Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1926, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO. 'SWIGGIN'S DEATH CALLED ACCIDENT “Innocent Bystander.” Says Grand Jury Report—Rum Graft Charged. Associated Pros AGO, June into Chic several months in prog A Federal crime, ago hy ¢ongress, in | :ss today from another sourc while onto the scenc the special grand jury iav gang warfare marched anothe jury, vested with power to probe re- ports of corruption at the polls. A squad of agents of the Depart- ment of Justice is delving into ac counts of in prohibition enforce- ment in Chicago, it became Knov and it was said to be ready to s stories of connection between politic and the illesal liguor industry The investigators were assigned 10 days into violation of the Uni ind their ates here. and if evidence is uncovered, a Federal grand jury will be impaneled to hear it. Rum Profits € unty AL MeSwiggin, @ was slain in Chicago suburb, | with a re. | aban i The ook ( when Will xan ended its work port that Chicago cannot expect an end to its gunmen’s civil war so long | 1 there s profitenough in bootleg- to attract desperate men ury was vz on the | s findings, another spe- | ordered to look into April primavies in | ve marked | legal vot i jury. called | quest of State’s Attorney | Crowe, while proposals 1 independent investi Swiggin's murder, the| also was sought by Crowe. | hew inquiry is an upshot of filed U Jud Daniel P. unsuc | candidate for the | county judgesbip nomination. who asked o recount of the vote and ac- | ‘companied his plea with broad allega- tions of m by his oppo nent: ment, Joseph I‘ ava ant Lo the State ttorney “An 1 ind jury. which 2 ared McSwiggin was “an innocent tander,” when he was| glain in Cicero by machine gun fire, which also cost the lives of two com- panions, one known to ice as a beer runner. The scaled lips of gangsters, said the jury, prevented the solution of Meswigzin's murder and kept it from | Zetting at the root of the gang evil. As at evidence established the of & pardon mill led by Maj. esslein, the jurors found erime conditions greatl wated by the prevalent impression that ,uld win freedom for convicts \dministration of par- don_and The discharge of Wil as chairman of the State parole board and (v@ Chaunc H. Jenkins as director of the State Department _of Welfare also was .d upon Gov. Small. ¢ e rsonnel of the new grand jury probably will not be determined until next week. s Kk in a vesterday panel was charges thai the County (Ch 7t intimidati Like the first = Cook e nd at The charyes 5 iry ent Bystander.” The eported yes t exist S | RAILROAD IS AWARDED $1,123,963 BY COURT Chicago and Western Indiana Wins 20-Year Suit Over Right By the A CHICAGO., fendunts vesterday 1.1 33 1o ed Press. June 5.—Three de- were ordered to the Chi and rn Indiana Railroad Co. Johni ser, one time prominent Chi-| ker; Benjamin Thomas, for- dent of the voad, and] Kappas, opposed the suit | was based on a t of way which cago br for 20 3 cantention over a the road desired. Thomas and the other defendants were alleged (o have purchased the route for a low price and then offered it to the road at a much hisher fis As a result ousted | and a ituted. the first verdict for nts was ned. The reversed the lower court s appeal, 91w hy hearing W the defenc higher court on the railroad that it wis ent and intere: ing w0 § $576,391 . amount- BLAMES FOREIGNERS FOR BIG OPIUM SALE| Chinese Delegate to Geneva Parley Says His Government Needs Wider Powers. ated Pro A, Junc 5.--Opium smoking | by Chinese residents in Far Eastern | colonies of \Western powers was : serted to be increas ing im mense profits to the governmen a stat made o slon of the League of Natlon's ¢ commission by the Chinese delegate, Ile demanded that the oc cldental authorities show greater respect for The lague convention is this connection tle compluned opium was smugzgled t out and that foreigners, not Chinese, were doing it He attacked the diplomatic corps at Peking for refus- ing to permit China to adopt a s of import and export certificates in other county whereby _China could control the traffic. It was only another example, he asserted, of how China was treated as an inferior na- tion und blamed for conditions ov which she had no control. “If I were master of China,” he said, I would have every opium smoker shot WOMEN ADOPT COTTON. Club Membex’-s’ "l\tlreetwvsimply Clad to Aid Industry. CHARLOTTE, N. C., June 5 (®).— Women of Cl lotte are attempting to bring cotton dr back into favor. The movement vesterday took the form of a “cotton” bridse party, given by the Women's Club. Approximately 100 members of the club were gowned in cotton voiles, crepes and organdies. Silk was conspicuously absent. Members of the club feel that the textile industry has suffered greatly because women have turned to silk for their wearing apparel, and they are attempting to promote the use of Southern manufactured products by both example and precept. The club has gone on record as favoring at least one cotton dress for each member, that as much into China as es. i | day | min | nle and our souls. fo | die and how to | ramnstorm he said IMUSSOLINI SEEN AS ARBITER OF PEACE OR WAR IN EUROPE Italian Dictator, With a Touch of Fever Might Light‘ a Fire Which Only Rivers of Blood Could Quench | BY SIR PHILIP GIBBS. s Cable to The Star. LONDON, June 5.—There is no chance of disarmament in Europe so long as one man lives—and that is Mussolini. There is no prospect for the League of Nations and its sup- s to establish peaceful arbi- tration between rival nationalities long as one man scoffs at i i ideals—and that again There are published that Italy, which solinl, warned France, that her victory over the Riff. operation with the Spanish, there must be no forgetfulness of the Ital interest and claims in North mex A ft in o | does not . Apart from published reports, i many undercurren opinion and purpose, ed and perhaps exagger solini’s friends. In Rome 2 I heard some strange talk | made me auxious ahout future events and in London it was repeated, not in | whispers or in-low voices, but openly. | Expand o nffocate. | long ago a young friend of | n Italian nobleman and one solini’s favorites, was talking in a public restaurant about Ttaly. “There is no secret it.” he said, and he raised his so that the people about us | hear. Jur population is too | for our frontiers; our iasci too hig for our present stuat must gel more room for our peo Nothin ance, w will have to desires and needs. We which formerly be. longed to us. It is inevitable that we shail take it by friendly pressure or 'y force of arms. We want Tunisia, which is inhabited largely by our vace. We must have it. Turkey als feel our weight. We are deer- d to become the gr power the Mediterranean, again ust retire before us. But vield some of their sia. Minor. The s must_hand over some of their nds in return for our friendly | help elsewhere. We out for em pire not because of national va love of conquest for its own but because we must e e, ow shut its gration, our tense fonal under Mussolini find an outlet, or by violent much more likely. speak ist. 1 have no patience with this 10 which deceives old women and parlor socialists.” 1 zive this conver represents, I believe, the general | opinion of Italian Fascists and those | 10st_closely in touch with Mussolini. The Ttalian leader himself does not | speak openly with such definite intentions, but in his recent public | jeeches he used words which caused | considerable anxlety in dipl | circles. His words have a curious | inister resemblance in oratory to the | German Kaiser before the World War. On the Italian battleship Cavour only a week or two ago, Mussolini proclaimed Italy’s need of a place in | the sun. It is the exact phrase used by the Kaiser when he too challenged France in Morg “With Italy Not of Mu to me future about voic could bi: i It is poor F * much, t 10 our 1t the Ri way that the United ates against Italian imm man powel - 1 ener; avnam must wtion because it | hemmed in,” says Mussolini, “our economic need and national spirit de mand expansion.” That again guage in_ the da power. “Germany satd, “We need more elbow room. In recent wayside oratory, speaking from a motor car to crowds of black shirts in Ttalian cities, Mussolini made nt references to the time near lan courage will be Italian manhood will world they know how to i Speaking in a “You must stand as steady under fire as under rain.” imperial rcled,” he show the | rohbed them | sion j good for 1 Philip Gibbs. What mean? do_all those dark Is it merely Italian rhetoric to stir the blood of the youthful mobs or is it just flambovant stuff to make good reading in Fascist newspapers? This, anyhow, is n. The Italian | army and navy is being strengthened nd equipped.” There is not only no k of disarmament but scornful ridi- | cule of all such ideas. Italy is buy-| ing arms and ammunition. Mussolini hide his contempt for. the Leazue of Nations, which gave Italy a slap in the face, deliberately and brutally, when Italian warships bombarded Corfu. The league is en deavoring to strengthen existing set tlements following the peace treaties, after the great war, by all manner of compacts and agreements. Mussolini and the Italian have no use for those exis ments. They helieve th aties ignored their repudi their share in t broke ny promi le to them as the ce of ince. They b gland ance betr They are con ed the league 15 dominated by poweps hos- tile to Italy’s expamsion and policy Mussolini smiles with cynicism when any one talks 1o him about the league | world peace. He is a disciple Macehizvelli in Ialian subtlety nd of Napoleon, an Ital 1f, in contempt of talk- | s, He believes in €y and driving pur vather than » argument, per mand idealism the European themiselves what of thix astonishing m hieved something almost in Ttaly by substituting w disorder, industry Iaziness, mational erfthusiasm for pes simism nd gisiliusion, which swamped its spirit_after the war. 1 have seen ever stage in that j ress, Ly ‘vear since the that 1 was rotten with Commun ism, when ceaseless strikes paralyzed its_industrial life and riots broke in | every city. I have a profound admira tion for Mussolini's prodigi cou 3 and his genius which enabled him to eship over all those bod wnhood which rallied and ched it iip now is undoubtedly | ority of his peo. ruthless suppres and freedom of the press and pa ry liberty | < proof enough that there s a mi- | rity still rong enough to he An Lut in spite of this admi ion for his many qualities, jn my gment, Mussolini is the most da Europe. His success | dictatorship the tempta tion of so many would-be imitators. | His philosophy, based on force, has checked the Spirit of progress to ward any new international democ working on lines of idealism a neople ind of of rs and force, action st nen the : are wsking veal | meining ality who miraculous efliciency time ies of voun: winst anarchy Ttis dictate supported by th ple. althou of free s bound to lead to war. Mussoli 1 that this year is to be Ttaly's year of destiny. Personally 1 think that des tiny is not ripe for fulfillmen in trag dy or triumph as soon as that. He is | \ too much of a hurry, and is being threatened with an internal disease, as well as by the constant danger of n. But he has behind him people, inflamed with n. e and ecstasy and askin: trouble of adventure His leadership is unchallenzed and mesmeric. It depends on his uncanny sense of reality and hi§ real gifts of atesmanship whether he will lead rash adventure r check sires which he his own dramatic gifts. k he will hold his legions in hand for some time vet, but it is not lurope that its peace should | be dependent on one mi i good health or impatient ambition Tussolini with a touch of fever might « fire which only rivers of blood could quench. | (Copyright.. 1926.) HEATING CONVENTION | ELECTS CHICAGO MAN National Session Ends With Plea | for More Pride in Industry. Mount Vernon Visited. A plea for the application of com- mon sense to business problems and the development of pride in the heat ing industry was voiced by William G. Bergner, manager of the ional trade extension bureau, in seech before the Heating and Piping Con- tional Association at its closing session yesterday. The convention adjourned after the election of Harry M. Hart of Chicago, president; William H. Driscoll, Long Island City, N. Y., president of the n Society of Heating and Ven- Engineers, vice president; . Jones, Rochester, N. Y treasurer, and Henry B. Gombers, sec- retary. All the officers with the ex- ception of the president were re elected to their posts. Two_new di rectors were elected, Frank W. How- Boston, and R e- troit. R. Templeton Smith, Pittsburgh, re-elected a director, and the fol- s the officers, continue 3 N. Anderson, ; 5. Jung, Milwau- ind Walter Klie, Cleveland. Mr. Bergner stated that he believed that conditions’in the heating business would be improved by educating the individual contractors through the n: tional and local trade associations. He urged the growth of a spirit of friend- ship and tolerance which would recog- nize the right of any individual to make a living cut of the heating busi- ne: A resolution to have smoke tests made of chimneys before their accept- ance from mason contractors was adopted and sent for submission to the American Institute of Architects and the Natio Board of Fire Un- derwriters. This afternoon members of the asso- ciation are paying a visit to Mount Vernon and Arlington. SCHOOL BANDS COMPETE. Contest in Ohio Draws Student Players From Several States. FOSTERIA, Ohio, June 5 (#).—The national high school band contest opened here vesterday, with Paw Paw, Mich., drawing_the first assignment. The Michigan band was followed by one representing Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio. The following cities were represented by bands: Ogden, Utah; Council Blufts, va; Marion, Ind.; Houston, Tex.: Lowell, Mass.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Louisville, Ky., and Flint, Mich. Today bands representing Lockport, N. Y., and Joliet, 1ll, will play. The Fosteria band is the national cham- pion now. Each band is allowed 45 minutes to play their three comx numbers, G. W. U. EXERCISES TO START TONIGHT|; Alumni Association to Elect Offi- cers—President Lewis to Speak Tomorrow. The one hundred and fifth annual commencement week activities of George Washington University start tonight, with the annual meeting and clection of officers of the alumni asso. clation at the Washington Club. To- morrow afterncon on the university grounds Dr. William Mather Lewis, president of the institution, will de- liver the baccalaureate address at 4 o'clock. Next week the annual pilgrimage to Mount Vernon will be held on Monday morning, the annual base ball game hetween the faculty and the Pyramid Honor Society will be held on Tues- day. 1In the evening the annual class ight exercises will be held at Corco an Hall. Wednesday the commence- ment exercises will be held in the eve- ning at the Washington Auditorium, with Dr. David Allan Robertson as the principal speaker. More than 400 will Le graduated. Dr. and Mrs. Lewis will receive the graduates Wednesday afternoon at the Washington Club. Tonight's activities will be followed by a reception and dance for the mem- bers of the graduating classes. The annuai election of officers will be fol- by one or two matters of busi- relative to changes in the alumni ssociation constitution. The present officers are: Gilbert L. Hall, president; T. Carroll Todd, Eliza- beth Springston, Arline Dufour, Phil- brick McCoy, Dr. Frank A. Hornaday, E. Roger Boyle, vice presidents, and Rosemary Arnold, secretary-treasurer. The alumni association will an- nounce the selection of Dr. John B. Larner and John Joy Edson as alumni assoclation members recently elected as members of the board of trustees of the nstitution. Dr. Larner is at pres- ent the president of the hoard of trus- recently re-elected. CHEMICAL FIRMS MERGE. Charter Filed in Delaware for Big Consolidation. DOVER, Del, June 5' (®.—A charter was filed yesterday for the American Potash and Chemical Corporation to acquire by merger and consolidation property and as- sets of the American Trena Corpo- ration, another Deleware company, for producing, refining and dealing in chemicals, especially sodium po- tassium products. The capitalization is $100,000.000. = Incorporators are Richard Bennett, jr.; S. C. Winters, Peter G. Brannan, all of 14 Wall street, New York City. ‘Women’s Leader Dies. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, June § (P)—Mrs. Nellie Loeher, 72, club- woman and one of the organizers of the League of Woman Voters in Flo- rida, died yesterday. She was & na- tive of Indiana. ! of | the different compasses through bear- i ings. | every | the i loon when ne outside r's mood or | S !landing places, of which none was to FLAG CEREMONIES OVER POLE BRIEF Amundsen, Ellsworth and | Nobile Drop National Emblems on Ice. AV, BY CA ROALD AMUNDSEN AND LINCOLN ELLSWORTH. Wireless and Cable to The Star. NOMiS, Alaska, June 5.—When the Norge's motors commenced running and the ground was left, we followed Kings Bay to Cape Mitra. The north | side of the bay's mouth reached, we settled the direction against north and flew for half an hour along the west coast of Spitzbergen, with its seven f; mous big glaciers ana the snow-cov- ered mountains glittering In the sun, which was strong enough to penetrate | the slight clouds that like a vell hid | the biue sky. | Further on we passed Danish Island ] and Amsterdam Island, with Virgo | Harbor, where last year the landing | party spent the weeks waiting on our return from the polar flight. North | Amsterdam Island we controlled | By The sun compass was settled for the North Pole, and u little later on the airplane of the Byrd expedition turned southward. om this place we, through a slight fog covering the north coast of Spitzbergen, thought Wi 1d see the western ice cupola of wth Bast Land, where we ianded in | Every Man to His Duty. As soon as we had left King man on board cor weed service. Most of us had to be in the | narrow cabin. and now, remembering | how erowded it was, we wondered that it was possible to do any work \hore‘ Bay | his | at all, In the eabin’s forward part was the { side rudder, where Borgen spent most of the 71 hours the flight lasted. 13 hind the side rudder, on the cabin's | right, was the elevator, that most of | the time was handled by Wisting. On | the left side, opposite the elevator, was installed all’ the | ul wires leading to the elevator's | strings of the sig engines, beside strin & 1o the alves and the adr balloons. thus permitting No- iile to be in constant communication 1 the engineers, and to open the | s ventils and to fill or empty the bl wry. he forward part of the cabin was | divided from the rest by a canvas wall, | in which, however, was an opening <o that in reality the whole of the | cabin wus one room I On the zht side of the cabin’'s cen rt was : place for the | Liise . where he maps ng the North and s showing the the unknown regions should pass. As we shall mention v on in this narrative, in & section | he navigation principles ion sogones proved AN correctly, circumstance | of the greatest importance when fog made it impossible to use the sun com pass his instrument wa just the cabin, almost in front of it. Just in the cabin's center was | hole in the floor, where the drift me were i 1 the outside ont wall « the rawto room-—that | » was in_the cabin -hung a wooden | plate, where Malmgren could work out his weather maps, according to the re. vorts received during the fight as long as the wireless worked regulariy be fore it waus loaded down with ice. Hard Job for Wireless Men. ttwaldt and Strom Johnson had | rd job on the flight. They re several hundred weather re- and took rudio bearings as | s the navigator thought it | When not receiving, 2 Johnson transmitted press tele: from Ramm. These he sent Imost every de passed, de seribing the 1ce, weather conditions and life on board, icsides these the installed 10 men there wi the only fem: a little terrier 't of Nobile's. | occupied the only chair | slothed In a woolen jer- ster’s sleep- | In addition, on the cabin floors, | were placed about 30 thermos bottles | and several cases of pemican biscuit, | while on the walls were hung fly- | alis. Therefore we think people may understand that it s difficult to move about, the cabin only 30 feet long and 6 feet Little Sleep at the Engines. In the engine room and keel worked | the engineers and riggers. Cecioni, | Omdahl, Arduino, Caratti, Pomela | and Alessandrini had an exceedingly | tedious job during the flight, for in 71 hours they went almost without sleeping to see that the engines ran regularly. They did it in such a way that the small troubles were eas repaired during the flight and were without importance. bout one hour after we had left Kings Bay we descried the ice lying some miles north of the Spitzbergen coast on latitude 30. 10:43 we d the edge and only a few min- s lates we had the polar ice under us. The slight clouds disappeared and as far as we could see northward, eastward and westward there was nothing but the blue sky and the snow-covered lce. Southward we saw the high peaks of northern Spit: bergen, but soon they also disappeared. Ico Fields on Every Hand. And now the outlook commenced. In spite of the results of our expedi- tion in 1925, we eagerly looked for Jand all the way. even before we had reached the Pole, this time flying a little more to the eastward than last vear. But we saw nothing. The ice gave the same impression as last year. Its surface was broken up in all directions, especially in the west and east, and the leads were small, few and crooked, and almost all of them covered by new frozen ice. All of us abroad the dirigible, espe- cially the members of last year's ex- pedition, were happy that we didn’t make the transpolar fiight in an air- plane, with safety depending on good be seen. Recalling now the first hours of the transpolar flight we have the impres- ston of a wonderful voyage overesun- glittering, endless ice in an aerial train going with an average speed of about 50 miles an hour. The engines went constantly like clockwork. * n spite of the low temperature we didn't freeze, partially because the cabin was a little heated by the sun and partlally because we were well protected against the cold by our furs and thick woolen jerseys. Also we had some good meals, our friends in Kings Bay having filled small baskets with eggs, meat cakes and sandwiches, so that it was not necessary to open the cans of pemmican and dry milk. In this way we passed the greater part of the distance between Kings Bay and the 88 degree latitude. Our average height was about 1,200 to 1,500 feet. No Life North of 84. We also had a favorable wind that increased our speed a few miles an hour. We looked also for birds and animals, but in vain. Up.to latitude 83 to 84 we frequently saw polar bear | openings Skeleton framework of one end of the Norge after her crew had removed the silken envelope for shipment to | the United States. (Photo by P. & A.) Pulling the cloth from the Norge after its flight across the North Pole. (Photo copyright, 19 ew York Times and St. Louis Globe-Democ 9 ! tracks and some seals that went out of sight on hearing the unknown thun dering sound of engines. Now and then we saw also a solitary over the ice. But 84 pas of life disappeared. The d of the airship was the only moved on the ice, and it w broken up. The only difference in the picture the ice gave approaching the North Pole was that the leads were fewer and smaller. Often it happened that we didn't see leads at all At about 9 o'clock p.m latitude 87 degrees 45 minutes N was at this latitude that our boats landed at 1 o'clock in the mor on last year's examina the landing took place about 30 miles westward of this year's longitude. The motors of the air ship. however, went with reduc speed over the same latitude in com. memoration of the last flisht. F Riiser-Larsen, Omdahl and ourselves it was a solemn moment looking down on the ice whe little lead in im mense polar ice for 25 days had been all our world Foz Drives Them Upward. Approaching 88 we saw the fog fn front of us, and when we reach ed it we had to go up at first to 1.500 feet to get over it. Later, the fos lying higher and higher, we had to rise to more than 3,000 feet to get over it The fog rolled under the ship like a woolen ocean. This was a disappoint ment to all on board, especially to the leaders of the expedition. I3 vears before we joined our forc 1925 we' had dreamed about unveiling the Arctic from the air. Should we have to pass the North Pole and sail over the unknown reglons on its other de on fog? It seemed So For nearly two hours we flew over the fog. The only consolation to was that we received valuable weather reports from the Stavanger radio tion in southern Norway, promising us favorable winds, at least on the last part of the flight down to Nome, in_Alaska. Now and then, however. there were in the fog, permitting us to look down on the ice, thus en- abling us to assert that none of the region we had passed since latitude $8 was land. This didn't surprise us, however, because last year we looked over the ice to §8.30 from our planes. The depth of tie ocean where we land- ed being more than 10000 feet indi. cated also that in no case could land exist before the Pole. Sun Wins as Pole Nears. In that way we passed the eighty ninth degree of latitude, going with an average speed of more than 50 miles an hour. We were quickly ap- proaching the Pole. And not very far from this attractive point the sun became victorious. Proceeding northward, little by lit- tle the fog disappeared, and about 1 o'cloek in the morning, May 12, we had it behind us. Only some dispersed clouds still were to be seen, but these didn’t reduce visibility, so from cabin and engine gondolas the crew could overlook the most northern part of the globe. In one way, flying through and over the fog had been rather un- pleasant. As alluded to above, we hadn't suffered from the low tem- perature when we flew in sunshine. The air not being humid, the cabin was heatdd a little by the sun. But when we were surrounded by the raw fog and it penetrated the cabin when we had to open its circular windows that s always It but to make various observations, we felt indeed that we were far north. ‘We had to put on more clothes to keep us warm. Some of us also put on big canvas boots that we filled With a special kind of grass used for the same purpose by the nomadic natives in the interior of the moun- tains in northern Norway. Notwith- standing the extra clothing, from now on every one suffered more or less from cold. It was especlally disagree- able to handle navigating and other scientific instruments with uncovered hands. ’ From Ellsworth's Diary. Before we proceed in this narrative we will give extracts from Mr. Ells- worth's diary which I (Ellsworth) hope will give the readers an idea of the little monotonous impressions we had during the first part of our flight in e eaving behind stratus clouds. ‘Horizon clear. Our shadow on snow below. Many bear tracks. 5—Large white fish observed in leald :40—Few leads. No tracks. 12 noon—What a feeling of nothing- T Sia0—Helght, 1,500 feet. 12:25 p.m.—Passed 81 degrees north de. lat1‘:‘1“5 p.m.—Passed 82 north latitude. 2:15—Latitude 82.30; 1,600 feet high; temperature minus 9 centigrade; nar- row leads; sign of constant ice move- ments; clear blue sky; southeast wind. $ p.m.—Temperature falling, minus il hovering | dow we passed | fving | 1 | 118 centigrade very few leads, but now snow ntinuous movement Latitude 82:40; ring from Stavange w open leads. but ver surface %5 latitude north: 1 few open cracks. ont, wind, sky t open leads 00 feet broad fore leads, bu as the above-mentioned, they are all running southwest northeast. 6:15 p.m.—Height, 1,500 » north passed Breaks i Such were the things that happened before we entered in the fog region To be in truth, we have to tell two small things that broke the monotony for some minufe showing, also, that we were not completely isolated on this part of the flight, in spite of being over a white desert several hundred miles from nearest fellow-man. At ahout 11 pm., the chief of our tion received a telegram from eneral director of the rweg | Tel fce, sent m | three_minutes eanlier, telling him that | the King had decorated him with his “ golden medal of merit as a sign of hi excellence as the navy's wireless ex- | pert. | Gottwaldt, as a loyal subject, imme- | diately sent a telegram of thanks to | the King from latitude $8.30. We drank the health of our wireless man |in tea Another little detail of non-impor- tance for our expedition happened also | before our awival at the Pole. By it was the birthday of Ells- no leads. A dead en big enough 2 miles long. not as broad feet; 6 the Monot in the evening—eleventh—I sworth) mentioned this to our st and Ramm sent press tele- am about it. .The result was that [ me hours later received telegrams giving good wishes. One of these be- | ing from our friends ir Kings Ba with an amusing text, I shall rep “Passing _into your fortyv-eighth birthday and another hemisphere, we send you our heartiest congratula- tion: My comrades on the expedition, as midnight passed on, drank my heaith in tea. T used Amundsen's cup from the South Pole marked, “Fram 11—12 When later on we pussed over the Pole we discussed if we hadn't cele- brated my birthday a little too early because the time goes going from one hemispher As 1 remarked in my diary, looks as though I get another birth- day tomorrow.” The Pole at 1:30 AM. The observations made during the flight, the bearings taken to wireless stations of Kings Bay and Green Har- bor on Spitzbergen and the sun com- pass permitted us to state that we, at 1:30 a.m. May 12, Greenwich middle the Kings Bay meridian to the Pole The direction during all the flight had often been controlled by bearings. The astronomical observations of longitude corresponded almost exact- ly with the bearings and the meas- ures taken of the speed were con- trolled by observations of latitude. In that way the ship was navigated from the Kings Bay meridian to the pole point, so, after 4he sun's position was taken in relation to this meridian at that hour, we could be sure that we were over the attractive goal. We went down to lower altitudes, not much lower than 300 feet, and saw that ice over the Pole had the same character as before—few leads, still smaller than those southward, not a sign of a living being, only an endless broken-up ice plain glittering in the midnight sun under the keel of the Norge, that in a splendid way had fulfilled the first part of her task. Ceremony at World’s Top. Speed was reduced, one of the small windows of the cabin was opened and we carrled out the little ceremony that we had hoped to realize since the plans of the expedition were for- mulated on Spitzbergen almost a year ago. The crew uncovered their heads. First the signer, Amundsen, dropped a Norwegian flag presented to the ex- pedition by the Norwegian King and Queen, and then the signer Ellsworth dropped the Stars and Stripes, pre- sented to the expedition by the Pres- ident of the United States. Then Norge's pilot, Nobile, dropped the Italian flag. He dropped also some pennants given to him for that pur- pose by different institutions in his country. Slowly the multi-colored flags of the three. nations sank through the air, being brightened by the sun. The poles were so constructed that on reaching the ice they would stand perpendicularly, and we are sure that all our readers will understand the feelings of the crew of the Norge when we saw the three flags waving under us with the background of snow-covered ice. The Norge, with reduced speed, ud-;mundmmroh.uumw uth-southeast wind: | s | looked for the last time down on the radio. | e Oslo | shook hands with one another and we flags. And so we continued the flight. The | regained full speed, members the expedition recommenced their various tasks and the Norge flew suthward for the first time since it ed on its flizht. the sun compass | z settled for Point Barrow 0 an Unknown Land. ! | Till this moment she had | over parts of the globe already ! known to humanity . In front of us | | now we had the biggest unexplored area of the w d. and before we | should see known land we had to not r from 1,500 miles What were the secrets of this area nd should we succeed in pulling ! de a part of the veil that covered | it, and if we succeeded shouid we land safe so we could tell the world | what we had'seen? I se questio whoard the after we had pa but soon our duties us and the flight went cn And indeed nothin No land was to be = always the same ch tered in the same sun. No clouds ! | were to be seen. Only on the western land southern horizon we obsenved some sl t clouds, but not reducing | the visibili The wireless worked regularly. We received our weather reports, took | the necessary bearings, sent our press telegrams so that the public all over the world would read about the cere- mony over the Pole and our first im- pressions of the American side of the | Pole only a few hours after we had | prssed over it ’ Aiready t most optimistic mem- bers of the expedition began to hope | that the transpolar flight would finish | in the same way as it had started. But it didn’t take many hours before | they were disappointed. (To Be Continued.) h 9 U. S. b he New (CORTEN, 1S Youls Giobememocrat: an Acro Club.) 'RUM RUNNERS BRING TICK PEST ON HORSES | Texans Deplore Infested Steeds of Mexican Smugglers—Want Liquor Traffic Motorized. hip in By the Associated Pres SAN ANTONIO, Tex., June 5.— Texas cattlemen are hoping that liquor smugglers along the Mexican border will motorize their illegal traffic. . The rum runners are using horses covered with cattle fever ticks, which are playing havoc with efforts of stockmen and State officials to stamp out the pest. “Reinfestation has taken place re- contly in Masorf. McCullough and Brooks counties, because liquor smug- glers rode ticky horses in from Mex- ico with their cargoes of contraband, Leo Callan, chairman of the State live stock sanitary board, said today. “Last week immigration men cap- tured a band of smugglers in the western part_of Brooks County and the outfit had 19 head of horses, all covered with ticks. “The cattlemen of Texas are hoping that the bootleggers will resort to automobiles and leave their tick-cov- ered_bronchoes on the other side of the Rio Grande.” MAN LOSES LIFE SAVING OTHERS FROM FLAMES Brings Two Out of Burning House . Before Collapsing—Fourth Vietim Near Death. By the Associated Pre ’ HAMLET, . N. C., June 5—B. B. Baker, proprietor of a boarding house here, lost his life early yesterday in saving two persons from burning to death in a fire which destroyed his home. . A toll of three lives was taken by the fire and R. G. Kelley is in a local hospital with his hands and feet virtu- ally burned off and his entire body charred. He was not expected to live. In addition to Baker, those who lost thei rlives were Lewis O. Engleka and Bernie Joyner. . Baker first rescued his son from the burning structure and then brought out a young woman. He plunged into the flames a third time, but was forced to retreat empty- handed. When he reached the front porch he collapsed and died almost instantly. WIFE'S DESERTION CAUSED 3 DEATHS Man Who Stifled Children and Self in Car Called Deeply Affected. Ohio, from Barnes, 38, 4 If and two of his children supe stood in the village, L Eilsworth. ed rubl of his automobile : ? tube into the coupe. Ffforts of tors to revive him and the childre Lois. 9, and John, 3—were Barnes was despondent bhec: had deserted him and his th children The formality quest was comple was that of a doub sufcide. The bodi dren are e: fath: June & Using his car, Williz killed him while h schoolyard Barne exhau mator to the funeral sery or Monday arnes, brother of said Wil ¢ the inquir; - moth she than Lois John in « int dren’s Hos Leonora, 10 of her grand Barnes frequer from the home who lived at El to the home the his | - here, and rd that ith th belioved ¢ 10 visit his 1o end it all. srnes said, 1. “T'm go hether he to end his life (0 go away on wed, but the g his e of took visit motor run Barnes was on brother when Only his brot ing away next meant he was pl or whether he pl a visit cannot | brother helieves plans for ending his children. 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