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Los Angeles Times

UNIVERSITY CLASS OF '14 WILL RALLY
Berkeley Alumni to Gather From All Over Nation for Reunion This Month

BERKELEY, Nov. 10. (Exclusive)
Announced as "bigger than the big game," the Twenty Years After reunion of the class of 1914 of the University of California will be held in the Gold Ballroom of the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, November 23, the night before the annual California-Stanford football game
  Men and women members of the class, with their wives or husbands, are to participate in the celebration. Plans for the affair are being directed by N. Loyall McLaren, general chairman, and Vic Ellis Breeden heads the attendance committee.
  Members of the 1914 class from all over the United States are to attend, according to word received by the committee. John Schoolcraft, author and publicist of New York and San Francisco, is the class president. The class secretary, M. W. Dobrzensky, Oakland attorney, is aiding in the activities.

AVIATION PIONEERING HELD TO ANTEDATE WRIGHTS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. (U.P.)- Dr. Albert F. Zahm, Chief of Congressional Library's Aeronautics Division, believes the airplane actually was invented eighty years before Orville and Wilbur Wright made their famous flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. 
  Dr. Zahm was wartime chief engineer for a leading airplane manufacturer. In his present post, he is the custodian of what is acknowledged to be the world's greatest collection of aeronautical literature.

NEW TO THE WRIGHTS
He said that as far as he knew, the Wrights "did a lot of inventing that was original with them but not new." He believes the brothers should receive due credit for their pioneering, but doesn't think they should be called the "Fathers of Aviation."
  Dr. Zahm said the history of aviation began in Britain in the first decade of the nineteeth century when Sir George Cayley made a full-scale glider that carried a man and was propelled by gravity. 
  However, he declared, the principles upon which man-flying is based were the work of the following men:
lishman, who, in 1842 made an actual working drawing of an airplane equipped with all features essential to pioneer flight. Alexander Goupil of France, who invented the modern system of airplane control by ailerons in 1884.
  F. J. Stringfellow, another Englishman, who, in 1846, built a model plane, scaled to Henderson's designs, powered it with a steam engine and made it fly.

CREDITS ANOTHER
Another man who may be credited with scientific development of aviation, Dr. Zahm said, is Major C. H. J. Mackenzie-Kennedy, who was accused of being a spy at the recent House Naval Affairs subcommittee investigation of navy airplane purchases. He had testified that American war planes were considerably below European standards.
  Major Mackenzie-Kennedy designed an airplane which would carry a machine gun and its operator in the tail, behind the rudder, thus obviating a former military inconvenience. This, Dr. Zahm believes, was the first airplane capable of carrying an equal load of passengers or materials from the nose of the ship to its tail.

NEW MICROBE FOUND
LENINGRAD, Nov. 10. (AP- The Institute of Agricultural Microbiology says it has discovered a new microbe which accelerates the soaking of flax and bleaches and softens the fiber.