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16 * ERSHING 1S PAID LEGON TRBUTE Officials and Pubiic Jeoin in Honor to General in New York. Associated Press. YORK, April Men prom- » life in the Nation— »vernors of States and cabinet mem- tribute tonight to Gen a dinner and informal ption given in his honor » were two distinct affairs at the retired chief of staff of the States Army was feted. The a dinner at the National Artists’ Club. Later he est of honor at a public tribute him under the auspices of the \merican Legion. This was held at he Hippodrome Theater. Newton D. Baker, who was Secre- of War when Gen. Pershing nded the American expedi- forces, presented the retired Ain with a bronze plaque of him- the zift of the American Legion. fr. Baker was introduced by James \. Drain, national commander of the egion, who appeared for the egion’s endowment funds for dis bled soldiers and war orphans. A t u {ilustrated the needs of th 1 soldiers and the work of the their behalf and that of the also Sousa Leads Band. Philip Sousa conducted five and Navy bands in a concert writers sang the choruses of hits. Many actors en e entire program being ough station WEAF. g Scrugham of Nevada, C. Ritchie of Maryland, Post ster General New, Maj. Gen. Rob- Lee Bullard, Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, Rear Admiral Charles E. Plunkett and Will H. Hays were among the guests invited to a dinner to the general, which preceded the public tribute. The dinner addresses were broadcast by station WJZ. Drain, in introducing Mr said that America’s enlisted men won the World War for the al lied cause, but declared they couldn’t have done it without the leadership of Gen. Pershing Met Colossal Task. ed with the full hty Government,’ n said, “in Gen. John J. Persh- :'s capable hands were placed the lives millions of American men and women, expenditures of billions in moneys and materials and the honor, almost the life, of his country. Gen. Pershing met his colossal task with that greatness of heart and r:ind and s demanded by that mign mon in the world’s history ng that the American Legion wring itself when it seeks to - to Gen. Pershinz.” the na- commander said tha the or- ition was driving ahead “full it the highest, ana purpose—the care ire of its disabled comiades the care and upbringing of the ned children of those who gave lives to their country.” American Legion was in this task as was the woman iliary, he said John rtime power of nt ser speed this r hd greates SCIENCE MEDAL TO DANE. Neils Bohr structing New Atomic Theory. NEW YORK, April 25.—The Barn- ard medal for meritorious service to science, awarded by Columbia Univer- sity every five vears, was won this vear by Neils Bohr of Copenhagen, Denmark, in recognition of his re- searches in the structure of atoms, it was announced today President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, announcing the award, gaid that Prof. Bohr had accomplished “one of the most remarkable achieve. ments ever made in physical science in uniting the nuclear atom, the quantum theory and the known rela- tion of lines in the spectra of elements into a new atomic theory. Rewarded for Con- Will Rebuild $500,000 Resort. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 25. —Decision to rebuild on the present site the portion of Saltair resort de. stroyed by fire last Wednesday, was made today at a_meeting of directors of the Saltair Beach Company also was decided to open on May 3 as scheduled, the undamaged bathing section of the resort. Saltair is located on the shore of the Great Salt Lake about 20 miles west of here and fire damage is esti- upwards of $500,000. Canadians Here to Dine. The Canadian Society of Washing- ton will give its second annual ban- quet at the Wardman Park Hotel on Tuesday night at 7 o'clock. Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, and James Davis, Secretary of will be the principal speakers eve There will also be vocal and instrumental selections. All Canadians and friends of Canada have been invited to be present neashire library has banned | been Comdr. | ods of solvin general. Left to University. TO REACH Traditional ability ~of the Nav surmount any obstacle was displ by Comdr. J. H. Hoover and officers and bluejackets of the Subma- rine Division 8, comprising the U boats, when, marooned in the interior of Ecuador, they traveled through jungles, over trails which had not in use for 30 vears, withstood the onslaught of vermin, lost horses over precipices, but came back to the ships on time. A report of the trip reached the Navy Department yes- terday. They were royaly treated and enter- tained by the officials and the popu- lace of the South American republic, and were given every assistance. After the ships had been anchored at the port of Guavaquil, arrange- ments were made to take the liberty party to Quito by special train. Even this train carries a special work crew to remove bowlders and rocks con- stantly falling on the right of way. But when the party reached Quito the torrential rains wiped a large part of the railroad out. There was nothing left for the American se men to do but follow the old trails back. Encounter Many Hardships. “The minister of war,” said Comdr. Hoover, in his report, “got his mili- tary zone chief at a city called Rio- bamba, half way to Guavaquil, to handle the situation, and he promised to get us through some way. “The trip over the trails comprises about 60 miles at altitudes from 14,000 to 600 feet, zigzagging over mountains whose sides were 60 degrees to the horizontal, _through jungles and swamps with mud two and three feet deep (miles of it), over trails long in disuse, blocked every mile or so by mud and rock slides, very dangerous to the animals, fording streams, cross- ing native bridges which had to be rebuilt every three days, encountering the tropical rains. the cold at high altitudes, living at night in native huts infested with the most voracious vermin which I have ever seen, and eating the native cooking which was so filthy and unpalatable that it does not bear any description. “On_the morning of March 22, we left Quito on a special train for Riobamba, and arrived there that night. The men had each been loaned one or two blankets by the Military Cadets.” After stopping at this town for a day to enable the men to buy shoes | and clothing for the trip and to permit the Ecuadorean military to get more horses, as well as to instruct the men what to do on the trip, the party pro- ceeded, the report explaining as fol- lows: “At 4 a.m.. March 24, we made a short ride in the train and disem- barked at Cajabamba where the trail commences. Here we found 80 horses and mules, only about 30 of which were fit to travel, which fact we found out the first day. The baggage was carried on the backs of 50 Indians, who were guarded by soldiers, one to each three Indlans. Such officers and men as were detailed mounted the animals, the others proceeded on foot, and about 7 a.m. we started up the trafl. This part of Ecuador is very sparsely settled, and there are practi- cally no villages along the way. there- fore, when at about 2 p.m. we came to a farmhouse and church. we decided to spend the night. We had made a distance of about 12 miles. “The men and officers slept on the floor of the church; the army officer with us commandeered all the chick- Winston Churchill's war b § Set for April 27-May The District Commissioners terday fixed April 27 to May “Clean Up—Paint Up Week" in District ;.70 upon to alleys and vicinity Commissioner James Residents are called up their premises, cant lots in thelr the week: Pure. All colors; 710--12th St. N. - ves- 2 as Tha city heads issued the procla- mation upon the recommendation of during News Item-Herald Call Upon “Murco” the “Lifelong Paint” —to help you make things look “spic and span” during Clean-Up, Paint-Up Week. “Murco” is the old reliable for beauty and durability. Made in our own laboratory and guaranteed 100% E. J. Murphy Co. 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Some men were three hours behind the lead helter and food were ready for us here; also the information was re luctantly gotten from the local author- | itles that the trail to Bucay, our des tination, was in bad shape with one important bridge gone. Busay is 30 miles from Palantanga and no shelter en route. The only thing to do was to stay in the village until the trail was ready “This was an uncertain proposition | since the slides occur on the trail dally and the bridge in question had been washed away twice within two weeks. The next day, the 26th, we rested at Pallatanga. I rode over a part of the trail and saw the bridge | under construction. Decided to make a rt the next morning. We were | kept dry the two nights in this vil-| lage, and aside from the dirt and the | thousands of bites from vermin, we { were quite well off. “On the morning of the 27th, got a start at daylight. It had been rain- ing hard for about 16 hours, the trail and swamps were full of water, the Chimbo River, which we were follow- ing, a torrent, making an estimated speed of 20 knots. During the day we dropped down about 4,000 feet in 30 miles of hard going. Encountered new slidés and detours, lest two horses over a precipice, but the riders got clear in time; lost one horse by drowning and abandoned many ani- mals along the trail. “No casualties of importance to| personnel, and the last of us got into Bucay about dark, whgre a train with food from the ships awaited to take us to Guayaquil, 80 miles -distance.” Gratifled By Treatment. Comdr. Hoover spoke most .highly in his report of the treatment rem: dered by the military and the civil- ians. He sald the expense to which the government and people had been put must have been considerable, and the time and effort expended on en- tertainment of the American naval men rather unusual. All food, lodg- ing and transportation was free dur- ing the entire time they wer» there. He expressed regret that the naval men were unable to show their ap- preciation more, because of lack of equipment, “We placed a wreath on one of the important monuments in Quito,” he said, “and held a similar function in Guayaquil. This seemed to please them very much.” The division, which consists of nine submarines and the tender Quail, made the trip from their base at Coco Solo, Canal Zone AGRICULTURE HEAD GREETS GERMAN FARM EXPERTS American meth- nirirulhlrnl problems, called on Secretary Jardine yesterday, to discuss the agricultural situation in right, front row, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture R. W. Dunlap, Secretary Jardine and Dr. Fred Hagedorn, undersecretary of agriculture of Germany. Second row, Dr. Theodor Roemer, professor of ing of Halle University; Joachim Deicks, a large farm owner and former director of the live stock brees ln{ ment of the German Chamber of Agriculture, and Dr. George Keuhne, expert on agriculturai machinery of lant breed- depart.- Munich COLORED MAN URGED FOR FEDERAL POST Blaine Invincible Club Proposes J. F. Wilson for Assistant United States Attorney. More than 30 colored men and women of the District called yester- day on Edward F. Colladay, Republi; can national committeeman for the District of Columbia, and solicited his assistance in having J. Franklin Wilson, a local attorney, appointed an assistant United States attorney. Francls Wells, president of the Blaine Invincible Republican Club, as spokesman for the delegation, after presenting the qualifications of Mr. Wilson, told of the loyal and earnest support the Blaine Invincible Republican Club has given the Re- publican party for more than 40 vears. 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Members of the American Radio Re- lay League in the District are pre- paring to play a prominent part in picking up radio messages from the Polar regions sent out by the Mac- Millan Arctic expedition, under the auspices of the National Geographic Soclety. It was learned last night that there are at least seven amateur operators in Washington with equipment ena- bling them to work with the new short wave band which daily is bringing surprises to the radio field, because of the unusually long distances it can be heard. Several of the operators here have made great strides in sending and re- ceiving, and, it was understood, they even have surpassed in some in- stances the experts of the Navy and| the Department of Commerce. Confident of Result. W. A. Parks, a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve Force, and one of the amateurs experimenting with the high frequency method, said last night that the operators here believe there is not the slightest doubt of their inability to recelve the short-wave messages Commander Donald B. Mae- Millan and Lieut. Commander Richard E. Byrd will send back to_the Geo- graphic_Society and the Navy, re- spectively. Mr. Parks, who is a former presi- dent of the Washington Radio Club, which meets twice a month in Pythian Temple, said the high-fre- quency experimenters in Washington tncluded: B. J. Croger, operating call station 3APV; Donald Basim, 3CKG; Alfred Goodal, 3AB; Flathers and Perine, 3LR; Wadsworth and Parks, 3ZW. Mr. Parks said the amateurs here would enter into a friendly com- petition with the Naval Research Laboratories at Bellevue, D. C., in picking up the messages that come directly into Washington. The oper- ators here also expect to do consid- erable in receiving messages relayed into the Capital. FOUR INJURED AT SEA. NORFOLK, Va.. April 25.—With four of her crew injured, one so seri- ously he had to be brought to a hos- pitai ashore, the American §. S. Bantu arrived in port vesterday from Chile with a report of battling storm after storm on her long voyage. Wednes- day night while about 200 miles off Cape Hatteras a sea broke over the ship, throwing the first officer and three seamen to the deck and very nearly sweeping them overboard. One of the seamen. Andrew Schuilla, was badly hurt. While in Buena Ventura harbor the Bantu lost a number of her crew by drowning when a boat in which he and two companions were sailing was swamped. Saxophone Amateur to Accompany MacMillan Into Wastes of Arctic By Consolidated Press. NEW YORK, April 26.—While the world is standing by for the North Pole sweepstates—with MacMillan and Amudsen with thelr planes and Al- garsson with his blimp waiting for the gong—John Jaynes is shining up his saxophone. For 20 years Jaynes has been a school teacher in Somerville, Mass. Last year, two of his lifetime ambi- tions were miraculously revealed. He found himself in the Far North with Donald MacMllan’s North Greenland expedition locked in the ice for a six- month Winter night, with a saxo- phone ag big as a fog horn. Certaln domestic and community restrictions had prevented him from taking up the #axophone in Somerville. He used his ‘Winter night to good advantage. When the Summer solstice came, he bad mastered “Silver Threads Among the Gold,” which he rendered with considerable virtuosity as the Bowdoin broke through the Etah ice barriers on the way home. Going North Again. Jaynes had become not only a saxo- phone but an iceberg addict, and was dispirited with the thought of aban- doning both his art and his adventure. Now Capt. Donald B. MacMillan is in New York with the news that Jaynes will be included in the expedition to the Far North which will leave Wis. casset, Me., late in June. This time he will try to master “Red Hot Mamm While Capt. MacMillan evades any discussion of a definite drive for the pole. it is clear that his objective is by no means an unconsidered detail, and it is also clear that the various Arctic plans are focusing in a situ- ation not unlike the dramatic align- ment of 1911, when five nations were driving for the South Pole. Roald Amundsen, gaunt, ascetic Norseman, with a face like Savonarola, was the winner, with poor Scott trailing close behind—and giving his life to the ven- ture. Amundsen is the only one of the old dramatis personae in the present cast, and doubtless the bookmakers would say the odds are on him, as his effort will be the culmination of 12 vears of scientific study of the problem of reaching the North Pole by aero plane. Amundsen made his first San Francisco, March & It may take a few fly 10 the pole some day. sen when he landed. Beset By Bad Luck. Disappointment and difficulties have hounded Amundsen for the last few Vears. He was in New York a few months ago—still erect and purposeful and admitting no shadow of doubt as to his final success Capt. Donald MacMillan has spent all but two of the last 16 years in the Arctic regions. He is a combination of shrewd Yankee skipper and a col lege professor—not figuratively, but |actual | gator in h | fessor of flight, in , but I said Amund anthropology at Bowdoin he became an expert navi-| = youth and later was pro-| John Jaynes, Massachusetts School Teacher, Hopes to Master Instrument This Summer Away From Any Neighbors to Complain. College, where he was graduated. Mac- Millan's expedition, which will include his game little ice bucker, the Bow- doin, and a spacious Dundee whaler to carry aeroplanes, will leave Wiscasset about June 20. Two amphibian Loen. Ing aeroplanes, equipped with skids for landing on and rising from ice or snow will be carried. The expedition has the co-operation of the United States Navy Department and the Na- tional Geographic Socfety. The flying operations will be in command of Lieut. Comdr. R. E. Byrd of the Bu- reau of Aeronautics. Flight from Etah. From Etah, North Greenland, the pjanes will Hop 250 miles to Cape Thomas Hubbard, on Axel Heiberg Land, which will be the flying base. On’ beyond lies Crocker Land. Peary, with whom MacMillan went to the North Pole, announced it as the discovery of a new land. McMillan went back in 1914 and reported Crock- er Land was a mirage. But he is not quite sure; he still clings to the thought that pogsibly there is still a northern lost Atlantis to be found. The Pole will be about six hundred miles to the starboard of planes flying northwestward over Axel Hsbwrg and Crocker Land. Will Comdr. Byrd make t&s dash to the pole? There is mtch cryptic talk about it—and the talk s not con- fined to the spectacular a#d sporting interests of the event. ~ In varlous departments of state there are on record welghty considerations of pos sible transpolar air routes and landing bases. It was noticeable that Capt MacMillan’s reference to planting an American flag on newly discoverea land brought a quick and emphati¢ rejoinder from tie Danish home secre tary. Scientific findings are the an nounced objectives of MacMillan's ex pedition. The expedition will be 1 erally staffed with scientists of al sorts, and assurance is given that the flights over that bleak ice cap of the North will produce valuable meteo rological, geological and sclentific data. Race With Scott. Amundsen reached the South Pole December 14, 1911. Sco't arrived January 28, 1912, and he and his party perished on the way back. Among his records were found proofs that Amund sen was there first. The British at first thought Scott had won, but when the truth came out they were good sports. They never give up, and now comes the announcement that a young Britisher—Crett Algarsson of Van couver, British ‘'olumbia, is out to beat Amundsen—with a blimp. Algars: son is a young aviator. He will leave Liverpool on the steamer Iceland May 1, with his blimp aboard, for Rekjavik Iceland, whence he will push onto the west side of Spitzbergen, hoping to come within 600 miles of the Pole be fore loosing the blimp. The blimp makes 50 miles an hour, hence he fig ures a 12-hour trip. Algarsson Icelandic descent, and loc leglan. His pilot will Humphrey Humphries, sk ing blimps When the were on their in the Far Nor that flying men “Them's just auk auks,” said the grayb. memories of the now ird of the North. What will when they see Algarsson’ American world flyers ear, old timers Card Party to Be Given. 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