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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
FOUR WIN ANOTHER YEAR
WITH COSTUMES AT BALL
Art Students Get Continuation
Scholarships as Prizes at
Bal Boheme.

Four students of the National School
Of Fine and Applied Art won distinction
with their costumes at the Bal Boheme
last Monday night at the Willard Hotel
and they will receive one year continue
alton scholarship to their school, it was
announced yesterday by Felix Mahony,
director.
j. A. Detweiler was awarded first prize
as wearer of the most beautiful costume,
that of an Egyptian potentate, while
honorable mentions were accorded by
the judges to Miss Marjorie Nelly as
an Egyptian dancing girl, Miss Mary
L. Seattle as Cleopatra, and Charles
Helmick as Pharaoh.
The subject of Egyptian costume and
motifs was assigned as a regular class
problem by Mr.. Mahony and, following
extensive research in the museums, gal
lerieS and Libraries here, the 70 students
who attended the ball designed and ex-
ecuted their own costumes.
The. nlid-year class in color, interior
decoration, costume design, dynamic
symmetry and commercial art will begin
Tuesday at the National School of Fine
and Applied Art.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

come down from New York for the con-
cert will reply in behalf of Columbia.
The concert will be followed by dane
ing from 10 until / o'clock
Rita Rozada. Spanish singer, will give
a group of contralto solos Tuesday aft
ernoon at the meeting of the Column
bian women. Mrs. Rose Maxwell Dickey
will give group of violin selections
entitled, Memories of the Old South"
The women of the School of Govern
ment will act as hostesses during the
social hour preceding the meeting.
Dr. A. S. Finkelstein. graduate of
the Medical School of the class of '27,
made the highest rating in a recent ex-
animation by the board of medical ex-
aminers of the State of New Jersey, &C
cording to advice which has been re-
ceived at the university. DR.. Finkel-
STEMS average was 92.3 per cent DR..
Louis K. Morganstein. also member
of the class of '27. made one Of the
highest averages attained by the 80
candidates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
COLLEGE OF LAW HOLDS
BANQUET AT WILLARD
Dean Grace II. Riley Reports En-
rollment of Large Fresh
man Glass.

With the banquet in celebration of
It's thirty. third anniversary held last
evening at the Willard Hotel, the Wash
ington College Of Law is setting itself
TO the task of organizing new classes
and advancing others at tomorrow eve
ning's session. Dean Grace Hays Riley
reports large freshman enrolment and
has announced the subjects and profess
sors for this class as follows: Criminal
law, Edwin A. Mooers: tortS, Robert E.
Freer; real property, James j. OLeary,
and agency. Edwin A. Mooers.
The second semester juniors will be-
gin bankruptcy, equity Jurisprudence,
real property cases and testamentary
law. with Profs. Flynn. Harris, Kearney
axd Mooers, respectively, in the chairs.
The senior class assignments and in
structors are: Federal procedure, James
J. OLeary; constitutional law cases
Oliver E. Sweet business associations,
Prof. Mooers. and common law plead
ing cases. william H. Collins.
The postgraduate Vork continues
with Dr. Harleigh H. Hartman teaching
public utility law; DR.. Roscoe j. C,
Dorsey, Jurisprudence. and Francis
Colt De Wolf, international law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

Men of the prehistoric stone age
sometimes painted the bones of the
dead red suggesting blood and there
fore life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
TIRE AND GASOLINE
STORE SWEPT BY FIRE

Fire at the W. S. Kenworthy Tire g.
Gasoline Shop, 1917 Fourteenth street.
last night caused damage estimated at
$500 and threatened a supply of more
than 1000 gallons of gasoline in I'M
derground tanks.
The blaze originated in rear of the
store and quickly spread to the front.
Firemen under direction of Second
Battalion Chief Walter had the fire
under control within half an hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

Meyer, dean of the Accountancy School;
Mr.. CLANCY. representing the senior ac-
countancy class, and Edward c. Steagall,
president of the alumni association Of
the college.
Entertainment will be furnished by
Frank c. Green. ventrfoquist. and fol-
lowing the speaking program there will
be dancing from 9 to IL pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
KNOCKS BUT oNCE-Acr
IMMEDIATELY,

will give complete Standard Business
Course to a selected and ambitious few a.
practically the cost of the service. In addi-
ton, at this time. will be included your own
selection Of a Remington;; Royal, Smith or
give me your letter OF Endorsement after you
have secured a satisfactory position. This
to YOU Immediately. To f1rst few applicants
will be included. without additional cost, q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24
Fastest Army Pursuit Plane
win Be Used on
March 10.
FIRST STOP TAMPIco
Success May Mean Race
Back to Washington With
in Two Days.

Methods employed in the racing au-
tcmobilc pits to eliminate servicing
delays. coupled with refueling methods
developed during the six-day record
flight of the Question Mark, will be
employed by the Army Air Corps to
speed the proposed daWn-to- dusk fight
from the United States to Panama to
be made March 10 by Capt Ira c.
Eaker, chief pilot of the Question Mark.
Capt. Eaker is to take off from
Brownsville, Tex, at o'clock the
morning of March 10 in the latest and
fastest of the Army pursuit planes, the
new Boeing PIP. He will make five
landings en- route 10 take on fuel and
oil and to replace spark plugs or make
minor motor adjustments If necessary.
AS speed in refueling and servicing
will be of paramount Importance, 1t has
been decided to abandon the conven-
tional field method of refueling by can
and funnel. A special 70-gallon gaso-
line tank is being installed under the
motor in addition to the regular So
gallon tank in the fuselage, giving a
total fuel capacity of 100 gallons,
which will be consumed during flight
at the rate of IS gallons per hour.
The tanks are to be filled through
special hand-operated pump of high ca
pacity built into the ship and equipped
with a 20-foot hose. At each landing
the plane will be TAXED up to the re-
fueling tanks and, with the motor run
ming, the hose will be thrust into the
supply tank and the gasoline pumped
into the plane at a rate of 35 gallons
per minute. Each refueling can be ac-
complished in three or four minutes.
The direct hose-to-tank method was
employed In refueling the Question
Mark from refueling planes.
Refueling stops are to be made at
Tampico and Minatitlan, Mexico;
Guatemala City, Guatemala; Managua,
Nicaragua, and David, Republic of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24
BERLINER- JOYCE
BUILDING FACTORY
Monoplane, Propeller and Pontoon
Will Be Manufactured for Sub
mission to Army and Navy.

The manufacture Of the present Ber-
liner monoplane, a new all-metal two
place cabin monoplane, new low
priced metal propeller, Monel metal
pontoon for seaplanes and high-speed
combat planes for submission to the
Army and Navy, will be undertaken by
the newly merged Berliner-Joyce Air
craft Corporation, which is building
factory on a five and one-half acre
site adjoining the Baltimore Municipal
Airport.
The company was incorporated this
month under the laws Of Maryland and
has acquired the property and business
of the Berliner Aircraft Co., now To-
Gated at Alexandria, Va. Henry Ber-
liner, president of the Alexandria com.
pany and former head of Hoover Field.
will become vice president in charge of
production.
The first unit of the plant is under
construction, at an estimated cost of
$4,000, and will provide $4,000 square
feet of floor space. Production is to
be continued at Alexandria until this
unit is in operation. The Alexandria
plant now is producing at rate of one
plane week the Berliner commercial
monoplane, which has a 90-horsepower
motor and carries a pilot and two pas
SengcrS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24
MANY ARR CRAFT CARRIERS SEEN
AS NAVAL UNITS IN FUTURE

BY REAR ADMIRAL w. A. MOFFETT,
Chief Of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics.
BY the Associated Press.
The world naval powers are rapidly
and inexorably moving toward the day
when their fleets will include many
more aircraft carriers than they have
today, not because airplanes are air.
planes, but because ships using airplanes
can see farther, shoQ farther and hit
harder than any other weapon known.
My years of active service with the
ships of the Navy at sea, years which
have seen sails finally disappear from
war vessels, which have seen the little
ships of Manila Bay give place to the
great battleships Of today, and which
have seen the torpedo, the destroyer
and the submarine evolved from older
craft, convince me that the whole con-
cept of war at sea must remain in
never-ending state of evolution.
Not New Conception.
The latest development in this long
evolutionary process involves the use of
aircraft at sea and the provision of air
craft carriers to carry the planes to
sea with the feet. 1t is easy to fall
into the error of believing that the use
Of aircraft in the fleet and the tactics
Of aircraft carriers is a rather new
conception. This is not true.
We have for years recognized the
enormous value in all manner of sea-
going operation which is inherent in
aircraft operations. The reason that we
have not previously had such operation
is not because We had not recognized
the value, but because it has been
necessary for us to go through the
extremely difficult problem of develop
ing the mechanical means for carrying
planes to sea and for continuing to
operate them there
We feel that we now have completed
that job sufficiently to proceed with a
great expansion in the uses of aircraft
at sea. We also feel that such an ex-
pansion, even though it be at the sacri-
fee of some of the longer established
conventional practices at sea, will enor-
mously enhance the effectiveness of cur
Navy for the protection of our seaboard
commerce.
No feet can safely approach our
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24
ROOSEVELT FIELD
TO Be A|RDROME
Backers Say They viii Spend
100000 in Developing
Modern Plant.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, February 23.-Roosevelt
Field. starting point of many history
making transatlantic flight, is to be
converted into 81 SOC, 900 airdrome.
Backers of the project say they are
prepared to spend that amount to equip
and develop the field, which they plan
to purchase. The field. now in the
hands of real estate company, is 38l
acres in area.
A marker commemorative Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh's New York to
Paris flight will be erected in the heart
of the airdrome, near the spot from
which he took off.
Plans include two huge concrete steel
hangers, each LOO feet long with a
half mile of concrete apron $50 feet
wide. Workshops, service stations, an
administration building. flood and
boundary lights, beacons and other
equipment for night flying are included
in the project.
A stub mast for dirigibles will be
added later to make the airdrome suit
able for both lighter than-air and
heavier-than-air operations. Backers Of
the project believe that Roosevelt Field
provides the closest ample facilities for
such project near Manhattan.
Fast express bus service and am
phibian flying service to a point on the
East River have been planned as the
best method to provide fast, adequate
transportation.
Although the field is now in use for
operations, 1t will be ready for heavier
traffic in an improved state by June /,
hackers of the project say. Buildings
and other facilities are to be added after
the physical development of the field
is finished,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24
AVIATION
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.

National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics, that the amount OF
power required to operate a sea-
plane or flying boat is in proper
ton to the power required to raise
it from the water. The surface
tension of the water exerts a posi-
tive hold upon the hull or pOntoOn
adding to the force of gravity in
holding the plane down. This is
why pilots find it more difficult
and sometimes impossible to take
off from smooth, calm water than
TO take off with ease with the same
loads and motors from rough
water.
IF we can reduce the power
required by 20 or 80 per cent" Mr..
Lewis told the House appropria-
items committee, lit will not only
reduce the first cost of the sea-
plane but also the operating cost. "
He explained that the Germans,
on their seaplane channel, had
made tests with a Seaplane pom
toon resulting in a redeSigning of
the last step" Of the pontoon and
a power reduction of 80 per cent.
The test channel is to be con-
structed at Langley Field, Hamp-
ton, Va, where the aeronautical
laboratories of the National Ad-
visory Committee are located. At
these laboratories the committee
already has conducted many tests
with seaplane floats to determine
shocks and stresses due to landing
and taking off in water of various
degrees of rcughneSS. These tests
have shown the stresses on every
portion of the floats in actual
service tests. The limits of this
type Of research, however, natu-
rally are limited and the need for
the seaplane channel is regarded
as most urgent.
Germany Leads in Designing.
Germany has taken the lead in
the designing and construction of
flying boats, with italy in second
place. Many of the big Dornier
"Superwals," powered with four
00-horsepower motors, are flying
in Europe with great success.
Dcrnier is following them up with
the largest airplane in the world,
huge flying boat with the hull of
a Seagoing vessel and IL motors
Of 500-horsepower each. In Italy
the Savoia-Marchetti flying boats
and SeaplaneS have been developed
to a point which has attracted
worldwide attention. These sea-
planes are to be manufactured in
this country within a few months
under franchise. Though they will
be produced in this country, they
will still be of Italian design.
The United States, with its
thousands of miles of coast line,
its great rivers and lakes and the
Great Lakes system, is ideally
suited to the use of flying boats,
SeaplaneS and amphibianS. The
seaplane channel would aid ma
terially in the production of safe
and efficient designs and I'M
doubtedly would stimulate the
manufacture of American aircraft
of much higher quality than is
possible without such research.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24
/, ONGRESS has been asked
by the National Advisory
. Committee for AeronauticS

Committee for Aeronautics
to include in the second
deficiency appropriation bill funds
for the construction of a Seaplane
test channel which will serve the
same purpose in the construction
OF Seaplane pontoonS and flying
boat hulls that wind tunnels serve
In the construction Of airplaneS.
This appropriation is so much
needed that the request is of an
emergency character and the COM
nittee has felt it .inadviSable TO
wait until next year to obtain the
funds in the normal manner. The
United States lags far behind Eu-
rope in the development Of the
seaplane and flying beat for COM
mercial purposes. Germany, Italy
and Great Britain have Seaplane
test channels and are obtaining
the greatest benefits from their
use.
The United States Navy has a
Ship-model testing pool at the
Washington Navy Yard. Naval
constructors would not dream of
beginning the construction Of a
naval vessel without exhaustive
tests of models Of the hull. These
tests reveal possible defects Of de-
sign and suggest improvements
which result in greater speed,
naneuverability and fuel economy.
The same procedure is necessary
for seaplane and flying-boat de-
velopment if this country is TO
take it's place with other nations
in this field Of aeronautical de-
velopment, the Advisory Commit
tee holds.
S20S,G00 Is Sought.
The committee is asking for an
appropriation of $208,000, which
viii permit the construction of a
concrete tank Is feet wide by $500
feet long, trackage for a towing
car and towing apparatus with
which speeds of between 40 and so
miles per hour may be attained.
This would be the best equipment
Of the kind in the world.
Germany, with a channel $50
feet long and towing apparatus
giving speeds CT 1876 miles per
hour, is planning tank l 400 feet
long and speeds of As miles. At
Rome a 902-foot tank is being
completed, on which speeds of Is
miles per hour may be made. The
British aeronautical laboratories
are realizing speeds of "a miles
per hour on a channel 1900 feet
long.
THE United States today has no
apparatus for studying the effects
upon fiying-boat hulls or pontoons
in taking off from the water. Trial
and rejection methods in actual
practice with Seaplanes is unSatis-
factory, unScientific and prohibi-
lively costly, designers declare.
Tests on the proposed channel, it
is claimed, will make possible the
scientific designing of hullS and
pontoonS, resulting in more eco
nomical and safer seaplanes.
Calm Water Hard for Take-Off.
It is pointed out by George w.
Lewis, director of research for the
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coasts within the effective radius of
operation of offensive aircraft If our
coasts are defended by well organized.
shore based aircraft defenses. There
appears to be no reason whatever to
believe that enemy aircraft may safely
come within striking distance of our
ships at sea if those ships are equipped
to carry strong defensive aircraft opera
tions. Without aircraft protection our
ships at sea are not safe.
We have laid the groundwork for
creating such defenses. With the actual
advent of the Lexington and Saratoga
into the feet, equipped with modern
aircraft equipment and organized into
an effective striking unit after years
of experiment, we have reached the
end of the introduction" in our story
of achievement of aircraft operations
at sea.
1t is my firm belief that we are now
just turning to the first page of the
first chapter of that story, which will
have a profound influence upon the
composition of fleets of the world, if
not, indeed, upon the whole concept
of war.
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ing efficient engine performance up to
extremely high attitudes. This will be
especially useful during the lap from
Minatitlan to Guatemala City, when
Capt. Eaker will have to climb to nearly
10000 feet to get over the mountains
forming the continental backbone. The
Guatemalan capital airport is more
than mile above sea level.
Plane of Small Type.
The plane, which is to be christened
1.-THE Pan-American," is a very small
ship. Its Widespread is only % feet
and it Is about 81 feet long, in sharp
contrast to the huge Question Mark
which Capt. Eaker piloted during its
150-hour flight. making 40 refueling
contacts in the air. 1t will not be pos
sible to refuel the Pan-American dur
ing flight, as the Army has no refuel-
ing planes fast enough to keep up
with it.
The 450-horsepower motor of the
little ship represents the combined
power Of two of the three engines used
aboard the Question Mark. 1t is a
radial, nine-cylinder air-cooled motor
and will give the plane cruising speed
of from $50 to 155 miles per hour and
a maximum speed of 1873 miles per
hour Capt. Eaker will not push his
motor to anything like its maximum
speed, however. He intends to run it
at about 1,750 revolutions per minute,
giving an airspeed of about $50 miles
per hour This will enable him to
make the 2,000-mile flight in an elapsed
time of about Is hours, including all
stops.
A striking color scheme has been ap-
piled to the trim little craft. The body
will be ebony black, with crimson nose
and tail and silvery white wings.
Capt. Eaker, who regularly is stationed
at Boiling Field. Anacostia, now is in
Seattle, Wash, where the plane is being
built. He expects to leave Seattle for
Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex, aboard
the new plane either tomorrow or Tues
day, making overnight stops at Oak
land. Riverside and San Diego. Calf;
Tucson, Ariz., and Ell Paso and Mid
land, Tex.
Thorough flight tests will be conduct
ed at Kelly Field, where the special
tank and pumping gear are to be in
stalled. Capt. Eaker will fly to Browns
vile March or 8, so as to be ready to
start his epochal attempt on March 10.
AS in the case Of the Question Mark S
flight. the attempt to be made by Capt.
Eaker will necessitate thorough ground
work on the part of the Army Air
Corps. Refueling crews are being
trained at each point so that the work
may be done with clock-like regularity
and the minimum possible amount of
delay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24
A|RHANE RULES
FOR CANAL ISSUED
President CoeIidge'S Outline
to Be Enlarged by
Governor.

President Coolidge has just promul-
gated a set of principles governing air.
plane fight over the Panama Canal
Zone and forming the basis for a set Of
detailed regulations to be worked out
under direction of the Governor. The
step is regarded as Of the utmost I'M
portance, in view of the development
now in progress of air mail and passen-
ger service between North and South
America.
The President dealt only in broad
and general way with the situation,
sletching the outline of the proposed
regulations. He directed that the sDe-
cific regulations be submitted to the
War Department for final approval be-
fore being put into effect.
Under Military Law.
The Canal Zone is military reser-
vation and the regulations will provide
that all privately owned and operated
aircraft entering the zone must follow
prescribed routes and land at designated
points. except in the case of forced
landings. necessity for which the pilot
will be required to prove.
The order is in line with the Pan
American air convention adopted at the
Havana conference last year, which
must be ratified by the 20 signatory
nations. Under the proposed regulations
United States commercial aircraft viii
be treated the same as those OF other
nations. Any foreign company deSlr-
ing to operate in the Canal Zone will be
permitted to do so in accordance with
the regulations, providing its home gov
eminent will reciprocate and permit
American planes to lana within Its Dor
derS
Proposed Provision.
This provision for reciprocation, it is
understood, is leveled at the German
Skadta lines, operating on the West
Coast of South America, which have
franchises prohibiting competition by
other foreign companies. Should the
Skadta company apply for permission
to extend its lines to the Canal Zone,
to link up there With lines to Mexico
and the United States, its application
must go through the State Department,
which is instructed not to grant its APP
proval unless Colombia signifies its
willingness to permit the operation Of
American companies within its borders.
In accordance with the PRONUNCIATION,
the regulations will forbid the carrying
of ammunition over the Canal Zone,
and the taking of aerial photographs,
except by special permission, and will
require that aircraft entering or leaving
the Canal Zone comply with customs
regulations.
The Canal Zone probably will become
a center of operations, especially for
aerial lines operated by American en-
terpriSe, on the international routes
soon to be opened. Pan-American Air
ways has just begun the operation of
a mail and passenger airplane service
between Miami. Fla, and Cristobal,
Canal Zone, and is planning to extend
its line down the East Coast of South
America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24
IN AIR 51,OO1 HOURS.

The total flying time of members of
the crew Of the Navy dirigible Los
Angeles during 1923 totaled 5l,OOl
hours, or five years for 10 months, the
Navy Department announced after
checking over the personnel records.
Total flying time for the dirigible
officers was 2l,985 hours, or two years,
six months and five days. The aver
age flying time of the crew was 1,085.13
hours each, of which the lowest was
3.16 hours and the highest 1851 hours.