Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1926, Page 5

" THE SUCCESS OF NORGE RELIEVES KINGS BAY Byrd Expedition Was Plan- ning Search Party When Word Arrived. BY WILLIAM BIRD. 111' 'I"hv Star Aboard CHANTIE 17 (By Wireless the Byrd expedi reatly relieved late & when Spectal Correspondent The - Ch ABOARD THE KINGS BAY, May All the me tion were bers o atur- day night bulletin told them that Capt. Amundsen and Lincoln | Ellsworth were safe, and a search party would, therefore, be unneces- sary The work of relo the planes und other material aboard the Chan tler was ordered commenced _this morn the carpenter, C. Gold 1 gang began the recon r the pontoon raft, which oken up by the 1ultanco ville Parker st T ¥ 1 dismantlin ine Ford 1 the Oriole, p gasoline, oil, tools and ed about on shore, eer’s force of the Chan- ctically completed clean 1 boilers, and prob. P Steam 1omorrow. board is working the hold to the ope the Chantier will to sail Wednesday or Thurs. ready ng two parties went s and shot nine t skinned this largest iceberg in fted menacingly along- itier, and Capt. Brannan, 1o the rudder and pro ashore for blasting pow. proved a tougher cus- expected, but after blast- I day it was finally broken d off, not, however, be- ks were literally strewn and several of the ed being hit by A announced that he at any intermediate the way ho but wo! ct for London, where he v r or five days, to give tk of th ion and crew sizht-seeing and them will spend n London, but a . Byrd, will take an air- p to Paris. by the New York Times Post-Dispatch.) MEET ON ENFORCEMENT. Prince Georges Body to Send Com- mittees to Marlboro. Speelal Dispatch to The St May 17.—At all here yes- the Prince Georges County Enforcement League appointed a committee to attend the trial June 21 1t Upper Marlboro of Constable Guy Robey and Special Officer Bernard Rowe, charged with assault in connec- tion with a recent liquor raid. A similar committee attended the trial ntly of Claude Reese and several who were acquitted of theft the: following a raid. The league emphasized its purpose in enforcement uthorities and vigilantes. Prof. W. C. Myers of Riverdale presid A committee was appointed to urge the county commis- sloners ut their meeting tomorrow to nt Claude Reese a constable. regular through the not through followi vice presidents were ed: ¥. W. Goodman, Chillum: Frank M. Stephen, Hyattsville, and 0. N. Eaton, Vansville Upshaw to Be S peaker. Spectal Di *h to The Star. HYATTSVILLE. Md., Mav 17— Representative D. Upshaw of CGeor mass meeting 7:30 p.m SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and New ailings From | | York. ing Time. Pastores Monte than sthia % utschland D ort._ Victoria Ancon Suffren Puerto " Colo ¢ I Pen J uador resident” Wilion ania Troquois . Santo Dom! 8 DUE TOMORROW., Santa Teresa Helli Yesty a0 DUE WEDN Homerte o La Bourdonniais Pari : b DUE TuURSDAY ixaola ... . - ta Marta, May 11 Frenttone tariivoi Samente: oy 14 MR v s %nce s Tacksonville, May 17 (Sailing hour, Daylight SAIL TODA eliance—Ham Midnight ‘olumbus—Ire Midnight stobal . D 8:00PM. SAILING TOMORROW. 3:00 P.M. L 400 PN 11:00 AN Bermuda T11:00 ATM, A : 1:00 AT Moorish Princo—Cane Town ... 1:00 P\ SAILING WEDNESDAY, President Roosevelt—Bremen.. .. 12:00 M. Colombo—Naples .. ... 12:00 M Maure Southampion 00PN | Tivi 4 Marta 1:00 AN Trujillo—San Juan 11:00 A'M 110°00 AN ) AL 200 PIMC M SAILING THURSDAY. merfcan Banicer—London. huring; amburg . ... United St “openkiagen .. Stockholn: Monterey San Lore sequibo—Havas Camayagua—PuertoCor AILING FRIDAY, Homeris—Southampton . . Midoight Penlane “aee - Midnight de 3:00 P. Leviathan—Southampton . .... New Amsterdam—Rotterdam . Seythia—Live 3 nia—Lond H: {innequa- emont—Port § Macniel- Siboney—Havana .. Pastores—Costa Rica onte Christi” . tobal ... Puerto Colombia” . oss—Buenos uan t. Noville, and per- | ! A a matter of fact, I was compelled | chally ‘1 back home want to hear of. BYRD OVERCAME FOG MENACE BY STUDYING COMPASS CHANGES Reduced Unknown Area by 10,000 Square Miles; Praises Nobility of Spirit Shown by Amundsen and Ellsworth on His Success. | w fl This is the final instalment of Comdr. | signs of going down. It was a puzzle to_run, L But T felt sure. at this stage :;Elom- e 5 journey, that we could make Kings ader of the Lyrd Pelar Expedition. | (i} hright and 1 had no further ap- ,“m.\'(;s BAY, Spit en, May 17 prehension about the leaky tank. | (By Wirele As we circled over the e Pole T thought of a little coin I car- | Makes Aviation Practical. ricd pinned to my shirt that had been | It occurred to me what a pinned to Pe: shirt when he |thing multimotors are for a reached the Pole. For the second time | They give to business the an that little coin had reached the top |has been looking for. The plane that of the world. 1 had also carrled it |can fly with a half or a third of its with me In the Arctic last year. | motors is almost certain to run a rea Now for the first time we concerned | Sonable time if the gasoline, il and ourselves with out return. What [ Water last. great lane. would we do about the leaky oil? It| But we did not have to reckon with | was running out of one of the extra | Water because our three motors are ofl tanks we ourselves had put in the | Wright alrcooled instead of water. atures could cezing tempe: plana and was no fault of the motor, | cooled which was functioning perfectly. We Dot freeze our motors up. It is a | had Inalled the tank 1o carry the|£reat motor and a great plane. The | extra ofl needed for the long fiight, | Crgines are 200-horsepower each, so Much writing went backward and | We had 600 horsepower pulling our Bennett wanted to try to | Sreat single wing along at the rate 3 of 100 miles an hour. The Wright company had put a speeial cowling all around the motors | to protect them from the bitter cold filianiationierpealti iy | temperature at the Pole. The tem- | perature had been zero, 32 degrees be- Decided to Keep On. low freezing. It was now 5 degrees | For some hours vet we would be |above zero, and really warmer than I over regions from which it would [ had expected to find it. probably Do impossible to return| We had a strong wind with us and afoot. We decided to fly with motor | Were taking advantage of it by flying until the oil pressure would drop, in. |t various altitudes, The wind changes Aiceting ol the c\isvas #ohe | in both strength and direction at dif- I set our course for Greypoint,|ferent altitudes, and an aviator can Spitzhergen. o faw miles eastward of | freauently take advantage of this fact ‘Amsterdam Teland, whero wa had laft | 0 increase his speed over the ground. the land on_ the north course. Had, Wind Increased Speed. the sun not"been bright and the at- & mosphere clear ahead we would have | There was about a 20-mile-an-hour aimed for the middle of the Spitzber- | Wind blowing, and it was increasing gen Islands, so as not to miss the|OUr speed by 10 miles an hour. If this land completely and get lost in the | Wind had been directly behind us, as Hanilc Goen it was at times, we would have in- i n 1t beoame my turn to pilot | Creased our speed 20 miles an hour be- again. 1 checked the course carefully | CAuse the plane, while flying, is a part of the air and is affected by wind cur- befors taking the wheel and noted ; ihat the compass showed variations Tl s iaanast as high as 30 degre g O th!ony s e Dolatths sakta: For the firat time since we left we te he o 154 r) - | Bave he skis a careful examlination Hons of e compass had gradually | {70 "¢ they had been injured when Doren anti mhe s me we left SPItZ"| we got off the snow with our heavy This was very interesting te e, |10ad: Amundsen and Ellsworth had I knew it would interest the scientific | Knocked a hole in the bottom of one i - WoLia nters : | of their flying boats previously in tak- | rld, for varfations in the polar sea | pr (helr, 1¥ing e largely unknown, and being un- e i il 0, it a5 e s t makes uncertaln the e could see. We had made s from anything | ew York with a big factor | but had put two skis to- ! Kings Bay and nearly dou- bled thelr strength. It is a queer sensation for one who | has flown for some years to look down where wheels should be and find skis and runners. We felt that we had learned a little something about air- plane skis and about landing and tak- ing off the snow, and I found my mentally designing a set of skis sat there musing. Navigation is Difficult. But I soon came to with a sf ve had the job of getting tzbergen, which one who looks ""; polar chart will find was not so big | rward. a landing place and land to repair the motor, but T vetoed that for landing in uncertain places has ended a number of otherwise success- wh navigation by compas: moving as fast as an alrplane. | i Was Gauge of Wind Drift. T was convinced now that we could | tell how much we might be drifted | by the wind to the right or left by | the amount the magnetic compass would differ from the sun compass. Suddenly it occurred to me that here was & way to navigate, while flving above a fog With no view of the ground. So I no longer felt ap- prehension about the airplane’s great enemy—fog. When T took the wheel to pilot T allowed myself to relax and the rhythmical hum of the motors made me extremely drowsy. Before I realized it I dozed off for an {nstant 1ce to aim at. The great question and was brought to alertness by the [ now was, would we hit Spitzbergen or increased noise from the motors, | miss it and find ourselves lost over the cold water of the Arctic Ocean. There are no marks on the ice where. by one can retrace one’s flight as one over the land. One must navigate over the polar | sea ice just as one navigates over the ocean, only navigation must be | much quicker, for by the time our position could be located by the sea- | going method we should be a hundred | caused by increased speed from going downward. I quickly brought the plane to an even keel and saw to it that T dld not doze off again. | Our labors before leaving had put us under considerable strain and we could not relax for a moment without feeling fatigued. Sextant Was Broken. Burd’s narraiive from ings Lay, where e commanter it st on” s “haw. land we were ready and anxious toj 'V »lyh §0ry of kis grea: polayr ad- be still further mystified if it should ok mean that the motor would continue i holding on to me. reached Kings Bay and descended into the lee of the mountains. 1 climbed the plane gradually as we neared Kings Bay, until we were near- ly a mile high. There was the Chan- tler, looking like a long, dark rock in the ‘water, with the ice floating here and there about her. Good old Chan- tler! She was built for service, not looks, but she looked beautiful to me on_that occasion. T knew there were 50 men aboard that ship who had thelr h apped up in the success. of t and our safe return. our They had given every ounce of all the strength jand energy they possessed towurd victory, and a great wave of affection {and gratitude for them swept over me at that moment. The knowledge that they were now stirred with joy as they saw us coming in safe a | Boing strong gave me one of the big moments of my life. The next thin; that took my eye was Amundsen and Ellsworth's great hangar glisten- ing green in the sunlight. They were about to leave in the Norge on their great adventure. I hoped they would have as good | weather as’we had. We circled over, | and as we came down for the landing | we could see the people rushing from the village and boats hurrying to the shore from the Chantier. Made Perfect Landing. The landing field had people run- ning all over it, 5o we had to wave them away and ascend for another This time space was cleared for Bennett made the landing, and was a_perfect one. He taxied the sephine Ford to the tip of the in ciine at the place we had started from. I opened the door, thinking how good it would be to put foot to tife solid_snow in, but it was some time before 1 succeeded in doing that. I stepped from the door into the arms of a crowd of deliriously happy people, cheering and throwing their hats in the air. They hoisted Bennett and myself to their shoulders and bore us swiftly down the runway. There were many townspeople among those greeting us They had gone through great anxiety over Amundsen @ vear ago and they were glad to see us safely back. 1 especially recall the happiness and enthusiasm of Mr. Kise, engineer of the Kings Bay Coal Co. He had done everything in the world he could to help us before our departure. As we were carried down the hill we met Amundsen and Ellsworth run ning to meet us. We were dropped on the ground and I found myself in Amundsen’s arms with Ellsworth There were t checks, and I on Amundsen's saw then the great man beneath the cloak all great men wear lisworth, trying was volc to have us back. Personal Ambition Submerged. These two heroes had been down in choked a on that polar ice and had gone through great suffering. They knew what lay beneath us during that flight. They knew and forgot self and all personal ambitions and were moved as I have seliom seen men moved. Then I Id see the real stuff they were made of. If I had robbed them of realization of one of their long-cherished ambitions, they. I believe, did not give it a thought. Here was another great moment in | my life, As we walked down the runway, the men running from the Chantier jolned the procession and several of them were so utterly exhausted from their hurry that they could say noth- ing when they finally reached us. ch was the case with good old Geis. ler, my exercise mate in Washington, who had volunteered for the trip. There were not many connected ex- pressions, but I heard little, anyhow, for I had worn no earstoppers in my cars during the flight—I had com- pletely forgotten to use them—and the hours of the roar of the motors had left me with a great ringing in the ears and I was quite deaf. The enthusiasm of our shfpmates was shown by the care we got when we reached the ship. Dr. O'Brien and We had known that the wonderful weather we had had would not last long and had hurried to take advan- tage of it. We had perfect confidence miles or so from the location where we started the calculations. | we had to have | We had confidence that our naviga- tion had heen correct In Haines of the United States |Confidence—but was it? Our lives| Weather Bureau and wanted to go (hUDg in the balance. I then tried a Nhen e = soithetintr very interesting experiment to make as anything can be; flying on a line | v Hook, Spitz- certain, as far certain, that we were from the Pole to G bergen. I calculated from the chart what time Grey Hook should be exactly be- | tween the sun and the plane, which, of course, would be true noon at Grey | Hook and true noon for the spot we ! were flying on. This was at 11 o'clock, Greenwich time, as I recall. | At that time the plane, if we were on | the right course, would point exactly | towsrd the sun. Calculations Were Correct. To my great delight, when that in- | stant arrived the hand of the sun com- pass and the Josephine Ford pointed apparently exactly forward to the | sun. We were still more than 300/ miles from land, but T knew now that, fog or no fog, sun or no sun, we would hit land unless a terrible hur- ricane should blow up. On the way north I had obtained the variations of the magnetic compass near enough not to make a very great error in 300 miles. The worst of the variations were hehind us. I went up and relleved Bennett at the wheel again and navigated at the same time 1,y holding the precious sun compass in_my left hand. Very E y, as the time passed, the sun make a bizger and bigger angle to tho right of our iine of flight. That 5 as it should be. When Bennett % the pilot’s seat again he informed mo that the motors were coming up to our hest expectations in the mat- ter of gasoline consumption. T had taken a few photographs and moving pictures on the flight, and I {now tried to take some more. I had inever taken moving pictures_ before !and very few photographs. It took all the patience I possessed to rewind that movie camera when the film | fammed, and T almost heaved it over- {board once or twice. I wonder how those pictures are coming out, if at all? T took a movie of Bennett at the {wheel, and he tried to take care of me { pilotinz, but he got up so closo that |1 am afraid it won't pan out. Sights Land 100 Miles Away. About 2:30, Greenwich, I started forward to ask Bennett if he could make out any land ahead, but just as |1 did so he nodded his head, indicat- ing there was something of interest to see. I hastened to the pilot's seat with my field glasses and, sure enough, {there was land at least 100 miles away. ‘We had found the visibility in the Arctic remarkable in clear weath- er. 1 have several times seen moun- tains 150 miles away. . That land was the most welcome bit of land I had ever seen. No more of that incessant sighting on the drift |indicator and the compasses. The task to which I had devoted years of preparation was over. We would get back now if the motors would hold out, and there was no doubt they When Bennett took the wheel again I found my preclous sextant had fallen from the chart board to the | deck, the vibration of the machine | having jarred it off. The glass was roken. . This sextant was a veteran of three flights, including our 3,000 miles of fiying in the Polar region last year. But it will be easy to repair. We had with us in addition to our | dashboard clock two Greenwich time chronometers which T had corrected daily for so long that T knew Green- ch time accurately to within a | second. My two un compasses,.my wrist watch, ‘a_present from Edsel Ford, and another small watch had all been set true te the time of the meridian of longitude we were flying along on our southerly course. Extreme cold sometimes slows tches greatly and 1 kad to be ab- tely certain that our sun com- registered the correct time. ngo them several times, espe- the ono exposed to the cold wind on the trap door. When I brought these two sun compasses with me there was none left in the United States, but I pre- dict that a great many will be in use |in a few . not only for afreraft, | but for surface ships as well. I had | given the only other one in the States to Capt. Wilkins before he started on his trip to Alaska. These compasses were made by Albert Bumsted of the National Geographic Society and pre- sented to me by Dr. Grosvenor, the soclety’s president. Elements Aided Flight. The wind began to freshen and change direction after we left the Pole, and in an hour we were making more than a hundred miles an hour. The elements were surely smiling on us that day, two insignificant specks of mortality flving there over that great, vast, white area in a small | plane, speechless and deaf from the { motors—just a dot in the center of 10,000 square miles of visible deso- lation. We felt no larger than a pin point, as lonely as a tomb and as remote and detached as a. star. Here in another world, far from herds of people, the passions and smallnesses of life fell from our shoulders. What wonder that we felt no emotion of achieve- ment or fear of the death that lay ched beneath us, but instead im- 1 and disembodied! On and on we went; it seemed for- ever onward. Our great speed had the effect of quickening our mental processes so that a minute appeared as many minutes, and I realized fully then that time is only a relative thing. One instant can be an age and again an age an instant. But enough of this wandering. It is the practical things that the people 4 Capt. Brennan rubbed Bennett and me down with some strong linament until we fell asleep. Then we woke up and were propped up in bed and fed a huge dinner, Bennett in the can- tain’s bunk and I in my own. I guess we were nearly tired enough to sleep the clock around. Heavy Oil Saved Engines. Before closing I want to tell about the oil tank that leaked. That motor was still running perfectly when we got back. It scemed that Lieut. No- ville and T. H. Kincaid had used an e thought could be used in the Arctic, because of its viscosity. Had we used lighter oil the tank would have been dry long before our return. The fine quality and thickness of the reserve supply in the tank and the very low consumption of the motor were what saved the day. 2 In closing my thoughts go back to the beginning of the expedition. Its inception was marked when Edsel Ford in his quiet voice sald: “Yes, Byrd, I will be glad to help that venture. I belleve it may help the aviation game.” John D. Rockefeller, jr., whose life is dedicated to progress, followed Mr. Ford’s lead, and Vincent Astor, him- self a flyer and a lover of aviation, was the third to help us. Many others followed suit. So if there is proper share to these men, who start- ed it, and the rest to the men who executed {t, to Lieut. Noville of the Naval Reserves and our splendid loyal men aboard this ship, who did superhuman things to get us to the Pole, and to Floyd Bennett, my fly- ing mate of many flights, fearless, able and a mechanical genius. Praises Men Who Aided Him. He is of the Regular Navy, and so is Mechanic Peterson and so am I. So I don't see how the Navy can avold some responsibility for our flight. I feel so small a part of the whole thing that I should have re- n‘nmcd the expedition “Our Expedi- tion.” The last thing it had occurred to me to say is that “I ame convinced be- yond all doubt that American busi- ness need hesitate no longer to launch commerclal aviation on its great car- eer. Progress needs it, the world wants it.”” I was anxious to do all I could to help Capt. Amundsen and Mr. Ells- worth. I went over the compass problem with them that we had en- countered and gave them my sextant, sun compass, a dritf indicator, chron- meter and deviation chart and pre- sented Mr. Ellsworth with my polar bear pants and deerskin muklukes. (Copyright. 1926, by the New York Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ) NOEL GETS NEW TRIAL. Youth Convicted of Murder of Taxi Driver Wins Appeal. TRENTON, N. J., May 17 (#).— Harrison W. Noel, Montclair youth, And there | to tell me how happy he was| ceptionally heavy oll, which no one | Reduced Unknown Area. About three hours after we had turned south, flying approximately 300 miles, we left the unknown regions and got into the explored area. We had taken at least 10,000 square miles off the map and brought that much area from the unknown to the known column of knowledge. That was most gratifylng. Again I took my hat off to avia- tion. It had been very close to our hearts to explore the unknown regions with afrplanes. Is it boasting to say that afrcraft can pull the teeth of the Arctic? Now comes a remarkable thing. The motor with the leaky ofl tank was still pounding away rhythmically. We could not understand it. The oil pressure was still higlyand gave no would. The wind was almost directly | convicted slayer of Raymond Pierce, behind us now and we were making | negro taxidriver of Newark, won a 105 miles an hour. I took the wheel | new lease on life today when the and in a few minutes noted Grey ! Court of Errors and Appeals set aside Hook was ahead.and that Amsterdam | his conviction on a first-degree murder Island, from which we had taken our |charge and awarded him a new trial. departure for the Pole, lay slightly on | Noel is now an inmate of the death the starboard bow. house at the State prison. When we reached the edge of the pek e e Plattsburg Groups to Meet. ice pack I noted that westward it was possible to walk to land from the po- lar fce pack. I judged the strip of ice| The Winter Plattsburg Assoclations that led to the land to be four or five | of Quartermaster Reserve officers will miles wide. Knowing that hydrog-| hold their next meeting in the audi- raphers would. be interested in the | torilum of the Interior Department character and location of the edge of | Friday and Saturday. Maj. Gen. B. the ice pack, I took & number of pic-| F. Cheatham, Quartermaster General, tures of it. Waves on the watér north | will preside and addresses will be of Spitzbegen were breaking toward | made by the Secretary of War, the the south, so the strong wind was stiil | Assistant Secretary of War and sev- with us, and it continued until we eral officers « the general staff, 5 JVENING STAR, WASHINGTON i any applause for our flight, give the | | the MONDAY, HINT ONLY PRIMARY AID FROM COOLIDGE Senatorial Friends Get No Formal Indorsement—Pep- per’s Chances Uncertain. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. How much attention do the people— particularly those who vote—pay to a hint from the White House? For a hint is all they will get in the pri- mary campaigns this year, and it's on a hint that President Coolidge bases his hopes of a reconstitution of the Senate and House, with support- ers of his administration. The first hint came in Iliinois, when the administration sent Secretary Hoover to make a speech during the campaign of Senator McKinley. But Ilinois didn't take the hint. The second hint came a few days ago when Secretary Mellon went to Pittsburgh and delivered a speech in support of Senator Pepper, who is having a hard fight to win in the Tuesday primaries against Represent- ative William Vare And the third hint came today with the announcement that former Gov. Stickney of V aw partner | of Attorney ( rgent, and| the lawyer intrusted by the Pres- ident with the arrangement of his ther's estat be candidate inst Senator Dale, who has alien- 1 the politi affections of the White House by voting to override the President’s veto on the bonus and sundry other things. Wants Coolidge Upheld. Mr. Stickney speaks of his reluc- | tance to enter the senatorial contest and states that he is doing so only because he wants Mr. Coolldge up- held in the State of Vermont. In 1 three cases the President himself has not spoken. He has known of the plans of his cabinet, nd he knew of the plans of former Gov. Stickney. But he has not come out openly and asked for public sup- port His belief is that the people are wise enough to take a hint. The danger of a direct statement, of course, is that if perchance the adminisi tlon's candidates do not win, the result will be hailed, as it| | w s a repudiation of And that would not s in Hlinoi Coolidge {be politically ~ comfortible, even though 1928 is somewhat distant, and pendulum of popularity can swing backward and forward many times ‘twixt now and then Mr. r is liked by the Presi- dent. has no particular objection to Mr. e, who is a powerful po- litical factor in Pennsylvania, but he would rather see Senator Pepper retained. Yet the rumors that hav been wafted here from the Keyston State are that Mr. Pepper will be lucky to squeeze through, and that there need be no surprise if Mr. Vare wins by a substantial plurality. Pinchot Splits Dry Vote. Gov. Pinchot is a third candidate in the fleld, who bound to draw from the dry side, so that the prohi- bition vote will be divided between Messrs, pper and Pinchot, while the range themselves with tive Vare. Under the c cumstances, the prohibition issue may be the controlling one at the volls, all of which makes Tuesday's | primary very important to the wets v since the wets have been claiming endancy. en before the result is known one might as well forecast what each side will say. If Mr. Vare wins, the drys will answer that Pennsylvania is a wet state anyhow and that the and drys, divided between two candidates. The wets would proclaim it as the turning of the tide toward modlification of the Volstead act. If either Senator Pepper | or Gov. Pinchot should win, the pri- mary will be achlevement for the cause of pro- hibition. The postelection state- ments could be written now, which means that on no side is there a crystallization of sentiment on issues from which national inferences can be drawn, and the truth is the race is a clash of ambitious personalities. (Copyright. 1926.) CATHOLIC CHILDREN IN MAY PROCESSIONS Immaculate Conception, Heart and St. Mary's Churches Hold Exercises. May processions were held by a number of Catholic churches of the city yesterda At the Immaculate Conception Church, Eighth and N streets, Miss Mary Lee Russell was crowned queen. More than 300 children took part ig the exercises. Rev. Stanislaus Czy preached the sermon. His topic was “The Blessed Virgin Mary.” Miss Mary McQueeny read the act of con- secration. At the Sacred Heart Church Miss Catherine Flynn was queen. The ex- ercises were under direction of the cisters of the school. Mgr. P. C. Gavin preached on “Mary as a Model for Womanhood.” Rev. Felix M. Kirch preached the sermon at St. Mary's Church exer- cises. The ladles of the sodality carried a statue of the Blessed Virgin in place of having a queen. More than 100 children took part. The procession at the Holy Com- forter Church was postponed because of the rain. It will be held May 30. 347 PASS AT ACADEMY. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 17.—The names of 347 youths who passed the “substantiating” mental examination for admission to the Naval Academy, having previously submitted certifi- cates from approved schools, were an- nounced today. Included among those who passed were C. B. Brook, J. L. Chew, R. B. Foster, H. H. Hine, C. E. McCaffray, J. C. Northam, W. A. Thorn, R. E. Perkins and C. D. Willey of Maryland: R. S. Trower, 3d.; A. W. Cowan and H. Degkerfoot of Virginia. " CLEANING RUG “Dusting" and “Sh: mlx Rt —Domestic lental- ands skillful use of the finest equipment B RAGE ‘ana KOG CLEAN: ING gepartments ‘are ogen fo_ your inspection, All 'm Federal Storage Company our own buflding. 1707 Florida Avenue or ote of the drys was upfortunately | viewed as a great | Sacred | MAY 17, 1926. ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. | TONIGHT. An entertatnment will be given in Epiphany Parish Hall, 8 lock, under auspices of Epiphany branch of Girls' Friendly Society. A cast| from Eastern High, with Myrtle Posey as leading lady, will present a oneact play, “Irene Obliges.” An- other oneact play, “A Rehearsal of ‘Hamlet,’” will be followed by dancing. i The Men's Club of Mount Pleasant Congregational Church will be ad-| dressed, 8 o'clock, by Arthur D. Call} on “America’s Greatest Constructive | Statesman.” Ted Crum, planist, will | play. Election of officers. The Writerscraft Club_will meet, § | one of his negro storfes. Any one in- terested in this kind of work will be welcomed. . J. McFarren wi Cuts in Accounting, meeting of the W Psychology Club speak on “Cross 8 o'clock, at the hington Practical at the Playhous Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent, No. 1, Daughters of Veterans, will meet for memorial services, 8 o'clock, at Grand Army H: The Tribe of King David of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church will give an entertainment and religious The Wapiya Club will observe “Deans’ day” at its luncheon tomor- row at the University Club. The Mrs. Nellie Lynch, 527 Twlefth street southeast. The Mount Pleasant W T. U. will meet tomorrow, p.m. t the home of Miss Clara Levering, Livingston street, Chevy Chase, D. C. Lincoln Post will meet Wednesday, p.m., at G. A. R. Hall The Kelchner Trio will entertain | Friday, 8 p.m., at the Vermont Chris- jtian Church. Public invited. Silver | collection. | The May meeting of the Central High School Parent-Teacher Associa- tion will be held tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the music room at the school Election of officers. Representative Brooks Fletcher of Ohio will speak and Mrs. Fletcher will sing. 2 The Home for Widows and Orphans of all Wars Ascociation will meet Wednesday, 8 p.m., at Grand Army Hall. * incent B. Costello Post, No. 15, will meet tomorrow, 8 p.m., in board room of the District Building. Sergeant Jasper Post, American Le- | gion, will have its quarterly member- ship smoker and entertainment Wed | nesday, 8:20 p.m., in its new quarters, the blue lodge room in Odd Fellows’ Hall. Joseph J. Reeves, first com- mander of the post, will be chairman {of the evening, and Stephen Garrity { chairman of the entertainment com- | mittee. The Society of Natives will hold closing meeting of the season Friday, § pm., at the Washington Club, 1016 | Seventeenth street. Musical program and refreshments. Mrs. Peter A. Drury will be at home to the members of the board of the Women's City Club_tomorrow, 4 to 6, at her residence, 1721 Rhode Island avenue. SERICULTURE BEGUN. New Syndicate Will Try to Revive Philippine Silk Trade. MANILA, May 11 (P .—Before the Spaniards came to the Philippine Islands, Chinese and Japanese ex- ported a considerable amount of silk, but in recent years it has not been an | important industry in the territory. | Now, however, a serious effort is being made to add to the prosperity of the Islands through sericulture. The “Asociacion Sedra de Visayas’ has been formed in the province of | Occidental Negros with a_capital of 1$250,000 and 1,300 acres of land well suited to the purpose has been set aside. As eaflly as 1821 a_good quality of silk was exported to Europe from the Philippines. Between eight and nine hundred languages and dialects are in use among the natives of Africa. % PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. 8. Treasury 1408 H ST. N. W. Dine end Dance in the Country (hateau eJuradis Southern cuisine growing more famous every day. Dancing Until 2 A. M. On the Washington Balti- more Blvd. at Ammendale, Md. i o'clock, in basement of Mount Pleas- { mass meeting called by thé Minnesota | Nome. ant Public Library. Mrs. Betty | Federation of Labor. | An official account of the Weber and Jean Monk will Representagives of organized labor | by Col Umberto Nob original _stories for criti and the Catholic Church attended the jand n: study. W. Alfred Falconer will read | mecting, which called to celebrate | mier furthering their educational | te J » REEN SAYSSTRIKE NOBILE DESCRIBES HELPEDALL LABOR, TRIP 0 MUSSOLIN Federation Head AssertsENorge Pilot Says Ship Faced Chief Peril in Last Stage of Flight. British Affair Stimulated | World’s Interest. : o | . % The tl\!en's (?l‘lm of tl."hflf;o“ll‘::;:""fi | By the Associated Press | By the Associated Press Syl Sh IR el 5 . PAUL, Minn., Ma In their OME, May 17.—The final hall. " Rev.' W. L. Dasby, secretary | ST. PAUL. Minn. Ma A \lm.{ '1..limm.. Norge's flight from Spitz of ihie Washingion Federation of | cconomle organization lies the hope | the dirigible Norges flight trom S Churches, will be the invited guest | of the wage earners for the future, | (WHESH OVER O SOE F00 10 0 and tfll’wker- Smoking and refresh- | \wijiam Green, president of 1h.~’.qm..., of which the result was sIce. American Federation of. Labor, de- |doubt until a momentary lull pe be landed lared in an address yesterday at a | ted the airship to ing re he trip from S fth anniversary of the is ance by Pope Leo XIII of his en ical letter “Labor and Capital.” | North Pole to Alaska wi d to assist the trade unions in |Successfully vering work 3 miles) in 71 pmeter: At present, M een sabd, ap-| e first part of the polar fli i pavently referring to the British situa. | Was accomplished without difflcultic tion, the “thoughts and attentions of | but during the second part the people thruoghout the world are | the Pole and Point Barrow centered upon the problems of labor |danserous ice formatio i the relationship between labor | netallic parts of the dirigible hinders and capital. |fiving, causing dam which fort added, “have | fllght was very difficuit because « “Recent events,” stimulated 1 autionary measures w and this ) in industrial questions and in- | K dustrial relationships.” *fom Point | flight was very program _at the residence of Mrs.| The federation head asserted that | fliEht was 1 b Anna J. Nelson, 1206 § street, for the | even now, in an enlightened period of { SItOn& winds et fne Deving benefit of the bullding fund of the |industrial _development, there are | CAUSEd deviations toward e Heins church, of which Rev. James E. Wil- | found some employers and some | Straits, making the laxt few hour lis is pastor. la corporations who deny their | NAVIgation vers b sapete, ut it workers the to enfoy col- | nS ST NEECS O NOTIE e Dt o e oy 5| etitting winas withy aiiay CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. mutual hely and that Landed in Perfect Shape t of reates | fiting by a momer . in perfee iditions a s warfare, class antagonism and al unrest.” To those who oppose the orgamiza- honor guests will be Dean George M. Eration of ¥ Kober of Georgetown, Dean William | tion of the workers, Mr. Green re- | {8 o i Ve GilcA toiwoch C. Borden of George \Washington and | ferred Pope Leo's letter. in which, he | [i% 8 (W6 BaS® BUier T v Dean Edward A. Balloch of Howard. | the case of organized labor ivas | FETYOURCL e COCIC B Brief addresses will be made by the | presented with such ‘““unanswerable { T HE0E JOr UCTREE 10 guests on “The Medical Cult Prob. | logic” as to confound pemies and debas & lem.” K oppoLenss. | g the three dars in whir 9 ’, o —— — { the flight was made. amid really ex The Woman's Society of the First o j e & Congregational Church will give iis| BODY FOUND IN RIVER. |cevtionally iad »nnlnnfyv'lxw.v . “last and best” strawberry luncheon | ST Sohals i il Wednesday noon. } = admirabl g SRR Police Seek Identity of Man Dead Civitan luncheon tomorrow, 12:30 {pm., at the Lafavette Hotel. Rev.| About Three Weeks. kilomet John K. Cartwright of the Catholic | spesial Dispateh to The Star ~cedin Sram University will be the speaker and ! ek - i » S advance, 8 T g . = | ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 I “‘":_J}""‘i‘,’l‘fi WilsonsHalbect, i [ forts to identify the body of a man L Sopkang, Whisein about 30 y old found float in W. C. T. U. Southeast, will meet|the Potomac River just off Fort tomorrow, 8 pan., at the’ home of | Humphreys vesterday have been un County police were noti- e iipeat o fishermen that the hody o B which they discovered as dragged May Fly Later fo Japan ashore. It had been in the water| o.on.iio 1 apparently three weeks. No papers | g5 S ICE were found in the pockets of the | giira. | clothing. ~Police of Washington and | \hen he re - next montt Alexandria are searching reports of | " 3ocordin PareTt e missing persons in their efforts 1o !<ynervice the i 7 trace the vietim's relatives. If the |jLr tomie the mountin body is not claimed it will be buried | which by Fairfax County authorities Robbed of $6 Check. i elen Robert Powell, 3626 P strect, was | by tak held up at the point of.a pistol early | motor | st night by a young colored man on | One official remarked M between Twenty-ninth and_Thir- | never doubted the sur tieth streets. 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