Evening star. [volume], January 14, 1923, Page 10, Image 10

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Army Air Service Announces
Helicopter Test a Success
Design of Dr . G. de Bothezat, Aeronau
tical Engineer—Previous Demonstration
| by Henry Berliner of D . C. Recalled .
The Army air service has devel
oped and successfully tested a helio
copter, it was announced yesterday.
At McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, the
vertically rising and descending air
plane was flo'tfn by Maj. T. H. Bane
on December IS for 1 minute and
♦2 seconds, and reached an altitude
of about six feet. The flight was
witnessed by many Army officials and
x employes at McCook Field.
The announcement by the air serv
ice last night said the helicopter was
started under construction in July,
1921, and was designed and built by
Dr. G. de Bothezat, an aeronautical
engineer, under his personal super
vision. It has a total weight of 3,600 i
pounds. Including pilot and fuel, and
has four lifting screws of the de
Bothezat plane-radial type, actuated
by a motor of 170 horsepower. The
system of gearing employed is en
tirely novel, the announcement con
tinues, specially designed by Dr. de
Bothezat for this use, "and the work
ing of this system has been excep
tionally satisfactory.”
Os Full-Size Dimensions.
The de Bothezat helicopter was
built full size, without preliminary
models or tests of any kind; all de
-1 tails of the construction were based
upon compulations made by Dr. de
Bothezat. in accordance with his gen
eral theory of blade screws, written
for and published by the national
advisory committee for aeronautics
and upon his theory of helicopter
•stability. The machine will remain
at McCook Field, where the engineer
ing division of the air service is lo
cated, and will be put through further
and exhaustive tests.
••To Henry Berliner of Washington go
; the palms for perfecting a helicopter."
a. high officer in the bureau of naval
aeronautics declared last night when
informed of the latest progress made
in aviation by the air service. "Shis
officer said he witnessed a test of Mr.
Berliner's helicopter at College Park
several months ago and on that oc
casion it performed just as satisfac
torily as the de Bothezat machine.
The Berliner helicopter was experi
mented with for many years by Emile
Berliner, who in recent years turned
the work of development over to his
son Henry.
It is known that the Washingto
nian’s machine has been at least ten
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feet In the air and lias traveled hori
zontally at or about this altitude for
several hundred feet The distance
across the field at College Park has
been covered in two hops.-and all per
formances of several months ago were
made with an inferior engine and an
incompleted ship.
It was learned yesterday that the
Berliner helicopter has been further
developd since the teats last spring,
so that it can dscend without mishap
should the motor stop while the plane
is in the air. Also a new and more
powerful motor has been substituted
for the old sixty-horsepower rotary
engine, and In a few months It Is the
hope of the Inventor to make a flight
of about twenty-five miles. The only
thing that prevents such an attempt
now is the inexperience of the pilot,
who has not .even had the “stick” of
i an ordinary airplane in his hand.
Henry Berliner would not discuss
the two helicopters yesterday beyond
saying that the de Bothezat machine
"is more complicated than ours.”
FAVORS INDIAN BILL.
Support of the settlement of the
Pueblo Indian land claims, as con
tained in the Jones bill, introduced
in the Senate by Senator Jones of
Now Mexico, will be given by Mra
A, J. Atwood of Riverside, Calif.,
representing the National Federation
of Women’s Clubs, and fourteen
Pueblo governors and delegates at
the hearing on the measure at the
Capitol tomorrow. - /
Mrs Atwood declared the senti
ment of the women throughout the
country is for the Jones bill, which,
she declared, provides Just settlement
to the Indians' claims. The Burs urn
bill dealing with this question will
be vigorously opposed.
LITTLE INFLUENZA HERE,
Although the usual wave of winter
colds is putting in Its appearance,
Washington has been practically tree
from Influenza so far this winter, ac
cording to health department records.
Health Officer Fowler stated last
night that only twenty-nlrje cases of
influenza have been reported since
January 1. or an average of about I
two a day from a population of ap- I
proximately 460,000.
THE SUNDAY STAB, WASHINGTON. D. C„ JANUARY 14, 1923-PART 1.
LATEST ADDITION TO THE UNITED STATES AIR FLEET.
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• SERVICE AT WcCOOK FIELD, DAYTON, OHIO,
MARYLAND SEEKS
“SLICK” VIRGINIAN
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Alleged Game Law Violator
Outwits Two Deputy
Wardens.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md.. January* 13.
Montgomery county authorities are i
anxious to locate Emory Painter, a 1
young resident of Loudoun county, |
Va., who was once in their clutches, I
but who, by using his wits, escaped |
from Deputy Game Warden Clyde i
Harris, much to the chagrin of that j
officer.
Ho is wanted to answer a charge
of hunting game out of season, but
it is particularly desired to have him
on hand for an early trial on a
charge of assaulting Motor Vehicle
Policeman Lawrence Clagett.
Up on Mason’s Island in the Poto
mac river, near White’s Ferry, this
county, several days ago. Officers
Clagett and Harris, so they say. de-
I tected Painter in the act of hunting—
caught him, they assert, with shot
gun, cartridges, game bag and a dead
squirrel. As the season for such
sport had expired ten days before, the
officers are understood to have felt
that their duty was clear, so they
started' to place Painter under arrest.
Painter suddenly wheeled and pro
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how a scared Virginian can run.
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a track runner himself, so he prompt- .
ly started In pursuit and was rapidly
overtaking Painter when the latter 1
stopped and. so It Is charged, point
ing his gun at Clagett, dared him to
“come another step further.’’
I Clagett rushed in. and just as he
( grabbed Painter the gun the latter
held was discharged, and the load of
shot passed close to but harmlessly
by the officer. Painter was disarmed
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When Rockville was reached the
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COURT DENIES MOB
VICTIMPROTECTION
Without Jurisdiction in Wom
an’s Case, Says Houston
Federal Judge.
By the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, Texas, January 13. —An
informal appeal was made tonight
to Judgp J. C. Hutc’ eson of the fed
\ eral district court here for protection [
\ for Mrs. U. H. Harrison, who, with
R. A. Annand, was the victim of
masked doggers at Goose Creek. 1
The appeal was made by a friend of
Mrs. Harrison. Judge Hutchesoi)
held that he could take no action for
the reason that the federal court had
no jurisdiction.
This appeal to Judge Hutcheson is
the only one that has been made to
any officer of the law so far by either
of the victims.
R. A. Armaad, who was whipped
simultaneously with Mrs. Harrison,
is still confined to his bed in his
room in Goose Creek.
Five Robed Like Klanamen,
Deputy Sheriff T. A. Hamilton of
t Goose Creek, in a statement Saturday,
said that both the victims have de
clared that at least five of their as- <
sailants wore robes similar to the i
Ku Klux Klan regalia.
Describing the horrors of the affair, !
Mrs. Harrison said she and Armand i
was dragged from her home to wait- I
ing automobiles and carried away to 1
a pasture several miles from Goose i
Creek, where they were beaten with ,
a knotted rope or heavy leather strap.!
The •woman declared she fainted
several times while the flogging was
In progress.
She said that the men appeared to
be divided on the question of.whether
their bodies should be mutilated,
finally deciding that the whipping
and cutting of Mrs. Harrison’s hair
would be sufficient. The woman’s
hair, long, black and glossy, was
hacked off, she said, by the men, who
used a pocket knife.
CLOCK COMPANY CITED.
The Seth Thomas Clock Company
of New York was named yesterday
in a citation by the Federal Trade
’ Commission requiring the concern to
show cause why the commission
should not issue an order for. it to
desist certain practices held, by the
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