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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-27
OPEN BIDS TODAY
FOR HUGE BUILDING
Commerce Department Home
Listed as Largest Federal
Structure of Record.

Bids for construction of the Depart
ment of Commerce Building, tn largest
structure to be erected by the Federal
Government in the United States, were
scheduled to be open at 3 o'clock this
afternoon in the office of the supervising
architect of the Treasury Department.
Keenest interest in this great project
has been aroused in the construction
industry, and 1t waS expected that when
sealed bids were opened, the Office on
the fourth floor of the Treasury would
be damned.
Up to noon today not single bid had
been received. as it is customary for
bidders never to trust to the mails such
important offers. but to send them by
officials to the Office of the supervising
architect.
1t was recalled today that bids for
the great Internal Revenue Building,
which Congress authorized to cost not
more than $l0.000,000. were not receiv-
ed until ! O'Clock of the day when bids
were to be opened at 3 o'clock.
Building Embraces Seven Stories.
The Department of Commerce Build
ing, which will be longer than the
United States Capitol, Is to rise seven
stories on the site bounded by r anG
E. Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets.
The building will be more than 1000
feet long by $50 feet wide, with an
exterior of granite and limestone. 1t
will have running under it two wide
traffic arteries providing vehicular EN-
trance from Fifteenth street under the
building. to what will be the Grand
Plaza 10 the east.
The foundations for the building are
rapidly approaching completion under
contract by the Consolidated En-
cheering Co, which, Treasury officials
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FRED ]. EDEN GIVEN
BANKRUPTCY POST

Fred J. Eden. Washington attorney,
was appointed referee in bankruptcy for
the District yesterday by Chief. Justice
Walter I. Mccoy of the District Su-
preme Court.
Mr.. Eden succeeds Ralph Quinter,
who resigned as referee after IA years
of service IN that capacity. Chief JUS
tice Mccoy reluctantly accepted his
resignation and in doing so referred in
terms of appreciation to Mr.. Quinters
long and efficient service to the District.
The newly named referee is SO years
OLD and is believed 10 be the youngest
man ever to hold that office. He was
graduated from the George Washington
University School of Law in 1923 with
the degree of bachelor of laws and the
following February was admitted to the
District bar.
Mr.. Eden at one time was assistant
TO the general counsel of the American
Short Line Railroad Association. Since
1926 he has been associated with the
law firm of Brandenburg & Branden-
burg. but recently opened law Offices of
his own in the International Building.
Born at Pekin, ILL.,, Mr.. Eden was
educated in the public schools in that
State and at Hope College, Holland,
Mich. He has been resident of the
District since 1917. When the United
States entered the World War, soon after
his arrival here, he enlisted in the Army
and served for a year in France. At
the close of hostilties he returned to
Washington with the intention of start
ing upon legal career.
Mr.. Eden Is married and resides at
Ashton Heights, Md.
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NIGHT CLUB RA|DED
BY VICE SQUAD
Undercover Policeman Acts
as Bohemia" Doorman.
Women Arrested.

No patron knew just what, but some
thing was wrong at the night club
Bohemia last night. Customers of the
cnlored resort near Eleventh and .
streets stood idly about the dance floor
oppressed by the lack of gaiety.
For che thing, the jazz band sat inert
saxaphones mute and drum sticks idle
For another, stranger, was acting as
doorman. Puzzled patrons heSitated at
the door. only to be thrust inside by the
new man on the gate.
The Bohemias host. acting under
orders. was doing his best TO carry on.
but the atmosphere of the place was
thick with gloom.
AT one of the tables sat Sergt. Oscar
J. Letterman of the vice squad. Beside
him were officers Richard j. Cox and
George c. McCarron: the doorman was
an undercover colored policeman. Stag
ing a raid, they had told attendants
at the club to go ahead with the en-
tertainment program as usual, While
they awaited the arrival of d man said
10 be one of the operators Of the place.
He failed to appear, but the police
finally satisfied that others they wanted
Jones. 38 years old. colored, as the
manager Jones, who lives in the 1900
block of Vernon street, was charged
with sale and possession. since the I'M
6erccver man, police claim, had made
two purchases.
Lowe Wills. 10, tap dancer. of the
500 block OF Euclid street, was also
charged with sale and possession;
Madeline Christian. 80. Of the 1900
block of Ninth street. was charged with
possession, as was Thelma Poynter, 81,
Of the 1900 block of Milburg street.
Eleanore Blalock, 10, of the 1400 block
of I street, said TO have resisted when
the doorman told her to join the party,
was charged with disorderly conduct.
All five defendants, who are colored,
were booked at No. precinct.
Police say they found 10 one-half
pint bottles of liquor in the kitchen
bread box, carefully wrapped.
Comforting with Capt. H. w. circuit,
Assistant U. S. Attorney R. F. Gambler
decided to attempt to indict the club
as a corporation. If successful. it will
be the first time that an organization
of this kind has been indicted for such
violations Gambler said.
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NINE SLIGHTLY HURT
IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Four of Victims, Including Two
Children, Injured in Collision
at Fourth and II Northeast.

Nine persons sustained minor injuries
in traffic accidents yesterday afternoon
and last night, four being hurt in one
collision.
Two machines. one driven by Royce
II. McDevitt 20 years old, of 629 Florida
avenue northeast, and the other by
Theodore Hubers, SO years old, of 207
Cromwell Torrance northeast, collided
at Fourth and H streets northeast last
night. Rozer Wilson, 81 years old; Mrs.
Carmania Hubers. "a years old: Alice
Hubers II years old and Thomas
Hubers, aged 3. all of the Cromwell!
Terrace address and passengers in the
second car, were slightly hurt They
were given hospital treatment and then
allowed to return home.
Mrs. Elizabeth Weigland, So years cad.
OF 465 Maryland avenue southwest. was
struck by an automobile while crossing
Maryland avenue at Four land La Half
street last night. James Smith of 409
A street southeast, the driver of the
car. took her to her home where she
was treated by her family physician.
Others slightly injured include Charles
P. Farrer, colored. "a years old, of 321
B street northeast; ArriZe Station. COL
ored, 20 years old, of the same address:
Alfonso Brice, colored. of 528 Twenty
sixth street, and Sarah Anderson, col
ored, go years old, of 1923 Twelfth
street.
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said today, was at least two weeks
ahead of schedule in progress of work
Construction Expected.
The opening of bids before compile
ton of the foundation is expected to
facilitate normal construction, as the
Government will be able, unless unfore-
seen complications arise, to let the con-
tract and authorize the builder of the
supcrstructure to proceed as soon as
the foundation workers are out of the
way.
Congress authorized the Department
of Commerce Building to cost SIT, 500.-
600, a higher cost than that fixed for
any other single building in the Gov
ernment's construction program. This
amount is available for the building
itself with no cost for the site. as the
ground was owned by the Government.
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Skipper Luckett
Only Man to Lose
Job on Mayfower

Capt. william E. Luckett.
civilian skipper of the Mayflower,
former presidential yacht. last
night told the Southeast Citizens
Association he was the only man
who lost a job when the Presi-
dent decided to decommission the
vessel.
But I am lucky" he said.
Nov ! will have Saturdays and
Sundays to myself, instead of
being held in readiness to take
cruise every week end, whether
the President goes or not"
Capt. Luckett is civilian pilot
for the Navy Yard and gets paid
by the job. Last year he made
SITS in plotting the Mayfiower
for President Coolidge. He has
been the Mayflower's Potomac
River pilot for 81 years.
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EXPOSITION PLANS LAID.
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Prepares for October Show.

Arrangements for promoting the fifth
annual industrial exposition of the
Washington Chamber of Commerce, to
be staged at the Washington Audito-
rum the week of October 81, were dis
cussed at meeting of the executive
committee in charge yesterday.
Charles w. Darr chamber president,
who is chairman of the exposition COM
mittee. announced that contract had
been signed with the Auditorium cor
poration and that Alfred f. Stern had
peen employed to allot space for ex-
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hibitors. Dorsey w. Hyde, jr., chamber
secretary, is preparing an industrial ex-
position handbook.
Rudolph Jose, vice chairman of the
committee, reported plans for publicity
Tor the exposition.
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GIANT D|R|G|BLES
ARE DESCRIBED
Two Airships to Be Suited
for Commercial Use, Dr..
ArnStein Says.

Specifications of the two rigid air
ships, each Of which exceeds the Graf
zeppelins gas capacity by rs per cent,
now being built for the United States
Navy at Akron. Ohio, are desc -ibed by
DR.. Karl Arnstein Of the Goodyear
Zeppelin Corporation.
They will be of a size and type emf
nently suitable for a long-distance
commercial vehicle. They are to be
helium inflated and have gas capacity
Of 6,500,00 cubic feet.
This size of helium ship is compar-
able with hydrogen ships of a
little less than 100000 cubic feet ca
pacity. This difference in capacity is
explained by the lower lifting power of
helium and the necessity of initiating
the bags only so much that no gas will
be lost as a result Of subsequent ex-
pansion in maneuvering.
The structural features of such a
ship as this could easily be incorpo-
rated into a commercial mail and pas
airship. The general
data for a passenger ship of this gas
capacity would be as follows: Over all
length, 785 feet; maximum diameter,
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j. S.LEADS WORLD
IN NIGHT FLYING
$1,000 Miles Flown Over
Dark Always Every "a
Hours, Expert Says.

The United States is leading the
world in night flying, with more than
$4,000 miles flown over dark airwayS in
all kinds Of weather every night, F. c.
Hingsburg, chief engineer of the Air
ways Division of the Department OF
Commerce, told the airport section of
the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
at the first annual convention in Cleve-
land last week.
Terminal airports with adequate light
ing facilities Of the latest design are es-
sential to assure that every landing will
be safe one, he pointed out. adding.
bad weather, delayed schedules or a
forced landing may cause delays, and
airplanes may arrive at the airport at
any time, night or day"
Workings Explained.
The anyways towers, revolving beacons
and their installation, boundary lights,
obstruction lights, wind indicators, flood
lights for hangers, group reflector lights
and the various assortment of apparatus
used by airports for night flying were
explained in detail by the Department
of Commerce engineer.
Hingsburg also dealt with the fog
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IS OCEAN FLIGHTS
SLATED IN SUMMER
British DirigibIes to Try At
IantiC CruiSe-PIane
Pilots Prepare.


Thirteen transoceanic flights sched-
uled to be carried out during the next
five months, promise to provide AVA
ton enthusiasts the most spectacular
Night season in history
The Atlantic, already conquered by
more than a dozen flyers, again holds
the center of attention with II OF the
10 transocean!c flights planned to span
its broad eXpanSe.
The British are putting the finishing
touches on their leviathans OF the air,
dirigibles RICO and R-10l, both slated
for transatlantic crossing this Summer.
Cramer Again to Try Flight.
Parker Cramer, who, with Bert Has
sell, ended 1928 fight attempt In
Greenland is laying plans for another
Stockholm flight by way Of Greenland
and Iceland for late Summer.
Three Frenchmen, Rene lie Fevre, M.
A. Lott and Jean AsSolant, are in New
York completing their plans for trans
atlantic flight in June which may carry
them over Paris with Moscow as their
goal.
Can't. Hermann Koehl and Col. James
Fitzmaurice, who with the late Baron
Won Huenfeld made an eaSt-weSt hop
across the Atlantic last year, are pre-
pairing to make flight from Berlin to
New York this Summer by way of Lis
bon. Portugal and the Azores, using
other planes to refuel them IN flight.
Norwegian Girl to Take Air.
Miss Dagnya Berger, fair-haired Nor
wegian aviatrix, plans a flight from
New York to her homeland across the
Atlantic this Summer, while Capt. A.
Ahrenberg of Sweden is preparing for a
hop to the United States by northerly
route.
Three Italian planes are being
groomed for transatlantic hops. A
Savoia Marchetti S-64. similar to that
used by Arturo Ferrarin in establishing
the world endurance nonstop record
will take off with enough gasoline to
fly more than 100 hours. 1t will ny
from Rome to New York and continue
westward across the United States I'M
til its fuel supply is exhausted.
Flying Boat Plans Attempt.
A four-engined flying boat con-
structed by G. Rossi, pioneer italian
designer and aviator, Is destined for
transatlantic fight. It Is almost COM
pleted at Bracciona, near Rome.
A Caproni plane equipped with four
engines has been purchased by the
Polish government to be flown across
the ocean by a crew Of six Polish flyers.
Lieut.. Harold Bromley, Canadian war
flyer, plans a nonstop solo flight from
Tacoma, Wash, to Toxic, Japan, IN
June.
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YOUTH WITH AIR SPEED RECORD
TO JOIN JENSEN FIRM STAFF
A. S. Reynolds, Georgetown
Student, to E ant
Manager.
Began Aviation Career at
Age of IA, Doing
Stunt Flying.

Alfred S. Reynolds, who began his
aviation career at the age of IA, doing
stunt flying, and who recently entered
Georgetown University Foreign Service
School to begin a career with the Gov
eminent, will become assistant general
manager and a director in the Jensen
Aircraft & Marine Corporation, as soon
as the present term of the Foreign Serv-
ice School closes, he announced today.
In his new position, which he will
take up in about two weeks, Reynolds
will rejoin his buddy" of the stunt
flying and transforming days, Martin
Jensen, holder of the world endurance
record, for solo flight and one of those
who competed in the Dole fight from
Oakland, Calf, to Hawaii.
The Jensen firm, just organized,
plans, according to Reynolds, to manu-
facture planes designed by Jensen, to
operate transport planes and to deal in
airplane parts.
Reynolds will be 81 years old in June.
He has had more than 900 hours of
actual flying time, and while he has
been in Washington he has been flying,
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problem, against which, he said, lights
are ineffective. Using the Cleveland
New York radio flying course for an ex-
ample, he said the conventional pat
tern OF the directional radio beacon
range IS used at Cleveland to mark
east and west courses of the Transcon-
tinental from Cleveland. At Bellefonte
the pattern has been warped by use of
a vertical antenna in conjunction with
each conjunctional loop, and the radio
course is bent to mark the axis Of the
lighted airway. At Hadley Field the
strength of the signal from one of the
loops was cut down by resistance and
the pattern and interlock altered to
radio mark the courses leading 10
Washington and Hartford, in addition
to the tranScontinental airway.
Follows Radio Course.
"The pilot follows the radio marked
course over the lighted airway and is
on his course when he hears the con-
tinuous stream of long dashes. Should
he drift off the course, the pilot loses
the signal from one of the loops and
hears the dot dash or dash dot char
acteriStic of the beacon and pulls back
on the course The pilot Is thus en-
abled to fly blindly through the storm
tossed atmosphere high above the fog
enveloped earth il he knows with GER
tainty that a definite distance ahead
there are clear skies or that safe
landing can be made
Hingsburg also stressed the value of
weather reports. both those issued at
the Weather Bureau and those dis
tributed by the individual airports.
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EXECUTING MODEL
OF 1895 AIRPLANE
Glider That Sailed in Florida Glor'
ifed by Original Builder
:, From Memory.

NEW SMYRNA, Fla, May 10 Dr.
Gabriel Gomez is spending much Of his
time in his workshop here fashioning
from memory model Of the first air
plane that ever few in Florida.
Gomez built the plane in 1895 at the
request of a Northern capitalist and
engineer. The project was clothed in
secrecy and carried out behind closed
doors.
The plane was of the glider type, with
no engine, but with wings similar to
those Of aircraft used today. The
frame was entirely of wood, encased in
fine cloth. The wing spread was 20
feet by z feet.
The tryout was held at what was
then known as North Beach, now called
Vilano Beach or Surfside. The owner,
builder and two others were the only
witnesses. The plane scared upward
for about 10 feet, was caught in q
gust of wind and crashed down, break
ing In two.
The experimenter, as yet unidentified.
was satisfied with the test. Gomez does
not remember his name.
A complete model Of the plane OF
earlier days is to be made by Gomez
and presented to the historical society
at st. Augustine.
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PLANES TOST.LOU|S
FOR GARDNER CUP
Will Roar From Five DireC-
~. tins for Big Race on
May 20.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, May 18.-From five di-
rections, commercial airplaneS will
speed here May % to inaugurate the
first Gardner Cup race, intended to be
to aviation what the Indianapolis 500
mile race is to automobiles.
More than so planes have been
entered in the five preliminary races
from different sections of the country,
the first and second finishers of which
will be eligible for the finals from ST.
Louis to indianapolis and return May 80
The thousands of spectators at the
indianapolis motor race will be given
an added thrill by the Gardner Cup
racers, who will roar around the speed
way while the motor race is in progress.
The speedway will be the halfway
mark for the flyers in their 480-mile
event.
The Gardner race will be one of the
three principal events of the Aviation
niversary of Lindberghs New York
Paris flight will be observed.
The other events are the annual
convention of the aeronautic division
of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, and an aircraft show for the
manufacturers of commercial and mill
tary planes.
The Gardner Cup race, sponsored by
Russell e. Gardner, jr., and Fred w.
Gardner, motor car manufacturers, and
sanctioned by the National Aeronautic
Association, offers prizes totaling
$4,000 to commercial flyers, In addi-
ton to the Gardner trophy.
Prizes of $3.50 and $3.50 are offered
in each of the five preliminary races
starting from Buffalo, N. Y; Jackson
vile, Fla: Fargo, N. Oak; Denver, and
San Antonio, and ending at Parks air
port at East st. Louis May %.
The 10 prize winners in the races will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19
Triple Chute Pull
To Check Plunge
Of Plane Devised

SAN DIEGO, Calf, May 49,
A triple suspension parachute sys-
tenn designed to permit disabled air.
planes to glide to earth on an even
keel has been patented by two local
inventors.
The invention provides for para
chutes on each wing tip and on the
fuselage, stored in streamlined
chambers to cut down wind resist
ance when the plane is in normal
flight.
If plane becomes disabled while
aloft the parachutes would be re-
leased by a leve-' in the cockpit.
William j. Hall and Cyrus Field
Willard, to whom the patent was is
sued, state that the parachutes are
not intended to support the whole
weight of the plane, but are in
tended to stabilize it and utilize the
wing surfaces to retard the down.
ward flight.
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without accident, and the latest ex.
President of the United States pre-.
scented it to him. He teaches aeronau.
tics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He chose HUPMOBILE
not alone on its magnificent repu.
tation, its obvious style and beauty,
itsspeed and power, or even its new
price allure, but on the quality his
expert eyes could see at glance!
Look at these HUPMOBILEs more
attractive than ever now at reduced
prices. Take one down the boulevard
and up the road. Watch it get away in
traffic. Push it up to the other side
of sixty. Step down on its steeldraulic
brakes and know what safety means!
Study its style, its lean, clean lines
). and you'll find yourself writing
testimonials too.
Come to the HUPMOBILE show
room, and arrange for demonstra-
ton today!
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1873 feet: overall width, 1873 feet; over
all height, lat feet; f1neness ratio, So:
nominal gas capacity. 100000 cubic
feet; dead weight, 10000 pounds; to-
tai lift, 100000 pounds; useful lift.
10000 pounds: maximum power, 1900
horsepowe': maximum speed, 81 miles
per hour; cruising speed, rs miles per
hour.
The range Of the ship, while carry
ing 40 passengers, $4,000 pounds Of
mail and express freight, in addition to
4,700 miles at top speed. 6,100 miles at
cruising speed of rs miles per hour
and 10000 miles at cruising speed Of
60 miles per hOu'
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TWO UNIQUE DEVICES
IN ALTITUDE RECORD
Lieut.. Soucek Employed Unusual
Paragraphs for Data on Vary
ing Air Pressure.

BALTIMORE, Md, May 18.-In es-
tablishing a new world altitude record
of 10000 feet at the Anacostia Naval
Air Station on May 8, Lieut.. Soucek OF
the United States Navy utilized two
unique paragraphs. each employing
sylphon vacuum chamber for recording
the varying air pressure. These oaro-
prophs were designed to record eleva-
lions as high as $1,000 feet upon an
open scale.
Among other features incorporated
in the Paragraphs employed by Lieut..
Soucek were a simple range-changing
and pen adjustment device, which
marked the various readings upon q
smoked chart rather than on the ordl-
nary paper utilizing an ink tracing
This was done in order to avoid any
possibility of the ink fluid freezing at
the extreme temperatures which Lieut..
Soucek encountered.
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Lindbergh Aggressive Business Man
Two Years After Bashfu1 Hero Act

Always, Inc; he is trustee of the
Daniel Guggenheim fund for the pro-
motion of aeronautics. q member of the
subcommittee on problems of air navi-
CATION Of the National Advisory Com
mittee for Aeronautics; an adviser of
the aeronautics branch of the Depart
ment of Commerce. and, among other
things, a director Of an airplane COM
pany or two.
wherever he goes, and his work re-
quires that he go many places, Lind
bergh still is besieged by admiring
throngs.
Although he rejected get-rich-quick
offers totaling millions OF dollars which
poured in upon him after his fight to
Paris, Lindbergh has acquired fortune
estimated at more than $1,000.000
through his writings, prizes and awards,
gifts and business connections. His
salary with the T. A. T. alone amounts
to 5000 q year.