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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
''AIR CABINET" USING
FAST FLYING CRAFT
Officials Adopt Boeing Planes for
Travel on Business Over
Country.

Members of the Air Cabinet" who
have discarded travel by ran In favor
of the more rapid air transport, now
are discarding the slow atrplane In
favor Of the fastest types available for
cross-country work.
Mai. Clarence M. Young, director OF
aeronautics for the Department OF
Commerce, has been flying the high
speed single-seater Boeing sport plane,
which is the commercial counterpart
Of the Army Boeing P-12 pursuit plane.
The same type Of plane has been
delivered at the Anacostia Naval Air
Station for the use of David 8. ingalls,,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Aeronautics, to replace the slightly
slower ship he now is using.
The Boeings have top speed Of 1855
miles per hour and landing speed OF
S. miles per hour. They are powered
with Wasp motors and have a rate Of
climb of nearly half-a-mile minute
to an altitude of $4,000 feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
!. s. CHECKS Plane.
HOPS ALONG COAST.
Guardsmen Keep Up With
Aircraft, Increasing
Safety Record.
BY ALLEN QUINN.
Associated Press Aviation Editor.


Safeguarding the lives of flyers along
creasingly important activity Of the
United States Coast Guard.
Flyers of the Coast Guard. charged
with the protection Of life along the
shore lines of the country, daily cruise
hundreds OF miles along the ocean edge
on the lookout for persons in distress
for derelicts, for icebergs, and, incl
dentally, rum runners.
Meanwhile, Coast Guard land stations
from New York to Charleston, 8. c.,
check the passage Of airplanes up and
down the coast.
IL Stations Assigned to Task.
Fourteen Coast Guard stations have
been assigned the work Of recording
the flights of airplaneS in order that
a definite check may be kept on the
location of those flying along the coast.
An aviator flying up or down the
coast is asked to inform the nearest
Coast Guard station Of his flight, de-
scription of the plane, designation, time
of start and approximate speed.
The information is relayed to other
Coast Guard stations along the route
and a check Of the planes progress is
kept, Should an airplane become over
due. the Coast Guard would know just
in what area to conduct search.
Many Rescues Effected.
In several instances searches over
wide areas have been necessary be-
cause pilots of missing planes failed
to inform the Coast Guard.
MANY rescues have been credited to
Coast Guard flyers. A system of pick
ing I'D a shot line to carry to stranded
vessel and set up a breeches buoy has
been perfected. The flyers have not
had opportunity to use 1t, but are pre-
pared to do so when occasion arises.
Occasionally Coast Guard aviAtors
take in a rum runner. Lieut.. M. L.
Melka and his crew of two captured q
rum-laden launch in Biscayne bay
After hating the boat by firing shots
ahead of 1t, Melka landed, placed his
mechanic in charge, took the air again
and radioed to the Coast Guard base
at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Continued On Cruise.
A patrol boat was sent to take the
rum runner in tow. Melka picked ur
his mechanic and continued his days
cruise.
Five planes. three Looming amphi'
bians and two Vought Corsair sea.
planes. form the aircraft squadron Of
the Coast Guard.
But these few planes are far made.
quate to patrol the long coast line
says Lieut.. Comdr. Norman B. Hall
chief of Coast Guard aviation. Con-
sress is to be asked to appropriate
money for nine two-engined, long
range monoplane flying boats, costing
$4,000 each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
AIRCRAFT MAKERS TO TALK SHOP
AT RACE MEETING IN CLEVELAND
Problem of Varying Pitch of Propellers
Will Be Topic of Outstanding
Importance.

important with the appearance of new
engines on the aircraft market, will
be discussed by j. H. Geisse, vice presi-
dent of the Comet Engine Corporation,
until recently chief engineer Of the ems
CINE laboratory Of the naval aircraft
factory.
The matter of cooling engines with
high temperature liquids which permit
O reduction in weight and decreasing
Of airplane resistance through use OF
smaller radiators, will be discussed by
two men who have conducted expert
ments for the Army and Navy.
Papers on Cooling By Experts.
Papers on the subject, which is re-
garded as of utmost importance to the
future of the liquid cooled engines in
aircraft, will be read by Mr.. Geise and
G. w. Frank Of the arfny's aeronautical
laborat tory at Wright Field.
Juan de la Cierva, Spanish inventor
of the autogiro, the ''windmill' plane
which has attracted wide attention both
here and abroad. will attend the meet
ing and tell of his invention.
In addition there will be technical
discussions of sirplane design prob
lens and the use Of light alloys in air
plane manufacture, a subject which
has gained wide attention.
Edward p. Warner, former Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics,
will discuss the relationship of speed
and weight In air transportation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
DUTIES OF AIR COURIERS RANGE
FROM PORTER TO CONDUCTOR
Problems Arising When Planes Are Aloft
Often Test Resources of Train
Plane Employees.

porter who had been here and there,
and the three went into consultation.
AS the plane whirled along 5000 feet
over the painted desert of the South
west they pondered the complexities Of
modern life and the passengers gave 1t
up. declining even to try TO drink coffee
out Of a cup without bottom Then
the courier discovered that his lunch
kit also contained china cups which
fltted neatly inside the gilded ones, and
the problem was solved.
Attacked BY Flies.
At Kansas City, on the way East
ward, herd of very lively and In
quisitive flies slowed away on the plane,
announcing their presence when the
ship was on its way to st. Louis. The
windows were opened and throughout
the two-hour journey, the courier. the
son of a captain in the navy, stalked
up and down the aisle lunging at flies
with a folded magazine. His attack
was so remorseless that most of the
flies decided to walk home; the others
being swept out by the courier at st.
Louis.
And so it goes with the couriers,
who thus presumably gain experience
and an ability to meet emergencies
which will make them In all good time.
of1cials Of the line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.-The transcontinental
air-rail lines, three of which are now
in operation. besides marking an epoch
In the history Of transportation may
do something toward enriching the
language with few SMILES and such.
1t may become a commonplace, for
instance, to speak Of a man of many
duties as being "as' busy as q trans
continental plane courier"
Combination Duties.
These couriers-there is one on each
plane-are combination conductors,
porters, walters, newsboys, counSelors
and guides. They are young fellows
Of education and fine upbringing who
are starting at the bottom and working
their way up, which ought to be easy
for them, as they go up a long way
the ground, four to six times a day.
The couriers see that the passengers
baggage Is slowed away, big pieces in
the wing and small ones in the over
head racks: hand. out newspapers and
magazines; put up The individual tables.
set them, and serve lunch: collect tick
cts: point out spots of interest In the
scenery, distribute cotton for the trav-
elers' ears; and on occasion offer their
mtnistfatiOn 70 those VINO ma the cur
rents Of the air as disturbing as the
pillows of the deep.
BOttOmIess Cups.
There also are plenty Of problems
not on the schedule that must be met
as encountered. On the recently COM
pleted inaugural journey of the trans
continental air transport, the plane
train line with which Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh Is connected. courier who
Is the son Of a railroad vice president
discovered that the gilded aluminium
cups In which he apparently was ex-
pected to serve coffee, had absolutely
no bottoms at all.
He was noticed puzzling over this
phenomenon by passenger who had
learned resourcefulness by such things
as running a flying school and crossing
the Atlantic In a dory and by re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
BELIEVES BIRDS WILL
HELP men IN FLYING
Professor Studies Equilibrium of
Pigeons in Search for
New Facts.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO.-Birds will reveal valu-
able flying secrets to aviators, thinks
Prof. Franklin Nearing. psychologist at
Northwestern University. He has been
studying equilibrium Of pigeons for two
years.
Before the war it was thought ones
sense of balance was determined by the
semi-circular canals in the inner ears"
he says. Extensive study has shown
other factors, such as muscle tension,
are as important"
He has destroyed the bones of the
canal in pigeons and then studied their
behavior. At first, unable to fly or
stand. they seemed normal in six
months. although the bones were not
regrown.
ut may be possible to remedy cases
of poor sense of equilibrium in pros
pective aviators by studying pigeons, "
he thinks. because facts which apply
to birds apply TO man."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
OFFICER, HURT, BROUGHT
TO WASHINGTON BY AIR
Army Aviator Flies to Easton, Pa,
After Cavalry Captain Thrown
From Horse.

Lieut.. John e. Upston of the Office Of
the chief of the Army Air Corps, on
duty in the War Department, few an
emergency aerial ambulance service be-
tween this city and Easton, Pa, a few
days ago.
Capt. Herbert c. Holdridge, Cavalry,
an instructor at a Cavalry training
camp at Stroudsburg, Pa, was thrown
from a horse. His right arm was broken
at the shoulder, and owing to the ma
ture of the break and his suffering 1t
was decided to bring him to Walter
Reed Hospital.
Lieut.. Upston was informed Of the
emergency and volunteered to fly to
Easton, Pa, where a field was available
for landing. Capt. Holdridge was taken
to Easton by automobile, and Lieut.
Upston flew him to this city in an OBJ
observation plane in l hour and IS
minutes. The airline distance between
washington and Easton is 200 miles,
and the trip by train would have re-
quired nine hours and q stop en- route
to make connections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
ARMY TO SEND FIFTY
PLANES TO AIR RACES
Pilots Will Compete in Various
Events and Engage in
Sham Battles.

CLEVELAND [P.-Fifty Army Air
Corps planes and aviators will race and
engage in aerial sham battles at the
national air races here August "a to
September 2.
Eighteen speedy pursuit planes from
the first pursuit group, Selfridge Field,
Mich, will race for the John p. Mitchell
like number of pilots from the attack
group, Fort Crockett, Tex, will COM
pete for the Mason M. Patrick Trophy.
Nine planes of the bombardment
squadron, Langley Field, Va, will reach
Cleveland In time to take part In the
maneuvers of the Air Corps.
Both Army and Navy flyers will com.
pete for the Liberty Engine Builders
Trophy in race for observation planes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
AIDS BOSTON FLYERS.
Chamber of Commerce Creates
Aviation Division.

BOSTON R.-An aviation bureau
has been found to be necessary by the
Boston Chamber of Commerce.
The board of directors announced
that the creation of this new division
was required by the increasing demands
on the chamber In promoting aviation
It was found that the chamber had
been called upon to answer as many as
several hundred requests for informa-
ton and assistance upoHA airplane mat
tiers each week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18

"H HERE appears to be consid-
cradle division Of opinion
among laymen and aviation
4 people as to the value OF the
myriad "stunt" flights and at
tempts at new aeronautical rec
ords which have filled the front
pages during past few months.
Speed, altitude, endurance, long
distance, transoceanic and other
records and attempts have been
made in rapid succession. From
close range it seems to many a
wild scramble which has no pat
tern or purpose.
The refueling endurance flight
especially has been the subject OF
criticism. Durable pilots, laden
with optimism, have taken OF In
all kinds of planes to rise into the
sunlight, grow boards and catch
gasoline, oil, food and little sleep
on the fly. For days and nights
on end they have circled, going
nowhere, seeing nothing; a source
of worry to themselves and their
relatives and friends.
What does it all mean?" asks
the layman in bewilderment.
every one knows by now that air
planes can fly as long as they hold
together and the motor keeps go
ing. What difference does 1t
make If they stay up five days or
20 days?"
Pilots Pile Up Bank Roll.
Tho answers tn these questions
apparently have not worried those
who have been making the flights
or backing them. The lucky pilots
have been piling up bank rolls at
the rate of many, many dollars
per hour. The hackers have
reaped invaluable publicity for
motors, planes, spark plugs, oils,
gasoline and what not. The pub
lie has picked up the newspapers
with more or less display of in
terest to find whether ship or
pilots have fallen apart yet. Then
It's all over, including the shout
ing, and is speedily forgotten.
Those who are interested in the
advancement of aviation, how
even, feel that the fights have not
been wasted, even though the
names of the pilots and all the de-
tails of their attempts pass out of
the public mind. They believe
that such flights have an educa-
tional value which is beyond ques-
ton.
Demonstrate Stamina.
The chief value of such flights,
they believe, is to demonstrate to
a somewhat doubling public that
airplanes and airplane engines
have a stamina which would have
been unbelievable a few years ago.
The many refueling endurance
flights which have been made
have done much to prove that mo-
tors are dependable under all con-
ditions This lesson has been con-
vincingly driven home during the
last two record endurance flights,
both of which were terminated
with the motors still grinding out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18

feet long and 9la inches wide. It's
operation is fully automatic, and 1t has
an automatic registering device which
records on the film the altitude Of the
plane. the time, date and number Of
the negative.
The camera is electrically heated, so
that 1t will function at the below-2ero
temperatures Of the highest attitudes at
which 1t will be used. The first photo
graph with the new apparatus was
taken by G.. A. Magnus from q plane
piloted by Lieut.. J. r. Phillips at an
altitude OF 1890 feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
PLAN PORT CELEBRATION.
Service Planes to Help Open North
Carolina Field.

ASHEVILLE, N. G. F.-Twenty
Army and Navy planes are to fly to
Asheville in the Fall to help open the
Hendersonville- Asheville airport.
Maj. Clarence M. Young, director of
aeronautics and acting Assistant Secre-
tary of Commerce, and Mai. Gen. James
Z. Fechet. chief Of the Army Air Corps,
tentatively have accepted invitations to
take part in the ceremonies. Corpora
ton by chambers Of commerce in Hen
dersonville and Asheville and Henderson
and Buneombe counties has made the
new airport possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
Rubber Wing Covering Seen.

A new rubber product, which in COM
bination with fabric, dural, wire screen
and wood will be used in airplane con-
struction, is now under development
by one Of the larger rubber companies.
It is planned eventually to use the
fuselage members, flooring, pontoons
and wheels
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
LARGEST AIR CAMERA
TESTED BY ARMY CORPS

Testing Of the worlds largest aerial
camera has just been completed by the
Army Air Corps at Wright Field, Day.
ton. Ohio. The machine, known as the
K-7A. was developed to obtain large
ground details for high attitudes.
takes q picture measuring by 10
inches. It carries q roll of Aim $50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
NEW AIRPORT SPEEDS.
Fresno Municipal Field to Be
Ready in Few Weeks.

The new Fresno, Calf, municipal air.
port will be ready for use shortly after
the old airport, miles to the north
west, Is abandoned September 1.
ALI equipment of the old field will be
moved to the new site. One long run
way has been graded and oiled and the
others are being completed as rapidly
as possible. A complete night lighting
installation Is being placed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
COL0RED AIR MOVIES.
Successful Tests of Pictures Made
From Wright Field Plane.

From Wright Field Plane.
pictures taken from the air have been
made at Wright Field, Dayton. Ohio, 1t
has been announced by the War De-
partment in the Army Air Corps news
letter.
The pictures were made after con-
siderable test work by Capt. Albert W.
Stevens. piloted by Lieut.. John D.
Corkille. Upon development they proved
to be clear and In full color. Most Of
the early difdculties were overcome by
experimentation with filters
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-06
GEN. COLLINS SHIFTED.
Gen. King to Become Infantry
School Commandant.

Brig. Gen. Edgar T. Collins has been
relieved from duty as commandant OF
the Infantry School at Fort Benning
Ga, effective May 1, and assigned to
the command of the Esd Brigade, at
Fort Mckinley, Philippine Islands.
He will be succeeded in command
of the Infantry School by Brig: Gen.
Campbell King. assistant chief of staff,
on duty at the War Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-06
|C. OF c. ARRANGES
FOR EXPOSITION
Annual industrial Show viii
Be Held Week of
October Fl.

| The annual industrial exposition
staged by the local Chamber of Com
merce as a means of promoting proper
/ industrial development in Greater
Washington will b, held at the Wash
| ington Auditorium the week of october
| 81, it was announced last night at the
! February meeting of the chamber di-
rectors by Ivan G. Weld president. The
| 1929 exposition. scheduled to be held in
March, was postponed, due to the in
augural program.
The meeting of the chamber direc-
| tors was held in the new Offices of the
organization, just opened, on the third
| floor of the Homer Building, on the
Thirteenth street side. The offices are
considerably larger than the former
headquarters, and include an enlarged
board room, secretaryS office, indus
trial exposition Office. provision for the
chamber staff and a storeroom.
Plans were laid for enlargement of
the membership of the chamber. follow
ing statement by Robert L. McKeever,
and members of the board were con-
stituted members of an unofficial COM
mittee to bring in applicants.
On motion by Robert N. Harper, the
directors voted to join in a movement
to entertain delegation of 800 New
York high school superintendent,
headed by Mayor jimmy Walker and
George F. Ryan, president of the New
York Board of Education, who will stop
here March IS on a tour of historic
places in Virginia as guests of the Vir-
ginia State Chamber of Commerce.
Later. it was announced, groups of
school children are to make similar
educational trips.
The following committee was named
to formulate plans: Mr.. Harper, NJ A.
Ieese, Rudolph Jose, w. NICK. Stowell,
Arthur Marks and Gen. Anton Stephan.
The directors authorized the appoint
ment of committee to study means of
entertaining a delegation of 100 Aus
tralian youths who will stop in Wash
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-06

ington March to IL during an educa-
tional tour of portions of the United
States. The boys, members of the
Young Australian League, are from Ia
to II years old. H. A. Brooks, Mr.
McKeever, j. E. Heberle and Mr.. Leese
were named to the committee.
Mr.. Weld announced completion OF
plans for the annual banquet OF the
chamber, to be held Saturday evening
at the Mayf1ower E.tel.
Mai. w. O. Tufts of the public
schools committee reported progress OF
the legislation designed to prevent OPP
Grafton of diploma mills" schools in
corporated here, and predicted the bill
would be passed in few days.
Charles J. Stockman reported on a
study being made of the possibility and
need of establishing symphonic or
chestra here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-06
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

Belasc0-"Oh Boy" musical comedy,
at 2:30 and $50 pm,
Strand-"Jazztime Revue" at 2:15
and BIS pm.
Fox-"The Little Wildcat" continu-
Gus from II am. to IL pm.
Little Theater-"Forbidden Tales" at
LAS, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and GAS pm.
Palace-"The Awakening" at 1885
am, l 20, $40, $40, 7:30 and $50 pm.
Earle-"Scarlet Seas" at 1875 am,
1885, 3:35, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:35 pm.
CoIumbia-"Alias Jimmy Valentine, -
at 1920 am, 20, 1925, SIS, 1880 and
9:35 pm. 49,
Metropolitan-""The Redeeming Sin, !"
at 11:45 am, / AS, 3:4S, 545, 7:45 and
$50 pm.
mhassador-"Jazz Mad at 6:1O,
8 and $50 pm.
Trivoli-"Sunrise," at 2:10, 4, 5:45,
7:35 and 800 pm.
Central-''Three Week Ends at
1890, 2, $3.50, S. $3.50. and $50 pm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
3'SCARFACE'M MEN
shot IN CHICAGO
Were Victims of War
for Booze Profits

CHICAGO, May 8.-Three bench
men of Scarface Al Capone were
shot to death in a stolen car in
Hammond, Ind, today. The dead
gangsters, victims in the war for
booze profits in which local poll
ticians are interested, are John
Scalice and Albert Anselmi, and the
New Yorker, Joseph Giunta.
The broken truce" in the gang
war is believed to have been mott
waited as revenge for the deaths of
the police-aided rival, Bugs" Moran
gang, seven of whom were killed on
st. Valentines Day. 1t was charged
at the trial that the Moran gang
sters were brazenly killed by uni
formed policemen who lined them
against the wall of garage.
The police department, however,
denied the charge and sought to
steer public interest away from po-
lice implication in the killing by de-
claring a new "war on crime and
SduSldnu.
Scalice and Anselmi had previous
ly faced trial three times for the
murder of two policemen. Through
pressure from friendly politicians
they were acquitted in both cases.
At the time they were working for
the renowned Genna gang, which
then monopolized the local liquor
trade.
Evidence that the Genna men at
the time enjoyed the protection of
States Attorney Grove was brought
out during the circulation of
photograph showing Grove at
racketeer's banquet, surrounded by
prominent Genna gunner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
FEDERALS SMASH
.JAL|SCO REBELS
us. Troops Withdrawn
as Outbreak Dies

MEXICO CITY, May s (UP)-
An engagement in which 119 cler-
ical reactionaries fell was reported
today in dispatches from Guadala-
jara.
Federal troops defeated a force
OF 1000 reactionaries at Colotlan,
state of Jalisco, Monday at dawn
killing 6S. The REBELS" had at
tempted to take the town five days
previously and lost 81 dead.
When they attacked Monday, the
insurgents penetrated the town and
established themselves in the church
Of San Nicolas, while the federal
troops occupied the municipal build
ing.
Agrarians, cooperating with the
government troops, dislodged the re-
dictionaries from the church and
drove them to the cemetery. Four
hundred additional agrarians at
tackled them in the rear, forcing
them to dispense.