Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1929, Page 2

2 % LAST TRIBUTE PAID BYRD'S EXPEDITION - GATHERS AT BASE Dog Teams Called In and! Notables Attend Final Rites| Airplane Stowed Away for Winter. BY RUSSELL OWEN. Wireless to The Star and New York Times LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, March 23.—The Byrd expedition Is together again after days of intense effort and dangers. Even the dog teams came in early this morning having traveled 63 miles in 135 hcurs in a temperature of 40 below zero that last part of the trip. The plane has made its last flight and Is stowed away for the Winter, and for the first time it is possible to know the full story of the days of anxiety. ‘The most thankful person in the expedition is the commander himself. He has had to make decisions on which the lives of his men depended and lo| risk not only his pilots and his remain- ing plane, but young dog drivers who have established an Antarctic sledging record for a day’s journey. Getting the entire group back on the last flight was & risk which had to be undertaken after deliberate consideration of a numper of alternative dangers. It was not until every one was back that the full story of the first flight became known. There was some doubt whether the plane could get off the ground without smashing up although it was not realized how rough was the going until the plane was under way ‘when we first taxied up on the hill at the take-off. We stn&ed the plane and talked it over, said Dean, “I didn’t know whether we could get off or not. But the commander said go ahead h. Perils of Rescue Hop. On the way over the clouds began to close in and the sun became partly ob- clouds shutting in on it from above and below, and the drift under them increased so that if they had a forced landing they would surely have cracked up badly. It was a condition in h a wise pilot would always turn ept on & mission of rescue. was no way of knowing whether ground was clear at the mountain would be light enough to the elouds kept on obscuring was a great temptation to A ] = e missing men. The range s is 40 miles long and did not know their exact believed that they were at end of the range and h; an ,and we went. But boy, it was he MELVALE . STONE in Washington Cathedral for “A.P.” Founder. | By the Associated Press. | The ashes of a plain American citizen. | Melville Elijah Stone, who asked of life | no higher destiny than that, were com- | mitted yesterday to the special, rock-| | hewn sanctuary set aside for America's | | great dead beneath the towering bulk | | of the Washington Cathedral. | Mr. Stone had sought no such en- tombment for himself. In life, as the | | fullness of years came upon him, the | | restful quiet of a little church vard| |among the changeless hills of New | | England had called to him. There he | | had prepared for his last long sleep. Yet in death the fame he never | claimed sought him out. Reverent cere- | | monial and honors such as only those | may know who have walked in leader- | | ship among their fellows at home and | | abroad were lavished upon him. Notables Pay Tribute. | |, Two great Americans he knew as | friends life, Woodrow Wilson and | | George Dewey, already have been laid | to their eternal rest in that crypt, deep | in the quiet breast of Mount St. Albans, where the newcomer came yesterday. And because his name, like theirs, had | been entwined down the decades that have gone with the vital fabric of ! America in peace and war, the Presi- dent and Vice President of the United | States, cabinet officers, highest judges, | sorrowing comrades of the fallen chief- tain, and the Ambassadors and envoys | of rulers and peoples around the world | were gathered to pay tribute to his| memory. It was a distinguished group assem- bled about the urn on its purple-draped catafalque in the shadowy beauty of Bethlehem Ch: where Bishop Free- man pronoun e solemn, simple rit- ual of the entombment service. “"DICP! of the choir rose and fell softly in the old, old hymns of solace and ope. The slender, bowed figure of the only livipg child of the dead man, a daugh- ter’who has given her life in service to an invalid mother, alone represented the broken circle of the immediate fam- ily. Both sons had gone before their father, twice touching his life with tragic sorrow. Daughter Last to Pay Farewell, And the only flowers in that dim chapel, gray with the low clouds and faintly echoing the muttering fall of rain far above among the unfinished structures of the Cathedral, were a great cluster of white lilies, et at the chancel rail as the last gift of the stricken widow, who could not be there. The entombment itself was private. After the catafalque holding the urn had been borne away to another cham- ber with stately recessional, President and Mrs. Hoover and all the dignitaries departed. Only the black-clad and the few closest friends and asso- ciates of the dead man witnessed the final rites as his ashes were set in the become | CTYPt beneath, mim‘ t the l‘msi e increa: l-{ey saw the basin in which the plane lay and, after a time, the plane itself, wrecked. & was the warst;looking landing fleld I ever saw.” said /the commander. green and , green ice cov- with splotches of anow and looked for landing. ‘To skid around and . hit some smow And after all the high officials, old comrades, friends and the rest had gone, she remained to say the last fare- wdll: to a great man who to her was just 5 While Haines and Harrison and Dean Smith watched the weather, Byrd and McKinley talked over the load. Dean wanted to fly alone, but the commander would not permit it. It seemed prob- able that some one would have to re- main behind, and Comdr. Byrd insisted on staying. Herolsm of Hanson. “A captain does not desert his ship,” refused 4 | 1e told the others, but Hanson to leave him under any circumstances. Hanson is the man who rolled into the i vl 8 a tee laid out and Dean down cleverly in spite t. He deserved all the fight. Although we hit we did not break any- Finds Men Safe. June and Balchen came up overjoyed to find that every safe. The loss of any of them have ‘been & terrible blow and 1 saw the wreck it seemed that worst fears werestrue. I shall never that moments of relief and hap- no time to do anything the back again at Hanson took, out his radio gear, of the personal things and equip- ment and a little food and then Byrd ordered June and Baichen, both of whom wanted to stay, into the plane. He would have sent Gould also if a take- off in such poor light on a hard, rough field had not_been, dangerous with a heavy load. In another moment the plane was in the air after bouncing over 275 e*gii EEE it f i f ] : ‘ L i 3 i i b Byrd Stays, With Men. Byrd, Hanson and Gould were left and Hanson immediately got busy set- ting up his radio apparatus to tell the base that the plane was returning, but a serious situation atill remained. The weather was none too godd and al- h the commander had learned of the safety af his men and Hanson had exchanged places with them, and it was a long walk back to camp with the numbing cold and terrible winds of the six months' Antarctic night coming on fast. Days are shorter now and the sun will drop below the horizon for months about April 19. The others must get back before then, if it were humanly posstble. Comdr. Byrd kept in touch with Capt. Ashley McKinley, in command of the base in absence of both the commander and Gould, and ‘was informed of weather conditions. “What a wonderful thing this radio is” sald Comdr. Byrd. “I even have business messages relayed to me from the States.” He and McKinley talked over another dilemma. When the plane could fly again it was hoped that all three men could be brought back on one trip, for fiying days are now few and far be- tween, but it was doubtful if five men, water when a plece of the barrier fell on the Bolling and a boat was sent out led | after Benny Roth. There were too many men in the boat and Hanson jumped overboard to lighten it. He is a splen did fellow, one of the best, unselfish and ready for any emergency. It was found, however, that by leav- ing some equipment and food at the mountains in a cache that the weight could be brought down to a point where Dean could carry June as radio opera- tor and take off with every one on a carefully selected part of the ice field at_the mountains. This was the situation when the plane left on its last long flight, The weather cleared up that morning and has been clear ever since with low tem- perature. The dog teams were well on their way, having gone nearly 60 miles when the plane passed them on the outward journey. They had left in two groups. one of which was com of three teams driven by Walden. Braathen and Paul Siple; the 6-foot Boy Scout went as far as the 40-mile depot and then turned back after leaving their supplies. The four teams were driven by Vaughan, Bursey, Goodale and Thorne. Petersen, the radio operator, drove Thorne's team most of the way while Thorne was helping lay out the course. Bursey's team led all the way. When they heard that the men in the mountains had been rescued they stopped by orders of McKinley. They were then 63!, miles from the base, having made that distance in a little over two days, wonderfully good going for the Antarctic. Plane Arrives at Camp. There was great relief in the camp when it became known that Comdr. Byrd and his companions were safely on their way back. That take-off had been worrying every one and we all knew that if any one had to remain be- hind it would be the commander, and the men wanted him safely back again. It almost broke Gould’s heart to have to leave many of his rock specimens and his geological hammers, but there was nothing else to do. A number of rock samples were brought back, how- ever, because of their scientific interest. (Cgprisht by the New York Times Co. and . Loufs Post-Dispatch. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world.) Storekeeper Is Slain. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., March 23 (#). —Lester Jacobs, manager of a chain grocery store here, was shot and killed tonight by a gunman who was holding if & radio operator was to be carried both ways, could pack themselves into the plane with all the other equipment. up the store. Police have no trace of the hold-up man, who escaped. SEESETETEREIINCTEIEERTESEIRERESINI TSARTRRNRERLANNRANN Learn to Swim For Sport and Protection RIE2TNRINTEE Under Auspices Dept., Y. M. C. free lessons daily April 1 to 7 To Enroll for Classes S2RENETTNIIUTEELIASEIIITICIATNTRIIINGS NAME ADDRESS .......c00e0 Parent’s Bignature ........cecoe0ee (Required.) !(’L!n The Star and Boys’ Boys 10 to 18 years old offered Send this applicationto Y. M. Boys' Building, 1732 G Street 2AIHETR Lt ITERRANRNIETEE A. seeravEsae i | moted to the rank of lieutenant colonel C.A. + | Main street, Toronto, Ohio, today was AREERRREISI2in aughter | 3 .| the following year he was promoted to Foot of Bologna Equals 30 Meals On Prison Fare By the Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif,, March 23.— One foot of bologna is equal to 10 days in jail when the bologna is stolen, Police Judge Edward J. Tyrrel ruled here today. Joseph Perata and Louis Ro- mero confessed they took the bologna and sald they did it be- cause they were hungry. “Baloney!” said the judge. The bologna measured four feet in length. “Forty days in jail,” said the judge. ROV ARE URGE TOLEARNTOSW Star, Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross Sponsor Free Classes to Aid Safety. The call of Summer weather soon will send thousands of youths of Great- er Washington in search of out-of-doors sport, desirable but some times hazard- ous. With the coming of warmer days throngs of boys, many of them un- skilled in even the rudimentary prinei- ples of swimming or life saving, will venture forth on the Potomac or ‘nearby streams or ponds, where they will be drawn by the still inadequate supervised | ‘awlmmmz pools in the District. | The ol' swimming hole, in short, is about to come into its own for anothel | season of hilarious, though often dan gerous, recreation and fun. Heedless of the Kazards that lurk in undercurrents and “kettle bottoms” to be found in inviting swimming and boating places, these youngsters will search them out for a day or evening 1of splashing about or canoeing lnd! | boating. Dalily Lessons for Boys. | With a view to minimizing this d |ger, which vital statistics show is real | and not fancied, The Star, in co-overa-~ {tion with the Young Men's Christian Association, is sponsoring a “learn-to- swim” campaign to be conducted in connection with “learn-to-swim" week at the boys’ department of the Y, M.| C. A, 1732 G street, April 1 to 7. Daily swimming lessons will be offered | free to boys between the ages of 10 and 18 who are non-swimmers and who are not disqualified by phys! disalilities | which would make aquatic sports dan- gerous to them, in the pool at the junior . M. C. A. Building. The intensive course will be under the direction of a corps of experts. Fatalities Sound Warning. Ample warning of the necessity of teaching youngsters to swim is to be found in the hugg statistics compiled annually in the ce of the superin- tendent of police of Washington. Rec- ords made public yesterday by Maj. Ed- win B. Hesse revealed that 24 persons lost their lives in the District last year by drowning. The year before the total was 18. And each year previously simi- lar records were compiled of mthll taken by death in drowning case While some of this loss of=life, un- doubtedly, could not have been pre- vented, it is believed that some of drownings here would never have occurred had those been able to swim, even a comparatively short dis- tance. There have been cases, in fact, in which a dozen or two strokes in the water would have carried to safety some unfortunate 'son _who step) into water over depth or who suddenly ‘was thrown from a canoe or boat. Red Cross Co-operates. ‘The American Red Cross is co-oper- ating with the Y. M. C. A. in the “Learn to Swim” Blm?]llln and during the week of April 7 will provide expert swimming instructors to augment the ing the rudimentary principles of swim- | ming. has been made possible by ! the co-operation of Comdr. Wilbur T. Longfellow, fleld director of the Red charge of life saving and first aid work. It is not expected that many non- swimmers will be turned into expert swimmers during the short intensive course of free lessons, but most of the 300 boys who entered the classes last year learned to swim a short distance and were believed started well on the way to be experts. It is the hope of James C. Ingram, director of the boys' department, ti all in the classes this year will be able to swim 50 feet by the end of the week. Star Urges Boys to Learn. After overcoming their fear of the water and learning the elementary principles of strokes, breathing and floating in swimming, the youngsters, it is believed, will master the art be- cause of the pleasure associated with this out-of-doors sport. ‘The Star urges all boys between the ages of 10 and 18 who are non-swim- mers to fill out the accompanying ap- plication and enroll for the training course. The purposes of “Learn-to- Swim” week are to make available to every boy the pleasure of swimming, to enable him to take care of himself in case of accidents and to be ready to assist others who may be endangered by inability to swim. Fill out the application blank and undA it to the Boys' Department, ¥. M. "Learn to swim! —— INSPECTOR PRATT APPEARS CERTAIN OF HESSE’S PLACE ____(Continued From First Page.) jeg Tom TR age) serve Corps, November 8, 1917, and as- signed to active duty the same day under the chief signal officer. Given Military Detail. The day following, Pratt was detailed to the military intelligence duty under the chief of the Military Intelligence Division. In April, 1918, he went to Newport News, Va., and organized the intelligence service at the embarkation port and served as port intelligence officer. Returning to Washington October 26, 1918, he was assigned to duty in the graft and fraud section of the in- telligence division of the general stafl as the director of the work of civil | agents and intelligence police. In June major and continued his duties in the military intelligence division until hon- orably diachlrrd October 4, 1920. After demobilization of the emergency forces, in October, 1921, Pratt was pro- |in the Officers’ Reserve Corps, which | commission he now holds. S g Dies Fighting Escaping Gas. | NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J,, March 23 | ().—Fred Acton, 47 years old, of 306 | asphyxiated at the plant of the Inter- | n tional Combustion Engineering Co., near here, ‘while attempting to stop ifrom escaping from a spiral chamber contalning coke. Fred Langenohl, chief mechanic at the plant, narrowly es- caped death in an lmmphh rescue Acton, staff of the boys' department in teach- ) do " | former governor to become the chief FOG DELAYS HUNT FOR MISSING PLANE Vanishes on Flight From! Norfolk to New York. Four on Board. | By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, March 23.—Airplanes | were being got ready ton‘ght in prepa- ration for an intensive search as soon as the fog lifts for a plane with four | men in it that left Norfolk for New York and disappeared into thin air. ‘The occupants of the plane were Roy | | Finucane, wealthy business man of ! | Rochester, N. Y.; Frank Able of Mine- | | ola, N. Y.; Pilot Harry Smith of Miami, ;lnd Mechanic Robert Boyd of Port- | {land, Me. Finucane and Able were | | passengers of the flight, which began | at Miami Thurs ! At 5:45 yesterday morning Smith took | off from Norfolk without notifying head- | quarters of the Curtiss Flying Service of his departure. There was a ceiling of 4,000 feet, the air was clear, and a 20 mile tail wind was blowing. The plane. | & Sikorski amphiblan with two Wasp | engines, should have reached Curtiss Field by 9 o'clock yesterday morning. | All day today a dense fog lay overi | the entire course and search by alr was | | practically impossible, although Curtiss | | officials were informed that two planes | did get off from Anacostia. If the fog | 1ifts tomorrow at least three planes will leave from Curtiss Field. The Army and Navy have been asked to help. Curtiss officials here knew little of | Smith except that he was married and had an excellent record as a pilot. VAIN SEARCH IS MADE, I | Planes Return to Norfolk After Flight | Up Coast Line. i NORFOLK, Va., March 23 () —Tw planes {rom the Hampton Roads Naval | Air_Station returned to thelr hangars at 6:30 oclock this afternoon, after a fruitless search u?“';he Atlantic Coast line from Cape Charles to Cape Hen- lopen, Del., for traces of the Sikorsky amphibian plane which left the Hamp- ton Roads Air Station here yesterday | morning at dawn on the last lap of a, flight from Miami to New York. { Harry Smith of the Curtiss Flying Service was pilot _of the plane chartered by F. R. Finucane of Rochester, N. Y,, who was a passenger aboard. It also carried two mechanics. No word of the plane has been received here since it left off at 5 p.m. yesterday; Finucane, who is a son of Thomas Finucane, wealthy Rochester banker and mine owner, told reporters here that he had a wager of $500, with a friend who left Miami by train late Wednesday night, that he would beat him into New York. The plane left Miami Thursday morning at 6 o'clock and the flight from Miami to Norfolk was described b}y Mr. Finucane as ‘“perfect.” The plane landed at the Hampton Roads Naval Alr Station at 4 o'clock. First word of the missing plane was received here this morning shortly | after 11 o'clock when offic! at the Hampton Roads Naval Air Station re- celved a wire from the Curtiss Co. at New York asking for news of the plane. Shortly after noon the search was instituted when a plane piloted by Lieut. E. B. Grow and another by Lieut. Comdr. H. T. Bartlett took to the air and began their search. PLAN HUNT FOR PLANE. Maryland Airmen Will Search! Parts of Atlantic Coast. BALTIMORE, March 23 (P).—Lieuts. Levi Dice and George Hanna, Maryland National Guard Air Corps, will leave | Logan Fleld early tomorrow morning to | search for the plane which disappeared after leaving Norfolk yesterday morn- ' ing. The Guardsmen will fly up and| down parts of the Atlantic Coast searching for the missing airplane. Capt. Kilmer of the steamship Dart- ford, which docked here late today, re- ported having sighted an airplane at 1:30 am. today off Bloody Point, near Claiborne, Md. The plane, he said, was carrying lights and appeared to be attempting a land- ing on one of the Chesapeake Bay islands. The airplane was several miles from the shore when sighted, and of- ficers and crew of the boat were unable to identify it as the Sikorsky plane which has been missing since leaving Norfolk yesterday. TAMMANY FUTUR VIEWED AS HINGING ON NEW CHIEFTAIN| (Continued From First Page) after such a career not again to re- enter tne ligus for public omnce. ‘There is still another side to the pic- ture, however. If he would take the Tammany leadership, there would be hostility to his assumption of leader- ship within the organization itself. A boom was launched not so long ago for Gov. Smith for mayor of New York by the New York Evening World and others friendly to the governor. It was urged that it would be entirely fitting for the executive of America's greatest eity, where he has been the idol of the peo- ple. But In some quarters this sug- gestion did not meet with immediate favor. Not because Gov. Smith could not successfully compete for the office if he would. But because the manner in which he dealt with appointments to office during his terms of office as gov- ernor left much to be desired in the minds of some of the lesser leaders in Tammany. He appointed a number of Republicans to outstanding jobs, recog- nizing their worth and also the fact that in a State which has been Repub- lican, he himself had received no little support from Republican voters when he ran for governor. If he should be- come mayor, it was said. he might not naake appojjitments to office in accord- ance with"the demands of Tammany leaders. Counted on For Campaign. Whatever his own plans for the future, Gov. Smith is a_power to be reckoned with in New York. He is counted upon to get into the campaign for the Democratic candidate for mayor next Fall and to deliver speeches for him in the five boroughs of the city just as he has done in the past. matter what the feeling with regard to him on the part of some of the lesser leaders in the organization, there is no danger, it is said, that he will be snubbed by Tammany. Indeed, once it was proposed in the Friday meeting of the executive committee that the advice of Gov. Smith and the other three “elder statesmen” be sought, it was a foregone conclusion that the proposal would be accepted. Even the district leaders who were most anxious to go ahead and elect one of their own num- ber Tammany leader without further delay realized this. The fact that the question of pick- ing a Tammany leader has been put up to Mayor Walker and Gov. Smith is not without its embarrasing features for them, however. Mayor Walker is a candidate to succeed himself, Gov. Smith so far is not taking himsel? out of the political picture by any means, No | for mayor four years ago when he was Above: The widow and 11 children of Arch Payne, slain by his brother. and James. Front row: Forest, Roj Payne, photographed in the Leesburg ‘where —Star Staft Photos. Thelma, Myrtle. Center, left to right: Lower left: Arch Payne, the dead man. held on a charge of murder. FARMER KILLS BROTHER IN DISPUTE OVER COW; 18 CHILDREN SUFFER (Continued From First Page.) shoulder, severing an artery. He bled to death before a doctor could be called. After the killing, Mason put his back in the house. toward his brother. Beach, the farm- hand, walked up to him and said: “Mason, you've killed your brother.” “I can't help it,” he said the other replied. “I had to do it.” Mason_then walked to a neighbor's house, where he telephoned Sheriff Eu- gene Adrian at Leesburg, 7 miles away. “I've shot my brother,” he said, “come on out and get me.” Mrs. Arch Payne, faded and worn by her long struggle to wrest a living from the soil, faces the loss of her husband bravely. The grim courage she inherited from her forefathers, who had lived in the mountains for genera- tions past, is standing her in good stead now. Her sister, Mrs. Bessie Payne, shows more plainly the strain she is under. She stood on her front porch and It is not difficult to see that by giving their preference to one district leader over the others, they may make enemies. And if they suggest a man for leader who is outside the list of district lead- ers, they may offend the whole lot of them. At the present writing it is on the cards that Mayor “Jimmy” Walker will gun He made no move be renominated by the Democrats for mayor of New York and that he will be re-elected. His administration is popular here in New York. He is strong with Tammany. Unless circum- stances should bring about a demand for the candidacy of Gov. Smith, it seems a foregone conclusion - that Walker will be re-elected mayor of the greater city. There is a fight -looming, however, and it is one of the things that makes it the more imperative for Tammany to find a harmonious out- come of the contest for a new leader. Former Mayor John F. Hylan is threatening to run as an independent candidate. He was beaten in the pri- mary for the Democratic nomination backed by Willlam Randolph Hearst and, had the support of McCooey, the Brooklyn leader. Gov. Smith and the Tammany organ- ization backed Walker in one of the hottest primary campaigns seen in the | city. Later Walker won by a wide margin over the Republican nominee for mayor, Waterman. Hylan did not enter the election as an independent four years ago, If he does so this year, he will create a different situation, though the Democrats explu, entire confidence of being able to defeat.him and the Republican nominee, too. If the Supreme Court of the United States should hand down a decision, however, which would -g‘pnr to favor a T-cent street car fare in New York, the 5-cent fare issue, on which Mayor Hylan made his running in the past, might bob up to give him not a little support here Left Francis, Nina, Ruby, Hester Lower right: Mason D. watched her husband shoot, powerless to intervene. It was in her arms that | Arch died, and to her he confided his fear for the future of his wife and 11 children. Her own children are all small and well she realizes the significance of the charge against her husband. Women Are Genial. ‘There is no bitterness between the surviving families. The two mothers | his visited each other yesterday and ex- changed consolations and talked of the future. Mrs. Arch Payne, who is only 38 | years old, but looks 50, stood in the doorway of her home yesterday eve- ning and surveyed the task before her. “Arch was up long before daybreak | yesterday,” she said. “He worked until dark and sowed 120 acres of clover. Ee was a worker, that man. “It's funny about Arch and Mason— they never got on very well together. I didn’t really want Mason to share our farm, but Arch said he needed help. Mason was out of a place and Arch loaned him $300 and got him a place on Mr. Fadeley's farm across the way. “Mason would shave moved over there on the first of April. Oh, Lord, why couldn't they have gotten along i until then?" The three oldest boys of Arch Payne ‘were out at the barns feeding stock and half a dozen of the younger children ‘were pllylnfi in the back yard when reporters visited the farm yesterday evening. The playful cries of the children and the majestic quiet of the mountain evening made it seem almost incredible that the head of the family could have been shot down but a few hours before. Only the mother and older boys ap- to right, back row: Mildred, Mrs. d Elmer. ared to loss and the gravity of the situation confronting them all. Peering from behind the heavy bars of the Leesburg Jall, Mason Payne talked in subdued tones of his crime. His passion cooled, he appeared to lof his act—the suffering that must | surely come to his brother’s family and | his own. “I don’t know why I shot him.” he | said, “TI guess my temper just got the best of me.” Surviving in the dead man’s family are: Elmer, 20 years old: Forrest, 1 Roger, 17; Mijldred. * ‘fvrtle, 1 Thelma, 11: Fran- ~ster, 8; James, 6; Ruby, ¢, and Nina, * Mason Payne's children are: Loulse, 17; Dorothy, 15; Wilson, 12; Betty, 10; Zella, 9; Marle, 7, and Mason, jr., 4 years old. J. Porrest Manning, owner of the farm, lives in Washington. SUSPECT IDENTIFIED IN YEAR-OLD HOLD-UP More than a year after James M. Quirk, of 337 Missouri avenue, was held up by two colored men, downed and robbed of $80, the second of the ge bandits was identified. He is O'Dell Robert Wagner, colored, 28 years old, 33 Logan place, who was charged last night with the robbery. ‘Wagner was recognized at a line-up at police headquarters yesterday morn- ing by Detective Thomas E. Nally. Last night Quirk confronted him and sald he was the man. Attention The sooner you know that you have been infected with Tuberculosis the quicker and surer can you be cured. Delay in Finding Out Makes It Harder to Cure You Do you tire easily? Are you losing weight? Do you cough persistently? Have you a poor appetite? Have you any pains in the chest? If you have some of these symptoms go at once to your doctor or have yourself examined at the free Health Department Clinic Corner 6th and I Streets N.W. Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday at 1 o’clock, Friday evening from 7:30-9 o'clock. Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Telephone Main 6883 “. 1022 11th Street N.W. N Payne, he is realize the extent of their| | appreciate the inevitable consequences | of | WORK ON FARM AID STARTS TOORROV | Senate Committee to Meet to Begin Drafting Legislation. By the Associated Press. Confident of the co-operation of | President Hoover, leaders in Congress will start this week to work out a farm relief plan to take the place of the twie- { vetoed McNary-Haugen bill. The Sen- ate agricultural committee will meet to- morrow to begin drafting a measure for introduction at the opening of the spe- cial session called for April 15 to deal | will the farm and tariff questions. Although Mr. Hoover does not intend to suggest a specific farm relief plan, | because he believes this to be the pre- rogative of Congress, farm leaders have been assured that they can expect his co-operation as the work progresses, He will convey his ideas to them after the measure has taken form. Senator Mc- Nary of Oregon, chairman of the com- mittee, has been asked to call at the White House after the opening meeting tomorrow, and similar conferences with committee members are expected to take place throughout the hearings. Hyde Unable to Appear Senator McNary had hoped to call as his first witness Mr. Hoover's Secretary of Agriculture, Arthur M. Hyde, in the hope of obtaining a concrete expression of the administration’s ideas as to how th: farm relief legislation should be ap- proached, but the Secretary has left Washington to attend to his personal affairs in Missouri and has notified Mc- Nary that he will be unable to appear. There is every expectation among committee members, however, that Mr. Hyde will consent to give his views before the hearings are closed, and a renewal of the invitation for him to come before th committee, therefore, is expected. In proceeding with its discussion, the committee will use the McNary bill, in- troduced last session, as a basis for its work. This measure, which had the support of the Coolidge administration, calls for & Federal Farm Board with $300,000,000 revolving fund to be ap- propriated from the ry to assist stabilization agencies in taking care of | crop surpluses. Surplus Principal Task. The solution of the surplus problem is considered by the farm leaders to be the principal task before them. While the various plans suggested by farm organizations for accomplishing _ this still will be before the committee, Sena~ tor McNary feels that thers is a ral disposition to accept any plan favored by_President Hoover. The McNary bill does not aim to deal with the surplus by disposing of it in foreign markets, but would set up ma- chinery to hold surpluses in coun- try and let them out on the market { gradually in order to maintain a com- paratively constant price level. The practicability of this plan has been dis- puted by some farm organizmations, no- tably the American Farm Bureau Fed- | eration, which supports the equalization { fee proposal. | Representatives will appear before {the committee, as will those of the Na- ! tional Grange, which has sponsored the | debenture plan for meeting surplus | control charges. The commiitee of 22, | headed by Geerge N..Peek, which was ;the most insistent sufipomr of the equalization fee plan, has declined to | appear, but has notified Senator Mc- ary that it was willing to let any {plan advocated by President Hoover | have a trial. Brookhart to Be Witness. Among the first witnesses scheduled mwxg:;tr at the hearings is Senator 3 ngr&hhun. Iowa, who has d a ct subsidy of $1,500,- to enable the Government to |had a lead) | Nary bill, wi | open! session. President Hoover and congressional leaders have reached an understanding whereby the executive and legisiative branches are each to work on their own responsibility, but full co-operation will be_extended. ; This arrangement was discussed at a conference murd% between ~Mr. Hoover nad Senator Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader of the Senate, and the agreement was declared ac- ceptable by Mr. Watson. The attempt is certain to be made at the extra session for repeal of the new immigration provision, but there is & | sharp division in the Republican fold on this point and no one last night was | willing to predict what the outcome | would Leaders Committed. With the approval of Mr. Hoover, the | congressional leaders are committed to the consideration of the reapportion- | ment and census bills at the extra ses- sion. These measures were Withdrawn by their sponsors when a legisiative jam threatened in the Senate in the closing hours last session, but with the under- standing that the measures would be brought up in the extra session. House leaders are demanding that the Senate act first upon these bills in order that they may be taken up later by the House without the necessity of organ- izing committees for their consideration. Senator Watson has held the position that since the reapportionment bill was distinctly a House affair it should origi- nate in that body, but he is represented ras willing to co-operate and have the Senate take it up at the extra session before it is acted upon again by House. MAILMAN FOUND ON ICE. | Drifting Floe Causes Disappear- } ance on Lake Island Trip. | CHARLEVOIX, Mich., March 33 (). Leroy Sendenberg, Beaver Island | mail carrier, missing since he started yes- ! terday with a horse and two sleds for the island from Cross Village on the mainland, was located today on Gar- den Island, several miles north of Bea- ver Island, in Lake Michigan. He had drifted north on a large ice floe. He was suffering from exposure and from the effects of several plunges into the water during an all-night wait in the open for relief. . SIR ESME HOWARD DISCUSSES SINKING OF BRITISH VESSEL (Continued From First Page.) ing the ship probably was carrying g Soaseq. investigation tomorro e proj vest n W will center particularly on whether the schooner was first encountered within the 12-mile limit to determine if there will be any diplomatic complications with the British government. If the chase started within the limit, officials sald the Guardsmen were within their rights in running her down. ‘The cutter, bearing the schooner's crew in irons and the body of & drowned colored seaman, was not e: here until early in the morning, when United States Attorney Talbot. customs and Coast Guard officials plan to start the sinking and inquiry to determine if the capture of the crew were legal. meager official radio reports were available on the encounter, 5