Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1929, Page 5

—— BYRD VIEWS NEW - AReA ON FUEHT Explorer Glimpses Antarctic Hinterlands, Peeps Over Great Ice Field. (Continued From First Page.) ship cheered and waved their hands until it disappeared over the ecdge of the barrier. The commander had given orders that as soon as he left an’ attempt should b2 made to get in close to the barrier. and had sent Strom and Braa- t defied the City of New York a few days 2go. With the Eleanor Bolling coming i1 a few hours, there was urgent need of getting to the low spot in the bar- rier if possible, but all the time we | have been here watching for the ice | 1o move, it has stuck to that place | like tar to a dog's back. But at the | Jast moment, when the ice around the ship and all along the edge of the way | was getting so rotten that it was be- ginning to get dangerous and it did not seem possible that the Bolling could be unloaded quickly, the ice over on the eastern shore began to move. By the time the commander left there was only a little heavy pressure ice be- tween the water and the low barrier. The value of this place can easily | be realized. It is like the edge of a saucer, a gentle slope coming down to within a few feet of the top of the bay ice which at this point is quite thick and about 3 feet above the“ water. At the north end of the saucer- | like depression is a gentle slope run- | ning down to the bay ice, a perfect pathway for hauling up sleds. On| each side of this low spot the barrier | rises to 50 feet, much too high for us, and it so happens that this low spot is the only one between us and the camp and the nearest to open water. The fact that we could get near to it &t the last moment after so many fail- ures seemed too good to be true. City of New York Bucks Ice. ‘The City of New York started to buck the ice which remained while eyes were cast astern to the north for the Eleanor Bolling’s smoke. Time after time the stout old ship was sent reeling into the thick but rotten stuff, forcing a passage to a pool of open water ahead, which if it could be reached would cut off so much that the pressure ice would move. Down in the fireroom Buber, airplane mechanic and temporary stoker, was tossing coal on the fire and yelling every time the ship hit, “Stop it, old girl, hit it on the nose,” and trying to pop the safety valve. Every one was smiling and gay with the thought that Byrd had successfully started on an important flight and that in a short time the mail from home would be in. Men at the wheel or engine room telegraphed, ‘or hanging over the stern watching the ice-bound rudder, turned their eyes sea- ward every few moments for the Eleanor Bolling. Ship’s Masts Show. From the rigging a yell went up. “Here's she comes,” and the top of the masts could be seen above the glassy horizon. All the traditions of the Ant- arctic had been shattered and for the first time an expedition ship built of steel had forced its way through heavy ck ice and reached the continent. olks at home and in New Zealand had said it couldn't be done, but there she ‘was. “I bring her down,” said Brownier, the captain, and he did. She was load- ed so she bulged. Things were piled all over her decks. She had gasoline and blasting powder and all sorts of poten- tial hell aboard, as well as a big house and coal and food. Even whale meal hung all over her, for we have learned to like it. Most of her load was b rather than weight and she was a foot above her Plimsoll mark when she got in. Bucks Ice for Four Days. She had come througn pack ice so thick that she had had to buck it for four days and depended on the power of her engine to get her through. This is | one thing we have learned down here, | the value of engine power. “Sure, we come through alright,” said Mr. Brownier. “Der sides, they go a lit- tle this way,” he said, moving his hands together to show pressure and then shrugged his shoulders, “Come through.” “Well, I'll be blowed,” called out Mel- ville, captain of the City of New York, “if he hasn't got his flags out. The American flag and'the house flag and the mail flag,” fairly roaring the last. Mail a Magic Word. Mail is & magic word. News from home, from those we will not see for many months yet and who seem in an- other world. There was a flurry around the radio house and Hanson called out that the commander had sent back a message. Men crowded around the door and Han- son and Petersen rigged up the loud speaker so that when June fastened dow nhis key we could hear the sniging, pulsating note of his signal, a sound very ; much like that of a disiant airplane motor. It was thrilling to hear; that sound and to know that we could keep in touch with the plane during the entire flight; to know that if anything ‘went wrong we would be aware of it in- | stantly. Radio communication has not been the least of the marvels of this trip, for the plane was not only heard here, it was heard in the States, it was heard by whalers out in the Ross Sea and at the base, where men sat around in the house tracing its progress on a map. And while that singing sound | was still coming in, it was possible to | communicate with the Eleanor Bolling | and toward the end send a short mes- sage to the New York Times. “Flying Well, Weather Fine.” That first short message from the plane was in code and read, “Flying well, weather fine, motor running fine. Signed, Byrd." It was sent at 3:40. By this time we were so close in that Parker, with a rope tied around his waist and Demas holding the other end ‘was out on the ice looking for the best ‘way through and Harrison, Coman and Vanderveer, who was taking pictures, were out working with an ice anchor. The Eleanor Bolling cze slowly up astern, nosed her way into a huge cake | of ice and pushed it aside and then stuck her bow up alongside of us. There were yells back and forth, calls of friendly derision and jokes, and as soon as the sides touched the men from each ship jumped over on the other and be- gan shaking hands and patting each | other on the back, then from the Bolling brought purchases they had made for friends, the most common of which, curiously enough, were handker- chiefs, which every one seemed to have forgotten. Work Forgotten for News of “Outside.” We are tired of the sight of red ban- dannas. The mail was brought over, three large sacks of it, and hustled down into the New York's wardroom, where it was sorted on the table by many willing hands and then taken up on deck to the distributors. It was grabbed eagerly, and for a little while work was forgotten while envelopes were eagerly torn open and eyes fastened on the handwriting of those dear to! them whom they had not seen for so long a time. There was good news and bad news, laughter and some grave faces. There were Christmas presents and packages of things which the folks at home had sent to while away the long Winter nights. Each was clutched as a treasure and tucked carefully away until the times comes to move to the base. More messages began to come in from the plane, which was still singing its deep roaring note through the loud speaker. The others read: “Flying well. Position is 77.30 south latuitude and 1.56 west longitude. On left ocean, forward right chain mountains, some peaks covered with clouds. Do not yet Enow whether there is Scotts Nunataks. e ot S SLUKE DIUDRIAES. n over to 100k at the ice which had | well, Strong wind with us. Turned at 505 at small newly discovered island. Have explored coast line. Now head- ing southward across Scotts Nunataks to unexplored area that direction. Had to evade snow squall. Chilly, but all well. Signed, Byrd.” The next was to Capt. Brown of the Eleanor Bolling, after Byrd had been informed of his arrival alongside. *“Brown, congratula- tlons. You did a fine piece of work geiting here. See you later. Signed, Byrd.” Next came: “All going fine. Have discoverad three new mountain peaks about 50 miles to south of Scotts Nunataks. Signed, Byrd.” ‘Solid Rock Looks Good.” Next: “Discovered 14 mountain peaks sticking up above snow. Solid rock looked good after many weeks of noth- ing but ice and snow. Now headed back to little America. Got radio several | hours ago that Bolling had arrived. Signed, Byrd.” It was not long after | this that Byrd came in from the east- | ward over Framheim and, turning at distance from the base, went out over the bay, where the two ships were lying side by side. As he came above them, Balch stuck the plane’s nose down in a and then zoomed up again and went on to the landing fleld. Those in th> base hut had been listen- ing eagerly for five hours to the plane, Berkner, the radio operator, reading off massages 25 he receivea tnem. We were sitting on bags or standing about smok- ing and discussing the flight and its great results with happy excitement. Larry Gould, with the largest pipe on contentedly smoking. Suddenly the signals ran up to a shriek and died and Berkner straightened up in his chair Sudden Silence Prevails. “The motor speeded up as the plnne; went into a dive. I don't know what | happened.” There was sudden silence in the hut. Geuld bounded from his cot and went over to Berkner. A dive. That could only mean one thing. And the signals had quit. Had they crashed? Could anything be done? All these thoughts whom this flight meant as much in- dividually as it did to Byrd himself. It was a _heart-rending moment. For nearly five minutes they sat motionless, not daring to speak tho things they thought, and then one of them jumped a foot in the air and yelled, “There's that blankety-blank motor now.” Thecre was a rush to the front door, from which a narrow path is cut upward through the snow. "It has two or three slippery steps in it and as the first man, Joe Ruciker, hit them he slipped and fell on his face and the whole crowd fell over him and piled up. Men Go Wild With Joy. ‘The kicking, scrambling heap was un- tangled in a few moments and they ran out to see the plane circling not far above them, coming in for a landing Hats were thrown in the air, men | danced and jumped up and down with | glee and waved their arms in a frenzy of delight. Byrd, Baichen and June were gall right, safely back from a trip | which was a test of all that Byrd has been preparing to do, with a remark- | able exploration record made in the| short space of five hours tucked away. | lr! lwns something for which to be thank- ul. When the plane gracefully glided | down and landed easily on the snow and taxied to a stop, there was a rush | for it and hands were shaken as the | three men jumped out of the plane. | Then came an explanation of that dra- matic ending of the signals. June was working on his set and when the plane went into & dive looked out, saw that the plane was over the ships and be- gan to reel in his antenna. That ended communication that almost stopped the hearts of a few of those who did not know what had happened. Bolling Slices Away Ice. In the meantime the work of ice- breaking had been going on faster with | the aid of the FEleanor Bolling. Her | sharp nose was pushed against the ice a short distance from the City of New York and when her engines were turned over at full speed ahead she ulk | sliced through the thick. soft ice like ! a knife through butter. When in as far as necessary, she turned and cut along the bay ice in front of the low part of the bay ice, slicing it off in a atfl‘:ht sharp line for 150 yards until a perfect dock 40 yards wide had been made. It has been named “Pier 1.” Bow and stern lines were taken over on the bay ice close under the barrier and she was warped into place and additional lines taken up to the barrier itself to take the strain off the snow dock. We need that landing place badly and don’t want to haul it out. This was all done in a little more than an hour, and then the City-of New York warped into place outside the Bolling and sent additional lines ashore. Petersen radioed out to the base, “Tell Comdr. Byrd that the Bolling is docked at Pier 1.” And that was that! The ships are now lying as snugly as if in an inclosed basin. Water Holds Quiet. There is not the slightest movement of the water, at least no waves, and the ice is not moving out fast enough to make the situation untenable if it crushed in this way. The probabili- tles are that it would go out without much pressure against this side, for there seems to be a_slight current in the other direction. But if it did begin | to press, there is room for the Bolling with her powerful engine to push away quickly to safety. The great advantage of being alongside the dock here is that it not only gives them a place where the ships can b> unloaded safely and quickly, but also decreases the dis- tance to the base to five miles, whereas the old and dangerous route was about cight miles. A straight line to the base would be only about four miles, but the twail is being made well inland to avoid crevasses near the coast. Strom, Braathen and Erickson went out to make the first trail and mark it, Braa- been over this route onc> before with Comdr. Byrd when the first trip inland was made to select a site for the base. Erickson led on foot and without skis to see crevasses. He had a rope about him and was followed by Strom, who was also fastened by the rope to both Erickson and Braathen. They took every precaution at the instruction of the commander, because their mission was to find a crevasse on the route if they possibly could, so that when the dog teams began to haul loads they need not fear falling into one of these bottomless pits of icy darkness. Dogs Lug Stuff In. None were encountered, however, and today the dogs are lugging stuff in again, with the possibility of making three or more trips instead of two each day. The trail is a little soft now, but it should improve steadily. As soon as both ships were secured, the work of unloading the Bolling be- gan. It had been planned to put part of her load on the New York is neces- sary, but this new position has obviated what would have meant a double handling of the cargo. The boxes of blasting powder and the caps were taken ashore first and placed well upon the barrier, out of the way. Then coal bags and boxes of food and other stores were cleaned away from around the Fokker fuselage crate and wing which was on the forward hatch. As fast as the stores were placed on the ice dock they were loaded on sleds. An anchor was sunk in the snow upon the barrier at the head of the incline and a block jand endless fall was rigged to it and taken back to th: Bolling'’s forward winch. Heavy Loads Attached. ‘Two or three heavy sledloads, one £led of which men could barely haul up, are fastened to this fall, the winch rat- tles and up it goes to the top to be un- loaded and stacked until the dog teams pick it up. It is so much better than what we had hoped for, that everybody is working with a grin, despite the heavy labor. The crews of both ships have been divided into 12-hour shifts, and the work gocs on day and night. ‘The dog teams are hauling from 700 or 800 pounds to 1,600 pounds each trip, depending on the' number of dogs in the team and the whole organization is working like a machine. It is probably the most ernr){:blge s(Agxl:'t‘ m“zhu Te- t retic. B e e * the continent, was lying in his bunk | flashed through the minds of men to | then driving his dog team. He had || _. THE® EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. 1050 TUESDAY., JANXUARY 29, SPANISH REVOLT ] 1 EPremier Declares Entire Country Is Quiet Except One Province. MADRID, January 29 (#).—Premier Primo de Rivera informed the Na- | tional Assembly today that the gov- ernment had suppressed a rebeilion | {which had been planned for midnight | |thrmxghcut Spain. | He started that the subversive move- ment had been completely fru.’:irstcd; and that the entire country was quiet | except in the province of Ciudad Real, | where a regiment of field artillery had | mutinied and placed their guns in the streets of the provincial capital. The premier added that stern measurss | would be taken against the organizers jof the movement, but not against| soldiers who had blindly followed th leaders. | The session of the National Assembly | was extremely tense, as a special meet- ing of the cabinet had been held at the ministry of war this morning and rumors ‘ of trouble had spread. After informing the assembly that the rebellion had been suppressed, the | premier continued: “The movement has failed every- | where, with the exception of Ciudad Real, where the 1st Artillery Regiment, | garrisoned at that point, rebelled, taking its guns to the streets, occupying the small barracks of the Civil Guards, placing cannon in the avenuss and (roads and detaining all trains coming ‘inm and leaving the city. “The government now has no more news from Ciudad Real, but it is in pos- session of the assurance of the complete | | re-establishment of normal conditions | | throughout the rest of Spain.” WESLEY HEIGHTS GROUP | SCHEDULES TWO PLAYS Pregentations One-Act Will Be Given Tomorrow Night in Clubhouse. QUELLEDBY STATE TARKINGTON IS | Author May Be Ablz to Leave Johns Hopkins in | Few Days. | Must Undergo Knife Again, However, Specialists in Baltimore Say. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, January 29.—Booth Tarkington, novelist and playwright, who has been under treatment at the Wilmer Institute, Johns Hopkins Hos- pital, for two weeks for a serious eye dondition, is much improved, it was an- nounced at the hospital today. Mr. Tarkington underwent a pre- liminary operation several days ago and the hospital physicians say that he may leave the institution in a few days. It will be necessary. however, for him to return for another operation on his eye. Since Mr. Tarkington placed hims under the care of Dr. Wilmer, he has | been cheerful and optimistic. His physicians declined to say what Mr, | Tarkington's eve ailment is. It is said RECOVERING FROM OPERATION ON EYES| BOOTH TARKINGTO! | that Mr. Tarkington had done most of | his literary work by dictation for some | time. | His eyes had been falling for two years. The author is 59 years old, but his friends say that he expects to con- tinue writing for many more years. ANXIETY 15 FELT FOR TWO VESSELS Steamer Missing for Week; Trawler, Score Ahoard, Long Overdue. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, January 29.—With the | disabled British freighter Silver Maple, anxiety in maritime circles today cen- tered on two other craft. News from St. John's, Newfoundland, The Wesley Helghts Players will pre- | sent two one-act plays tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock in the Wesley Heights' Community Clubhouse in preparation for the District of Columbia one-act play tournament in February. The plays are Susan Glaspell's “Sup- pressed Desires,” to be given under di- rection of Maj. Carey H. Brown, with | Mrs. Carl Mittman, Mrs. Charles Bote- ler and Charles Hillegeist in the cast, and Norman Pertwee's “Evening Dress Indispensable,” to be directed by Mel- vin Hildreth, with a cast including Mrs, Charles Hamilton, Miss Caroline Lile, Mrs. George Carll, Cecil Wilkinson and | the director. The plays will be judged by a com- mittee of three, including Mrs. Maud Howell Smith, Miss Bess Davis Schrei- | ner and Frank Baer, and the better of | the two will be presented by the Wes- | ley Heights Players in the tournament. Mrs, Carey H. Brown, vice chairman of the advisory board of the Community Drama Guild, is the organizer and man- ager of the Wesley Heights Players, “CURE” BRINGS TROUBLE.| Man Arrested on Intoxication Charge After Taking “Medicine.” A cure prescribed by his physician for “sick spells” resulted in Robert B.| Bowen of Falls Church, Va., being ar- raigned in Police Court yesterday on a charge of intoxication. Although Bowen favored mixing whisky with milk and sugar, he said | his doctor told him to take several swallows of “raw liquor” when feeling indisposed. Believing that one of the spells was coming on Sunday morning, he obeyed the doctor’s orders. Crossing the street at Ninth and| Mount Vernon place Sunday against | the traffic lights, he tied up trafic and | was arrested for drunkenne: Bowen was undecided whether the whisky or | the spell had caused the difficulty. | Judge John P. McMahon ordered an investigation made of the case. 0w that the coal-laden steamer George Cochrane was unreported after leaving Sydney, Nova Scotia, a week ago was | causing disquiet, but there was belleved to be a possibility that she might be held in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Shipping men saw little hope that the steam trawler Seiner, more than a week overdue at Groton, Conn., could have remained afloat. The trawler, with a score of men aboard, was last | seen on Georges Bank January 13. Advices from the Tampa were that | the Silver Maple was due ahead, about | 400 miles northeast of Bermuda. PICKARD RESIGNATION | ACCEPTED BY COOLIDGE | By the Associated Press. Sam Pickard, who has represented | the fourth zone on the Radio Commis- | sion since November 1, 1927, has sent his resignation to the President to be effective February 1. Mr. Pickard is | understood to have accepted a place with the Columbia Broadcasting chain. The commissioner has been with the | Radio Commission since its organiza- | tion March 15, 1927. He first served as_secretary. £ Mr. Pickard became identified with radio in the early days of broadcasting, when he established the first “college of the air” at Kansas State Agricultural College in 1922, President Coolidge accepted the resig- | natiqn in a letter today to Mr. Pickard. 28 FLU CASES REPORTED. Twenty-eight cases of influenza and six deaths from the disease were re- ported to the District Health Depart- ment today. Thus far in January 1,721 cases and 67 deaths have been reported. | Man Thought Torture Victim, CHICAGO, January 29 (#).—The body of a man, burned almost beyond recognition and bearing several bullet wounds, was found last night in a field on the far South Side. The man's face, hands and legs were burned, supposedly to make identification difficult. Police thought the burns may have been in- flicted as torture. Coast Guard cutter Tampa near the | BOOTH'S ATTORNEY |Efforts to Reach Settlement Are Resumed in London - Court. By the Assoriated Press. | resumed before Justice Eve in Chancery Court this morring on injunction pro- ceedings instituted by Gen. Bramwell | Booth to' prevent the high council of |the Salvation Army from removing him from office and electing his suc- | cessor. | Efforts to reach a settlement which have been in progress over the week | end proved fruitless. W. A. Greene, at- | torney for Gen. Booth, expresssd regret | when court opened that, with all good | will by counsel for both sides, they had been unable to find a means of avoiding the “unfortunate litigation” as the court had counseled at last week's hearing. The question of whether the high council’s action of adjudicating Gen. Booth as unfit for continuance at his post was regular, and whether the army's deed poll of 1904 was itself valid came up immediately. Greene argued this could not be decided on an inter- locutory motion. He asked the court to preserve the status quo until the matter could finally be determined after all the facts had been produced at the trial. He further contended that Gen. Booth had been done an injustice by not being given the opportunity to place his side of the matter before the high council through an attorney to answer charges which should have been duly formulated, but were not. SENTENCE IS SUSPENDED TO PERMIT GIRL’S RETURN Mrs. Alerta Davidson, alias Jacqueline reveal her true identity to the police authorities and stated she preferred a jail sentence to ng knowledge of her predicament get back to her home, was brought to Police Court this morn- ing for her final a rance before Judge MacMahon. Gl In view of the fact that relatives of the girl had provided transportation for that & request was made by them for the girls' immediate return, Judge Mac- Mahon agreed to suspend sentence in her case and she will leave Washington for the homeward journey on the 5 train this afternoo: il IS QUSTER OVE LONDON, January 29.—Hearing was | Relatives Provide Transportation | for Mrs. Alerta Davidson to California Home, Smith, who for three weeks refused to | return to home in Helmet, Calif., and | CREAGER ACCUSED - OFBLOCKING RAIDS {G. 0. P. Committeeman s Charged With Giving Protec- | tion to Hotels in Texas. | BY the Associated Press Charges that R. B. Creager. Repub- | lican national committeeman for Texas, | veral years azo “protected” come | i Texas hotels from dry raiders wers | made today before the Senate com-| | mittee investigating disposition of | | patronage in Texas by Lloyd Hill of | | Fort Worth. | | Hill an unsuccessful candidate for | | postmaster at Fort Worth in 1921, told the committee that it was “generally | jassumed” that candidates for postmas- | i terships were expected to pay 10 per | cent of their salary to the Republican | organization | He said a bell boy at the Adolphus | Hotel, in Dallas, told him that Creager “protected the place h> gats drinks m."l He also stated he understood the Metro- { politan Hotel in Forth Worth received [ “protection.” | "“When a prohibition officer raided lany of th places,” Hill continucd, “he was suspended. “As soon as P. V. Petty of Dallas, a former State prohibition director, began to raid the places, he was removed,” {he added. | “That was a good way to improve the service, was it?" Senator McKeller, Democrat, ‘of Tenessee, asked. i | Hill said he believed conditions since | | had improved. The Texan was asked if his testimony | today caused him any trouble. He said he “expected trouble” as a | result of his statements. NEW HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING PLANNED | Preliminary Steps Taken to Clenr:‘ Site by Transfer of Two Government Bureaus. The first step toward clearing the way for the construction of the new House Office Building recently authorized by Congress was taken today when the | Public Buildings Commission selected | new office space for two Government | bureaus now occupying a portion of the | House Office Building site. | The United States Public Health Serv- ice will be transferred to temporary | building C on the Mall, and the Geo- | detic Survey will be moved to the build- |ing at 119 D strect northeast. | .. Senator Smoot, chairman of the Pub- {lic Buildings Commisison, also made known today that as soon as the Gov- ernment is given possession of the Southern Railway Building, on Pennsyl- vania avenue, the Department of Jus- { tice will move into it. This move prob- \ ably will be made as soon as the South- | ern Railway completes the new build- ing it is erecting. The plan is to have the Department of Justice occupy th» | former Southcrn Ralway offices until { the proposed new Department of Jus- | tice Building, which is to be one of th» | triangle group, is erected. | The approvriation $8,400,400 to finish | buying the site and to erect tho new | House Office Building is in the first | efficiency appropriation bill as a Senats | amendment awaiting the concurrence | of the House. The building is to be placed In the area just west of the pres- ent House Office Building on the south side of the Capitol. Chicago Paint Store Bombed. CHICAGO, January 29 (#).—A biack powder bomb, the cighth this year, | | popped in the front of a small paint | store cn Federal street early today. | The bombing was ascribed to labor trouble. 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