Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1940, Page 13

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The builders of the engine claim it can travel half again as far per gallon of fuel as a gasoline engine can go. The Army already has ordered | 109 of the engines for installation in | tanks before August and they are being manufactured now in a new $300,000 plant of the Buda Co. at Harvey, Ill. The first of the engines to power an airplane has been in- | spected in Washington by Secretary | of War Woodring and high Army officers. Nine-Cylinder Engine. The engine is nine-cylinder, radial-type, air-cooled. It is called the Guiberson. Lanova Corp. of New York, a Diesel patent-holding and research organization, holds the Relieve the embarrassment and patent on one of its basic principles. 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(Toiletries, Main Floor) Men...Women...Enjoy The Convenience of . . . OXFORD its long-range bombers with Diesels. The new airplane engine is slightly lighter than the tank engines, but their makers say the addition of a few extra-strength parts would make the airplane power plants perfectly capable of driving the ground units. It was pointed out that inter- changeability of engines between mechanized ground forces and the air force would be of high impor- tance to Army units operating far from supply bases. | Fuel 0il Called Superior. Diesel engine advocates also point | to the superiority in combat of fuel | oil over highly explosive gasoline, and say the safety factor is im- | portant even to commercial opera- | tions. * | S. A. Guiberson, jr.. 86-year-old | oil millionaire of Dallas, is the in- ventor and developer of the new engine. His friends describe him as a “natural-born mechanic whose hobby for 15 years has been build- | ing Diesels.” They estimated he probably has spent around $1,500,000 out of his own pocket in his éxperiments, add- ing: “He didn't have to do it and he wasn’t responsible to any one; his oil wells and his oil-tool busi- ness permitted him to do whatever he chose.” Actively associated with him is| his 35-year-old son Allen, who proved the family’s faith in their engine by flying behind it on its first flight early this week from Dal- las to Washington. The elder Guiberson traveled to Washington by commercial air line. One of the grave engineering ob- | stacles which always has confronted Diesel builders striving toward a light-weight engine has been the original Diesel principle: High compression of fuel within a cylin- der results in combustion. To at- ".ain this high compression, henvy, cylinder walls, of great weight, were | necessary. | | 40 Years of Research. | Lanova Corp. comes into the pic- |- ture through 200 patents and pat- ent applications originating from | 40 years of research by Franz Lang of Munich, one of the original asso- ciates of Dr. Rudolf Diesel. Lang | | originated a ‘“‘compressorless” en- gine from which the present Lanova | combustion system was developed. | Albert Wielich, president of La- nova Corp., said successful demon- | strations already had been made | with a number of automobile en- | gines of the practicability of con- | verting them into Diesels through | the installation of special cylinder | heads and fuel injection systems. But none of the men eonnected with the work made claim that the Diesel was likely to supersede the gasoline engine at an early date. One reason, they said, is that a Tig HECHT (0= F Swent o« GLASSES Save 12 and more Thién?"luk THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 28, 1940—PART ONE, A QUEEN IS CROWNED—Kitsey Keyser as Mercury is shown crowning Charlotte Mellum as May Queen during the spring festival presented yesterday by the junior school of Gunston Hall. The queen was crowned with a lei of pink carnations sent by clipper plane from Honolulu by Frances Nunn, a former classmate. —Star Staft Bhoto. Diesel engine today costs about five times that of a gasoline motor of equal power. Also, they agreed, there was a lack of flexibility in the Diesel at some low speeds. “But these are ‘bugs’ we are con- quering,” said one. “After all, we have made strides in the last five years which the gasoline engine men required 40 years to accom- plish. And now we are flying a made-in-America engine. That has been a goal of aviation, which also is still a growing infant.” Invitations Extended To Youths fo Enter Health Pageant Mass Calesthenics and Dancing to Be Staged For Benefit of Blind An invitation to the young people of Washington active in calisthenics and rhythmic dancing to partici- pate in the National Youth Health Pageant has been igsued by F. 8. Hufty, executive secretary and superintendent of the Columbis Polytechnic Institute for the Blind. The pageant, a mass exhibition in costume with musical back- ground, will be presented June 19 in Riverside Stadium as a benefit for the institute. There will be after- noon and evening performances, The cast of 250 is o be assembled from among high school students over 16, Young Women's Christain Association and Young Men's Christian Association members and persons affiliated with gymnastic groups in Washington and Balti- more, Performers are not to be paid. To Be Annual Affair. Candidates should report to Den- nis M. Landers, the director, af 1812 N street N.W,, Mr. Hufty said in announcing the event, which is intended to be the first annual affair of its kind. Mass calisthenic demonstrations, frequent in Europe, are rare in the United States, sccording to planners of the local pageant. Re- ducing, building up, and recreational exercises, systematic dancing for exercise and wand drills for better posture are among the items on the program. Numerous musical groups 2150 are expected to take part. The contract made public by the committee in charge stipulated the institute will recelve 30 per cent of the project’s proceeds. Need for Work Stressed. In explaining its needs, Mr. Hufty em| the need of blind per- sons for employment is its principal concern. Sightless himself, he said, “We can stand being blind if we can get work to do.” The organization now employs 13 blind and partially blind persons, most of whom earn betweén $10 and $15 per week. 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