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Show lAKOWAX TIMES. IVROWAN, ITAII NEEDLEWORK I K Gay Canary Dcsiqns to Embroider N HOwony,-AIRPlA- Io .ntmber thirteen CUDERS and glidinq Hank haa plane in 'Iff a rolo Right He climbs out In with ,.j ires Kublnson coming lather atjJent. whom he has had and jt is late afternoon it brought his trainer an instruction a en Hank flight. fitches the other plane land and run over to Robinson, Just as bf hs climbed out and sent his new-f- it "student Jimmy, off until next rrringflank -- Ihy, BiUI of jtbinson (turning at the sound both-t:S-- i jjrjts call) YeahT Whati you row? me? Nothing, fust something. ,unl to ek you RkCir.son The best thing you do, is ask questions y'jig ftlitw, but r ahead. theThats what Im tohere for tike flying game pieces vi pit it tack together, so you u'iifjters can see what makes it t;k. Ilisk-l- l's Rtinsi ti al'titil gliders. what about n-- Ar.d glid- ers ved in the papers tf.j nomine something about gliders and tv Crrmum ami all and lay, lit It, did tha famm i nionl gliders ? ILtir.son (Leans back against the HsnkI ouk P SL ther to u something plants his feet firmly, rams tu hands deep in his pockets indicators that he knows hes in for a "session" before Hanks ever-pres- er.t appetite for information will be You want to know. Did istisfied) the Germans invent the glider? The ssswtr to that is, In a manner of speaking, they did. And its about the cr.ly thing they ever worked out for flare, fir.J li t S' 1 I Tanks, armored cars, aU started in even the airplane, America, and all were used before the Germans adopted them. Got to pve em credit. Somebody comes along with a brand new idea, the Germans look it over, find out what use they can make of it, add a few liit'e adaptations or improvements, and suddenly the rest of the world wakes up to find that something they created has been found useful and generally deadly by somebody else, Hank T MIGHT wm strnrge to .iy that a manager whose tall club Robinson Some Americans tun. By 19.'2 we had some very accomplished glider pilots. There was the pioneer Lewin Barringer, and Richard Du Pont, and Jack OMeara, who were doing things that equa'ed if not surpassed any German record Then there was Ralph Barnabv. who 'way back glided off from the dirigi-bl- e Los Angeles, and Frank Hawks, who In a glider was towed by an airplane clear across the continent Hank IT tit, that doei look u lAomS ae Mere keeping up uilh tha proer man Robinson We were keeping up And dont forget. Hank, that wher-eve- r and for whatever reason America drops out of the line of march. It doesn't amount to so much In tl e long run. We're sprirters, we Americans, and if ever we tempornn'y drop out of the march, we make a sudden sprint ahead and before body knows what were up to. America is the drum major heading the show, and everybody else is trailing behind. . . . What woke all the world up to what the glider means In war, was the German performance. In 1910 they used gliders over Belgium and Holland, where gliders came down from great heights and landed as far as 2J miles behind the Allied Ur.es. Each glider spilled out ten or more men armed with machine guns God-g.ve- ... Robuuson we might ar. Lets not get into that start something. But Greater air will ran't help Ithhing that tom thine of warm lift the glider. Glider pilots prolong their flight! cy riding these themselves. . , ' i a iiiW'Xw'id.t; r V ;!v Jc ;rA v : . j , 1 of air occur over water cr over land condi- Currents of weve gone off after some new idea. . . . But back to this glider business. In a manner of speaking, development of the glider can be credited to a German, Otto Lilien- thaL Hed been experimenting with gliders for several years, and had learned to glide for something like a thousand feet and to manipulate kis glider into perfect circles, when in 1896 he crashed in an attempted f and was fatally injured. Hank But uhat kind of glider had he while tions that absoro the heat of the sun rather than reflect It. They Increase the normal sinking speed of the glider. take-of- bird-wing- s. Robinson about first When you begin to ask and only ones, Hank, you run back a long way, and always the farther back you get the dimmer the record is. Man had been trying to conquer the air for a great many generations before the Wright brothers down in Kitty Hawk, North Caro-i- ,i prove definitely that man fly by means of a man-mad- e contraption. . . . And as for that, the 0 Pointers from Lilienthal did and they experimented first with gliders a number the first airplane designers worked on making and flying gliders wore they went in for motor-drive- n planes. The however, Wrights, ere the first men to develop an ef-,- c lv glider, which they demon-srate- d at Kitty Hawk in 1902. That s er was the basic design for their i? ane; They added a motor and an tbe airplane was t Jfeller. Ut dont understand this cant see jt Robinson I know Pernee has been cntrol and which e ft on the wing surface to -aintam heavier-than-aflight dulT 5t' ir cp t,als krd hasnt any motor, ex-1- ,, Pottering little heart, and s a magnificent job of take-of- f, ag, circling and landing. know, but a bird RnE , nfonA bird's different. Hes diffp ?n!y because God gave him I?lan bas bac to make his j was the flight of birds j the pattern and idea for gy esPecially it was the bird Elidpr a7mace the pattern for the off nd fi ,c"ver watch a bird take wnnc own that'rv-- t1- p, cajie t don't think I ever did. Sr Tuat'S be-- town with has dition, m !' 1 r I'.ll ouf or f,.r tht Coiof -n i i v umlcr. t f feli'ffMrf wur ntu. r to MrniKHPH nittir San Irancuro, t till. Mutton M 30 Frith , tj f r No Nam. A.Mrra. a tra- been Gas I on Stomach ami vain dreaming dreams of recover- ing some of its lost glory. There were the winning days of Jimmie Coihns, Bill Carrigan and others, who carried the Red Sux banner high. But m spite of the nnliii ns Tom Yawkey has fed into his purchases or.d pay roll, the Red Sox thus far have been on the outside peering in. Now Cronin has his team winging away at a record cl.p He lias come through with the hitting and the pitching for which only ti e most rabid fan evi r could hope Outside f Ted Williams, Johnny Icsky ami Hobby Deerr, no one could figute that so many Rod Snx would hit so well. No one could figure Mickey Harris winning six straight, with able support from Tex Hughson, Joe Dobson and Dave Fernss. Cant Haiti the Pace Joe Cronins predicament IWMtW la a ho fU nJ !( rf Lftv a. No tftaotlvo Hen Imu'o iiif S ai fel 4nitfuia. m ut U in ihnngtirtara m ki l t Botita J' Jt j j Colorful Embroidery VS BRIGHT and cheerful as can ItelmbililHlinn Center for are these elbw canary deil of ak koenti cicrpl Mental and ConUigiouK. signs use the 6 by 6 transfer motifs on tea towels, on cottage curHr in or fur I rtt BuukUt tains, on the corners of a soft yelTHE PYQTT SANITARIUM I CLINIC low or gretn luncheon cloth. Other colors needed are red, green llltMIlKltaltl . tall taU City, ftina 7 5464 and blue. I e lea t I U ' Is aaaala M feafcla roar kac m iarli (wn (niofai mIImsi fcwr tum h m koi u-- a tiMhrrt Mtwnf aMkUrtrvM fcr (in lag this: no one can expert so many of his men to continue to blast the ball with such deadly effect; and no one can figure that Mickey Harris can continue to hold such winning form, although .Mickey Is a much improved pitcher over past seasons before the war, when he failed to break even. If the Red Sox had broken from the wire at a steady clip, there would have been no such excitement as reigns in Boston today. As it now stands, any Red Sox slump, which is certain to occur later on after such early speed, is bound to cause a reaction up Boston way. There is the chance, of course, that the Red Sox today have what the old Yankees once carried when they almost wrecked the league, practically closing out the season in late July or early August. It could After all, Cronins hired happen. men have shown power at bat and power in the pitchers box, which aie the two main spots of the game. However, an early rush to the front can lead to much brooding later on. It is still my contention that the Tigers have the best pitching staff in baseball, followed by the Cardi- nals. But Red Sox pitching, in addition to being an improvement over what it looked to be earlier, also has and fielding support that will bag many a ball game through the summer ahead. However, Bostons supporters should understand that it is still a long way to October. BETTER BAKING The Baking Powder with the Double Action BALANCED Clabber Girl der is loday'g baking powchoice for the ... the natural modem recipe. Its balanced double oction guarantees just the right action in the mixing bowl, plus that final rise to light and fluffy flavor In the oven. j whatever they had in mind, they went a long way with their experiments. The first manipulation of a glider necessitated that it take off from some high elevation. The glider catapulted off the hill, the air currents surged under it, and the pilot, like the bird, knew that if he shifted weight and one wing above the other, he could have a wonderful time It was discovfloating about. ered that gliders, or sailplanes as they came to be called, mechanically catapulted into the air same idea as the birds dart into the air if the operator had an understanding of air currents or wind breaking against hills, mountains and cloudbanks, could rise to unimagined heights, and still greater heights, until they Then were above all cloudbanks. there was nothing to do but circle about or come down. . . . That got to be monotonous and it wasnt getting anywhere no development, no utilitarian or military purpose was being served. . . . But the Germans werent the only people trying out motorless flying. . . . The record Orville Wright made nine minutes seconds in the air and forty-fiv- e stood until 1920 and was broken by the Austrian Robert Kronfeld, who by 1930 had made a flight of 85 miles and reached a height of 7,500 feet. . . . From that time on the distances of flights steadily increased until a record of just under 500 miles was made. ... Hank Was anybody in the United Slates giving any attention to gliders ? Robinson Oh, yes, definitely. Durthe last ten years a number of ing glider clubs had been organized in dififerent parts of the country and they held exhibitions and competitions. But glider flying was a sportseriing proposition. Nobody took it memThe wrong. thats No, ously. bers of the glider clubs did take it seriously. They believed they were developing something that might be useful in the future of aviation. But the practical minds, as they were regarded, were not interested. Hank But the practieal minds of Germany were interested! Robinson An eminently practical prbably we farm boys people, the Germans. Goering, head uSeri "tcwn kid. Every boy of the German air force, picked up who" r and by 1938 he had oren C lve( and worked under a lot of ideas, bas matched birds take 300,000 qualified air pilots who had off fr7'PS hover high in the got practically all of their training blue cV.StCrn wished he could do as glider pilots. One of the biggest ' ' ach a bird next time ideas he got was from Kronfeld. t' e Vo., l' thatvf-fsUChance- You11 ee Austrian who had proved the prace is to suddenly pull ticability and usefulness of gliders Up v js c""' is landing gear and towed by airplanes. )nJ ball great baseball r i J run-maki- icorked out? Robinson Oh, like all early experiments in flying, It was pretty crude. He put some slender willow rods and some waxed cloth together to form a reasonable, large reproduction of a pair of He fastened them to his body, and by kicking his legs and shifting his weight he could, with fair accuracy, manipulate them. Hank But uat l.ilienthal the first and onlv one to try that? I i 'id KttttM) has been doing very well indeed could le even close to the birder line of a predicament, much less the brink cf an abyss. But for ten years Boston, a great base, 1 WPl kiF ml Ktma Amaru an had been doing about it. up-m- lomethmg. Get! iVA A! ' BASIC MIGHT INSTUUCTION Jump into the air. If he tikes off from a low pus.tirn and to rise he flops his wings, ardwants ti e h of the disturbed air raises him. He repeats the flapping ur.nl he has reached any height he desires, and then he begins to soar. L.rds are seldom still in the air; t.ry are usually circling or doirg intricate figure eights. Some ir.'el.gence teaches them that when they hft one wing higher than the other and hold their wrings steady, the air currents will swing them round in circles And the take-off- s and ft ght esses of birds established the pres principles on which the glider was conceived and developed Hank It ut httwroma German urnt all out for gliders and nuhtnlv rim did ? Robinson That statement is not altogether correct that Germany went all out on gliders and nobody else did. Of course the situation in Germany was peculiar. The treaty provisions after the World War forbade the Germans to develop an air force, to which they didnt pay much attention. But quite within the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles they could go in for glider building and glider flying, and that glider piloting was a first-clas- s way of training future pilots of airplanes. Hank Oh, I tea getting ready to ita't UJn 9 t tt t C Captain feuiHand Rioakei ltSSON PAnERNS and grenades, to promptly attack a predetermined objective. It was more than effective. . . . But when Chasinn the Cardinals it came to the attack on Crete in My good friend Eddie Dyer, once 1941 the Germans had greatly ima star halfback in Texas, is shocked so much so their technique, proved over the that his team is still that glider pilots were able to land called a fact shot against the field. at almost the exact spot where they We have a good, sound ball 3-- 5 intended to land. . . . Why, one of them dropped down in the garden of the Royal Villa, and the only reason they didnt carry out orders to capture King George of Greece was that the king wasnt there. He was in the safety of a mountain hideout. Hank But uhnt ti ns the reason the Germans went in for dropping gliders loaded uilh soldiers, after they had been so successful at dropping parachute troops? club, Eddie says, but no team is that good not even the Red Sox, today. Too many things can hapToo many pen in a ball game. things can happen to your best men. There are other good teams in this league, teams much improved over This includes the last season. Dodgers, Braves, Reds and the Giants. Both Cubs and Pirates wall Robinson They found the glider soon begin picking up speed. After the weather has made this an process was far better for the simple all, uncertain spring as far as any ratmotora reason that glider, being I dont believe many peogoes. ing less, is actually soundless. The hum what such players of a motor warns even the unaided ple understand and Herman mean Reiser as Reese, and of the its approach, human ear to the They are all win. Dodgers. detector system gives abundant time ning ballplayers." forces the for warning One of Eddie Dyers greatest to go into action. That gives everyso far has been the fine showthrills body the alert for parachutists. ing of Terry Moore, not only a great . . . But the glider comes down from ballplayer but a fine man to have ten or twelve thousand feet, quickly on any club. After being away from action for some time in the army, Terry has been hitting far above his prewar punch; and Terry is no longer a kid. When you look at such ballplayers as Musial, Marion, Moore and others plus the Cardinal pitching staff whether or not you are a Giant, Dodger, Cub or Brave fan, this is the club to be watched once they have squared away from the summer festivities. It might also be suggested that Billy Southworth has turned in a fine job with the Boston Braves, a club supposed to be planted in the Indicates speed Tachometer second division. The Braves may revolutions of motor finish there, but they are a big improvement over the Braves of other and silently, and with uncanny preThey are a hustling outfit, Parachutists come down years. cision. Southworths teams always as Billy singly and may land at comparativebeen. have Glider ly widely separate spots. This can be baseballs greatest at- troops land all together. Hence, they tendance year, with many thousands to capture, and can to are less liable if spare, the two pennant races re-- I put up a better fight. main reasonably close, for it isnt flank Looks to me like the glider it a any too easy to keep the popeyed pretty important part of air warfare. when his home club Robinson It has proved that, and fan keyed up and far out of the race. outclassed is Gerthat the remember when you mans have perfected the technique Tne danger spots here are the Red Sux and the Cardinals, but both of towing a whole fleet of gliders becan see you can run into more severe competi- a hind single airplane, how very important it is. Hon than one might look for. Both Messrs. Cronin and Dyer confirm Few horse races th.s observation. (Ed. Note Lesson on Gliders con- ever art won in the first quarter; cluded in Lesson No. 14.) thus also goes for a pennant race. anti-aircra- ft Head off costly repairs, breakdowns with FRAfil FILCR0I1 OIL FILTERS! 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