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Here's How an Airline Pilot ls Kept In Training Against Mischances Of Bad Weather and Faulty Engines.

TLANTA, Feb. 24 —There | ‘was a time ‘when I was so close to aviation they could hardly get a motor started unless 1

* was hanging around. But in the last few

years airplanes have sort of gone off and

“ left me. Here in Atlanta we came upon very

dear friends out of those old aviation days—Larry ‘and Evelyn Pabst. If I had to fly somewhere every

3% single day the rest of my life, I'd rather fly it with

Larry Pabst than any other pilot in the world. He is unspectacular, and abso‘lutely thorough. He is such a sane flier that he has been promoted to division superintendent of Eastern Air Lines. He hated to quit regular flying. He makes jokes about being a “big executive” now. I was telling him about our forced landing in Peru last fall, and how the Panagra pilots later told us they have to take tests every so often on one-engine landings. i So I asked him what tests Eastern Air Lines’ pilots go through. ‘Twice a year Eastern Air's pilots (and other lines

Ni ‘Mr. Pyle ]

“do the same thing) have to fly through a long series

of tests somewhat as follows: 1. They go. to 2000 feet and switch off both motors. The pilot has to land one of those big Pouglases on Atlanta airport with no power at all. They have one-motored landings, too. 2. Then they start another take-off. And this time the check pilot switches off one motor when the plane is about 15 feet in the air. That's the deadly point in flying, you know—a motor failure on the take-off. 3. A curtain is stretched around the pilot's” windows, shutting off all: outside vision, and he has to take off by instruments. This, of course, never happens in actual practice, but they just want to

“"» know the pilot can do it.

4. Now they fly around awhile and the pilot, “blind” and not knowing where he is, has to locate the airport by the radio beams. That isn’t hard. But here is the interesting part. It is called a “standard letdown procedure.” If is being done by necessity almost every night somewhere in the U. S. Say the plane is coming in from Jacksonville. About two miles from the field is a radio range tower. The pilot comes over this tower, on | “the beam,” at exactly 1500 feet.

The pilot, in this test, is “on instruments.” In

, other words, they're simulating a night so bad he

just can’t see anything. is shut off.

Now for the Difficult Part

Now, right over this radio tower, the pilot hits a “cone of silence.” His radio signals stop. That tells

Furthermore, one motor

".C him hes just passed the station, two miles from the field.

He now starts the scientific part of his landing. He

* turns the plane clear around and rides the radio beam

outward, back toward Jacksonville. He flies back for four minutes, letting the plane down gradually to 700 feet. He knows there is noth-

-ing higher in this area than the 100-foot radio tower.

Now he turns around again, and once nore rides the beam toward the field, all the time losing a little altitutle. He times himself, and when he hits the “cone of silence” again he is down to 500 feet. This time he keeps straight ahead toward the airport. He has two miles to go. He jets on down to 300 feet above the ground. He knows within a few feet of just where he is. From here on in, there are long bars of red Neon lights on the ground, 100 feet apart. In the semiannual tests, they now jerk the curtains off the cock-

. pit and let the pilot land normally, except for his dead

engine. But in actual practice, he can’t of course reach out and jerk the bad weather away. So the pilot, while 300 feet high and a mile from the runway, starts looking for those Neon lights. And if he can’t see them, he must pull ‘back up and go ) rough the whole pro-

cedure again.

My Day.

_ By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

- unable to recover.

Two Women, Well Over 40, Support Themselves and Also Help Others.

EW YORK, Thursday.—I feel very jubilant this afterncon! I have seen two women well over 40 making a gallant fight, not only to meet their own needs, but to support others. They make this fight and still remember there are ottier people less well off, and gain joy from giving to them. I shall tell you the stories so you may enjoy them with me. Some time ago, I received a letter from a woman who described herself as middle-aged, and who said her husband had a small business, but in these days it was becoming increasingly difficult for him to meet the family needs. Their only daughter had died, a crushing blow from which -he seemed There was one thing she knew how to do and she decided to try it. Would I care to order some cakes or cookies, or a hot meal of any

cc kind? She would send it to me within the boundaries

~~ which come from it are delectable.

of New York City. This morning I thought I would go to see her. She is a little deaf, but she manages to be bright and cheerful. Her kitchen is a joy to bghold. The smells Her business is growing by leaps and bounds and I think “Antoinette,” as she calls herself, will soon be employing others.

Little Old Lady of 70

Next, in answer to a letter which asked if I would accept some children’s dresses to give away and come for them myself, I went to meet a little old lady of 70, a cripple who broke her leg last year and did her sewing in bed. She has always been a seamstress, earning in her best days, $5 a day. When she has no work, she makes children’s clothes out of the scraps she has left and gives them to various people. I came away with a box which will go to some families I know, where life is rather drab. The little old lady had a father who always made a comfortable income and gave very liberally, but saved nothing, so after his death she supported her mother and one sister until they died. Now there is only one sister left and she is a charity patient in a home for the blind because the little old lady does

‘ not make quite enough, eveh with a boarder, to Sup-

rt anyone but herself. Pretty good to be able

"2 that at 70 and also to be thinking of ways in which

r you cai make children” happy.

’ Day- by-Day Science

: By Science Service

HICAGO, Feb. 24—An 8-year-old, boy, who lived probably 50,000 years ago, is the missing link in the geographical spread of Ice:Age man, the strange race of Neanderthalers, that has just been unearthed in the Soviet Union through sensational discoveries made near Tashkent in Soviet Turkestan. This is

the first recorded discovery of Neanderthal man in|

Central Asia. About 200 stone implements, and 2500 flakes, as well as the human skeleton, were found in a cave. The tools are typically Mousterian such as were found with the famous Neanderthal skeletons of Europe. ‘ This discovery is expected to. stir world-wide scientific interest because it fills in the gap in Neanderthal discoveries between China and Palestine, explaining how these now extinct, but definitely hu-

) man distant cousins of ourselves roamed from China ~ to Europe.

_ The discovery was made by Dr. A. P. Okladnikov of the Institute of Experimental Medicine at Tashkent. The site is the cave of Teshik Tash in Uzbekistan. v : © There are three distinct layers of human culture

: in ‘the Turkestan cave, with hearths and animal

as well as stone tools in all of them. Many of bones were cracked to obtain the nourish-

thin them. .The hunters had eaten |

Second Section

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1939

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Iudianaolis. Ind.

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Visiting Foreign

Section Just Like a Trip ‘Round World

(Fourth a a Series) By William Bloeth

Times Special Writer

N= YORK, Feb. 24.— visit to the New ey World's Fair and a trip abroad this year might tax your finances a bit. Forget, then, the foreign jaunt and see the Fair instead: In its foreign section you'll be able to make a trip around the world just as well. The Fair offers other inducements, too. If time is a factor your world trip can be made in two hours —and it will cost much less. About all you'll miss will be the mal-de-mer. For months the ships of some 60 foreign nations have been docking in New York with foreign building ‘materials and exhibits for the Fair pavilions. In all, some ‘$75,000,000 worth of goods has arrived. «. 1 There's ‘no need to go ‘abroad’ to walk on the flagstones of the old Tower of London. The eight centuries old stones will be part of Britain’s exhibit. Goldsmiths of Baghdad working in an authentic market place are other importations. Even a Turkish bazaar from Istanbul—its heavy wrought iron gates, hammered copper and brass wall decorations and green gold tiles from Turkish potteries are included. : There will be, perforce, some gaps. Germany, for instance, is not represented; but tourist agency reports show no popular surge of visitors to that country anyway. Otherwise all the major powers of Europe offer large samples of themselves and their customs. Sixty-two nations of the world have sent their designers and builders, their materials and bits of their cities even to the site of the Fair on the Flushing Meadows. And all are on good terms —at the Fair, Italy’s pavilion, one of the. largest, stands a short throw from Britain’s equally large one. Italy has water eascading from a huge statue: of Roma down a stepped front from the summit to a pool on the ground. Inside is the great Marconi's workshop, brought bodily from its native setting with the inventor’s tools and souvenirs in it as though he was to return shortly to resume his work. SNe

RITAIN’S keynote is a peaceful countryside garden with yew trees and flowerings shrubs. Tea will be served to the visitors here while a band plays softly on: the terrace. Britain's building boasts a 45-foot statue of the Brit

Side Glances

ish Lion—Ilargest statuary ever installed indoors, Soviet Russia, ’'the Netherlands, Belgium and France are, in ad-

.dition, the largest foreign par-

ticipants.

Where the others are monu= mental, France’s pavilion is modern. Glass and:columns that recall the brocaded Louis XIV ‘grandeur feature the building. France’s bit of herself is a restaurant in the most exacting continental style on the top of the building. Another is an art gallery with the more outstanding works of art. And all the scenic effects of a trip to the famous French spas and seashore resorts are reproduced in another section.

ELGIUM tells her story with ; simplicity in a building of native terra-cotta and blue slate. Youll hear a 35-bell carillon

played by the best Belgium art-

ists just as you would in Tournai where the bells were cast. Or you can visit the Belgium Congo’s wealthy diamond centers — in effect—and see gems exceeding $10,000,000 in value. Guards of the Belgium gendarmerie, tall and alert and in the smart native uniforms. guard the' treasure an add to the authenticity. Perhaps Holland, the land of tulips and dykes is your goal. If you're content with a miniature model of the country in actual operation to show the method of keeping the water out, the rest will: make up for it. . Naturally the Dutch gardens are the thing in the Netherlands

pavilion. Thousands of tulip and: scilla and hyacinth in gay blos- .. som symbolize the Dutch good = nature. Too, there are the colonial displays with: native crafts-"

men and the art of Bali and Java —even a giant model of Borobudur, the greatest of the ancient Buddhist monuments in: Java. The Soviet, you'll find is a country where subtleties are not pronounced. The country is large, its people like large things. The new U. S. 8S. R. Palace at Moscow is the largest building in the world. Its designers, Boris

6—Albania.

M. Tofan and K. B. Alabian, also designed the Fair pavilion.

The Soviet pavilion boasts the’

largest monumental pylon next to the Fair's equally monumental trylon; a square column, made of the bold red marble of the Karelis with a stainless steel statue of a young man following a in his upraised hand. Ri of the and. = of the Czarist days are the six-ton jeweled map of the country with Moscow emblazoned with a star shaped

ruby; and the model of the U.’

S. S. R. Palace, also gem-studded. You couldn’t, in all probability, visit the League of Nations in session on a European trip. At the World's Fair, though, you'll be able to study for the first time at close hand the work of the League. Its pavilion, first at any Fair, stresses its work for disarmament and campaigns against the evils of narcotics and white slavery. - From there it’s only a short hop to quaint Japanese gardens surrounding a Shinto shrine, copy of one built in 300 B. C. standing on piles. Oddly shaped pools, cascades, queerly-shaped trees and dwarf shrubs make the Oriental scene complete, Japan stresses goodwill toward America and will exhibit a “Liberty Bell” made

of pearls.

es x 8 T= famed Bohemian glass of Czechoslovakia and ceramics of exquisite artistry bring you the culture of the sore-pressed Central European country. And

you can dip your hand into water Lakes of Killarney or the ‘soil of the shamrock land in Ireland's. scale model of the coun--

of the

try made with imported land. Eire’s pavilion itself is shamrockshaped, one of the finest exampe of glass architecture in the

Smorgasbrod of fame, 400 different kinds of Polish hors d’oevres and a dozen kinds

of Polish vodka and the Swedish.

variation of smorgasbord make

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Which city is called the ay assingion of of South Amerca?”

2—What is arithmomania?

. 3—To which majo league base- ~ ball club does .Zeke Bonura

now belong?

4—Which is the most Brilliant :

star in the heavens? 5—Name the author of the trag~edy, “King Lear.” 6—Of which country is Tirane (Tarana) the capital? 7—Into what body of water does the Columbia River flow? G 2 8 8 :

Answers 1—Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2—A mental compulsion or habit +

of counting things.

" 3=New York Biwi

4—Sirius, the dog star.

7—Pacific Ocean. ae ®

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- and modern farming in Argentina

. Venezuela's incomparable orchids

Norwegian

Foreign governments add to the Fair with pavilions and exhibits costing

several

the

your trip of international culinary

-interest as well.

Switzerland, also featuring its food, provides a cheese cellar where you can sample varieties in endless array. Rumania offers its cuisine and stresses its social reforms. Its King Carol has

_ guided the exhibit plans persont ally.

Turkey’s native-staffed shops surround a huge glass statue of the late Kemal Ataturk, its hero. Briefer but equally interesting glimpses of other nations are offered in two Halls of Nations adjoining the United States building. Australian wool, Albanian crafts,

Grecian art, Hungarian gypsy or- :

chestras, Iceland's fishing, Siamese dancers, Spanish art, Jugoslavian industry, constantly renewed rose displays of the tiny Republic of Luxembourg, woodwork from Lithuania—it’s a real world tour. Or you can make the trip a Pan-American one. A Pan-Amer-ican wing of the Hall of Nations affords it easily. -Montecristi Indians weaving panama hats under water, for instance, is Ecuador’s exhibit. Some of the South American countries have their own pavilions, ' You can visit a Brazilian Butan-.. tan snake farm, or an aviary of brilliant tropical birds. Each visitor will be given an individually

million dollars. Two of larger are Great Britain's (upper) and Italy's (lower).

within its pavilion, in the space of 20 minutes. Outside is a’ citrus orchard. A sailing boat of New England’s former glory and the waterfront around it are there; the Texas Alamo; a replica of an 18th century barracks used during the Indian and Revolutionary wars; a

“replica of Independence Hall of

Pennsylvania; a Maine panorama in miniature with the familiar pine scent overhanging it—all are there for you to visit. The Federal Government, New York State and New York City have extensive exhibits in their own structures; the Federal one, naturally, is the most ornate with 100 per cent American furnishings by American designers and craftsmen. Your trip will bring you not only foreign flavors, but a new type of one entirely American, In food as well as atmosphere, the same universality will prevail. One of the larger restaurants specializes in American locality dishes, steaks from Kansas City, Boston baked beans, Maryland fried chicken. Most foreign pavilions will serve dishes prepared by native chefs. Your trip around the world need not suffer in any way by lack of authenticity.

NEXT: What hat will it cost the | Visitor?

prepared cup of the coffee that ¢-

makes Brazil prosperous and famous. Nitrate producing of Chile

are shown in their pavilions.

and scenic attractions come into their own in another pavilion, the orchids renewed every three days with new ones flown to the fair grounds. 8 » 2 HEN you tire of wandering -in foreign climes, you can —within a few minutes—make a tour of a large part of the Uni States in the Court of States sec tion adjoining the foreign area. Florida has one of he most novel

Automatic Gas

| Gun Invented -

‘Feb. 24—A new

By Science Service EW YORK

type of lbp gas|

instead of bullets—has been invented by J. W. Van Karner, New York chemical engineer and firearms specialist. Firing a clip of three gas cartridges, the n' resembles in a general sort of way the regular automatic. , It is quickly loaded. Its cartridges disable the person at whom they are fired for about 30

offerings, a “full day in Florida”

minutes,

Everyday Movies—By Wortman

‘whether he doesn’t want

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Tribute to the Old Picket Fence; It Contributed to Harmony and "Played lts Part in Romance, Too.

DOUBT whether adequate analysis has yet been made of the old picket fence and the. part it played in my childhood. Fifty years ago when I was a kid, nearly every home in Indianapolis was surrounded with a white picket fence. The sharper the pickets, the better the fence, Father used to say. Be that as it may, the old picket fence had its points. It was a grand institution. It kept the fame ily and chickens together and put the neighbors in their place. And the funny part was that it didn’t make people unfriendly. Quite the contrary; it made people friendlier and promoted the peace of the neighborhood like nothing else that I remember. : Father explained that, too. He said the more you jmprove communication among people the easier : ¥ you make it for folks to misunder- Mr. Scherrer stand one another. Father wasn't talking about picket fences at the time. He was

fighting off Mother's suggestion to install a telephone. All the same, I've always remembered Father’s

observation, which, reduced to words, amounts to

this, I guess: That the best way to tie humanity together is to keep it apart. Which, of course, was the function of a good sharp picket fence. ?

The picket fence went out of style some time in the Nineties when a lot of new-fangled ideas came in. There were signs of its failure as early as 1888, however. That was the year Benjamin Harrison fan for President. The year, too, he lost his picket fence, The pickets were carried off, one by one, as souvenirs by ardent Republicans who came to see him that summer. ‘When election day came around, there wasn’t anything left of the old fence. Nor was it ever replaced. Apparently Mr. Harrison was too busy packing his trunks for Washington to do anything about a new fence. : Well, that gave some lily-white souls around here the idea to do away with all fences, the argument being that with the fences down Indianapolis would look like one big garden spot. And sure enough, one by one, the fences all over town came down. Father held out as long as he could, I remember, but finally he, too, gave in. It wasnt though, until our fence showed signs of rotting.

It Served Its Purpose

One citizen of the South Side, however, held out longer than Father did. He was a dray. driver on Union St, and had one of the prettiest white picket fences down there. He also had two daughters, one 14 years old, the other approaching 18. One of the prettiest sights of the South Side was to see the two girls puttering among the flowers on their side of the

| fence.

" Well, one day we kids were dumfounded to see a blue-painted gate in the dray driver's white fence. On investigation it was learned that one of the girls had turned 18 over night, and that the blue gate was, the dray driver's way of announcing that he had a marriageable daughter inside. Seems the blue-

‘painted symbol was something he brought with him

from the Old Country. T don’t expect you-to believe it, but I'm telling you that the blue-painted gate worked as well in Indianapolis as it did in Germany. Inside of two months the girl had a beau; inside of a year she was married. After that, the dray “driver painted his gate . white again. It stayed white four years, and then one day it was blue again. This time it worked even better because six months “after that, the second daughter got married. : Shortly after the second marriage, the dray driver gave in, too, and took down one of the last fences on the South Side. It had served its purpose, he said.

Jane Jordan—

Divert Grandmother's Attention

To Other Interests, Girl Advised.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 18 and I go with a boy of the same age. I have a very curious grandmother who wants to know my per= sonal affairs. This boy and I have been going together for a month, and my grandmother has tried to stop us from going” together. Every time he calls up she tells me to hang up on him when J am only on the phone for a minute. When I stay out after 12 o’clock, she ‘has the door locked so that she can know what time I get in. She sits on the piano stool and watches everything we do which makes my boy friend very mad. What would you do: if you were in my ‘shoes? . WONDERING.

Answer—Well, you have a hard problem. Nobody likes to be watched every second. Everybody craves a | speck of privacy. Young people whose parents, or

.| grandparents, camp on their trails, never allowing

them a moment to themselves are unhappy, nervous’ and self-conscious. ‘Your grandmother's life is too drab and devoid of interest. It makes her snoop around in search of something to get excited about. It is too bad that that something has to be you. I hardly know what you can do to divert her ate tention unless you try to entertain her more when the boy friend isn’t around. Take her to the movies and buy her movie magazines telling about the private lives oftthe stars. Tune in on Jimmy Fiddler ‘on the radio. Try desperately to get her interested in something besides you and your boy. friend and how you feel about each other. Find something she can gossip about, if possible. : t 4 2 2 EAR JANE JORDAN-I:' am going with a boy whom I like very much. We are both in the last part of high school. He acts friendly toward

‘me when I nleet him downtown or when I am with

him on dates, but at school he acts like he doesn’t care whether he speaks to me or not. I don’t know whether he is ashamed of me or ‘the kids to tease him. Maybe it’s ‘just me but I can’t help feeling that

- way. I hope you can help m me. A FRIEND.

Answer—There is nothing a young boy fears mo than ridicule. I think that he is simply afraid of the razzing of his friends. If I were you I wouldn't try to force him to notice me in school. I'd just speak

=} casually and let him keep his little secret from the other boys. Bye and bye he will outgrow his shyness.

JANE JORDAN.

; Put your problems i to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions in this column daily.

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