Evening star. [volume], September 23, 1937, Page A-9, Image 9

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HEARING SET OCT. 7
Roper Calls Parley to Sift
Safety of Air Regula
tions Here.
A final “showdown" in the contro
versy over safety of air transport !
operations at Washington Airport is
expected at a hearing called by Sec
retary of Commerce Roper for October
7. This hearing may result in lifting
of some of the Federal limitations on
use of the airport or possibly may
lead to imposition of even more rigid
restrictions.
At the same time Secretary Roper
revealed the local airport controversy
Is holding up indefinitely construc
tion of a simultaneous radio range and
radio telephone transmitting station
here to replace obsolete Federal air
ways equipment. "'lie construction
has been scheduled as a part of a
$7,000,000 Federal program of mod
ernization and improvement of the
airways system.
It was revealed at the Commerce :
Department that neither Pilot Henry
T. “Dick" Merrill, first flyer to fall
afoul of the new Washington Airport
regulation, nor Eastern Air Lines, his
employer.. has filed a reouest for an
opportunity to enter a defense against
the imposition of $500 fines. They
have 20 days in which to request a
hearing of file a defence before im
position1 of the full $500 fines becomes
mandatory. Merrill was charged with
violation of the regulation by taking
off from the short runway at Wash
ington Airport September 10.
Called on Pilots' Request.
The October 7 hearing was called
as a result of a written request from
pilots of the Eastern Air Lines "merry- j
go-round" service between Washington i
and New York that the Commerce '
Department lift restrictions on the use !
of the Douglas DC-2 type of airplane ,
at the local airport. Discontinuance j
of the hourly service between the two :
cities and the discharge by the airline j
hearing will go into question of ex
gaged in the service is anticipated if
the restrictions remain in effect.
It was revealed by Fred D. Fagg.
Jr., director of air commerce, that the
hearing will go into question of en
tension of the restrictions to include
airliners weighing less than 15.000 |
pounds gross, the minimum established
in the present rule, which went into
effect September 7.
The present regulation affects only
the DC-2 airplane, which weighs about
18,000 pounds, and the 21,000-pound
DC-3 type. These p'rplanerf now are
ured by Eastern Air Lines and Ameri
can Airlines on their services out of
Washington. Should the minimum
weight restriction be lowered, the Boe
ing airliners used by Pennsylvania
Central Airlines and the Stinsons, used
by American, also would be subject to
the same limitations.
Calls Airline Representatives.
Secretary Roper has summoned to
the hearing representatives of the
three airlines; National Aviation Corp ,
which owns and operates Washington
Airport; the Virginia State Corpora
tion Commission, the National Airline
Pilots’ Association and the Bureau of
Air Commerce.
At the request of Secretary Roper,
Director Pagg and Charles I. Stanton,
head of the airways engineering divi
sion of the Bureau of Air Commerce,
announced that, although equipment
for construction of the new local sta
tion has been acquired, no steps to
ward construction can be undertaken
until the question of a permanent
airport site has been answered-.
This means that airlines operating
out of Washington must go into the
Winter season of bad weather facing
the double handicap of inadequate air
port facilities and obsolete radio aids,
it was pointed out.
Plans for Construction.
Washington had been one of 36
cities scheduled to receive new simul
taneous radio rangd and radio-tele
phone stations. While local construc
tion is held up pending the designa
tion of a permanent airport site, the
Bureau of Air Commerce plans to go
ahead with construction of the new
stations at such locations as Alma,
Ga.: Burley. Idaho: Delta, Utah: Go
shen, Ind.; Greensboro. N. C.: Kyler
town. Pa., and Red Bluff, Calif., which
have settled their airport problems.
Secretary Roper made public a prog
ress report on the $7,000,000 program,
which shows the first *5,000,000 of the
program is being applied to moderni
sation and Improvement work, and
that the remaining *2,000,000. when
made available, will be used fqr ex
tending the Federal airways system.
The largest single extension planned
will be from Washington to Cincin
nati, a distance of 415 tniles, at an
estimated cost of $376,000.
Upperclassmen
Come Bearing
Gifts to “Frosh99
The dream of every college fresh
man,^ to be treated by upperclassmen
with something besides paddles, harsh
commands and practical jokes, was
realized yesterday by newcomers at
Wilson Teachers’ College.
The 170 first-year students enjoyed
refreshments, athletic events, a beauty
contest and a scavenger hunt at the
picnic grounds, near the Sixteenth
street reservoir, at. the expense of ap--'
proximately 300 upperclassmen.
The event was styled by some as
"the calm before the storm," with the
up-in-the-world sophomores and a
few of the less serious juniors and
seniors satisfied their fun will come
later.
Happiest of freshman group was
Miss Carol Loggins, who won the "Miss
Freshman” title in the beauty contest.
Runners-up for the honor were Misses
Marianne Clark. Janet Grimm. Eileen
Thornton. Frances Dewey, Betty Bar
ringer %nd Talmah McConchie.
The freshman dream closed with a
scavenger hunt. Objects of the search
were pennies, oyster shells, bits of
quartz and cork stoppers.
Scientists From Capital Visit
Northernmost City in World
The world's northernmost city—a
brand-new town of between 35,000 and
40,000 people—was host this Summer
to a group of Washington scientists
who attended the sessions of the
World Geological Congress in Moscow.
Taken on an excursion to study the
minerals of the Kola Peninsula, which
extends into the Arctic Ocean, they
were the first foreigners to enter the
area since the revolution. An electri
fied railroad carried them into the city
of Khirovsk, 100 miles above the Arc
tic Circle, where the sun never set
during their stay. They found a town
with paved streets, electric lights, large
apartment houses, day nurseries, a sci
entific museum and a “park of culture
and rest"—all less than 10 years old.
Only the small fishing village of
Hamerfest, Norway, is farther north
in Europe. Khirovsk, named for one
of the heroes of the revolution, was
established as a center for phosphate
mining. It represents, the Washing
ton geologists say, the great north
ward push of Russia toward a final
realization of the dream of Peter the
DR. M’CARTNEY HONORED
Rev. Albert Joseph McCartney, D. D.,
pastor of Covenant-First Presbyterian
Church, will receive the honorary
degree of doctor of laws Monday at
the opening convocation of Beaver
College, Jenkintown, Pa. He will de
liver a short address.
Beaver College is one of the oldest
institutions of higher education in
Pennsylvania.
Great in establishing the present Len
ingrad. a northern seaport open all the
year around. This port is on the
Arctic, still north of Khlrovsk. and a
naval base is being established there.
A special object of the geological
party was to study the oldest known
part of the earth. The percentage
mixture of lead and uranium in some
of the radioactive rocks of the Kola
Peninsula „hows these rocks to be ap
proximately 1,700,000,000 years old.
The Moscow party, most of whom
arrived back in Washington this week,
was taken on various excursions
around Russia.
RUHLAND PRAISES
D. C. PARKS POOLS
Commends Supervisor McCarthy
in Calling Attention to
Sanitary Conditions.
Dr. George C. Ruhland, District
health officer, has commended sani
tary conditions in the six National
Capital parks swimming pools, offi
cials said today.
In a letter to F. W. Hoover, gen
eral manager of the Welfare and
Recreational Association of Public
Buildings and Grounds, Inc., the
health officer praised Robert McCar
thy, supervisor of pools, for his co
operation. The problem of providing :
safe facilities for the pools was cited
by Dr. Ruhland, commeriding the park
authorities for maintaining a high
record in the face of this.
"Our records show that good results
were obtained and that a safe and !
healthful recreational facility was af
forded a greater number than in pre
vious years,” Dr. Ruhlancb wrote.
Such work rannot be valued in terms
of dollars and cents, but certainly we
know that it means much to our city."
C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent
of the National Capital parks, said
“approximately 400,000 swimmers pat
ronized the park pools during the 1937
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reason, nearly doubling the reoortV of
he previous year ”
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