Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1927 — Page 6

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CHAMBERLIN IS NEAR A FAILURE IN PILOT'S TEST Holder Os World Record Told To Brush Up By Home Study New York, Dec. 22. —(INS)—Clarence Chamberlin, trans-Atlantic flyer. holder of the world's long distance record for continuous flight, former joint holder of the world’s endurance flight record, and performer of many aero-acrobatic stunts almost “flopped" on a recent indoor flying test for a transport pilot’s license. Chamberlin said the examiner. Dr. Berens. adx iscd him to do some home study, which Chamberlin agreed to do. "I may become an aviator yet.” the flyer said enthusiastically. Tries For License A transport pilot’s license is the highest grade of flyer's license awarded by the Department of Com-

met ce, to acquire which a pilot must have had at least 500 hours flying experience, and must undergo a most rigorous physical examination. Having a hundred or so hours’ flying time to his credit to spare, and believing himself to be a pretty good pilot, the famous pilot's long list of records and achievements made no impression whatever upon Dr. Conrad Berens, the examiner. However, Chamberlin proceeded rapidly through the various tests until Dr. Berens sprang a depth perception test on him. This test is to determine the ability of the pilot to judge distances. | Chamberlin, recalling only a few of . his long list of feats in landing planes in tight places, the most remarkable of which was his landing a p'ane, without damage, in the jail yard of the Eastview Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, two years ago, faced the test with confidence. Examiner Surprised At the conclusion of the test Dr. Dr. Berens said,” He added, “that and inquired: "Do you really mean to say you fly airplanes?" “Dr Berens said,” he added, “that maybe I'd improve -with a little home study. He gave me a card with a line drawn on it that I’m to use to practice optical gymnastics on. Maybe this was the real reason I landed in Kottbus last summer when I was trying to get Charlie Levine in Berlin. o _> ■'•'•*** SMUGGLING ALIENS BY PLANES GROWS Washington.— (UP) —Smuggling of aliens across the Mexican border by airplane is becoming an increasingly perplexing problem to the immigration service, George J. Harris, assistant U. S. commissioner general of immigration told the United Press. l.ack of facilities to check this open avenue of illegal immigration, increasing use of airplanes, and the immensity of the Mexican border were cited by Harris as some of the difficulties facing the service in combatting alien I smuggling by air. “it is a big problem,” Harris said, “and because the border patrol has no planes, we are practically helpless. “At present there is nothing we can do about it except to keep a constant watch and attempt, if possible, to obtain information of the movements of planes transporting aliens. “The operations of air smugglers . are growing steadily in extent and volume and there is every reason to believe the problem will become greater within a short time because of the increasing use of the airplane. “The border patrol consists of about 300 men, assigned to cover nearly 2,000 miles of frontier, comprising some of the most rugged an dinaccessible territory in the world. "The patrol, using horses, automobiles and motorcycles, could hardly be expected to cope with airplanes in so vast a district.” The Mexican border, Harris explained, offers every opportunity for smuggling aliens into the United States by plane. The usual method, he said, is to start from a point about 25 or 50 miles below the border before dawn, landing in some Isolated spot on the flat floor of the desert, where the planes are met by automobiles. Harris said the department has captured only a few air smugglers. One plane with three Chinese was captured March 20 this year when forced to land for lack of gas near San Bernardino, Cal. “We found," he said, “this plane had left the vicinity of Mexicali. Mex., at about 4:30 a. m. on the day it w’as captured, with the obvious idea of landing the Chinese in the Mojave desert, near Muroc. Cai. "Our investigation revealed an automobile was to take the Chinese to San Francisco. The plane and its occupants were taken into custody when they landed." Harris said he could not estimate the number of aliens being brought Illegally into the U. S. by airplane. “We have reason to believe, however, that the number coming through in this manner is steadily increasing. "The situation along the Canadian border is not so bad, because of the ( ruggedness of the country." I

21 Stockings At One Executive Mansion Columbia, S. ('., —(UP) —Governor John G. Richards is expecting Santa Clause to visit the executive mansion here, he has confided, and intend- to have 21 stockings lined up along the mantel of the living room fireplace when Chiistma's eve comes. There nro nine daughters in the Rlcliutds family, three of them married. The governor and his wife have seven grandchildren and counting son-in-laws, the chief executive admits be is puzzled as to where to put the stockings. “Our main problem however, is: where to get enough regular sized stockings," Governor Richard said when questioned. The unmarried daughters ate now at work at the following vocations. Miss Betty, social worker; Miss Rekah.i Teacher; Margaret, music teacher: i Miss Mildred, music teacher; Jean, student; John’gy, high school student. 0 i.— Radio Fish Stories Promised Weekly Miami, Fla,. —(UP) —Radio fans, generally speaking, have managed to

withstand the rigots ot bed time stories. They have borne up well under lectures on home economics and proper feeding of infants. Fortitude marked their subjection to the avalanche cf discussion of fallen arches and the treatment of acute dandruff, to say nothing of the throaty yodeling of the home talent singers. But the effect of the latest of radio features undobutedly will settle once

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Dallas, Tex., Dec. 22—(UP)—The Ford monoplane carry ing Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh to Mexico City to 1 spend Christmas with her son. Col. j | Charles A. Lindbergh, landed on snow- I covered Love field here Wednesday. < Pilot Harry Brooks reported an tin- J eventful trip from Tulsa. i* 0 < San Francisco, Cal. — Young Cor- 1 bett, Fresno welterweight, defeated , young Sam Langford. 10 rounds . |J

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10.000 Two-Cent Stamps Sold At Postoffice In This City Tuesday PoHtmaster L. A. Graham stated at noun today that approximately 10,000 two-cent stamps had been purchased at the local postoffiee Tuesday and the average daily postage receipts for the last three days was about S3OO a day. Although there is an extraordinary rush on at the postoffice this week, till the mails were distributed and sacked by !» o'clock last night. City carriers were loaded down today and slme did not complete their routes until afternoon. o Many Deaths In Europe London, Dec. 22 —(UP) —A total of 54 deaths had been recorded today in the severest cold wave Europe had felt in many years. Smith And Pond Again Fail To Break Record San Francisco, Dec. 22 — (UP — Four failures to break the world’s sustained flight record have not daunted the ambitions of Capt, Charles Kingsford-Smith and Lieut. George Pond, they indicated today. With a new record In sight, the

pilots were forced to bring their plana to earth yestemay atter every drop of fuel hud been consumed. The plane had been in the air 49 hours and 29 minutes, or two hours’ and 53 minutes short of the record, held by two Gorman pilots. <» Federal Building Used As Emergency Postoffice Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 22 —(INS) — Its walls lined with racks nnd various sorting equipment, the Fort Wayne federal court Is serving as an emergency pcstotfice, to take care of the overflow ot Christmas mail. Permission was obtained by Postmaster H. W. Baals from Judge Thomas Sliek to use the room as part of the postoffice, due to the unusually heavy demands of mail. The mail this year, according to the postmaster, as been unusually heavy, even for Christmas season. French Senate Ratifies Naval Building Program Paris, Dec. 22—(INS)—By a vote of 270 to 20, the French senate today ratified the adoption by the chamber of deputies of the naval building program. The program calls for 15 new war-

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