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Much Has Happened Since
Much has happened in the air
since then to obscure the impor
'"nce of Lindbergh's flight. Today
commercial airliners regularly
mate the same trip in 12 hours.
But it is doubtful whether any hero
since then has captured the imag
ination of the worm oy - .
let the way the slim, tall 'lone
eagle" did it 20 years ago last
Wednesday.
Historians agree the sensation
Lindbergh made resulted from a
combination of the daring act itself
and the mood of the twenties, a
tinlP nf many heroes of varying
talents and virtues.
It was a time wnen u sermeu
the country had only two classes of
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Aid in Blind Flying;
Britain's Secret.
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people: bootleggers and their cus
tomers. It was the time of the
soaring big bull market, hot jazz,
raccoon coats, the Charleston and
a generation which F. Scott Fiti
cerald said was "grown up to find
all gods dead, all wars fought, all
faiths in man shaken.
There were flagpole sitters, mar
athon dancers, cross-country walk
ing races, channel swimmers, the
Sacco-Vanzetti executions and col
lege Bohemians who drank tea.
The flapper mothers of today's bobby-soxers
had barely recovered
from the death of Rudolph Valen
tino; the crowd waiting to see the
body on public display on Broad
way had stretched 11 blocks long.
It was the time of the great
champions Babe Ruth hit 60 home
runs that year. Five radio listen
ers died of heart attack during the
"long count" at the second Demp-sey-Tunney
fight. Red Grange,
Bobby Jones, Big Bill Tilden and
' Tommy Hitchcock ruled their re
I spective roosts and a "handy guy
j named Sande was bootin' a winner
i in."
There was the Snyder-Gray trial, i
covered by such special writers as
David Wark Griffith, Peggy Hop
kins. Joyce, Will Durantiind Billy
Sunday. Cal Coolidge did not
choose to run and a now defunct
tabloid printed a "composograph"
of two semi-clad celebrities, of
"Daddy" Browning shouting to
"Peaches" Browning, 'Woof. Woof!
Don't be a goof!"
Against this backdrop of the
roaring twenties, an unknown mail
pilot and son of a congressman was
in evnkp 1 he hieeest roar.
nharles A. Lindbergh was 25
then, a chief mail pilot and a cap
tain in the air corps reserve. He
entered the competition for the
$25,000 trans-Atlantic prize put up
by Raymond Orteig, and with
funds supplied by St. Louis people,
among them E. Lansing Ray, pub
lisher of the Globe-Democrat, Lind
bergh went out to a San Diego
factory to get his plane.
He flew it to St. Louis and then
to Roosevelt Field, Long Island on
May 12. The cross-country trip
was made in 21 hours and 20 min
utes, a record for its day.
At 7:52 Friday morning, May u,
Lindbergh took off for Paris in a
heavy mist. His plane had a wing
spread of 46 feet, a fuselage 28
feet long, and a maximum speed
of 123 miles an hour.
Had No Radio
The lone flver had no radio and
pii ho took with him were two
sandwiches, two canteens of water,
tum rhnrolate bars, two nasnngnis
fnnr red flares, one air raft with
pump, five cans of Army emergency
rations, two air cushions and one
Vmrk saw blade.
Tin oinner the Atlantic coast he
flew in fog and rain and before
mnmine. out over the Atlantic, his
ship was coated with sleet. By mid
jday Saturday he was flying over
Ireland, and the bulletins were
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HARTFORD. Conn. (AP) Mo
torists who habitually operate their
cars at high speec's are paying a
heavv "sDeed tax" as well as risk
ing their lives, the Aetna Life Af
filiated says.
An increase in speed from 40 to
60 miles an hour will increase gas
oline consumption 50 percent, tire
wear 350 percent and oil consump
tion 400 percent. Tire wear and
gasoline and oil consumption in
rrease comnarativelV slowly at
speeds up to 40 miles an hour, but
they all increase sharply at mis
point, making higher speeds ex
tremely wasteful of rubber, gaso
line and oil.
flashed on movie screens back
home. Then came the Normandy
coast and in the darkness he was
guided by beacons along the Lon
don-Paris route, the searchlight on
the Mount Valerian Fortress and
finally by the lights of the Eifel
tower and the flares at Le Bourget
airfield.
Then came the receptions: Dec
orations and kisses from the presi
dent of France, the shouts of hun
dreds of thousands in the streets
of Paris, Brussels and London and
formal welcomes by the kings of
Belgium and England.
President Coolidge sent the
cruiser Memphis to bring the hero
and his plane home, Near the Vir
ginia Capes, the Memphis was
joined by four more cruisers, six
destroyers and a flotilla ot planes.
Awaitine Lindbergh were more
than 52,000 telegrams sent to him
in care of Mr. Coolidge. Une wire
from Minneapolis signed with 17,
500 names made a scroll 520 feet
long.
Rode In Triumph
The flver and his mother rode In
triumph through Washington, pre
ceded by a cavalry escort ana
trailed by four large mail trucks
carrying more than 500,000 air
mail letters of congratulations.
Then came New YorK, ana me
big town blew its top. Millions lined
the streets and hung out windows,
tossing down more than 1,800 tons
of confetti. The city spent ?7i,uuu
on the reception.
Th T.indhereh car was preceded
hv 10 000 troops and overhead flew
200 planes. In the harbor, a squaa
rnn nf warshiDs were lined' up to
boom out their welcome. That night
at a formal dinner for LindDergn,
3,000 crowded into a dining room
and another 1,000 tried to get in.
Then came welcomes in St.
t .nine Phiraeo and other cities, all
on a mammoth scale. Lindbergh
himself took the receptions shyly
and turned down many more re
wards than he accepted.
The balance wheel of a watch
travels back and forth more than
6,000 miles a year in its normal
movements.
WASHINGTON. A device to put
airplanes on invisible tracks tht
lead them as surely to their desti
nation as rails do trains was tb
answer given by Dudley H. Toller
Bond, British engineer, to the blind
flying and airport congestion rid
dles. Toller-Band has a radio device cal
culated to improve schedule reliabil-J
ity and frequency.
His device was one ot Britain's
top-drawer wartime secrets. It was
Britain's because American engi
neers told William J. O'Brien, Chi
cago, its inventor, ihat it would not
work. O'Brien convinced the ad
miralty otherwise.
Here's what happens: Air tracks
any number of them, in contrast
with nresent limitations are laid out
between cities on a map. In instru
ment weather, a pilot is assigned a
track, say between Washington and
New York.
Keep It Pointing.
In his cockpit is a dial and as
long as he keeps the needle pointing
to zero he will fly around all ter
restial obstacles such as the Empire
State building md come in directly
over the airport.
If the aii port is under a low ceil
ing and landings are delayed, the
pilot flips a switch, keeps the needle
cn zero and is shunted to an orbit
where he can await landing direc
tions. Three radio transmitters are In
stalled on the eround to cover an
area about the size of that between
Washington and Boston.
Their signals are picked up by a
30-pound radio receiver in the plane.
Before take-off, the pilot inserts a
roll of film In a track control unit.
On the film are special marks ap
plicable only to the track allotted to
the plane.
As the film turns in relation to the
speed of the plane, the marks work
in conjunction with the electrical
output of the radio set to control the
needle on the dial.
Keep the needle on zero and you
will always follow a straight line.
Deviations of only 200 yards will
show on the dial.
As to Bad Weather.
Toller-Bond says for $1,000,000 he
could lay out a track 300 miles wide
between New York and Los Angeles.
The advantage is that in bad
weather a large number of planes
could fly side by side with safe spac
ing. Today they fly one over the
nther at 1.000-fOot intervals, a se
aW limited nrocedure because of
the likelihood of icing at various al-
tituders.
Th device not only leads planes
to destinations, but also guides thee
over the runway or out into an or
bit when thev wait to land. The film
for any given track bears marks
nr that numose.
if the control tower operator, for
instance, instructs the pilot to take
"orhit 10." he switches his orbit se-
letor to No. 10. keeos the dial needle
on zero, and automatically gees into
that orbit.
Toller-Bond once flew 200 miles
blind, and snapped a picture over the
riead center of Antwerp cathedral.
It's a world beater for blind fly
ing," he said. If the FCC will grant
th. necessary freauencies for his
transmitters, he hopes to convince
the airlines that he is right.
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ORMIi OOVtRNO ot Minnesota, an avowed candidate for the Repub
lican nomination for President, Harold E. Stassen is shown (right) ot a
press conference In Washington. He declared that the recent Moscow
conference failed primarily because of the "vague, confused and mis
taken terms" of the Potsdam agreement. (Intcniatiorml .Soundphoio)
Ships Deafened
With Barnacles
On Their 'Ears'
AP Newsfeatures
NEW YORK Barnacles can
nlni? the ears of underwater sound
equipment used in navigation and
for submarine detection.
Marine organisms like mollusks,
annelids and algae which collect
on the hull, creating drag and slow
ing a ship's speed, also reduce the
efficiency of underwater sound
equipment. They can make it com
pletely inoperative in three to rive
months of heavy fouling, James W,
Fitzgerald, Mary E. Davis, and Bur
ton C. Hurdle of the Naval Re
search Laboratory, Washington, re
port in the Journal of the Acoustic
al Society of America.
Such sound equipment sends
out sound pulses and catches the
echo to measure water depth or
detect submerged objects. Part
of the equipment Is outside the
null. When barnacles and other
shell animals grow on It, they
form a thick mat and the shells
scatter and reflect or absorb the
sound waves.
Anti-foullng paints, which slow
ly give off metallic salts to poison
the organisms arc often used on
ships, but on sound equipment
these paints must ho able to con
duct sound.
An immigrant bnrnaclo has
added its weight to the ship fouling
problem along I ho British coast,
the magazine Nature reports. This
barnacle is originally from Now
Zealand but established itself in
Britain after free passage aboard
some ships. It helped foul the bot
tom of the Queen Klizabeth alter
a long stay in Southampton. Ships
undoubtedly bruit" oilier suon im
migrants, but most do iidI survive
In the colder waters.
THIS STORY
WAS COOKED HP
FULTON. Mo iAPi Truman
Ingle, superintendent of t he Mis
souri School for the Deaf, has dis
covered an individual can become
very versatile when he has 250
persons for breakfast and the cooks
are ill.
At 4 a.m. Ingle learned a sub
stitute cook pinch-hitting for tin-
two reuglar chefs had liersoll be
come ill. Ingle met the situation
bravely by preparing a breakfast
of stewed peaches, dry cereal, toast,
scrambed eggs and coffee. He had
no complaints, he said.
Hearing On Milk
Standards Will
Be Held May 29
rat nr. h D. S. Coltrane, chalf
man of the five-man committee
named by Agriculture Commission
or Kerr Scott to draw up minimum
Statewide standards for the produc
tion and sale of milk, has an
nounced that these regulations will
be presented to the State Board of
Agriculture at a public meeting to
be held In Raleigh at 10 A, M. oft
May 29.
Within the past two weeks hear
ings on the regulations have been
held at Raleigh, Asheville, Char
lotte, Greensboro, Fayetteville, and
Greenville.
Various suggestions on the regu
lations presented at these meetings
were made, and the committee is
studying these revisions carefully
in the preparation of a final draft
for submission to tne Doara.
In urging a good attendance at
the final hearing on May 28, Com
missioner Scott said: "Our first
duty is to the consumer of milk. We
must protect the public. However,
it is also our duty to draw up regu
lations which will prove reasonable
and practicable. We want some
thing our dairy industry can live
under. With the help of the public,
we believe we can come out of
these deliberations with a set of
regulations which will prove fair to
everybody."
Information Bureau Is
Opened At Cherokee
CHRHOKEE N C The Chero
kee Nation, in co-operation with the
N. C. Division of Advertising and
News, this week opened an official
information booth here on the edge
of the Great Smoky Mountains Na
tional Park. Staffed by two alert
Indian girls, the information bu
reau will tell visitors how to go
places ,where to stay, and what to
see.
A million and a Quarter people"
visit this area each year," said an
unounccment by the Advertising
Division. "We want these people to
know they can continue on through
North Carolina for their vacations,
and believe this experimental In
formation bureau will facilitate
the flow of tourists on Into and
across the state."
Under agreement between the
Nation and the Division, physical
facilities are provided by the na
tion; salaries of personnel by the
Division.
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Treasury Department Rules
On Exemptions Under Q.I. Bill
WASHINGTON. Parents of vet
erans attending school under the
o.l. Bill of Riehts got a break in a
treasury ruline covering their in-
The treasury ruled a parent, in
figuring incortie taic, may take an
exemption for a son getting more
than $500 from Veterans' adminfc
tratinn to attend school, provided the
parent furnishes more than one-half
the son's support.
This amounted to an exception to
h ceneral rule that no one can be
counted as a dependent If his gross
income exceeds $500 a year.
durational Davments. such as tui
tion, do not constitute income for
tax purposes, the ruling said. These
payments are made directly to the
educational institution.
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Mine Detector Finds Out
What's Matter With Bull
pmrRPiTRT- ILL. A veterinari
an operated on W. T. Rawleigh's
n,a ku inks, and removed from
the animal's stomach two pound of
scrap metal located by a mine ae
ttnr hefor the o Deration, Dr. T.
it Trriican of Lake Geneva, Wis..
aid the items included 13 pieces of
baling wire, one bolt, a piece of sheet
metal, and dozen pebbles.
Grandmother Finally Gets
Her Bachelor's Demo
HILLSDALE, MICH. A 7-year-
old grandmother, wno enierea mi
A.m miii in 1890 and left three
years later to be married, finally
(ot net college diploma.
Mm: Anna Slavbauch Emerson ot
Middlesex. N. Y., was only nine
ahnrt of a decree when She
left college in 189S. She took up'
correspondence courses to qualify
for her A.B. degree completing the
work recently.
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