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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-29
HERBERT MART HEADS
CITIZENS ASSOCIATION
Randle Highlands Organization
Chooses officers to Serve Through
Coming Year.

Herbert r. Marti was elected presi-
dent Of the Randle Highlands Citizens
Association in a meeting held in the
Orr School last night.
Other officers chosen were J. H Nc
Call, vice president: Harry e. Miller
secretary; John Holm, financial secre-
tary, and O. A. Freyman. treasurer
Delegates selected to represent the
group In the Federation of Citizens' As
sociations were w. q. Grath and @. A.
Barker Upon hearing the plea Of Mr.
Barker that he had held the post for
IS years and wished to be relieved, II
was decided President Marti should take
the Mace
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service. Pan-American Always, for
which Forty was built as early as a
year ago, was negotiating with Imperial
Always, Ltd, holders of the franchise
for aircraft operations in Bermuda, for
the establishment of international air.
mail. Though Pan-Ameriean people
say that the big new amphibian Is
intended for the Caribbean runs, there
are many, in and out of the company,
who have their eyes turned toward
the East, with picture of Forty in
their minds.
The length of the great Sikorsky is
rs feet 8 inches and its height, on
wheels, is just short of "a feet. Fuel
tanks have been installed to carry 1,040
gallons of gasoline, allowing a cruising
range Of nearly 1000 miles With "a pas
sengers. With 90 passengers, the range
Is 500 miles.
The test flights, according to infof-
nation received here, show very cred
table performance for so, huge q craft.
The top speed is said to be $50 miles
per hour and the initial climb at sea-
level 712 feet per minute. An absolute
ceiling or altitude range of $4,000 feet
is shown. Take-eR time with full load
is 30 seconds from land and rs seconds
from water. On three engines, the
ceiling is $500 feet.
Comforts Of Home.
The interior is eemmodious and lux
urieus. The hull is a full 10 inches
wider than q Pullman car, allowing
ample room for large, comfortable
lounging chairs. A rest room, a smok-
ing lounge for six people, individual
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reading lights. ash trays, cigarette
lighters and other small comforts are
features Of the hull design.
An ait compartment is equipped as Q
galley, with ice box, electric stove and
stewards pantry. A call system for
steward service is provided. Emergency
food, drinking water and other necsssi-
ties make the plane an independent
unit at sea for an indefinite length of
time, Six life RATS, with emergency
rationS and water, are carried.
$40" was ordered for Pan American
by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, in his
capacity as technical adviser for the
line, and the design of the great craft
was approved by him. Two were or
dered and the second now is half COM
pleted at the Bridgeport plant.
The hull Of the $40, it is pointed
out, is nearly as large as the Santa Ma
ria, the flagship of Columbus. In APP
pearance the craft strongly resembles
the widely known twin-engined Sikor-
sky.
Construction of the ship followed the
expenditure of much time in lahofieus
research work, which began many
months ago. The first wind tunnel tests
of the model were run two years ago.
Engine nacelles equipped with many
types OF cowling were put through more
than 800 hours of wind tunnel testing
before the final combination was de-
cided upon. Hull tests started in April,
1929, and three different types of hui
were tested in the model basin at the
Washington Navy Yard. Nine addi-
tional hull designs were tried out in
the Sikersky course on the Housatonic
River, More than 1000 runs were re-
quired, at various speeds, amounting to
some 400 hours of operation, to select
the type of hull finally adopted.
The Inauguration of night airplane
passenger service over all divisions Of
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and-day passenger airplane service in
the world.
The Department OF Commerce has
lighted emergency landing fields every
80 miles along the airway, and there
are revolving beacens every 10 miles
In the bad mountain stretches there
are blinker lights every miles. Unit
ed Airlines alone has 20 radio tele-
phone stations between the coasts In
addition to those of the Department OF
Commerce Aeronautics Branch.
Harder to Get Killed.
It's becoming more difficult all the
time to get killed in an airpIane acct
dent If q man, weary of life, decided
to end 1t all by riding around In trans
port planes daily in the hope Of 9
fatal crash, he probably would die OF
old age II he persisted.
The chances Of becoming involved In
q fatal crash on scheduled air trans
port line during the first six months
Of this year were one in 1000, 900
miles of flying. There were 5,277, $50
passenger miles flown for every pas
senger killed. passenger mile being
the equivalent of one passenger flown
for a distance of / mile.
Air transport planes engaged in
scheduled operations flew a total of
20,S04,430 miles during the first six
months Of the year. Five planes figured
In fatal accidents during this period,
or one to each 100000 miles flown.
Fourteen deaths resulted from the five
accidents, though only three Of the ac-
cidents involved passenger fatalities.
The number of passenger miles fiewn
for each passenger killed Increased more
than 100 per cent as compared with
the AFst six months Of last year. Dur
ing the first half of 1880 there were
2,S75,664 passenger miles flown to each
passenger killed, while the first half Of
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pEwe N Or JoAN's cAupcH

the transcontinental airway between
New York and San Francisco marks
the realization of q dream Of the Gov
eminent departments concerned with
the development of civil aeronautics.
On the New Yerk-San Francisco air.
way the Government concentrated its
first large-scale airmail activity follow
ing the trial operation of the pioneer
. Washington-New York service. It wa
on the transcontinental that the first
comprehensive system of beacons,
radio aids to air navigation were in
stalled On this route the first great
chain of Weather Bureau airwayS sta
tons was established.
All these aids were directed toward
the time when day and night service,
not only for airnau, but for passen-
gers as we'll, would become fact. Night
flying first was inaugurated in 1924,
mail being carried part of the way at
night. This service gradually expanded
until the entire route was being flown
at night by mail planes.
Night passenger service f1rst was
opened between San Francisco and Salt
Lake City, distance of 692 miles, in
1929. This run demonstrated the fea-
sibility of operating air passenger
transports over lighted airways, and last
wear all sections Of the San Francisco
Chicago portion of the transcontinen-
tai were flown at night by large pas
senger transports.
The Department of Commerce and
Weather Bureau have continued their
programs of development on the 1880
mile transcontinental route until today
the line sets standard for the world
in airway equipment. Over this route
United AiFltnes now flies 9 2B-heur
trimetered transport service from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, making it the
fastest as well as the longest night
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this year shows q total Of SAT- ESQ pass
enger miles flown for each death.
The great Improvement of the safety
record was due not only to increased
mileage flown but TO a decrease in fatal
accidents. The miles flown In sched-
uled operations during the first half
q last year were e dSs oSS 72s as sganst
same period this year. Passenger ia
talities, on the other hand, decreased
from y IN the 1880 period to nine In the
1881 period.
Airship Warnings Issued.
The Nays giant dirigible, Akron,
nov. receiving its finishing touches ct
the hands OF the contractors, the Coed
year Zeppelin Company, at Akron, o..
Is going to be fully protected from dam
age by other aircraft during the period
OF trial fights now scheduled 70 begin
tomorrow. Stringent acquisitions gov
efning aerial operations at the big
Akron municipal airport. on which the
construction dock Is located, have been
promulgated and aerial police viii be
on duty TO see that they are enforced.
nautics Branch has announced that
on days when trials are in progress tn
formation to this effect viii be sent
out over the teietype along all airways
leading to Akron or its vicinity.
Trials, 1t vas announced, may be con-
Quoted by day or night. No fixed itin.
erary viii be announced or followed.
Pilots are notified that at night the
Akron will carry double navigation
lights, each Of the standard lights being
carried in duplicate, and these lights
may be flashed internationally to make
them more conspicuous.
From the beginning Of unlocking Of
the Akron until five minutes after e
has taken the air and FROM the time
tcentinued on fifth Pags.5
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craft is powered with four air-cooled
Hornets, delivering a total Of 1900
horsepower. On the first flight the
great craft lifted off the water in 16
seconds. Capt. Boris Sergievsky, ST.
korsky pilot and former war ace, was
at the controls during the tests, which
were run over Long Island Sound of
Bridgeport, Conn.
The $40, as the great Sikefsky Is
known, is designed for q gross weight
of $4,000 pounds. With the four Hor-
nets roaring contentedly at an easy
1850 revolutions per minute, she holds
cruising speed of ITO miles per hour.
The landing speed, 1t is said, is less
than so miles per hour. With three
engines, a cruising speed of 95 to 100
miles per hour is claimed.
A high wing monoplane, the $40
has o wing span of ia feet and the
wing has a chord of IS feet, or q total
wing area of 1875 feet. The wing
loading Is only 1872 pounds per square
foot, as compared with 81 pounds for
DO-X, one of the worlds few larger
airplanes. Where each horsepower of
the DO-X's ~ meters must bear II
pounds of load, the S-40's motors carry
but l4.5 pounds per horsepower.
Transatlantic Rumors.
1t is on the basis of these figures,
which may not mean a great deal to
the laymaH, but which mean very,
very much to the designer and oper-
ator, that aviation people are talking
among themselves about the possible
sphere OF the Forty in trans-oceanic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20

It will be necessary to offer q fairly
large cash prize in addition to the
trophy to attract real competition.
Those who finance the design and con-
struction of racing seaplanes must be
given some opportunity to obtain Q
financial return on their investment.
The Thompson Trophy is accompanied
by $4,000 in prize money, half going
to the winner, 80 per cent to winner OF
second place and the remaining 90 per
cent to the winner of third place. This
Is a sufficiently attractive prize to induce
manufacturers to put out racing planes.
If the same amount can be guaranteed
for the Curtiss there should be sufn-
Gent response to insure q resumption
Of seaplane racing on scale that this
country has not known since 1925.
Like the Thompson, the Curttss, un-
der such circumstances, could easily
become creative influence in the sea-
plane field which would inevitably affect
beneAcially tomorrow's seaplane devel-
opment.
Real Express Service.
New York today is as close to Wash
ingten as Baltimore was q few years
ago. Passenger travel time between
terminal aiTports of the two cities has
been slashed to IS minutes and pilets
on the new express run are waiting
for q good tail wind to smash all speed
records between the cities.
Express service, on schedule of two
round trips daily except Sunday, has
been inaugurated by the Ludington
Line, In addition to its regular hourly
ssrvice between Washington and New
York. The express run was inaugurated
last Wednesday, with a low-wing Lock-
heed orion nonoplane, equipped with
gseRctable landing gear, as the ex-
Bred equipment.
Planes Of this type have figured in
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number of recent speed records.
James G. Hall, the flying broker who
has been pushing Capt. Frank M
Hawks to the limit to maintain his speed
superiority, flies an Orion. Harry john
son, chief pilot of Continental Always,
took second place in the Bendix derby,
flown in connection with the recent Ma
tienal Air Races In Cleveland. He ran
good second to Jimmy Doelittle, who
won the race, then pushed On to New
York to smash Hawks tranScontinental
speed record by more than an hour.
Johnson's plane Is to be one Of those
used in regular service between WASH
ington and Chicago.
The first Ludington Orion was down
TO Washington from California by Harry
MCGEE, who, In spite of bad weather
most of the way across, averaged better
than $50 miles per hour, the speed on
which the 66-ninute service is based.
The new express service makes it
possible for a business man to leave
downtown Washington after breakfast,
board the plane at Washington Hoover
Airport at o'clock, and be in the
Pennsylvania station, New York, los
minutes later. This allows 81 minutes
for transportation between Newark
Airport and New York City.
Flying Pullman Car.
There has been test flown and
made ready for the transportation of
mail and passengers on the long sea
runs of the Caribbean, Americas
mightiest airplane, the hull of which
matches q Pullman car for size and
luxury of appointments Not only is
the plane the largest in this country,
it also Is the largest amphibian In
the world, equipped to operate from
land or water.
Weighing mere than II tons, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20
Use the full buying power
Of your present car

Here is a lucky break for you-for
everyone who plans to get q new car
either this fall or next spring.
Our Great Fail Appraisal Campaign is
registering the most generous allow
ances on used cars in our history. There
Is more buying power in your used car
now. There are irresis. bic bargains in
our stock of new cars Everything is in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20
AVIATION
Ecrs1oN Of the Navy Department
BY JOSEPH s. EDGERToN.

ECISION Navy Department to withdraw from the Curtss
Trophy prevent the holding OF
petition trophy but will eventually
life into those who seeking to
regain United States its lost place in the world of hghsped
tentative plans of those most interested in the future the
carried there
seaane copaable with the Thompson Trophy race
designers produce increase of IS miles hour in American
1nrndr cnandS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
PAROLED SLAYER
IS HELD IN THEFTS
Man Who Killed Wife'S Grand
mother Accused in HoIton
Arms Robbery.

A man on parole from Iyeavenworth
Penitentiary for the killing OF his wife's
grandmother in 1909 is being held by
police Of No. 2 precinct station as a
suspect In the theft of jewelry and
money from a branch of the Holton
Arms School several weeks ago.
The man, John Trilling, So, was ar
rested last night by Sergt. ]. D. Har-
rington on the Identification of Miss
Mary Lockwood. chaperon at the
school who said he was the man seen
lurking in the school entrance a short
time before the thefts were discov-
cred.
Taken to No. precinct station by
the oflcer he was identified as the
man who was sent to Leavenworth
more than 20 years ago He told police
he had been paroled from the Federal
institution.
The story of the crime for which
Trilling went to Leavenworth is a grue-
some one
He had been released from the Dis
trict workhouse only a few days be-
fore. after serving six months for an
attack on his wife. He went to the
home of her grandmother Mrs. Lu-
cretia Corliss. 81 years old, 6l2 l. street
southwest. and. using an ak. killed her
and proceeded to mutilate the body
He was arrested short time after
ward.
Trilling had been in custody nine
times prior to the attack on his wife's
grandmother, on charges ranging from
theft and disorderly conduct to assault
The attack and Staying occurred on
January 20, 1909.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
MOORE'S PLURALITY
SETS JERSEY MARK
Democratic Victory Exceeds High
Record Set by Late Dwight
W. Morrow.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWARK. N. j., November 5.-The
full proportions Of the Democratic VIC
tory in New Jersey in Tuesdays cleo
ton were revealed today in the COM
plete tabulation Of the vote, which
showed A. Harry Moore entrenched
behind a plurality of 239,s79 votes.
Moore carried II Of the States 81
counties to pile up a total OF 74o,6oS
votes, as against sol .226 for his Re-
publican opponent, David Baird, il.
The Democratic candidates vote
sets a new record for New Jersey plu-
ralities, exceeding the late Dwight w.
Morrows figure Of 2oo.4s0 when he
was elected Senator, and the previous
record for the governorship. that OF
Gov. Larson, whose plurality was 1884,
277 in 1928,
Moore carried into ONCE with him
81 members Of the State Assembly,
thereby taking control Of the lower
legislative body away from the Repub-
leans The total Assembly membership
is 60
The total vote polled by the major
party candidates was l,24l SSl. or about
two-thirds Of the voters registered in
1880.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
JUDGE WOULD KICK
OUT DRY ENFORCERS
Faulty Search Warrant
Draws Ire of Jurist, Who Held
Law Unconstitutional.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEWARK, N. j., November 5.-Fed-
eral Judge William Clark, who a few
months ago ruled the eighteenth
amendment was unconstitutional, has
now announced from the bench that, If
any prohibition agents went on his
property he would kick them off so
fast you couldn't see them for dust"
william Harris, counsel for George
Paglie, appeared before Judge Clark
yesterday 10 have a search warrant
quashed. Paglie's property adjoins a
place which was raided 10 days ago by
prohibition agents. Harris said the
warrant TO search Paglie's property was
illegal, but he was afraid to tackle the
agents.
II know what I'd do II prohibition
agents came on my property" Judge
Clark remarked. I'D kick them of so
fast you couldn't see them for dust.
And IL needed any help, I'd call in
the chief Of police of Princeton. where
1 live, and he would help me kick
them Off"
After examining the warrant. Judge
Clark criticized 1t as being ''as care
leSsly drawn as are many search war
rants presented by the prohibition de-
Go to the police and have the agents
kicked off," he told Harris, and d.
rected him to have his client in court
tomorrow to thresh the whole matter
out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
i. S. ORDERS FIVE
SQUARES VACATED
Three Facing Pennsylvania
Avenue on South Win
Make Clean Sweep.

The Treasury Department today or
dered tenants of buildings in five
squares to vacate to make way for the
Governments building program.
These squares include all the south
side OF Pennsylvania avenue from Sew
enth street to Third street and two
squares In the southwest between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, and
D streets.
The clean sweep on the south side Of
Pennsylvania avenue will thus empty
all property and make way for the de-
struction of all old buildings remaining
between Tenth street and the Capitol.
Construction work already is under
way between Ninth and Tenth streets
for the Department of Justice and be-
tween Seventh and Ninth for the Ar
chives Building.
Apex Building Site.
The square between Sixth and
Seventh streets, Pennsylvania avenue
and Constitution avenue, is full of bus
mess houses and is to be the site of a
structure to be called the Apex Build
ing.
The tenants of this Apex Building
have not yet been decided upon, al
though it is likely that it will be oc-
cupied either by the United States Coast
Guard or a group of aflliated agencies,
such as the Fine Arts Commission, the
Public Buildings Commission and the
once Of Public Buildings and Public
Parks of the National Capital.
The area south of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. from Sixth street to Third street
reaching to the Mall will be used partly
by the new Constitution avenue which
is to be cut through into Pennsylvania
avenue by an extension of the Mall.
In the Southwest section the square
between Twelfth and Thirteenth, B and
C streets is to be used as the site for
the second part of the Department of
Agriculture Extensible Building, one
third of which Is now completed be-
tween Thirteenth street and Linworth
place
The second Southwest square to be
vacated is bounded by Twelfth and
Thirteenth. c and D streets, the site
for the new Federal heating plant.
All Of these i've squares are to be
vacated within 80 days under notices
being prepared today by the Treasury
for Immediate service on tenants.
The Treasury notices are only to 20
to tenants who are on a rental basis.
There are few buildings scattered
throughout the five squares, however,
which are in slightly different status.
They are being acquired by the Gov
eminent through condemnation pro-
ceedings and will be taken over by the
Government under what is known as a
declaration of taking" Under this
procedure the Treasury Department
deposits with the court an amount of
money estimated as fair value, and
the exact price is determined later by
the court.
Upon filing the declaration of tax
ing" the Treasury Department receives
title to the property and q statement
from the court as to the date for vaca-
ton of the property. All Of these dec
larations in the i've squares are to be
finished by November is.
IN addition to these five squares to
BE- torn down, two others in the heart
Of the building triangle are now being
evacuated, between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth, D street and Ohio avenue.