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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1930)
n mi WORLD'S LARGEST LAND PLANES "FLYING STAGES" OF THE WEST CHRYSLER '.-:-, -i ' Forest Roads to Benefit by Increase in Federal Funds - .. at 'A( II ED 11 .1 r ' WASHINGTON, D. C. April 19 Construction- of highways la the national forests of the West -will be speeded np approximate ly IS per cent as a result of the action of Congress in increasing the annual appropriation for for mat roads from $7,500,000 .to $12,500,00. it was announced today by the American Automo bile association. The national motoring: body pointed out that preference is riven to forest roads that are on the Federal-aid system in order that the heavily- traveled high ways will be the first to be com pleted. This applies particularly to the forest roads where some program of development has not already been assured by state ag encies. The A. A. A. said that the in creased amount is in line with the policy of making appropria tions for .forest roads equivalent to ten per cent of the total Federal-Aid appropriation, . which was recently raised to $125,000, 000 annually. Thia measure which now needs only the approval of President Hoover, represents a successful climax to a long campaign on the part of organized motordom to secure greater attention to road building needs of the West. "Although the national forests comprise more than 138,000,000 acres and represent a large per centage of . the public domain," Bays the statement, "it was frnnd that forest roads were not being improved at a rate in keeping with the progress on the Federal aid system outside of these reserves. "The American Automobile As sociation, at its twenty-seventh annual meeting held at Buffalo, N. Y In July, 1929, went on rec ord in favor of increased funds for forest highways, and with the support of Western affiliations, laid the foundation for the Oddie Colton bill, which has just been enacted. ' "Prior to passage of the bill for increased Federal assistance, it was estimated that an average of folly 40 years wonld be requir ed to -complete the forst roads. Under the new program it can be accomplished in an average of 20 years." x asatashiai2 Three er more gigaatic M-pasMager Fekker eabia air Iiaart, the largest laad plaaas ia the werM today, will sooa be plana1 ia regular service ee the Pacific Coast by the Wasters Air Express. The first twe ef these Wage ships are dee to arrive here aboat April 7 er t the third will fellow shortly thereafter, and another pair, it is expected, wiO reach here the latter part ef die month. Like all ether Westera Air Express passenger ships, these will be reeled with Richfield GaseEae, the air corpora tioa haviag ased Richfield exclusively since the crea tioa of iU air lias, The photograph shews the sUrt ef eae ef tm hig "aerial basses" from New York, with a transcontinental meter stage drawa up aloagside aad a Richfield tank track at the right. Air service between Prague and Rotterdam, via Leipsig and Halle, started April 1 and will be ex tended to London. DWARFING the huge four-teen-passenger planes which have been in service heretofore on the air lanes of the Pacific West will be the new gigantic thirty passenger Fokkcr four-motored monoplanes which will be put into service here this month by the Western Air Express. Indicative of the size and capa bilities of these huge liners of the ait are figures which have just been made public by the Richfield Oil Company. That organization announces that in daytime runs etch plane will be loaded with 400 gallons of Richfield gasoline with a cruising range of 480 miles. For night flying, each will carry a total of 700 gallons of gas with a cruising range of 850 miles. Tn addition to the weight of this fuel, each plane will have a capacity of 820 pounds of baggage. On dayKght flights, 30 passengers, in addition to a crew of four, will be speeded through the air at a regular cruising velocity of 130 miles an hour. At night, with a crew of five, 16 passengers will sleep in comfortable berths. FLEET OP 5 COMING Five, of these huge ships, each costing $110,000, have been bought by Western Air Express for im mediate delivery, it is anonunced. The first two are now en route West by easy stages and are daily expected to arrive at the home field at Alhambra, Calif. The other three will reach the Pacifie Coast this month. Power' of the gigantic "flying Pullmans" is obtained through four 525 horsepower Pratt & Whitney motors, arranged in tandem from nacelles suspended from the mono plane wings on either side of the fuselage. Two-bladed propellers are on the front of the engines to pull the ships through the air, and three-bladed propellers of the push er type ate on the rear motors. HUGE FLYING POWER In test flights the monoplane operated on its two starboard mo tors alone, and on its two port motors alone, and was able to turn with or against the motors. With a two-thirds load, it was able to hold its flying speed and even gain altitude on one motor alone. A useful load of 8,700 pounds can.be transported by the plane, which has a gross weight load of 22,500 pounds. Its overall length is 69 feet 10 inches; overall height, 16 feet 6 inches, and wing span, 99 feet The cabin interior, fixtures and passenger equipment form a design of comfortable simplicity. Although decorators hare made an original effect they hare followed the gen eral ideas of those who designed the interiors of the German steam ship Bremen and French He de France. Passengers are seated in four individual compartments with folding tables for each compartment Completion of the Bremen and represented a tonnage 6 per cent three large motorships made ton- greater than 1928. nage of Hamburg shipyards in 1929 largest eince 1923. Electrification of farms on a large scale is being considered by A total of 49,090 vessels pass- the provincial government of Que- ing through Kiel canal in 1929 bee. he BRAINLESS, ISMS EflGELIS "It doesn't require very many brains and it doesn't require any moral character whatever to be an infidel," Dr. E. J. Bnlgin, who is conducting a series of special meetings at the Calvary Baptist church, said last night in preach ing on "An Infidel's GalL" Outlining tne various forms of unbelief. Dr. Bulgin said: "There are' a number of words which characterize the modern unbelief, and they are very con fusing to the average person be cause they do not mean the same things. The word "unhelieP' will cover all, but just what we mean when we say "infidel" is one lack ing fidelity t othe bible. When we say an atheist, it is one who denies the existence of God, and when we say an agnostic, it is one who doesn't know whether God has made a divine revelation, of Himself, either in the bible or through Christ. When we say "unitarian," it is one who denies that Christ was the divine Son of God, rejecting the trinitarian theory. When we say "universalis we mean a man who thinks everybody universally will be saved, which of course is infidelity, because the bible says there will be a hell for the wicked. When we say "modernist," we mean the man who puts a Ques tion mark after almost evertyhing divine, denies the creation story and most generally accepts evolu tion and no miraculous origin and progress of the universe. He wmm, m OPEN 8760 HOURS EACH YEAR 3DDtfflipllGt3:e AIL US DOUSES Q5ei?v0(3 Tune in on the Voice of Firestone, 9:00 P.M. Every Monday Evening ' "Sinn - "EJUS." ; p Plicae puts the question mark after the virgin birth, and of course that would make Jesus the product of illicit love. They put the question mark after the fall of man in the garden of Eden, and make the story of sin a mythological story." Dr. Bulgin replied to unbeliev ers as follows: "Unbelief requires the proof of a fact already proved and is, therefore, unreasonable. The fact of God is self-evident; It does not have to be proved. Unbelief re quires that kind of proof which renders it a moral Impossibility, and hence is unreasonable. The best demonstration of His fitness as the Savior was given In the way In which he Ignored the fool ish demands of unbelief when my Lord and your Lord was Hanging rm the cruel tree, there bleeding and dying and agonizing for the sin of the world. Unbelief is un reasonable because It asks that kind of evidence that renders im possible to doubt and hence sal vation of faith out of the question." CHXYSXX. -7T" KOTAt COUFI (rmmUt mt,iT8 P.O.B. Fmttrj (SptM rfmifmrnt Ti m) Give a Chrysler things to do it does them better! 1 Go through traffic in a Chrysler. Learn hills up which you have struggled how nimbly and effortlessly it threads laboriously in other cars. Watch the its way through the maze . . . how Chrysler pass everything on the BILL INCREASED WASHINGTON, April 18. 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