Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1929 — Page 18

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—Aviation— HUGE DIRIGIBLE WILL BE READY IN TWO YEARS s America’s Sky Mammoth to Dwarf Graf Zeppelin and British Ship. liu Times Special WASHINGTON. March 12.—News that the Graf Zeppelin will make three more flights from Germany to the United States this year focused attention today on the progress of construction of the United States government’s huge dirigible at Akron, O. “The Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation is making normal progress on construction of both the dirigible and the construction hangar,” Commander Garland Pulton of the navy bureau of aeronautics said today. Commander Fulton said that the huge hangar, in which most of the craft will be built, will be finished by midsummer. In the meantime, rapid progress is being made in constructing portions of the framework for the huge airship in the Goodyear machine shops. “Barring unavoidable delays, the first dirigbile, which will be known as the ZRS-4, will be completed two years from now,” Commander Fulton said. Gigantic as the Graf Zeppelin seemed when it soared over Atlantic seaboard cities last fall, it will seem small in comparison with the first American airship. It will have a gas capacity of 6.500,000 cubic feet as compared with 3,710,000 for the Graf Zeppelin and 2,470,000 for the Los Angeles. The Goodyear ship will be able to carry nearly tw'ice as much fuel as both the Graf Zeppelin and the new' British dirigible, the R-100, combined. Sixty tons may be carried, as against thirty-four tons ip the Graf Zeppelin and thirty tons in the British airship. The American craft also will be much speedier than either of the other dirigibles. Naval engineers are counting on a maximum speed cf ninety-two miles an hour, ten miles an hour faster than the British ship and twelve miles faster than the Graf Zeppelin.

Plane Weighs 550 Pounds Bu Times Kotcial BERLIN, March 12.—What is believed to be the world’s smallest airplane is now under construction at the Phoenix airplane works in Duesseldorf. It weighs only 550 pounds. > It is fitted with a 34 horse power Skion motor, which gives it an average speed of eighty miles an hour, and it is able to carry two passengers and fuel for a five-hour flight. Its total radius is 400 miles. The plane is twenty-five feet in width, can be assembled speedily or demounted and needs only the smallest barn for a hangar. French Aviator Missing Pjt United Press BUENOS AIRES. Argentina. March 12.—The French aviator, Juan Mermoz, has been missing since Sunday, it’was revealed here today. Mrmoz took off from Copiapo, in the Chilean desert, in an attempt to find a shorter way across the Andes mountains than the one now sused by aviators. He was last seen hver the city of San Antonio in La Rioja province. Two parties of Andean guides have been ordered to search for him by Mermoz’ Buenos Aires associates. Autogiro Advance Made B’i Vnited Press LONDON, March 12.—Juan De Le Cierva, Spanish inventor of the autogiro, tyas solved the problem of starting his strange aircraft from the smallest possible field, the aeronautical expert of the Morning Post said today. The new development of the autogiro, the expert said, starts the upper “windmill” blades revolving before the craft moves forward, thus permitting the pilot to lift the machine into the air with a minimum run. Previous demonstrations of the autogiro have shown that the plane could descend at about a thirty-de-gree angle.

Flier Safe in Mexico Bit United Press MEXICO CITY. March 12. Howard Jones. Wichita (Kan.) aviator, was resting in Mexico. City today after completing a flight from Laredo, Tex. Jones left Laredo Saturday, intending to fly to Mexico City in one hop, but he was forced down at Sultepec, state of Mexico, seventy miles from Mexico City, when his plane ran out of gasoline. The American aviator was unable to sneak Spanish and could find no interpreter in Sultepec to explain his needs. He was forced to remain there until yesterday morning, and arrived at Valbuena field at neon, thirty-six h iurs behind schedule. Flier Now ‘Caterpillar' ’' United Press MINNEAPOLIS, March 12. Charles W. (Speed) Holman, one of the nation’s foremost aviators, qualified for the Caterpillar Club when he made a 1,000-foot parachute leap to save his life. Holman, operating manager of ' he Northwest Airways, Inc., jumped from a small monoplane at WoldChamberlain field Monday when the controls jammed in a tail spin during a test flight The plane was demolished. The Caterpillar Club is composed of aviators who tiave made forced 'parachute jumps. Colonel Charles A. IJndbergh long has been a member.

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‘I AM TOO HOOVER!’

Chief Usher Worried by Name

BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN I’nlted Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. March 12'—For the first time in thirty years, Irvin H. Hoover, chief usher at the White House is worried. He admits it. “Ike”- Hoover is acquainted with more impo:.*tant persons by sight than any other man in the United States.

He rose from an electrician’s helper to chief usher and served under five Presidents. All was calm and serene until Herbert Hoover was elected President. Then Ike’s trouble began. “This is Hoover at the White House,” he recently telephoned r, tradesman, seeking items needed immediately fc: a White House function. “Sure, dearie, this is'Queen Marie,” answered the girl at the tradesman’s switchboard. “The Prince of Wales hasn’t been in yet this morning, but I can let you talk to Napoleon.” Ike placed his order through the manager but visioned future similar difficulties. Chief Usher Hoover occupies a simple office inside the White House door. His equipment is an engagement book, a telephone calendar, the state department’s diplomatic list snd a congressional directory. When ceremonies are in the offing. Hoover sees more people and makes more telephone calls than

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does the President. He signals the red-coated marine band to strike up a dance tune at state receptions and likewise calls for “Home Sweet

Home” with the fall of his hand. Or ordinary days Hoover puts on his hat and coat at 4:30 p. m. and walks through the yvhite House grounds to Pennsylvania avenue, to be sw : ept homeward in the tide of government workers.

In Air Today

Weather conditions at 9:30 a. m. at Indianapolis airport: South wind, 16 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.20 at sea level: temperature. 57; ceiling and visibility unlimited. Capitol Line Gives Party A number of Indianapolis persons were guests of the W. A. McCurry Advertising Agency at an airplane party Sunday, at Capitol airport, West Thirtieth street, west of Lafayette pike. Guests were Bernard Cunnniff, president of E. G. Spink Company, end Mrs. Gunniff; H. V. Brady, and George Snyder, Security Trust Company; Mrs. Brady, and Verne Porter, Packard Automobile Company. They were token for a thirty-minute trip over the city in Capitol’s Ryan monoplanes.

First Air Suit in 1822 Btf Times Special NEW YORK, March 12.—Twentyseven states have passed laws within recent years to govern the operation of airplanes and the liability of fliers and owners. But, surprising as it may seem, this general movement comes more than a century after the first appearance in an American court of a case involving the rights of a man in the air. It was in 1822, according to World’s Work magazine, that an aeronaut, Charles Guille, floated over New York City and was forced to make a landing in the tenderly nurtured garden of a citizen named Swan. The balloon dragged Guille thirty feet through Swan’s prize radishes and potatoes, while the excited h crowd that had followed him trampled down most of the vegetables that escaped his swath. In the suit that followed, the court held the aeronaut liable fqr damages, asserting that his descent and cries for assistance was equivalent to a request to the crowd to follow him. Winston Heads Air Schools Bn Vnited Press NEW YORK. March 12—Appointment of William (Bill) Winston, known as “the man who taught Lindbergh to fly,” as a director of the twenty-five or more chain flying schools and airports to be built by the Curtiss Flying Service, was announced today by C. Clay Ferguson, vice-president of the concern. Winston will leave shortly for the Detrooit instructors’ school, where he will be introduced to the method’s of the Curtiss system. While at the United States army fields in Texas, Winston was one of the student training teachers and Lindbergh was one of his pupils. Durant’s Pilot Here Clarence Gunther, pilot for Cliff Durant, millionaire sportsman and automobile race enthusiast, landed at Hoosier airport, Lafayette pike and Kessler boulevard, Monday from Detroit in an Avro-Avian biplane. r I STLESS, ptiny, rickety t~*9children need the right tonic-food to build up

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On other nights he remains until after dinner, changes to his spike-tail formals and steps into the President’s receiving room to rule over the gathering until the last guest has departed. PLAN POPE TRIBUTE Italian T-oops to Line Route for Pontiff’s Visit. Fit United Pres.. ROME, March 12. -r The Italian army is being trained in ceremonies and salutes to be accorded the pope w'hen he makes his excursions from the Vatican, it w r as made known here today. A salute of fifty guns will be fired when Pope Pius leaves the Vatican for the first time to take possession of St. John’s basilica as Bishop of Roipe. Late in Ji ly the pope is expected to visit the monastery of Mount Cassino. At that time a large number of troops will render homage, lining the route from the railway station to the monastery, a distance of five miles. All persons must kneel w'hen the pope approaches, according to official instructions given the army. Cook Hops to Richmond H. Weir Cook, Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana, general manager, flew to Richmond today in a Curtiss Robin monoplane on business. He was accompanied by Storey Larkin of Sidener, Van Riper & Keeling, Inc., and Charles Gregory of Gregory Aerial Surveys, Dayton. Pilot Hero Is Honored Ru United Press NEW YORK, March 12.—Recognition was given today to the act of Samuel James Taylor, a transport pilot, who saved the lives of twelve w’hen he made a forced landing at Cleveland, Feb. 24. In a resolution adopted by the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation, Taylor was commended for his “courage, coolness, and ability a- an air pilot.” Taylor was over Cleveland when his engine failed him. By skillful maneuvering, he brought *his plane to earth in a small enclosed field without injury to passengers or himself.

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REVOLT FLAME MOUNTS HIGH IN VENEZUELA Dictator’s Reign Is Periled; Third Term Will End on Friday. BY WILLIAM PHILIP STMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor. WASHINGTON. March 12. Sparks of revolt are flying thick and hot about the open pow'der barrels of discontent in Venezuela, so another neighboring American republic soon may be shaken by a revolutionary explosion. Friday marks the end of another term of office for the military dictator, General Juan Vicente Gomez, nominally president of Venezuela. It is his third term and his nineteenth year of pow’er, but the tide of discontent is said to be rising so fast that the odds are heavily agafnst him, or any one he may name as his successor. Little direct news is coming from Caracas, the capital, or elsewhere in Venezuela. The government is exercising one of the tightest censorships ever experienced in a Latin American republic, a censorship such as is possible only in absolute autocracies. Nevertheless, enough is filtering through to indicate that President Gomez is facing serious trouble. Dictator Shows Teeth Before me as I write are four dispatches—one from San Juan, Porto Rico: two from the Panama Ce-al zone, and one from Bogota, bia. Each contains first hand news brought out by travelers. Gen. Jose Gabaldon. former member of the Gomez cabinet, is reported to have called on the dictator to resign at the end of his term next Friday. Gomez’ reply was to send a squad of soldier to arrest Gabaldon. But the latter knew what to expect and was not “at home” to his soldier callers. Instead, he had slipped away to the mountains of

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Trujillo, northwestern Venezuella, on the shores of Lake Maracaibo. There, it is said, he is recruiting an army of rebels pending the time to strike. ' Near Trujillo also a second rebel army is said to be gathering under Gen. Arevalo Cedeno, likewise a former Gomez chieftain recently returned from exile. Lack of money and arms is understood to be the main obstacle in the way of a revolution. Another obstacle, and no small one either, is the new' and wellequipped army which President Gomez has raised, scenting his danger, the wily old fox has more than quadrupled his forces in recent months. Has Powerful Army Normally, Venezuela has a standing army of some 10,000 men. It is now' said to number between forty and fifty thousand. Twenty thousand recruits are said to have been taken on during the last four weeks. The latest news, dated at Cristobal, Canal Zone, Saturday, says that tourists aboard the steamship Reliance, now on a West Indian cruise, were refused permission to' visit Caracas, the excuse given by the Venezuelan authorities being that a smallpox epidemic was on. American officials, however, have not been informed of any such quarantine. To offset this story, a British resident who left aboard the same vessel reported that trouble is expected soon and that some of his countrymen have sent their wives and children out of the country.

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Marion Men Appointed Bn Times Special MARION, ind., March 12.—Four Marion business men have been appointed on the Indiana panel of the American Arbitration Association,

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which seeks enactment of laws protecting business men in agreements to arbitrate commercial disputes. The Marion men are Gus Condo, Robert J. Spencer Jr., Henry L. Erlewine and Robert P. Kiley.

MARCH 12, 1929

‘Miss Alexandria’ Chosen Bn Times Special ALEXANDRIA. Ind., March 12.—' Miss Doris T£bey has been chosen “Miss Alexandria" to represent this city in an Indiana beauty contest.