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The Washington times., 1930-06-03
DEAIrEI NOTICES
DEATHS

ARMsTKONG, JUDGE sTEPHEN A.-01
Monday June ID, 1880, az the stanton
Park SanltarIum, JUDGE STEPHEN A.
ARMSTRONG. aged 81 years. Rem aims
resting IN the chapel of J wm Lees Sons.
332 Pa. Ave n. W, until 5 80 o'clock
2. m. Tuesday, June Interment at
celina. Ohio
Butler, HARRY LARM0ND-PasSed
away on Monday, June 2 1880. at the
residence Of his sister. Mrs. Clarence Z.
Stanford. COS c ST. N z. HARRY LAR.
MOND BUTLER, the beloved son OF Mary
and the late Nathan Butler
Funeral services Will be conducted. on
Tuesday evening, June 5, 1880 at 7 80
clock, from the residence, 903 ST. y. E.
Interment Will follow at Orange. Virginia.
Relatives and friends are invited TO attend.
SLOAT, EMMA JEAN-Passed away on
Monday morning, June 2, 1880, at 8
o'clock. at Walter Reed Hospital, EMMA
JEAN SLOAT the beloved wife Of the late
Jesse 3. Sloat, IN the eighty sixth year of
her age She ls survived by three children,
one daughter. Mrs. Beulah D. Foulke. and
two sons. Theodore D. sloat and Major
J. Irving Sloat
Funeral services will be conducted from
her late residence. Fontanent Courts. Four.
teenth and Paramount Streets Northwest,
on Wednesday afternoon, June 4, 1880, at
2 30 clock. Interment will follow at Glen
wood Cemetery. Relatives and friends are
invited TO attend
The Washington times., 1930-06-03
JUDGE S. A. ARMSTRONG

Judge Stephen A. Armstrong.
late of the Court of Common
Pleas of Ohio, died yesterday
in Stanton Park Hospital at the
age of 81. He had been living
here for the past several months
with his son and daughter-in-
law. Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen A.
Armstrong, jr., at 1410 M st.
N. w.
The body will remain at the
funeral parlors Of J. William Lee
until tonight, when it will be
sent to Cellna, Ohio, for burial.
Rosanp slater, II years. 1871 ALI
Nellie B. Eek. s5 years Casualty
James L. Hart 81 years. 12M Sew
Max chernlkott'S4 years. 900 st,
n. E
Annie G. Hreanan. 58 years. All ALI
son ST. y. W.
Walter F. Eek. 40 years. Casualty
Charles J. Fisher, 40 years Provl
Philip Fitzpatrick. AZ years. U. ,
Veterans Hospital
Amanda Powell, 81 years. 45to Eads
St N E
Ella Settle, 81 years. 500 Forty.
Washington Johnson. SO years Freed
mems Hospital
Francis Green. 55 years. G4llinser
natalie Ward. years chndrens
COILS Wise. months, chtIdrens
Hospital
The Washington times., 1930-06-03
Real Estate
WATERFRONT PROPERTY sO,l

PINES S-ON-SEVERN
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4-ROOM BUNGALOW. newly completely
furnished all convenlences; adjoining
Shelton Park Herald Harhor. owner has
purchased larger BUNGALOW Price SO 900.
terms reas Nat. @6@1.
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SCHOOL BOARD MEETS

The Board of Education wiz
meet tomorrow afternoon at 3::3
in the Franklin Administration
Building.
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OCEAN CITY. MD.
COTTAGES AND APARTMENTS
FOR RENT

Two large apartments and one cottaEe-
all that's left on Boardwalk. Others avail
able on side streets near front Will rent
by season. month or week Four hotels
for sale, owners wish to retire. Write
for lst and prices. l. 5 MTMFORD
OCEAN CITY Nd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
MODERN AIRCRAFT
SOON ON DISPLAY
Large Exhibit Proposed as
Feature of st. Louis Expo
sition in February.

ST. LOUIS R-The aviation In
dustry's "take-off" for 1880 will be
signalized in the International Air
craft Exposition by the largest single
display of ultra-modern aircraft ever
exhibited.
Problems Of merchandising these
latest creations for sky travel will stand
to the forefront as leading figures in
aviation gather in St. Louis from Feb
ruary IS to % for the industry's sec
ond world fair"
Speed Outstanding Feature.
Speed will be the mark of many new
designs. Chief among the design trends
will be wider use of N. A. c. A. cowling,
the "dishpan nose" whose application
will be typifed in a Boeing 18-pas-
senger plane, first tri-motored craft to
carry the cowling; the Lockheed Sirius,
production model of Col. Lindbergh's
new ship, and the Travel Air mystery
Ship swift sport plane.
About 100 of the newest, SpeedieSt
vehicles yet devised by man to conquer
time and space will be exhibited by
nearly 80 aircraft manufacturers. More
than 200 exhibitors will display &C
cessory products.
st. Louis huge arena will house the
prize products Of aeronautlcal en-
cheering. The show will be sponsored
by the Aeronautical Chamber of Com
merce of America.
Trend of Industry Considered.
The trend of the industry in all It's
phases will be considered at allied
meetings of the Society of Automotive
Engineers, Government officials, COM
mercial airplane and motor manufac-
turers. and sections of the aeronautical
chamber.
Special sessions of executives viii Nbe
held for manufacturing, air transport,
flying schools, distributors, airports, and
materials, to outline constructive pro-
grams for future aviation development.
The exposition, covering nearly $780,
600 square feet of space, will be sup
plemented each night by pageant de-
plotting history of transportation from
its earliest beginning to most modern
developments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
INTERFERENCE OF PLANE
WINGS Is MEASURED
Wind Tunnel Tests Show Reduc-
ton of Efficiency of Only
/ to 8 Per Cent.

The interference of airplane wings
whether of the monoplane or biplane
type, to the motor slipstream from a
nose motor causes a reduction of en-
CINE and propeller efficiency of only
from l to 3 per cent, 1t has been reveal
ed by wind-tunnel tests conducted by
the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va.
The tests show that this reduction of
propulSive efficiency was experienced
both with monoplane and biplane wings
tested with cabin and open-cockpit
fuselages. The loss in efficiency. was
slightly greater at high propeller pitch
settings. About the same loss was caus-
ed by the monoplane wing as by the BIZ
plane wings.
The tests we're conducted in the 20
foot propeller research tunnel with full
scale models equipped with standard
metal propeller and Whirlwind engine.
Fred e. Weick and Donald H. Wood
were In charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
ADVANTAGES OF WING
DESIGNS ARE STUDIED
Space Between Plane Surface
Found Unnecessary to
Efficiency.

The advantages of leaving space
between an airplane wing and the top
of the fuselage are not as great as many
designers seem to believe, it is indicated
by tests made by students of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology and
published in a technical note of the
National Advisory Committee for Aero
nautics.
The study indicates that except for
an unimportant shift in zero lift, the
lift will probably be only slightly affect
ed by extending the fuselage up to
connect with the wing or by changing
from high-wing to a parasol-wing
type.
The drag apparently is little changed
by closing the gap between the wing
and fuselage If changed at all, it will
be changed favorably or decreased, the
report indicates. The tests did not re-
suit favorably for the parasol type of
wing, which is mounted on struts above
the fuselage. 1t is pointed out, how
ever, that the conclusions are to be con-
sidered as indicative rather than abso-
Lutte.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19

servation window with two sets OF nom
SCATTERING glass allows the men in the
control room to see the engine. The
front and rear of the torque room,
when the engine Is running, are open
to the air and are protected by two
sets of heavy wire mesh, fastened about
an inch apart.
Apparently strange things sometimes
occur. Ice. with the atmosphere 20
degrees above the freezing point will
form in the carburetor intake, choking
up the opening SO that the speed is
reduced 1t is perhaps not obvious at
first, but the carburetor acts as double
refrigerating machine. First the air is
cooled by expansion as it is sucked in.
Then the vaporizstion of the gasoline
absorbs more heat and. under proper
conditions, the total cooling will be
great enough to condense and freeze
moisture in the air.
Fifty hours is not much time on an
engine. 1t is not the object Of the
test to wear an engine out. 1t Is to
determine weak structural parts, poor
quality Of cams. gears, and poor de-
sign of the lubricating system or of
the cooling fms. Any parts which
show excessive wear are required to
be redesigned or built of different ma
terial.
field now Is rife. After watching the
rise of the automobile industry, little
vision is required to see the possibilities
of this latest and fastest of our car
riers. Though it will take quantity
production to put the airplane In the
class of the automobile, few planes or
engines warrant this at PRESENT.
However, a sufficient number Of re-
liable engines are available for the
present plane output, and with the
large amount of experimental work
being done, there is reason to believe
that better designed, more reliable and
time the pilots are trained and the
landing fields made available.
Twenty-Five years ago the following
appeared in Washington paper:
Trips through Washington and Mount
Vernon cost SO an hour. Trips are
conducted by expert drivers. Stringent
tests we're necessary before the chauf-
feur was permitted to drive the ma
chine."
Automobiles were more of a novelty
then than airplanes are today. Out in
planes for the Ryan Aircraft Corpora
ton. During his life as a test pilot,
he once lost his engine and twice had
the wings break loose. But, in his
present work, he feels SO sure of the
planes coming out of the production
line that he has abandoned the use of
his parachute.
Yet airplane crashes are still rare
enough so that newspapers feature
them But in spite of much unfavor-
able publicity airmindedness is stead
lily increasing People are beginning to
buy planes. Prices are still too high
for the average income but construc-
ton is being improved, strengthened
and cheapened. The time Is approach
ing when the masses will take to the
sky roads with the same Gag ,rness with
which they took to the highways a
few years ago.
Engine manufacturers are trying to
anticipate this and be ready when the
time comes. 1t seems quite possible
at the present rate of development that
good engines will be plentiful before
landing fields.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
PITCAIRN COMPANY
NAME is CHANGED
North American Aviation, Inc.
Buys Airmail Route From
New York to Miami.

Changing of the company name Of
Pitcairn Aviation, Inc, operators of the
Government contract airmail service
from New York to Miami. through. the
National Capital, to Eastern Air Trans
port, Inc, has been announced to the
Post Office Department.
The change Is result of the pur-
chase of the airmail route from Harold
F.. Pitcairn by North American Avia-
ton, Inc. including the great Keys
Curtiss group. The new name was Sc
lected as representative of the territory
served by the line and as conforming
with those of the National Air Trans
port Inc, and TranScontinental Air
Transport, with which the Keys or
ganization also Is identified.
Only minor reorganization has been
put into effect since the Pitcairn line
was taken over by the North American
group and, except for improvements
and additions incident to the normal
growth of business, it was announced.
no further changes are contemplated
for the near future.
Mr.. Pitcairn still retains control of
his other aviation interests. including
Pitcairn Aircraft, Inc, manufacturers
of airplanes and the autogiro: Pitcairn
Cierva Autogiro Co. of America and
Pitcairn Aviation of Pennsylvania, Inc,
operators of Pitcairn Field at Halo
well, Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
BALTIMORE SPEEDS
AIRPORT PROJECTS.
Municipal Field, However, Is
Not Expected to Be Com
pIeted for Years.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, January 18.-Three
major airport projects in Baltimore are
progressing rapidly, with promise that
two will be in operation by Spring.
Possibly the largest project, that OF
the municipal airport, will not be ready
for several years, as it is necessary. to
fill in millions of cubic yards of harbor
front.
On the other two projects, however,
officials say that April will find the
fields in operation. They are the new
Curtiss- Wright airport being developed
Just outside the north lines OF the city,
and the East Coast Always, Inc, ter
minus on the water front.
Plan Six Hangers.
At the Curtiss- Wright airport two
hangers have been completed and the
grading and leveling of the field is
nearing completion.
officials said they hoped to land
planes on the field by February /, where
they will be stored until Spring. Actual
flying activities, however, will not be
started until April or May, they said.
Completion of the project, which in
cludes six hangers, passenger termi-
nal building and several other buildings,
will not be completed for several years.
The East Coast Always, Inc, field
will afford landing facilities for am
phibions and seaplaneS only. 1t will
include a passenger station and several
hangers.
will Use 17-Place Ships.
1t is understood that the port is being
developed as a Baltimore terminus OF
an airline TO be extended to Miami, Fla,
and other Southern cities. Large, IT.
place flying boats will be used on the
line and will operate from the port. Ac-
cording to Alfred Gieske, president of
The company, tentative plans are to have
the field ready and have the line in OPP
Grafton by April /.
According to Walter Hammond, city
building engineer who has charge of
the new municipal airport at Dundalk.
the driving of piling at the site is still
in progress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
MAIL PILOTS SET
NEW SPEED MARKS
Wichita Chicago Run Is Made
at Average Gait of 208.8
Miles Per Hour.

Aided by bowling Winter winds,
pilots on the transcontinental ana
Texas Chicago lines of National Air
Transport have greeted the new year
with an orgy of speed records which
leave all but one of the old divisional
records broken, according to reports
received here by postal officials.
The first records fell on the night
of January 5, when the mail was flown
from Dallas to Chicago, 995 miles, In
hours and 20 minutes at an average
speed of 1877 miles per hour. The Dali
las-Kansas City division, a distance OF
SAL miles, was flown by Pilot James d.
Cleveland in 8 hours and 10 minutes
beating the previous record OF hours
made by Pilot Richard L. Dobie few
days before. s.:s
Radoll took over the mail and new the
asa miles to Chicago in 2 hours ana
10 minutes, new record for the dlyl-
sion. He made the last $50 miles, from
Moline to Chicago, in so minutes. at a
speed of 100 miles per hour.
The highest speed registered was be-
tween Wichita and Chicago. the 62!
miles being flown at en average speed
of 208.8 miles per hour.
On the Chicago-New York division,
Pilots Dan Linsey and S. J. Samson
took the mail through in hours and
IS minutes, at an average speed OF $50
miles per hour, breaking the previous
record of 4 hours and so minutes. On
another flight, Pilot Henry ]. Brown
carried the mail over the Cleveland
New York section in 2 hours and 10
minutes, at an average speed of more
than 3 miles per minute. He broke
the previous record of hours and Id
minutes, which had stood since March
8, 1928, when it was hung up by Pilot
Earl Ward.
On day run from Dallas to Chi
cago, Pilots Lewis M. Gravis and Paul
Recder set a new record of S hours and
IS minutes. The only National Air
Transport record which has not been
smashed during the first part of this
month is that OF Pilot Robert P. Hop
kins, who year ago flew the 318-nile
Chicago section in 100 min
utes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
AVIATION CORPORATION
CARRIES HEAVY TRAFFIC
More Than Third of Total Mileage
Is Flown by Its
Planes.

More than one-third of the esti-
mated total of scheduled air transport
mileage flown during 1929 was flown by
airplanes of the Aviation Corporation
system in regular airmail, passenger
and express service, according to a re-
port received here. The report shows
that planes of the corporations subsid-
larry lines few 5,657 ,929 miles In sched-
uled operation, as compared with the
Department of Commerce estimate OF
16,000,000 miles for all scheduled opera
tons In the United States.
The greater part Of the mileage was
flown over the IL contract airmaiI
routes operated by the corporations
subsidiaries. total of 3,332,70 miles.
Passenger planes of the system few
2.30l ,22l miles, carrying a total OF
2O,659 passengers over regularly sched-
uled lines. These operations, however,
represent only a part of the year, as
several OF them we're not started until
the Spring or Summer of 1929.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19

The scale model contest for
workmanship, which was to have
been held in the Fall, has been
scheduled for March Z and 8.
Details of the rules, awards and
where the meet will be held will
be announced later. The league
advises scale-model builders to
begin preparation of their ships
for exhibition.
Letter Sent by Walker.
Sammy Walker, the Capital
Model Aero Club pilot, who spends
most of his spare time interrogat-
ing aviatorS at the nearby air.
ports, writes a letter to the COL
umn. It follows:
1.-THE Capital Model Aero Club
held a contest at College Park Air
port last Saturday. The events
were for hand-launched scientific,
fuselage and dynamic models.
owing to the cold weather
there were few flights made.
Frank Salisbury, with his new
fuSelage model, made several good
flights. He also had with him his
compreSSed-air model, which
caused much interest about the
airport. One of the aviators at
the port, upon seeing the model,
said, Tt would be fine If all we real
pilots had to do was to turn a
valve and have the motor start
like this model does
Everett Meeks and I had our
skyrocket models at the meet.
Everett's model stayed in the air
for 3 seconds while mine was bit
luckier and made flight of sec
onds and came to earth whole.
Sullivan and Schmidt Fly.
John Sullivan also made sew
eral good flights. Luther Schmidt
brought along his new plane,
which he calls 'pusher-tractor.'
The new plane made several sue
ceSsful flights.
Frank Salisbury and Joe Pen
dleton have opened a model air
craft supply store on Thirteenth
street just above the Franklin
School,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19

ana class A, minutes 10 quarry.
Stout Cited as Ace.
The advisory board cited Ernest
Stout, one of the Districts leading
pilots, as an ace after he qualified
for that distinction with flight
of 7 minutes 10 is seconds at the
Louisville model aircraft finals
last year. The national commit
tee of that tournament officially
reported the flight to the board.
The Powell Model Aircraft Club
at the Powell Junior High School
was officially recognized by the
advisory board. The Powell club
has membership of As pilots, 16
of whom have. qualified for the
District Model Aircraft League.
Miss Myrtle Moore and Mrs. s.
L. HarrieS were recognized as GER
tifying officials with the author
ity to qualify flyers for the league
and certify the time of flights
made under their observation
The advisory board has the pow
er to cite flyer as an ace for Spe-
cial achievement, while an ace
may be cited a silver ace for Spe-
cial achievement.
The reclassification OF the flyers
comes as good news to the hun
dreds of model pilots here who
have been striving toward this
end.
New Registration Announced.
It was announced that all flyers
must register anew for the 1880
season. League officials said that
registration and new timing can
begin Immediately, but the new
classes will not be recognized I'M
til March 90.
In the meantime, the follow
ing meets will be held at Macfar-
land Community Center, begin
ming at $50 o'clock in the morn
ing:
Contest for hand-launched. sci
entific, baby rise-off- ground and
flying true scale models, January
Is; contest for helicopter, rise Off
ground fuselage and riSe-off wat
er models. February Is, and con-
test March %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
CHEVROLET TO BUILD
AlRPLANE ENGINES
Will Move Experimental Plant
From Indianapolis to Martins
Baltimore Factory.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


BALTIMORE, January ia new
industry will be added to Baltimore's
aircraft operations with the removal OF
the experimental engine plant of the
Chevrolet Aircraft Corporation, sub
sidiary of the Glenn l.. Martin Co..
here, which was ordered at meeting
Of the directors of the latter corpora
ton.
Work of transferring the equipment
of the Chevrolet plant in indianapolis.
Ind, to a unit of the Martin airplane
factory at Middle River WI: be started
Immediately and completed by Febru-
airy Is, MFR. Martin announced. He
said
For the last two years Louis Chew
rolet. former automobile manufacturer,
has been experimenting. with new type
Of an airplane engine.
The engine is ur-cylinder, air.
cooled, inverted power plant. Expert
menIs have progressed SO rapidly the
engine Is now ready for production.
Unit. separate factory e erected
Mr.. Chevrolet will use a section OF our
plant. He viii bring a number Of his
executives here from Indianapolis.
THE addition of this factory prom
ises to be a helpful addition to the
aircraft industry here"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19

chairman of the board of the
New York, Rio and BuenoS Aires
Lines, has just signed orders for
more than $2,300,000 worth of sea-
plane equipment, to be used to
augment its fleet on the 5000
mile route connecting the Amer
icas. This line will pass through
this city and must have Seaplane
airport facilities.
The development of airport ia
cilitieS here should begin immedi-
ately. Both landplane and sea-
plane facilities must be provided
if the National Capital is to bene-
fit from the aviation development
now in progress in this country.
No further excuses or delays
should be countenanced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
FLYING FEAR TESTED.
Air Line Cut Rates to Determine
Cause of Light Travel.

TULSA, Okla. (P).-One air line Is
attempting to determine whether it is
air fear" or the high cost Of plane
travel that is responsible for the COM
paratively slow increase in commercial
air traffic.
Excursion rates, almost as low as train
fares, have been put into effect on
week ends by the Southwest Air Fast
Express on its lines to Kansas City and
Oklahoma City to see how much the
price OF plane travel affects patronage.
Communication books also have been
i5-ucd on the line to Oklahoma City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
NEW LINE TO OPERATE.

LONDON P)-Designs and bids for
the construction of a fleet of 50-pas-
senger flying boats for use on the pro-
posed London-C Cape Town route have
been submitted to the air ministry.
When the new line goes into opera
ton this year travellers will be able to
60 from here to Cape Town in eight
days, as against the II days now re-
quired by fast steamer.
Sir Alan Gotham, veteran of many
British long distance flights, Is working
with the Imperial Anyways IN surveying
the route.