The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 17, 1923, Page 6

oY PAGE 6 TELLS DESERT GLIDER FLIGHT: Files Seven Hours Without Using Motor BY JOHN O'BRIEN PARIS (By mail to United Press.)~ “How it feels to fly like an eagle,” “Might be the title of Lieut. Thoret's @ocount of his seven-hour motorless Might over the Algerian desert on “the efige of the Sahara. ‘Thoret's exploit was accomplished | f an ordinary army airplane, with ‘@ total weight of about 1,200 pounds, taeluding the pilot himself. The Might was “motoriess” in the sense | That Thoret used his 80horsepower motor only to rise unti! he found the Requisite air currents, after which he soared and glided hour ufter hour junti) the cold of the desert evening forced him to come to earth. Stopping his motor at a height of ‘about 350 feet, in a wind of 35 miles fn hour, Thoret Degan to volplane Pack and forth over a distance of @bout 1.500 yards, which was the ‘extent of the air currents tn which the was flying. In this fashion he Wade about 150 miles. Suddenly he felt himself lifted to a height of 1,000 feet, having struck a powerful @scending air current. “After that.” says the birdman tn “I let go. I felt there was no dan of a bad spill. I began to sing. ‘With the sun at my back, I admired brilliantly lighted expanse of @and under a cloudless sky. The gomber summit of Bou-Bhezal, a Thousand feet high, stood out against the white towers of Biskra. truck my machine, I was hurled close to Bou-Bhezal. I | atid rather than gilded. Many times I enw myself crashing against the mountain side. _ “T had my eye always on my Watch. I was tired. I felt like com- Gown after having been up three hours and a half, that is, after haw “tng beaten Manerol's record by 10 But my courage returned. were not enough. I decided ‘Yo count by hours. That settled ft. ‘As each hour went by I thrilled with fey. All the same those hours Jong. I should never have be that motorless flying could 80 tedious. “The last hour was delicious, I about 100 yaris above the I was beginning to feel As the sun went down I was of a eharp drop in the tem- ure. My legs below the knees fee. If I had had fur cloth- ‘would have flown until the rose. But fatigue and cold d me to end my flight. I had ‘up seven hours and three min- _ CONVICED of violation of the fod- Uquor law, Andre Blade was Bentenced to serve 60 days in the county jail Friday, by Judge h Neterer, in federal court. | Before March 15 ‘and get the following spectl terms and low interest charge ARE MOTORWISE Motorists Demand Class A Product, Says Expert CADILLAC, Mich, Feb. 17-—-Ro- turning from attending a number of automobile shows, mcluding the two great national shows at New York and Chicago, Jay W. Dunivan, man- ager of distribution of the Cadillac Motor Car company, was Impreased with the knowledge of automobiles shown by visitors at these exhibi- tions, “Aside from the attendance and in- terest evidenced at the shows I at- tended, the most interesting thing to observe is the fact that the public is 80 «motor-wise,” Dunivan said. “Often you wif see visitors at these shows, particularly men visitors, ex- plain to friends the new features of the cars on dispiay. Often these men know as much about these new fea- tures as do the milesmen at the booths, “This knowledge of automobiles ex- tends to the interior mechanisms as well as the more apparent outside features. As a result the automobile dealer of the coming year will have to sell real value as never before. “It has been estimated that 90 per cent of purchasers of cara during’ 1923 will be persons who already own them, who will get their new cars on a trade-in. This is a significant fact. The manner tn which persons examined automobiles at the show bears out the story of ownership that these figures tell. As the motoring public becomes more motor-wise it realizes the genuine economy of buy ing a car of the very highest grade of mechanical perfection.” CAN GARRY 10 TON BOMB LOAD Assemble Giant Bombing Plane in U. S. DAYTON, O., Feb. 17.—A leviathan Jof the skies was being assembled at | Wibur Wright Field here today. | The Barling Bomber—a govern- j|ment project—dwarfs the largest | heavier-than-alr craft ever built, Its | wing spread is 110 foet. Bix 400 horsepower Liberty motors will be capable of driving the giant |dreadnaught triplane from New York to San Francisco in 30 hours with one stop for fuel at Omaha. Fifteen men, including pilot, mo- chanics and gunners, will man the | bomber. Altho primarily a fighting craft, OLDSMOBILE SETS FAS Placing traff more authority in the > officers and creating a highly me statt capable of taking charge of traffic jams in any part of the city ts being considered by Mayor George L. Baker, of Portland, Ore, as a possible solution to the Problems of regulating passage of Vehicles on city streets. | Mayor Baker recently returned from a trip tn the East and made observations on tra: control methods tn the bigger cities of the untry. He returns more convinced than ever that Portland's logical so. lution of Its troubles will be found only tn the adoption of one-way traf. fic increasing the efficiency of traffic officers “After peeing how the different cities control traffic and observing the varied methods, there ts 1 abt in my mind that Portland with ite narrow streets will eventually | have to come to one-way traffic In some form or other,” the mayor sald. “Otherwise the congestion In the business district will increase to such }m point that it will be dangerous to | bring a car into it When pat happens the business of the « Move to some other quarter, eapecial the shopping done by women | folks,” At the recommendation of City En gineer Laurgnard a one-way traffic plan was placed before the council | Traffic engineers stated tt to be ileal struck @ snag in the unwillingness Jof the Portland Railway, Light & | Power company to agree to one-way jrouting of street cars. Officials of | the company sald the cost of putting proximately $250,000. Laurgnard re plied that tracks now lald could be used by looping the cars over those routes and at the same time con. gestion on the lines would be no greater than at present on the cor. ner of Second and Alder streeta. The one-way traffic plan Is now laying in abeyance because of the traction | company’s attituda, “With conditions in each town dif- ferent It will be Impossible to adopt en toto any one scheme for traffic | control now fn use,” the mayor went on. “Other cities have polved their problems according to their own con- ditions. Portland must do the zame. squad to be the supreme authority fm all traffic matters, Fifth ave, of course, has the block control sys. tem, which I believe is perfect for that street. Street car streets going across town havo two-way traffic where the cars are allowed to run on double tracks. ‘These streota, however, are wide, “It seems that New York has a flying squad of traffic men. These men go from place to place and take control of tho traffic jams arising in various parts of the city. They can divert traffic in any direction T PACE ly worked out for this elty, but It} In new tracks would amount to ap | “In New York I found the traffic, THE DRIVERS TODAY One-Way Traffic Bound to Come, Baker Believes! | show int haa to of the traff take they desire and the mot obey. When violations code occur these men merel the violator’s number and n turn it In to the station.’ Traffic | officers never appear There, too, they have a Mo court me of the things enabling per fect control of vehicular movements o and is the control over pedestrians. walker dares cross a stream of traf fio. He is haled into the m letpal court, if he escapes golng to the hos ital, When a line of traffic is broken up by groups of pedestrians cronsing It the officer at that Intersection loses part of his control of the traf. fic. In New York carn have right of way when the blocks are open and pedestrians wie munt obey, th ing to cross streets semaphore signals, Houston, Tirxas, the mayor raid, h A unique method of control. Her modified block system tn used | one traffic officer controls traffic an | the main street for nipe blocks. | “The control box ts located tn th middie of the nine blocks,” he con | tinued, controls the semaphores of the main | street. ‘Traffle ts allowed to move tn one direction for a sufficient length of time for one machine to cet from one end of the block sy» | tem to the other. When the block | | ts closed for crom traffic the ma- chines stop at the nearest intersco tion and wait for a clear block. | “In putting this system in, Hous- ton removed street car tracks from the main «treet and placed them on side streets. Nothing but vehicular and pedestrian traffic ts allowed on this street. What is more, everyone | in the city approves the ayztem. In fact, Dal San Antonio and/ Shrevesport are considering adoption | of the system, which ts testimonial | enough of its value.” Hero Had Great “ s 2, +” Perspicacity BAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17-—Phil Katz, California war hero, had great “From this point the officer | was entirely clear today, when {ft became known that he had been made beneficiary under the will of Gustave Chauffant, of Saulxures, France, for whom he defined the word, way back in the hard-fighting days of July, 1918. “The old chap was learning Eng: Mah.” Katz explained. “He couldn't understand the word ‘permpicacity,’ I took half an hour off and made it clear to him, That‘s all I ever did.” Chauffant’s will bequeathed Katz 1,000 franca, Disabled submarine R-8 returning to Los Angoles in tow, after break- ing down en route to Panama. SEATTLE and kn proverbial open the show at Leaner at ‘ ; Simonds paid Twenty years ago, roughly, the world’s speed record for five miles was siz and @ half | tho totiowts minutes. Jus? recently, an Oldsmobile model 47 stock car traveled a thousand miles in 899 minutes on the Cotati speedway in California, Another stock car of the same model has|*» just completed 50,000 miles over all kinds of roads in five montha. oxh grettable, show more heat and better tg toa are necessary to the fi of the affair of heat and to greatly total tion ay STAR ranged For Undaunted by the discourage ments thrown inte the way of the auto show, twloe postponed because of the unexpected weather conditions, the commit- tee has lost none of its determ’ nation to “see the thing thru, not only as we had planned It, but even better,” W. A. Simonds, manager, announced Saturday “Uniess the weatherman steps ta cke all our plans into the cocked bat, we will re Fourth ave. and on Baturday, Feb. 24," “It will continue thru week until March 3.” of the urge in to houne the m Bath one of bh 1 the other the tenta, otor exhibits atest acoensor | be again erected on the se fall of # ‘The first heavy or the week 4 it was n spreads of car weary to remove the its before damage could result While the the short was in op the committee in ch has time ¢ delay ro 4 to that factii m ner re ing the increase the It ts planned to candie power of the fllumina m for both tents. In addition to the imposing array motive apparatus on display | tee pr SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1923. FEB, Q4THIS \COOK UP PLAN |U. S. Wins Auto Trade “NEW SHOW DATE 10 TAX AUTOS nT al ia New Exhibits Have Been Ar- | Congress Considers Tax on Americ War With the Briti: an Cars Flood English Markets ased Trade Tariff vides a 2% per cent tariff on Brit ish cars, This is in the nature of @ “reciprocal” it hag been ex plained and when England reduces the tariff on automobiles, the Amert- can barrier will be correspondingly lowered. i 1.4 j . > Gasoline Despite Incre LONDON, Feb. 11--The United | States came out on top in the auto mobile trade war with England dur me 1922. BY JOHN CARSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 117.—Mr, Mo torist, they are cooking up schemes tn congress for you to “pay a# you| Despite a 28% per cent English ride” |duty on incoming Amertoan cars y elivered ‘Tho gasoline tax idea, now levied | there were nearly as many @ |here for sale during 1922 as were tm 17 states, has found favor among | manufactured by all the companies congressmen studying the automo-|of the British Isles according to the bile tax problem of the District of | American Chamber of Commerce in Columbia, in the state of Maryland. where the gasoline tax may super | ede the property and Hoense taxes, | plans materialize Mackall, state road com Maryland, be. ngolist of the gasoline mit was the Even « tariff age would be fatal to the B Except in the m appearance, American build now putting superior cars on English market a figure factories n0t approach. tacturers. London Englishmen are inclined to make sport of American cars. They of uniform color and resemble hearnes, the Englishman | American eng » Blso overpower | ¢ thetr cars and the gasoline consump. | + 1 is therefore too great, it ts waid. | 5 Compared to « standard Er ' built roadster small two pane American car ty large, roomy rfect roads make it h be built rance between t the The few to are at if prone: John N miastoner anserts. fs being edu of American the drab and pting fact car line, thetr sea are far su- home The English public from worth has ated to nee ome the ev tax, He convinced a senate cc teo that the fairest basis for state automobile Il iprocity, Tho revult is « bill in congress tonneau. More Gasoline tax more ar the that conse re 4nd | cousins across the | perior to brothers a’ At this time congrens ts lexisia cars to only for District of ( The b 5% gale rigt motortata, * tor ‘acturers here umbla rr ae nthe mattan road. 1 would put a tax of 2 and by pan and hev hes » ved In this way answer apperciably t that the Amert are unwieldly as well expensive to operate tempt for “Yankemad biles ts often expressed, but accord n Chamber, “Ys kee manufacturers” need not worry at the {ll-fated opening of the show, | For all thelr objections to Ameri an r of new exhibits have been | bodies and motors the English are arranged for the “new and ¢: customers | xt Saturday, the commit nm on gamoline use But the advo sof w gasoline tax tneist that the government approving the idea for the District, a nation «n for a gasoline tax will be reduce size oped oF which figures home de ing too much anyhor Englishmen 1 6 public, as are mak wide Con one automo as #5, wtarted under very favorable circum ntances Wife of Al G. Barnes Stonshouss, ctreus man, sues for $160,000 against y, |Mever: accused of « his love. ing to the Americ reater” |«teadily becoming better Cnet of American show rooms. The new United States tariff pro. 1 stereotypers ask injuno tion to prohit aber from work ing in a n uion shop. show of Z SEDAN NEVER before has a Ferd Sedan been sold at such a low price. And yet there has never before beensuch a well-built Ford Sedan—improved with finer upholstery, with the adjustable regulators for the dropping windows and with many refinements in chassis construction. This is the family car which fully meets every requirement of economy, comfort, sturdy service and lasting merit. Its use is practically universal. So great is the demand that, within a few weeks deliveries will be almost impossible. We can protect you only if you list your order now. You may make a small down payment and arrange for the balance on easy terms. See Any Authorized Seattle Ford and Lincoln Dealer |the Barling will be used in times of | peace for aerial map making, obser- | vations and transport service. | With its heavy guns dismounted and the load lightened in every way |posaible, the Barling will bo able to | carry a ten-ton bomb to a given point |and drop {t. A ten-ton aerial bomb ts | sufficient to destroy a city of 26,000 | population, The triplane is named for W. H. Barling, of the British air forces, Its designer. Barling caine to America during the war and was employed by the government in special aeronau- tical experiments. Parts for the huge plane, con structed in New Jersey, were shipped here on eight flat cars, They were routed over lines having no tunnels or bridges with. overhead construc- tion. When it arrived officials of the great intermediate air depot—MoCook Field—saw they would be unable to successfully assemble the parts under cover, The open spaces of McCook Field also could not be turned over to the work, It was therefore deided that work ot plectng the ship together would have to be done in the open at Wil- bur Wright field, Officials said the plane will not be ready for trial flight before April. Barling’s plans call for a complete system of telephone communication between the pilot and his six en- gineers. Bach of the 400 horsepower motors will be manned by a special engineer, Each motor drives a wepar- ate propeller, Army air service officials at Mo- Cook field declared they “had no idea whiat the ‘bus’ will do when she gocs on her own power.” They are not as skeptical concern- ing the Barling, however, as aviators usually are concerning new alr proj. ects of this magnitude, Barling, it ts pointed out, has proved his ability in this field and should know what ho fs doing. And Barling says tho plane will fly. It 1s admitted, however, that thus far the Barling's qualities have boon worked out only on paper. The men who are clovely associated with the production of the big ship have confidence it will dg what the plans » 4 Ford prices have never been so low Ford quality has never been so high BY STAN GASSAWAY MILES THATS WHAT | CALLA CHRISTMAS BATTERY /T HAS T0 DEPEND ON SANTA CLAUS OR WATER?! Roadster $465.44 Fully Equipped, Includ~ ing Gas and Oll— $99.00 Down $18.50 Per Month Payments Include All Charges and Interest, Insurance, Gas and Oil, _—_ Touring $495.60 Fully Equipped, Includ- ing Gas and Oll— $105 Down $19.90 Per Month F.0.B. DETROIT $638.08 Coupe Fully Equipped, Includ~ ing Gas and Ol— $135 Down $25.50 Per Month Ui "| Sedan $705.68 Fully Equipp ing Gan w $149 Down $28 Per Month ] Payments Include AU c Interent, TRAL. AGENC\, BROADWAY AT PIKE FORD—LINCOLN—VORDSON GASSAWAY (3 A MISER WHEN 1T COMES TO WATERING A BATTERY.