Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1929, Page 2

THE EVENING' STAR, W ASHINGTON. D. C, in Diary of One of Three Stranded on Ice. ___(Continued From First Page) _ We both hurried out and started shoveling frantically. The wind. wgs growing stronger and the plane started | to move again.. I jumped on to one | of the skis to help hold it while Bernt continued shoveling Stove Goes Bad June was getting into his clothes as fast as possible—the Primus stove went | {New Agricultural Chief Has Not Been Back Home Since Appointment. Considers Capital Most De- sirable Residential Place in United States. BY REX COLLIER. The sudden summons which called Arthur M. Hyde to the cabinet found him in the midst of a fishing trip and home that he has not yet been back bad, or rather had leaked into the bot- tom of the cooker, and this caught fire. This slowed him up. Meanwhile Bernt | was calling for him to come and stand | on the other ski. ‘The wind was now about 40 miles an | hour. We cut great blocks of snow and | piled them all over the skis. Bernt | made a “dead man” anchor) out of a ski and secured the | landing gear a little better. The wind lulled a bit about 2:30 and § we had a breathing spell, getting thin, in order. We hoped the worst w: over. But, with no warning whatever, the wind let go again about 3:30 with ¥ unprecedented force. (This was the blow § that also reached the base at Little * America with a force of 6@ miles an 2 hour.) i i { i ! i H . I H Plane Again Slides. The plane started to move again‘and | it slid back until the dead man guy | was taut and skidded around a little on the tail and then stuck. A sudden gust of wind lifted it Dp' on the left wing. We could not stand against the wind and could not get a line through the eye at the wind to hold on to. Bernt had looked at the air speed 3 indicator in the plane and found it| registered 60 miles per hour, but it had | not begun to blow yet. | Another great gust—the plane lifted | and quivered. We must get this left wing anchored. I remembered a ball of | heavy line in the grub chest. I caught the free end and threw the ball over = the left wing and then hung on-to both | ends for dear life. Soon Bernt threw another line around the wing and he held, too, for | a few minutes and then June relieved | him. My hands grew numb. I reached | for a ski and tied my line, around it/ and clung to it getting colder all the, time and the wind worse. | Three times an unusually heavy gust lifted us both clear off the ground. It seemed the plane would have overturn- ed. We dared not to let go, nd we ‘were both getting colder. Bernt was se- curing the other wing and working like & ma s The driving snow i1’ the teeth of the awful wind was worse than needles. My beard and face became encrusted and | I lost all sensation. I thought it and | my wrists had frozen. I had to blink vigorously and continuously to keep my -eyelids from freezing shut. ‘We could only hang on and pray. For three hours we did this. By that time cceeded in g Up Snow get 8 line cememneimny . i vea ¢ 1] 1 . . . . - piled snow blocks onto the ski and also secured to ed the lines which Jml Crawls Through Gale. Still the wind blew. I had ski boots and positively could mot stand it. go to wind- ISREETAR I How lmz‘ ? hours and days. I have faced some crit- ical situations before, but none which at the time looked so terrifying as this. If we lost the plane it meant a walk ‘home of about 150 miles in weather and temperature that were well nigh un- 1 . Bup the danger of losing the plane was so great that I asked June to unload all the gear and one radio outfit. This he did. ‘When I later looked at the barometer | I found that it had dropped an inch | within about four,or five hours. These ‘winds from the north and nerth & little west. Some time before midnight the wind . eeaséd_enough so we could look to our tent. Two guys had torn loose and two rips were made in the tent. Sleeping bags and everything were fairly sat- urated with snow. "We cleaned them out as best we could and turned in. ‘With early morning, the wind was on the increase. Our tent was crack- ing and snapping—sounded like a broadside of muskets. One cannot imagine the din inside even a small tent in such a gale. He must experi- ence it. ‘We turned out to watch the plane. It quivered and shook like a thing alive, ready to take flight. But the guys held and, of course, we shov- eled more snow. . March Tenth. Not so bad today. The wind has lulled an¢ Yy afternoon the clouds lifted enough 1O give me a shot at the sun to determine our position. A bright * sunset and some stars. I set up my, transit at 10:30 to get some starsights. Clouded over soon. Joined Bernt and June—went to bed. Awakened at 3:30 by the din of a slapping tent and a terrific wind. Again the plane was in grave danger. +I dressed and went out to look and | + came back to reassure Bernt and Har- Jold that it would hold. i There seemed nothing moré-we could : do. I removed our few parkas.and bags } from the plane so we should have them + in case 1t was blown away. Three more i times I got up and looked things over % and returned to the warmth of the old + reindeer sleeping bag. At 10:30 I got up and dressed and 3 was followed by Bernt and Harold. * The wind didn’t seem so strong now. ! We estimated it at about thirty-five * miles, but it was snowing heavily, so | there was no seeing anything. s We had some breakfast and Harold {tried, and with success, to get the ! emergency radio engine going, but + fajled to get a response from camp. 4 At ¢ pm. he tried again, and this time successfully. They had heard his mes- been especlally sage, so had not worried. Haines said the weather was favor- Haines said the W o All Notices of Faster Mysic Fe: Next Saturday's Special Page MUST BE RECEIVED At The Star BY WEDNESDAY P S — i ) i ! I i | back now, for we have toda: to straighten up his business affairs. “Mrs. Hyde and I were motoring through Florida and had taken a side excursion to Cuba when Mr. Hoover sent for me,” the former governor of the “Show Me" State revealed in an | interview. “I was Seeking good fish- to complete my quest. I came to | Washington direct from Florida and |ater collapsed, and he found the entire have been here ever since.” In order to make final disposition of is in upted office work in Missouri, Secretary Hyde will spend several days there next week. President Hoover was delighted to learn of the Agriculture Secretary’s piscatorial propensities. The Missou: rian undoubtedly will be a memper of ditions. “I'm a little out of practice :ight now,” Mr. Hyde said. “Fishing is to me what ginger bread was to Abraham Lincoln. You know Lincoln once said of ginger bread that ‘mnobody likes it better nor gets less of it'.” Likes Tarpon Fishing. The Secretary, like President Hoover. is keen for tarpon fishing. One of his fondest memories is of a fishing trip off Port Aransas, Tex. some time ago. when he captured several tarpon and a number of shark. While the tall, pleasaht-faced cabi- net member indulged in these remi- niscences a colored messenger brought in a tray on which were a bottle of milk, a glass and a plate of graham | crackers. * “Won't you join me in my little pre- luncheon snack?” he asked his in viewer, who declined with thanks. “ always made a habit of milk and crack- ers. Just little appetizer before lunch, so to speak.” Sipping his glass of milk, Secretary Hyde discussed the beauties of the Na- tional Capital. “I think that Washington is one of the most remarkable cities in the | world,” he remarked. “I'm glad to be here, because I consider it the most desirable residential place in the United States. Just now I am living at the Mayflower Hotel, but when my family comes here I'll have to look around for a house, I guess.” Daughter in School. Mr. Hyde explained that Mrs. Hyde has gone back to their home in Trenton, ‘Mo., s0 as to be with their only child, Caroline, a student in the Junior High School. When Caroline’s schooling is completed she and her mother will re- turn to Washington. ve | able there for landing. It still snowed here, but the wind was calming down a little. A radio schedule was arranged for 8 pm. ‘We intended to fly back_tonight if the weather had cleared. We are to get away from here before blow comes on. Now as I write at 10:30 it is finally dead calm. A little snow continues to fall, the barometer is fairly high and steady and the'temperature has fallen. It should give us good con- ditions to fly back in the morning. Little America will look good to us all. ‘The flapping of the tent wakened me at 2:30. It sounded ominous, so I got dressed and unloaded the foodstuffs from the plane. The barometer had dropped a bit, so it looked bad. The sun appeared for a few minutes around 3:30 and I was able to check the compass variation with a sun com- pass—92 degrees easterly. It looked so good that I thought I would wait up until 5 and wake Juno and Balchen and begin to get ready to take off, which we hoped to be able to do about 7:30 or 8. : Visibility Is Bad. The wind had lulled a bit, but the sun was sopn hidden and the visibility became bad and it began to snow a bit. I went back to bed at 4:30 and at 5:45 wakened Harold so he could get ready for a radio schedule with the base at 7 p.m. We all got up while Harold was try- ing without success. to raise the camp. I got breakfast of cocoa, bacon and rye crisp. Breakfast is over and the ba- rometer continues to fall a little. The wind is increasing from the north. We can but sit, tight and hope that things will change soon. At 3:30 p.m. the barometer has fall- en to 28.7 and still tends downward. It is about & dead calm with great flakes of fluffy snow squall falling. The breeze comes from the north, now the west and again the south, just mild puffs of wind, and doesn't even disturb the light Snow. My hope now is that we are in the center of a low and may be spared such terrific winds as we have had before under similar circumstances. At 9 p.m. the barometer is still fall- 8.6, But still there is a dead t for a gentle breeze from now. I am ing—Tow 2! calm excep! ‘theé south.. No snow falling ‘more strong now in'my hopes and opin- jon that this low pressure means that we are in or near the center of a low and may be spared another onslaught of wind. March Thirteenth. hope of flying, 5o we de- t sky. No s 6 the weather and climb the cided m‘ risk mountains. It was a great day. We perfected our triangulation, locating all the peaks and their elevations, also new lands to the south in Marine Byrd Land. A grand and successful day. Been calm all day and the barometer has changed but little, rising just a bit. The sky is clearing now and it is growing much colder, both good omens of better weather tomorrow. I hope we shall be able to take off in the morning. 1 am really ready and content to go y completed all the work I hoped to do here, thanks particularly fo the help of Bert Balchen, whose sketches are of great assistance in expediting the work of triangulation. A great day this. Itis good to be down- right tired on such a day—and I am that. March Fourteenth. When I awakened at 5, the sun was {shining; there were few clouds. I looked like our day to fly home had come. started getting the plane ready, shovel- ing away the snow from under the skis and from the fusclage. Had the torch under the motor warming it and the oil warming over another gasoline torch. But it was no use. Soon it began to cloud up, little puffs of wind from the north bringing moderately large clouds of the fluffy white that has fallen within the last two or three days. Outlook Dismal as Wind Rises. The wind increased and we began all the morning. The wind now aver- Aol i ages 35 miles an hour, with gusts up to 60, and the barometer continues to drop slowly.. A dismal outlook. Reports from the base camp, 135 CABINET CALL INTERRUPTS | | SECRETARY HYDE'S FISHING TRIP at such a distance from his li,‘llsboul’iI some of the presidential fishing expe- | Broad calm this morning with over- | 1 called Harold and Bernt and we resecuring the plane, continued at it | ARTHUR M. HYDE. (buried plane | ing grounds, but I didn't get a chance | to this city was in January of 1922. He jarrived just as the Knickerbocker The- | city plunged into a frenzy of excm-! ment and grief. He has never forgotten | those scenes. | The new head of the Department of Agriculture long has been a friend of | the farmer. He is a farmer himseif, lon the side, owning three farms in Grundy County and another in Living- | ston County, Mo. “My law and insurance activities of | recent years have prevented me from | spending much time on these places,” | he explained. “I am operating them lon a tenant basis at present. It's & sort of partnership arrangement.” Secretary Hyde was president of the | Sentinel Life Insurance Co. in Kansas | City when he was invited to become a } member of the Hoover Cabinet. He re- | signed from the company by mail be- | fore entering upon his new duties. Golf Is Barred. His office at the company head- quarters remains as he left it to go fish- ing several months ago. With the spe- cial sesslon of Congress in the offing, ready to deal with his own depart- mental problem of farm relief, he fears | he will be unable to clear his old desk | for_some months to come. ‘The farm relief problem is one that has engrossed him for years. During the recent presidential campaign he aligned himself with the Lowden forces, which were championing McNary- Haugenism, but he was not an advocate of the disputed equalization fee. Secretary Hyde's father, resident of Washington. | law here after the Civil War and a decade later, after resuming residence in Missouri, returned as a Representa- tive in Congress. Secretary Hyde was expired. The Secretary belongs to the minor- ity bloc in a cabinet composed largely of golfers. He has never bad a golf club in his hands and intimated that he has no intention of taking up the game now. “Fishing is my pet diversion” he reiterated. “Most of my fishing equip- ment is in Missouri, but I'm going to bring it here just as soon as I find an opportunity to do so.” miles to the westward, - are equally dismal. There has really not been & time since we arrived here that condi- tions were favorable to take off. “The Winter is near and each day of all | delay adds to the uncertainty of our position. Surely there will be a calm, clear day soon. It is now 3:30 o'clock and. I have just brewed a pot of rich cocoa. We shall drink, and then.go out again and shovel & high snow wall about our tent, which has already been torn badly and which we mended with food bags in several places, and now shows signs of weakening in new places. ‘There are no words to tell what has happened. The wind Increased and then increased some more. Frantically we piled snow block and added lines to our guys on the plane. Once I was holding on to a guy from one of the wing-tips when a sudden gust blew my feet from under me and held me suspended horizontally in mid- air for some-seconds. Meanwhile June kept his radio schedules and informed the commander of the situation. All the gear was un- loaded from the plane, but it was neces- sary to sit in the plane to send and receive radio. This June did with the ship quivering under him and lifting in a sickening way. Wind Speed Up to 88. get in the plane on account of his 8:30 the air-speed indicator gave wind into our cold, wet tent, ourselves dead tired and wet, and crawled into our sleeping bags, but not to sleep. The noise was terrific. The wind flapping and slapping the tent is a| deafening, disheartening and utterly dismal sound—sharp cracks like rifie | shots. One must shout to make him- self heard by his companions not two feet away. A sudden gust just enough stronger than any before—all the holding lines parted and the plane was lifted bodily and carried in the wind about one- | half mile and crashed to the ice. It is a total wreck. It will never fly again. | again. - Bernt insisted on going over to look at it in spite of the heavy wind that still continued. He had to crawl on his hands and knees coming back. ‘There is no standing in the face of such & wind. June estimates that the wind must have blown fully 150 miles an hour to have carried the plane away in the fashion that it did. Our emergency radio set is out of commission and all other radio gear is in the plane. Just sitting tight now | soon so that we can go over and sce if June can make this radio work and get word back to camp of our loss and present condition. 1 am sorry for the great worry that must be in the mind of Comdr. Byrd and in the minds of all our friends at eamp, for we are safe, but not secure. Our position is critical. I am hoping to hear from camp and learn if the commander will fly to us at the first break in the weather or send dog teams to our rescue. If we cannot estab- lish communication we shall, in any case, wait for good weather. Couldn't possibly travel now anyhow. If good weather comes and there is no plane to our rescue we shall start on \the long trek back on foot, a cheerless {task, but not an impossible one. And | whatever lies ahead I could search the | wide world over for two better men with whom to face the future than the two companions of mine—Bernt Bal- chen and Harold June. 10:30a.m.—What a boon is sleep. I woke this morning at 5 o'clock to find |the sub shining and a dead calm, re- ;In’shfld in body and mind. The last two nights, what with a soggy sleeping | | I | [ the contsant fear that the plane would ! not hold, have given us little sleep, Yesterday we had high hopes of bet- ter weuther, but the barometer just refused to rise. Instead the wind rose fierce as ever. We couldn't stand against it, and so we dared not attempt |to cross the ice to our broken plane. (Copyright, 1929, by the New York Times | Co. and the St. Louls Post-Dispatch. All rahts for ation reserved throughout the world. Mr. Gould's Story Will Be Continued ‘Tomorrow. ~ e public: ) b the late | Judge Ira B. Hyde, at one time was a | He practiced | born two years after his father’s berml When it came time for the 10:30 radio schedule I refused to let him | own safety. When he sat sending at| velocities up to 88 miles an hour. It had grown much stronger by 10:30. Nothing more could we do. We went | and praying that it will be calm enough | bag and the awful roar of the wind and | BALLDY OORSES SHIMNGCORSE {Declares Boys Should Take Advantage of Instruction Sponsored by Star. “Every normal boy should learn to | swim, that he may have the joy the | sport affords and the protection the | Dr. Prank W. Ballou, superintendent {of schols, declared today in approv- ing the “learn to swim” campaign of the boys’ department of the Y.M.C. A, which is being sponsored by The Star. Dr. Balleu in a statement urges pupils of the Washington public schools | |t take advantage of the intensive { course of the swimming lessons to be offered to non-swimmers between the | ages of 10 and 18 years, under dircc- i tion of a corps of experts at the Junior | (Y. M. C. A. Building, 1732 G street, The Secretary recalled that one ‘of | Uring “learn to swim” week, April | the most memorajyle visits he ever made | 1 10 7 | tion of supervising principals e{ the { grade schools and arranged for smsist- ante in_distribution of pamphlets tell- ing of the free swimming lessons offer- ed at the boys’ swimming pool at the | Y. M. C. A Indorses Movement Heartily, “I heartly indorse the ‘learn tw sp4m' i | | | | campaign of the Y. M. G- 4. and ¥he | Star,” said Dr. Ballou, “7 .anse I giink ‘n a very fine thing for boye t ‘earn the art. All boys should lea’sa %o swim not only for the real joy that this out- of-door sport affords, but because of its great value In times of emergéncy in | which any one, swimmer or non-swim- mer, may find himself. * “I am glad to aid in bringing this | offer to the attention of the schools {and have authorized the distribution | of pamphlets telling of the daily swim- i ming classes, and I personally urge the | boys of the public schools to make use of this opportunity to learn to swim. “I think we owe the Y. M. C. A. a debt of gratitude for making this oppor- | tunity to the youth of the city possible.” |~ Preparations are being completed by | James C. Ingram, boys' director of the Y. M. C. A, for the daily swimming | classes which will start next Monday. | The lessons will be conducted by James Carberry, swimming coach, and Mars | De Gast, physical director of the boys’ | department, and with the assistance of | several swimming experts provided by the American Red Cross, through the co-operation of Comdr. Wilbur T. Longfellow. Teach Confidence First. ‘The first day's lessons will be devoted | to teaching the youngsters “‘water con- | fidence.” | their heads under water while holding the breath and the elementary princi- | ples of breathing for swimming purposes. The second day will be spent teach- | ing the boys to float face down in the | water while holding the breath and | making windmill strokes with the arms. | The next lesson will include these exercises with the addition of the leg “flutter” stroke. The next day these exercises will be repeated and it is hoped by then some will be able to swim & few yards. The last two days will be devoted to development of these exercises and the more advanced pupils will be taught to 1ift their heads for breaths at proper intervals. Most of the pupils should ! learn to swim 50 feet by the end of the week, Ingram says. | PRESIDENT FORMING MEDICINE BALL AND FISHING CABINET (Continued From First Page.) | half an hour of this strenuous exer- | cise they have sucbeeded in not only | limbering up their muscles but warm- | ing their bodies to the extent of mak- | ing shower baths a popular sequence. | There are several different weight balls they use, but the most popular one thus | far has weighed 6 pounds. It has been made quite evident by Mr. Hoover since becoming President that he has no intention of neglecting his physical well being while giving his | attention to the Nations business. His official experience in Washington has convinced him that it is highly important for an Executive to keep himself fit and he has determined not w permit the stress of his office to encroach upon the time that he is alloting to exercise. He has been retiring for the night at 10:30 o'clock and each morning has gone | through a few moments of setting-up exercises. Tennis Cabinet Historical. There is every reason to feel that the i medicine ball cabinet will attain the same position occupied by the Roosevelt tennis cabinet, which has become his- torical. In the latter were such men as Secretary of Interior Garfield, Am- bassador Jusserand of France, Gifford Pinchot, Forestry Bureau; the late Maj. Archi- bald Butts and Robert Bacon, who was Secretary of State for a short period during Roosevelt's administration. When the fishing season opens it is expected the President will be among the first to try his hand with the "’di and reel. It is supposed that one or two | of the unofficial cabinet will accompany him on these expeditions. While he has been invited to fish in the headwaters of the Rapidan in the Shenandoah and National Park, Va. it is thought that he will do most of his fishing in nearby waters, bn the estate recently purchased by Secretary Richey, near Catoctin Furnace, near Frederick, Md. Accompanied by Mrs. Hoover the President attended religious services yesterday morning at the Friends Meet- ing House, Thirteenth and Irving streets. In the afternoon they took advantage of the beauties of the Spring weather and motored to Warrenton, Va. Several |3f their old so-called S street friends | were guests at the evening meal at the | White House. S sky. The great Pisarief, said: ‘The facts are States of Soviet Leon Trotsky. umnious articles of Mr. . . Trotsky have (Copyright, 1929, training gives in times of emergency,” | He called the matter to the atten- | They will be taught to duck | who was then head of the “Illusions perish, but the facts remain.” \l The same could be said in this case. Chatter and calumny will perish and the facts will remain. full steam ahead along the way of industrialization and Soclal- istic reconstruction. What importance can the cal- I ! 1 | | U. S. Cutters Signaled | | By the Assoclated Press. | NEW ORLEANS, La., March 25.—In a sworn statement during investigation ‘uf the sinking of the British schooner I'm Alone Capt. John Thomas Randali, | her master, gave his version of his en- counter with the Coast Guard, admitted his vessel was a rum runner and ex- | plained the methods of delivering con- | traband liquor cargoes. He said he was 49 years old, born in Trinity, Newfoundland, but was now a resident of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, | where his wife and two children live He sald he was a master mariner and carrfed a master O.and C. license issued |at Cardiff, England. Employed by Ship Ageney. Employed by the Eastern Seaboard Agencics, Limited, he took command of the I'm Alone November 1, 1928, re- celving instructions from George Hearn, general manager of the compan: “Leaving Halifax November we cleared for St. Plerre in ballas where we arrived November 10,” he sal “At St. Plerre we took on a cargo of 1,400 cases of assorted liquors, received |from the Great West Wine Co. Before | aring an employe of the wine com- {hy gave me one-half part of 12 or 15 erican $1 bills. “He gave me instructions to take my #hip to a position 30 miles due south ¢ Trinity _Shoals Light buoy off Sduisiana.” He gave me instructions to | deliver my cargo to the person who | presented to me the other half of the first numbered one of my dollar bills.” Delivers Cargo; Repeats Cruise. He said he delivered the cargo to an unknown boat, went to Belize, took 2,600 or 2,700 cases of liquor and de- livered it the same way. | “On March 20 I cleared for Hamil- | ton, Bermuda. and came to the agreed | position off Trinity Shoals with 2,800 cases of assorted liquors. “About 5 a.m. March 22, 1929, I an- | chored about 141 to 15 miles off shore, | roughly 5 miles north, allowing for cur- rent. I knew positively by my distance run, by time and by the speed of my ship that my sition was correct. | Shortly after daybreak we saw the cut- ter approaching from the westward. I | immediately hove up anchor and steered | a course south by west. The cutter ap- | proached me about half an hour after- | ward, this being. roughly, about 6:30 or 6:40 a.m. I learned that this was the | cutter Walcott. He ordered me to heave to.” Refuses to Heed Order. After much megaphoning, he said the | Walcott’s commander came on board, | but he refused to submit. “About 2 pm. the Walcott again came up and said, with signals flying, ‘Heave to or I fire!’ I replied to him | by megaphone that I had no intention | of stopping and that he could fire when he wished. He sald, ‘I will give you a | quarter of an hour to make up your | | mind. 7 “We still kept on going and a few moments after the time expired the | Walcott commenced firing. I do mnot know the number of shots fired. Several shots passed through our sails and rig- | ging, one shell passed through the flag | which was flying from the time the cut- ter came up at first, Struck by Bullet. “After firing with his 4-pounder a | certatn number of shots, he- opened fire | from his quarter ports with a machine | gun or a_quick-firing rifie. I presume these bullets had been waxed, as one hit me on the right leg just below the hip and partly paralyzed it. I then noticed that he had some trouble with his 4-pounder, as she misfired. He then dropped astern. ‘We then proceeded on our course with the cutter trailing us until after dark. “About 7:30 a.m., March 23, we saw another cutter approaching from the | south-southwest. When the second cut- | ter came up, we recogized her as the | Dexter. She, after a conference With | the Walcott, came flying the signals | ‘Heave to, or I'll fire at you.' I replied y semaphore and megaphone that 1 did not consider that he had any juris- diction over me or the ship on the high seas and that he could fire if he wished. “He then commenced to fire sheli after shell, first to my rigging and sails, and then opened fire from the bridge with several quick-firing rifles. After | | | MONDAY, MARCH 25, Captain Admits She Was Rum Runner—Declares They’d Fire, But He Scorned Order. 1929. for Him to Heave to or about 20 shells had been fired, severa! of which had hit the ship in various | places, 1 semaphored to him after he called to me and again said: ‘Now will you heave to?’ that he might fire and | sink my ship, but I refused to heave to. | Again Refuses to Heave to. “He then opened fire again, both with | rifles and guns, cutting my rigging adrift, and shell after shell plunged into | the ship through our bulwarks, smash- | ing both my bulwarks to pieces, and one shell went into the side of the ship. heave to”" I replied again in the ne; tive. = He then commenced smashing our fore boom, firing through | our mainmast, and shell after shell came on board, smashing our windows and engines and occasionally hitting the hull below the water line. I rough- ly estimate that about 60 or 70 shots struck the vessel. “During all this time the men kql. firing closer and closer with thelr rifles, cutting through the cabin house, through the’ ports in the cabin and around myself and my men gathered | aft. None of my men was struck, ex- cept by splinters which were flying all nr[nund as shell after shell hit the ves- sel. Vessel Starts Sinking. “The engineer reported to me then that the water was over the engine room floor and that the vessel appeared to be settling down. “I immediately gave orders to stop the engines and clear away the dorfes, which, although of no use, would be something for my men to cling to in the heavy sea. By the time my boats had been put over the side, which was roughly 10 minutes, the vessel's forward decks were level with the water. “I told my men to jump into the water and cling to the dories. I believe 1 was the last to jump from the ship. My bow was then 20 feet under water | and her stern about 10 feet in the air and she was beginning to dive. “We were all taken aboard the cut- ter just as we jumped from the ves- sel, some of us without any more cloth- ing than a shirt and trousers. The peo- pleé on board the cutter treated us well and gave us dry clothing and allowed us to remain on deck during the day. To my surprise, on going below after supper, I was told that I would have to submit to leg irons. We were kept in irons until this morning when we arrived alongside the dock in New Orleans.” jCANADA MAY JOIN WITH ENGLAND IN I’'M ALONE PROTEST (Continued From First Page.) Guard boats were within the law when they pursued her® into the Gulf and sunk her when she refused to stop on command. Capt. John Thomas Randall, Cana- dian skipper of the I'm Alone, is bitter in denunciation of the Coast Guard's action and has likened it unto submarine warfare in the World War and declared it to be a viojation of the freedom of the seas. Capt. Randall freely admits his ship | had 2,400 cases of liquor aboard when she went down. He scoffed at the idea he carried aliens or narcotics, as is suspected by Federal officers. The Coast Guard cutters Dexter and Walcott arrived here yesterday with Capt. Randall and his crew of seven in | frons. With them came the body of the I'm Alone, who lost his life when the schooner went down under shell fire from the Dexter. At the preliminary hearing yesterday | officers of the cutters testified to a two- day-and-night chase of the schooner | before she was overhauled. The I'm | Alone would have outdistanced the cut- ters, they said, had not the Dexter in- tercepted her as she outdistanced the Walcott in a tack heading for immune territorial waters of Mexico. British and French consuls have planned to confer upon the facts of the case today. Representatives of the De- partment of Justice, Coast Guard, Pro- hibition and Immigration Bureaus of the United States have a collective in- quiry under way. |DEATH TOLL CLIMBS TO 49 IN SOUTH FROM STORMS AND FLOODS (Continued Prom First Page.) | AMATEUR BURGLARS FAIL TO GET CASH, BUT WRECK DEPOT, (Continued From First Page.) | | | interrupted or completely stopped in { most instances. | Blankets and other National Guard equipment from the Frankfort Arsenal and other arsenals in Kentucky are be- ing forwarded to the flooded areas under orders from Gov. Flem D. Sampson. The Red Cross has taken active charge of relief work in both Kentucky and Tennessee. Property Damage to Be Millions. While property damage will run into | millions of dollars, no attempt at of- ficial estimate has been made. Lives taken in other Southern States over the week end resulted from spas- modic and local storms. Conditions in sections of Alabama, Southern Georgia and Northwest Flori- da, flooded last week, were generally improved today with work of rehabili- tation and relief work going forward rapidly under direction of the Red Cross. In most instances flood victims were restoring their former homes. Air Line to Alaska Planned. SAN FRANCISCO, March 25 (®).— Cfficials of the Boeing Air Transport System announced today that a flying service from Puget Sound to Skagway. Alaska, a distance of 930 miles, will be started as soon a survey can be com- pleted. STALIN REPLIES TO TROTSKY iet’s Progress Is Cited in Answer to Alleged Calumnies and “Chatter” of Exile. Joseph Stalin. inscrutable general secretary of the Communists, and dictator of Boviet Russia, broke a long silence. briefly, when The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance asked him to reply to the exiled Leon Trotsky's story of his “persecution.” was made in a letter, which' is given below. Stalin’s answer BY JOSEPH STALIN.. Dictator of Soviet Russia and General Secretary of the Communist Party. MOSGOW, March 25.—I have been asked to make refutation of Leon ‘Trotsky's articles. time nor desire to deal with trifling ealumnies spread by Trot- [ T have neither Russian writer, f that the United Russia are going Joseph Stalin. in comparison with this enormous fact? , by N. A. N. A) & | they managed to blow the safe, only to | find a mere $2.50. Postmaster Harrison | Tyler had been forewarned. For not more than six miles from his post office, 1 | his friend Will Goode, down at Aldie,; | runs ore too. But the burglars who worked on Goodie’s place were not so amateurish. They not only succeeded in getting $700. but set fire to the post office, | which burned to the ground. ¥ | " 'When Tyler learned of his friend’s | misfortune he gathered up every valu- | able article in the office and took them | home for safekeeping. Front Royal, some distance from either of the two towns where the rob- beries occurred, didn't bother much about them. Last night the amateurs arrived, however, and after executing special care in breaking out the window of the Norfolk & Western railway station about a mile out of town, they miscal- culated just how much dynamite would | blow a safe. A freight man who had | left his train was badly frightened | when he stopped not 15 feet from the | building .nfi watched splintered wood. | | glass, train receipts and shadowy forms fly past him. { “The freightman ran back to his train, | and, riding to the next station, in- formed the police. Investigation this morning revealed | that every window had been broken and | the place badly damaged. No money was taken, the charge of dynamite | having succeeded only in breaking off the dial and handle. SPANISH AVIATORS HOP FROM SEVILLE FOR RIO JANEIRO (Continued From Pirst Page.) | Just | lantic crossing either to Havana or to Rio Janeiro when a government military order frowning upon transatlantic fly- ing forced abandonment of their project. They started for Karachi, India, in- stead, coming to grief when their plane crashed in the Mesopotamian Desert. Plane Carries No Radio. Seville and repaired it. The plane Is a monoplane of the long-distance Breu- guet type, with a single Hispano 500- horsepower motor. it carried no radio. Its name, “Jesus words, “Jesus of the Great Power.” The Seville Observatory this morning said the winds on the entire South At-| lantic route to South America were | favorable to the flight. Few " aviators considered the men's plane capable of successfully carrying |regarded as a fictitious contest. to Rule Until New Leader Is Found. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staft Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, March 25.—The row in In some quarters this is But the “new Tammany” has ben put for- ward to the public gaze prominently by former Gov. Alfred E. Smith and Judge Olvany. When Judge Olvany handed in his resignation as leader, it was a signal for those who have not been content with the way things have been going in the “new Tammany” to put on their fighting clothes. The paint is scarcely dry on the new Tammany wigwam, at Seventeenth reet and Fourth avenue, an immacu- Tammany. Leon Maingay, French seaman aboard | quests. | st late new home for the organization which has dominated Democratic poli- ties in New York City for generations. It is not likely, according to many of the politicians here, that there is to be a backward step—not if Tammany is to continue to be reckoned with as the controling factor in the greater city elections. That being the case, it looks now like a victory for Gov. Smith. to whom the organization has been in a measure forced to turn in its ex- tremity. Gov. Smith, although but one of the “Big Four,” whose advice is to be sought by the Tammany commit- tee before a leader is chosen, has a greater hold on the voters of the city zfi?"d:% or nn‘ !hf rest. His will be ciding voice in the pick: leader, it is believed. it Smith and Foley Out of City. It looks now as if there would be an effort to let time bring wisdom and calm to the Tammany district leaders. It may be a couple of weeks or more before any decision is reached. Gov. Smith has gone with his family for a two-week vacation at the Seaview Club at Absecon, N.'J. Surrogate Foley, an- other of the “big four,” is out of the city for a week. So far as is known there has been no time yet fixed for a meeting of the committee of seven ap- pointed by the executive committee of Tammany Hall last Friday. 0 meet with the “big four.” Over the week end a crop of rumors and several suggestions for a way out of the present difficulty, in which the district leaders of Tammany Hall are insisting upon the selection of one of their own number to succeed Olva: have sprung up. One plan advanced is that the leadership shall go to Senator Wagner. He is entirely qualified, it is urged by those who put forward this idea, to take the leadership of Tam- many Hall and to keep it moving along the lines of the “new” Tammany. If Senator Wagner “is to become leader, however, he will have to be drafted for the job. He likes his present position in the Senate in Washington, and while he might be able to hold on as Senator and take the leadership, too, it would be difficult. For the job of Tammany leader is an arduous one. Indeed, Judge Olvany decided to relinquish the leadership of Tammany both becauss he is sick and because he is sick of the job, it is said. There is one thing about Tammany members, they do not hesi. tate to ask for what they want, and a leader is under a constant fire of re- in Tammany said to me: “It takes a man of steel to be leader. For there are boys in the organization who de not hesitate to go after what they want. A leader has got to be able to say ‘No’ and to make it stick.” Inclined to Minimize Row. This same Tammany man was in- clined to minimize the “row” in Tam- many Hall. He gave it as his opinion that it was a case of lesser leaders, not qualified to handle the organization and keep it a controlling factor in the city, seeking to bite off more than they could chew. ‘The impression is gaining here that it will be exceedingly difficult now for one of the prominent candidates for leader, among the district leaders, to land the job in the end. But there is still the same puzzlement as to what “outsider"—as distinguished from the members of the executive committee— may be the final selection. Another suggestion is that a trium- virate may be set up to handle Tam- many affairs until a new leader has finally shown himself. “This, it is ! pointed out, is in line with Tammany precedent. A triumvirate was set up in Nixon as leader. It consisted of Charles F. Murphy, Daniel F. McMahon and Louis P. Haffen. It wasn't long, how- ever, before Murphy emerged as the Tammany leader. That, it is figured, may be the case if a triumvirate is set up now. One of the three may prove himself the much-sought leader. Some | of the Tammany people are mentioning for membership in the proposed tri- | umvirate Senator Wagner, former chair- | man of the Transit Commission: John | F. Gilchrist, a friend of Gov. Smith, | As one of the best posted mlanl 1902 after the resignation of . Lewis | ASTAMMANY CHIEF FOR MISSING PLANE I Triumvirate Also Suggested Hunt for- Lost Amphibian Centers Over Southern | | | New Jersey. | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, March 25.—Special at- tention was given today to woods in | Tammany Hall over the selection of & | Southern New Jersey in search for a | new leader to succeed Judge George W. | “He again called to me, ‘Will you Olvany has resolved itself in the pub- a- | jic mind here %o a contest between the fIring. | 5o.called “new Tammany' "and the old Stkegsky amphiblan plane missing since it left Norfolk, Va. at 5:45 am. Friday with T. Raymond Finucane, wealthy Rochester real estate operator, and three companions. A score of planes sent out by the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and com- mercial air units found no trace of the amphibian in an all-day search of the coast from Long Island to Norfolk yesterday. Jo A. Walk of Atlantie City, N. J. said he saw a large amphibian plane descend into the woods near Waretown, N. J., Priday afternnon. State police were ordered to search. Finucane was on his way from Miami, Fla., to Curtiss Field, Long Island, N. Y., piloted by Harry Smith. Frank Abels and J. A. Boyd, mechanics, were the iothers in the plane. They left Miami Thursday and stopped for the night at Norfolk. Search Extends Over Ocean. ‘While planes from here, Bolling Field, Langley Field. Baltimore, Atlantie City, Hampton Roads. Quantico” and Ana- costia search the coast line and ad- jacent land and sea, Coast Guard cut- ters cruised farther out on the chance the missing plane had been blown out to sea and forced down. Among the pilots of searching planes was Wilmer Stuts, pilot of Miss Amelia Earhart’s plane in its transatlantic flight. He searched the coast from Atlantic City to Norfolk and back to New York. The information furnished by Walk was that he was motoring from Atlantic City to Toms River, N. J., late Friday afternoon when he saw an amphibian plane about a mile distant in the vicinity of Waretown. He said it was performing in so unusual a manner that he stopped to watch it. He saw it descend and disappear among the trees. Before leaving Miami, Finucane made a wager with Edward J. Noble of Greenwich, Conn., that he would reach New York ahead of Noble, who made the trip by train. NURSES HELD IN DEATH. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, March 25 (#),—Three nurses at the Kuttenberg Hospital near Prague have been arrested on a charge of placing ground glass in the food of Col. Alexander Zimbaloff, formerly. a member of Wrangel's army and a physician at the hospital, resuit- ing in his death. Col. A. Zimbaloff was said to have complalned that the women were neg- ligent and incompetent. Police said & | quantity of ground glass mixed with | flour was found in the women's rooms. | i pelitics, the chief interest in the row in | Tammany Hall lies in where it is all going to leave former Gov. Alfred E. | Smith. It has been clear that if Gov. | Smith were entirely ignored in the se- lection of the new Tammany leader, the snub would have been pronounced and a chorus of “he's dead” would have gone up. But things have now shaped themselves so that it is evi- dent Gov. Smith is going to play a principal part in the selection of a Tammany leader. If he has further political aspirations, 1t is also clear that Gov. Smith must pick a leader who will do both Tam- many and himself credit. A failure or a man who would allow the jobbing of old through Tammany influence would be labeled Smith's choice and not be a help to the governor. Tammany's chief interest lies in Ne: York City. As some one said, “that where the jobs are.” But the organiza- tion got into national politics last year to a greater extent than it has ever be- fore done. It played its part in the nomination of Gov. Smith at Houston— and it was a big one, starting many, | many months before the Democratic convention opened in the Texas city. | Their candidate, while nominated, failed to be elected President. Now there is a group of disgruntled Tammany men who wish to get back to the idea that | Tammany’s chief interest is and will always be in New York City. Some of them are saying that they do not wish the organization continued as an ad- Junct to a Smith boom for the presi- dency, as they figure it was used to a considerable extent in 1928. Officers on Forty-Third Street. Gov. Smith has a suite of offices on the twelfth floor of an office building on Forty-third street. He lves across They brought their plane back to |3 On its Indian flight | = del Gran Poder,” is Spanish for the | S322230IRLIIITRANIDECRASNENELLE and one of the district leaders. It is possible, in the event of the setting up of a triumvirate, that Martin G. Mc- didates for leader of the Hall, might be included. “Marty” McCue is one of the strongest of the district leaders. Even now. when the opinion is swing- ing toward the ultimate seiection of an “outsider” for the Tammany lead- ership, McCue looms as the most likely office. He was a prizefighters years ago, and a good one. Later he owned a sa- loon. The fact that the newspapers have discussed these matters consider- ably may make it difficult for him to be selected as leader, particularly if the “new” Tammany slogan is to be con- tinued. McCue's two principal opponents for the leadership among the district leaders also have been painted as aligned with the gambling interests and the bootleggers. Take it alto- gether, it is not surprising that the leadership which has brought forward the “new” Tammany is inclined to seek a leader outside the ranks of the district leaders if he can be found. From the point of view of national Cue, district leader and one of the can- | of all the district leaders to get the | the street in the Biltmore Hotel. He has a considerable office force and they all seem to be busy. He sees many people constantly. The impression con- veyed is that he is not by way of let- ting go his grip on New York politics no matter what his ultimate plans may prove to be. In the presidential elec- tion Gov. Smith received a vast number of popular votes, although his total elec- toral vote was smalle rthan that of any Democratic nominee for President in generations. Whether he will attempt to stage a comeback remains to be seen. ‘The governor has a great hold on the women members of his party in New York. The women are playing their parts in the Tammany organiza- tion of today. They have representa- tion in the assembly districts along with the men. In the present row over a new Tammany leader, the women must be consulted. That is one of the rea- sons, it”is said. that the matter has been finally referred to the “Big Four,” inciuding Geov. Smith for “advi In determining to call on the “elder statesmen” for advice in selecting a new ‘Tammany leader, the Tammany execu- tive committee failed to include Sena- tor Royal S. Copeland. { | | SE3INEITLTEICTIILNTAILLE: Under Auspices Dept., Y. M. C. Boys 10 to 18 years old Boys’ Building, 1732 G out such a long trip as the men had been made in apparatus since the ~Mesopotamia, Ii planned, although various changes had | = FITTCTTTTIT Learn to Swim For Sport and Protection The Star and Boys’ free lessons daily—April 1 to 7 Send this applicationto Y. M. C. A. To Enroll for Classes szsRaETTeEEIIAIRAGERCEY A offered Street TARTRIRIETREYYETSIRIRTIETRNE