. Amer- ican light airplanes are capable of taking 2 number of international rec- ords, according to the performance charts at N. A. A. headquarters. Multi- seaters should be able to gain nine world marks for this country; sea- 11 world records; autogiros and amphibians, 12 marks. There are 20 world records which are within the reach of America’s woman pilots, on the basis of present airplane perform- ance, according to the N. A. A. “It is not to be expected,” Enyart said, “that other nations of the world would sit back and do nothing about it while we were collecting all these record marks. However, our own con- structors have many design innova- tions up their sleeves, and there is no reason Wwhy our own performance progress snould not move forward as rapidly.” Sports Flying Gains. Sports flying in Washington and its vicinity has increased greatly during ROAD CONDITIONS N CAPTAL AREA A. A. A. Bulletins Warn of Storm Damage—100-Mile Sector Recapitulated. Late bulletins issued by the Ameri- can Automobile Association repeat the warning to motorists that the recent storm damaged many bridge ap- proaches in Virgina and that one- way traffic is required at many points, 2 the past Summer and local sports fly- €rs have taken an active part in flying events in many parts of the Eastern | United States. One of the immediate results of the increased activity of pri- vate flyers is an expansion of the ac- tivities of the Washington Air Derby Association, now one of the country's most energetic civic aviation groups. The association is completing con- struction of an aviation club house at College Park Airport, College Park, Md.; has undertaken publication of a monthly journal for local pilots, is increasing its flying membership and has begun plans for a new series of | flying activities. | The association is sponsoring an {air golf game today for all sports- man pilots in the local area. Play will start from Congressiona: Airport at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The play are expected to drop golf balls “tached to parachutes at virtually all of the airports and fiying flelds in the local area during the course of play, landing and holing out the balls in conventional manner. A number of trophies have been provided. The new club is being established in two buildings at the north end of College Park Airport. These build- ings and a small plot of ground were turned over to the association by George Brinkerhoff, manager of the airport. Remodeling and decorating of the buildings and improvement of the grounds has been nearly com- pleted. Chester H. Warrington, presi- dent of the Aero Club of Washing- ton, is taking charge of fencing the ground; Mrs. Genevieve M. Savage, local govern T the 99rs, national organization of TS, is do- ing the landscaping, and “Bud” Som- erville, president of the derby groun, is going to have a terrace built front of the ngs. The work is to be finished in October. New Letter Has Personnels, The association’s new publ; 1] WADA Prop and Wing, it a .Sc)ant;: sheet mimeographed news letter for the present and contains a deal of good-natured joshing of individual members, as is customary in such organs. The derby group has added a num- ber of new members, among them Mr. and Mrs. “Lil” Printz, Sue Short, who is the wife of Porter G. Adams, former president of the National Aeronautic Association; Richard Be- dell, Horace Landers and Frank Phelps. The association has increased its membership limitations to take in 50 new members and this number is expected to be enrolled within a month. _Several of the members have new airplanes. Doug Schall, son of Sena- tor Schall of Minnesota. and Bob Kashower, have just bought a Stinson and are putting in a good deal of cross-country time. Frark Phelps has Jjust come back from the West Ovast with a new Porterfield. Other new ships have been added during the Summer. Automotive Briefs | | Pontiac Motor Co. is establishing | & new Southern region with head- quarters at Memphis and two new zones located at Milwaukee and Des Moines, it is announced by A. W. L Gilpin, vice president and general sales manager. The changes will be effective October 1. V. A. Davison, manager of the De- | troit zone, takes over the manager- ship of the Southern region embrac- ing the zones whose territories are tributary to Atlanta, Charlotte, Mem- phis, Oklahoma City and Dallas. Mr Davison will be succeeded by A. C.* Tiedemann, jr., now zone manager of Washington, D. C. Mr. Tiedemann will be succeeded in Washington by H. H. Grothjan. | with cars being regulated by flagmen. | The roads are being repaired, however, and improved conditions are being re- ported from day to day. The Maryland State Road Commis- sion has issued a warning of soft many women have difficulty gathering | | | shoulders on State roads in Caroline, | | Talbot and St. Marys Counties, due to recent washouts, and advises caution. | A picture of road conditions, as pre- sented by latest maps and bulletins | of the American Automobile Associa- | tion, for the radius within 100 miles of Washington, follows: Md. 5—Bridges out between Great Mills and Point Lookout, St. Marys City traffic detour via county road; Point Lookout traffic use 3 Notch Road | to Ridge. Md. 16—Closed between Md. 313 and | | air sucked into the cylinder is under | | | | Preston, 19-mile good detour via Fed- | | eralsburg and Eliwood. Md. 313—Road between Denton and Federalsburg has been repaired. | Md. 2—Construction from Baltimore south to Furnace Branch is completed. | U. S. 1—Construction south of Ac- cotink, Va. U. S. 29—Half mile construction be- ween Culpeper and Madison, Va. U. S. 60—Four miles west of Rich- mond, half mile construction, good. Va, 3—Between Warsaw and Lan- caster, closed at Richmond-Lancaster County line, detour on soil Toad, good if dry, passable when wet. Va. 4—Construction between Rich- i mond end West Point near New Kent, | detour during day, after working hours ‘> trafic maintained; good if dry, slip- | pery and muddy when wet. 1 U. 8. 17—Closed from Saluda, Va., north to Churchview, detour via Ur- banna. U. S. 29—Three and seven-tenth- mile detour between Silver Spring, Md., [ t | and White Oak. U. S. 340—Construction between Charles Town and Harpers Ferry; short delays; rough in spots. Bridgeton, N. J.—Bridge out on Broad street; detour two blocks via Commerce street. U. S. 30—Three-tenth-mile con- | struction east of Bedford, Pa.; slip- pery if wet. Md. 28—Construction between Cum- berland and Fort Ashby; rough and occasional delays. | | ‘W. Va. 23—Working between junc- tion of U. 8. 50 and CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA Court District of Columbia held a social meeting last Tuesday evening at the Willard Hotel. Miss Grace Spruce- bank, grand regent, introduced Miss Weaver of Court Victory, Pine Bluff. Ark., and Miss Elizabeth M. Bray of Court Reina Christina, Bridgeport, Conn. Miss Florence Winter announced a meeting of the Convert League Com- mittee early in October. A public meeting of the league will be held iater in the month. Reports of the national convention at Seattle, Wash., in July were made. Miss Margaret Trammell, Miss Char- | lotte Urda, Miss Ann Doyle, Miss Jen- nie Sims and Miss Florence Winter also spoke. Miss Sprucebank, who rep- resented the District of Columbia as territorial deputy, read the report which she submitted and discussed other features of the convention. 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