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AIR COURIERS
‘BUSY BODIES’
—
Duties of Plane Porter In
clude Various Com
binations
NEW YORK. July 27.—<ff>—'The
transcontinental air-rail lines, three
of which are now in operation, be
sides marking- an epoch in the his
tory of transportation may do some
thing toward enriching the language
• With a few similes and such.
It may become a commonplace,
for instance, to speak of a man of
many duties as being “as busy as
e transcontinental plane courier.”
These couriers—there is one on
each plane—arc combination con
ductors, porters, waiters, newsboys,
counselors and guides. They are
young fellows of education and fine
upbringing who are starting at the
bottom and working their way up.
which ought to be easy for them, as
they go up a long way from the bot
tom, as represented by the ground,
four to six times a day.
Couriers’ Duties
The couriers see that the pessen
fcers’ baggage is stowed away, big
pieces in the wing and small ones
in the overhead racks: hand out
newspapers and magazines; put up
the individual tables, set them,
and serve lunch: collect tickets;
point out spot: of interest in the
scenery, distribute, cotton for the
travellers’ ears: and on ocacsion
offer their ministration to those
who find the currents of the air as
disturbing as the billows of the
deep.
There also are plenty of prob
lems not on the schedule that must
be met as encountered. On the re
cently completed inaugural journey
of the transcontinental air trans
port, the plane-train line with
which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is
connected, a courier who is the son
of a railroad vice president discov
ered that the gilded aluminum cups
in which he aoparently was expected
to serve coffee, had absolutely no
bottoms at all.
He was noticed puzzling over this
phenomenon by a passenger who
had learned resourcefulness by such
things as running a flying school
and crossing the Atlantic in a dory
and by a reporter who had been
here and there, and the three went
into consultation.
As the plane whirled along 3.000
feet over the painted desert of the
southwest they pondered the com
plexities of modern life and the
passengers of modern life and the
passengers gave it uo. declining even
to try to drink coffee out of a cup
without a bottom. Then the courier
discovered that his lunch kit also
contained china cuns which iftted
neatly Inside the elided ones, and
the problem was solved.
Flies Invade
At Kansas City, on the way east
ward. a herd of very lively and in
quisitive flies stowed away on the
plane, announcing their presence
when the shin was on its wav to
St. Louis. The windows were
opened and throughout the two
hour journey, the courier, the son
of a cantain in the navy, stalked up
and down the aisle lungtnc at flies
with a folded magazine. His attack
was so remorseless that most of the
flies decided to walk home; the
others being swept out by the
courier at St. Louis.
And so It goes with the couriers,
fc-ho thus presumably gain experi
ence and an ability to meet emer
gencies which will make them
in all good time, officials of the
line.
Free State Buys
New Battery For
Use On Railways
DUBLIN, July 27.—(JP)—The Free
State has bought the rights to a
storage battery which James J.
Drumm, its inventor and a master
of science of the National univer
sity, claims can be charged in
seven minutes to drive a train 60
miles.
The government proposes to elec
trify the railway line from Dub
lin to Cork, which undei present
conditions would cost five nillion
dollars. With the new invention,
according to its advocates, this elec
trification can be done for less than
one-tenth of that figure.
So far the invention is merely a
laboratory success, but the govern
ment has formed a company to
promote it and holds the controlling
Interest.
STUDENT VISIONED
AVIATION IN 1891
KANSAS CITY. July 27.—(£*)—G.
H Gray is one man who can point
to modern aeronautical accomplish
ment and say with truth, ”1 told
^“Aerostation” was the subject of
a magazine sketch he wrote in 1891,
when he was a senior in Central
college, Fayette, Mo. He took that
title from a term for flying used as
early as 1830 by an English bal
Derision from his classmates
breeted the youth when his predic
tions were published. He had the
temeritv to foresee that airplanes
would be Invented, that aluminum
would be used in their construction,
and that geographic exploration
would be conducted, even in polar
regions, by aerial navigation.
“During the lives of the genera
tion now on earth.” Gray wrote in
1891 “the problems of aerostation
will be solved. Scientists, combining
the buoyancy of hydrogen gas with
the storage battery, using electricity
“a mode of motion, together with
the storage battery, using electricity
es a mode of motion, together with
the valuable properties of the com
paratively new mineral, aluminum,
will yet triumph and man will rule
in the clouds.
Mr Gray, now a Kansas City in
dustrial executive, says he wouldn’t
rh«nge a line of his prophecy today
! "Except a statement that ‘’the prin
I cinies advanced by the democratic
I party wiU bflld swaj.
‘TAKE AS PRESCRIBED’
Mrs. Elmer W. Loos, delic. 2 invalid of Murphysboro, 111., and the ———————
Pontiac Big Six, which met her physician’s rigid specifications for a
car in which she might break the monotony of six bed-ridden years.
‘SPARK PLUG’
STILL IN USE
Chevrolet With 1917 Motor
Gives Owner Depend*
able Service
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 27.—
A Chevrolet with a chassis built In
1913, a full year before the World
War began, and a motor that, was
assembled when doughboys were en
camping back In 1917, is still in
daily use at Goliad.
It is called “Spark Plug” by its
proud owner, Tugo Wilks, and of
the millions of Chevrolets in use
today on both hemispheres it is per
haps the oldest.
True, the 1929 Chevrolet with its
smooth six cylinder motor can out
climb, out-speed and out-haul it.
True, too, that “Spark Plug” ap
pears a bit antediluvian when con
trasted with the handsome new
Fisher bodies of the 1929 Chevrolet.
But “Spark Plug” can do plenty of
climbing, speeding and hauling on
its own account and is beyond ques
tion an outstanding example of a
long-lived and dependable automo
bile.
On several occasions W'ilks has
hitched a trailer to “Spark Plug’
and pulled a load of 2,000 pounds
plus the 815 pounds which the
trailer weighs, all the way to San
Antonio, 125 miles distant.
Not long ago he piled it high
with a 1515 pound load of cotton
bales and drove it through a dry
creek bed—a road which no other
driver in the section would dare
traverse in a modem car. Many
times he has driven it with tvater
up to the floor boards.
No hill in the section is too tough
for “Spark Plug” and Wilks says
that it is sufficiently economical
continuing to give as good as 20
miles to the gallon.
“Spark Plug’s” total mileage is in
determinable. Since Wilks has had
It, three speedometers have been in
use. One registered 75,000 miles
the second 60,000 and the present
one has run up 15,000.
The total repair bill during Wilks’
nine years ownership has been
$150. In this connection, however
it might be stated that Wilks does
all his owti repairing. Recently 15
new rings were placed in the car
and other minor adjustments made.
All of the Wilkses are mechanic
ally Inclined and all prefer the
Chevrolet. The father of “Spark
%
Plug’s” owner has had four Chev
rolets. One of the brothers is still
driving a 1917 model and another
brother has a 1924 model.
Stamboul Rich Must
Aid Poor Neighbors
STAMBOUL, Turkey, July 27—US)
The old question “Am I my broth
er’s keeper?” has just been an
swered in the ffirmative by the
prefecture of St'" boul, the answer
taking the form of a dra tic law.
Under this law every well-to-do
family in ach of the many dis
tricts into which the city is divided,
must see to it that at least one
pauperized family living in the
same dstrict does ot starve or suf
fer from exposu-e.
Government inspectors are draw
ing up lists determining those fam
ilies which are wel! to-do, and those
which are paupers. The forr r may
use what method they choose for
protecting the letter, either by sup
plying food from their own kitch
ens, by paying money allowances,
or by procuring work for the able
bodied members of the p'upcv fam
ily.
As theer are not enough wealthy
families to equal the number of
guardian angels needed for the
thousands of impoverished in Stam
boul, the government inspectors will
delegate to the r* thy individuals
only the worst cases. The Turkish
Red Crescent rociety, the equiva
lent of the Red Cross, will attempt
to care for the others.
ALL-METAL SHIP IS
BUILT BY WICHITAN
WICHITA, Kar.s., July 27.—(ff)—
An al-metal, low-w’inged biplane,
built without the use of wood or
fabric, soon will have its maiden
tests.
It was constructed in secret by
Boy B. Buckley of Wichita with the
aid of D. F. Fechtman, former Fok
ker and Junkers engineer.
The total dry weight of this cabin
plane, its inventors claim, is 1.000
pounds, which they believe is lighter
than any wood and fabric four
place cabin model. Its full canti
lever low* wing has a 36-foot spread.
The ship’s length is 23 feet six
inches.
Work of lighting Logan field, the
Baltimore municipal airport, is to
be started at once. Sufficient
equipment to obtain the highest
department of commerce rating will
be placed on the field. Because a
federal beacon is near the airport,
a beacon flashing a Morse code
characteristic will be installed in
lieu of the standard airport beacon
FAMED FLIER
BUYSMARMON
•* f
Hawks Selects New Series
60 Coupe for Per
sonal Use
Capt. Frank M. Hawks of trans
continental fame 1s the owner of a
New Series Marmon o3 coupe which
he purchased in New York shortly
after his recent record round-trip
flight between New York and Los
Angeles.
The well-known aviator, who also
is superintendent of aviation of the
Texas Company, took delivery of
his new car a short time ago. It is
rust brown in color and has cream
striping and cream wire wheels.
After driving the car and having
an opportunity to judge its per
formance, Capt. Hawks addressed a
letter to the Marmon Automobile
Company of New York in which he
wrote:
“In selecting a Marmon automo
bile for my personal use, I made
observations such as I do in plan
ning my transcontinental flights. I
studied all the qualifications of
your car and found they answered
what in my opinion were the needs
for the best motor car operation.
“Power, flexibility, ease of con
trol, simplicity of operation sturdi
ness and beauty of design were the
answers that I was looking for, an?
they all are embodied magnificent
ly in the Model 68 Coupe which I
purchased. I thorougmy f*r joy the
car and am proud of it.”
Last February, Capt. Hawks es
tablished a record of 18 hours and
18 minutes from Los Angeles to
New York. He wished to contribute
something further to aviation, hrw'
ever, and late in June made his his
torical round trip in the air.
TEXAS FILMED
FROM AIRPLANE
Educational Pictu res To
Show Beautiful Scenes
Of All Sections
FORT WORTH, July 29.—In
keeping with the modern theories
of visual education, Courtney
Browne, a Fort Worth movie pho
tographer and producer, is prepar
ing for Southern Air Transort, Inc.,
an educational picture of Texas from
the air. He has gone over the four
air passenger lines already and is
finishing the picture this week.
Mr. Browne says that in all prob
ability it will be shown in all the
principal theaters of the south and
probably during the year in a num
ber of schools throughout the south
as well, since it contains valuable
lessons in geography and history at
the same time that it is entertain
ing.
In the picture the careful main
tenance which makes Southern Air
Transport planes safe is shown, to
gether with the pilots all dressed
up in their uniforms and the pro
cess of buying airway tickets, as
well as the beautiful scenery alongv
the lines. The old French embassy f
at Austin, the capitol, the Univer
sity of Texas, the seawall at Gal
veston, the Houston bayou, some of
the old missions at San Antonio,
the international bridge at Browns
ville, Abilene, the “Athens of West
Texas;” Guadalupe mountain, oil
derricks, the Palo Pinto country,
the Brazos, the Pecos and the Rio
Grande—these are only some of the
many scenes pictures.
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