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FRIDAY. MAY 16, 1919.
AMERICA’S AIR
ACHIEVEMENTS
IN WAR MD
WASHINGTON, May 16.—(8y Asso
ciated Press.) —Admission that both
military and civilian experts over-es
timated the country capabilities in
setting out in 1917 to accomplish the
impossible task of producing 22,000
airplanes in 12 monhs Is made in the
official history of the government’s
efforts to build up the industry made
public today by the war deparment.
Realization of this error resulted al
most immediately in the placing of
contracts in France for 5,875 planes
of the S'pad, Nieuport and Bregeut
types.
The report shows that by May 23,
1918, American factories had delivered
5,270 planes, or 24 per cent of the am
bitious program while the French had
delivered 31 per cent of the number
promised on that date. Up to Novem
ber 11, a total of 11,364 airplanes had
been produced in America, but these
were largely training machines, fight
ing planes completed during the war
period totalling only 3,328.
“Broadly stated,” the history says,
“the United States produced for her
army alone in her second year of man
ufacture, as many airplanes as Eng
land produced for her army and navy
in her third year.”
Cloth and Dope Short.
Organization of the manufacturing
industry is declared to have been the
smallest of the air service’s problems,
an alarming shortage of cloth, and var
nish, or “dope” for the wings develop
ing at the very start. Lack of an ad
equate supply of linen was overcome
quickly through the assistance of the
United States bureau of standards
which evolved a special cotton fabric
with a tensile strength of 90 pounds
to the square inch. Production of this
material was soon at the rate of 1,-
200,000 yards per month.
“Cotton proved to be not only an
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en a better fabric than the original
cloth,” the report says, “No matter
how abundant the supply of flax may
be, it is unlikely that linen will ever
again be used in large quantities for
airplane wings.”
Search for a varnish to protect air
plane wings resulted in the estab
lishment of 10 large chemical plants
to produce acetone, the principal in
gredient.
“Had the war continued,” says the
history, “these new plants would have
taken care of all American and Allied
military needs, allowing the produc
tion of private plants to go exclusively
to fill commercial needs.
Development Swift.
Development of aircraft was so rap
id that frequent changes in models
and designs were before the service
experts for consideration. At the time
of the armistice, the whole production
machinery had been, or was about to
| be turned over to putting out a new
' DeHaviland, known as 9-A; the Le
‘ pare, a two-seater built around the
| Liberty engine, and the great Hand
; ley-Page for bombing work. Experi
! ments also were under way with the
Italian Caproni, to be driven by three
Liberty engines.
“But American invention was able
I to bring out a strictly American bomb
ing plane that promised to supersede
all other types in existence,” says the
report. “This was the Martin plane
which, with a wing spread of 75 feet,
attained a speed of 118 miles an hour
against 100 for the Handley-Page-and
Caproni. Where the foreigners requir
ed 46 minutes to climb 15,000 feet the
Martin craft took 30 minutes.”
One entire chapter of the history is
given to the evolution and prepara
tions for the production of the Liberty
engine. First drawings were trade May
29, 1917, and the first 8 cylinder en
gine was delivered July 4, 1917. On
August 25, the first Liberty ’’twelve”
successfully passed a 50-hour test.
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ATLANTA WOMEN EAGER FOR
CHANCE TO PAY POLL TAX
ATLANTA. May 11. —Atlanta women,
who were recently given the right
of franchise in city primaries, are en
joying their privielge very much like a
small boy does a toy. Meetings by the
score are being held and planned, or
ganizations being perfected and vari
ous and sundry addresses made to pre
pare the fair sex for their baptismal
dive into the sea of politics. It has
been mildly suggested that they be
asked to pay a voting fee to go to
ward the free school book fund. This
meets with favor of the suffragists.
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SAILOR HARVEY
WRITES OF TRIP
ON DESTROYER
A lengthy letter to an Americus
friend from Bob Harvey, now
a seasoned sea salt in the navy,
is dated “At Sea, Enroute from the I
Burmuuas to Abore Islands, April 14,”
and contains much that will be read
here with interest. The epistle tells
of the whereabouts of three other
Americus “gobs,” Reese, Hodges and
Wilder, who were at Guantanamo
Bay and participated in the maneuv
ers of the big sea fightert there.
"We arrived at Guantanamo Bay,”
the letter states, “the first part of
February and went through some
tiresome manoeuvers with the big
fleet, being at sea 7 to 10 -days before
returning to the bay to re-fuel and go
at it again. One week we were in
port the whole week for upkeep and,
liberty, but there is not very much
amusement in GUantanamo. There are
several baseball diamonds, however,
and African golf links where some
pleasure may be secured. The latter
part of March we were out on two
weeks of maneuvering and went into
Ponce, P. R., for supplies and liberty.
I was in the city most of the time
we were there, and one night, with
others of the crew, attended, a native
dance out in the country. I took no
part in the festivities, but it was a
most unusual affair wth the natives
whites, “spicks” and blacks as well
as mulattoes dancing together. After
we tired of looking on, four of us.
tried to get a room in the city, but
owing to the large number of visitors
failed to secure accommodations, be
ing forced to commandeer a street
car in which to spend the night.-
“One week before scheduled time,
for sailing north, we were in Guan- I
tanamo for rest, and the destroyer i
division, of which this vessel (U. S. S'. I
Manley) is flagship, got together and
planned a ball to be pulled off the lat
ter part of this month in New York,
where the music will last all evening,
and where only white folks dance to
gether, but after two days at sea these
plans were all destroyed when we re
ceived a signal from the admiral to
proceed to the Azores, via Bermuda.
We stopped at Hamilton to take on
fuel and supplies, and while there
visited the caves where Annette Kel
lerman first learned to show her
shape. Hamilton is a nice little place,
but there is too much social equality
there for a native Georgian.
At 10 this morning we got under
way for the Azores, and have been
4MF.RTCUS TIMES-RECORDER.
making 20 to 25 knots an hour, with
three other destroyers, the Dorsey,
Rathburne and Talbot accompanying
us. We may wait at the Azores or go
on to Brest, France, to join the Phesi
dent’s escort, but for my part we
could just as well anchor in Liver
pool, where a certain charming young
woman happens to reside.
“I saw three Americus boys, Reese,
Wilder and Hodges, down here. Wilder
I is on one of the accompanying boats.
I forgot which one, but he says he is
figuring on buying it and bringing it
back to speed up and down Mucka
lee. As for me. when I get my ticket
from the navy I am going to take an
anchor with me and go so far inland
that when I meet a hay-shocker he’ll
ask me what it is. Then I’ll drop the
old iron and make a line for home.
“Sister sent be a big bundle of
T.-R’s, and let me say here that there
is nothing like seeing a real newspa
per now and then. Some big improve
ments have been made in the home
sheet, too, since I was there, and the
management Reserves due credit for
this. There are two other Georgia
boys attached to the Manley ono from
, West Point and the other from Cairo.
So we three spend a good portion of
our time boosting Georgia, and when
I pass the papers on to them they
seem to crave them as though they
were Sunday apple pie.
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COST OF LIVING
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the essentials of life which has as
sumed such proportions of oppres
siveness-will soon be reduced accord
ing to a statement issued by Julius
Barnes, United States wheat director.
Now that the European nations are
approaching a settlement, after four
years of energy and life devoted to
destruction, men all over the world
will return to productive industries.
“Production is being resumed by
400,000,000 people in Europe,” Mr.
Barnes’ statement reads. “Belgium
has struggled to its feet and the Bel
gian relief commission has discon
tinued its work.
“Poland, Czecho-Slovia, Roumania,
Serbia, Finland—all promise stable
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orderly processes of life in the imme
diate future.
“The effect of these replacements
in production and orderly distribution
will lighten the strain on America
and our own fortunate country will
be enabled to turn more of its pro
duction into domestic markets.”
The increased cost of living, Mr.
Barnes points out, has been due to
entirely natural laws. The inflation
was due to the expansion of world
credit, which to those with fixed in
comes meant a burden of hardship.
The sacred obligation to feed the
famished countries had to be carried
out.
“There has been no real reason for
any advance in flour,” the statement
continues. “We have protected the
domestic supply without jeopardy, and
mills and dealers are beginning to
realize this and recover their business
sanity.” .
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