Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U, S. Weather Bureau Fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler tonight; winds. Tempes 11 a.m. today atures: lowest, 71, i1l report on page 7. moderate to fresh northwest Highest, orecast.) 88, at at 5 a.m. to- Closing N Y. Stocks a=d Bonds, Page 28 @he Epening 29,633. Entered as second class matter post_affice, Washington, D, C. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, LA FOLLETTE DIES OF HEART FAILURE AFTER LONG FIGHT " CHEERFL TO LAS Hope Abandoned During Night as Sinking Spells Continued—Was Weaken- ed by Long lliness. FAMILY AT BEDSIDE AS END APPROACHED Wisconsir Senator's Last Illness Began With Severe Cold-—Had Premonition of Death Yester- day—"Had Earned Long Rest, He Whispered to Watchers. hator Robert M. La Follette, for yuany vears a stormy petrel of Amer. jean politics, died here today at 1:2 P Death resulted from heart failure d by 1 breakdown and 1 attack of hma. The W enator and later ende dential candidate b even before the s ago he which de- His heart, which been unable to stand the strain, way during the night, and he rapidly after daylight today Hope Abandoned Today. Although they realized the serious. Senator La lette’'s condition, rs of his famiy had hoped un Last turn for the worse in the hours and hope was abandoned. enator I long was a vi i pectoris, a heart nd this, with his_asth ick, caused him to suffer g from shortness of breath. Violent coughing spells accompanied his ill- ness To the 1 however, he insisted cheerful reports being given out < 1o his illness and it was not until vesterday that it was admitted that condition was serious. K acefully. Comes I’ After all the storms of his long ca he passed away very quietly, sunded by members of his family He was conscious almost until death, but for several hours had been able to speak only in whispers to those about =horttly before the end he mustered all his waning strength in a vain ef- | fort to murmur a last word to those at the bedside. Then he lapsed into unconsciousness and, without any evi dence of ately from life. \irs. La Follette and their two sons and daughters were close about him in the sickroom throughout the morn- ind until death. It i in, passed almost immedi- plan to take the body to Madison for burial think I have earned a long rest,” he had said yesterday when a change for the worse apparently had brought to him some premonition of the end. But today, as his plight grew hourly more pr he pre- % ferred to fight. It was his stubborn retention of consciousness against the R X maniug DEth that gave | raged sovereignty of his country he | B T S"0e $HY ghanghat negotiations | should be made to protect traffic|l8W Dleaded guilty today and were ose ab a flicker of hope. | defends at the same time the inde g Degotls [ st le: : Nans | fined a total of $166,000 by Federal lere. Were infications £oday b o tentet ot T Aas probably will affect adversely the against a similar tragedy until plans of 8 patient was showing ,,‘(,,“.‘glfi,‘,‘{, ) i h‘ insolent Imiperia), | more important negotiations and com- | can be completed for the construction [ Judge Adam C. Cliffe. fects of his long fight against the | lom of Veall Stoemy Solent imperial-| mynications now under way at|of an entirely new bridge. | The defendants who pleaded guilty throat and lung attack. which, in fact, | The Sosialiat . ge e At the same time Engineer Commis- | were all chair concerns and were as. ARER AL o ad Tniithat Vet he B as e i o ore Junto Jand as pointed out by the London | sioner Bell began official action to de- | sessed fines ranging from $1,000 to contracted a cold while touring in | Senate seek to put the Senate on ree. | Ofckus that although the Shanghal|termine the possibility of removing | §5000 each rope, and upon his return to this | country was confined to bed for a long period with a touch of influenz During most of the insuing Winter remained away from the Senate, » time he entered the three- he camp gn of 1924 | ap) ned much of the | ph his vounger { He plunged into the campaign with: | out stint eking a wic | The il lonss hours daily in o fon work | among his suppe s Rested Most of Winter. | After the ele in which he saw only his home 1y to hi: l»nn-’ ner, he into semi-retire- men Winter he spent | in ¥ He returned to! during the spe- | ate in March, e confirmation n to be Attorney | time his health | The came cence of his old illness | upon him here several 0. and sin en he has been con- | ¢ fined to his home. The efforts of his ' physicians to keep him in bed were | a time unavailing, but several | ¥S ago he consented to remain as iet as possible in a determined ef- fort to throw off his affliction. A touch of asthma increased the | v of breathing and inter- | {{ his sleep to such an extent | é»m the attack of heart trouble to- ay found him in a tly wea | 2y foun 1y atly weakened | oo During the morning Senator La | remained cons but he | great difficulty in speaking. physicians had not abandoned lly, although they mani- conwvinced that death was bility. La Follette, all of r four children were at the bed today "hey were Robert M. L | Follette, jr Follette, and { the two daug Sucher of Washington. In addition to Dr. who has been in cons s nt attendance on the or, Dr. Ralph E. Lee, heart alist, and Dr. B. M. Ran- dolph were called to the residence and remained in consultation until afternoon Classed as Able Orator. Robert Marion La Follette, consid- ered one of the most powerful orators of his time, was a storm center of personal and political controversy throughout the Nation and in his home State of Wisconsin for more than a quarter of a century. “Fighting Bob,” the name by which he was known to political friends and enemies alike, was a title well earned zlmost from the moment he stepped into the political arena when scarcely ’pommueu on Page 2, Column. 1) s the present | |crat on the Senate forelgn relations | that American labor will not support | turbing” . George Mid- | dleton of New York and Mrs. mmh;Shell From Cutler Brings Back Tug | C. Marbury, | Stormy Career Ends OWERS BREAK P SHANGHAI PARLEY: NEW RITS OECIR Differences Between Foreign Delegates and Chinese Halt Negotiations. | BRITISH AND JAPANESE CONSULATES ATTACKED Officials at Chung-kiang Forced to Leave—English Stoned in | City Streets. By the Associated Press. IANGHAI June 18.—Negotiations | i SENATOR ROBERT M. here between representatives of the| { LA FOLLETTE. foreign ‘diplomatic corps at Peking| - and Chinese delezates, seeking ad justment of recent disturbanc broken off today, owing to dive: ARGENTINES SCORE = . were | gence of views. from Chung kiang situation there is The h consul was forced consulate and take up wireless i 1 |critical. | to leave his | residence in the Lingmen Temple British Nationals have been stoned | message the and assaulted in the streets, the mes- sage says. Chung-kiang is a treaty port of from | 250,000 to 300,000 population, situated about 830 miles above Hankow, at the | confluence of the Kialing with the/ Yangtse Rivers. ISee “Insolent Imperialism” |* Dipatenes from Kiokiang, whers| the British and Japanese consulates| recently were attacked and the British | concession invaded, reported a gradual improvement in the situation there. | Reports from Hankow said quiet | prevailed and® that the number of foreign guards had been reduced, al-| N | though a strong emergency force still | s maintained | 3 in Secretary of State’s { Attitude. By the Assoc ated Pre | BUBNOS AIRES, June 15 —The at- | Was : o ke ot o T la b = eports from Swatow said it was ex- | ae: o0 States toward | et 'aahinpine Stcike. would) | Mexico, as expressed in Secre State Kellogg's recent dec ary of start there. | 0 news was received from Amoy tion, is | condemned in a statement issued by |of Foo Chow. | ioni ] Lous the Latin-American Union over. the| . S erows More Seriows, | StAti0NING of Traffic Po iy receipts diminished by | Signature of its president, Alfredo| The shipping strike became more | liceman Asked hauffeurs “to drive Palacios, | serious today when coolies and lighter - fully at such a rea- ! The union says it considers Secre- | men s at the Pootung wharf. It | — sonable speed that they will not } Kellogg's statements as showing | was feared tugs and launches working | | risk accidents or collisions with { “that want of respect for the sov-|in connection with ocean-going steam.| A coroner's jury, at an inquest| other vehicles’ i ereignty of our peoples which is char. | €S, Will soon become involved into the death of Henry A. Thayer,| Since “reasonable speed” is left | acteristic of the White House, whatao. | Ninety former Chinese municipal |at the District morkue today, recom- | to drivers discretion. " they state 5 e, unis policemen led a huge procession ves.| : tuti SEE = that as long as their wages are { ever be the ‘pan-American’ principles | farday breakini shop. windows that f“"_’"';"l aupstitudon of & salder Abigcl ) o o sk SN Mar Tty | which it pretends to support regard- | contained British and Japanese goods. £60 Dridge to take the place of | | roerp the union are not sat- “!n;: the legal equality of nations.” Late ves v afternon rikers set | Klingle Bridge, over which Thayer's isfied, three miles an hour will re | “The Argeéntine people cannot re-|fire to a Japanese owned cotton mill, {automobile carried him and two| main their speed limit. | main_indifferent to the outrage in- | Put Police extinguished the flames be- |others to death Monday night | (Copyris Chicago Daily News Co.) | " the | fOre much dan as done. { After finding that the death w flicted upon a brother country. oy The procesion the former | of a'Latin American country the man- | M ] : Iner in which its domestic problems | LeCently reached Snanghai trom Nan- | | should be ‘fiNojved and ‘the political | {chivities of extremists in Chinese | tendency which should prevail in territory adjoining the Shanghai for- | | public functions, threatening to pro- | eign settlement increased. However, officials that if the report is true serious | plications may follow and thay the| its fervent sympathy. “In energetically defending the out- | com- | negotiations dealt entirely with local | ord as “expressing its solidarity with tives Are Displayed. | PEKING, June 18 UP)—Thousands | of posters have appeared in Peking | depicting British policemen shooting | and bayoneting students, women and children, with bodies lyipg about on the ground. The vernacular newspapers print accounts differing materially from the foreign versions of the affairs at! Shanghai, Hankow and elsewhere. | Some of these stories assert that the | Hankow trouble was entirely a fight between factions of Japahese, that the foreign buildings in Kiu-kiang burned from _spontaneous combustion, and that W. W. MacKenzie, the British subject murdered at Shanghai, died of sickness. The natlve account of the MacKen- zie incident says the British consul or- dered the doctor who attended him to mutilate the body in an effort to of Labor, and Swanson of Vi Senator Claude A. inia, ranking Demo- committee. | Mr. Green has advised Mr. Kellogg of his apprehension that the state- ment might encourage revolutionaries in Mexico and he issued a warning “policy of diplomacy.” It is unthinkable, he said, that “our Government should contribute to a situation that might lead to military intervention in Mexico.” He charac- terized as “mystifying and most dis- the unexpectedness of the Secretary’s statement and the ‘‘gen- eral implication as to the responsibility of the labor movement.” Officials of the American and Mex- abor federations will confer here 3 on the immigration gquestion and that meeting, he said, will afford voring dollar {an opportunity for “clarifying the |throw the blame on the Chinese. | situation. - Swanson Sees Trouble. The professors of Peking University | Senator Swanson, at Norfolk, de-|have appealed to Pope Pius to use his | clared he did not approve of Secretary |influence in the present troubled Chi. | Kellogg's method _in_handling _the | nese situation to promote brotherhood, | “(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) (Continued on Page Until Movie Men Clear Sea of Wreck' By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, June 18—Halted by a four-pound shell from a Coast Guard cutter, a tug has been held for “two days miles off Sandy Hook to clear aw: age occasioned by the dynamiting of a steamship in the making of a motion picture thriller. The Corvallis, a freighter that cost Uncle Sam $800,000 to build, was bought for $45,000, loaded with seven tons of dynamite, re- tug from which operations were directed, started back for New York without obeying directions to remove debris, the cutter Seneca pursued her. When a command to stop was not heeded, a shell across the tug's bow halted her. Edward P. Morse, president of the National Drydock Corporation, which staged the shipwreck for a film company; the captain, and three photographers, all seasick, were detained aboard the tug. “And they’'ll be detained until Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular ed; tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,624 JUNE 18, 1925 —FIFTY- * TWO PAGES. CORONER'S JURY URGES REPLACING OF KLINGLE BRIDGE Removal of Trolley Poles and the automobile | statement continues. “If we admitted | police was finally subdued by the Man- | oo, dainiad icn sa iy ot without murmuring that a foreign | churian troops of Gen. Chang Hsueh. | MI1ting the trolley pole, mounting the power could dictate to the government | Liang, son of Gen. Chang Tso-Lin, the | Sidewalk and crashing through the churian war lord. These troops | iron rail of the bridge, the jury said “It is the opinion of the jury, ba on testimony adducdd, that a new modern Structure should replace the present bridge without further del: and that the bridge correspond with ed | voke a revolution if it did not accept | | the present width of the roadway on | the orders received, we could not com- FEAR SERIOUS EFFECTS. | Connecticut avenue. e . | slain it to ow. any atic | “We further recommend that the f ! plain if tomorrow, in any situation S | e L A Prominent Manufacturers equally grave to Argentina’s national SHLEDAEL B D Jrss 4 S patonal|yondon Disturbed by Reports of | safeguard the nublic by the assign b SR Broken Negotiations [ment of a trafic pouceman ac this| Plead Guilty of Violations | jRtaanncars FNCE! B {point to prevent indiscriminate “Insolent Tmperialism." LONDON, June 18 OP)—Official | speeding. In conclusion the statement says: | Guarters in London have received no! *“We further recommend the re of Anti-Trust Law. “The Latin-American Union, whose | COnfirmation of the report that ne-|moval of the troffey poles from the . | fundamental norma is the political | S0tiations at Shanghai for the settle- | center of the bridge.” — | salidarity of our peoples, extends to | ment of differences arising from the| M. O. Eldridge, traffic director, De- | By the Associated Press. ien. Calles (the Mexican President) | Fecent riots there have been broken. fore the coroner's inquest into the | CHICAGO, June 15.—Fifty defend- xpressed the view | fatal accident, testified that the bridge | is “exceedingly dangerous,” and de. clared that immediate improvemen the trolley poles from the center of the President of Mexice. (ran Calles, | affalrs their abondonment probably | the bridge so that they would not Assessed $5,000 Each. i < of Mexico, Gen. Calles, | would be used by Chinese anti-foreign | interfere with traffic. Commissioner | Those fined $5 e Ll jin answer to Secretary Kellogg's ex- | elements*to stir up trouble throughout | Bell ordered Maj. W. E. R. Covell, m-“: o 'r:"_" 13 e = *‘,‘“(’fe" temporaneous statements.” The mo- | the country, especially in the Peking | Utllities = Commission expert, . to | Bro%- Chicago: Johnson Chair Co., tion has been referred to a committee. |and Canton areas, where, according to | sound out the Capital Traction Co.|Chicago: B. L. Marble Chair ., Bed- reports here, there now is much feel- |and residents near Klingle Bridge as | {0rd, Ohio; Phoenix Chair Co., She UNION LABOR AROUSED. ing_agaimst foreigners to their attitdde on this proposal |boygan, Wis: Milwaukee Chair Co., The present communications be- | without delay. Milwaukee, Wis.; Webster Manufac- | tween the foreign diplomatic corps at " % turing Co., Superior, Wi ndard Green Warns Kellogg—Democratic | Peking and the Chinese government | Offered to Remove Poles. | Chair'Co., Union City, Pa.; Sheboygan 4l Senatos Brotiot | were described by authorities here as| Vice President John H. Hanna of | Chair Co., Sheboygan, Wis.; Grand 3 o | “amicable but fruitless,” and it was|the Capital Traction Co. sald vester- and Ledge, Mich.; By the Associate added that the Shanghai complications | day that his company, on several | Colonial Chair Co., Chicago; Michigan Secretary recent pro- | might cause a serfous rupture. Il)revlous occ: \“'h«;(r co., L(}r nd(‘ Raf:d;‘l.(e hliykch»: nouncement of conditions to v 0 ’arkersburg r Co., Parkersburg, i et o e LAUNCH POSTER DRIVE. | 160 on B ? | W. Va: Marietta Chair Co., Marietta, port of the Mexican government has == R | Qnie; Gunlocke Chatr Co., Wayland, drawn criticism from William Green, | pj, f British Bayoneti Na- | UB Ic TO TE L g s president of the American Federation | C e © 2 TonciiE S 1ASKS P L L Ind.; Jamestown Chair Co., James- OF DRIVING BREACHES Eldridge Then Proposes to Call Al- leged Offenders to Give Explanation. Recognizing the value of a citizenry on the alert for violators of the traffic laws, Traffic Director Eldridge today drew up a plan whereby complaints by witnesses of flagrant violations will be referred to alleged offenders for an official explanation. If the motorist involved refuses to reply to the allegation made against him, the complaint will be filed in a special record for consultation in the event of future violations charged. Director Eldridge believes that if a motorist is the victim of a_mistake or of the vented grudge of some enemy, he will readily come to the traffic di- rector’s office and make satisfactory explanation. The fact that he ig- nores the protest will be taken as self- evidence of an infraction, of great value for record purposes. A form lefter to be used in advis- ing motorists of complaints register- ed regarding their driving has been drawn up and will be printed. $1,500,000 MINNESOTA BANK CLOSES DOORS First National of St. Cloud, Estab- lished in 1867, Is Reported in Difficulties. By ‘the Associated Press. S8T. CLOUD, Minn., June 18.—The First National Bank of St. Cloud, es- N FURNITURE CASE christened Mandalay, towed to the “Indian Ocean” and blown up just after the heroine had escaped. When the Mary A, Bickx the | | water between the Hook and Barnegat is cleared of the mess they made,” said a Coast Guard spokesman. p tablished in 1867, and with deposits of more than one and one-half mil- lion dollars, failed to open its doors for business today, | Paris Bus Drivers | Strike by Slowing [ Up to Cut Profit | | BY CONSTANTINE BROW) | By C e to The Star and Chicago Daily WS, | Par 18, — Paris _bus | drivers instructions from | Communi nizations, de. | clared ke Wednesday morn- ing single man quit_his | ob. 1 reduced the speed of 1 ehicles from 12 to 3 miles SOFNEDSIGRON s indicted in ses under n the recent furniture the Sherman anti-trust town, N. Y Rockford, Il Must Pay $1,000. Those fined §4,000 were: Chair Co., Buffalo, N. Y.; the Sikes Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Nichols & Stone Co., Gardner, Mass.; Peru Chair Co., Peru, Ind.; Conant, Ball Co., Gardner, Mass.; Brown Bros., Gardner, M Bodenstein & Kenmerle, Inc. Philadelphia, and Indianapolis Chair and Furniture Co., Aurora, Ind. Those fined $3,000 were: American Chair Manufacturing Co., Hallstead, Comrades Manufacturing Co. ‘awcett; UmpRry Chair Co., Morgan- town, Ind.; Empire Chair Co., John- Tenn.; Spencer Table and (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) DECISION TOMORROW IN TEAPOT DOME SUIT Result of Government's Action for Annulment of Lease to Sin- clair Will Be Given. nd Old Colony Chair Co., Sikes By the Associated Press. CHEYENNE, Wyo.. June 18— Judge T. Blake Kennedy’s-decision in the Government’s suit for annulment on the Teapot Dome naval ofl reserve will be delivered in Federal Court here at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Judge Kennedy so notified counsel for the Government and the Mammoth and other interested Sinclair corpora- tions. The suit was tried last March and was taken under advisement March 26. The Government seeks annul- ment of the Teapot lease on the | which arguea grounds that it was obtained through collusion and fraud and_that there was no authority from Congress for the Department of the Interior to make the lease. (UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. FAIMAN RELATES STORY OF GERMS AT SHEPHERD TRIAL Called by Court When State Declines to Use Him as Witness. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 18—His sponsor ship relinquished by the prosecution, which for many weeks has had him under close guard, as its proclaimed chief witness, Charles . Faiman was called as a court’s witness today in the Shepherd murder trial. He took the witness stand for direct examina- tion by Judge Thomas J. Lynch at 11:08 a.m. Court recessed until 2 o'clock with Faiman still on the stand. The pros ecution had concluded its cross-exami nation and defense counsel Stewart had undertaken the task of breaking down his story. Faiman was called by the couct over the bitter protest of the defense, that the move would prejudice the jury and open avenues of ‘cross-examination for the State, which otherwise would be denied. Not Vouching for Witness. The prosecution yvesterday requested that Faiman be summoned by the court. The defense attorneys, W. S. Stewart and W. W. O'Brien, said they would waive objection only if State’s Attorney Crowe would say the wit ness was “not worthy of belief.” Mr. Crowe replied he would not say that. “It simply means,” he told the judge, “that the State does not vouch for him and does not wish to be bound by his testimony, that of a man jointly indicted with the defend- ant and a confessed accomplice, who more than once has changed his story.” The defense contended that Mr. Crowe was not acting in good faith. Judge Lynch today decided to call Faiman as a court's witness, interro- gate him on direct evidence and then permit the State and defense in turn to _cross-examine. Faiman, a dapper little blond man, launched immediately into his accusa- tion of Shepherd after Judge Lynch had asked him two questions of identi- fication. Voice Barely Audible. He talked in a barely audible voice, glanced nervously from the judge to the jury, to counsel, and shifted about in the witness chair. “Do you know Shepherd?” was the court’s third question. Yes, sir,” was the reply. Did you have any dealings with him,” asked Judge Lynch. e “Tell the jury about it,” directed the court, and the man who was indicted with Shepherd was off on the story the State has sgid it depends upon to con- vict Shepherd. Thrice previously he had told a story that he gave Shepherd typhoid ba- cilli and taught him how to slay young “Billy” McClintock with them for a promise of $100,000 from the $1,000,000 estate the youth had willed to Shep- herd. Faiman, proprietor of the National University of Sciences, a school housed in an old brick residence, said Shep- herd sent him a letter inquiring about a_course in bacteriology, and that after he had sent a representative to see Shepherd the accused man came to his institution. Shepherd said he wanted to take a course in criminal bacteriolog: Fai- man sald. Shepherd is a lawyer. Shepherd wanted to see some germs, (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) Nova Pictoris, New Star in South, Now Believed to Be World Aflame of the Mammoth Oil Company’s leasey gy the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, June 18.—The new star in the southern sky, Nova Pictoris, first seen by the Capetown and La Plata observa- torfes some weeks ago and now visible here to the naked eye, may be a burning world, accordinig to local astronomers. It is pointed out that while other new stars have shown their max- imum intensity of light withine one or two days of their appearance, Nova Pictoris steadily increased in brilliance during a period of 15 days, attaining its maximum on June 9, when it appeared as a star of the first gnitude. 1 AMUNDSEN RETURNS FROM DASH TO POLE; WHOLE PARTY SAFE Explorer and Comrades Reach Kings Bay After Weeks in the Arctic. PLANES LAND ON ICY LAKE AND ARE FROZEN IN SOLIDLY Half of Gasoline Exhausted Before Stop—Winds Carry Aviators | to West of Pole. | | By Cable to The Star and North American Newspaper Allance OSLO, June 18 (by radio from the steamer Heimdal).—Roald Amundsen, the explorer, and his entire party have returned safely from their flight into the Arctic. The following radio message was received from the party from Kings Bay today: “Arrived Kings Bay, all right, this morning 1 o’clock.” Signed Amundsen, Dietrichson, Ellsworth, Feucht, Omdal, Riiser, Larsen. Amundsen, in his first telegram to the North American News- paper Alliance from Kings Bay, states that, after leaving Kings Bay May 21 at 5 p.m., he flew due north for seven hours, at which half of his gasoline was exhausted. They landed on the water in an ice lane. Amundsen’s telegram states that immediately after his planes descended they were frozen solidly into the ice lane. “The dispatch is garbled at this point, but the assumption is that the blorers were therefore forced to return on foot.” risient andinavian coun e n_Italy b Amundsen’s Own Story of Fight With Elements in Polar Dash BY RAOLD AMUNDSEN. pitzbergen (by radio from steamer Heim- KINGS BAY, dal). June 18—Our planes left Kings Bay at 5 p.m. May 21, witlh 1d approximating three tons, by way Amsterdam Island. At Sydagt we encountered fog, above which we rose to height of 3,100 feet in order to navigate. During the next two hours the planes flew like bullets through the fog. which lasted until 8 o'clock. After 8 p.m. and for the remainder oi the journey the con- ditions of the visibility were excellent. An observation at 10 p.m. showed that we were too far to the west. probably due to northeast winds above the fog, which prevented us from posi- tively observing the deviation. We laid our course further east until 1 o’clock in the morn ing of May 22 when half of our gasoline was exhausted, and it became necessary to attempt a descent in order to secure definite bearings with a view to our further movements. We were then above a large lane in locked between two the ice. the first of this size which le we were trying we had encountered. We then flew s clear. lower and observed the surrounding the whole ice lane ice to discov whether there was ipping the N-24 also. block ice in the lane. soundings at our land Not once during the trip had we and found a depth of 3,750 seen a suitable landing place among cap. we the drift following days we conditions and ob the jagged ice of the Neither was there polar So | studied th one here. descended to the water in the broad |served the magznetic iation and ice lane. also the meteorological situation o y While flving northward we had “ob- Planes Gripped in lce served” “an area of about 100,000 Observatic duri ht 5 lometers, reaching to about el G ot : $:30 north, without any indication of 44 minu north latitud land. Considering the depth disclosed desrecs 20 minutes west lan by our undings, we therefore that the distance covered in our eicht | thought it most improbable that we hours’ flight was exactly 1,000 kilo-| Would find any land further north on meters. AS our average speed was |this side of the pole. 150 kilometers per hour, this meant | (Copyri S Canada, South that a head wind had put us back e 200 kilometer: e it et Our_fears regarding the descent | France by Petit Parisienne: in Ttaly by Cor. were not groundless, it proved. Im-|pere qella Sery In all Scandinaxian coun; mediately after landing on the water rights reserved.) Amundsen Nationai Hero of Norway After His Discovery of South Pole By the Associated Press airplane pilot, an_ex-naval man of The Amundsen-Ellsworth airplane | Horten, Norway: Oskar Omdahl, me- expedition of two machines hopped | chanic, of Kristiansand, Norway, long off from Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, for | associated with Amundsen's exploring its attempted flizht to the North Pole | Work and a former student of avia- Gn tho affernoon of Alav 21" tion at Mineola, Long Isiagd, and Carl The venture was one at which the | Feucht of Friedrichshafei, Germany, world held its breath, for the plunge |Mmechanic and expert on Dornier air- out over the Arctic wastes was cvery- | Craft. where counted one of extreme hazard, | Amundsen has a long and brilliant but those who knew from experience | Fécord as explorer of both the north- conditions in the North and wera well | €0 and southern polar regions. acquainted with Amundsen’s ability | He was the first man to reach the to cope with them were almost to a |§0Uth Pole, at which he planted the man confident that he would return | Norwegian flag on December 14, 1911, beating the late Capt. R. F. Scott, the British explorer, by 34 days in achiev- ing the discovery. Amundsen remained at the South Pole three days, taking observations and charting the terri- tory. He returned to his base shortly erward and announced his achieve (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) 40 HURT AS MOTORMAN STOOPS TO GET GLOVE By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 18—The stoop- ing of a motorman to pick up a glove was held responsible today for an elevated train accident in which 40 persons were slightly injured outside the Jerome avenue and Anderson ave- nue station, near the Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx, last night. Morris J. Rvan, motorman of a train that crashed into the rear of another, told District Attorney McGeehan that a second or two before the accident he dropped his glove and stooped to pick it up, being in a hurry to get home. Consequently, he said, he had his eyes off a train that had halteq ahead of his own. He was arrested on a charge of criminal negligence. A city fireman, after the cras> van from his cabin and, with extinguishers, put out a fire that started. None of the cuts and bruises was serious enough to warrant injured h Amundsen, as observer in the second airplane, was Lincoln Ells- worth, aviator, engineer, athlete and explorer into many of the out-of-the- way parts of the Western Hemi- sphere. Amundsen and he were the navigators of the expedition charged with the responsibility of heading it aright on its journey and co-ordinating its activities. In addition the expedition carried four men, two in each of the planes. | They were Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, lieutenant in the Norwegian navy and | expert airman; Lief Dietrichson, an Its brilliance is now diminishing, and it is expected that within a few weeks telescopes will again be necessary to locate it. During the period of increasing brilliance, its spectrum was not very different from other blue stars, but at the time of passing its maximum brilliance the spec- tgum became modified, showing, instead of lines of absorption, numerous lines of emission, among which was an especially noticeable red line, indicative of the presence of hydrogen. It is this which has given as- passengers remaining in_hospitals. tronomers the impression they are viewing a burning world. Radio Programs—Page 38.