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that served the Conquerors as club
house and ran over the difficult action.
Bill had his fathers revolver. which was
10 be used in the play, and he used up
whole box of blank cartridges before
Red learned TO fall dead" at the precise
moment when Bill cried Take that. you
yillaini" and fired the shot. Finally,
however, they got it so that he dropped
20 the floor instinctiVely as the revolver
barked. and when they put The play on
in dress rehearsal the night before ths
regular performance Miss Hailes an
nounced that the big scene was perfect
Red was not so enRrossed In the play
: however, that he did not feel keenly
the fact that when Ferriston's last and
biggest base bail game Of the seacon
would be- played ON the afternoon after
the plays performance he would not
be In the e-up-~because he was
yellow"
ITO be continued next 6unday)
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INSTALLAlENT III.

~ n the Monday afternoon follow
ing the game with Townsend
Coach Edwards Immediately
set out to correct the weak
nesses in his team which that
contest had revealed. One of the first
things he did was to take Red aside
throw sack onto smooth place on
the field and instruct him il sliding.
Red came running toward the sack
and at the coach'S command hit the
ground in perfect form, making ms
pretty a hook slide as you CoGld Wish
for
That's fine" said the coach. Il
knew YOU could do II. Now, Just hit
the dirt like that in the games and
everything viii ba great
"I'll try. coach" said Red grimly. and
nothing more was said about the matter,
On the following Saturday the team
tourneyed to Sargent for its first out
of-tovn game. Bob was elected to pitch.
as the coach wanted him to get expert
ence. and Sargent was reputed 10 have
only fair team.
Only a few FeTriston students were
on hand for the game. Bob, lacking
seasoning in real contests was in trou-
bic IL the first and second innings. and
Sargent counted four runs. Coach Ed
wards let him weather the storm, how
ever, and he soon settled down 70 an
even pace that gave the home team
little chance 10 get men on bases.
Ferriston found that the Sargent
pitcher was not easy. and the best they
could get from him In eight innings
was three runs. Red again had a good
day at the plate, getting two hits in
three times at bat and scoring one IF
the runs
Then in the opening half o: the ninth
inning it happened. BY means Of TWO
Evening star., 1928-04-29
Sheer Luck in Airplane Crashes

type the lads were using. A dog fght
presently developed and three rec
Fokkers got after Rick.
The Nieuports the Americans flew
had trick OF ripping the canvas of
their wings when the speed ran up a
bit Kicks speed, as he plunged down
was considerable. A long rip, and the
canvas went The machine kept down
Just fragment of wing surface was
left Rick tried To straighten II out,
but there wasn't enough OF the canvas
left To sustain him. All he could do
was to shut of his motor so that 1t
would not drag him to earth any faster,
useless precaution, II seemed, for he
was dead man anyway.
The dog fight had been waged at a
high altitude, as dog fights usually
were. 10000 feet or so. That meant q
nice 4-mile drop to earth. Down he
went IN long whirling tail spin. That
kind of travelling was not particularly
pleasant In itself. but even II was not
left undlsturbed. The three FokkeTs,
wanting to make perfectly sure of their
prey, dlved after the falling plane.
squirting bullets with their machine
guns Thus they went, toward the
swiftly rising earth. the three hornets
after their winged enemy,
Rick kept working at the controls,
trying 10 get the machine TO respond
No use. The spinning descent continued
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singles and an error Ferriston got run,
tying the score. With men on Glrst and
third and nobody out and Red coming
70 bat. things looked auspiciOus for
Ferrigton.
Red caught the first ball pitched IN
the nose ard drove a singing groln1eT
toward second base But the second
basemsn made a phenomenal stop.
touched bis bag. forcing cut the Ferris
tor player coming down from first, and
whipped the ball 10 the catcher IN time
TO get the runner coming home. II was
q beautiful double play that pulled
Sargent out Of bad hole.
Nov Red. safe on first, was the only
mar on base. His might be the winning
run, and Coaen Edwards vas anxious
for min 10 get 70 second 50 that he
could score on z hit Therefore he gave
the signal for Red 70 steal
On the first bali pitched Ped went
down. The cateier'g peg 10 second was
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The secret OF Mr. Fokker's successful
airplanes lies in the aerodynamic quail
tiles of the wing In the big transport
monoplane he has developed a thick
airfoil which tapers down to the tips.
There are no trick attachments to 1t.
In the design OF this wing section Mr..
Fokker has achieved great heights. air
men agree. The same principle Is en-
bodied IN the smaller Fokker cabin
monoplanes. the Universal with the
single Whirlwind engine. and the Super
universal, with the single Wasp engine.
Fokker planes are used on all Of the
Dutch air lines in Europe and many OF
the lines controlled by other countries
They are In use In South America, by
more than a score of aerial organiza-
tons in this country and Canada and
by the Army and Navy.
The Army employs the Tri-motors for
transport work~-ferrying personnel and
supplies from station to station, while
the Navy has gotten inestimable serv-
Ice from three of this type with the
Marines in Nicaragua. All three mono-
planes were flown from Washington 10
Nicaragua with but one stop In between,
and now are in constant use carrying
Marines. supplies, airplane engines and
wounded about the mountainous coun-
try, which makes overland tranSporta-
ton almost impossible.
Evening star., 1928-04-29
BY BERT ACosTA.

7 T is like being born again. like start
ing on new existence. You are
as good as dead. You know you
4 haven't chance. To all intents
and purposes you are dead. Then,
after the crash, you find yourself alive.
II astonishes you. You are perhaps
even a trifie incredulous. II Is as II
you had been killed and somehow or
other wandered back To earth again.
/ am thinking particularly OF couple
NJ incidents told me by Lieut.. Leigh
Wade, the round-the-w world flyer. He
tells of one chap whose plane ran right
around tree. 1t was like IA grand
merry-g round act He was swinging
along. preparing 10 land. l guess he
shouldn't have tried 10 cut that tree
so iine. anyway. A gust Of wind blew
him sidewise. He ran into the Tree
One wing hit the trunk. That old boat
should have smashed right down With
out any ceremony whatever Instead.
piyoting on the wing, II went completely
around the tree, like kid on the run
catching hold OF post and swinging
around It, The bark of the tree was
ripped of In a complete circle where
the wing had torn It's way. Having
performed this extraordinary feat, the
plane proceeded 10 land with scarcely
d jar
Wade's other yarn concerns a chap III
France who was doing stunts with a
new model OF the Nlenp0rt, type
which he hadn't flown before. II ~
always ticklish doing trick stun with
bus you don't know al least as well
as your wife He tried q n1aneuver
In which YOU fail over on one wing,
make long drop that way and then
straiRhten out quickly and zo0tn up.
He WaK not very high 10 begin with
and at the end of his drop vas quite
near the ground, II happened that the
new type III Neup0rt he was fiying
was so built that the pipes which fed
Air 10 the cafbuTetOf we're placed al the
sides, When the plane fell, wing down,
for that long. swift descent the air
rushed into The carbufetor at such ii
rate that the engine was chilled. This
wag thing the pilot had not feekoned
with The moor stopped. IT stopped
just as he was ready 10 gtraighten out,
He could not get control and crashed
full tilt into the ground, Certainly he
was as good az dead The cockpit, the
engine, The Wh0ie machine collapsed
around him. He was literally clothed
Win H., wrapped around with garment
Of Wfeekagf. eDGased Ia q shell of motor,
struts, wings, wires and so on, When
| they dug him out he had a scratch on
his nose and another on hia chin
L. myself, had similar experience
was barrel rolling down the field
An exciting little stunt, barrel rolling
The plane se00iB swiftly 0n. and ali
the while you keap turning oger. wing
over wing, kind II screw motion
| through ths air NY wings wers de-
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stopped over Staten Island and the ship
had TO make forced landing She hit
the top OF hill. She wasn't dam
aged particularly, though some Of the
boys got shaking up. The pilot was
dazed rot up and walked around in
circles for minute or two. He had
a lump on his jaw, They found that
one OF the cast iron spokes Of the steer
ing wheel was broken. When the
plane struck. the pilot, who was
hunehed over. was driven forward and
down His jaw hit the steering wheel
so hard that II broke one OF the iron
spokes Except for the lump. It was
otherwise undamaged, What mani
In instances like the ones / have
just related things happen quickly and
you are kept so busy trying to stave
off disaster that you don't have time
to think. Sometimes, though. an avia-
tor has time for more meditation than
he wants To indulge i'll, It Is that way
when you drop from 10000 TO $4,000
feet only then you usually don't live
10 tell the tale, There was one case,
though, that surely was classic. II
happened TO Eddie Rickenbacker.
He was In France doing combat n.y.
Ing with the American Air Force. roll
ing up record OF enemy machines
shot down that made him at the end
OF the war the American ace of aces
He went up one day IN a Nieuport, the
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machine over and over, and / kepl
cutting those pinwheel circles faster
and faster / brought her fairly close
10 the ground. sort Of SKINNED the
field.
The centrifugal force caused by the
rotation Of the machine was so great
that II hurled some Of the oil out OF
the motor Right In the middle OF one
Of those barrel rolls got blob OF hot
oil square IN my face, II burned and
blinded me. l grounded head~on and
the landscape was decorated with a
fine assortment OF splinters, AS for
me, my face got 1t again. 1t was
driven square into the instruments, My
cOuntcnance was beautified consider
ably II was blistered where the hot
oil had burned me, and impressed on
it were the circular prints OF dials,
Otherwise / was uninlured.
II IL astonishing how much punish
ment the human face will stand.
know an aviator whose jaw / Will
y0uch for as the toughest In the world.
I'd like TO see one OF these prize fight
era knock him out
have spoken OF the big, wide
bodied plane built by Vincent Buranelii,
the airplane designer / flew 1t lot,
but there was one trip III which this
other chap / speak Of was the pilot,
They took of with a crowd aboard for
a fight 10 Washington, The motor
Evening star., 1928-04-29
Educating Patricia"
BY CORNELIA H. MILLER.

some Of his plans-yes. But II was
only because I asked him TO. It was
really getting TO be quite dreary after
noon with Mrs. Pomport, looking very
pompous in black satin, pouring tea.
and maiden aunt, who was tall and
skinny and cackled on at great length
about the 'feathered friends Mrs.
Pomport kept 'my-dearing' me and ask
ing me all my family history until I
was fairly gasping. Every five minutes
she would look at her watch and won
der where her son vas and what could
be keeping him. was groaning in
wardly and hoping ne would never ar
rive because I felt 1 could never face
long-haired poet on top of an after
noon with the feathered friends
When he finally arrived he came in at
the door behind his mother and took
one look at him and decided that he
had gotten into the wrong place be-
cause he looked so nice and human,
his hair cut and his mustacie trimmed
and all. I could not believe It was really
the son until his mamma turned around
and gave one of those little gasps OF
fright that elderly stout women seem
to be full Of. I've often wondered what
makes them SO tilnid"
"YES, go on. What did you do
= next?"
"Oh. nothing In particular. We Just
sat and talked some more. but 1t was
much less dull because Ned Is quite in
teresting. He told me all about the new
plays and places to go in New York, and
lots Of things. couldn't resist telling
him expected TO see something with
long hair and he threw back his head
and laughed and roared. Then he told
me he was an architect and asked him
to prove it by showing some Of his
plans. He said he had most Of them
at the Office, but would show me a few
If would promise not to be bored. OF
course. / wasn't bored a bit, because I
love houses and always itch 70 rearrange
them when go into those that are all
wrong. told him that and he said
I ought to be an interior decorator.
Maybe ! shall. It would be such fun"
Why dent you go into partnership
with Mr.. Pomport?" suggested Patricia
with grin. Il think you have fallen
quite hard"
You're fine one to talk with Bunny
clinging to your apron strings!"
Yes" mused Patricia. I'm afraid
that Is Just the trouble. He does cling
to my apron strings and have known
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romantic. just the 'salt-of-the-earth'
kind that always does just what Is ex-
pected. I like few surprises now and
then. Well, cheerio, time to dress for
dinner"
Patricia sauntered upstairs leisurelv.
unconsciously peeping into such rooms as
happened to be open, not so much from
curiosity as from the fact that her keen
ness of observation allowed her to pass
nothing unseeingly. AS she approached
the room which Sophie Bleeck occupied
alone and unmoleSted by the casual
and friendly visits which are so great
part of boarding school life. she heard
low moaning sound which aroused her
curiosity. She stopped TO listen and
found that the sound continued without
cessation.
Evening star., 1928-04-29

KATSUK-Pron ounce CATSUCK.
This Is comparatively rare word
meaning Center. Most Chinook speak
ers, instead OF using il. would use
SrTKuM. the word Tor One-Half or
Middle.
kAuPEE-ThiS is = corruption Of the
English word Coffee and is pronounced
as Coffee Is except that p is substituted
for the + sound. Chinook has no let
ter +. and therefore uses pISH for Fish.
PEAH for Fire, etc, k0NCE CAICKA-
NUN lCT POUND kAUpEE means
How much is one pound of eonecF"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. KEEI4~AY- PIE.
with the accent on the first syllable
This means CapSixe. Turn over, Upset,
Turn Upside Down, Usually CtiACC Is
used as prefix. 50 that q thing dNeS
not tuSt upset, but comes unset" IN
Chinook HALO KEEIAApI, kLCSH
KAIIKWA means no not turn II over,
IL Is good as Ii Is kICNSH MANAGER
CHACo KEELApIl Is "Look cut, Nca
viii unSetl"
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unhroken. He looked down at the
ground, wondering Just where he wonlc
| hit. II was behind the German lines
He could see German soldiers down
there looking up. Now he could per-
ceive their faces and catch the express
sion on them, II was an expression OF
expectancy. They were waiting tog
souvenirs. He knew that. In last nj
of desperation he did the one thing he
had not done In the course OF his
iiddling around with the controls. lie
switched the motor on. That should
have had the merit of getting an un-
pleasant situation over with the quicker
IL should have hurried him down to
the crash
What really happened was little short
movement, was In such position that
the sudden Jerk of the propeller
straightened II out, The wings had
Just enough surface 10 keep the ma
chine from sinking too rapidly, With
the motor holding him straight Rick
went eoaSting away. slowly sinking, TO-
ward the American lines, The soldiers
ON the ground opened fire with rifles,
The Fokkers we're still above watching.
They swooped down. spraying machine"
gun bullets
Ine dlSAnteua uhaKiulk Nlcupogt WAS
Just able 10 get out into No Mans Land,
II plopped down midway between the
trenches The Fokkers came darting,
Rick ducked into a shell hole They
swept over the muddy pit. shooting at
the man who tried to dis himself Into
one side.
A flight of French planes appeared
The Fukkers, not wanting to be caught
near the ground. Seooted away, They
were scarcely eone when v0ice called
'Hey. Auddy,"
An American outpost stationed In a
shell hole had seen the whole show
and had naturally dueked low with the
Eukkcrs around, The aviator went over
and Joined him,
You'll have To stay here ttll night" !"
said the daughboy. ''fhe Heinles have
this section covered With machine
gums"
'I'll stay" replied Rick,
''hut. say. where's your gaS maSkF
The Heinies are senalng gas shells over
ell the time"
Rick had no gas mask THE dough-
boy save him his.
hdusss I know more about this gaS
hnalness than YOU airplane fellefa any
way" he said.
That was Kicks claaeAt eall
AenSklkAk AAaAA
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Conquerors' Club at Play
BY w. BOYCE MORGAN.

, n little high. and Red would have been
! safe mile by sliding. But he did not
| slide. To the horror of every Ferriston
I player and the glee Of the Sargent sup
porters. he kept his feet and the second
haseman put the ball on him for the
| third out
That meant that the game went into
extra innings. and although Ferriston
4 finally won out In the tenth, to 4, that
! did not alter the fact that Reds failure
/ TO slide might have cost his school the
game.
The members of the team were
strangely silent as they made the trip
back to their home town. Bob, saying
nothing, sat in the bus seat beside Red
/ showing any one who cared to notice
/ that no matter what others thought he
was still loyal to his friend.
/ The coach had said nothing. but as
/ Red and Bob walked home alone Rcd
suddenly burst out, Well. I guess this
! finishes me- Coach will throw ME cfi
! the team, and deserve it"
/ Bob clasped his arm. Red, old boy. "
! he said soberly. IN admit I don't un-
derstand why you didn't slide. but
know one thing, and that is that you're
not yellow"
That's Just the trouble" groaned
( Red. II am. I'm actually afraid to
4 SIDE INTO a DaSC. ana / might nave
/ lost your first game for you"
I "Oh. don't worry about that" said
/ Bob lightly. But he regarded his fellow
Conqueror with eyes that we're troubled.
Coach Edwards was nice about 1t, but
he told Red definitely on Monday that
Charley Hook would play regularly in
center field from that time on, Little
more was said, and Red, never a gutter,
continued to come 10 practice. But he
could not help hearing the gossip that
buzzed around the school nor sensing
the wondering. doubtful attitude of the
other fellows on the team. Some Of
them thought he was yellow, and what
else could they thinkp
Thoroughly miserable, he threw HIM
self into the rehearsal for the class play
with all his heart. The unquestioang,
loyal friendship of Bill. Bob and Porky
did much TO help him through the try
ing weeks that followed. but he felt
that even they we're sorely troubled by
the sliding business.
Soon other troubles were uppermost
in his mind. however The day when
the class play was TO be produced was
approaching rapidly. and the big scene
in which Bill shot him was still so rag
ged that Miss Haines despaired of ever
perfecting 1t.
Finally in desperation Bill and Red
took to practicing In the evenings.
Every night they went TO the shack
Evening star., 1928-04-29
Leather Leg Dogs Joy.

A little nongrel terrier that has
learned to Seamper about ieyhllS On
three ordinary canine less and an art
fully eontrlved limb at leather, was one
Of the most popular exhibits At dos
show III lenden recently II was just
sort OF pet that ronpS about and wtaS
affection In the home, A touching story
was told ot how the dog loSt a hes and
acquired another, which Is q wcnesertul
example of veterinary Sklll, When ths
dog Was 4 years old te started haV~
hg ulcers and tumoFS on The foot, They
gradually extended and when the Rsg
healed veterinary devised the leather
leg and attached Ii ta the remnant og
the real les by a socket. AT firSs the
terrier regarded Il With an air of raeful
suspicion, but soon learned 60 waddle
about ON II and then 70 run.
Evening star., 1928-04-29

- when the base ball seaSon opens st Fer.
thssoe ths n,sa seho2l BOP M,il,r presasfn, oi
n'teher and Red Hopkins is playlNs center
Lela. helpg rs~1s t<ieJ as the best hitter II
The squad. Porxs ioEeS AMI Bill lenlSins.
the ether two members ef the ConQucror>'
Club are not srft fnr hsSn hall Btl Is nlaS
class play With Ruth Sauets rlaNiuS the
heroine Red tries cut for the usrt Of the
william and sets it In ane scene RN catches
him rnbhing . safe and shoots him as he
runs away. Red has trouble IN playing thus
part ot the play's action Just right. In the
on the bench while Fd Sand veteran pitcher.
Goes 'he tviriinR. Red s playing IN the ont
ncaG, lie SrtS 4 long Int 81 the SKIN inhng
which would have keen homo run II he
had not failed 10 slide rs he came into home
plate. As u is he is Out and everybody is
rayStihea az his seeming Cowariice IN not
sliding The coach rcprtman3s him. bat Red
offers no satisfactory explanation OF his
Action.
Evening star., 1928-04-29
BY FREDERICK r.. NELLY,

TT was in the Fall of 1925, and a
Boiling Field. having been brought
i here by It's manufacturer for DEM
onstration before the aeronauti-
cal officials OF the Government.
The high minds OF the Army and
Navy aviation were invited 10 take a
ride. They piled in. eight of them,
and into the air they climbed with
chubby, red-faced man at the
controls
washington spread out beneath their
eyes. The noted passengers remarked
10 one another that its n nice flying
Job" when suddenly to their horror
they saw this red-faced man get up
from the pilot seat and walk back into
the cabin
The plane was flying without any
one TO guide it, cold sweat popped
out on the brows of the bravest, they
felt for their parachutes. which had
been left behind-the pilot had gone
crazy, in a second they would be in
a deadly spin and the aeronautical
brains Of America would be washed
out" at one fell swoop
And this red-faced man Just stood
there and had the impudence to laugh
in the face of certain death.
But that was the way Anthony
Herman Gerard Fokker. Dutchman,
born In Java, and who was then break
ing into the aeronautical field in this
country, had OF convincing his pro-
spectiye purchasers that, according TO
his way Of thinking, he had the best
flying airplane in the world; that his
three-engined monoplane was the safest
flying airplane in the world and above
all, the only way he could impress upon
these officials his point that 1t would
Fly by itself" was to turn the thing
loose in the sky at 100 miles an hour.
That demonstration was impressive.
but before the subjects had recovered
entirely from the shock, Mr. Fokker
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again sent chills up and down their
spineS by deliberately yanking back on
the stick" and hauling the ship into
a stall--the gravest Of all maneuvers,
especially if the ship is near the ground.
and in this case it was. But did the
plane hanging up there by Its three
idling propellers. slide back on its tail
or fall off on one wing and begin to
spin m0dly down to earth?
To the contrary, it did what Mr..
Fokker had said IL would do--mercly
began TO settle onto horizontal posi-
ton and then n little below that alti-
tude where It picked up flying speed
and resumed its course in the sky with
out any assistance whatever from the
pilot.
MIR. / OKKER had made his debut in
N America At that time he was
chief engineer Of the Atlantic Aircraft
Corporation, an American controlled
concern, and later he formally took
over the Office of chief engineer Of the
newly-organized Fokker Aircraft Cor
poration, now nearing completion at
Wheeling. w. Va. This factory also is
American owned and will be the pro-
duction plant. while the Atlantic fac
tory will take on the status of an ex-
perimental station.
After that demonstration at Boiling
Field, Mr.. Fokker personally took the
new tri-motor as 1t was and still Is
called, on a i7.000-mile tour of the
country climaxing the journey by OBJ
tanning a perfect score In the Ford re-
liability tour. This ship was taken back
TO the factory. overhauled and named
the Josephine Ford" A short time
later 1t wrote aeronautical history when
il flew from Spitzbcrgen TO the North
Pole and return without landing.
If there we're any doubts as to the
Fokker tri-motor's weight carrying and