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Psychologist Says Uniform Qockpit Needed With More Simplified Instruments WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UP)—An air force psychologist sald today
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that the confusing conglomeration of dials, instruments, levers and hear their attorneys battle to have] . WASHINGTON, Dec. 11—The Hope diamond—at least for the pres- band of her late daughter, Mrs. Six : switches in the modern airplane is the cause of most crashes blamed on | contempt. of. Congress indictments | ent—is powerless to add a new chapter to its two-century-old legend of Evalyn McLean Reynolds. * pilot error. 1 {against them declared umconstitu- pe .
Between 50 and 75 per cent of all air crashes are blanred on mistakes by ‘the pilot. | But Dr. Paul Fitts, chief of the Dep the pilot to pick quickly’ the psychology branch, Air Medical cOrTect control.
Laboratory, said the complicated| He Proposed athost of similar plane and hot the man is at fault, [/Provements. As for the uniform
What must be done, he said, is cockpit, it will take years to achieve, to taflor the plane to fit the man, Dr: Fitts said. But, he added, it So far, the effort has been to fit 1s the' goal toward which aircraft the man into the complications of ®Péineers should work. his plane. {
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Dr. Pitts said the goal of air force!
research is a uniform cockpit and ss ~gw oN 3 simplified instruments for all planes. To Aid East Coast a y He said instruments should be so simple that. at Mg plod THE VERY TYPE—Huguette | American could learn to be an| WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UP)— Reynault is Paris' 1947 version [ties Committee whether or not they!
expert pilot. [The ofl industry prepared today of "Miss Dactylo," or Miss |were Communists,
| tional. . » | They said they would fight to the last legal writ, efforts of the, gove
| ington for trial Dec. 19.
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| not be reached earlier,
be not only the saving of lives and| fue! Waste and provide heat for valuable equipment, and also a uy nan dt Tonge: Tosti speed-up of pilot training which erican Petroleum Insti- : would be ou wartime. . tute announced that advertising| Can swim and skate. An air force survey of pilot errors| layouts emphasizing fuel saving 4 ol showed that 50 per cent involved Methods will be released this week Mother, 2 Childr substitution of one instrument for| —with special concentration in| . h . Fi another. In 18 per cent, the pilots|N®W England oy the Hast cast Perish in Fire made wrong adjustments, and in | ar€A. e titute an BROCKTON, Mass, Dec. 11 up) | ——— | § another 18 per cent they simply Member concerns will participate in| "Uo a ved mother died at M J Pp b forgot what to do. [the drive to bring the fuel short-| evers Ju rope 80 0 lage to the attention of the pub-|® hospital today less than eight y ry
{ * Wrong Controls Used | hours after two of her six chil-| hie. |dren perished when fire swept the Nearing Close
In 6 per cent, the pilots did the) Sen. Charles W. Tobey (R.N.H.), converted: garage in which they WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UP)— | Opposite of what they intended to chairman of a Senate Commerce jjyeq, |Only one witness remained today to do, and in 3 per cent they used Subcommittee studying the fuel Mrs Helen Schmitchell Vines, testify at the federal grand jury & control they did not mean to situation, yesterday announced the 3° was burned fatally as she res-| investigation of the wartime busi-
"Miss France" contest. She also | the question.
ner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Alvah |! en Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester? | Cole, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz | {and Mr. Trumbo.
touch ; (appointment of a 10-man industry eyed her 2-year-old daughter, |ness-deals of Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Dr. Fitts said instruments must committee to “produce results.” catherine, from a bed and fled Meyers (Ret.). be designed so that they can be Tobey directed atfention of the through a window. | The last witness reportedly will
manipulated easily and without industry group to: .Two of her children, Winifred, be either Willlam Rogers, chief putting the pilot under abnormal, 1. The actual availability of oil|g and Robert, 7, were killed when | counsel for the Senate War Investistrain, {In gulf ports. [they leaped from a second floor|gating committee, or Francis D. One experiment proved that it| 2. The availability of tankers and| window. Catherine and three!Flannagan, the committee's assisttook trained pilots 7.1 seconds to the chances of “blasting out” some other children, led from the build-|ant counsel. read the standard altimeter dial. |Ships for coastwise runs. [ing by Cecil A. Clements, 35, a| Both Mr. Rogers and. Mr. FlanAnd 11.7 per cent of the readings| 3. The claim that independent poarder, were burned severely. |nagan played prominent parts in
were wrong. Error in reading alti- SPL Tuya are being left “high the Senate comrnittee inquiry whith tude is a ferquent cause of crashes, nd dry” by major suppliers. would up with Gen. Meyers, a fortren ‘Oscar’ Date Set P ; /
Dr. Fitts said. . < Quickly Scans Instr is PENCIL COLLECTION DE LUXE | HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 11 (UP)— facing grand jury action : meny NEW. YORK (UP)-Ben Lapper| The Academy of Motion Picture U.S. Attorney George Morris Fay The pilot's eye scans instruments spent 40 years collfcting 481 me- Arts and Sciences announced today will request the indictment of Gen. at the rate of two a second, he chanical pencils, no two alike, the it would award its annual “Oscars” Meyers—probably on a two-count added. This makes for confusion. earliest dating from 1871. The col-| for outstanding movie performances perjury charge—soon after his final But experiments have shown, he lection was said to be the largest in| Saturday night, March 20, at the witness testifies tomorrow or. Monsald, that knobs of various shapes|the world. 'Shrine Auditorium. day.
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The 10 were cited for refusing to will share equally in the bulk of her with the swimming pool and the | \rcLean's ‘father, Thomas Walsh, [tell the House Un-American Activi- estate.
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" Executors of the estate left by Mrs. Evalyn Wa charge of the “jinxed” gem and her other assets at the time of her | ixing for caviar, red plush carpets! ernment to move them fo Wash- death nearly eight months ago. They locked the gleaming 44‘i-carat/and capital highlife,s now is re-| {pendant in a downtown bank vault Nine of the writers, directors and and went. about the legalistic la- | producers surrendered yesterday and s of settling affairs of the Colo-!| | were released after arraignment on bore i Miers daughter who be-| Once she pawned for $37,500 the mission to sell to the U.S. treasury {$1000 bail each. The tenth, writer ...." ihe capital's most famous §em which cost her $154,000. But andther but less valuable asset [Dalton Trumbo, was to surrender , cc... No one has worn the jewel since, Now, as in her lifetime, the stone | Attorney Robert Kenny said Mr. Mrs. McLean's death.” And no one| seems likely to remain intact among) {Trumbo has shut himself up in al{s likely to wear it for at least an- her belongings long after other | mountain ranch to write and could other 19 years when-——in accordance assets have been liquidated. with her will — her grandchildren! “Friendship,” her walled estate!
| Throyghout her life—in good luc The result, Dr. Pitts said, would {or an all-out campaign to reduce Typist. The 2l-year-old secre- | Mr. Kenny sald he questioned the and bad—Mrs. McLean scoffed a tary will now compete in the |committee's constitutional right to!rumors that the stone brought her| i misfortune. But she had a priest! After Mrs. McLean moved theré precious metal in the country sold The defendants were: Adrian bless the gem to dispell any curse, early in the war from the more ex-|to the treasury:
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| Lean estate are seeking court per-|
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1 . | They discovered the gold recently {while making an inventory. The | metal, from the mine in which Mrs.
formal gardens, is now up for sale. | oi ruck it rich,” has been in a
| An organization is reported dicker- | vq shington bank vault since 1910. | k ng for the house and the entire Personal possession of gold was t block of neighboring buildings. outlawed about 15 years ago when * Lavish Parties Given the government ordered all of the
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