. . CARNEGIE _.:1,. '6Semill.oe!kly . i ESTABLISHED .Id : t> „ . ., 1 0 1.,, i4 -- ,y; , (r, , 41. 'if :::=7: ) . 4:92 - iii rgtztuis . [ • \ • 1904 `'',,, V4; - • \ s , ., ' ' •P N1.,......../$2. Volume 31—Number 27 Lions To Play Boxing Hosts March 15, . 16 Teams to Compete In Twelfth Annual Tournament Nittany Boxers Hold 25 Individual Crowns Penn •State will play host to the 12th :annual Eastern Intercollegiate Boxing tournament on March'ls and 16, it was decided at the annual meet ing of the E. I. B. association on De cember 26. This Will be the fifth time the tourney has been held here. It was here in 1924, 1929, 1931; and 1933. • Present plans include,,nine teams in the competition. They are Army, M. I. T., Syracuse; the present chain pion, Western Maryland, .Harvard Navy, New Hainpshire,. Penn, and ; Penn State. Other schools not mem bers of the association which may en ter teams are Dartmouth, Yale, Car . negie Tech, and Springfield. ' The Nittany Lions hold the edge in individual chainpions since the in ception of the• tournament in 1929 with' a grand total of twenty-five ti tles. Navy rates ,second with nine teen, while Syracuse boasts eleven, and Western Maryland ten. Penn, N. Y. IL, and M. I. T. have each' won three individual titles, Yale has had two, and Army, Colgate, and Georgetown each claim, one. Other schools which have been in the Inter collegiates in other years are three Canadian universities, McGill, Tor onto, and Queens. The Lions,:have had at least one individual champion, every. year• since the association was formed.. .'Two Lions who will defend their, titles [ this , year are , Captain ;,:blil4, Zelez-1 itock,,l2s 7 pounder, and:ltuis Criswell; the i bantatnweight.diyision:•_, , , . • • • „Arne Wolff, tiolf . and for two - years„ and4l Werth- featherwoight,from'.Syricime, associoitioifo: 7 yrin':,the:i4fiterOol•i. choropoophilm)tlire6", yeais. in row. '' 91 , ", • •'" Tweedy,:.oi.Ve§,TeOth,',:l Chapel Addr ess • • •rteliri Marking hi:!fifaili.'cbnsecutive,ap pe:arance on •the College chapel pro gram, Dr:Henry H. Tweedy, of the • Yale Divinity School, New Haven, ' Conn.; will addresS chapel-goers in Schwab- auditorium Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. 'His topic will be "Spir itually-Minded Men of the World!!• ; Dr. -Tweedy,' ,who' is •a frequent speaker at' colleges and universities throughout the east 'and the.midwest, .was educated at Yale University, Un 'ion Theological Seminary, and. the • University . of Berlin. He was also awarded the degree of D. D. by Lek _anon Valley, ,College, in 1921. Following. - his ordination into ~the Congregational 'ministry, the speaker served as poster of the Plymouth church, Utica, 14.' Y., and the South church, Bridgeport, Conn. In 1909, he 'became' a professor 'of prictical theology , at Yale Divinity School, . a post that he still holds.• Searle,' Manager:of Sarg's Marionettes Discusses Difficulty in Working Puppets boctiirs, lawyers, or ministers have nothing on a really finished puppe teer, Charles','W Searle, stage. man ager and company manager-for Tony Sarg's marionettes,,revealed in a re cent interview when he declared that it takes at,least seven years- for tl3e Manipulator : of the puppets to know what it's all about: .This refers only ,the, busiess . of - reading his -lines and- manipulating the figures through the 'controller - and 'the score or more .Of strings which make. all' the action, and gesturea•Pessible, Mr.' Searle ex plained. '..= ' "In order to be a really valuable and - ,an' able puppeteer," he asserted, ."one must, combine' the abilities.to do as-well as any other. professional the duties' of manicurist, seamstress; ar ".'chitect;" mechanic, and artist." Alexander: Woolcott, of ,the New York ,Sun, once wrote; "It must 'be fun" te ' nbe puppeteer brooding over humen - comedy and, in . Olympian fa .., shion, pulling the strings and play: ing ate e m the scenes." ' "Stringi must: be' examined before every performance,". Mr. Searle stet "Not' only do' they. wear • out, 'knot slip' or the string may stretch and a' broken ,string ",is quite fatal to the . action planned, , embarrassment of a .cril l 7 l pled puppet. as much , as_ they 'do the - ''antlcs.properly: done." . While . broken strings giVe plenty ;EGIE LIBRARY Bezdek Favors Legalization of Scholarships for Athletes Here College Should Select Deserving Students ;To Receive-Alumni, Fraternity Grants, Athletic Director Says "Legal" subsidization would be made legal at Penn State if a plan suggested Wednesday in an interview With Director Hugo Bezdek, of the School of ' Physical Education and Athletics, should be inaugurated. The proposition, entirely theoretical in its aspects, yet marking a change in the administrative viewpoint, sug gests the appointment of a committee of three faCulty members to select Ideserving recipients of scholarships. Differing considerably 'from the hitherto "Simon Pure" set-up inaugu rated in 1929,: Director Bezdek ,sug gests that scholarships be awarded to deserving students on a basis of three points—mental ability, character, and athletic prowess—somewhat the same as the , Rhodes scholarship require Sarg's Puppets To Give Faust Players to Sponsor Marionette Portrayal of Old Drama; To Appear Jan. 11 When Tony .Sarg and his marion, ettes come to the campus on January 11 under the, auspices of the' Penn; State Players, they will 'present the oldest known marionette play, Faust, The Wicked Magician. This will be ' the fourth appearance of this group, here since 1926: The show is open to the public and a small admission will be charged. The subject of Faust 'has been a subject of literary and legendary fame for a .number of years and will permit. a great amount of variations in,•presentation.! Because of his 'in-' tense desire. to present , this produc tiom. Mr.. Sarg .h,aa given ,his .charac tors as much ,Magic wizardy•ei ' transforrnations ; : - and. effecti:i.acComiilisline,,in.-this. eerNahleved 'Atage in which. human "actors I .sol : tidieal the tinrrtsran I n ;.1 ,. .tv 431 ' The"Nah!editionsyidf , thhlilife.i&Dil l Fob line Etruatniwarn, nublish'edP-in ;FranlifoYdron.Mainileo.BB7 ,3 adeadld VuOiniiiirdidtely.Pa Repitnti , JapPeareil 'fOrdeenferiesafterwardslrl A publisheir.brathe?'naind'of Pfiti erAublishedOthe. story in Ntirenibeig In l6t4 . w}iieh ran into' six editiorN: England read - versions •ef the story between 1188 and 1594 while trans lations appeared' in almost every country. - - • , . After witnessing one of the ver sions' of Faust in a marionette, per , formance at Frankford-on-Main, Goethe, the famous German writer, decided to write his idea of the thing. The version , of the present day is the well known opera as composed by Charles Gounod, which draws a full house at the Metropolitan Opera, House every season. Mr. Sarg and Stas !Azoy, , , an, asr sistant, have collaborated on the pro duction. to' be given here and have attempted to eliminate any of the 'phases of \ the existing versions which might lie unsuitable for children to witness. The - performance will be held irr Schwab auditorium at 8:20 o'clock. of trouble, the stage. manager ex pressed the opinion that a loose string was worse. A'ptippeteet has as many as forty strings to manipulate at one time and a half inch of 'play' does n't make his job :easier, Mr. Searle declared, grinning. Every important joint of the hu man body is duplicated in' puppets by hinges or other, means_ which al l low full use of every part of the body. Hinges become. sprung, worn, or 'rusty, and screws will become loose, so that it is necessary for some , one,to check these details every day. As for' the ,marionettes themselves, they are' made of a great variety of materials, depending largely upon the characters which they are to repre sent and the sort of action demanded in that characterization. A- few of the figures are simple- and can be made easily, but most of them re quire weeks of work in' modeling the heads and faces after Mr. Sarg has drawn the original design. . For the past, twelve years , Mr. Searle has been managing the Tony Sarg• company and this is the first time that he has. discussed the tricks of the trade at length. ' However, the creator 'of the -Marionette' Thea tre Aineried,--Teny Sarg, -was sit ting nearby' modeling an entrancing and fear-provoking .pirate • face, 'but at -the eame Ain*, making - certain his stage manager wasn't making' any false, declarations;., _ ' STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935 ments. Director BeZdek suggested that the committee be composed of three ad ministrative officers—one to judge the applicant's character, one as a judge of the applicant's scholastic ability, and one as a judge of the athletic prowess of the applicant. These scholarships, he pointed out, might come from several sources— Alumni clubs, fraternities, individuals, or the college itself, if it felt so in clined. DirectOr Bezdek's plan• evolved from a discussion of the non-binding, nine-point code for the guidance of colleges and universities struggling with subsidization of athletes which was adopted by the National Colic giato Athletic association at its 29th annual convention in New York last week. The N.C.A.A. came very near to taking the most drastic step it ever has considered in that direction when it seemed for a time as though the code night be incorporated into the by-laws of the association. Violation, 'then, would mean expulsion from the N.C.A.A., ostracism among colleges. Director Beidek, who is a former president of the American Football Coaches' association, which convened jointly, with the N.C.A.A., agreed heartily with seven, of the nine pro visions of the code, which is, printed in another column of this issue.; He strongly stated, however, that point number four, forbidding mem bers of athletic or physical education staffs to recruit athletes through cor respondence or interviews, was en titled, to further discussion. (Continucdon page three) StudentslaVorhi' RervAsioii • .. f ct ~Tational T ' -•., , Vedera -:iWant§"ANationalliefonsei , I! . - A 6 BOSTOk,,-!.Jan. 2,e÷riU.llP= Arnold , .mont X.the nationalodefense , act -to make. military ltraining. in , land , grant ,collegqs;:cptional',instead of i compul sory was favored-unanimously by the National Student- Federation of America at the closing of its 12th congress yesterday. The resolution, by Betty Muther, Wellesley graduate, also urged rehear ing of the recent cases in which the U. S. -Supreme Court ruled that two University of California students had to submit to military training. "The decision was based on irrelevant and collateral questions and on the draft cases decided in wartime, while the cases of the two boys -is purely a peace thne issue", the students charg ed.. The federation also favored contin-, uance of ERA educational relief for another year. It urged administrators to "cooperate more closely with local student groups in the selection of ' pro jects, club work, and work of a so cial significance and less attention be given to mere manual' labor". A telegram to •President Roosevelt thanked him for his "confidence" and "interest" in the organization. Thomas F. Neblett .of Louisiana State University was elected presi dent, defeating , Charles Wise of University of, West Virginia, 42 to 29. Margaret Taylor of University of Arizona was reelected vice president and Wesley Osborne, Boston Univer sity treasurer without opposition. An invitation by Kansas University to hold the next congress in Kansas City was accepted., Rohrbeck Named-Head Of Editor's Cdmmittee W.- P.. ltirkwood, St. Paul,. Minn., president •of the American Associa tion of Agricultural College Editors, has named Edwin H. Rohrbeck, editor of the-School . of Agriculture, as chair. man of the program committee for the 1935 meeting at Cornell University. Rohrbeck has previously served'the association as .vice-president, mein ber of the executive committee, and chairman of the committee on home economics information. In the ab sence of the president, he presided at the 1933 meeting at the University of Illinois. • Shoemaker Will Speak - Col.. Henry W. Shoemaker, Publish er of the -"Altoona , Tribunc,", and membei of the state conservation commission,`: will' address forestry studenteat Mont Alto on "The De velopment of Forestry • in Pennsyl vania" on Jariaary 16. • Poster Winner4o Get Free Senior:itall Ticket The annual contest, for the win ning poster of the Senior Ball will begin as soon as the'brchestra has been selected, Cecil: t. Spadafora '34, chairman of :the dance com mittee, announced , yesterday. The dance will be held , Oring the sec ond week of FebruarY.. Spadafora stated that a free ticket to the dance - will be award ed to the winner of-the contest. The posters wll be judOd by faculty members of the , dePartment of architecture. Furibet• details will be announced NCAA Adopts `Code of Ethics' 'Athletic SulisidizaijOn Covered ' By 9 Point Program; Pay Held Unjisiifiable In an attempt to aid colleges strug gling with' the questiOn of athlete subsidizing, ' the National Collegiate Athletic •association recently adopted America's first natiOn4 'code of eth ,ics' to clarify for - ediicational insti tutions what is "justifiable and un :justifiable" recruiting' and subsidizing of college athletes. The National Collei;iate. Athletic association • recently''adopted Amer ica's first national 'code of ethics' to' clarify for educational institu tions' what , is '"justifiable and unjus tifiable" recruiting and subsidizing of college athletes. The :Cade may help students to see where Penn State stands. In is nine clausal; the code ham mers home the idea that it is unjus tifiable to offer funds. br employment to prospective students-or to pay them directly or indirectly . for athletic services while in college, or to give them a higher rate of'uay on' college jobs than other students. Also forbidden are inierviewing.or corresponding with .priispective.•ath leteu, and, luring!-them{ front other collegei. Tile'. code .:approved only, two -means rof ,enebilraging.,athletes ; , 4- . 4.'Ork for ', regular,'-Wa es,, and Per- , niissiOnfor ,, athletie',7s Ihprities , ,to . ,pOinti,oht rediliatioical. 1 4?antilge'in t, bwir, schools in -speeches.or in rc' ,sponseitq direct queries.. , ,,,, ,u , ~, ~ii .V r he cp,de follows: ' , ~,(4},lt is 7pnjustifiable, 4'or , a!'stu; ' dent to : receiye, any subsidy of anonel tary,value either.directlk•or indirect ly Kit - 11,1141y -for, his ,athletic: 'services: , ; ",(2) Sit , unjustifiable employ prospective. athletes before they ina triculate,or,to make advance payment which is• not conditioned 'upon the service being performed in advance of the payment, or to make . any payment for services at a rate greater than the current rate for other students in the institution. (Continued on page three) C. A. Cabinet To Leave For Mountain Retreat Members of the Christian' Associa- Lion. cabinet will hold :in, overnight cabin retreat at the C. A. cabin in Shingletown Gap, the group leaving ,the first floor lounge of Old Main at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and re turning in time for Sunday chapel. Those who plan to'; participate should sign up at the C. A. offices, 304 Old Main, as soon' as possible. Lewis J. Maurer '37 is chairman of the Committee, which includes Fred H. Light '35, Grace A. Bierstein '36, E. Robert Curry '36, and - Emma B. Rubinkam '36. State Awards $50,000 Annually to Students' Here in Scholarships The state is paying more than $50,- 000 yearly directly to individual stu dents at Penn State this year in the form of scholarships. 'The exact amount is 01,800, it was announced recently. Sixty-one students from forty dif ferent counties are holders of com petitive scholarships, one of which is awarded annually to the 'student in each county of the state'vnaking the highest score in an examination open to all high school seniors.. They are worth $lOO a year. The junior class contains the larg est number of holders' of .these com petitive scholarships, with' seventeen. Both the senior and sophomore class es have, sixteen students receiving benefits, while the freshman class lists, only twelve. One county, Centre, has a scholar ship holder in each class,, five differ ent counties' have three:' receiving benefits, eight counties have scholar ship holders in two classes; and twen ty-six counties have one. In ,'addition to the competitive scholarships,' each state senator has three. scholarships worth!'sloo which he may give out to worthy students. 2 Killed in Auto Accidents During Christmasßecess Icy Highways Cause Serious Accidents On Wednesday Merchant, Teacher Killed On Vacation A treacherous, glassy highway was the cause of several serious and many minor accidents involving students re turning from the Christmas vacation Wednesday. Chains were of no use, and the guard rails at the sides of the high ' ways were all that saved many cars from toppling over embankments or turning over into ditches. James E. Quigley jr. '3B was in one of the more serious accidents when the car which he was driving was unable to stop at a railroad crossing ' when he applied his brakes, early Tuesday morning in Lock Haven. The machine skidded, crashed into the gate crossing, and went onto the tracks of an oncoming train. Quigley and a companion, Miss Ev elyn Gamble, leaped out in time, but two passengers in the rear seat, Jer ome Folmar, a Lock Haven merchant, and Miss Mary E. Welch were in the machine as the train struck it. Fdlmar was killed instantly and Miss Felch is in a serious condition. Quig ley was exonerated on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Injuries received in an automobile accident on December 18 near New port, Pa., proved fatal to Miss Grace Bacon, assistant professor of nutri tion extension, who died on Decem ber 25 in the Polyclinic hospital at Harrisburg. Miss ,Bacon, who was 44 years old, received a fractured' skull .when .the car in which she was riding, driven by J. Dale Smith of Punxsutawney, :an ,•employee of the Nittany Lion -Inn,. collided. with. an other . car. driven , by::Justice: of :,the Peace AV:: J. :Fleckinger of. NeWport: Smith . received a , minor;:head injury and. Fleekinger was. • cuit.andbruised. , I".llffi.4llacon 'had- heen'a - niember, of 'the ClillOget(Striff)Sined Sepltehillarl.s, 1917;•!!dntl, with a tme , , , excepticinf.'had the lbngest record of.. pervise. pf any iirontin in extension wOtic'at the 'COI - • Mark: A: -McCarthy, of , ithe animal husbandry .department, is in the Waverly, lowa,- hospital, under observation-for injuries received when the'car"in which he was driving to Minnesota with Frank A. Tebo, in structor in engineering drawing, and Mrs: Tebo, slipped on the wet pave ment and hit a milk truck. • Mr. and Mrs. Tebo returned home Wednesday. The car in which four students were returning to State College Wed nesday at noon skidded into two cars which had crashed in front of them near Millerstown. No one was in jured. The students were Richard G. Ochsner '36, Howard H. Hewett '37, Charles E. Smith '37, and John T. Campbell jr. '3B, the driver. • John McGregor '36 and Frederick A. Locke '36 escaped injury when their car overturned Wednesday morning about a mile this side of Port Matilda. Arthur Berman '36 was driving a car which overturned on Reading Pike Wednesday morn ing. He and his father, the only occupants, were uninjured., Many other minor accidents, most of which were unreported, occurred. Robert G. Danehower '3B narrowly escaped killing a youngster on a sled; when the sled was hit by a Greyhound bus which he was following. Tho boy was unhurt, Danehower swerved his car to avoid hitting the youngster, who passed between the wheels of the bus. His car skidded into the guard rail, swung around and settled into a ditch on the other side of the road. No one was injured. • Five Penn State students and one Penn undergraduate. narrowly escap ed injury twice on Wednesday when their car, driven by Jack Swerman '35, skidded off the highway shortly before noon, and then hit a guard rail in a skid half an hour later. Other occupants. of the car were Charles U. Kleinberg '35, Leo Knopf '36, Charles M. Schwartz jr. '36, and Philip A. Schwartz '37. None were injured. Dean Stoddart Goes To Alabama on Leave Dean Charles W. Stoddart of the School of Liberal Arts, left today for Alabama. Ple plans to return by the middle of February. Dean Stoddart, in taking a two months leave, is using the remainder of the sabbatical grinted by the board of trustees some time ago. Pressure of work in reorganizing the school prevented, the dean from remaining away from the Collegc•for the whole of the six months granted at that time. State Faces Budget Deficit; Payment_to College Delayed Hetzel Confident That Early Remedy Will Solve Problem 'Trustees Borrow Funds To Maintain Operations When questioned concerning the al leged deficit in the State budget, Pres ident Ralph D. Hetzel stated that College authorities have been aware for sometime of the difficulty the State is having in meeting its finan cial obligations, but that they are carrying on with the complete confi dence that the situation will be rem edied as soon as possible. "The officials of the College have known for sometime of the pres ent and pending problems of State finance. The College has received but a small portion of the payment due it since last July," the President stat ed. "The situation has developed out of circumstances over which no one has control. College officials are in close touch with the officers of the State and everything possible is be ing done to deal with the problem sympathetically and constructively."' The President expressed the hope that the State income will improve during the remaining months of the ! fiscal year, and said that in the mean time the trustees are taking steps to finance the operations of the College. This means, of course, that funds must be borrowed and it necessarily entails further economies and re strictions upon College operations al ready severely curtailed, he explain ed. However, the President is optimis tic as to the future. "The College expects to carry on with complete confidence that the situation will be remedied at • the earliest possible time." Team Adds: to Points Toward Fruit Trofhy State took a firmer •grip. on the!•kilver!trophy,..emblematie .of in judging apples,, ; by winning , . the recent intercollegiate .contest, Scoring ,10,9412 posSible 4,060 points, the Penn. , State steam won **Over; .teams ,representing Ohio. State University, Rutgers University,- MassachitSetts , .State College, and West Virginia University, placing in that order. A Penn State team member, J. Warren Shearer '35, scored 3,900 out of a possible 4,000 points for first place in the contest. He was awarded a gold medal. Other members of the team were Henry C. Gilmore '35, who placed eighth, and Virgil D. Mack, who placed tenth in individual stand ings. D. Mohney '35 Wins Beef, Lamb Judging IX Lee Mohney '35, a member of the livestock and meat judging teams this year, won first in the judging of beef and second in the judging of:lamb at the recent contest in Chicago. Mohney's total score on all meats made him fifth highest individual in the whole contest.' Other members of the team, which won fifth in the con test, were Samuel E. Keichline '35, and Sedgwick E. Smith '35. Prof. P. Thomas Ziegler; of the animal hus bandry department, was the team coach. World's Smallest Gasoline Engine Invented By William L. Brown, Former Student Here The world's smallest gasoline en gine, invented by William L. Brown jr., a former student here, who prom ised his father he wouldn't let it "in terfere with his studies," is the latest sensation 'in the realm of mechanics. And his father is now president of the company which manufactures this tiny engine which has been used in all model airplanes which have set world's records. • William L. Brown' sr. frankly ad mits that all the credit for the re markable little motor should go to his twenty-three-year-old • son, Wil liam jr. The motor is used principally in Model airplanes hiving a wing spread from four to ten feet. It will• run for 115 minutes on two ounces of gasoline, which is fed into its tiny tank with a medicine dropper. All the world's records in model airplane flying have been made by users of Brown Junior Motors. On May 28 an endurance flight record was made from Camden Airport to Armstrong's Corner, Del.; by a model plane which remained in the air two hours, thirty-five minutes and thirty nine seconds. COMPLETE CAMPUS COVERAGE PRICE FIVE CENTS Waters Doubts If State Can Meet Obligations To College Now $19,000,000 Loss Seen For Present Biennium Charles A. Waters, State Treasur er, indicated that it may be, neces sary to delay payments to hospitals, homes and colleges, and assistance to aged mothers, in an interview re cently in which he discussed the fi nancial condition - of the State Gov ernment. This College is included in this group. He said that in figuring up the State's assets and liabilities, he be lieved that there would be a deficit of approximately $18,000,000 at the end of the biennium next month. His estimate varies widely with the esti mates of Governor Pinchot and of the Philadelphia Record, but is generally believed to be the most accurate. Because of this condition, several payments to this College have been delayed since July, and will probab ly continue to be delayed until the State can raise adequate funds to pay its non-preferred bills, under ' which this College is classified. In the meantime the Board of Trustees has had to look elsewhere for much of the finances necessary to maintain this institution, recently. Waters said that indications are that current revenues for the re mainder of the biennium will barely be sufficient to meet the expenses of the' government. The State's prefer red obligations, consisting chiefly of the payments of the public schools are also $5,500,000 behind, and another $6,000,000 will become due in Febru ary, he added. "The non-prefefred. bills • including payment to hospitals, homes and col leges •and assistance to aged mothers, will, total $9,600,000 by the end of :the biennium," Waters said, "and it has.been:getting worse all the time." 'but avious'that.we , tan't pay all of our.. bills , when. we: don'tithava , the' menu:: We're not giving preference iir„viy, of the non-preferred oblige- - tions.ov,,Miscellaneousrbilts, ,ing,the ol4st ones. first 'as , theribnils- - become ,avnilable he concluded. Commuters Allowed To Lunch in Lounge Students commuting here front nearby towns have been granted the use of the third floor Student Union lounge as a place to eat their lunches. The room will be available for that purpose between. the hours of 11:30 a. m. and 12:45 p. m. The move is being sponsored by 51r. George W. Ebert, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, in conjunc tion with the Student Union. In the past these students have usually been forced to eat in their automobiles in the parking space back of the Physics building. Dr. Joseph P. Riteneur, College Physician, originally suggest ed that some provisions be made for these students. Authorities have requested that all due consideration be given to the furn_ ishings of the room and that the priv ilege granted be respected to the ex tent that all propriety be observed in order that the privilege need not be withdrawn. A receptacle will be placed there for refuse. Utmost precision must be used in making these tiny motors, for if the engine coughs 2,000 feet up, with a trophy at stake, no aviator is present in the fuselage to "choke her" or regulate the spark. One of the most difficult problems in devising the small motor was the sparkplug. Finally, a plug no bigger than - the end of a pencil was made to perform satisfactorily. Another, be tween the cylinder wall and piston is a moving clearance of less than 2-10,- o@oths of an inch. The motor tips the scales at six and a half ounces. With all fixings to start and keep it running at 5,000 R. P. M., developing one-fifth horse power, it weighs seventeen and three quarter ounces. In the'spring of 1931, Brown's en gine made . possible the first record flight of a model plane powered by gasoline. It was only for a few sec onds' duration but further success followed rapidly. Brown expects 'to resume his studies here in engineer ing soon. He left college temporarily to get production of his engine un derway in the company organized by his father.
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