Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-20

detached from the Navy Bureau OF
Aeronautics for duty with VP Squadron
IF, U. S. S. Argonne.
Lieut.. John F. Gillon, now command
ing VS. Squadron SIS, u. S. S. Trenton
has been ordered to Washington about
June IL for duty in the Navy Hydro
graphic Office.
Lieut.. Comdr Felix B. Stump will be
detached from command of VS. Squad
ron los about June II and will come to
the Navy Department for duty in the
Division of Flight Training.
Comdr. Pierre L. Wilson, detached
from the Navy Examining Board, will
go to the Navy photographic Office.
Lieut.. Thomas S. Combs will be de-
tached from duty at the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology about June
and will report here for duty at the
Anacostia Naval Air Station.
Though the following transfers will
not affect the lineup Of naval air OIL
GERS in Washington, they are of unusual
Importance or are of interest: Rear
Admiral John Halligan, jr., detached
from the Naval War College, will go on
duty about May 80 as commander of
the Aircraft Scouting Force; Capt
Charles A. Blakeley will assume COM
mand of the U. S. s. Lexington, and
Capt. Frank R. McCrary will relinquish
command of the U. S. S. Saratoga;
Comdr Alger H. Dresel will assume
command of the U. S. S. Akron, worlds
Comdr Charles E. Rosendahl. who has
been ordered to sea duty aboard the
battleship West Virginia.
Lieut.. Frederick N. Kivette. who was
one of the two Navy High Hatters'
who composed an acrobatic section
which was led by Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh in the National Air Races two
years ago, has been ordered to report
to Lakehurst for duty as pilot of one
of the little fighters. which will be
carried by the Akron. Ensign Victor
H Soucek, brother of Lieut.. Apollo
Soucek, holder of the world altitude
Washington, has been ordered to tenn
porary duty under instruction at the
Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.
Appeal to Sportsmen Pilots.
The sportsman pilot who owns and
who in most cases flies his own air
plane, is to be the principal target of
,the aircraft industry at the 1882
annual airplane show, to be held in
Detroit April to 10.
Sportsmen flyers in the United States
now purchase approximately 40 per
cent of the airplanes built in this
country for pleasure and business use,
according to Charles L. Lawrance,
president of the Aeronautical Chamber
of Commerce. The use of airplanes
for sport and private business purposes
is increasing rapidly. Fishermen,
hunters, yachtsmen tourists and sports
men of all kinds are using aircraft
more and more extensively in all parts
of the world
The aviation country club. air
yacht club ana private flying club idea
is spreading constantly" Mr. Lawrance
said. "Sportsmen are looking to the
air for new thrills. Members of one
such club in New York, made up of
some of our best known families, own
and operate $50 land planes, seaplanes,
amphibians and autogiros."
Last year members of this club con-
Quoted a four-day aerial cruise along
the Atlantic seaboard from New York
to Massachusetts, and return, and less
than three months ago score of planes
belonging to club members we're flown
from New York to Miami and return in
connection with the All-American Air
Races there early in January.
Hundreds of Sportmen use the air
plane exclusively for fishing and hunt
ing into the Arctic and Antarctic" Mr..
Lawrance said. THE Arctic Ocean, in
cidentally, is only two days Of flying
from New York, and only four days by
regular scheduled air transport"