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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-06-20
LITTLE STORIES OF THE WEEK

Mrs. Warde Johnson has gone Ia
Cheney for a ten-days visit with
her parents.
The Reading club met at the
home of Mrs. j. C. Perry Wednes-
day evening.
Mrs. Gus Carlen will entertain
the Entire Nous club at her home
next Tuesday.
Kenneth Serier has returned to
his home for the summer after a
year at Whitman College.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Mclean spent
the weekend visiting in Yakima.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Paulson
Friends gave Mrs. Frank H.
White a pleasant surprise Monday
afternoon when they came to help
her celebrate her birthday.
Miss Margaret Moulton has re-
turned from visit of several
weeks with her grandmother, Mrs.
S. M. Carson, in Seattle.
Mrs. E. C. Smith returned Sum
day from Walla Walla where she
attended the tenth reunion of her
class at Whitman College.
Mrs. T. w. Payne, Mrs. Ethel
DuSair and Florence May went to
Walla Walla Monday and returned
Wednesday.
Mrs. H. j. Drouin left for Brem-
erton Saturday to join Mr.. Drouin.
They plan to make their future
home there.
Mrs. G. H. Shanafelt entertain
ed Monday evening in honor of
Mrs. M. E. Walker of Seattle and
Mrs. Ida Daily of st. Paul, who
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Reed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Hayden, for
mer residents of Kennewick, were
visiting here last week. They left
Sunday evening for ABERDEEN, where
they are now making their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Lund-
stedt of Seattle will arrive in Ken
newick June 20 to visit Mr.. and
Mrs. F. C. Woods, father and moth
er of Mrs. Lundstedt.
Mrs. M. E. Walker of Seattle,
mother of R. E. Reed, and Mrs,
Ida Daily, sister of Mrs. Walker.
arrived in Kennewick Friday to
spend several days visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Reed.
Professor and Mrs. S. C.. Van
decaveye of Pullman visited with
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Tweet and 9TH
er Kennewick friends during the
weekend. They are motoring 20
Berkeley, California.
\ Miss Edna West, county extern
sion worker, left Monday on her
vacation. She will spend month
at her home in Montana. She was
accompanied by her mother and
her aunt.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. R. Gardner and
their children were guests this
week of Mr.. and Mrs. K. c.. Gift
! ford. They arrived in Kennewicl'
3 last Friday. Mr.. Gardner left Wed
Inesday for short trip to Spokane.
The Gardeners will return to their
home Aberdeen at the end of the
j week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Farnsworth of Au-
burn were weekend guests at the
fhome of Mrs. Farnsworth's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Hunting
ton. Mr.. Farnswarth, who is ath-
lletic director for the Auburn public
schools, left Sunday for Pullman
to attend two-weeks coaching
school.
Mrs. T. B. Hopkinson left Tues
Iday for Seattle to attend the Wash
ington State Music Teachers con-
vention. While there she will at
tend the piano masters class 20
| be conducted by E. Robert Schmitz
who is president of Pro Musica.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Boyer spent
the weekend in Sprague attend
ing a family reunion with Mr.. and
Mrs. j. w. Smith of Sprague, and
Glen Highley and children of Day
ton. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Highley
are daughters of Mrs. Boyer.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-06-20
Sheepish Admissions

Many big financier who would
think nothing of turning half-mil-
lion dollar business deal, will sheen.
ishly admit to cller;shing high s.c.c
of the most astonishing character
q last-minute touchdown during col
lege days; the farewell kiss of an
old sweetheart, or even an excep-
ttonally low golf score.-Farm and
Home.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-06-20
Bells Not Always Cast

The earliest bells were probably
not cast, but made Of plates rivet-
ed together. An example is st.
Patrick's bell preserved at Bel
fast, Ireland, which is 6 inches high
and adorned with gold and sill
yer filigree work. It is believed
that it is this bell which is alluded
to the Ulster annals of 552.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-06-20

80 Auditor E. o. Kene was
s,s.;nsss visitor in town Monday.
~ ~ ]. o'Neill and her son,
nl re Seattle visitors this week.
- ". vickers is in Yakima TINS
IL on business.
W. ,,.v;ne Marsh, daughter of w.
Marsh Marsh. had her tonsils removed
This week.
~. =. and Mrs. John Ferguson
.,s mt' the first part Of last week
= NJ. and Mrs. Alfred Heniken
~ sunday in Sunnyside visiting
,Psh' Nj Heniken's sister.
r,s Grin Beinhardt was SER
M! I.sI Kitten by a rattlesnake Tues
, ssy evening. She was taken to the
hospital.
,.nsbters. Ruth and Ann, Marie,
uaSs the weekend with relatives
IN Pomeroy.
Mrs Grant Nulph of Wyndmere,
n D. :. arrived today for an extend
ID visit with her sister, Mrs. 9. A..
Hume.
W and Mrs. B. ]. Campbell left
wednesday s for a two-day trip to
lewiston, where they will visit
their daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Stone were
CHESTS Of Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Gray
i the Highlands over the week
end. The Stones are enroute from
spokane to Honolulu.
The Women's Highlands Club
entertained Friday, June 2 in honor
Of Mrs. Ed Barg, who left June 8
with her husband for Bremerton,
where they will make their home.
George Brader, son-in-law of Mr..
and Mrs. F. C. Woods, was serious
" injured while working on build
ing construction in Seattle recent
".
Mr.. and Mrs. B. B. Plowman with
their son, George, went to Spo-
kane Monday, where Mr.. Plowman
will attend the Philico Dealers
convention.
C. L. Farnam of Garfield is
spending the week with his SON
in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Dunlap. He is on his way
from Sunnyside.
Hiss Sally Frazier came from
Seattle Friday evening and will
make two weeks visit at the home
Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. M.
Frazier.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Walters are
entertaining this week, Mrs. Har-
" ]. Walters and her son, William,
Of Bellingham, and N. j. Walters
Of Portland.
Anna Long, Richland, broke hel
ann Sunday when she was crank
ing car. The physician who at
tended her reports that she is doing
nicely.
Mrs. Slaugenhaupt, with he1
children, Helen and Bernard, Jun
ior, were in Spokane this week
visiting at the home of j. B. Slau-
genhaupt.
Miss Winnifred Huntington, a
teacher in the Lowell school in Sc
attic, arrived Sunday night to
Eend the summer with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Hunting
ten.
Harry Blake is leaving Kenne-
wick on June &c for a two-week's
VACATION. He plans to drive to Sc
at0e, where he will take the S. S.
Dorothy Alexander for a trip thru
the Inside Passage to Alaska.
Mrs. H. E. Compton, Richland,
vha has been in the Linn hospital,
IS progressing nicely and will re-
tum home this week. Mrs. Edward
Potts returned Tuesday from the
hospital to her home in Finley.
Mrs. T. w. Payne and Mrs. Ethel
Du Sair, with Florence Du Sair,
we're in Walla Walla the first of
me week. While there, Mrs. Payne
attended the graduation. of her
nephew from Whitman College,
and the marriage of her niece.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-06-20
Scary Devil

The Africans of the Guinea coast
believe in a particularly hideous
devil, and that if the devil sees him.
self in a mirror he Immediately
runs away in terror Of his own ugli-
ness.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
BILL GIVES FUNDS
FOR 297 A|RPLANES
Army Still Would be Short
100 Ships at End of
1890.

Funds carried in the War Depart
ment appropriation bill for 1880 will
purchase 275 planes for the Regular
Army and % for the National Guard
making a total of 297, of which IA will
be attack planes, 81 bombardment
planes, 146 observation planes and 70
pursuit planes. No training planes are
provided, as the Army has Is planes
over the present requirements of the
five-year program.
On October /. 1928 the Air Corps had
in its possession zoos serviceable air.
planes, 470 more planes were on order,
and the aforementioned funds will
purchase 297 more. These figures in
clude 148 planes in the hands OF the
National Guard on June 80, 1928 This
will mean that at the end of 1880 the
Air Corps will be short more than 100
planes, most of which will be Of the OBJ
servation type.
With respect to pilots in the Air
Corps on November &c. 1928, there were
873 regular officer pilots and on De-
cember 81, 1928, 80 enlisted pilots, 296
flying cadets were undergoing training
at that time and there were 81 Reserve
officer pilots on active duty with Army
Air Corps units on January IA. 1929.
On June 80. 1929, the National Guard
will have l52 planes. which will equip
l9 squadrons with eight planes each.
This component Of the Army has 2l8
qualified pilots.
In the Organized Reserves there are
63l pilots of class l, 1000 pilots of class
2, and there is still another large group
Of pilots who are not so highly trained.
The class pilots are efficient enough
at this time to be ordered into service
and to take charge of flying planes,
while the class 2 pilots can be brought
to that state Of efficiency with a short
refresher course.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
TWO new PLANES
SEEN IN WASHINGTON
Largest Flying Boat in U. S. and
First of Panther Bombers
Visit Here.

The largest flying boat in the United
States and a new type OF bombing
plane with air-cooled motors, which
is to become the standard for the Army
Air CORPS. were in the National Capt.
tai this week end.
The flying boat. constructed for the
Navy in accordance with the winning
plans in the Nays flying boat compe-
tition held early last year, is convert
ible into a commercial transport plane
having comfortable passenger quarters
in a cabin 60 feet long. 1t Is OF the
monoplane type with span OF 100 feet.
It has two 430-horsepower Wasp air.
cooled motors and an emplacement Tor
a third engine. The plane was built
by the Consolidated Aircraft Corpora
ton, winner of the competition, at
Buffalo, N. Y, and flown here for ON.
cial tests.
The bomber is the first Of IS new
planes Of the Panther type. It car
ries 1900 pounds Of bombs at max
imum spped Of 1913 miles per hour and
has a cruising range Of six hours with
full military load. 1t Is hiplane with
a span Of IS feet and Is the first
Army bomber powered with air-cooled
motors. It has two 525-horsepoWer
engines. The plane was completed only
a few days ago and has had but one
short test flight. It was flown here
from the Keystone plant in PennSyl-
vania and from here to Wright Field,
Dayton, Ohio, where 1t will undergo
oficial tests. The new bomber was de-
signed to meet a need for sturdier
bombing planes capable Of carrying
greater loads and attaining greater
speeds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
NORTHERN AIR ROUTE
PROPOSED IN HOUSE
Furlow Proposes Transcontinental
Line From New York
to Seattle.

Establishment of Northern trans
continental airway from New York to
Seattle, to be named in honor of Orville
and Wilbur Wright, Is provided for in a
bill introduced in the House this week
by Representative Allen ]. Furlow Of
Minnesota.
The Furlow bill authorizes the secre-
tary of Commerce to make an aerial
survey to locate the best route over the
States Of New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana.
Idaho and Washington. It also directs
that the Secretary have maps prepared
for the Minneapolis-Seattle section, in
Guiding the locating and marking of
airports and emergency landing fields.
The Furlow bill authorizes an appro-
priation of $4,000 for the preliminary
survey and planning work. The actual
development, including the preparation
and marking of fields, establishment of
meteorological service between fields and
other work in the field, would be paid
for out OF regularly appropriated
aeronautical funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27

will soon permit highly skilled pilots
to operate in fog without great risk.
Radio has almost eliminated the diff
Guilty of fog navigation. Passenger
planes have already been built in this
country which are capable of cruising
20 people at 100 miles an hour, and
subsequent developments point to in
creased speed in future designs. One
might conservatively predict the con-
struction within the next two or three
years Of commercial planes capable of
cruising at between $50 and ITS miles
an hour.
Flying Above Rough Weather.
Specializing once more, it is not diff
cult to see the future air transport TAX
ing OF under complete automatic con-
troll from a fog-covered New York air
port. Once at sufficient altitude, its
flight will be guided by radio direction
finders. while the altitude is decided by
the wind-aloft reports of meteorological
stations along the route. Any storm
areas will be passed over at high alti-
tude and the rough air encountered
close to the ground thus avoided.
BY keeping above the violent air cur
rents. the entire trip may be made with
FAR greater smoothness than by any
means Of ground transportation; noise
and vibration will be minimized by plac-
ing the engine out on the wings and
using muff1ers Fuel and supplies will
be obtained from special service planes
at regular intervals along the route,
while the passengers themselves have
little or no concern about the weather
below.
California would then be less than
"a hours from New York on a schedule
which was not as dependent on weather
as are our trains and ocean liners today.
Copyright. 1920
An article by Col. Lindberg on the present
and future of aviation will appear each
week: exclusively in The Washington Sun
day Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
AIRPLANE TUBING
DATA IS GATHERED
Strength of Materials Being Test.
ed by Two Bureaus-Findings
to Be Made Available.

Valuable new data on the strength
OF tubing used in airplane construction
soon will be available for designers and
engineers as a result Of cooperative
work OF the Bureau Of Standards and
the Bureau Of Aeronautics Of the Nayy
Department. Tubing is used extensively
for the framework Of airplanes, espe.
cially in the fuselage.
Experience has shown that tubina
USED In atrplane structure must carry
both compressive loads, applied from
end to end, and transverse loads, under
which they act as beams. and some
times both types of loading.
The strength of tubing of three
dlameters made from duralumin and
from chromium molydenum steel was
found by experiments on tubing of
various lengths. up to a slenderness
ratio OF l20 The column strength. beam
strength and strength under different
combinations of compressive and trans
verse loading are being determined for
each size and length Of tube.
The results are to be published IN
graphical form so that airplane en-
glneers can design structures which VII
be safe because the strength of ths
members will be known,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
TRAILING ANTENNA OF PLANE
SHOWS WAY TO REFUEL IN AIR

NEW YORK CP).-The first atten-
ton attracted by the nov patented
method of refueling planes in fight,
such as the Question Mark used. was
the following curt military command
in the World War:
stop stunting We don't want to
be spending money for flowers for your
funeral"
The man who holds the patents is
Alexander P. de Seversky, now a con-
Sulting engineer for the Army Air Serv-
ice and in charge of the aeronautical
division of the Sperry Gyroscope Co. of
Brooklyn.
When he first went to work on the
idea, Seversky was wartime flyer for
his native Russia, before the revolution.
conveying bombing planes on the Baltic
front. A graduate engineer, Seversky
while he few his fighting ship, studied
how to enable pursuit planes, with but
half the flying range of the bombers
to get enough fuel to guard their big
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
AVIATION
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.

This group of 631 first-line Re-
serve officers today constitutes the
only source of pilot reserves fol
the Army Air Corps. These 631
men alone would be placed in Ali
Corps tactical units on mobiliza-
ton day to make up deficiencies
in the Air Corps regular tactical
units. Military flying is, Of course,
different proposition entirely
| from commercial flying, and the
great potential reserve of trained
commercial pilots could not be
drawn upon for military service
without intensive special training.
The Reserve Army pilots them
selves are divided into three class
eS, depending upon their available
ity for use. Group / pilots are
those who would be able to step
into a service squadron upon q
moments notice and fly service
types Of ships. Group 2 pilots
would be able to go into service
squadronS after a short refreSher
course. The group 8 men are those
who would require at least 80 days
training. There are approximately
1000 Reserve pilots in group 2 and
more than 1000 in group 8, these
groups comprising large number
of commercial pilots.
Should the bill be passed in its
present form, the Army Air Corps
will be able to purchase gasoline
and oil in quantities which would
enable the 631 pilots Of group /
to get only 1877 hours of flying q
year. The Reserve men in the sec
ond and third groups would get no
flying at all.
Lighter-than-air training in the
Army virtually has been wiped out
in the present bill. No funds are
provided for new equipment, nor
were any provided for the current
year. Under the five-year pro-
gram the Army is ordered to carry
on balloon and dirigible training.
Consequently, the corps finds itself
in the embarrassing position Of
being required by statute to carry
on this type of training, while in
the appropriation act and the
pending bill the facilities for COM
plying with the law are withheld.
Operations at Scott Field, the
Army balloon base, have been Sc
riously handicapped. The Army
has no big dirigibles. It has no
rigid dirigible. It's biggest ship,
the RS-1, formerly used only fo-
training purposes, has been laid
up for lack of funds to keep it in
the air. The little TIC types. now
the only training, aerostatS left
are all old and there are not
enough of them for adequate
training purposes. The last re-
ports available show only is
spherical and IL observation bal
looms on hand in the Air Corps
balloon stations. While the Air
Corps is interested primarily in
the heavier than-air service, expe-
rience during the World War dem
onstrated that the lighter-than-
air service cannot safely be ig-
nored.
While economy in government
may be highly laudable, the type
of economy" practiced at the ex-
pense of the Army Air Corps in
the present bill may prove any,
thing but economical in the long
run.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
ENGLISH DEVELOP
''FLWER" PLANES
Small Light Runabouts Are
Made to Sell for About
- $1,000.
BY DON BROWN.

England, already considerably ahead
of America in the production and oper-
alton Of light, or "fiivver," planes for
private owners, is making further strides
ahead in this department of aviation,
it is learned from London.
Runabout light planes, intended to
challenge the popularity of motor cars
for sporting purposes, are to be placed
on the market by large aircraft con-
Germ in the early Sprino.
These little ships will sell for about
$4,000. They will have small fuel con-
sumption will be easy to fly and will
have folding wings, which will permit
them to be housed in an ordinary ga
rage.
Another small ship to be placed on
the market in England shortly is of
German design. Taking advantage Of
the experience gained in building their
highly eficient motorless gliders, or
soaring planes, In which flights of IS
long as IA hours have been made, the
Germans have built ship to fly sue
ceSsfully with 20-horsepower motor.
It will sell at figure only q little
higher than that of the small autonno-
bies Of 10 TO 20 horsepower which are
used so extensively in Europe.
80 far the expense has been against
the popularity Of the light plane, but
these new baby machines with small
engines will make flying little more
costly than motoring" a well known
English aircraft constructor said re-
Gently.
In the United States, however, a
widespread movement Is on foot among
aircraft designers to catch up with
England in this respect. The aviation
magazines are fairly we'll spotted with
advertisements of new light sport mod
els of low power at moderate cost.
Most of them are in the experimental
production stage, however, and it will
take at least year to show whether
they can achieve permanent success
The prices range from 81 900 up.
Copyright, 1929. by the North American
Newspaper Alliauce)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
FASHIONABLE striving for

~ UES11ONA6LE surviving IOl
economy, regardless OF
cost. on the part Of the
Budget Bureau and the
House Of Representatives threat
ems to cripple the Army Air Corps
tive-year building program and to
destroy the effectiveness of the
small force of 600 Reserve flying
officers who are depended upon to
form the backbone of a national
flying force in case Of emergency.
The War Department appropri-
alton bill, as passed by the House,
leaves the Air Corps item $7,000,-
900 short of the amount necessary
to carry out the third years quota
of the five-year program. Funds
necessary for the training of the
Reserve flyers have been reduced
to a point which forbidS proper
training and imperils the Air
Corps Reserve system.
Unless the Senate is able to re-
store the required appropriations,
the effectiveness of the Army Air
Corps as a major arm of the ma
tional defense will be seriously re-
.liuced during the coming fiscal
year. Not only will the close of the
year find the corps ITO airplanes
short of the number required by
the program, but the corps OF Re-
serve flyers, for lack OF training,
will be unfit for active service.
Construction of hangers and shops
for the Air Corps, already tagging
behind the program, will drop still
further behind.
All branches Of the Air Corps
would be hard hit by the shortage
of planes; the observation squad
rons more than any other. Should
the bill be enacted as passed by
the House, the various branches or
the corps would fall behind the
,five-year program in airplane
strength as follows: Pursuit, 6
planes; attack, 5 planes; obServa-
ton, rs standard planes and am
phibians. and transport, 20 cargo
planes. This shortage, in the opin-
ion of F. Trubee Dawson, Assistant
Secretary of War for Aeronautics,
would seriously hamper the work
OF the corps.
The situation facing the Reserve
pilots is equally serious. Under the
terms of the bill as passed by the
House, the 631 f1rSt-line Reserve
pilots will be able to get only one
hour of flying time month. This
is hopelessly insufficient. In the
opinion of the Army Air Corps
chiefs four hours is the absolute
minimum of flying time necessary
each month to keep a military
pilots "hand in"
In order to economic as much
as possible, the Army Air Corps
has cut it's list of flrst-line Reserve
pilots down to the minimum,
wedding out all men who would
not form good material for emer-
gency service. The remaining 631
pilots should be kept in training
so as to be Immediately available
for duty. Should the Senate fail
to increase the item for the train
ing of these men, they cannot be
considered fit for duty without un-
dergoing a "refresher" course at
an Army flying school, in the
opinion of the Army flying people.
This, obviously, would destroy their
usefulness for immediate service
in case of an unheralded emer-
gency.