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MSlfnIIti I STL0UIS POST-DISPATCH Editorial Page Daily Cartoon Society Markets Wants PART THREE ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939. PAGES i SC ISO EXCHANGE WIND 'DRAG' ON PLANE WINGS CUT 65 PCT. IN EXPERIMENT Winners of Annual Pulitzer Prize Awards JUDGE'S ACTS BEATS LAUF MOVE "1 Details of Important Step in Achievement of Greater Air Speed Kept Secret by Aeronautics Advisory Committee. RAILWAY CASE TO REDUCE PATROL SHARP MISSOURI HOUSE ON PULITZER AWARD WINNERS SPEAK IN RADIO BROADCAST Those of the Press Pledge Renewed Vigilance in Reporting, Interpreting News for America.

Legislators, Instead, Per Senator Tobey Attacks Wil- the aerodynamic research scientist." 1 LOUIS P. LOCHNER TALKS FROM BERLIN LANGLEY FIELD, May 2 (AP). The successful completion of an experiment which will add considerably to the speed of present-day airplanes was announced here today by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. For many years scientists have tried to reduce the friction of air passing over wings in flight for both added speed and safety. Today's announcement by the committee, a Government-supported body of which Col.

Charles A. Lindbergh is a member, said such friction or "drag" had been reduced by 65 to 75 per cent. What that will mean in speed, the Director of Research, Dr. George W. Lewis, declined to say, but reference -was made during the committee's visit to Langley Field, site of the committee laboratories, of airplanes designed to "fly 400 to 500 miles an hour." Lindbergh Visits Field.

Col. Lindbergh, an Army Air Corps reserve officer recently called to active duty for an appraisal of American research facilities in aeronautics, accompanied other merrrbers of the committee here MARJORIE KIN NAN RAWLINGS. Author of "The Yearling." Raymond Massey, Star of 'Abe Lincoln in Praises Its Author From New York Theater. NEW YORK, May 2 (AP). Winters of Pulitzer prizes for newspaper work pledged themselves last night, because of the honors paid to them, to give renewed vigilance 9 A I I i i i 4 I ill! i -1 1 I 4 1 to the American press.

Louis P. Lochner. chief of the Berlin bureau of the Associated Press, said be regarded his $500 prize for distinguished service as a foreign correspondent "as a solemn obligation always to interpret the rews. and especially the German situation, impartially and fair- 0" Speaking on a National Broadcasting Co. roil call with Lochner and others, Hal Lcyshon.

editor of the Miami (Fla.) Daily News, said that paper's award for public serv Associated Press Wirephutus. R. G. CALLVERT. Editorial writer.

CHARLES WERNER, Oklahoma cartoonist BRITAIN PAYING NAZIS FOR PATENT ON CZECH WEAPON On This Announcement, U. S. War Debt Is Injected Into Commons Debate. LONDON. May 2 (AP).

An op-osition member raised the question of payment of war debts to the United States during debate in the House of Commons today. With the new N. A. C. A.

wing, the boundary layer remains smooth almost to the point where it sweeps off the trailing edge. "Venetian Blind" Brakes. The N. A. C.

A. also announced perfection of a device resembling the Venetian blinds in common use in living room windows for use on planes as an air brake. The committee said the "Venetian blind" idea had not yet been applied to a plane, but that tests showed it gives the highest lift yet obtained from any device of its kind. New wind tunnels inclosed metal flight laboratories where flying conditions are simulated were dedicated during the day. In both the 19-foot pressure tunnel and the 12- foot free flight tunnel, the only ones of their type in the world, scientists work under air pressure, as "sandhogs" do in driving subway bores under bodies of water.

One, with a cylinder 60 feet in diameter, was built "preparatory to the construction of new aircraft exceeding all past experience as to size and speed." The other, a steel sphere, is for testing the stability of model planes in free flight. In emerging from the two new tunnels, researchers must go through a decompression chamber to return gradually to, a normal atmospheric pressure. Some 400 aviation engineers and executives gathered for the dedication of the tunnels, described as "a distinct step in advancing aeronautics knowledge." HULL, AUSTRALIAN DISCUSS POSSIBILITY OF TRADE PACT Direct Diplomatic Relations Through Setting of Legations Also Considered. WASHINGTON, May 2 (AP. Secretary of State Hull and Stanley M.

Bruce, Australian High Commissioner in London, discussed today the possibilities of a trade agreement between the United Their conference also embracd the opening of direct diplomatic relations through the establishment of an Australian legation here and an American legation at 5 POUNDS BAG pJ "EPS i a I Ivi 50c 85c I from Washington for an inspection of the laboratories. The secrecy surrounding the re search work being conducted nere was emphasized by Dr. Lewis when he asked reporters to refrain from going beyond the formal announcement in transmitting their dispatches. He characterized the drag-reduction discovery as one of "far-reaching effects" and "one of the most important in 10 years." The key to reducing air friction to an absolute minimum, within the purview of present knowledge, lies in keeping a smooth flow of air on almost the entire wing. What the design is, Dr.

Lewis said, must remain secret. In an ordinary' wing the "boundary layer," a thin film of air which hugs the wing, begins to break up just aft of the leading edge. This creates drag, reducing speed and lifting power. "The cause of the transition from laminar to turbulent flow in the boundary layer," said the N. A.

"has long been one of the most baffling mysteries in the field of km rfi IE ice would "serve as a spur and a constant reminder that vigilance in the public interest is the inviolate trust that cannot be subjugated to any other motive in the publication of a fearless and honest newspaper." Charles Werner of the Daily Oklahoma City, the winning cartoonist, said, "I hope jny work in the future will merit el! this praise." Thomas L. Stokes, cf the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, the winner for outstanding reporting, told how he got the prize story disclosure that Kentucky politicians allegedly were using Federal or State agencies in a primary election campaign. Raymond Massey, star "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," the winning play, spoke from the Plymouth 1 1 I i The question was put when War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha dis-, closed that the British Government! jwas paying royalties to the German; Government on patents of the Bren 'machine-gun, formerly held by! KJJ 13 fect Measure to Increase Highway Force From 115 to 165. By a Staff Correspondent of Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, May Representative H.

P. Lauf ot the 2, Jef- ferson City, outspoken leader of the lawyer bloc opposed to criminal code reform, was beaten decisively in the House yesterday in his attempt to cripple the State Highway Patrol by cutting the number of State troopers from 115 to 50. Lauf, who is aligned with the Pendergast forces In their losing fight in the House against the Governor's bill to take control of the Kansas City police from the politicians, denounced the patrol from the floor and charged that it had overstepped its statutory authority by assigning to itself the duties of a "State constabulary." His attempt to reduce drastically the personnel of the patrol came in the form of an amendment to a bill designed to increase the number nf patrolmen from 115 to 165. The House defeated the amendment. 53 to 21.

then promptly ordered the bill perfected. It now goes on the calendar for final passage. F.arlirr Anti-Patrol Bill Killed. Early in the session. Lauf introduced a.

bill to limit the power of the patrol to the enforcement of traffic regulations on the State highways. This measure, which would have prevented the patrol from assisting peace officers in the apprehension of criminals and from making investigations such as the slot machine inquiry in Cole County and other counties in 30.17, was killed by the Roads and Highways Committee, In his arguments yesterday, Ivtuf contended the 1931 Legislature crr-ated the patrol for the sole purpose, of enforcing highway laws and pro- moting traffic safety. Sinre that time, he declared, the patrol has continuously reached out for crca- Continued on Page 8 Column 2. GLAZED SASH For Perches, Club-Houses, Garages! Finest Quality White Tine 20x35-ln 6-Light 6-Light 6-Light 9-Light 9-LiEht $1.15 $1.47 $1.57 $2.05 $223 SI.35 Dandelion RAKE 26 Saw Teeth your la idelions with i. I.

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Wilkerson of Chicago in the 1925 receivership of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Railroad generated a sharply worded controversy today in a hearing of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. Senator Tobey New Hampshire, touched off the ex change when he referred to the receivership proceedings as "a horri ble example" of jurisprudence and termed the record in the case a "rotten" one. Marquis L. Bell, general counsel for the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railroad, not then testifying, spoke up emphatically to defend Judge Wilkerson as "fearless and independent." Senator Truman (Dem.) Missouri, entered the argument to declare that the Judge "ought to be impeached" for his conduct in the St.

Paul receivership. "He is an able, honest, fearless man," Bell retorted. Judge Wilkerson, he added, was in charge of the present Rock Island reorganization case and had conducted it in a "very dignified and honorable way." "I Want Integrity." "I don't give a damn about dignity," Tobey exclaimed. "I want honesty and integrity in these matters. If the common people ever had some infra-red ray, some ray from the worldof tomorrow, and they put it on Congress, on Judge Wilkerson and on Kuhn, Loeb and could sec some of the things going on under the surface, we wouldn't have any Government before long." Tobey said Kuhn, Loeb New York bankers, had "focused their influence" on Judge Wilkerson to obtain the appointment of two receivers for the St.

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litzer prize for the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspa per during 193S, waged a nine-month campaign "to make Miami freeholders free men by reopening the ballot boxes." The News went into action when the three-man commission majority resisted a movement for a recall. The Florida Supreme Court upheld an order of Circuit Judge H. F. Atkinson for the election. The three commissioners Mayor Robert R.

Williams, John W. Du-bose and Ralph B. Ferguson were recalled two months ago. James M. Cox, former Ohio Governor who was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1920, is publisher of the Miami Daily JNews, of which Daniel J.

Mahoney is general manager and Hal I. Leyshon editor. Cox declared today the spirit of II 1 I 1 Theater in behalf of the author, Robert E. Sherwood. The play was favored by the New York critics circle in their balloting, but the critics did not reach a final decision as to the "best" drama of 133.

fl R. cf the Portland man read parts of his prize-winning editorial. Speaks From Berlin. Speaking from Berlin, Lochner said, "Year in and year out, we newspaper men write about other people. We watch the movements of the great and near-great.

We tr- to interpret ihem to our read i I LOUIS P. LOCHNER, Foreign correspondent. THOMAS L. STOKES, Scripps-Howard reporter. Ben Pinchot Photo.

JOHN GOULD FLETCHER, Poety prize winner. illustrated by an eminent example, excluding, as too obvious, the names of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, $1000 awar ded to "Benjamin Franklin," by Carl Van Doren. For a distinguished volume of verse published during the year by an American author, $1000 awarded to John Gould Fletcher for his "Selected Poems." An annual scholarship, having a value of $1500, was awarded to Danti Fiorillo, Westwood, N. as the student of music in America "who may be deemed the rrost talented and deserving, in order that he may continue his studies with the advantage of European instruction." The nomination was made bv a jury of teachers of the depart ment of music in Columbia University and of the Institute of Musical Art. An annual scholarship, having a value of $1500, was awarded to Peter Cook, Kingston, N.

as the art student who "shall be certified as the most promising and deserving by the National Academy of Design, with which the Society of American Artists has been merged." Three graduates of the Columbia School of Journalism were awarded traveling scholarships each having a value of $1500 Bernard S. Red-mont and Patricia Bradford Rey of New York and John Earnshaw Leard of West Roxbury, Mass. Members of Committee. The journalism awards were made by the trustees of Columbia University on recommendation ot the advisory board of the Graduate School of Journalism, which is composed of Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia's president; Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Robert Lincoln O'Brien, formerly of the Boston Herald; Arthur M.

Howe, editor emeritus of the Brooklyn Eagle; Ralph Tulitzer of New York: Julian Larose Harris, executive editor of the Chattanooga Times; William Allen White, editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette; Kent Cooper, general manager of the Associated Press; Stuart H. Perry of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram; Harold Stanley Pollard, chief editorial writer of the New York World-Telegram; Frank R. Kent, political columnist of the Baltimore Sun; Sevel-lon Brown, editor of the Providence Journal, and Walter M. Harrison, managing editor of the Oklahoma City Oklahoman. ame M.

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GIBRALTAR, May 2 (AP). Bar ricades that ecently were erected across the main road from Gibral-i tar into Spain were removed today; a detachment of British en- gineers, indicating a lessening oi tension. Units of the German fleet, Including submarines, left Ceuta, Malaga and Algeciras and headed westward out of the Mediterranean today. Destination of the vessels, which were on a Mediterranean cruise, was not disclosed. Three British warships and a submarine left this British crown colony and vital Mediterranean defense link for the East and four French destroyers also left Gibraltar, proceeding westward.

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The award is $500. Stokes' prize for "a distinguished example of a reporter's work" was $1000. His investigation of intimidation of voters involved Senator Barkley and Gov. A. B.

Chandler Cf Kentucky. Werner's cartoon, which won him $500. was "Nomination for 193S," in which Czecho-Slovakia was pictured dead in its tomb. A scroll at the trave head read: "Nobel Peuce Prize." Arts and letters Award. In addition to S1000 to Sherwood for "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" as the original American play performed in New York, which represents in marked fashion the educational Vfc.lue and power of the stage, the awards in arts and letters follow: Fcr a distinguished novel published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, $1000, awarded to "The Yearling," by Marjorie Kin-nan Rawlings.

"The Yearling" deals with the life of a boy in an isolated section of Florida, and with the simplicities which make them happy. For a distinguished book of the year on the history of the United States. $1000 awarded to "A History of American Magazines," by Frank Luther Mott. For a distinguished American klography teaching patriotic and "tcselfish. services to the people, $35 KITCHEN SINK AND CABINET A Thrilling Vulue! Finest Grade! Fully Guaranteed it always ha3 been, a protector of what makes a republic in government a fact as well as name.

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