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Show LEHI FREE PEES, LEHI. UTAH i j and HaroundAMD the r NATIONAL (CAPITALV Carter Field Washington. Frank R. McNinch, the new chairman of the pow er commission, is apparently trying to frighten the electric industry into reducing rates. Which is rather curious, for if the electric industry should reduce its rates sharply, as a result of McNinch' s warning, the almost inevitable result would be that there would be weakening of public support for the Norris seven TVA's bill which is supposed to be passed at the next session of conAnd such a culmination gress. would be most unsatisfactory not only to Senator George W. Norris, who has come to approve of McNinch, but to President Roosevelt, who appointed him. After pointing to the figures for sales of elecin the first seven months of tricity 1937, McNinch remarked: "This revelation of unparalleled growth and prosperity is the answer to those devotees of that ancient superstition of hydromancy who gazed at the water of a few hydro plants the government was building and predicted the destruction of the private power industry." "It is both interesting and significant," Mr. McNinch said later, "to note that, as electric rates have gone down, production and consumption have gone up. It has been and is a policy to keep electric rates 'as high as the tariff will bear.' Such false economy holds down the 'traffic' and hurts the power industry as well as the public. It has now been demonstrated beyond all cavil that the public wants and needs more and more power in industry, in commerce, in the home and on the farm. Only those who see through a glass darkly now fail to understand that the interests and prosperity of the power companies and of the consumers alike look in the direction of electrifying Amerrecord-breakin- g j j j 12 HOURS TO, CROSS THE ATLANTIC ' cross wticwi of plane : Of f US El ACE 66 FT. 8 IM. , U.S. S : UNGlH:il6Ft.4lM. WINO AUTOMATIC OHTANK5 CARRY lOVlCAlLONS each, ADJUSTmC 000 r. A FOOTHICH RJDDEO. Fide DOUBLE Yi I I Jl pontoon -- -- Xy v XT jjrjTaTrl Y would be HATCH CO, F1RI a bniA I 1KNWITimu .iw.w iumc ri net Ufkf WITH id CCjBUIUEIU nuaoirDE i 1 I I 1 OFFICE COMPARTMENT iftMKHEAD.ANT RATIONS, LICMT SIGNALS .DRIFT BOMBS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT TWO CLOSED COMPART ME NT 6 CAN KEEP THE SHIP AFLOAT OFF WATCH COMPfiRTMINT i fUEI- - NCUI5UERS FOR ENCINE& PONTOON TO , SECURE PtANES LATERAL STA6II.IT UTRAFUEL ON SURFACE MIILS CRUISING RANCE AT 163.5 MUtS PfR HOU51-.3.59AN ALTITUDE OF 20.000 HF.1 IS fcAjiLY HE AChEU Now, of course, all the senators and representatives, whether at home or taking a holiday, are ens gaged in their normal function of holding their ears to the ground. They are busy finding out what is the safest thing for them to do in the next session. At this stage, Mr. Boland, Democratic whip of the house, takes a public stand against the President and the New Deal on an issue which most observers and members of congress thought was going to slide through next session without a real struggle. Mr. Boland proved himself an accurate judge of what is the shrewd thing to do in politics in 1930. and has demonstrated it several times since. In 1930 there was a vacancy in theScranton, Pennsylvania, congressional district. Largely a hard coal mining district, it should, on coli logic, be wet. Henry II. Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, was interested. He sent this writer down there to investigate. It developed that no one of the candidates for the Republican nomination was rea)y wet politically. The Republican leaders thought it was not safe thought the dry senti ment still too strong. Over in the Democratic primary, generally regarded as futile because the district was so strongly Republican, Pat Boland was running as a wringing wet against a dry. This writer urged support of Boland as the only chance. But a little later Boland decided to enter the Republican primary as well as the Democratic. The Pennsylvania law permitted that at the time, though it has since been changed. He won both primaries! And has been three times since! He has something. Boland Has Something Patrick J. Boland, Democratic whip of the house, is not as well known to the general public as he deserves. The title carries the idea to most folks of a sort of sergeant-at-armor call boy, who rounds up the congressmen for a vole. Sounds like a leg job rather than one involving leadership. Actually, of course, it is rather an important place, which gives its holder the privilege of silting in on the party councils, and at least the opportunity of demonstrating his ability, if any. Add to that the point that congressmen get to know s, Looks Like Surrender - : Vice-Preside- All Know Story this now is that every member of both house and senate knows the whole story. They know, in elTect, that the President was badly beaten on two issues very close to his heart sugar and So Supreme court enlargement. they will be less fearful of opposing any of the President's "must" measures from now on. Which bodes evil for the Roosevelt program in the next session. The conflict of personalities is also significant. It was Pat Harrison who really led the fight for the pres. ent sugar bill, a fight which came to a boil during the struggle of the Mississippi senator to be elected Democratic leader in place of Joe Robinson. Everybody knows that it was President Roosevelt's influence that beat Pat. and elected Allen Barkley, of Kentucky. So Pat lost the honor he craved, but the President lost a fight in which he was more determined than on any measure this session except the court b'll. C Hell Syndicate WNU trim. 1 It Scrvlc. doesn't think One of a i squash player as a sailing Mr. Hartford was a squash rac wizard in his undergraduate d? Harvard, in the class of 193; is the only son of Mrs. Henries Hartford, of Newport and Crx ton, getting about a lot, hare wonderful time and probablj "wishing you were here." He takes a hand in all ctirc ' ennrte ranrl rrnhnhlvJ ...... ma--j sor. of the Tan American Clipper III, America's entry in the airline. The photograph shows the Caledonia, one of Great Britain's The urawins is a rare to establish a cross-sectio- trans-Atlanti- c oceanic flying boats. n .... "r"'"! Old Gaffers Dream About S' envy r sauare-rifw1 than 1 do. many an old gaffer out on the yardarm eari T "DO" in In . . teal: with he has r... will v other. This was of great benefit, for the skipper of the Caledonia O COMMONPLACE have become the passings of the great was able to tell Skipper Gray what c air mail and kind of weather awaited him on flying boats blazing the trail for a last half of his journey, and vice and their arrivals that departures now the passenger service versa. rate only a short paragraph, buried on an inside page. But the There is actually no direct comvery fact that these operations have ceased to be news is, in it- munication from ship to ship, howself news. For it indicates that we may be not unduly optimistic ever, any more than the crew of in anticipating regularly scheduled service over aviation's tough- one ship has ever actually seen the other crossing the Atlantic. The est sea route "before the end of next year. British and American flying radio The consistent absence of incident stations operate on different frein these experimental crossings is for an estimation of comair con- quencies, so that all inter-shiupper not due to a phenomenal string of ditions. munication must be accomplished with relays through the shore stagood luck, nor to a long series of How Crews Get Bearings. coincidences. It is a direct tribute tions. commuFor flight to the meteorologist the "weather The difference in the flying times man." For it is he who maps out nications, Pan American has two of the two ships may be put down one at Port stations, Washington to the the course the craft shall follow. prevailing westerly winds. It Commercial flights over land are and one at Shcdiac, from which is a simple matter to determine the be can made. bearings made along regularly charted airThe British air has sta- ground bespeeds (or in this case it ways. These are marked by radio tions at Botwood ministry "sea speeds"). and Southampton, might beams and beacon markers whose The Caledonia, taking a course one and has State Irish Free at the signals provide a "path" or a numsouth of the great circle, traveled ber of "paths" from which there is Foynes. miles. Computed from elapsed 2,020 On of the boats each flying great no deviation except under extraordiis a smaller station. These time for the flight, the ground speed there a conditions. Radio provides nary would be 133 miles an hour for the track through the sky; the fact that enable the crews to take bearings trip. Adding to this the headwind on from shore stations themselves the track is invisible does not alter of 18 miles an hour, it is seen that or en route. meet from ships they the fact that it is there. would be 151 When a plane calls for bearings the average air speed But for spanning the Atlantic an hour. miles the task requires plenty of dexocean there is no definite, Computing Comparative Speeds. from the airlane. There is a "great-circle- " terity and The Clipper III flew 1,995 miles in to and crew shore stations the get shortcourse which is the wTould set est distance between landing points, them back in time to do any good. an amount of time which in the its surface speed at 157 miles an work These systems usually its but weather conditions prohibit manner: The radio on the hour. However, in computing the being followed exactly in most following 25 miles an hour must be cases. The great circle course over flying boat sends out a constant airspeed, for the tailwind, giving subtracted of are These stream picked signals. the Atlantic includes a by the shore station; the direc- the ship an air speed of 132 miles flight of some 2,000 miles. As far up as distance is concerned, this is not tion from which they are coming is an hour. It may be seen that the Caledonia as a hop as the Pacific flight determined from the movement of from San Francisco to Hawaii, the receiving station's antenna. The was maintaining her calculated best shore station then sends out a bear air speed of 150 miles an hour, which is 2,400 miles. ing. In the same way, the ship while the Clipper III was able to Leave Nothing to Chance. gets bearings from one or more sta throttle back, saving fuel and wear The Clipper ships on the Pacific t;ons. The spot upon which the and tear on its engines, while faroute flv by weather maps, too. And ship is flying is the spot at which vored by a tailwind. a'thoufi the weather there is far all the bearings cross. It is apparent from the flights less turbulent than over the North It was indeed a triumph for com- completed this summer that the Atlantic, the Clippers, in two years mercial aviation that, in the t route from to Ireland of living, have followed the Pacific flight, the weather and communica will be ideal for flycircle course only three tions plans worKea out as well as or ing during the warmer months. But great times. They have flown the course better than expected. the North Atlantic winter is a "humwhich follows the best flying weathOn July G. 1037. two flights were dinger," and only time will tell what er, as forecast by the weather bu- completed. The Caledonia left temperatures and ice will reau. Crews are willing, even anx- Foynes and landed at Botwood 15 freezing do to the big ships. It will probious, to fly a much longer distance hours and 3 minutes later. The Clip be necessary to install e course if the per III made the crossing from west ably than the equipment on all the planes longer flight will insure favorable to east in 12 hours and 40 minutes. in regular service. winds, pleasanter weather and There are alternate routes which Ah "rnever.tful" Journey. speedier flying. may be more feasible in the winter, Almost every prediction the mete The ships most important in the and these will be tested in the orologisls made came true. Where months to come. The most likely present pioneering are the their maps had said there would Clipper III, and the Brit- be wind and rain, the pilots found is that from New York to Bermuda, ish Caledonia (the latter is now wind and ram. Patches of were the Azores and thence to Southampsupplemented by a sister ship, the in the sky where they werefogon the ton. New York to London by way Cambria). Both have four engines of Shediac and Botwood is 3,417 map. It was said by the experts apiece. They have been carrying that this was one of the, most suc- miles; by way of the Azores and large crews, each member a spe- cessful weather charts ever pre- Bermuda it is 4,865 miles. cialist in some phase of flying, such One of the most important considfor a great flying venture. as navigation or communications. pared erations in planning Radio communications worked out They have transported more than air service is the carrying capacity too. sufficient fuel supplies to take care beautifully, of the planes. Although the Calewere the altidifferent Interesting of errors in navigation or unexwhich the two ships flew. donia is allowed to load 45,000 at tudes pected and sudden weather condiH. E. Gray, commander of pounds, its empty weight is 25,000 tions which were not likely to be Capt. the described his trip as an pounds, and it requires 19,000 pounds Clipper, accounted for by their aerial weathof fuel and oil; thus only 1,000 er map. If it is possible to fly the uneventful one, and indeed a small with some of pounds remain for crew, mail and one, those compared Atlantic without leaving anything to to which he was passengers. It is believed, however, chance, that is what they have the Pacific. He accustomed above reported flying al- that the maximum load may be inlone. most the entire distance at 10,000 creased 5,000 pounds safely enough. Preparing for the first trip across, feet, with the clouds below them and more "payload" Considerably the Pan American meteorologists the sun brightly nearly all might be carried if the ships did reviewed 50 years of weather rec- the way shining after daybreak. He had not need such heavy engines for the ords over the Atlantic. From these the of a tailwind. purpose of getting them into the air. advantage they drew average for seasons, for The Caledonia fought an The Germans have been experimonths and even for days. headwind the entire distance, mak- menting with flying boats which are Meager reports were ing the whole flight through thick given a "boost" on their way by orthcoming from weather stations clouds and occasional rain at 1,000 means of catapults, and hove been t Port ; Shediae, feet. Washington. N. successful with ships up to 37,000 ew Brunswick: Bntwood. Ncw-- ' The two shirs passed each other pounds. There are three of this .jn.dliiiui Iceland: when thi y w( re i7 miles apart. All type now being used or under conReykjavik, "ynes, Ireland, ar.d Siitl implon, the vvny ever the ocean they were in struction by them. 'iL'la! d. These formed the h;'..orstar.t corimiinicn,;oi T Western Nrv. each np lioa By WILLIAM C. UTLEY ar,r doLi0. Her dreaming:-- ' in a gait Do trans-Atlanti- p Trans-Atlanti- c long-distan- radio-marke- d Foreshadowing events in the next session of congress, particularly a3 to the cleavage between President Roosevelt and the New Dealers, on the one hand, and the conservatives on the other, the surrender of the President in signing the sugar bill cannot be exaggerated. Bitterly as President Roosevelt objected to this bill, as expressed not only in private conversations but in writing, there is just one ex planation for the signature. Had he vetoed it, it would have been necessary to call an extra session of congress to pass some substitute, as the present quota law expires on December 31. The President had no particular objection to the extra session. In fact, he was undecided for some time whether he would call one, entirely irrespective of the sugar situation. But he was finally convinced that not all the strength the administration could bring to bear would result in passing the kind of sugar bill he wanted even if he vetoed the present bill and called an extra session. Most convincing on this was John Nance Gainer. of all & . i between-ses-sion- The importance 8 ' Listening In Incidentally, McNinch is an interesting figure in politics well worth watching. He was an up and coming cog in the Furnihold Simmons machine in North Carolina, years ago. Then he angered the boss, and Simmons retired him to outer darkness. For years he found every road leading to anything politically barred by the relentless Simmons. But then came 1928, and the nomination of Al Smith by the Democrats. Simmons sulked. Hat in hand, McNinch called on his old chief. He agreed that Smith should be beaten. Simmons encouraged him, first secretly and later openly. McNinch led the North Carolina Hoovercrats, and carried the state, with aid from Simmons and the normally impotent Republicans, by an overwhelming majority. But mark this. Of all the hun dreds of key Democrats, including many far more important than McNinch, who revolted, McNinch is the only one who has ever succeeded in getting to first base since! Simmons himself was defeated on that very issue in the next primary. All over the South the same thing happened. Normally, in a rebellion, the leaders get short shrift. But in a revolution they come into power. In the South the fellows who won, back in 1928, and who carried Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma for Hoover, had their reward in political banishment and popular dislike. All but McNinch. Herbert C. Hoover seemed to feel no gratitude to any one in the South who had risked his political future for him. With the exception of McNinch! Maybe Hoover figured that most of these Hoovercrats were just fighting Smith because he was a wet, or a Tammany politician, and therefore didn't deserve any reward from him. And, of course, in a way Hoover on this one thing was right. But how about McNinch? How did he persuade Hoover that he, alone of all the southern bolters, deserved reward? And how did he convince Franklin D. Roosevelt that his powers should be increased? That man has something. The jr I CVLINOERS CARRY 1560 CAILONS Of press storig beautJui . "n MlMAICAl HNHHNO 1 Iti", Tiiere wasj of nosta!4," arnaiungly j s OPERATION to aii i .i . "They seaworthy square-riserAmerica on their rt tnt t f rom ' Bermuda. Both boats heve'SU r0 engines, for emergen, es, stow all that, and it is bit tactless to bring it up nojene1 is a machine age hohdav ' t'een With all its shortcoming: stable Kn power age does enable some Eh to make enough money to get, from it once in a while. Yconstf Huntington Hartford, owner t "Wl Conrad, is the inheritor ofj;jeur 000,000 chain-stor- e fortune, umo a good beginning for anyoa "Bii wants to voyage back into pa ochs whether his taste is fe "g "gr houses, old prints, old ships, aHeral ja horse and buggy. Sir.; comes high. Mr. Hartford $75,000 getting the Conrad in; 187 EATi k... UUggJ" " of the Newport getaway of k rad and the Seven Seas (v ffiffiMr YtH vii- "square-rigger- Sea Ancient $ Stow Enginet in Sail Race w: RWWpiRFCTfOVurt 91 L Possibl. nnri a Dhrase of noienf - o NJTRUWEKTS CCXTROLTJJE wftiir.AToasT YORK. than "hnrsp i "M2?2' FtAPACTSAs- -Nr -- XJEW PRATTf Fixed antenna Cum-min- Worth Watching By Lemuel F. Plri 1 WHtTWtY M P HORNETS CIVIATOP TWO PI tors AT FCUH NEtyt THIS WEEK,, Great Flying Boats Blaze Trails for Regular Commercial Hop; Perhaps Soon to Follow; ''Weather Man" Triumphs. President Roosevelt very definitely wants power included in the seven TVA's legislation. So does Senator George W. Norris. daddy of the original TVA. Sj do ail the New Dealers. All of which spells out that there will Le a real flht on an unexpected front in the next session, to be added to those already on the sure list taxes, wages and hours regulation, and, unless Mr. Roosevelt is kidding the leg slators, Supreme court enlargement again. It was right after adjournment of the lust session the only one so far since March 4, lL'.Tl, when any impartial referee would not give all the rounds to Mr. Roosevelt that Attorney General Horner S. took the public into his confidence on this holding that the Supreme court issue must be settled and settled right. With all of which, incidentally, the utility executives agree, though, unfortunately for their own good, too few of them probably will heed the warning about high rates soon enough. WHO'S f'- ; . sion. Now ica." i r Which makes" his recent state- ment ubout next stss.on more important. What Mr. Boland said was that the Norris seven TVA's bill (eight if you add in the modifica- Hons of the present TVA) would be stripped of ail its phases concern- ing power before passage next ses- - short-sighte- d I rtrer pretty well, and usually accurate judgments of each other's ability, entirely asid from any previous rec6rds, and it becomes, obvToviAih&t Mr. Boland r eh form non-sto- p lcii-.- fi'-s- trans-Atlant- ic de-ici- great-circl- trans-Atlant- first-han- d ; - ic is as it should be, providirf" young men keep up with the; a e sions. ler.l Mr. Hartford bought the from Capt. Alan Villicrs, Austrjny? book sailor who sailed her all "f the world in his literary argosy Bor had settled down in the vaMgrnil Dc old ships at Brooklyn when Hartford brought her to life athen d The ship was built more years ago by the Danish gcnd ment, which later used her Stor training ship. Her proper the Georg Stage. She's a r staunch old ship, with two full " of sails, decks of teak and two .she cannon on the poop deck. S "I 100 feet 8 inches on the wate:feet j Cc trc-t- na:-.;.- ' r. KONSTANTIN VON! foreign t BARON German ter, asserts the right and of Germany to organize Nazis Abroad Organize to Back Hitler , inte J Naa.a abroad.. The triei laration coe thre the peak t me drive by the ett to solidify at phi! doctrinate its minorities a European countries and tot Germans everywhere behind ft i tional socialist regime. tnai In this activity, Herr von Ne. wjt; seems to have displaced the fre j Rosenberg, of whom not muc:are been heard lately. The foreigt oUS ister is of the ancient Junker close in with the monarchists E the army, of aristocratic asce; ren new and his background, cy is interpreted by some oi J ers as an indication of the inc iini E ing dominance of his allied gr as against the newcomers who Str ' ' the Nazi party. Gen: He stems from t a hetty, ruddy, crat, of an ancient Wuertter. dynasty, with slicked gray ha: gray mustache, was a student of law, enterif! consular service in 1900. Sen" many foreign capitals, he waitc bassador to Rome from 1922 and formed a warm friendship Mussolini," whom he charactf as the ideal ruler. He disliKes ' lie appearances and rarely t a speech or grants an interview So if ar pre-w- stag-nuntm- close-cropp- g ed : ha ' President WHEN hittheby an t airplane Admiral Harry E. Yarnel! ass emergency command of all can sr.ipp"-Rules Are Off Far Eastern si ters. Since ha When Japs isn't a real m Fight China what ht A' just ric do about such random shootrnJ quite clear there are no ru govern the present situatio- nany rate, he's riding herd ships and doing the best he" In the Boxer uprising, at tlw of the century, he was an t on the U. S. S. Yorktown. As ica pursued her "manifest des: he hasn't missed any of the excitements since then. Prev he had been in the Spanish-A- ' can war and the Philippine rection. He helped occupy Cruz and he wa3 an aide $ staff of Admiral Hugh when our ships were serving the British grand fleet in the war. He rose in the navy co ca th U ht lii to mastery of engineering niques. News Featurt e Conollditd U7ltT C -- r4 IT |