Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1934 — Page 11

MAY 26, 1934.

It Seem to He HEYWOOD BMUN ISLIP, L. 1., May 26. —There is an anecdote about the Percy Williams Actors' home here which seems to me pertinent to some of our present problems. I gravely fear that the story is apocryphal, yet even out of myths wisdom may spring. According to the story, an ancient leading man of 75 stood accused of licentious conduct within the home itself. The case was referred to the conduct committee, made up of the guests themselves. The chairman was a famous juvenile, now nearing his eightieth birthday. He opened the hearing by saying. “Ladies and gentlemen, fellow artists, I think that we may save a great deal of time if. instead of proceeding to the taking of testimony, we first decide whether or not our committee approves or disapproves of licentious conduct." By a strict party vote of nine to three it was de-

cided that the committee approved of high jinks on the part of the veterans of a great profession. and so it became quite unnecessary to try the case M tt M Clarifying the Issue I RECOMMEND a somewhat similar procedure to Clarence Darrow and General Hugh Johnson Naturally, lam not suggesting that either distinguished gentleman fall from grace. It is an economic analogy which I wish to draw. The Darrow report asserts that NRA tends to obliterate the small business man. This the general denies. But before they

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go on to further recriminations 1 suggest that they get together and decide whether or not they want to save the small business man. This is said in all seriousness, because it seems to me that upon the answer depends the economic and political future of America. In the supplementary report issued by Mr. Darrow and Mr. Thompson it is stated: "To go back to unregulated competition, in which the small man can gain his share of the market by some special advantage of skill or other factor, is not possible in a situation where technological advance has produced a surplus, so that unregulated competition demoralizes both wages and prices and brings on recurrent and increasingly severe industrial depression.” In other words. Mr. Darrow js saying that the small business man has no chance under NRA and no chance without it. All that is left to the minor entrepreneur is the choice between being beheaded . by a code or more slowly ground to death by the force of a competition with which he can not cope. Mr. Darrow is a little less than candid when he denies that the little fellow's complaint against arbitrarily established wage scales, “can not be attributed to the mere desire to chisel wages.” Inevitably the little fellow' must chisel both in price and wage cutting and in the fight to prevent the shortening of hours. He is neither a villain nor a hero, but an economic anachronism. U U tt That Little Tailor . T AM more than weary by now of hearing of the 1 pobr little tailor who "went to jail because he pressed a suit of clothes more cheaply than his competitors. Some of the Republican orators have spoken of him as a sort of national hero defending the ancient American right to cut the throat of your rivals by underselling them. It is ironic, of course, that a retail sinner should be punished while the wholesale chiselers escape. Nevertheless, the little tailor belongs distinctly among the sinners. A million like him could wreck any sort of co-opera-tive effort, and bear in mind that chiseling on wages is the certain corollary' of chiseling on prices. If organized labor is wise it will not rally around any effort to preserve the minor manufacturer by setting up economic chaos. His precarious economic position must incline him to support the open shop, the lowest possible wages and the longest possible houis. To be sure, General Johnson is no more candid on this issue than Darrow. This phase of NRA is pure bunk and always has been. You can not encourage the growth of monopoly and at the same time protect the small business man. Darrow does touch, but all too lightly, on the chief problem of NRa when he suggests that the fullest use of productive capacity in an age of abundance will become possible “only when industry produces for use and not for profit.” I think that again Mr. Darrow is on solid ground when he says that the choice is between monopoly sustained by the government and "a planned economy w'hich demands socialized ownership.” Os course. Senators Borah and Nye (most curiously labeled as Progressives) pretend to see a happy middle ground. Stripped of purple passages, their plan is nothing more than a return to the days of the covered wagon. I agree with Mr. Darrow that it is perfectly preposterous to set up a code for an industry and then turn it over for policing to a code authority made up of the chief employers in that industry. iCopvrighi. 1934, by United_Featurg_Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN AMONG the very latest of treatments for tuberculosis are two diets that were developed in Germany as recently as last year. They are called the Sauerbruch-Hermannsdorfer and the Gerson diets, named after the German specialists who devised them. The idea back of these diets is the belief that it is possible to change the soil on which the tuberculosis germ grows. Their essential point is the practical exclusion of table salt and the substitution for it of a salt rich in calcium. The diets also include large selections of uncooked fresh vegetables or salads with added fruit juices. Other vegetables are cooked in their own juices in waterless cookers. The meats in the diet are cut down, as are also the sugars. The water intake also is cut down, hut it is replaced with fairly liberal amounts of fresh fruit and vegetable juices. a a a THE Gerson diet gives about three and one-half ounces of meat each w r eek and about 214 ounces of fish. It provides the yolks of eggs only and a total of fat daily cl about six ounces, which is twice as much as of protein altogether. The amount of sugar for energy includes about seven ounces of sugar a week and about one and three-quarters ounces of honey each week. The vegetables are not included except in the form of about one and one-half quarts of vegetable juices a week and about one pint of fruit juices weekly. The amount of milk is one-half pint daily. Soup is not used. The amount of salt is about one and one-half grams daily. ana THE other diet differs from this by providing more protein, raising the weekly amount by one pound. It also calls for more milk—at least a quart each day—and permits the eating of the whole egg instead of just of the yolk. The idea behind these diets is to change the way in which the body handles minerals, to use these to better advantage in controlling the disease. The diets are rich in fats, vitamins and minerals. It has not been established as yet with any certainty that they represent a great advance in the treatment of tuberculosis. However, the nature of the disease is such that it is really worth while to experiment with simple measures of this type, since they may lead eventually to a system that could be useful for ail cases of tuberculosis. BLAND. RIGID, IMPERTURBABLE, CALM THE other day a wild-eyed, fire-breathing radical rusxied up the steps of an aristocratic home in one of our big cities and furiously rang the bell. The door was opened by the bland, rigid, imperturable family butler. Enraged anew at such a sight, the radical bellowed at the top of his voice, “The revolution is here." But the butler was not disconcerted in the least. He answered with the utmost ealm: “All revolutions must be delivered at the tradesmen's entrance in the read.”—Representative Alfred F. Beitea <Dem., N. YJ,

THE WINNING OF THE EAST

Famed U. S. Drive Duplicated on Vast Scale by Soviet

This is the last of six stories on Siberia and the immense, colonization plan which the Soviet Union bas launched for this vast region. In this series, William Philip Simms, now on a world lour for The Times, tells how this ••winning of the east" duplicates America's "winning of the west."

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor (Copyright. 1934 by NEA Service. Inc.) MOSCOW, May 26. Soviet Russia. Karl Radek, famed Russian publicist, told me, has become invincible. Russia, he said, as he paced the floor of his penthouse study overlooking the Moskva river, and the site on the opposite bank w'here the w'orld’s tallest structure, the monument to Lenin, is to rise, does not want war. She does not need more territory. What she does need is twenty more years of peace in w'hich to provide higher living standards and better conditions generally for the people of the Soviet Union. Radek has one of the keenest minds in the country. He is one of Communism’s outstanding philosophers. He looks like the picture of Horace Greeley, large and rather prominent blue eyes, somewhat sparse brown hair, and chin whiskers—the kind that pass under the chin like a hairy strap and look as if they w'ere tied to the ears. a a a SOVIET RUSSIA, he contended, is invincible because the masses are politically minded. Not only does this make Russian soldiers better than other soldiers, man for man, but it means that the entire population of the country, men and women, and even the boys and girls, are in a sense soldiers, too. He cited the work on the Moscow' Motro, or subw'ay, as an example. On Nov. 7 will fall the anniversary of the Red revolution. By that date, less than six months distant, the engineers have promised that the first train will carry passengers along the first sevenmile section to be finished under the heart of the ctiy. But much work remains to be done and the 65,000 workers are racing against time. Accordingly, a “subotnik,” or unpaid labor corps, has been formed, made up of men. women, girls and boys, who voluntarily give up their weekly rest day to wield pick and shovel in the subw'ay.

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen WASHINGTON, May 26.—Behind the President’s desire to get congress off his hands early in June are—above all—two things. One is the fact that he is tired. The other is his belief that what the country needs is less uncertainty regarding its future course. With congress out of the way, Roosevelt feels that business, agriculture and his own administrators can dig in at the job of putting into effect the mass of new congressional legislation. This latter would be more easily possible were it not for the fact that a lot of new deal administrators begin groping in the dark the minute the man at the helm is a stone’s throw away from Washington. And this summer he will be en route to Hawaii. This situation remains the weakest link in the Roosevelt administration. Without the man in the White House, the cabinet members, the recovery agencies and the other new dealers get out of tune. There is no correlating agency.

This again is one reason the President is so tired. Enough detail comes across his desk to swamp any two men. He has not delegated enough responsibility. And when you look at some of the men to whom he should delegate it, you can understand why. This also is one reason Roosevelt has vacillated recently. He is too tired, too rushed, to go into everything carefully—and too anxious to get congress off his hands. Sooner or later Roosevelt is going to have to hire some new’ help. REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES A. EATON. New' Jersey Republican: “What size shoes does the gentleman w'ear?” Representative Marion A. Zioncheck. youthful first-termer from the state of Washington: “No. 9, and I am proud of it. It is a plain answer. I do not try to evade any question. What size do you wear?” Eaton: “No. 10, and I am proud of it. If the gentleman’s head was as big as his feet, he w'ould amount to something.” an a THE national hot-spot is going to Mississippi in more ways than the weather this summer. During the month of August a lot of political attention will be focused on it. At that time will be decided the three-cornered race for the senate between Hubert Stephens, the incumbent; ex-Governor Theodore A. Bilbo, and Representative Ross Collins, one of the foremost members of the house. Stephens probably will be counted out early, leaving the chief race between Bilbo and Collins. Bilbo w'as for some time employed on a $6,000 a year job clipping papers for the AAA. Ross Collins, as chairman of the House Committee on War Department Appropriations, runs the army more than any other civilian, has forced the generals to cast aside sabre and saddle and adopt modern weapons of war. His fight for the purchase of the Gutenberg Bible and the czar’s library was used against him in the Mississippi Bible belt, but culminated in an important cultural contribution to the library of congress. n n a SECRETARY of the Treasury Morgenthau is a country gentleman and a nature lover. He is particularly fond of birds. But the two w'oodpeckers which took to drumming each morning just outside his window strained even his patience with feathered friends. After putting up with them for a while young Henry finally appealed to the agricultural department. Would the department please send around an expert to look into the problem of w'oodpeckers at 5 a. m.? Morgenthau emphasised that he did noi want the birds shot. But

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An Austrian by birth, Karl Radek. famed publicist, above, is one of the Soviet Union’s greatest propagandists. He sees the nation of the Bolsheviks as invincible.

SECRETARY KAZANOVITCH, of the Moscow Communist party organization, calculated that, by Nov. 7, at least 2.000,000 volunteers will have put in that many days free time, corresponding to a force of 10.000 hands regularly employed. Housewives, shop girls, stenographers, factory hands, school boys and girls, officials, clerks, doctors, mechanics and whatnot report to the “subotniks” and. dressed like deckhands on a ship in a storm, shovel dirt in the water-logged tunnel under Moscow. Where else, Radek wanted to know, will you see a sight like that? In other countries, he contended. the officials and leaders may be wise to what is taking place, but the rank and file does not have the slightest idea what it is all about. a a a IN Moscow every single citizen save the smallest children knows about the subway. They

he w'ould appreciate greatly their removal to a subsistence homestead in some other part of the world. The agricultural department was delighted. A special committee on trapping woodpeckers in the yard of the secretary of the treasury was appointed. The committee moved on the scene of action. But promptly it encountered difficulties. The limb on which the woodpeckers put on their drumming act was not strong enough to sustain a man long enough to set a trap. What to do? They could not shoot the birds. And they could not trap them. For sometime the committee cogitated. No results. Finally, it got a break. Morgenthau was called out of town. The committee hesitated no longer. Next morning the two aerial machine-gunners were shot. When a few days later Morgenthau returned to the capital and found that he was no longer disturbed, he wrote a little note of appreciation to the department for its

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Wealth is pouring out of Siberia, long only a bleak land of terror, into Soviet coffers. One new source of riches is the gold area of Yakutia, where electric dredges now are taking the precious metal from alluvial beds, as shown above.

know what it is for. That it is theirs. That it will be a public convenience. And what it will cost. And so on. With a perfect understanding of the situation, they want to push the project along. In war, the Russian population would behave exactly the same way. says Radek. Being politically minded, and individually interested and concerned in the collective fate, Russia's 170.000.000 would pitch in and help win the conflict. Even where armies are highly mechanized, as is the case with the Red army, he observed, unless a war were won quickly, it would develop into a struggle between masses. Manpower and manpower discipline would be vital. Women, said Radek, are particularly remarkable in Russia, bearing their full share of heayy work along with the men. His former secretary, a young woman, had gone through a military academy and now commands a regiment of her own—of men, not of women. Radek denied there are ’’women’s

success in solving the problem of how to trap the two birds. Probably not until he reads this, will young Henry realize that his woodpeckers are not still drumming happily on anew government supplied homestead. n a a THE state and treasury departments have received some amazing reports on the growth of the opium trade in Manchuria since Japanese occupation. According to these reports, the sale and use of narcotics has increased tremendously since the Japanese took over this part of China. No police restrictions are placed against the drug, and most of the opium dens are run by Japanese. One of the reasons for the Japanese conquest of Jehol, adjacent to Manchuria, was to get the revenue from its lucrative opium trade. • Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Tnc.i SENATE TO PASS ON 16 INDIANA POSTMASTERS President Roosevelt Asks Confirmation of Appointments. By Times Special WASHINGTON, May 26.—Names of sixteen new postmasters for Indiana were sent to the Senate for confirmation this week by President Roosevelt. They were: Grover C. Ra inbolt, Corydon; Oscar J. Sauerman. Crown Point; William W. McCleary, Elberfeld; Henry M. Mayer, Evansville; William L. Eastin. Ewing; Chester Wagoner. Flora: Joseph E. Mellon, Hobart; Walter E. Wehmeyer, Kendallville; Edwin W. Hanley, Michigan City; William S. Darnell, New Albany; Gordon B. Olvey, Noblesville; William N. Burns, Otterbein; Charles O. Hall, Sullivan; Herry Backes, Washington; Oscar M. Shively, Yorktown. and Bessie D. Perkins. Whiteland.

By George Clark

battalions,” as such, in the Russian army. a a u T TUNDREDS are in the aviation -*■ corps, many are regular army officers, and three are sea captains commanding vessels of the Soviet merchant marine on regular runs. On the rear end of a train in Siberia I was surprised to discover a woman brakeman. Along the right-of-way, despite the rigors of the climate and the notoriously hard work it entails. I saw many groups toiling on the railroads. They were even helping double-track the line. I went into the Moscow subway. Thousands of women are regularly employed down there under conditions which would break the back of many a man. They sling picks, use shovels, push cars along the narrow-gauge tracks and shore up the tunnels with the men. Not the slightest distinction is made between women and men workers. Os the 65,000 on the job. at

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SEVERAL Indianapolis men have made good on the stage and in Hollywood in various fields. The iatest to bring fame to this city is Charles Bruce Millholland of 5157 Winthrop avenue, who wrote “Napoleon of Broadway” upon which the stage and movie versions of “Twentieth Century” were based.

On the stage, this play was a great success and was written in Indianapolis. Mr. Millholland, who is now in the east, at my request has sent me his own story of how he happened to write this great success. His story, as written by himself, is as follows: “I wrote ‘Napoleon of Broadway.’ my original play upon which both the Broadway and Hollywod versions of ‘Twentieth Century - were based, in the home of my mother in Indianapolis in 1930. “When I returned to Indiana after a winter in New York as publicist for Oliver M. Sayler, personal press agent for Morris Gest, I had no intention of waiting a play about show business. “Much to my surprise, the family was so amused by the true stories I related about the idiosyncrasies of famous producers and their erratic methods, that that one of my brothers suggested that I put it all into a play. And why not? It was such an obvious idea that I had never thought- of it myself. “The play really wrote itself. I retired to my room, recalled the characters and types with which I was familiar, plotted my play and started writing. Doing the dialogue for my central character of producer I found it easier to read the lines aloud to myself as I wrote them. “I didn’t realize how strange this must have sounded to the rest of the household until later when my mother admitted that hearing me mumble to myself in an unnatural voice had made her wonder if I were in my right mind. “As soon as I had completed and copyrighted Napoleon of Broadway I had a hunch that Jed Harris would be interested and wired him to that effect. Receiving no answering wire. I mailed it to him and three other producers. The following day I received a letter from his general manager saying that Mr. Harris’ plans were complete for the season and that he would not be interested. a a a “T T OWEVER, my hunch was XT correct; and he was. I received a wire from Jed Harris saying that he would like to produce m.v play. As I was unable to come on to New York to make the revisions which he required. Mr. Harris offered me collaboration and a contract which I subquently accepted. “After Jed Harris had kept my play a year and paid me SI,OOO, he released ‘Twentieth Century.’ as he rechristened it, to George Abbott and Phillip Dunning, authors and directors of his first hit. ‘Broadway.’ “They engaged Moffat Johnson and Eugenie Leontovich, star of ‘Grand Hotel,’ played the play in rehearsal and opened it in New York during the last days of ’32. The day after the opening, breakfasting at noon in a tuxedo in a Childs restaurant, I read the New York reviews. “They were so unanimously favorable that I felt justified in giving a New Year’s party to about a hundred of my friends. “The combination of play and party were too much, and I sailed for Bermuda to recuperate. There I rented a cottage with an acre of Easter lilies in the front yard and a private ijeach and did

least 25 per cent are women and girls. Perhaps more. And they are an efficient, jolly, good-look-ing lot, dressed though they are like codfishermen off the banks of Newfoundland. Quicksand and ooze are the chief characteristics of the Mascow job and the tunnels keep up a continuous downpour. tt • tt tt A T a narrow place in the unfinished tunnel we got in the way of a gang of men and women carrying a huge timber. “Gangway!” the women foreman shouted, and if we had not instantly obeyed, the chief engineer of the project, a United States consul general, and this correspondent would have suffered a collision. “You see,” the chief explained, as he ducked, “she commands a workers’ shock brigade and holds the record. She doesn't want to lose it.” Which is why Karl Radek thinks Russia is now invincible. (THE END)

nothing but bask in the sun and cash royalty checks. “But the banks closed suddenly and so did the theater which housed “Twentieth Century.” Realizing that I had no new play to take its place, I hied me from the house down to the rockbound shores of Bermuda. There in a coral cave, I began anew play about our international relations. “No sooner had I started ‘World Apartment’ than the banks reopened and so did ‘Twentieth Century. “The day I arrived in New York a motion picture contract arrived from Hollywood for the Columbia Pictures’ production of Twentieth Century’ which had its ‘World Premiere’ at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City May 3. “I am glad that ‘Twentieth Century’ will be shown in Indianapolis at the Circle theater because it was there that I received my first experience in the theater —as an usher.”

TURN ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY, ADMITS AUTO THIEF FROM TUCSON

“Police in my home town captured Dillinger, and police in Dillinger’s home town captured me.” That was the mournful cry of Robert King, 28, Tucson, Ariz.. arraigned before Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker yesterday on charges of vehicle taking, j King, a former rodeo rider, was ' arrested near the Hoosier “bad man's home at Mooresville. w’hcn a stolen car in w'hieh he was driving was overturned. Like Lochinvar, wh oals came out of the west. King, it seems, was on a romantic mission. s mantic mission,—but a sad one. "I was going on to Philadelphia to find my gal, that is to say, my w’ife,” King told Judge Baker. “She’s been gone three weeks.” Admitting that he had stolen a car, King said he sujpped off in Indianapolis and thought he would look over the Indiana Landmarks of the Dillinger gang. King will be sentenced later. U. S. PAYS $1,282,459 TO INDIANA FARMERS Wheat Adjustment Checks Are Rushed to Drought Areas. By Times Special WASHINGTON, May 26.—Indiana farmers have been paid $1,282,459 under their governmental wheat adjustment contracts up until May 1, it was reported today by AAA. The new adjustment payments are being rushed through now. particularly i nthe drought areas. Estimated amount now due in Indiana is $520.000. LOCATION OF BURIED VETERANS IS SOUGHT Families Asked to Notify Head of Soldiers’ Association. Edward P. Cook, president of the Marion county chapter of Rainbow division veterans association, has asked that families of soldiers buried in Marion county communicate with him regarding the location of the graves. The association will decorate the j graves Memorial day, ]

Fair Enough rasuiß NEW YORK, May 26.—1 t took a posse, hidden by a roadside, to kill Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, a mischievous boy and girl who had been shooting their way over the southwest and middlewest, but this score for the law still does not explain how these two and others like them have been able to get away with murder, abduction and robbery so long in a part of the country which always has taken a rather boastful pride in the tough character

of its ordinary citizens as well as its police. In Texas. Oklahoma. Arkansas and parts of Missouri and Kansas gun-toting is much more common among the law-abiding citizens than among the residents of New York, Chicago and Detroit. The sheriffs and constables also bear a reputation for firmness in their dealings with the unruly and there was an illusion until a couple of years ago that an old-fashioned outlaw or a city hoodlum would stand no chance in that large territory. If his victim didn’t shoot it out with him the posse would chase him into the woods, and if he got out of the woods by any chance

the law would be pretty sure to shell him to death as he drove into the next town. But unfortunately for the prestige of the western sheriff and the great six-gun tradition, there began to occur a series of misdeeds in the course of which sheriff and citizen were outshot by native badmen and certain officers of the law, to their great embarrassment, they were not only disarmed but abducted. tt a tt Police Surrendered OUITE recently, outside Chicago, a party of three suburban policemen, all well armed and traveling in a police car, gave up their guns to a party of three bandits, one of whom was identified as John Dillinger. However, the suburbs of Chicago are not the southwest and suburban or county cops generally are political appointees, no better than the politicians who appoint them, and inferior to the common harness-cop of the big city. In many of the communities which support them the principal duty of the county cop is to prey on the motorist from elsewhere and vital emergencies may call for qualities which are not required in collecting victims for the roadside shakedown courts. My puzzlement over the success of the new western desperado prompted some informal inquiries in Louisville and Memphis lately. In Louisville, two distinguished operatives of the internal revenue department, moving through the crowd at the horse park on Derby day looking for persons engaged in the dope traffic, paused in their duty to ease their feet and blame much of the trouble on some bad Governors who had turned great numbers of desperate convicts out of the prisons of Texas and Oklahoma for political reasons. These jail deliveries, they said, had turned loose on the country some of the most undesirable parties ever grown in that part of the world and had a bad effect on the morale of the police who saw their previous good work so ruthlessly undone and began to ask themselves what was the use? Moreover they knew how bad these bad men were and did not enjoy the idea of making them angry if they were soon to be turned out of prison by a Governor’s order and go cruising around the country paying off grudges in the dark. mam They're Real Rad Men THE federal officers said there were some real bad men in the southwest. Harvey Bailey, now returned to Leavenworth, was the worst man of them all and much badder than A1 Capone in his most petulant moments, and almost as smart. Pretty Boy Floyd was very bad. too, and Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were downright mean anyway you took them. There were rumors in Louisville' that day that John Dillinger had come to town and might try to steal the pari-mutuel receipts, which rose to almost $1,000,000. The narcotic men said that, although he wasn't genuinely bad, he had now grown so desperate that he probably couldn’t be taken alive again. On a previous occasion, before he became a dead man under the law. Dillinger had surrendered without a fight. Dillinger was another parole job and the government officers deplore the act of the Governor who had let him out, holding that lenient stroke responsible for the death of four or five men killed on the Dillinger job since then. They talked this way a long time and arose to resume their patrol, looking for any one whom they might recognize, including Dillinger. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

AIRPLANE observations of weather conditioas at high altitudes will be made more frequently and from a larger number of stations, starting July 1. according to an announcement by W. R. Gregg, chief of the United States weather bureau. This move represents the first of a number to increase the accuracy of weather reports and is in harmony with the recommendations recently made by President Roosevelt s science advisory board which undertook a study of the weather bureau. The increased airplane observations are made possible by the co-operation of the war. navy and commerce departments, Mr. Gregg states. With these additional observations, the bureau will be able to make use of the so-called air mass method of forecasting. This has long been recognized as a means of making forecasts more accurate and also as a means of making longer forecasts. The bureau, however, has never found it practicable because it and and not have enough airplanes to make the necessary observations. Meteorologists now believe that larges air masses, which constantly move across the country, govern the weather to a marked degree. a a a THE meteorograph makes a continuous record during the flight of the plane, thus enabling the forecaster to get a record of temperature, pressure and moisture at various levels in the atmosphere. From this movement of the air masses can be calculated. Under the new plan the weather bureau will have the co-operation of army and navy pilots at more than a dozen selected stations. There will also be flights at six specially equipped weather bureau airway stations and at one co-operative station at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The department of commerce will provide for the transmission of the observations from the points where they are made to the forecasting stations. Mr. Gregg says that it is planned to have one observation flight each day at the various stations. This flight will begin at about 5:30 a. m. eastern standard time. The pilot will fly to an altitude of about 1,000 feet above sea level. Meteorologists assigned to the air observation stations will compute, code and transmit to forecast stations the informaion which the meteorographs bring down. The weather bureau plans to maintain special airplane observation stations at Nashville, Tenn., with La Crosse, Wis., as an alternate; Omaha. Neb.; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Billings, Mont.; Fargo. N. D., and Oklahoma City. Okla. The w f ar department will assign planes to gathering weather data at Mitchel Field, Long Island. N. Y.; Selfridge Field. Detroit. Mich.; Wright Field. Dayton, O.; Scott Field. East St. Louis. 111.; Kelly Field, San Antonio. Tex.: Maxwell Field. Montgomery. Ala.', and during the hurricane season at Ft. Crocket, Galveston, Tex. man THE national guard unit at Spokane, Wash., will take care of the daily flight there. The navy department has agreed to make observations at Anacastia, D. C.; Norfolk, Va.; Pensacola, F1?..; San Diego, Cal.; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and, on alternate days, at Philadelphia, Pa., and Lakehurst, N. J. Flights will also be made at Sunnyvale, Cai., and Seattle, Wash., but at other times than those set for the other flights. Occasional flights will also be made from Quantico, Va.; Dahlgren, Va., and Coco Solo. Canal Zsae. .

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