Evening star., 1932-02-14

"As a fitting tribute and everlasting
reminder OF his narrowing experiences,
Hot Spot Harmon has had three wound
stripes sewed on his new pocket.
Defeating the Tariff.
In these days when the Government
should be doing everything in its power
to build up home industries and in
crease the Nations export trade. reWs
turers to establish manufacturing plants
in foreign countries to escape ruinous
| tariffs sounds gloomy note.
Two large American aeronautical firms
| have Just announced plans for con-
struction of planes and motors abroad.
The Curtiss- Wright Corporation is 60
ing into the airplane construction busi-
ness in Turkey and also will supervise
construction of airpOrts and airWayS in
| Europe. Construction of Packard Dies |
aviation engines is about to be under
/ taken in CzechoSlovakia.
| Not only will the CurtiSS- Wright
/ firm build planes in Turkey, under di-
rection OF American engineers and
and with American production methods
| it also is under contract with the
Turkish government to supervise and
direct the building of airports and
airWayS for that government.
Mai William B. Robertson well
known in the National Capital. has
gone to Turkey to conduct the survey
and F. E. Hulse, airport specialist. is
on the way to plan airports necessary
to establishment of mail, transport
and military operations.
Select Plant at Kayseri.
An airplane factory at Kayseri,
Turkey, constructed three years ago.
has been made available for the manu-
facture Of American type planes The
plant will be operated under direction
OF Capt. S. c. Coon, of the American
concern.
The American activity in Turkey is
the result of demonstrations bv the
American aviation mission. headed bv
Maj. James H. Doolittle, which visited
European and Baltic states two years
ago,
The Packard oil-burning engine is
to be built at Prague, Czechoslovakia.
under authorization of the Ministry of
Public Works, which approved the plan
after flying test of 100 hours with
the engine Tests of the engine also
are being made in a number of other
European countries and the posSibil-
| ity of still other foreign plants in the
near future is foreseen In Roumania
/ test stand runs of the motor have
been completed ana it now is being
installed in plane for flight tests.
/ CurtisS-Wright already has large
manufacturing plants in South Amer
lea and several European countries.
Large American automobile plants and
other industries also are undertaking
! foreign manufacturing operations,
| taking from the United States manu-
factureS which might go long way
toward relieving the domestic financial
situation and swelling the Nations ex-
port trade.
Air Quarantine Asked.
| New quarantine regulations governing
! passenger operations across interna-
tional boundaries are requested of the
Federal Government by DR. o. F.
Hedenburg, Chicago health research
! specialist. Present regulations are not
sufficient to prevent serious epidemics
of malaria and other communicable dis
eases gaining headWay in this country.
DR.: Hedenburg advised Federal air Of
| icials.
Month by month. the number of
airplanes flying across our national
boundaries is increasing" Dr. Heden-
burg pointed out. Many Of these are
making regular trips between this coun-
try and our neighbors to the South
where typhus fever, malaria, yellow
fever and other tropical diseases rarely
encountered in the United States are
endemic The next few years will
bring more frequent flights between
this country and the rest of the world
where dengue, plague, rabies, Asiatic
cholera and other dangerous diseases
are common"
The danger of the airplane as a car
q ria IF
lies in the fact that it can travel SO
rapidly a passenger may be exposed to
disease in foreign country and show
no symptoms until after he has landed
in the United States. Travel by ship,
on the other hand, is usually so slow
that incubation of the disease has set
in before the passenger reaches this
country.
DR.. Hedenburg suggested that every
alrplane crossing an international
boundary should be subjected to in
tense inspection and effective insecti-
cides should be sprayed over every part
of the plane and It's cargo to destroy
insects and pests which carry diseases
Swiss Order American Planes.
The roar of American motors in
American planes will be heard over
|
ginning of operation by a Swiss airline
OF the fastest air transport service in
Europe
The Swiss line has purchased two
Lockheed Orion all-metal low-wing
monoplanes powered with Wright Cy-
clone engines of 575 horsepower each.
IheSe planes are to be used regularly
on the Zurich-Vienna route and to ex-
pedlte transatlantic mails from Cher
bourg to Basel and other interior
points in Europe.
The planes will be provided with
seats for four passengers, the space for
the two normal additional seats being
el' en- over to compartment for mail
ard express packages. The two planes
VIII have a top speed of 225 miles per
hour and normal cruising speed of 1875
miles per hour, it has been announced
Out Of the Red
In year of depression, when many
industries have come out on the wrong
side Of the ledger, it is cheering news
to the aviation industry that at least
one transport line has been able tc
earn profits for its stockholders.
The annual report Of r. c. Marshall
president of Thompson Aeronautica
Corporation, which operates airmail anc
passenger lines linking 18 Midwesterr
cities and a chain of aviation bases
shows for the year ending December 81
a net profit of more than $4,000, de-
spite the expenditure during the year
of more than $197 900 for fleet of new
tri-motored planes, construction Of g
new air transport base at Chicago anC
other expenses additional to normal
operations.
Planes of the line carried a total OF
1908 revenue passengers during the
year. 11.195 of this number during the
second half.
officials of the company are continu-
ing their study of plans for proposed
4,369-mile air route linking America
and Europe by way of Greenland and
Iceland with terminals at Detroit ano
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