Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17
AVIATION
BY JOSEPH S. EDdERToN.

ALku dS IIlG uses Vi dNldIlOII Wy
the government increase, it's uses
against the government also in
crease. Bootleggers and snug
glers are taking to the air. The
Department of Commerce re-
Gently was informed that silk
SmugglerS are conducting opera
tionS on tremendous scale IN
South America.
Police Take to Air.
The police have been driven to
the air to combat the aerial crlmi-
nal and the criminal who still OPP
crates on the ground. Several
large cities have aerial policemen
At Port Washington, Long Island,
a man wanted for assault escaped
into the woods and eluded $50
SearcherS. He was tracked down
by airplane and captured.
The Interior Department has
found aviation of great help in
its reclamation projects and in
the surveying of broken and diff
f1cult areas. The Geological and
Coast and Geodetic surveys find
the airplane of great value.
City planning commissions in all
parts of the country have made
use of the airplane for mapping
and for direct surveys. Work of
this character was carried on by
the Arlington County planning
commission in connection with its
plans for the development OF
areas adjacent to the National
Capital.
Prevention and control of dis
ease have entered into the prov
ince of the airplane operator.
The Marine Corps has used it's air
planes to dust paris green on mos
quito breeding areas in Nicaragua,
Haiti and in the vicinity of Guam
tico, Va, to keep down malaria.
The State of New Jersey is making
similar use Of the airplane so that
it may become famous for other
things than its mosquitoes. The
use of airplaneS for carrying
Serums and medicines to isolated
places has been the subject OF
scores of news stories from time to
time.
Some months ago, when an ice
jam in North Dakota threatened
to result in the flooding of cities
and towns, the Army Air Corps
sent bombardment planes from
Langley Field, Va, to bomb the
Ice wall and release the impound-
ed waters.
Hospital planes are used extern
Sively, both by the military and |
civilian services. The use of the |
plane was considered |
at recent meeting of an interna-
tional aviation sanitation confer
ence in Paris. Ambulance planes |
have been used in several emer-
gency cases in the vicinity of the
National Capital during the past |
few months.
Plans for PerishabIeS.
It is understood that large flying
boats are to be used for the ship |
ment on regular schedule of |
strawberries and periShable tropi-
al fruits between Florida and
New York. Aerial shipment OF
from the Delaware
nd Pennsylvania mushroom
areas to New York has been car
ried on for some time.
A commercial pilot is employed
oy Baltimore newspaper to make
speedy deliveries to Eastern Shore
points, saving hours of time in
transportation and increasing the
papers field of usefulness.
In Mexico, where bandits were
won't to Turk and play havoc with
the nerves and finances of mining
and others which were
forced to carry pay rolls for con-
siderable distances, the airplane
has come as a noisy blessing.
While the bandits gnaSh their
teeth the pay rolls arrive with 100
per cent precision by air.
SportSmen are finding the air.
plane a great time saver in getting
to distant hunting and fishing
grounds. In the West ranchers
shoot wolves and coyotes from the
air, removing a menace to their
herds.
All of these uses for the airplane
are developments of the past two
decades; most Of them of the past
year or two. Who can say how
much more useful aviation may
become to mankind during the
next few years, in the light Of de-
VelopmentS in the Is years since
he first airplane fight was made?