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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
The Author- Comedian Delves Into History
and Brings Out an Interesting Story
although 1t Is NOT Ne70 Oue-7he
Importance of Old Time Ax-Nan.

Rome would have to listen to reason. That's
when he issued that famous historic statement,
MY Kingdom, My Kingdom for a Divorce"
Anne stood pat and the church lost England
which was of such little Importance to them
that 1t was about like Hoover losing Rhode
Island Martin Luther, over In Germany, was
kinder kicking for minority religion at this
time, and guess that's really about where
Henry got his idea from. Luther didn't want
to get married again. He just wanted to get
free. 49,
Well, when he got his own court and made
his own laws. why of course, he said that
Catherine was not married to him. He had 1t
annulled on the grounds that he had never
seen Anne Boelyn when he married Catherine.
Mistaken identity. So he grabs off Anne and
leaves Catherine and his daughter Mary, mar
ries Anne and she has baby and its girl,
so he starts looking around again. This baby
was Elizabeth that we are later TO hear SO
much of. What happened to Anne? The ak!
What had she done? Nothingl But Henry
had run onto Jane Seymour and in the mean
time Catherine had died of a broken heart, so
his batting average was: Met two, defeated two.
Here is what Anne Boeyln said IT heard
say the executoneer Is very good, and have
a little neck" That night Henry give a big
party, he had found . better way than to
divorce EN-. He married Jane who didn't have
much to recommend her outside Of just being
Of the female gender. Well, they had q baby
and 1t was a boy and she died at once, which
was fortunate for her. for he was already in
communication with Germany to import q new
wife from over there Her name was Anne of
Cleves. His ministers had picked her from q
Holb2in portrait. so they brought her over and
will say one thing for old Henry: He had
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many valuable ideas and continued the para
chute development work.
Mr.. Ball found the lure of commercial &via-
ton too great to resist, and again resigned
from the Government M. H. ST. Clair who
has been connected with the parachute depart
ment for some years, took up the work where
Mr.. Ball left of.
Maj. Hoffman, after absence of several
years from the engineering division (now the
material division) is back at his old stamping
ground. He Is now busily at work on a much
bigger idea-a planechute-which he hopes WIN
eventually be used with airplanes with as much
success as the parachute has been used with
individuals.
Sergt. Nichols Is q veteran in parachute work,
having instructed more than a thousand officers
and cadets IN the art of parachute jumping
Some Of the members of the Caterpillar Club
have been under Sergt. Nichols instruction;
among them Col. Charles A. Lindbergh who
has to his credit no less than four emergency
parachute Jumps.
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AlQkmg the Jump Safe far AUmeu
Continued From PAGE Fl

was let for the construction Of $50 parachutes,
the parachute department did not consider
itself fully competent to describe how they were
to be made. So insistent, however, was the
demand for them that Maj. Hoffman was forced
to combine the best knowledge then available
and design the OUTFIT, known as Type A.
Previous to this time, live jumps were made
with the best designs and in April 1920, Maj.
Hoffman himself made two Of them to prove
his contention that the device was sound His
FIRST attempt was "pull-off," that is, he stood
on the wing of DIS airpIane, released the
parachute and was pulled OF his none too
secure perch into empty space. The second
was made by jumping from the cockpit of the
plane and releasing the chute after he was
clear. Both departures from the airplane were
made at an altitude of about 500 feet, and
Maj. Hoffman reported the sensation as very
delightful.
Some time later. he succeeded In having one
OF his original assistants, Guy Ball, return to
take charge of the work. The latter contributed
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out of the slots. The instant this happens. the
pack openers get into their work. The maps
nv open and out pops the little pilot chute.
Its positive opening device causes 1t TO func-
ton immediately and it proceeds to draw the
main chute along with it. The air flow around
the folds of the big chute does the rest, and IN
less than seconds the parachute Is open,
and the jumper, who in this brief space OF
time has fallen between rs and 100 feet. Is
suddenly arrested IN his fall and he begins TO
glide down gently to terra hrma. The shock
the jumper receives upon touching the ground
Is akin to that following leap from height
of about 10 feet. ....
When in an inflated condition, the service
parachute in use by the Army Air Corps
resembles q large umbrella, but instead Of the
conventional umbrella framework of steel ribs
hinged to q common base at the vortex ana
supported by q rod, it consists OF a framework
of cords or lines known as shroud lines extend
ing from the main D ring at the harness to the
skirt Of the parachute through a channel IN
the silk to the vent across the vent down 70
the opposite side Of the parachute wall to the
skirt and back to the opposite D ring OF the
harness.
The silk placed over the framework Of shroud
lines is paneled between each line and Is called
a main panel The sections are cut on the
bias with the warp OF the fabric running at
an angle of As degrees to the center line Of the
main panel. This arrangement permits greater
economy In the cutting of the fabric and reduces
the probability Of tears or runs for any distance
before being checked by the seams that are
formed by the joining of the sections to form
the main panel. It also tends to reduce the
rate of descent due to reduction Of porosity
IN the course of development work on the
parachute, q great many tests were con-
Quoted with parachutes under normal loads
and speeds, following which there were tests
with increased loads and speeds. When using
a 800 pound weight. very few Of the parachutes
submitted for test withstood q speed of 100
miles an hour. Practically all parachutes showed
a tendency to split and blow out at a radius
of about three feet from the center. In fact.
many of them were totally destroyed by the
air pressure. Failures generally occurred near
the vent due to the fact that the sequence of
opening progresses from the top Of the para
chute down to the skirt. A ball of compressed
air forms at the top and grows larger, forcing
the parachute to open. '''-~ ~
While the development work was progressing
Maj. Hoffman conceived the idea OF obtaining
slow motion pictures of the opening OF para
chutes. These pictures proved invaluable In
subsequent work
TT was not until two years after the parachute
department was established on a proper
working basis that sufficient confidence pre-
vailed regarding the reliability of the parachute
to warrant the purchase of any considerable
number Of them Even then, when contract
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n Il
III tory. Last Sunday our lesson was
II Henry 9Th, the John Barrymore,
Jack Gilbert, Mussolini, Heflin and
John Roach Stratton all rolled into
one. told you about this first wife, Catherine
of ArTagon. Arragon translated from our old
college days latin means Somewhere In
Spain" Well, Henry just lost his taste for
Catherine" He was trying to raise him
bunch of boy babys and GATHERINGS inclination
ran more to the effeminate. ..
Now we get Anne Boelyn Anne was the
Greta Carlo, Peggy Joyce type. Catherine
didn't believe in divorce, but Anne could reg
ulate her religion and her morals to fit the
situation She just said, IF this big fat round
headed bird is going to start in on a series of
promiscious weddings, why better get in early.
while he Is really only an amateur"
But wait a minute; before we get to Anne
We got to stop and do something for Mary
Boelyn, Anne's sister, years older Mary had
husband named Carey, but what's husband
between friends? Henry give him job, it
says, in the court where he could see his own
wife and Henry. don't know what job Mary
had at the court but 1t was nothing trivial TO-
her and Henry raise baby boy, Carey was
still around there, but Henry was the head
man."
Now Anne comes in. Anne was 10. Hen"
was 35 Catherine, his wife was Il. Now
who of the two will win? You said it.
A NNE had already been stuck on a young
noble named Percy, but he was kinder Of
the drug store type, this Cardinal WOolsey who
was really the William Borah Of that admin
istration He was the one that King Henry
kept promising that he would see that he would
be made Pope at the next vacancy. Well,
Woolsey had the backing of Hen, but he lacked
the vote of some SIS cardinals. II Il hadn't
been for that little oversight he might have
been elected. Henry was for him on the plat
form Of divorce relief" Clement, the Pope,
couldn't see any reason why Henry should have
a spare wife when he already had one. But
If Henry could make woolsey Pope, he could
have given him a bin Of sale to 60 out and
marry who and what he wanted. Why there
is practically no telling who all Henry would
have married.
No woman would have been safe from be-
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occurred at the engineering division. they
also had problems to solve. but tnasmuch as
none Of them at the time had facilities Tor con-
Quoting drop tests, their work, for the most
part, consisted in producing parachutes to con-
form to sketches submitted to them.
For several years it was difficult to get any
one sufficiently interested to go into the busl-
ness Of manufacturing parachutes. The market
for them was obscure. Even those IN closest
touch with conditions could not toresee tnae
soon all civilized countries would be bound 10
supply parachutes for their military and test
pilots.
Two manufacturers finally started to build
them. After the Army bought all 1t then
needed there was a lull. One company went
out of business, convinced that the saturation
point had been reached The other company
stuck and is now supplying parachutes 70 the
Army, Navy, Air Mail Service and to foreign
countries At present, however, TINS company
has several competitors.
Having learned, through exhaustive tests
how to design the parachute to meet strength
requirements attention was next turned 70 the
design Of a suitable parachute pack, harness,
lanyard, ETC. All of these component parts OF
the parachute were subjected to rigid tests to
insure non-fouling. ...
THE next problem was to devise suitable
pack-releasing device. 1t goes without
saying that this obstacle also was surmCunted.
brief description is here given Of this most
important phase of parachute operation. The
chute is carefully packed in such manner that
there is little likelihood Of the shroud lines
becoming twisted. The pack carrier resembles
a pillow somewhat in appearance. and is made
of 12-ounce double-filled khaki duck, well re-
inforced on the edges. as wen as IN places sub
jected to excessive wearing or pulling strains,
with 1-inch cotton tape. T.. .i..,s. ~ -
To facilitate the opening Of the pack when
the rip cord Is pulled for the release of the
chute pieces of strong elastic, known as pack
openers, are stretched around the pack, and the
ends are fastened to the top of the pack and
held in place by cones and grommetS. When
the rip cord Is pulled, these pack openers con-
tract, pulling the four sides of the pack away
from the packed chute, and thereby aiding In
quick release.
In its compact form, the parachute is
bundle about 10 inches square, about inches
in thickness and weighing Is pounds. Two
pins, running through slots placed on the outer
covering of the pack hold the bundle together.
Attached to each pin is a length Of very strong.
flexible cable fastened securely TO the release
ring. In packing the chute, little pilot chute,
about SO inches In diameter which Is tied TO
the main chute, is the last thing which goes
into the bundle before the covering is put on.
The umbrellalike springs actuating the OPEN
ing of this little chute are very powerful, and
it takes strength TO collapse it and keep 1t so.
The pull on the release ring, and hence on
the two flexible cables, causes the pins to slide
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coming Queen of England. Woolsey would go
to Rome when a Pope would die with what
Henry thought would be enough "doubloons"
to buy enough votes but some other King from
France or Spain would send entry with
more "doubloonS" and before poor old WoOlsey
could communicate with Henry to make an
other campaign donation, why the new Pope
would be elected Radio even q good bicycle
would have been godsend to Woplsey in those
trying hours. But it just looked like Woolsey
was Democrat in a Republican adminiStEa-
ton. So when Henry 9th saw that Rome
was going to veto his divorce bills, why Henry
and Woolsey started a religion of their own.
It wasn't exactly free love religion. But
they would listen to reason in case some
gentleman" run onto a younger lady friend.
Had Rome given Henry divorce there would
have been no Church of England, for Henry
wasn't particular about what religion it was.
All he wanted was, Bigger and better divorces"
So this Anne Boelyn really should be their
patron saint. She not only started row. but
q religion.
Henry kinder suggested to Anne that there
really didn't have to be any marriage ceremony,
but this Anne had seen where her sister Mary
had finished when there had been no wedding
bells. So she just kindly informed the old
King that there would be session with the
justice of the peace.
THIS Anne lived in 1929, just four hundred
years ago, but boy, she knew her onionsl
Henry started q couple of wars, thinking maby
that would attract some attention to him and
his country and make 1t look SO important that
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II LII know is just what read in his
III tory. Last Sunday our lesson was
II Henry 9th, the John Barrymore,
Jack Gilbert, Mussolini, Hefiin and
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CAN'T PICK GR|DDER
BY COLOR Of HAIR
Third Red Barron at Georgia
Tech Gives Rise to Talk
of Compilations.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

TN the fact that the third Red"
Barron will take his place in the
Georgia Tech backfield this season
1 lies matter for thought concerning
the relation, If any, of capillary
coloring and complexion to proficiency
in foot ball.
was standing on the sideline with Nibs
Price, the University of California
coach, rangy boy, swarthy in COM
plexion, with coal black hair, ran out
upon the field.
THAT Is the type of foot ball player
I like" Price said. These dark-haired
boys seem to go into game with more
fire and hold it longer. They are hard
hitters and gluttons for punishment"
Just how Prices experience is shared
by brother coaches throughout the
country the writer cannot say. But
certainly no coach would overlook any
red head candidate for his team. No
of outstanding ability whose heads
shown like urif1ammes-when their
helmets were of. But this is solely,
one suspects, because the type is not
so numerous. It should here be noted
that Red Grange bore Q misleading
soubriquet; his hair was extremely
dark, with, however, CLINT OF auburn
in it.
Chris eagle of West Point has red
gold hair, and while 1t offers some tonal
difference to the accepted red head type,
which Is brick red, he may be claSsed
in the general carrot-top category. And
they come no better than eagle, with
all due difference to Nibs Price.
1t is likely, one opines, glancing back
over the illustrious gridiron performers
who have filled headlines, that ability
to strut elusively over the embattled
turf, to crack a line or to perform val
orouSly and with skill in some forward
position is less determined by outward
appearance than by some mysterious
spark lurking within man.
Certainly Fritz Pollard Of Brown,
pure African strain; or Jake Slagle, a
blonde; or Eddie Mahon and Eddie
Casey, gray-eyed and fair in type;
blue-eyed Morley Drury with his light
brown hair; corn-colored Biff Hoffman;
and swarthy Blue Howell were equally
great and equally versatile.
The Red Barrons, three of them play
ing for Georgia Tech, are factors in a
glorious tradition. That tradition has
been built by the Judy Harlans, Buck
Flowers, Bill Finchers and the rest,
all varying IN type, but all stout men
with stout souls.
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PLENTY OF WEIGHT
IN GENERALS LINE

LEXINGTON, Va, September 49,
Nine linenen, monogram winners in
1928, whose weight will average about
185 pounds, end to end, are available
to Coach Eugene Oberst for the sea-
sons opener with Lynchburg College
Saturday.
In addition to these, he has several
heavy tackles and guards from last
years yearling squad.
Capt. Hawkins, 205-pound tackle, is
closely pushed for beef by Seligman,
guard and former captain Of wrestling
Martin, guard, who alternated at one
post with Seligman in 1928, weighs
about 100.
No heavy center candidates are at
hand. Snodgrass, who started the ma
jority OF the games last season, weighs
ITO, while Groop, guard and center
in 1928, boasts of $50.
Light, although unusually fast, ends
are in camp in Williams, Day and
Cooke from 1928. Williams, who was
injured in the second fracas of the
year and who saw practically no SerV-
ice the rest Of the season, weighs 100,
while Day and Cooke, who played fire.
quently in 1928, weigh ITS and 1855, re-
spectively.
Heavies were plentiful in the 1928
freshman line, and Oberst can use
Rosenberg, 1S5-pound guard; Tonsmiere,
2l5-pounder, also a center danker, and
Bailey, tackle, with his 1875 pounds, to
make the line average Of his team still
higher.
Capt. Fitzpatrick and Crop, tackle
and guard. are the only two heavy
members of last seasons starting line
not available for this year.
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the series somewhat earlier in order to
complete them under good conditions,
though no steps looking to this END
have yet been taken.
Business and Western foot ball can
didates got in their first drills yester-
day. =.
More aspirants than were expected
reported to both Dan Ahern and Lynn
Woodworth, Western and Business
coaches, respectively.
Around so answered Ahern's call.
Though Western has lost, at least for
six weeks, because of scholastic dihicul-
ties, several stalwarts, the Georgetown
ers have available Quincy, Owens, Bob
Cook, Ed Cook, Gould, Thompson, Mil
lard. Draper, Bob Fletcher and STAINS
bury
Lester Jones. Finley, Shapiro, johnson
and Newman are leading members of
the Stenog squad. Several who were
being depended upon are ineligible, be-
cause of failure in their studies. Lin
wood Jones, forward, Is expected to join
the squad shortly.
Eight of nine games planned for the
Business team have been arranged. A
contest with st. Johns Of this city Will
complete the card, which follows:
October Emerson.
October 4-Swavely.
October 11-Gonzaga.
october 1S-St. Johns Junior Varsity
Of Annapolis.
October 22-Western.
November Central.
November eastern.
November 15-Tech.
Frank Blackstone, captain and CEN
ter of the Central High eleven in 1925,
may fill q backfield post at Princeton
this Fall, advices from Tigertown indi-
cate.
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out and the team is ready to go at its
best in it's second contest with Uni
versity of Richmond. One of the
brightest spots in the game last week
was the brilliant putting of McCray.
The lanky 190-pound fullback sent the
ball up and down the field so far that
even his own teammates were sur
prised. McCray was the longest punter
in the South last season, and prob
ably will enjoy that distinction again
this year. Such punting ability means
that " NJ l. will be a hard team to
beat. no matter what kind of an eleven
it faces.
North Carolina State is the only
school in the South Atlantic section
that does not play its opening game
on Friday, october 4, with Washington
and Lee. The game was set for Friday
so as to avoid conflict with the Duke
Pittsburgh game Saturday, with which
Duke opens its new stadium.
Incidentally. not much has been said
about the new Duke field but it has
just finished a stadium to take care
Of $4,000 persons, which is said to be
the best in the South. 1t is the largest.
as the Georgia Tech Stadium, which
heretofore has held that distinction
takes care of 10000 and the one at
North Carolina accommodates $4,000.
North Carolina University, which
comes here week from Saturday to
play one Of the big local games of the
year with Maryland, Is playing Lake
Forest this week. The Tarheels expect
to win from the BaptistS, although
they are said to be on the lookout for
lot of strong opposition. North Caro-
lima, though, probably is not much wor-
ried. as it. has the best squad in its
history and expects to have the strong
est team.
Clemson College makes no effort
from an administrative standpoint to
enforce training rules among its foot
ball players. 1t has something of a
unique system, which is to have the
seniors on the squad make up list of
rules and accept the responsibility for
enforcing them. In other words, the
seniors Of the squad decide what train
ing rules are necessary and then take
unto themselves the duty Of seeing that
the other members Of the squad carry
them out.
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Eastern Picks Its Grid Team
For Clash With CaIUert Hall

~ OACH MIKE KELLEY has about
decided upon the lineup he
will start against the Calvert
~ Hall School eleven of Balti-
more in the Eastern Stadium
Friday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock. It will
be the first game Of the campaign for
schoolboy grid combination Of the Dis
trict group.
Tech and Central were other public
high teams listed to open their sched-
ules Friday. but Baltimore City College
and st. Johns College, their respective
scheduled opponents, have cancelled.
elevens are still trying to book OPPOSE
ton for the date.
Kelley plans to start Millar at quar-
terback; Mccullough and Oxley at
halves, and Burns at fuHback for the
Lincoln Parkers against Calvert Hail.
Smith will be at left end with Beard,
Jenkins or Harper, right end. Capt.
Tom Nally will be at left tackle with
Montague at right tackle. Mades will
lain or Hogge at right guard. Shorb
or Jimmy Hayden will start at center
Hayden, clever kicker, has heretofore
been used in the backfield, but Kelley
believes he has possibilities as center.
Oxley probably will not play in the
backfield long as he has not been
drilling sufficient time yet. to be in
good condition, having joined the squad
late.
Most of the above group are seasoned
players, though several of them are still
shy on experience.
For the first part of the public high
title grid series at least games will be
started at 3:45 O'Clock instead of at
BIS, as has been the case heretofore.
This is because the closing hour of the
schools has been advanced from 2:30
to 3. 1t may be that some Arrangement
may be made to start the late games OF
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C. U. FR0SH CANDIDATES
START GRID PRACTICE

Candidates for Catholic University's
freshmen foot ball team reported 70
Coach Eddie LaFond. yesterday for the
first time. 1t will be few days before
an accurate line on the caliber of ma
terial he has can be obtained by La
Fond.
Teams to be met by the c. U. Cards
will include Calvert Hall, st. Johns of
this city, Emerson. Mount st. Mary's
Props, Gonzaga and George Washington
Freshmen, and Dewitt also may be
booked.