National Museum Wants
Globe Circling Airplane
The fate of the most famous air
plane in the history of aviation is be
fore the United States war depart
ment and museum officials are eager
ly and hopefully awaiting a decision.
The plane is the Chicago, flagship of
the 2t).000 mile round the world flight
of 1024. It represents one of the
highest peaks of efficiency reached
in aircraft construction for it com
bined long distance endurance with
the ability to withstand the heat of
Southern India and the bitter cold of
the Arctic.
The Chicago is now stored away in
the oblivion of a hangar at Dayton.
O., and the national museum wrote to
the war department early last au
tumn requesting that it be transfer
red to the museum at Washington,
where it would be a part of the na
tional collection of historic planes. A
number of other museums have also
asked for the plane. So far the war
department has only announced that
it favors exhibition of the Chicago
in a prominent and fitting place.
The national museum believes that
it has a strong claim to the Chicago
because by law the museum is the
depository of scientific and technical
apparatus no longer useful to the gov
ernment. The museum now has one
of the largest collections of historic
aircraft aircraft in existence.
“A national collection has been in
progress for some time and we now
have thirty planes almost all of which
are original,” says Paul E. Garber,
assistant curator in charge of aero
nautics at the national museum.
“Among the historic planes on exhi
bition are the Alaskan flag plane of
the squadron which in 1920 flew from
New York to Nome and back, making
the nine thousand miles flight in 112
hours flight time. One part of the
trip which takes thirty days by dog
team was made in an hour and a half.
“Another important plane in the
government collection is the T-2, re
modeled by Anthony Fokker in Hol
land for long distance flight. When
tested It broke all previous records
for remaining in the air, and cross
ed the continent without stopping in
1923.”
Mr. Garber points out that the im
portance of the early planes that made
history has been fully realized only
in the last few years, but such exhi
bits are now in great demand by mu
seums. The Hargrave ornithopter, a
wing flapping machine of 1898, which
flew 312 feet propelled by compress
ed air, is an example of these old
historic planes and is now in the na
tional museum.
The famous NC-4, the first plane
j to succeed in crossing the Atlantic,
; has been offered to the government,
but it is so big that the museum has
no place to exhibit it.
Spitzbergen Rivals Land
Sought by Ponce de Leon
LONGYEAR CITY, Spitzbergen, —
There are no old, and very few elder
ly people in Spitzbergen. The great
majority are husky long-limbed lads
from Northern Norway of any age up
to forty, with a sprinkling of Swedes,
Finns, Scots, Russians and Germans.
They all stand squarely on their feet
and have fists like hams.
There is practically no mortality
here, the doctor in charge of the ex
cellently equipped little hospital told
and Associated Press correspondent.
The visitor was shown through the
small one-story building where ten
spotless white beds had been await
ing occupants for months.
The doctor proudly displayed his
operating room, replete with all mod
ern appliances, his X-ray apparatus
and his well-filled dispensary.
According to this medical authority
living in Spitzbergen is extraordinar
ily healthy and a doctor is rarely
needed except in cases of accidents
such as will happen in any mining
or engineering industry.
While the doctor was holding forth
to the correspondent about the salub
rity of the Spitzbergen air, six or
eight horny-handed fellows shuffled
in, one after the other, and sat down
silently waiting.
“But here are patients, doctor,” the
correspondent said.
“Huh, I’ll soon fix them,” the doc
tor replied. “They’ve only been over
eating.
Through an electric device sensi
tive to light, a machine has been
perfected to sort cigars according to
their color.
A recent Bible in Braille type for
the blind in Japanese characters fills
thirty-four volumes and a total of
4,106 pages.
Illinois School Offers
Police Summer Course
EVANSTON, 111., Aug 20. (/P)— Sum
mer short courses in the theory and
practice of law enforcement for po
lice officers looms as the next de
velopment in practical education in
American • universities.
Northwestern University has ofer
ed its facilities to the International
Association of Chiefs of Police for the
holding next summer of a police
school. S. J. Dickson of Toronto,
Canada, president of the association
has named a special committee to
pass upon the university’s offer.
The university has proferred class
rooms, laboratories, a faculty and
dormitory facilities for the 150 po
lice who will attend. The associa
tion may, if it desires furnish all or
part of the faculty. August Vollmer,
chief of police at Berkeley, Calif.,
who already is experimenting with
police short courses in his own city,
and W. F. Wiltberger, chief of police
of Evanston, advocate acceptance of
the Northwestern University’s offer.
Courses in the school would include
police methods, criminology, sociol
ogy, and federal, state and municipal
law.
LOS ANGELES SPREADS ITSELF
LOS ANGELES, August 20. (£>)—
Los Angeles grew 3.79 square miles
in the past fiscal year, its city en
gineer reporting that its area now
total 410.77 square miles. From north
to south the city stretches 44 miles
while east to west it extends twenty
nine miles. A little trip around the
city’s boundary line would amount
to 269.8 miles. During the past
year 129 miles of the streets were
paved, while for the new fiscal year
the city engineer has on hand orders
including 229 additional miles of
paving.
For training firemen in San Fran
cisco a specially designed 7-story
building has been erected. Men are
practiced in working in smoke, wall
scaling, fire escape drills and other
duties.
Dr. Haldane of Great Britain pre
dicts that improved steam engines
will be used extensively in airplanes
and automobiles.
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veiled in 1884 to the memory of Mar
garet Haugherty, known as the "or
phan’s iriend,” is the first ever erect
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carried in a hand bag.
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