Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1923, Page 2

. 0P CRSISNEARS 1S, CHIEFS CATHER TO OUTLINE POLIY l’fiafiy' Problems Arise as Death Takes Leader on Eve of Campaign. BY ROBERT T. YTeaders of the republican party from all sections of the country al- ready are gathering in Washington for a series of important party con- ferences to be held soon after the funeral services for the late Presi- dent Harding are concluded. Many of the leaders will go to Marion for the interment on Friday, turning imniediately to_the capital so that the conferences affecting the entire future of the G. O. P. may be begun by Monday next. In a way, these conferences will be a parallel to the “best minds” matherings in Marion after the ele tion of Mr. Harding and prior to his inauguration. There will be more of a party tinge to the Wash- ington conferences, however, for it is realized that the death of Presi- dent Harding. almost on the eve SMALL. re- of a new presidential campaign. has | confronted the republicans with un- expected problems, requiring sound thought and mature judgment Many Presidential Bees. Naturally one;of tha first acts of President Coolidge » % to announce that he would forwasd I8 every way possible the policles a8 {pe Harding administration. This. statement was taken, and should be taken, at its full value. It does not mean, ever, that Mr. Coolldge will be barred from having some policies of his own, and it is in consideration of -his vourse in that direction that the party leaders as a whole are interested. Mr. Coolidge’s first instincts are to consult as far as possible with his colleagues of the Senate in mapping ©out his future political program. All indications are that he will find the upper branch of Congress. over which he presided for more than two yea v difficult to deal with. ate, as at present constituted, does not go very much on sentiment. And furthermore there are a number of presidential bees buzzing in the Sen- ate. That will not make some of the &enators predisposed to meekly fol- l‘u_\k the dic €s of & new man in the Vhite House wha may cast his own New England farmer's hat into the ring before many months have passed. Sends for Brandegee. President Coolidge recognizes the Senate will have much to do with Xls own career. That is why one of his first acts was to send for Sena- tor Frank Brandegee, of Connecticut, and that is why his first Sabbath rest was broken for a two hours' confer- ence with the leader of the Senate irreconcilables. Brandegee has al- ways been one of the strong men of the “battalion of death.” He has not talked quite as much as some of the sthers, for he has no personal politi- cal ambitions to further. but he ha been an earnest worker in the ranks against anything that might commit cue United States to any part or par- cel of the league of nations or to the world court which is functioning under the Jeague. Mr. Coolidge Jnows the ‘effecfvéness 01 Frank Brindesee un the Sépate floor and_ in the Senate «loakroom 3 e The new President, although in “lose association with the Senate ever wince March 4. 1921, has not made any particularly close ' friends in . that body. He knew. however, that Bran- degee would tell him the truth: give him as nearly a correct estimite of the present temper of the *Semate, as could any man in it. Brag@legec is 4 plainspoken man, Mr.¥ Coolidge might call him blunt, Mr wanted to know th inside.” Frank Brandegee what the man in the call the “low down gave street would Senate Vot Renxsuring. It can be stated with all frankne: that the Senate story not an al- together President Coolidge. party leaders at large cans in the senate are torn into many factions. This is because so many of the senators are individu- alists first and party sceond. Possibly some of them party even further down on a con- leration list The mere fact that ¢ party means nothing to the individualists. They had mapped out a course of action before President Harding died. They will follow it just as closely un- der the new helmsman at the White House. There is no Senate leaders themselves to tr dent olidge to “soft pedal” on the world court issué’" They can truth- fully tell him that so far as the re- publicans in the Senate are concerned the world court idea is not popular and there is not. the slighest chance for a ratification 6f the Harding pro- posals at the coming session. In these circumstances pressure will be brought 1o bear upon Mr. Coolidge to go through the form of presenting the world court proposals as framed by Mr. Harding, nd then to let nature take its course in the Senate. one pleasing to The republi- men doubt have but that akreed the Text to Come Soon. Some of the senators will go so far B8 to tell President Coolidge that If he chooses to make the world court or other form of_close international wssociation ihe outstanding policy of the brief White House period which lies before him his will go upon the rocks. They will urge that he dispose of the court is- sue as quickly &s possible atd then turn his attention to the pressing do- mestic problems that confront the country. G The politiclans believe that the coming election will be fought out on domestic issues. The republican leadérs know that the farmers must he pacified, and they feel this can be done only through some sort of reme- Gial legistation® which will be in ef- fect a guarantee of the farmers' crops ach yvear. ~loser world co-operation might open up world markels to the American farmers, the politiclan whose fate is to be determined in 1924 cannot sce that this indirect remedy would be speedy enough for his political good. There is every indication that just as soon as the period of natlonal mourning” is- over President - Coolidge will be plunged into a political vortex. The manner in which he weathers the first tempest that descends upon him will mean much to his political future. (Copyright, 1923.) BOY, AUTO VICTIM, SUES. $5,000 Asked by Philip Firmin, Hurt Year Ago. . Sult to recover $5,000 damages was filed today in the District Supreme Court by Phillp Firmin, a minor, by his next friend, John C. Firmin, against Lewls V., Pearson. The boy was crossing the roadway at 16th street and Columbia road August 25, 1932, when he was struck by an au- tomobile said to be owned by the de- fendant, and sustained serious in- i;lry. Attorneys J. W. Glennan and C. O’'Brien appear for the plain- % = L] how- | The | Neither is it reassuring to the ! might place | is facing a national crisis ! among | to persuade Presi- { administration | Even if it be granted that | Train of Sorrow Crosses Harding’s HomeState Today By. the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August Speeding castward to the National Capital, where he will receive a nation's homage, the train bearing the body of President Harding will travel for several hours over the rolling hills of Ohio, which were home to him. Leaving Chicago late this after- noon, the train will enter Ohio near the close of one of those long sum- mer twilight evenings he and Mrs. Harding loved so. well during their days In Mario Mrs. Harding keeping her vigil, the body of the nation’s chief will pass Ohlo farms, whose owners. made him the second in command of their state, elected him to rep- resent them in the national Senale and later alded in. making him ruler of the nat Little sleepy larger towns, villages and the many containing personal friends and relatives of he who sleeps and she who watches, will flash by as the even- ing passes, the train rojling out of the state Into Pennsylvania a few hours after midnight on its swift way to Washington. North .Baltimore, a small Ohio town dating back to early days of the state and many times visited by the late President, will be passed shortly after, and Fos- toria, than thirty miles from Marion, his home and the scene of his newspaper career, before 10 o'clock. FUNERAL CORTEGE ROUTE LINED WITH GRIEVING HOSTS AS LAST LAP BEGINS (Continued from First Page.) Join county and state officials and the {military in paying their respects. Omahans pald homage as the spe- ial pulled into the Union station at 2:56 o'clock. Thousands, unable to get past the iron gates separating the station waiting room from the tracks, peered: eagerly through the in- closure. while thousands of others stood on nearby elevated streets until the train pulled out at 3:29 am ‘This i3’ wonderful—wonderful.” de- clared George Christian. secretary to the departed President, as he stepped from the train, “Who would expect to see such a larke crowd gathered to show their sympathy and love at this hour of the day Mr. Christian added that the crowd Ihere was the largest at night since the train left the far west and also praised the way Nebraskans paid their respects at other points along {the line. Mrs. Harding inoble wom nd_is wonderfully and lable fortitude | Unitea Stat nator R publican, of Omaha and B. Duncan, commanding the 7th Army Corps Area, were among those present. State of- i ficials, headed by Lieut. Gov. Fred G Johnson of Hastings, came with a floral wreath, bearing the word “Ne- i braska.” They brought with them. {too. a resolution of Nebrgiska's sor- irow for the departed one and a mes- {sage of sympathy for his widow spress Sympathy. It follows: “It js with inexpressible sorrow that we hear of the death of our honored .and beloved President, Warren G. Hapding. In his passing we have sustained an irreparable loss that ‘will” be felt’ in- the hearts and homes of all true citizens of the re- ipublic. We baw in humble submis- sion to thik afMictldn with the hope that the God in Whom our departed President believed, and in whom he plaged-his_trust, will zuide our people in fhe future as in the past “To his falthful wife. whose hero {ism and Christian fortitude have bheen an inspiring example. we wish to vey the sympathy of our state.” This was typical of the spirit of Nebraska everywhere as the train stopped at iney. North Platte, Grand Island and other points wh slowed down e Not only did they come f towns ‘where stops were m: | from other cities and villages { countryside for miles around. They gave of floral tributes. too religious organizations, fraternal bedies and many _others joining the mmovement. Men. women & childron ca In_Omah. well with remark- B. Howell, Maj. Gen. of- it e of the crowd m - the le. but and the some folks were ng babies in arms, while out in the state even rainstorms at Brule, North Platte, Ogalla and other points did not stop them. At points along the rout special religious services were held as well as in other cities, the memo- als including the singing of some of Mr. Harding's favorits hymns. Storms Delay Train. The train was somewhat late in Omaha because of the storms and be- cause the locomotive slipped a tire at Chappell. This, however. caused no serious inconvenience, gine from a train following was requisitioned and the journey re sumed. Pulling out, the train carried officials of the Chicago and Northwest- ern Railroad Company. CHICAGO PLANS TRIBUTE. « Tens of Thousands to Pay Homage to Mr. Harding. B the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 6.—As the fu- neral train sped eastward with the body of Warren G. Hgrding, Chicago for the second time-in its history pre- pared to receive the body of a na- tion’s Chief Executive. Fifty-eight years ago a funeral rain bearing the body of the martyr, eincoln, w. brought to Chicago on the way to Springfield, where it was laid to rest. Then elaboratae momn- rial services were held here. Today the body of President Harding wiil iremain in Chicago only while the fu- neral train passes from one road (o |another, a matter of less tham an hour. The city, the largest through which the body of the DPresident will pass, had prepared a tribute little different than-that paid to the memory of the Chief Executive everywhere on the long, sad journey from the Golden Gate to_the nation’s capital. Thens of thousands of people will line the Chicago and Northwestern and Baltimore and Ohio tracks as the crepe-draped engine with its load of sorrow creeps through the maze of switches and yards and gathers speed for its final dash to the Capital. Last night the train sped from the mountains of Wyoming out on to the plains of Nebraska and forged east- ward toward the Mississippi. Detalls Completed. Few details are lacking here for the transfer from Chicago and North- western line to the Baltimore and Ohio- tracks of the funeral train upon its arrival, expected shortly after 4 o'clock, daylight-saving time, With only slight pauses of a few moments to change engines and crews, heretofore, the first stop of any length will occur here when about one hour will be taken in changing engines, switching, taking on ice and other details. With this completed. the train will resume its journey with the next scheduled stop, the National Capital: The train will avgid downtown ter- mimals here, but will transfer from the Northwestern over the Belt Ll:e: the to ‘the Baltimore and Ohio in outer-section of the city. The schedule from here to Wash- ington will rest entirely with the presidential party. according to Paul C. Benedict, divisional passenger mEsSt {jcho waid) preparations have Dbeen completed to give the special a clear, track one hour. before and after leaving here, even crack limiteds be- ing sidetracked to give it preference. According to plans of the sched- J carry- | as another en- | ' THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1923, | American Begins Daring Dash THREATEN TO BAN USE OF HARD COAL Bay State Probers Declare Permanent Substitution of Bituminous Likely. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 6.—Declaring that “if there Is to be any strike it Is the public’s turn to strike,” the joint special coal investigating committee of Massachusetts, in a letter today served notice on representatives of both operators and miners that in the event of a strike Septamber 1, a per- mangnt boycott against the use of anthracite would be pushed In Massa- chusetts and possibly throughout New England. Plans to have all of the New England states discard anthra- rite permanently in favor of low volatile bituminous coal would be Yaid before the conference of New England governors in Boston August 23, the committee announced. Tt'is estimated that New England consumes one-fifth of the anthracite produced in the United States. Se Letters Leaders, | Letters were sent to John L. president of the of America, riner, Lewis United Mine Wo and to S. D. War- of the anthracite |overators’ general policies committee. Anthracite has become at once un- certain in supply and expensive at ost to point of being a luxury, the committee wrote. ® ¢ “A still further increase in price now is threatened. Kurther the con- templated cessation of mining will, ess the situation is relieved promptly. bring further suffering to {many and possibly death to some of the people of Massachusetts. fers chairman Anthracite No Necensity. “A recurrence of the wsituation of last winter will clearly indicate that the people of Massachusetts, in de- pending upon anthracite as their chiet domestic fuel, have mistakenly intrusted to you the duty of pro- ¥lding an uninterrupted supply. * * ¢ “Fuel is a necessity of life. An- thracite is not. * * * The Mas: chusetts consumption of anthracite for years represented the difference between profits and huge losscs to the industry. and to miners. at least many thousands of them. the diffe ence between employment and non- employment However the trust rep: ple of Massachusett | with fuel with due fair and You choose to betray d in you by the peo- to supply them gularity and at reasonable prices, this com- mittee believes the consumers should {consider whether they will not be {far better off by permanently dis- pensing with the use of anthracite, so that the present winter will mark the end of your power to cut off their fuel supply at will.” if i | Recalls Boston Tea Party. | The committee's letter said that “the patience of the anthracite con- suming public is strained to the {breaking point. It will brook no further stoppage in its fuel supply.” Announcing its intention to pass a boycott shouid a strike the committes sald: “The rs of the descendants and suc- ssors of those. - who participated !in ‘the Boston tea party and who i fought at Lexington and Bunker Hill is not such that they will deal further with those to whom they have en- {trusted the duty of supplying them | with %o viatl a_necessity as fuel should {that jrust be further abused for self- {ish purposes. '‘REFORM PROMISED IN ABSENTEE VOTING B { Virgin igorous! place | | secretary of state of letter to Postamster Mooney today stated that he would take up with the legislature of that ate the question of amending laws that Virginia voters elsewhere might have notaries public sign their ballots sters. Postr er Mooney last week wrote the secretary, stating that the large number of voters by mail, and the work they asked of the post- master and his assistant had been nterfering seriously with postal James, in a instead of postm . in his letter, sald the trouble caused voters in large cities and be glad to take the ‘matter the next se of the legis- d er Mooney's read that he by the would up at ature ltter I presidential chedule is rrival at ington. set announced by tho: aboard the train, a twenty-hour | contemplated. with the the Union station. Wash- 4 for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. !'This can be lowered tw hours if i necessary, Mr. Benedict said. A city committee, consisting of Acting Mayor Martin J. O'Brien, three officials and eight aldermen, 1 boasd the train shortly after its {entry into the city limits and will re- {main aboard until the train reaches ithe Twenty-second Street station on j,the Baltimore and Ohio, presenting in_the meantime a floral tribute in | behalf of the city. Yesterday ministers throughout the led in memorial services for the departed chief and prayers were of- | fered for the guidance of the pew }leader taking up the responsibilities { of the nation. % PLANNED NEW TRIP. Late President Had Decided Upon New Tour for Autumn. | | By the Associated Press. | ON BOARD NERAL TRAIN, [CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, August 6.— {Mémbers of the party, which little ymore than a month ago went west- l\\'al‘d with President iHarding and Inow are returning with his 5ody, recalled today as the funeral train rossed the state of lowa that the late Chief ecutive at the time of ;his death had virtually decided to !make another trip this fall, going as !far west as Towd and Minnesota. {_ Shortly before he left Washington on his ill-fated journey, Mr. Harding was asked one day by newspaper men iregarding reports that he was plan- ning a speaking trip during the tall, “Let us wait until the trip before us is completed before we decide on another,” he replied. Thought of Trip. It is known that during his voyage to and from Alaska he gavée some thought to a fall trip, and that when the end suddenly came last Thursday evening in San Francisco, he had virtually decided to make such a tour. He planned to make it, not for political purposes, but to carry further his campaign designed to bring about a helpful understanding between the government and the people, It was to be in line with the declaration he made two weeks or =0 ago that he would like to be known as “the apostle of understanding.” The partially projected trip proba- bly would have included visits to Des Moines, Chicago, possibly St. Paul and Minneapolis, Detroit and Pittsburgh. It also was considered probable that Mr. Harding would visit Marion, Ohio, where he will be buried Friday, and also the farm at Blooming Ohio, that he purchased last spring. To Rescue 5 on (Continued from First Page.) Karluk, and had spent six months on Wrangel Island itself in 1914. The other member of the party, Milton 1, was an eighteen-year-old boy who went out in search of adventure. The Crawford party arrived in Seattle In 1921, where they pur- chased their supplies and it is evi- dent from the invoices that they in- tended to secure a considerable por- tion of their food by hunting, for they took with them only enough provisions for one year's sojourn and ammunition for two years’ hunting. Hire Eskimo Woman. Upon arrival in Nome they secured | a dog team and after engaging an Eskimo woman, Ada Blackjack, as seamstress, chartered the power schooner Silver Wave, in command of Capt. Hammor, to land them on Wrangel Island. The season 1921 was an exception- ally open one. Although they were expected to hunt together during the fall and spring months it was their intention to separate during the winter for more advantageous trapping. and €0 they purposed build- ing several different cabins along the beach at intervals of ten miles. During their stay they were to ex plore the unknown interior of the: island and to correot the present charts, This is all we know about them. for. due to personal financial difficul- ties and to the slowness of the Cana- | !dian government in extending sup- [port. Mr. Stefanssen was unable to outfit 4 supply vessel until August 15. 1922, and as the ice conditions were very bad that year this date proved too late and the supply ship, meeting massed ice floes about 100 mlies .from Wrangel, returned to Nome. Now another year has passed; still we have no news from Wrangel. No News From Siberia. We thought for a while that if the party had found it impossible to se- cure a living on the island they would have crossed the ninety miles to 8i- beria during the winter, where they could have found shelter with the natives who inhabit the coastal terri- tory. Capt. Hammor of the Silver Wave, whose ship Was frozen in the north coast of Siberla, last year managed to get out and_ return to Nome a few days ago. He reports that he has heard nothing from the natives of Siberia to indicate any one had crossed over from Wrangel dur- ing the winter. There is a possibility that the ‘Wrangel party made the attempt to cross and failed, for, according to Capt. Bartlett, the only white man who ever made this trip, this cr ing is an exceedingly dangerous one, due to the rapid motion of the ice floes even in midwinter. But I am optimistic enough to ex- pect to find that nothing serious has happened to the Wrangel Island par- ty. I believe they have been able to make their living off the country. but after carefully checking over their in- voices T am convinced that they will | have little or no ammurnition left by the end of the present season of navi- gation, Therefore, I have spared no €ffort to insure the present relief ex- pedition against any possible failure. Dificult to Find Ship. Upon arrival at Nome, July 14, T found only two ships with hulls of sufficient strength to buck through the ice packs. One of these, the Gladlator, was hauled up on the beach and after a thorough exami- natlon it was found she could not be repaired in time. The other one, the motor ship Donaldson, a very stanch craft of seventy-four tons burden and seventy-two feet long,! had only a forty horsepower engine, which' would not furnish sufficient power. 80 I had one engine replaced | by & new sixty-five Acme engine. T have had men working through-| out the twenty-four hours of con-| tinuous daylight during the past two weeks equipping the vessel for her tussle with those Arctlc packs which we may have to fight through on_our way to Wrangel. Yesterd after the engineers had finished tuning up the engines the! Donaldson on a trial trip made a speed of ten knots per hour. I have engaged Ludwin Hansen, who has sailed the arctic seas for the last forty years, as captain and Hans Olsen, pioneer arctic whaler, as mate; C. H. Wells of Nome, second mate; Joseph ¥arl and Jack Willlams, experienced mechanics, for engineers. Two of Crew Disabled. I have had considerable difficulty in securing a crew of Eskimos, as many fear that we will be caught or crushed in the fce and carried off by the pack. and to make matters worse, that night, while loading car- go from the lighter to the Donaldson, | two of my Eskimos were disabled, ona with a smashed foot, the other with a sprained wrist. ‘Whereupon the entire Eskimo crew refused to sall However, as I had already made ar- rangements with others to cover| Such a contingency, this has not seri- | ously affected my plans. We sail today at 3 o'clock with a complete outfit sufficient for one year. Our firat port of call will be Kotzebue sound, where we will pick up a crack team of dogs and a supply of rein- deer meat, which the Lomen Reindeer Company of Nome has generously {placed at mv disposal. From Kotze- bue we sall to Point Hope, Alaska, where we will take on additional Eskimos, and then set a direct course for Wrangel {sland. i In the event of our meeting im- | penetrable ice we will take that route which brings us closest to Wrangel and northward along the eastward edge of the pack or west- ward along its southern border until we find an opening leading to Wran- gel. In case we cannot reach Wran- gel by ship I shall then take four| Eskimos and make a dash across the | ice pack to Wrangel island. For this purpose we have a special sled de- signed for carrying a walrus-hide | boat. which will be lashed on top 80 that when we encounter open leads between the ice floes it will be necessary. only to unharness our dogs, put them into the boat and paddle across to the next ice floe. ‘Will Bring Party Back. As this walrus-hide boat has a carrying capacity of fifteen people, it will be large enough for the trans- portation of the Wrangel island party from the island back to the Donald- son, provided, of course, the inter- vening distance is not so great as to make It impossible to locate the position of the ship. In the event of my making this trip 1 shall instruct Capt. Hansen to continue to try to reach Wrangel with the Donaldson until the close of navigation, when he will steam south toward the Siberian coast, land- ing supplies for us at specified places. After that he will endeavor to reach Nome before the final freeze-up. The reasons for the above instruc- tions are that upon leaving the Don- aldson I will be able to haul over the ice sufficient food and ammunition to sustain the Wrangel island party and ourselves until the ice between Wran- gel and the mainland of Siberia freezes hard enough for sled travel, when we -shall cross over and thence travel eastward along the Siberlan coast, picking.up tlla_lpravlulons land- ed by Capt. Hansen. Thence the route will be to Behring Straits and across to Alaska. Gets- Suviet Instructions. T had first planned that instead of bringing the Donaldson back to Nome 1 would have her walt for us near the north toast of Siberia closest to ‘Wrangel. ' This would save us the long and arduous sled trip back to civilization. My reasons for not so instructing the Donaldson are as fol- lows: On July 31 I received from Capt, Cochran of the United States coast guard cutter Bear, who had just retarned from Anadyr, Siberia, an official document from the Russian soviet government, which was in-| trusted to his care for delivery to me. This document headed “C C C Anady, committee July 25th, 1923, number 45 Post Novoarinsk,” advis- & that 1 wire the Russian govern-' | | | l 1 1 [ frelght service Wrangel Island t at Petrovalesk for permission g0 to Wrangel and that in case I was unable to ' communicate with Petrovalesk T was to proceed direct- 1y to Whalen, Siberia, for permission to sall, but only on condition that I first take on board two Russian government agents for the purpose of confiscating any furs which may have been trapped by the party. on ‘Wrangel and that the furs are to be delivered to the Russian government at Anadyre or Whalen, Disregards Russlan Order. The document was signed by the chairman of the committee, Peda- shoveel, and by the secretary, Seaver- in. Upon receipt of the communica- tion I fmmediately cabled Stefanssen and stated that unless 1 received in- structions to the contrary, 1 would disregard Russia and keep a far away from the berian coast as possible and only in case of my being absolutely compelled by ice conditions to travel along the Sibe- rian coast would I bring the Donald- son inside Siberian waters. - In making this decision, T have been governed entirely by my desire to safeguard the interests 'of the people of Wrangel. For I have no relrll urance that the Siberian gov- ernment would not break its word and seize the Donaldson and prevent her from completing her trip. This, in my opinfon, would endanger the lives of the party on Wrangel Island, as _their supply of ammunition by now, their only remaining source of food, {s doubtless nearly exhausted. Stefanssen in his reply to the above information orders that the colony on Wrangel must not be withdrawn and that I am to discharge my cargo on Wrangel. Of course if the people now on Wrangel desire to return to civilization 1 shall offer them passage. As to the International complication which would doubtless arise from this Wrangel Island expedition, T have no predictions to make, and I might add that being an American citizen, I am not personally Interested in the political aspect of the situa- tion. My only concern is for the safety of the people of Wrangel, and I shall make every effort to reach them this season and do not intend to return to clvilization without having done s0. MAY SOLVE ARCTIC MYSTERY. Noice's Expedition Also Has Big International Significance. Harold Noice has set his hand to the task of solving one of the big mysteries of the arctic regions. In 1921 four white men. two of them without previous arctic experience, made their way to Wrangel Island Have they survived? On the answer may depend matters of International tmport. possibly including Jurisdic- tion over a potential gold fleld said to be of tremendous value. On Nolce's ability to reach the island there hinges also the answer to a question which will be of prime importance in that future period when matl carrying airplunes encir- cle the globe. Wrangel lies on the meridian of Greenwich and has al- ready been semi-officially indicated n alrplane point of vantage in atemplated route from Ersland to Japan——a route 1¥ing over the top of ‘the earth. because the meridian of Greenwich offers the shortest path between the two island nations. ccondar: to this is ce of Wrangel Island as | has been | a fur-trading station. whic stressed by Vilhjulmur Stefanssen He predicts a _polar submarine In his present ef- the British authori- ties to assert isdiction over Wrangel Island pssen empha izex also the value of walrus fvory production and the future value of walrus and other arctic meat. whose use he foresees at a time when the cattle producing regions of the earth have become more restricted Noice, an American citizen, claiming Seattle as his home, in his present ex- pedition s acting as the agent of Stefanssen. The four white men, who have been marooned on Wrangel since 1921, are: Allan Crawford of Toronto, Canada a university student, who was not vet twenty yvears of age when he under took to become nominal head of the party. Although without i perience ha became commander, as he was the only Canadian in the party. forts to induce si and the purpose of the expedition was | to claim the land for Canada. Maurer Has Experience Frederick Maurer of New Phi delphia, Ohio. who was with one of the two divisions of the Stefanssen expedition of 1913-1918. Maurer was on the expedition steamer Karluk when the latter was crushed by the fce sixty-nine miles off Wrangel in the winter of 1813-14. Maurer was in the handful of men who spent the summer of 1914 on Wrangel Tsland after eleven of their companions had been lost trying to reach land. and three had perished from exposure on the island itself. Of the four in the party of 1921, Maurer alone knew what Wrangel Island was like. Lorne E. Knight of McMinnville, Ore.. who had seen arctic service with Stefenssen, but had never been on Wwrangel Island. He spent six months. }in 1918, floating on ice in the Beau- | fort sea, near Wrangel. he and his companions subsisting chiefly on seals killed along the edges of the floes These drifters of 1918 were command- ed by Stefanssen’s licutenant, Storker Storkerson, and previously in Stefens sen's personal party, Knight pene- trated to Stefanssen's farthest north. Texan Makes Trip. Milton Galle of New Braunsfels, Tex., had traveled in the United States as Stefanssen's secretary, | the capacity learning Stefanssen philosophy and theory of exploration. Galle, however, a young man scarcely older than Crawford, had had no practical experience in the arctic. Noice, himself, a veteran subordi- nate of Stefanssen, knows the chanc run by himself as well as by those whom he would save. He had re- cently emerged from a New York hospital when. he received a cable from his chief to proceed to Wrangel Island. Several vears ago. while on Victoria Island in the arctic, he fell | and dislocated his shoulder, and this summer he decided to have the joint cut open and the bone set back in place. Thus it was that when he set off for his polar destination he carried his arm in a plaster cast which also Inclosed the greater part of his chest. Fresh from high school, Noice went north first in 1916. He was one of the first to greet Stefanssen in Prince Patrick Island after the explorer had been belleved dead for over a year. and when the trading ship of which he was a crew member sailed south Nolice remained as one of Stefanssen's party. Learns Eskimo Tongue. Tn the next two vears he gained much arctic experlence and grew so en- amoured of the arctic that when Stef- anssen returned to civilization in 1818 Noice remained and spent the next four years among the Eskimos of Victoria. much of the time being the only white man among them. He was adopted into the native communities and learned their language. He had finished his first book and was busily engaged upon his second when he received the call to go to the relief of the marooned party on Wrangel, one member of whom, Knight, was with him in 1917-18 on Stefanssen's farthest northern sledge trip. ‘Wrangel Island was discovered in 1849 by Capt. Kellett of the British nav. ‘while engaged in the search for the il fated Franklin expedition, of which it was_discovered later that all hands, comprising over 100 men, had starved to death. Kellett did not make a landing, but reported his discovery to the Brit- ish admiralty, and the island bears his name on the admiralty maps of that date and for some vears later. He gave at the same time the name of his ship, the Herald, to a nearby rock, which stili bears that name. Sighted by Americans. In 1867 Capt. Long of San Fran- cisco, a whaler, also sighted the is- land. Thinking that he h discov- ered new land, he named it after Baron Wrai , & Swede, who had for many years been conducting ex plorations In the arctic_for the Ru: IGUARDSMEN MARCH BEFORE BIG CROWD Review Is - Held at Ca’mp Simms—Bridge Build- ing to_Start. ¢ One of the largest crowds evey seen at Camp Simms was preseni yesterday afternoon at the review and parade of the 121st Enginears! composed of national guardsmen from the District and surrounding The parade was followed by u con? cert by the Natlonal Guard Bapd under the dircction of Meyer Gold, man pt. Joe R. McKey has arrived i camp and assumed command of Com* pany A, 121st Engineers, relleving First Lieut. Roy W. Keesee. Capt Harry E. Gladman took command of (.?mpfln}’ C, relieving First Lieuty William' F. Jarfenmn. ien. Bandholtz, commanding the district of Washington, has reques od Gen. Anton Stephan, commandin the District National Guard, to fu nish a battallon of troops and five selected non-commissioned officers tc, act as wn escort at the funeral off President Harding Wednesday. It understood that the 1st Battalio 21st Engineers, commanded by Maj John W."Oehmann and. composed of Companles A, } nd. C, widl be lected. The following men. of 'Company | have been | R. Kain promotion; Lioyd L. Melvin R, Davis! Stout. Harold designated to take Sergts, Gibzon, by ¢ examina Fred F. D Corps. pt. John ions fory Caltablanog! Quaid and Robert H, t Soustze, Vincent 3 Williams, Joseph Ginsberg, M. A Parker. ‘William P. Hunt. Patricks W, Beavers and Ellmore F. Courtnev.’ The men took up engineer ficld work this morning. Instructions ing rigging, Lampert bridges, span bridges, trestle bridges and ficic fortifications, under Capt. H. H. Pohl Regular Army instructor, was had this morning ‘and_ shelter ‘tent piteh- ing, equipment display and infantry drill this afternoon. s Tomorrow’s program calls for in- fantry drill from 7:15 to $:15 a.m.) spar and trestle bridge construction £:30 to 11:30 by Company A; flel fortifications, $:30 to 11:30 by Com- pany B: rigging and Lampert bridge') instruction, §:30 to 11:30 by Company- €: bayonet drill 1 to 1:45 ketry. under the direction of Capt R. M. McCutchen, from 2 to 4 p.m _The Medical Corps of the Distri National Guard has been rated byl the War Department one of thet best of any National Guard of the United States. ~ Mractically all of the officers and men are residents of Georgetown The medical unit will its barracks Saturday and mus lin night CHRISTMAS SHOWS i General in Central American War: Able to Rise in Bed After Getting Blood. } py n ciated Press NEW ORLEANS. August Lee Christmas, subjected blood transfusion vesterday in an effort to save -his life, shows marked im- provement, according to his physician. Guy Moloney, superintendent of the H —Gen | ! i 1 to fought under-Gen. Christmas in sev- eral Central American revolutions, was none the worse for the loss of & pint and a ‘quarter of blood which he gave to his old comrade. Phy cians said they expected to repeat the operation in the near future. = The effect of the operation was re- markable. For several days Gen Christmas had been o weak he was urable to ralse himself in his bed When the transfusion had been effec ed he was handed a mirror in order that he might see the color in his face, which previously had been very pale. He raised himself without as. | sistance, gazed at the ruddy glow and irubbed several days' growth of beard | on his chin, “A hard-looking citizen,’ mented. SERVICES IN LITHUANIA FOR HARDING’S MEMORY Premier Hears Eulogies of Late President at Methodist Bal- tic Conference. he com- | 1 By the Associated Pross, { COVNO. Lithuania. August 6.—2 | memorial_service for President Hard {ing was held yesterday at the Balti Methodist Episcopal conference here. ‘Bishop John L. Nuelson, who presided, and the superintendent. Sr. Simmon {delivered memorial euologies. Premie: | Galvanauskas, Clement S. Edwards, the American consul, and the diplomatic representatives here were present. HEBREWS PAY TRIBUTE. CARLSBAD, August 6.—(Jewish Tele- | graphic agency)—American delegates !to the World Zionist congress as well {as hundreds of other American Jews {who have come to Carlsbad for the | gathering. participated in a memor:; iservice to President Harding yester a !vited. A cablegram of condolence was isent fo Mrs. Harding. sian government, but who, according {to his own journal, had never seen | this particular land. The first actual Ilanding of which there is any record was made in 1881, when ‘the United States revenue cutter Corwin, Capt. Calvin L. Hooper, touched there while i conducting a search for the survivors {of the Jeanette, belonging to the De- iLong arctic expedition which was { wrecked north of the Siberian coast Later on in the same year a second landing was made by a United States | revenue cutter, this time the Rodgers, under command of Lieut. (now Admiral) | Berry, also engaged in’ the search for lthe Jeanette: its crew conducted ex- {plorations and made a rough chart of the island, which is still the one in use. They also formally took pos- sesston of the island for the United States. More than thirty yvears later the next visitor arrived. In the winter of 1914, the Karluk, flagship of Stef- anssens (Canadian) arctic expedi- tion, was crushed in the ice near the island and its crew .and scientific staff landed in February and remain- ed until rescued by the King and Winge of Seattle, in September. It was then that several members of the scientific staff lost their lives in attempting to cross the ice en route from where the ship was wrecked to the lsland and three others died on the island. Stefassen was not on board the Karluk, which was in command of Capt. Robert Bartlett, who had commanded Peary's ship. When __the shipwrecked party reached Wrangel Island Bartlett, with an Eskimo, crossed the ice to Siberfa and thence made his way along the coast several hundred miles to the nearest point, whence word could be sent by cable to Nome. According to international law the discoverer of new land does not have to make a landing in order to estab- 1ish & claim for his country. Merely sighting or landing. will not hold land beyond five years, #|named grand marshal of the proces- 3| the late President Harding Wednes-| give a dancel H dladay GAIN BY TRANSFUSION; 1 New Orleans police department, Whofi be selected to participate to which all Americans were in- MOURNING CAPITAL TO BOW IN SILENT GRIEF TOMORROW (Continued from First Page.) of the foreign diplomatic corps and high government officials wiii leave Washington for * Marion Thursday evening. The special funeral com- mittee of the Senate and the House of Representatives will go to Marion with the funeral train Wednesday afternoon. It has been settled that soldiers, sailors and marines will serve as ac- tive pall bearers at the services in Waushington, while the honorary pail bearers will include six senators and six representatives, who are to bLe appointed by Senator Cummins of lown, president pro tempore of the Senate, and Speaker Gillett of the House. Selection of the other six honorary pall bearers has been left to Mrs. Harding Wilkon to Take Part. Former President Wilson notified President. (bolidge today that he would eem it an honor to be assigned & position for himself and !\{r\, Wilson in the funeral proces- ston.” President and Mrs. Coolidge and Chlef Justice Taft and the members of the Senate and House committees, besides a number of other officials and intimate friends, will meet the funeral train at Union . Station at 1:20 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and will be a part of the solemn cortege from the «tation to the White House. The casket will then be placed in the east room where it will remain of that famous big 10 o'clock Wednesday 17 Wl be escorted of the Capitc in the rotunda that the of the jon- will be held » immediately following the ormed in two linee, will pass Wreaths handed to attend- the rotunda by those in the be taken with the body to Marion. Only four wreaths will be placed upon the casket during this ceremonial. Wil Leave at 8 P.M. At 6 o'clock the body will be taken from the Capitol to Unfon_station, where a special train will be ready to start with it for Marion. Gen. John J. Pershing, who has been to the rotu It will sorvices nd whe public. through. ants in line will sion, will soldiers, will form head the more than 3.000 sailors and marines who the honor escort for the body. Tt has not been determined how many persons will be in the civic section, but it Is roughly esti- mated that the number will exceed 4,000. Will Name 100 Citizens. Appointment of a committee of 100 to march in the funeral procession of | day. fzenry u8 representatives of the citi- i of the District, will be made | this ‘afternoon by the Commissioners at_the request of President Coolidge. | The actual selection of those who will form the committee will be made iby Edward F. Collada: president of | | the Board of Trade, who will submit the 1list to the Commissioners for their approval. The names will be | drawn from the members of sxev-| | enty-cight citizens’ assocjutions and | i other civic bo 8. The Cummission- ders already have furnished Mr. Col- with a list containing the | names of the sociations from which they wish the committee perfonnel to be chosen. Will Close Sport Places. Sherrill, as officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, issued an order today closing the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monu- ment_and the various athletic fields and places of outdoor sports in the | public parks on Wednesday and Fri- | day John T. Adams, chalrman the republican national committee. today took up with President Coolidge the matter of the members of the nation- | al committee participating in_the | procession. Mr. Adams was informed | that all organizations are being| limited to not more than 10 repre- | sentatives. Mr. Adams will tomor: {row make known to Col. Sherrill the iten national committeemen who will Col | ‘ !DETAILS OF POLICEMEN ASSIGNED TO MAINTAIN QUIET ON PARADE ROUTE| i General orders covering police de- ails and arrangements for the arrival | n Washington tomorrow afternoon fof the body of the late President Harding were issued today by Maj. Sullivan, chief of police. | That portion of the route of ‘the ortege on Pennsylvania avenue be- | tween Prace Monument and 17th; istreet will be bordered with steel fcables. The cables will be in posi- {tion at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, jat which time all streets composing {the route will be cleared of stand- ing vehicles, and after 1:15 o'clock no les will be permitted to enter or the route, such blockade to bej imaintained until the rear cof the fescort column has passed 'at least {four squares bevond a given point 1This order, however, not apply ! o ambulances, fire department and olice vehicles, which will be permit- ed to enter or cross the route when- sver such entering crossing is| essential. Police in Uniform. ANl streets in the route of the cortega will be policed exclusively v uniformed officers, and no special | i { i i olicemen. regular policemen in plain ! ¢ ren ! the I panions from Maric | homes ALL STORES URGED 10 CLOSE TWO DAYS Asked to Draps Doors in Mourning While Body Re- mains in Capital. Closing of all business establish- ments in the District on Wednesday and Friday of this week was recom mended in a lengthy resolution adopted at a meeting of the board of governors of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Associa The Star building today. The resolution also urged that the entrances of all establish ments be draped in mourning. Sec retary Columbus was directed to con fer with the Commissioners regard- ing the selection of a committee which will canvas establishments on the Avenue with a view to having all of them in mourning for the state funeral. Text of Resolution. The resolution follow: “Whereas Almighty God has taken from the ephere of great influence Warren G. Harding. President of t . be_ it resolved s of the board ernors of the Merchants' and facturers’ Association assembled 6th day of August. 1 record’ the grea: s that we feel at th noble President, Mr. was not only a wise of the affairs of state brought to that great office an appreclation of the true spirit of brotherly 1 and humanizing influences th helped to make us better citizens and Our country a stronger nation Flagn at Half Mast. “Be it further resolved, that as an expression of the deep sense of so row felt by the business firms Washington and their personnel, all flags on business establishments <hail be kept at half-staff for a period of one week, beginning today. “That at least the entrance of al business establishments shall ba draped with mourning for the same period of time. t Is further recomme retailers. wholesalers : turers of the District of Columbia shall close their business establish- ments all day on Wednesday, August 8 and Friday, August 10, in order to permit the executives and employes to attend the funeral exercises to be held in Washington, and in accord- ance with the letter and spirit of the proclamation of President Calvin Coolidge. “Therefore he resolved, That a copy of these minutes shall be trans- mitted to the membership of this as- sociation and a copy thereof sent t. the family of our deccased President.” BROTHER SPEEDING TO FUNERAL TRAIN (Conti business t Dassing of Harding admin but ded that al and man ued from First Page.) was expected to train at Dixon or rding to B. E. Ter- general superin cago and North meet the funerai 1 as.istar of the western railway In order to carry Mrs. Harding regarding the fune arrangements at Marion, Ohio, Dirs Sawyer and Harding immediately will £o into conference with Mrs, Hardin and learn her wishes. Dr. Corl W Sawyer, it 18 said. will leave the trafr tomorrow afterncon when it (s p ing through Ohia and take charg the services in Marion MARION EXPECTS 100.000. Ch cut the wishes of During Funeral to Handled by 3.000 Troops. Ry the Associs MARION of 100.000 Visitors Be . Ohio. August 6.—Upward i pec are expected to fi this city 1o point of overflowing Friday, when last rites will be ac- corded ‘the late Pr Harding. To handle the unticipated throng orders have been issued from here by State Adjt. Gen. Henderson for the me bilization of 3.600 sold of t United reserve forces of OF Hundreds of pers motored Marlon vesterday eariy in the afternoon D of Marion was mobilized, the men be stationed at points of Hard pterest after sou venir hunters became so numerous that such a move was deemed adyisa- Lle to prevent destruction of properiy Kept Away From Home. 0 one wili be permitted near the home of Dy T. Harding. sr where the fu of the late Chiof Executive will held Harding ad in Mount Vernon avenue the “front porch” house, or the Hard- ing burial grounds. Dr. George T. Harding. jr., of the late President. and Dr. son of Brig. Gen here last night they expect to funeral train today. Coming a. Indiana they cxpect to learn som. thing of the wishes of Mrs. Hardirs in reference to funeral and burial ar- rangements here. Dr. pected to leave tl at somn point in northern Ohio and return to Marion to carry out arrangements de sired by Mrs. Harding. Lie tn State at Marion. Tt is the hope of Drs. Sawver and Harding that Mrs. Harding will con- sent to have the body of the Presi dent taken directly to the Marion county _courthouse when it arrives here Thursday to lie in state from 10 am. to 4 p.m. Then it would be removed to the home of the late President’s father. where, according to tentative arrangements, funeral services would be held Friday morn- ing. The funeral cortege on its way to the cemetery will pass the Marion Star office, the n per . which President Harding recently’ disposed of. and through the two main streets of the city, which will be lined with troops. > Troop A, Cleveland, the Black Horse Cavalry = unit, formed the late President his inauguration, is to cort At the cemetery it is planned to extend a large circle of soldiers about the burial plot and only reia- tives, the party from Washing and immediate friends of the-fam will be permitted to enter. OHIO STORES TO CLOSE. era be brother Carl W for « where meet the ¥ famous which at as an Tribute by Merchants Planned Dur- ing Harding Funeral COLUMBUS. Ohio. August Plans which will result In simul neous closing of approximately 50, retail stores in Ohio next Friday during the funeral of President Hard- ing at Marion, were announted. last night by President Fred Lazarus, j of the Ohio Council of Retail chants. 1t the funeral is held in the after- noon, stores will close at the hour of the funeral and remain so for the balance of the day. If it is held in the morning, stores will remain clos- ed_until_noon e Met- detail of twenty-eight final section. composed of fifty-nine men, will be stationed from 15th street and New York avenue to the northeast gate of the White House. Inspector Charles A. Evans will be in command of the eighth section sisted by Capt. C. E. E. Flather. men. The lothes or other persons will be per- imitted within the lines. except wi fforming part of the cortege. ! CAll foot privates have been order- ed to wear full regulation summer uniform. clean white gloves and re-| fport without batons. Horse-mount- jed men will wear regulation blue isummer uniforms with gauntlets | and will carry dress batons. Strest car traffic will be suspend- I.‘u on the Union station plaza from the time the train bearing the re- mains of the late President enters Jthe Union station until the cortege #has passed from the plaza and en- | o tered North Capitol street. On Penn- sylvania avenue street car traffic | will be suspended and will not be resumed at any point until the rear end of the military escort has passed four squares beyond a given point. North and_ south bound street omr |trafflo on 7th. 9th and 14th streets will not be permitted to cross Penn - fvania avenue until the head of the icolumn reaches a point four squares ddistant in each case. i Detail of Horemen. Acting Sergt. A. L. Lucas will have chargé of the horse mounted detail 'which will report on the Union Sta-, ition plaza at 1 o'clock. Tt will be | composed of cleven officers from the Seventh, ninth, tenth and eleventh pre- cinets. Acting Sergt. Lucas will form his sletail in squad front and serve as| jead escort to the northwest gate | of the White House, passing the Aate, wheeling about, standing at falute until the funeral party has passed into the grounds. he first seotion of police idetail, in command of Inspector HBenry G. Pratt, assisted by Capt. [} J oll, will supervige the policing the Union Station plaza and of |5 street to its junction with North { CApitol street. There will be ninety- four officers in this detail. Capt. Martin Rellly will command the second section of the police de- tagl, which includes North Capitol steet from E to B streets and the entrance to the Capltol grounds on B -street. The third section from 1st anpd Pennsylvania avenue to John Mar- shgll place will be commanded by Ca»t. Robert E. Doyle. Twenty- eight officers will be under his com- mand. i Sanford in Command. T8 the fourth section, from John Manshall place to Sth street, Capt. W. 2. Sanford will be in command. witR a detail of twenty-eight men. Capt. C. T. Peckwill be in charge of the #ifth section of twenty-eight men, runtéing from Sth to 12th streets. The sixtli section, covering the route from 12th to 1Gth street, will be under the command of Capt. E. W. Brown, who will have thirty-three officers. Capt. Ira Sheetz will have charge of the seventh section. from 15th and Pennsylvania avenue to 15th and New York-avenue., He will have a Perfect quiet, in keeping with the solemnity of the occasion, will ba maintained along the entira route. The officers have been ordered to dee liver'all orders in a quiet'ton®y. ..