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Show THE M'LLETIX TRANSATLANTIC AIR SERVICE BEGINS Zeppelin Ilinilenbiirg Will Make Crossings Regularly; Schedules Are Also Planned for Ileavier-Tlian-AFlying Ships. BOYS! GIRLS! Bead the Grape Nuts ad In another column of this paper and learn how. to Join the Dlxzy Dean Winners nod win valuable free prizes. Adv. Violence Fail ir By WILLIAM C. UTLEY in the Nfw York newspapers the first Sunday news biggest on not was page on. It was not even in a news story. May an advertisement buried 'way hack in the travel section, or part 11, which the average reader reaches about Tuesday older, safer one, It Is certain that the most Important developments In transatlantic air travel will come from the heavier, faster craft Nevertheless, the dirigible will retain a grandeur that can be easily understood. Anyone who has seen the Graf, the Loa Angeles or ths lllnden-bur- g knows that the seppelln compares with the airplane as s giant ocean liner compares with s cable speedboat ; the one Is ponderous and majestic, the other la sleek and swift Tha Uindenhurg on her maiden American voyage carried 10? persons, of whom THE afternoon. This is what the ad said: "The Travel Event of 1936. Europe by Air in 2j4 Days by the Worlds Greatest Airship, the Zeppelin Hindenburg of the German Zeppelin Company. Lakehurst, N. J.t to Frankfort, Germany. Staterooms with run- By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. ning hot and cold water. Spacious aalon, smoking room, regularly and so often between bar, lounge, reading room. $400, Includand Pernambuco, Brazil, ing berth, meals, tips. that no one even notice its comings "To Europe: Slay 11, May 20, June and goings any more. 24, July 3, July 15, Auguat 0, and AuSlarlners have long considered the gust 10; regular schedule September weather of the North Atlantic someand October. . thing to be feared, and they are borne out by the New York weather bureau, Ad Undaratatai Importance The advertisement then went on to whose chief. Dr. James U. KliubalL list the ticket agents and other per made surveys of January flying weather tlnent information. For the common- over the China Clipper's route In the Pacific and the route which will be folplace tone of the "copy" It might have week-end been for any ordinary tour, lowed by the German planes across the Atlantic. lie luld out both routea and not tho herald of the experimenIn 12 degree squares; It was learned acheduled tal. beginning of regularly mildest square In the Atlantic passenger, air service over the North that the route was twice as stormy as the roughAtlantic.' est square on the Pacific. TAe great Hindenburg, 80S feet long "Cant Improve the Weather eraft to end the 129th lighler-then-aDoctor Kimball pointed out that the leave the plant named after the German Count Zeppelin, who left tho Kaisers weather had always been like this bver let GANGWAY for the fire department. Pull up at the curb and imhim because he's .on mighty go by. Don't delay portant business. Hes rushing down to. the Adventurers club to tell the story of the big thrill of his life. Here he is now. Boys and girls, meet Lieut. Joseph Dooley, of Brooklyn, N. Y. AH right, Joe, lets have the yarn. "Well," says Joe, that happened in 1903, when I was assigned to Engine Company No. 11, down on Fail Houston street" And bang we go, promenade-dinin- right Into the story. Joe was second In command down at old No. 11. It was a cold blustery night In January, and the alarms had been coming In thick and fast all evening. Nothing eventful Just routine fires. You know the kind. The ones where the lace curtnlns btuxe up, and somebody has pulled them down and stepped on them before the fire department ar lived, or the ones where a fire starts In a pile of trash In a corner of the cellar and the net loss Is two packing boxesalfKl the Janitor's hat When a Rings the Fire Laddies Step. s That's the kind of Stuff that makes up of a fireman's work. It's only once In s while that beyond control and blitzes up In a big con flagratlon that keeps the firemen out all night while the water freezes on the ends of the hose nozzles, Big flres.are rare now and getting fewer all the time, thanks to fireproof buildings-anmodern fire fighting methods. But this was 1MQ. In those days, most of the buildings were old wooden ones. , The night dragged on, and then came another alarm. Number 11 responded, and they found the fire a warehouaa in Cooper square. No set-uthis one, either. It was tha plant of tho Boston Excelsior Works, filled to the rafters with baled excelsior, oakum, tow,- and other highly . g Fried-richshaf- SI s ' - . . combustible stuff.- A four-alarhad. been turned In, and a dozen pieces of fire apparatus were there. Joe Dooleys company had been assigned to a position on the first floor. No. ll's boys went In through' driveway built fortbe concern's trucks, and - M' .. - . t M ir were passengers. The kill those who dispute Its commands. But it cannot make truth Into false hood, or falsehood Into truth. ALWAYS CROSS JW passengers Mr haahand marvels at her dew eomplexkxu pnUinc eyre, nee vitality. Six really a different ptnuo nnoa aha eliminated inualinal ducfiakna. What a diOcreaca a balanced cam-bnaii-oa of natural laxativaa realm. Lraru for youireUI Give Nature' Kenedy (NR TaUrta) a tnL Note how naturally they work, leaving 100 better, freshened, auvs. Con or minrrel rivativra. 2 be. aUdrostiatfe, Wi adorn Seta la When the thrilla ceaae to thrill, then philosophy begins. To instantly relieve pain, stop nagging shoe pressure end quickly, safely loosen and remove corns or use New Do Luxe Dr. callouses Scholls Zinopads. These soothing. hcalioc. cuahkoioa pad prevent aaratoea and blister. Fleets color! Waterproof. AS there they were stopped. The blaze Inside was so terrific that they couldn't enter the building. They got to work, managed to push their way their-hose- feet Inside the warehouse, and there they stopped again. They held tlielr fiositlun, though held It while the flames best all around them and turned the water from their hoses into steam as fast as they could pour It on. The place was like an. oven, and the smoke was suffocating. They held that position for half an houri until a fifth alarm brought more apparatus to babk them up. Then they moved on, to a point SO feet Inside the burning building. SO Germany's Newest Challenger for Transatlantic Air Supremacy, the Zeppelin HindenbUrg. Dr. Eckener Supervised Its Construction. ... . Heavy Floor Falls on the Embattled Fire Fighters. Tha captain was off that night, so Joe Dooley was In charge of No. 11 company. Hook and Ladder Co. Na 9 had been assigned to help him, and ha ordered them to clear a path between the bales of biasing excelsior so the hoee could be played more effectively. While the firemen from No, 9 were clearing that path, Joe heard a loud, creaking sound. Then, fire flared up in the rear of the piles of bales, and without further warning, tha floor above. fell down on them. "It fell with a loud crash," says Joe, "killing one man Instantly. Two firemen standing beside me were hurled out through a window by the air concussion caused by the dropping of the floor. After being shot through the window, these two men kept on running until they fell down In the street Both were hysterical when they were picked op. Otherwise, they were not seriously Injured. Joe Was Trapped in the Burning Excelsior Factory. But Joe, himself, didnt get off so easily. Be was standing between two rows of bales, and when the flow came down, he was knocked fiat Lie bit the ground, only half conscious, realizing .that he was suffocating knowing that he stood In imminent danger of being burned to death but unable to move a cavalry to build airthipt better than anyone (In hat ever built them, may be only the forerunner of a series of Irens. adantie air aervicet to ba established between Europe and America this summer. - powerless to do anything to help nlmself. Dimly, he realized that the falling floor hadn't crushed him, .and as his brain cleared, he saw that he had fallen between two bales, ever which the floor lay like a roof. Smoke was choking him. He had ell he could do to breathe. ,But he began disentangling himself from the debris of broken planks and beams that hung from the bottom of the fallen floor, and to crawl along through the passage between the bales. muscle It Takes Courage to Do What Joe. Did. " he says. "I didn't . what direction I was going In whether it was the right one or not My head was cut, and my leather fire' hat had been partly driven down: into my akulL . I wanted, to lie down,' but I knew that If I did. I'd stay there, yo I kept crawling on, until I uw a gleam of light ahead of me. Then I knew I was headed In the right direction. -- Another few mlnutsa of crawling, and Joe was safa again out In ths driveway from which ho had started. Ha was pretty much messed II carries marks of that tcrriblo e he got there,- and up by ordeal, but ha stayed right in the department, fighting fire a, until hie retirement Se a chief officer In 1918, and had plenty more adventures some of them. almost as exciting as the one he's Just told us. "My brain was reeling know he-s- ti the-tim- WNU Service. while those with the lffrvae pass them bark and. forth, stimulating the grub Spools in Nest Building to exude silk, which sticks and holds The tailor ants and a few other the pieces of the leaves together. ants are rnlque among all the earth's After their silk has been used for creatures, so far us we know, In that the common good, the luckless larvae they nse their young as tools in nest have to sleep naked. construction. The tailor ant lives throughout the Few adult Insects spin silk, but Old World tropics and Is one of the the larvae of many have this ability few ants that are greenish In color, to enclose themselves In silken co- though some of Its varieties are red coons, from which they will later and one, In West Africa, is brown alemerge as fully formed adults. The most to black. National Geographical tailor tnt utilizes this accomplishment Magazine. of Its young In making Its nests. Scientists have often torn one of Poet Was Son af Slava the leaves that formed Its Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet, was the nest aad then watched the proceedings. At first there la a wild sortie on the son of a former Kentucky slave. Ue born In Dayton, Oh'o, where he part of the ants, all In fighting mood. was was from ths high school In angraduated bite cunnot hut they They sting, I SOI and begun work as an elevator noyingly. After they have given up trying to boy. Ue published his first work two find and destroy the Imrmlei, worker years later. Ue was employed for ants seize larvae In their mudlbles sonie time In the Library of Congress and bring them to the damaged por- In Washington, but was forced to give tions. Other workers seize the edges up that work after he contracted tuber of the leaves and pull them together, rules!. lie died lu 1000, at Dayton. Tailor Ants Use Living box-shnp- All of the other services now planned to span the North Atlantic are to be maintained with heavlcr-than-al- r ships. The Hindenburg on Its first crossing made the Jump from Friedrischnfen to Lakehurst In Cl hours, or, as the schedule calls for, approximately 2 days. But the airplane, being so much faster than the airship, will be able to make f the time or the crossing in lest. It has been announced by the German air ministry that the Nazis will also attempt to be first In the field with the service by heavier craft. Within a few months, It has been Indicated, the giant Lufthansa aenplanes win bs dashing hack and forth between the Spanish or Portuguese coast and Charleston, 8. C., stopping en route at the Azores and at Bermuda, where they will refuel. Between the. Azores and the Bermudas Is the longest hop of the Journey, more than.. 000 miles over seas that are ordinarily stormy. To provide the maximum amount of safety for this Jump the Germans' Intend to maintain a floating airport, and. flaellng statlod mldjrny between the" Islands. This, K Is reported, will be conapiicted fpom a old. freighter. Kitaeky of 1341 Garfield SI., Phoenix, Arlei. uld: Dr. Flora' Favorite Preeaipthm haa been tha fired help (or my wife. She wai nu-dod urine the rhanae of life period and her appetite wai poor. I knew of Dr. Heree'e Rnardiea herauee prop la had ahrajn hid treat failh in ihpa, and a few bodice of the 'Preemption' eoon nad rev wife Mint more and enjnyin snod health.'' CO ta your aeighherliaod' drawtM today. one-hal- . - ground before proceeding to the Inauguration of regular airship travel across the Atlantic. The beginning Is Indeed encouraging. I think we could learn a lot during this trip; and I am convinced that in due couru we shall gather enough experience that will enable ns to cron even In unfavorable weather conditions, not employing too much time. The Interest la tremendous . . Wilkins, the noted explorer, who, with hla wife, was a passenger on the Hindenburg, expressed an opinion that the airship was the more desirable mode of travel for Journeys of more than 15 hours over the water. for i FIRST AID Relieving or Injuries Common Skin Ailments Resmo i RidurselM Poisons Kidney Zap May Replace Linar suffer burning, scanty of p0tooyoufrequent urination; backache; Lw headache, dizziness, lots of energy, leg pains, swellings and puffintss under ths eyes? Are you bred, net out feel ell unstrung end don't know whit Is wrong? Then give some thought to your kidneys. Be sure they function propec ly for functional kidney disorder per mils excess waste to stay In the blood, and to poison end upset the whole system. Use Doan's Pills. Doan's are for die kidneys only. They are recommended the world over. You can get the d Doan's et any uine, store. sea-goin- time-teste- oir-shi- 1 No Need to Suffer MomingSickness "Morning sickness"- - is caused by en acid condition. Ta avoid it, acid must be such as msgucsim offset by alkalis Why Physician Recommend Milnesia Wafers . .. I Britain Enters Field Planes will land on a fabric apron to be towed behind the freighter, and 'Wlll.then.be scooped. up to the deck by a giant crane. "When they have refueled, a catapult will send them once more on their hurrying way. The floating station will be equipped with, a powerful radio broadcasting station to keep In touch with the flying ships at all times. Another' bidder for the travelers patronage over the North Atlantic will he Imperial Airways of Great Britain, who pirn test flights this summer end may begin carrying tha mail between England and Canada before foil. Pen American Airways hot also indicated the! it is also set to begin service across the Atlantic. Transoceanic air passenger service Is not so new, of course. But because of the treacherous weather which prevalla on the seas between America and Europe, It lias never been attempted on the North Atlantic before. The fly' Ing clipper ships, now on regular ached ule, have an easier time of It over the Piirlllc, the CnrlldH'iin. and the Modi ( iiiii:(un. And the ttrnf Zeppelin, now iuhl yours old, has piled Its way so a ufe "There Is no doubt in my mind, was the way Sir Hubert put It, "that If airships were built In such numbers as to bring down the cost of construction, they could be operated on a higher g linprofit basis than the big ers of today. The primary purpose of the Hlnden-burg'- s crossings this summer will be to attract financial backing for a comtransatlantic bined Gennan-Amerlcs- n passenger service. Doctor Eckener admitted. The United Stales had cooled off to almost zero in its sympathies toward as a result of tho Akron and Macon disasters, but it is hoped that the new sep , making regular trips will win back America's confidence. There was a schema in 1 929 to bock such an air sens- - shoe and department etores. C t this part of the ocean and would likely continue to be. "Weather gets no better," he said In his report "You can Improve airplanes and motors, but you cannot Improve the weather. With the help of radio, however, and s better knowledge of existing conditions, It Is possible to outwit the weather. That la the way the Atlantic has got to be flown by outwitting the weather. Zeppelins ere able to outwit the weather by flying around tho storms. This is because of their greater cruising range end the fact that, if worst comes to worst and they run out of fuel, they at least can remain in the air os a free balloon for soma time. Tha fact that all that needs to be done to keep the ship above the water if the motors stop is to let oui a little ballast gives the " sep " a safety advantage over the airplane on the long Intercontinental trips. But Improvement In ships and motors has come quickly In the past few years and today the hcavler-than-al- r ships dru, FEMININE WEAKNESS trip and thou that are .to follow are only experimental. An Inferno of Flames Raged Inside the Building. all Zino-padSf- ,; .the newspapers ? "You know, this We want to be on PRAISES CHANGE NEW BEAUTY THRILIS HUSBAND found ell tho comforts of a first doss hotel, according to tho account of James SlcVittie, Chicagoan who made tho trip and had had his reservation in sinco 1931. Thera was room far dancing, parlor games end luxurious dining - There was a fine bar. There were berths as comfortable as you wssuld find in a pull man ear. There urns even o radio broadcast of music and speeches from tho spacious salon of tho ship. In an address from the ship as It sped across the sea, Dr. Hugo Eckener, veteran of airship navigation who accompanied Cupt. Ernest Lehmann as special adviser, told of the wonders experienced by thou on board. ."America Is ahead of us," be said. "About three hours from now we will be approaching Nantucket lightship and tomorrow ginrnlng before sunrise we will have left Sandy Hook behind. Our trip from coast to coast will have lasted Just about fifty hours. Describes Inspiring Day "I want to greet yon all In Just these few words. Tills present trip Is like a dreum to me. "Earlier In the day we bad a marvelous plnno concert Now our passengers have gathered In the social hall and smoking room, having a grand time; All this st a speed of ninety miles an hour and an altitude of 1,000 feet above the clouds "Many passengers told me today ail this seems unreel. Hose long will it be until ell this will have become fust the ordinary thing, that will cause fear to nobody, and will hardly ba mentioned in ir nine-tenth- fire-get- out er shell and form of things. It can win the acquiescence of fools and ths applause of parasites, It can Vloleuce may constrain In the The China Clipper, Giant Mail and Passenger Plane, Uncle Sam's Contribution to the Quick Spanning of the Pacific. are much safer than they were even two or three years ago. They have Increased In range and efficiency ; they now have the added advantage of the ice which would have been extended across tho Pacific as well as tha Atlantic, but the depression wiped it out. Meanwhile, America may perhaps propeller, which gives look forward to having Doctor Ecke-tier- s them a sort of "gear shift" comparable expert advice In any future plans to the automobile, and radio and the for llghter-thnn-al- r craft It was rurobot pilot have removed much of the mored In the press that the venerable hazards and rigors of navigating them. pioneer of the airways. In Hitler's disAn airplane depends upon sustained favor for refusing to allow the Ulnden-bur- g forward speed to keep It aloft, and If to be nsed for political ballyhoo; the motor stops for s fraction of would take a Job In thla country. second (which means that If any one C Wsftara Newspaper Union. of thousands of delicate parti goes wrong, even with the wear and vibraUncanny Decoration tion of many hours of flying through the most uncanny decoraAmong all kinds of weather at high speed) It tions are those of the grotesque animust land. mals pnlnted on the sides of rleiilinnts heads during fcstlvnls In India. 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