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Show LONDONOVERMIGHT! . ... JU Mill Ill , V , , - ' . V v , Doesn't Sound Strange After This Year's Ocean Flights By JOSEPH W. LaBINE In New York a hard-boile- d prize fight announcer led his audience in prayer. Through-out America one hundred million minds were focused on some vague spot over the briny Atlantic where Charles A. Lindbergh was piloting his "Spirit of St. Louis" to Paris and fame. That was in 1927, only 11 years ago. A few days ago another transatlantic flight ended and only a few hundred people bothered to read about it. Of more than 50 such trips being planned this summer, only two are attracting much at-tention, those of Howard Hughes and Douglas Corri-ga- n, the "mistake" flier. The ocean flight that made people hold their breath a newspapers, one day old, were sold by this newsie in Times Square" York City, a couple of weeksago. The paper, were earned across the Atlantic by England', pick-a-bac- k plane, Mercury. decade ago has now become jommonplace, and rightly so. This does not dim the ac-complishment of Lindbergh; ii merely means that transo-ceanic aviation has grown up, that science has begun to capitalize on its carefully planned program of conquering the Atlantic. The Hughes trip was but a fore-runner of this summer's transatlan-tic travel, a back-and-fort- h series of journeys that will keep the waves humming for weeks to come. The airships of four nations are flying from Europe to New York over dif-ferent routes in a series of "survey" fiiKhts. Great Britain started things off a few weeks ago when the Mer-cury, unique pick-a-bac- k plane, France is experimenting this sum-mer with the Lieut, de Vaisscau Paris, one of the largest Hying bouts in the world. Stunt Flying Banned. There is more to this story of aerial navigation than meets the eye. Transoceanic flying hasn't been merely a matter of building one ship larger than the last and seeing how far it would go without refueling. Since Charles Lindbergh first dreamed about it during his New York-Pari- s hop, the best minds of aviation have been working to de-velop fool-proo- f ships that will run mechanically, like trains. soared away from the mother ship, Maia, over Foynes, Ireland. The Mercury landed at Montreal 22Vi hours later. Takeoff Load Problem. This composite ship has attracted more attention than any aviation de-velopment in recent years. British engineers worked on the d theory that a ship can fly easily carrying excess weight but it can't take oft with much extra load. Espe-cially is this true of seaplanes, which are held down by suction of the water on their pontoons. So the Maia and the Mercury, locked to-gether, rtfie from the airport as a single unit and separate in mid-ai- r. Until such ships could be per-fected, the United States was justi-fied in frowning on stunt Atlantic ships. That's why Doug Corrigan's request for a permit last year was denied; it's why Corrigan had to depend on a wayward compass to fly his ship to Ireland a few weeks ago. Outside of the weight problem mentioned above, engineers have found most of their difficulty in con-quering the weather. Unlike the Pa-cific, which is usually calm, the At-lantic is bL'srt with atmospheric dis-turbances. Expecially is this true on the east-wes- t hop, whore until last year there were relatively few successful ilights. New York to London in her mam-moth Boeing "clipper" ships. Just how soon the service will start, no-body knows. It's just possible that in a few weeks you may be able to slide about $450 across the counter at New York and buy an air ticket for London, arriving there less than 24 hours out of Port Washington, Long Island. Similar accommodations on the liner Queen Mary would be $316, plus tips, plus several days extra. Passengers, mail and express will be shuttled between the two conti-nents in the new 83,000-poun- d flying boats (P. A. A. has ordered six of them) that offer everything from a dining lounge to a bridal suite. The new "clippers" are twice as large as those now making regu-lar, uneventful trips across the Pa-cific, being far and away the most luxurious aircraft ever built. The first of them was launched last April and is now undergoing test flights on the Pacific coast. It is larger than the Santa Maria in which Columbus crossed the ocean, and three times the size of the average commercial air transport. It has a wingspread and hold your breath on this one just half a city block long, or 152 feet! Two Deck Airliner. From stem to stern, the new boat has been built to parallel an ocean vessel. It even has two decks, a top one for navigation and lower one for passengers. Up on the flight dock a large crew will be on duty. Ahead, in the cockpit, the smallest part of the deck, are the pilot and whose work is largely left to robot instruments. Behind them in the navigation room are the radio man and the navigator, the former in touch with land at all times. Back of the navigator is the engi-neer, possibly the busiest man on the ship. He handles throttles, checks engine performance and goes out in the wing to repair an ailing motor if it needs treatment. And supervising all these men is the flight master, corresponding to the captain on an ocean liner. He is an administrator, pilot, engineer, navigator, radio operator and sea-man rolled into one. Luxury Over the Waves. Down in the passenger deck mod-ern voyagers enjoy all the com-forts of home, and more. Except for a slight vibration and the muf-fled hum of four powerful engines, there is no perceptible sign of (light. Eight rooms are at the public's dis-posal; one of them seats more than a doen persons comfortably and the others, thoush somewhat small-er, have big scats against the wall. Thus far it looks like they'll have to omit only one gadget; nobody can figure out whore to put the swimmii'g poo!! n. Western Newspaper Union. Until a few weeks ago the ceiling for commercial planes was 20.000 feet. Since engineers have long known that Atlantic weather dis-turbances could be overcome by high altitudes, they have been seek-ing some means of reaching these heights under practical conditions. Although oxygen equipment has been available to facilitate great elevations, it weighs so much that The Maia is a land ship, the Mer-cury a seaplane. Flying a different route from the Azores to New York the Germans are working with three seaplanes, Nordwind, Nordmeer and Nord-ster- The ships belong to Deutsche Lufthansa and are making 14 round trips this year preparatory to start-ing regular transatlantic mail serv-ice. pay loads would be cut too low. But from Sweden has come word of a new airplane motor capable of sustained performance at altitudes up to 59.000 feet. If it lives up to its claims, the motor will facilitate flights through the stratosphere where weather is always calm. U. S. Service Ready. Whatever may have happened to her supremacy on the high seas, America need take no back seat in transoceanic service. While France, England and Germany are busy with their "survey" flights, n is preparing to inaugurate regularly scheduled service from ' 3y 4),' I v ss f ; i LE FT Douglas Corrigan, whose "mistake" flight from New York to Dublin recently was frowned upon with good reason by IT. S. depart-ment of commerce officials. DE-LO-When Howard HurIics and his intrepid crew landed in New-Yor-after their record-breakin- g trip around the world, which au-gured well for the future of trans-atlantic aviation. .WIW- -' - 's v - - - - i - ,' s' " '. - " ' I A " -- , , ' - r f"U"" i h IWtoA 4uil ix H ;rJ L.- iSm naif " ' , tV A IWVVU I Hi WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON YORK. England pioneered NEW businessman diplomat shrewdly and effectively, it would seem. Many of her best fixers and negotiators Best Fixers throughout h Have Stake world have been t men who had a In Ueal$ perS0nal stake in the outcome of their operations. They were not disinterested, per-haps, but no more were the tradit-ional diplomats who knew protocol, perhaps, but nothing about oil. America followed with Nor-man II. Davis, a financier who became an effective European swing man under five presi-dents, and then came Sprullle Braden, engineer and Industrial-ist who was our ambassador-at-larg- e in Latin America until he became minister to Colombia last April. President Roosevelt, agreeing to act as an arbitrator in the Chaco dispute, picks Mr. Braden to repre-sent him. In his own private indus-trial diplomacy throughout South America, the husky and gregarious Mr. Braden has proved himself an excellent pacifier and trouble-shoote- r. He knows the score in oil, copper, rubber, minerals, hides and what not, and this ma-Brad- Wise terialized and par-I-n Latin ticularized diplo-- macy has made iplomacy Mm lomatic representations at various South American conferences. He has been working on the Chaco set-tlement for the last three years. In his youth, he did a short turn in the mines near Elkhorn, Mont, his native town, and then went to Yale and became a mining engi-neer. He was a second-strin- g halfback at Yale, but a first string engineer and promoter from the start, elec-trifying Chile for Westinghouse, or-ganizing the Bolivia-Argentin- a Ex-ploration corporation, branching out widely in South American develop-ment and finance. He desperately wanted to be minister to Chile, but was consoled with Colombia. He is forty-fou- r years old, re-membered in New York as the fastest and hardest-workin- g handball player around Jack O'Brien's gymnasium, in which he combated a tendency to plumpness, creeping up on him a bit in late years. He was married in 1915 to the beautiful and socially eminent ta Maria Humeres del Solar of Chile. They have three daughters and two sons. Their New York res-idence is the former George W. Per-kins estate at Riverdale-on-the-Hud-so- CARL J. IIAMBRO, burly of the Norwegian parlia-ment, is in America for a lecture tour. There is ah interesting cut-back In his career. Predicted At Geneva, in Collapse 1927, he staged Of League a spectacular de-bate with Austen Chamberlain, in which, speaking for the small states, he vehemently in-sisted that the league must find a way to restrain strong aggressors, or else find itself impotent and dis-credited in a few years. With equal vehemence, Mr. Chamberlain proclaimed the trustworthiness of the strong states and their humanitarian aims. Warning Mr. Hambro against overt restraints by the league, he said, "Along that road lies danger." j Mr. Hambro was the most distin-- I guished recruit of the Oxford group movement in 1935, and has since been a leader of the movement in Norway. Returning from a luncheon attend--! ed by Dr. Frank Buchman, founder of the movement, in Geneva, he told of the mystic exaltation of the com--j pany and later announced his ad--! herence to the group. Although a conservative, Mr. Hambro is the president of the La-- ; bor party of Norway. For many years, he has been leading the fight of the smaller nations in the league. Arriving in New York, he remarks dryly that Norway is she has a surplus in her budget. Cunsollrtntpd News Features, WNU Service. 'rSppaliing of Sports Champs Arc You ngsters, Survey Shows By GEORGE A. BARCLAY TF YOU want to be a champion corn husker, a star baseball play-er or an ace prize fighter, you had better get around to It by or before the aire of thirty. Otherwise you are In the "old man" class and your chance for athletlo eminence are practically nil. At least that la the conclusion or Professor Harvey C. Lehman of Ohio State university, who baa made a survey of age In relation to sports. Sporting championships belong to youth, says Professor Lehman and he proceeds to support his conten-tion with Impressive statistics. Old timers might contradict him by pointing cut that Bob Fitzsimmons won the heavyweight championship at the age of thirty-fiv- e and that Season of Upsets PUT the season of 1038 down In your notebook as one of upsets In the baseball world. Heroes who bave made the headlines steadily for ycara have failed to click this year. New heroes have risen to stardom out of nowhere. New teams bave challenged or bested the lead-er In both leagues. Other teams regarded as sure contenders bave slumped badly. An example of the changing base-ball world Is the failure of Lou Geh-rig of the Yankees to sparkle this year and the disappointing showing of Joe Dl Magglo so far. Joe hits his homers regularly and still boasts a stout batting average, but he isn't the wonder boy he was a year ago. Moreover, the Yankees have failed to be a standout up to now. The sporting world marveled a year ago at the feats of the Boston Bees' "graybcard rookies," Jim Turner and Lou Fette. Neither has been a world-beat- er In the 1938 season. Joe Medwlck of the Cardinals has been hitting solidly this year, but his batting average is nowhere near the .400 clip he enjoyed most of the 1937 season. Johnny Mize, a sensa-tion of the Cards last year, is some-thing of a bust now. Carl Hubbell of the Giants used to be a rock of Gibraltar in time of trouble. But he's had more shaky moments on the pitching mound thus far than probably ever before in his great career. The Chicago White Sox and the Washington Senators are bewildered over the Inability or Joe Kuhcl and Zcke Bonura, the first basemen they swapped, to get going this year. Frank Demaree and Bill Herman of the Chicago Cubs have developed a chronic batting slump. On the bright side, of course, is the advent of flashy newcomers into the baseball headlines. Probably the most sensational is no-h- it John-ny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds among standouts this year, in-cluding Frank McCormick, therookie first baseman, and Ernie Lombard! and Ival Goodman, who are their best years this season. Hostile Hostak ALREADY crowded with more fighters than any other pugilistic class, the middleweight division now comes up with a new punching phenom Al Hostak, who II '.'..( j. -MV i ft - V- - . 0 - ' f , JOHNNY VANDER MEER Stanislaus Zbyszko was heavyweight wrestling champion at sixty. They might add that Big Bill Tilden at the age of forty could beat any kid in tennis, that Cy Young was pitch-in- g star baseball in his forties and Babe Ruth was still cracking out home runs in his late thirties. But the professor could answer that these were isolated exceptions and stand by his guns. Baseball players reach stardom In the upper twenties, the Lehman survey shows. The best single year of the average baseball player, be he pitcher, Inlielder or outfielder. Is twenty-eigh- t. Some arrive earlier. For Instance, Bob Feller amazed the baseball world a year or two ago with his pitching at the age of eighteen and Johnny Vander Meer pitched two consecutive no-h-it, no-ru- ti games recently at the age of twenty-thre- e. Pujiilistic Prime Prize fighters reach their peak a few years earlier than baseball players, most of the championships in the various divisions being won regularly by boxers from twenty-fou- r to twenty-seve- according to Professor Lehman. The possible ex-ception is the heavyweight division, where twenty-nin- e seems to be the magic year. Joe Louis reached the heights a good deal earlier than most champions. The Lehman figures show that the average age of boxing champions decreases steadily from twenty-nin- e for heavyweights to twenty-eig- ht for light heavyweights, twenty-seve- n for AL HOSTAK won the championship from Fred-die Steele recently. Hostak has nev-er fought outside his native state of Washington. There Is plenty of classy opposi-tion for the new king of the middle-weigh- ts to meet when he gets around to it. Right out on the coasl he can fight Fred Apostoli, who holds a decision over Steele and has been called the uncrowned champion, and Young Corbett. Half a dozen other standouts in the middleweight division could probably give Hostak an argument They include Solly Krieger, Woods, f I 1 V V 1 Yarosz and the new sensation, Billy Soose of Penn State. Here and There A UNIQUE golf performance In England recently is that of Leonard G. Crawley, English and Walker cup player, who won two competitions in one day the St. George's Hill trophy at W'ey bridge and the Gold Medal at Sunningdale. This Involved him in three rounds of 18 holes each, and he averaged even fours . . . Tom-my Loughran, former boxing champion, famous as a boxer rather than a slugger, re-marked recently in Philadelphia: "Many of these modern fighters know nothing about keeping a man off balance or feinting him Into posi-tion for a blow. What a snap it would be now!" Sammy Gray, former American league pitcher, is managing and do-ing relief duty for Texarkana in the East Texas league . . . There have been no shutouts in the All-St-ar baseball series . . . Joe Boley, former shortstop for the Athletics, has been dropped as manager of the Pocomoke City team in the East-ern Shore league . . . Mose Swaney, former minor leaguer, is fifty-tw- o years old, but he plans to pitch 50 games for the House of David team this summer . . . Mel Ott and Carl Hubbell are the only active mem-bers of the Giants who were with the team in 1928 . . . Murray Ka-me- r, a sparring partneY in Joe Louis' training camps, is a former North Carolina lineman who quit the Philadelphia Eagles after three days because he said pro football was too tough. tj Western Newspaper Union. JOE LOUIS middleweights, twenty-si- x for wel-terweights, lightweights and feath-erweights and twenty-fou- r for ban-tamweights. Youngsters have their best chance tn tennis, the figures reveal, most of the championships going to players between twenty-tw- o and twenty-six- . Helen Wills Moody won the U. S. Women's championship at the age of eighteen. But if your sporting inclinations take difterent directions, the age curve may rise slightly. Suppose you have ambitions to be a cham-pion corn husker. Then the year in .hich the greatest chances of suc-cess offer themselves is thirty. 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