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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
SUBURBAN TRAFFIC
PRESENTS TANGLES
Congestion at Bottle Necks'
Should Be Corrected,
A. NJ. A., Holds.

The steady movement of population
from the city to adjacent suburban Sec
lions in recent years has created Sc
rious traffic problem which Is now be-
ing made the subject of a comprehen-
sive study by the American Motorists
Association.
The survey includes traffic conges-
ton in suburban areas adjacent to
Washington, where it was found that in
number of localities traffic in and out
of Washington is shuttled through bot
tle-neck traffic lanes wholly inadequate
to handle the flow of traffic.
The most notable example of this,
the association found, was in the Bla-
densburg bottle-neck, extending from
the District line to the Bladenshurg
Cross. A check made by the association
during July and August showed that
during week days there was a delay Of
from three to five minutes by motorists
in passing between the District line at
Lincoln Cemetery and BladenSburg
Peace Cross, where the Annapolis and
Baltimore highways join.
On Sundays, when traffic was heav-
lest, between 4 and 6 pm, the delay in
many instances amounted to as much
as 10 minutes in passing over the high
way, distance OF four city blocks.
Suburban Construction Tagging.
Throughout the country highway
construction is tagging in most newly
nuilt-up sections, the association has
found, and this failure to provide ade-
cuate facilities, 1t is declared, is deny
ing to the motoring public the most
beneficial use of roads costing many
hundreds of millions of dollars.
Because they form important links
between rural roads and city streets. 1t
Is imperative that highways through
these suburban sections be developed to
a point where congestion. with conse-
quent delay, will be avoided, the asso-
citation points out.
Counties and corresponding political
divisions of States are making salts
factory progress In construction Of So
called rural roads, and cities are CO.
operating by providing through traffic
lanes to speed up traffic. Between the
ever, lies the suburban section with its
deficient highway, hampering travel in
! both directions" the report states.
Development Held Necessary.
The chief reason, the survey shows,
| for the acknowledgements of highways
| through such sections is the lack of
proper cooperation between local and
county officials. Often elective officials
do not sufficiently understand highway
administration and lack of revenue pre-
cludes the employment of competent
! engineers or the acquisition of neces-
sary roadbuilding equipment.
ut is of the utmost importance that
roads through these newly built-up
areas be developed" said Thomas j.
Keefe, general manager of the American
Motorists Association. 1.-THE urban
dweller who wants to go to the country
and the suburban dweller who wants to
go to the city have common interest
In the improvement of these important
connecting highways.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
"You follow me?"

you follow me?"
It is an odd conversational charac-
teristic of Maj. H. o. D. Segrave. Brit
ish racing car driver, used to punctuate
every sentence or so that the major ut
tiers, according to an interview here
last week.
But the fellow who attempts to take
the major literally when early next
month he wedges himself into the tiny
drivers seat Of his newest speed crea-
ton, Golden Arrow. and roars down
nine-mile stretch of hard-packed sand
at Daytona Beach, Fla, in an attempt
to regain for his country the automobile
speed record, will have his work cut
out for him. Maj. Segrave expects to
go down that stretch of sand at the
fastest rate possible with the facilities
now available to science and the auto
mobile industry. The tires are the
things that limit the speed Of the
Golden Arrow, Maj. Segrave says.
and he adds that he does not believe
1t Is humanity possible to build pneu-
matte tires. under the present methods
OF construction, to Withstand a speed
OF higher than 245 miles an hour.
Thread Fully Tested.
INTO the tires That Will be used by
Maj. Segrave has gone the most minute
care. Every inch of the cotton thread
used in the fabric of the tires has been
fully tested. The thread comes in
seven-mile lengths and when it is con-
sidered that every inch of many
times seven miles was gone over for
flaws, it can be realized what care
went into the making Of the tires.
I'VE spent $4,000 pounds sterling in
the development and manufacture of
just the tires and wheels (nearly
$68,000). Nearly 100000 will have
been spent on the Golden Arrow by
the time it has run its race against
the old man Of the scythe and hour
glass;" Maj. Segrave predicts.
The hackers of the machine and man
who will drive it prefer to remain in
the background. Mai. Segrave does not
mention their names.
It Is the Astounding faith he holds in
Capt. j. S. Irving, British automotive
engineer, that makes Mai. Segrave sure
he will shatter the existing record and
take back to England time mark for
the whole world to shoot at for some
time. In Capt. Irving's Judgment the
Golden Arrow is capable of being driven
245 miles an hour, and If Capt. Irving
says so Maj. Segrave thinks that 1t must
be so.
capt. Irving doesn't go wrong. He
checks, rechecks and then checks again
until he Is absolutely sure. That is the
way this car is built. Capt. Irving has
seen to 1t that this car Is right, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
Irish Governments Join in Campaign
To Make Island Rival of Switzerland

where. The government of the Free
State early saw the Importance of road
improvement and spent what for this
country is the large sum OF 0,000,O 600
on it within the last few years.
The tuning up of the Irish hotels to
something like the modern standard OF
comfort, was task of some difficulty,
and 1t is not yet fully accomplished.
You will still find some bad hotels.
But you will also find some extremely
good ones, which, If they do not APP
proach the luxury of the best American
hotels, are comfortable and up to date
in all their appointments The great
railway companies are in the hotel
business and have fine establishments
at all the most attractive centers. These
may be relied upon to give every salts
faction. But even the minor hotels
have been much improved, especially
in their cookery, and the Tourist Asso-
citation has tried with some success to
set up standardized prices and to check
all possible attempts at extortion.
There is, of course, in ireland, as in
most countries, the question of customs
dues. Motors from outside the British
commonwealth pay an entrance duty
of SO 1-3 per cent ad valorem, while
British commonwealth cars can come
in with an imperial preference of one
third less. And it should not be forgot
ten that this little country has two fiscal
systems, the British In the north and
the Free State in the west and south,
and that the border Is customs bar
rier between them.
The border Is within two or three
hours run of Dublin. But for the tour
list all this may mean nothing If he
takes reasonable precautions before
hand. He can arrange for a tryp-
tique through the Automobile Associa-
ton of America, which is affiliated with
the Automobile Association of Great
Britain, which will carry through this
formality for him and save him all
further trouble. Even If he fails to ex-
ercise this simple act of foresight the
worst that can happen to him is that
he will have to make a deposit of the
duty on his car. But he will get 1t all
back without deduction when he leaves.
(Copyright, 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
By WILLIAM II. BRAYDEN.
pecial Dirnatch to Tha star

Special Dispatch to The star.
DUBLIN, Ireland, February 16.-The
attractions Of Ireland as a holiday re-
sort are less well known In Europe
and America than they deserve. Till
lately the country did nothing to de-
velop its tourist traffic. Visitors, espe-
cially from the United States, were al
ways welcome and always treated as
If they were valued friends. but no eff
fort was made to attract them here.
1t Is now realized that In her holi-
day attractions Ireland has a real ma
ttonal asset, and the governments,
both North and South, have cooper
ated with the various financially in
tereSted agencies in endeavoring to
make ireland rival of Switzerland.
The idea is to make trip to Ireland
30 agreeable that the visitor will be
able to boast of it to his friends and
be glad to come back himself.
Special attention is given to the mo-
toriSt and his needs. There is in Ire
land, moreover, one obvious advantage
over most other countries. In Great
Britain and other countries SO many
people own motors and use them on the
main highways that driver Is merely
one in long procession. No Irish road
is SO crowded, and even in the neigh
borhood of noted beauty spots you may
see in whole day hardly more than a
score or so of cars.
II the traveller from America lands
ct Queenstown he has within easy dis
lance in q journey from Cork to Glen
gardif some of the finest scenery In
Europe. If he comes through Great
Britain, he can reach Dublin in a day.
Near Dublin itself there are some Won
derful views of mountain and lake and
sea, and even between lunch and din
ner in a Dublin hotel one has time for
q very enhancing trip into the glorieS
of County Wicklow.
A thousand miles is not nowadays
the figure OF an extended motor ex-
petition, yet in q thousand miles a
motorist can travel around the whole
coast of Ireland, and as the best seem
cry Is in the neighborhood of the coast,
he can see in week or little over
all the best that Ireland has to show.
Doubts as to whether it is worth
while to come to Ireland may arise
from the old and bad reputation OF
the surface of Ireland's roads. The
roads were rough and the country was
too exciting and at times too dangerous
for pleasant travel. All that unhappy
time is past. The roads are as smooth
as the land is safe. Reform Of the
roads has been rapid and thorough.
nave interviewed an ofdcial Of the
Automobile Association of Great Britain
whose job it was to drive over all the
roads in Great Britain and Ireland and
report on their condition. He tells me
that today the Irish roads are fully uT
TO the average of those in Great Britain
which means that they are rather ovel
the average of the roads in most Gu
ropean countries. Concrete roads are
indeed, not numerous in ireland. bu
Fabricated macadam roads, dustles
and smooth, are now to be found every
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17

more are common, and even after they
so to the discard not few find their
way back onto the road
Chemical research has played an i'm
portant part in making tires roll
farther Through the use of organic
"accelerators" in rubber so that vul-
canizing might be done in one-third to
one-fifth the time formerly required,
millions Of dollars have been saved
to the motorists and tire manufac-
turers. Other chemical discoveries
have added to the life of the tire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
HOW IA WIu Keen Ia

How It VIII Keep to Course.
The Golden Arrow viii have to 90
through two narrow lanes along the
beach, where the trap wires connected
with the delicately adjusted timing
Continued on Seventh Page
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
NEARLY $4,000 SPENT ON TIRES
FOR SEGRAVE'S GOLDEN ARROW
Briton Who Expects to Set Speed Record
Believes 245-Mile Pace Limit of
Pneumat1cs.

I'm going to get in 1t and drive 1t on his
say-so," Mai. Segrave said.
Aerodynamics have played O great
part in the design Of Maj. Segrave's
second superspeed car The body Of
the Golden Arrow Is built after the
fashion of the fuselage of the italian
plane which won the last Schneider
Cup race. Some changes had to be
made, but the body Of the Golden Ar
row very much resembles the fuselage
Of an airplane.
Built to Stay on Track.
The front Of the machine has been
so constructed that the force Of the air
will tend to keep the front Of the ma
chine on the track and at the same time
the whole car will be forced to the road,
thus assuring ample traction for the
drive wheels. If this construction had
not been adopted, Maj. Segrave points
out, the whole machine might tend to
get clear Of the road and ny when 1t
hits its top speed. 4
Just in case the Golden Arrow should
attempt to desert its natural element,
the road, the machine has been so bal
anced that 1t would land "on all fours"
The center Of gravity of the machine Is
very low, and the whole machine Is
much lower to the ground than most
racing automobiles. The giant I'm in
the rear, the telescope sights for keep
ing the machine In line. and the gem
eral construction of the car tend to
keep 1t sliding through the air on q
straight course.
At more than 400 miles an hour a
deviation Of three degrees in the steer
ing apparatus from the true course Of
the machine would throw the machine
about is feet out Of its course every
second. The beach at Daytona, while
wide, is not wide enough to stand many
seconds Of side-slip either way. Danger,
perhaps death, turks on either side Of
that hard-packed stretch of beach-the
ocean on one side where Frank Lock-
hart met his death, and on the other
the soft sand that will twist car to
wreckage in few seconds.
The test VIII be made over a course
OF miles that viii be strictly policed.
Telephones will be kept open all along
the route while the trials are being
made. It will take Mai. Sergrave more
than miles to get up the terrific speed
of which his car Is believed capable,
the test course Is but a mile, and &c
will take another miles to bring his
machine to stop.
How It win Keep to Course.
The Golden Arrow win have to 20
through two narrow lanes along the
beach, where the trap wires connected
with the dellcately adjusted timing
Continued on Seventh Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17

LONDON-Ex Extreme cold during the
month of January had an adverse eff
feet on passenger car sales, with some
expressions of disappointment in the in
dustry over the retail business. The
increasing used-car problem is also an
important factor in retarding the sales
of new cars. However, popular Ameri-
can makes have maintained steady
volume, and several new models are ex-
pected on the market by the end Of
February. Truck and bus production
continued at high level, partly attrib-
utable to heavy orders from railway
companies. Motor cycle producers are
well employed and report increased for
eign orders as well as domestic sales.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
Free Entry for Tourist Cars.

CAIRO, Egypt.-American tourists
coming to Egypt and bringing their
motor cars with them for a short stay
in the country. may bring them in
without paying duty, provided they first
obtain an international pass from either
the American Automobile Club or the
American Automobile Association of
America. On their arrival in Egypt,
they will be allowed to circulate for a
period of six months, as from the date
of entry, free of tax and customs dues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
LIFE OF TIRES GAIN.
Chemical Research Helps Them
Roll Longer. on Wheels.

DETROIT (R.--Twenty years ago
the average life of an automobile tire
was about $500 miles, and that was
Its absolute maximum. There was lit
tie salvaging from the dump heap. To-
day tires that cover 10000 miles and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
AUTOS TO BE PROVIDED.

Spanish Government to Supply
Civil Governors With Closed Cars.
MADRID, Spain.-By royal order of
the Spanish Government, 1t is provided
that civil governors shall be supplied
with closed automobiles of Spanish con-
struction costing not more than $4,000
pesetas. For the civil governors of
Barcelona and Madrid the maximum
price Of these cars is set at $4,000
pesetas. To cover the expenditures &C.
cruing from the operation of these cars,
1t is ordered that the next govern
mental budget shall contain q credit
Of 100000 peseta&
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
Protect Your Gears

The Correct fabrication
for the Gears.
Ebonite Is scientific gear iubri-
cant in two grades.
EBONITE-T for the sransmis-
sion gears, makes gear shifting
amazingly easy. in all seasons, and
ut all speeds.
EBONTTE-R FOR "rear axIes"
cushions these important gears and
saves repair bills.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-11
NIGHT CLUBS DRY
 AT STROKE OF F
Byn6 EniorCes Lay in London
 Some Joints Closed

London, Oct II (UP) won't believe 1t but Lord Byng. the new police commissioner, has made it nearly impossible to get drink anywhere in London after midnight
 Night club after night club has been closed in the West-end for failing to observe London's drastic drink regulations. The old speak easies that once served thirsty GUS toners after the public houses and iaw-abiding night clubs quit pouring alcoholic libations are now nearly all closed.
 Ten respectable clubs remain. But it is useless, even with a fistful of dollar bills, to ask for more liquor after the midnight deadline is reach ed. It just isn't done. In fast, no one, except for an occasional Ameri- can thinks of trying if.
 As a result London is a deserted city ten minutes after midnight True. some of the clubs stay open until one and two. but only few stragglers, drinking lemonade or Spping coffee, remain to dance. Lord Byns's London is without night life.
 Soon after he took office some 2G or 30 Chcre are not many night clubs m T-ondon) went out of bust
New Britain herald., 1929-10-11
HARVARD DOCTOR
 TESTS BLINDNESS
Forms Theories That May Do Away With Inherited Weakness

Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 12 [Pl-- The beginnings 0f knowledge that may lead to a new way of alleviation of inherited tendencies toward blind ness are reported to the American Eugenics society by pr. Clyde E. Keeler, of the Harvard medical school.
 Tn man" Dr. Keeler says, there are known to be more than 40 diff ferent kinds of eye defects (inc'~d- ing several varieties of cataracts) which run in families
 Tn some Of these families We are able to trace definitely from whom each blind individual re ceiyed his defect. In other families little is known of the mode of in heritance of their particular eye troubles.
 We cannot breed humans as We please to solve these problems. but we may breed other mammals hav- ing similar defects and thus deter. mine the laws governing their ab- normalities. These laws usually ap- ply also to man.
 Tn six years I have bred strain of blind mice through 1G genera tions. To follow blindness ill hu- man family for Is generations would require 533 years following three generations to century,.
 The eyes Of these mice never de- velop the sensitive clements of the eye known as rods and cones. The rods and cones normally secrete 8 fluid known as visual purple, which, in the presence of light, undorgoes chemical change. This change initiates the impulse which passes to the brain. Thus, eyes lacking rods, cones and visual purple will be blind.
 This blindness is inherited ac- cording to the Mendehan law. That is, when q normal mouse is mated to blind mouse, their offspring will all be normal, put when these offspring are mated tO~-t r"r Cro quarter of their young will be blind"
New Britain herald., 1929-10-11
NUT CRACKER TESTS STRENGTH OF SPANS
Bridge Steel Fed Into Machine
 at Washington

Washington. Oct. II. LP}-These are busy days for the giant nut cracker of the bureau of standards
 Daily it's jaws arg fed huge sam pies of bridge steel while scientists look on 10 determine how safely two new spans will carry their hu- man load.
 Capable of exerting 10000, ,o00 pounds compression, the worlds largest testing machine has been forced almost to the limit in cramp- ing model steel members of the type to be used in the Kill Van Kull bridge which will join Bay onne, N. J., and Port Richmond, Staten Island, N I.
 A dimensionally half-size model of a lower chord member Of the bridge withstood g,102,Qoo pounds before it buckled under the strain of the ''nut-crackar."
 These are being conducted by The Port Of New York Authority and the federal bureau, l.. s. Johns- ton and Dr- A. II. Stang being in charge for the two organizations,
 Kin Van Kull bridge, when com pleted in 1882, will be the largest bridge of it's type in the world. The length of it's arch span will be 1875 feet and the total length of the bridge, with approaches and plazas, will be more than a mile and a half.
 Tn conjunction with the Holland tunnel and the Hudson county boulevard, it will provide the first direct highway between Manhattan and Staten Island.
 Piers are being put in and erec- ton of steel IS scheduled to begin this summer. The bridge will be finished in 1882 at an estimated cost of s18,O00,OO0.
 The diet Of the monster testing machine is varied with models of torcr columns of he Hudson river
 rnsion bridge, one-half size ] steel and concrete-encased members being tested.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-11

ness at the rcq,.t ot t..r law, ( Ii like the United States these places do not reopen. The fact, is in tho majority Of the cases the manager were foreigners and were shipped out Of the country. Once a night club is closed it's career is ended No one dares open it again.
 Most ot the law-ahiding clubs arr having tough sailing. Revelers will stay after midnight if they canno, drink, Because Lord Byng has closed nearly all the law breakin1 places thirsty pleasure seekers. after cruising around town trying to find one of the old dives that is still open. give up in disgust and go home.
 The old clubs, most Of which were in cellars so that the noise could not be heard in the street, are dark. Even those exclusive clubs which only admit paying members win not serve drinks after midnight, 1t is incredible but they simply will not
 Lord Byng has broken the spirit Of the would-be aw-breaker. So London goes to bed early. Even Americans do.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-11
RECORD RABBIT HUNT

Phoenix, Ariz, Oct, Il (UP)- What is belieeyd 10 De a worlds rec ord for rabbit hunting ended here recently when Mack Taylor. rodent control specialist. returning to head quarters of the local biological sur veY with the hides of 5,173 jack rabbits
New Britain herald., 1929-10-11

As a rule about three or four pounds of ashes rpu...t man body has been "rrn
New Britain herald., 1929-10-11
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-02
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES :
commercial air line of Transcontin-
entail Air Transport, Inc.

commercial air line of Transcontin-
entail Air Transport, Inc.
The r. A. T. has placed at the
disposal Of the bombing air fleet
the radio and weather bureaus.
Special weather reports will be
broadcast during the night and the
air line radio stations will be able
to communicate direct with the
army planes in fight.
All radio communication will be
On commercial and military wave
lengths.
No exact time has been set for
the army planes to begin their
cross-continent emergency fight as
it is desired to have the movement
as much Of a surprise as possible.
There will be but two stops for
fuel, the first at Scott field, Ill, the
second at Albuquerque, N. M. The
flight is expected to take about
thirty-siX hours.
The refueling will be done by
means of rows of gas drums laid
ITO feet apart on the two fields.
The full drums will be taken aboard
the planes and gasoline pumped
into the fuel tanks en- route.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-02
ARMY PLANES
To PASS CITY
IN MANEUVERS
Langley Field BomberS viii
Race Across Continent
for Sham Battle.

Sometime today or Saturday the
roar of planes will be heard over
the city as the Second Bonbardment
Group from Langley Field, Va, will
race across to the continent to ward
off a surprise attack on the west
coast by a hypothetical enemy.
The giant bombers will be fol-
lowing with but few deviations the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-02
Aged Man Injured

ID Iin1eS NDtCi1J
ANDERSON. Ind. Aug. flames
r. Nighbert, so, father of Elmer
r. Nighbert, chief of the Anderson
police department, sustained a
broken collar bone while helping his
nephew, Walter Sproessie, with work
on the latter's farm near Wilkin-
son.