The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 21, 1924, Page 7

) FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1924, > ir Circus Scheduled at University Stadium ERS | i THE SEATTLE STAI PLAN BIGGEST PROGRAM HERE May Christen World Cruisers and De-| pict Aerial Warfare Tactics BY JIM MARSHALL screens with and land ongag troops polo game, between ms, bo a feature of ers and drivers from eries of the 1 owing thelr volle y also will on » the clroling 8 relayed warfare to to have one ps on the Infield with approp * hyere will on the ab the gr relay signals t radic Albert FI. Beebe, of tho have charge of p Arm ssion of charge ‘am. E. FI Relief organts charge of 6 ade to the Stadium. eds will go to the tts work All World Flyers Are Experienced Bird-Men ™ ; nee mae si Seattle shows as a big spot and an important one on the map-insignia of the Douglos ie ¢ ‘yp ir Se orld air cruisers and Technical Sergt. Arthur H. Turner, one of the staff of mechan- 7 g ef, / Schoo] | world air cruisers anc 9 r, ; hay and Staff Graduated From Air School icians, points it out as the base for fitting the epochal flying machines and the point of | of Serious Endeavor departure. Pilots ¢ Nome-to.New i the world tn the % youths nor in urers. a Antonio-to-Porto ailed to the world fight r eye teeth hool of flying leader, Maj. Fr & veteran offic: 08 Mason officer Lowell H. ‘ornia in 189: Smith was be Ho enlisted nen bave had seriou! . and all Martin was born in 1882 in s. Ho graduated from Purdue university and entered the artillery corps as a second lieutenant in 1908 service when the he war, and was promoted to the rank of major ! 1920. He is at present command: officer of the alr service tech: school hanute field, Rantoul, Ill. Lieut. Erik Nelson, second in age, was bo Sweden In I888. He was an aeronautical expert when he entered the U. 8. flying corps at the outhrenk of the war. His country flying experience exceeds that of any other officer. He has 1,600 flying hours to his credit, most of which was gain¥d In notable cross country tours, Including a Guif.to forest fire Washingto’ atrol in Oregon He was ono of the first a to Mexico, to his credit, hours in cross. was born Mich, of thie alr serv. later being enant. Ho in ign in 189 ico as private ommissioned a \ ed training with corps of Canada, instructor In the A Ho has had va nee, and h Martin bombers. | cross count ude record for Major Says Sand Point ° Does Injustice to City Too Far From Center of City “Fine Site,” Is Martin’s View “You have a fine site for an airplanes and could be one of the real base here,” Maj. Martin, command-|iy goog fieids of the country. er of the world air squadron, de) wyoy ought least a} day, was a near “dub” when he clared Friday morning at Sand| aan j . | started in to learn the art of staying Point, “buit it needs a lot of work |*@uare milo cleared and put into| , lin the air, He was altogether too done on it. |shape. An air base needs space, not | conservative: end soautious, Jaties Maj. Martin declared that thejonly for the landing field, but for says, and was the last man his in- Sand Point base, in its present con-|all the shops and other buildings structor ever expected to become a dition, was doing a grave injustice |that would be needed around it “fying fool.” to Seattle, and that the city should} “People are waking up to James greeted the major Thursday get busy and turn it into what {t|coming of commercial air traftic.! afternoon for the first time in three ought to be. Other cities are preparing for t, years. Ho instructed Mgrtin “I have known and loved Seattle | picking good sites before it ia t Langley field in 1919, where James for many years,” he said, “and I|late to get them, and are putt had to caution his pupil against over. e Its progressive spirit. But I|them into first class cond caution. A toocautious birdman ts | that this field does not} ed as seldom a high ranknig flyer—but one an airdrome day Martin lost his conservatism and and Point has every advantage | This tion {# all became what he is held today—“a fly. 4 location could have, and it has|tie should get busy. I say this in} ling fool"—the character beloved of but one disadvantage—its distance |all kindness, and because I want| ail ying enthusi: from the center of the city. F the city to get Into first rank In| on the wat an airdrome here |the of progress of alr| could accommodate all TAUGHT MARTI Seattle Man Remembers His Pupil Overly-Cautious ee “Migosh, make it snappy, we're starved,” quoth Lieut. John Harding, Jr., mechanician| taj, Frederick L. Martin, com- ’ Tho ON| (left), and Lieut. Erik Nelson, pilot, of Douglas air cruiser No. 4, which trundled over the|mander of the world fight squadron | Sand Point army air field Thursday afternoon after a tardy start and speedy run from|*t Sand Point army landing field, re- Rovy r i ¥ f aio f v Lies f f | cetved his first lessons In flying from sacs ht Sa a Seattle man, Lieut. R. P. James, 427 Westinke ave. | ’ . And Major Martin, leader of the | f most famous flyers of the present to have at Seattle is, it should second to none ight, but Sent. have WORK ON ROAD County Crews Keep Sand | Point Trail Open H march Alternate ilyer Finds * ad Pilots “‘Disgustingly’’ | [aie : we Pecthdiar atest Healthy for Attempts 3 Go Ss te re from the end of the pavement to the |sand Point army air base clear and |passable Thursday and Friday when Jiong strings of automobiles carried petay rrbacsido curious Seattle citizens out to view iadead a techs te tho four great Douglas world cruis. nold as @ man; for a” pilot that adron hero of the army but they His ntment to Ar-| r | Arnold is the has followed as a substitute pilots that may be the trip. Arnold dubbed “Buzzard” a dinner of army officers after he was chosen as “The name has stuck, “and I’ve got to like 1t, for afraid I'll never be able to get rid of it.” lors parked there preparatory to being fitted with pontoons for the flight along the Alaskan coast to the Orient on the first lap ofthe history-mak ing trip. ‘The narrow roadway was jammed jand several luckless drivers found themselves stalled in the wet muck along the roadside, while the work- | men hurried to fill in quickly-cut ruts | \and spread sand across the main | ‘traveled part of the trail } group of “ pout to risk thelr t conquest air for any unable to sta Maj. Martin We couldn't feel any better, and the trip up here only keyed us up for the ble job ahead.” The good health and good spirits) of the four regular pilots of the trip mean much to Arnold as an officer at c shortly | Alighting Airmen All Like Their Cigarets! Ww" AT’s the first thing an air- flying uniforms arfd dragging aig 2 pare of after | forth a ciggret. Then they bor- 4 ing fro i - pore eee rowed a match and proceded to smile for the photographers while inhaling deeply of the fragrant weed. Almost without exception, army men like thelr ‘smokes’ fan aviator, unable to smoke during flight, findn sureease for his nerves and relief from the strain in a white tube and his favorite brand of Virginia, Turkish Egyptian to OFFERS VIEWS } Cobb Building Roof Garden| Open to See Planes A commanding view of planes which may be in the air during the | next week is offered the public thru | the courtesy of the Metropolitan Building company, which announces that the roof garden on the top of the 11-story Cobb dullding, at Fourth ave, and University st. is available at all times. The Cobb building reached directly fvom the 11th floor of th building and is open at all} mes, L. Martin's world cruised (below), Douglas flyer No. 1, is shown as it landed} at Sand Point Thursday afternoon, the first of the four globe-circlers to complete the preliminary trip from Santa Monica to Seattle. Below, Maj. heh! pede surrounded p of if Purdue fri in is uate of Purdue. by a group of admiting Purdue friends. Martin is a gradu te of Purdie. onetoarapner TIME FOR A CHANGE LONDON.—After living for 30 years in a small tank in a Londdn hotel, a p has now been as ferred to a similar establishbent in | (Brighton, Maj. F. Seattleites remarked ernoon on the al- real action with which ing drivers of the four ugs is world = cruisers climbed stiffly ir high- ned cockpits after coming to rest at the Sand Point army air stretching. their legs and aris and then diving into the deep slash-pockets of their heavy are recruited | Some are for are foreign princes have been wait the Russian These from various cla clerks “professors” DANCE TO RICHES Dancing professors in | Frvl sft roof is lin dl a rome bane, wealthy. 1 and army, : they chaarge colonels in lesson, with a reduction for a ‘ CAMERA GLANCES AT “ROUND-THE-WORLD FLY PAGE 7 One Oj the sirst lo greet Maj. Martin, World slyer, at Point field Thursday afternoon was little Miss Hi Koenig, daughter of Lieut. Koenig, commanding officer at the field. She made friends with the globe-circler at once. hi (At top.) a Ship No. 8, the second plane to land, is being tazied down toward the hangar with air service men hanging om tts” wings. (Below.) a Takes Iron Nerves to Become Expert Airman BY JIM MARSHALL Sometimes two or three ships, with Feted and honored as they now} tour or six men, hit the ground ina | are, the globe-circling flyers who are | few hours. Vernon Castle went Seattle's guests today went thru a|the rest. It was a bit nerv hard schooling before they were con-|to see one's pals mangled—never sidered proficient airmen. Most of | know who was going to be next. 4 the party got their training In war| But the survivors always days, when speed was the first essen. | back for more and a surprising: 1, There was no “nursing.” Aman | ber of them became crack flyers. “ her learned to fly--or he didn’t. | That was the sort of school the) Those were the days when the|World-flyers went to, most of them novices implicitly believed that the | It was hard, but it was effective, — instructors carried a stout club with| The British, who are staging with them in the training planes.{Tce with the American flyers At least, we did at Kelly field, Texas |®" even harder system. © A a of unhappy mem-|™any British instructors were | Texas fields early in the war, . SES ; . | idea was that if you taught a ma pit; the Instructeo tat up abwead, Te,| He tReory of flying and how to ¢ after the hovice had got up to 6,000| {Fel & ship. thats’ alk you feet, he showed signs of freezitig to set sce RA SI usht the stick, the instructor first wag-| = 3 giéd his own stick, as a sign-warn-| pede thaattactt hee right ee ing. If this failed, the instructor] UP S6aim and again, un came a crack flyers. It he ct was popularly supposed to lean for-| ya) ships were cheap and men ward and & crown the frenzied oe cheaper. novice Into. oblivion: Many a Seattle youth who IT TOOK NERVE ‘ . K \ the flyers their "luck"? never IN THE WAR DAY | of tho risks they took, the grit Never a day went by In those|had to have, the flirting with 4 southern fi ‘Kelly One" or without its crash. | they did just a few years ago. Tail-S pins and Dives | at the Airplane Base} ‘The first grecting flung at Maj. , Martin, before he was out of tne cockpit of his world-crulser, was: ‘Major, how d'you like our North- west weather?” jand thoroly drained and k 1 don't—much,” grinned the flyer} the position of it, giving access ~and qualified it by remarking that) for land and seaplanes, would be. he meant the weather a few thou- | advantage. sand feet up. He had been “flying} blind” thru clouds for a couple of} hours. forced to land with the air because of the narrow field. flyers said, however, that if @ field could be made “a mile Two Japanese, displaying ment permits, took many pictures the arrival and of the flyers. . 1) said they were “shooting” for must wake UP | Japanese government, which is to s field.” The) the flyers in ths Orient. landing against eee they should, were) |, Hab: betes MD weeetee Each of the four ships has world Ay of the entire city and bay | flight insignia painted on each may be had from this elevation, i} of the fuselage. In the center is” the Metropolitan Building company | globe, with wings sprouting from has providéd comfortable seats, and |The lettering reads: “Air lined the concrete walk with attrac-|U. 8. A.—World Flight." Just tive shrubbery and pl It Is said|der the two cockpit openings that the Cobb roc rden has been the names of the pilot ilized to a considerable extent re: ch plane is ml cently by visitors to the city who r tho tall, the nu wish to observe the progress of the nouge to be spo work on the Hotel Olymp: feet away. Members of the party nt that “Seattle and get a real flyi planes, instead of the wind, were being large {eral hundred