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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-15

Harry B. Smith, former adjutant-
general of Indiana, was the prin-
cipal speaker Tuesday night at the
closing dinner of the year of the
Quartermaster school of the Reserve
officers Corps in the Spink-Arms
Major F. w. Kahlor, engineering Of
fcer of FIT. Benjamin Harrison, was
POSTMASTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
HIGHWAY MARKING
AID TO AIR TRAVEL
Plan Has Been Made One of Prin-
cipal Projects Of Ex-
change Club.

Marking of the highways as an aid
to air navigation, in accordance with
recommendation of the aeronautics
branch of the Department of Com
merce, has been made one of the prin-
cipal projects of the National Exchange
Club, which includes chapter in this
city, it was announced here by Lieut..
Walter Hinton, pioneer transatlantic
flyer and chairman of the aviation pro-
gram committee of the club.
Marking of the highways will be of
inestimable benefit to the private and
itinerant pilot who cannot take adj
vantage of the radio range and other
navigational systems which aid the air
transport pilot on a scheduled route.
1t is not likely that any private pilot
will be very well qualified as a navi-
gator, as this is a profession in itself,
Lieut.. Hinton pointed out.
The highways can easily be followed
by a pilot and they are shown on all
airway maps, being designated on such
maps by their Federal and State num-
bers. It has been decided that all ma
tional highways be marked by painting
their numbers on their surfaces in &C.
cordance with a uniform system, with
markings at uniform intervals so that
the pilot may know where to look for
them.
with this system, Lieut.. Hinton
stated, existing maps need not be
changed; the markers are economical to
lay out and maintain. the numerals
merely being painted on the road sur
face; the markers will not only aid
air navigation, but the automobile tour
list as we'll: they will be visible from the
air and will use already established
routes between cities. If the system is
universally adopted it will be possible
for any pilot with map to learn his
location from any main road he may
see
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
NEON LIGHT TESTS
REP0RTEDFA ALLURE
Hopes Built on Value to Guide
Aviators in Fog Not
Justified.

Hopes which had been built up on
the value of neon lights to pierce fogs
and guide aviators safely to airports
when they cannot see the ground were
not justified by tests made by the Air
ways Division of the Bureau Of Light
houses, Department of Commerce, it Is
revealed in the annual report of Mai.
Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary
Of Commerce for AeronauticS.
The tests were conducted at Moody
Point, Me-, selected on the basis of fog
records of the bureau for some years.
A visibility test was made with light
from a neon lamp, as compared with
the light from an incandescent filament
lamp with red color filter and from a
clear lamp without color screen.
The apparatus was set up at place
on the coast where a range of obServa-
ton of about four and half miles was
available for observers patrolling the
shore. A rotating experimental beacon
was arranged to show three flashes Of
light successfully, from the neon light,
from the red light filter and from the
clear light. 1t was so arranged that
each type of light was shone through
the same size opening and with the
same candlepower.
Thirty-three sets of observations were
made, in clear weather, in haze, in fog
and in rain. One fog observation was
made in the daytime. The observations
we're made at five different distance )
from the beacon, ranging from one and
a quarter to four and half miles.
Observations were made with the
naked eye and with a photometric
wedge of great accuracy. The tests
failed to show any difference between
the lights sufficiently great to be de-
tected by the methods used, the report
shows
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
MANY WOMEN Join
RANKS OF AVIATION
Number of Licensed Feminine
Pilots on Rolls Rapidly
Increasing.

The number Of licensed women air
plane pilots In the United States is
growing with astonishing rapidity. Since
the first of the year their total has in
creased more than 400 per cent and
there is no indication of a let-up.
There were "a women holding licenses
in January and 70 in July. This week
the Department Of Commerce reported
that l4l women are authorized to ny.
So rapid has been the increase during
the past few weeks that 1t has been
dificult to keep up the list OF, classifl-
cations and States.
The last compilations were made when
there were Ill women on the rolls,
showing that New York led the list
with "a woman flyers, not including
Thea Rasche, formerly licensed in that
State, but who recently left for Ger
many. California is second with % and
Texas third with 10.
Massachusetts and Missouri each have
six licensed women pilots, Pennsylvania,
S. and Maryland and Oklahoma, 3.
Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia,
Illinois and Michigan each have 2 and
Delaware, the District of Columbia, In
diana, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, oregon, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vtr-
ginia and Wisconsin each boast IL
censed woman flyer.
OF the III licensed women are
transport pilots, 9 limited commercial
and 90 private The same proportions
have been held in the increase to l4l.
Ii Is understood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24


Action on Lieut.. Hinton's proposal tc
the committee was deferred pending a
conference with model aircraft officials
in the District. The proposal win be
discussed this week at conference be-
tween Miss Sybil Baker, Community
Center Department head; John Viii
liams, model aircraft instructor of the
center, and Lieut.. Hinton.
1t is expected that Lieut. Hinton Will
ask the two model aircraft officials their
opinions as to just how the Chamber OF
Commerce can best cooperate with and
encourage members Of the District
Model Aircraft League. The chamber
has in the past made awards to win
ners in the model tournaments about
the District It is assumed that Lieut..
Hinton wants the chamber to assist
the league to a greater extent.
Plane Interest Scars.
In the meanwhile interest in model
plane building and flying scars steadily
The fair sex comes into model plane
prominence with the election Of H.
year-old Betty Jeffers as leader Of the
Takoma Park Flying Club. Her
brother, Thomas LETTERS, is assisting
her. Little Miss LETTERS qualified for
the District Model Aircraft League dur
ing the meets last Summer.
The Takoma groups recent invitation
to the league for the staging of con-
test at the Takoma Park Schools
miniature airdrome was accepted by the
league and plans are being made for
a contest there early In December.
Two Guests Have Qualified.
The two other girls who have quail
fed for the league are Frances Sullivan,
sister of John Sullivan, leading model
plane pilot here, who captured high
honors at the Louisville national flnal7
several months ago, and Doris Griffin
All three of the young ladies have con-
structed model ships and are worthy
pilots.
Another model aircraft club has been
organized under the auspices of the Park
View Community Center. Bob Williams
CT the Community Center Department
Is instiucting the members of the new
club. A number Of the members quail
fed at the contest yesterday morning al
he Mcfarland Junior High Airdronle
Flights Are Successful.
Billy Streets. Columbia Junior High
Schools mocol plane ace, who is In
structing m, ~lbers of the newly formed
club at t. school in model buildine
and fiying. reports several successful
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
FLYING TEACHER CREDITED
WITH ESTABLISHING RECORD
Lieut.. Buell. of Air Legion
"SoIos" Eleven Student
Pilots Since Oct. !.
Woman Listed in Group
Made First Flight Alone
Last Week.

BY "soloing" student pilots since he
Joined the d. C. Air Legion as chief
flying instructor on October /, Lieut..
w. C. Buell. is believed to have estab-
lished new instructors record for
this part of the country.
During the first six weeks after he
Joined the legion, Lieut.. Ruell soloed
nine members of the club and re-soloed
one member who had allowed himself
to "go stale" The tenth student, who
is the first woman member of the club
made her first fight alone last week.
The eleventh followed suit the next day.
The legion members who have been
soloed by Lieut.. Buell. are G. K. Glad
hill, j. Elmer Kreis, W. K. Allen, H. S
Kempf H. S. Stowe, Eli Amanuel, T
j. Waggy, Charles M. Wilson. Charles
e. Mason, Miss Frances l.. jackson and
James Kousen. Miss Jackson made
made her first solo fight. and by virtue
of the fact that she is the first woman
member of the legion to ny alone be-
came a member of the legion's First
Club" on the spot.
Buell. Procured by Ad In Star.
Lieut.. Buell. was obtained by the
D. c. Air Legion as flying instructor
through the first pilot wanted" adver.
tisement published in this city. Tht
advertisement appeared in the CLASH,
fed columns of The Evening Star anC
the legion had three responses, select.
ing Lieut. Buell. from these applicants
Lieut.. Buell. entered the Army dur,
ing the World War as a member of q
machine gun unit, but was transferred
to the Air Service, then in the sigma
Corps, in March, 1918. After grounC
| training at the University of Californii
and flight training at Sacramento, h
was graduated as an observation pilo
and was assigned to duty as q fyinl
instructor, at the same time takinl
q fiYe-week course himself at the Army
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
is TAKE INSTRUCTION
FOR PLANE MECHANIC
Course at Hoover Field to Con.
tinue Period of IL to
Is Weeks.

Fifteen students began the first air.
plane mechanics course at Hoover Field
during the past week. The course,
which is to continue IL to is weeks,
with classes each Monday, Wednesday
and Friday at pm, will cover all
phases of airplane and aircraft motor
construction and maintenance. Govern
ment and private aircraft experts will
give lectures on subjects included in
the curriculum.
The three chief instructors will be
j. Earl Steinhauer. on aircraft engines;
Guy Mills, on airplane woodworking,
and Charles Snyder. on aircraft rigging.
The course will include instruction on
nomenclature, theory of fight, air COM
MERGE rules, air traffic rules, wing con-
struction, wood inspection, covering,
finishing. air craft welding. rigging, air.
craft inspection, engine theory. engine
design, engine assembly, trouble shoot
ing" engine maintenance, engine in
spection, aircraft instruments and para
chutes. Seven types of standard air.
craft engines, covering the kinds found
in all types of commercial operations,
will be used for instruction purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24

Gossport School of instruction, learning
there a routine system of instruction
which later was discontinued.
Record Since Armistice Day.
Completing his Army service at Tay-
lor Field, Ala, Lieut.. Buell. was trans
ferred to inactive duty two months aft
err the armistice was signed. He went
to Walla- Walla, Wash, where he be-
came associated with man who built
three homemade airplaneS, the third
of which few. In September, 1919,
while flying passenger in this plane
to Pendleton, Greg, Lieut.. Buell. was
injured when control wire jammed
anG the plane crashed His passenger
escaped with broken leg, being thrown
clear of the plane. A landing gear
strut ran through Buell's right leg,
pinning him in the wreckage. He was
told he would be in the hospital year
and never would fly again. Within
five weeks, however, he was flying a
Curtiss Jennie" and has been at It
ever since. AS result Of his crash
he refuses to fly in anything but 9
licensed plane,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
NEW AIR MAIL LINE
|. BEING CONSIDERED
Washington Bids for Place on
Route Outlined in Southern
SkyIine's" Program.

The National Capital may be given
a place on one of the country's great
est air mail systems as a result OF
hearings to be conducted by the Post
once Department tomorrow on the
proposal of Southern SkylineS, new air
transport corporation. submitted by the
chairman of the board, William Gibbs
McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treas .
ury, to carry the mail by air at greatly
reduced rates over alternative Southern
routes.
The washington Chamber Of Com
merce aviation committee, headed by
Lieut.. Walter Hinton, will lead the fight
before postal officials to have the Ma
tional Capital included on the proposed
line. The committee will submit data
on air mail poundage sent and received
by the National Capital. weather con-
ditions here and other information
bearing upon the local air mail situa-
ton.
Members to Attend Caucus.
The committee also will be repre-
scented at a caucus of delegations from
Southern cities, to be held at ~
O'Clock this morning in the Mayhower
Hotel. These delegations were appoint
ed to appear before the Post ONCE De-
partment committee tomorrow. Their
meeting VOOHy Will NC IOL the puA POoS
Of ironing out differences of opinion
which may arise over the routes pro-
posed and to agree upon some concert
ed plan which they may present at
the oficial hearing tomorrow.
Tomorrow's hearing Is expected to be
of the greatest Importance to the entire
air mail system. The proposal, II car
ried out, would make 1t possible for
the Post once Department to elm
mate the deficit now entailed in NOV
ing the air mail between the Atlantic
and Pacific and through large part
of the South and Southwest.
Low Rate Proposed.
The proposal points out that the Post
ONCE Department now pays $8.77 per
pound for carrying the air mail from
the National Capital to Los Angeles
and receives only $225 per pound. rep
resenting a direct loss OF 1852 per
pound. In the proposal, submitted
Jointly by Southern Skylines ana
Southwest Air Fast Express, 1t is onereo
to carry the mail from coast to coast
for $2.i0 per pound. thus eliminating
the direct deficit now existing and To
permit a small profit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
80 PLANES ENTERED
IN BALTIMORE SHOW
Exhibit Will Far Exceed Expecta'
tions of Committee Arrang-
ing for Event.

Originally planned as merely a local
aircraft exposition, the flrst annual
Baltimore Aircraft Show, to be held IN
the 5th Regiment Armory, December Q
to IA, has grown so that it will represent
large part of the aircraft industry, &C.
cording to word received here.
The original goal was "a planes. To
date more than 80 planes have been
entered and more than 40 probably will
be on view when the show opens.
Based upon the number OF planes to
be entered, the committee stated, the
show will be the largest sectional
aviation exhibit held east Of Cleveland:
Sponsored by the Flying Club of
Baltimore the show has been oficially
sanctioned by the Aeronautical Chamber
of Commerce and Endorsed by the
Baltimore Association Of Commerce II
will be under direction of Ray Krimm
who managed the Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia aircraft shows during the
past year.
The National Capital will be rep
resented by two planes, New
standard and an Aeromarine -KlemEn,
low-wing light monoplane, to be entered
by International Always, Inc, operators
Of Hoover Field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24


Brazil and the French territorial pos
sessions.
Orders have been placed for IL twin
motored Commodore flying boats carry
ing 20 passengers each, of which two
already have been delivered. These are
the largest American flying boats and
we're adapted from the Navy PY-1
patrol boat. The boat originally was
built for, 80 passengers, but has been
redeSigned for greater passenger COM
fort and for mail and express. There
are separate passenger compartments
for four passengers each, a lounge
room. maI compartment for 5000
pounds of mail and express matter and
cabin for radio operator and equip
ment.
The first Commodore was cfristened
Buenos Aires by Mrs. Herbert Hoover
and the second, now en- route to South
America, viii be christened at Rio de
Janeiro. The others are to be delivered
at the rate of one each Is days.
In addition the line now operates
nine Wasp-motored Sikorsky amphibi-
ans and four tri-motored Ford tri-
motored planes. Total equipment pur-
chased or on contract includes 80 multi
motored passenger transport planes
representing an investment OF $685.
900.
passenger HeInlDdlS, eQu1pI0cuJ IldA~
CARS, maintenance and overhaul depotS
and radio control stations are under
construction or ordered for immediate
construction at seven base points and
intermediate hangers and facilities are
in use or under construction at 10 ad-
ditional points. Fueling and loading
facilities are to be provided in each of
the 43 points of call along the route.
FL Pilots Employed.
The flying personnel at present In
cludes 81 pilots. % mechanics and 80
radio operators. maintenance field men
and helpers. The company has the use
of 10 airports operated by the French
airline, "Latecoare" between Buenos
Aires and Natal, Brazil, including all
radio mechanical. weather, hangar and
operating facilities.
Service on the South American trans
continental lire was inaugurated Sep
TENDER 1 between BuenoS Aires and
Santiago, Chile, the line running from
Montevidco to Buenos Aires, Cordoba,
Mendoza and Santiago. Passenger, ex-
press and mail under contracts with
Argentina, Chile and Uruguay are car
ried ON this route, which has been in
regular operation on weekly schedules
for more than so days. The line Is $50
miles. long, crossing the Andes at 1900
feet, and operates on a 7-hour-and-15-
minute flying schedule.
The coastal line between BuenoS Aires
and Montevideo, Uruguay. has been in
operation since August 81, passengers
and mail being carried Service be-
tween Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro
is to be in operation by January and
the section between Florida and Cuba
also will be opened by that time. By
February service is to be extended
from Rio de Janeiro to Port of Spain
Trinidad and from Cuba to Trinidad.
and during February the first through
service over the complete route is to be
inaugllrated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24

flights by pilots at the school at the
trials Friday.
The tiny ship of Abraham Gluken-
haus thrilled members of the club dur
ing the trials when 1t swept up from his
hands and reached so great an altitude
that it crashed into the ceiling of the
auditorium The plane, despite injuries
received in the crash, made perfect
landing after a flight of 20 seconds.
Abraham's time is the best made by
any mer7ber of the club up to date.
Another successful flight was made by
Jerry Hysong, whose ship stayed aloft
nearly as long as Abraham's.
Trial flights will be held Friday with
Walter Roth, model plane devotee, as
sisting young Streets in timing the
planes and assisting the boys in every
possible way.
Adults Not Builders.
Just to give you model plane builders
a chance to throw out your chests q bit
and to let the general public know that
model plane building and flying Is no
cinch, the column, Withholding names,
announces that during the past three
weeks certain grown-ups have told the
column that after several attempts TO
construct models they have failed
miSerably.
One would-be model plane pilot, who
happens to be we'll known about town
and who has many other things to do
beside build model planes, told the
writer he had managed to build one but
that "the confounded thing wouldn't
fly" Well. we are in hopes they'll all
have better luck next time.
Powell Club Progress.
George Petrides, vice president Of the
Powell Junior High Model Aircraft Club
and who has been appointed publicity
director, writes in a bit of news about
the club.
His letter follows:
"Our club met last Thursday in the
auditorium of the Park Road Christian
Church We just held trial flights for
rise off ground, commercial and pusEcr
models, which were to be entered in the
model plane meet at Mcfarland Junior
High School yesterday.
"Since the beginning Of the club
there have been eight boys who have
Qualified for the District Model Aircraft
Club. We have won several points In
past meets and prepared to win more
in meets in the future.
Miss Moore of our. school donated
SIS to get the club started. Since then
we have been able to give Miss Moeres
money back to her and are now on our
own feet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
PLANES AID STUDY.

An aerial inspection of tidewater sites
offered to the Maryland Conservation
Department and the University OF
Maryland for the establishment Of a
marine laboratory was made recently IN
an Army OH observation plane piloted
\, Lieut.. j. A. Willis, Army Air Corps
of Boiling Field, with r. v. Truitt, pro-
fessor of zoology at the University OF
Maryland, as observer.
The trip was entirely successful and
in addition to adequate notes Prof
Truitt obtained some 80 pictures from
the air. TO be examined for the purpose
of determining the most suitable loca-
ton for the proposed laboratory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
STUNTING OVER CROWDS
is BARRED BY AIR RULES
Department of Commerce Official
Warns Pilots Flying Above
Foot Ball Assemblages.

Gilbert G. Budwig. director of licens-
ing and inspection for the aeronautics
branch of the Department of Com
merce, today issued warning that
stunt flying over assemblages at foot
ball games IS violation of the air rules.
pilots are asked to remember" he
said, that air traflc rules expressly
prohibit the flying OF aircraft over the
congested parts Of cities, towns or set
Elements except at height suficient to
permit of a reasonably safe emergency
landing. which in no case shall be less
than ], 1000 feet.
THE air commerce regulations Of the
Department of Commerce state specific
ally that no flight under 1000 feet in
height shall be made over any cpen-air
assembly of persons except with the
consent of the Secretary Of Commerce,
and that no person shall fly an aircraft
alphabetically or through any intentional
maneuvers not necessary to air naviga-
tion, over any foot ball game or other
open-air assembly of persons, at any
altitude
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
PILOT GIVEN MODEL.

Walter Shaffer, Pitcairn airmal pilot
on the New Washington run of
the New York-Atlanta mail line, has
been presented a scale model of his
Mailwing plane, built by George Kolb,
noted for his accurate airplane models.
The model is true in all its details,
even to the crow Shaffer has painted on
his vertical stabilizer. Shaffer now is
looking for a house in New York with
a mantel big enough to hold the model.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
Model Aircraft
BY GEORGE w. WATERS.

bit last week during discussion
country to listen
| attentvely to model plane pilots doing
transatlantic
aviation committee
possible method OF
model the CITY,
Chambers Assistance
Chamber Commerce
Model Aircraft League,
Community Department of Public Schools in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
EXHIBIT OF AIR PRINTS.
Guggenheim Data Will Be Dis.
played at Baltimore Show.

BALTIMORE, November 23.-The
large collection of aviation prints gath
cred by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund
for the Promotion of Aeronautics is to
be placed on display at the Baltimore
aircraft show. according to an an
nouncement by DR.. Hugh II. Young,
chairman of the advisory committee,
which is staging the exhibition.
With the prints, which depict the
growth of aviation since its inception.
the Guggenheim Fund is lending the
show management a complete list of
aircraft publications since the fund was
founded. DR.. Young said The Guggen-
helm Fund includes among its offlcials-
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Oryille
Wright and Dwight W. Morrow.