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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
235 WOMEN HOLD
AVIATION LICENSES
Private Pilots Total 181, with 20
Entitled to Fly Trans
port Craft.

Following the addition of IL names
tn the list of licensed woman pilots In
this country in one week, there now
are ass American women holding De-
partment Of Commerce licenses. They
are divided as follows: Private, 18l
industrial, 1; limited commercial, 70
and transport, as.
Alicia Patterson Simpson, who owns
two Laird planes OF her own, ana VINO
is known for her magazine articles on
flying, has changed her rating from
private to transport.
Beryl T. Hart, who worked up to
limited commercial status within eight
months after her first flight, Is having
the Travelair, in which she won prize
in q women's race at the Allentown
Airport dedication recently, overhauled
and streamlined for further racing &C
tivities.
Isabelle Chappell, private pilot, OF
Akron, Ohio, has just qualified for lin
tied commercial, and Is working for
transport license. Beulah Unruh, New
York waitress, who learned to ny out OF
tips received, has qualified for the lin
tied commercial. Maxine Miller, ~
years old, the first Tulsa, Okla, woman
to qualify, is a private pilot, and is on
the way to a limited commercial rating
Helen Richey, daughter Of the super
intendent of schools of McKeesport, Pa,
passed her test for private license be-
fore a crowd of 10000 persons at Cur
tiss-Bettis Airport, Pittsburgh, and be-
came the first woman in that city to
qualify. Louise G. Yamos, who formerly
played in the Ziegfeld "Follies," has
passed the private pilot examination ut
Cleveland. Carol r. Taylor Of Balti-
more is among the new private pilots
to qualify for license.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
Will TEST RADIO
LANDING DEVICES
Federal AeronautS Improve
Receiving Set Control
i Adjustment.

Flight tests Of the new blind landing
radio system now under development
by the aeronautics branch Of the De-
partment Of Commerce and the Bureau
OF Standards at College Park, Nd, may
be undertaken before the end of the
Summer as result of progress made
recently on the apparatus.
A number of improvements have
been made. chiefly in the use of the
radio beacon beam, which marks out
the landing runway, 1t has been an
nounced by officials Of the aeronautics
branch. This beam guides the pilot
along the axis Of the runway so that he
may land under the guidance Of a Sec
ond beam which marks out the gliding
angle for q correct landing.
The use OF the runway beam has
presented diniculties, owing to the ne
ceSs1ty for accurate adjustment of the
receiving set volume control by the pilot
as the plane approaches the transmit
ting station. This has imposed q heavy
burden on the pilot In tests and, 1t Is
believed, would make use Of the beacon
impracticable for ordinary operations.
One Of the most important Of the re-
cent improvements, therefore, has been
a device for automatically controlling
the volume Of the signal as the plane
approaches the beacon station.
Many ground and flight tests have
been made with the new device and
have demonstrated the practicability of
the system, 1t was announced. To use
the runway localizing beacon now, the
pilot need only change the tuning Of
his radio set as he approaches the air.
port from the main radio range beacon
frequencyto that of the localizing bea-
can and then follow the new course as
marked out by the runway beacon.
The runway beacon signals may he
received on the same vibrating-reed in
dicator used for receiving the airway
range beacon signals or by means of
pointer-type indicating instrument
which has been developed for the pur-
pose. Flight tests now are in progress
at College Park to determine the rela-
tive advantage Of the two types Of In
dicators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
AIR TRAFFIC RULES
OBSERVANCE SOUGHT
Department of Commerce to Issue
Posters to Instruct Flyers
on Regulations.

In an effort to reduce the number OF
violations of the air traffic rules of the
Department of Commerce, which con-
stituted more than half the total OF
523 violations of the air commerce reg
ulations during 1929, the aeronautics
branch of the department is preparing
to issue two posters for display at all
airports throughout the country and
other places where flyers congregate.
Stricter observance Of the air traffic
rules will bring about reduction In
accidents as well as prevent the sus-
pension or revocation of Federal pilot
licenses, officials of the aeronautics
branch declare.
One of the two posters will set forth
in large type the complete text of the
air trafdc rules. The second poster will
bear line drawings showing the most
frequent causes of accidents and the
percentage of the total accidents of
each type during the past year.
During the past year, statistics of the
aeronauticS branch reveal, l6 licenses
were revoked, 1lS were suspended and
1873 reprimands were melted out to vio-
lators of the air traffic rules. The
rules are divided into the following five
major groups: Flying rules, take-off and
landing rules, lights. day marking of
masts and other distractions to air
traffic and signals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
ANYWAYS RADIO PORTS
WILL BE INCREASED

The number Of Always radio sta
tions established by the Department OF
Commerce for the broadcasting OF
weather information to pilots will be
increased by nearly so per cent during
the fiscal year which has just started.
Twenty new stations are to be con-
structed, bringing the total to 65. AL
these stations broadcast weather infor-
nation to pilots each hour.
The new stations will be located on
Western and MidweStern airways ex-
cept for three Eastern stations to be To-
Gated at Pittsburgh, Memphis and
Nashville, Tenn.
The department also will install new
automatic telegraph typewriter circuits
for the handling of weather and air.
ways information between Los Angeles
and Salt Lake City, Fort Worth and
Chicago. Atlanta, Ga, and Chicago, and
Birmingham, Ala, and Richmond, Va,
connecting ut Richmond with the exist
ing circuit through the National Capt.
tai to New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
WOMEN'S AIR RACE
WILL START HERE
Famous Pilots to Be Among
Group Starting Au-
gust 20.

Several of the most famous woman
pilots in the United States are expected
to flash across the starting line at
Washington Airport next month on the
start of the Eastern women'S derby
race which will end at Chicago during
the National Air Races, August % to
September /, inclusive. Though the en-
try lists have not been completed, 1t Is
anticipated that approximately score
of woman flyers will start from the
local field.
The pilots are expected to be, in this
city for several days prior to the start
of the race, soon after the middle OF
next month, and arrangements for their
entertainment are being made by the
Aero Club of Washington, chapter of
the National Aeronautic Association
and officials of Washington Airport.
If the arrangements made here for
the woman pilots are satisfactory, 1t Is
believed, the National Capital will be
the starting point for one of the derbieS
each year in connection with Americas
greatest air classic. This is the first
time the Capital has had the oppor-
tunity to witness one OF the derples
which have become an outstanding AVA
ton feature in this country.
The woman contestants are to ny IN
planes of 500 cubic inch cylinder dis
placement or less. Tine nrSJ lap OF Cne
race will be from this city to Atlanta,
Ga, where the first control point will
be located. From Atlanta the course
will be to the West and then up the
Mississippi Valley to Chicago.
So successful was the women's derby
last year in connection with the races
at Cleveland that it has been divided
into two races this year. The Western
women's derby will start from Long
Beach, Calf, and will be open to planes
of 500 cubic inch displacement or less
The first entry received by Maj. II. W
Schroeder, contest director for the
Thompson Trophy Race, the new speed
classic for land planes, is that OF Matty
Laird, veteran pilot and builder OF tast
commercial airplanes, according to WORD
received here. The race will be timed
bv officials of the contest committee OF
the National Aeronautic Association
under direction Of Mai. Luke Christopher
who has gone to Chicago from this city
to take charge Of all contest arrange
Laird will fly q Laird Speedwing spe-
cial, similar to the one In which Charles
w. speed" Holman made the first out
side loop executed by q civilian pilot
AS the first Official entry In the Thomp-
son race, Laird's plane will carry the
number !.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
AVIATION SCHOOL
aN
RULES SOFTENED
Flying Training Standards
Expected to Be Raised
by Relaxation.

Relaxation Of some of the rigid re-
quirements surrounding the instruc-
ton of student airplane pilots has been
undertaken by the aeronautics branch
of the Department of Commerce in the
case of civilian schools which have
been officially approved by the Depart
ment of Commerce.
Though the strict letter of the law
is softened in the case of these schools,
the high standards surrounding flying
training in the country as q whole Is
expected to be improved by the move.
The requirements have been amended
to permit approved schools to accept
students for instruction without being
obliged to graduate them within any
specified time limit, it was explained by
Gilbert G.. Budwig, director of air reg
ulation of the department.
These schools also will be allowed to
accept students on an hourly or part
time basis and they need not necessarily
be graduated. Both new procedures
are made possible by the waving of
certain parts of the departments
school regulations, Mr.. Budwig ex-
planned.
I'm the light Of the excellent re-
suits we have obtained from approved
schools and in line with the depart
HlcIltdI pOllCy ID kTdHIulB COHCcSSlOIlS
when justif1able," Mr.. Budwig explained
I'VE feel that material assistance can
be given approved schools by permitting
certain waivers Of the school regula-
lions.
THE parts Of the school regulations
which are being waived have required
that the entire course, both ground
and flight, be completed in a maximum
time of four months for private school,
six months for limited commercial
school and 10 months for transport
school. They required that 1924 per
cent Of the students accepted for in
struction graduate from the course for
which they were enrolled"
Students who are graduated, how
ever, must In all cases have taken the
entire course as laid down by the reg
ulations, Mr.. Budwig explained, and
nine out of ten of these graduates
must successfully pass the examina-
lions specified for the grades of licenses
for which they apply.
Students who do not take q full
course are not entitled to make appli-
cation for license unless they have had
the minimum solo experience as pro-
vided in the air commerce regula-
lions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20

America, the Beautiful.
In his article John says, n part:
IT do not believe that any person can
really feel that they have seen the
beauties of America until they have
taken q croSs-country flight in a plane,
and I cannot imagine any stretch Of
scenery more beautiful than that be-
tween Washington and Pittsburgh. First
we have our view of Washington, look
ing like the model city that 1t is. Then
we get out in the farming country of
Maryland, with its stretches of plowed
and planted land, q cube of green, then
one of brown, and then another shade
of green. 1t Is a beautiful futuristic
design and one that is worth q lot
to see.
THE real thrill comes, however, when
we get to the foothills of the mountains
This rolling territory is really land
scape of beautifully nodded curves and
just sat there marveling at 1t. The
mountains themselves look alive from
the air, whereas from the ground they
always look dark and forbidding to me-
Rivers, sometimes a string of silver,
sometimes red looking, and sometimes
green, add to the beauty of the trip.
All in all, believe that shall treasure
this first croSs-country trip as the most
beautiful adventure that I have ever
had"
A Word From Carbon.
Pagel Jack Carbon, page.
Say, young fellow, my name is not
Williams-that'S my middle monicker,
but it's singular. It's good name any,
way-your letter found my desk at any
rate. Thanks for the news, Jack.
If you want to make an effort to
qualify your scale model bring It to
one of the contests of the District Model
Aircraft League. The officials there will
let you know whether or not the plane
Is satisfactory. You say you won't be
able to get to the next contest. Well,
there will be many more before the
Summer is over.
Jack, you know, is a Senate page and
was the only local boy to win medal
at the Detroit contest.
What?-A New Reader.
Here's his letter:
Il am writing to let you know that I
am reading your column every Sunday
and was very much surprised to see
that you said something about me. 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
TRIALS OF LATEST
SEAPLANE FINISHED
New Corsair Equipped With I'm,
provements Over Earlier
Observation Planes.

Trials of the latest type of Navy OBJ
servation and scouting planes, the
03U-1, equipped as q seaplane, have
been completed at the Anacostia Naval
Air Station. The plane is Vought
Corsair, which embodies several impor-
tant improvements over the older Cor
sairs. The power plant is Pratt a
Whitney air-cooled R-1340-C engine.
The fight test section at the local
station, under Lieut.. Ralph Ofstie also
Is conducting flight tests on several
other planes. The first PM-1 Martin
patrol plane of series of 80 to be built
at Baltimore has undergone fight tests.
Performance trials have been cons
pleted on Consolidated NY-3 training
plane. The Bristol Bulldog. standard
British pursuit plane, has been given
climbing tests. Tests also have been
conducted on a standard Navy singles
seat fighter equipped with air wheels,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
AIR RESERVATIONS
MAY BRING PAY AID
Move in Congress to Improve
Army Flying Promotions
Expected.

Renewal of the fight for a separate
promotion list for the Army Air Corps
is expected when Congress reconvenes
as a result of the recent announcement
that designations of Air Corps officers
during the past year reached the high
est total since the close of the World
War, although designations from the
Army as a whole were lower with one
exception, than in any year during the
past decade.
The resignation of 81 Air Corps Of
f1cerS during the year is attributed to
growing dissatisfaction with promotion
conditions in the corps which compel
officers of junior rank to assume the
responsibilities and duties, without the
pay, of officers of higher rank.
Better Private Jobs.
makes it possible for the trained pilot
to obtain in private life the proper
living conditions which are denied him
in the Army because of failure of the
promotion system in the Air Corps, in
the opinion of many of the officers who
have resigned.
Congress has had before it for sew
eral years legislation designed to cor
rect the injuStices to Air Corps officers
in the matter of promotions, but has
taken no action until toward the close
of the past session, when, instead of
acting on the legislation, Congress APP
pointed a joint committee to give the
matter further study.
Among the 81 officers who submitted
their designations are some OF the finest
military pilots the country ever has de-
veloped, chief among them Lieut.. James
H. Doolittle, regarded as one of the
worlds 10 greatest flyers, and Maj. John
Jouett, commandant of the Sd Attack
Group. Others of the group are known
among flying people throughout the Ma
ton for their ability.
Nine Resigned In 1921.
In 1921 there were but nine resig-
nations Of aviators from the Army.
Since that time the number has in
creased steadily each year, though
designations in other branches Of the
service, with the single exception Of the
Engineer Corps, have decreased.
The situation in the Naval Aviation
Service also is regarded as bad and
number of the foremost naval aviation
pilots have resigned during the year,
among them Lieut.. Afford j. Williams,
jr., premier Navy speed and aerobatic
flyer, and Capt. Holden G. Richardson,
Navy pioneer aviator and aircraft de-
signer.
Reports that the wholesale resigna-
tons from the flying services are inter-
fering seriously with the building up
of these increasingly important arms
of the national defense are expected
to play an important part in forcing
q final congressional settlement OF the
situation at the earliest possible OPP
portunity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
SoWs Grass From Plane.

Confronted with the problem of SOW
ing grass seed over 1000 acres of
stump-Strewn land too rough for seed
ing by teams or hand, d. @. Earl Low,
Coquille, Greg, aviation enthusiast,
turned to aviation for help. With the
aid of William Richardson, transport
pilot, seed was scattered over the 1000
acres in Coos County and the grass is
coming up abundantly to furnish pas
turage for large herds OF dairying cattle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
Funston Studies Aviation.

Frederick Funston, jr., son of the ia
nous general who captured Aguinaldo,
breaking the Philippine insurrection, has
chosen commercial aviation for a ca
reer and is taking the advanced master
pilot course at the Boeing School of
Aeronautics, at Oakland, Calf. The
course includes 400 hours of flying and
924 hours of ground school instruction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20

was very nice of you to say something
about me, since do not belong to the
District of Columbia Model Aircraft
League or any other model airplane
club.
Il would like to explain why my scale
model did not place any higher. 1t va.
because it was damaged almost beyond
repair in sending it up to the contest
l am not Dragging that It was an excel
lent model, but there was naturally
handicap.
II would like to join at the next con.
test, but the Senate is in session and
will have to work"
Well, Jack, we don't mind saying
anything about you. Send in everything
you have to say and read it the follow
ing Sunday.
Models in Japan.
Here's some interesting news about
plane building and flying In Japan that
just reached the writer's desk yester-
day.
The amazing ingenuity of the Japa-
neSe in making cheap toys is we'll DEM
onstrated in their latest achievement III
the field of model airplane construction,
While the average model airplane to be
bought in stores, says the New York
Times, has no motive power other than
that provided by catapulting it into
space, and costs more than dollar, a new
Japanese toy not only has SUFFICIENT
motive power in its own engine" ia
lift 1t off the ground by the revolution
Of its propeller, but sells for the sum Of
so cents.
The model is about foot long, and
Is made of silk stretched on a wire
framework, with thread struts There
is q genuine wooden propeller and
movable rudder. The power is supplied
by virtue Of the static energy in ordi-
nary golf-ball elastic, several thick
strands of which are stretched like q
driving shaft from the propeller ia
the tail, so that by turning the propeller
in a reverse direction the elastic be-
comes twisted and wound up like q
spring.
When released the propeller revolves
with sufficient force to drive the plane
into a "take-off" when placed on a
smooth surface, preferably out-of-door
facing into light breeze. BY setting
the rudder the plane can be made "a
perform turns and even loops and thus
give its youthful operator real instruc-
ton in air navigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
Shell Runways Succeed.

Seashell runways are used for land
ing at the new lf-million-dollar San
Francisco Bay Airport. 1t cost $50 900
to prepare and lay the shells for the
landing strips, but the result is said to
be the most perfect landing surface yet
obtained. Concrete and asphalt are
used for the take-off runways.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
Model Aircraft
BY GEORGE WATERS.

dive of printers ink
l other and emerged successful
the model building instructor of the District of
plane publication
the Take on The article will appear in the next issue
JUST to
a his article:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
Airport Memorial to Pilot.

CRAWLING. Mich. .R-Grayling air
field has been remained in honor OF
Ensign William H. McMullen, Naval
Reserve aviator, who was killed during
active duty with q fighting squadron.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20

Indiana's Youngest Flyer Is 1S.
ANDERSON. Ind. tP).-Robert KEGS
ling. l8-year-old flyer, is Indiana's
youngest transport pilot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
German Rocket Plane.

In the case Of the German
rocket plane, the take-off was
made by means of the ordinary
aviation engine and propeller,
after which the rockets were fired
to continue flight. This method
is employed in a unique plane de-
signed by Maurice Poirier, which
employs ordinary engines to take
off and climb to safe attitudes
and then contemplates the use of
rocket jets for high-speed flight.
At any rate, the humble sky
rocket at last seems to be coming
into its own and 1t seems likely
that whatever possibilities it may
hold for the future transporta-
ton of mankind will be thorough
ly worked out by practical expert
ments. Even should the trans
portation" 60 no further than the
carrying Of recording instruments
into the regions far above the
earth's surface, the rocket will
have proved itself an exceedingly
useful as well as ornamental fell
low.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20

Scientists today are fairly well
acquainted with the air and its
contents up to 20 miles above the
surface of the earth, 1t Is pointed
out, although no man ever has
risen to more than eight and a
fraction miles above sea level.
Beyond 20 miles all present data
are theoretical.
Perfection of Prof. Goddard's
rocket, it is believed, will make
possible the carrying of thermom-
eterS, barometerS, electrical meas
uring apparatus, air traps to col
lect samples of air, and other in
struments to extreme attitudes to
bring back much-needed infor-
nation. 1t is planned to shoot
the MISUNDERSTANDING rocket
straight up until the propulsivC
fuel is exhausted and then to con-
troll its descent by means OF ar
automatic parachute. Since the
greatest weight of the rocket viii
be in the liquid propellants, which
will be exhausted IN flight, ths
The Nome nugget., 1930-01-04
COOK WISHES TO GET
 OUT OF PENTTENTIARY

LEAVENWORTH. Kansas. Dec. 31. (P)-The application of Fred cri-k Cook. Arctic explorer, who was placed in the Federal Peni- tentiary here for using the mails to defraud, for parole. will be considered at the January meet ing of the Federal Parole Board.
 Dr, Cook Was admitted to the panttentiary April 9th 1925. and having served one third of his term, he is automa tically eligible for parole. His record is very good.
 The petition for parole came after friends who had called on him noticed his weakened condi- tion and had a medical examina- ton called. Thev believe that Cooks health is breaking under this confinement, and that he can not possibly live thru the full sentence.
The Nome nugget., 1930-01-04
MONDAY
OFFERS BONUS FOR THE DISCOVERY SAFE
 .STEAMER ISLANDER

JUNEAU, Dec. 2S, P-C. H. Wiley, in charge of diving to the sunken steamer islander, which went down with over three quart CTS of a million dollars in the pursers safe. offered one thousand dollars bonus to the man locating the big safe inside of the wreck ed vessel. The safe was found once last summer but the waters caused it to be moved and so far it has not been relocated.
 Captain c. A. Hayes expects to make try for the bonus ac- cording to Wiley who arrived from the scene of the salvage opera tions yesterday
 The diving apparatus has al- ready been tested and divers re- port the vision clear at six hun dred feet below the surface. Will ey was unable to reamain at the scene because of an infected hand which was injured during the storms last week.