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ATURDAY, MARCH 16,1940
Want-Ad Service—Call 2-5151
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
Want-Ad Service—CM 2-5151
ill
dance
Lal churches
Lion for Eas-
daily at
ng
unior Aviator
eason Opens
lere March 31
Exhibition Flights
Will Be Staged
Near Boaz Golf Links
By The Junior ‘Aviator Editor
JUNIOR-AVIATO
— A Nalien-Wide Organization fei-the rir-Minded Youths of Amerier
He's Out to Win That Model Building Contest
Demand Made
For Probe Of
Texas Prisons
Board Member Urges
Investigation of
‘Outside Influences’
Ernie Pyle
Don’t Pack Your Bags Yet For
A Drive to Panama—Much of
Way Is Impassable on Wheels
By ERNIE PYLE
Press Roving Reporter
HERE IN MORE ABOUT
Peace Talk
STARTS ON PAGE ONE
hool training
Hill Baptist
day at 7:15
|e, pastor, an-
ers: Adults,
es, Birdville,
young people,
I "Fields of
Ih;" intermed-
I “Darings in
1 Bea Saffell,
L;" primary
beth Thomas,
Baby:" Eunice
of the nursery
Id their sub-
Ig. “Teaching
an Armstrong,
nday School
dale, “Guiding
ris;” Bell Lax-
the Primary
wns, “Guiding
Till Mark
N School
ceremonies for
nt at John T.
a The first Junior Aviator air
show of the year, the March 31
contest sponsored by The Press
and Delta Air Lines, will inaug-
urate 11 series of model plane
meets to be held this spring and
summer
Tentative plans call for model
contests in April, May and a
6 and finale in June
■ The March 31 show at the Ju- '
nior Aviator Flying Field east
of Z. Boaz Golf Course will be
limited to scale models—small
“miniatures of the big but grace-
ful Douglas DC2 planes which
Delta Air Lines Is using on the
strans-Southern run.
The other contests will be for
lying models, both rubber-power-
11 and gas model jobs that fight
lie ether for endurance records
Delta is offering more than $60
n prizes to the three boys or girls
baking the best models of the big
Douglas planes Contestants will
e divided into divisions, those 12
tears and under and 13 years and
over. First prize in the older
group will be a Clipper gas mod-
il kit ($4.95), a Brown “B" motor
$21.50) and a Ritz propellor
50c). First prize for the young-
r division will be a Mercury kit
$$4.95), Brown "D" motor
$12.50) and a 14-inch prop (25c).
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lawyer for getting overtime re-
stored and getting a man out."
- Overtime Withdrawn
Rhodes, convicted here in 1935
of auto theft and sentenced to
serve five years in two cases, said
that he accumulated II months
overtime in the Huntsville prison
The overtime was taken away
from him, he said, for a "coon
game," when prison officials ac-
cused him of operating a gam-
bling game.
After a year of good behavior,
according to prison regulations,
Rhodes was eligible to apply for
restoration of the overtime credit,
which would have released him
last August.
Received No Replies
"I wrote letters to five lawyers
in the next two or three months,
but. got no answers,” he said.
“The letters never reached their
Second prize in the older division
vill be a Comet Zipper kit $3.95),
miles north of _____________
eld Monday at Brown "D" motor, and 14-inch
re will be built
rop
lace, WPA re-
ty Supt. A. D
11 trustees will
ceremonies. An-
X C. L. Bridge,
[ Judges will base their selections |
olely on the resemblance of the
maller craft to the big Douglas RAALLL. C. :
Jane Motherly omile
' But the Male model plane -=-**-*
judging will not be the only at-
traction at the Junior Aviator
Iron Guardiats from prison. It
was reported that partly as a re-
suit of German influence, the de-
cree outlawing the organization
would be removed and its mem-
bers might be permitted back in
politics within the Government
GUATEMALA CITY. March 16. We have friends in the States
who are under the impression that you can drive a car, over a fair
road from Texas to Panama.
Let me tell you right now that it is not possible. You and I will
be a heap older and grayer before it can be done.
Most everybody is interested in----------
the. Pan-American Highway. So car off the train at Tapachula, al-
this column is a kind of layman# most on the Guatemalan border,
report on how the highway is get: You drive clear across Guatemala,
ting along the part from Texas and clear across El Salvador
to Panama .....About soo males altogether. You
. Anybody who tells you definite- drive to the Honduran border And
ly that the highway will be open there, my linen-dustered friends,
in four years, or ten years, or any you are through,
certain number of years, is guess- ′
Ing or lying For he doesn’t know
Nobody does
Countries Are Poor
The 90-mile stretch across Hon-
duras is not built. The 600 miles
across Nicaragua and Costa Rica
Iway
Church
It St. Louis
ud gins. Pastor.
OMORROW:
irning Worship
I IMMANUEL"
Ling Worship
THWHILES"
I B. T. t.
1 6:10 P. M.
(ING SERVICE
n Of Easter Mu-
[h B. Clayton
I Chorus.
I DEMOLAYS
[ty HONOR
Week
vices
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IORNING AT
BASE
No Clock
JOMMUNION
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I THURSDAY
ENING
EUCHARIST
ration of the Insti-
L Lord’s Supper.
THE RECTOR
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I FRIDAY
RS DEVOTIONS
1 to Three
at T:45 P. M.
RIBLE MEEK"
* *
ER EVEN
it Three O'clock
s Truly Welcome
ice We Can Render
IEATON, Rector
lam
Central American countries are
poor And there are other things
in some Latin countries, road
appropriations have a coy way of
winding up In politicians' pockets
And secondly, the good Latin gov-
ernments a rent throwing all their
eggs into the Pan-American High-
way basket anyhow. There are
roads they need worse than that
.one.
24 hours after it reached the In all the Latin countries they
prison farm, until he signed a re- are building new roads into their
lease turning the $50, which the isolated interiors. Guatemala is a
state gives every convict with his good example Her section of the
“Let’s see, now . . that ought to fit righ 1 here," mumbles 13-year-old Harvey Cesepton to freedom, over to Burns Pan-American’ Highway la open,
himself as he struggles with his entry in The Pre ss-Delta Air Lines model plane contest to he held ---------------------------
March 31. Sandy-haired, freckle-faced Harvey is one of the Junior Aviator enthusiasts at the Pan- I eranA
ther Boys’Club which is going in for model plane building in • big way. Harvey lives at 509 E D Tikahe All
Belknap. F uur UNGHS PJUUU
Hatch Bill Limit
However, Chairmen of
destination in two cases, 1 know."
Late in November he and the
Waco convict wrote Burns: A few
days later he received a reply,
and within a week his discharge
was issued
The discharge was held up for
Top Labor Man
if money grew on trees, they- arronet built he very ItHethat
could have the whole thing finish- wbtmeumakeaA on
ed in three or four years. But *“ * * "
the map in the center of each
country, outside the capital city.
Surprisingly, to me. there la a
road already built from northern
Panama 'clear down to the Canal
Zone 300 miles, and paved moat
of the way It’ll probably be worn
out by the time autos get through
to it from the States.
The toughest going-for the road
builders will be in southern Costa
Rica There the mountains are
bad, there are dozens of deep river
gorges to be bridged, and the jun-
gle is not nice It will take a long
time and lots of money
Would Cost 58 Millions
They figure on $55,000,000 to
put the highway clear through to
Panama The entire annual rev-
enue in moat of these countries la
less than $10,000,000 So you see
there isn't much for roads
Yes, the United States is help-
ing. The U. S Public Roads Ad-
ministration has had a permanent
engineer down here for five years.
party, the only one permitted to
exist, after they Rad sworn alle’
glance to King Carol
Italian press reports said Ger-
many had offered Rumania a’
guarantee against aggression, on:
conditions said to include demo-
bilization of most of Rumania's
big army, and a “semi-monopoly" '
by Germany on Rumania's export*
of oil and wheat
Britain acted today to bring
another 500,000, men to the col-
era by ordering men la the age
groups of 25 and 26 to register *
next month. The order coin-
elded with a unanimous veto of
confidence by the French Sen- '
ate in Premier Edouard Daladier
after. It was believed. Deladler "
had told the senators the war *
in the West, would be waged
from now on "with increasing
energy." L
In Finland, the roads continued
to be clogged with homeless refu’l
gees moving out of the areas,"
ceded to Russia. Parliament ap-.
proved the terms of the peace'
treaty after Premier Risto had
explained the Government capitu-
lated in the face of a hopeless
fight." He said foreign aid had
been insufficient, and even If it
had been increased to the neecs- 5
sary point. it fould have been too *
late
On the other side tut the world,
there was tension between Japan
ami Russia over a Japanese pro-
test against attacks by Russian’s
bonier guards on Japanese forces
on Saghalien Island, half of which '
is owned by Russia and half by •
Japan. ’ • *
Casualties were reported in the
clash :
Flying Field on March 81. Mem- : -
bers of the Fort Worth Gas
Model Assn. will fly their prize
planes in their first appearance
of the season. Some of the boys
have some new models they
want to try out and the results. 1
will be interesting.
Plans and specifications of the ]
ig Douglas were carried in the i
larch 5 issue of The Press If you
an’t find that.issue at home, drop
y The Press office and get a
ri nt of the plans for the Junior
I via tion Editor.
Remember the date March 31.
letter start making that Doug-
is model today. There's not much
me left
rize Beef Will Go
o Children’s Tables
Here’s meat for the table in the
ur Community Cheat-supported
ort Worth homes for children.
Harry W. Chesley of Chicago,
ales promotion manager of
abst Brewing Co., announced
at the stock show's reserve
rand champion, which he pur-
lased yesterday at 58 cents a
und, will be butchered by Swift
Co. and distributed among the
jr homes.
The homes which will share the
ef are the All Church Home,
na Pope Home, St. Teresa's
•me and the Girls' Service
ague Home.
sk ‘Al—
2 I read In your columns a few
nths ago of a radio control apt
atus for model planes Can you
me where I might purchase
I set?
.. The Nathan R Smith Co.,
4 W. Eighth St., Los Angeles,
A. M. at
WS:
0 to 12 P. M.
Dewey Cornelius
Finance Committee
Points Out a Flaw
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clear across the nation But none
of it is paved. Why? Because
President Ubico figures that for
every mile of hard-surfacing he
puts on that road, he could build
ten miles of new dirt road into the
Interior And 1 think he is doing
right
Half Is Good Road
It is about 3300 miles from ., i John Pick and hel ---------- -
Texas to the Panama Canal T»- A-R H *n4
days ontx about half.ofathate an Also, the U.S. has appropriated Pittsburgh Flyers
all weather road the kind we money for many of the biggest
tourists, not as adventurers, care bridges. The U. s gives the ma- Elect New Officers
Ito tackle chinery, the steel and cement, and
the engineers. The local country
gives the other material and the burgh's (Pa.) liveliest model air -
labor. Several such bridges have plane clubs, has just chosen Ed- ...
been built already
If we're going to spend the U.
S. taxpayers’ money to build for-
eign roads. it seems to me there's
more sense to the Pan-American
Right here is the picture, as of
t cor- last fall, and it’s official
porations’ contributing to cam- Paved ...........1128 miles
paigns. for federal offices.” i Gravel, good all year 669 miles
Will Seek Many Small Gifts Dirt, passable only in
Tills was because the Bank- dry season . 653 miles
Mule trails, impassable
on wheels ........822 miles
present prohibition against
"Model Wings," one of Pitts-C
gar Fulmer, popular model build- ”
er, to head the group as presi-
dent.
head amendment, as reported in
the Congressional Record, applies
the $5000 limitation to a “person
or corporation." This apparently
conflicts with the corrupt prac- ._ .
tices Act, which forbids any cor- been touched Nobody la working progress are these
poration contributions, on them. They are merely foot- - --
Thomas A. Fischer was elected „
vice president in charge of gas
activities; Cheater Stacik, vice ,
president in charge of rubber
Highway than to that talked of
. . _road to Alaska _
Those 822 miles haven’t even My predictions on the road’s event: William Thomas, treasurer ...
Each year the club rents a pri-,,
, .. , ,. ,, 1. That in 1945 you can start at vate flying field for use of its
objective paths, and sometimes even the Texas and drive to Tegucigalpa, members,
ad ali mules bog down They are lust as and •
Honduras, .....-—-
2. That if you are able to drive r
. clear to Panama by 1955, I’ll go Mine Explosion Kills
Let’s take the road by sections, on ahead by boat and be waiting 2
going for you in the Tropic Bar with • 2 Men and Traps
Jug of rum You'll need It.
Total...........3267 miles
Mr Weir said his wuuvei .
would be a large number of small mules bog down They are just -
J campaign contributions. | adaptable to wheel travel as the
Meanwhile Senate opponents of surface ofLake Michigan.
extension of the Hatch Act to ap- . .'
ply to state employes prepared starting from Texas and
for last-minute efforts to amend south:
It's fine all the wav to Mexico
the bill before the final vote, now
For 20 years a union member, scheduled for Monday afternoon. City, and on beyord tor about. 100
• 41-year-old Dewey Cornelius to- i Bill Headed for Passage miles But you cannot finish your Girls Anxious to
) day holds labor's top position in ! The controversial extension bill drive to the southern border of
I Fort Worth—president of the is almost certain to pass as a Mexico.
Fort Worth Trudes Assembly, i result of two major defeats suf- They are working on It. but it’s
fered by its opponents yesterday, tough country and the job will
The agreement to vote on the probably take several years. In
bill Monday was obtained by Sen-the meantime, you can ship your
ate Democratic Leader Alben W. car by rail over this impassable
Barkley after two previous at- several hundred miles But people
who have done it say that thieves
41-year-old Dewey (ornelius to
I He was elected to the post
4 Thursday night.
Ever hear a hippopotamus crow? That's just about what the
prideful smile of Hannah, Washington Zoo hippo amounts to as she
stands over her week-old baby. At formal christening party, off-
spring was named “Chocolate Drop."
• Propeller
Building
Hints
Old-Time Range Character
Causes Stir at Stock Show
Humdinger From Amarillo Lands Offer From
Ward's; Old .Whiz Invades Hotels, Spurs Clinking
The propeller block should be of
light, soft, straight-grained balsa
Bill Headed for Passage I -
The controversial extension bill drive to the southern border of
By United Prems, •
BELLAIRE, O March 16 — us
two men were killed and 180 fear- I
They sre working on It. but it’s
tough country and the job will
tempts had failed.
The vote which made ultimate
approval of the Hatch bill vir-
tually certain came when the
Senate indorsed its key provision
- extension of the ban on political
activity by federal employee to
state workers paid from federal
funds—by a 47 to 30 Vote Twen-
ty Republicans joined 29 Demo-
crats and one of the Senate's two
Get Aviation Jobs
In a recent survey Conducted In
high schools throughout the Unit-
ed States by Air Youth of Amer-
ica, no less than 6000 girls said
they were Interested in studying
aviation.
rd trapped today as an explosion T
ripped through ths Willow Grove
mins near here. 2
• First reports said bodies of then”)
mine foreman and superintendent
were removed from the mine. ‘
One girl to every eight boys,
according to the survey, wants to
You take the remainder of your make a career In the air industry.
usually strip off everything de-
tachable.
NITITXALAANANLWN
T-UDE ■:
V
! How many Zeppelins were
it by Germany during the laat
•?
.. About 89 such airships were
It.
! What is the wing limitation
indoor models?
A. According to the N. A. A.
es, the wing area of an indoor
del cannot exceed 150 square
hes.
elta Lines Launch
ew Douglas Service
new 14-passenger Douglas
liner took off from Municipal
port at • a. m. today, inaug-
ting the lines' new Douglas
rice. A new Douglas also left
anta this morning, bound for
it Worth.
storical Society
Reorganize Monday ’
rs. Charles Scheuber today in-
I all interested persons to at-
I the reorganization meeting
the Historical Society in the
ure room of the Public Li-
y, Monday at 8 p m New
ere will be elected and by-
I adopted.
szo TO DESIGN
DELS FOR BURD
tester Lanzo, expert builder
flyer of the Cleveland Junior
itor Squadron, has been en-
id by the Burd Model Airplane
of Baltimore, Md. to design a
er of their future outdoor
er and gasoline-powered mod-
idels designed by Lanzo have
numerous contests. This year
*s voted the Balsa Bute her s
etual Trophy for 1939 for be-
the year’s most consistent
er In Cleveland competitions.
IX DEATH REPORTED
th of D. H. Hill of El Paso,
nd of the former Miss Flor-
Peak of Fort Worth, was re-
here today. A son, Dan,
daughter, Mary, also sur-
The funeral was in El Paso
wood. The propeller-shaft hole
should be drilled In the center of Farmer-Laborites to approve It
Delay Is Blocked
Shortly thereafter, the Senate
repulsed the last serious attempt
to block the bill by refusing to re-
turn it to its Privileges and Elec-
tions Committee for re-study and
revision The vote was S1 to 32.
The Senate then defeated an
the block before actual carving is
begun.
The drawings and specifications
for most models will give
the
required camber and angle that
CREATION
/tj dellcrons
An old-time humdinger from the range country, his Spanish the blades of that particular pro-
spurs clinking and chin whiskers a "bobbin’" as he chirped about
the Panhandles fine beef cattle, has dropped in on Fort Worth's
Fat Stock Show.
Old Whiz, they call him up around Amaritio, his home town.
And around Fort Worth hotel. ......- ----------------
lobbies today, the toothless, old , LL »
character attracted more atten-Fast Attack by Bee
tion than a chorus girl who for-
got to change to her street cos-
tume.
You'd Guess 75
in antique regalia which
matches a wrinkled face. Old
Whiz would pass for a weather-
beaten survivor of about 75 win-
ters. But if you'll make him re-
move his drooping hat, and his
"specs,'' you will see a much
younger man.
His real same is John Stroud,
aged 44.
Stroud created the Old Whiz
character several years ago, and
he hadn't had luck selling his act
until he came here this week, al-
most broke.-----------------—------
He bumped into Jack Story, the
retail advertising sales director
for Montgomery Ward & Co. Mr.
Story came here to stage the spe-
cial rodeo for Texas 4-21 Club
boys and girls
They Have an Art
And now the advertising man
and Old Whiz are doing an act to-
gether. Story poses as a wealthy
ranch owner and Old Whiz is his
foreman. Their gag is that Whiz
was to have entered some of
Story's fine cattle in the Stock
Show but Story hasn't seen any
results.
The wrangling between the
"foreman" and Ms “boss” goes on
and on, much to the merriment
of all in earshot.
Story is convinced Old Whiz
would go over big in Hollywood
or New York, and he says he's
going to see that Stroud gets ths
chance
2 MORE JOIN ARMY
peller must have.
Care should be taken to get an
identical angle to each blade and a
similar thickness fenm hub to Up
Causes Air Accident
A bee’s attack on a pilot while
Thickness at the hub should
usually not be greater than from
1-16 to 1-32 of an inch. The outer
two-thirds of blades should be
he was living at an altitude of thin enough to see through when
. - ' * an amitude of the propeller is held up to a strong
100 feet resulted in an aircraft light.
accident. Such was the story told The propeller must be evenly
in one of the 88 accident reports balanced for smooth and even
summarized in a monthly state- Night Ir one blade is heavier
. . " . . . than the other, or the propeller
ment issued today by the Air is otherwise out of balance" the
amendment by Sen. Tom Stewart.
Democrat, Tenn , which would
have exempted state workers on
projects made possible by federal
loans or grants unless the federal
contributions accounted for the
major share of their costs
It accepted, however, an amend-
ment by Sen. Carl A. Hatch, Dem.
ocrat. New Mexico, sponsor of
the act, which would make the
proposed ban on state employes'
political activity exactly the same
as that now imposed on federal
employes under Civil Service Com-
mission regulations.
our
it
a
Safety Board.
The accident contributed to by
the belligerent bee occurred fol-
lowing the stinging of a pilot
while he was giving landing in-
structions to a student. His at-
tention momentarily diverted
from his job of instructing, the
pilot permitted his student to fly
the airplane into the ground.
The impact of the landing ac-
complished by the unassisted stu-
dent resulted in major damage to
the plane and minor injuries to
the instructor. The student
not injured.
In otherwise out of balance, the
plane will shimmy in flight.
A small metal washer cemented
to the rear of the hub will protect
the wood of the propeller at that
point from excessive wear.
ANNUAL IN ISSUED
The Air Progress Annual, pub-
lished each year by Air Trails
Magazine, hit the news stands
this week. The booklet includes a
complete history of aviation in
pictures, along with numerous
colored pictures of models and
wasnew fighting planes It sella for
25 cents at all news stands.
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