Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1929, Page 4

STRIKF PASF WAITS ON COURT RULING Judge at Marion, N. C., to De- cide Whether “Rebellion” Charges Are Improper. By the Associated Press. MARION, N. C., November 21.—Con- | tinuance of the trial of Alfred Hoffman, | organizer for the United Textile Work- charges of insurrection and rebellion as the result of textile strike disorders, hinged today upon a pending ruling by Judge G. V. Cowper as to whether such disorders could warrant the charges. Contending the acts charged to the | 3 g si- | miles tickis lke hayt aontending the acts charged o the | pands of men who velled an enthusi- | miles away, stickiiig up like haycocks in the defense yesterday moved for a non- suit and dismissal of the defendants as to the charges. The motion came near | | craft safely back on its home field that | depot. the end of the day’s court scssion when the State rested its case Time for Argument. Judge Cowper told attorneys he would permit them all neccssary time to argue |yt the motion. The statute under which the charges were brought was passed in 1868, but Judge Cowper sn!d“hfilzflllkl)d | listening to their stories of the flight. | o o grounds for holding such disorders to | find no precedents which come under the statute. i Arguments were only partially com-|meet Bernt Balchen. who had flown | pleted when court adjourned until 10:30 today. Five clashes between strikers, mnon- strikers and sheriff's officers the past Summer during strikes called at the two. Clinchfield mills and the Marion Manufacturing Co. will form the basis for the State's charges. The defend- ants are alleged (o have taken part in the disorders. Solicitor Explains Basis. In answering the defense’s conten- tion that there had been insurrection and rebellion, but only at most com- mission of misdemeanor, Solicitor J. Will Pless argued the separate acts to- gether constituted an insurrection. “In no one of the acts charged to the defendants, in no one statement charged to them is there insurrection,” he said. “Taken all together, however, they sre insurrection and should go to the jury.” Pinal witnesses presented by the State were mostly character witnessss for sheriff's officers, who presented the bulk of the State testimony. On trial with Hoffman are Lawrence Hogan, Del Lewis, Wes Fowler and J. | Ford plane out of the rough, snow-ridged landing field in which it had sat down ers of America, and four others upon [gng on the tafl of a 50-mile wind, blew into camp with the speed of a pursuit ship. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1929 'BYRD RETURNS TO BASE AFTER FORCED LANDING Navigational Precision and . Merits of Plane Are Proven in Flight to Queen Maud Mountains, BY RUSSELL OWEN. By Radio to The Star and the New York Times. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, November 20.—Comdr. Byrd and his com- panions on the base-laying flight flew back to camp soon after last midnight, after a day spent struggling with refractory motors and getting thoroughly fired cranking and holsting oil in and out of the engines. They finally lifted the big They were a sight when they stepped from the plane. They were splashed with ofl, blistered from cold gasoline, weary and bedraggled. As they were helped from the plane, |gion about 200 miles south of Little one after the other, by the willing America, while they were nearly 100 astic greeting, they stumbled and |the great plain of the Barrier. Their grinned at the same time. | next landmark was the geological party, But they were so glad to have the big | which they passed beyond the 200-mile A course then was set by Comdr. he | They | gyrd ‘for the mountains and about 45 | they didn't care about weariness. | Comdr | old June and Dean Smith as’pilots and | | Ashley McKinley as photographer, 440 | Dean Smith, who piloted the plane in all thi minutes_after passing the geological the mountains began to show , lifting out of the horizon like | hummocks of snow or distant pressure | ridges. | Much to every cne's rise, they Balchen Flies in Again. | showed up first on the right of the | | course instead of to the left. | Then there was another rush out to| “They were magnificent.” said Comdr. Byrd, and June alco said they were the | most wonderful group of mountains -he had ever scen. Some were covered with | ice and snow and some had great bare patches of rock, some dome-shaped ana | others peaked. [ Place for Base Is Found. | The plane was headed directly for | a mountain in front of Mount Nansen | and there a place was found where | the base could be established. —The | [ surface was far from smooth, and of | bard snow with sharp-ridged edges. sald ept the mechanics ing the Ford fast were gathered in groups around the members of the crew more gas out to the Ford in a second trip and had walted to see the big plane in the air before he warmed up his motor and came.in. He and Carl Petersen, the radio operator, also wer cheered and patted on the back, for landing the small plane in that bumpy stuff had not been eusy. | “It seems days since v left.” said Byrd and the others when they eemed days to those who camp. (Comdr. Byrd flew Monday, with Har- “It was like furrowed flint" | enly | miles from his camp to the Queen Maud | Mountain to lay a base for his coming South Pole flight. He was forced down, {out of gasoline, 95 miles from the camp on his return that night and Balchen |flew to his relief.) The flight had been packed so full of excitement for those in the ship that they had a jumbled memory of events. Things began to happen soon after they left. After fying an hour, it was noticed that the gasoline consumption was unusually high, and a small leak was finally found by Harold June in the landing. “The skiis took the ridges all | right, there you would cut them right oft, | s0o hard and sharp were these irregu- | larities.” | June was in the cockpit with him | handling the stabilizer, and with « few thumps the plane settled down | with the towering range running W | the east and west in front of it. | Comdr. Byrd jumped out and began | to take sights with his bubble sextant | to establish the position of the base. He got two position lines which checked but if you made many landings | hand fuel pump under the pllot's seat. | perfectly with their dead reckoning, so Hugh Hall, all of Marion. He packed it with chewing gum and | that they have no doubt as to where i taped it and reduced the flow consid- the base lies. Frame Filled With Gold. erably. | ““The entire flight was a splendid test When W. Alcide Demerelli of Venti- |, ~Chewing gum is great stuff for gas| of navigation under flying conditions migha, Ttaly, recently romeved from the | 10aks,” said June with a reminiscent | down here and Comdr. Byrd is quite | wall an old picture to have the frame | 8TIn. kuzusfied now that his calculations will | Tepaired the framework collapsed, ahd a All Three Motors Quit. orkept perteetly wich the aid of ine | e o e et nclene 1100 | Then in an hour and a half all three | sun compass and checked with the their fi vall 1 . { motors coughed and died as the two| wavigation done on the way out. | et Yhiue, was nearly $20.000. It\outer tanks unexpectedly ran dry, be-| e ahat In the wars In the eariy | cause of the rapid consumption. Photos Taken and Supplies Cached. Boen piaced 1 the pictire framo i tiac | June jumped for the valves and| While the commander was taking his Siies oo pillagtre:troops | switched on the other tanks, and the | sights Capt. Ashley McKinley, who had i engines again picked up, but it was one | been taking pictures with his mapping | e of those moments in fying which one | camera all the way, began to make pic- | Brevch banking is belng established | remembers. tures of the mountains, while June was n Turke; They saw the crevassed pressure re- | busy shifting cans of oil and gasoline | ELECTRICAL HEADQUARTERS 14th & C Sts. N.W. | Special Friday L2 COMPLETE for a Regular $6.50 Marion TOASTER TOAST brown to just the degree you desire is easy to have with this Marion Toaster. It is the reversible type—that turns toast automatically with just a flip of your finger. Thoroughly guaranteed by Electrical Head- quarters and sensationally slashed in price for the rest of this week only. The iron that “tunes-in” And a Dollar bags of food out of the plane. ;ag ngsmnde of the fuel and oil cans, which are painted orange, and a hole was dug near them and the food cached. June, with the commander and Mc- Kinley, did the first half of the unload- ing and then relieved Dean Smith in the cockpit, as the enj s were idling, and Smith bernn shiftls food. It was quite a job an an _hour. ‘When it was finished McKinley lugged his big aerial camera out of the plane and took some long distance shots of the mountains. And in landing and taking off June made some moving pictures. Every one was busy as he could be. Before starting back the commander and June decided to put 50 gallons of gas, which had been intended for the mountain base, into the tanks, for the undiscovered leak did not get better and in fact on the way home became much worse. It is thought that it was on a motor somewhere and, as Byrd put it, “the gas just poured through.” When the time came to take off, Smith taxied up to a slope and got off nicely, despite the rough ground. They climbed 5,000 feet and flew parallel to the mountains toward the southeast for 15 minutes so that McKinley could make some pictures of them, and then back to the base they had laid, from where they took their departure on a course for Little America. Follow Trail on Way Back. The wind forced them to follow a course slightly to_ the west of that taken on the way out. They saw the crevasses while 100 miles away and hit them right on the course, so they were able then to follow the dog trail home. On their return, members of the party described their feelings and ac* tions while the plane was down yester- gay. as did those who remained at the took nearly ere was increasing anxiety in camp, because we could not understand why the big plane had not got into the air after Balchen had taken it fuel. There were many guesses. So Balchen got the Fairchild ready again, and with |50 more gallons of gasoline and some oil and a stepladder for use on the cen- ter he took off soon after 6 and started south, flying low to avold a high wind a few hundred feet ubove the surface. ‘The when le got the receiver and trans- mitter going at the Ford's resting place was the Fairchild again in the air, and ome amusing roundabout communica- tion took place between the base and the Ford by way of the Fairchild. Dean was recefving in the plane and Harold | was sending in the tent, a short dis- tance away. Dean would get a mes- sage, shout its contents to the com- mander, who would run to the tent and tell June what answer to make. They asked for more gas and men and found that both were on the wavy, which was a great relief. particularly to Mac. He had been cranking the hand FOR RENT Two Bedrooms, Liv- ing Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, Bath and Re- ception Room. Electric Refrigeration. THE ARGONNE 16th & Columbia Rd. 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Phone National 8800 PHONE National 8800 for FREE Home Demonstration A'generator, a hard, back-breaking job, cans and [ hi first thing Harold picked up| and was so tired that he worked with one eye half shut from sleepiness and the other on the voltmeter. When there was an_interval between messages, he would drop on the snow and go to sleep, and when Harold needed morc current he would shake Mac and wake im up. When the Fairchild landed the en- gine was stopped and the two men in it, Balchen and Peterson, went to work with the others, Pete working the radio while Bernt climbed into the Ford's cockpit to’ handle the engine controls. The gas was poured into the tanks, the engines warmed again and oil put in, and with the repaired booster working the blg Cyclone started off at the first turn. In a few minutes all three motors were roaring. Dean gave her the gun and took off bumpily from the sastrugi bed | in, which it had been lying. Climbing | up a little way, he struck the strong wind from the south and came booming | into the base camp. He made a wide circle and landed and there was a rush for the plane and a cheer as Byrd's head appeared in the doorway. Men rushed up to him and shook his hand and then went for Mac and June, who stumbled out wearily. Dean waited until his engines had stopped after turning off the gas and then climbed out plso, face smiling through the dirt. All Are Enthused Over Trip. The trip was not only successful, but important for many reasons. ‘The nec- essay base was established at the moun- | tains. McKinley made a strip map all | the way to the mountains, Many val able things about this litile known r glon will_be learned from the photo- graphs. The flight was a perfect test | of the plane and the skis, and Comdr. | Byrd and the other members of the | crew were enthusiastic about the way | in which the skis permit rough land- | ings, showing that the plane can be | | operated away from base and landed | under severe conditions. The commander believes he has found | a good pass for flying through the mountains to the plateau. which the position of the plane could ! he ascerfained at Little America when | the radio quit. munications made before that, a com- | putation of its speed and knowledge that it was on the dog trail, it was pos- sible to place its position quite accu- rately, although no further word was received. 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