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Evening star., 1928-10-26
COLLEGE RELIGIOUS
INTOLERANCE HIT.
Students Careers MenaCed
by "Anti-Smith Professors"
/, Says Kansas Leader.

BY the Associated Press
. TOPEKA, Kans., october 26.-John
w. Wells, chairman of the Kansas DEM
ocratic central committee, in state
ment yesterday charged that seudents in
State educational institutions supporting
Gov. Smith find their college careers
menaced by hatred and intolerance OF
college professors"
He demanded that Gov. Ben S. Paulin
Republican. and the State board of re-
gents "call off their Catholic baiters"
at Kansas State Agricultural College.
Wells said his committee had been
appealed to numerous times" to make
it possible for students in State schools
to openly support the candidacy OF Gov.
Alfred E. Smith"
He added that it was not until H. L.
Isben of the Animal Husbandry De-
partment of the Agricultural College
had permitted the publicity depart
me2t of the Republican State central
committee to say this for him, I haven't
much use for Irish Democrats that
he "felt he had right to bring the
issue into the open.''
Girl Forced to Resign.
perhaps it was all right" Mr.. Wells
said, "for Gov. Paulen to call at the
State university at Lawrence and de-
mand to know why a debate on Al
Smith had been permitted and why the
anti-Smith team lost the debate.
'That was his business, and it was
the business of a State teachers college
head to force young lady to give up
her place as the head of an Al Smith
college club. Republicans have always
dragged their power into our. State
schools in that manner, but when
Catholic students, who may or may
not be friendly to Gov. Smith, find their
college careers menaced by hatred and
intolerance of college professors it
seems to me to be the time for common
decency to be mixed with politics.
For before Prof. ISben permitted the
publicity department of the Republican
State central committee to say over his
signature that I haven't much use for
Irish Democrats we had definite in
stances of Catholic batting out there.
Gives Up Wearing Pin.
"The widowed mother of a young
agricultural college student called me
over long distance to say that she
guessed it would be impossible to keep
my son in school unless the Al Smith
literature and argument were kept out
of the school. And all could tell this
mother was that her son should, for
his own sake and for the sake of the
mother that was sacrificing to send
him through school, refrain from wear
ing AL Smith pins. and try to regain the
place he had lost with certain instruct
ors because of his stand for the Demo-
cratic nominee
81 issue this statement with full
knowledge that nothing will be done
about the situation.
These students will have to go about
their duties long after this campaign
is forgotten. They dare not handicap
their future through a lack of educa-
ton, and they cannot afford to pay the
price demanded of those who are proud
of their religious and political af1lia
tionS"
Evening star., 1928-10-26

Schuldt's courtroom. The policeman
had been looking for R,.~irson for two
days in connection witt the theft of
clothing from apartment i in the 1900
block of Sixth street.
Parks explained that one colored
man, taken into custody earlier in the
week, admitted the robberies and named
Robinson and two others as his COM
panions: All had been apprehended
except Robinson.
While waiting for another case to be
tried. Parks was surprised to see Robin
son brought out for being disorderly.
He informed Judge Schuldt about the
Evening star., 1928-10-26
UNIONIsT QUITS POST.
Garment Workers President Re.
signs Following Dissension.

NEW YORK, october 26 (R).-Morris
Sigman, president of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union for
the past six years, resigned yesterday at
a meeting of the general executive
board.
Sigman led the union fight against
the Communists two years ago and
rendered his resignation after dis
agreement with report of a special
committee to investigate the demand
for reconstruction of the local union,
which was abolished in 1924.
Evening star., 1928-10-26
Loses Two Fingers and Thumb.

John w. Stark, % years old, of SIS
Wheeler avenue. Clarendon, Va, en-
ployed as baker at sos H street north
east, suffered the loss of his thumb and
two fingers on his right hand shortly
before 2 o'clock this morning, when he
caught his hand in mixer while pre-
pairing dough. The machinery so Seri-
ously cut and crushed his fingers that
Evening star., 1928-10-26
Scalp Cut in Fight.

James Snowden. colored, 20 years old
61- Freeman court, received painful
scalp wounds in a fight yesterday aft
ernoon in Click court with an uniden-
titled colored man. He was given sur
gical treatment at Freedmen's Hos
pital.
Evening star., 1928-10-26

Coal pulverized to the f1neness of
toilet powder is being used on some
English ships, and it is claimed the
savino over ordinary coal is $3.50 ton
and the increase in boiler efficiency is
20 per cent,
Evening star., 1928-10-26
POLICEMAN IN SAMARITAN
ROLE TRICKS PRISONER
Has Him Released on Minor
Charge in Order to Arrest
Him in Theft.

When Policeman Lester Parks of the
second precinct interceded in his behalf
yesterday and had a sentence of SIS or
five days changed to personal bond,
Bernard Robinson. colored, thought the
officer was doing him a favor
BE changed his mind. however, when
Parks placed him under arrest as soon
as they got outside Judge Gus A.
Evening star., 1928-10-26

more serious charge, whereupon Robin
son was released on his personal bond
only to find himself In custody again.
Evening star., 1928-10-26
Hunter Determined
to Capture White
RhinOcerOs Alive
Rv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 26.-
George M. Bistany. hunter, is
going to Africa with the firm in
tention of not returning until he
can bring white rhinoceros alive
from the Sudan.
1t has never been done yet.
Evening star., 1928-10-26
Man Found Dead in Auto.

Samuel Ferguson, colored, 81 years
old, 1915 Six-and-a-half street, was
found dead in an automobile in front
of 1893 Seventh street about o'clock
this morning. Death resulted from
natural causes.
Evening star., 1928-10-26

they had to be amputated when he
reached Casualty Hospital.
Evening star., 1928-10-26

A Portland. Greg, Lutheran minis
ter breaches in Norwegian.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Old Prices
s735
800
s7355
$685.
Savings
so
25
so
$50

on to purchasers the benefits that
accrue from hugely increased pro-
duction.
See the Plymouth! Drive it-and
try to match it in quality and value.
We believe you will find these new
low prices remove Plymouth further
than ever from any other offering
in the greatest motor Car market.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Early History of AeronautiCs
StrikingIy Reveals Need for
Such Organization.
PROBLEMS ARE VARIED
Fund Has Made important
Contribution to Each One
of Difficult Questions.
BY COL. CHAs. A. LINDBERGH.

Practically every new development
faces at the start the handicap OF a
lack of capital Yet that is the time
when capital is particularly needed for
research and experiment. If the enter
prise is a fundamental one, such as a
transportation industry, this lack of ad-
equate funds is felt acutely because OF
the greater need for careful, compre-
hensive development.
To some extent aviation has escaped
this handicap. A number of non-com-
mercial organizations have made and
are making valuable contributions to
aeronautics-The Army Air Corps at
Wright Field, the naval aircraft factory
in Philadelphia and the air station at
Lakehurst, Bellevue Laboratory the
Bureau of Standards, the National Ad-
viSory Committees laboratory at Lang
ley Field. In the past three years, how
ever, no organization has contributed
more to aviation'S advancement than
the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the
Promotion of Aeronautics.
The early history of aeronautics strik-
ingly reveals the need for some organiza-
ton of that kind. It was just Is years
ago, in 1908, when the Wright brothers
made their memorable flight at Kitty
Hawk, N. c., and when that daring
achievement was accomplished - an
achievement now known throughout the
entire civilized world-it attracted prac-
tically no attention until nine days aft
erward a New York paper published a
Evening star., 1928-12-23
MENDEz WILL MAKE
TRIP IN OWN PLANE
"Gas Boy" Remains With Wrecked
Ship Awaiting Arrival
of Parts.

Undaunted by adversity and In de-
fiance of the hopes of his government,
Lieut.. Benjamin Mendez of the Colum-
bian army air corps, afectlonately
known to American aviatorS as Benny,
the Gas Boy" has decided to stand by
his damaged airplane at Colon Bay,
Panama, until it can be repaired for
flight, according to word received here.
Lieut.. Mendez visited Washington re-
Gently, a short time before beginning
his flight from New York to Bogota, the
capital of his native country, in a
CurtiSs Falcon seaplane purchased for
him by his fellow Colombians.
Lieut.. MendeZ won his nickname
when he accepted gas boys menial
laborS at CurtiSs Field four years ago
so that he might learn to fly just as
hundreds of youths are learning in
this country. He began his 4,600-nile
flight home from New York on No
vember % to demonstrate to his coun-
trymen the excellence of American air.
planes and training methods.
His flight was uneventful until he
arrived at Colon Bay, only 1900 miles
from home. In attempting to land
there, he came down in too steep a
glide ard submerged his plane. The
ColofrS.ans, who had been looking for
ward to his arrival with keen antici-
patton, were sorely disappointed. Strike
troubles in the banana zone were en-
barrassing the government and, to di-
vert national attention, the government
urged Mendez to complete his flight i'm
mediately in another plane. The United
States Government, in spirit of CO.
operation, offered a substitute plane.
Benny" however, had other ideas.
"I set out in my Falcon and I'll finish
in it," he said. He has ordered new
parts from this country to replace those
damaged in his dive into the bay, and
is standing by his ship.
Evening star., 1928-12-23

important period in aviation. The fund
received deeds of gift from Daniel Gug-
genheim totaling $2,500,000, Of which
both interest and principal could be
expended for the general purpose OF
furthering the science Of aeronautics
and stimulating the development OF
commercial aircraft. The fund was not
intended to be permanent organiZa-
ton. Its purposes will be realized when
aviation has advanced to such point
that private enterprise will be able to
carry on by itself.
The developments since then have
pointed out that aviation has pro-
gressed much further in the first 25
years of its development than did the
railroads. And to the Guggenheim
Fund, which filled a need that no one
else could at the time supply, must be
given large part of the credit for this
amazing progress.
Grants for Research.
In my articles I have mentioned a
number of things which have been par
ticularly vital to the development of
aviation, such as the great improve
ment of the airplane, the gradual edu-
cation of both the general public and
those actually engaged in aeronautics,
the need for an adequate weather re-
porting service and the deSirability of
a system of roof markings that would
identify towns so that the aviator could
find his way with less difficulty. To
each one of these problems the Gug-
genheim fund has made an important
contribution.
Its first activity was to make grants
considerably in excess of 81 1,000,000 to
various aeronautical institutions for the
purpose of research and instruction in
the science of aeronauticS. In particu-
lar, the fund made a large gift to each
of five engineering universities in this
country-one in the East, which already
had the Daniel Guggenheim School of
AeronauticS at New York University;
one in the Middle West and three in
the West. Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology, University Of Michigan.
Leland Stanford, California Insti-
tute of Technology and the University
of Washington-each of these inStitu-
tionS has, or will have, at least one
wind tunnel in addition to complete
laboratory equipment.
Through the instruction connected
with these laboratories the fund Is max
ing possible the training of skilled aero
nautical engineers, upon whom so much
of the future progress of aeronauticS
will depend and, in addition, we must
these institutions for many Of the de-
Evening star., 1928-12-23
BABY AIRPLANE SETS
NEW NONSTOP MARK
Berlin-London Flight Is Seen as
Great Advance to CONNER
cial Aviation.

LONDON (P)-The "baby airplane," !"
a Simmonds Cirrus Spartan, holder OF
the world nonstop fight record for a
light plane, has helped center aviation
interest on these smaller craft.
The plane, carrying pilot and pas
senger, flew direct from London to Ber-
lin and then repeated the feat three
days later, returning nonstop with the
same crew from Berlin to London under
six hours.
The London Berlin flights were not
undertaken as stunts. They are con-
sidered to represent the light airplane
at its true commercial worth, capable
of carrying at moments notice pilot,
passenger, so pounds Of luggage and a
20 per cent reserve of fuel for over 600
miles at speed exceeding 100 miles an
hour under bad weather conditions.
H. W. r. Bantine piloted the baby
plane on the flight and his passenger
was Lieut.. Col L. A. Strange, director
of an aircraft construction company,
who made the trip to transact business
in the German capital. The fuel cost a
head for the one-way trip was about SIS.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
vices which will solve the remaining

vices which will solve the remaining
problems of aviation.
Education of another sort Is repre-
sented in the funds committee on ele-
mentary and secondary aeronautical
education. 1t Is hardly necessary to say
that the aviation of tomorrow, which
will be so much more extensive than
that of today, will depend in large
measure upon the familiarity with
which the young people can deal with
aeronautics and the airplane. The Eng
lish vocabulary has added new word
to express this quality. The committee
is attempting to make the younger gen.
Grafton lair minded" It will do this
by introducing courses in the schools
supplementing other scholastic studies
by text books and by other methods
that may seem helpful.
For the benefit of the public as
whole, the fund supplies through its
bulletins and through the newspapers
current information on its work and on
aeronautical developments in general.
A most interesting development to-
ward increasing the reliability of the
airplane is going on now and will come
to consummation in 1929. That is a
competition for the safest airplane that
man can at present devise. The safe
aircraft competition of the Guggenheim
Fund is offering prizes totaling $150,000
to those manufacturers who can pro-
duce an airplane embodying all the
latest developments in safety without
materially damaging the machines eff
ficiency.
A Study of Fog Hazards.
Those who have been flying for a
number of years have witnessed at first
hand the great improvement in the air.
plane as a mechanical structure. They
can be justifiably proud of the record
of safety in modern aviation. 1t is
obvious, however. that there are cer-
tain problems which must be solved be-
fore the airplane can come into gen.
eral public use with the maximum de-
gree of safety. Foremost among these
problems Is the need for better weather
reporting services and for devices that
will eliminate, at least to large ex-
tent, the hazards of fog flying. The
Guggenheim Fund has now established
full flight laboratory, under the di-
rection OF Lieut.. James H. Doolittle,
which will study the question of fog in
aviation.
Here it will be possible to test the op-
GRAFTON of an airplane in actual flight
in conditions of fog to find out what
can be done to maintain the stability of
the machine when the pilot is flying
blind, to determine how he can best be
guided, to a landing field and what
communication and signaling devices
Continued on Ninth Page)
Evening star., 1928-12-23

Many cross-country airplane races
will feature the official aeronautical con-
tests to be held during the coming year,
it has been announced by the contest
committee of the National Aeronautic
Association in selecting locations and
dates of the coming contests. new
aviation contest has been authorized IN
the cross-country flying classification,
for prizes aggregating $4,000 and
cup, to be awarded by Robert z.
Gardner of st. Louis.
In the order of their occurrence, the
contests for the coming year VIII be as
follows:
First Is at Miami.
Contest for commercial airplanes, in
cluding races, for prizes totaling So, 780,
at Miami, Fla, January and 3. Inc
contest will be part of an aeronautlcal
exposition, a feature Of which will be
the opening of service on the new Pan
American Airways passenger and air.
mail. lines from the United States to
five West Indian Island countries, with
later extensions to Central and South
America.
The National balloon races, to decide
the three contestants who Will repre-
sent the United States IN the Goroon
Bennett international balloon races.
burgh May 4.
The new Gardner cup races will be
held May %. 90 and 30, converging at
st. Louis, the finishing point for a
series of croSs-country races. The nrst
preliminary race will be from Buffalo,
N. Y, to ST. Louis, $50 miles; the Sec
ond from Jacksonville, Fla, TO St.
Louis, 790 miles; the third frorA san
Antonio, Tex, to st. Louis, 7IU miles;
the fourth from Denver to st. Louis, ITO
miles, and the fifth from Bismarck, n.
Dak.. to st. Louis, 794 miles. The WIN
ners then will split prizes totaling $4,000
and will enter the final event, a race
from East st. Louis to indianapolis and
return for the Gardner cup and S5,O00
cash prize. All landings are to be made
at Parks Field, East st. Louis, Ill.
The big aeronautical event of the
wear will be the National Air Races, Tor
500 900 in prizes, to be held at Cleve-
land August "a to September 2. The
selection of Cleveland as the scene OF
the races was made upon the condition
that air enthusiasts and civil authorities
of the city agree to certain conditions,
not made public. 1t was stated that
there is no reason to anticipate that
these conditions will not be met and 1t
is considered certain that the 1929 meet
viii be held there.
Balloon Races in October.
The international balloon races for
the Gordon Bennett trophy will start
from st. Louis about october /, the
date depending upon weather condi-
tions. These races will be the first
contest for the third Gordon Bennett
trophy, donated to the National Aero
nautic Association by the Detroit Board
of Commerce. The first or these
trophies was won by Belgium and the
second by the United States.
Members Of the contest COMMITTEES
Evening star., 1928-12-23

economical means of transportation. AT
the end of the war there was, Of course
an immediate cessation in the demand
for aircraft, and only few manufac-
turers were able to survive the depres-
sion which followed. AS result the
aircraft manufacturer had neither the
capital nor the equipment for extensive
scientific research.
1t seems, therefore. fair to regard the
foundation of the Daniel Guggenheim
Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics
early in 1925 as the Inauguration of an
Evening star., 1928-12-23
MANY CROSS-COUNTRY RACES
SLATED FOR FLYERS IN 1929

who made the 1929 awards were Orville
Wright, chairman; DR.. George w.
Davis of the advisory committee Of the
National Aeronautic Association; Brig.
Gen. Frank P. Lahm, assistant chief OF
the Army Air Corps; Porter Adams,
chairman of the executive committee Of
the National Aeronautic Association;
Comdr. John H. Towers, U. S. NJ; Ed
ward p. Warner, Assistant Secretary Of
the Navy for Aeronautics, and Maj.
Clarence M. Young, director of aero
nautics for the Department of Com
u1erce,
Evening star., 1928-12-23
READY FOR DIRIGIBLE.
Montreal to Erect Mast for British
Bag.

MONTREAL OP).-Montreal is pre-
pairing to receive the giant airship
R-100, now nearing completion in Eng
land.
A huge mooring mast. capable Of ac-
conmodating the biggest dirigible ships,
is being constructed at the st. Hubert
ing made which, according to G. j..
Desbarats deputy minister of national
defense Of the Dominion government,
will make the Montreal airport second
to none on the North American Con-
tinent.
Two breakwaters, 800 feet long, into
the st. Lawrence to provide quiet
waters for seaplanes also are TO be built.
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CONTINUED on Ninth PageD
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short paragraph about 1t which did not
mention the name of the two inventors.
For years after that the Wrights strug-
gled with the development of the air.
plane without public recognition or
support.
War Planes Use Limited.
Even the war, which suddenly Gre
ated a demand for military airplanes,
did not develop them along lines which
made possible their use in commerce in
active competition with older and more
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Russia Plans Winter Line.

TIFLIS, Caucasus OP.-The first
Winter air line in Russia soon is to
link Tiflis and Bakua, on the Caspian
Sea, with Moscow. The service will be
carried on by six multi-motored planes.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-02
ARE YOU REGISTERED?
ce more the last call to register is out

Once more the last call to register is out.
Those who sidestepped this important duty with
the excuse that the August primaries or the presden
tal primaries of last May unimportant, surely
can be placed in that classification.
The next president of the United States is to be
elected in November. He is not elected by any, one
state or any group of states, but by all the people IN
all the states His is the highest office in the land
and in the American opinion the most important one
in the world Choosing him is not matter for few
but for the ma ority
Under the California law it is necessary that a
voter be registered before he can vote. Those who
have not registered since January l, will not be able
to vote at the presidential election They will be de-
prved of the highest honor of citizenship, expressing
their choice as to who shall lead this nation.
The Press is Republican in politics, but it says to
Democrats Socialists, Prohbitionsts, and citizens of
every party just strongly it says to Republicans
Be you registered and eligible to vote at the
November election
Saturday is the final day for registration: If
citizen neglects to take of his registration before
that time he will be forfeitng his right to vote.
Register, and urge your neighbor to do the same
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-02
LET'S CHIP Nv

Back on the job again after brief absence. it is
with considerable surprise that learn the Red Cross
fund for the relief of Florida sufferers from the deVas
tating storm is tagging in this community
Contributions to the fund have been negligible IN
comparison with the population here.
1t is not necessary that contributions to this fund
should be large. Those who responsible for the
fund realize that many folks following the summer
vacation period are pressed for money. But all of us
can squeeze out little if it is necessary to fore
go a few cigarettes or attendance at the movies.
The reports from Florida show that over two thou
sand Americans, the kind of people who inhabit
Imperial Valley, were killed in the Florida disaster
They were Tom Joneses, Bill Smith, Mary Brown
the same sort of folks all of meet and minge with
in daily lives.
Their families are in Distress they are in danger
of further tragedy from the aftermath of the Storm
influenza, pneumonia and fever. The dead in many
cases yet unbured and in others not located
Florida deserves more than a passing of
sympathy 1t needs real solid, substantial help and
this can best be given through the governments recog
nzed official agency = the Red Cross
North of here the newspaper show ready res
ponse to the appeal for funds. From Seattle south
the money is pouring in. We like to boast about I'M
perial Valley being in the whitespot and prosperous.
Can we afford to boast of prosperity in column
and prove ourselves unwilling to contribute to the aid
of unfortunate Americans in another?