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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
ARMY WILL PRUNE
RESERVE AIR LIST
Juniors Must Qualify as Pilots
or Miss Extended
Active Duty.

The Army Air Corps has begun q
program Of cleaning out the deadwood
from its roster of Reserve pilots and
warning has gone out to all junior air.
plane pilots in the Reserve that they
must qualify as airplane pilots If they
hope to be called for extended active
duty.
Efforts are being made to rate each Of
the 3,018 Air Reserve officers listed by
the Air Corps according to actual fly
ing ability, it has been announced by
the War Department, so that the worth
OF the Reserves can be gagged In case
Of emergency.
OF the 3,o1s Air Reserve officers
holding heavier-than-air pilot ratings,
the War Department has announced,
2,155 hold the junior airplane pilot
rating, while only 1853 hold the higher
rating of airplane pilot.
Undoubtedly many of our 2,l55
junior airplane pilots are capable of
passing the more stringent flight tests
and receiving the airplane pilot rating"
said Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, chief
OF the Air Corps, in discussing the Re
serve situation. Some of them are en-
gagged in commercial aviation and are
very capable pilots, but are neglect
ing to apply for the higher rating.
THE Air Corps has been steadily
eliminating all deadwood among Re-
ServistS and has avoided training those
who have shown they were not receiv-
ing benefit from further flying training.
The Air Corps is just as diligent prop
erly to rate its pilots and give the
advanced rating to those lower-rated
pilots who can qualify for the airplane
pilot rating. In this way the Air Corps
can make reasonable estimate of the
potential worth of its Reserve body In
the event Of national emergency.
I'm addition, it bel1ooves junior air
plane pilots to qualify, If possible, as
airplane pilots, as only the latter will
hereafter be called to extended active
duty with tactical units for a period of
one year."
To be eligible to take flying tests for
the rating of airplane pilot, q Junior
airplane pilot must have had at least
200 hours pilot time, of which rs hours
must have been with no other quail
fed pilot present in the airplane, the
War Department explained. OF the 200
hours, at least 100 hours must have
been in service-type airplanes, powered
with 300 horsepower or greater, and
at least 40 hours of the minimum 200
hours time must have been within the
IL months preceding the date of APP
plication for the required test. Flying
experience of 400 pilot hours in any
type airplane is acceptable in lieu of
the 100 hours in service-type airplanes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

Airplanes soon will be put to work in
detecting leaks In long-distance cleo
trical transmission lines If tests now
being conducted by a Midwestern
power company are successful.
The company owns a tri-motored
Ford transport plane which Is being
equipped with an electrical device capa-
BILE Of detecting power leaks from trans
mission lines. BY flying low over the
lines engineers In the planes will be
able to detect instantly power leaks and
to determine accurately at which tower
the leak Is to be found, so that repair
crews may be sent quickly to the scene.
The new device has been developed
by Earl G. Hansen, radio engineer,
whose electrical pilot cable, worked out
for the Navy during the World War,
guided allied shipping through mine
fields. With this device a single plane
can be used to replace large ground In
spection crews.
Find Several Uses for Plane.
The power company purchased the
plane originally to carry officials from
st. Louis to a giant power dam under
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
PLANES MAY BE USED TO FIND
LEAKS IN TRANSMISSION LINES
Device Developed by Engineer Enables
Single Graft to Replace Large Ground
Inspection Grew.

construction in the Ozarks, saving
nearly q day Of travel time on each
trip. The plane then was found to be
suitable for carrying spare parts for
machines, for taking medical supplies
or physicians to workmen who had been
injured or for taking badly injured men
to city hospital Later it was used for
transporting pay rolls.
The company was maintaining o
large force Of inspectors, who kept up
a constant partol on foot of the long
transmission lines, on the alert for
broken insulators over which electrical
energy could be spilled, resulting In
large loss of power.
1t was found that many Of the broken
insulators could be seen from the air,
but q more certain method seemed de-
the electrical detecting device.
Company officials are so optimistic
over their plans that they propose that
repair parts, such as insulators packed
In cartons, and repair tools be carried
In the patrol plane, ready to be dropped
overheard where power leaks are found.
In emergency cases they even intend to
carry repair crews in the plane to the
breaks in the power line and send them
overheard to their work in parachutes.
Saving in Costs Expected.
The officials are confident that some
saving In tremendous present costs of
standby power equipment will be pos
sible II a system is worked out which
will permit rapid repairs of power
breakdowns.
Still other uses beside those already
mentioned have also been found for the
big Ford plane. 1t Is to be employed
for large amount of aerial mapping
In connection with transmission line
and dam construction, and to this end
vertical and oblique mounts for aerial
cameras have been set up in the cabin.
The officials also are planning to CO.
operate closely with officers of the st.
Louis Chamber of Commerce and In
dustrial Club and to utilize the plane to
take manufacturers considering st.
Louis as site for their plants on aerial
tours of the city, thus giving them q
comprehensive picture of the city's in
dustrial advantages. 1t even will be
possible, 1t is pointed out, to send the
plane to cities several hundred miles
from st. Louis, load the entire official
personnel of company from president
down, and take them quickly upon q
tour of inspection of the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
TEN PLANE RIDES A YEAR
ALLOWED IN INSURANCE
New York Company Calculates
Aviation Risks and Bases Bust
ness on Its Estimates.

NEW YORK (P).-An estimate that
three out of four American business
men have made at least one trip by air
plane forms the basis on which one in
surance company calculates the aviation
risks of its applicants.
A rapidly growing proportion of this
rs per cent is using the airplane ex-
tensively for business and pleasure, the
company's figures show. Many appli-
cants use planes regularly for business
transportation.
The growing importance of aviation
by the companys ruling that 10 plane
rides a year require no additional
premium charge. Additional charges
are made for those taking more than
10 trips year. In the past life insur-
ance has been available to those fire.
quenting the air only at Considerable
charge. while pilots often were unable
to obtain insurance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

pate in the sustained flight con-
test for such models which the
Chamber of Commerce will hold
in connection with the forthcon1-
ing sixth annual industrial ex-
position at the Washington Audi
forum.
Boys Are Listed.
The boys are John Sullivan,
who holds the worlds record of
ID minutes and 4 seconds with
his model plane; Frank Salisbury,
District Of Columbia 1880 cham
pion; Everett Meeks, Harry Nc
GinniS and George Shipley.
These model plane flyers will
represent Washington at the play
grounds contest scheduled to be
held in Atlantic City, October 10
and IL. 1t is pointed out that the
National Capitals representation
Is exceedingly strong in that there
are only a total of 40 entrants
from all parts of the United
States.
According to the industrial ex-
position committee of the cham
Der, a special invitation will be
extended to these five boys to
participate in the contest which
will be a feature of the trade show
this year. All boys interested,
however, are cordially invited by
the chamber to compete for the
coveted award.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
.OVEROCEAN FLIGHT
TRIED 20 YEARS AGO
Exploit of Walter Wellman'
and Party October Is,
1910, Recalled.
BY OSCAR LEIDING,


ATLANTIC CITY (P),-Dimmed by
the passing years, mans first attempt
to fly the Atlantic will be recalled Oc-
tober Is, on the anniversary of the
take-off.
The flight was made in the dirigible
America, starting at Atlantic City and
10, 1910, when the crew of six forsook
their craft for the Royal Mail steamer
Trent.
It was nine years later that the ocean
was conquered by Navy flyers in the
NC-4 and Capt. Alcock and Lieut., Ar
thur w. Brown, first to span the water
nonstop.
Walter Wellman. veteran explorer
and newspaper man, headed the
Americas crew, which included Melvin
Vaniman, chief engineer: P. M. ST.
mons. navigator; j. K. Irwin, wireless
operator; A L. Loud and Jean Aubert,
assistant engineers, and kitten as
mascot.
Craft Made Of Silk and Cotton.
Their craft, a far cry from today's
monster airliners, was made of silk and
cotton gummed together to form a
cigar bag 228 feet long and So feet in
diameter.
On the under side was a car 156 feet
long, In the bottom of which was a
75-foot steel tank for gasoline. Below
it was hung a lifeboat, used in flight
as sleeping quarters.
Suspended from the rigid bag was a
novel device called the equilibrator,
300 feet Of steel cable, from which
dangled 80 steel tanks filled with gas
oline and rat tail" Of 40 wooden
blocks.
This device, dragging In the water,
was thought vital to successful fight,
but Wellman, after the rescue at sea,
branded it as 1.-The fatal mistake Of the
venture
The equilibrator was believed neces-
Sary to ground the wireless, to maintain
the ship on even keel and to tighten
the load when gas seeped from the
envelope or shrank In cool air.
Averages IL Miles an Hour.
Starting from Atlantic City, powered
by two engines of 80 horsepower each,
the ship averaged IL miles an hour,
though it had a maximum speed of 26
miles an hour, and for three days
zigzagged toward Europe until the
dangling equilibrator, tossed by the
waves, gave promise of tearing the
America asunder.
At dawn the fourth day the Trent
was sighted and signaled to stand by.
The America was Unanswered close to
the ship. The lifeboat was dropped
and was nearly capsized by the thrash
ing equilibrator. The crew was trans
ferred. The dirigible, free of the
weight. mounted the skies as an aerial
derelict and was lost at sea-
Wellman, now nearing his seventy
second birthday, lives in New York.
Vaniman, undaunted by the first fail
ure, built the dirigible Akron and was
killed July 2, 1912, when is exploded
over the Atlantic on test flight.
OF the rest, Wellman has no def
mite knowledge. Irwin, he believes, Is
in the naval service, ALBERT in Los An
geles, Loud untraced and Simons, an
Englishman, Is somewhere in Great
Britain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
FOUR PLANES ORDERED
BY ARMY AIR CORPS
Latest Type Ford Transports and
Lockheed Cabin Craft to Be
Put Into Use.

The Army Air Corps soon is to receive
four of the latest type Ford tri-motored
transport planes and Lockheed single
engine cabin transport plane, under
terms Of contracts recently signed.
The four Fords are to be Of the model
C-4A type, powered with Pratt & Whit
ney Wasp engines. The contract price
for the planes is $l5T,3e1, including
spare parts and drawings. The Pratt
& Whitney Aircraft Co. was given con-
tract for "a Wasp engines and spare
parts. IL to be installed in the Fords
and IL to be held as spares. The con-
tract price is $780,, 629.58
Under a contract with the Detroit
Aircraft Corporation, Detroit, the Air
Corps will receive q Lockhead high
speed transport plane, to cost $1o,637
and to be powered with a Wasp engine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

Expect Good Results.
Prediction Is the best we can do
at present. And as far as the
writer's concerned there's no
doubt that one of the District
flyers will bring home some of
that well known bacon. And
there's q chance that more than
laurel will be copied for the Dis
trict. Just take a look back at
Herbert Dorsey's work at the
finals-and John Sullivan's expert
flying at the national finals last
year.
Well, I guess by this time you
fellows and, lest we forget, lassies,
know who the winners are. There
should be some Associated Press
dispatched from the tournament
before this column gets into print.
"Any New Ideas?"
Say, you boys and girls, drop a
line to the column as to what the
Winters going to bring forth in
model aircraft building. What
new kind of planes are you build
ing? Come on, fellows, and divulge
some of those secret plans so the
other boys will have a chance to
build some new types of planes.
The five boys who have quail
fed for entrance into the national
Fairgrounds miniature aircraft
contest will be invited to partici-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
WRIGHT MONUMENT
TO BE STARTED SOON
Sand of Kill Devil Hill Prevented
From Shifting by Planting
of Shrubs.

KITTY HAWK, N. c. (9.-Kill Devil
Hill has ceased TO roam"
The big sand dune became famous n
years ago when the Wright brothers
made the frst airplane flight from its
brow.
The Government wanted TO build q
monument to the Wrights, but decided
they could not do so on q moving sand
dune. Engineers were called in to plan
some method of "anchoring" the hill,
which has moved 20 feet to the south
west every year since time immemorial
It was decided that If the soil could
be made to produce grass, trees and
shrubs the hill would settle down"
That was tried, and Capt. John A.
Gilman of the United States Army
Engineers says the dune has not moved
an inch since early in 1929. Work on
the monument will be started next year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
School Opens New Glass.

The first class in a two-year course
covering aerodynamics, stress ANALYSIS
and airplane design has been started
by the Columbia School of Drafting
Engineering and Aviation. The in
structor in charge is Arthur Halsted
associate engineer at the Bureau of
Standards and Reserve military pilot
The schools aircraft drafting course
now is in its third year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Model Aircraft
BY GEORGE w. WATERS.


pilots left the finals were much in
District champions left
the Franklin School Building
model aircraft finals.
have learned nothing of what the champs
LIN In tlantic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
BLIND FLYING PLANNED
Student Aviators to Be Taught Use
of Instruments.

Student aviators will be taught in
strument flying Immediately after the
have mastered take-offs and landings
in the near future, in the opinion of
Maj. H. F. Pierce, Army Medical Corps
Reserve, now on active duty at Brooks
Field, Tex, in the School of Aviation
Medicine.
Mai Pierce, who is an associate pro-
fessor at Johns Hopkins University, has
specialized in study of the physio-
logical aspects of flying since 1917. He
recently underwent blind flying ex-
periments with Lieut.. L. j. Carr, Air
Corps, at Kelly Field, Tex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Seek Planes for Air Clubs:

An appropriation Of $40, O00, 900 to pro-
vide airplanes at Federal expense for
private flying clubs Is authorized In
bill which Senator Thomas D. Schall of
Minnesota Is expected to introduce dur
ing the next session Of Congress. The
bill is sponsored by the American So
c1ety for the Promotion of Aeronautics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Airline Baggage Insured.

Excess baggage now can be insured
on air lines in the same manner as on
trains, under a plan inaugurated by the
Boeing System. Company ticket agents
also handle travellers insurance on re-
quest, a policy of $1,000, good for ~
hours, being issued for 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Venice Improving AirpOrts.

Historic Venice is improving and en-
larging its airport facilities to provide
for increased air travel 70 and from
this great seaport, according TO q re-
port received here by the Department
Of Commerce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Experimental Air Line.

Experimental air service from Liver
pool to London has been established.
Handley Page planes, carrying l6 pas
eengers each, are used.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
BRITISH AIRCRAFT JOINS
IN EXHIBITIONS ABROAD

play Of Planes at Trade Expo
sition in Buenos Aires.
LONDON R.-Makers of British
aircraft will cooperate abroad for the
first time in an organized exhibition Of
their work when the British trade ex-
hibition Is held in Buenos Aires In
March and April next year.
Hitherto only individual firms have
sent airplaneS to the various trade fairs
held In other countries.
British aircraft at present has a MI
nority sale in the Argentine, but manu-
facturers are to make determined ef-
fort to break the strong position gained
there by the United States.
1t is understood that the British adj
miralty Is to lend an aircraft carrier
Tor transport purposes, and, in addition
10 the exhibits, at least one squadron
OF service airplanes will be carried.
Demonstrations with these will be given
just outside the exhibition ground.
which has an area of 100000 square
feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-11
Mass Thinking

4 DMITTEDLY, there is virtue in
"a mass thinking from an appro-
priative or defensive standpoint, but
when it comes to leadership we are
obliged to fall back on the old the
DRY of individual initiative ~
The philosophy of salesman No
is fine, provided we have someth 2
new and better to sell.
So, too, the philosophy of system
is fine, provided we have something
around which to build it.
The crowd can copy everything
but individual talent.
That is always a little in advance,
always leading the way, always de-
veloping those new ideas and de-
vices which form the basis of prog
ress and prosperity.
If a man by the name Of Drake
hadn't drilled an oil we'll; if a man
by the name of Edison hadn't in
vented the incandescent lamp, pho
nograph, motion picture machine,
and many other new contrivances;
if two brothers by the name on
Wright hadn't made an airplane
that would really stay up, and if a
th0usand-and-one other individuals
hadn't thought of or discovered
something different, where would
we hep
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-11
Royal Institution

1T is interesting to note that the
J. Royal institution in which Fara-
day performed his experiment, is
still one of the worlds great SCI
entific centers It's present direc-
tor is Sir William Bragg, famous
authority upon the X-Ray and
crystal structure.
ct was this writer's pleasurable
experience a few years ago to visit
the laboratory where Faraday per-
formed the memorable experiment
with Sir William acting as his
guide1
The Royal institution and the in
stitution Of electrical engineers of
Great Britain have joined forces to
plan next years celebration. Many
other famous organizations, includ-
ing the Royal Society, will coop
crate in the celebration.
The British Association for the
Advancement of Science, which
celebrates its Tooth meeting next
year, is making plans to hold it's
centenary meeting in London at
the same time that the Faraday
celebration is being held.
In connection with the celebra-
ton, the Royal institution plans the
publication of diary which Fara-
day kept in his own handwriting.
The diary is extremely voluminous
and will require six or eight volumes
to contain all of it. The institution
hopes to have at least the first two
volumes in print at the time of the
celebration.
Faraday did important work in
the field of chemistry as we'll as
that of electricity and it is expect
ed that his diary will prove of in
terest to scientists throughout the
world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-11

Of the total Of these thirteen community chests In
1929 they contributed only 229 per cent and this
boom year until mid-autumn.
Moreover, the number of corporations contribut-
ing to these thirteen community chest doubled be-
tween 1920 and 1929-2652 in 1920 and 5127 in 1929
Yet the total contributions from corporations in
creased but sightly-s2535OOO in 1920 and $299 900
in 1929.
Hence, corporations fell far behind in even this
bonanza decade in keeping up their share of con-
tributons to organized community welfare.
The charitable enterprise of organized capital APP
pear even less impressive when viewed in the light
of another series of researches carried on by this
same national bureau of economic research. We refer
to the studies of income in the United States.
In 1928 employers received 42.38 per cent of the
total national income of $89,419,000000 and wage
earners but 1905 per cent In 1876, 98928 per cent
of the income-receiving population (44,194,550 in
number) received an income of less than $4,000 a
year. In 1927 each person actually employed re-
ceived an average of $1,205.
Even in the great wartime boom year of 1913,
ABS per cent of the employed received less than $500
year; 1885 per cent from $500 to $1,000; 1926 per
cent from $1,000 to $500; 1899 per cent from $150
to $4,000 and 815 per cent from $4,000 to $4,000
without drawing any more decisive conclusioni
these figures prove that can not allow corporate
wealth to expand unrestrained and expect that its
representatives will accept and execute the response
bity of insuring square deal to society in the way
of a large return to charity.
Even if they so could be trusted, this would be
an undesirable method of nsuring general we-belng
The only way proceed is to see to it that workers
get O. decent break in the way of steady employment
fair wages, tolerable working conditions and real
unemployment insurance
Then let corporate wealth take its legitimate earn
ings and do as it pleases with them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-11

Ut had been my intention to say
L no more in this column about
cats VS.. dogs, but to let them fight
it out in the manner laid down by
tradition.
But no columnist should look a
gift contribution in the eye, par
ticularly when it comes from a dis
tinguished writer such as William
McFee.
Mr.. McFee has a right to his day
in court, since he was nominated
here as a fine novelist who gained
his skill by leisure spent on ships.
A contact with cats also was men
toned as a useful sort of training
for the better stylists. Carl Van
Vechten was nominated, but for
got Agnes Repplier is almost as
great an authority on felines.
Mr.. McFee denies, with some in
dignation, the leisure periods which
I assured were common in the lives
of mariners, but he confesses to the
cats and writes as follows: