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Evening star., 1941-08-03
By Devon Francis.

The landing problem has been en-
phasized by the increasing numbers of
planes in single flights. At Kelly Field
as many as four flights of 48 planes each
have been in the air at one time.
Loops and rolls, dives and ICONS, re-
main the standard training and combat
maneuvers in spite of the fact that both
bombers and pursuit planes are three
tipes as fast as they were in 1917-l8.
The screaming dive of German Stuka
planes, attacking tank formations, is
only another version of the dives made
by pursuits on marching columns Of men
in the war where air power first made
itself felt.
Still used is the so-called Immelman
turn. invented by the German ace. 1t is
a product of half-loop, half-roll. The
pilot pulls up into a loop until he is on
his back and then rolls into an upright
position, turning the plane on its hor-
zonta axis
The Immelman turn was contrived to
escape an enemy on the tail or to
change course to the opposite direction
when an ordinary banked turn would
expose a pilot to enemy fire
More spectacular and effective-and
more difficult-is the maneuver known
as a vertical reversement.
In this a pilot goes into a normal
turn, suddenly pulls up the nose into an
incipient tail spin, and as suddenly re-
Evening star., 1941-08-03

readily moved about. BY operating a set
of controls at one side of the frame the
instructor turned the student in the
cockpit in various positions. 1t was his
problem to bring the cockpit back to
normal level flight by operating the
stick and rudder bar. The mechanism
was cumbersome, however, and the ma
chine never gained any wide acceptance.
Next came a modified version of the
orientator, eliminating the gears and
operating by the force of the shpstream
of the propeller on f1anges spaced equi-
distant around the outside of a simulated
engine cowling and on a standard tail
assembly. The student was directed
through a set of earphones and re-
sponded by putting his plane" through
the required maneuvers. The propeller
was an improvement over the cog and
gear method, but was still far from satis-
factory in Stimulating the feel" of the
plane. Moreover, it was too large to move
about easily. Finally it, too, was aban-
doned as impractical.
After lapse of several years came the
latest development in synthetic flight
before the advent of the pre-flight re-
flight trainer, the Link trainer, officially
approved about year ago and now in
general use for primary and instrument
flying training.
Only Resemblance.
About the only resemblance to the
earlier orientator is the cockpit. The
massive frame has been replaced by a
pedestal mounting. The design has been
so radically changed that it responds to
the controls much as does a plane in
actual flight. The instructor may either
give directions by means of earphones or
by remote control arrangement so de-
signed that the student may be required
to correct for impulses not known to him
in advance. A tracing device, called a
bug" may be attached to make a graph
of each fight. enabling the instructor
to show the student afterward his mis-
takes just as they occurred.
One of the desirable features of the
Ocker-C Crane trainer is its mobility.
Twelve miles an hour is far from even
the moderate speed of modern primary
training plane, but the combination of
forward motion with the turning and
banking of the cockpit gives the student
the feel" of plane in way a sta
tionary device cannot To the student
occupied with many new problems, II
miles an hour may seem entirely too
fast. Another advantage is its ready
adaptation to machine gun practice. The
gun trigger operates .22-caliber weapon
mounted on the front of the cockpit in
conjunction with the usual flight con-
trolls With the installation of certain
instruments and hood, it can also be
converted to instrument-f1ying training.
its inventors point out Not the least
important consideration is the simplicity
Of its manufacture and low cost, esti-
mated at only about $3.50.
Evening star., 1941-08-03

LONDON. August Am exiled peo-
ple-with the sentence of death on the
heads of their lesders-the Free French
are trying to find the former power
and glory of their land in friendly sister
states and in seagirt outposts of empire
Theirs is form of hope that hardly
ever smiles. 1t was typical that they
devoted the once-gay national holiday
of Bastille Day to prayer and rededi-
cation to the Allied cause.
Men from all walks have accepted,
stoically, new conditions of life in strange
lands The strict courtesies and exacti-
tudes of military rank have been put
aside.
Charles de Gaulle, generalissimo of
the Free French forces, is entitled only
to the two stars of a brigadier Yet
Georges Catroux, wearing the five stars
of an army commander, serves under
De Gaulle.
Frenchmen of all ranks seem to
acknowledge freely and with a sense
of pride the leadership of De Gaulle,
the 50-year-old warrior who rose from
lne TALK Ol COlOIltl W uldJOT ScHcIdl
In the tragic final stand of the French
Republic.
The British, Also appear to have
abandoned the doubts that first assailed
them when this relatively unknown Of
ficer arrived in London during the dark
hours of the summer of 1910.
De Gaulle was then a man unframed
in politics, although the brilliance of
his military analysis was recognized Gle
had scoffed at the Maginot Line before
the war, and urged the French to put
their army in tanks and armored cars)
Since No. 10 Downing street recog-
nized him as "the leader of all Free
Frenchmen," this tall, robust, cookbook
ing officer has won wide sympathy among
the British and has demonstrated his
abilities as an administrator.
Meanwhile, his followers have fought
beside Britons, Australians, New Zea-
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Hazard of H0arding
By Basil Gordon.

The leading hoarders of the world are
the squirrel, the magpie and man. Per-
haps the squirrel is the most intelligent
of the trio because he boards only
plainly useful objects like corn, acorns
and nuts. Of the remaining pair, mag
pie and man, who collect just for the
fun Of it, the magpie is far luckier, not
merely because he pays nothing for his
hobby, but for the much more important
reason that his mate gives him real
break by leaving his collection alone.
She never throws it out of the nest,
because she is just as bad as he is at
accommodating junk. Apparently she is
quite a scold, but that one trait endears
her to her husband so that he overlooks
all other faults.
This leaves man holding the bag-that
is, If he can hide even that from his
wife. 1t has always been SO. At every
stage of his career he has had to fight
some woman for the supposedly con-
stitutional right to own property in fee
simple, and not merely on a mortgage
subject to foreclosure without notice by
COnhcatlon.
The trouble begins in infancy when his
mother, no doubt from the best motives,
insists on his playing with some stream
lined, hygienic, expensive toy instead of
the battered, rusty, old toothpowder can
that he really wants 1t goes on into
boyhood, when she raises the roof merely
because he fills his pockets with fish
hooks, frogs, marbles, squashed candy,
razor blades and pieces of pie. In this
assault on his freedom she is aided and
abetted by any or all daughters that
have come with the years, and there is
nothing more aggravating to a man 10
years old than to have his sister, men,
Der of the wrong and despised sex, with
no pockets of her own, hypocritically
backing up the wrong generation in
tyranny.
For time, after leaving one home
and not yet establishing another, he is
Evening star., 1941-08-03
NewInventiOnA AidsPilOt Training
BY Ben PearSe.

out at the Army's flying school at Ran
dolph Field, Tex.
Back in 1912, when Col. Ocker, one of
the Armys oldest pilots in point of
service. learned to fly, he had never
driven an automobile. In learning how
to guide the plane to right or left. he
had no preconceived notions of what to
do. Almost without exception, the thou
sands of young men undergoing flight
training today, however, have driven
automobiles, most of them for long
enough to form definite habits which
make their reactions almost automatic.
Consequently, student flyers today must
not only learn a new set of reactions,
they must "unlearn" many of those
when they make the transition from an
automobile to an airplane.
At the bottom of all this difficulty is
the system of rudder control which orig
mated way back when the airplane was
little more than glorified gadget itself.
In steering an automobile, or most We
hicles which operate on the ground, the
lulpuloC, WllClllCl IL ID dppAcu
by hand or foot, invariably is applied
in the same direction as the arc of
turn. With an airplane, however, every
thing seems to operate the wrong" way.
To turn TO the right, the pilot pushes the
rudder bar with the right foot, directly
across the arc Of turn, instead of with
the left, as he would with bob sled
Why airplane controls are arranged that
way not even the oldest pilots can ex-
plain. They simply are and always have
been since the rudder bar came into use.
To change now would mean changing
the reactions of the entire flying frater-
nifty Add to this the problem of lateral
control, and the mystery of the third
dimension, which necessitates banking
the plane with the hands while turning
it by manipulating the feet. The realiza-
tion that an airplane cannot be stopped
to avoid a collision, or while figuring out
what to do next, is another wrench on
students mental processes. Over all
hangs that ever-present threat - the
forced landing.
First Attempt.
The apparently simple matter OF
teaching a student pilot to coordinate
his hands and feet properly is only one
problem, but saving of only an hour or
two in mastering it with vast training
program involving thousands of trainees
obviously would be worth the effort.
In our first experience with large scale
flying training during the World War
this was recognized. The first attempt
to solve the problem synthetically was a
machine called the orientator, now almost
forgotten, consisting Of a cockpit with
conventional controls, suspended within
two sets Of gymbals, like a compass, to
permit movement in any direction. These
gymbals were suspended in larger
frame Of steel pipe, which In turn was
mounted on wheels, 20 that 1t could be
Evening star., 1941-08-03

The Army is looking to new inven-
ton, so new, in fact, that it does not
even have a nickname, to help cut down
the number of hours required to teach
prospective flying students how to make
their hands and feet work in harmony
instead of at cross purposes.
Until better name comes along the
device is being called the pre-flight re-
f1ex trainer. 1t is an odd-shaped, Pc
culiar-looking gadget consisting prin-
cipally of canvas-covered cockpit sus
pended at either end in triangular
frame mounted on wheels and powered
with a 112-horsepower motor.
The student sits at the controls SIM
liar to the standard equipment of pri-
mary training plane and put-puts around
a large concrete platform, making turns
and banks, climbs and glides and figure
8s Every time he overbanks or makes
mistake in co-ordinating the controls,
a warning horn blares forth and his in
structor makes notes on his record sheet.
Invented by Col. William c. Ocker and
Maj. Carl j. Crane, who have worked
together on several other flying training
aids, the pre-flight reflex trainer has
passed preliminary tests at Wright Field,
where the first model was built in the
engineering shops, and is now being tried
Evening star., 1941-08-03

temporarily free. Even then, while
bachelor, he must broWbeat the cleaning
woman into terrified agreement to leave
his things alone, under threat of dis
charge Or in extreme cases, murder. But
when he takes that one-way trip to the
altar, it is all over.
Now past the pocket stage, he usually
puts his petty treasures in the top bureau
drawer, which his wife gives him for his
own because it is smaller than any of
the others. Gradually he clogs it with
newspaper clippings, ping pong balls,
extra light fuses, paper clips, chewed-up
pencils, matches and the like. His wife
tells him to clean out the mess, and
he promises to do so some time when he
gets around to it.
Before this can happen, or at any rate
day and finds his cache gone, the drawer
painfully and disgustingly in perfect
order, with just the few paltry items
that really belong there.
"Helen!" he calls frantically. (Or sub
stitute any other appropriate name, from
Abigail to Zoe) What did you do with
all my things?"
"I threw them away" she replies calm
ly. You wouldn't do anything about
them, and I got tired of seeing them
around. I warned you"
"But you wouldn't even see them, If
YOU didn't snoop," he protests.
"Just having them there is enough"
she answers, then plays her trump card
they bring mice"
There is no use saying that mice, un-
like men, are not attracted by old spark
plugs and fountain pens, and are far
more likely to 60 for handkerchiefs with
which to build nests. Sadly he goes to
the ashcan, retrieving what he can and
surreptitiously hiding it in the cellar
until time, the great healer, gets in such
effective work that once again he stupid
ly begins building up that top drawer
to another let down.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
dead, and then said, "it is hard to get

dead, and then said, "it is hard to get
old"
Then he began reminiscing of his
boyhood and of Elkton, KY, where he
was born. He mentioned attending
Vanderbilt University and studying law
at the University of Virginia. Except
for brief time when he was secretary
to Senator Howell Jackson of Tennessee,
he practiced law in Nashville and New
York until Attorney General Knox
made him an assistant during the Re-
publican Administration of Theodore
Roosevelt
Although a Democrat, he also was
asked by other Republican Attorneys
General to prosecute trust cases. The
first Roosevelt had called the heads of
some of the large corporations male
factors of great wealth." McReynolds
labeled them Commercial Wolves and
Highwaymen."
President Wilson found him an un-
compromising figure in the cabinet. His
disregard for political considerations at
times was embarrassing. AS result
within a year he was named to the
Supreme Court.
When he took his seat ON the bench
he was regarded as liberal; by the
time he resigned this year he was looked
upon as the Courts arch conservative.
He has not as yet completely adjusted
his life to his new leisure. He is doing
an extra amount of reading, he is inter-
ested in some missionary work that is
going on In Kentucky and he is puttering
about his home in which he takes q great
interest.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
An aerial Kelly Field, by aknnt
Cadet Fliers Master Blitz Tricks

KELLY FIELD, Tex, Aug 2.-Feints,
hooks, jabs and uppercuts, more pro-
nounced than they were in the war of
1914-l8, have become part and parcel
of the lightning fast maneuvers in the
air warfare of 1941 abroad.
Here on the Texas plains, at Randolph
and Kelly fields, Army Air Force fly
ing cadets are learning the primary
movements of airplanes in flight before
they proceed to tactical training as COM
missioned officers at the new bases be-
ing established throughout the United
States.
The old World War "Lufbery Circle"
named for its originator Raoul Lufbery,
ace of quarter of a century ago, still
is used in modified form abroad and on
training fields.
Clayton Knight. also a World War
flyer and famed for putting movement
into planes with charcoal and paint
brush, calls the Lufbery Chasing Tails"
It's simply a matter of two or more
planes flying in the same circle. much
like dog chasing its tail. The circle
first was contrived to protect the tails
or blind spot, of grouped airrlanes.
In later years it has been used to get
a fight of airplanes on to small fields.
A Lufbery is formed and, one by one,
planes peel of" to land.
Evening star., 1941-08-03

landers and Indians in Northern Africa
and Syria; upward Of 100 vessels of the
Free French Navy have augmented the
British fleet, and nearly 1900 French
airmen have flown with the r. A. r. to
combat the Luftwaffe.
On this island crowded with many
nationalities splashed with vari-col-
ored uniforms, buzzing with a multitude
of tongues, the Free French are men
apart-for they form an independent
command, training men for immediate
service overseas.
The force of the French, now totaling
some 10000 soldiers, is mustered chiefly
in the middle east. Recruits are sent out
from the training center and depot here
as soon as they qualify as infantrymen,
gunnerS tank crews, signalers. The avi-
ators are trained apart
On the training end of this fighting
chain-in London-is the charming and
gracious Admiral Huselier, whose humor
and vivacity have won from the young
refugees he shepherds the title OF ''our
admiral"
LSdocI Ol tIle FIce FlcllCl llSuIcIS
the fields of the middle east is 62-year-
old Gen. Georges Catroux, former COM
mander Of the French Foreign Legion.
AS Governor General of Indo-China
when the Vichy government signed the
armistice, he organized for resistance
against possible japanese attack. He was
repudiated by Vichy, and sentenced to
death.
1t is claimed that Catroux won many
Vichy Frenchmen to the ranks of the
Free French after hostilities ended in
Syria, where he commanded the French
troops.
Shortly before, as De Gaulle's delegate
general in the Levant he had received
the Emir of Jebel Druz and other Druz
leaders, come by circuitous route to ex-
press their desire that Jebel be taken
under the authority of the Free French
and allies.
Evening star., 1941-08-03

had not been posing long before I
learned that he is an omnivorous reader
who is as interested in recent books as
in old ones Apparently his taste does
not run along any single line and he
reads history and biography as we'll as
some fiction.
AS he sat in large easy chair speak
ing about different things, his words
suggested rather than expressed feel
ing of loneliness. This was particularly
noticeable when I referred to the chill
dren whom he had adopted
-'I have always loved children" he
said, "and during the last war I adopted
some French babies When they grew
older they wrote to me, and I have
kept a number Of their letters. know
little about my new family except that
they are the unfortunate little sufferers
of cruel war which, despite our sup
posed civilization, now threatens the
entire world.
You probably have noticed my prints
I want you to look at my favorite. 1t
is a lovely little etching by Heintzle-
man called, "Rolande."
AS he spoke he got up and took me
into the entrance hall, pointing out as
he went photographs of nieces and
nephews which stood on top of the book
cases.
Look at it." he said as he stood be-
fore the print. See the expression on
the face and the grace of the little
figure. Can any one help loving chill
dren?"
He went back to his chair and was
silent for few minutes.
Then he continued:
Supreme Court justices must lead
more or less solitary lives. Often their
human side is so obscured that people
do not give them credit for having the
same feelings as other men. Moreover,
they dare not speak about the things in
which they are most absorbed and in
terested.
Il like to play golf and go duck
hunting On many occasions my COM
panion has been a man who had an
interest in some case which had come
DeIOre me. my mlIlQ WAS Iull VI WIldI
had happened in court and I knew that
he also was thinking of it. Yet there
was an unscalable wall between my
friends and me. Neither of us could
mention what was on both our minds. y
However, there were few subjects
prescribed in the Justices conversation
with me. He talked earnestly against
tobacco, and, as I guiltily felt for my
cigarettes in my pocket, he expressed
wonder as to the ultimate effect of the
great increase in smoking
He resented many changes in our
point of view and the increasing
power of the Central Government. He
expressed his antagonism against new
interpretations of the Constitution and
echoed that opinion he once uttered
on the bench: L believe in the Con-
stitution as written, not as whitfield
away by tenuous reasoning"
He recalled his friendship with Col.
House and told me that it was through
him that he was appointed Attorney
General by President Wilson. He spoke
Of other friends, many Of whom are
Evening star., 1941-08-03
invisible Tie Binds
Jurist to Britain
By S. J. WooH.

Road to War" Bigelow's Life of Frank
lin" and James Lane Aliens Kentucky
Cardinal interspersed among Irving's
and Hawthorne's works and the Har-
ward Classics.
I might have noticed others had not
the erect, vigorous judge walked in
promptly at the appointed time. He
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
Uranium Crackers

Lines of Verse
First lines of poems can usually
call to mind the title: last lines are
more difficult to identify Here are
both. See if you can name the
five poems and their authors.
l. Under a spreading chestnut
tree Each burning deed and
thought.
2. Hence vain deluding joys .
These pleasures, Melancholy, give,
and I with thee will choose to live.
3. Thou still unravished bride of
quietness E. Beauty is truth, truth
beauty-that is all ye know on
earth, and all We need to know.
4. Oh to be in England Far
brighter than this gaudy melon
flower.
5. Once upon midnight dreary,
And my soul from out that
shadow that lies floating on the
floor shall be lifted-nevermore.
ANSWERS
l. "The Village Blacksmith by
Henry Wadsworth LongfelloW.
2. I'll Penseroso" by John Milton.
3. lode on a Grecian Urn' by
John Keats.
4. Home Thoughts from Abroad
by Robert Browning.
5. 1.-The Raven" by Edgar A,Gs1
Poe.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
WELLES
JITTERS CURED

Orson Wellos, back from the des-
ert and recovered from his jitters,
is on a reducing diet. He was quite
firm with waiter on the matter
of mo butter on my steak, but
ordered a side dish-a double por-
ton of French fried potatoes.
Gloria Swanson. returning to the
screen in Father Takes II Wife,,
has l8 costumes designed by Rene
Hubert who has just finished SIM
liar Job for Marlene Dietrich. CO.
star Adolphe the Well-Dressed
Menjou tops her with 20 changes,
including a gorgeous, eye-splitting
dressing gown.
They're calling Mickey Rooney
the Younger Sets Diamond Jim
Brady. He brought girl friend Lin
da Darnell a silver and jade brace
let back from that Mexico City
jaunt.
Eleanor Powell had special
case OF filters during the rainy
spell because she can't stand wind
shield wipers. clocks, water drip
ping from a faucet, or anything
with metronome-like ticking.
Sets her to making up tap rhythms
SO that she can't relax.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
GRATITUDE BLOOMS
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

That is a pretty story which has come
up from Alto Pass down in the Illinois
OZarks about the hollyhocks which
slave girl named Priscilla planted more
than a century ago. The girl was a
quadrOon born on a Carolina plantation
and sold at the age of nine to a well-to-do
Cherokee. He took her to the Great
Smoky Mountains, where she planted by
her tepee a packet of hollyhock seeds
which she had brought from the planta-
ton. They grew and bloomed and, when
the tribe came West, she carried still
another handful in her apron pocket.
Frozen creeks halted the caravan near
Jonesboro in the winter of 1888; there
she was bought by Basil Silkwood of
Mulkeytown, who later set her free along
with other slave children. To show her
appreciation, she planted the seeds near
the house of her benefactor and for 1O2
years they have come up, blazed red and
pink and flame, seeded themselves and
come up again.
That is the story. And now seeds from
the first flowers planted by the slave
girl have been scattered by hollyhock
lovers in ;.Aass seeding of more than
300 miles of roadside in Southern Hi
nois. Yes, a pretty story, but no prettier
than the prospect of mile on mile of
winding highways lined with tall spikes
of swaying color in Ozark Junes to come.