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GERMAN CONTRACTING
COMPANY IS BUING
SUPER-GIANT AIRPLANE
HUGE PLANE WILL BE ABLE
TO CARRY FIFTY
PASSENGERS
TO RIVAL GRAF ZEPPELIN
Body Will Be Well Constructed Ship
Fit To Weather Ocean Waves If
Forced To Light In Water
(By Associated Press)
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
Nov. 28.-While the merits and
drawbacks of the Graf Zeppelin are
being discussed, the Dornier con-
struction plant on Lake Constance,|
an affiliation of the Zeppelin '
works, is quietly completing a sup-
per-plane for trans-Atlantic serv-
ice.
For months the construction of
this giant plane has been going on
with all the secrecy of war-time at
the shops of Altenrhein on the
Swiss side of the lake, from which
all visitors have been barred.
This new plane is not intended as
an actual enlargement of the Dor-
nier Superwals, but rather as a rev-
olutionizing type with which it is
hoped to solve the question wheth-
er the airship or the airplane is to
be the trans-oceanic conveyance of
the future.
The body of this plane is not a
boat but a substantially construct-
ed ship fit to weather the most
tempestuous ocean waves when it
may be found necessary to go down
on the water. It is built with mas-
sive walls and the interior is di-
vided into a series of :watertight
bulkheads to prevent the entire
ship frombeing flooded in caset
water is shipped.

PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW VARIOUS STAGES IN LIFE OF BRITISH KING ILIITIAI Dfl 0 lIlA RAID EXHIBIT PICTUR

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PROFESSOR DUNLAP OF LATIN DEPARTM
NEW AND UNIQUE METHOD AS CU

The hull is furnished with a keel B
to steady the ship in a high sea. If any one who writes you let-
Its bow is surmounted by a con-w
ning tower comprising the cap- ters .has a habit of running words
tain's bridge and pilot's cage, a together or of using extemporane-
chart and navigation room and a ous abbreviations that can't be de-
wireless cabin. The span of wings ciphered, send that
measures 164 feet. Twelve mo- person over tc
tors, arranged in tandem forma- the office of Prof. James E. Dun-
tion, six in front and six behind the lap, of the Latin department.
wings, will supply a motor, energy And if after five minutes there
totaling 6,000 horsepower. he doesn't come out resolved never'
The crew will comprise a cap-I again to scribble even in his lecture
tarn, two pilots, two wireless oper-
ators, on~e navigation officers, two notes, your money will be cheer-
mechanics and two stewards. There fully refunded. For he will have,
will be room for 50 passengers and learned from some of Professor
for 20 tons of freight. With its Dunlap's manuscripts just what iti
full cargo the vessel will weigh 45
tons. Its maximum speed will be feels like to puzzle vainly over il-
'188 miles an hour and it will have legible pen scratches and abbrevia-
a flying radius of 1,860 miles. Over tions.
the wings an emergency deck has Just now Professor Dunlap is
been erected and between these working on photostatic reproduc-
two surfaces the 12 motors will be wing on phoostaticepoduc-
mounted. tions of some loose pieces of note
For the vessel's take-off the en- paper which William C. Hollands,
tire motor power will be required superintendent of binding and
to drag it from the water, but in printing in the library, found in an
the air only 50 per cent of the ; old Bible.
available energy will be employed. These notes contain just about

the sort of thing found written in
modern family Bibles (if there are
such things)-a record of the birth
dates of all the children and the
dates of their baptisms, with lists
of the god-parents. But they are.
especially hard to read because
they were written partly in dialec-
tic Latin and partly in medieval
French. Moreover, they were writ- 1
ten by two scribblers, who scrib-
bled in different styles. Abbrevia-!
tions were used whenever they'
happened to occur to either of the
writers, and a good many of the
letters are formed exactly alike-
just as some busy sorority sisters
scribble their notes of acceptance !
land bread-and-butter thank you
letters today.
Incidentally, Professor Dunlap is
trying to find out just who wrote

Intimate photos of King George
lENT PRESENTS V of England depict the British
RE FOR SCRIBBLING monarch as he appeared in vai-
JRE OR S RIBB ING ous stages of his life from child-
the manuscripts and where they hood until the present time: (1)
were written, and to determine a child of three or four (standing)
whether they are probably valuable with his mother, the late Queen
or unimportant. But just now the Alexandra; (2) as a boy; (3) at
manuscripts are chiefly useful as a 15; 4) taken in 1922; (5) riding
moral lesson to those lost souls do
who perish in writing and mailing down the Mall; (6) in full-dres
letters that can't be read. naval uniform; (7) the king talk-
ing to a member of the famous
INDIANA-A new field house Black Watch upon .his arrival in
costing $400,000 will be dedicated' Ballater, Scotland, 1926; (8) with
here Dec.-13. Queen Mary at his coronation,
which occurred in 1911.

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