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prove. But that it was not nearly
as efficient for routine airways
operation as the commercial sets
has been amply demonstrated.
The army continues to use the
relatively inferior tuned frequency
sets which the commercial opera
tors have discarded in favor of the
superheterodynes. The signal corps
responsible for army radio, insists
that there is a good reason for
this. The superhets, they say,
are entirely too efficient, too sensi-
tive Tor military service.
TN actual warfare the air above
L the scene of operations would
be crowded with signals. Virtually
every branch of the army would
use radio for one purpose or
another. There would be jum-
bling of signals and resultant con-
fusion if all had efficient, sensi-
tive sets, the signal corps argues.
But, a spokesman added, and
perhaps significantly, 1--WE are
now considering the use of super
hets."
Many army planes have trans
mitters that send voice signals
only thirty five miles. They are
adequate for interplane work to
the formation commander can
flash orders to his fellow pilots,
or for relaying information back
of the lines to the artillery.
But they are not of great value
to a pilot fighting his way
through a storm in communicate
ing with a distant airport at
which he hopes to land.
The army pioneered much of
the aviation radio development,
but the commercial men, either
because of greater need or more
adequate finances, have taken the
lead in adapting and using these
devices.
The problem of landing a plane
on strange field either at night
or without visibility has occupied
aviation experts for years. Tech
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EOR the people affected it is a
Il disaster which they are quite
clearly unable to meet with their
own resources. They are stricken
by a natural catastrophe after
years OF impoverishment due to
the world depression. There will,
therefore, be no question as to
their need or as to the duty of
the federal government to provide
relief. Fortunately, the govern
ment is organized, as it has never
been before, to act promptly, in
diligently and adequately.
But while no one will grudge
relief in the emergency, the ques-
ton is bound to be raised in many
minds as to how far the govern
ment can and should go in as
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-G GO -ROUND
= By DreaO Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON 1.-Two Englishmen looking
w the Independently identical
criticisms They Sir Stafford left labor leader
John Maynard Keynes famous economist Both said that what the
deal needed plan They felt wandering udder
from policy another without rhyme Whether
valid criticism the
especially little
Keynes last for probable
that this will
Presidents right hand to keep the deal
VA yer presided the White House But she sen
mental Only intimate friends
without
The chain is wedding gift from the President and
attached
other FDR The initiating etched in diamonds
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a clew. The best of the COL
lege teams bears about the
same resemblance to the hum
blest of the major league firms,
which would be the Cincinnati
Reds, on a particularly punk
day, that a pig bears to a
thoroughbred horse and, any
way, the actual demonstration
of the athletes on the sward
is only the germ of the big
idea of the so-called national
paStime of the United States
of America.
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that increased flying hours are a
vital factor in the reduction of
the aircraft accident rate and the
number of fatal accidents"
TINE critics of the air corps in
Il sist that it is the system of
training, the set-up of control and
direction, that primarily is at
fault.
They point to the fact that the
corps on Feb. more than two
weeks before it took over opera
ton of the air mail routeS-had
available within the continental
limits of the United States radio
equipment which cost approx
imately 100000.
The record shows that only $780,
900 of this was labelled obsolete,
leaving balance of about $780,
900 of equipment for use on the
ground and $650,000 for use in
planes. Radio equipment adj
mittedly is expensive, but $780,
600 worth of it would appear to be
a sizeable investment.
Whether that equipment is eff
Gent for national defense only the
experience of an emergency will
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BY GEORGE DAVIS
Times SneciaI Writer

THE depression and the en-
Il forced economy of recent
years have left their mark on the
United States army air corps.
framing was sharply curtailed,
carefully evolved plans were
Junked, procurement was reduced
10 a minimum and the corps buc-
KIed down to the man-sized lob of
getting by" rather than building
the most efficient form of ma
tlonal defense and placing army
AVIATION on the same plane of de-
VeIopment as commercial aviation.
But there is also a question as
to whether the sole reason that
the army air corps is five years
behind the program laid out bv
congress in 1926 is lack of money
and whether better results might
not have been obtained with the
funds available.
Persons sharply critical of war
department policy-and they in
cluded many persons in service.
interviewed during the Scripps-
Howard survey of the nations
aviation problem - insisted that
money alone would not have
given the United States the best
air force in the world. 1t needed
much more than that, they de-
clared.
The job of transporting the air
mail provided the air corps with
its first real test since the World
war. There had, of course, been
war games, impressive cross
country formation flights and
spectacular, crowd-thrilling DEM
onstrations at air meets.
But the corps never had been
handed the difficult job of fly
ing planes from one point to an
other on schedule, fighting
through storms and darkness,
landing on strange fields and
adapting itself quickly to new
condltlonS and surroundings.
EVENTUAL good will come
II from the experience. The
corps was compelled to take in
ventory, to look at itself critical
ly. 1t found weaknesses it did not
previously realize existed.
The corps welcomed the order
to carry the mail in a spirit of
testing and confidence. On Feb.
14-less than a week before it be-
gan operation of the mail routes
Major General Benjamin D.
Foulois, chief of the air corps,
discussed the advisability of a
distinctive uniform for members
of his corps while testifying be-
fore a house subcommittee.
A number of his officers, he
said, wanted to know what is
the uniform going to be in air
mail work, whether they will carry
a little whistle and a mail pouch
on the side and few other such
items distinctive of air mail
service"
There is today no more talk of
little whistles ana mail pouches
in the corps. 1t is concerned now
with serious matters.
Many of the accidents of army
planes in mail service were due
either to equipment. lack of pilot
experience, inability of the pilot
to go safely through bad storms
or lack of Judgment in attempt
ing to get through impenetrable
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FIVE YEARS BEHIND THE TIMES
Depression Leauvs Its Mark ON the Army Air Corps

nicianS of the air corps, headed
by Captain Albert P. Hegenberger,
solved the problem in May, 1882,
by developing a system that was
not only almost foolproof but
comparatively inexpensive.
THIS system permitted a pilot
Il anywhere within fifty miles
of field to be guided directly to
that field, told the true altitude
of the ground-the airplane alti-
meter registers feet above sea
level rather than the actual dis
lance of the plane from the
earth-and brought down to a
safe landing on the center of the
runway.
The cost of the three necessary
transmitting stations, so light and
portable each may be carried in a
motorcycle side-car, was only
$4,000, including three small auto
mobiles. The cost of equipping
each plane was only about $3.50.
The system was virtually per-
feet. One plane, now five years
old, has been used in hundreds of
blind landings at Wright Field,
Dayton, o., and has never had a
tire blown.
Yet when the army took over
the air mail job, eighteen months
later, only a score or so of its
pilots knew how to land by this
system. Only about three weeks is
required for training. Expendi-
ture of a maximum of $105,000
would have put this equipment on
ten airports and in 100 airplanes.
THE Baker board, now study
Il ing the problem of the air
corps, was asked by Secretary
of War Dern to consider among
other things the question OF
whether the corps had adequate
equipment and whether the pi-
lots were properly trained.
Search of the official files prob
ably will reveal that requests
were made for funds for install
lation of this system shortly
after the army was ordered to
carry the mail.
But whether the delay was JUS
titled the army now is going full
speed ahead. An announcement
a few weeks ago told how army
pilots were to be taught a blind
landing system and that seven
fields were to be equipped. The
announcement, however, did not
mention that the system was al
most two years old, and that only
a score or so of men had been
trained in that period,
Signal corps denies the charge
of it's critics that a multitude of
red tape causes delay in the pro-
curement of equipment. including
radio. However, the critics in
sist that an official signal corps
chart lists eighteen to twenty-one
steps for Adoption of Stand
ard Procurement" and that this
routine wastes weeks and months
of valuable time.
Every study or investigation of
the air corps resolves into one
major question: rs the corps
ready to defeat an enemy air force
that might attack this country?"
IAN account of the answer to this
question by a ranking officer of
the army and by unofficial but
expert observers will be published
tomorrow.
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hard Shedding. They used to lobby
in congressional offices. But in
this case, the agricultural crowd
runs the show and wouldn't let
the lobbyists within shouting dis
lance. Result: the lobbyists
approached their congressman,
and their congressman turned
lobbyists. They flooded the halls
of the AAA. The weirdest in
cident of the sugar turmoil, how
ever, was performed by Pat Har-
rison, ise-cracking senator from
Mississippi. Not often does a
senator say that he wants moth
ing for his constituents. But
Pat did He told the AAA that
he wanted no benefit payments
for the molasseS and syrup makers
of Mississippi. There are about
10000 small molasses- makers in
Pats state.
Copyright. 1884 by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc)
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A National PaStime?
T WILL make little stipula-

4 +ior hera +bo+ baseball &c WeStbrOOk Pegler
the national paStime only in old newspaper phrase
which could be challenged down any day by any
body who wished to go to the trouble on behalf of
golf and craps which are coed games, so to speak,
and enjoy practical familiarity with far greater
number of addictS.
with Americans, though more of them play golf or
at it, than play baseball anything like it. There
fore, golf can not be advocated with complete sim
certify game more American than baseball 1t
might even die out in time, Notwithstanding an in
veStment golfing property and trade in the
instruments and trappings of golf, which far ex-
ceedS the financial Importance OF Abner DoubledayS
gift to western civilization.
However, the game that is played any army
blanket a parlor rug any other square yard of
smooth surface with pair of dice, turns over more
money than baseball is played and appreciated by
more Americans and is as American as the house
hold machine gun. Baseball requires formal con-
ditionS and meeting Of the minds and convenience
of at least eighteen males in reasonably fit physical
condition and large eXpanse of flat acreage
This is a rare combination even in large land
whose occupants lately have been receiving formal
instructions in the development of hobbies to occupy
them in their leisure.
But, q custom, baseball seems to suggest this
country in other lands just the bathtub suggests
the typical life in England and no more correctly.
Must Haze CrOLUd
MIR. BULLITT ought to recognize that baseball
lVl is composed of other ingredients than the
mere pail game. IL requires
frankfurterS, beer popcorn, iced hair-dyes and
depilatories assorted colors (Which probably would
make the Russians accustomed to their vodka, very
lib heroism, muckerism, democracy and autocratic
power and illusion.
The Russians unsophsticated-and American
craftsmanship as presented in typical American
ball game would myStify them until they caught the
hang of it, They would be told first of ALL that the
good American sportsman loses with brave smile
and then would be asked to understand when a ball
player who has been called out on close decision,
is deemed to be playing the game as he bellers and
kicks up dirt and calls the umpire opprobrlos names
They would be told all about the car system in
baseball and Mr. Bullitt would have to get over to
them somehow, the code of exceptions which some
times permits car to shed his imperial blue jacket
in runway under the grandstand and fall to punch
ing with rebelous serf who didn't like the way he
called that fast one, high, inside.
The Russians are expected to hold the bridge
for this country for the first year of the next
war. And that being so, and the cost of war being
so great that few million dollars can not possibly
matter, it would be cheap at twice the price to
fanniliarize the Russians with the United States by
showing them baseball baseball really is.
Copyright. 1884 BIZ United Feature Syndicate, Incl
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iauntily above all fears and pan
les. In other words, he had
sacrificed all possibility OF ex-
element.
A lesser writer comprehended
more clearly the golden gift OF
fearfulness. In his Suicide
Club" Stevenson presented a
character who thanked God be-
cause he was a coward. Each
night the old gentleman came
to take his chance of drawing
the fatal card, and his very
agony of terror made the eve
ming an epoch. I can present
further literary testimony in the
fairy tale of the prince who
could neither shiver nor shake.
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HJeemg TO Me.
bo
Haywood BROUk

TN my youth I read with high degree of interest
l. THE Research Magnificent" by H. G. Wells. 1t
concerned among other things, the life of humorous
young man who decided to cure himself by living
dangerously. 1t not, as I remember mere
desire for thrills The hero of Mr. Wells took on the
dual responsibility of danger and good causes. In
spite of nv interest in the tale not altogether
persuaded. I wrapped my hands around my own
timidity and held on for dear life as if it were
treasure.
By now I am convinced that was right and Mr.
Wells was wrong The young man in the book fell
finally in action but the tragedy which the author
overlooked was the fact that at the end his lad
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McGuffevites Plan Picnic

MCOuIItyILtS FIan FICnIC
Members of the McGuffey Club
will hold a picnic in Brookside park
Saturday, it was announced today
Twenty popular songs prepared in
booklet form will be sung at the
outing A pilgrimage to the McGuf-
fey home at Oxford, O., June 16,
also was announced.
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TODAY AND TOMORROW
By Walter Lippmann

VEN though there days
~ reliable opinion be that the
nothing prevent serious failure
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His hghness recognized this condition as handl-
cap and dropped all other activities in order to erect
a cure.
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Indiana in Brief



LExANDRA s-Feral held today for William
OF Civil veterans living IN Alexandria
He after illness Of three years
part
which pastor OF the
Holiness church, ofhciated
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~ MEMBERSHIP
CAMP AICN WILL
START TONIGHT
Fred Hoke to Direct City
Drive; Workers to Hear
Mayor.

The Central Y. NJ. c. A. member
ship campaign or roundup" will
open tonight under the direction of
Fred Hoke. campaign general man
ager. Greetings to workers meeting
at the Y will be given by Mayor
Reginald H. Sullivan; Harry White,
general Y secretary, and Mr.. Hoke.
DR.. Abram S. Woodland, Meridian
M. E. church pastor, will pronounce
the invocation and singing will be
led by George w. Campbell, Gin
cinnati, nationally known song di-
rector.
Other speakers will be Fermor S.
Cannon, association president;
Merle Sidener, recording secretary;
Clayton o. Mogg, membership chair
man; Frank C. Jordan, boys work
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committee chairman, and G.. v. Car
rier, Y. Toastmasters' Club presi-
dent.
Division leaders are Edgar H.
Evans, Gold Miners division; mir.
Mogg, U-Bar ranch; H. c. Atkins,
1O1 ranch; Mr.. Cannon, Rattlesnake
Gully ranch; Mr.. Sidener, Lone Star
ranch; Berkeley w. Duck, Bar K
ranch; A. G. Sinclair and Mr.. Car
rier, Packers Gully ranch; Earl r.
Gender, Montana rangers, and Mr..
Jordan, Texas rangers.
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u S. TO SEEK
ENGLAND'S AID
IN LIQUOR WAR
Federal Officials Ready to
Open Unified Drive on
Rum Runners.


WASHINGTON. Oct. ;. - The
United States intends TO seek soon
the cooperation Of Great Britain
IN a unified effort to eradicate rum
running. It was learned today.
The projected international con-
ferences are part OF the admins
tration's vigorous drive to end Illicit
liquor traffic and boost alcoholic
beverage taxes above 100000. 900
this year.
The problem, it was learned, will
be discussed by state department
and British government officials.
Canadian authorities and repre-
sentatives from the coast guard.
treasury and customs bureau will
sit in" at the discussions.
Decision 20 ask Great Britain's aid
IN the troublesome problem followed
disclosure by coast guard records
that eighteen known rum running
vessels lurking of the eastern sea-
board and southern ports fly the
Union Jack.
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HOSIERY WORKERS TO
HOLD DANCE SATURDAY
Union to Sponsor Event for Mem
bers and Friends.

Members of the American Fede-
ration of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers employed in the Real Silk,
Fulton and National silk hosiery
mills, will give the first of a series
of fall and winter dances in the
Riley room of the Claypool, Satur-
day, Oct. IS.
Ralph Riddle, union arrangement
committee chairman, announced to-
day that all friends and relatives of
hosiery workers have been invited
to attend the dance. Tickets may
be purchased from union members
at each of the three mills.
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Building Planned

GREENCASTLE. oct. 3.-Con-
struction will be started within a
few weeks Of an addition to De
Paw university property. publi-
cations building. Funds for the
project are accumulated earnings Of
the two campus publications, The
De Paw. university newspaper, and
The Mirage, De Paw yearbook. The
building. to be constructed of brick,
will cost between $4,000 and $4,000.
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,Campaiqn Set

Annual membership Of the In
diana Farm Bureau, Inc. will be
held the week of Dec. 3, it is an
nounced by L. L. Needler, organi-
zation director of the bureau. Pre-
ceding opening of the drive, meet
ings will be held in each district and
county to acquaint nonmember
farmers with the bureaus work.
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Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong 70:
PatroIman Fred Stages. 2ii4 Barth ave-
nue.. Chevrolet coach. 25-040. from home.
Stanley Aaddux, Westport. ND. Dodge
Howard Beasley. 1920 HoefRen street
DeSoto sedan. l4-7l3. from Sherman drive
and Troy avenue.
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Ex-Representative Is Dead

~ InIffd FTeEF
PORTLAND. Ind, Oct. 3.-John
Hammitt. so. former state represen-
tative from Jay county. died last
night from burns suffered when coal
oil exploded as he attempted to
start a furnace fire.
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BACK HOME AGAIN
,onnell. 172o Bellefontaine street

Dean Connell. 1870 Bellefontaine street.
REQ sedan. found at 1900 Peck street.
Ben Smith. 1899 East Nineteenth street.
Buick sedan. found at Thirtieth street
J. S. Lemon. 30ls North New jersey
street. Pontiac sedan. found at Thirtieth
street and Central avenue.
Joe Bedel. q West Pleasant Run park
way. Chevrolet coach. found in zoo black
Climber street.
Buick sedan. stolen from Anderson, Ind.
found in 1900 block Brouse street. stripped
Ford va coupe. 1902. found at Thir-
tieth and Ethel streets.
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FOUNDRIES GUARDED
BY GEORGIA TROOPS
Militia Dispatched as Strike of 500
Gets Beyond Control.
By United Press

By United Press
ROME, Ca, Oct. 3.-Georgias ma
tional guard. fresh from textile
strike duty, moved into Rome today
to dominate an area where civil au-
thorities reported strike OF 600
stove foundry workers was "abSo-
lutely beyond control"
Led by Acknowledgement Lindley
w. Camp, the guardsmen arrived
before dawn to establish protective
guard over four foundries affected
by the strike. which has been in eff
feet about eight weeks.
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France Honors Quezon

By United Press
PARIS. Oct. 5.-Manuel Quezon,
president of the Philippine senate,
was nominated a knight of the
legion of honor today by the French
government.
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Postal Receipts Rise
n lrrl Rrfrirl

81 Itrfs hpfct14
ELWOOD. oct. 3.-Receipts Of the
Elwood postoffice for the quarter
ended Sept. 80 we're 1898. an in
crease Of 1903 over the same Pc
Rod last year.
Evening star., 1934-11-02
VIPER MAY SUPPLY
HAEMOPHILIA CURE
British Doctors Prepare Venom
Treatment, Which Permits
Blood to Clot.
by the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 2. - The
venom of snakes may possess mys-
terious properties helpful in the treat
ment Of haemophilia, it was indi-
Gated today by the researches Of two
British physicians.
A new treatment for the disease
an uncomfortable bleeding, which the
sons Of former King Alfonso Of Spain
suffer, was described in the Lancet,
English medical journal, by Drs. H.
G. MacFarlane and Burgess Barnett.
The physicians based their study
on the hitherto incurable malady on
the knowledge that the poisons of
many snakes cause blood to clot.
They found the venom of the viper to
be most effective for their purposes.
From 1t they developed what they be-
lieved to be safe technique in the
treatment of the disease.
Evening star., 1934-11-02

besn exemplary In conduct until his
Implication imssohe serious a11Air."
II was recalled that the Presidents
son = an ardent Socialist.
Evening star., 1934-11-02
MAN HELD, ONE HUNTED
IN ILLINOIS MURDER
Three Women Asked to Identify
Prisoner Questioned in
Hold Up of Salesman.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 2.-Police TO-
day detained Andrew Spachon, 20,
and hunted for one of his friends as
they pushed their investigation into
the staying October ~ of George
Mayes, Mount Vernon. ILL.,, salesman,
in the presence of his fiancee, her sis
ter and a girl friend during robbery.
The Englewood police refused to d.
vulge information concerning the
prisoner but said they were forward
ing pictures to Miss Alta Echer, 20,
Summerfield, ILL.,, sweetheart Of the
slain man; her sister, Irma. and Miss
Ida May Flettner, 20, Mexico, Mo-, for
possible identification.
Mayes was killed by two men who
leaped on the running board of his
car and took $32 from the passengers.