Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1926, Page 4

= AR 4 POLAR ICE FIELD ~ ISWITHOUT LIFE Norge Saw Nothing Animate From Early in Trip to Point Barrow. BY FREDRIK RAMM. 3 TEL A on 18 teresting the spolar flig observation ma ht of the Norge was the imals on the po islands W ice nd the north < of Aretic served w n little lead som; of ice. White 1 tadicated, howe weals living up to 1 over the Pole and down ast no tracks, no 0 birds were ohserved i desert. The fi from the | " tracks on the the possibility th 1 s and - white st bird seen Rarrow by the sound hurried ter tne compare | tion cond planes good great ependent plan es. 1 the ic the polar ba region bet and the and th the di In any case great. shows Faurope: wce is not “Our experienc sirships for polar exploring be =0 constructed that it is pos i quickly to go ov 1d to avoid the risk of « loaded down by a crust of ice— he most serfous dangers for | p in the polar regi . All construction, outside the nes, should be covered comple No ropes—wires should aced outside—all instruments being mounted in the cabins to avoid ng on them. success of the expedition t in investigating the pos- t regular airship routes the Arctic regions. Several other | nt results of our experiences | published later on when s T worked out.” ht, 1926, by the New York Times and St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) The Landing of the Norge. The missing section of Mr. Ramm’s dispatc of Sunday last, describing | how the airship was brought to earth | at 1 and held there under great dificuities, arrived yesterday. Here hat mew should ible w ship and eng 1mpor may ba “a BY FREDERIK RAMM. WITH THE NORGE AT TELLER, Alaska, via Nome, Sunday, May 16 Z(Dispatch continued).—The fiight's st exciting momenis came at the at Teller. It was the first airship was landed without from the ground, and the and excitement for the crew were much increased by the fact that t landing touk place on an unknown coast in bad weather after three days of hard work. After the landing place was chosen on an ic oon near Teller, and 15 inches filled with _different A total weight of 600 was lowered, to which was steel wire two ice anchors. 3 de some rounds over ing lower and lower. wrds over the ground the | pred on the ice with the anch Happily, the wind slackened. The jce anchors, however, did not get a hold on the ice and the airship went at great speed toward the vil- go. The engines were stopped while gas was blown out of the bal-, yons. About 100 yards from the | Yeach, the airship being about 235 ds the ground, landing ropes were taken by Teller inhabitants. More gas was blown out and the air- | ship bumped on the ice. Some of the | crew jumped out and also caught the | Janding ropes, and the airship at last quiet on the ice only 100 yards from the nearest cottage, with- out the t damage, it seemed to the crew, as they jumped down on the fce from the little height. The ship was quiet, and more gas was blown out. Then came rather hard winds, throwing the ship on her side and some of the airship’s metallic construction was injured. The dam- age proved later on to be easily re. paired. After the landing the last of the| gas was blown out, the airship’s anchor and the crew commenced to st valuable of the - tlon instruments and their personal effects to save th )mger winds ghould carry the airship away during the night. ‘This, however, did not happen, so the crew caught their first sleep since Jeaving Spitzbergen. copyrikht. 26, by the w p’nnd Louis Glob tho lage About bag v ew York Times st mocrat.) ELLSWORTH LEAVES NOME, Wravels by Dogmobile to Gold Camp vorth of Town. By the Associated Press. NOME, Alaska, May 20.—A com- bined railroad and dog team, one of the strange means of transportation in the far North, will leave here to- day with Lincoln Ellsworth of New York, the American member of the Norge transpolar flight for a gold fnining camp 45 miles north of here. The mode of travel, known as “dog- mobile,” 1s a hand car on an aband- oned narrow-gauge railroad pulled by 20 Siberian dogs, driven ‘by Leonard Seppala, winner of the All-Alaska sweepstakes and hero of a race with death to bring anti-toxin to diphtheria- stricken Nome residents. Ellsworth is to visit a_camp of the Flammond Consolidated Gold Field in the mountains back of Nome, where he plans to live like a prospector. He paid he wants to eat some ‘“sour- dough” hot-cakes like those he en- joyed in 1913 while mining near here, | the & behind us the | | PRESIDENT SIGNS fog [ | Qustry itsels. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO 1AY 20, 1926. 'POLAR FLIGHTS SIMPLY STUNTS TO ARMY AIR SERVICE ive Byrd and Qthers Credit, But Sce Little of Ad- antage to Science of Aviation in Their Recent Achievements, \ BY ROBERT T. DAYTON. 20 [ ton, the birthplace of riment mai SMAL Here in Day aviation, where ins its ies and test ! the world to the ients Amunds Byrd and Capt 1in flying to and across the laconic in thels which s { the peo ken here v no their hats this it Army They has stirre maiter ahout the air. not be which to throw But by all of sathered that hard ol on o th a e not. Avia the rtion vet th | the we pract here ure, but when t ideration all be done hefore air, the plest thin Curious About € hip” takes | ems s Used. hey knew here that Comdr. Byrd ould res his goal in the Arctic because hls Fokker monoplanc received many of its tests in Day There was no thous failure or of the pilot becoming When word came of th the avia - - worl id not cease \When the atrmen re back EXPERTS | | hour flight, | here was in how ma how been “d and 1 had stood 1= had been burned, | Pole flights are | pulivr pastime Ay pilots ard the non- and Mac- o Los ter of psed 1o re cuts, K ing Orvilie in the world resards 1l diying Cross-continent test of fyin This was e terlals 2 withe to the fact that ad the e s Le and Anunds only @ tey that the here i Rl het up.” T or atmos almy or 20,000 foet May days and Only reco; L compi tod which is ling" for the assumy the part of the ke the polar triy do not get oxcited over rents. These men here every day and every i every kind of weather and kind of flying machine. The; are ploneers in their way. They out new methods_and s every day “stunts’” too, ing new heir daily to do Hold Future of Aviation. is all taken er of cours when one “goes west ot ry on.” The real fu on’ is in the hands of To them some newly asa of them » men ms o @ supercharger ar cance to the progress 1 a pligrimage to the as b the finest »s in the world to- vork is being done | n in the street lev | RAIL LABOR BILL| (Continued from First Page.) i another two, another three, another four and the last for five years. The members of this board will receive $12 000 annually. All disputes between the railway managements and the employes of the roads must be handled under this new law. There are certain fundamental de- mands created by the law ¥ quire co-ope nd employ The law makes it th duty of carriers and employes to “e reasonable effort to make iin agreements” and “to ad- ust disputes arising out of applica- tion of agreements or a desire to change agreements 3 The President’s stateme ing his reasons for signin follows: “After some negotiation between tives of a majority of the railroad éxecutives and the railroad employ they adopted a plan of labor relation ships designed to provide a method self-government within the indust This plan has been enacted into law by Congress in substitution of the President’s Railway Labor Board “The plan provides a series of joint adjustment boards for purpe of collective bargaining upon wages and | conditions of labor, with the right | of these boards to refer such matters as they may determine to arbitration. In case of failure to find a solution by collective bargaining or such arbi- | tration, the plan provides for the in- | tervention of a permanent board of | mediation, which is to be appointed | by the President of the United States. | In failure of the mediation board to effect a settlement of any dispute, the plan further provides for the appoint- ment of an emergency by the President to determin facts and to report upon the rights and wrongs of the ¢ ute. These are to protect the pul nd insure regular operation of railroad service. “The plan therefore comprises® e essential principles of t ilroad labor board created by the transporta- tion act of 1920 except that it throw. a far larger m ure of responsibility for amicable relations upon the in- I The proposal has been criticized on the ground that it does not give adequate protection to the | public from collusion between the rail- | thej ves to zes. which would be re- unjust rates upon the explain the months th of earnest representa- in shippers. “I do not understand that this act greatly, if at all, increases the pow- ers which the roads and their em. ployes have to do the same thing un- der the present law, if they would so dispose. The answer to this criticism is that increases in railway rates must be approved by the Interstate Com- merce Commission, and this comm sion is required by law to exercise its power to prescribe just and rea. sonable rates under honest, efficient and economical management. More. over, this act expressly stipulates that the powers of the Interstate Com- merce Commission are unimpaired to fix rates in accordance with the pres- ent law. “It does appear to me that there is involved in all these proposals a much wider issue, and one of first public im- portance. This wider aspect is that we should give every encouragement to industry to create within itself such a relationship and machinery of adjustment between its employers and employes as will give the public continued and eflicient service and to accomplish these relations within it- self without intervention of the Gov- ernment. Nor does this imply that the railroads have by undertaking this self-government in the smallest fashion relieved themselves of their responsibility to the public at large, but rather they have increased thefr responsibilty by virtue of the self- government which this act imposes upon them. “I have come to the conclusion that the plan in this act should be tried. I should have preferred some more definite declaration for the pos- sible protection of the public, but should the operation of the plan dem- onstrate that protection needed, it can easily be supplied by a future Congress. Tt is not now possible to foretell such need, and the fact that the roads and their employvers are committed to the success of making this law a_success goes far to assure that it will be & Success,” ation between managers | FENNING INQUIRY IS OPENED BEFORE FULL COMMITTEE (Continued from ock, was a dir the Laurel would not admit the Commis- 's connection with the institu tion and Mr. Blanton did not dispute the contention Cites Federal Statute. e committee’s attention then was called to section 5198 of the rev statutes of the United St -er of the United s for compen st the government ontention that Mr. Fen- cer of the United States?"" from pr sation ag the next me lanton n't the act t of Columbi poration? nton disagreed. Blanton then read section 500 World War Veterans' act pro- hibiting a charge of more than $10 to be made by any person prosecuting a claim for a_veteran and this law he declared, had been violated by Mr Fenn Representative Michener, can, Michigan, asked he had called these “alleged viola- tions” to the attention of the dis- trict attorney and the answer was given that the facts had been set forth in the Congressional Record. Referred to Veterans’ Bureau. “I did call the attention of the Veterans' Bureau to this matter, but that's as far as I have gone,” he added. Representative Sumners, Democrat, T asked if the ‘prosecutor’ sought to receive from Mr. Blanton the evidence he possessed and the latter replied: “No, but I stand ready and willing to present it." Representative Periman, New York, sald it was important to know if the district attorney had started proceed- ings, but Mr. Blanton assured him this had not been done. Mr. Blanton also submitted to the committee section 841 of the District code of laws, making provisions against “embezzlement” of estates by executors or fiduciaries. He then read the common law definition of barratry and added: “T charge that Mr. Fen- ning, being an attorney, has soliclted business in such a way as to make it common barratry.” This was followed with a definition of champerty. Mr. Blanton then introduced a table certified to by Gen. rank T. Hines, director of the Veterans' Bureau, howing the amounts of money pald to Mr. Ienning as committee for vet- erans. Mr. Hogan objected on the grounds he had no knowledge as to its accuracy, but this was accepted Chairman Graham, subject to future challenge and attack. Conspiracy Is Charged. Askgd by Chairman Graha to show the purpose of the table Mr. Blanton replied: “I am going to show that a conspiracy of action has existed between Dr. White of St. Elizabeth's and Mr. Fenning, whereby White rec- ommended Fenning in every single petition in 23 years.” The chairman then wanted to know what the ‘‘conspiracy” was for and Mr. Blanton replied that in return for being recommended as guardian and having access to the official records, Dr. White received profits in the joint private business the two maintained. “It is illegal favoritism,” he added. After receiving from Mr. Blanton the assurance that all the petitions in lunacy went through the regular court channels, Chairman Graham asked: “What right has this committee to review the court's action—if the court approved this, the court would be guilty, not Mr. Fenning.” Mr. Blanton maintained, however, that the court had been ‘“‘deceived’” by Mr. Fenning, who had not made known the fact he received 25 per cent commissions on bond premiums. He cited the recent report of Auditor Herbert L. Davis of the District Supreme Court on this subject. “I maintain that all of this guard- fanship business disqualifies Fenning to hold the office of Commissioner,” he declared. Another certified report on the num- ber of rds Mr. Fenning had was offered by M Blanton, but was ac- cepted over Mr. Hogan's objection on the same condition as the previous ' g to prove it,” replied relating to the provide a muni- Republi Mr. Blanton if the | by | | | | nd nt _ Musicians vip marks the ingers le of the compan t | FOUR PARK BOARD POSTS ARE FILLED marks | Completion of Commission Will Facilitate Work—De- lano Among Appointees. four addition nized N Plannin ‘oolidge prepares pment of plins ion of the election wembers of Capital € miss the Nationa s n outstand vk commissi the presidenti to effect ; the wid | ine Arts | of 1901 which ¢ MeMit lan plan 10 1s Appointed. of this five Delano > the L resider of Columbia of the sociation Ame chairman Citizens' One Hun the Feder ¥, and an ardent worker in behalf of the National He is now serving on a to Persin. The four-vear went to J. . Nichols of Kansa vn civie promote : work is said to- b the finest t K Cit whose outst, the deve suburbs ity, d of his home. country a This deve Nichols Countr o B. Meda Pl + forth mer, Prointed, s and was elected presi American Institute of few weeks ago. He is adviser of the ation steps for the 1 n be to hold an or mee! and it s expecte will be held as soon as 1 sory members can be brouzh ils of the organ- the employment of including a eity planner, are expected to be taken up and decided at that time. Many Problems Unsolved. There are many problems awaiting decision by the new commission. One of its duties Is the expenditura of the $600,000 annual appropriation for the purchase of lands for park and recre- ation purposes in the District c lumbfa and in Maryland and Vir However, owing to the smallness the appropriation and the fact that many projects must here promptly before they are for- ever destroyed for park and recreation use in the advance of home develop nt, the commission has not made purchase: the adjoining with which it is authorized to co-operate in the development of the metropolitan district Those fa- miliar with the problems of the com- fon point out that there is urgent ty for Congress to provide the amount au d by the law, which is 1 cent for every inhabitant of the United States, which, accord- ing to the last census, would be $1,100,000 After the complete organization it is understood that one of the first projects which will be urged upon the commisston will be the acquisition of land and the development of plans for erecting a great portal entrance to the city from the north at the head {of Sixteenth street. U. S. BULB BAN| n tion {an LB BAN HIT BY DUTCH MINISTER Home Secretary Assails America’s Attitude on Exclusion—Other Urges Friendliness. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. AMSTERDAM, May 20.—America “4s for Americans, and as soon as the people on the other side do not want some one any longer, they ex- clude,” said Herr Kan, new Minister of the Home Office, in a heated debate in the Chamber over the American decision to prohibit the import of Dutch narcissus bulbs. The Government was interpellated on the matter, and a harsh tone was heard against the United States, which was upbraided for “hypocrisy.” The quarantine against Dutch bulbs which the American Government deemed necessary because of the pos- sibility of contagion, means a serious blow to Dutch bulb growers. The American measures were called purely protectionist, and it was asserted there was no danger of con- tagion from the bulbs. Foreign Minister Van Karnebeek intervened, saying he did not belieye the American attitude tallied with the good relations between the two countries, He urged the chamber. however, to avoid anything which might displease the Washington Government. $00pyright. 1826, by Chicago-Dafly NowsCow) be purchased | ving Capital for Greenshoro, N. (., headed by Ge 1y into the national field. LORDON ASSAILED I WASHINGTON OPERA CO. ON FIR | | E eral Director Edouard Albion. The i | | Rockefeller May | Buy Flyer Byrd ‘ Old VirginiaHome Special Dispatch to The S RICHMOND, Va., May A report is revived that John D Rockefeller, jr. to purchase Westover, famous es of W liam Byrd, the fo ond rd made the airpl th Pole. N 1 Ford wei is e one of the hand Mr, soimest feller i uionth in ted the p ASK VOICE FORD.C. Applause Greets Resolution' Passed at Closing of Na- tional Session. The socia INSENATE HEARING FEEDERIC A. DELANO. OPENS CONFERENGE Committees of National“ 5 John E. Edgerton. seventeenth ference the executives, publ polley and advisory committees of the | National Industrial Cou vened this | Hot The semi-ar tion_and il will 1 son Ed; ladel. | m¢ livered . in which problems in the nex one, chairman of the m explained some of the program ncheon Emer 1 Manu W ven the floor ke | subject_of “Issues of I al 1 | " Mr. Emery delivered a spirited | tack on the Railroad Labor Board | bill, which has been passed by Con- | | gress and which awaits the e | | of President Coolidge to become Terming the measure “the be of the American public,” declared that his associtaion fought the bill bitter and on several o brought it to defe: that the fight would be carried to the White House, and added that if it | fails there it would go still furt e of the details the executive remained v single feature. Jumes | 1l counsel of the - A. 'WASHINGTON OPERA | COMPANY ON ROAD “Secret of Suzanne” and “Pagliac- ci” to Be Sung in Greensboro, N. C., Tonight. Entering the national field of opera. for the first time, the Washington Opera Co.,’headed by General Director Edouard Albion, left this morning for Greensboro, N. C., where two opefas, “The ~ Secret of Suzanne” and “Pagliacci,”” will be sung tonight. The ultimate plan of the National Opera Association, of which the Wash- ington company is the parent com- pany, calls for a circuit of companies similar to the local company to which casts, scenery and costumes will be nt from Washington. The plan, as sioned by Mr. Albion, would permit of high class productions of operas in many cities at a low cos The cost to the individual citfes would be limited to the singers and equipment supplied from Washington, The expense of large choruses and orchestras would be kept to a mini. mum, as the personnel would be se- cured locally. An_excellent cast has been secured for the Greensboro performances, in- cluding_ Thalla Sabanieva, soprane; Edouard Johnson, tenor; Guiseppe Reschiglian, _tenor; Ivan Tvantzoff, baritone, and George Cheshanovsky, baritone. Jacques “Samassoud, con- ductor of the Washington company, will direct the performance. A picked number of singers and musicians is making the trip to the North Carolina city. HONOR FOR CITY FOUNDER New Orleans Proposes to Name City Park for Bienville. NEW ORLEANS, May 18 (#).— After 200 years, New Orleans is pro- posing to honor Bienville, its founder, by naming a park for him. For two centuries Bienville has had to worry along with only a street named in his honor, and that street not one of the leading thoroughfares. The Louisiana Historical Society is gaining support in its campaign to have City Park rechristened Bienville Park. INDUSTRIAL GROUP Council Welcomed Here by e | the In: hefore | | Bienville and his party of explorers founded New Orleans in 1718, Bien- ville holding out for locating the city & Hancling of Wan Trial Clted“ in Protest Against Re- appointment. Refers to Tr Miss Mo whic ownership of mined wed she pment_of ved heiy ence of v ho hwl eved the | would Anoth posed M it d further today, who based his protes volving pital for ane. other things Mr. Savage ha he subcommittee a_lar: correspondence ling 1m 1 i L who, A led with ive hat sever: cared in session, lot epublican, of Colo- he meeting to- ome 15 before ¢ tion of t ent The other two members of the ommittee present today were Deneen, Reput of lilinois, 5 r King, . of Utah. RETIREMENT.BILL PASSED BY SENATE ON LIBERAL BASIS s cond sub tor and | leading the fight for the House the Nenate, said he wanted pass hecause he was anxious to get retirement legislation at this session and because the House bill is the only one that is likely to be- come law. tor Copeland, Democ wanted to know if meant the President S 1te bill. moot replied that every Senator had an_opportunity to read the debate which took place in the House when the $1,000 annuity bill was adopted, and said he did not have ny doubt that if the Senate should pass a different plan, the question would emerge from conference as ap- proved by the Ho Senator Cope- land came back with the assertion | that he did not believe any Senator should give the impression that the President would veto a bill before it is passed. Senator Lenroot, Republican, of Wisconsin, asked Senator Stanfleld, in charge of the legislation, what the attitude of the Senate conferees would be if the Senate passed a more liberal bill. Stanfield said he_hoped to stand by and make every effort to put through the Senate measure. An explanation was made by Sena- tor Lenroot that he favored the $1,200 annuity “if we can get it, but I want ssurance that the question will and leave us without_any legislation at this ses sion.” He explained that all he want- ed to know was whether the Senate conferees would be willing to bring the matter back to the Senate for further instructions, before adjourn- ment, if unable to agree with the House. Senator Stanfield disclaimed any in- tention of wanting the legislation to die in conference, and indicated that the conferees would bring the' que: tion back to the Senate in the event of a deadlock. As ranking minority member of the civil service committee, Senator Mc- Kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, de- clared that if he is one of the con- ferees he would make every effort to have the $1.200 bill become law. Ad. dressing_himself to Senator Lenroot, Mr. Kellar added: “Why does the Senator want to get from me a state- ment that will weaken the Senate con- ferees before they even go into con- ference?” Senator Lenroot again emphasized that his only purpose in asking the question was to find out whether the Senate would be given another oppor- tunity to pass on the bill, rather than have it die in conference. nator Willis, Republican, of Ohio, said he would like to see the more lib- eral plan become a law, but that the Senate is facing a practical situation and that it is apparent the situation mkes it impossible” to get the $1,200 ' who is bill in it to Smoot would veto the To this not Other re zed coal to the d © HENRY E. COOKE, 70, CULBERTSON HOLDS LOBBYING IS FAIR Should Be Recognized b Congressional Committees. He Tells Probers. v y COMLMERCHANTS - anp I methods v IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Former American Vice Consul at . Colon, Panama, Had Lived Here for 37 Years. rican viee died at his cet, ves Mr. Cooke was bor spent a_great part He was ger ston Iee Co 1ad lived in this « g from He was Warrer politics in ny in M ant mis: Governr 1 years ago. aves a daughter. Mrs. Edw: of this ci ree brother C‘ooke of Panama and D rnest J. Cooke and a 2 f Ecuador. ervices w > conducted rine of the red Heart Catholic Church tomorrow morning 10 o'cloe Int t will be Mount Olivet Cemetery. omine < served or His wife died s POWDER BLAST KILLS 15.| Thirty Injured Taken to Hospitals in Bavarian Town. WERTHEIM-ON-MAIX, May 20 (P).—An explosion in a pow der mill near Hassloch. Bavaria, today caused the deaths of from 15 to 20 person; Of the large number injured 30 were taken to hospitals. The mil wrecked Both Safe. 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