Brownsville herald. [volume], March 08, 1929, Airport Edition, AIRPORT, Page THREE, Image 17

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AIR GATEWAY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA
Brownsville and Mexico City. The following morning Capt. Ira C. Eaker will hop off on his epochal dawn-to-dusk flight from Brownsville tp Panama Canal Zone,
approximately $150,000, part of which was for the 480-acre site. Work is now under way on a second hangar, made necessary by the rapidly increasing business of the port,
waiting room, offices, rest rooms, emergency aid room and other facilities, and residence for the manager. Several smaller buildings have been erected to house flood lights,
lights, which cover the entire landing field with their rays; revolving beacon light, discernible by pilots at a distance of 50 to 70 miles; spot lights, warning lights on all
compacted, forming the surface.
feet. This structure will house from 10 to 15 planes.
Sea Airport Will
Be Built At Once
Off Florida Coast
NEW YORK, March 8.—A float
i ing airport which will include a
; machine shop, a hotel and restaur
ant will be ready for use 300 miles
I at sea this summer, it was announc
| ed by Henry J. Gielow, Inc, naval
i architects, at 25 West Forty-third
street, its designers.
It will be the first of several
planned and will be anchored mid
way between New York and Ber
mada.
In reality, it will be a floating
steel Island, 1,200 feet long, 400 feet
wide in the middle and 200 feet
, wide at the ends. Its design guar
! antees it to ride waves at 180 feet
in height, with little motion and to !
afford a landing spot for planes at
least 100 feet above the ovean’s sur
face. Its cost will be approximate
ly $1,500,000. Chains 21,150 feet
long will secure it.
Planes on landing will find a force
of forty-three men on hand to re
pair and refuel them while their
pilots dine and nap in the hotel. A
series of eight to make possible an
air line across the Atlantic is plan
ned if experiments on the one to
be built immediately prove success
ful.
The Atlantic project will permit
planes leaving here at 6 o’clock in)
the morning to arrive at Plymouth,
England, at 4:30 the next afternoon.
The Bermuda oceanic airport is to
be built by the Armstrong Seadrome
Development Company of Wilming
ton, Del.
Big Eagle Is Killed
After Attacking Man
Who Tried to Aid It
,
OZONA, Tex., March 8.—(IF)—'The
next eagle that goes fishing and
can’t fly after its wings get wet will
have to get along without assistance
from Paul Perner, ranchman.
Perner and a companion, Joe
Pierce, Jr., went to a watering tank
near Ozona to fish. As they ar
rived an eagle, which apparently
had been doing some fishing of its
own. attempted to fly away, but its
water-logged wings failed. Perner
started toward the bird, intending to
take it out of the water and dry its
wings.
The eagle turned and met Perner
with a vengeance. Before the bird
could be beaten off it had ripped
the fmt out of Perner's shirt.
Pierce and Perner killed the bird.
It had a tip-to-tip wingspread of
10 feet and 9 inches.
S4.000 WILLED TO PARROTS
HARBORNE. Eng.—Mrs. Maria
Arnold willed $4,000 from her estate
for the care of her nine parrots. I
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DALLAS LAWYER CALLS
JURY FROM MEMORY
WACO, March 8.—(IP)—D. A.
Pranke of Dallas has a memory that,
should make him a valued lawyer.
Acting in a case here recently, 25
men were chosen from a venire for
a civil suit. The attorneys then
had to select 12 men for the jury.
When the 25 had been put into the
box, he knew the name of each one,
and when the 12 had been selected
he called them all by name.
Franks said he followed the ex
ample of his wife in training his
memory. When the state bar asso
ciation convened in Dallas, Mrs.
Franks was one of the hostesses.
She greeted by name more than 300
lawyers whom she had seen only
once before—at the previous meet
ing, he said.
Officials of the Milwaukee coun
ty airport are making plans for
dedication exercises and an air
meet to be held at the airport next
summer. An elaborate program of
races is scheduled.
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BIG AIRDROME
FOR NEW YORK
Over $1,500,000 Will Be
Spent On Largest Air
Port Project
NEW YORK, March 8.—(7F)—
Roosevelt field, starting point of
many a history making trans-Atlan
tic flight, is to be converted into a
$1,500,000 airdrome.
Backers of the project say they
are prepared to spend that amount
to equip and develop the field,
which they plan to purchase. The
field, now in the hands of a real
estate company, is 381 acres in area.
A marker commemorating Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh’s New York
to Paris flight will be erected in the
heart of the airdrome, near the spot
from which he took off.
Plans include two huge concrete
steel hangars, each 1,100 feet long
with a half mile of concrete aprons
150 feet wide. Workshops, service
stations, an administration building,
flood and boundary lights, beacons
and other equipment for night fly
ing are included in the project.
A stub mast for dirigbles will be
added later to make the airdrome
suitable for both lighter-than-air
and heavier than air operations.
Backers of the project bleieve that
Roosevelt field provides the closest
ample facilities for such a project
near Manhattan.
Fast express bus service and am
phibian flying service to a point on
the East river have been planned as
the best method to provide fats,
adequate transportation.
Although the field is now in use
for onerations, it will be ready for
heavier traffic in an improved state
by June 1. backers of the project
say. Buildings and other facilities
are to be added after the physical
development of the field is finished.
LION IN BEAUMONT
ZOO GROWS RAPIDLY
BEAUMONT, Tex., March 8.—UP)
—Beaumont’s municipal zoo has the
answer to any natural history stu
dents who want to know how fast a
lion wdll grow’.
A young Leo presented to the zoo
four months ago by the Beaumont
Lion’s club weighed 80 pounds at
that time, and has growrn to 160
pounds. It is not expected, how
ever, that this ratio will be repeated
for other four-month periods.
NEW LEGISLATION TO
AID POULTRY RAISERS
STAMFORD, Tex., March 8.—(/P)
—Special legislative aid which may
encourage farmers to terrace their
lands, will be recommended at an
executive meeting of the West Tex
as Chamber of Commerce agricul
tural committe at Snyder, March 5,
Col. R. L. Penick, chairman, has
announced.
Other subject which will be dis
cussed include dairying and poultry.
Colonel Penick, who is an ardent
supporter of poultry as an industry,
will address the convention of the
Central West Texas district, to be
held on the same day, on “Poultry
and its Progress.”
INTERNATIONAL PORT
The Swanton, Vt., airport, locat
ed seven miles from the Canadian
border, is being advanced as a
possible airport of entry by its
sponsoring officials. It is claimed
that much air traffic between east
ern Canada and New England
cities would pass in the immediate
vicinity of Swanton.
GERMANS PLAN NIGHT
AIR PASSENGER LINES
BERLIN, March 8.—<;p>—Night
passenger air lines soon will be in
augurated between Berlin and the
Polish frontier, and between Berlin
and southern Germany. The Luft
hansa is also at work devising a
night route from Hanover to the
western frontier.
The success of the night route to
Russia has encouraged the Lufthan
sa to extend its system of neon and
other powerful lights greatly, and
to plan in time to cover Germany
with a network of illuminated
routes.
Travelers from the Scandinavian
countries will, before many months
are over, be able to leave Stockholm
or Oslo in the mornings, arrive at
Berlin before darkness sets in, de
part thence on a night route, and
reach Munich, Frankfort, Stuttgart,
or even Switzerland by the next
morning.
A further innovation in aviation
is a project of the North German
Lloyd to equip all the steamers that
are to go on pleasure cruises next
summer with airplanes so the par
ticipants in a cruise may obta*n a
good birdseye view of the countries
they touch.
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Good Things—
for the Valley
Brownsville Municipal Airport
Cooper Tires
Cooper Batteries
Tourist Auto Supply Service
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Tire Company I
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The trend is toward
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Brownsville’s New Business and Residential Subdivision
Located Between
Easy
Terms
you wish
Brownsville
and the Great
International Airpor*
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Besides being located on the highest elevation in Browns
ville, Summit Place is just one mile from the new Gateway
Bridge, 5 miles from the proposed Brownsville Ship Chan
nel, 3 miles from the Municipal Airport and on the main
line of traffic to and from Point Isabel, El Jardin, Boca
Chica and Soutlnnost Plantation. For a business loca
tion or a homesite, Summit Place is ideal from every point
[of view by the investor.
Just now lots are available facing either Thirteenth or Fourteenth
streets. The lots are 50x120 feet, sufficiently large for almost any
hind of business place or home. We want you to price lots in the near
by section of Summit Place. You’ll find that our lots are priced one
third less than any property available in that vicinity. INVESTIGATT"
FIRST —THEN INVEST!
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The eyes of Brownsville and the Valley
are on Summit Place and the Airport
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