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The Washington times., 1928-04-02

The first Mrs. Hoffman. the form
er socially prominent Marie Eustis,
niece of the late United States Sen
ator Enstis o. Louisiana, lives here
with her daughter Josefa, 81.
The details Of the divorce and Sec
ond marriage are shrouded in mys-
terry. Hoffman has not been located
since he fled from an Interviewer st
the WEAF station of the National
Broadcasting Company.
The Washington times., 1928-04-02

Each week 1875 prizes including a
cash prize of 500 will be given for
the hest ads submitted. Select ans
one or all ri the 30 firms listed
Write as many ads as yOu like.
THE GRAND PRIZE OF 81 600
Continued on Page II. Column 40
The Washington times., 1928-04-02
4.H0UR FIGHT TO SAVE
DROWNING BOY FUTILE

ton, Va, saw the boys hair above
the water, and pulled him out.
Motorcycle Policeman G. l.. Akin
came along and called the fire de-
partment rescue squad and an
Emergency Hospital ambulance.
They worked with a pulmotor for
four hours before DIR. Gordon was
satisfied that the hoy was dead.
The Washington times., 1928-04-02
JOSEF H0FF MAN MUM
on HIS new WIFE

NEW YORK. April Josef
Hoffman. wealthy and world famous
pianist. today successfully lodged
uuestionersj following the revelation
0f his secret divorce and subsequent
marriage to girl the age of his
daughter. a
Friends of the musician disclosed
that he had married Betty Short,
2I-year-old piano student. and that
they have SON nearly 3 years old.
Hoffman lis 81
The Washington times., 1928-04-02
BUNS FIND PICKINCS
IN D. C. VERY MEAGER

heard. however. that DR.. James Eads
Howe. the millionaire bum, was start
ing buns convention In Washing.
ton today. SO New York Red said 10
Big lose, Lets hit NORTH
Red knew that most conventions
have banquets and the delegates
Continued on Page 4, Column g.,
The Washington times., 1928-04-02

BLUEFIELD, w. Va, April p
An explosion in the No. mine OF
the keystone Coal and Coke Com.
pany was reported here shortly after
noon today. AmbuIances and doc.
tors were rushed to the scene.
The Washington times., 1928-04-02

New York Red was All stirred IN
today He landed here off the
''bIind'' Saturday from New Orleans
with visions of . new suit. plenty
10 eat and a good flop. With him
mas the BigsEosed kid.
Things had been breaking tough
FOR the pair down South. They
The Washington times., 1928-04-02

Brown was arrested two hours
after Mrs Smith was discovered by
her sister. She was removed I'M
conscious to Emergency Hospital,
where she is not expected to live.
Investigation by the police led to
the arrest of Brown in a lunch
. room at Fourteenth and East Capt.
The Washington times., 1928-04-02
BANDITS GET $4,000

PITTSBURGH, April ARMED
with shotguns and rifles. three ban,
dts held up messengers of the Ward
Baking Company at 1870 today and
escaped with 10, 900 in cash and he
tween SIS 900 and $4,000 in checks.
The Washington times., 1928-04-02

~ sure. and have your name on
SAe hack Of the paper. Write the
name Of the firm on the top of
sl.e front or The paper. Then write
sso.Ir ad and sign your name on the
fIan Of the envelope. Then address
aha envelope TO the Times-Zafn Ad
sTeA Editor. The Washington
Times.
The Washington times., 1928-04-02

GRANDPA ADMITS
STRIKING D. c. WIDOW,
MOTHER OF 4, WITH AK

Iofn n 46 d grandfather with 10 children, CON
police this Afternoon that he struck and dangerously
INJURED Mrs bertha Bell Smith, 49, a widow with four
children with an ak she lay in bed at her home 100
Eleventh ST NJ. B.. today
The Washington times., 1928-04-02
Times Cash AlUard Near
Notice-Times,Zain Ad-Test writers

Notice-TimesZan Ad-Test writers.
Midnight Wednesday April 4, is the deadne for the
first weeks testing in the rmesZan Ad-est Campaign Be
sure and get your ads the mail before midnight April a.
for the Judging for the first period and chance to win the
800 cash prize and 1874 other prizes.
The Washington times., 1928-04-02

OIL Streets. Although married,
Brown told the police that he had
been living with Mrs. Smith for
the last three years. He became
Jealous of the attentions another
4 TURN OVER
Evening star., 1928-04-22

the atrociouS automobile man
nerS shown here. 1t appears TO
be a species Of SelfishneSS-get
your own way at the expense Of
the ether chap. No consideration
is shown for the other driver or
for pedestrians. There seems to
be an absolute lack of patience.
Some months ago ! wanted 70
make left turn at a corner
where the only other car near
was one directly behind me. !
made the necessary hand signal,
slowed up a bit as I approached
the middle of the intersection,
and just before starting to turn
glanced to my left rear. To my
surprise I found the other car
about TO pass on my left. Had /
not been cautious there would
have been a collision.
There was a foot policeman on
the corner. asked him If he had
seen what had happened. He re-
piled in the affirmative and !
asked him If he proposed to take
any action. He gave me decided
negative.
"The other day approached
going north the intersection OF
Connecticut avenue and ] street
northwest. A light delivery truck
was approaching going east. The
driver saw me, but kept going. So
did I, but under control. We both
stopped almost fender to fender
at right angles. l said nothing.
but got underway and went ahead.
AS / passed the colored driver OF
the truck he cursed me. There
was a fine example of Washing
ton automobile manners.
81 have travelled over a large
part of the world and have driven
cars in many States as well as In
various places abroad. | consider
/ have perhaps better than usual
power Of observation and sense Of
justice. / do not hesitate TO ex-
press as my opinion that automo-
bile driving here is in general the
worst that ! have ever seen.
have lived here of and on for six
NSdka AAAA vail @SN tAbbtN ~ GAAy
Improvement in traffic conditions
now over those existing when I
first came.
Police Attitude.
MY conviction is that the
trouble here lis a direct reflection
Of the police attitude. The traff1c
| officers spend a lot Of time appre-
bending so-called speeders who
on clear streets do perhaps ex-
ceed the speed limit. These
drivers are not the trouble makers.
If the officers would expend their
energies rounding up the right OF
way takers. weavers In and out OF
traffic and corner cutters, they
would score a higher percentage
Of arrests If that is their am
bition) and be Of much more bene-
! At to the community. The foot
Evening star., 1928-04-22
II LABORATORY WEATHER" TESTS
MAY CURTAIL MOTOR PERHS
Score of Leading Universities Installing
Plants Where Wind, Fog or Tropic Heat
Can Be Reproduced for Study.

plants for health Of many thousands of
workmen and other uses. Nov auto
motive engineers and research workers.
in the universities are renewing their
experiments to develop the airplafas 70
a kreater point Of safety.
The University Of Michigan recently
announced the opening Of an afr re-
search laboratory and giant wind tui1-
mel for the measurement Of forces ex-
erted by the air against a model air.
plane The tunnel and equipment was
built at a replacement cost Of sl5o,0o0.
A giant. propeller type Of ventilatIng
fan is used and Is capable Of blowing q
wind gale Of 200 miles an hour. That
the experimental tunnel viii save tflou-
sands OF dollars in airplane construc-
ton and possibly the lives Of aviatorS
who might prove victims TO the tdto-
syncrasies of an untried experimental
machine Is the opinion Of Edward A.
Stalker, professor Of the uniyerSitys
school Of aeronautical and marine en-
gineering.
Army Plant ExeeIs.
The most outstanding research la6-
oratory In the United States for nir-
plane development, however, u that q
the Army Air Corps at Wright Field,
near Dayton, In which air conditions
are exactly controlled by ingenious me-
cllanical means. The new 6ynamometef
laboratory Of the Army Air Corps takes
into consideration two outstanding fea-
lures of modern aircraft engine de-
elopment-air-c cooled engines and Iarg-
er horsepower. The facilities for test
ing have been increased recently by so
per cent and the large dynamometeTs
will be capable Of absorbing 100 horse
power In q single unit. A feature Of
the dynamometer laboratory Is . blower
system for furnishing blast Of air 10
the air-cooled engines that win simu-
late the speed of normal fight and cool
the engines under test.
Another new apparatus win measure
the performance Of engines ct sirnu-
lated attitudes, that Is, the air entering
q specific carburetor VII be conditioned
so that volume and temperature Of a1r
can be definitely measured and conrroE-
led and temperatures as low as 90 de-.
grees below zero obtained The wind
tunnel installation consists OF . 5-foot
and a 14-inch tunnel The former
is capable of q wind speed Of $40 miles
per hour: the latter Of 500 miles an
hour. When funds become available. IL
is planned 10 erect a i0-fo0t wind tun-
mel which VIII materially enlarge the
Continued on Seventh Page)
Evening star., 1928-04-22

members of the Metropolitan pc
lice force do not use courtesy
or Judgment in aiding the traffic
problems of the city.
But it does not seem right TO
be too critical of the city as a
whole. Lights for traffic have
only recently been installed and
many more have been ordered.
Evening star., 1928-04-22

police apparently feel they have
nothing to do with traff1c and
are content to let anything OUT
side of an actual accident pass
unnoticed.
TN conclusion permit me to say
that I do not hesitate to condemn
the Washington police force as
containing an exceptionally large
Evening star., 1928-04-22

proportion of untactful, over
bearing, ill-mannered and unac-
commodating policemen. The at
titude of these men SpoilS the
reputation of the whole force"
There is much to be said con-
cerning Capt. divers remarks.
It is true that many drivers are
digcourteouS, and that many
Evening star., 1928-04-22

The future automobile or airplane
may be developed from the research
laboratories of Americas universities.
Although the industry maintains
elaborate research divisions which are
hunting constantly for new ideas and
improvements, American colleges and
universities are hooking up steam heat
with electrical ice boxes, huge ventilat-
ing fans and giant air washers in spe-
cial weather-making laboratories in
which thousands Of students are study
ing the effects of heat, cold, moisture,
wind and other climatic conditions on
everything from automobiles and air
planes to insects, duSts, public school
health, trees, chemicals, movie films and
cameras.
At least score Of the most famous
universities in the United States have
announced the opening Of new research
divisions In which afr conditions are
manipulated mechanically and weather
initiated by rule or rote. Leaders In
these scientific schools declare that
these experiments will be of tremendous
value to automotive. aerorautical and
sanitary engineering and will aid in
making modern American life more ef-
ficient and healthful.
Auto Brought First Tests.
It was the automobile which brought
about the first really extensive scien-
tific experiments with air conditions.
through the air research laboratory in
the United States Bureau of Mines at
Pittsburgh, and the data cleaned from
these tests made possible, the Holland,
Liberty and other tunneling projects.
Then the industry installed air research
laboratories to study the effect of air
conditions on radiators, motors, metals
gasoline. control of carbon monoxide
gas and other problems Air was con-
trolled to carry away dangerous dusts
and fumes, to minimize the danger Of
explosions in paint shops, to ventilate
Evening star., 1928-04-22

The city is undergoing great
changes. Probably the city has
more out-of-town drivers than any
other city. The unruly driver or
the careless operator may be from
Oshkosh or Peoria. The true
Washington driver is often IN the
minority.
The records as published above
do not bear out the allegation
that Washington is the worst city.
1t is up to every driver to do his
part.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-14
THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON D. c. OCTOBER H. 8-rARr T.

bomb shackles, releases and dummy
bays for drop-testing parachutes. Two
dummies were dropped, one the size OF
an average man weighing 100 pounds,
complete with dummy parachute pack:
the other the same in size but weigh
ing only lis pounds complete.
A 200-pound lead weight, with trail
ing dummy parachute pack so arranged
as to simulate the resistance and
weight conditions of high speed para
chute testing, also was used. The gen.
eral method of testing was to drop 9
dummy with light attached, while a
camera placed on the ground, took pic
lures of the fall.
In the first tests the camera shutter
of the ordinary view camera was re-
moved and a pendulum of proper length
to swing at one second intervals was
suspended in front of the lens.
In later tests a between the lens
shutter was used. This was held open
by means of spring and was closed
once each second by a solenoid. The
pendulum was removed from in front
of the lens and arranged to make con-
tact with bubble of mercury at the
bottom of each swing thus closing the
solenoid and battery circuit. This
IIlOIC COILNClllClL dSNu-
rate timing device. The camera was
set with the axis of the lens horizontal
and the film vertical.
When all was In readiness the air.
plane would take off and climb to the
prescribed altitude The pilot signaled
with f1ashlight when he was starting
on the course which was marked by
blinking lights on the ground. The
timing pendulum was then started and
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signed to it provide separate ranges
from communication with shipboard
stations which can relay kilograms to
coast stations a general call wave for
shipboard and coast stations. an emer-
gency call wave for European coast
stations and a short wave for traffic
with other aircraft.
The big airship's radio outfit con-
sistS of main transmitter undamped
OF 140-watt capacity and with a range
of 1,500 kilometers for telegraph
and 400 kilometers for radio telephone:
an emergency transmitter. undamped.
of 70-watt capacity and with ranges of
$50 and $50 kilometers. respectively. for
telegraph and telephone transmission;
a specially constructed receiver ar
ranged in three steps for wave ranges
of $50 to 500 meters, 400 to 1000 me-
ters and 5000 to $4,000 meters: a radio
compass mounted in the buffer bag
under the control car but operated from
the radio room on a wave range of 300
to 1000 meters; a wind-driven gen.
orator and reserve generator: batteries
Tor emergency use and a charging
outfit for the batteries: two antennae
wires 100 meters long. to be suspended
beneath the control car while in flight
and short wave sending and receiving
outfit, designed primarily for expert
mental work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-14
ACTRESS OFFERS TROPHY
FOR THEATRICAL FLYER
Vivienne Osborne Gives Cup for
Player in Plane Winning
Nonstop Race.

Vivicnne Osborne, Broadway theatre
cal star. has offered gold trophy to
the actor or actress flying in the win
ming plane in nonstop race between
New York and Cleveland. to be held
in connection with the national air
races next Summer
An advisory committee, which in
cludes such famous airmen as Col.
Clarence Chamberlin, Capt. George
Haldeman, Capt Charles B. Collyer,
Sherman M. Fairchild, president of the
Fairchild Aviation Corporation; Charles
Laurence. president of the Wright
Aeronautical Corporation. and Charles
Colvin. president of the Pioneer Instru-
ment Co. is preparing rules and regu.
lations for the race.
Miss Osborne. flying enthusiast her.
self. is offering the trophy. replica o,
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit OF
st. Louis" as a means of stimulating
interest in aviation among peonle of the
stage. She says she is convinced that
the time is coming when stage people,
especially those who are touring the
country. will use airplanes just as they
are using automobiles today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-14
AIR EXHIBIT
RANKS WITH WORLD DISPLAY
Many Sections Now Grouped in Other
Buildings-Traces History of Craft
in United States.

The aeronautical collection of the
! Smithsonian Institution, which Is par
! TALLY housed in the corrugated iron
J shed south of the Smithsonian Build
! ing. as a result of a number of recent
| accessions, now ranks as one of the
! most complete aviation museums In
| the world.
The building long since has been
outgrown and many Of the most inter-
esting objects in the collection are
! housed in other buildings, notably the
Spirit of st. Louis, Col. Charles A.
LindberghS famous plane, which is ex-
hibited in the entrance hall of the Arts
and Industries Building, and the planes
of Langley and other air pioneers, which
are housed in another corridor of the
same building.
The collection in the Aircraft Build
ing, as a result of the recent Access
sions, has become fairly representative
of the aeronautical development of the
country. Exhibits of original planes
and motors are supplemented by
models and photographs, covering viz
tually every phase of this countrys ef-
forts to conquer the air.
CurtiSs Racer.
Among the more recent additions to
officially designated as the R-2-C-1, In
which Lieut.. James Doolittle won the
Schneider Cup race in october, 1925.
The plane was fitted with pontoons for
that event 1t is shown, however, as
originally built, with wheels for ground
landing One of the pontoonS with
which it was fitted for the race is
shown. This plane is credited with
top speed of 249.97 miles per hour. Fin
ished in black and bronze, it is the pic
ture of speed incarnate.
An interesting collection of airplane
wing ribs of every CONCEIVABLE type has
been acquired and placed on the south
wall of the building, together with
rough propeller blanks, showing the
stages of propeller construction. The
wing ribs show graphically the steps
taken by engineers in their battle for
lightneSs combined with strength. One
of the ribs, Is feet long, is of wooden
truss-type construction and, although
weighing only 223 pounds, will larry a
load of 742 pounds.
New Balloon Exhibits.
The Museum also boasts a new ex-
hibit, composed of the balloon basket
and aerostatic apparatus with which
the late Capt. Hawthorn C.. Gray, Army
Air Corps, on Nov. 4. 1927, reached the
greatest height ever attained by man
42.470 feet, or more than 8 miles. This
exhibit includes all of the recording in
Strrments used by Capt. Gray on his
flight, in addition to his other equip
ment.
Another interesting exhibit is the
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CALL NAME "DENNE"
GIVEN TO Zeppelin
New German Dirigible Assigned
Wave lengths for Trans
atlantic Flights.

In preparation for her proposed series
of transatlantic flights this Fall and
Winter. the new German dirigible Graf
Zeppelin has been equipped with in
compass and short wave transmitting
outfit, the Navy Department has been
informed by the Zeppelin Co. The air.
ship has been assigned wave lengths
suitable for communication with ships
en- route and with coast stations.
The dirigible's call name will be
"Denne" and the wave lengths as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-14
TESTS WILL GAUGE
TIMING OF 'CHUTES
Moment of Opening to Be
FiImed-Rate of Fall Fixed
at 100 M.P.H.

The Army Air Corps experimental
station at Wright Field, having deter
mined that the fall of person from
an airplane with a parachute pack at
tached to his body is about 100 miles
an hour and never greater. will run a
series of tests to obtain exact informa-
ton on the opening time of the para
chute under various conditions with
the view of settling once and for all
the discussion about parachutes OPEN
ing at low attitudes. The opening of
the parachutes will be recorded with a
motion picture camera.
How the Air Corps experts at Wright
Field arrived at their figures as to the
rate of fall of body through space.
has just been received here in a re-
port of the tests The experiments
were conducted at night with a
Douglas Torpedo plane equipped with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-14

Looming amphibian plane San Fran
cisco, one of the ships which made the
American goodwill flight around
South America in 1926. The plane Wis
tied 81 American republics. returning
to this city May 2, 1927. It is equipped
with an inverted Liberty engine. the
motor being mounted upside down, with
the crank-case on top and the cylinders
hanging below This mounting was de-
vised by Grover Looming. the planes
designer, to lower the center of gravity
and to give the pilot clearer vision. The
mounting is said to improve the sta
bility and ease of handling.
The first official transatlantic airmail
bag also is shown. This is the sack in
which Comdr Richard E. Byrd carried
mail to Europe in the America, which
landed in the sea off Ver-Sur-Mer.
France July l, 1927. The sack shows
the results of the immersion, though Its
contents we're salvaged and delivered.
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allowed to swing until the dummy or
weight had reached the ground The
pilot maintained his proper altitude
with a sensitive altimeter. 1t was i'm
portant that he hold closely to the
proper altitude and pass not too close to
the camera, as the image would not
then fall on the film AS he approached
the first marker light on his course he
switched on the dummy light and a
few seconds later released the dummy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-14
CASTOR OIL GOES.
Petroleum Products Replace It as
Airplane Lubricants.

Castor oil virtually has been sup
planted by petroleum oil as lubricant
for alrplane motors in this country,
though in Europe it still is used for
most high-clasS gasoline motors, &C
pording to survey completed by the
american Research Foundation.
Improvements =. he fabrication field
by chemists employed by the great
American petroleum Companies are
responsible for The decline Of castor oil
as lubricant, the foundation declared.
The perfected petroleum lubricants
meet the extreme demands of airplane
and racing automobile motors which
formerly could be satisfied only b. use
OF castor oil. Moreover. the petroleum
oils eliminaH, the disagreeable features
in the use of castor oil. Such as its
ncXlous odor and its detrimental effects
or the motor due to oxidizing and turn
ing to acid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-14
New Air Line Planned.

Daily air service between Buenc:
Aires and Monteyideo will be inaugu-
sated next week by the Companio de
Taxi Aereo, the Department of Com
, merce has been advised The company
will use three cabin seapianes, a Savoia
and two Giants. of Italian make.
Eacn plane will have accommodations
for four passengers and a limited guam
Fifty of freight. They will carry mail
b the regular postage rates bstween
Uruguay and Argentina.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-14
UC - I'LL CnC UclU
of low:priced skies
Qe@&o@

The greater value afforded by 80
the new De Soto Six has been a7E05
instantly recognized and gener-
ously rewarded. Its heritage of n~ls4~s,opr.o
Chrysler standardized quality in point OF
style, beauty and comfort is apparent al
first glance and ride reveals perform
ance abilities never before attained in
six-cylinder cars of comparable price.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-14

While British aircraft carrier was
still at sea off the coast of Africa re-
Gently the aircraft took off and pro-
ceeded to Heliopolis and Cairo to make
an independent tour.