Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1928, Page 26

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHING THREE VOLUNTEERS | -~ PICKED BY DvOTT Expedition to Sail in Search: for Fawcett in Brazil ‘ Next Saturday. | | Nerth Il\rrmlA\’\m\n-h to The Star and merican’ Newsnaper Alliarce | NEW YORK, February 11.--Comdr. George M. Dyott announced today the | names of the volunteers he had chosen | to accompany him on the Faweett yescue expedition, and set next Saturday as the day of departure for Brazil. The men selected are Willlam De Mello. New Bedford, Mass.: Samuel K Martin, Chicago. and W. Gerard Marti §r.. of St. George, Staten Island. Th with John James Whitehead and the | commander himself, will constitute the Tty. Comdr. Dyott had expected to take only one volunteer. but each of the three men finally chosen fitted his ex- acting recuirements so precisely that | he decided to accept them all. - More than 20,000 applied for the job. i Lost Since 1925. ol. P. H. Fawcett, whom Comdr. Dwsm is going out to find. s a British explorer who plunged into the Brazilian wilderness in a search for a lost civili- | gation. With him went his son Jack and Raleigh Rimell of Los Angeles. Nothing has been heard from them since May, 1925. Comdr. Dyott is con- vinced they are alive, though perhaps reat peril ‘nDKchkK:C“m be the wireless expert of the expedition. and he has had a thorough experience in this work. He 45 27 vears old. and a graduate of the New Bedford High School. For 10 vears he was radic man aboard ship. and he already has an aguaintance with Bra- zil He is of Pormg\hrs:‘ ancestry, and aks Portuguese wel wf)e‘;lel‘.o ISKI member of the Amateur Radio Relay League and the Institute of Radio Engineers. He has his o®a station and in operating a short wave experimental station at Coytesville, N. J.. he sct new low power. short wave distance records. He has been in com- munication with Tasmania, Australia, New Zealand, Morocco and Brazil. Upper leit: William De Mecllo, New as wireless expert of the expedition. work. the jungle. Lower right: John James W Upper right: Samuel K. Martin, Chicago, who will share in the photographic Lower left: W. Gerard Martin, jr. operator of the portable field radio set, which will transmit news dispatches from itehead, Great Kills, Staten Island, who will be assistant camera man of the Dyott expedition. FUNERAL TOMORROW - FORW.H THOMPSON Body of Former United States Sen- ator From Kansas to Lie in State at Presbyterian Church. Funeral services will be held tomor- {row morning for Willlam Howard ‘Thompson, former United States Scn- ator from Kansas, who died at his home, 3701 Massachusetts avenue, ‘Thursday afternoon. The body will liz in state at New York Avenuc Presby- terian Church, from 9 until 10 o'clock, and at 10:30, the rites will be con- { ducted by Rev. Willlam R. Sizoo. Tem- porary interment will be in a vault in Glenwood Cemetery. Columbia Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar, will have charge of services at the church, and Temple- Noyes Lodge, No 32, F. A. & M., will conduct rites at Glenwood. | Honorary pallbearers will be the members of the Kansas delegation n | Congress, Senator _Ashurst, Senator | Sheppard, Philip P. Campbell and | Joseph Taggert, former members of the | House from: Kansas, who served in Con- | gress with Mr. Thompson; former Gov. | Robert F. Cooper of South Carolina, L. | J. Pettyjohn, Judge Charles E. Lobdell, | John H Cowles, sovereign grand com- mander, Scottish Rite, Southern Juris- diction; W. C. Lansdon, Judge Elmer {J. Binford and Dr. Sterling V. Mead. | ""The active pallbearers will be mem- ! bers of the Masonic order residing here, whose affiliations are with lodges in { Kansas. They are: Orin J. Fields, Albert A. Jones, Louis 8. Strickrott, Oliver E. Kennedy, John ‘Hu\'vnden. Robert L. Nagle and Guy | 0. Taylor. Mr. Thompson, who was 56 years old, succumbed to a heart attack. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. | Bertha Felt Thompson, daughter of the | late Lieut. Gov. Andrew J. Felt of Kansas: two sons, Wilbur F. Thompson, 1 an attorney at Tulsa, Okla.. and Wililam H. Thompson, jr. a high school stu- dent here. and a daughter. Mrs. Thelma Winkemeler of New York City. Bedford, Mass., selected by Comdr. Dyott Elmer E. Miller. | D. C. FEBRUARY 12, 1928—PART 1. Admiral Will Retire After Nearly 50 Years in Naval Service. | Dinner to Take Form of Mer- chant Marine Congress, Backers Say. Neatly 50 years of active service in the Navy will be honored Wednesday when friends of Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett, commandant at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, tender him a din- ner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City. at the end of his long ca- reer. Admiral Plunkett will reach 4 years of age and automatic retirement from the Navy on Wednesday. Col. E A. Simmons, president of the American Marine Association,"is chairman of the general committee that is arranging the testimonial Prominent service | personages. as well as those in politieal | and civil 1ife, will participate in the | dinner. Due to Admiral Plunkett's interest in the merchant marine, the dinner will take the form of a marine congress, at which various industrial groups may express their views on the subject of the development of a stable, organized | merchant marine. an announcement | made yesterday sald. Its sponsors hop> “to crystallize the sentiment of the country for the establishment of a per- | manent n.erchant marine and bring {about a settlement of the differences | now existing in the two branches of | Congress which, so long as they exist | | will preclude the possibility of definite | action.” | Guests ‘of honor invited to participate in this marine congress include: Secre- | tary Wilbur, who is scheduled to point | country. Capt. C. A. McAllister, presi- | | out the relationship between the mer- | chant marine and national defense; | William Green, president of the Ame; FRIENDS TO HONOR PLUNKETT |MONTGOMERY GROUP | WITH BANQUET WEDNESDAY FIGHTS PHONE RATE Civic Federation Will Debate Issue at Meeting Tomor- row Night. Oppdsition to the proposed new tele- phone rate schedule for Montgomery | County suburban sections, adjacent to the District of Columbia, will be carried to the floor of the Montgomery County Civic Federation at its regular monthly meeting tomorrow night in Bethesda | School. The plan has been made special | business at the meeting. is opposing the plan, because many of the principal communities of the Be- | thesda area are not included within the metropolitan base rate boundary line, which means that all phone sub- seribers residing outside this boundary must pay a mileage charge for Wash- ington service or use the Maryland REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES P. PLUNKETT. can Federation of Labor, who will dis- | cuss the attitude of labor; Louls J.| Taber, master of the National Grange; | C. W. Lonsdale, president of the! Simonds-Shields-Lonsdale Grain Co. of | Kansas City, Mo., chairman of the ad- | visory committee of the transportation department. of the Chamber of Com- | merce of the United States; Maj. Gen. | Charles P. Summerall, chief of staff of | the Army. and Rear Admiral Bradleyl A. Fiske, retired | Statlon WJZ and stations on the blue | network of the National Broadcasting | Co. will transmit the program over the | hu ot mensured i terme of dollars Froof that we Sound Plates or Bridge: COME TO DR. FREIOT AND PLATES THAT GOLD CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK, Tw it t i Terms of Payment May Be Arranged NEXT TO dent of the American Burcau of Ship- | AR ping, is chairman of the committee in | charge of the dinner, while T. J. Kain | of New York Is secretary-treasurer. rything pertaining to x4 IS ONE ECT i No Hours: 9 AM. Re Sure ¥ More than 90 per cent of a blanket of new snow Is sometimes made up of Look’ for t ot et Into the Richt Office . St. George, Staten Island, selected as G Street at Eleventh Cxpects Little Difficulties. I expect to have no trouble in get- ting news out of the jungle by radio. DeMello said. “I hope and intend to keep the world tnformed, at frequent intervals, of the progress we make in they have mv sympathy in their nat- urai disappointment in not being chosen.” = The expedition will sail from New /D. C. EMPLOYES WILL our search for Fawcett.” These radio bulletins will be sent exclusively to the membership of the North American | Newspaper Alliance. DeMello has a sturdy physical equip- ment for his undertaking. He is not heavy, weighing 125, but he has wiry etrength. His height is five feet si and-a-half inches. | In his appeal for a volunteer Comdr. | Drott said he didn't want big men. He! believes they lack the endurance and physical adaptability of men of less| size. | Samuel K. Martin is a_youngster of 20 who wearied of school and sought | DISCUSS PAY INCREASE | York on the liner Voltaire, which wil’| | 1Copy g A reach Rio March 3. Comdr. Dyott ex- pects 10 be in the wilderness the first week in April. He had hoped to sail for Brazil in December, but unavoid- in getting equipment pre- all_conntries by North per Alliance.) nt merican ASKS NAVY SPOKESMAN. An official spokesman on the floor of Congress for the Navy was advocated yesterday by Assistant Secretary Robin- son in an address before the Harvard | Retirement for Per Diem Workers Also Subject for Meect- ing Tuesday. | Representative Browning of Tennessee | will be the principal speaker at a meet- | lmg of District Government employes at 8 o'clock, Tuesday night in the Dis- | [trict Building. The meeting will be 'under auspices of the Municipal | | Pederal Emploves Union, No. 89. 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Prettily piped and pleated, tucked and flared: trimmed with laces, with novelty pins, with buckles, with buttons, with embroideries. the freedom and adventure of life in the open. He attended Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, N. J.. but to him the big moments of his life so far are those he spent on expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History in Utah and Nevada. Young Martin's parents are dead. His father was a banker in Chicago, but since his school days Martin has not Nved there. having spent much time | traveling. On the expedition he will be the helper to Whitehead. the assistant camera man. The main camera work will be done by Comdr. Dyott. Martin | weighs 145 pounds and is 5 feet 6 inches tall. | Born in London. The third volunteer, W. Gerard Mar- tin, jr.. is. ke Dz Mello, a radio man. He wil! operate the portable field set./ Gerard Martin, who is 22 and lives at | St George, Staten Island. has been en- | gaged in_commercial radio work for five | years. This work has taken him '"f over the world. As with the other vol- | unteers, he is not a big man. His| weight is 146 pounds and he is 5 feet 7| inches tall | The big man of the expedition, phys- | fcally, will be Whitehead, who 1s 6 feet tall and weighs 172 He also lives on | Staten Island, at Great Kills. H: was born in London, attended Oxford, and during the war he was a lieutenant in | the Royal Air Service. After the war he traveled the world as a free lance phowographer. Whitehead met Comdr Dyott when the commander was on the River of Doubl expedition Comdr. Dyott made his selection of | the three volunteers after weeks of pa- tient study of the applications received | Thewe came from all parts of the world | most of them by mail. Some of th- candidates telegraphed their plecs and others called at the apartment which | been the explorer’s temporary ad- dress | “It was a big task, going through ali | those letters.” the commander said. "1 W engage special secretaries 0| Belp me. 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