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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24

AS result of the demise of the last
native red dog-it is hoped, at least,
that it is the last Of the species-avia-
tors at Langley Field, Va. are singing
paeons of praise. It's long story. as
related by the field correspondent to
the Army Air Corps news letter.
About 20 pairs of flying gloves of SUI
perior worth, the correspondent relates,
have been received at the field for dis
tribution to some 100 flying officers.
After praising the quality and design of
the new gloves fulsomely, the CORE
spondent goes on. as follows:
1.-THE gloves heretofore, and still is
sued to the bulk Of flyers. are covered
with red dog hair. And this dog hair
sheds while in the air and accumulates
in the teeth Of the aviator. Too often
flyer Is struck with the idea that he
is eating some of the hair of the dog
that bit him. Just why the issue flying
gloves had TO be covered with red dog
hair and why they had to skin the dog
when he was shedding is a question
never satisfactorily settled, but the prac-
tice started shortly after the war That
may be reason enough. The practice
certainly made red dogs scarce. A per-
son might start out early in the morn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24

hours and IS minutes. He previously
had flown the plane from this city to
Minatitlan, Mexico, to make ground ar
engagements for the Panama fight Of
Capt. Ira c. Eaker. Though the plane
had been In the air many hours since
its last motor overhaul the one-day
flight back here was made without any
preparations.
Although he was in Mexico during
the early stages of the rebellion, Lieut..
Upston said that the only signs Of
military activity he saw were at Nina
titan, little town rs miles inland
from the Port of Mexico, where Mexi-
can army plane was stationed. This
plane. an old Bristol fighter. was
equipped with machine gun and bomb
racks and was kept under close mill
tary guard between flights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
MOTORLESS PLANE
PERFECTION URGED
Contest Winners, Under
N. A. A. Sanction, Will Re-
ceive Substantial Rewards.

In an effort to stimulate develop
ment of the motorless airplane In the
United States. the National Glider As
ISOLATION has offered q series of prizes
for endurance gliding and soaring
flights and has applied for the sane
ton of the National Aeronautic Asso-
citation for the contests
Edward s. Evans. president OF the
glider association, has offered $4,000 to
the first American to fly a motorless
airplane for 20 hours; $4,000 to the
first American to fly an American built
glider for 10 hours and additional
prizes Of 500 per hour up to q maxi
mum Of 20 hours. If the pilot owns
the glider used he gets all Of the prize
money. If he does not own the glider
the money will b. divided equally be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
LONDON T0-INDIA AIR LINE
LISTED TO OPEN MARCH 80
Passengers, Mail and Freight will
Be Carried Over a 6,OoO-Mile
Route,

Weekly passenger, mail and freight
service by air between London and
India will be inaugurated March 80 by
Imperial Anyways, according to a re-
port received by the Department Of
Commerce from Assistant Trade Com
missioner H. C. Schuette. at Paris. The
distance of more than 5000 miles is to
take q little more than six days, 50
hours being spent In the air, and the
price per passenger for the trip will be
but $40.
The section from London to Basel
viii be flown and passengers will be
transferred at Basel to sleeping cars,
travelling by railroad to Genoa, Italy.
A feet Of all-metal flying boats, espe-
cially built for the service, will operate
from Genoa to Egypt. The flight across
the Iraq Desert to Bagdad and down
the Persian Gulf to India will be made
in planes which for the past two years
have been operated regularly on the
Cairo-Bagdad-Basra air lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
AIR MAIL PILOTS
! SET SPEED MARKS.
Charles Holman Covers $50
Miles at Rate of 1875
Miles an Hour.

Records of unusually fast air mail
flights over the various routes through
out the country are being compiled by
the American Air Transport ASsocia-
ton, and the list so far shows that
records In excess of $50 miles per hour
are not at all unusual even over long
distances.
The individual speed record is held
by Charles Holman, pilot on the Mn
neapolis- Chicago line, who few the $50
miles between those cities with a load
of mail in hour and As minutes, at
an average speed of 1875 miles per hour
The fastest time at which the 1880
mile transcontinental air mail route be-
tween New York and San Francisco has
been flown is is hours and SO minutes,
made by five pilots flying the five Sec
tons Of the transcontinental airway.
The mail ships averaged l56 miles an
hour.
Chief Pilots Record.
Chadwick B. Smith, chief pilot on the
nonstop air mail run between Mime
apolis and Chicago. led all other air
mail pilots for time spent in the air in
1928. with 1,l73 hours and Is minutes.
Fred w. Kelly former Olympic hurdle
champion. is in second place, 20 flying
hours back Of Smith Kelly flies the
mail between Salt Lake City and Los
Angeles.
Other all-time individual air mail
speed records are:
San Francisco Chicago-1.s 4s miles
In IL hours 43 minutes; average speed
Of 16S miles per hour; held jointly by
Pilots j. H. Thompson, Frank Yeager
and George Myers.
go-Cleyeland-324 miles in
hour 40 minutes: average speed, 166
miles per hour; pilot. Robert Hopkins.
Cleveland-New York-399 miles in 2
hours Is minutes; average speed, $50
miles per hour; pilot, Henry J. Brown.
80 minutes; average speed of 172 miles
per hour; pilot, RUDE Wagner.
Grogan Sets Mark.
Dallas-Kansas City-5ll miles in 5
hours S. minutes; average speed of 100
miles per hour; pilot George B. Grogan.
Kansas City Chicago-450 miles in 2
hours and 81 minutes; average speed,
IT'S miles per hour; pilot, Edmund
Matucha
Minneapolis Chicago-3sO miles I'M
miles an hour. (Record for single-mo-
tored cabin plane). Pilot, Homer Cole.
Minneapolis Chicago-350 miles in
hours and Is minutes: average speed,
1852 miles an hour. (Record made in
tri-motored passenger plane).
pilot, Chadwick B. Smith.
Evansville Chicago-28l miles in /
hour and So minutes; average speed. la
miles an hour; pilot. Richard K. Peck.
Atlanta Richmond-484 miles in Il
hours 81 minutes; average speed, 1877
miles per hour; pilot, John S. Kyle.
Richmond Newark-294 miles in
hour SO minutes; average speed. 1870
miles per hour; pilot. Donald Johnston
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
GARDNER TROPHY
RACE RULES GIVEN
Annual Speed Contest for
Commercial Planes to Be
in Two Parts.

Final rules for the Gardner trophy
race, to be held May 20 and 80, under
the sanction Of the National Aeronautic
Associat ton, have been completed and
entries now may be filed, it was an
nounced here by Eugene E. Sykes. 1923
L street, local representative of the
committee in charge.
The race, which will be an annual
speed contest for commercial airplanes
iS to be divided this year into two
phases. the first to be run May 20 and
the second May 80. A total Of $4,000
cash prizes has been posted by Russell
E. Gardner, jr., end Fred w. Gardner
of St. Louis.
The first phase of the race will con-
sist of five separate races to Parks Air
port, St. Louis, from Buffalo, N. Y, $50
miles; Jacksonville. Fla, 100 miles; San
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
PILOT GRADUATES
START CHAIN LETTER
Glass Adopts Old Method Of Keep
ing in Touch With One
Another.

Pilot graduates of the Brooks and
Kelly Field cadet class Of 1925, of which
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh Is q member.
have adopted chain-letter system t.
keep In touch with one another. In the
class Of more than 100 which started
flight training, 10 finished, and II Of
this number have since maintained ths
unusual "pass-it-on" correspondence sys
tenn.
Lieut.. w. r. Wolfinbarger of Langley
Field. Va, has just added his letter t.
the latest collection and sent the batch
along to Lieut.. D. H. Alkire of Luke
Field Hawaii, who will turn them over
to Staff Sergt. Boyd Ertwine of the same
station. Then. with these two new let
tiers added. the letters will be forwarded
to Lima. Peru. to MI" Col" or Gen. {"
Clifton Travis. who is chief aviation in
structor of the Peruvian air force
Travis classmates do not know Just
what his rank Is now, but his letter will
enlighten them
When the letters get back to the
starting point, which should take about
four months. a new set will be started.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
THREE ARE ELECTED
TO AERONAUTIC BOARD
Calf, Beech and Brukner Named tt
Fill Chamber of Commerce
Vacancies.

Election of Edgar N Colt. president
OF the Keystone-Loening Aircraft Cor
poration, Bristol, Pa; Walter H. Beech,
president of the Travel Air Co, Wichita,
Kans., and Charles ]. Brukner, presi-
dent Of the Advance Aircraft Co., Troy,
Ohio, as governors OF the Aeronautical
Chamber Of Commerce has been an
nounced here.
They were elected to fill vacancies
created by the designations of Lester
d. Gardner, president of Aeronautical
Industries, Inc; Paul Henderson. former
Second Assistant Postmaster General
and now vice president of Transconti-
mental Air Transport, Inc, and c. L.
Lawrence, president of the Wright
Aeronautical Corporation, who now be-
come members of an advisory body re-
Gently established by the chamber.
This advisory body, known as the
council" is composed of former presi-
dents Of the chamber, the other two
members being l. M. Uppercu. president
OF Aeromarine Klemm Corporation. and
Grover c. Looming, aeronautical engi-
neer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
AIR TRANSPORT SHOWS
INCREASE IN BELGIUM
BRUSSELS Airdrome Visited by 653
Planes During Last Quar-
ter of 1928.

BRUSSELS tP).-Air transport is
steadily increasing in Belgium. During
the last quarter of 1928 the Brussels
airdrome was visited by $50 airplanes.
landing 1881 passengers, IL tons OF
mail and / 1874 tons of freight.
During the same period 654 planes
left the airdrome, carrying 1874 pas
sengers, Is tons Of mail and 1878 tons
Of freight.
In 1925 the total number of passen-
gers amounted only to 1885.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
WEST COAST FOLK
FLOCK|NG TO AIR
Thousands Ride as PasSen-
gers and Many Plotting
Their Own Planes.
BY DON BROWN.


OAKLAND, Calf, March 23.-Peo-
ule living on the Pacific Coast are tax
ing to the air like ducks to water.
Thousands of them are riding in planes
regularly as passengers and hundreds
are learning to pilot their own ma
chimes. They also are building airports
with some vision of future needs.
Starting from the deep, ice-crusted
mud of Hadley Field, in bleak, iso-
lated section of New Jersey, IS miles
from New York, have just flown all
the way across the continent In air
mail planes, stopping at the principal
airportS on the route.
The thing which surprised me most
on this flight was the steady improve
ment in airports as you travel west
ward. The farther you 70 the better
the equipment, attractiveneSs and con-
veniences of the fields and the more
marked the difference between them
and so many of the dreary mud holes
which serve as airportS in the East.
Slides Down the Always.
After night flight at $4,000 feet
altitude over the high hump" of the
Sierras. the air traveller from the East
slides down the airways with long
sweep into the bright hoodlights Of the
Oakland municipal airport, San Fran
ciscos principal air mail and passenger
terminal.
Here you find what Col Charles Lind
bergh called 1.-The best airport In the
country" Viewing it, you get an idea
what the better class airports will be
1ikp IN or On wars from r0w
There is great smooth runway from
which all the flyers who crossed the Pa
cific lifted their heavily laden planes
into the air There are four huge metal
hangers, brilliantly lighted, and capable
of holding about $50 planes Of average
size.
Comfortable waiting rooms, with good
views Of the field, are provided for the
passengers. An attractive restaurant,
from which you may, while dining,
watch the colorful spectacle of the air,
port activities, is another good feature.
A special weather bureau. reporting fly
ing conditions, and other modern aids to
flying are provided.
Seats Protected for Spectators.
Seats for spectators watching the
arrival and departure of mail and pas
senger planes and the maneuvers Of
local flyers, as well as a turret in the
European manner, with tea tables
shaded by brightly colored umbrellas,
also are present In a setting of greenery
and flowers. All roads, sidewalks and
promenade areas are paved or grav-
eIed. There is no mud.
One side of the airport is bounded by
San Francisco Bay Back of the field
few miles distant-rise the blue foot
hills Of the Sierras.
From January to December, 1928
there were 65,381 landings of airplanes
at the Oakland airport, and Al ,691 pas
sengers arrived by air. There were
3,l97 student flights. The monthly rec
ord for 1929 already indicates that these
figures will be doubled this year.
An average of 40 airplanes from Oak
land and other fields are in the air
during the day over San Francisco, a
local authority has calculated. Sitting
in a hotel, the moments you cannot
hear the hum of motor in the air are
rare.
(Copyright, 1929. by North American News
paper Alliance)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
BR|TA|N'S AVIATION
HOPES OUTLINED
Concentrating on Speed, Du-
ration and Altitude in De-
Tending Schneider Cup.

LONDON CP).-Three world records
of the air will be attempted by Great
Britain during the year.
All the resources of the air ministry
and of the Royal Air Force now are
concentrated on gaining the triple
crown for this country in speed, dura-
ton of flight and altitude.
The speed record attack is to be
linked with the defense of the Schneid-
er cup, held by Great Britain, which
will take place at the most thrilling
seaplane race meeting ever held.
The flying services of five nations
will compete in the Schneider cup
race in late August or early September.
Italy and France to Compete.
Both Italy and France are sending
teams of three Seaplanes to compete
for the cup. Great Britain is building
a number of new Supermarine-Napier
and Gloster- Napier machines, which
should be capable of the enormous air
speed of $40 miles an hour.
The United States Is preparing rae
ing seaplanes, driven by 2,000-horse-
power engines, and with a promised
speed of 800 miles an hour, and Ger
many is testing double-engined sea-
planes-one engine in front Of the pilot
and one behind-for the race.
The long distance flying record which
this country hopes to gain will be at
tempted in nonstop journey from
Capetown to London, a distance OF
5000 miles.
Secret trials were made recently at
Cranwell aerodrome of the giant Fairey
monoplane which is to be used. No
"details of this airplane are permitted
to be known. It has been built and
tried under rigid guard.
Britain Contests With Germany.
Apart from the attack on the dis
lance record. this fight will be one OF
three British efforts to foreStall the
German attempt to get in first" on
the empires most important air route
The German JunkerS Co already Is
busy in South Africa attempting to
run an air mail service and Offering
machines at cut prices-much to the
annoyance Of British makers.
An all-metal airplane with a super
charged engine will be employed for
the altitude record.
The pilot will wear electrically heat
ed clothing and will be equipped with
an oxygen mask for the high attitudes.
The super charger on the engines Will
operate to prevent the revolutions fall
ing off In the rarefied air OF the extreme
upper atmosphere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
Company Marks Air Routes.

The Central Illinois Public Service
Co. has completed an extensive air
marking program of its many gas hold
ers throughout the State of Illinois.
The markers give the names of the
towns in which each tank is located
Further work on the program calls for
the painting of an arrow on the tanks
pointing to the nearest airport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
TRAMP PLANES HERE.
Cruiser, Seeking Cargo, Is Given
Official Recognition.

The day OF the tramp" airplane
freight carrier, similar to the tramp
steamer. which has no scheduled route
but is available for charter to any port,
has arrived. BY charter agreements
reached between Germany and Great
Britain, the aerial tramp freighter Is
recognized and rules fixed to govern its
operation.
The agreement covers dcmurrage
rates, loading and discharge of cargo.
responsibility for loss. damage or delay.
insurance and other factors entering
into transportation of goods, according
to report received here by the De-
partment of Commerce. The charter
has been accepted by the principal air
craft carriers in Great Britain and steps
are being taken to have it accepted by
all European operators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
MATERIEL DIVISION UNIT
Is BEING ENLARGED
Mghter-Than-Air Branch Is Allot-
ted More Space at Wright
Field,

The lighter than-air branch of the
materiel division, Wright Field, Dayton,
Ohio, is being allotted more space at
that field to accommodate the fabric,
stock and shop rooms which are being
moved to Wright Field from Fairfield,
Ohio. Eventually the imitation and fly
ing equipment at Fairfield also will be
moved, following erection of a suitable
hangar.
The lighter-than-ai branch has juris-
diction over all experimental balloon
and dirigible work for the Army Air
Corps. The flight testing of lighter
than-air craft is carried on at Scott
Field, ILL.,, under materiel division
representative.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
tween the pilot and the owner Of tn.

tween the pilot and the owner Of the
glider.
Contestants must flying under the
rules of the National Glider Associa-
ton, the National Aeronautic Associa-
ton and the Federation Aeronautique
Internationale. The record may be
made as part of a local. district or
national contest or in an individual
effort. AS a flight Of such length
requires the use of soaring glider,
entrants must hold first-class glider
licenses from the National Aeronautic
Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24

w. T. Burch, administrative officer at
Hoover Field, left this city yesterday to
join the new Curtiss Flying Service as
information chief at the New York Of
flee. The Curtiss service is establishing
a Nationwide system of flying fields
and is seeking location for field In
the vicinity of the National Capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
B0MBERS ARE MARKSMEN.
One Gunner Scores 1913 Out of 1914
Possible Shots.

Unusually high scores were set by
gunners aboard bombing planes of the
goth Bombardment Squadron, Langley
Field. Va, during recent bombing,
ground target and tow target missions,
the War Department has announced.
The scores turned in are the highest
of any organization in the I'd Bonn
bardment Group up to the present time,
it was stated.
One gunner on a tow target mission
scored 1913 out of a possible 1874, and
this gunner, the report said spent
considerable time after the shot Won
dering where the other shot went"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
Labor Feudalism

An unusually obnoxious anti-labor injunction ap-
pication has been made to federal Judge in Ph1la-
delphia. Manufacturers demand that the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers of America be restrained
from unionizing the shops Of that city.
The application, according to news dispatches
seeks 70 use the Sherman antitrust law as a club
against labor on the ground that the unions strike
is interfering with interstate That is non
sense But it is particularly dangerous nonsense For
it is an attempt TO pervert the Sherman act.
It SO happens that the union which would be VIC
timzed by such an injunction is of the strongest
and best in the country-best from the point OF view
of both labor and capital.
It has more than 100000 members, Its record IN
establishing order and prosperity in the mems cloth
ing industry in other cities, and in cooperation with
leading companies to improve labor conditions and
production is brilliant example OF the new unlonls
Indeed the Philadelphia manufacturers charge
in their Injunction application that New York clothing
manufacturers under agreement with the union are
"co-consprators."
The notorious yellow dog contract" now illegal IN
many states enters the injunction case The union
is charged with persuadng workers to break contracts
in which they had been forced to sign away their
right 20 join the union.
Here is added proof of the need Of congressional
remedy for the injunction evil reform already too
long delayed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
should such conspiracy be allowed to exist in this

SnouIQ Sucn conspiracy De allowed TO exist in this
country.
The President has put the issue squarely:
Unless the companies can show an entirely
different situation from that which is purported in
this suit we are compelled to consider what measures
can be proposed to free the country Of such infu-
1t is obviously against public interest for those
who have financial interest in or may be engaged
tempt secretly to influence public opinion or public
officials by propaganda in favor of larger ornaments
and attempt to defeat the effort of the government
in world limitation of such ornaments or to employ
persons for such purposes"
Though the companies should not be judged until
they have made the public statements demanded by
the President, their jevasive statements so far are
most unsatisfactory and disturbing
News dispatches quote officials of two of the three
companies as admitting employing shearer as an OBJ
but denying that he hired as propagandist
If this is true, they have yet to explain why they
continued their connections with him long after his
propaganda notorious in this country and abroad
Shearer at various times also is reported to have
mtimated that he serving the National Security
League and Daughters of the American Revolution.
Since those organizations have devoted much of their
effort in recent years to decryng alleged pacst and
red plots which they could not prove doubtless they
will consider it their patriotic duty to come for
ward and support the government in investigating
the alleged militarist plot.
The investigation should not stop with the Shearer
case which is only small aspect of the larger war
menace-who pays for such propaganda, and why?